📺 Softly Softly: Task Force' Thursday 20 November 1969 ~ BBC1 : 20.00 Following on from the 1966 show Softly Softly (which itself was a spin-off from the classic Z Cars), 'Softly Softly: Task Force' was broadcast for the first time and starred Stratford Johns as Barlow – the newly transferred head of Thamesford Constabulary CID. In this first episode he wastes no time in making his presence felt ....Barlow was widowed in 1972 and left Thamesford when he was headhunted by the Home Office – which