NaN/100 votes#1 - Bits An' Bats
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1974
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.
Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Old Bones
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1974
Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Mysteries
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1974
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Night Train
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1974
Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
Director: Christopher Baker
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Friends
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1974
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.
Director: Fiona Cumming
Writer: Allan Prior
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Mugs
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1974
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Gardens
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1974
A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
Director: Michael Hayes
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1014 votes
#8 - Quiet As The Grave
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1974
Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Pursuit
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1974
A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Allan Prior
- 6.7/1016 votes
#10 - Have You Seen This Child
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1974
Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Occupation
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1974
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.
Director: Julia Smith
Writer: Leslie Duxbury
- 4.9/1015 votes
#12 - Unnecessary Force
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1974
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.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - The Bouncer
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1974
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.
Director: Fiona Cumming
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1014 votes
#14 - House To House
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1974
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
- 6.0/1010 votes
#15 - Boy In Blue
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1975
The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
Director: Michael Hayes
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Local Knowledge
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1975
Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.
Director: Christopher Barry
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Innocent And Vulnerable
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1975
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Intervention
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1975
Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Tonight And Every Night
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1975
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Transit
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1975
When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1011 votes
#21 - Snouts
Season 9 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1975
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...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1013 votes
#22 - Squatters
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1975
No description available
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Eviction
Season 9 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1975
Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
Director: Paddy Russell
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Incitement
Season 9 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1975
Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
Director: Colin Cant
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Thanks But...No Thanks
Season 9 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1975
Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?
Director: N/A
Writer: Allan Prior
The Best Episodes of Z-Cars Season 9
Every episode of Z-Cars Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Z-Cars Season 9!
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...
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Season 9 Ratings Summary
"Bits An' Bats" is the best rated episode of "Z-Cars" season 9. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Michael E. Briant and written by N/A, it aired on 9/9/1974. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Old Bones".