1970s UK TV Programme Intros - Quick Quiz

[@Gransport1966]

Mary Mungo and Midge almost made me almost burst into tears with nostalgia.

[@christinetookey5637]

An excellent no-nonsense quiz thank you

[@gills4thrills]

You're welcome 👍

[@sdball01]

Late to the comments (only discovered this in Sept 2019) but... Thanks for putting this together. Great fun. 8 of out of 15! At the risk of being pedantic, Fantasy Island was a US show so I was only listening out for UK ones as billed (not that I would have got that one anyway!!!). Oh, I didn't know what Michael Bentine's Potty Time was so I had a look on KZbin afterwards and I am now hooked. Thanks again for compiling this. :-)

[@signnamesparkle]

Mary, Mungo & Midge is my all time favourite as a child and I loved the theme tune to it. Every time I hear it, I'm straight back to being 5yrs old again - happy days 😊

[@juho6903]

I got 11 out of 15. I didn't recognise 1, 10, 11 and 12 though have heard of UFO and Space 1999. Good to hear dear old Richard Baker on "Mary, Mungo and Midge" ( I have the LP) and the opening hand on "The Tomorrow People" credits used to freak me out!

[@jatlarge6354]

Got them all except for 5 and 10. Incidentally, bit naughty of you to throw in a US show as a ringer!!!! Good quiz, BTW.

[@ziggypop8106]

Number 9 was a brilliant theme tune. Very prog rock 😆

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

Four wrong...thanks for making my memory work...my dad had severe dementia and I dread being like that....best wishes and take care

[@gills4thrills]

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for your feedback

[@mikemcr1969]

Also 13/15 Never watched number 10 so never t#knew the theme, and recognised 14 but couldn't place it. Enjoyed the quiz, brought back happy memories.

[@Theagchm]

Couldn't remember the name but I could picture the show. Parents sent us to bed as it was coming on. Having seen some episode later in life, I realised they were doing us a favour!

[@roofgardener7897]

BRILLIANT..... thanks for that Geoff... a real blast from the past. I got about 9 of them.... and was particularly pleased that Space1999 and Tomorrows People made the list :D

[@gills4thrills]

RoofGardener you're welcome!

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

Who can forget It's a Knockout/Jeux sans Frontieres? Hilarious!

[@grimTales1]

#13 was used in a classic Sesame Street cartoon "Nancy the Nanny Goat" - so recognised the theme but didnt know what programme it was from. I only got 2 of them :(

[@MarkWilliams-hj6hn]

My God! I remember the cartoon, but I don't recall them using this tune! Naughty Nancy Nanny goat, nibbling on your nails...

[@kollusion1]

Tales of the unexpected theme used to terrify me as a kid. These 70s themes seems to be dark tunes anyway, dark days I guess.

[@christinetookey5637]

I agree....they fill me with a weird sense of dread?! 😏

[@Theagchm]

Well I remembered every tune, unfortunately I didn't quite match it to the programme, only managed 9. My excuse - I was still at primary and a we didn't have a TV for a lot of the 70s! Those were the days - you had your own imagination. (Not a disney dictated thought process - with their 'idea' of a moral message, telling you that your a failure but you can be a real princess!) Rant over. Thanks for uploading Geoff, I really enjoyed trying to dig up old memories.

[@gills4thrills]

Well done on your score! Children these days have to be spoon fed with copious amounts of organised interactive activities. I loved having the freedom of just going out to play. Seeing what happened and just doing it. I'd hate to be a child these days

[@gills4thrills]

@TheRenaissanceman65 you're upbringing sounds the same as mine. We had a playing field close to our houses. Mum's would shout their child's name from the back door when it was time yo come in for their tea. We didn't have to wear hi viz jackets and walk together in a 'walking bus formation', have a responsible adult supervising us who'd been on a training course. And our parents didn't have to sign indemnity /declaration forms for insurance purposes. I don't remember a single child who was hurt, abducted or abused in any way in those days!

[@angelacooper2661]

Some of these tunes I never heard of as I was in my formative years at the time and the oldest I could have been was nine!

[@aliscat]

Brilliant! Takes me back.

[@druss69harad61]

Michael Bentines Potty Time was one of my favourites growing up.....I get why he was mates with Spag lol.

[@williambabyak1094]

What, RETURN OF THE SAINT, THE PERSUADERS, and THE NEW AVENGERS omitted?!? An outrageous oversight!

[@keithrich8373]

Great memories got all except 3

[@rosedrop4959]

All of them as i watched them all

[@julianaylor4351]

I hated It's a Knockout and Tales Of the Unexpected. I never watched The Cuckoo Waltz, Fantasy Island or Armchair Thriller, which I didn't recognise, but I watched all the others. Lewis Collins was in The Cuckoo Waltz before he was Bodie in The Professionals. I was a teenager in the seventies, born in 1961.

[@Loverboy19691]

I'm going to be honest, I had most of nearly all of them right, except for 14, I don't remember potty time at all, I was born in 1969 so maybe it was before then, the 1970's were the best days of my life, TV was great, safe at home with my family, no bills, no real worries, oh those really were the days.

[@Loverboy19691]

@TheRenaissanceman65 May have been shown in other regions but not ours .

[@rjjcms1]

I was born in 1964 and remember it from the 70s as a teatime weekday children's show on ITV.

[@snowysnowyriver]

10 out of 15.....not bad!

[@just.me.and.my.travels]

loved this...

[@yossarian6799]

We only got 2 of these in South Africa, and both were BADLY dubbed into Afrikaans. "Alpha 1999" (Space 1999) and "Blitspatrolie" (The Sweeney). These are the only UK shows I remember from the early days. I'm wondering how they got around the Equity ban. My guess is they were produced by American companies. The SABC ruined several good shows by dubbing them into "the world's ugliest language": The Waltons, The Paper Chase, Thunderbirds and the 6 Million Dollar Man all suffered under the heavy hand of the SABC's dubbing department.

[@janeb7]

number3 sounds like a song I love,but, can not find it. This song from the 70's was all instrumental, slow. Don't know who or what the name was. Trying everything I can to find.

[@AndyDad147]

I go the lot! Surprised myself!

[@gills4thrills]

Here's a little quiz-ette I put together to test the memories of those who grew up in the 1960's & 1970's and can remember TV programmes from that era. Have a listen, stop & pause to write down your answers - don't use Shazam! The answers to the quiz are at the end of the 'video' - no cheating! Enjoy!

[@laurenjeffery340]

No. 3 a classic tales of the unexpected by rhoal Dahl

[@dannyandersonjr.8791]

thanks yall for the info i am on a hunt to see if i can find the song for download

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Only one I didn't get was armchair thriller, though the tune did sound familiar

[@postscript67]

I was disappointed not to know 5 of them, but then I saw that 3 were science fiction, which I've never liked, and one was Armchair Thriller, which I've never heard of. The only one I didn't recognise but remember watching was Fantasy Island, but I'll make the excuse that American themes were never as memorable or distinctive as British ones (apart from the Rockford Files or Mission Impossible maybe!).

[@gmf121266]

Theme from UFO by Gerry Anderson

[@williambabyak1094]

My first exposure to the world of science fiction (before STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES). Wonderful memories!

[@colink4823]

What was number 9.

[@jeanwells7232]

No. 11 was not armchair thriller. Simply "Thriller". It was a Saturday night British series. Armchair Theatre was a series of British plays- both seperate and distinct series.

[@sdball01]

A belated response... You are correct in stating that there was a show called Thriller (a UK anthology show created by Brian Clemens, 1973 to 1976; not to be confused with the US anthology show in the 1960s hosted by Boris Karloff). Also, as you point out, there was the long running Armchair Theatre (1956 to 1974). However, there is Armchair Thriller (which no 11 is the theme tune), which in a serial format adapted novels and stories, running from 1978 to 1980. At time of writing (Sept 2019), there are some examples available on KZbin such as the opening titles, along with special Thames ident (taken from the first story 'Rachel In Danger'): kzbin.info/www/bejne/onvSi6aHoKt3qq8 ; as well as some actual episodes. If you like stories with twists and occasional spooky moments (depending on the story), they are worth looking out for. :-)

[@rjjcms1]

@@sdball01 That end-of-episode cliffhanger in the Quiet as a Nun story had everyone talking at school the next day! Those of us who got to stay up late enough to see it,anyway.

[@ntmdisco]

1. UFO 2. The Sweeney 3. Tales of the unexpected 4. The liver birds 5. Citizen smith 6. ??????? 7. Its a knockout 8. Tomorrows world 9. World in action 10. ??????? 11. ??????? 12. Space 1999 series 1 13. mary mungo and midge 14. Michael bentines potty time 15. The tomorrow people i think

[@MiceOnParole]

Cool,you should do a KZbin quiz

[@David9763]

World in Action?

[@johnmacleod4481]

Number 2 is the Sweeney then tales of the unexpected, then whatever happened to the likely lads

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Nope not likely lads. Quite the opposite, a couple of liverpudlian girls flat sharing versus a couple of Geordie blokes coming to terms with not being young anymore... Liver birds was a very different show. Very different theme tune too. "Oh, what happened to you? Whatever happened to me? What became of the people, we used to be?"

[@rjjcms1]

@TheRenaissanceman65 Thanks for that,we watched both those shows quite a bit in the 70s when I was a kid,and I could never fathom out what the hell they were singing on the Liver Birds Theme. I thought it might be some kind of semi-local dialect,perhaps a gypsy one or something.

[@dominicmartin3941]

Just a heads up number 10 fantasy island is not a uk show, its American.

[@alexmilne2842]

number 7 its gotta be blakes 7 .... that was awesome

[@alexmilne2842]

oops it was 12 :P

[@garydunn3037]

I thought it was "It's a Knockout" number 7.

[@a75llycat33]

7 is its a knockout

[@sdball01]

Number 12 is Space: 1999

[@Gransport1966]

I must have watched way too much tv as a kid. I got 14 correct! Fantasy Island tripped me up, not because it was American but because it was shite and I didn't watch it! ;0).

[@gills4thrills]

Well done!

[@ziggypop8106]

I loved 'Tales of the Unexpected' as a kid, then they started doing American ones which weren't as good.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

14/15. I'd heard the tune but couldn't place Armchair Thriller. Sure it wasn't just called Thriller? One nit to pick... Fantasy Island wasn't British. might've been shown over here but it was American.

[@gills4thrills]

Number 11 is Armchair Thriller - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_Thriller

[@gills4thrills]

I understand your nick picking but.....I didn't think that "TV Programmes Watched in the UK During the 1970s But Not Necessarily Made in the UK Intros - Quick Quiz" was as snappy as the final title I chose ;-)

[@gills4thrills]

Feedback has suggested 20 samples was too many (made the quiz too long) and 10 not enough, hence 15 samples was just right

[@RazSux]

I got 8!

[@lholland2416]

Got 11 out of 15. Just reminds me how great TV was back in the 70s compared with the shit that's churned out today, Christ even Coronation Street was better and No Eastenders.

[@ChrisPRaven]

I must have spent too much time in front of the TV as a kid. Nearly didn't get 8, just remembered. Very confident I have them all so far. Goodness 9. So familiar, just cant place. No idea what 10 is. 11 scared me to bits every week. Was well into 12, and I introduced my kids to 13 when they were little. 14 is again familiar, but I can not place. 15 also scared me as a kid. So I couldn't get 9, 10, and 14. Lets get the answers. To be honest I got less then I thought I had.

[@rayman3387]

Number 9 was World in Action

[@garydunn3037]

Yeah you got that right.

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

By the way. All 15. (Yes. I'm that old!!!!!) :-0

[@gills4thrills]

Well done!

[@catinabox2878]

14/15. However, 10 is not a British TV show.

[@gills4thrills]

You're correct about number 10 and highlights the ambiguity of my choice for a quiz title. It should be ' Programmes watched on British TV in the 1970s'. I was trying to help British people find a quiz that didn't solely focus on American TV shows that we might not have watched here in Britain.

[@bonzo874]

tales of the unexpected , no. 3

[@dannyandersonjr.8791]

What is the 1st one?

[@speedwolf]

UFO I think

[@rupert-j8f]

yes it is ufo a very good gerry anderson live action show.

[@TheDebbiepoo]

U.F.O a great sci-fi :)

[@shropgel]

Ok I cheated but great fun x

[@bonzo874]

no 7 its a knockout 8 tomorrows world

[@The_Capri_Kid]

A rather poor 10 for me I'm afraid, I had Ask Aspel for no14 (miles off!!!)

[@laurenjeffery340]

No. 11 armchair thriller

[@bonzo874]

sweeney no. 2

[@daddydoman01]

Could somebody tell me what number 11 is please it's driving me crazy not knowing...aahhhh

[@daddydoman01]

***** that's it thnx

[@garydunn3037]

Don't you mean Armchair Theatre?