"The Devil's Gallop" by Charles Williams

Better known on radio as the theme music for "Dick Barton - Special Agent," here played by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by John Wilson and led by Cynthia Fleming, from a special televised edition of "Friday Night is Music Night."

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Music

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• British
• Light
• Music

[dmhiggs]

On a lonely planet spinning its way toward damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar!

[malarkey13]

Monty Python. Nobody expects the Spanis-- oh bugger.

[dwoodsky]

QUICKLY GINGER, STEAL THE BRASS THINGS!

[Utubeifuwant]

I grew up listening to this as the theme tune to 'Dick Barton - Special Agent ' on the radio but it's only now that I have seriuosly heard it as a complete piece of music. I never knew what the piece was called or the composer.

It's still really exciting!

[Pmessch]

@maikeru48

XD

[maikeru48]

"Nobody expects the Spa...oh, bugger!"

[bluejeckett]

It was actuallly brought to fame more by use as incidental music in various Monty Python sketches where running around was involved, Mitchell and Webb no doubt got the inspiration from that for thier Ceaser Salad character but Python emplyed it first which is more what I think of when I hear it, didnt even know it was the theme tune of a serious show

[DeadFishVlogs]

So much better than Yakkity Sax for comedic effect because it's more serious.

[SilverLeaper]

Dick Barton Special Agent theme

[ul77]

MONTY ON THE RUN!