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Z-Cars or Z Cars (pronounced "zed cars") was a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police 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. The series differed sharply from earlier police procedurals.
This is an episode list for the British television series Z-Cars. The series was aired on BBC One , between 1962 and 1978. Many of the episodes are now missing from the BBC archives.
The Nissan Z-series is a model series of sports cars manufactured by Nissan since 1969.. The original Z was first sold on October of 1969 in Japan as the Nissan Fairlady Z (Japanese: 日産・フェアレディZ, Hepburn: Nissan Fearedi Zetto) at Nissan Exhibition dealerships that previously sold the Nissan Bluebird.
"Theme from Z-Cars" was the theme tune to the long-running BBC television drama Z-Cars. Based on the traditional folk song "Johnny Todd", [1] which was in a collection of traditional songs by Frank Kidson dated 1891 called Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs. Kidson's notes for this song say: "Johnny Todd is a child's rhyme and game ...
Derek Waring Publicity photo c. 1983 Born Derek Barton-Chapple (1927-04-26) 26 April 1927 Mill Hill, London, England Died 20 February 2007 (2007-02-20) (aged 79) Petworth, West Sussex, England Occupation Actor Spouse Dorothy Tutin (m. 1963; died 2001) Children 2 Derek Waring (born Derek Barton-Chapple ; 26 April 1927 – 20 February 2007) was an English actor who is best remembered for playing ...
The Nissan Z, [4] known in Japan as the Nissan Fairlady Z (Japanese: 日産・フェアレディZ, Hepburn: Nissan Fearedi Zetto), is the seventh generation of the Z-car line of sports cars manufactured by Nissan. The model succeeded the 370Z, though is built on a modified and revised version of the previous generation's platform. [5]
Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002 [1]), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for playing the role as senior CID officer Charlie Barlow, a character he originated in the early years of the long-running BBC police series Z-Cars, and then continued to play in several spin-off series in the 1960s and 1970s.
He was founder-writer of influential police drama Z-Cars with Troy Kennedy Martin and wrote five of the first ten episodes and a total of 136 episodes for Z-Cars and spin-off series Softly, Softly. He also wrote several episodes of the 1970s science-fiction series Blake's 7 .