I just discovered Matt Monro did this song and it's on youtube if you do a search. It's called "And you smiled". Amazing tune! Amazing Matt Monro ! Heaven in three minutes.
One of the very few tunes that stick with you all your life..I heard this theme first time when I was 6 or 7 years old and 30 years later I bought it on CD although I had not heard it once on the radio or elsewhere..Much like the BBC Grandstand theme it the type of music which immediately lightens up one`s mood.
no clue, but I know that I only saw one episode of the series (it was taken off the program rather quickly, don`t know why) and yet the tune was never forgotten - now that is quite a feat!
@lerxt42 - yes, but it wasn't a minor hit. It was at number one for about three weeks in September/October 1973 at the height of Van der Valk's popularity on ITV. The theme's called "Eye Level" performed by the Simon Park Orchestra.
I couldn´t say it better. I bought the single in that time, great music! Incredible that we are talking about nearly 40 years after this. Good music is undestroyable.
Very original format, way ahead of it`s time and a refreshing change from thos e `all action` American shows. No one in the Netherlands who I have spokn to knows anything about it !!
1 inch tape? This is from 1992 not 1972. The original series was shot like this. I think this later series was shot entirely on location in Amsterdam, probably on 16mm like Inspector Morse.
1-inch tape was a kind of composite analogue videotape on large reels which was completely obsolete as a production format by the nineties.
I didn't think 1990s Van Der Valk used any video transfer in its post production process until the broadcast master was made. Fades were all opticals and all credits were done on film and not on an Aston, except the episode title, which I seem to remember being a superimposed video effect.
i thort vander valk was in the 70s
2jps 2 months ago
I've just brought the Van der valk box set! I'm half way throught the episode you posted!
minnie129 3 months ago
Was there ever a recording made of this arrangment of Eye Level/Van der Valk?
johnboytd 6 months ago in playlist TV 'n' radio themes
I just discovered Matt Monro did this song and it's on youtube if you do a search. It's called "And you smiled". Amazing tune! Amazing Matt Monro ! Heaven in three minutes.
extractdigit 11 months ago
Blimey, I wonder how long it took to scour Holland for all those whites they put in the opening scene.
MrGoblin60 11 months ago 3
@MrGoblin60 This was the late eighties/early 90s - the niggers had not moved in yet.
GoldenLegends100 6 months ago
I cannot belive this is 18 years old:(
MetallicaHoop1 1 year ago
One of the very few tunes that stick with you all your life..I heard this theme first time when I was 6 or 7 years old and 30 years later I bought it on CD although I had not heard it once on the radio or elsewhere..Much like the BBC Grandstand theme it the type of music which immediately lightens up one`s mood.
rorikjunior 2 years ago
@rorikjunior Am I right in thinking the theme was a minor hit in the mid 70's maybe?
lerxt42 2 years ago
no clue, but I know that I only saw one episode of the series (it was taken off the program rather quickly, don`t know why) and yet the tune was never forgotten - now that is quite a feat!
rorikjunior 2 years ago
@lerxt42 - yes, but it wasn't a minor hit. It was at number one for about three weeks in September/October 1973 at the height of Van der Valk's popularity on ITV. The theme's called "Eye Level" performed by the Simon Park Orchestra.
Enerjee 1 year ago
I couldn´t say it better. I bought the single in that time, great music! Incredible that we are talking about nearly 40 years after this. Good music is undestroyable.
OHuckleberry 1 year ago 6
My last name is van der Valk. Am I cool or what? :P
Wiebe55 2 years ago
Very original format, way ahead of it`s time and a refreshing change from thos e `all action` American shows. No one in the Netherlands who I have spokn to knows anything about it !!
Great series, and as for the Dutch - great people
weymouthfalco 2 years ago
1 inch tape? This is from 1992 not 1972. The original series was shot like this. I think this later series was shot entirely on location in Amsterdam, probably on 16mm like Inspector Morse.
whizzalloverthecity 2 years ago
This IS from 1992.
The first two seasons of "Van Der Valk" was shot in 16mm outside, and videotape inside.
The 3rd season of the show was all-film.
The final seasons was shot on 1-inch videotape and digital videotape and both seasons were shot on location in 35mm film.
Tripp1993 2 years ago
1-inch tape was a kind of composite analogue videotape on large reels which was completely obsolete as a production format by the nineties.
I didn't think 1990s Van Der Valk used any video transfer in its post production process until the broadcast master was made. Fades were all opticals and all credits were done on film and not on an Aston, except the episode title, which I seem to remember being a superimposed video effect.
I am an editor and also liked Van Der Valk!
whizzalloverthecity 2 years ago
Get rid of the text!
hatethetube 2 years ago
Great, but why all the bubbles covering the screen?
lawsonrob 2 years ago
I think Barry Foster died of cancer.
kratzenbourgII 2 years ago
its such a plesent music, the ident and vandervalk
ihatesteveburdet 2 years ago
tx Wednesday 12th February 1992
RobinCarmody 2 years ago