Ruined TV memories

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andyfraser

Über Member
Location
Bristol
I'd love to watch Saphire and Steel again. That's the sort of thing that should be on Netflix.

If we're talking scary shows: Threads. Absolutely terrifying!
 
Does anyone else remember rushing home from school to watch.." the tomorrow people".. it was shown between 1973 and 1979, i used to think it was absolutely fantastic, , they tried to remake ita couple of years ago , not a patch on the original, ( or maybe i should take the rose tinted specs off).
Any way heres the opening sequence
icludidg the thames television jingle thing.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI
 

midlife

Legendary Member
But all the fighter pilots (Angels?) were women, so it's obvious that fighter pilot is a woman's job in the future (1984!)

The Angels were in Captain Scarlet ...... Destiny was my favourite :smile:. I built the airfix model

Shaun
 

Profpointy

Legendary Member
Does anyone else remember rushing home from school to watch.." the tomorrow people".. it was shown between 1973 and 1979, i used to think it was absolutely fantastic, , they tried to remake ita couple of years ago , not a patch on the original, ( or maybe i should take the rose tinted specs off).
Any way heres the opening sequence
icludidg the thames television jingle thing.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI


the (scary) signature tune and much of the incidental music is Delia Derbyshire. Her arrangement of the Doctor Who theme, the original one, is much better than the (admittedly still not bad) full orchestral version we now have.
 

midlife

Legendary Member
I always wonder what The Tripods would do if re-run today ?

Shaun
 

matiz

Guru
Location
weymouth
Being in the building trade I used to love watching auf wiederhesen pet it was quite true to life apart from Dennis and Oz's awful bricklaying skills .Jimmy Nail then went on to star in Crocodile shoes as a country and western singer I think he wrote the theme tune and sang the the tune ,just like Dennis Waterman in Minder
 

shouldbeinbed

Rollin' along
Location
Manchester way
or the ...triffids...
The John Duttine series of Day of the Triffids did have a re-run recently. I enjoyed it immensely even (especially?) with the limitations of triffid special effects.

Comedy wise, Monty Pytho and Milligan's Q series were always hit and miss, moments of absolute brilliance surrounded by filler sketches, the good bits are still as good today but the filler bits in both (moreso Q), show their age and the social mores of their time far more explicitly.
 

Profpointy

Legendary Member
ahh , i always thought it was done by Dudley Simpson, still love the theme tune all the same.

ooh you could be right at that , that's confused me now. Looks like they're both credited with the Tomorrow People music album, and Simpson is indeed mentioned as the composer of the theme tune. He certainly did some terrific incidental music for Doctor Who.....
.... this posting via sub-ether transmission from Planet Geek, in the constellation of Sad and Lonely
 
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