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 Mugwumps (band) top 15 hit "Summer Rain" for Johnny Rivers, and the theme song "Long Lonesome Highway" for the TV show "Then Came Bronson". A different 1960s group known as The Mugwumps, based in Los Angeles and produced by Mike Curb for his Sidewalk label, had no connection to the New York group but reached #127 on the "Billboard" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in 1966 with a cover version of "Jug Band Music", a John Sebastian-penned song on the Lovin' Spoonful's "Daydream" album. "The Mugwumps" (Warner Bros. 1967) John Sebastian did not appear on this album. Produced by Roy Silver &