Theme from Z-Cars the 1960s. Sunderland A.F.C. were also known to have played the song as their players ran out to the field during their days playing at Roker Park. 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 Regiment (TV series) while the second series in 1973 followed the regiment on a posting to British India. It once received a brief review in the "Glasgow Weekly News" "The Regiment: ought to be disbanded". The theme music to the series was the finale of the Triumphal March from "Caractacus" by Sir Edward Elgar. The Regiment (TV series) The Regiment was a British television drama series produced by the BBC. First broadcast on BBC One in 1972 it starred Christopher Cazenove and followed the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families. "The Regiment" was based on a single