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 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