He has composed many popular TV theme tunes including BBC sports themes such as "Rugby Special" ("Holy Mackerel") and BBC Golf ("Chase Side Shoot Up"), Channel 9 Australia's cricket theme ("New Horizons"), the sitcoms "Robin's Nest" and "Birds of a Feather", "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries", "Pulaski", "Square Deal", "Close to Home", "Murder in Mind" and, with his son Warren, composed and played the incidental music in "New Tricks". Two of his most famous works were "The Journey" and "Just a Minute" written under the alias James Aldenham and used for the "ITV Schools on 4" broadcasts between 1987–1993. He scored the British-German film "The Harpist" in 1999. He is also an orchestral conductor, having learned how to arrange and conduct music for orchestras from a correspondence course. His son Warren Bennett formerly played keyboards for the band Glass Ties, and is also a composer and producer. He was appointed OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to music. Bennett runs a home recording studio, Honeyhill studios, in Radlett, Hertfordshire. In November 2009, at the age of 69, Bennett completed a 50th Anniversary reunion world tour with Cliff Richard and the Shadows.