more free pls
To add insult to injury regarding the soundtrack, ATV somehow managed to get the rights to use that soundtrack for their series King of Gambler, and even used the iconic Shell Game background music for their opening theme. In addition, they also played the theme to the Bund as a tribute to Shanghai. TVB must have been really upset about that, but utterly helpless to stop it if the music companies allowed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LihBxZptLqQ
On a side note, this series really had stars galore. Patrick Tse, Peter Yeung, Michelle Yim, Damian Lau, Cecilia Yip. It was also, I believe, Kristy Yeung's debut series. The supporting cast also had old favourites like David Lam, Eddie Ko, Wong Wan Choi, Tsui Yi Ngau, Money Lo, Lo Lieh - it was a shame the story ended with so many deaths, but that's probably consistent with life in Shanghai.
I suspect that TVB lost the master film/tapes years ago when they had a fire on their main lot, and as these were analogue and not digital sources, they couldn't separate the music soundtrack, the dialogue track, and sound effects tracks. I guess we could blame TVB for poor management of its creative assets (Universal is equally guilty of this, having lost the master tapes for thousands of musical artistes on their own lot fire back in 2008), but in the 1970s and 1980s, nobody could have anticipated that in the 21st Century, technology would be available to really enhance the originals (provided they still existed, which I suspect they don't).