12-785: John Stratton may refer to: John Stratton (actor) (1925–1991), British actor John Stratton (Virginia politician) (1769–1804), American congressman and lawyer from Virginia John L. N. Stratton (1817–1889), American Republican Party politician in New Jersey John Stratton (Air Force) , American soccer defender and fighter pilot John Stratton (cricketer) (1875–1919), English cricketer John Stratton, President, Verizon Enterprise Solutions John Young Stratton (1829/30-1905), British rural poverty reformer See also [ edit ] John Roach Straton (1875-1929), American Baptist pastor [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
24-504: A different format the following year). Joining them in the early series was Robert Keegan as Blackitt, the police station sergeant from Z-Cars , now retired and acting as a freelance helper. Another Z-Cars regular, James Ellis 's Bert Lynch, appeared in the 1967 episode "Barlow Was There: Part 3: Mischief". The 1968 episode "Unfinished Business" saw Barlow reunited with his former boss from Z-Cars Detective Chief Super Intendentent Robins ( John Phillips ). The first two series continued
36-658: A popular "brand" that the BBC was reluctant to drop, this new series was retitled Softly, Softly: Task Force . Stratford Johns left the Taskforce series in 1972 (Barlow had his own spin-off series Barlow at Large ) and it continued until 1976 with Watt in command. During the 70s Windsor also appeared as Watt in Jack the Ripper , in which he and Barlow reopened the Jack the Ripper murder casebook, and
48-1085: A similar role on television in the third Quatermass serial Quatermass and the Pit , essaying the role of Captain Potter opposite André Morell 's Professor Bernard Quatermass . Older and less boyish by the sixties, he emerged as character actor of some range, playing numerous roles in many television programmes of the decade including the part of alcoholic journalist Fred Blane in It's Dark Outside . Other TV appearances include Dixon of Dock Green , The Avengers , Armchair Theatre , The Man in Room 17 , Public Eye , Mr. Rose , Z-Cars , Sherlock Holmes (playing Inspector Athelney Jones), Coronation Street , UFO ( "E.S.P." episode), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes , Hadleigh , The Forgotten Story , Softly, Softly , The Pallisers , Alan Plater 's 1980 Yorkshire Television adaptation of J.B. Priestley 's The Good Companions (in
60-575: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Stratton (actor) John Wilson Stratton (7 November 1925 – 25 October 1991) was a British actor, born in Clitheroe , Lancashire , where he kept his permanent home. He is perhaps best known for his early film roles during the fifties, where he played the young apprentice parts of Ferraby and Ward opposite Jack Hawkins in both The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Long Arm (1956) respectively. He played
72-503: 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 Training School. Softly, Softly centred on the work of regional police crime squads, plainclothes CID officers based in
84-511: The Southeast of England in a new series set in the fictitious town of Thamesford. Here, as a result of changes in criminal activities, the police force needed to develop a new approach. Taskforces were set up: these were groupings of police expertise and manpower drawn together for special operations in the region. This was a new series in its own right and it was simply going to be called Taskforce . However, as it starred three strong characters from
96-503: The central role of Jess Oakroyd), Fall of Eagles , Backs to the Land , The Professionals , Doctor Who (in the serial The Two Doctors ), Juliet Bravo , The Trinity Tales and Lovejoy . This article about a British television actor born in the 1920s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Softly, Softly (TV series) Softly, Softly is a British television police procedural series produced by
108-451: The fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England. It was designed as a vehicle for Detective Chief Inspector Charles Barlow and Detective Inspector John Watt (played by Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor , respectively) from the police series Z-Cars , which had just finished its original run in December 1965 (no new episodes were produced in 1966 but it was revived in
120-445: The original Softly, Softly broadcasts are believed lost, especially from the first two series, the majority of which were transmitted live. As a result, 83 episodes are currently missing from the archives. (By comparison, all episodes of the follow-up Taskforce survive.) In 1969, to coincide with the BBC's move to colour broadcasting on BBC 1, Softly Softly ended. The characters of Barlow, Watt and Hawkins were promoted and moved to
132-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Stratton&oldid=1081648883 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732852431782144-508: The trend set by producer David Rose with Z-Cars and transmitted the majority of episodes live. This was one of the last long-running British TV series to do this. From series three onwards all episodes were recorded. The original theme music was, like Z-Cars , a folk-song arrangement by Fritz Spiegl . It was released as a single (credited to the London Waits) on Andrew Loog Oldham 's Immediate record label in 1966. Others Many of
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