Z-Cars: Series 10
Season 10 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Z-Cars Season 9.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 10 Progress Shield
Guns
Jan 5, 1976 · 50 min
Armed robbery is becoming almost a daily event and sooner or later somebody's bound to get hurt. But what happens if the police meet violence with violence?
Manslaughter
Jan 12, 1976 · 50 min
The public expect to be protected by the police. But if a policeman kills a member of the public in the execution of his duty, will the protector be prosecuted?
Prisoner
Jan 19, 1976 · 50 min
When a constable is ten minutes late reporting in an alert goes out. Alec Quilley hasn't been seen or heard of for over an hour.
The Frighteners
Jan 26, 1976 · 50 min
An ex-villain is entitled to police protection just like anyone else - isn't he?
Contact
Feb 2, 1976 · 50 min
A man is trapped under a load of dangerous chemicals. Move him, and the lot might go up. Leave him there and...
Say Goodbye To The Horses
Feb 16, 1976 · 50 min
There are plenty of ways to make sure a horse loses a race, but how do you make a horse WIN a race?
A Preacher In Passing
Feb 23, 1976 · 50 min
A quiet Sunday and Moffat finds himself in church. But not praying!
Nightwatch
Mar 1, 1976 · 50 min
Keeping surveillance on a goods yard full of empty wagons seems a pretty barren exercise - unless you know what's at stake.
Ringers
Mar 8, 1976 · 50 min
In detection you need routine and instinct. But not necessarily in that order.
Fairground
Mar 15, 1976 · 50 min
A young girl is attacked and Lynch has to look into 'all the fun of the fair'.
Hunch
Mar 22, 1976 · 50 min
Which is more important - a batch of missing cameras, or a missing girl?
Scot Free
Mar 29, 1976 · 50 min
Two boys are trapped in a disused mine. Why is their friend terrified of going to the police?
Transit
Feb 10, 1975
A mystery call out for noise down the docks perplexes Yates, and he's stuck there with DS Haggar and an irritating PC. They shoot horses, don't they?
Snouts
Feb 17, 1975
A police informer is found badly beaten on a rubbish tip, whilst Bert Lych waits for him in a local pub. Who was responsible, and what is the connection to a rough local pub?
Thanks But... No Thanks
Feb 17, 1975
Quilley is up for promotion, but personal circumstances may hinder his path. At the same time, a troublesome thief is causing him severe problems.
A New Broom
May 12, 1975
A series of break-ins have some peculiar traits. Haggar thinks that an old lag just out of gaol may be responsible. But what is the significance of a missing schoolboy, and why is