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
Wayside (TV series) from the English cartoon apart from the language. It has some removed features, colored legs on girls, improper translation, name changes to most characters, an extended theme song, the tunes are off and many more changes. Wayside (TV series) Wayside (also known as Wayside School) is a Canadian animated sitcom developed by John Derevlany for Teletoon and Nickelodeon. The series centres on Todd, a transfer student who attends Wayside, an offbeat 30-story grammar school. It is loosely based on the "Wayside School" books by Louis Sachar, although several elements differ between the two works. Derevlany conceived "Wayside" in 2003, leading