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
Reuben Farley Reuben Farley Reuben Farley (17 January 1826 in West Bromwich – 1899), was the eighth of ten children of the mining engineer Thomas Farley (1781–1830). Farley was a pupil at Borwicks Heath Academy and an active member of the West Bromwich Institution for the Advancement of Knowledge. After a mining apprenticeship, Farley took over Dunkirk Colliery when he was twenty-one. By 1861 he bought the Summit Foundry with his brother-in-law George Taylor. The foundry became one of the largest of its kind in South Staffordshire, and the firm won a medal at the 1897 Brussels Exhibition. Farley played a leading