Picture Box - titles and credits

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  • Just the beginning and end of this programme, with music that seemed to haunt several schoolchildren! Only time for a quick hello and goodbye - sorry I don't have any more of the programme material to upload!

ความคิดเห็น • 83

  • @yellowbelly06
    @yellowbelly06 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    One of the shortest TV programmes ever made - “Hello. Goodbye.” 😆

    • @ysthafellgynghori8423
      @ysthafellgynghori8423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was edited, you know.

    • @yellowbelly06
      @yellowbelly06 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@ysthafellgynghori8423 I suppose you think irony is like bronzey and goldy but only cheaper.

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yellowbelly06
      That not irony though. TML.

    • @SteveGodrich
      @SteveGodrich 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Beatles wrote a song about this episode.

  • @Celticowl4136
    @Celticowl4136 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Seeing this today reminds me how lucky I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, such a magical time

  • @andrewk2996
    @andrewk2996 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    So many scary kids themes from my childhood, this was at the top.

    • @mexicanstilksen5814
      @mexicanstilksen5814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Definitely at the top!

    • @mameli0701
      @mameli0701 ปีที่แล้ว

      The beginning of Jamie and the Magic Torch used to scare the crap out of me 😵‍💫

    • @TibetanFox68
      @TibetanFox68 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​​@@mameli0701id it? I remember it as being quite an upbeat tune and intro.

    • @mameli0701
      @mameli0701 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TibetanFox68 ..the first 10-15 seconds 🫣

  • @moochincrawdad
    @moochincrawdad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I sat in front of the TV as a kid mesmerised by this program! 😵

    • @ady8084
      @ady8084 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It wasn't just me then lol

  • @rockyg147
    @rockyg147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Imagine waking up at night and a clown standing next too your bed with this music playing and the box spinning on his head 🤡👻.

  • @willlovesgaz
    @willlovesgaz ปีที่แล้ว +3

    off sick from school, laying under the duvet, snotty and body aching from flu, can hardly move... turns on tv, Channel 4... Picture Box comes on...
    me: "OH HELL NO!" (jumps up like i just instantly gained the strength of 50 people and changes tv channel to BBC1 just in time for Play School)

  • @jubileebaby9787
    @jubileebaby9787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Another classic from my home ITV region, Granada. Picture Box continued in this format until 1989 when it was given a revamp with new titles and a new presenter.

  • @graehamquilliam7019
    @graehamquilliam7019 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Memories of watching this in the assembly hall at school.

  • @kevvywevvywoo
    @kevvywevvywoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I just found out the theme was made by rubbing glass rods with wet fingers. French musicians.

    • @uktvcool
      @uktvcool 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dirty bastards

  • @boomtish4520
    @boomtish4520 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hello.
    Goodbye.

  • @peterpowis4145
    @peterpowis4145 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Good old Alan Rothwell is now 83! Good old Alan!!

    • @prappsy3028
      @prappsy3028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And he appeared in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@prappsy3028
      No way! Brilliant!

  • @pauln0371
    @pauln0371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Still gives me goosebumps 40 years later...

    • @Zx-ln1lk
      @Zx-ln1lk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why

    • @NickSBailey
      @NickSBailey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it just does, it creates an odd atmosphere the whole programme was weirdly unsettling like going back in a time machine to a parallel world. The same feel as Saphire and Steel only it was supposed to be educational lol

    • @jamieorourke767
      @jamieorourke767 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      50 plus years

  • @Michelle-ki3lj
    @Michelle-ki3lj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Poor Alan didn't even get a chance to speak! Im sure he is a lovely man. A better man than many in tv business now im sure.

  • @cBe9999
    @cBe9999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Am I the only one who expected Pinhead to appear? Seriously, I found this music terrifying as a child.

  • @anthonyperkins7556
    @anthonyperkins7556 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I used to watch this at school

  • @antster1983
    @antster1983 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    It's interesting that even in 1982 Granada were still using VT clocks with the pre-1968 logo on them.

    • @yellowbelly06
      @yellowbelly06 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Very prudent them northerners.

    • @antster1983
      @antster1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yellowbelly06 Yorkshire were using electronically generated VT clocks by early 1981.

  • @fraserkatie
    @fraserkatie ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loving the clock at the start of this! Shows you the behind of the scenes of this show!

    • @jubileebaby9787
      @jubileebaby9787 ปีที่แล้ว

      As part of the Granada Studios Tour they’d demonstrate how the director would countdown the beginning of a programme using the clock. The director usually counted down from the ten second mark but never from 5 seconds as there was a 5 second delay from when the programme went into transmission and the directors voice could be picked up on the opening credits, so the last 5 seconds were counted down silently. The same clock was used for Coronation Street too.

  • @stemac1969
    @stemac1969 ปีที่แล้ว

    I met him outside my local library about 1999, he appeared to appreciate I remembered him.

  • @AbrasiousProductions
    @AbrasiousProductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i found this song before i ever heard of picture box but after watching this intro i must learn more about it

  • @mylesrichardson2087
    @mylesrichardson2087 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This music haunted me as a kid😎😎😎

    • @Jahno71
      @Jahno71 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why ?

  • @allanarnold3619
    @allanarnold3619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This theme is haunting and weird

  • @davidmorris-jones210
    @davidmorris-jones210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This music disturbed me as a 5 /6-year-old.

  • @slabbyrider8665
    @slabbyrider8665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hello...goodbye. fucking classic episode 😀

  • @alisonn7200
    @alisonn7200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    It never occurred to me just how creepy the music was. Mesmerizing as well. What was the presenter's name?

    • @darryllharden9141
      @darryllharden9141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Alan Rothwell

    • @geraldcummiskey6721
      @geraldcummiskey6721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He was a actor in Brookside and a coke head

    • @jubileebaby9787
      @jubileebaby9787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also starred in Coronation Street as David Barlow, brother of Ken Barlow.

    • @barryjackson1969
      @barryjackson1969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@geraldcummiskey6721 In Brookside....not in real life 😁

  • @brendanb2982
    @brendanb2982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Benny Harvey RIP

  • @kennysboat4432
    @kennysboat4432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Limmy brought me here

  • @PAUL-ge1kl
    @PAUL-ge1kl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think we can safely say Pan here means the Great Horned God

  • @michaelturner4457
    @michaelturner4457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hello. Goodbye. That was a very short show.

  • @eleanorhogan8643
    @eleanorhogan8643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Am I the only one who does not find the music scary at all?

    • @lucybenton7341
      @lucybenton7341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its terrifying 😆

    • @eleanorhogan8643
      @eleanorhogan8643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lucybenton7341 I really do fail to see how this is scary.

    • @lucybenton7341
      @lucybenton7341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eleanorhogan8643 I know, silly isn't it, but every time I hear it , it sends a chill down my spine 😱

    • @eleanorhogan8643
      @eleanorhogan8643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lucybenton7341 fair enough.

    • @sb6678
      @sb6678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It is creepy and disturbing because the harmony is full of discords that undermines tonal harmony. Also, it is the kind of music you would expect to hear on a haunted merry-go-round

  • @Saxonybedwitch
    @Saxonybedwitch ปีที่แล้ว

    He's the guy on the pier in Alpha Papa.

  • @ady8084
    @ady8084 ปีที่แล้ว

    That has to be one of the strangest and most creepy introductions to a children's program. I remember watching it as a kid of 5 or 6 and even at that age I found it quite weird, even the presenter seemed slightly odd.

    • @gavinmartin5151
      @gavinmartin5151 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about Kevin Graal .He was not odd

  • @stephenmcconnell1000
    @stephenmcconnell1000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The ludicrously random appearance of 'PAN' written across the screen totally took me by surprise there. Plus that presenter seemed very suave there wasn't he.

  • @jamessolly3030
    @jamessolly3030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Although I remember the theme tune the only episode I can vaguely rememeber is the one about dinosaurs.

    • @sb6678
      @sb6678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You remember much more than me then! All I remember is the creepy music and scary presenter 😆

  • @alexmac337
    @alexmac337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The original title for this piece of music was Dance of the Cadavers.

    • @bryanfraser6088
      @bryanfraser6088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Are you sure?

    • @Jill_SmokeandMirrors
      @Jill_SmokeandMirrors 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bryanfraser6088 It was Manège from one of the Structures Sonores albums by Lasry Baschet.

    • @gavinmartin5151
      @gavinmartin5151 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Jill_SmokeandMirrors Yes that is the sound track to Picture Box from sometime in the 1970's till the end of the summer term for ITV Schools in 1989. i don't know what the sound track for picture box between 1989 till 1993 was called . by the way

  • @quagsnake
    @quagsnake ปีที่แล้ว

    PAN!!

  • @MattT-xm7ee
    @MattT-xm7ee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Someone at Granada must have liked horror films! Who remembers the Night Time cat ident with the scary music?
    th-cam.com/video/4gSpGyY7AHA/w-d-xo.html

  • @sturdywordy1158
    @sturdywordy1158 ปีที่แล้ว

    David Lynch style music

  • @taste1695
    @taste1695 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sure this presenter appeared in Brookside playing a heroin addict.

    • @jubileebaby9787
      @jubileebaby9787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, he played Nicholas Black a heroin addict husband of Heather Black played by Amanda Burton in Brookside. Alan Rothwell also played the part of David Barlow brother of Ken Barlow in Coronation St.

    • @sb6678
      @sb6678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Rik O’Shea nothing would surprise me about this creepy man

  • @richardspeed7135
    @richardspeed7135 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Weird

  • @garethedwards8345
    @garethedwards8345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That’s the worst cover of a Beatles song I’ve ever heard

    • @TibetanFox68
      @TibetanFox68 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr Kite deconstructed.