Concept and creative process
Opening titles for ‘Six-Five Special' which burst onto the television on Saturday evening, 16 February 1957 with the presenters Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray, the popular radio DJ. ‘Six-Five Special’ appealed to a young audience, and the Radio Times promised “plenty of music, in the modern manner, with rock’n’roll, skiffle groups, traditional jazz, featuring top music groups and soloists”. The title song was composed by Don Lang and his Frantic Five, the show's resident band, and was the signal to drop whatever you were doing and congregate around the TV set and watch the title sequence of the steam train “steamin’ down the line”.