Fritz Spiegl Fritz Spiegl died suddenly during a Sunday lunch in Liverpool with his wife, Ingrid Frances Spiegl, and some friends. As a composer, Spiegl scored a popular success with the original theme from the TV series "Z-Cars", based on "Johnny Todd", a Liverpool sea shanty. He also composed the original theme for the "Z Cars" spin-off series "Softly, Softly"; the song was also released as a single on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate record label in 1966. His BBC Radio 4 "UK Theme", in which national songs from each of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom are combined, was heard
Johnny Pearson the late 1960s until the end of its run in 1974. In Australia, his best-known library music piece was "Power Drive," which was used as the theme for the 1969-75 police drama "Division 4". Some of Johnny Pearson's library music was also used as background scene music for the Ten Network series, "Prisoner". Also during late 2011, another Johnny Pearson track, "And a Very Good Morning to You", from 1970, was used as a piece of background music, on the Nine Network series, "Underbelly". The track "Sleepy Shores" was also used as incidental music in some of the courting scenes