Trumpton to name them for fear of the area being "inundated with tourists". Episode titles were given in "Radio Times" but were not shown on-screen. Unusually, Trumpton Fire Brigade has two theme songs. The first, commencing with the famous roll call of firemen's names, accompanies every turnout of the Brigade; the second, ending every episode, forms the habitual tune played by the Brigade at the Thursday band concerts. The Fire Brigade appears in every episode. Captain Flack always has a speaking part, as do Fireman Grubb in episode 1 and Fireman Cuthbert in episode 10. In episode 4 the Mayor states
The Grub Street Opera of Court gossip, to be a dramatization of Lord Hervey's "Memoirs"". Thomas Cleary wrote that the ""Grub-Street Opera" is a much better play than the two-act "Welsh Opera". It is so much improved that the impossibility of staging it [...] must have infuriated Fielding. Thomas Lockwood believes that both "The Welsh Opera" and "The Grub-Street Opera" are characterized by a "spirit of fun" but are complicated by the 18th-century politics that gave them birth. The Grub Street Opera The Grub Street Opera is a play by Henry Fielding that originated as an expanded version of his play "The Welsh Opera".