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Origin of Z-cars

Latest comment: 17 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Did the name come from cars? Their radio callsigns were ZV1 and ZV2, I have a vague memory that those were real callsign groups in that part of Lancashire at that time so wonder if the car model names beginning with "Z" was just a coincidence? --jmb 13:08, 11 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

I think must be true, I am getting mixed up with the control callsign that they use ("BD"), this was the real Lancashire Constabulary callsign. --jmb 15:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

I thought it originated from their use of Ford Zodiacs or Zephyrs... but I could be quite wrong... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.154.17.249 (talk) 01:44, 9 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

always pronounced 'zed', never 'zee'

Latest comment: 16 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Why on earth are we specifying this? We don't mention in the Thanksgiving page that it's pronounced "ThanksGIVing", even though British English stresses the first syllable. Z-Cars is a British series, so shouldn't British pronunciation be taken as read? I'm minded to remove this pronunciation guide as being just a bit silly. 86.132.142.246 (talk) 23:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Agreed - it's a British based article - we shouldn't need to explain British English to people! We don't have it for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-Z so I am removing it from here.

Nonsensical sentence

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I have added a clarify tag to this sentence, in respect of the italicised section:

Also in 1960s episodes as David Graham was Colin Welland, who won an Academy Award for Chariots of Fire in 1981, upon receipt of he warned the industry "the British are coming!" speech.

What on earth do the last twelve words mean? There appear to be several words missing and what remains makes no sense. I would tidy it up myself but I have no idea what it's supposed to be saying. Censorship Workaround (talk) 18:55, 14 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Table for Cast?

Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The cast bullet list is really hard to read. It would probably be better as a table but I simply don't have the time. Would someone else be willing to jump in and pick up the slack? --Kitsunegami (talk) 09:05, 15 August 2011 (UTC)Reply