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unusual facts about Z Cars



Marcus Hammond

Marcus Hammond is an English actor who was active in the 1960s and 1970s, playing the role of Antodus in the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Daleks, as well as recurring roles in Z Cars as PC Taylor and Kate as Stephen Graham.


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Alex McAvoy

His many television roles included parts in The Bill, Dad's Army and Z-Cars as well as more serious parts in Sunday night dramas on British television, while in the cinema he played the sadistic schoolteacher in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) and the Beadle in Venus Peter (1989).

Alister Williamson

He would typically be found in television series such as Adam Adamant Lives!, The Avengers, Paul Temple, Police Surgeon, Public Eye, The Saint, Softly, Softly, Special Branch, The Third Man and Z-Cars.

Aubrey Woods

His television credits include Z-Cars, Up Pompeii!, Doctor Who (in the serial Day of the Daleks where he played a Controller in an alternate 22nd Century), Blake's 7, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Ever Decreasing Circles.

Christopher Barry

His other television credits include Compact (1962), Paul Temple (1970-1971), Z-Cars (1971-1978), Poldark (1975), The Onedin Line (1977), All Creatures Great and Small (1978-1980), Juliet Bravo (1980), Dramarama (1983) and other science fiction series', Out of the Unknown (1965), Moonbase 3 (1973) and The Tripods (1984).

Colin Spaull

His credits include: Z-Cars (in which he played three characters between 1964 and 1969), Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor Who (in the stories Revelation of the Daleks, "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel"), Boon, Goodnight Sweetheart, Inspector Morse, The Bill (in which he has played seven characters between 1985 and 2003), Casualty and Holby City.

Douglas Blackwell

His television appearances have included roles in Softly, Softly, The Avengers, Z-Cars, The 10th Kingdom and Dixon of Dock Green.

Edith MacArthur

She has been most frequently seen on television with a long list of credits including Z-Cars, The Borderers, The Troubleshooters, Sutherland's Law, The Standard, The Omega Factor, The Sandbaggers, Doctor Finlay, Hamish Macbeth, Casualty and Sea of Souls.

Fritz Spiegl

He also composed the original theme for the Z Cars spin-off series Softly, Softly; the song was also released as a single on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate record label in 1966.

Howard Lang

Lang's other parts included roles in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Vise, and an appearance as caveman Horg in the second, third and fourth episodes of the first Doctor Who story, An Unearthly Child.

Leslie Sarony

In the 1970s he appeared in hit programmes including the Harry Worth Show, Crossroads, Z-Cars, The Good Old Days, and The Liberace Show, as well as the famous sitcom Nearest and Dearest.

Lois Baxter

Other appearances include: The Black Stuff, Spyder's Web, Within These Walls, Hadleigh, Z-Cars, Doctor Who (in the serial The Androids of Tara), Dickens of London, All Creatures Great and Small, Bergerac, Dempsey and Makepeace, Holby City and The Bill.

Luan Peters

She was also active on television in series such as: Z-Cars, Public Eye, Doctor Who (in the serials Frontier in Space and The Macra Terror) , Target, The Professionals and the Fawlty Towers episode The Psychiatrist playing Raylene Miles, an Australian tourist.

Michael Goldie

He starred or appeared in numerous television serials including Coronation Street, Doctor Who, Wycliffe, Inspector Morse and Z-Cars.

Stephanie Turner

Prior to this, she had played Dennis Waterman's screen wife, Alison Carter, in early episodes of The Sweeney and WPC Howarth in Z-Cars (1972–75), which stood her in good stead for her role as Inspector Darblay.