Z-Cars (Season 7)

The Stone Standard Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-08-02

Runtime: 50 min

The Stone Standard Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-08-03

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.

The Mystery Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-04-09

Runtime: 50 min

The Mystery Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-08-10

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.

Nobody Hit Me Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-08-16

Runtime: 50 min

Nobody Hit Me Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-08-17

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Two grocers, one across the road from the other. Both ordinary, everyday characters. But then one of them has a fire in his shop. Goss and Stone end up with one villain and two very frightened men.

Dan, Dan... Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-08-23

Runtime: 50 min

Dan, Dan... Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-08-24

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: To get stolen goods to the public a villain has to be an organising genius, and that's not all. The police are keeping an eye on Reg Thurley, who seems to be leading a double life.

Funny Fellah 0.0

Air date: 1971-08-31

Runtime: 50 min

Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-09-06

Runtime: 50 min

Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-09-07

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.

Purely Medical Purposes Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-09-13

Runtime: 50 min

Purely Medical Purposes part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-09-14

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.

Grandstand Finish Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-09-20

Runtime: 50 min

Grandstand Finish Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-09-21

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.

Funny Creatures Women Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-09-27

Runtime: 50 min

Funny Creatures Women Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-09-28

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Night, a deserted park and a young woman on her way home. Skinner is interviewed by Goss and Stone. Then they take the keys to his quarters.

The Dirty Job Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-10-04

Runtime: 50 min

The Dirty Job Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-10-05

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: The Bannion family is in trouble, but at first not with the police. Bannion can possibly help Goss catch a villain. But is Goss willing to help Bannion in return?

Ding Dong Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-10-11

Runtime: 50 min

Ding Dong Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-10-12

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.

Intrusion Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-10-18

Runtime: 50 min

Intrusion Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-10-19

Runtime: 50 min

Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-10-25

Runtime: 50 min

Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-10-26

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: There's a V.I.P. visit in the offing and everyone is making plans: Newtown police, Special Branch, Headquarters. And they're not the only ones. It's a straight line from the airport to the Remand Home. And the roads should be fairly quiet.

Contact Man Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-01

Runtime: 50 min

Contact Man Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-02

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Three villains are under lock and key. But where is the missing eight thousand pounds? With business problems and an expensive wife Mr. Owen has lots of reasons to be worried, but there's another reason too.

Take Away Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-08

Runtime: 50 min

Take Away Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-09

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Nicked cars are normally just a routine job. So what makes Annette Minto's so different? At first she just wants her car back, but then something makes her change her mind.

Who Were You With? Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-15

Runtime: 50 min

Who Were You With? Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-16

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A hairdresser's shop is wrecked. In the middle is a frightened girl. She's alone and vulnerable and it's night time. She's no money and nowhere to go. It's not surprising that she's scared.

Danny Boy's Home Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-22

Runtime: 50 min

Danny Boy's Home Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-23

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.

Rules Of The Game Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-29

Runtime: 50 min

Rules Of The Game Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-11-30

Runtime: 50 min

The Wrong Odds Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-12-06

Runtime: 50 min

The Wrong Odds Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-12-07

Runtime: 50 min

The Horse Dealer Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-12-13

Runtime: 50 min

The Horse Dealer Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-12-14

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.

Collation Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1971-12-20

Runtime: 50 min

Collation Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1971-12-21

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Promotion is in the air and Goss is in with an outside chance. A sighting, plus a report from a beat man, might just add up to a feather in Goss's cap at just the right time.

Last Bus To Newtown 0.0

Air date: 1972-01-03

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.

Lynch 0.0

Air date: 1972-01-10

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Change. New people. Different methods. Some people call it progress. Bert Lynch, out on his own, is starting to feel left behind. Not the best time for his surprise visitor to call.

Team Work 0.0

Air date: 1972-01-17

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Whether it's a family trying to adjust to change or the police force mounting a big crime prevention operation a team is only as strong as its weakest member.

The Attackers 0.0

Air date: 1972-01-24

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A lad is walking home late at night...

Retirement 0.0

Air date: 1972-01-31

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: An old man tries to stop a robbery...

Promotion 0.0

Air date: 1972-02-14

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.

Canal 0.0

Air date: 1972-02-21

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: It's the age of fast getaways, but Frank and George are exceptions. They're villains all the same and Sgt. Miller thinks they're worth watching.

Care 0.0

Air date: 1973-02-22

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Two girls with their husbands away. Maureen is the social type and likes a drink; Jill is the lonely type, but she finds something for the police to do.

Week Off 0.0

Air date: 1972-02-28

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Lynch tries to get away from it all...

Missing 0.0

Air date: 1972-03-06

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.

Quilley 0.0

Air date: 1972-04-10

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.

Tessa In The Woodpile 0.0

Air date: 1972-04-17

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.

Keep To Yourself 0.0

Air date: 1972-04-24

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.

Smoke 0.0

Air date: 1972-05-01

Runtime: 50 min

Operation Ascalon 0.0

Air date: 1972-05-08

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?

Short Cut 0.0

Air date: 1972-05-15

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.

Hagger 0.0

Air date: 1972-05-22

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.

Playtime 0.0

Air date: 1972-05-29

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.

Sweet Girl 0.0

Air date: 1972-06-05

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A lass is missing...

Access 0.0

Air date: 1972-06-12

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?

Goss 0.0

Air date: 1972-06-19

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.

The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1972-07-10

Runtime: 50 min

The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1972-07-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.

Forget It Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1972-07-17

Runtime: 50 min

Forget It Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1972-07-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?

A Neighbour's Goods Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1972-07-24

Runtime: 50 min

A Neighbour's Goods Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1972-07-25

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.

Loyalties Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1972-07-31

Runtime: 50 min

Loyalties Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1972-08-01

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.

Relative Values Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1972-08-07

Runtime: 50 min

Relative Values Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1972-08-08

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.

Not Good Enough Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1972-08-14

Runtime: 50 min

Not Good Enough Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1972-08-15

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.

Breakage Part 1 0.0

Air date: 1972-08-21

Runtime: 50 min

Breakage Part 2 0.0

Air date: 1972-08-22

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A man with a parcel - George T. Wood - who's looking for someone; who's been kept waiting most of his life. And a derelict building, all glass and wind - and someone up on the roof. Quilley takes a big risk.

Connor 0.0

Air date: 1972-09-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.

The Team 0.0

Air date: 1972-09-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.

Witness 0.0

Air date: 1972-09-25

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Terence Nichols is in custody at Newtown police station after a wages snatch. There are three days to the trial and Stone thinks it's an open and shut case. He has a reliable witness in Sydney Adams. But one of the villains is still on the run.

Takes All Sorts 0.0

Air date: 1972-10-02

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A new Inspector arrives at Newtown, Ralph Edward Pratt by name, spruce as a pocket hanky and dripping self-confidence. He is fussy and believes in doing everything by the book. He also wants to get involved in everything that's going on, however trivial. It doesn't take long for Bert Lynch to take a violent dislike to the newcomer and to make every effort to avoid him!

Sins Of The Father 0.0

Air date: 1972-10-09

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.

Damage 0.0

Air date: 1972-10-16

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.

Day Trip 0.0

Air date: 1972-10-23

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.

Public Relations 0.0

Air date: 1972-10-30

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: DS Haggar doesn't like Ken Knowles. ""Journalists,"" he says, ""grow fat on misrepresenting police information"". He doesn't like old Bertha either. She doesn't give information. So what chance does he stand against both of them?

Old Soldiers 0.0

Air date: 1972-11-06

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.

Diabolical Liberty 0.0

Air date: 1972-11-13

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.

Old Acquaintance 0.0

Air date: 1972-11-20

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.

The Legacy 0.0

Air date: 1972-11-27

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sgt. Stone goes to the funeral of an old and respected thief in the hope of unearthing a few skeletons. But dead men don't talk and neither will this one's grandson.

The Amateurs 0.0

Air date: 1972-12-04

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: While Austin Nuttall dreams of owning his own business Connor dreams of nailing a fence. And with two crimes unsolved, Connor demonstrates how to kill two men and two birds with one stone.

Hobo 0.0

Air date: 1972-12-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A gullible old man, a con man, and a do-gooder. And Tom Stone is right in the middle and in need of somewhere to live.

Old Lag 0.0

Air date: 1972-12-18

Runtime: 50 min

Skinner 0.0

Air date: 1973-01-04

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.

Skin Game 0.0

Air date: 1973-01-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.

Backwater 0.0

Air date: 1973-01-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: All Tom Stone wants is a quiet weekend's fishing, but then he meets Sergeant Rust. Together they catch a very queer fish, but have different ideas about landing it.

Big Jake 0.0

Air date: 1973-01-25

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Who gets to Big Jake first, Billy Fielden or DC Skinner? One of them wants to help him, the other just wants him. And who, or what, is Big Jake anyway?

Women At Work 0.0

Air date: 1973-02-01

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.

Jack The Dodger 0.0

Air date: 1973-02-08

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.

Miller 0.0

Air date: 1973-02-15

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.

Operation Watchdog 0.0

Air date: 1973-03-01

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother

Defection 0.0

Air date: 1973-03-08

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A member of a visiting Trade Delegation takes a positive step concerning th future. But Sgt. Stone's future is left for Connor and Richards to fight over.

Invention 0.0

Air date: 1973-03-15

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.

Hard Man 0.0

Air date: 1973-03-22

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Clifford Roscoe is the local hard man. He's fresh out of jail and ready and anxious to cause trouble. But Stone and Connor are ready for him.

Domestic 0.0

Air date: 1973-03-29

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.

Pat 0.0

Air date: 1973-04-05

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?

Bowman 0.0

Air date: 1973-04-12

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.

The Lady And The Gentleman 0.0

Air date: 1973-04-19

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.

Suspicion 0.0

Air date: 1973-04-30

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.

Mileage 0.0

Air date: 1973-05-07

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Jupp has a large family and needs to keep his job. But events pile up against him - his boss and a robbery - and he needs to keep his cool.

Routine 0.0

Air date: 1973-05-14

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.

The Spike 0.0

Air date: 1973-05-21

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?

Hi-Jack 0.0

Air date: 1973-06-04

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A stolen lorry load of meat parked on a busy road. A piece of cake for the police, unless the lorry driver's name is Houdini!

Mother And Child 0.0

Air date: 1973-06-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.

Co-Operation 0.0

Air date: 1973-06-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?

No Proceedings 0.0

Air date: 1973-06-25

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.

Officer Material...? 0.0

Air date: 1973-07-02

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: It's the day of Lynch's promotion board. He's already passed his exams, so he knows his stuff. But - is he the right type to be an officer?