Loading episode...
Z-Cars
Season 8 • Episode 21 • Background
Select Server:
Z-Cars Season 8, Episode 21: Background
Comments
No comments yet. Be the first to comment.
Episodes
28 episodesInspector Lynch
Bert Lynch has been promoted to Inspector. But is he still one of the lads?
50 min
Nuisance
Alexandra is always complaining to an already overworked police force about her next door neighbour Percy. But is she just a nuisance? Or should Inspector Lynch take her complaints seriously?
50 min
Escape
Some London villains spring Charlie Cotton from prison, but, too late, he cottons on to the fact that he's been sprung for a purpose.
50 min
Break Up
A woman is arrested for shoplifting and a thief has his alibi checked. On the face of it two routine cases. But even the most routine cases can have repercussions.
50 min
Stray Girl
Mary Mangan disappears with her baby. The worst is feared and a full scale police search is mounted.
50 min
Pieces
A house is broken into and Skinner grabs at the opportunity to improve his record. But he grabs too hard and a man suffers.
50 min
The Cinder Path
Goss is back! In court he finds himself in an unfamiliar role. Against Quilley... twice!
50 min
Cadet
Cadet Peter Preston wants nothing more than to be a policeman, and even though he's a bit of a joke at Newtown his future seems assured. Then his father takes someone for a ride.
50 min
Pressure Of Work
Goss goes out for a quiet day with a friend, but the friend ends up in a cell and a policeman ends up in hospital.
50 min
Absence
A bank raid is in the offing and the only man who knows anything about it is Harry Dance.
50 min
In Police Hands
Julie and Dave are happy: then they're in the nick. It seems that simply being in love is a crime these days.
50 min
Two Hundred Tartan Teddy Bears
Stone and Lynch are puzzled by two cases - one involving bears and the other old ladies.
50 min
Joanna
When Albert Smith goes looking for his daughter Joanna his enquiries cause trouble.
50 min
Pressure
A young petty thief and a young Police Constable find themselves under a similar kind of pressure. The pressure to prove themselves.
50 min
Waste
Not so much a skeleton in the cupboard - more a body, alive and kicking, in the attic.
50 min
Two Wise Monkeys
When villains like Burford and Tyndale fall out they will go to any lengths to settle a score. And somewhere along the line the police have to take drastic measures.
50 min
Dinner Break
Lunchtime - relaxation for some. But not for those on duty at Newtown Station.
50 min
Allegiance
Joe Skinner questions a lad about breaking into a cigarette machine, but it soon becomes apparent that he is after more than a confession.
50 min
Rota
The same crime can be committed over and over again, unless someone decides to co-operate with the police.
50 min
Priority
Quilley and Braithwaite have a tricky customer to deal with; Lynch has Stone, as well as a missing child and a shop break-in.
50 min
Background
50 min
Losers
DI Connor runs into Marjorie, an old flame. But what a change in her!
50 min
Turnabout
Mary and Fiona, two women of equal ability and opportunity. So why is one of them a criminal?
50 min
Intruder
50 min
Mugs?
Several well-planned robberies, but none of the suspects with brains and style enough to organise them. So who did?
50 min
Pastime
A fire-raiser for Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.
50 min
Certain Parties
Back in Newtown after seven years in Parkhurst, Pikey Nimmo wants to settle up with the men who put him away. Stone was one of them.
50 min
Family
Susan Giles wants her father back inside and uses two men to help her. One of them is Quilley, and he unwittingly ruins Skinner's work.
50 min