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
I'm on My Way (The Proclaimers song) I'm on My Way (The Proclaimers song) "I'm on My Way" is a song by Scottish folk pop duo The Proclaimers for their 1988 album "Sunshine on Leith". In 1989, it was released as a single, which made it to number 43 in the United Kingdom, and number 3 in Australia. The lyrics "I'm on my way from misery to happiness today" differ from I'm on My Way the spiritual of the same name. The song was used on the soundtrack of DreamWorks's 2001 comedy film "Shrek", and also as the theme music of the BBC Radio Four comedy series