Z-Cars been running for seven years but which some considered 'cosy'. The one character present throughout the entire run (though not in every episode) was Bert Lynch, played by James Ellis (though John Phillips as Det. Chief Supt. Robins would reappear sporadically during the show's run – by the end of the series he had become Chief Constable). Other characters in the early days were Stratford Johns (Inspector Barlow), Frank Windsor (Det. Sgt Watt), Robert Keegan (Sgt Blackitt), Joseph Brady (PC "Jock" Weir) and Brian Blessed ("Fancy" Smith). Also in 1960s episodes as David Graham was Colin Welland, later a screenwriter.
Paul Smith (American actor, born 1929) Smith was in "Mr. Mephisto", the second episode (broadcast September 18, 1976) of the Saturday morning live action children's series "Monster Squad", playing a character named Officer McMacMac. During the 1970s, another actor named Paul Smith was being cast in substantial film and television roles and, for the first time since the start of his acting career in 1951, Smith had a year or more without any screen credits. After a three year period, he returned to television, billed as A. Paul Smith or A. P. Smith. Between 1979 and 1982, he appeared in seven episodes of TV series, starting