I can remember watching this the first time it was shown on BBC1 in 1971, as a 7 year old. It was shown right through the 1970's almost every summer holidays. Golden memories, along with other programmes such as 'The White Horses' and the original 'Belle and Sebastian', 'Noggin the Nog', etc. Now in my 57th year, I still love the intro to this show!
I remembering watching ti in the 70;s asa kid never knowing what the hecks going on, every episode had a bunch of Frenchmen dashing around on horses having sword fights, the next week the same, did it ever end or just fade away?
Agree with everyone who says the 1970’s was a golden age for children’s TV. Especially on Saturday morning. The Flashing Blade Whirlybirds Champion the Wonder Horse and one only I seem to remember Les Chevaliers du Ciel - a couple of French fighter pilots who were always ejecting into survival situations…
This was great. Born 62 and me and my brothers would all stab away at each other with sticks to the intro. I remember a character called Don Alonzo who was always playing chess, the baddies were pointlessly besieging a castle but the hero’s came and went as if they weren’t there. Knew it was dubbed but your brain tunes that out and we were enthralled watching something incomprehensible with the BEST theme tune. Great memories thanks for posting.
Ahhh, school summer holidays in the late 70's, early 80's … TV in the mornings - Why Don't You?, King Of The Rocket Men & Flash Gordon Serials, The Banana Splits (which had its own carton serials in it as I remember) … and The Flashing Blade with The Chevalier & Guillo … great days.
I was lucky enough to be a 1970's kid, I loved the theme tune then and it's still great now all these years later. The galloping music fits the scenes of the horses going all out through the bushes and long grass, also the scenes bombarding the castle with the music still going are amazing.
Love and life and happiness are well worth fighting for so right those were the days loved this series when was a younger couldn't wait for it to come on
remember this as a child,love the theme tune and the sword fights.use to have my pretend sword at the ready and basically fought against anyone with a sword. great stuff and made a change from Andy Pandy.
I was born in 1959 and remember this first being broadcast in the UK in 1969 (I think ) on Tuesday evenings before the early evening news. Around that time there was also a version of Robinson Crusoe which I think was German. Such great TV, and big budget too.
9 seconds into this Children's TV programme and two people are killed in an explosion and the song informs us we HAVE to fight, it's not optional!. Towards the end there is a head butt and a stabbing which makes me think this programme might have been especially popular in the Glasgow area.
I’m sure Iron Maiden wrote the lyrics for this. Used watch re-runs of this when I was a kid. Hilarious! The fight choreography was all over the place: one bloke would fire a flintlock pistol and about 20 blokes would fall dead.
I also did sword fighting after the show,as kid...what kids series... you'll never get these's kids TV series again...the music 🎵🎶🎵 alone is 🏆 priceless...ha!!!
I do remember the water margin yes, also monkey ! not alot of choice in those days so i spose anything a bit different was exciting to watch haha, youtube is great for reminising !
Definitely one of the best theme tunes out there, we d watch on a Saturday morning then go out on are choppers or home made trackers and have are own adventures just as good as the blades 😂 what a time was the 70s we actually thought we could make a hot air balloon after watching mysterious island and float away, but after much frustration we went breaking windows and starting fires on railway embankments.😂
We loved this particularly the music too and the song at the start as children in the 1960s. I just found my sister's 1979 letter where she had seen it on TV after many years and recorded the music as it was so important to us even then. These days things are free on youtube - we are very lucky. Today 2022 looking to the part beyond the music at the end reminds me of the awful Russian invasion of Ukraine how in 2022 as well as in the 1600s featured invaders still destroy pointlessly.
I remember this with fondness and it really pissed me off when On The Waterfront decided to REALLY take the piss by dubbing over it in 1988. However, I don't think I'd be getting the dvd any time soon because, due to it being in full colour, the episodes were feature-length.
The flashing blade, Robinson Crusoe, White Horses, Belle and Sebastian, the Banana Splits, Champion the Wonder Horse, the Double Deckers etc etc plus cartoons galore. Plus long summer holiers! Always seemed to be hot and sunny! Rose tinted specs? Maybe. But I remember life being good. Happy days. Happy to be this old. Thanks for posting 😁
One of the great Flashing Blade unanswered questions is how Casal could be bombarded by the Spanish remorselessly for 20 episodes and yet still didn’t become a pile of ruins. 😅
Going to the shop to get my comets in the paper shop then watching this or treasure in Malta or G force cartoon in swap shop ,or wait till your father gets home with that , brilliant theme tune .man in a suitcase before world of sports or grandstand what can you say , children programme was more educational and presenters where like superstars and you knew there names
Now this song is credited to Alex Masters and The Musketeers. Is it an English version of the French original or is it something completely different written for the UK broadcast?
I can remember watching this the first time it was shown on BBC1 in 1971, as a 7 year old. It was shown right through the 1970's almost every summer holidays. Golden memories, along with other programmes such as 'The White Horses' and the original 'Belle and Sebastian', 'Noggin the Nog', etc. Now in my 57th year, I still love the intro to this show!
So glad i was born in the 60,s growing up with these wonderful tv series, except for the scary Singing Ringing Tree.
Yeah i remember it being on once a week on a morning, cant remember if it was a Saturday morning or a Sunday morning.
I had forgotten about The White Horses
Do you remember the singing, ringing tree.
@@davehodges1843 I loved the singing, ringing tree. X
Seriously! TV for a 70s kid was beyond brilliant. So many great shows.
As a fellow CELT, I could not agree more
Who else went straight out after the show and started sword fighting?
We started pretty much after the theme tune finished....at the beginning of the programme, that is!!
Was any other response possible?
Me
Yes, has kids. My late father has a few foyle's in the shed.
me
A theme tune with lyrics you could live by .
I watched this school holidays, love the theme tune... NEVER understood what was going on.
Me neither.
Lol, so true...lots of charging around on horseback and boys own fistucuffs is my fond memory.
Likewise. Enjoyed the swordfighting, muskets and horse charges.
Same - it was great though 😂
Franco-Spanish war.
Always on TV every morning during the school holidays in the 70s. Love it!
I remembering watching ti in the 70;s asa kid never knowing what the hecks going on, every episode had a bunch of Frenchmen dashing around on horses having sword fights, the next week the same, did it ever end or just fade away?
Brilliant times the 1970s for kids.
Long summer holidays , also Robinson cruse
@@johncarroll8053 So glad i was born in the 60,s, not like kids of today, we had a brilliant childhoods, no gadgets or consoles or mobile phones.
@@davehodges1843 We relied on ourselves for everything unlike the snowflakes we have raised now.
@@321scully stupid comment.
@@davehodges1843 Very true, I was born in 64 and remember this and Robinson Crusoe in the summer holidays in the 1970's.
I was born in 1963 and this was one of my favourite tv programmes early on a Saturday morning in the early 1970s.
Me to born 1963
Same here. Champion the Wonder Horse, another classic
Me too, same year ...
😀
Belle and sebastian ,white horses loved them all
@@elainemiddleton6159 Aaaaah belle..ahhhh belle!!!!
Born in 1964.so many wonderful programmes in those days. This was one of my favourites. Bought the dvd and still have it on my phone as a ring tone.
Same year as me
Same year as me
And me🎉
Agree with everyone who says the 1970’s was a golden age for children’s TV. Especially on Saturday morning.
The Flashing Blade
Whirlybirds
Champion the Wonder Horse
and one only I seem to remember
Les Chevaliers du Ciel - a couple of French fighter pilots who were always ejecting into survival situations…
Brings so many good memories from my child hood.
My childhood in the 70s ! Just the best TV !
This takes me right back to my childhood, love the theme tune, I still remember the words lol.
Haha I never found out what did happen in the end
Its better to have fought and lost , than not have fought atol. ! Vive le liberty!
This was great. Born 62 and me and my brothers would all stab away at each other with sticks to the intro. I remember a character called Don Alonzo who was always playing chess, the baddies were pointlessly besieging a castle but the hero’s came and went as if they weren’t there. Knew it was dubbed but your brain tunes that out and we were enthralled watching something incomprehensible with the BEST theme tune. Great memories thanks for posting.
Ahhh, school summer holidays in the late 70's, early 80's … TV in the mornings - Why Don't You?, King Of The Rocket Men & Flash Gordon Serials, The Banana Splits (which had its own carton serials in it as I remember) … and The Flashing Blade with The Chevalier & Guillo … great days.
But didn you watch another great French TV series...The Aeronauts? th-cam.com/video/eoxHhYyRIL0/w-d-xo.html
'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Arabian Knights' were the cartoons in the Bananna Splits.
TheUTubeTeamSucks don’t forget Robinson Crusoe.
Hahaha brilliant memories
@@ilovenitnat That one TOWERS over everything else for me. Got the DVD boxset....and had the VHS boxset before that!!!
Loved this as a kid ,, brings back so many memories
Best theme tune of any TV show ever
I was lucky enough to be a 1970's kid, I loved the theme tune then and it's still great now all these years later. The galloping music fits the scenes of the horses going all out through the bushes and long grass, also the scenes bombarding the castle with the music still going are amazing.
Those were the days!!! Why Don't You, The Banana Splits, Jackanory Playhouse & this. 📺
FANTASTIC..SO MANY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
Love and life and happiness are well worth fighting for so right those were the days loved this series when was a younger couldn't wait for it to come on
Theme tunes back then we're amazing , and very catchy .
The intro was was longer than the programme lol.
remember this as a child,love the theme tune and the sword fights.use to have my pretend sword at the ready and basically fought against anyone with a sword. great stuff and made a change from Andy Pandy.
I was born in 1959 and remember this first being broadcast in the UK in 1969 (I think ) on Tuesday evenings before the early evening news. Around that time there was also a version of Robinson Crusoe which I think was German. Such great TV, and big budget too.
Like the rest 6 weeks holiday viewing think was later shown early Saturday? Thought it was nonsense stuff but actually loosely based on a small war
loved this show back in the day.
Reminds of Saturday mornings and waking up to no school that day !! 😁😊😉
Its brings back so much happy memories so much love this classic series. School summer holidays were amazing as a kid Flashing blade 🙂📺☀️
Suddenly I'm ten years old again!!!! Marvelous.
As a child, I used to watched this.❤👍
I still know all the words from the theme tune decades later. :-)
Best opening theme to any Childrens programme ever by a country mile...!!!
Joint faves with White horses, Follyfoot and Tarot themes.
Black Beauty has got to be up there with the best tunes for kids shows.
9 seconds into this Children's TV programme and two people are killed in an explosion and the song informs us we HAVE to fight, it's not optional!. Towards the end there is a head butt and a stabbing which makes me think this programme might have been especially popular in the Glasgow area.
I’m sure Iron Maiden wrote the lyrics for this. Used watch re-runs of this when I was a kid. Hilarious! The fight choreography was all over the place: one bloke would fire a flintlock pistol and about 20 blokes would fall dead.
With Bruce directing the sword fighting! 😊
I also did sword fighting after the show,as kid...what kids series... you'll never get these's kids TV series again...the music 🎵🎶🎵 alone is 🏆 priceless...ha!!!
I'd like to see this again..I'm surprised it's not on youtube...
I remember this I am 53
Breakfast in front of the Tv and watching these great shows
6 weeks holiday as a kid, ahh bliss .
would rather be back in the 70s eh Gareth.
I do remember the water margin yes, also monkey ! not alot of choice in those days so i spose anything a bit different was exciting to watch haha, youtube is great for reminising !
Loved watching this in the mid 70s on BBC1 on a Saturday morning.
I ended up loving history because of this programme ' watched it late 70s ' brilliant 👍🤣
My child hood......
Loved watching this growing up in the 70s!!!!
Probably the first show I remember watching, either in 1979 or 1980. Happy memories.
Superb, visceral 70's school holiday excitement and not a clue what was happening!!
with puffs of smoke from those cannons no wonder they never penetrated those castle walls
So loved this track childhood times relived
Always knackered after the opening theme
Loved this song.
I remember so well happy times
Watched this in the 70s. Had no idea it was dubbed.
Fab great programme
Memories 😍🙏🏼❤
This show made me the man I am today and never ever a slave! Just amazing. Look at the pasty, lame kids of today...
. Blessing or curse? Both.
Definitely one of the best theme tunes out there, we d watch on a Saturday morning then go out on are choppers or home made trackers and have are own adventures just as good as the blades 😂 what a time was the 70s we actually thought we could make a hot air balloon after watching mysterious island and float away, but after much frustration we went breaking windows and starting fires on railway embankments.😂
Aahh the memories.. all outside for a sword fight.. Goosebumps all over 😁👍
those lyrics have become relevant
Skal
Wulf
I woke with this going off in my mind lol. Such memories lol.
It got me interested in 17 century history
Brilliant
My favourite of all time
Ilike music to flashing blade and the series when I was small
I am, too, a 1960s child and watched this show avidly in the 1970s.
Memories
Broke more than a few chairs pretending to ride horses to this damn song lol
BRILIANT
great
We loved this particularly the music too and the song at the start as children in the 1960s. I just found my sister's 1979 letter where she had seen it on TV after many years and recorded the music as it was so important to us even then. These days things are free on youtube - we are very lucky. Today 2022 looking to the part beyond the music at the end reminds me of the awful Russian invasion of Ukraine how in 2022 as well as in the 1600s featured invaders still destroy pointlessly.
No recoil from them cannons lol
Remember galloping down blackpool beach to this theme tune
This was a french froggy tv programme I think that was dubbed into English.
Oh happy days.
Robinson crusoe also.
My dad loved this, I am amazed that I Remember the words lol
Really, Really Miss Sat’Day Mornin’ Kids Telly. Best Themes, this White Horses and Robinson Crusoe. Rip Your Heart Out.
Oh my sweet lord...1971/2 God i'm old.
First shown in English in 1969. (The original French version, Le Chevalier Tempete, was four 75-minute episodes and was late 1967!)
Happy days.. Simple fun..
Ingenious to make the percussion sound like galloping horses
I remember this with fondness and it really pissed me off when On The Waterfront decided to REALLY take the piss by dubbing over it in 1988. However, I don't think I'd be getting the dvd any time soon because, due to it being in full colour, the episodes were feature-length.
Yes, I remember that and thought it was really disrespectful to a great serial.
Bring all these 70s childrens TV shows back on normal terrestrial TV.
This brings back memories I’m 52
My childhood
I reckon everybody in the below comments is the same age as me....
Old! 😭
Yep and lucky to have seen tv like this! Old and happy.
Lol, I’m 54. My dad loved this show and I always watched in cuddling into him. Happy innocent days of childhood. 🤗
The flashing blade, Robinson Crusoe, White Horses, Belle and Sebastian, the Banana Splits, Champion the Wonder Horse, the Double Deckers etc etc plus cartoons galore. Plus long summer holiers! Always seemed to be hot and sunny! Rose tinted specs? Maybe. But I remember life being good. Happy days. Happy to be this old. Thanks for posting 😁
@@67lionsoflisbon37 and kids programs used to have a good old tear up in them with none of this safe space rubbish.. Happy days..
1970s for kids rulled 🎉🎉
I always remember they were always holding a castle at seige
this and the banana splits and the arabian nights,saturdays,oh and buster crabb,was it flash gordon,or Shazam,an suddenly he could fly?
Yeah nearly broke my bloody arm
*I WAS the Flashing Blade* with my Mum getting getting Green Shield Stamps... *A TRIUMPH*
In the words of Paul Whitehouse brilliant
The theme of nothing other than true heroism!!!!
Hussar !!!
Use to love this as a kid.....a lot of galloping that's for sure! 🙄😁
My pals dad had real swordz on the wall we had sword fights but blades werent live so it was ok
Cotnflakes for Saturday breakfasts.
I thought the episodes were longer.
Time dilation, my boy...
😂😁😀🤣😊hehehe
One of the great Flashing Blade unanswered questions is how Casal could be bombarded by the Spanish remorselessly for 20 episodes and yet still didn’t become a pile of ruins. 😅
They always seemed to be on a horse fleeing the scene, or fighting with swords!!! Never seemed to have time for eating!!!!
Going to the shop to get my comets in the paper shop then watching this or treasure in Malta or G force cartoon in swap shop ,or wait till your father gets home with that , brilliant theme tune .man in a suitcase before world of sports or grandstand what can you say , children programme was more educational and presenters where like superstars and you knew there names
How did this end?
This is how I imagine Europe against the European Union today
Now this song is credited to Alex Masters and The Musketeers.
Is it an English version of the French original or is it something completely different written for the UK broadcast?
Here’s the original French intro: th-cam.com/video/5W8Y_z_-FGA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zmtJyRopsLVrCZKN
Thanks.
UK version is better.
The intro was as long as the episode
Love the theme tune but thought the series was boring