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
Art Smith (actor) Art Smith (actor) Arthur Gordon Smith (March 23, 1899 – February 24, 1973) was an American film, stage and television actor, best known for playing supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1940s. Born in Chicago, he was a member of the Group Theatre and performed in many of their productions, including "Rocket to the Moon", "Awake and Sing!", "Golden Boy" and "Waiting for Lefty", all by Clifford Odets; "House of Connelly" by Paul Green; and Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White." The gray-haired actor usually played studious and dignified types in films, such as doctors or butlers. Smith appeared in