I used to watch this many many years ago and i loved it. I rfeally wish it would come back on tv on one of the freeview chanels i love the music also. Its great
Lovely evocative tune. Credit to those guardians who shielded those from reality. But shame on those who, latterly, chose to be oblivious or unconcerned as to the horrors of that era, in which young men and political leaders were being gunned down all over the world. Even though folk drive to the modern day plantation and watch a flat screen telly, their time is still the worse for it. Maybe one day, more folk will shed a tear for people other than themselves, but I wouldn't bet on it
Remember watching this as a kid...and wishing i was him..hated school so much i'd have loved to have been marooned on an island like him. Music is so evocative to me, takes me right back..but not to school i'm glad to say.
Rented house on the harbour for two weeks in Weymouth, August 1972. I was aged 9. In the mornings on would go the black and white T.V. in the living room ; on would come this !. Great fun childhood days
Mrlesliegreen.. I too remember watching this during the school holidays. BUT Scottish schools went back before English schools and I NEVER got to see all it ended, and whenever I hear that haunting theme my mind goes back to the 60s
Not only the GREATEST musical theme, but the GREATEST programme made for children. Fantastic atmosphere, haunting incidental music and wonderful acting by Robert Hoffman. In many ways, it's so fitting that this literary classic was filmed in black & white -colour would have 'lost' something along the way. I'm 51 yrs old and never stopped loving it. Time to buy the DVD's, I guess.....it's long overdue!
I haven't heard this haunting piece of theme music to the TV series Robinson Crusoe for something like 40 years, but what a corker it was. Childhood memories came flooding back & a pity we could not hear all of it.
Aye, based on the true story of a Scotsman (whae else?) Alexander Selkirk, who was stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez for five years. Today in Lower Largo, Fife, there is "Robinson Crusoe" statue at Selkirk's birthplace.
@mars1960mars Your comment follows a very noticeable theme on here. The music & tv programmes of the 60's & 70's most definitely were an innocent & fun time & unless you lived it, I think it is hard for others to understand.
@gaysy1st I TOTALLY agree....you had to be there as a little kid to fully understand.. ''the past is foreign country, they do things differently there'' is definitely true of children's T.V of the golden era.
Used to watch this and the Double Deckers on my ancient black and white telly, where everyone's head was too long, before getting up on Summer holiday mornings. Happy days eh?
FULL MOVIE HERE Robinson Crusoe: watch?v=PBN2E1-QIcY You won't regret seing my FEATURE 1h 41 minutes version, all free on antonpictures channel at the FULL FREE MOVIES playlist section. Follow the blue arrow. Thank you very much for support, George Anton - Filmmaker.
ahhhhhh, the '70s. Nationwide, Anna Ford (sexy but severe), Esther Rantzen, Dickie Davies...ITV Seven, isn't it? Top Deck Shandy...Are there Birds Eye beefburgers for tea, mum? The Milkybars are on me! My dad's got an Austin Allegro. Lads playing football in the park, jumpers for goalposts, rush goalie...
Loved this. Summer holidays. I never did get to see the end of the series though - we always went back to school after the hols sooner than the Southerners in those days and the series finished after our summer hols. Grrrrr
I so loved this classic children's serial of the 60's. Robert Hoffman was so perfect as Robinson Crusoe and I was hooked to the telly each week to find out what had happened to him! Children today are so deprived! Why can't they make classics like this any more!
I loved this in 1965. This foreign series (as well as "HEIDI", & "the SINGING RINGING TREE") were shown several times on UK TV. I have Both the UK & German DVD Releases, the latter's (different) S/ T music and voiceover has none of the charm and atmoshere of it's UK Counterpart .
I too have this classic on dvd, one of my personal favourites from the school hols during the 70's (found the flashbacks a bit boring , but one had to watch these clips to put the story in context).
Thanks to this series I have an obsession with islands & always visit an island on hols.Last island to visit was Jersey & Sark. Love to go to Tristan du cuhna one day!
The story by Daniel Defoe, was inspired by a real life character and the incredible experience of one Alexander Selkirk. Read the book, unfortunately the music and theme would not have comforted him at the time nor will it resound as you turn the pages of the book. However, to realize the real story is enlighting.
Music by Gian Franco Reveberi - He also composed the music used a few years ago on Match of the Day for the Goal of the Month competition. It was a funky sitar piece call Sequence Three and it is on YouTube - UK people might remember it.
the nostalgia of this wonderful tune takes me right back to the sunny 1960's when it was on after school. It really is a ''blast from the past'' that will make any person who was a child of that era go all dewy eyed, for it WAS one of the best tv dramas, and a kinder era when we had Rocking horses, go~carts made of pram wheels and planks, and it was safe to play outdoors. modern kid's tv is poor in comparison!
another classic tv show and title tune that takes me back 40+ years . brings a tear to my eyes , thinking of all the happy memories . Florenceandzebedee is spot on
@daffonfire There's just been a great programme on BBC Radio 4 in the UK on this today .
He is very alive and had a solid career as a film actor. Now retired, he travels the world on adventures and lives, at least for part of the time, like the role he portrayed in the film. He came across in the programme as a really great guy.
@DabAndrew Hi...it was on last Thursday (20/1/2011) on Radio 4 at around 11am. It was called 'Robinson Crusoe...Rescued Again'. It is on iplayer but only until Thursday morning.
i know what you mean the days of zorro,marine boy and so on
there was another show used to feature an old man wearing mostly tweed,think it was called 'country walk' or trails or something not sure.cannot find it on youtube
wow i was only just born in 1964 but I remember this from my school hols as a child. + flashing bllde, bananna splits, double deckers. KC jones!! + lots of more.
Used to watch it sometimes on my brother's mates colour TV when she was out.
Desert Crusader was a French made programme, its home-grown title being Thibaud ou les Croisades. It was dubbed for an English audience which made for interesting lip sync! I remember i partially 'cos I had a tadpole called Thibaud!
I don't remember the animated crusade prog though...
@BigMrFirebird don't think I remember them but you just reminded me of "Noggin the Nog" which was a cartoon/picture type series on around the same era.
I can't recall anything about the crusades undfortunately.
Using google maybe one was called "Desert Crusader" perhaps?
another likely candidate is Ivanhoe? v=RswoQJUGI6Q
Haunting, melodic and enchanting. What is it about this tune that lodges it in the mind for 40 years? Can anyone tell me where to get the full soundtrack? Or the name of the composer? I think the poster who called it "depressing" below was probably searching for another word. This is not just nostalgia, there is something magical about the composition.
@Sugarmaker1000 At least back in the 70s they made excellent dramas like this and Ivanhoe, The Flashing Blade, Treasure Island, Lord of the Flies, Swiss Family Robinson etc - unlike today's puerile rubbish. Our children are impoverished for the lack of the classic stories from yesteryear!
Agree with all previous comments. One of the greatest (if not THE greatest) theme tunes of any series. Instantly back in my childhood, watching this after school...they don't make memorable TV like this anymore, or programs that children could watch which were intelligent, innocent and did not encourage kids to be rebellious or have to be better than anyone else. It's amazing what emotions this one piece of fantastic music can arouse. Thank's for sharing.
seems the saturday tv for uk kids in the 70's was so poignant and stayed with us all our lives! agree with all of you guys..i spent many years wishing i could hear double deckers, robinson crusoe, white horses, lightning tree (follyfoot), tomorrow people theme and many more...then along came you tube! and voila!
@loonylinda Aha The Lightning Tree. I was in love with Gillian Blake who played the main character Dora Maddocks. I used to go out with a girl who was the spitting image of her - not intentionally it was pure chance that we met. Not together now sadly.
The real Gillian Blake retired from acting to be a mum.
Do you remember the "bad boy" character Ron played by Christian Rodska and Slugger played by Arthur English nice ex-boxer but a lousy cook?
this tune is so haunting a lovely reminder of carefree youth, i was quite surprised to find it on here and so many others who share same feelings i was born 1960 , im sure this was on every summer till the mid seventies i must have seen every screening
i agree with all your comments..i adored this music as a child and still think its beautiful but i also loved the other melody they plyed during the programmes...and as a child i thought that robinson was so beautiful....some wonderful themes from the 60's n 70's to be found on you tube...ty x
I have to agree with you. If you compare the programmes made today, and compare them to the fifties sixties and early seventies, then there is no comparison. Content, adventure, great theme tunes, we really did have it good. Touble is, being kids as we were, we never expected it to end. Thank goodness for YT and all the people that post these wonderful reminders of our youth. Keep it up...
@Eltoniobonio I used to whistle that tune on the school bus - doing all the frilly note changes and giving it the works! I thought I was pretty good. Those were the days!!
Wow. The singing ringing tree, then White Horses, then this.
All my childhood memories in one place & all at once. And I've not even clicked on Skippy or Marine Boy yet! Going to bed with with fond memories and a contented smile. Thanks for posting! And I've just seen someone mention Champion the Wonder Horse & Caset Jones!! It just gets better and better.
Christ this is amazing... how one tune can bring so much back. And that black and white sea. I was 7 and I used to swim in the sea and pretend to be washed up like Robinson Crusoe. Nice to see so many people here feel the same way.
Oh well back to my shit job doing shit work for shit people...
We were lucky being able to watch programmes like this,where people had adventures.The kids now just have cack to watch,Zac & Cody,Hanna Montana,what a pile of rubbish.
Absolutely transports me back to being 7 in 1975. Nearly makes me cry for those lost days! A theme tune that will stick in my head until the day I die.
A genuinely great and moving children's TV series with a theme tune that would be too good even for the most expensive Hollywood film production.I was lucky enough to watch RC in the 70's;what do kids today have to put up with? Soulless,cheap,tawdry rubbish that are merely promotional tools for the monetary gain for rapacious conglomerates.This will survive eternally long after we've all disposed of 21st century commerce at the expense of the young.
Herman Holiday? Not sure of spelling. about a guy called Herman who is a bit of a scientist. I remember one episode when he's on a ship during a storm and his friend becomes seasick and Herman drops some magic device into the water and freezes the ocean so the ship stops moving!
That's it! I have another query about a children's prgramme. I think the name was "The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls". The actor when playing the part was, as far as I remember, well dressed and always carried a cane or walking stick or maybe this was just for that particular episode. The name may be wrong. Any ideas?
Used to love all these shows as a kid, Belle and Sebastian, White Horses etc. The fact they were foreign and dubbed didn't matter as the quality shone through.
I think their being foreign and dubbed or voiceovered was everything - it gave them a particular character, cheesy but exotic. The home country was never quite enough after this introduction to "out there". It still isn't.
TV was so much better then, I mean we have hundreds of channels now mostly serving up puerile shit, and the ones that we watch are the 70' and 80's repeats lol
and what the hell is with ads that run for ten minutes? we used to be able to make a nice cuppa t in the breaks, now you can prepare a five course meal and still have time for a bottle or two of babycham :O))
TheUtubesuaass! True spoken that! Sky TV is even worse! Your average 1 hr documentary ends up being only about 30mins long cos its broken up with adverts that come thick and fast about every 5 minutes or so.
@jonesthestone Quite ironic really - cos if you look at the development of cheese crackers - cream crackers were a different take on the water biscuit - which was a direct descendent of... hardtack.
I used to watch this many many years ago and i loved it. I rfeally wish it would come back on tv on one of the freeview chanels i love the music also. Its great
dilleward21 16 hours ago
Thank you for these amazing 21 seconds of music(and in memory of George Van Parys).
MrJommycross 1 week ago
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Lovely evocative tune. Credit to those guardians who shielded those from reality. But shame on those who, latterly, chose to be oblivious or unconcerned as to the horrors of that era, in which young men and political leaders were being gunned down all over the world. Even though folk drive to the modern day plantation and watch a flat screen telly, their time is still the worse for it. Maybe one day, more folk will shed a tear for people other than themselves, but I wouldn't bet on it
worldcoup 3 weeks ago
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worldcoup 3 weeks ago
ah yes back in the time of 3 tv channels that closed down about 11:30pm
nufto 1 month ago
Remember watching this as a kid...and wishing i was him..hated school so much i'd have loved to have been marooned on an island like him. Music is so evocative to me, takes me right back..but not to school i'm glad to say.
barzini66 2 months ago
i still whistle this tune most days, and the other tunes in this show,great memories
n0rt0nj4zZ 2 months ago
He's leaving friday......who ?....robinson crusoe
MiLLwallpaul231258 2 months ago
Rented house on the harbour for two weeks in Weymouth, August 1972. I was aged 9. In the mornings on would go the black and white T.V. in the living room ; on would come this !. Great fun childhood days
TheKenfig 2 months ago
I remember this - lovely music......
Whitecloud4412 2 months ago
saturday morning ,banana slits,the monkees,then robinson crusoe,it was wondefull
then.
TheDave347 3 months ago
I remember this on Saturday mornings. Not the 70s. Must have been repeated in the 80s I suppose.
snaggle90 3 months ago
as a kid icried my eyes out when his dog died
MrJakko22 4 months ago 3
I grew up watching this,it was ace
captaincomputa 4 months ago
God bless Ann Dudley.Hurah!
squidbeak1 4 months ago
Mrlesliegreen.. I too remember watching this during the school holidays. BUT Scottish schools went back before English schools and I NEVER got to see all it ended, and whenever I hear that haunting theme my mind goes back to the 60s
HopalongC 4 months ago
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HopalongC 4 months ago
fantastic memories
dambuster617 4 months ago
Not only the GREATEST musical theme, but the GREATEST programme made for children. Fantastic atmosphere, haunting incidental music and wonderful acting by Robert Hoffman. In many ways, it's so fitting that this literary classic was filmed in black & white -colour would have 'lost' something along the way. I'm 51 yrs old and never stopped loving it. Time to buy the DVD's, I guess.....it's long overdue!
Turrican60 4 months ago
I haven't heard this haunting piece of theme music to the TV series Robinson Crusoe for something like 40 years, but what a corker it was. Childhood memories came flooding back & a pity we could not hear all of it.
Hotwok191 5 months ago
Great Theme, but where is the rest of it? I remember watching this in the school
holidays and am 50! Great, Thank you.
MrLesliegreen 5 months ago 5
@MrLesliegreen You've reminded me and it used to be on with Record Breakers.
coolitababy 2 months ago
Aye, based on the true story of a Scotsman (whae else?) Alexander Selkirk, who was stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez for five years. Today in Lower Largo, Fife, there is "Robinson Crusoe" statue at Selkirk's birthplace.
ThomasTrue 5 months ago
My copy from Amazon arrived yesterday, spent the whole day watching it, took me back to the 60's rushing home from school when it was on...
dendoh12 5 months ago
My copy from Amazon arrived yesterday, spent the whole day watching it, took me back to the 60's rushing home from school when it was on..
dendoh12 5 months ago
Happy, happy, innocent days!
mars1960mars 5 months ago
@mars1960mars Your comment follows a very noticeable theme on here. The music & tv programmes of the 60's & 70's most definitely were an innocent & fun time & unless you lived it, I think it is hard for others to understand.
gaysy1st 5 months ago in playlist Childhood programmes
@gaysy1st I TOTALLY agree....you had to be there as a little kid to fully understand.. ''the past is foreign country, they do things differently there'' is definitely true of children's T.V of the golden era.
Oakleaf700 4 months ago
I remember the theme music being crackly and warped.. We all used to giggle over it.
maddythegaff 6 months ago
There was this,double deckers,banana splits,white horses,flashing blade,they all used to come on in 6 weeks school holls in the 70s! happy times ey !
leesteuk1 6 months ago 15
@leesteuk1 know what you mean... happy days indeed!
tmmitzzie 1 month ago
@leesteuk1 Saturday morning club at the cinema
mjrwhite 2 days ago
Used to watch this and the Double Deckers on my ancient black and white telly, where everyone's head was too long, before getting up on Summer holiday mornings. Happy days eh?
theageofreasonable 6 months ago
FULL MOVIE HERE Robinson Crusoe: watch?v=PBN2E1-QIcY You won't regret seing my FEATURE 1h 41 minutes version, all free on antonpictures channel at the FULL FREE MOVIES playlist section. Follow the blue arrow. Thank you very much for support, George Anton - Filmmaker.
antonpictures 6 months ago
ahhhhhh, the '70s. Nationwide, Anna Ford (sexy but severe), Esther Rantzen, Dickie Davies...ITV Seven, isn't it? Top Deck Shandy...Are there Birds Eye beefburgers for tea, mum? The Milkybars are on me! My dad's got an Austin Allegro. Lads playing football in the park, jumpers for goalposts, rush goalie...
gyoza007 6 months ago
I got the entire series on DVD off ebay....it is fantastic
biglankster 6 months ago
Loved this. Summer holidays. I never did get to see the end of the series though - we always went back to school after the hols sooner than the Southerners in those days and the series finished after our summer hols. Grrrrr
gnash555 7 months ago
I so loved this classic children's serial of the 60's. Robert Hoffman was so perfect as Robinson Crusoe and I was hooked to the telly each week to find out what had happened to him! Children today are so deprived! Why can't they make classics like this any more!
MissymissyJo 7 months ago
I loved this in 1965. This foreign series (as well as "HEIDI", & "the SINGING RINGING TREE") were shown several times on UK TV. I have Both the UK & German DVD Releases, the latter's (different) S/ T music and voiceover has none of the charm and atmoshere of it's UK Counterpart .
gazzymodo 8 months ago
I too have this classic on dvd, one of my personal favourites from the school hols during the 70's (found the flashbacks a bit boring , but one had to watch these clips to put the story in context).
Thanks to this series I have an obsession with islands & always visit an island on hols.Last island to visit was Jersey & Sark. Love to go to Tristan du cuhna one day!
shafarevich 8 months ago
The story by Daniel Defoe, was inspired by a real life character and the incredible experience of one Alexander Selkirk. Read the book, unfortunately the music and theme would not have comforted him at the time nor will it resound as you turn the pages of the book. However, to realize the real story is enlighting.
sheriff2157 8 months ago
Used to watch this when i was just in from school. Classic
threesim 8 months ago
this is the 1 i rem...holy shit i could cry....stupid boy!..luv it
jedlad31 9 months ago 2
I used to love watching this series the music is so unforgetable and moving cheers for posting it....
Toppers999 9 months ago
Robinson crusoe quit his job,He leaves friday.
arobekie 10 months ago
Who wrote this marvellous music?????
MrJommycross 10 months ago
Bring a tear 2 a glass eye.Just been transported back 40 odd years.Brings back so many happy memories.
1314albagubrath 10 months ago
I loved this programme when i was a Kid,,,i have the whole series for sale on DVD for £10 smwelch_groby@homail.com
tutonicshane 10 months ago
cold dark winter in london and watching this programme with my brothers boy did relieve the boredom and longing for summer.
A kid from 1964
tom6lillie5 10 months ago
Takes me back too, and gives me a lump in my throat. How come it had such an impact, so simple, it must have hit the spot
brianweekes1 11 months ago 2
Those endless summer holidays!!!
thebladerunner11 11 months ago
My childhood..... in just 21 secs..
stingfan1000 11 months ago 2
brill..but what is the tune called...seached for years
john111257 1 year ago
Music by Gian Franco Reveberi - He also composed the music used a few years ago on Match of the Day for the Goal of the Month competition. It was a funky sitar piece call Sequence Three and it is on YouTube - UK people might remember it.
RitmoNo1 1 year ago
the nostalgia of this wonderful tune takes me right back to the sunny 1960's when it was on after school. It really is a ''blast from the past'' that will make any person who was a child of that era go all dewy eyed, for it WAS one of the best tv dramas, and a kinder era when we had Rocking horses, go~carts made of pram wheels and planks, and it was safe to play outdoors. modern kid's tv is poor in comparison!
Oakleaf700 1 year ago 2
another classic tv show and title tune that takes me back 40+ years . brings a tear to my eyes , thinking of all the happy memories . Florenceandzebedee is spot on
peterhebburn 1 year ago
Ah, takes me back to when I was about 7 years old and those lovely summer holidays.
FlorenceandZebedee 1 year ago
far far too short! whatever happened to Robert Hoffmann and his lovely hair spread out in the sand?
daffonfire 1 year ago
@daffonfire There's just been a great programme on BBC Radio 4 in the UK on this today .
He is very alive and had a solid career as a film actor. Now retired, he travels the world on adventures and lives, at least for part of the time, like the role he portrayed in the film. He came across in the programme as a really great guy.
chimneypot100 1 year ago
@chimneypot100 Hi..what was the programme called ..would it be on I player ? Cheers
DabAndrew 1 year ago
@DabAndrew Hi...it was on last Thursday (20/1/2011) on Radio 4 at around 11am. It was called 'Robinson Crusoe...Rescued Again'. It is on iplayer but only until Thursday morning.
chimneypot100 1 year ago
where the hell as someone pulled that from....remember it well every year in the 6 weeks holidays
skunkhead2006 1 year ago
It was released on the 'B' side of a single which had another longer piece from the series on the 'A' side.
I remember this well '61or '62 I think it was.
I'm almost sure it was on same time as "Danger is my Business" on BBC TV as it was then.
Oh Black and White bliss.
RadioRuderham 1 year ago
Those were the days my friend.
MrLoxley123 1 year ago
used to play it , in the summer holydays, every year for years. loved it.
chrisdable 1 year ago
its like stepping in to a time machine seeing this oh the six weeks holidays ..and next on bbc why dont you :) followed by champion the wonder horse
mayflower1306 1 year ago 2
@mayflower1306
i know what you mean the days of zorro,marine boy and so on
there was another show used to feature an old man wearing mostly tweed,think it was called 'country walk' or trails or something not sure.cannot find it on youtube
dickphair 1 year ago
@dickphair .i think that show called out of town
therocketroy 1 year ago
@therocketroy
thank you
dickphair 1 year ago
wow i was only just born in 1964 but I remember this from my school hols as a child. + flashing bllde, bananna splits, double deckers. KC jones!! + lots of more.
Used to watch it sometimes on my brother's mates colour TV when she was out.
ufewl 1 year ago 2
@ufewl If you can remember lots more, can you remember the names of:
The animated fictional medieval crusades series, with the jester who narrated? I'm sure it came on just before the news?
Also, another kids fictional prog about a crusading knight (think it was in black and white), who actually turned out to have a saracen background?
I remember both, but I sure can't remember the titles.
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
@BigMrFirebird
Desert Crusader was a French made programme, its home-grown title being Thibaud ou les Croisades. It was dubbed for an English audience which made for interesting lip sync! I remember i partially 'cos I had a tadpole called Thibaud!
I don't remember the animated crusade prog though...
gnash555 1 year ago
@gnash555 Cheers for that. The animation was very similar to the Ivor the Engine style, but it looks like it wasn't made by the same company.
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
@BigMrFirebird don't think I remember them but you just reminded me of "Noggin the Nog" which was a cartoon/picture type series on around the same era.
I can't recall anything about the crusades undfortunately.
Using google maybe one was called "Desert Crusader" perhaps?
another likely candidate is Ivanhoe? v=RswoQJUGI6Q
Thats not animated though.
ufewl 1 year ago
@ufewl Cheers for that. I was under the impression that it was Cloppa Castle, but it wasn't that either.
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
Download and CD available on Amazon.
"The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Original Television Soundtrack by Robert Mellin and Gian Piero Reverberi " :-)
windymiller7 1 year ago
Haunting, melodic and enchanting. What is it about this tune that lodges it in the mind for 40 years? Can anyone tell me where to get the full soundtrack? Or the name of the composer? I think the poster who called it "depressing" below was probably searching for another word. This is not just nostalgia, there is something magical about the composition.
mooresteve1 1 year ago
@mooresteve1 Another nic has responded to your question on this thread.
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
Classic. Never saw all the episodes, mind. :(
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
@BigMrFirebird
Yeah! They NEVER got to the end did they? The school hols always finished a week early!
gnash555 1 year ago
@gnash555 Just like they never showed the actual last episode of Flashing Blade.
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
My childhood just flashed before my eyes. This used to air on Saturday mornings along with a host of other great TV shows for kids.
Thank you for posting.
Mucky1little2me3 1 year ago
Aaaaahh! Happy days - a true classic with a storyline that actually meant something. Gone but not forgotten.
KRAMNOSTRIBOR 1 year ago
This brings back some memories ,School Holidays in the early 1970s
good times and great TV unlike the rubbish on today
Sugarmaker1000 1 year ago 19
@Sugarmaker1000 At least back in the 70s they made excellent dramas like this and Ivanhoe, The Flashing Blade, Treasure Island, Lord of the Flies, Swiss Family Robinson etc - unlike today's puerile rubbish. Our children are impoverished for the lack of the classic stories from yesteryear!
CombatRocks 1 year ago
Ohhhhh the memories....watched every episode of this but the tune is somewhat depressing don't you think :)
DominoXX33 1 year ago
@DominoXX33 no dude i think the theme is real cool
h32956 1 year ago
@h32956 I didn't say it wasn't cool just depressing....
DominoXX33 1 year ago
@DominoXX33 OK DUDE I WILL tell you what is depressing that little bitch JUSTIN.B.AND ALL his lame ass fans
h32956 1 year ago
@h32956 what's wrong with Justin Bieber...not everyones' cup of tea, I know, but he's not that bad!
DominoXX33 1 year ago
OMG this tune is pure nostalgia!!
AlisonrjNI 1 year ago
Love this - brings back alot of memories!
kaalee100 1 year ago
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initialsGS 1 year ago
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initialsGS 1 year ago
God I remember watching this when it was on Saturdays morning on the BBC in the 70s. What a great theme tune that was.
Professor6871 1 year ago
Loved the theme music and the style of the production.
I think it was a French production -Telé Hachette ?
daredd5 1 year ago
haunting tune stays with even after 34 years lol
lakmeister 1 year ago
very good why not put on tv again it cant be too expensive surely
RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF 1 year ago
@RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF I agree ;D
malcster505 1 year ago
could not wait for school to finish.
lympia3 1 year ago
Watched it then out on to the street to play with my neighbours, I used to get upset he was lost.
What was I like?
MrRic333 1 year ago
ohhhh, superb! this brings back so mahy memories - it takes me back to my childhood - it's as though I'm sat there now. thank you for posting this
116montana 1 year ago
I'm transported directly back to the 70s.
21shergar 1 year ago
now that the tory boy has given schools the right to choose their own curriculum,classic tv shows of the 60's and 70's has got to be compulsory
jaihowelol 1 year ago
This is a great theme... ah how the memories come flooding back. But I think I prefer 'The Flashing Blade' overall. Anyway, thanks for posting. :-)
Boosteroid 1 year ago
Those where the days my friend - summer holiday I thought they would never end!
moikeyboy 1 year ago
I remember it used to be on for a few more episodes after the school hols were over....gutted
brispope 1 year ago
takes me back to the "hot" summers growing up on school holidays....bowl of golden nuggets ...banana splits. then oot to play!
jobbieface 1 year ago 2
@jobbieface
I used to love a bowl of golden nuggets. They don't make cereal like that anymore. :-(
MegaWarlock09 1 year ago
@jobbieface heh heh - did you live in my house! oot to play for aboot 7 hours solid...
jayeevee 1 year ago
Agree with all previous comments. One of the greatest (if not THE greatest) theme tunes of any series. Instantly back in my childhood, watching this after school...they don't make memorable TV like this anymore, or programs that children could watch which were intelligent, innocent and did not encourage kids to be rebellious or have to be better than anyone else. It's amazing what emotions this one piece of fantastic music can arouse. Thank's for sharing.
prisonervi 1 year ago 10
seems the saturday tv for uk kids in the 70's was so poignant and stayed with us all our lives! agree with all of you guys..i spent many years wishing i could hear double deckers, robinson crusoe, white horses, lightning tree (follyfoot), tomorrow people theme and many more...then along came you tube! and voila!
loonylinda 1 year ago
@loonylinda Aha The Lightning Tree. I was in love with Gillian Blake who played the main character Dora Maddocks. I used to go out with a girl who was the spitting image of her - not intentionally it was pure chance that we met. Not together now sadly.
The real Gillian Blake retired from acting to be a mum.
Do you remember the "bad boy" character Ron played by Christian Rodska and Slugger played by Arthur English nice ex-boxer but a lousy cook?
patches53 1 year ago
@loonylinda how true Linda
jayeevee 1 year ago
Such memories. Amazing theme tune. The kids today are seriously missing out on stuff like this.
Leosw4 1 year ago
The complete music soundtrack on CD is avaliable to buy - it comes with alternative recordings of some of the music. Try looking on Amazon.
I bought it a few years ago and I would recommend it to anyone who liked the music.
Does anyone know if a DVD of the series is available?
patches53 1 year ago
@patches53 hi patches...is the cd just called robinsin crusoe?? and yes i think you can get the old series on dvd..again try amazon.
loonylinda 1 year ago
@loonylinda @loonylinda
It's called 'The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Original Television Soundtrack'
I've tried posting the Amazon Link but YouBoob seems to be stopping me including the link address.
Try putting amazon co uk in front of this:
/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-soundtrack-SOUNDTRACK/dp/B000025MR8
patches53 1 year ago
@loonylinda Thanks. I just ordered it through Amazon and should be here in the next couple of days.
patches53 1 year ago
@loonylinda Woo Hoo! the DVD arrived this morning 21st April.
patches53 1 year ago
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loonylinda 1 year ago
nice memory. i always wanted to eat a raw egg after this, and it wasnt pleasant
clubcard67 1 year ago
Oh happy childhood!! For anyone over 45, not a dry eye in the house! :-)
Powerplay4545 1 year ago 4
this tune is so haunting a lovely reminder of carefree youth, i was quite surprised to find it on here and so many others who share same feelings i was born 1960 , im sure this was on every summer till the mid seventies i must have seen every screening
johnorthwales 1 year ago 5
i agree with all your comments..i adored this music as a child and still think its beautiful but i also loved the other melody they plyed during the programmes...and as a child i thought that robinson was so beautiful....some wonderful themes from the 60's n 70's to be found on you tube...ty x
loonylinda 1 year ago 9
I have to agree with you. If you compare the programmes made today, and compare them to the fifties sixties and early seventies, then there is no comparison. Content, adventure, great theme tunes, we really did have it good. Touble is, being kids as we were, we never expected it to end. Thank goodness for YT and all the people that post these wonderful reminders of our youth. Keep it up...
blagger56 1 year ago
fantastic to have memories of tunes like this,kids today dont know what they missed.
295monsteroo 1 year ago 9
Got to be one of the best theme tunes ever.
Eltoniobonio 1 year ago 55
@Eltoniobonio I used to whistle that tune on the school bus - doing all the frilly note changes and giving it the works! I thought I was pretty good. Those were the days!!
And yes.........I was an asshole!!
Mobilecheese 1 year ago
Wow. The singing ringing tree, then White Horses, then this.
All my childhood memories in one place & all at once. And I've not even clicked on Skippy or Marine Boy yet! Going to bed with with fond memories and a contented smile. Thanks for posting! And I've just seen someone mention Champion the Wonder Horse & Caset Jones!! It just gets better and better.
wombat65s 1 year ago 12
it's saturday morning tv at its very best and such a wounderful theme tune,many thanks for the memory !
DAZA1965 2 years ago 10
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I wish I was Robinson Crusoe stranded on a desert island with Girl Friday played by Angelina Jolie
randomdave30 2 years ago
Great theme, but this missed out- as I remember it, a big drum roll right at the start?
fokjock 2 years ago
Yup - you're right about the drum build bit. There are other versions of this on YT with the drum intro but they're not the original recording.
This one is incomplete but it's the original.
Lovely!
DanFanBrits 1 year ago
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shine350 2 years ago
Surely the greatest theme of all time - I remembered it for 30 years before finding out again what it was. Great stuff.
davepx 2 years ago 25
@davepx
Me too. I'm 47 and have always wanted to hear it again as I used to watch it when I was a kid. The magic of You Tube hey?
MegaWarlock09 1 year ago
Ahhhh, takes me back to school holidays, Robinson Crusoe, White Horses, Champion The Wonder Horse & casey Jones. Usually followed by Why Don't You!
adamh65 2 years ago 10
Childhood memories - hmmm worth reflecting on some true values.
Perhaps we have missed out on something with the kids today.
Will nostagia live on, or is it just in the past?
Deep stuff eh???
Mike
mikeyg1959 2 years ago 7
Nostalgia's not what it used to be :-)
Puresongs 2 years ago
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fantastic shagging music....
ianupton 2 years ago
but it only lasts 20 secs, ianupton
tomte090989 2 years ago
@tomte090989
thats what i mean. i have an ugly wife and i smoke...
ianupton 2 years ago 3
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L M F A O
joediablo66 2 years ago
bet u didn;t
MrBazzabee 2 years ago
Christ this is amazing... how one tune can bring so much back. And that black and white sea. I was 7 and I used to swim in the sea and pretend to be washed up like Robinson Crusoe. Nice to see so many people here feel the same way.
Oh well back to my shit job doing shit work for shit people...
flipfloptoptrollop 2 years ago 4
Makes shivers go down my spine,seems like yesterday
beardysgirl 2 years ago 6
@beardysgirl
your old
rebelsport24 2 years ago
Yeah I know
beardysgirl 2 years ago
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Wow! I remember watching this mince - brings back memories of deeply depressing weekends.
beatlebird1 2 years ago
WHITE HORSES!!!
helhon1 2 years ago
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Good grief - what a load of bull!
cillablack100 2 years ago
did you ever watch it you fucking ape
TheSham75 2 years ago
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yes I watched it and it was utter crapola!
beatlebird1 2 years ago
We were lucky being able to watch programmes like this,where people had adventures.The kids now just have cack to watch,Zac & Cody,Hanna Montana,what a pile of rubbish.
seaton999999 2 years ago 4
Absolutely transports me back to being 7 in 1975. Nearly makes me cry for those lost days! A theme tune that will stick in my head until the day I die.
andrewdavid68 2 years ago 7
Agreed, I was 9 in 1975 and these programmes take me back to those days.that tune will stay in my haed as well.
kjammo66 2 years ago 3
BEST ROBINSON CRUSOE VERSION OF ALL TIMES: that of bunuel (1952)
dmbemfamm 2 years ago
A genuinely great and moving children's TV series with a theme tune that would be too good even for the most expensive Hollywood film production.I was lucky enough to watch RC in the 70's;what do kids today have to put up with? Soulless,cheap,tawdry rubbish that are merely promotional tools for the monetary gain for rapacious conglomerates.This will survive eternally long after we've all disposed of 21st century commerce at the expense of the young.
JFBridge 2 years ago
JFbridge..... you are spot on,a much better era than today's tv nonsence
kristingle47 2 years ago 4
Anyone remember a show called
Herman Holiday? Not sure of spelling. about a guy called Herman who is a bit of a scientist. I remember one episode when he's on a ship during a storm and his friend becomes seasick and Herman drops some magic device into the water and freezes the ocean so the ship stops moving!
Mobilecheese 2 years ago
I think you want hiram hilliday
enginesspanielman 2 years ago
Thanks! I'll Google that!
Mobilecheese 2 years ago
That's it! I have another query about a children's prgramme. I think the name was "The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls". The actor when playing the part was, as far as I remember, well dressed and always carried a cane or walking stick or maybe this was just for that particular episode. The name may be wrong. Any ideas?
Mobilecheese 2 years ago
@Mobilecheese if my memory serves me well i think it was called hiram holiday my friend
ste123456754 1 year ago
@ste123456754 Gee! Thanks,man! That was quick!!
Nine months waiting for an answer's pretty good - for YouTube!
Is this a record or just a CD or maybe a DVD? :)
Thanks again!
Mobilecheese 1 year ago
@Mobilecheese It's available on CD and DvD
DabAndrew 1 year ago
Used to love all these shows as a kid, Belle and Sebastian, White Horses etc. The fact they were foreign and dubbed didn't matter as the quality shone through.
elephantbarbiegirl 2 years ago
I think their being foreign and dubbed or voiceovered was everything - it gave them a particular character, cheesy but exotic. The home country was never quite enough after this introduction to "out there". It still isn't.
davepx 2 years ago 3
TV was so much better then, I mean we have hundreds of channels now mostly serving up puerile shit, and the ones that we watch are the 70' and 80's repeats lol
and what the hell is with ads that run for ten minutes? we used to be able to make a nice cuppa t in the breaks, now you can prepare a five course meal and still have time for a bottle or two of babycham :O))
TheUtubesuxass 2 years ago 7
TheUtubesuaass! True spoken that! Sky TV is even worse! Your average 1 hr documentary ends up being only about 30mins long cos its broken up with adverts that come thick and fast about every 5 minutes or so.
recessionshite 2 years ago
In fact its so bad I end up thinking I'm watching a programme about TV advertising/adverts that's being sporadically interrupted by a documentary!
recessionshite 2 years ago 5
You know it ;O))
TheUtubesuxass 2 years ago
Fantastic.... memories flooded back... and chill..... *sigh*
weegiewarbler 2 years ago
me too, i took cream krackers to bed and pretend they were ships biscuits, god it all comes flooding back after listening to that music
jonesthestone 2 years ago 3
@jonesthestone Quite ironic really - cos if you look at the development of cheese crackers - cream crackers were a different take on the water biscuit - which was a direct descendent of... hardtack.
alcockell 3 months ago