It is more evil than we ever knew. That theme tune is pure hypnosis, implanting occult images into the subconscious minds of millions of innocent youngsters, (I was one of them).
@@radiance65 The show that was including occultism was Ace of Wands with the lead character named Tarot. I wouldn't watch that today, but will watch TTP. My conscience is fine.
God fella i could not agree with you more catapult me straight back there it was a happier time you had what what you had and was happy with it they sure don't make tv intros like this anymore.
When I was a child I couldnt understand how the music theme of this exciting series was impressive ..it is a masterpiece ...45 years ago it was ..my god ..its unbelievable ..
The biggest disappointment (and surprise) with any of the remakes is the total abandonment of this. It stood equal to the core concept of the show... both of which, I must admit, somewhat outshone the quality of the acting and production. But the whole package is highly capable of totally weirding out any child of the '70s (which I still am, and it still does). Stylistic stablemate *Doctor Who* always had the advantage of being able to outdo the acting - rarely involving child actors. That said, as a child, it was always cool to see children in TV, and I don't remember ever noticing any bad acting.
Dudley Simpson, Dr Who, Blakes 7 and The Tomorrow People!! Never truly got the recognition he deserved as a brilliant TV music writer of his time, rather like the late Barry Gray as well .
@@rosiefay7283 Yes but Dudley was part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and wrote more music for Dr Who up until 1979, so a key figure within the world of Dr Who music.
@@gingerladyaubern Case in point, listen to The Tomorrow People theme, then listen to the incidental music for classic Who serials like Genesis of The Daleks.
@@sillycuts Dudley Simpson. Some of Delia's work was used as incidental music for the series (taken from a 1969 library music album she made with Brian Hodgson and then beau David Vorhaus - the same team did the album 'An Electric Storm' under the name White Noise). Both Delia and Brian were under contract to the BBC at the time the record was made and released as Standard Library ESL 104, so they used pseudonyms, Li De La Russe and Nikki St. George respectively.
The show's opening sequenc eis a masterpiece, not just the magnificent score by Dudley Simpson, but the accompanying imagery: the closed fist opening (which is used in the first story to help Stephen "break out", i.e. his mind opens fully to it's abilities), the foetus represents the new species at the very start of it's emergence, the opening flower humanity blossoming into a new and peaceful speces, the shadowy figures show in the background and in mist as that same new species having the absolute necessity to remain hidden.
It used to be on Saturdays here in Australia. I don't think many kids here watched it. My family came here from Scotland, so I'm genetically British. Aussies are strange, genepool too contaminated.
When I was a kid, that unfolding hand coming towards me frightened the life out of me! I still flinched when I watched it just now and I’ve just turned 54!
Yeah - the hand is the main thing that sticks in my memory. Aspects of the theme as well, of course. Do you think this level of TV was better back then? Do we even have anything to compare this to? For older kids (teens) there's some amazing stuff around (EOTFW, Witcher, Stranger Things, Last of Us, Shadow and Bone etc etc) but for weird, creepy sci-fi I feel like the 70s really had it nailed. Or maybe we were more innocent/naive. We've gained so much in some ways, and lost so much in others. Generally I guess, not just TV. Sorry for the long message.
And by ditching their bad actors. Although from what I hear Peter Vaughn Clark and Dean Lawrence really got screwed by the execs when they were replaced by Mike Holloway.
Am I glad to be 57 and to have watched TTP first time around. Brilliant series along with Timeslip, Ace of Wands etc Kids TV today has nothing on the 70's and what a TV theme :)
For many years, I could not remember the name of this show. I remembered the intro and how fascinating it was. I began to think, I may have simply, confused snippets of other shows. But, here it is, exactly as I remembered it! What a revelation! 👍
Although sometimes it got a little ahead of its budget. One series really upset me though. The one where the pretty young Russian agent got blown up. Haunted me for a long time.
Me too lol. In fact I think it used to scare the shit out of every kid who saw it in the 70's. When I was in Junior school, when somebody was teasing or pissing us off, we'd do the "hand thingy" to each other (not as rude as it sounds 😂) to make the other person stop what they were doing. And when someone did it, we'd all mock scream, cover our eyes or run away shouting "make it stop." The 70's was a good time to be a kid. Actually, thinking back, this could be the origin of the modern "Talk to the hand" expression? 👋🖐️👋 😂😂😂
Music by dudley simpson easily the most haunting chilling tv intro to a programme outside of dr who i loved this as a kid still do come on this guy who did this music should be showing a million plus masterpiece still gives me the goosebumps that hand after all these decades I LOVE it tyso and steven were my fave characters but Mr simpson needs more credit its a classic theme tune.
When children's drama was allowed to be innovative, inventive, and yes, downright scary! It's a cliché, but this was television from a golden age. It's easy to criticize and belittle all these years later, but this, along with Sky, Children of the Stones, The Changes and several others was truly something special.
"The Changes" I remember that. The last episode in the cave scared the shit out of me when I was 10! Good times. I liked being scared when I was a kid! 😀
@@hopebgood Just went to check the theme for The Changes - I thought it was the one I'd been looking for but it's not. I have a dim memory of a theme from around that time that just kind of freaked me out. I think it was somewhat similar to Oxygene. And I'm sure there was video of machines (just like The Changes). And I think there was a girl and her dad with a horse and cart, a bit gypsy like. All the things I remember make it seem like it was The Changes, but the theme music I'm thinking of was very different.
@@al201103 I've had a look round to try and find what you're looking for. Unfortunately I haven't come up with anything. I like to try and help people find obscure vids cos a lot of people have helped me find stuff in the past. Be lucky! 😉
Still bloody scary even now 😨 Had to smile at the credits though, all the impressive, freaky character names and then 'Ginge' 👱♂️ Oh and Dave Prowse as 'Android', practising to be Darth Vader no doubt 😉 Love it 👍
I remember watching it on PBS as a child. The remake was okay but didn't have that, as you said, the fantastic creepiness. I found the series again here on RUclips.
I didn’t get to see Tomorrow People reruns til 1982 in the USA .We watched it on the Nickelodeon cable network.Roger Price also produced You Can’t Do That on Television during the 1980’s .An import from Canada also shown on Nickelodeon .Watched those 2 shows over and over again all of 1982 starting in May of that year.
This scary 70's childrens TV 📺 show is just one of many TV shows that made this decade the greatest for kids tv, absolutely scary opening credits and stories that you count the days off till it was back on. Beautiful happy memories from a sadly long gone time, kids tv these days is complete rubbish.
Good words mate, happy xmas. You are so right, the themes and content of kids shows in the 70s wouldnt get approval these days from the snowflake generation and all the lefty libtards that dilute everything into the colour beige so as not to offend anyone.
Absolutely brilliant show, re-watched some episodes recently on DVD, as shown originally and then with Cast commentary. Just fabulous listening to their recollections all these years later.
There was a great time 70's this theme The Tomorrow People. Magic Fly, Star Wars, Le Crunch 'Rah Band' Big Boys, This Town isnt big enough for trhe both of us' Remember that Group Sparks. Its ajj gone never to be forgotten
Scared the living daylights out of me so much that I don't ever recall watching any of the episodes. Now I'm in my 50's, I recall this tune with great fondness. It's a fantastic piece of music.
I've reached 50 and tbh I don't really know if I ever watched this or not. It seems vaguely familiar but I've no strong or even actual memories. I was six when it ended, so maybe I did and was just too young to remember.
Utterly brilliant theme and opening credits. A level drama study production quality but that didn’t matter one jot. Bizarre creepy and completely unforgettable. The episode with the coloured badges hasn’t left me in 50 years.
The budget was zero, and some of the acting was terrible, but if something has magic (and this certainly had) then nothing else at all matters, and 50 years later and still talking about it proves that.
I actually grew up with the 90s remake of TTP, and there were two themes used. I liked the 2nd one better. That-all said - I only recently heard of this version. I refuse to touch the 2013 remake.
Not so. Much of the incidental music used in the show was culled from a 1969 library album (Standard Library ESL 104) with music by Delia, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus (which team also produced the White Noise: An Electric Storm album), but this theme tune is all Dudley Simpson (who also wrote music for Doctor Who and later Blake's 7)
Oh, wow, I saw Dave Prowse in the closing credits. He was the bodybuilder who played Darth Vader's body in the first three Star Wars movies (James Earl Jones did the voice). He was also the monster in two Hammer Frankenstein movies in the early '70s.
I don’t remember the story of the show but the fucking theme song and the hand will always be etched in my 12 year old mind it still scares the shit out of me today!!!! Back then I think It was on Saturday my older sister used to watch it
I watched this programme a lot around after coming home from school,largely in 1974-75,as well as always watching Dr Who on Saturday post-the football results,end of Grandstand and BBC teatime news. Me and my sister watched the Changes when it was shown in early 1975,with the girl and her sibling(s) on their journey following the collapse of modern society when humans were possessed to trash all machines and technology. There was no shortage of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic series on telly then,with the Survivors starting that spring.
It had a brief outing on The Sci-Fi Channel UK, but not all the episodes were shown, on Astra 1B Satellite Channel 24 11.567 Ghz V polarisation Stereo 1 7.02 / 7.20 MHz scrambled in Videocrypt 1 as part of the Sky Multichannel Package to Astra satellite dish owners and 20 hours a day on cable using a digitally encrypted feed from the Eutelsat Hot Bird 1 satellite 13 degrees East.
Remember the belts they wore? They wud press the buckle & transport themselves. Well as kids we used 2 fix those plastic pretend cameras 2 our snakebelts & press them like 2morrow people did & transport ourselves 😂😂😂😂🙈
They could "jaunt" (teleport) without the belt buckle devices, but the devices gave them further range. I like your childhood memory about the plastic pretend cameras acting as the jaunting belts buckle/control, though. Cheers! :)
Great show! Someone was asking where they got their powers from: It was an evolutionary change. Humanity was destined to kill each other off, so young people have begun changing into the "Tomorrow People" with telepathic powers to promote empathy. They are all unable to kill/greatly harm another person. Probably because they would feel it being done to their victim as they do it. Earth/nature itself editing humanity to not be terrible. They forgot most of this in the reboots.
The end titles look like an oil projector used in a disco shot on b/w film and zoomed out to fit the captions into the picture, you don't see them anymore these days.
The hand and the lava lamp.....my child hood memories. Cant remember much about the series, just one about some itemnofvclothing that were alien or something
God, there must be a whole generation over a certain age for whom this sends a shiver down the spine.
Me too
ME. I'm one of them. ME.
It is more evil than we ever knew. That theme tune is pure hypnosis, implanting occult images into the subconscious minds of millions of innocent youngsters, (I was one of them).
@@radiance65 The show that was including occultism was Ace of Wands with the lead character named Tarot. I wouldn't watch that today, but will watch TTP. My conscience is fine.
Still scares the sh*t out of me today
Takes us all back to another, better place we should never have left - but time swept us along to this mess.
God fella i could not agree with you more catapult me straight back there it was a happier time you had what what you had and was happy with it they sure don't make tv intros like this anymore.
I loved this show, but frankly, the 70s were a shitshow for me, so no thanks. Depends what kind of childhood you had, I reckon.
You're so right with that one. There's not very much memorable about the time we're living in now.
Electricity blackouts, Vietnam, smog, flared trousers, Watergate, nuclear threats, beige everything. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!
Allah will provide now 😂
Hard to believe this show and this theme tune is 50 years old. It still sounds amazing and futuristic now
Scared the hell out of me as a kid. I still remember coming back from school and sitting down to watch this back in 1977 or so.
Same here.
Easily scared then… I found it fascinating
The opening sequence was fantastic for its time. Almost hypnotic in its presentation.
When I was a child I couldnt understand how the music theme of this exciting series was impressive ..it is a masterpiece ...45 years ago it was ..my god ..its unbelievable ..
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It's still a great title sequence even now
The biggest disappointment (and surprise) with any of the remakes is the total abandonment of this. It stood equal to the core concept of the show... both of which, I must admit, somewhat outshone the quality of the acting and production.
But the whole package is highly capable of totally weirding out any child of the '70s (which I still am, and it still does).
Stylistic stablemate *Doctor Who* always had the advantage of being able to outdo the acting - rarely involving child actors. That said, as a child, it was always cool to see children in TV, and I don't remember ever noticing any bad acting.
Точно, я это называю. Ностальгия по ускользающему настоящему.
Yeah nothing like Dr Who at all, is it?
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This song gave me the creeps aged 8 in 1976. Thinking then of future world.
Well here it is 50 years later . Love looking back on vintage programs.
Timeless. That music and titles still works today in 21st century. Brilliant.
One of the best Sci-fi themes ever.
Dudley Simpson, Dr Who, Blakes 7 and The Tomorrow People!! Never truly got the recognition he deserved as a brilliant TV music writer of his time, rather like the late Barry Gray as well
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Who? The Doctor Who theme music was written by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
@@rosiefay7283 Yes but Dudley was part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and wrote more music for Dr Who up until 1979, so a key figure within the world of Dr Who music.
@@gingerladyaubern Case in point, listen to The Tomorrow People theme, then listen to the incidental music for classic Who serials like Genesis of The Daleks.
Yes cpt scarlet and UFO had excellent themes.
The theme music and title sequence were absolutely stunning.
Yes, I agree and the same musician wrote the theme tune to Blake's 7 - another classic!
Blake's 7 Bieng shown on forces TV Nov 2021.
Delia
@@sillycuts Dudley Simpson.
Some of Delia's work was used as incidental music for the series (taken from a 1969 library music album she made with Brian Hodgson and then beau David Vorhaus - the same team did the album 'An Electric Storm' under the name White Noise). Both Delia and Brian were under contract to the BBC at the time the record was made and released as Standard Library ESL 104, so they used pseudonyms, Li De La Russe and Nikki St. George respectively.
Agreed!
The show's opening sequenc eis a masterpiece, not just the magnificent score by Dudley Simpson, but the accompanying imagery: the closed fist opening (which is used in the first story to help Stephen "break out", i.e. his mind opens fully to it's abilities), the foetus represents the new species at the very start of it's emergence, the opening flower humanity blossoming into a new and peaceful speces, the shadowy figures show in the background and in mist as that same new species having the absolute necessity to remain hidden.
Geez, that was a long time ago. i remember getting in from school and watching this .
It used to be on Saturdays here in Australia. I don't think many kids here watched it. My family came here from Scotland, so I'm genetically British. Aussies are strange, genepool too contaminated.
Dan..... DAN!!! Your spaghetti hoops are ready! Dan... DAN!!
@@nigelcarren Vesta curry & rice for me! My favourite Monday Tomorrow People food (UK).
@@MrMarco33333 Bless you... I remember my first Vesta. Chicken or Beef? This was a big decision for a boy to make! 🏆🇬🇧
@@nigelcarren Beef! A couple of years ago I had to buy some again. it's still available from select places.
When I was a kid, that unfolding hand coming towards me frightened the life out of me! I still flinched when I watched it just now and I’ve just turned 54!
Yeah, this was amazing back in the day. Awh....
Yeah - the hand is the main thing that sticks in my memory. Aspects of the theme as well, of course. Do you think this level of TV was better back then? Do we even have anything to compare this to? For older kids (teens) there's some amazing stuff around (EOTFW, Witcher, Stranger Things, Last of Us, Shadow and Bone etc etc) but for weird, creepy sci-fi I feel like the 70s really had it nailed. Or maybe we were more innocent/naive.
We've gained so much in some ways, and lost so much in others. Generally I guess, not just TV. Sorry for the long message.
The unfolding clenched fist was part of the test to see if you were a Tomorrow Person. If you could imagine it without it breaking, you could be one.
The music alone takes you to another world! 😮
Loved the series used to rush home from school to watch it, sometimes wished I could jaunt out of some lessons.
British TV got round really shite budgets and cheesy effects by absolutely fantastic, world class writing.
And by ditching their bad actors. Although from what I hear Peter Vaughn Clark and Dean Lawrence really got screwed by the execs when they were replaced by Mike Holloway.
Now it's the opposite way round. Massive budgets and effects and preachy woke scripts full of garbage
what a perfect music composition for the nature of the programme - that's why people remember & re-watch it . . . . . . . . half a century later
The British could always do these great shows on shoestring budgets. The "New World" never had anything like this. Thanks for the memories.
Am I glad to be 57 and to have watched TTP first time around. Brilliant series along with Timeslip, Ace of Wands etc Kids TV today has nothing on the 70's and what a TV theme :)
great theme...back to the magic of my TV watching youth
For many years, I could not remember the name of this show. I remembered the intro and how fascinating it was. I began to think, I may have simply, confused snippets of other shows. But, here it is, exactly as I remembered it! What a revelation! 👍
The music and visuals scared the shit out of me when I was 10 years old...and it still does now at 53 years old....creepy as fuck
One of THE Greatest sci-fi shows ever and it’s almost ignored today
Although sometimes it got a little ahead of its budget. One series really upset me though. The one where the pretty young Russian agent got blown up. Haunted me for a long time.
Big finish did 5 series of Audio plays with some of the original cast a few years back
The show has been remade twice.. once In the 90s (the version i grew up with) an then an adult themed version around 2014
I remember as a kid, that hand would scare the shit out of me.
dozer m. This is the first time I’ve seen it since I was a kid...I’d hide behind the sofa when that hand did the thingy
@@MelbourneOldFashioned i hated that hand as well!
Yeah we should bring a class action against the acid casualties that produced this bollocks
Yeah, it's pretty creepy.
Me too lol. In fact I think it used to scare the shit out of every kid who saw it in the 70's. When I was in Junior school, when somebody was teasing or pissing us off, we'd do the "hand thingy" to each other (not as rude as it sounds 😂) to make the other person stop what they were doing. And when someone did it, we'd all mock scream, cover our eyes or run away shouting "make it stop." The 70's was a good time to be a kid.
Actually, thinking back, this could be the origin of the modern "Talk to the hand" expression? 👋🖐️👋 😂😂😂
Haunting sci fi Melody tune still stands the test of time! ✨💫🚀
Music by dudley simpson easily the most haunting chilling tv intro to a programme outside of dr who i loved this as a kid still do come on this guy who did this music should be showing a million plus masterpiece still gives me the goosebumps that hand after all these decades I LOVE it tyso and steven were my fave characters but Mr simpson needs more credit its a classic theme tune.
When children's drama was allowed to be innovative, inventive, and yes, downright scary! It's a cliché, but this was television from a golden age. It's easy to criticize and belittle all these years later, but this, along with Sky, Children of the Stones, The Changes and several others was truly something special.
"The Changes" I remember that. The last episode in the cave scared the shit out of me when I was 10! Good times. I liked being scared when I was a kid! 😀
@@hopebgood Just went to check the theme for The Changes - I thought it was the one I'd been looking for but it's not.
I have a dim memory of a theme from around that time that just kind of freaked me out. I think it was somewhat similar to Oxygene. And I'm sure there was video of machines (just like The Changes). And I think there was a girl and her dad with a horse and cart, a bit gypsy like. All the things I remember make it seem like it was The Changes, but the theme music I'm thinking of was very different.
@@al201103 I've had a look round to try and find what you're looking for. Unfortunately I haven't come up with anything. I like to try and help people find obscure vids cos a lot of people have helped me find stuff in the past. Be lucky! 😉
Oh and let’s not forget Sapphire and Steele😮
Still bloody scary even now 😨
Had to smile at the credits though, all the impressive, freaky character names and then 'Ginge' 👱♂️
Oh and Dave Prowse as 'Android', practising to be Darth Vader no doubt 😉
Love it 👍
The most mystyc intro of a show I've ever seen. The music is really great and scary!!!
This was a fantastic creepy show as a child, still holds mystery as nobody really knew where this lot came from or got their powers.
I remember watching it on PBS as a child. The remake was okay but didn't have that, as you said, the fantastic creepiness. I found the series again here on RUclips.
They are the evolution of homo sapiens. Homo superior.
Their powers came from breaking out so they came from within themselves
RIP Dudley Simpson.
A great composer, always will be remembered forever, he also made incidental music for Doctor Who.
I didn’t get to see Tomorrow People reruns til 1982 in the USA .We watched it on the Nickelodeon cable network.Roger Price also produced You Can’t Do That on Television during the 1980’s .An import from Canada also shown on Nickelodeon .Watched those 2 shows over and over again all of 1982 starting in May of that year.
This scary 70's childrens TV 📺 show is just one of many TV shows that made this decade the greatest for kids tv, absolutely scary opening credits and stories that you count the days off till it was back on. Beautiful happy memories from a sadly long gone time, kids tv these days is complete rubbish.
not as scary as this though ruclips.net/video/gVTsnSg-MS4/видео.html
I loved that time
Good words mate, happy xmas. You are so right, the themes and content of kids shows in the 70s wouldnt get approval these days from the snowflake generation and all the lefty libtards that dilute everything into the colour beige so as not to offend anyone.
"Snowflake lefty libtards" How sad. Go and stir up your right wing hate somewhere else Mr Bigot. Wanker.
Our kids TV programmes were made by left leaning liberals fresh out of acid-generation university.
That helped them be so amazing
always found this a very hypnotic theme and had a feeling of melancholy when I was a young boy. loved the synthesizer sounds .
Same. Haunting eh?
@@LFOVCF Yes, and vaguely disturbing.
It was pure hypnosis, imparting occult symbols into vulnerable young minds.
@@radiance65 rubbish
@@michaellomax2 I practiced hypnotherapy for years. I know what I'm talking about.
Ah. Remember it well. A very unsettling titles sequence when you're 9 years old, and even the you're an adult. Brilliant stuff.
I always loved this intro and the music. Good show on Nicolodian when I was a kid
Absolutely brilliant show, re-watched some episodes recently on DVD, as shown originally and then with Cast commentary. Just fabulous listening to their recollections all these years later.
There was a great time 70's this theme The Tomorrow People. Magic Fly, Star Wars, Le Crunch 'Rah Band' Big Boys, This Town isnt big enough for trhe both of us' Remember that Group Sparks. Its ajj gone never to be forgotten
Not as long as we remember it! 😀 (btw I've totally forgotten what Magic Fly or Big Boys is)
One of my fav shows from my childhood. It seemed so futuristic then lol
Scared the living daylights out of me so much that I don't ever recall watching any of the episodes.
Now I'm in my 50's, I recall this tune with great fondness. It's a fantastic piece of music.
I've reached 50 and tbh I don't really know if I ever watched this or not. It seems vaguely familiar but I've no strong or even actual memories. I was six when it ended, so maybe I did and was just too young to remember.
Same. I used to watch it and remember the music like it was yesterday, but i could not tell you anything that happened in the episodes
Had to put my fingers in my ears as a kid...still scares the bejesus out of me,
Theme sounds great in 2019. Loved this as a kid.
Sublime music. I remember imagining I could open locks with telekinesis like the character Mike.
Keep at it! Youll get there.
I use a key...
Haunting theme.
Made for an uneasy feeling in my 9 year old belly
This and Timeslip started my love of all things sci-fi.
Utterly brilliant theme and opening credits. A level drama study production quality but that didn’t matter one jot. Bizarre creepy and completely unforgettable. The episode with the coloured badges hasn’t left me in 50 years.
Loved this as a kid.
Love the bass drums on the music score
Tympani.
The budget was zero, and some of the acting was terrible, but if something has magic (and this certainly had) then nothing else at all matters, and 50 years later and still talking about it proves that.
SÉRIE EXTRAORDINÁRIA!
DEIXOU MUITA SAUDADE!!!!😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
When TV was real and writers could actually write!
The hand and foetus did my head in shed 4.
What a tune absolutely wicked . futuristic.
as a child back then i found the intro scary!
Oh those Moogs and Roland Jupiters
There were no Roland Jupiters in 1973. I think the first came in 1978. I'd guess it was mostly done on EMS synths.
This theme is so much better than the 90's theme !! RIP Dudley Simpson.
I actually grew up with the 90s remake of TTP, and there were two themes used. I liked the 2nd one better.
That-all said - I only recently heard of this version. I refuse to touch the 2013 remake.
1970s teatime heaven ... along with timeslip
I remember finding the episodes on RUclips and was instantly thrown back to my 11 year old self when I watched the first episode.
I'll never forget the episode when the young woman turned instantly into an old corpse .. scared the absolute sh.t out of me!
The theme tune and graphics are way more scarier than any horror movie I've seen. I remember this as a young boy in the 70s, being scared to death!
John, Carol, Kenny, Stephen
Dang, I hadn't thought about this show in a while and those names just popped right back into my head after all this time.
Dudley Simpson was a genius. Love his music for Doctor Who too.
Delia Derbyshire had a hand in composing this … you can tell her style she was the woman behind the theme for dr who with ron grainer
Not so. Much of the incidental music used in the show was culled from a 1969 library album (Standard Library ESL 104) with music by Delia, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus (which team also produced the White Noise: An Electric Storm album), but this theme tune is all Dudley Simpson (who also wrote music for Doctor Who and later Blake's 7)
@@ShanghaiRooster this gets more confusing by the minute lol
I REMEMBER WATCHING THE TOMORROW PEOPLE WHEN I WAS A KID
I remember having the biggest crush on Carol and was so disappointed when she left the show!
I have never heard this before, but two bars in and I knew it was a Dudley Simpson song :D
50 years later I'm still suffering with anxieties stirred up by this show.
You are not alone. This was pure hypnotic/occultic implantation.
My absolute favourite kids programme!!!
I was 8 when this came out on uk tv screens ... it was on at tea times when we came home from school, and I loved it.
Wow. Brings back memories as a kid.
Oh, wow, I saw Dave Prowse in the closing credits. He was the bodybuilder who played Darth Vader's body in the first three Star Wars movies (James Earl Jones did the voice). He was also the monster in two Hammer Frankenstein movies in the early '70s.
These titles were quite disturbing! Loved the show though...
Jaunty little number. See what I did there?
R.I.P Peter vaughan Clarke😮
Tim
Tell them I just bought the box set😊
I don’t remember the story of the show but the fucking theme song and the hand will always be etched in my 12 year old mind it still scares the shit out of me today!!!! Back then I think It was on Saturday my older sister used to watch it
Saw this when I was in my twenties and we first got cable! Still pretty damn good! And I love the music!
Wow. I never knew Dudley Simpson. was Australian. His incidental music score for Dr Who was the greatest
I had a crush on "John" back in the day.
ufffff i was a kid when i saw this the first time i would say 1975
Never realised before how this and Space 1999 started with a v similar drum roll sound.
this also sounds a lot like Dudley's Blake's 7 theme too.
Dudley Simpson's work is always distinctive :) His theme for Moonbase 5 is another one for the set.
This theme used to scare the crap outta me. Anybody remember Changes. With that strange rock in the cave.
I never saw the last episode of The Changes till years later cos it freaked me out so much! Awh :)
I watched this programme a lot around after coming home from school,largely in 1974-75,as well as always watching Dr Who on Saturday post-the football results,end of Grandstand and BBC teatime news. Me and my sister watched the Changes when it was shown in early 1975,with the girl and her sibling(s) on their journey following the collapse of modern society when humans were possessed to trash all machines and technology. There was no shortage of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic series on telly then,with the Survivors starting that spring.
Greatest theme tune of kids TV
It had a brief outing on The Sci-Fi Channel UK, but not all the episodes were shown, on Astra 1B Satellite Channel 24 11.567 Ghz V polarisation Stereo 1 7.02 / 7.20 MHz scrambled in Videocrypt 1 as part of the Sky Multichannel Package to Astra satellite dish owners and 20 hours a day on cable using a digitally encrypted feed from the Eutelsat Hot Bird 1 satellite 13 degrees East.
Remember the belts they wore? They wud press the buckle & transport themselves. Well as kids we used 2 fix those plastic pretend cameras 2 our snakebelts & press them like 2morrow people did & transport ourselves 😂😂😂😂🙈
They could "jaunt" (teleport) without the belt buckle devices, but the devices gave them further range. I like your childhood memory about the plastic pretend cameras acting as the jaunting belts buckle/control, though. Cheers! :)
I heard they had a near miss with the TARDIS
Nearly 50 years old . Scary for me. Love it.
And ironically the film scanner's came out around the same time
I was so young when this came out but still remember being freaked out by it lol
Great show!
Someone was asking where they got their powers from:
It was an evolutionary change. Humanity was destined to kill each other off, so young people have begun changing into the "Tomorrow People" with telepathic powers to promote empathy. They are all unable to kill/greatly harm another person. Probably because they would feel it being done to their victim as they do it.
Earth/nature itself editing humanity to not be terrible.
They forgot most of this in the reboots.
They weren't afraid to show hardcore sci-fi to children in the seventies and eighties.
Now we have a warning when there's a reality TV show and someone uses the word 'shit' which 'some viewers might find disturbing''!
@@stevebrazilio The word "shit" would never have even made it onto TV in those days, so I'm not sure what you're on..........
The end titles look like an oil projector used in a disco shot on b/w film and zoomed out to fit the captions into the picture, you don't see them anymore these days.
I loved this show .
Still scares me as a 50 year old “adult”!
This reminds me of The Residents.
Quite frightening science-fiction for a child, I don’t think they get away with it these days.
The Changes was the one that scared the crap out of me back then.
Still I remember the show, of course the intro music, very futuristic !!
The hand and the lava lamp.....my child hood memories. Cant remember much about the series, just one about some itemnofvclothing that were alien or something
Great intro !
This is so creepy. It freaked me out back then, and some stories were scary as f**ck but I was glued to the tv anyway