The Best Episodes of Z-Cars Season 9

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

Director: Michael Hayes

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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.

Director: Christopher Baker

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

Director: Michael Hayes

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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

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

Director: Paddy Russell

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Director: Paddy Russell

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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

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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

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

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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

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

Director: Michael E. Briant

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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.

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

Director: Christopher Baker

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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

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

Director: Michael Hayes

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

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Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin

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

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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

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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.

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Writer: Bob Baker, Dave Martin

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.

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

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

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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...

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