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Softly, Softly is a British television police procedural series produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It was created as a spin-off from the series Z-Cars, which ended its fifth series run in December 1965. The series took its title from the proverb "Softly, softly, catchee monkey", the motto of Lancashire Constabulary ...
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Softly Softly: With Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, Norman Bowler, John Barron. Thie West Country police force solving local crime. its a spin-off from another BBC drama series, Z Cars (1962).
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Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.
Jul 29, 2016 · Peter Knight, Daily Telegraph (1966): The BBC’s new television crime series, ‘Softly, Softly’, which opened on BBC1 last night, is a legitimate, well-bred offspring of its predecessor ‘Z Cars’. It has the same rough, abrasive realism, the same sharp, prickly dialogue, the same terse economy of style. But it is also a development of ...
In 1970, Softly, Softly: Task Force followed with Barlow made head of Thamesford Constabulary CID and supervising officer of the Constabulary’s Task Force. He was assisted by Watt and Hawkins again, under Chief Constable Cullen (William Gotell). In yet another spin-off ( Barlow At Large ), Barlow was eventually promoted to the Home Office ...
