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
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