Softly, Softly

Softly, Softly was a British television seriesproduced by the BBC from January 1966 to december 1976 with a total of 269 episodes. The series was based on the work of the regional division crime with investigatorsin civilian clothes in the fictional region of Wyvern-supposedly the area around Bristol and Chepstow in England.

The series (which owes its name to the proverb ' Softly, Softly, catchee monkey ') is for Detective Chief Inspector Charles Barlow and Detective Inspector John Watt (played by Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor) from the popular police series Z-Cars, a new challenge to fight against the crime. Also Robert Keegan plays a role as sergeant Blackitt Z Cars,, who is retired and freelance works for the Department of crime.

In 1969, the BBC series by the transition to colour TV again changed. Barlow, Watt and Hawkins were promoted and sent to the South-East of England, to the (again) fictitious Thamesford, where they were in charge of special operations. The series was renamed Taskforce, but the BBC was reluctant to change a known name and so it became Softly, Softly: Taskforce.

Johns left the Taskforceseries in 1972 (Barlow got his own spin-off series Barlow at Large), but Watts continued until 1976. ==Actors[ Edit] ==
 * DCS Charlie Barlow-Stratford Johns (1966-1969)
 * DI/DCI/DS/DCS John Watt-Frank Windsor (1966-1969)
 * DS/DI/CI/DCI ' Harry ' Hawkins-Norman Bowler (1966-1969)
 * Mr. Blackitt-Robert Keegan (1966-1967)
 * DS Matt Stone-Alexis Kanner (1966)
 * DC Reg Dwyer-Gilbert Wynne (1966-1968)
 * DCI Gwyn Lewis-Garfield Morgan (1966-1967)
 * ACC Calderwood — John Welsh (1966-1967)
 * DC Box-Dan Meaden (1966-1968)
 * ACC Gilbert-John Barron (1967-1969)
 * PC Tanner-David Quilter (1966-1967)
 * DS Allin-Peggy Sinclair (1967-1969)
 * DC Digby-Gavin Campbell (1968-1969)
 * DI Jim Cook-Philip Brack (1968-1969)
 * DC Morgan-Howell Evans (1968-1969)
 * Jean Morrow-Gay Hamilton (1968-1969)