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
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