I was 4. That news music seems odd, just doesn't fit the visuals at all, the only thing I do remember clearly is that Sunday Times ad which I liked as it looked like a board game!
6:11 Say what you like about the over the top bombast of television news intros these days, that jaunty music over people being led at gunpoint out of a house is hilariously inappropriate (but wonderful!)
Looks like a clip from rehearsals of Sammy and Bruce (and according to Bruce’s biography there wasn’t very much rehearsal time). The programme must have been recorded very close to transmission
Titles of "Hammer Hose of Horror" at the start, brilliant stuff.
TV was far better then than it is now !!
Yes it was then too really somehow-you are so right there then too-alas of course I wonder too?!
Paul Maxwell doing the voice over in the Kleenex advert
I was born on this day 😊
Peter Duncan in that Ford Fiesta ad
his passenger is Sarah Neville who, ironically appeared it the last ever episode of the Professionals...
I like that music to the Hammer House of Horror.
Me too. I also really like the trailer music!
Michael Brunson legend. Was very rare seeing him as a newsreader. Normally he would be political or diplomatic reporter. I was 3 years old in 1980
I was 4. That news music seems odd, just doesn't fit the visuals at all, the only thing I do remember clearly is that Sunday Times ad which I liked as it looked like a board game!
Neil Hallett in the Sunday Times Business Section advert
6:11 Say what you like about the over the top bombast of television news intros these days, that jaunty music over people being led at gunpoint out of a house is hilariously inappropriate (but wonderful!)
Sadly it didn't go well for the boxer at the end, Johnny Owen, who died from his brain injuries
better than the shit that's on these days !
Richard Brian, I agree, so was the films and music back then.
11.25% interest on your savings!! (4:18)
Proof that savers are being robbed these days!
Looks like a clip from rehearsals of Sammy and Bruce (and according to Bruce’s biography there wasn’t very much rehearsal time). The programme must have been recorded very close to transmission
usbluephones I was about to find out. This programme was shown a couple of years ago and I don’t recall this clip. Thought they did another show
The Professionals episode being "Fugitive".
One of my fav episodes this one ....good action all the way through..