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
Nicholas Smith (actor) March 2013, Smith was the last surviving member of the original cast of "Are You Being Served?" The only other principal actor who survives is Mike Berry, who joined the cast as "Mr Spooner" when Trevor Bannister left the series. From September 1972, in contrast to his contemporaneous work in "Are You Being Served?", he also had a semi-regular role as PC Jeff Yates in the series "Z-Cars". His last appearance as Yates was in February 1975. His film work included appearances in "Salt and Pepper" (1968), "A Walk with Love and Death" (1969), "The Twelve Chairs" (1970), dubbed in