Dick Barton
Episode 569, Oct 06, 2012, 11:24 PM
Your older relations will smile wistfully at this signature tune; and will recall every character in the serial it signalled.
'Dick Barton - Special Agent' was aired weekday evenings, with a weekend omnibus, from 1946 until 1951 on the BBC Light Programme. Dick, and his two best mates, Jock Anderson and Snowey White, captured the imagination of a generation.
Its theme tune, Devil's Gallop by Charles Williams, was a wise choice.
The programme lasted 711 episodes.