Z Cars

Season 7 - Series 7 (115 Episodes)

12 Seasons 1971 TV-14 7

A gritty drama which follows the work of the police force in the fictional town of Newtown in the North of England.

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Season 7 Episodes:

Episode 4 The Mystery: Part 2

4. The Mystery: Part 2

Aired: Aug 10, 1971

A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Co...

Episode 6 Nobody Hit Me: Part 2

6. Nobody Hit Me: Part 2

Aired: Aug 17, 1971

Two grocers, one across the road from the other. Both ordinary, everyday cha...

Episode 8 Dan Dan...: Part 2

8. Dan Dan...: Part 2

Aired: Aug 24, 1971

To get stolen goods to the public a villain has to be an organising genius, a...

Episode 21 Ding Dong: Part 2

21. Ding Dong: Part 2

Aired: Oct 12, 1971

Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign g...

Episode 27 Contact Man: Part 2

27. Contact Man: Part 2

Aired: Nov 1, 1971

Three villains are under lock and key. But where is the missing eight thousa...

Episode 29 Take Away: Part 2

29. Take Away: Part 2

Aired: Nov 8, 1971

Nicked cars are normally just a routine job. So what makes Annette Minto's s...

Episode 41 Collation: Part 2

41. Collation: Part 2

Aired: Dec 20, 1971

Promotion is in the air and Goss is in with an outside chance. A sighting, p...

Episode 42 Last Bus to Newtown

42. Last Bus to Newtown

Aired: Jan 2, 1972

Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in ...

Episode 43 Lynch

43. Lynch

Aired: Jan 9, 1972

Change. New people. Different methods. Some people call it progress. Bert...

Episode 44 Team Work

44. Team Work

Aired: Jan 16, 1972

Whether it's a family trying to adjust to change or the police force mounting...

Episode 47 Promotion

47. Promotion

Aired: Feb 13, 1972

Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is s...

Episode 48 Canal

48. Canal

Aired: Feb 20, 1972

It's the age of fast getaways, but Frank and George are exceptions. They're ...

Episode 49 Week Off

49. Week Off

Aired: Feb 21, 1973

Two girls with their husbands away. Maureen is the social type and likes a d...

Episode 50 Missing

50. Missing

Aired: Feb 27, 1972

Lynch tries to get away from it all...

Episode 51 Quilley

51. Quilley

Aired: Mar 5, 1972

Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.

Episode 54 Smoke

54. Smoke

Aired: Apr 23, 1972

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

Episode 56 Short Cut

56. Short Cut

Aired: May 8, 1972

Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?

Episode 57 Haggar

57. Haggar

Aired: May 15, 1972

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

Episode 58 Playtime

58. Playtime

Aired: May 22, 1972

DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates to...

Episode 59 Sweet Girl

59. Sweet Girl

Aired: May 29, 1972

Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery wit...

Episode 61 Goss

61. Goss

Aired: Jun 12, 1972

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

Episode 64 Forget It: Part 1

64. Forget It: Part 1

Aired: Jul 11, 1972

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

Episode 68 Loyalties: Part 1

68. Loyalties: Part 1

Aired: Jul 25, 1972

A shopkeeper friend of Lynch has been set up and Stone asks Lynch where his l...

Episode 75 Breakage: Part 2

75. Breakage: Part 2

Aired: Aug 21, 1972

The Scotsman is annoying another policeman while a man on a roof is causing p...

Episode 76 Breakage Part 2

76. Breakage Part 2

Aired: Aug 22, 1972

A man with a parcel - George T. Wood - who's looking for someone; who's been ...

Episode 77 Connor

77. Connor

Aired: Sep 11, 1972

Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished bus...

Episode 78 The Team

78. The Team

Aired: Sep 18, 1972

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

Episode 79 Witness

79. Witness

Aired: Sep 25, 1972

Terence Nichols is in custody at Newtown police station after a wages snatch....

Episode 80 Takes All Sorts

80. Takes All Sorts

Aired: Oct 2, 1972

A new Inspector arrives at Newtown, Ralph Edward Pratt by name, spruce as a p...

Episode 81 Sins Of The Father

81. Sins Of The Father

Aired: Oct 9, 1972

Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and ...

Episode 82 Damage

82. Damage

Aired: Oct 16, 1972

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

Episode 83 Day Trip

83. Day Trip

Aired: Oct 23, 1972

Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Wa...

Episode 84 Public Relations

84. Public Relations

Aired: Oct 29, 1972

DS Haggar doesn't like Ken Knowles. ""Journalists,"" he says, ""grow fat on ...

Episode 85 Old Soldiers

85. Old Soldiers

Aired: Nov 5, 1972

Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both...

Episode 86 Diabolical Liberty

86. Diabolical Liberty

Aired: Nov 12, 1972

There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspe...

Episode 87 Old Acquaintance

87. Old Acquaintance

Aired: Nov 19, 1972

A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to...

Episode 88 The Legacy

88. The Legacy

Aired: Nov 26, 1972

Sgt. Stone goes to the funeral of an old and respected thief in the hope of u...

Episode 89 The Amateurs

89. The Amateurs

Aired: Dec 3, 1972

While Austin Nuttall dreams of owning his own business Connor dreams of naili...

Episode 90 Hobo

90. Hobo

Aired: Dec 10, 1972

A gullible old man, a con man, and a do-gooder. And Tom Stone is right in th...

Episode 92 Skinner

92. Skinner

Aired: Jan 3, 1973

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

Episode 93 Skin Game

93. Skin Game

Aired: Jan 10, 1973

A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game unti...

Episode 94 Backwater

94. Backwater

Aired: Jan 17, 1973

All Tom Stone wants is a quiet weekend's fishing, but then he meets Sergeant ...

Episode 95 Big Jake

95. Big Jake

Aired: Jan 24, 1973

Who gets to Big Jake first, Billy Fielden or DC Skinner? One of them wants t...

Episode 96 Women At Work

96. Women At Work

Aired: Jan 31, 1973

Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And i...

Episode 97 Jack The Dodger

97. Jack The Dodger

Aired: Feb 7, 1973

There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings wi...

Episode 98 Miller

98. Miller

Aired: Feb 14, 1973

A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him fac...

Episode 99 Operation Watchdog

99. Operation Watchdog

Aired: Feb 28, 1973

Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And ...

Episode 100 Defection

100. Defection

Aired: Mar 7, 1973

A member of a visiting Trade Delegation takes a positive step concerning th f...

Episode 101 Invention

101. Invention

Aired: Mar 14, 1973

Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about ...

Episode 102 Hard Man

102. Hard Man

Aired: Mar 21, 1973

Clifford Roscoe is the local hard man. He's fresh out of jail and ready and ...

Episode 103 Domestic

103. Domestic

Aired: Mar 28, 1973

A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing...

Episode 104 Pat

104. Pat

Aired: Apr 4, 1973

Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars...

Episode 105 Bowman

105. Bowman

Aired: Apr 11, 1973

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

Episode 107 Suspicion

107. Suspicion

Aired: Apr 30, 1973

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

Episode 108 Mileage

108. Mileage

Aired: May 7, 1973

Jupp has a large family and needs to keep his job. But events pile up agains...

Episode 109 Routine

109. Routine

Aired: May 14, 1973

Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to...

Episode 110 The Spike

110. The Spike

Aired: May 21, 1973

A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle g...

Episode 111 Hi-Jack

111. Hi-Jack

Aired: Jun 4, 1973

A stolen lorry load of meat parked on a busy road. A piece of cake for the p...

Episode 112 Mother And Child

112. Mother And Child

Aired: Jun 11, 1973

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

Episode 113 Co-Operation

113. Co-Operation

Aired: Jun 18, 1973

Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constab...

Episode 114 No Proceedings

114. No Proceedings

Aired: Jun 25, 1973

Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a ...


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Info about Z Cars

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Crime