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
Gregory Smith (actor) Smith subsequently starred in another direct-to-video film, "Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework", and appeared in three 1998 films: "Krippendorf's Tribe", playing one of the children of the title character, "The Climb", a drama also starring John Hurt, and the film "Small Soldiers", in which Smith had a lead role opposite Kirsten Dunst, and for which he won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film Leading Young Actor in 1999. During the 2000s, Smith appeared in the Mel Gibson-led "The Patriot" (2000), played outlaw Jim Younger in the western "American Outlaws" (2001), was featured in