The Two Ronnies fame include Andrée Bernard and John Scott Martin. The main theme music for the show was composed by Ronnie Hazlehurst. Although opening and closing credits appear to use different themes they are respectively the first & third sections of a longer piece. Another track associated with the show is the stock track "The Detectives" by Alan Tew (also known as the theme to 1975 Yorkshire TV series "The Hanged Man"). This was used for the Charlie Farley & Piggy Malone story "Stop You're Killing Me". The programme became one of the most successful and long running light entertainment shows on
Piggy (Merrie Melodies) came from one of two brothers who were childhood classmates of Freleng's, nicknamed "Porky" and "Piggy". Animator Rudolf Ising introduced Piggy to replace his previous character, Foxy, as the star of the "Merrie Melodies" series Ising was directing for producer Leon Schlesinger. Nonetheless, Ising had only made two Piggy shorts in 1931 before he left Warner Bros. with partner Hugh Harman. The animators who took over the "Merrie Melodies" cartoons dropped the Piggy character (as well as his girlfriend Fluffy) and turned the series into a string of one-shots. Despite their clichéd lead character, Ising's two Piggy shorts are well