{"id":139,"date":"2009-07-27T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/z-cars\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T08:40:55","slug":"z-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/z-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Z Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Z Cars was a British television Police drama series in Lancashire. In January 1962 the BBC produced the first series and ran for 16 years until September, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>For many at the time, the title music was as memorable as anything else. It was the type of tune you could whistle or hum to quite happily many years later. The Z Cars theme tune was arranged by Fritz Spiegl from the traditional folk song Johnny Todd.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"attachment_1538\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1538\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1538\" title=\"z-cars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars.jpg\" alt=\"z-cars\" width=\"700\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">z-cars<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s aim was to produce a more realistic portrayal of policing than had been seen on British television before. This was in contrast to the BBC&#8217;s established police drama, Dixon of Dock Green, which portrayed a peaceful life as a Bobby on the beat.<\/p>\n<p>Softly, Softly was a spin off from Z Cars and focused on the regional crime squad, and ran until 1976. This led to another spin-off, Second Verdict in which Barlow and Watt looked into unsolved cases and unsafe convictions.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/z-cars\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"z-cars\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/z-cars.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>Z Cars was a British television Police drama series in Lancashire. In January 1962 the BBC produced the first series and ran for 16 years until September, 1978. For many at the time, the title music was as memorable as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/z-cars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[54,53],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-54","tag-53"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Z Cars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Z Cars was a British television Police drama series in Lancashire. 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