The 999 theme scared the shit out of me as a child. Listening to it to this very day still scares me. Every time it came on BBC 1. After watching this I used to go to bed and be petrified to walk up the stairs to bed. Having the theme tune playing in my head. It’s very cleverly done. The ticking clock of the emergency and the ambulance sirens, the “nee naws” “nee naws”and at the end 999.
@mark1dart1378 жыл бұрын
yeah I know me too it gives you goose bumps etc.
@MattyEngland5 жыл бұрын
After a few blunts of heavy grapefruit, the paranoia almost took me!
@alihardie5 жыл бұрын
Same! I think the music freaked me out more than the actual scenarios!
@thomasshirley74804 жыл бұрын
The bbc 999 tv show theme used to give me nightmares when my nana used to put tv on when she watched the show at her flat in killamarsh and I used to have bad dreams of that show of me been hurt when I was staying over at my nanas flat when I was little and that theme tune is very depressing and scary and I am glad they don’t have it on BBC’ one anymore
@slayersdeath3 жыл бұрын
yep still remember watching this with my gran and grandad still scares me
@adammclaughlin845 Жыл бұрын
This is what a child's panic attack sounded like in the 90s. Going from Strange But True on one channel to 999 on the other - Friday nights were pretty tough in those days 😂
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
BBC1 it was shown on. From Joe. X
@paulrostron15 жыл бұрын
This absolutely evokes such horror of the memories of watching this as a kid and when the theme tune plays my parents say "OK son bed time!" I'd lie awake for hours with this ringing in my head.....powerful memory.
@nickmassy-collier269110 ай бұрын
Same crazy isn't it
@chriskearney17455 жыл бұрын
Quality theme tune. Starts off all Robert Miles then quickly descends into a chilling, off-key aural nightmare that Aphex Twin would be proud of.
@mattierenton7012 жыл бұрын
Cloud 9 AKA Nookie sampled in on the Back to detroit Ep (Mindbomb) check it out :-)
@cdm05898 ай бұрын
I heard this recently and was instantly transported back to the 90s and how I couldn't get to sleep on a Friday night, feeling physically sick, palpitations, just hearing Michael buerk voice now can cause instant panick and loss of breathe. Remembering to stay in on a Saturday incase you were impaled by a fence post or electrocuted by a powerline. Tough days!!
@yuenkentsang94464 ай бұрын
I'm 40 lol used to get ready in my pyjamas with my sisters ready in bed to watch
@joeandrews73293 ай бұрын
Horrifying situations!. From Joe. X
@kdoddy8711Ай бұрын
Or get your ponytail stuck in the filter at the bottom of a swimming pool! 😲 This theme and show used to scare the ever loving crap out of me. I'm now 40 and I don't think it'll ever feel safe when Michael Burke starts talking....
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
@@kdoddy8711 Michael Buerk was 46 when the show started 32 years ago!. From Joe. X
@simmer4842 жыл бұрын
Who remembers the javelin stick in the neck boy?
@paulgallagher29878 ай бұрын
I mean, who was born in the 80's and DOESN'T remember the javelin boy! I blame that episode for the UK's poor performance in Javelin at a world level during the 90's and 00's. No kid who saw that would go near a javelin for the rest of their life!
@chester7544 ай бұрын
I remember that one, the PE lesson that went wrong. The ambulance had to drive away slowly to avoid the speed humps and potholes. Fast forward 25+ years and nothing has changed with the quality of Britain’s roads
@awinbisa2 ай бұрын
Haha! That’s the only one I remember. It’s always the first thing I think of when I see the javelin throwing on tv. I wonder where the chap is now.
@nerdicwarrior2 жыл бұрын
The ticking clock sound invoking a sense of danger and imminent threat accompanied by a chilling piano. The music's intensity begins to increase as the sound of an ambulance begins to kick in. The music and ambulance sound continues to grow more intense. A life is in danger and time is of the essence. And then BOOM! 999! Powerful stuff.
@katietheplate27428 ай бұрын
Haha! Hilarious
@97channel2 жыл бұрын
The one I remember most, is the girl who got her long hair sucked into the filter of a swimming pool and was drowning because she couldn't get her head above the water.
@simmer4842 жыл бұрын
I remember this. The urgency to get the scissors
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
@@simmer484 Or a sharp knife. From Joe. X
@lordlewisdavidson73424 жыл бұрын
Watched this years ago as a child. Now hard to believe I now work for the health service and St. John Ambulance
@mark1dart1374 жыл бұрын
what a coincidence is that west Lothian st. john's?
@BlueTGM402 жыл бұрын
Some of the bits sound like a two-tone siren, I love that!
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
Ambulances, fire engines and police vehicles used them From Joe. X
@MrDeadhead836 жыл бұрын
Such a cleverly written theme tune. The ticking clock indicates the urgency of the accident and sound at 0:30 is the ambulance sirens.
@mark1dart1376 жыл бұрын
yeah definitely likes.
@jenlittle28863 жыл бұрын
The main key notes are taken from the morse code for SOS ..._ _ _ ...
@arigold87824 жыл бұрын
Pure nostalgia
@JLRules2 жыл бұрын
This show used to keep me up at night as a kid.
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
Tense drama. From Joe. X
@anjetto13 жыл бұрын
My 20 year long quest is at an end
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
Code red moments. From Joe. X
@Health-is-Wealth922 жыл бұрын
Theme tune randomly popped into my head 3am, had to find it 😂
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
Roger Bolton composed it. From Joe. X
@playthroughcinema2 жыл бұрын
tuneeee the memories...
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
From the 1990s. From Joe. X
@big-g64 жыл бұрын
Shit a brick I remember being in my bed lights on going through copious amounts on pants, resitting this fucking song over and over in my head! 😂
@studywithme76775 ай бұрын
This programme traumatised me 🤣I remember the episode where a kid came off his bike and ended up impaled on the forks and the bloke stepped on a wasps nest in the loft and ended up getting terribly stung
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
A wheel mounting failure was the fault. From Joe.
@joeandrews73294 ай бұрын
If the show carried on in the last decade, I'd be on the show when my school taxi slid into a snow bank, and a farmer retrieved me in his red tractor in December 2010!. From Joe. X
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
If 999 continued in the last decade, I would be on it telling by story as it happened!. From Joe. X
@lowes19664 жыл бұрын
I play this video every time my gf fake hurts herself.
@academicfailure81823 жыл бұрын
What? Are you alright buddy?
@SeizureGman Жыл бұрын
In tonight's episode Daniel stubs his toe and his wife Julia has only seconds to stop him swearing in front of the 5 year old daughter Juilet.
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
I should've been on 999 if the show carried on in the last decade!. From Joe. X
@ashleyhallows2566Ай бұрын
Bring this show back with Rio Gavin Ferdinand as host now !
@johnmacleod44817 ай бұрын
Conjures up an image or images in thecminds eye that what is dealt with on the progrwmmevis very real and can leave lasting impressions on the mind and thoughts of i as a viewer
@malak90017 күн бұрын
This theme gives me PTSD…along with the theme of Animal Hospital with Rolf Harris but that’s for different reasons 😬
@terrykennedy70505 жыл бұрын
Will they ever bring this out on DVD.
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
Try looking on line on Wikipedia. From Joe. X
@richjay15654 жыл бұрын
I remember on one these shows a young lad somehow ended up with one of the forks of his bike embedded in his head. I can't remember how it happened exactly but it stopped me from ever pulling wheelies again after that.
@RifleEyez3 жыл бұрын
Hahah exactly the same here. That is the only episode I remember. I still have vague memories of the reenactment of it happening on the show. Genuinely still to this day all those years later when I’m cycling from time to time it’ll go through my head...metaphorically, for now.
@oldskoolforever795 жыл бұрын
chilling
@nickmassy-collier269110 ай бұрын
Childhood trauma relived
@scottking86913 күн бұрын
Once went to school with a kid who was a actor on one of the shows think it was something to do with drowning
@GARYRPOTTER4 жыл бұрын
DUH DUH DUH
@awinbisa2 ай бұрын
If I remember correctly the closing theme always ended on a major chord, symbolising light in the darkness. Or did I imagine that??
@MultiVince958 жыл бұрын
Nice
@martingries11503 жыл бұрын
USA - Rescue 911 (1989 - 1996), Germany - Notruf (1992 - 2006), UK - 999 (1992 - 2003)
@peterwood26339 ай бұрын
Remix this with casualty
@joeandrews7329Ай бұрын
Both BBC1 shows. From Joe. X
@nss634811 ай бұрын
This show gave me nightmares as a kid theme tune asweel gave a panic attack
@Ravinder22204 жыл бұрын
999 used to scare me every time it came on BBC 1. The theme tune still scares me to this very day. After watching this I used to go to bed and be petrified to walk up the stairs to bed. Having the theme tune playing in my head It’s very cleverly done. The ticking clock of the emergency and the ambulance sirens, and at the end 999.