Z-Cars Watt), James Ellis (Bert Lynch) and Brian Blessed ("Fancy" Smith). Barlow and Watt were later spun into a separate series "Softly, Softly". The title comes from the radio call signs allocated by Lancashire Constabulary. Lancashire police divisions were lettered from north to the south: "A" Division (based in Ulverston) was the detached part of Lancashire at the time around Barrow-in-Furness, "B" Division was Lancaster, and so on. Letters further into the alphabet were in the south around the Manchester and Liverpool areas. (See also the Wikipedia page about Home Office radio.) The TV series took the non-existent signs Z-Victor 1
Mark Jones (actor) Mark Jones (actor) Mark Jones (22 April 1939 – 14 January 2010) was an English actor, who appeared frequently in various films and television series. Credits include: "A Family at War", "Z-Cars", "Van der Valk", "Doctor Who" (in the serial "The Seeds of Doom"), "The New Avengers", "The Onedin Line", "Target", "Secret Army", "Tales of the Unexpected", "Buccaneer", "Blott on the Landscape", "Casualty", "Call Me Mister" and "Dempsey and Makepeace". He also appeared in the films "Tell Me Lies" (1968), "Connecting Rooms" (1970), "Under Milk Wood" (1972), "Layout for 5 Models" (1972), "Keep It Up, Jack" (1973, title role), "The