Z-Cars Season 9 Episode release dates & where to watch

1. Bits An' Bats

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.

2. Old Bones

Lynch deals with a skeleton on the moors and Skinner with several in various cupboards.

3. Mysteries

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.

4. Night Train

Lynch, Quilley and Braithwaite take a night train to Manchester in search of a murder suspect.

5. Friends

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 the same team and Gordon Glossop is a friend of both of them.

6. Gardens

A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed.

7. Quiet As The Grave

Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet, but on this occasion it's too quiet for Miller's comfort.

8. Pursuit

A call reporting an early morning break-in is quickly answered and Render is only minutes behind the intruder.

9. Have You Seen This Child

Colin Williams haunts Inspector Lynch, and Sergeant Moffatt haunts a thief called Mulligan.

10. Occupation

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.

11. Unnecessary Force

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.

12. The Bouncer

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 charge.

13. House To House

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.

14. Boy In Blue

The men at Newtown question their own stability when the past catches up with a lady called Gwen Newcombe.

15. Local Knowledge

Lynch receives a tip-off from a friend and finds himself in the middle of a delicate enquiry with his loyalties divided.

16. Innocent And Vulnerable

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 police enquiry.

17. Intervention

Just two miles from Newtown centre lies open country and another world where people settle their grievances in a different way.

18. Tonight And Every Night

19. Transit

When a lock-keeper complains of strange noises coming from a disused warehouse, a routine enquiry turns into a macabre situation.

20. Snouts

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 back seat. The car races off...

21. Squatters

22. Eviction

Continuation of the previous episode 'Squatters'. With Quilley in hospital, Lynch's attitude to the squatters hardens.

23. Incitement

Why should a woman want to betray her husband to the police - even before he has committed the crime?

24. Thanks But...No Thanks

Alec Quilley is up for promotion. He has an excellent service record, but how close an examination will his private life bear?

25. Kronur

A fool and his money are soon parted - all the sooner if you don't know how much the money is worth.

26. Scapegoat

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.

27. Bit Of Business

A casual enquiry about car thieves leads Skinner to suspect that someone is taking him for a ride.

28. Distance

Joe Skinner fancies a bird. She seems to fancy him. So why is he investigating her background?

29. Ritual

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?

30. Legacy

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 secret?

31. A New Broom Finale

The new CID Inspector is an old mate of Cecil Haggar's... isn't he?