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Z-Cars

Series 12

1978 · 13 episodes · 10h 50m in all

Episodes

  1. 1

    1. Driver

    28 Jun 1978 · 50 min

  2. 2

    2. Heavenly Host

    5 Jul 1978 · 50 min

    Shabnam Chowdry is a young Asian girl. Roy Grant is a young white boy. Put them together and knives are drawn - and Lynch is in the middle.

  3. 3

    3. Debris

    12 Jul 1978 · 50 min

    Newtown Marriage Guidance Centre has been burned down, so Haggar and Bowker start investigating its clients. They are looking for a man or woman with a grudge - a man or woman who will strike again.

  4. 4

    4. Quilley On The Spot

    19 Jul 1978 · 50 min

    A policeman can only take so much. Lynch deals with the problem one way, Quilley another. Trouble is, in Quilley's case there's a woman involved.

  5. 5

    5. A Woman's Place

    26 Jul 1978 · 50 min

    Night duty in Newtown is a rough turn; not the place for a young policewoman. But WPC Jane Beck won't listen to the warnings of Inspector Lynch.

  6. 6

    6. Exposure

    2 Aug 1978 · 50 min

    Roger Stevens is the quiet sort of copper, always there. Perhaps that's why Lynch tends to take him for granted. But sometimes it's the quiet kind one needs to worry about most of all.

  7. 7

    7. Fat Freddie BA

    9 Aug 1978 · 50 min

    Freddie Cowling has come out of prison a changed man. He's lost a lot of weight, he's got a degree and he's promised his wife he'll go straight from now on. But Lynch doesn't believe he's changed. Not when there's the proceeds of his last job to be collected - £40,000 hidden away and waiting...

  8. 8

    8. First Offender

    16 Aug 1978 · 50 min

    Sunday - kids who have nothing to do. First Lynch, then Haggar gets involved - they do have something to do.

  9. 9

    9. Deserter

    23 Aug 1978 · 50 min

    Frank Rafael Saietta has come home to Newtown. Lynch remembers him as a nice little lad, but that was years ago. Now there are different words to describe him - terrorist and murderer.

  10. 10

    10. Rummage

    30 Aug 1978 · 50 min

    Lynch holds the balance between C.I.D. and the Customs & Excise as they investigate a bent businessman and a suspicious German ship. The only link between them is a showgirl.

  11. 11

    11. Prey

    6 Sept 1978 · 50 min

    Maureen Price was always complaining to the police - so much so that they'd stopped listening. The pity is that if they hadn't she might be alive today.

  12. 12

    12. Departures

    13 Sept 1978 · 50 min

    Two men face retirement, one a policeman, the other a villain. There are younger men impatient to fill their shoes. The copper has no choice about it, but the villain has other ideas.

  13. 13

    13. Pressure

    20 Sept 1978 · 50 min

    A new security shutter is being installed at the entrance to Newtown station, just in time, it seems, as an angry mob gathers outside. A stream of visitors keeps the desk duty officer busy.

Z-Cars Series 12: quick answers

How many episodes are in Z-Cars Series 12?

Series 12 of Z-Cars has 13 episodes, about 11 hours in total.

When did Z-Cars Series 12 come out?

Series 12 premiered on 28 Jun 1978.

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