70's lunchtime tv programmes - can you help?

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Re: 70's lunchtime tv programmes - can you help?



I am a bit of a TV theme buff and all I can really add is to say with confidence that the theme to 'In Loving Memory' is definitely the same as the one to 'Baldmoney, Sneezewort...' I liked the series a lot and rceall it as a series of very simple drawn images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDOX...zPlSVAqDZFBq35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHr1zOlj4Yo

[Hair Bear]

Ah yes Issi Noho...
....THIS SIDE UP....
USE NO HOOKS

[George 1978]

Amazing how theme tunes used to get reused in those days, but on the other hand, just a few years seemed to be a long time than it does now. That Loving Memory theme (which I believe was a library piece) was also used in a Johnny Morris-voiced Matchbox toy advert in 1985 as well -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjT3PnWlwWY&t=213s - two minutes and thirteen seconds on the video.

Lots of TV themes were reused on unrelated programmes back then - some ITV regions used to do this, although hardly anyone knew about this as they were used in more than one different region. For example, Ulster TV's Good Evening Ulster and HTV's Wales This Week used the same theme tune; Grampian's North Tonight and Anglia's Cross Question used the same theme tune many years apart (and I was certain that ITV Sport used it for the same coverage, athletics or something like that). Southern's Scene South East and HTV's Report West had the same theme tune and so on.

[George 1978]

Also, In Loving Memory was originally a pilot made by Thames in 1969 (as the Lewisohn book mentioned) - as it predated that Anglia series. I assume that it didn't have the same theme tune back then?

[George 1978]

I have just heard that music on a John Smith's bitter advert from around March 1991 - around 2:40 in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0FDGlL0kdU&t=184