Softly Softly: Task Force(1969)

series - first aired/released 1969-11-20 - audience 6.0

Crime, Drama

Directed by Alan Dossor, Andrew Morgan, Ben Rea, Brian Parker, Eric Hills, Gerald Blake, Gilchrist Calder, Herbert Wise, John Black, John Mackenzie, Kenneth Ives, Leonard Lewis, Martyn Friend, Paul Ciappessoni, Peter Cregeen, Philip Dudley, Roderick Graham, Ronald Wilson

Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars. The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply Task Force, but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became Softly, Softly: Task Force.