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Z-Cars

Series 7

1971 · 115 episodes · 95h 50m in all

Episodes

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    1. The Stone Standard Part 1

    2 Aug 1971 · 50 min

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    2. The Stone Standard Part 2

    3 Aug 1971 · 50 min

    Sergeant Stone - up against militant management and militant workers. And he won't compromise.

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    3. The Mystery Part 1

    9 Apr 1971 · 50 min

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    4. The Mystery Part 2

    10 Aug 1971 · 50 min

    A teenage girl and night time at a railway station brings a problem for PC Covill.

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    5. Nobody Hit Me Part 1

    16 Aug 1971 · 50 min

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    6. Nobody Hit Me Part 2

    17 Aug 1971 · 50 min

    Two grocers, one across the road from the other. Both ordinary, everyday characters. But then one of them has a fire in his shop. Goss and Stone end up with one villain and two very frightened men.

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    7. Dan, Dan... Part 1

    23 Aug 1971 · 50 min

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    8. Dan, Dan... Part 2

    24 Aug 1971 · 50 min

    To get stolen goods to the public a villain has to be an organising genius, and that's not all. The police are keeping an eye on Reg Thurley, who seems to be leading a double life.

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    9. Funny Fellah

    31 Aug 1971 · 50 min

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    10. Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 1

    6 Sept 1971 · 50 min

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    11. Who's Your Friend ... ? Part 2

    7 Sept 1971 · 50 min

    Liam Murphy is losing control of the gang. It's time for action.

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    12. Purely Medical Purposes Part 1

    13 Sept 1971 · 50 min

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    13. Purely Medical Purposes Part 2

    14 Sept 1971 · 50 min

    Charlie West is found with stolen property. He's in trouble, so he calls his lawyer.

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    14. Grandstand Finish Part 1

    20 Sept 1971 · 50 min

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    15. Grandstand Finish Part 2

    21 Sept 1971 · 50 min

    Sunday is all quiet, but Monday brings 'Open Day' problems at the Station. But there are more urgent troubles outside.

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    16. Funny Creatures Women Part 1

    27 Sept 1971 · 50 min

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    17. Funny Creatures Women Part 2

    28 Sept 1971 · 50 min

    Night, a deserted park and a young woman on her way home. Skinner is interviewed by Goss and Stone. Then they take the keys to his quarters.

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    18. The Dirty Job Part 1

    4 Oct 1971 · 50 min

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    19. The Dirty Job Part 2

    5 Oct 1971 · 50 min

    The Bannion family is in trouble, but at first not with the police. Bannion can possibly help Goss catch a villain. But is Goss willing to help Bannion in return?

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    20. Ding Dong Part 1

    11 Oct 1971 · 50 min

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    21. Ding Dong Part 2

    12 Oct 1971 · 50 min

    Juvenile crime in Newtown has reached a serious level. A clean-up campaign goes into operation. Then the Sheldon mob arrive in town.

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    22. Intrusion Part 1

    18 Oct 1971 · 50 min

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    23. Intrusion Part 2

    19 Oct 1971 · 50 min

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    24. Not Often We Have Visitors Part 1

    25 Oct 1971 · 50 min

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    25. Not Often We Have Visitors Part 2

    26 Oct 1971 · 50 min

    There's a V.I.P. visit in the offing and everyone is making plans: Newtown police, Special Branch, Headquarters. And they're not the only ones. It's a straight line from the airport to the Remand Home. And the roads should be fairly quiet.

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    26. Contact Man Part 1

    1 Nov 1971 · 50 min

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    27. Contact Man Part 2

    2 Nov 1971 · 50 min

    Three villains are under lock and key. But where is the missing eight thousand pounds? With business problems and an expensive wife Mr. Owen has lots of reasons to be worried, but there's another reason too.

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    28. Take Away Part 1

    8 Nov 1971 · 50 min

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    29. Take Away Part 2

    9 Nov 1971 · 50 min

    Nicked cars are normally just a routine job. So what makes Annette Minto's so different? At first she just wants her car back, but then something makes her change her mind.

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    30. Who Were You With? Part 1

    15 Nov 1971 · 50 min

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    31. Who Were You With? Part 2

    16 Nov 1971 · 50 min

    A hairdresser's shop is wrecked. In the middle is a frightened girl. She's alone and vulnerable and it's night time. She's no money and nowhere to go. It's not surprising that she's scared.

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    32. Danny Boy's Home Part 1

    22 Nov 1971 · 50 min

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    33. Danny Boy's Home Part 2

    23 Nov 1971 · 50 min

    Danny Baker returns to Newtown. But DS Haggar is back as well. It's not long before the two of them lock antlers.

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    34. Rules Of The Game Part 1

    29 Nov 1971 · 50 min

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    35. Rules Of The Game Part 2

    30 Nov 1971 · 50 min

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    36. The Wrong Odds Part 1

    6 Dec 1971 · 50 min

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    37. The Wrong Odds Part 2

    7 Dec 1971 · 50 min

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    38. The Horse Dealer Part 1

    13 Dec 1971 · 50 min

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    39. The Horse Dealer Part 2

    14 Dec 1971 · 50 min

    With Goss coming back Haggar wants to go out on a winner. And even he has a friend or two willing to help him.

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    40. Collation Part 1

    20 Dec 1971 · 50 min

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    41. Collation Part 2

    21 Dec 1971 · 50 min

    Promotion is in the air and Goss is in with an outside chance. A sighting, plus a report from a beat man, might just add up to a feather in Goss's cap at just the right time.

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    42. Last Bus To Newtown

    3 Jan 1972 · 50 min

    Bert Lynch has almost forgotten what life is like on the cars - out there in the thick of things.

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    43. Lynch

    10 Jan 1972 · 50 min

    Change. New people. Different methods. Some people call it progress. Bert Lynch, out on his own, is starting to feel left behind. Not the best time for his surprise visitor to call.

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    44. Team Work

    17 Jan 1972 · 50 min

    Whether it's a family trying to adjust to change or the police force mounting a big crime prevention operation a team is only as strong as its weakest member.

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    45. The Attackers

    24 Jan 1972 · 50 min

    A lad is walking home late at night...

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    46. Retirement

    31 Jan 1972 · 50 min

    An old man tries to stop a robbery...

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    47. Promotion

    14 Feb 1972 · 50 min

    Police life often puts a strain on a marriage, as Goss finds out. Stone is single, but that can also mean trouble.

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    48. Canal

    21 Feb 1972 · 50 min

    It's the age of fast getaways, but Frank and George are exceptions. They're villains all the same and Sgt. Miller thinks they're worth watching.

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    49. Week Off

    28 Feb 1972 · 50 min

    Lynch tries to get away from it all...

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    50. Missing

    6 Mar 1972 · 50 min

    Mariam Ahmed makes some trouble for the police.

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    51. Quilley

    10 Apr 1972 · 50 min

    Quilley - on and off duty - with trouble on both fronts.

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    52. Tessa In The Woodpile

    17 Apr 1972 · 50 min

    After a robbery Tessa goes on the warpath.

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    53. Keep To Yourself

    24 Apr 1972 · 50 min

    Two loners. Stone cops one of them, Skinner the other.

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    54. Smoke

    1 May 1972 · 50 min

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    55. Operation Ascalon

    8 May 1972 · 50 min

    Is Goss to blame when the operation goes wrong?

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    56. Short Cut

    15 May 1972 · 50 min

    Stone arrests and charges Andy Walker as a try-on.

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    57. Hagger

    22 May 1972 · 50 min

    DS Cecil Haggar is back in Newtown. He's at a loose end, so he gravitates towards the nearest pub. There he finds trouble.

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    58. Playtime

    29 May 1972 · 50 min

    Stone and Skinner are off duty. Then there's a jewel theft and a robbery with violence.

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    59. Sweet Girl

    5 Jun 1972 · 50 min

    A lass is missing...

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    60. Access

    12 Jun 1972 · 50 min

    Quilley stops at a pub. Is it routine, or isn't it?

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    61. Goss

    19 Jun 1972 · 50 min

    Mrs. Goss and a lawyer add up to problems for DI Goss.

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    62. The Wolf And The Sheep Part 1

    10 Jul 1972 · 50 min

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    63. The Wolf And The Sheep Part 2

    11 Jul 1972 · 50 min

    Sgt. Miller is back on duty and up against another pro. He gets some good advice.

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    64. Forget It Part 1

    17 Jul 1972 · 50 min

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    65. Forget It Part 2

    18 Jul 1972 · 50 min

    A man with no name and no memory - or a man with something to hide?

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    66. A Neighbour's Goods Part 1

    24 Jul 1972 · 50 min

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    67. A Neighbour's Goods Part 2

    25 Jul 1972 · 50 min

    There's a dead woman and Sgt. Miller expects trouble. Then an anonymous phone call brings more surprises for him.

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    68. Loyalties Part 1

    31 Jul 1972 · 50 min

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    69. Loyalties Part 2

    1 Aug 1972 · 50 min

    Stolen gear, or planted? Stone and Lynch disagree. Lynch is trying to get one over Stone. Then the punch-up happens.

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    70. Relative Values Part 1

    7 Aug 1972 · 50 min

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    71. Relative Values Part 2

    8 Aug 1972 · 50 min

    OAPs are short of cash... and then the police are involved. Stone and Skinner are looking for something old-fashioned.

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    72. Not Good Enough Part 1

    14 Aug 1972 · 50 min

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    73. Not Good Enough Part 2

    15 Aug 1972 · 50 min

    Sgt. Miller wants him. So does Skinner. But Bright is clever. Miller tries the 'Chinese Water Torture'.

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    74. Breakage Part 1

    21 Aug 1972 · 50 min

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    75. Breakage Part 2

    22 Aug 1972 · 50 min

    A man with a parcel - George T. Wood - who's looking for someone; who's been kept waiting most of his life. And a derelict building, all glass and wind - and someone up on the roof. Quilley takes a big risk.

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    76. Connor

    11 Sept 1972 · 50 min

    Fred Connor is the new Detective Inspector at Newtown. He has unfinished business - with a villain named Bright.

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    77. The Team

    18 Sept 1972 · 50 min

    Inspector Connor is on trial. So is Sgt. Stone and the entire Newtown police force.

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    78. Witness

    25 Sept 1972 · 50 min

    Terence Nichols is in custody at Newtown police station after a wages snatch. There are three days to the trial and Stone thinks it's an open and shut case. He has a reliable witness in Sydney Adams. But one of the villains is still on the run.

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    79. Takes All Sorts

    2 Oct 1972 · 50 min

    A new Inspector arrives at Newtown, Ralph Edward Pratt by name, spruce as a pocket hanky and dripping self-confidence. He is fussy and believes in doing everything by the book. He also wants to get involved in everything that's going on, however trivial. It doesn't take long for Bert Lynch to take a violent dislike to the newcomer and to make every effort to avoid him!

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    80. Sins Of The Father

    9 Oct 1972 · 50 min

    Wives of prisoners are easier to chat up than the prisoners themselves - and Inspector Connor wants to find the missing money from a bank robbery.

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    81. Damage

    16 Oct 1972 · 50 min

    Night-time and a frightened house breaker. Newtown police reveal an unusual mystery.

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    82. Day Trip

    23 Oct 1972 · 50 min

    Sgt. Haggar and PC Quilley are back on the strength just at the time Dilly Watson, a clever thief, arrives in Newtown.

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    83. Public Relations

    30 Oct 1972 · 50 min

    DS Haggar doesn't like Ken Knowles. ""Journalists,"" he says, ""grow fat on misrepresenting police information"". He doesn't like old Bertha either. She doesn't give information. So what chance does he stand against both of them?

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    84. Old Soldiers

    6 Nov 1972 · 50 min

    Old Sepp is passing through Newtown. PC Hackett is on the way out. But both are involved with Marlene.

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    85. Diabolical Liberty

    13 Nov 1972 · 50 min

    There's just no helping some people, as Bert Lynch finds out when Chief Inspector Logie investigates a break-in with a difference.

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    86. Old Acquaintance

    20 Nov 1972 · 50 min

    A newly released prisoner, Dan Fowler, returns to his wife Julia and plans to fix an old enemy. But Julia has plans of her own.

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    87. The Legacy

    27 Nov 1972 · 50 min

    Sgt. Stone goes to the funeral of an old and respected thief in the hope of unearthing a few skeletons. But dead men don't talk and neither will this one's grandson.

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    88. The Amateurs

    4 Dec 1972 · 50 min

    While Austin Nuttall dreams of owning his own business Connor dreams of nailing a fence. And with two crimes unsolved, Connor demonstrates how to kill two men and two birds with one stone.

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    89. Hobo

    11 Dec 1972 · 50 min

    A gullible old man, a con man, and a do-gooder. And Tom Stone is right in the middle and in need of somewhere to live.

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    90. Old Lag

    18 Dec 1972 · 50 min

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    91. Skinner

    4 Jan 1973 · 50 min

    Skinner returns to C.I.D. He's after a villain, wanted by both the Met. and DS Haggar.

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    92. Skin Game

    11 Jan 1973 · 50 min

    A safe-breaker, a club owner and a farmer. All three play the same game until Miller joins in and gets under their skin.

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    93. Backwater

    18 Jan 1973 · 50 min

    All Tom Stone wants is a quiet weekend's fishing, but then he meets Sergeant Rust. Together they catch a very queer fish, but have different ideas about landing it.

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    94. Big Jake

    25 Jan 1973 · 50 min

    Who gets to Big Jake first, Billy Fielden or DC Skinner? One of them wants to help him, the other just wants him. And who, or what, is Big Jake anyway?

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    95. Women At Work

    1 Feb 1973 · 50 min

    Two working women, one admired by Lynch, the other disliked by Miller. And in the background a singular third person, badly wanted by Skinner.

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    96. Jack The Dodger

    8 Feb 1973 · 50 min

    There's a problem for Skinner when a suspicious odd-job man takes lodgings with an old flame of Bert Lynch.

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    97. Miller

    15 Feb 1973 · 50 min

    A body in a canal and Miller follows a chain of enquiries that brings him face to face with... himself.

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    98. Care

    22 Feb 1973 · 50 min

    Two girls with their husbands away. Maureen is the social type and likes a drink; Jill is the lonely type, but she finds something for the police to do.

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    99. Operation Watchdog

    1 Mar 1973 · 50 min

    Connor comes back to vandalism and to conflict with some local bigwigs. And Skinner's in a spot of bother

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    100. Defection

    8 Mar 1973 · 50 min

    A member of a visiting Trade Delegation takes a positive step concerning th future. But Sgt. Stone's future is left for Connor and Richards to fight over.

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    101. Invention

    15 Mar 1973 · 50 min

    Rowena Bishop has a reputation for storytelling. She tells Sgt. Lynch about a body down on the foreshore.

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    102. Hard Man

    22 Mar 1973 · 50 min

    Clifford Roscoe is the local hard man. He's fresh out of jail and ready and anxious to cause trouble. But Stone and Connor are ready for him.

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    103. Domestic

    29 Mar 1973 · 50 min

    A bitter argument, an unexpected tragedy and Sgt. Stone finds himself pushing a suspect very hard indeed.

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    104. Pat

    5 Apr 1973 · 50 min

    Pat Mason is a Salvationist and everyone likes her, particularly the regulars at Alan Doherty's pub. So why should anyone want to hurt her?

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    105. Bowman

    12 Apr 1973 · 50 min

    Bringing up a family in Newtown isn't easy, especially for a copper.

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    106. The Lady And The Gentleman

    19 Apr 1973 · 50 min

    There's a housebreaker with a difference operating in Newtown. He leaves no marks when he breaks in and he never steals anything.

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    107. Suspicion

    30 Apr 1973 · 50 min

    Sgt. Lynch takes an interest in Susan Rawlings while her husband is in prison.

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    108. Mileage

    7 May 1973 · 50 min

    Jupp has a large family and needs to keep his job. But events pile up against him - his boss and a robbery - and he needs to keep his cool.

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    109. Routine

    14 May 1973 · 50 min

    Lynch and Quilley are on 'nights'. And a routine call to a break-in leads to a break-up that's far from routine.

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    110. The Spike

    21 May 1973 · 50 min

    A suspicious death. Who is and who isn't involved? And what is the fiddle going on at Munster House?

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    111. Hi-Jack

    4 Jun 1973 · 50 min

    A stolen lorry load of meat parked on a busy road. A piece of cake for the police, unless the lorry driver's name is Houdini!

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    112. Mother And Child

    11 Jun 1973 · 50 min

    Joyce is very protective towards her son - even when he's in prison.

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    113. Co-Operation

    18 Jun 1973 · 50 min

    Understanding between husband and wife, detective and villain, Police Constable and member of the public - but what about the co-operation between Stone and Haggar?

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    114. No Proceedings

    25 Jun 1973 · 50 min

    Hugo Vallance, an old-fashioned Lord of the Manor, is trying to survive in a modern world - of gossip, scandal and theft.

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    115. Officer Material...?

    2 Jul 1973 · 50 min

    It's the day of Lynch's promotion board. He's already passed his exams, so he knows his stuff. But - is he the right type to be an officer?

Z-Cars Series 7: quick answers

How many episodes are in Z-Cars Series 7?

Series 7 of Z-Cars has 115 episodes, about 96 hours in total.

When did Z-Cars Series 7 come out?

Series 7 premiered on 2 Aug 1971.

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