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
Victor Brooks (actor) Victor Brooks (actor) Victor Brooks (11 November 1918 – 19 January 2000) was a prolific English film and television actor. He specialised in character roles, police inspectors in particular, in British thrillers such as "Cover Girl Killer" (1959), "Witchcraft" (1964), and "Devils of Darkness" (1965). His best known films are probably "Goldfinger" (1964), "The Brides of Dracula" (1960) and "Billy Budd" (1962). On television, he was noted for playing a pipe-smoking authority figure in crime series like "Dixon of Dock Green", "Gideon's Way", "Detective", "Z Cars" and "Crown Court". He also appeared in the television series "Raffles", in the recurring