Z-Cars - Series 8
1 - Inspector Lynch
Air Date: October 22, 1973
Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?
2 - Nuisance
Air Date: October 29, 1973
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?
3 - Escape
Air Date: November 5, 1973
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.
4 - Break Up
Air Date: November 19, 1973
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.
5 - Stray Girl
Air Date: November 26, 1973
Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.
6 - Pieces
Air Date: December 3, 1973
A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.
7 - The Cinder Path
Air Date: December 10, 1973
Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!
8 - Cadet
Air Date: December 11, 1973
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.
9 - Pressure Of Work
Air Date: December 17, 1973
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.
10 - Absence
Air Date: January 7, 1974
A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.
11 - In Police Hands
Air Date: January 21, 1974
Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.
12 - Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears
Air Date: February 4, 1974
Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.
13 - Joanna
Air Date: February 11, 1974
When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.
14 - Pressure
Air Date: February 18, 1974
A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.
15 - Waste
Air Date: February 25, 1974
Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.
16 - Two Wise Monkeys
Air Date: March 4, 1974
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.
17 - Dinner Break
Air Date: March 11, 1974
Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.
18 - Allegiance
Air Date: March 18, 1974
Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.
19 - Rota
Air Date: March 25, 1974
The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.
20 - Priority
Air Date: April 1, 1974
Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.
21 - Background
Air Date: April 8, 1974
22 - Losers
Air Date: April 10, 1974
DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!
23 - Turnabout
Air Date: April 22, 1974
Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?
24 - Intruder
Air Date: April 29, 1974
25 - Mugs?
Air Date: May 6, 1974
Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?
26 - Pastime
Air Date: May 13, 1974
A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.
27 - Certain Parties
Air Date: May 20, 1974
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.
28 - Family
Air Date: June 30, 1974
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.