Character names from other TV programs

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Just been watching LOM episode 7 and there’s a character in there called Billy Kemble!
reminded me of Frank Kemble and Billy Martin from The Sweeney episode Ringer! I wonder if this is where the characters name in LOM originated from!
I mean you have the comparison of Jack Carter from Get Carter as opposed to Jack Regan and George Carter whom we all know!

GC

[Gene Hunt]

Yes, GC. It has been mentioned before. There are others too, like Frank Morgan in Series 2 (Frank Haskins / Garfield Morgan).

Gene.

[Legend Ashmore]

Sam Tyler... originated from Rose Tyler in Doctor Who

[D.C. Burtonshaw]

The name George Cowley (The boss of CI5 in The Professionals) was also used for a totally different briefly seen character in a New Avengers episode.

The name George Smiley was also used in The Professionals, as the name of a lorry driver witness that the villain murdered - it was of course the name of Alec Guiness character in Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy.