Softly, Softly
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.
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10 unique people credited
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Stratford Johns
as Det. Chief Supt. Charles Barlow
Frank Windsor
as Det. Chief Insp. John Watt
Norman Bowler
as Det. Sgt. Harry Hawkins
Dan Meaden
as Det. Con. Ben Box
Gilbert Wynne
as Det. Con. Reg Dwyer
Bob Keegan
as Bob Blackitt
Peggy Sinclair
as PW Det. Sgt. Barbara Allin
Philip Brack
as Det. Insp. Jim Cook
David Quilter
as PC Tanner
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