Kadeem Hardison Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 . Many bands have been heavily influenced by the Orange Organics. There is a band called Sensus from the Thames Valley area who lifted their sound completely from OO.
saint_bert Posted 13 November, 2009 Author Posted 13 November, 2009 . Many bands have been heavily influenced by the Orange Organics. There is a band called Sensus from the Thames Valley area who lifted their sound completely from OO. I loved Pugwall
Barney Trubble Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 Ski Sunday. Hill Street Blues M.A.S.H Tales of the Unexpected Moonlighting I also used to like the tune to a tv series about a cruise ship, something along the lines of the Odean Line, I think it used to be on Sunday evenings.
Doctoroncall Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 Classic. Here are a few more to think about: Ivor the Engine Magic Roundabout F1 (on the Beeb) Magnum PI (That one's for NC) Benny Hill (OK, maybe not) The Professionals I have that as my ringtone!
Hatch Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 Ski Sunday. Hill Street Blues M.A.S.H Tales of the Unexpected Moonlighting I also used to like the tune to a tv series about a cruise ship, something along the lines of the Odean Line, I think it used to be on Sunday evenings. Triangle
saint boggy Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 I have that as my ringtone! The Onedin Line
saint boggy Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 without doubt..... MONKEY!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3_IAf-qM9k I WIN!!!! \\:D/
Badger Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 Hawaii 5-0 Can't think of that without thinking of this version by Arthur Two Stroke and the chart commandos a memory of student life on Tyneside in the early 1980's.
saint-luco Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 just has to be 1; dangermouse 2; roobarb and custard 3; captain pugwash 4; robinson crusoe 5; white horses cant beat them
Badger Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 Magical wasn't it..? I love that smaltsy 1960's theme. Just right for the programme. 1960's ITV special agent dramas used to have some exciting theme tunes too, that really got you in the mood to watch, like: Man In A Suitcase The Baron Department S The Prisoner Randall & Hopkirk [Deceased] Danger Man The Champions The Saint [Roger Moore, no the Ian Ogilvy era] Loads more too. Often the themes were a lot better than the shows themselves. They're all on Youtube. EDIT: Here's a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8QFd185Dbo Man In A Suitcase.I'd stat up to watch it just for the theme tune as a kid.Hearing it on Chris Evans now I often resent the ginger tosser for 'borrowing' it. Agree with that about the 1960's, there was something spectacular about the creations at the time, however limited or sometimes feeble they look now. Westerns also : Bonanza,The Big Valley etc. Thunderbirds.As laughable as it may now seem! Gerry Anderson refused to compromise with Lew Grade and demanded a 72 piece orchestra for the theme tune.Unheard of at the time for television production,let alone a children's programme.
saint boggy Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 my friend and colleague at work (same person) admitted to me he used to cry when this came on the telly, he thought it was sad i laughed and poked fun of him It always brought a little tear to my eye too......along with 'Maybe'- the theme from The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFZF502hF4 what about champion the wonder horse? MY GOD!!! thats a flashback to my childhood !!!!(repeats,obviously!) i LOVE that song yeehar!!!!
Arizona Posted 13 November, 2009 Posted 13 November, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC4ylYpUHRw Second to none.
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 This always did the business for me way back in the 70's : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RfzkhqBLY&feature=related Gerry Anderson is a God among men FACT .
Badger Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 This always did the business for me way back in the 70's : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RfzkhqBLY&feature=related Gerry Anderson is a God among men FACT . For sheer impact,this is in my view remained the best opening of any of his productions : "anything can happen in the next half hour" was enough to keep me hooked in the 1960's.
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 For sheer impact,this is in my view remained the best opening of any of his productions : "anything can happen in the next half hour" was enough to keep me hooked in the 1960's. I know exactly what you mean , I was torn between UFO and Stingray for the best Anderson title sequence , you could also add 'Thunderbirds' / 'Space 1999' / the surprisingly brutal 'Captain Scarlet' to the list as well . A magnificent body of work if I may say so , happy days .
Jillyanne Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 Wickers World First series of Casualty Silas Huck Finn
sunrise Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 A-Team, Streethawk, Magnum P.I, Airwold, Hill Street Blues
Saint 76er Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 Ski Sunday. Hill Street Blues M.A.S.H Tales of the Unexpected Moonlighting I also used to like the tune to a tv series about a cruise ship, something along the lines of the Odean Line, I think it used to be on Sunday evenings. Barney, I would have expected you, of all people, to come up with one of TV's all time classics... "The Flintstones"
lil 1 Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 Both good choices, but I'd also go along with... Banana Splits Flashing Blade Robinson Crusoe.........there's loads of good theme tunes form the 60's & 70's tbh :smt045 i couldnt remember what flashing blades was called,all i could think of was blazing saddles.Robinson Crusoe classic tune.Why were all these programmes so badly dubbed into english?
St Landrew Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 Dare I mention that the whole 1960's series of Robinson Crusoe can be watched on Youtube..? Sample of episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vrQhsLZMG0
SOTONS EAST SIDE Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 (edited) For us 40+s how about this one the Double Deckers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4C6Pe86YE4 Or this Capt Scarlet! Edited 14 November, 2009 by SOTONS EAST SIDE
SoccerMom Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 Barney, I would have expected you, of all people, to come up with one of TV's all time classics... "The Flintstones" Also by Hoyt Curtin. Apart from having one of the coolest names on the planet he had one of the best jobs a musician could want: MD at Hanna Barbera. The only other that would come close would be the music director for Sesame Street. oh and anyone remember Bonanza? Tenor guitar and Hoss's hat.
St.Jeweller Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 (edited) Kick Start The Sweeney Crimewatch The Equaliser (Edward Woodwardwould!) Edited 14 November, 2009 by St.Jeweller
Colinjb Posted 14 November, 2009 Posted 14 November, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC4ylYpUHRw Second to none. Anywhere I can download that? I think I just came a little listening to that.....
St Landrew Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 For us 40+s how about this one the Double Deckers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4C6Pe86YE4 I remember the first episode of The Double Deckers. Even as a kid I loathed it immediately, because it was British kids, on a mid-atlantic style show, trying to impress in an American way. It even had a US filmic feel about it. Awful, yuck... I almost wish I hadn't seen that bloody clip. Back then I'd happily sit through hours of genuine US programmes, or genuine British programmes, but something that was clearly trying to be what it was not, just made me want to spew. Probably the worst kids programme of all time. Notably, it didn't last, despite all its manufactured hip jollity. I'd rather have watched The Magic Roundabout. Now that was class, in comparison:
Badger Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 . oh and anyone remember Bonanza? Tenor guitar and Hoss's hat. Yes,I've mentioned it above. The fire burning through the map image at the start was always a dramatic opening,or so it seemed to me as a schoolboy in the 60's,no matter how often I'd seen it before. I must have been a bit of a latecomer to Bonanza though,as I don't remember too much of 'Adam' in it.'Hoss' & 'Little Joe' however were my early childhood heroes - along with Scott & Virgil Tracey- before they were superceded by Paine,Channon & Big Ron.
SoccerMom Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 The burning map! Ponderosa ranch!! I thought it was so cool that my uncle was also called Little Joe. Oh I want to be a 60s kid again...
Badger Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 Wickers World That was good travelogue programme,possibly the first of its kind. Its credibility was shot to pieces by this classic piece of Monty Python Whicker Island
TopGun Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 All Creatures Great and Small The Onedin Line Van der Valk All part of my childhood.
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 I make no claim that this was the best TV theme tune , but it's surely a good bet for the oddest : A strange unsettling series for 1970's children's TV that has never quite left me , compared to the banal rubbish we serve up to kids these days it's a prime example of what can be achieved with a modicum of care and attention .
Weston Saint Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 For the very old - Watch with Mother - with Picture Book on Monday, Andy Pandy on Tuesday, Flower Pot Men on Wednesday, Rag Tag & Bobtail on Thursday and Woodentops on Friday Ah, what memories of my childhood http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/watchwm/watchwm.htm#Picture%20Book
Under Weststand Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 World at War is the best for me the music very moving & went with the theme perfectly. Also hill street blues & M A S H were very good along with The Sweeney Sport wise loved Midweek Sports Special
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 15 November, 2009 Posted 15 November, 2009 How about this show! I'd loved 'The Tomorrow People' back in the day with that peculiar intensity that only teenagers know - I revisited it recently on DVD however and it just looked unbearably cheap and silly .
Saint Paul C Posted 16 November, 2009 Posted 16 November, 2009 I make no claim that this was the best TV theme tune , but it's surely a good bet for the oddest : A strange unsettling series for 1970's children's TV that has never quite left me , compared to the banal rubbish we serve up to kids these days it's a prime example of what can be achieved with a modicum of care and attention . Wow, I remember that. Very scary for a kids TV programme. Reminded me of the Tomorrow People also. Cheers Charlie.
St Landrew Posted 16 November, 2009 Posted 16 November, 2009 I make no claim that this was the best TV theme tune , but it's surely a good bet for the oddest : A strange unsettling series for 1970's children's TV that has never quite left me , compared to the banal rubbish we serve up to kids these days it's a prime example of what can be achieved with a modicum of care and attention . Excellent..! Bloody good cast of actors and set in Avebury too. Had to chuckle at the end though. The person who went to all the bother of ripping the clip, and making the red titles, then suggested that if we wanted to see anymore we should buT the DVD.
sydney_saint Posted 16 November, 2009 Posted 16 November, 2009 Captain Planet, he's our hero Gonna take pollution down to zero He's our powers magnified And he's fighting on the planet's side Bloody brilliant
keithd Posted 16 November, 2009 Posted 16 November, 2009 I make no claim that this was the best TV theme tune , but it's surely a good bet for the oddest : A strange unsettling series for 1970's children's TV that has never quite left me , compared to the banal rubbish we serve up to kids these days it's a prime example of what can be achieved with a modicum of care and attention . i liked the HTV idents (or whatever they are called) at the beginning! am now in a wistful world of trying to recall some others.... LWT, Southern, Anglian (from Norwich, its the quiz of the Week)....
Badger Posted 16 November, 2009 Posted 16 November, 2009 Here is a childrens classic from within our own Southern region,The Freewheelers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrHUk6bSP4&feature=related I think Radio Solent later used the tune on their matchday coverage.
Badger Posted 16 November, 2009 Posted 16 November, 2009 i liked the HTV idents (or whatever they are called) at the beginning! am now in a wistful world of trying to recall some others.... LWT, Southern, Anglian (from Norwich, its the quiz of the Week).... Can be seen again on the Freewheelers link posted above.
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 17 November, 2009 Posted 17 November, 2009 Curb Your Enthusiasm Channel 4 News Goodies Blackadder II Bottom Bodger & Badger Good call! I'd say the theme tune actually adds to the humour of the program, and therefore it gets my vote.
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