Z-Cars (1962)
- Directed by
- Timothy Combe, John Davies, Tristan DeVere Cole, Shaun Sutton
- Genre
- police procedural, drama television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 12 seasons, 801 episodes
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The series follows uniformed police officers and detectives as they patrol and investigate crimes in a fictional English town. It focuses on their daily work, interactions, and cases without dramatic flourishes.
grittygroundedhurriedinvestigativeno-nonsenseunderstatedroutine
What happens
Z-Cars or Z Cars (pronounced "zed cars") is a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police and CID detectives in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978. Z-Cars ran for 801 episodes, of which fewer than half have survived. Regular stars included Stratford Johns (Detective Inspector Barlow), Frank Windsor (Det. Sgt. Watt), James Ellis (Bert Lynch), and Brian Blessed ("Fancy" Smith). Barlow and Watt were later spun into a separate series Softly, Softly. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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