When I saw this I instantly remember that tune. Groovey baby, the 70s era, the coolest for crime fighting serials. If you didn't have clothes that were Orange, Brown or something Spira Gira with colours then sucker...you just didn't know how to get on down :) Let's not 4get Manix & the Flint films!
This was the first thing I remember seeing Steve Forrest in. It was rerun on a UHS station when I was young. For the life of me, when I saw Diamonds Are Forever, I couldn't place where I'd heard the funeral director's voice before.
This brings back great memories for me, things did seem so much better in the 60s, or maybe its just because i was young then ? the Baron was a good series though, straightforward drama and very stylish. hard to believe it was made over 40 years ago.
From a womans point of view, I thought all the actresses on TV were really glam and good looking. What about Annette Andre and Alexandra Bastedo from Randall and Hopkirk and the Champions? I think they were very beautiful, I recall staggering about trying to look like them when I was fifteen and working in an office off Regent Street! I had excitement-fell downstairs on a 53 bus when wearing flashy high heels.....would not have happened to Rosemary and co.
I remember watching this when I was a kid in the 60s. It brings back memories of Mum and Dad and our old front room down the Old Kent Road, with us sitting there watching stuff like this. I too wish I could turn the clock back. TV was much more fun then, even the stuff that was not so great was better than the things we get now.Do you remember Sue Lloyd went on to Crossroads and married Ronald Allen (David Hunter) in real life? I used to like Department S too
@janettwinkle I love reading this. It reminds me of the time before I was born but the kind of atmosphere stil being around when I was around. Oldschool London.... so good.
@quaidnomore I should have put Old Kent Road London, SE15. I have learned something though. I did not know there was an Old Kent Road in New South Wales.
Yeah Greenacre was an area settled by Sir Joseph Banks, one of the first British people to be fascinated with Australian wildlife. The suburb Bankstown was named after him but they may as well call it Middle-Eastown or spot-the-aussie town these days. I have spoken to a few British people who now reside in Australia and I find I know more about British history than they do! Except for one guy from West Yorkshire who went to the same Grammar school as Patrick Stewart!
Wow, I remember watching this show as a kid during the early 70s, it was in syndication on a local channel, and came on pretty late. I hadn't thought about it since then until just now. Thanks for the memories.
Gotta be Sue Lloyd. Awesome. (She also played Claude Rouseae, a cross dressing villain in one of the Pink Panther films, Revenge of the PP I think). I have it on DVD somewhere. Fancied her rotten, but then I was only about 10 when I first saw her in the Baron, and for a little boy living in a VERY rural Norfolk, England, she was a real sophisto...LOL
sue lloyd played cordilia winfield, the barons assistant/secretary/go-to girl...etc there is a hint of a relationship between the 2 in the series but its never actually shown on screen.
The Baron, he was as hard as nails. The Saint was a bit namby pamby, he would be good in this PC age. The baron would call it like it is then get taken to a tribunal for abuse or insulting something or someone or other. Basically, the Baron would spank his arse, big style. LOL
haha! Me too! It was different though, never had mobile phones as a kid so had to go looking for your mates. never had the internet so if you wanted to find something out you had to go the library, couldnt be arsed with that so never knew nothing. ignorance was bliss! kids need prozac now. alls i needed was an ants nest and a magnifying glass.
Really brings back the memories, and I'm having a good chuckle over "chelseabornboy"'s comment about the 'fings ain't wot they used to be brigade'!!! I honestly don't know when I signed up to that one, but I'm guilty as charged :-)!!
Today we have so much choice, but oh, so little quality. Back then, I was 10 years old when the first episode was shown on TV, sometime near September or October, I remember cos the speedway season had just finished. If there is one thing I could wish for, it would be to go back to that time, and I wouldn't change a thing. We, as kids, had it made then, great TV, great times, no huge pressure on us then, like the kids of today have.
@antiquax Absolutely. Curiously, such as with The Persuaders and the alternate theme to Magnum PI (Freebairn-Smith), the greatest themes are those that seem to be tied in with an England/UK-based link of one form or another.
@theman2017inc I have never seen the show - it is very rarely shown on TV . Just love the theme tune. I like Avengers and Man in a Suitcase so would probably like The Baron.
@stevezodiakxl5 Me too. A much happier time. The Baron, Man in a Suitcase, Department S, Jason King, The Persuaders etc. Our world was a kinder place.
oh my god i love watching all this 60s stuff but the gushings of the ''fings aint wot they used to be''brigade with their illusions of endless -summers etc. almost makes me not want to look here!
is this what its come too us sad old bastards gettin all uplifted from the crumbs of our past?But alas things are just not what they were,i would give up all this technology to watch all these60's 70's classics on a shite redifusion telly anyday
Yes and Steve Forrest is to star in the big budget 2008 movie remake of The Baron, as a retired John Mannering drawn into the seedy world of fake antiques and paintings. Co-starring Ian McShane as his assistant and David Dickinson as his evil arch enemy....
I'm the new age Baron!
fmthebaron 1 month ago
i remember the baron,takes me back in time-i loved the 70's!
blueparrot989 2 months ago
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Steve Forest played Lt 'Hondo' Harralson in 7Os US TV Series 'S W A T'.
Later had a one line 'cameo' appearance in the film version.
CANDUN121 4 months ago
Steve Forest played Lt 'Hondo' Harralson in the 197Os US TV Series 'S W AT' .Later had a one line 'cameo' appearance in the film version
CANDUN121 4 months ago
When I saw this I instantly remember that tune. Groovey baby, the 70s era, the coolest for crime fighting serials. If you didn't have clothes that were Orange, Brown or something Spira Gira with colours then sucker...you just didn't know how to get on down :) Let's not 4get Manix & the Flint films!
iDrue 4 months ago
87 years old, steve is alive and well today. great actor. enjoyed him in many US westerns as well.
LiquorWreckedEmGood 5 months ago
The Bishop!
asubjectiveopinion 5 months ago 2
This was the first thing I remember seeing Steve Forrest in. It was rerun on a UHS station when I was young. For the life of me, when I saw Diamonds Are Forever, I couldn't place where I'd heard the funeral director's voice before.
VonWenk 6 months ago
menergy - patrick cowley
MvdHmusicgroup 7 months ago
Great theme tune yes, along the The Prisoner theme we were truly spoiled those days on TV . . .
MrBazza86 8 months ago 3
Thomas William Harrison is the real Baron.
bk206 1 year ago
the best tv theme ever, just edges out the avengers.
MrLawman10 1 year ago
This was great when it was first screened and remains so. Brings back memories!
MrGschnauzer 1 year ago
The tv shows back then had more entertainment content than they do now.
jay55also 1 year ago
This brings back great memories for me, things did seem so much better in the 60s, or maybe its just because i was young then ? the Baron was a good series though, straightforward drama and very stylish. hard to believe it was made over 40 years ago.
hammer19561 1 year ago
Thnaks gsh73la. They were brilliant days. I love these old shows.
janettwinkle 1 year ago
Oh my god... it's awful. This has seriously just ruined all television for me.
Andrewh313 1 year ago
From a womans point of view, I thought all the actresses on TV were really glam and good looking. What about Annette Andre and Alexandra Bastedo from Randall and Hopkirk and the Champions? I think they were very beautiful, I recall staggering about trying to look like them when I was fifteen and working in an office off Regent Street! I had excitement-fell downstairs on a 53 bus when wearing flashy high heels.....would not have happened to Rosemary and co.
janettwinkle 1 year ago
I remember watching this when I was a kid in the 60s. It brings back memories of Mum and Dad and our old front room down the Old Kent Road, with us sitting there watching stuff like this. I too wish I could turn the clock back. TV was much more fun then, even the stuff that was not so great was better than the things we get now.Do you remember Sue Lloyd went on to Crossroads and married Ronald Allen (David Hunter) in real life? I used to like Department S too
janettwinkle 1 year ago
@janettwinkle I love reading this. It reminds me of the time before I was born but the kind of atmosphere stil being around when I was around. Oldschool London.... so good.
gsh73la 1 year ago
@janettwinkle
old kent road Greenacre?
quaidnomore 1 year ago
@quaidnomore I should have put Old Kent Road London, SE15. I have learned something though. I did not know there was an Old Kent Road in New South Wales.
Maybe I will see it one day! I would like to.
janettwinkle 1 year ago
@janettwinkle
Yeah Greenacre was an area settled by Sir Joseph Banks, one of the first British people to be fascinated with Australian wildlife. The suburb Bankstown was named after him but they may as well call it Middle-Eastown or spot-the-aussie town these days. I have spoken to a few British people who now reside in Australia and I find I know more about British history than they do! Except for one guy from West Yorkshire who went to the same Grammar school as Patrick Stewart!
quaidnomore 1 year ago
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janettwinkle 1 year ago
How do I dance to this?!! Its fabulous, but a bit pants
diamondogz 1 year ago
Dioclese, Rosemary, by a long way,
marcusbewley1 2 years ago
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GAY ,,,
massusm25 2 years ago
Wow, I remember watching this show as a kid during the early 70s, it was in syndication on a local channel, and came on pretty late. I hadn't thought about it since then until just now. Thanks for the memories.
varanid9 2 years ago
pop quiz..in itc tv land who was prettier...sue lloyd (cordelia in the baron) or rosemary nichols (annabelle hirst in department-s).....go to it guys
dioclese 2 years ago
Gotta be Sue Lloyd. Awesome. (She also played Claude Rouseae, a cross dressing villain in one of the Pink Panther films, Revenge of the PP I think). I have it on DVD somewhere. Fancied her rotten, but then I was only about 10 when I first saw her in the Baron, and for a little boy living in a VERY rural Norfolk, England, she was a real sophisto...LOL
blagger56 2 years ago
I think Sue Lloyd had a major role in this series sometime ?
xenapgf 2 years ago
sue lloyd played cordilia winfield, the barons assistant/secretary/go-to girl...etc there is a hint of a relationship between the 2 in the series but its never actually shown on screen.
dioclese 2 years ago
Did Maurice Binder design the title sequence ?
mahasurya 2 years ago
I used to watch this when I was a kid,never saw a whole episode,I'd fall asleep,it was on real late,10:30 !!!
finally catching up with it now.
Down here in Oz,its being re-run late at night.
QUESTION-Who would win in a fight ,
The Baron or the Saint ?
tarryhoot 2 years ago
yeh its at like 1 till 2am on wednesday nights :)
dontforget9 2 years ago
The Baron all the way.he would slap the wax from of his head :0)peace
HELLO2YOU3 2 years ago
The Baron, he was as hard as nails. The Saint was a bit namby pamby, he would be good in this PC age. The baron would call it like it is then get taken to a tribunal for abuse or insulting something or someone or other. Basically, the Baron would spank his arse, big style. LOL
blagger56 2 years ago 2
@blagger56 There's not much PC about this age
gsh73la 1 year ago
@blagger56 Don't bet on it. Tough-as-nails Lee Marvin couldn't get by ST1 in real life, as he once related to the press.
vjb007 2 months ago
haha! Me too! It was different though, never had mobile phones as a kid so had to go looking for your mates. never had the internet so if you wanted to find something out you had to go the library, couldnt be arsed with that so never knew nothing. ignorance was bliss! kids need prozac now. alls i needed was an ants nest and a magnifying glass.
randypanhandy 2 years ago
Really brings back the memories, and I'm having a good chuckle over "chelseabornboy"'s comment about the 'fings ain't wot they used to be brigade'!!! I honestly don't know when I signed up to that one, but I'm guilty as charged :-)!!
kwesi01 2 years ago
never heard of this. steve forrest was cool.
mayitpleasethecourt 2 years ago
Don't we all wish we could turn the clock back? In a way we can, thanks to uploads like this.
Great theme, cheers for the vid.
xxxChrist 3 years ago 2
Today we have so much choice, but oh, so little quality. Back then, I was 10 years old when the first episode was shown on TV, sometime near September or October, I remember cos the speedway season had just finished. If there is one thing I could wish for, it would be to go back to that time, and I wouldn't change a thing. We, as kids, had it made then, great TV, great times, no huge pressure on us then, like the kids of today have.
blagger56 3 years ago 3
This was the first time I saw this since I was a teenager. Golly! How time flies.
OrodesIII 3 years ago
barley remember the show ,remember the tune though .i prefered the champions.
jabbyjabjo 3 years ago
One of the greatest theme tunes ever
antiquax 3 years ago 19
@antiquax 2true.
jocksmen 1 year ago
@antiquax Absolutely. Curiously, such as with The Persuaders and the alternate theme to Magnum PI (Freebairn-Smith), the greatest themes are those that seem to be tied in with an England/UK-based link of one form or another.
vjb007 1 year ago
@antiquax Remember when they (ITV) started reshowing this back in 1985!!!!!!
theman2017inc 1 year ago
@theman2017inc I have never seen the show - it is very rarely shown on TV . Just love the theme tune. I like Avengers and Man in a Suitcase so would probably like The Baron.
antiquax 1 year ago
Great TV from a better period in time .. Oh i wish i could turn the clock back.. Thanks for posting!
stevezodiakxl5 3 years ago 16
Oh Boy, are you right! The 60s were the time of my youth. Lucky, lucky, lucky!
mancroft 3 years ago 2
@stevezodiakxl5 Me too. A much happier time. The Baron, Man in a Suitcase, Department S, Jason King, The Persuaders etc. Our world was a kinder place.
anothercrusader 4 months ago 2
oh my god i love watching all this 60s stuff but the gushings of the ''fings aint wot they used to be''brigade with their illusions of endless -summers etc. almost makes me not want to look here!
chelseabornboy 3 years ago
is this what its come too us sad old bastards gettin all uplifted from the crumbs of our past?But alas things are just not what they were,i would give up all this technology to watch all these60's 70's classics on a shite redifusion telly anyday
brianboru62 3 years ago 4
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cricketbat08 3 years ago
This is what I wanted to be when I was a kid. Oh God its what I want to be now!!!!!
bardi7 3 years ago 3
sad but true you listen and watch this and you instantly feel invigorated! pure class.
masdas67 3 years ago
Edwin Astley should have been honoured for services to TV music.
samothraki1 3 years ago 6
I agree, Samothraki. This was a great and memorable piece of tv music.
stroppytube 3 years ago
This Country has gone to the dogs.
75amoeba 3 years ago 3
Awesome intro to another screen gem from the
60s thanks.
swansafc1912 3 years ago
Classic - thanks for posting
geralddavison 3 years ago
the guy that posted this is a GENIUS!
davidgrahamscott 4 years ago 3
je me suis toujours demander si je reverais un jour le générique de cette serie.Grace a la magie de l'internet, c'est fait.Thanks a lot
silaferilebo 4 years ago
Excellent. Takes me right back to when I was seven!!
vegboxman 4 years ago 2
Pure magic! Thank you!
mtfssjr2 4 years ago 2
do you have the theme to Gideons way or can any one else help me
gerry0302 4 years ago
Theme composed by the great Edwin Astley.
jonwilson 4 years ago 3
Thankyou so much for posting. Wonderful to see and hear the intro again after so many years. A real classic !!!!
raymondtv 4 years ago
Didn't know a career in antiques could lead to a James Bond lifestyle. Interested to see that the script is by Terry Nation of Dr Who fame.
Cool2BCeltic 4 years ago 2
Apparately CoolBCeltic james bond was based on arthur negus of antiques roadshow fame...
SUMMERPOPS 4 years ago
Yes and Steve Forrest is to star in the big budget 2008 movie remake of The Baron, as a retired John Mannering drawn into the seedy world of fake antiques and paintings. Co-starring Ian McShane as his assistant and David Dickinson as his evil arch enemy....
jonwilson 4 years ago
Do you have any more classic 60s tv?
bollockall 4 years ago
Another ITC classic and another catchy wonderful theme!
destructivedandy 5 years ago
dont write them like this anymore! take up too much of their precious commercial break time!!!
samothraki1 4 years ago 2