Z cars the first episode ever Pt. 1 of 4

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11 жыл бұрын

Four of a kind tells the story of how Z cars was formed.
Det Inspector Barlow establishes a new crime patrol to stem the growing tide of crime.

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@darrenrexfrancis2538 Жыл бұрын

Wowwww....just the name 'Z Cars'...takes me back to the early 70's when I was a little boy & the whole family would sit down & watch TV together!!! Happy days!!!

@latexbuster Жыл бұрын

I loved Z Cars, as a boy in scouts at the time I remember riding home on my bicycle full tilt after attending scouts to be home in time to watch it with my parents. My earliest recollection really of that new thing in our lounge, a television set.

@Claymor621 4 жыл бұрын

To watch this properly I had to sit on the floor with my back resting on the settee, absently pushing a toy car backwards and forwards under my legs.

@funkyalfonso 2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@PIPEHEAD 5 ай бұрын

The first time I read that I thought you meant in 1962 ........................

@enkisdaughter4795 4 ай бұрын

Were you eating your tea - thick sliced ham sandwiches with sliced pickles?

@francesjones9265 10 ай бұрын

We watched this with my late mum many years ago this takes me back to the day's so long ago

@PatriciaPageMosaicArtsCrafts 3 жыл бұрын

I cannot believe I am getting the privilege to watch this again, thank you very much for the memory.

@mithrilmoon1 8 жыл бұрын

My late Mum loved Z Cars. We all sat round the telly to watch it. She had a crush on Fancy Smith! I was just a kid but I loved it, too. Thank you so much.

@jupitersailing 4 жыл бұрын

Shouty Crackers was on the breakfast telly the other morning. She'd have loved his beardy look nowadays.

@ragdolly22 3 жыл бұрын

OMG that music took me straight back to my childhood 👍

@ainesisland2 Жыл бұрын

I used to watch this instead of doing my homework in the late 70’s😊

@marvwatkins7029 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for having and providing the first episode. It's a shame that about half of them are probably lost for good. A great series nonetheless.

@tommytwogloves16 Жыл бұрын

This guy is another click bait schemer. There was 1 999 full episode subscription but you tube bans it if you search by name.

@tungstenkid2271 9 жыл бұрын

Brit TV in the 50's/60's had an exciting down-to-earth rawness to it and we never missed an episode of Z-cars

@davidpoulton2860 Жыл бұрын

1962 when I was 4 and just started Infants School. I'm now 64 years old.

@Mrfairchap 5 жыл бұрын

This stands the test of time mainly because of the excellent acting. That makes up for any deficiencies in set, dialogue, direction etc.

@mfjdv2020 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely great, those were the good old days. I used to love Z Cars and never missed an episode.

@sirrobin8814 2 жыл бұрын

I've got a potato that looks like a horses willy.

@aryehfinklestein9041 6 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this first episode as a boy - nice memory. Thanks for posting.

@stevedoubleu99B 5 жыл бұрын

Given the passage of time, I expected this to look a bit naff, but fair play, it stands up very well indeed. No doubt largely due to the skills of the actors. (not to forget the whole team!)

@Kerygmame Жыл бұрын

Yo ... either you upgrade [and pay] or they plague you with ads ...

@louisewhitehouse4881 5 жыл бұрын

I heard that everybody watched Z Cars when it was on, so l decided to see why everybody watched it as a family. And even though l am a Liverpool fans and the Z Cars theme tune is used by Everton, l also liked the theme tune of the show😀

@ArtyEffem 4 жыл бұрын

"Everybody" watched it because at the time there were only two viable TV channels available.

@carolbeckett7922 Жыл бұрын

Lovely to hear the theme tune Johnny Todd. I remember when we were taught how to play this at school on our recorders and learned the words of the original song.

@kenlane6655 4 жыл бұрын

How amazing. I wandered into the kitchen and the theme and title popped into my head. Now here I am, watching the very first episode. Thanks Einstein.

@michaelodwyer5305 3 жыл бұрын

One of my memories as a child.

@BeatlesGuru1 10 жыл бұрын

I have such fond childhood memories of Z Cars, I used to have a toy steering wheel with a suction cap to stick it on something like a chair and I would place it in front of sofa and that would be my car and then I would pretend I am Z Victor 1 I'd play quietly on my own for hours like that.

@maryrosekeeling9750 9 жыл бұрын

BeatlesGuru1

@terencebarrett2897 6 жыл бұрын

BeatlesGuru1 ahh those were the days,I know people say ''oh my good old days'' and as children we sigh ''old fogeys'' but you and I and the older people are completely right,today's children majority are dressed like little adults,and are subjected to any corrupt savage and sexual perversion,inside the home and outside the home,and few get the parents attencion and interest put the tablet,computer,etc and these children are seeing savage, murders,killings pornographic and all means of political propaganda etc to hate your neighbour,stranger etc,these are being raised by computer but being roboticaly politised, when I was younger you would go fishing ,catch bees,blackberries picking,pinch a farmers turnip ,but it was just the odd one,at the side of the field you could not be bothered to carry it home as it reminded you of home 'as you were having a good time, make a rope swing down the woods' ,etc toss a few stones at rats along the river bank, make a bogey ( cart with four wheels) old pram wheels ,etc etc even make toffee cakes etc it was fantastic, now unhealthely children glued to there propaganda, poisonous wicked phones tablets or computer',and no fresh air ,enthusiasm, interest, even our governments selling off there playing feels ,and for them to exercise and get rid of the cobwebs and energy that the body needs to expel, all for these multi giant conglomerates to corrupt and £££ greed money,physically mentally and sinfully

@donkeevney 6 жыл бұрын

BeatlesGuru1 golden....me too.

@Raven4508 5 жыл бұрын

The Victorians dressed their children like little adults too. It is nothing new... Also, was there ever a golden era? Murders, sexual abuse etc have always gone on....

@PIPEHEAD 5 ай бұрын

@@terencebarrett2897 Take off your rose tinted specs for a mo ............................... ?

@edwardmcinally3378 2 жыл бұрын

One of the very best police drama shows on TV's, back in the the day, most people who tuned in thought it was the real thing because it was not listed as a TV show but a documentary. REGIMENTAL SERGEANT MAJOR EDWARD MCINALLY

@PIPEHEAD 5 ай бұрын

Give over !

@richardbuxton3546 10 жыл бұрын

Great stuff - as I recall the theme tune featured in the record charts for a while. It's just dawned on me - at the time Liverpool must only have had two police cars - or at least just two with radios - Z Victor 1 and Z Victor 2 and we had no idea that we were watching Vultan in a policeman's costume. I'll put the tune on my Desert Island Disks list.

@Andrew-xs1sg Жыл бұрын

It was Lancashire Constabulary

@kevinwebb2480 7 жыл бұрын

The first proper TV cops drama. Rivetting at the time.

@sheilawhite8314 2 жыл бұрын

Oh so happy I found this on You tube was so loved this series

@SuperIliad 3 жыл бұрын

Four of a Kind, Season 1, Episide 1, aired 2 January 1962. Jeremy Kemp as P.C. Bob Steele; James Ellis as P.C. Bert Lynch; Brian Blessed as P.C. Fancy Smith; Joseph Brady as P.C. Jock Weir; John Phillips as Det. Chief Superintendent Robins; Stratford Johns; Det. Chief Inspector Charles Barlow; Frank Windsor as Det. Sergeant John Watt; Leonard Williams as Sergeant Percy Twentyman; Frank Hawkins as Sergeant Barnes; Terence Edmond as P.C. Ian Sweet; Virginia Stride as Katy Hoskins; Dorothy White as Janey Steele; Sandra Skermer as Frances; Verity Edmett as Dolores; Keith Smith, Racegoer; Bernard Kay as Larry; Derek Ware as Mike; Frank Crawshaw, Football Coach; Anna Wing as Mrs. Jones; Peter Anderson as Rodney Jones; Davy Jones (as David Jones) as Willie Thatcher.

@SuperIliad 2 жыл бұрын

@Tami Joeris The same person before later fame.

@Packyboy Жыл бұрын

Jimmy Ellis… Great actor lovely man the rest of the cast to class act.👏👏👏

@Cool2BCeltic 9 жыл бұрын

Z Cars, a gritty and realistic contrast with that cosy one man recruiting campaign for the Met, Dixon of Dock Green.

@lynnmarieparkin6841 5 жыл бұрын

One of the best Police Drama,s and didn't suffer from being turned into a Soap

@t.p.mckenna 3 жыл бұрын

RIP Frank Windsor - a fine actor.

@nicfewer8393 4 жыл бұрын

Rest in Peace, Jeremy Kemp.

@MrDaiseymay 9 жыл бұрын

Pre--swinging sixties---although it didn't swing much where I lived---just an expression. I had one of those Ford Anglia's that John Watt was driving, Jasmine Yellow with a White top.

@nzsooz3884 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite TV themes

@merledoughty5787 4 жыл бұрын

Loved the theme tune Z cars came on Friday nights in New Zealand and Inspector Barlow and Brian Blessed what a great program that is how I saw Britain at the time as a teen

@grindupBaker 5 жыл бұрын

Johnny Todd he took a notion For to sail the ocean wide, And he left his true love behind him, Weeping by the Liverpool tide.

@borusa32 Жыл бұрын

A start for many seminal actors of the sixties. Many fine actors cut their teeth on shows like Z cars,Danger Man,Callan and The Avengers in the UK.

@kitthearty 4 жыл бұрын

Cold and no heating. Hidden violence almost no reported crime the legacy of ww2 a compliant population. Working on the motorcycle engine on the kitchen table. Weekly mags for the kids. I was a kid. Hard living. Thank god most of that is gone. It was no picnic. I'm old now and I think how hard it was for old people then, crouching over the fire, hands destroyed by work. Mind you they were only 55. It's the ciggies that killed them. Great show.

@jenks008 5 жыл бұрын

had a pretty grim childhood and programmes like this gave me hope, along with Dixon and the film, The Blue Lamp. Harry Roberts's cowardly killing of 3 unarmed detectives as a very young boy showed me what I wanted to do.

@michaelkennedy8573 6 жыл бұрын

Those cars and those uniforms! Those were the days. everything was brighter back then

@jupitersailing 4 жыл бұрын

Yes but life in Newtown could be very gritty. Poor bloody coppers.

@dundee520 9 жыл бұрын

wow watched this as a wee kid - cheers 4 sharing

@garryarden7200 9 жыл бұрын

Being an Everton fan , so good to hear the Z Cars theme. Great series along with Softly Softly.

@Bruce-1956 7 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Dixon of Dock Green......'evening all'.

@glynnevans1851 4 жыл бұрын

@@garryarden7200 hi Garry, great memories we had then I luved Dixon of dock green too n my favourite film from the 60s was True Grit..Leeds fan Garry but remember then your star player Alan Ball RIP..proper football played then wingers .Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands

@sozanmarshall2832 3 жыл бұрын

I was 7 when this came on the tv neaver miss any Thankyou

@williammcmullen66 10 жыл бұрын

James Ellis who passed away today ,watched him in Z cars as a child all those years ago

@1061andy 4 жыл бұрын

great series for its time - a real advancement in police drama, created by Troy Kennedy Martin i think who later developed The Sweeney.

@EndingSummerwithRalph 8 жыл бұрын

Interesting to watch, I must have stumbled across a reference to this show as I'm an American, nice to sample it, I like older crime TV shows. Really like your show The Sweeney, that's great to watch. Pretty cool to see a young Jeremy Kemp here, he is the perfect "German Aristocrat" bad guy in films. Thanks!

@barrieholditch3800 4 жыл бұрын

Growing up watching Z cars in B/W our TV was only monochrome.

@user-kk5kr5ys6i 10 жыл бұрын

Another era! The UK seems like a different country now. Well, they do say the past is another country ... 1962 was the year the Rolling Stones formed and the Beatles had their first hit, "Love Me Do", and 1963 the year Kennedy was shot. Real watershed times.

@mithrilmoon1 8 жыл бұрын

+p123 I was eight years old, growing up in Glasgow. My family watched this every week without fail. It was such a popular series. This really takes me back.

@Mrfairchap 5 жыл бұрын

p123 Yes, I agree with you 100% my friend, the past IS another country. But is it a better country? I think it is, but the jury is still out on that.

@GerardVaughan-qe7ml 3 жыл бұрын

I had the choice/opportunity to continue to struggle on in uk or move to Bulgaria back in 2006. My only regret about moving is that I tried to do it all with a crappy d lorry that some idiots had tried to convert to a horse transporter. The weight of the junk they fitted had, unknown to me, broken a rear spring. I was up to max 7.5 tons. Right hand drive - absolute nightmare ! However a I'm both sad about Britain, and that much glad to be out of it, as a pensioner since 2013. KZfaq is priceless despite its disgusting censorship of Truths about current events.

@glpilpi6209 3 жыл бұрын

I agree , wonderful times , great television . Troy Kennedy Martin made the Sweeney later on in the seventies.

@barbarawhittall2311 2 жыл бұрын

First I heard of this series enjoying now! Thank you!

@johmurphy4395 10 жыл бұрын

Its great to see tv as it was

@jupitersailing 4 жыл бұрын

My dear old mum used to watch these programmes and sigh "Who'd be a poor bloody copper, some of the dreadful things they have to deal with". Goodness knows what she'd think seeing what they have to endure today, now being got at from all sides, criminals, bosses AND public, and getting paid bugger all for the pleasure.

@Roger.Coleman1949 5 жыл бұрын

Blimey, this takes me back, Sgt. Percy Twentyman at 7.25 in the station , played by Leonard Williams.He was always getting on to P.C Sweet , " put it in the boook Sweet " !, it became a famous quote.I think he died young, very early in the first series.A huge leap in Police drama after Dixon Of Dock Green that still had nearly 10 years to run !.

@SS08947 5 жыл бұрын

Leonard Williams died of a heart attack aged 48...

@algiles881 4 жыл бұрын

@@SS08947 At the time he was also working on the radio series The Clitheroe Kid. Some episodes of the radio series was broadcast after his death. Of course Z Cars was live so no appearances after Sept 1962

@saffronkissick-jones7070 5 жыл бұрын

Stratford johns (detective Barlow) is my great uncle

@prestcoldandy910 4 жыл бұрын

He was a very funny man in real life

@jupitersailing 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's fascinating. Did you get to hang out with him very often? He seemed like a lot of fun as he would regularly appear in parodies of himself and police dramas.

@stephengilliland1976 4 жыл бұрын

And?

@ArtyEffem 3 жыл бұрын

Pity he allowed himself to get unrecognisably fat. It would have taken years off his life.

@deborahmckenzie6117 3 жыл бұрын

Did you spend much time with him? What are your memories of him? Was he like his character?

@jrgboy 6 жыл бұрын

I know several episodes of the ealy series were filmed around Southall & Norwood Green cos I used to live there in the 60's, I remember the Zcars being a pale yellow colour cos it looked white on the B&W screen. They also filmed chase sequences for The Sweeney & The Professionals around the old Southall gasworks.

@PIPEHEAD 5 ай бұрын

That's why bees are black and yellow - don't forget, not all animals see colour ...............

@maxflight777 6 жыл бұрын

I think it was broadcast live ! Pretty impressed... great actors , Brian Blessed , Frank Windsor, James Bolam + many more

@None-zc5vg 14 күн бұрын

The actor who played the desk sergeant ("Sgt. Twentyman") died late in 1962 soon after the series began.

@Eltonlaleham 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I had been born in the 50s instead at the end of the 60s and I might have seen the black and white z cars episodes

@petersmith6974 2 ай бұрын

I remember this show from the 70s

@mattcollier5957 Жыл бұрын

Very cool cop car Mk2 Zephyr.. i have one myself

@misswendywalker 9 жыл бұрын

Didn't know James Ellis had passed. So sad

@AndrewWilliams-zc1hf 4 жыл бұрын

Classic TV series.

@beachgirl1947 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant...a much better time

@jayturner3397 11 ай бұрын

Seems like yesterday, 'Jonny Todd ' theme came on, scramble for a good seat 😅😂

@smithpm81 10 жыл бұрын

first aired 2nd january 1962

@jaysonflesher8666 9 жыл бұрын

remember me grandpop has a pale blue anglia with a white roof it looked like a retired police car not sure it wasn't lol

@Bigbadwhitecracker 6 жыл бұрын

I'm an American who just heard of Z cars yesterday for the very first time. So far so good. It kind of reminds of of The Bill in a way.

@keithmartin1328 Ай бұрын

The Bill started off as a really good show from 1983-2000. Then it went drastically downhill when Paul Marquis turned it into a wacky soap opera.

@josephinebennington7247 4 жыл бұрын

Stratford Johns, a great actor, though in whom I can see both Edward Woodward and Oliver Hardy.

@russellmoxham5625 3 жыл бұрын

= He was fat and could act

@farhatqureshi8562 Жыл бұрын

@Ann Foxgold John Woodvine of New Scotland Yard was superb.

@andrewwilder3545 Жыл бұрын

Mum and Dad were out, Auntie Flo was babysitting as we watched Z cars. In one episode a woman runs into the police station and says 'I've been raped'. Auntie Flo promptly got up and turned off the TV, us kids couldn't possibly be exposed to such things.

@PIPEHEAD 5 ай бұрын

Crap babysitter, but presumably cheap ...................

@paulbacchus1015 3 жыл бұрын

Still the best ever cop show no bone's about it. Paul Bacchus

@thehowlingmisogynist9871 12 күн бұрын

A young Jeremy Kemp!!

@TheSuperHarrygeorge 9 ай бұрын

Remember this well.

@mattcollier5957 Жыл бұрын

As the two cops chat in the Anglia whilst driving, i noticed no windscreen, headlining hanging down where windscreen is removed and interior light is on in the car

@evertonfcfan2028 Жыл бұрын

Mad how this turned into Everton fcs Theme tune

@davefletch100 8 жыл бұрын

Loved watching this as a lad, but never found out what BD stood for. i.e. BD to Z Victor One

@johnhardman3 5 жыл бұрын

"Bootle Division" (?)

@Josiro 4 жыл бұрын

It has no meaning, all police forces in uk have an id. Greater Manchester is CK, Lancashire is BD. So it is just a random tag. Z Cars was based on Lancashire Constabulary hence BD was HQs call sign.

@PIPEHEAD 5 ай бұрын

I read all ( yes, all ) the comments on this before I watched it. I couldn't wait to see the vicious wife beating scene. Having watched it I am even more amused by the accepted view. I knew the accepted view was rubbish even before I watched the clip ( I don't remember it from when I was eight, honest .... ) , in a Holmesian kind of way. So : - The first thing is how Barlow fails to recognise his pal, or his pal's wheels, despite the fact that there were only seventeen cars in Liverpool in 1962. Once all that was out of the way it became a brilliant intro to the prog, and after seven minutes I was gasping for breath. Then at last, the wife beating scene ! Wifebeater comes in unexpectedly, his wife is with another man, this is going to end up with two dead bodies, I can feel it in my bones ! What a bloody letdown ! Where's me chips ? I'm cooking them, shut up ! How did you get the black eye ? I tried to kill him for coming in late, and he retaliated. What is this , a mistitled Blue Peter video ? I wonder how anybody could fail to be shocked by .......... how absolutely beautiful that scene was. I just need to see Davy Jones ( real name Bowie ...... ) and then I can go ...................

@AdrenoverseBlogspot 10 жыл бұрын

Freaking amazing! "Where's ma dinner!!" lol Class! Not! ;)

@ArtyEffem Жыл бұрын

"If we had crime patrol in Newtown..."

@davidsmedley2632 3 жыл бұрын

My first dog was called Ria , because we had butterflies about having her

@gunton21 7 жыл бұрын

aye lad,

@jillshaw7445 7 жыл бұрын

I'm looking for an episode that was filmed in Galley Common Nuneaton would appreciate any help.. 😊

@ArtyEffem 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know the approxiamate year, B&W or colour, cast members, guest stars or storyline?

@danrobinson572 4 жыл бұрын

Can you watch this on KZfaq from season 1 to the end???

@Steven_Rowe 4 жыл бұрын

First shown 2nd Jan 1962 Another clientfor For Harry Allan to take care of at Strangeways. He will do a pro job as Albert Pierrepoint showed him the ropes before he resigned in 1956. About 6ft 8 should fix him Got to love old Lynch with his Ulster accent.

@barbaraannecortina7899 3 жыл бұрын

'...there is no doubt that in Weir and Smith, Lynch and Steele we have two new teams who for keenness and single-mindedness to duty will operate at the highest peak of effeciency CALLED FOR in this constabulary'. it makes the hairs of your neck bla bla bla and makes me PROUD to be a girl in blue, albeit a suggestive one.

@steviehaddow2841 3 жыл бұрын

I’m currently watching softly softly the spin off from zcars inspector Barlow is now chief superintendent Barlow and Norman Bowler is in it as well who played Frank Tate in Emmerdale up to series 2 not a bad watch

@josephlandrut4154 5 жыл бұрын

Ford Anglia was a great car.

@manchild3479 5 жыл бұрын

dear joeseph.that was a ford counsel,zephyr,zodiac ,the top of the ford range at the time .not anglia.

@ArtyEffem 3 жыл бұрын

@@manchild3479 He means the car driven by John Watt, which is indeed an Anglia; an acknowledged ladies' car, likened to a make-up compact on wheels.

@simonplankton1044 10 жыл бұрын

i see frank Windsor is still with us ...., still enjoying oxygen !!! & has not yet taken advantage of his funeral plans yet

@stevecharman8420 Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the days when you could only watch 10 minutes at a time on KZfaq!

@scottbarrowman942 2 жыл бұрын

Was Bill Prendergast in this?

@Cool2BCeltic 9 жыл бұрын

Ford Anglias, long before the irrevocable association with Harry Potter.

@manchild3479 5 жыл бұрын

they were not ford anglias.but were ford counsels,the base model or zephyrs,or zodiacs,the top model.police did not use anglias.

@jacksugden8190 4 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t get on with theme tune then, same now, and never understood where “New Town” was.

@ArtyEffem 4 жыл бұрын

OK let's see if we can simplify things for you. The theme tune is an arrangement of the tune to the folk song "Johnny Todd", which concerns Liverpool. Lyrics available on-line. Z-CARS was set in Kirkby in Merseyside, but a fictional show cannot use a real place name, so it used the invented name Newtown.

@alexdavies1662 6 жыл бұрын

Quite good in its time but I prefer the grittiness of "Gideon's Way" and "Sweeney."

@jupitersailing 4 жыл бұрын

And The Newcomers.

@sheilawhite8314 2 жыл бұрын

in good old black and white telly lol no colour in those days

@annpartoon5300 4 жыл бұрын

I thought John Watts car was a triumph herald

@stingray4real 3 жыл бұрын

RIP Frank Windsor

@Rustymouse 8 жыл бұрын

Embarrassment at 8.26, food shooting out of Lynch's mouth. surprised they didn't do a retake, but it was done on a budget. Also at 9.32, Bob Steele "where's my dinner", wouldn't get away with that these days, although she did tell him to shut up after she served him. Those were the days.. Never missed an episode.

@metafis2490 8 жыл бұрын

+rustymouse Indoor scenes were broadcast live for the first 3 years of the series, so retakes were not possible. They'd record the outdoor location scenes on film, and then(in this case) show that first, followed by the live indoor scenes cut in at the correct time as the show was being broadcast.