Cheerio from Across the Pond

Don't Touch That Dial for November 5, 2026: Cheerio from Across the Pond. 12 pieces (vintage commercials and promos, songs and theme tunes, short pieces): Ron Grainer - Doctor Who, Hartley's New Jam, McLean's Toothpaste and more, with Ricky Voltage. In this episode: 0:00 Stupid Potato 0:12 Don't Touch That Dial opens: Ricky Voltage welcomes you 1:27 Ron Grainer - Doctor Who 4:01 Hartley's New Jam (commercial) 4:12 McLean's Toothpaste (commercial) 4:42 Danger Man (TV theme, 1964) — The theme song to the British spy television series Danger Man, released as a Pye A-side single in 1964. The track is titled "Highwire" and was part of a collection of British TV themes. 6:34 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 6:44 Persil (commercial) 6:53 Pelican Crossing (PSA) 7:25 Dad's Army (TV theme, 1969) — Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC1 from 31 July 1968 to 13 November 1977. The show ran for nine series with 80 episodes total, plus a 1971 film, stage show, and radio version, regularly attracting 18 million viewers and continuing to be shown internationally. 8:35 Buttercups Butter (commercial) 8:54 Don't Touch That Dial on Stupid Potato 9:02 Captain Scarlet (TV theme, 1967) — The theme to Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson using Supermarionation puppetry. This is the 1967 Pye Records A-side edit version. 10:56 Classic British Adverts, Spot 13 11:32 Doctor Who Shalka (TV theme) — Scream of the Shalka is a Flash-animated adaptation of the British science fiction series Doctor Who, produced as a special marking the show's 40th anniversary. It first appeared online in six weekly installments, running from 13 November to 18 December 2003, on the BBC's Doctor Who website. 12:06 Mastermind (TV theme, 1970) 14:15 Ricky Voltage signs off 15:09 More free classic radio at stupidpotato.com Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 61 free 24/7 channels and 190 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com .