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
Timothy John Smith (actor) Timothy John Smith (actor) Timothy John Smith is a stage and screen actor. He has appeared in the films "Central Intelligence", "The Equalizer" and "The Judge". He has done extensive stage work in Boston and New York. In 2014, "The New York Times" praised him for his "intelligent, sensitive performance" in the off-broadway play "On a Stool at the End of the Bar." A 2001 graduate of the Trinity Rep Conservatory, Smith has appeared in dozens of regional productions in New England and across the country. His turn as Bill Sykes in Trinity Rep's 2014 Production of "Oliver!" drew rave