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
Keith Smith (actor) 30 March 2008 at the age of 82 from motor neurone disease. Keith Smith (actor) Keith Wilfred Smith (26 February 1926 – 30 March 2008) was an English actor who is best known to for his roles in "The Army Game" and "The Beiderbecke Trilogy". Smith also appeared in "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" as a manager of a Grot shop. Smith also appeared in George and Mildred in the episode My Husband Next Door, on 1 November 1976 as the tv repair man taking away the Roper's TV set, in series 1. Smith was a regular in