1970s summer holidays kids ts show - help identify?

[pjcmanchester]

All I can remember of this series is that it was broadcast on kids daytime tv in the school summer holidays around 1970. It was a mystery or adventure with much of the plot and action set in dark caverns, and its title theme was a sort of aboriginal chant which I can still remember as very unsettling and creepy. Does this stir any memories for anyone? Thanks.

[Heather74]

Re: 1970s summer holidays kids ts show - help identify?

My first thought was Into the Labyrinth but I'm ten years out 1980

[pjcmanchester]

Re: 1970s summer holidays kids ts show - help identify?

No, this was definitely 1970 give or take a couple of years, around the time of Belle & Sebastien and The White Horses, I think. Of course my memory could be playing tricks and only part of it featured caves, but I have never forgotten the monotonous chanting over the opening and closing credits.

[Heather74]

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Eposide 10 of the changes was called the Carvern? http://www.bilderberg.org/changes.htm

[sixtyten]

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Is it the usual answer?
says theme tune was chanted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Stones

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5245044/13842660

[pjcmanchester]

Re: 1970s summer holidays kids ts show - help identify?

Sorry, that's not it. It could have been an dubbed import like numerous others at that time, but here I'm just speculating. Once looked back through old TVTimes in library to try to find, but no luck, don't even know if it was BBC or ITV.

[Heather74]

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Escape into the night?
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?p=1101

the chanting makes me think of The Georgian House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Georgian_House

both worth ruling out at least.

[pjcmanchester]

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No, that I remember from tea-time tv: one of the things on tv that really frightened me as a kid.

[sixtyten]

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busy at work at mo, but we will find it.. later

[Heather74]

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I'm back again

The long chase?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173572/usercomments

'Liz and Simon almost meet a sticky end at the end of several episodes - either trapped in a network of caves with only a cigarette lighter to help them find a way out'

[pjcmanchester]

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It sounds possible, and for some reason the guy on the motorcycle strikes a memory chord, but no one on the link mentions the music, which would clinch it. If I remember rightly, the closing credits featured flames along the bottom half of the screen against a black background on which the titles came up, but I may be confusing this with something else I saw 40-odd years ago :-). Am grateful for your help in solving this.

[sixtyten]

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Just listened to theme tune on You Tube. don't think Long Chase is correct

[Heather74]

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Oh no You are right. It doesn't seem to fit at all :cry: back to the drawing board

[Heather74]

Re: 1970s summer holidays kids ts show - help identify?

The Jensen Code?

http://www.cultoftv.co.uk/cultkidstv/jensencode.htm

[sixtyten]

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Unconvinced by that one either