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Come in Zed-Victor 1

Listening to Radio 4 this morning driving to work, there was a programme about the evolution of UK policing through the 50s and 60s, dealing with violence from Mods, Rockers and Train Robbers. Suddenly, very unexpectedly, the bars of Z-Cars come on. Immediate attention paid. How did my CD player come on and override the radio? No it hadn?t...

The discussion had moved to experimental policing in the 60s and the impact of police cars as shown on the now famous BBC show. The then Home Secretary Roy Jenkins revolutionised policing by placing patrol cars on the road to address the soaring crime rate. Before the national roll-out of the system there was, the programme states, an experimental run at ?a Lancashire new town called Kirkby?. There followed interviews with all concerned at the time from the ?Lancashire Constabulary?. Revolutionary and effective it was they all agreed, but was it in Liverpool? Oh no, Lancashire.

A nice, shiny, free, new stadium in Kirkby suddenly seemed very unappealing. Head, heart. Heart, head. I guess I will continually be changing my mind right up to D-day but this illustrates how Kirkby is viewed to the outsider. Irrelevant side question ? did Brian Blessed play Fancy Smith in the TV prog? The haze of my then young mind says he might have...
Steve Green, Southampton Posted 26/07/2007 at 10:50:21

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Martin Cutler
1 Posted 26/07/2007 at 14:59:51

Assuming PC Smith is the one you’re referring to then according to the IMDb site, yes he did:
Brian Blessed - PC Smith - (114 episodes, 1962-1978).

eddy elton
2 Posted 26/07/2007 at 15:57:45

Goodison Park was in Lancashire until 1974 and Everton were known as a Lancashire club. I went to Alsop school in Walton and lived in Walton and my address was Lancashire. There was no such place as Merseyside until new county boundaries were introduced in 1974.