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
John Sharp (actor) John Sharp (actor) John Herbert Sharp ( – ) was a British actor, often on television. He made more than 100 appearances in television and occasionally films between 1949 and 1991. Although active in theatre, Sharp began as a film actor in 1949 and appeared in films throughout the 1950s. By the mid 1960s he mostly appeared in British television on popular shows of the era such as "The Avengers" "Murdersville" episodes, the "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" episode "The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo"; "The Prisoner", "Not On Your Nellie" opposite Hylda Baker, "Z-Cars", and "The Sweeney"