Music
The series featured a long-remembered theme song, with music based on the William Tell Overture by Rossini. For the show, the song lyrics were by Harold Purcell and were sung by David Whitfield.
Because this portion of Rossini's overture was the theme of The Lone Ranger in the United States, a different portion of the overture, with lyrics added, became the theme song there, titled: The Freedom Song - "Marching Behind William Tell" by Geoffrey Parsons. This is on The Network DVD episode Castle of Fear.
Incidental music was by Albert Elms and Sydney John Kay
Read more about this topic: The Adventures Of William Tell
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