Z-Cars (Season 8)

Inspector Lynch (Episode 1)

Writer: Leslie Duxbury

Air date: 1973-10-22

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?

Nuisance (Episode 2)

Air date: 1973-10-29

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Alexandra is always complaining to an already overworked police force about her next door neighbour Percy. But is she just a nuisance? Or should Inspector Lynch take her complaints seriously?

Escape (Episode 3)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1973-11-05

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.

Break Up (Episode 4)

Air date: 1973-11-19

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A woman is arrested for shoplifting and a thief has his alibi checked. On the face of it two routine cases. But even the most routine cases can have repercussions.

Stray Girl (Episode 5)

Air date: 1973-11-26

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.

Pieces (Episode 6)

Air date: 1973-12-03

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.

The Cinder Path (Episode 7)

Air date: 1973-12-10

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!

Cadet (Episode 8)

Writer: Leslie Duxbury

Air date: 1973-12-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Cadet Peter Preston wants nothing more than to be a policeman, and even though he's a bit of a joke at Newtown his future seems assured. Then his father takes someone for a ride.

Pressure Of Work (Episode 9)

Air date: 1973-12-17

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.

Absence (Episode 10)

Air date: 1974-01-07

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.

In Police Hands (Episode 11)

Writer: Leslie Duxbury

Air date: 1974-01-21

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.

Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears (Episode 12)

Air date: 1974-02-04

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.

Joanna (Episode 13)

Air date: 1974-02-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.

Pressure (Episode 14)

Writer: David Ellis

Air date: 1974-02-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.

Waste (Episode 15)

Air date: 1974-02-25

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.

Two Wise Monkeys (Episode 16)

Air date: 1974-03-04

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: When villains like Burford and Tyndale fall out they will go to any lengths to settle a score. And somewhere along the line the police have to take drastic measures.

Dinner Break (Episode 17)

Writer: David Ellis

Air date: 1974-03-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.

Allegiance (Episode 18)

Air date: 1974-03-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.

Rota (Episode 19)

Air date: 1974-03-25

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.

Priority (Episode 20)

Writer: Leslie Duxbury

Air date: 1974-04-01

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.

Background (Episode 21)

Air date: 1974-04-08

Runtime: 50 min

Losers (Episode 22)

Air date: 1974-04-10

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!

Turnabout (Episode 23)

Air date: 1974-04-22

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?

Intruder (Episode 24)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1974-04-29

Runtime: 50 min

Mugs? (Episode 25)

Air date: 1974-05-06

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?

Pastime (Episode 26)

Air date: 1974-05-13

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.

Certain Parties (Episode 27)

Air date: 1974-05-20

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Back in Newtown after seven years in Parkhurst, Pikey Nimmo wants to settle up with the men who put him away. Stone was one of them.

Family (Episode 28)

Air date: 1974-06-30

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Susan Giles wants her father back inside and uses two men to help her. One of them is Quilley, and he unwittingly ruins Skinner's work.