Softly, Softly (TV series)

Softly, Softly
Created by	Troy Kennedy Martin
Starring	Stratford Johns Frank Windsor
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	120 (83 missing)
Production
Producers	David Rose Leonard Lewis
Running time	50 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	5 January 1966 (1966-01-05) – 13 November 1969 (1969-11-13)
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Softly, Softly is a British television police procedural series produced by 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.^[1]