Z Cars theme

Opening sequence from the first edition of Z Cars featuring Stratford Johns. Z Cars was broadcast on British television from 1962 until 1978.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• cars
• police
• cops
• british
• television
• 1960s
• 1970s

[Feisty1967]

Has anyone got any clips of the later colour episodes of Z cars? I'm sure I remember watching it as a child in colour.

[GrahamLondonUK]

@Feisty1967 Z Cars was made in colour from 1970, though many episodes made over the next five years were wiped or lost from the BBC archives. All episodes from 1975 exist, so it's a BBC decision whether to release the episodes.

[saskabush2006]

Word of advice: do NOT play this video with headphones and the volume up a bit. Looking out my window I can see a guy across the street picking up my left eardrum from where it landed by the bus stop! Ouch!

[GrahamLondonUK]

@saskabush2006 This was one of my first uploads to YouTube and I had difficulty in adjusting the volume, as you might have gathered! My sincere apologies for deafening you. I hope that your left eardrum is now reattached and wasn't squashed by the bus!

[Rawlinson18]

I would drive my mum mental when i learned to whistle because it would be this and all day.

[sludgefingers]

When I hear that music I'm immediately transported back to being a kid sitting on the floor leaning back against the settee watching this.

[jmewhyte]

lord have mercy, that is one awful drone

[Blokecameuptome]

@saskabush2006

you should have placed this bit of advice at the TOP mate,...not down here to be read after its too late

[johnboytd]

In answer to Fiesty 1967, Yes I'm sure there were colour versions of Z cars because they were filmed in Liverpool using Merseyside Pasenger Transport MCW Metropolitain double decker buses, and I think a Liverpool Corp' AEC Regent puts in an appearance in the opening shots when a dreadful early synthasizer version of this Sig tune was used.

[Stemax1960]

ZVICTOR ONE TO CONTROL!

[gordonS1942]

poffy8888 is mistaken as Z Cars was screened in OZ on ABCTV very soon after it was made in the UK and was a very popular series not unlike the Bill.

[schweizergoth]

@NZWolf2 : "Ignorant" Is the proper way to spell this word, and the common definition of Ignorant is used for A person who is relatively Uneducated. Do I need to break this down any further for you?

[NZWolf2]

@schweizergoth Ignorent

[tvfilmglamdirector]

I never understood why they used to call "Z Victor 1" etc instead of "Zulu Victor 1" because they refer to ZV1 ZV2 etc?

[poffy8888]

We never got this in Oz...............