Now the next question is just how many first season episodes featured the first theme & voiceover combination when first transmitted?
all did. Yet Video Gems released versions of ‘Female Factor’ and ‘Klansmen’ that, although retaining the assault course titles, had the second version of the theme. Well it’s possible that somebody, probably in the late 1970s, made up such prints (audio and visual tracks can be mixed and matched very easily) perhaps for overseas sales (the London landscape shot on the end titles of these two prints may be deemed as a bit of a flag-flying for jolly old England!). Either way I won’t be sure until I’ve been able to scrutinise some more prints down at Pinewood! The more familiar “car smash” sequence was certainly not created until the second season started filming. You can ascertain this by the fact that it features Cowley’s red Ford Granada, which didn’t appear until then. The reason that it appears on reruns of the first season is that LWT subsequently chose to replace the “assault course” sequence on their own copies of first season prints (which, personally, I think they should have le
