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) 1980s. Smith has two brothers, Andrew and Douglas, who is also an actor, and a younger sister, Samantha. Smith is both a Canadian citizen and a US citizen. He is of mostly English and Ashkenazi Jewish (from Hungary and Germany) ancestry. Smith began acting when he was fourteen months old, and appeared in a Tide television commercial and in store catalogues. After a role in the 1994 children's film "Andre", he starred in the 1995 direct-to-video release "Leapin’ Leprechauns!" and its 1996 sequel, "Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns". Also in 1996, Smith appeared opposite Michelle Trachtenberg in "Harriet the Spy".