Me and My Girl - Opening theme

[TheSamuel2410]

Is that the wonderful sound of Peter Skellern?

[eagledean]

I suddenly remembered this at work today lol, its amazing how things u suddenly remember things!

[oddsocks6352]

I wish they would show some of the old comedies! tv these days are so boring.

I remember watching this on a friday evening.

[strawberry656]

I know this songg

Something is funnyyyy!!

Youuu!!

Get it your funny

[Janspeed1976]

Joanne changed her name to Iona Simms, and moved to California in the early '90's and is a midwife x

[richinm]

This series ran on ITV from 1984 to 1988, great childhood memories but this was another era, another age from now, I'm so glad ITV don't make manufactured rubbish like this anymore, and to be fair it isnt only this particular show that gets my criticism, this type of show, manufactured sitcom call it what you will, was always the bastion of the BBC and up until the early 1990's ITV, so rabidly competing with the BBC, looked like a lame commercial version of our state broadcaster, nowadays it ha

[TheWolfie6]

I think the beach scene was filmed in South Wales,can anyone tell me where?

[MiggleMuggle]

I remember the theme to this!! So sad how Richard O Sullivan is today poor guy.....

[RetroGirl1974]

Oh weird, I'm pretty sure my dad must've just left my mum when this was on! I was 8 at the time. Seeing this now brings back vague memories of me feeling a bit sad when the credits were on. :(

[Tehui1974]

@RetroGirl1974 Interesting story. Me and my daughter's mother split up when she was 5 (she is now 10), I made a promise to myself then to be an active & visible father, as I want her to grow up to be smart & independent and have good relationships with men. And when we walk on the beach together, I get reminded of this old TV intro from my childhood.

[RetroGirl1974]

@Tehui1974 Aww, you must be a brilliant dad. Good for you! :) Lots are, unfortunately some aren't and that includes mine.

[Tehui1974]

@RetroGirl1974 Oh, sorry to hear that. I thought you were comparing this TV programme with your relationship with your dad.

[RetroGirl1974]

@Tehui1974 Afraid not, less a comparison, more an envy. Never mind, my mum's brilliant! :)

[Tehui1974]

@RetroGirl1974 Families are strange things. On the flip side, I grew up hating my dad!

[jemmabond]

@Tehui1974 Sweet!

[b440ckw]

i still really enjoy watching this title sequence. my crush on jo ridley still hasn't waned even after all these years. the sequence starts out with sam as a kiddie but by the time she is sat on that sun lounger she looks gorgeous. when the program was first shown i initally thought that the two characters were an item. it was probably the bit at the end where they are walking on the beach holding hands.

[Durbot999]

shitcom

[laps131]

love it

[TartanTie]

Memories.

[tigerboytony]

Does anyone notice in the opening title, Richard O'Sullivan looks so much like his character Robin in Man About The House, then it changes to him a lot older, with moustache and shorter hair. And oh, wasn't Joanne Ridley HOT? Loved this programme, will probably never see it again :( just like all the great ITV comedies :(

[Markjuk]

@tigerboytony - I wouldn't bet on not seeing them again! Network DVD has done an excellent job in releasing ITV titles that would have otherwise been ignored by ITV itself for DVD release. Why not write to them and request this show on DVD.

[marcey72]

Who remembers this? Loved it.

[cocosinha]

hahaha, at 0:00 it's a dummy on his shoulders!!!!!

[stickswiper]

WOW haven't seen this for twenty years or more. As many guys on here have stated, Joanne Ridley was one of my first crushes along with Glynis Barber! Great memories and thanks for posting!

[aattrraaccttiioonn]

Excellent I used to watch this with my Dad!

[NPA1001]

I remember this series, wasn't Joanne Ridley related Emma Ridley who was sort of a Lindsey Lohan of the 1980s? were they sister's or cousins? anyway I always thought Joanne was hottter, even though I would have been a couple of years younger than her I fancied her rotten.

[phcphcphc]

I miss this SOOO much. Thanks.

[domparis1978]

joanne ridley was born in 1970, so she'd have been 13 or 14 when this was filmed. so i'd have been 9 or 10 seeing this show for the first time and i remember absolutely fancied the pants off her!! those pig-tails!

[byronmills]

Remember them filming this title sequence back in the spring of 1984 - Filmed down Pobbles and Three cliffs bay down Gower in South wales.

[MyOddSock]

@byronmills Ta, I was just wondering where this was filmed... I visited three cliffs a few years ago... thought that beach looked familiar but for figured it was probably somewhere on the south coast of England.

[JohnnyTheWolfLupino]

Joanne Ridley, my first ever crush!!! I was sooo in love with her. Perfect Saturday night viewing with Dempsey & Makepeace and The Price is Right, feel like i'm 10 years old again. Hope life is going well for Joanne.

[hihat101]

@JohnnyTheWolfLupino , your forgetting, 321, play your cards right, the gentle touch , mind your language, good times!

[jemmabond]

For those of you who wonder, Joanne had problems with her father, quit acting, married a health practitioner in a pagan ceremony (she sold the pictures to Hello! Magazine), moved to America where she practised being a hippy (she's into the nudist scene), and later trained as a midwife.

[JamaicaUK]

They don't make British TV Shows like this anymore.

[jumpthemhigh]

@JamaicaUK they are all americanized now

[steveasat2]

@jumpthemhigh Heh. Just you wait. O'Sullivan's previous series "Man About the House", like many Britcoms, was reworked for American audiences as "Three's Company". The trade winds of TV adaptation shift back and forth from decade to decade. We liked "Life On Mars" enough to swipe it a few years back and we almost took a shot at "IT Crowd" and "Torchwood". Soon folks'll be complaining U.S. TV is becoming too British again.

[ooohcheese]

@JamaicaUK

OOOps! MY bad wrong show.

[hugh0221]

@JamaicaUK

Right! All I can hear in both TV shows and films are nothing but SH-s or F-s or...slangs.

Everybody looks for something just hot, but certainly not sophisticated.

[luxenfux]

This is sooo eighties, a surge of nolstagia...

[Shrimpkin74]

I loved this show so much, i still sob at this theme. i bought it back in '84 on 7" single and still have to this day, differs from tv version but still wkd.

[Kevinasp]

39, born on 23rd March 1970. The guy who played her father is now 65, born on 7th May 1944.

[J00P74]

enjoyed watching this show when i was a kid, i'm sure it was on LWT. Joan Sanderson was great, it was just a nice family show before things like The Upper Hand came along.

[nevwhile]

Theme music sounds like a Michael MacDonald rip-off style....

[leeroy77]

This was a TERRIBLE show. Canned laughter, sickly American format and it ran for a few years bewilderingly. It made me want to eat my own body to end it all.

[cowboykenny21]

OMG i just remembered this from 20+years ago

:)

[GrandDizzy]

Wow. Memories! That music! Wow!

I remember this programme being on when I was about 7-9 and always thinking how lucky the guy was to have such a hot young girlfriend. I was really envious of him!

I now realise that it was his DAUGHTER! HA HA HA! :D Very weird.

This was one of a handful of programmes probably responsible for kick-starting my interest in girls. Another one was a sci-fi show called Luna starring a 14 year old Patsy Kensit. Anyone remember that?

[BuddyFantastic]

I vaguely remember Luna, but i had no idea that it was a very young Patsy Kensit who was the main character, odd that. What was Luna all about again?

[GrandDizzy]

Luna was a sci-fi kids' show on ITV (I think). There were 2 girls who played Luna but for whatever reason I only remember Patsy Kensit from the first series. I was very young at the time!

[NameNotaNumber]

Cor, Joanne Ridley was a real stunner....I'm still perving over her to this day although not sure how appropriate it is since she was only about 15 then and I'm 36 now. I did some poking around on the net and the only reference I could find to her was some piece about her living in a hippie colony in the states and walking around outside with no clothes on. That'll do for me.

[NameNotaNumber]

"Also I found out she is married with 3 Children"

Oh well, that's that then. The dream is over.

"And she is just as stunning now."

Care to point me in the direction of a photo? Pictures are my only hope now.

[26highstreet]

anybody want to see what richard o sullivan looks like now? have a look at my profile

[NameNotaNumber]

I know, sad isn't it? But then again, he does look like any other old man and to be fair, the guy is getting on a bit isn't he? Me and My Girl was made 25 years ago and the guy was already well into his 40's then.

[GrandDizzy]

LOL! I feel the same.

[CarricThura]

you... me... and our entire generation. and I'm 37. she was our age, surely?

[waivedwench]

Does anyone know if this has been released on DVD? I have fond memories of this series.

[jason12901]

I so wish some of the old British shows I used to watch could be available in the states. Especially Dear Ladies. Sure I was a kid in the 80s, but i loved the british shows. I was born there in 79 and lived there 83-87 while my dad was in the air force for the US at Fairford.

[zebfanlondon]

God, it must be over twenty years since I last heard that theme tune. When things were alot more easy!

[593OLYMPUS]

Loved the 80's, easily the best time of my life so far. Bring them back!

Richard O'sullivan is a gentleman,and a fine actor. Same goes for Tim B.Taylor. Man about the House is a classic. I fancied Paula Wilcox so much!

If Richard is unwell I sincerely wish him a speedy recovery.

Jo Ridley was rather hot as I recall, wonder what she's up to nowadays?

Thanks 4 the upload HiTimbo

[ISLAMOPHOBE100]

Love hearing that theme again...

[impbr]

I love the little smile she gives at the end, very Lolita(ish). She was the sister of 'wild child' Emma Ridley, i think. What happened to them.

[perys8880]

does anyone know if this is on dvd? Please let me know.

[rickyalennon]

see richard in the daily express the other day,looks very ill get well soon

[perys8880]

great ive been looking for this for some time thanks great memorys

[hetty72]

i was mad on him!

[jenniewrennie]

Thanks for posting - I only ever knew the theme tune as a child and have been humming it for 15 years without being able to sing along!

[DeluxeReissue]

First time I've heard since it was on tv but I do the same thing! Occasionally it will pop into my head and I'll be walking round the house singing just the chorus part in that fairly wussy vocal that the singer does. It sounds awful and it annoys my girlfriend. Awesome to hear it - now I can learn the whole thing! Youtube rules.

[borgduck]

This was the same idiot who played Dick Turpin?

[misterfisherman]

it reeked of incest.disgusting

[miserableoldcunt]

only if one of them was ginger.

[fitz3169]

Hi Timbo,Can u pls post series 3-5 as there r millions out here who would love to see those programmes again,why aint itv got this on tv now is criminal,it woz classic 80's friday night tv.

[borgduck]

UURRGGHHH, cringe inducing rubbish!

[misterfisherman]

my sympathys

[simbllr]

Oooh memories!!Just watching this now takes me back.Thanx for posting.

[robertgray]

love the girl in this when i was younger!

and i do remember thats my boy! anyone got any clips?

[alabam5]

Ha ha! That's my boy! I had forgotten about that!

[bigpaulothe1st]

yes. she was a honey.

[HS0306]

Any one remember a comedy called that's my boy? Think thats what it's called. Was on tv in the 80's.

[Greenthigh]

I remember "that's my boy". Molly Sugden was in it and that bloke from "Mixed Blessings".

[GrouchoHandjob]

Crystal Palace

[markdohertyLFC]

so glad i found this....i sing the 'me and my girl we've got each other' bit to my 14 month old daughter...but couldnt remember the last bit.....cheers Hi Timbo, my mrs isnt thankin you though...she hates me singing it :-)

[k1w1boy1973]

...even got it in NZ - was 11 when it came on. Nice nostalgia trip - thanks for posting it.

[FabFM]

Thanks for posting all these clips. I haven't seen this show since I was a kid back in the dim and distant 80s and now I live in the states, you never see repeats. Even tho I wacthed this every week, The only show I have a memory of seeing is the one where they are held hostage by the robbers.

[CJED301]

Thats ironic! Dave Lee Travis & Tim Brooke Taylor both born in Buxton in Derbyshire & Richard O'Sullivan taking Tessa Wyatt from Tony Blackburn What a coinsidence.

Tony Blackburn was just so emotional over it all.

[FabFM]

Thankfully Mr. Blackburn got over it.

[mistofoles]

Jesus! This takes me back! And the girl who plays Sam was sooo cute!! Wasn't this shortyl before Richard O'sullivan became incapacitated?

[oldstuff]

He lives in an actor's retirement home now which is a bit sad but he's been in some popular shows over the years. I used to love this growing up and, like half the teenage male population at the time, I had a big crush on Joanne Ridley.

[SlushPile]

I remember this from when I was 5! Ahh

[charleem]

Very odd, every time I try to play this clip it crashes youtube, then I have to start my browser again before any of the clips will work with sound :(

[wethers6]

Great memories and fantastic theme tune.

Am I correct in saying the singer is Peter Skellern?

Does anyone know if the song has appeared on cd at all?

[dtumahtsew]

one of my first crushes

loved the girl who played sam

wonder how she turned out

is she still on tv?

[keefybaby2007]

after hearing that, im now missing being young........u knew it was the weekend hearing that while finishing homework...........or was that just me?

[erolbrown]

Me too mate! You knew it was Friday when this came on. Good times.

[ikkleh]

Hehe! Yeah, totally! and I thought it was just me!

[heartandhumour]

Great post...I saw Joanne Ridley at a summer festival last year....I asked to borrow a needle and thread from her (we were all camping see) and within a split second of seeing her I thought to myself 'Now, where have I seen this girl before?'....I asked her if she'd ever been on TV and she replied "Yeah...back in the 80s I used to be in a sitcom with Richard Osullivan called Me & My Girl"....ahh..what memories reside in the subconscious just waiting to be stirred up.

[erolbrown]

I think you need to put us boys who had a crush on her back then out of our misery. Is she still lovely? :)

[eclectica1]

Wow...fancy finding this here...

Now pushing 30 and finding myself able to remember stuff like this...

[suzytheQ]

thanks for posting

[fodsaks]

I miss being a kid :o(

[returnofthesosolid]

so do i hey i'm 14 and i wish i was 5,6,7 or 8 years old

[fodsaks]

I miss being a kid :o(

[harrilou21]

me too.

[chris110877]

i used to love this show!

[erolbrown]

I was eight when this started but I remember it so well. Even then I always thought the theme music was heart breakingly beautiful. I too had a massive crush on Sam. Yeah it's a bit cheesey but it did and still does make for feel-good viewing. A million thanks to the capper and uploaded.

[djonshore]

Although I was 3 when this premiered on ITV in August 1984, I remember the final series more than any of the others.

[bushwacka1980]

Oh my god! ive just had a rush of memories from around 1984 watching this!

[b440ckw]

thank you so much for posting! i have kept looking for this on youtube for ages and i knew that it would eventually get posted. i absolutely loved this show and the opening titles. i was about 10 years of age when this was first shown but i sure had a crush on sam (jo ridley). like many other lads i thought she was the best part of the show.

[dominion1976]

I used to love this!

[sundaeg1rl]

Aww, you must be a mind reader! thanks for posting the theme!