BBC Tomorrows World intro 80s

[macsumner]

This has been covered by Erasure as the title track to their new album 'Tomrrow's World'. It's a pretty decent update, too!

[READYTEDDYBEAR]

0:24 to the end. Is it meant to be a brain or a planet or the egg from "MONKEY"?

[davidsan01]

@READYTEDDYBEAR a brain representing a planet.

[vania1013]

tv is made for woman gays and indiands these days i just watch anything from 65-99 and foregt all the rest

[drakelowc]

Brilliant theme by Richard Denton and Martin Cook. The unearthly vocal choir sound was their voices double tracked and phased.

The titles feature a voyage through a furrow in the surface of a "Brain planet" with little sciencey flashes to match the hisses.

[Vericacious]

@bertiedump Yes, some were worse, but many were a lot better. Leaving aside personal preferences, technological changes and the difficulty of contextualisation, there was a much broader range of programmes, pitched at various levels, in the various programme genres, then, and a far greater willingness to experiment- the reason for abject failures, as well as great successes. Now, fewer expensive programmes (eg drama, situation comedy, light entertainment) are made and they are 'of a kind'.

[bushwacka1972]

Brilliant Theme! Composed in1979 I believe

[mayorip]

I WAS 5 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME WHEN THAT WAS ON, IT USED TO GIVE ME NIGHTMARES

[theprophet20]

@mayorip LOL I understand your comment, but I think this was the best theme for that programme!

[Feisty1967]

Yeah! This is the business! Best ever theme tune to TW. They never should have dropped it.

[SirCliveCalculator]

Don't give the public what they want...

Give them what they need.

They'll soon appreciate it.

[aodgabelogan]

I would love to see an old episode of TW and see them go on about this 'amazing new technology' that we take for granted now or are even old stuff by now. 'You can get a whole film on this one little cassette...amazing' lol

[creeball]

@bertiedump: that was very selfish. u know how depressed my microwave was when u left?!

[mrmalade]

dup dup dup dup du-dup cheeeeeoooow

[creeball]

@mrmalade: lol

[MITOGEN]

This always reminded me of the Cadbury's dairy milk chocolate commercial.

[zootius]

So these guys stole a Crystal Castles song, hopped in a time machine and played it over the Tomorrow's World intro? UNBELIEVABLE!

[sewitt60]

The worst theme tune for TW ever! Whoever "composed" that must have been taking LSD at the time.

[creeball]

its 2010. wheres this robot thats suppoed to clean my room on voice command?.......

[billyboyle13]

@creeball What? don't you have one?

[creeball]

@billyboyle13: I WANT ONE!!! ITS 15 YEARS OVERDUE!!!

[jackdaddypfc]

Loved this show... does anyone remember the pill they invented to neutralise alcohol in the body so you could drive half hour after getting pi**ed ? lmao

[n136ha]

what a fucking great tune?

[thesourceenforcer]

Yay! Top Of The Pops is about to start.

[arff2003]

To paraphrase the late great Humph, Tomorrow's World, the programme that prided itself on predicting future trends. Apart, from the programme itself getting binned.

Loved it all though.

[chmarr]

@pleasuredome85

whats weird is that the tune was in the charts in the 80's.

i cant remember who did it but it was

[aldit1966]

Brilliant theme - this used to go around in my head when I used to do Physics at school.

[geography27]

Bloody hell!! I remember these titles!!

[Torqueamada]

Yo, SCIENCE!!

[whynidge]

Yeah, THREADS! In the pub!! There are so many things I hear that just trigger something from that programme. If Ruth is still looking for Jimmy she'll find him down Coronation Street. I still have nightmares about Threads. When a drama can do that, it's class telly. Love the BBC. The only broadcaster still brave enough to make challenging telly. You just have to search harder for it nowadays, I guess.

[wardie72]

This could pass for kraftwork.

[MrMeefos]

jean michel jarre maybe

[mik300z]

Love listening to this every time cheers!! Out of the three (70s 80s 90s) that are here on YT this is def the most vivid memory I have of watching tomorrows world, fantastic music, think i'll have to cover this:)

[bules72]

THREADS!!!

[DingKong]

Great theme - thanks for uploading!

[theprophet20]

Loved it - it fairly zips along!

[UliJones]

Lady Ga Ga should sample this!

[darrowby1972]

A cracking theme tune from the BBC Pornographic Workshop

[theprophet20]

@darrowby1972 If only, LOL!

[Diamonddavej]

I'll tell you why TV 's dumbed down. The 1st sci & tech programs were created by people who started out in TV, they were engineers, technicians and scientists themselves, who made TV technology.

They had genuine knowledge & interest in sci & tech, as producers & directors they made very good sci & tech programs.

But later generations learned journalism & media studies in the Arts Block, never went near Natural Science/Engineering. They preferred cooking shows etc.

[jolonui]

Damn! Thats the most accurate statement i've read recently. Well said!

[radioianj]

I agree! THATS exactly why television has dumbed down. Now all we get is "some old tarts baps" and "how clean is my dog"..............

[Diamonddavej]

Wow Ferrofluid!, didn't know they had that in the 1980s.

[MOSTechnology]

best tune and title sequence in the shows history. much more moden and techno than that horrible brass tune they had later.

[katiegreenaway]

Does anyone remember the T.V. science Show with Edmund Burke & Mirriam Stoppard? It was live. Can't remember the name.They had an audience.

[mfraz74]

The BBC should bring back Tomorrow's World and I don't mean Bang goes the Theory.

[MintySpunkBubble]

Freaky shit.

Let's put on an episode of the Tripods or Chocky's Children while we're at it.

[industrialfun]

Wasn't the green valley thing in this seuqence supposed to be a fibre optic macro shot of a groove on a vinyl record? Or did I dream that?

[hayamburuk]

you didn't dream that, it's true

[neil9327]

@industrialfun I always used to think they were somebody's teeth: a toothbrush's view of a set of giant white molars in finest detail.

[Markjuk]

Great days of Tomorrow's World when Maggie Philbin, Judith Hann and Howard Stableford presented.

[Markjuk]

I remember this version of Tomorrow's World, it used to be on at 7pm on Thursdays before TOTP!

[thaibox07]

thats right i remember the days when we only had 3 channel choices...what happened to the indestructable dvd that we saw them put jam on and still play it...lol ahh memories

[caxtonman]

That's right, yet you get a small thumbprint on a DVD now and it has a fit!!

[katiegreenaway]

Yes, saw that on "Tomorrows World". Didn't happen.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Back in the 1980s we still imagined, providing we could avoid a US-Soviet nuclear war, the future would be a high tech enlightened Utopia, with holidays on space stations, everyone living to be 250 and robot servants in the house. How were we to know that the reality would involve education and culture rotting away under the impact of mass communication, turning us all into passive idiots, but still neurotic enough for the occasional knifing or terrorist attack?

[MarkusteeSteadfast]

Best reply I have seen in years. Great stuff.

[palexandersquires]

This tune was written by the same composers that did Hong Kong beat

Richard Denton and Martin Cook

[cloverfield911]

BBC you were so great, even your News. Why did you suddenly become so pretentious like SKY.????

[n136ha]

i do robotic stripping to this music

[zippy172]

This was by far THE best intro for Tomorrow's World, ever! Shame they canned the prog :(

[JonnoGM]

Wow this takes me back to being a kid ~ theme tunes were far better in those days ~ I loved the heavy use of synthesisers.

The world seemed so exciting then and so full of possibilities ~ where did it all go wrong?

[voon100]

I wish I could get the this theme in full length.

[HappyAitch]

love all these old title themes, makes me smile and think of my childhood

[TheGodParticle]

Hahaha sound like a tomas dolby song, class..

[testcardgirl76]

How exciting the future seemed to a child of the early 80s-this theme tune brings back so many memories. :-)

[ianarmitage]

Full version can be heard via RetroTVThemes

[therealcaldini]

During some anniversary of the show, all the people who worked on it were given a commemorative CD of all the theme tunes. I managed to get a copy off a friend. This one is by far the best and was one of many TV Theme tunes that kicked off some pretty cool telly that you just don't get any more. I blame Rupert Murdoch.

[uplah]

Any chance of you uploading them?

[spotarick]

Anyone know where I can get this theme tune? I love it

[fuzzpedal0101]

I know it's on the Richard X, Back to Mine compilation

[leviterande]

does anyone know were to find epsodes from 1983? please

[simpson30]

Best TW theme ever this was

[ianarmitage]

I've actually got the full theme tune to this written and performed by Richard Denton and Martin Cooke. Very talented guys.

[russbere2112]

that music is garbage, sounds like a parrot trying to poo up an elephants wotsits..

[UKSazzy67]

That theme music was the coolest ever on Tommorrow's World. Why the hell did they replace it with that bland Thatcherite crap theme tune and computer graphics is beyond me. The 1981 theme music sounds futuristic, not dated!

[hoffmachine]

Ha. Thats actually not bad theme music.

[larcenhydra1]

i went to one of the live events they had each year in the N.E.C. It RULED

[Stellastar8008]

did you see Howard Stableford? that is my dad! lol!

[larcenhydra1]

cant remember what year it was. . . errr . . Road block from robot wars was there, i saw Peter Snow, Philippa Forrester. and the woman with realy short blonde hair cant remember her name. and i think it was in Earls Court not the NEC my bad :-). . . but yea i remember him lol

[Stellastar8008]

oh darn! haha! i have never been to one of the showing see ing as i was a baby, and now i live in america! but i was on the show right after i was born! if that counts for something! did you see Judith Hann? i think that is her last name! she is my sister's god mother!

[Spaldingcrow]

Used to drink in Surbitons New Prince pub - saw daddio in there a few times. Never bothered him though. Seemed nice enough.

[mutinyonthekitkat]

This show was on BBC1 early evenings for years in the 1970s and 80s. I remember the earlier theme more when Raymond Baxter was the host. The one that went "doo do do doooo, doo do do doooo - deee diddle dit deee diddle dit deee diddle dit deee... BOMP."

[marnanel]

Happy memories!

[golfthewlis]

I'm getting a woody.

[brhodes0]

How fucking cool is that music?

[cpmisalive]

Those were the days when broadcasters cared about Science. Nowadays, it's just soap operas, news and reruns of US shows...

[tvinsider4]

tell me about it, wheres michael rod??

[Paul02here]

See lipfriend-rodd

[NotATube]

The standard (and quantity) of science-based TV broadcasting nowadays is disgraceful, and that includes the BBC.

[domenachi]

hehe - missed the part of the title where it reads "80's" eh?

[YoureshiteTelevision]

domenachi; You obviously misunderstood what I was saying. I was agreeing with Cpmisalive that *current* science broadcasting is nonexistent, and added that what remains is generally poor.

In both cases, we were using this as a (high) reference point to show how poorly science is treated by television relative to 25 years ago.

[domenachi]

oh ok, gotcha.

[11thhourreprieve]

True... Tomorrows world was my favourite show as a kid. I wish they'd bring it back geared towards the modern are. They could do re-runs too and talk about what took off and what failed and discuss why.

[dunkiep]

I've often thought that. You could call it... "Yesterday's world". Clever, eh?

[11thhourreprieve]

Tv today is geared much more towards entertainment. The media caters to dumb ppl and creates dumb ppl. We're dished crap and lies all day long now.

[katiegreenaway]

I totally agree. Dumb people down, turn us all into The Lowest Common Denominator. Yes, "We're dished crap and lies " I don't blame the politicians, I blame The Megalomaniacs, - They pay the Politicians to do this!!! Bring back them good old days!

[richardthered]

@cpmisalive well said! :)

[gezdaring]

Mark my words, we'll be living on the moon before 1995

[safemouse]

They were so futuristic then.