I love the old '70's police flared trousers with tunnel belt loops! Still had them in 87 when I joined, you could put ya trousers on without taking yer shoes off!
Guns, Season 11, Episode 1 aired 5 January 1976. John Collin as Det. Sgt. Haggar; John Cording as Joe McCann; Lesley Daine as Frances Donlan; James Ellis as Insp. Lynch; Douglas Fielding as PC Quilley; Geoffrey Greenhill as Don; Charles Hill as Bob; Lawrence James as Chief Supt. Barrow; Ray Lonnen as Det. Insp. Moffat; Allan O'Keefe as PC Render; Christian Rodska as Chaz; Michael Segal as Tom; Paul Stewart as Sgt. Chubb; Albert Welling as Kevin McCann.
Brilliant, thanks for uploading. Did anybody else notice when the girl is forced up into the stands, just before the camera cuts away she actually hits her head on the barrier pretty hard....you can hear it ouch !
I remember watching this one at the time. Quite a shocker (to a nine-year-old). You can tell that the production team were trying to imitate "The Sweeney" by this point. The following episode was concerned with the inquest into the woman's death - also quite disturbing
Not sure the programme was imitating the sweeney by then as many of the episodes were still very tame violence wise and of course it was as always broadcast before the watershed. There were still many excellent episodes by the mid 70s but more than a few where little to nothing happened
Albert Welling played the robber with the gun in this z cars episode He played an overzealous rookie PC in an episode of 'The Sweeney' called 'Drag Act'.
The hairstyles! Never saw the like, even in CID, and I joined in 1976. Frightening just how amateurish the Police use of firearms was in those days. No such thing as shooting to disable..a "disabled" gunman can still shoot and kill others.
You are right, we would regularly go to armed robberies with just the 'ole balsa wood staff! I swapped my lightweight one for an 'ole heavy staff when an old sweat retired!
Maybe it was just your area, because my mate, an Ex Gloucestershire Copper of thirty years, used to have sideburns that looked like he was trying to cut down on his wind resistance!
This episode is fairly similar to the "Softly Softly : Task Force" episode "Marksman". Even down to the loony gun nut threatening a woman and the "issue arms" scene. Though Fred Render is distraught rather than actively nauseous. "Marksman" was also written by Allan Prior, but I don't suppose he was too bothered about recycling his stuff after 5 years.
i like the original theme tune from the black and white era even the early 70s version was better than the arrangement for this series 10. was awful. neighbours found a way to update itself to complete with home and away. corrie did with eastenders. and emeerdale morphing itself into a new incarnation so far removed from emmerdale farm. crossroads was one of the few to fail. z cars could find a way to moderise itself. but not doing a copycat of the sweeney. the sweeney was butch cassidy and sundance put to a english setting even the professionals reused and recycled starsky and hutch scripts but put them in a spy setting. and did a better job with the plots.
Oh My God. The anti gun culture didn't give the cops an even chance against armed villains. Coppers have to get an act from House of Lords to get a gun issued. Marksmen issued Lee Enfield rifles with only 5 rounds. Officers told they can only shoot to disable.
