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This is an episode list for the British television series Z-Cars. The series was aired on BBC One , between 1962 and 1978. Many of the episodes are now missing from the BBC archives.
Z-Cars or Z Cars (pronounced "zed cars") was a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978. The series differed sharply from earlier police procedurals.
Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002 [1]), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for playing the role as senior CID officer Charlie Barlow, a character he originated in the early years of the long-running BBC police series Z-Cars, and then continued to play in several spin-off series in the 1960s and 1970s.
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police procedural series which ran on BBC1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars.The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1.
14 June – BBC television broadcasts the first episode of the sitcom Steptoe and Son, written by Galton and Simpson and starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett, an unusual use at this time of "straight" actors in a sitcom; it is based on a one-off show "The Offer" in the Galton & Simpson's Comedy Playhouse strand.
Derek Waring Publicity photo c. 1983 Born Derek Barton-Chapple (1927-04-26) 26 April 1927 Mill Hill, London, England Died 20 February 2007 (2007-02-20) (aged 79) Petworth, West Sussex, England Occupation Actor Spouse Dorothy Tutin (m. 1963; died 2001) Children 2 Derek Waring (born Derek Barton-Chapple ; 26 April 1927 – 20 February 2007) was an English actor who is best remembered for playing ...
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Windsor played Detective Sergeant John Watt in Z-Cars from 1962 to 1965, and thereafter its spin-offs Softly, Softly (1966–1969), Softly, Softly: Task Force (1969–1976), Jack the Ripper (1973), and Second Verdict (1976). He also returned as Watt for the final episode of Z-Cars itself in 1978.