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Programmes with the same theme tune

(March 2006)

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ST
stevek
the stop look listen theme i remember started with the noise of children playing which faded into the music with a red traffic light, (stop) a school crossing patrol sign (look) and ? (listen)

i'm going back 30 years here so the brain cells may be a bit rusty

the music for 'Watch' was sometimes used in ITV schools between programmes when they had the minute countdown
WH
Whataday Founding member
stevek posted:
here's a quote from the bbc comedy website about the upper hand which refers to the music being from knots Landing

A virtually identical set was utilised too, the settee facing the audience as it does in so many US sitcoms, and the kitchen/lounge being accessed by a swing door, and US theme music was used - not from Who's The Boss? though, but, curiously, from Knots Landing.


They've made a mistake there. The theme tunes sound very similar though.

Compare: The Upper Hand with Knots Landing
SC
Si-Co
stevek posted:
the stop look listen theme i remember started with the noise of children playing which faded into the music with a red traffic light, (stop) a school crossing patrol sign (look) and ? (listen)

i'm going back 30 years here so the brain cells may be a bit rusty

the music for 'Watch' was sometimes used in ITV schools between programmes when they had the minute countdown


I think you're confusing two sets of titles; the one with the children playing was used in the 70s and the music that accompanied it was called 'Cock o' the Roost' (will the swear filter let me type that?), and the very late 70s/early 80s titles (the later set featuring the traffic lights, etc) was accompanied by the tune 'Highlife'.
JE
Jez Founding member
Si-Co posted:
stevek posted:
the stop look listen theme i remember started with the noise of children playing which faded into the music with a red traffic light, (stop) a school crossing patrol sign (look) and ? (listen)

i'm going back 30 years here so the brain cells may be a bit rusty

the music for 'Watch' was sometimes used in ITV schools between programmes when they had the minute countdown


I think you're confusing two sets of titles; the one with the children playing was used in the 70s and the music that accompanied it was called 'Cock o' the Roost' (will the swear filter let me type that?), and the very late 70s/early 80s titles (the later set featuring the traffic lights, etc) was accomapnied by the tune 'Highlife'.


I remember the set with the traffic lights - I would have been watching it in the early/mid 1980s.
CE
ceefax541
Weekend 24 on BBC News 24 (1997 - 1998) used the old UK Gold ident music on their "coming up" menus. I really liked that tune... (the one with the gold ingots).
PA
Paul02
Si-Co posted:
Paul02 posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:

The only other programmes I can think of at the moment which had the same theme were Grange Hill and Give Us A Clue.


The schools programme Stop, Look and Listen used the same theme tune, too.


Did it? I remember both the tunes used on the ITV version, and neither of them were Chicken Man.


Definitely used- but could have been a one-off. I was very surprised (at the time) that the tune was being used, so I think it must have been in 1978- the same year that Grange Hill started.
SG
Spotlight Guy
Browsing through various internet tv archives, I found that small sky digital channel Life TV used to use a short cut of the 2002 Central News East music for the idents
shame both companies ditched the tune, as it worked fantastically, and beat both Life TV's current offering and the dire generic ITV local news theme hands down!
heres the Central opener:

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvmidlands/itvmidlands/news/centralnewseast010502.rm

and the Life TV ident:

http://www.requestcharts.org.uk/tvadsat/dsat/202oct01.rm
SP
Spencer
On the subject of idents, the music from Channel 3 North East's ident was from the same track as Sky News' theme at the time. This was most evident on the Live At Five titles.

Incidentally, I don't suppose anyone knows the library track it comes from?

CLIPS: TV Ark
RD
rdd Founding member
All the Sky channels were using varients on that theme at the time. I would have thought therefore it was commissioned for Sky - but obviously not if Tyne Tees were using it too...

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