Van der Valk

[Mike_P]

A number 1 hit in fact, as played by The Simon Park Orchestra. Written by "Jack Trombey" (actually a psuedonym for the Dutch composer Jan Stoeckart). Based on a traditional Dutch nursery rhyme called "Jan Hinnerk".

The sad thing is that I didn't Google any of that...

Eye Level

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV8t3jA-krc

 

[Mike_P]

And on TOTPs introduced by Noel Edmonds!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvesdlGe-EI

 

[VelvetUnderpants]

I used to love the theme tune as a seven year old back in the day and I still think its top draw

 

[Chris S]

I watched this last night and it wasn't too dated. About the only thing that set it apart from modern dramas were the indoor scenes that had obviously been filmed on stage sets.

The most amusing part was Van der Valk trying to screech around corners Sweeney style - in a DAF!

 

[Mike_P]

The Barry Foster ones were made over a long period, wiki indicates 6 in 1972, 7 in 1973, 12 in 1977, and 3 each in 1991 and 1992. The actor sadly died aged 69 in 2002.

 

[Accy cyclist]

When thinking of the Van Der Valk theme two things spring to mind. The theme tune on TOTP

and the theme tune used for a Dutch beer ad'.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Watched yesterday’s episode, the best bit was the introductory titles, that wonderful music and lots of street scenes of Amsterdam as a car focussed city before it remodelled itself. I was a bit underwhelmed by the rest of it, much preferred the modern remake.
And another vote here for The Professionals, pure class

 

[Dec66]

The Professionals was pants.

There. I've said it.

 

[classic33]

NHK 295 M

And I didn't have to look it up.

NHK295M Ford Consul Granada GT, 1974

Body	4 Door Saloon
CC	2994
Fuel	Petrol
Colour	Bronze

 

[Mike_P]

NHK295M Ford Consul Granada GT, 1974

Body	4 Door Saloon
CC	2994
Fuel	Petrol
Colour	Bronze

That is another change cyclists have had to face in the intervening period as that was one of the largest cars on the road then, yet it was 10cm narrower than a Ford Focus.

 

[Dec66]

The Professionals was pants.

There. I've said it.

Having said that, if you insist on playing "Bodie and Doyle", I have the very thing for you.

View: https://youtu.be/hPDriXLdkBw


A snip at £19k.

 

[Dec66]

That is another change cyclists have had to face in the intervening period as that was one of the largest cars on the road then, yet it was 10cm narrower than a Ford Focus.

Good point, that. People would talk about the "gargantuan" Jaguar Mk. 10, but that was only three inches wider than a Focus.

 

[stephec]

Having said that, if you insist on playing "Bodie and Doyle", I have the very thing for you.

View: https://youtu.be/hPDriXLdkBw


A snip at £19k.

That's a well tasty motor.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I seem to remember the Professionals’ cars being supplied by British Leyland in the first series. One of the boys had a Triumph Dolomite Sprint, did the other have an MG or something like that (not a TR7 surely ?), and I think Cowley had a Rover SD1. I stand to be corrected.

 

[JPBoothy]

I seem to recall getting a glimps of a TR7 in the early episodes too. Was there also an RS2000 at one point for Mr Doyle? If you ever catch any of those old programmes on Dave you soon realise that they were indeed pants but, as I was a young teenager it was the cool cars that caught my attention more than the story line. The ultimate in crap though had to be The Dukes of Hazzard. The car chases were the same every week so I think my attention there must have been on Daisy