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
Reginald Marsh (actor) worked in rep. In 1958, he started working behind the scenes of Granada Television, but he soon went back to acting. From the 1960s he appeared in many films, including "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" (1961), "Jigsaw" (1962), "Berserk!" (1967), "The Ragman's Daughter" (1972), "Young Winston" (1972) and "The Best Pair of Legs in the Business" (1973), and on television, in such series as "Dixon of Dock Green", "Z-Cars" and "The Persuaders!". He also played bookie Dave Smith in "Coronation Street" on and off from 1962 to 1976. Marsh played works general manager Arthur Sugden in the boardroom drama