the popularity of the song through the series? RON ROKER : When the production was finished it was decided by Pye records that they wanted to release it as a single. So clutching the first pressings and full of trepidation I approached the BBC radio producers who said, with tongues in cheeks: "Why should we plug a record that's a theme song for an ATV show?" But they were only kidding and backed the song for us. After devising a quiz for Junior Choice , the Saturday morning Radio One Breakfast show with Ed "Stewpot" Stewart, they played it and loads of the children won and received the first toys manufactured of Rupert as a prize just in time for Christmas Eve. With Inigo Pipkin, however, we were asked to make a record of it first, as by that time the powers that be wanted a record to go with the show. OTT : The single version of Inigo Pipkin was very different to the one used on screen -- was this your decision or were you asked to come up with two separate arrangements? RON ROKER : We recorded what became the single version first and gave it a reggae beat, and Jackie once again did a fabulous job. I think that version must have lacked something in the eyes of the producers of the show, because unlike Rupert where the record was used for the front and end of the show, the Inigo Pipkin track was not left