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
Hal Smith (actor) Hal Smith (actor) Harold John Smith (August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994) was an American actor and voice actor, who was best known for his role as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on CBS's "The Andy Griffith Show". Smith was also active in voice-over roles, having played many characters on various animated shorts including Owl in the first four original "Winnie the Pooh" shorts (the first three of which were combined into the feature film "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh") and later "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh", Uncle Tex on "The Flintstones", Goliath in "Davey