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
The Berenstain Bears (2003 TV series) series are never seen together. Country music singer-songwriter Lee Ann Womack sings the series' theme song, which was written by Stan Meissner. It debuted in the United States on PBS Kids on January 6, 2003. Originally, it aired together with "Seven Little Monsters" but the two shows were eventually separated. It also ran on Knowledge (British Columbia), Tiny Pop and KidsCo (UK), OBS (South Korea), YTV, Treehouse TV, Nickelodeon and Teletoon Retro in Canada. The show also broadcast reruns on PBS Kids Sprout from the channel's inception until the network rebranded into Universal Kids. The Berenstain Bears (2003 TV series)