Softly, Softly (TV series) Alexis Kanner as DC Matt Stone. Although popular with audiences, Kanner appears to have alienated cast and crew with erratic behaviour during live recordings, and the character was dropped after only nine episodes. He later played the recalcitrant Number 48 in the final episode of "The Prisoner". The first two series continued the trend set by producer David Rose with "Z-Cars", and transmitted the majority of episodes live. This was one of the last long-running British TV series to do this. From series three onwards all episodes were pre-recorded. The original theme music was, like "Z-Cars", a folk-song arrangement by
Theme music uses orchestra scores or original music set mood for the show, such as the "" theme song, which was drawn from the theme for the 1989 "Batman" film created by Danny Elfman and sets the mood for the cartoon. Another example is Ron Grainer's theme music for "Doctor Who". Other shows use remixes or covers of older songs, such as the theme song of "Spider-Man: The Animated Series" (1994–1998), which featured a reworked cover of the theme song from the classic Spider-Man cartoon from the 1960s. The song was performed by Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry. In the early years