Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In for "Laugh-In" was Ian Bernard. He wrote the opening theme music, "Inquisitive Tango", plus the infamous "What's the news across the nation" number. He wrote all the musical "play-ons" that introduced comedy sketches like Lily Tomlin's character, Edith Ann, the little girl who sat in a giant rocking chair, and Arte Johnson's old man character, Tyrone, who always got hit with a purse. He also appeared in many of the cocktail scenes where he directed the band as they stopped and started between jokes. Composer-lyricist Billy Barnes wrote all of the original musical production numbers in the show, and often
Rowan and the Travellers fantasy series of its time, though most fantasy were in the style of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, so it was referred to as an original, new and unique kind of fantasy and story. Rowan and the Travellers Rowan and the Travellers is the sequel to "Rowan of Rin", and the second book in the "Rowan of Rin" series written by Emily Rodda and published in 1994. It picks up where the first one ended, and tells the story of the Travellers, a tribe that may carry a dangerous sickness mysteriously comes and goes from Rin, where Rowan, a shy and