Z-Cars: Series 9
Season 9 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 8.
- 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 9 Progress Shield
Bits An' Bats
Sep 9, 1974 · 50 min
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.
Old Bones
Sep 16, 1974 · 50 min
Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.
Mysteries
Sep 30, 1974 · 50 min
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.
Night Train
Oct 7, 1974 · 50 min
Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.
Friends
Oct 14, 1974 · 50 min
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
Gardens
Oct 28, 1974 · 50 min
A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.
Quiet As The Grave
Nov 4, 1974 · 50 min
Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.
Pursuit
Nov 11, 1974 · 50 min
A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.
Have You Seen This Child
Nov 18, 1974 · 50 min
Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.
Occupation
Nov 25, 1974 · 50 min
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.
Unnecessary Force
Dec 2, 1974 · 50 min
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.
The Bouncer
Dec 9, 1974 · 50 min
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
House To House
Dec 16, 1974 · 50 min
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.
Boy In Blue
Jan 6, 1975 · 50 min
The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.
Local Knowledge
Jan 13, 1975 · 50 min
Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.
Innocent And Vulnerable
Jan 20, 1975 · 50 min
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 poli
Intervention
Jan 27, 1975 · 50 min
Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.
Transit
Feb 10, 1975 · 50 min
When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.
Snouts
Feb 17, 1975 · 50 min
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 ba
Eviction
Mar 3, 1975 · 50 min
Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.
Incitement
Mar 10, 1975 · 50 min
Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?
Thanks But...No Thanks
Mar 17, 1975 · 50 min
Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?
Kronur
Mar 24, 1975 · 50 min
A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.
Scapegoat
Apr 7, 1975 · 50 min
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.
Bit Of Business
Apr 14, 1975 · 50 min
A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.
Distance
Apr 21, 1975 · 50 min
Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?
Ritual
Apr 28, 1975 · 50 min
Continuation of the previous episode 'Distance'. Skinner has been shot dead and the Murder Squad have taken over the case. So why is Haggar meeting a mate halfway down the M6?
Legacy
May 5, 1975 · 50 min
Continuation of the two previous episodes 'Distance' and 'Ritual'. The hunt for Skinner's murderer has moved away from Newtown. So why is a London detective on his way there, in
A New Broom
May 12, 1975 · 50 min
The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?