Z-Cars (Season 8)

Inspector Lynch 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

Air date: 1974-02-11

Runtime: 50 min

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

Pressure 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

Air date: 1974-03-11

Runtime: 50 min

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

Allegiance 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

Air date: 1974-04-08

Runtime: 50 min

Losers 0.0

Air date: 1974-04-10

Runtime: 50 min

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

Turnabout 0.0

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 0.0

Air date: 1974-04-29

Runtime: 50 min

Mugs? 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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 0.0

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.