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
Big Brother UK TV Theme Big Brother UK TV Theme The "Big Brother" UK TV Theme is the opening theme for the British reality TV series "Big Brother", written and produced by music duo Elementfour in 2000. Following the success of the first UK series that year, the theme was released as a single (which sold nearly 300,000 copies) and became a hit in September 2000 when it reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The original theme was used through the first five series of "Big Brother", however was later replaced by a revamped version from the sixth series onwards. Versions of the