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, 802 episodes

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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