Z Cars was a British tv police drama set in Liverpool. It started in the 1960s and run into the 1970s. The theme tune was from a piece called the 'Lost Patrol.' I used to remember this sound very vividly as a kid when Z Cars came on television. It is another of those tunes that takes me back to my Retro Brit childhood.
The tune is often heard at Everton football club when they are playing at home.
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I just found this while looking up "The Lost Patrol". I don't think the Z-Cars theme had any other name than "Theme from Z-Cars". "The Lost Patrol" was another track recorded by Johnny Keating, based on a theme from Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6P18LujuTo
It was apparently used for many years as the theme for the Australian current affairs programme Four Corners.
When I was a child, my grandparents had a box of 45 RPM records, and I used to play some of them incessantly, no doubt to my parents' and grandparents' annoyance! One of my favourites was Z-Cars, and its B side, The Lost Patrol. That coupling is probably the source of confusion over the names.
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