Theme from Z-Cars Theme from Z-Cars "Theme from "Z-Cars"" was the theme tune to the long-running BBC television drama "Z-Cars". Based on the traditional folk song "Johnny Todd", which was in a collection of traditional tunes by Frank Kidson dated 1891 called "Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs". Kidson's notes for this song say: "Johnny Todd is a child's rhyme and game, heard and seen played by Liverpool children. The air is somewhat pleasing, and the words appear old, though some blanks caused by the reciter's memory have had to be filled up." There is also what appears to be a version
Johnny Ringo (TV series) in its Thursday competition with ABC's "The Real McCoys" with Walter Brennan, sometimes reaching into the Top Twenty. The program was dropped at the request of a sponsor, Johnson Wax Company, which wanted a sitcom, rather than a Western. At the time there were thirty Western series on the networks.After the cancellation of "Johnny Ringo", Mark Goddard went on to co-star as Det. Sgt. Chris Ballard in still "another" Four Star Productions TV series ", The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor on ABC, replacing Lee Farr . He later went on to the CBS-TV series, Lost in Space . Johnny Ringo