Z-Cars

7,1

1962

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Episodes

EP 2: The Stone Standard Part 2

Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise....

EP 3: The Mystery Part 1

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EP 4: The Mystery Part 2

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

EP 5: Nobody Hit Me Part 1

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EP 6: Nobody Hit Me Part 2

Two grocers, one across the road from the other. Both ordinary, everyday characters. But then one of them has a fire in his shop...

EP 7: Dan, Dan... Part 1

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EP 8: Dan, Dan... Part 2

To get stolen goods to the public a villain has to be an organising genius, and that's not all. The police are keeping an eye on ...

EP 9: Funny Fellah

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EP 10: Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1

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EP 11: Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2

Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action....

EP 12: Purely Medical Purposes Part 1

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EP 13: Purely Medical Purposes Part 2

Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer....

EP 14: Grandstand Finish Part 1

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EP 15: Grandstand Finish Part 2

Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside....

EP 16: Funny Creatures Women Part 1

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EP 17: Funny Creatures Women Part 2

Night, a deserted park and a young woman on her way home. Skinner is interviewed by Goss and Stone. Then they take the keys to h...

EP 18: The Dirty Job Part 1

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EP 19: The Dirty Job Part 2

The Bannion family is in trouble, but at first not with the police. Bannion can possibly help Goss catch a villain. But is Goss ...

EP 20: Ding Dong Part 1

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EP 21: Ding Dong Part 2

Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in t...

EP 22: Intrusion Part 1

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EP 23: Intrusion Part 2

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EP 24: Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1

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EP 25: Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2

There's a V.I.P. visit in the offing and everyone is making plans: Newtown police, Special Branch, Headquarters. And they're not ...

EP 26: Contact Man Part 1

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EP 27: Contact Man Part 2

Three villains are under lock and key. But where is the missing eight thousand pounds? With business problems and an expensive w...

EP 28: Take Away Part 1

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EP 29: Take Away Part 2

Nicked cars are normally just a routine job. So what makes Annette Minto's so different? At first she just wants her car back, b...

EP 30: Who Were You With? Part 1

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EP 31: Who Were You With? Part 2

A hairdresser's shop is wrecked. In the middle is a frightened girl. She's alone and vulnerable and it's night time. She's no m...

EP 32: Danny Boy's Home Part 1

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EP 33: Danny Boy's Home Part 2

Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers....

EP 34: Rules Of The Game Part 1

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EP 35: Rules Of The Game Part 2

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EP 36: The Wrong Odds Part 1

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EP 37: The Wrong Odds Part 2

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EP 38: The Horse Dealer Part 1

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EP 39: The Horse Dealer Part 2

With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him....

EP 40: Collation Part 1

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EP 41: Collation Part 2

Promotion is in the air and Goss is in with an outside chance. A sighting, plus a report from a beat man, might just add up to a ...

EP 42: Last Bus To Newtown

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

EP 43: Lynch

Change. New people. Different methods. Some people call it progress. Bert Lynch, out on his own, is starting to feel left behi...

EP 44: Team Work

Whether it's a family trying to adjust to change or the police force mounting a big crime prevention operation a team is only as s...

EP 45: The Attackers

A lad is walking home late at night......

EP 46: Retirement

An old man tries to stop a robbery......

EP 47: Promotion

Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble....

EP 48: Canal

It's the age of fast getaways, but Frank and George are exceptions. They're villains all the same and Sgt. Miller thinks they're ...

EP 49: Week Off

Lynch tries to get away from it all......

EP 50: Missing

Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police....

EP 51: Quilley

Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts....

EP 52: Tessa In The Woodpile

After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath....

EP 53: Keep To Yourself

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

EP 54: Smoke

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EP 55: Operation Ascalon

Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?...

EP 56: Short Cut

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

EP 57: Hagger

DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble....

EP 58: Playtime

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

EP 59: Sweet Girl

A lass is missing......

EP 60: Access

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

EP 61: Goss

Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss....

EP 62: The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1

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EP 63: The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2

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

EP 64: Forget It Part 1

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EP 65: Forget It Part 2

A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?...

EP 66: A Neighbour's Goods Part 1

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EP 67: A Neighbour's Goods Part 2

There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him....

EP 68: Loyalties Part 1

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EP 69: Loyalties Part 2

Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens....

EP 70: Relative Values Part 1

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EP 71: Relative Values Part 2

OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned....

EP 72: Not Good Enough Part 1

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EP 73: Not Good Enough Part 2

Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'....

EP 74: Breakage Part 1

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EP 75: Breakage Part 2

A man with a parcel - George T. Wood - who's looking for someone; who's been kept waiting most of his life. And a derelict buildi...

EP 76: Connor

Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright....

EP 77: The Team

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

EP 78: Witness

Terence Nichols is in custody at Newtown police station after a wages snatch. There are three days to the trial and Stone thinks ...

EP 79: Takes All Sorts

A new Inspector arrives at Newtown, Ralph Edward Pratt by name, spruce as a pocket hanky and dripping self-confidence. He is fuss...

EP 80: Sins Of The Father

Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from...

EP 81: Damage

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

EP 82: Day Trip

Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown....

EP 83: Public Relations

DS Haggar doesn't like Ken Knowles. ""Journalists,"" he says, ""grow fat on misrepresenting police information"". He doesn't lik...

EP 84: Old Soldiers

Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene....

EP 85: Diabolical Liberty

There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference....

EP 86: Old Acquaintance

A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own....

EP 87: The Legacy

Sgt. Stone goes to the funeral of an old and respected thief in the hope of unearthing a few skeletons. But dead men don't talk a...

EP 88: The Amateurs

While Austin Nuttall dreams of owning his own business Connor dreams of nailing a fence. And with two crimes unsolved, Connor dem...

EP 89: Hobo

A gullible old man, a con man, and a do-gooder. And Tom Stone is right in the middle and in need of somewhere to live....

EP 90: Old Lag

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EP 91: Skinner

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

EP 92: Skin Game

A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin....

EP 93: Backwater

All Tom Stone wants is a quiet weekend's fishing, but then he meets Sergeant Rust. Together they catch a very queer fish, but hav...

EP 94: Big Jake

Who gets to Big Jake first, Billy Fielden or DC Skinner? One of them wants to help him, the other just wants him. And who, or wha...

EP 95: Women At Work

Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wante...

EP 96: Jack The Dodger

There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch....

EP 97: Miller

A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself....

EP 98: Care

Two girls with their husbands away. Maureen is the social type and likes a drink; Jill is the lonely type, but she finds somethin...

EP 99: Operation Watchdog

Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother...

EP 100: Defection

A member of a visiting Trade Delegation takes a positive step concerning th future. But Sgt. Stone's future is left for Connor an...

EP 101: Invention

Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore....

EP 102: Hard Man

Clifford Roscoe is the local hard man. He's fresh out of jail and ready and anxious to cause trouble. But Stone and Connor are r...

EP 103: Domestic

A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed....

EP 104: Pat

Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to...

EP 105: Bowman

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

EP 106: The Lady And The Gentleman

There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything....

EP 107: Suspicion

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

EP 108: Mileage

Jupp has a large family and needs to keep his job. But events pile up against him - his boss and a robbery - and he needs to keep...

EP 109: Routine

Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine....

EP 110: The Spike

A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?...

EP 111: Hi-Jack

A stolen lorry load of meat parked on a busy road. A piece of cake for the police, unless the lorry driver's name is Houdini!...

EP 112: Mother And Child

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

EP 113: Co-Operation

Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-o...

EP 114: No Proceedings

Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft....

EP 115: Officer Material...?

It's the day of Lynch's promotion board. He's already passed his exams, so he knows his stuff. But - is he the right type to be ...

Overview

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

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Episodes >>

The Stone Standard Part 1

Episode 1

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The Stone Standard Part 2

Episode 2

Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he wo...

The Mystery Part 1

Episode 3

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The Mystery Part 2

Episode 4

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

Nobody Hit Me Part 1

Episode 5

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Nobody Hit Me Part 2

Episode 6

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

Dan, Dan... Part 1

Episode 7

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Dan, Dan... Part 2

Episode 8

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

Funny Fellah

Episode 9

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Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1

Episode 10

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Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2

Episode 11

Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action....

Purely Medical Purposes Part 1

Episode 12

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Purely Medical Purposes Part 2

Episode 13

Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his la...

Grandstand Finish Part 1

Episode 14

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Grandstand Finish Part 2

Episode 15

Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But ...

Funny Creatures Women Part 1

Episode 16

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Funny Creatures Women Part 2

Episode 17

Night, a deserted park and a young woman on her way home. Skinner is interviewe...

The Dirty Job Part 1

Episode 18

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The Dirty Job Part 2

Episode 19

The Bannion family is in trouble, but at first not with the police. Bannion can...

Ding Dong Part 1

Episode 20

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Ding Dong Part 2

Episode 21

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

Intrusion Part 1

Episode 22

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Intrusion Part 2

Episode 23

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Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1

Episode 24

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Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2

Episode 25

There's a V.I.P. visit in the offing and everyone is making plans: Newtown polic...

Contact Man Part 1

Episode 26

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Contact Man Part 2

Episode 27

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

Take Away Part 1

Episode 28

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Take Away Part 2

Episode 29

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

Who Were You With? Part 1

Episode 30

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Who Were You With? Part 2

Episode 31

A hairdresser's shop is wrecked. In the middle is a frightened girl. She's alo...

Danny Boy's Home Part 1

Episode 32

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Danny Boy's Home Part 2

Episode 33

Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long b...

Rules Of The Game Part 1

Episode 34

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Rules Of The Game Part 2

Episode 35

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The Wrong Odds Part 1

Episode 36

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The Wrong Odds Part 2

Episode 37

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The Horse Dealer Part 1

Episode 38

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The Horse Dealer Part 2

Episode 39

With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a fri...

Collation Part 1

Episode 40

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Collation Part 2

Episode 41

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

Last Bus To Newtown

Episode 42

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

Lynch

Episode 43

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

Team Work

Episode 44

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

The Attackers

Episode 45

A lad is walking home late at night......

Retirement

Episode 46

An old man tries to stop a robbery......

Promotion

Episode 47

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

Canal

Episode 48

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

Week Off

Episode 49

Lynch tries to get away from it all......

Missing

Episode 50

Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police....

Quilley

Episode 51

Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts....

Tessa In The Woodpile

Episode 52

After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath....

Keep To Yourself

Episode 53

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

Smoke

Episode 54

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Operation Ascalon

Episode 55

Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?...

Short Cut

Episode 56

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

Hagger

Episode 57

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

Playtime

Episode 58

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

Sweet Girl

Episode 59

A lass is missing......

Access

Episode 60

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

Goss

Episode 61

Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss....

The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1

Episode 62

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The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2

Episode 63

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

Forget It Part 1

Episode 64

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Forget It Part 2

Episode 65

A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?...

A Neighbour's Goods Part 1

Episode 66

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A Neighbour's Goods Part 2

Episode 67

There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone c...

Loyalties Part 1

Episode 68

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Loyalties Part 2

Episode 69

Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one ...

Relative Values Part 1

Episode 70

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Relative Values Part 2

Episode 71

OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner a...

Not Good Enough Part 1

Episode 72

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Not Good Enough Part 2

Episode 73

Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries th...

Breakage Part 1

Episode 74

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Breakage Part 2

Episode 75

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

Connor

Episode 76

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

The Team

Episode 77

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

Witness

Episode 78

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

Takes All Sorts

Episode 79

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

Sins Of The Father

Episode 80

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

Damage

Episode 81

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

Day Trip

Episode 82

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

Public Relations

Episode 83

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

Old Soldiers

Episode 84

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

Diabolical Liberty

Episode 85

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

Old Acquaintance

Episode 86

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

The Legacy

Episode 87

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

The Amateurs

Episode 88

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

Hobo

Episode 89

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

Old Lag

Episode 90

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Skinner

Episode 91

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

Skin Game

Episode 92

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

Backwater

Episode 93

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

Big Jake

Episode 94

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

Women At Work

Episode 95

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

Jack The Dodger

Episode 96

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

Miller

Episode 97

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

Care

Episode 98

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

Operation Watchdog

Episode 99

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

Defection

Episode 100

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

Invention

Episode 101

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

Hard Man

Episode 102

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

Domestic

Episode 103

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

Pat

Episode 104

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

Bowman

Episode 105

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

The Lady And The Gentleman

Episode 106

There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no mar...

Suspicion

Episode 107

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

Mileage

Episode 108

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

Routine

Episode 109

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

The Spike

Episode 110

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

Hi-Jack

Episode 111

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

Mother And Child

Episode 112

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

Co-Operation

Episode 113

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

No Proceedings

Episode 114

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

Officer Material...?

Episode 115

It's the day of Lynch's promotion board. He's already passed his exams, so he k...