Z-Cars (Season 9)

Bits An' Bats (Episode 1)

Air date: 1974-09-09

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: There's a new Cash'n'Carry being built in Newtown and some odd characters work on it. One of them is on the fiddle - bits and bats to begin with.

Old Bones (Episode 2)

Air date: 1974-09-16

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.

Mysteries (Episode 3)

Air date: 1974-09-30

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Ossie Davies is a security guard. He's a pushover. You just knock off his specs, threaten him a bit and help yourself. But Miller reckons there's more to Ossie than that.

Night Train (Episode 4)

Air date: 1974-10-07

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.

Friends (Episode 5)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1974-10-14

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Quilley is a good copper, but as an amateur footballer he has his limitations. Jesse Alty is a good footballer but has ambitions to be a better car thief. He and Quilley play for the same team and Gordon Glossop is a friend of both of them.

Mugs (Episode 6)

Air date: 1974-10-21

Runtime: 50 min

Gardens (Episode 7)

Air date: 1974-10-28

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.

Quiet As The Grave (Episode 8)

Writer: Bob Baker

Air date: 1974-11-04

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.

Pursuit (Episode 9)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1974-11-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.

Have You Seen This Child (Episode 10)

Air date: 1974-11-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.

Occupation (Episode 11)

Writer: Leslie Duxbury

Air date: 1974-11-25

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A factory work-in is on its last legs with the police outside the gates, keeping the peace but waiting for someone to break it.

Unnecessary Force (Episode 12)

Air date: 1974-12-02

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: How did a man like Derek Murphy get beaten up by his best friend, a man half his size? A puzzle for Miller, Yates and Skinner.

The Bouncer (Episode 13)

Air date: 1974-12-09

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Eddy Howarth is the over-enthusiastic bouncer at the local dance hall, but his devotion to duty and jealousy over a woman land him in trouble, and he finds himself facing a serious charge.

House To House (Episode 14)

Writer: Bob Baker

Air date: 1974-12-16

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A full-scale house to house enquiry fails to produce a witness until a mysterious night prowler and two criminals lay their own freedom on the line.

Boy In Blue (Episode 15)

Air date: 1975-01-06

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.

Local Knowledge (Episode 16)

Air date: 1975-01-13

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.

Innocent And Vulnerable (Episode 17)

Air date: 1975-01-20

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Tempers fray among men constructing a block of flats, but for one family who actually live in a high-rise, nerves reach breaking point and an everyday flare-up develops into a police enquiry.

Intervention (Episode 18)

Air date: 1975-01-27

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.

Tonight And Every Night (Episode 19)

Air date: 1975-02-03

Runtime: 50 min

Transit (Episode 20)

Air date: 1975-02-10

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.

Snouts (Episode 21)

Air date: 1975-02-17

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Jack Melish is walking down a deserted street near the docks to keep a secret appointment with Inspector Lynch. Suddenly a car pulls up alongside him and he is bundled into the back seat. The car races off...

Squatters (Episode 22)

Air date: 1975-02-24

Runtime: 50 min

Eviction (Episode 23)

Air date: 1975-03-03

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.

Incitement (Episode 24)

Air date: 1975-03-10

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?

Thanks But...No Thanks (Episode 25)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1975-03-17

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?

Kronur (Episode 26)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1975-03-24

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.

Scapegoat (Episode 27)

Air date: 1975-04-07

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: As an act of kindness Bert Lynch gives a deadbeat tramp a cell for the night - and finds himself up to his neck in trouble.

Bit Of Business (Episode 28)

Air date: 1975-04-14

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.

Distance (Episode 29)

Air date: 1975-04-21

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?

Ritual (Episode 30)

Air date: 1975-04-28

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Continuation of the previous episode 'Distance'. Skinner has been shot dead and the Murder Squad have taken over the case. So why is Haggar meeting a mate halfway down the M6?

Legacy (Episode 31)

Air date: 1975-05-05

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Continuation of the two previous episodes 'Distance' and 'Ritual'. The hunt for Skinner's murderer has moved away from Newtown. So why is a London detective on his way there, in secret?

A New Broom (Episode 32)

Air date: 1975-05-12

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?