Dave Newbitt

Those of us who worked on these productions will find this photo stirs a memory or two. The early Z cars were live and pretty hairy at times

but the larking about through rehearsals was often hilarious.

Alec Bray

The vehicle is a Rover P6 car, photo dated (apparently) 1965. Wot, no Zephyr? Not many Police Constables? Did Colin Welland appear in “Softly Softly”? According to Google (again – the AI summary) he did not directly star in the “Softly Softly” spin-off.

Quite the start for a detective story!

Dave Brunt

It’s a June 1965 press photo at the time when it was announced that ZC was to end at Christmas 1965. To be replaced by Softly.