Z-Cars ~~ put "Johnny Todd" in the charts: except that it was called "The Z-Cars Tune." Z-Cars successor Softly Softly good too. A lot of fine actors first came to prominence in those ~~ Brian Blessed in particular; & Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor, James Ellis, John Thaw, Colin Welland...

I always found it odd that the brilliant comedy that everybody called "Sergeant Bilko", or simply "Bilko", actually went by the portentous title of 'The Phil Silvers Show': something contractual, I suppose?

~Michael~