Didn't grow up in the time this was on tv unfortunately but I too have fond memories of listening to my dad read to me and my siblings and later watch the short films with us
Yes me too my friend I'm listening to tales of the unexpected too..June 2022 11pm . I used to pleade with my dad as a boy can I stay up and watch it . He didn't like me stating up on school nights. But I did get to watch it . Those days when we were kids we didn't have any real worries. Used to play out In the street doing footie or kirby lol now aged 55 I draw on there old TV clips to give me my memories of childhood
Haha I'm the same but with something else. Every time I catch a glimpse of Bodie and Doyle in the Process, on ITV99 or whatever channel it is - I always think "damn, is it bedtime already?" I watched a clip from the Muppet Show earlier, and it immediately felt like a Sunday afternoon.
+OneEyePI Aah yeah, good call!! - I'd completely forgotten about That's Life - I loved It! I wonder if there's a box set of it, lurking around somewhere?
It's haunting the way the melody just goes round and around, like it's on some kind infinite loop. Great theme. Also reminds me of Sunday nights before heading to bed for school the next day.
Its comforting to know that other people used to feel the same way...you knew it waz getting close to bed time on a sunday and school was next day...haunting tune...i miss the 70's and 80's...i was born in 71
@@brookyf1 Me too! And weren't we lucky to have been so. Society has plummeted since and I dread the generations coming up behind us (obviously not all but the general standards are so low) x
This tune brings back great memories as a kid me mum and dad never missed an episode ... Sadly both gone now , love to go back in time to see them both again .. Listening to this is the next best thing ☺
Same over here. 1982/83 here in Portugal. Saturday evenings, followed by The Hammer House of Horror - which sometimes my parents wouldn't allow me to watch, depending on how scary the contents of the different episodes were.
And watching Juliet Bravo, Play Your Cards Right (the original), The Price Is Right, Just Good Friends and all the many, many fab 70's/80's TV shows. We now have more channels than ever and it is has never been so difficult to find something part way decent to watch.
I was expecting to be filled with dread listening to it but now it also sounds a bit melancholy, like it's transmitting with sadness through a time-tunnel all the way from distant 1981.
In a similar vein, i have often tuned through the radio and, on coming across a song from the past (particularly if it was a hit in 1981)i have wondered IS that oh so faint "Bette Davis Eyes"/ "Being With You"/Tainted Love" etc just a radio station from many many miles away OR......is it actually coming down the years and decades, barely audible, but STILL there!.
I think it’s so interesting how the comments on here seem to resonate with so many people, including myself, and that we have similar thoughts and feelings about old theme tunes like this. The nostalgia is palpable, and like others have said, it takes me right back to those Sunday evenings as a kid, wrestling with the fact that after you had watched it, you then had to go to bed and have school the next day. Happy memories!!
@lamueldagon7618 Bruv . I would go to acid parties with this being blasted. I knew about clothes man ..Hi tech trainers ..Lonsdale hoods and smiley tees bruv ..We would fling our arms shouting get right on one matey. Yeah l guess l was a real trendy kid 😊
What a lovely tune! Reminds me of my Mum and Dad sending me to bed when I was little,at our old house-because it was a scary programme!! Sounds like fairground music. I feel 5 again listening to this! :-)
I was born in 1972 so only ever watched a few episodes but always caught the opening credits before my Dad would say right you,s 3 bed. And I remember how creepy this music was, but now I have heard it for the 1st time in years it is really just a naff piece of music and no more.
Yeah Steve Me too!, Also the Appointment with Fear Intro's on a Friday Night & this one might Just be Me Cos I was a Wimp but The Mastermind Theme used to give Me chills too!.
Hammer house of horrors a couple of episodes sticks to mind and 1 was like Charlie and the chocolate factory of being filled with something like puddings and going through many doors another I loved was shine on Harvey moon🙏 born in 1970 bring those days back anytime would be awesome
Well, this was part of my Dad's childhood, so we pretty much used to watch reruns of it all the time. Great show, clever writing. A good episode would be the Galloping Foxley
all the kids were in bed, hubby got the coffee ready and there we would sit n watch these together every week without missing one episode. I think back now as I am older and wiser that this was a good memory to have, my children are grown and one with a child of her own but even she remembers the music as she would listen to it going to sleep. In reply to loopid77 it was the Dr who theme that used to scare the crap outta me when I was a child and remember, I am old enough to remember the first series.
I used to sit in my living room with my family watching great TV like this. We were poor communicators, and TV was an escape I guess, such a lovely escape. This tune has been playing in my head for years, so good to hear it, sweet memories. Thanks
Sitting eating breakfast and out of nowhere this theme came to mind for the first time in so, so many years and I recalled it exactly! Think the universe is telling me something is on it's way and I feel it's a good thing! How I loved this show, miss those childhood days so much❤
Michael Ferns I agree that having not heard it since the late 70s/early 80s, it does sound like theme music for a love story set in paradise. However, as a kid, I knew what was coming up after this music.
When I first heard this tune, I always thought it was weird that it sounds so cheery but then I realised it helps lead the viewer into a false sense of security to catch them off guard which I think is pretty clever really.
Wow, brings back memories, ITV on a Saturday night, in 80's on my Grandma's sofa, ya knew by this song some sinister program was coming on. Good days 😀 Can watch T.O.T.U on Now TV or You Tube, author,Roald Dahl, classics 😬👍
Sunday nights on ITV in the early eighties, Were just the bollocks. I’m sure the hammer house of horror was on later, I read the comments before posting my own , How amazing Ito learn that folks were doing the same rituals as me back then lol, Sunday nights was indeed bath night, For School In the morning. And Tales of the unexpected was just that good.
I have this as my mobile phone ringtone, takes me back to Sunday nights at my granny's,the roulette wheel and playing cards/dancing naked lady mesmerised me as a boy,the music always takes me back to a great time in my childhood,my aunt took me home in the car after it was over,I loved staying at my granny and grandas every weekend,my 2 aunt's and my uncle John were unmarried and still living there,wot happy happy memories this theme takes me back to........priceless 😁
I cant' believe it. I was searching this for years!!! This theme got something special. Terrifying and melancholic at the same time. Memories of my childhood...
Beautiful, evocative music - and, yeah, when I was a kid it used to creep me out too. But it was more than that: this theme tune (and the credits and the show proper) created an atmosphere that really held me, and made me come back for more...Brilliant.
This music has stood the test of time ..unlike the programme..this instro could still be used today with its haunting theme and lovely minor chords..evokes memories for my age group (50s) ...class never goes out of style.
Music is excellent - strong nostalgia from my mum sending me to bed when this came on - but I really disagree on the programme: lots of great stories watching episodes now and I was too young at the time so I guess that’s the test of time met, at least for me (some of my favourites: The Landlady, Flypaper, The Hitchhiker)
A absolutely grate tune to a brilliant show that really was brilliant through and through. Good old British days where things well let's just say were different.
Love it... this has been my intro theme for my sunday night radio show nice n' easy, which I started at Hospital Radio 10 years ago. good old Radio St Helier! Now I work on a Internet station and still use Tales of the unexpected as my Intro Theme all these years later!
A very catchy tune, almost an earworm that one cannot get off one's mind. I remember one episode of the doppelganger episode vaguely about a woman who married someone she knew that bore a strong resemblance to her husband - think that is it with a sinister ending
Both Guys are MAGIC AT WHAT they do ! The stories were a legend, The music is a legend - just as spooky ! Warm calm and re-assuring- but with a " MAGICAL TWIST " As Per the theme tune, Genius song writing to match a genius writer ! Hero's of our time Always !
This tune just oozes nostalgia for me. Funny how so many have said it scares them. It did me too. I think that the 70s was the first decade where truly scary stuff was produced in film and TV so, growing up as a little kid and being exposed to that was both scary bus also exiting at the same time.
God, this tune takes me back to when I was courting, had my motorbike I was about 20 or 21, and this used to be on Sunday nights, watched an episode today still get them on, beautiful therapeutic tune, happy days.
We also in Sri Lanka used to watch this series when we were young, my sister and I, we loved this theme song, we are learning to play this on the piano right now, it sounds a lot like "emperor's waltz" doesn't it. Anyway, we just love this tune, it sounds so beautiful and melancholic.
All I remember is sitting in the lounge as a 4yr old and shitting myself while this tune played 😅..skip 44yrs and here we are I didn't even know the name of the program good ol Google lol.But this tune has always stayed with me to the point we're i learned it on guitar😂😱
Very haunting tune, yep, it scared me too, most of the stories I did not understand but watched anyway :) And of course the music was by Ron Grainer, the man behind the Doctor Who theme, that is classic too, genius :)
im sure your right!! it was definatlet the man from.....somewhere I have the dvd somewhere.. was a strange one that music combined with the storylines kept you on edge....was just pure erie lol nice to hear from you! take care from Manchester uk
+ettlz It was when I was a kid. I had never seen this show when I was a kid but I have memories of hearing this music playing from downstairs as I lay in bed terrified that my toys would come to life and beat the shit out of me.
For those who were on Jim'll Fix It, he did fix it; I hope their memories aren't tarnished by the revelations of his corpse and kiddie fix. But this music is just meandering. It tells you of an age of serene innocence and mystery, in a world where regret is in the future and pigeons wink, without alterior motives, and that is just like my mother's chest hammock.
Watching Re-runs on Sky Freeview Channel!, Some big names were in it!, Saw one with Australian Film Legend Rod Taylor in it the other Day, For those of a Certain age Like Me I think the Music might Evoke a Nostalgia Feeling & probably to some of those Younger too!.
This score has a memory lane feel to it. As an 80s kid, knowing what happens through the episodes makes this music very deeply sad tbh. Fate is sealed everytime.
Anyone of an age can relate to this theme music nostalgic and slightly haunting.l regress every time l hear it the memories of a youth long since gone and simple times 😁
Brilliant. Haunting. Scary. Memories and emottions evoked like I was 6 years old. Unbelievable how potent childhood memories are sepcially of something that scared you. Thank you so very much for posting this.
Ah, the very fellow! Hello Tim. Was the b-side the same tune rendered on steel drums? I'm sure there was a steel drum version of this back in the day but I can't find it on here.
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I'm actually tearing up hearing this...I want my childhood back.
Didn't grow up in the time this was on tv unfortunately but I too have fond memories of listening to my dad read to me and my siblings and later watch the short films with us
Yes me too my friend I'm listening to tales of the unexpected too..June 2022 11pm . I used to pleade with my dad as a boy can I stay up and watch it . He didn't like me stating up on school nights. But I did get to watch it . Those days when we were kids we didn't have any real worries. Used to play out In the street doing footie or kirby lol now aged 55 I draw on there old TV clips to give me my memories of childhood
@@deankew191 So true!
I totally get that Johnny, I feel exactly the same.
Watch sky arts it on there twice a day
always reminds me of sunday night bath and hair wash night, knowing the next day I had to go back to school when I was a kid..
Haha I'm the same but with something else. Every time I catch a glimpse of Bodie and Doyle in the Process, on ITV99 or whatever channel it is - I always think "damn, is it bedtime already?" I watched a clip from the Muppet Show earlier, and it immediately felt like a Sunday afternoon.
Exactly this. That and That's Life.
+OneEyePI Aah yeah, good call!! - I'd completely forgotten about That's Life -
I loved It! I wonder if there's a box set of it, lurking around somewhere?
M8 me exactly the same lol
there is!
It's haunting the way the melody just goes round and around, like it's on some kind infinite loop. Great theme. Also reminds me of Sunday nights before heading to bed for school the next day.
Me too !
Its comforting to know that other people used to feel the same way...you knew it waz getting close to bed time on a sunday and school was next day...haunting tune...i miss the 70's and 80's...i was born in 71
@FGG no...never alone!!!
@@brookyf1 Me too! And weren't we lucky to have been so. Society has plummeted since and I dread the generations coming up behind us (obviously not all but the general standards are so low) x
Everything you just wrote bought a flood of the same memories right back for me.
Memories of a better time,when life was much simpler.
This tune brings back great memories as a kid me mum and dad never missed an episode ... Sadly both gone now , love to go back in time to see them both again .. Listening to this is the next best thing ☺
Me 2 keep strong
That is so sweet :)
Same here wonderful memories of growing up all huddled
Together on the sofa !
Sad to here that.
Same over here. 1982/83 here in Portugal. Saturday evenings, followed by The Hammer House of Horror - which sometimes my parents wouldn't allow me to watch, depending on how scary the contents of the different episodes were.
And watching Juliet Bravo, Play Your Cards Right (the original), The Price Is Right, Just Good Friends and all the many, many fab 70's/80's TV shows. We now have more channels than ever and it is has never been so difficult to find something part way decent to watch.
One of the creepiest themes I have ever heard, 1970's/1980's television was the best!
oh but you must admit it is beautiful
Yes, you are out late at night, kock on a door of a big old house & you see a old bird danceing to this tune.... I am off mate!!
I agree but 'The book tower' must have been a very creepy close second!
Yes weird but I remember watching it I think with my mum and dad sunday nights
Creepy but genius
Takes me back to being a kid , god they were the days x
Yes indeed!
So true
I came to England in 1979 used to watch Tales of Unexpected I love this music
this is one of those songs that haunts you for years as you try to remember the name of the show because you need to hear it again. It's magical.
I was expecting to be filled with dread listening to it but now it also sounds a bit melancholy, like it's transmitting with sadness through a time-tunnel all the way from distant 1981.
In a similar vein, i have often tuned through the radio and, on coming across a song from the past (particularly if it was a hit in 1981)i have wondered IS that oh so faint "Bette Davis Eyes"/ "Being With You"/Tainted Love" etc just a radio station from many many miles away OR......is it actually coming down the years and decades, barely audible, but STILL there!.
I think it’s so interesting how the comments on here seem to resonate with so many people, including myself, and that we have similar thoughts and feelings about old theme tunes like this. The nostalgia is palpable, and like others have said, it takes me right back to those Sunday evenings as a kid, wrestling with the fact that after you had watched it, you then had to go to bed and have school the next day. Happy memories!!
This theme scared the crap out of me as a kid..something unsettling about it..I'm fifty now but I would go back in a flash.
It was the combination of occult images and the weird music.
@lamueldagon7618 Bruv . I would go to acid parties with this being blasted. I knew about clothes man ..Hi tech trainers ..Lonsdale hoods and smiley tees bruv ..We would fling our arms shouting get right on one matey. Yeah l guess l was a real trendy kid 😊
What a lovely tune! Reminds me of my Mum and Dad sending me to bed when I was little,at our old house-because it was a scary programme!! Sounds like fairground music. I feel 5 again listening to this! :-)
You should watch the American opening, that has a carousel on it.
Me too lol
All I ever remember is the naked woman dancing and the death tarot card.
actually she was wearing a bodysuit...sorry to ruin the illusion
and now live from norwich
@@nevittwoods1730 hahahahah best reply ever you're listening to up with the partridge a ha !
What did u get her phone number.
@@thomasduffmmcgready8758 Lol. I was only a kid.
This used to scare me big time along with Hammer House of Horror. Great memories!
I was born in 1972 so only ever watched a few episodes but always caught the opening credits before my Dad would say right you,s 3 bed. And I remember how creepy this music was, but now I have heard it for the 1st time in years it is really just a naff piece of music and no more.
Yeah Steve Me too!,
Also the Appointment with Fear Intro's on a Friday Night & this one might Just be Me Cos I was a Wimp but The Mastermind Theme used to give Me chills too!.
Hammer house of horror episode Charlie Boy gave me nightmares all night when i was a kid.
Man...me too
Hammer house of horrors a couple of episodes sticks to mind and 1 was like Charlie and the chocolate factory of being filled with something like puddings and going through many doors another I loved was shine on Harvey moon🙏 born in 1970 bring those days back anytime would be awesome
It reminds me of my childhood. We liked watching it and this music is so great!
Well, this was part of my Dad's childhood, so we pretty much used to watch reruns of it all the time. Great show, clever writing. A good episode would be the Galloping Foxley
Great music!
better than the reddybrek comercial
all the kids were in bed, hubby got the coffee ready and there we would sit n watch these together every week without missing one episode. I think back now as I am older and wiser that this was a good memory to have, my children are grown and one with a child of her own but even she remembers the music as she would listen to it going to sleep. In reply to loopid77 it was the Dr who theme that used to scare the crap outta me when I was a child and remember, I am old enough to remember the first series.
wow I remember sitting watching this when I was little it was so good I wish we could go back in time to them days again.
Makes me think of my child hood and all the people who are not here anymore but were here when this was on.
I used to sit in my living room with my family watching great TV like this. We were poor communicators, and TV was an escape I guess, such a lovely escape. This tune has been playing in my head for years, so good to hear it, sweet memories. Thanks
I used to (and still do) find television a lovely escape as I was actually bullied for my autism, dyslexia, dypraxia and just being myself.
loved this show! the theme is just as eerie as the episodes :)
i miss the old days of television :(
_"A wise man only believes in lies, trusts only in the absurd, and learns to expect the unexpected"_
brilliant
Absolutely superb song RIP Ronald you were the best in everything
Used to give me the creeps when I was a kid.
and me
me too! wonder why. The other that unsettled me was the Walton's theme...
Me too. ...And the Dr Who theme tune had me diving behind anything! Mind you I was only 4!
as did juliet bravo
I thought I was the only one, the silouhette lady scared me, I was 9 or 10 at that time...
Reminds me of when people used to bath once a week. Great memories. Still watch them, well, the English ones at least
Sitting eating breakfast and out of nowhere this theme came to mind for the first time in so, so many years and I recalled it exactly! Think the universe is telling me something is on it's way and I feel it's a good thing! How I loved this show, miss those childhood days so much❤
Scary? I find this quite emotional :')
Michael Ferns It's romantic (as in classical romantic); it lulls you in.
Michael Ferns I agree that having not heard it since the late 70s/early 80s, it does sound like theme music for a love story set in paradise. However, as a kid, I knew what was coming up after this music.
I agree with you; not scary - it's evocative, but the association with the stories perhaps freaks some people out when they hear this theme tune!
makes me tear up in a happy way ... why is everyone scared of it
When I first heard this tune, I always thought it was weird that it sounds so cheery but then I realised it helps lead the viewer into a false sense of security to catch them off guard which I think is pretty clever really.
Yeah, cheery but with a dark and sinister undertone. Brilliant stuff
Another masterpiece from the king of the TV theme , Ron Grainer.
Wow, brings back memories, ITV on a Saturday night, in 80's on my Grandma's sofa, ya knew by this song some sinister program was coming on. Good days 😀 Can watch T.O.T.U on Now TV or You Tube, author,Roald Dahl, classics 😬👍
Watched this show in the late 70s,loved the plots,tone and the unexpected twist at the end💎 Auckland New Zealand 2024
Close my eyes and go back in time.. What an amazing feeling.
The intro and music terrified me as a kid! Even listening to it now makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and i really dont know why
I proposed to my wife in 1979 while we were lying in bed watching this. We are still together in 2023!
😂✌️❤️
I swear I want this playing as my coffin goes and the curtains close🤷♂️
You and so many others..😃👏👍
Sunday nights on ITV in the early eighties, Were just the bollocks.
I’m sure the hammer house of horror was on later, I read the comments before posting my own , How amazing Ito learn that folks were doing the same rituals as me back then lol, Sunday nights was indeed bath night, For School In the morning. And Tales of the unexpected was just that good.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS "
All those memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain . Great piece of music good old times .
love this 80's retro docu-drama that hit itv on mostly Sunday nights, used to remind of nearly bed Time for school on Monday.
I have this as my mobile phone ringtone, takes me back to Sunday nights at my granny's,the roulette wheel and playing cards/dancing naked lady mesmerised me as a boy,the music always takes me back to a great time in my childhood,my aunt took me home in the car after it was over,I loved staying at my granny and grandas every weekend,my 2 aunt's and my uncle John were unmarried and still living there,wot happy happy memories this theme takes me back to........priceless 😁
I cant' believe it. I was searching this for years!!!
This theme got something special. Terrifying and melancholic at the same time. Memories of my childhood...
Beautiful, evocative music - and, yeah, when I was a kid it used to creep me out too. But it was more than that: this theme tune (and the credits and the show proper) created an atmosphere that really held me, and made me come back for more...Brilliant.
This music has stood the test of time ..unlike the programme..this instro could still be used today with its haunting theme and lovely minor chords..evokes memories for my age group (50s) ...class never goes out of style.
Music is excellent - strong nostalgia from my mum sending me to bed when this came on - but I really disagree on the programme: lots of great stories watching episodes now and I was too young at the time so I guess that’s the test of time met, at least for me (some of my favourites: The Landlady, Flypaper, The Hitchhiker)
Remember this so well on Sunday nights being a kid, school the next morning 😊 46 now and the years have flashed by so far😮
Same age as me 👍
A absolutely grate tune to a brilliant show that really was brilliant through and through. Good old British days where things well let's just say were different.
Oh my gosh..this takes me back to when I was a little boy.
I never saw this series but I really love this theme music melody a lot
Haha, I totally agree, I'm 37 and it still haunts me to this day ! It's a magical tune, thanks for sharing
Love it... this has been my intro theme for my sunday night radio show nice n' easy, which I started at Hospital Radio 10 years ago. good old Radio St Helier! Now I work on a Internet station and still use Tales of the unexpected as my Intro Theme all these years later!
Beautiful flowing music, makes me and everyone I know tap their foot and sway their heads side to side
Oh god, time for bed and school on a Monday morning. I hated school with a passion, still have nightmares now, I'm 54 but still seems like yesterday 😊
I bet the day you left school was like busting out of jail 😀
@@growlerthe2nd712 certainly was. 😁
Amazing tune: it has the attraction of a fun fair with the promise of something rather sinister and twisted 😮
I loved this so much I purchased the 7” single a brilliant piece of music.
A very catchy tune, almost an earworm that one cannot get off one's mind. I remember one episode of the doppelganger episode vaguely about a woman who married someone she knew that bore a strong resemblance to her husband - think that is it with a sinister ending
I LOVE TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED. BEAUTIFUL.
I adore this theme tune, so many memories conjured up from my youth. Love the lady silhouette dancing though.
Both Guys are MAGIC AT WHAT they do !
The stories were a legend, The music is a legend - just as spooky !
Warm calm and re-assuring- but with a " MAGICAL TWIST "
As Per the theme tune,
Genius song writing to match a genius writer !
Hero's of our time Always !
This tune just oozes nostalgia for me.
Funny how so many have said it scares them. It did me too. I think that the 70s was the first decade where truly scary stuff was produced in film and TV so, growing up as a little kid and being exposed to that was both scary bus also exiting at the same time.
God, this tune takes me back to when I was courting, had my motorbike I was about 20 or 21, and this used to be on Sunday nights, watched an episode today still get them on, beautiful therapeutic tune, happy days.
that programme was REALLY scary at times. i can still remember some of the tales, they're still haunting me now over 30 years later!
I've only just seen one of them, they're pretty good. Only ever saw the opening credits when I was a kid... signifying bed time!
Like the man who lost a bet between a cigarette lighter and his finger...
Gavin Paisley have you seen flypaper?
sorry i'm only seeing this now mate no i haven't
britains answer to the twilight zone! how ironic that such a spooky programme could have such happy music! brings back memories!
Reminds me of the fortunate childhood, I was able to have..
Something so haunting about this theme.Stays with you for days.
This show is so underrated man
Aw still here in ‘24 … childhood memories
Love swaying to and fro with this one...tum, tum, tumpty tum...
Thank you, very enjoyable to watch, wonderful theme song, lovely way to relax and unwind, good drama too.
This sounds nostalgic even though I’ve only found this from the episodes they’re still showing to this day
We also in Sri Lanka used to watch this series when we were young, my sister and I, we loved this theme song, we are learning to play this on the piano right now, it sounds a lot like "emperor's waltz" doesn't it. Anyway, we just love this tune, it sounds so beautiful and melancholic.
A Time of magic and mystery torment twists and turns but we loved it!
Omg my childhood flashed before my eyes hearing this. The episode when the snake crawls into the mans bed still haunts me to this day 😱
All I remember is sitting in the lounge as a 4yr old and shitting myself while this tune played 😅..skip 44yrs and here we are I didn't even know the name of the program good ol Google lol.But this tune has always stayed with me to the point we're i learned it on guitar😂😱
I always remember that this theme tune was on when I was going to bed as a kid and I always wanted to stay up and watch it.
Very haunting tune, yep, it scared me too, most of the stories I did not understand but watched anyway :) And of course the music was by Ron Grainer, the man behind the Doctor Who theme, that is classic too, genius :)
did you see the episode about him cutting the finger off?! really erie!!!
Yes! Was it called The Man from the South?
im sure your right!! it was definatlet the man from.....somewhere I have the dvd somewhere.. was a strange one that music combined with the storylines kept you on edge....was just pure erie lol nice to hear from you! take care from Manchester uk
I was so disappointed to find out when watching a documentary about this series that the dancing lady was in fact not nude.
Another great brilliant theme from a classic TV series always.
I always remember this theme from my childhood in the early 80s. Roald Dahl used to introduce episodes and I'm sure he helped write some as well!
I love humming this everytime I'm in the house, it's like being at a waltz in the 1880s
Hearing this is like hearing "you're going on Jim'll Fix it again".
Sheer 1970's terror.
+greenviolets1 I never made it as far as Jim'll Fix It either, but I am constantly haunted too.
I've watched 3 Tales of the Unexpected today on YT, and they're actually very, very watchable even now - definitely recommended!
+Candice Goddard Yes, it is. That's the one. Inescapable and curiously repetitive, nightmarish reflections.
+ettlz It was when I was a kid. I had never seen this show when I was a kid but I have memories of hearing this music playing from downstairs as I lay in bed terrified that my toys would come to life and beat the shit out of me.
For those who were on Jim'll Fix It, he did fix it; I hope their memories aren't tarnished by the revelations of his corpse and kiddie fix. But this music is just meandering. It tells you of an age of serene innocence and mystery, in a world where regret is in the future and pigeons wink, without alterior motives, and that is just like my mother's chest hammock.
Beautiful music!
This totally freaks me out!! I remember being about 8 and being petrified when i heard this music
I can just see it now Saturday nights the lights off watching this brilliant series.
This program and theme tune are absolutely fantastic 💗 it.
This piece of music is totally hypnotising and an air of mystery but never quite revealing the secret but you have to keep searching.
I always enjoyed watching this series when I was younger.
Best theme tune for a TV show...without a doubt. Loved TOTU too.
Watching Re-runs on Sky Freeview Channel!,
Some big names were in it!, Saw one with Australian Film Legend Rod Taylor in it the other Day,
For those of a Certain age Like Me I think the Music might Evoke a Nostalgia Feeling & probably to some of those Younger too!.
This score has a memory lane feel to it. As an 80s kid, knowing what happens through the episodes makes this music very deeply sad tbh.
Fate is sealed everytime.
Such a simpler easier life back then. I miss those years
One OF THE Great TV tunes and Programs
Anyone of an age can relate to this theme music nostalgic and slightly haunting.l regress every time l hear it the memories of a youth long since gone and simple times 😁
The best TV theme tune ever! Love it 😀
If you remember this theme tune you had the best childhood 😊
Brilliant. Haunting. Scary. Memories and emottions evoked like I was 6 years old. Unbelievable how potent childhood memories are sepcially of something that scared you. Thank you so very much for posting this.
Can remember my Gran watching this in the livingroom, and i could hear it from my room. This song reminds me of being a kid and remembering her.
so absolutely brilliant I purchased the 7" single back in the day,my all time favorite theme tune. 😄
Ah, the very fellow! Hello Tim. Was the b-side the same tune rendered on steel drums? I'm sure there was a steel drum version of this back in the day but I can't find it on here.
When my brother was a kid, every time he heard this theme tune he used to run into the dining room and hide behind a chair!!! Classic!
Early 2000's as kid sneaking glimpses of this show when it was on a rerun and when ever I heard the theme it creeped me out
Turn the clock back 50 years and start again...
Unusual to hear the full length version. Good music to hypnotise people with!