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"Theme from Z-Cars" was the theme tune to the long-running BBC television drama Z-Cars. Based on the traditional folk song "Johnny Todd", [1] which was in a collection of traditional songs by Frank Kidson dated 1891 called Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs. Kidson's notes for this song say: "Johnny Todd is a child's rhyme and game ...
Z-Cars or Z Cars (pronounced "zed cars") was a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978. The series differed sharply from earlier police procedurals.
His "Theme from Z-Cars", a #8 hit in the 1962 UK Singles Chart, [2] was adopted by Everton F.C. as their theme song. Additionally he composed the scores for the films Hotel (1967), Robbery (1967), and Innocent Bystanders (1972). His song "Bunny Hop" was also featured in the Tim Burton film, Ed Wood (1994).
This is an episode list for the British television series Z-Cars. The series was aired on BBC One , between 1962 and 1978. Many of the episodes are now missing from the BBC archives.
Z-Cars – Fritz Spiegl and Bridget Fry, adapted from the traditional Liverpool folk song "Johnny Todd" Zig and Zag ("Zig and Zag") – Ricky Wilson and Simon Rix; Zoboomafoo ("Me and You and Zoboomafoo") – Kratt brothers; Zoey 101 ("Follow Me") – Jamie Lynn Spears; The Zoo Gang – Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul McCartney ...
Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight) Theme from Harry's Game; Theme from Mission: Impossible; Theme from S.W.A.T. Theme from The A-Team; Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not) Theme from Z-Cars; This Life (Sons of Anarchy song) Trouble Town; Tuyo (Rodrigo Amarante song)
Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002 [1]), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for playing the role as senior CID officer Charlie Barlow, a character he originated in the early years of the long-running BBC police series Z-Cars, and then continued to play in several spin-off series in the 1960s and 1970s.
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