As soon as I watched this video I suddenly felt sick like I hadn't felt for 25 years and I realised it was because of what the previous commenters have said - it used to signal the end of the weekend and school next day. If you were lucky you could squeeze an extra few minutes out of your parents before they insisted it was time to go to bed. Haha what great memories and feelings this has evoked lol.
I completely understand that horrible 'Sunday night' feeling. However I'm 24, so in my childhood my 'theme tune of doom' was Heartbeat. I'm so happy that it's not on anymore; otherwise I'd dread going into work on Monday morning even more than I do now!
Haha! Totally vibing with all the comments here, Howard's Way was the last bastion of hope for a fading weekend, I used to wish the end credits to last for as long as the show did! Then afterwards I knew I had about a 10 minute 'window' to brush my teeth, and that was that. I used to feel oddly 'grown up' watching this tripe too, like I was learning about wot adults do. :D
@Silverbirch4444 I have that same Sunday night feeling NOW, at 34, when I hear Antiques Roadshow and Songs of Praise! This, however, well it did at the time, now it just fills me with a longing for those carefree childhood days...
@fossy111 It's very easy to toss out a word like "crappy". But "Howard's Way" certainly wasn't crap. Today's dramas and soaps don't come anywhere near it. Maybe when you watched it you were too young to "get it" - and certainly the cental philosophy of the programme is decidedly unfashionable today
" Howard's Way", whether you realised it or not, was a series about the fear of poverty - and how that fear propelled all the characters to make something of their lives. ..Just as relevant today
Following by Bread (Gotta get up, gotta get out, grab the world by the throat and shout ooohweee ohhh oooh woooo!!!) and after the news.... That's Life (Adrian 'Partridge' Mills: well Ester, here's a story spotted by Mr Forged Misprint from Cheap Laughs in Kent...Chinese Take Away service: Peking Duck in puke sauce) guffaw guffaw guffaw. And now a heartbreaking story about a family with three deaf, blind, limbless kids with cancer were robbed of their life savings by a car dealer... boo hoo hoo!
@TomthatiscalledTom so true, the tragic real-life stories of bullied kids committing suicide and the like were always recounted when the audience were still pissing themselves at the sight of penis-shaped turnips etc.
Used to drive me insane too as I always remember it meaning the end of the weekend and the return to the dullness of school! :( Loved the programme too
Sunday nights back then WERE a count down for - back to school. Songs of praise, Howards way, Antiques roadshow, Thats life, Bread all fitted into this Sunday night feel. I remember looking at the clock counting the minutes down. Wonder if kids today have the same "Sunday night" feeling?
@Silverbirch4444 My olds were the same the most of the time; i.e. they only ever watched 'Breakfast Time' with Frank Bough and Selina Scott and thought that TV-AM with the likes of Rusty Lee, Timmy Mallett, Chris Tarrant and Roland Rat was trash- but me being a kid loved it! :)
@pufferfishish Trying to think of any TV themes from Sunday night that were aired on ITV. The only one I can remember was way past my bedtime back then but sometimes I could hear it start as my parents would be watching it and I would still be awake! The South Bank show theme!!!! EUURRRRRRGH!
@Silverbirch4444 All I can think of is stuff like 'It'll be alright on the night' with Denis Norden. Still gives me that Sunday night dreading school tomorrow feeling but nowhere near as depressing as the stuff the Beeb rolled out
@Silverbirch4444 My parents admitted later hat the real reason they wouldn't let me watch ITV was because they didn't want me seeing the adverts and pestering them for all the crappy toys. (Minutes of fun for all the family!)
@Silverbirch4444 Throughout most of the time I was at school, Heartbeat was shown on sunday evenings.
At one point, my parents decided that me and my sister could begin to stay up and watch it and at that point, it was a real treat. However I went really off it because my family insisted on watching it without fail every single week and also because it began to mark the end of the weekend and the end of school holidays. Also, didn't enjoy school so that made it even worse
Let`s not forget good old Master mind with Magnus Magnuson.Not my choice of course,used to sit there in silence in the hope that my mum would forget i was there and not send me to bed!
haha i know what you mean about school the next day, exactly right, the music was like the weekend is over go to bed the adults are back in charge! I thought the music was better than this.
@remotewall I think it's because people like myself are remembering when we were kids. It was quite common still in the 80's to bathe twice a week I think and strip wash for the rest of the week. Maybe because things were not so disposible and cheap back then I guess but not completely sure. Most people who were kids in the 80's would remember it being like this if you were not mega rich or something. hope that helps somewhat :)
@Mr123Pauli what are you talking about here! taking a bath or shower each day was the norm when i grew up, and i was born in 61. a bar of soap and a shower/bath are hardly the domain of the mega rich.
@remotewt well like I said ''...I guess...''. I wasn't saying this WAS the reason. I personally did used to shower everyday but I do remember for alot of others at school it wasn't the norm and they used to have to share a bath even with their siblings. I do agree though that I was probably incorrect with the term ''mega rich''. I am just simply stating how I well remember it for alot of people then.
@Mr123Pauli i know i was just kidding you. when this soap aired way back when in australia it was not on a sunday night so i know what you all mean when you say the next day is school day. i had the same feeling on a sunday night with programs here in australia when i was growing up. i lost track of the program only because the network here stopped airing it. theme tune was very good though.
@remotewall Kinda know what remotewall means, as kids, we never had a bath every night either- not because a bar of soap costs the earth but because of the huge amount of laundry mum would then have to do and she was already run ragged with the three of us :)
For those that suffered Thatcher's Britain:The Howards Way theme will bring back awkward memories. For the 80's working class this was decadence to the point of heresy!
@tireoghainian - so if you can't have it, I can't have it either, although I may have the skills and the brains to get it ? That bullshit's called Communism, son. Watch it !!
This takes me back also to Sunday nights!! I moved to Southamptin when I was 8 in 1986 and remember going to Ocean Village and Hamble (where it was filmed). This triggers such massive memories - such a long time ago - cannot believe I'm 32 in two weeks. Where did all the time go????
I fully understand where you young guys are coming from!
Typical Sunday night (effing school tomorrow) syndome. HOWEVER:
Contrast this aspirational (albeit terminally tacky) series with the dreadful loser tripe that prevails today. I fully understood that I was born on the wrong planet the first time that Dot Cottons ravaged visage glowered onto out TV screens. Did we really elect toilet-bowl TV "Eastenders" over Jan Howard and Tracey Childs???
@steveh777ify Tracy Childs ... Wasn't she just a babe? ... Remember the dipstick Leo an skeleton Abby,,. Were they gay ? But Yeh the proles won when they inflicted EE on us.. Still they have to have Soccer and telly keeps them quiet.. lmao..
I saw this being filmed when i went down to southampton cn a relative in the 80's. I loved it even thou i was bout 7. The set had alot to b desired thou...lol
So much for your school days being the happiest of your life. THIS followed by Bread, followed by That's Life....followed by bed followed by Monday morning in school. I am nostalgic for 1986 the way I'm nostalgic for root canal fillings
LOL, that comment totally cracked me up mate...just as I sat here wallowing in my bleary-eyed nostalgia of 80s crap! I'm 33 now and vids like this really do remind me of some of the horridness of childhood; hearing this even now still sounds haunting!
It wasnt just the theme music that was great, but also SImon May's incidental music that graces many of the scenes. Frere Seniors theme used in Series 3 and 4 was a classic.
My familys theme tune! My great uncle made a home video of my first birthday and other events and used this theme tune as the intro to the home video, which was just old pictures from my great grandparents to when me and my cousins were babies. This tune is just awesome ^^ HOWARDS WAY BABY! WOOH
Fossy111 know exactly what you mean. Great music shit programme. Sunday night was bath night ready for school. This used to be on and bread if im right?? 80's... cant believe im nearly 30!!
There is no question that this is the best Simon May theme so far, although The Vet is a close second. The scripts and acting were sometimes dreadful, but Simon May's music always lifted the programme from mediocrity, with some great little melodies. I always used to think that the man at the beginning of the title sequence was Michael Grade. It isnt, but it looks like him.
I liked the theme, it was terribly 80's but then it was good at the time since we all wore those terrible fashions, and it was filmed in a very nice and pretty area ( Southhamption Water and Isle of Wight) thanks for sharing, I wondered whether it was up here.
Kinsuemei 2-I laughed out loud at the truth of your remark-a stunningly beautiful theme music,followed by a programme whose script I would NOT wipe my arse on!!
Im now 31 and hearing this again brings back so many memories of growing up in the 80's .....didnt watch the program... but like the theme even back then
The show with that fantastic beginning theme. I could listen to that over and over again. My dads favourite programme on a Sunday evening. I didn't understand it, as I was only about 7 yrs old when it came on, but that theme stuck with me for ages. This was the only programme I remember that had 3 different end themes to it. The Jazzy one, that howardsway86 has put on is the best ending and I wish I cud download that as an MP3 file. I have Howards Way opening, and would love the ending.
Haunting is bloody right...my God how awful that feeling you describe is. Used to get it with South Bank Show too and if you managed to stay up Cell Block H tune...the roses one...((shudder))
I was 15 at the time,used to watch it with the family on a sunday night,classic BBC program.LOVE IT.That intro just does it for me.Blissful memories...
Excellent show and great song sung by Marti Webb. Evokes fantastic memories of my move to Hampshire in the early eighties. Went to the areas they did the filming of Howards Way. Fantastic lovely hot summer days, with the gorgeous blue sea and the yachts and the whole sailing fraternity. Wonderful memories. I still enjoy the whole amazing experience every summer here in wonderful Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Thank you Howards Way. Brilliant. 10+
A classic example where the title music of a tv show is the best part of it.
I can imagine how this music must take a whole generation back to sunday nights before the new school week. For me and many schoolkids of the 1970s it's probably the theme to 'That's Life'that's most evocative in this way. Agggh, horrible memories of not having done homework.
its funny how almost every sunday in england, you could hear this dam tune ring out across the land, then almost the whole country...click as they change to somthing better,
I was born in 1971;I used to love the theme tune of 'Howards Way' in the mid 1980s,as a teenager-BUT,at the very second it ended I would stop watching,as bluntly,I would NOT wipe my arse on the scripts of the episodes of this programme-nuff said!
Yeah, I always remember this emanating from the living room as I scrambled to guess some French homework, or scribble 5 minutes worth of Graphics at 10pm for the next day. Arrghhh!
if you like this type of music look up world in union xlent 10 out of 10 the words you cant hear but the again always hear work that out lol same as lord of the dance as it goes dance dance where ever you may be i am the lord of the dance said he and i need you all where ever you may be listen it all comes 2 gether
Blimey, and I thought the fact that Ken Masters wore a medalion ten years past their time was upsetting enough!!
Any chance of uploading some end credits from a standard episode? There were some on the site but seem to have disappeared (bar the Marti Webb version), with a rather funky saxophone arrangement.
Always there, your love was always there da na na na etc!!! I thought i'd already left a message re the song I REALLY started to think it was just in my head! So imagine my relief.
Please upload the actual song ..they used to play just instrumental in the background usually, however...I loved the song and the lady singing it. I dont know her name also!!! PLeaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
LOL! I know the feeling. For me on a Sunday night it was Last of the Summer Wine and That's Life. And I'll hate those programmes and their soundtracks to my dying day.
God, hearing this music again literally took me back 20 years. Knot in my stomach, school bag packed in the hall, weekend nearly over. Then the jazzy end credits and you knew the weekend was completely over.
Jeeves and Wooster and Poirot themes still have the same impact.
As soon as I watched this video I suddenly felt sick like I hadn't felt for 25 years and I realised it was because of what the previous commenters have said - it used to signal the end of the weekend and school next day. If you were lucky you could squeeze an extra few minutes out of your parents before they insisted it was time to go to bed. Haha what great memories and feelings this has evoked lol.
avsie 2 weeks ago
It reminds me of my grandpa he was always watching this show:)
Missmim777 3 weeks ago
this was a classic TV show even though I don't even remember what it was about ! Been thinking of buying it from the BBC shop in Brighton though !
whitenottrash 1 month ago
makes me feel homesick, as i am from southampton. love the music :)
katharine8054 1 month ago
I completely understand that horrible 'Sunday night' feeling. However I'm 24, so in my childhood my 'theme tune of doom' was Heartbeat. I'm so happy that it's not on anymore; otherwise I'd dread going into work on Monday morning even more than I do now!
iTubeYourDadsMinge 1 month ago
i have never seen this show, and i believe i would not want too...
Slimboyfat1979 1 month ago
Haha! Totally vibing with all the comments here, Howard's Way was the last bastion of hope for a fading weekend, I used to wish the end credits to last for as long as the show did! Then afterwards I knew I had about a 10 minute 'window' to brush my teeth, and that was that. I used to feel oddly 'grown up' watching this tripe too, like I was learning about wot adults do. :D
LeighGhostTao 2 months ago 2
Hate this - reminds me of going to bed early, school tomorrow! Funny how memories stick with you.
TrevorSteven 2 months ago 2
HAHA this is amazing! your very right though, reminds me of sunday nights haha and then school, classic
thebenromeo 2 months ago
Bed time music!! :)
imacstu 3 months ago
@fossy11 For me the music to Panorama meant bed time. Another was the theme to Taxi. I never got to see a single episode dammit! :)
StevenJMUK 3 months ago
This is an opening from 1989 from the early part of season 5 when Maurine was still alive as it was the last two series that had Kate in it...
Borusa1976 3 months ago
@Silverbirch4444 I have that same Sunday night feeling NOW, at 34, when I hear Antiques Roadshow and Songs of Praise! This, however, well it did at the time, now it just fills me with a longing for those carefree childhood days...
10MC77 3 months ago
@fossy111 It's very easy to toss out a word like "crappy". But "Howard's Way" certainly wasn't crap. Today's dramas and soaps don't come anywhere near it. Maybe when you watched it you were too young to "get it" - and certainly the cental philosophy of the programme is decidedly unfashionable today
" Howard's Way", whether you realised it or not, was a series about the fear of poverty - and how that fear propelled all the characters to make something of their lives. ..Just as relevant today
newsnetuk 4 months ago 2
fossy...have you done your maths homework? double maths tomorrow! Evokes that same horrible Sunday night feeling with me as well.
dogwwoo 4 months ago
shakeyphil - were you me??? This music meant once again another week totally unprepared for.....ugh!!
hallilt 4 months ago
Love this music
Kelendria4Life 4 months ago
loved the show its from my neck of the woods hampshire
eastbourne11 4 months ago
I always hated this show. I completely agree with the uploaders comments.
eclectica1 5 months ago
Great theme tune, crap programme.
RobFinlay 5 months ago
Yup that sounds about right re Howard's Way then Bread
p30dax 7 months ago
I kinda liked this .. but then I'm of sea fairing stock....this and Eldorado,., Marcuuuus Tandy... LOL
tregino 7 months ago
Following by Bread (Gotta get up, gotta get out, grab the world by the throat and shout ooohweee ohhh oooh woooo!!!) and after the news.... That's Life (Adrian 'Partridge' Mills: well Ester, here's a story spotted by Mr Forged Misprint from Cheap Laughs in Kent...Chinese Take Away service: Peking Duck in puke sauce) guffaw guffaw guffaw. And now a heartbreaking story about a family with three deaf, blind, limbless kids with cancer were robbed of their life savings by a car dealer... boo hoo hoo!
TomthatiscalledTom 7 months ago
@TomthatiscalledTom so true, the tragic real-life stories of bullied kids committing suicide and the like were always recounted when the audience were still pissing themselves at the sight of penis-shaped turnips etc.
pufferfishish 5 months ago 2
yeah, sunday night, remember very much, now im 32!!
dakndonk 8 months ago
Used to drive me insane too as I always remember it meaning the end of the weekend and the return to the dullness of school! :( Loved the programme too
ricliscct 8 months ago 2
Sunday nights back then WERE a count down for - back to school. Songs of praise, Howards way, Antiques roadshow, Thats life, Bread all fitted into this Sunday night feel. I remember looking at the clock counting the minutes down. Wonder if kids today have the same "Sunday night" feeling?
Silverbirch4444 9 months ago 28
@Silverbirch4444 Not forgetting ''Surprise Surprise'' with arr Cilla!! :)
pufferfishish 9 months ago
@pufferfishish Ha yes your right! Back then our parents would only allow us to watch the BBC HA HA! As these were the home of 'quality programmes'.
Silverbirch4444 9 months ago
@Silverbirch4444 My olds were the same the most of the time; i.e. they only ever watched 'Breakfast Time' with Frank Bough and Selina Scott and thought that TV-AM with the likes of Rusty Lee, Timmy Mallett, Chris Tarrant and Roland Rat was trash- but me being a kid loved it! :)
pufferfishish 9 months ago
@pufferfishish Trying to think of any TV themes from Sunday night that were aired on ITV. The only one I can remember was way past my bedtime back then but sometimes I could hear it start as my parents would be watching it and I would still be awake! The South Bank show theme!!!! EUURRRRRRGH!
Silverbirch4444 9 months ago
@Silverbirch4444 All I can think of is stuff like 'It'll be alright on the night' with Denis Norden. Still gives me that Sunday night dreading school tomorrow feeling but nowhere near as depressing as the stuff the Beeb rolled out
pufferfishish 9 months ago
@Silverbirch4444 My parents admitted later hat the real reason they wouldn't let me watch ITV was because they didn't want me seeing the adverts and pestering them for all the crappy toys. (Minutes of fun for all the family!)
PlantagenetKW 7 months ago
@PlantagenetKW Ha ha yes that does make sense. Maybe thats what my parents were secretly thinking too!
Silverbirch4444 7 months ago
@Silverbirch4444 Throughout most of the time I was at school, Heartbeat was shown on sunday evenings.
At one point, my parents decided that me and my sister could begin to stay up and watch it and at that point, it was a real treat. However I went really off it because my family insisted on watching it without fail every single week and also because it began to mark the end of the weekend and the end of school holidays. Also, didn't enjoy school so that made it even worse
Meanmanmartin2007 5 months ago
@Silverbirch4444
wasnt just you mate.... i had the same....
i had to put up with.... antiques roadshow, songs of praise, last of the summer wine, lovejoy all "sunday programmes" - depressing shite.
classiccelebs 3 months ago
@Silverbirch4444 They do but they just look at their i phones and X-Factor is the final show they get to watch...
I'm 26 and I sound SOOoooo old! But it's true!
chestnuthose 3 months ago
so true :) but i l0ved this lol
pollsrfree 2 months ago
Let`s not forget good old Master mind with Magnus Magnuson.Not my choice of course,used to sit there in silence in the hope that my mum would forget i was there and not send me to bed!
wanttohavemysay 10 months ago
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wanttohavemysay 10 months ago
antiques road show, howards way, bread then bed.......every sunday before school good old days lol
stueyrogue 11 months ago
I love that tune
douglas1249 11 months ago
Still makes me sick just listening to it! reminds me of bedtime and school the next day.
littleandlarge06 1 year ago 13
@littleandlarge06 hhahahha i know what you mean,gives me the shivers lool
josephxuereb1 2 months ago
LUV IT .....
XR2IFREAK 1 year ago
haha i know what you mean about school the next day, exactly right, the music was like the weekend is over go to bed the adults are back in charge! I thought the music was better than this.
chatteyj 1 year ago
Sends a shiver down my spine. This means and the inevitability of school. Awful.
Gossy 1 year ago 3
@Gossy - Did you go to Haut de la Garenne too?
MrSyrett 1 year ago
why do you all say bath night? don't you bathe every night? you are right about the show, it was not all that crash hot but the theme was cool.
remotewall 1 year ago
@remotewall I think it's because people like myself are remembering when we were kids. It was quite common still in the 80's to bathe twice a week I think and strip wash for the rest of the week. Maybe because things were not so disposible and cheap back then I guess but not completely sure. Most people who were kids in the 80's would remember it being like this if you were not mega rich or something. hope that helps somewhat :)
Mr123Pauli 1 year ago
@Mr123Pauli what are you talking about here! taking a bath or shower each day was the norm when i grew up, and i was born in 61. a bar of soap and a shower/bath are hardly the domain of the mega rich.
remotewall 1 year ago
@remotewt well like I said ''...I guess...''. I wasn't saying this WAS the reason. I personally did used to shower everyday but I do remember for alot of others at school it wasn't the norm and they used to have to share a bath even with their siblings. I do agree though that I was probably incorrect with the term ''mega rich''. I am just simply stating how I well remember it for alot of people then.
Mr123Pauli 1 year ago
@Mr123Pauli i know i was just kidding you. when this soap aired way back when in australia it was not on a sunday night so i know what you all mean when you say the next day is school day. i had the same feeling on a sunday night with programs here in australia when i was growing up. i lost track of the program only because the network here stopped airing it. theme tune was very good though.
remotewall 11 months ago
@remotewall Kinda know what remotewall means, as kids, we never had a bath every night either- not because a bar of soap costs the earth but because of the huge amount of laundry mum would then have to do and she was already run ragged with the three of us :)
pufferfishish 9 months ago
If only shows these days had intros this long to remember the theme tune.
raabdj 1 year ago
I'm with you guys, pure nostalgia. Cheaper times
dalmaximus 1 year ago 3
Haha bath night.
slick32 1 year ago
Ah yes...bath night and dreading double-hell aka Monday morning AND school!
ClareH29 1 year ago
Ahhhh Ceefax - the predecessor of the Internet!
xr6lad 1 year ago
Haha we are all the same, bath howards way end of the weekend depression bed primary school :D
azertu2u2 1 year ago
If that was pneumatic Tracey diving into the pool at the end I wish it had gone on a bit longer....
rooftopjump 1 year ago
love it !!!!!!!!
claas567 1 year ago
agreed 100% with shakeyphil,sunday nights sucked......but such an iconic theme tune i must say !! timeless.....
supernickybarmby 1 year ago
Youngsters lol ... For us in our 20's back then it was excellent .. Course we had no thoughts of school.. just where to park our porsche at work.. :)
teflonmike1 1 year ago
Interestingly this was filmed miles away from the coast, at BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham!
CHANNELMICHAEL 1 year ago
@CHANNELMICHAEL .. Actually ? Its not ..
teflonmike1 1 year ago
@teflonmike1 No, it was. The titles were filmed on the coast and the indoor stuff in Studio A Pebble Mill.
CHANNELMICHAEL 1 year ago
for me it was bloody work the next day! thanx
conhawks 1 year ago
For those that suffered Thatcher's Britain:The Howards Way theme will bring back awkward memories. For the 80's working class this was decadence to the point of heresy!
tireoghainian 1 year ago
@tireoghainian - so if you can't have it, I can't have it either, although I may have the skills and the brains to get it ? That bullshit's called Communism, son. Watch it !!
kealyc 1 year ago
This takes me back also to Sunday nights!! I moved to Southamptin when I was 8 in 1986 and remember going to Ocean Village and Hamble (where it was filmed). This triggers such massive memories - such a long time ago - cannot believe I'm 32 in two weeks. Where did all the time go????
francesboyd1 1 year ago
I fully understand where you young guys are coming from!
Typical Sunday night (effing school tomorrow) syndome. HOWEVER:
Contrast this aspirational (albeit terminally tacky) series with the dreadful loser tripe that prevails today. I fully understood that I was born on the wrong planet the first time that Dot Cottons ravaged visage glowered onto out TV screens. Did we really elect toilet-bowl TV "Eastenders" over Jan Howard and Tracey Childs???
...Go figure cos I can't.
steveh777ify 1 year ago
@steveh777ify Tracy Childs ... Wasn't she just a babe? ... Remember the dipstick Leo an skeleton Abby,,. Were they gay ? But Yeh the proles won when they inflicted EE on us.. Still they have to have Soccer and telly keeps them quiet.. lmao..
teflonmike1 1 year ago
god i hated sunday nights......
topliff12345 1 year ago
Jesus, just had a flashback to Sunday nights aka bath night, dreading school on the Monday ha ha!
ClareH29 2 years ago
Haha! Snap! It's amazing how a theme tune sticks in your head and triggers stuff like that.
monkeyboydai 2 years ago
I saw this being filmed when i went down to southampton cn a relative in the 80's. I loved it even thou i was bout 7. The set had alot to b desired thou...lol
MegaWill1981 2 years ago
i agree!!! Sunday evenings, long ago!!!!!
MOSESCAT69 2 years ago
It was not crappy,one of many good programes of the 80`s
WELLYS1989 2 years ago 2
Yep, Sunday nights.
Game over.
Spot on mate!
aldhous 2 years ago 2
Does anything say 80s excess like Howards Way?
emmyjo720 2 years ago
So much for your school days being the happiest of your life. THIS followed by Bread, followed by That's Life....followed by bed followed by Monday morning in school. I am nostalgic for 1986 the way I'm nostalgic for root canal fillings
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago 4
LOL, that comment totally cracked me up mate...just as I sat here wallowing in my bleary-eyed nostalgia of 80s crap! I'm 33 now and vids like this really do remind me of some of the horridness of childhood; hearing this even now still sounds haunting!
Nemesis110976 2 years ago
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Clavinovaman 2 years ago
Um, er... as far as I can see "Bicknell" is spelt correctly :o)
clients1 2 years ago
"Crappy nighttime soap from when I was a kid, the music used to haunt me" - Scoff! Howards Way was absolutely brilliant!!!!
TeddyPud 2 years ago
Sunday night.... oh yes its Sunday night,
and you have not done.... your home... work,
Oh yes it is Sunday night... not washed your uniform,
and you've got PE in the, in the freezing weather
shakeyphil 2 years ago 47
Totally!!! That's EXACTLY what this conjures up in my mind.
Great theme tune BUT the terrible feeling that school is only a few hours away (and the homework's not done).
SultanChase 2 years ago 3
@shakeyphil ha ha ha ha you are soooo right remember those dayys!
MovieMad007 1 year ago
@shakeyphil
lol, i can relate.
cheekyleopard 1 year ago
@shakeyphil
LOL you just wrote the theme song to my youth.
MrLetsdolunch 6 months ago
I used to syncronised swimming and the amount of girls that used this piece of music for their solo!
bus140808 2 years ago 2
This is so glossy it could almost of been made yesterday..... in someways the intros were ahead of their time
dynamite1976 2 years ago
It wasnt just the theme music that was great, but also SImon May's incidental music that graces many of the scenes. Frere Seniors theme used in Series 3 and 4 was a classic.
Clavinovaman 3 years ago
ooooooh fuck this track is bringing me down lol!!!
runtyrunt 3 years ago
Oh No this music just makes me go eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeegh
c0011y5383 3 years ago
never watched the programme but always listened to the theme tune , made my sunday nights
slugger2811 3 years ago
I hated this as a kidd! Sunday nights sucked, ITV was better Spitting image after news at ten!
Svetlanka83 3 years ago
And the so-called comedy 'Bread' came on right after it. The pain!
TomthatiscalledTom 3 years ago
LOL - Howards Way followed by Bread sums up my life during my adolescent years....heheeeeeee
Rosiemoore 2 years ago 2
My familys theme tune! My great uncle made a home video of my first birthday and other events and used this theme tune as the intro to the home video, which was just old pictures from my great grandparents to when me and my cousins were babies. This tune is just awesome ^^ HOWARDS WAY BABY! WOOH
Jarethissex 3 years ago
been watching a load of these old program intros..
makes me feel 8 again haha
thepissflap 3 years ago
This song always marked the cruel, sad end to the weekend ..... as a 7/8 year old this would be weekly shower and jim jams before a week at school
StiggyStigStig2007 3 years ago 3
just how I remember it!
arrowfield57 3 years ago
Hmm me too lol
rupert81 3 years ago
so you showered at the end of the week and went to school stink all week?
ryto12 3 years ago
no, I was kidding
StiggyStigStig2007 2 years ago
they don't make theme tunes like this anymore... Cheers, Hills Street Blues, Black Beauty, Juliet Bravo - love 'em all. :-)
drlemoncobra 3 years ago 2
Was crasy about this music when i was 12 !!!!
Didnt realise everyone else loved it too!!
Yes the script was a bit crap but must admit I loved Jan Harvey!!!
Rosiemoore 3 years ago
I was too busy luvin star trek on bbc1 jus after angels wen i was 10, but loved this music, still do:)
TheEqualizer1972 3 years ago
Oh good gravy, you're right! I hear the refrain of the theme and suddenly I'm 8 again, grumpily climbing the stairs to bed.
SciStarborne 3 years ago
And Andy Taylor annoucing too.
Tomj2110 3 years ago
so many memories loved it!!!!!!!!
insomnia80s 3 years ago
Great show love the music,bring it back
southamptongayguy 3 years ago 2
PLEASE PLEASE bring it back. I loved it, the music just sends tingles up my spine
d134883n 3 years ago
Fossy111 know exactly what you mean. Great music shit programme. Sunday night was bath night ready for school. This used to be on and bread if im right?? 80's... cant believe im nearly 30!!
smithers181180 3 years ago 18
@smithers181180 Don't forget That's Life with Esther and her gang! (If you were allowed to stay up that long)
MrHalsalli 1 year ago
@smithers181180 lol you probably are by now its 3 years since you posted this try being nearly 40 then!
gluepot66 7 months ago
There is no question that this is the best Simon May theme so far, although The Vet is a close second. The scripts and acting were sometimes dreadful, but Simon May's music always lifted the programme from mediocrity, with some great little melodies. I always used to think that the man at the beginning of the title sequence was Michael Grade. It isnt, but it looks like him.
FreelanderHSE 3 years ago 2
This intro seems so modern... could almost be yesterday LOL remember this very well but I was sooooooooooo young
dynamite1976 3 years ago
i seem to remember a woman shouting JACK a lot for some reason
jcb180 3 years ago
i wish it could be 1988 ever day yyyyyyyyyyyyy
lordilujah 3 years ago 2
DALLAS, LOOK A LIKE, BUT NOT BAD
koppie0 3 years ago
I liked the theme, it was terribly 80's but then it was good at the time since we all wore those terrible fashions, and it was filmed in a very nice and pretty area ( Southhamption Water and Isle of Wight) thanks for sharing, I wondered whether it was up here.
jane1975 4 years ago
Sunday evenings circa 1988. The Clothes Show, Songs of Praise, Blind Date, Howards Way, Bread, Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image. What a trip!
unknownadonis 4 years ago 3
Simply the best TV theme music of the 80s!
gladiator3543 4 years ago
no it wasnt
martinwilliamrandall 4 years ago
why did the thing at beginning say 2004? scary!!!!!!!!!!!
njerzynek 4 years ago
bad editing?
madhobbit 4 years ago
HA BRILLIANT ....
I was about 7/8 when this was on, and I have to agree, for me too it marked the sruel sad end to the weekend, and it was time for Jim Jams...
It brings back those eerily similar feelings now!!
Nut not necessarily in a bad way
StiggyStigStig2007 4 years ago
Im just glad that some1 else went to bed that early too. Was Bread on right after this?
tunnockteacake 4 years ago
Kinsuemei 2-I laughed out loud at the truth of your remark-a stunningly beautiful theme music,followed by a programme whose script I would NOT wipe my arse on!!
patrick180271 4 years ago
Im now 31 and hearing this again brings back so many memories of growing up in the 80's .....didnt watch the program... but like the theme even back then
dynamite1976 4 years ago
The show with that fantastic beginning theme. I could listen to that over and over again. My dads favourite programme on a Sunday evening. I didn't understand it, as I was only about 7 yrs old when it came on, but that theme stuck with me for ages. This was the only programme I remember that had 3 different end themes to it. The Jazzy one, that howardsway86 has put on is the best ending and I wish I cud download that as an MP3 file. I have Howards Way opening, and would love the ending.
tigerboytony 4 years ago 2
I can capture the Audio from the ending off here. But it would be You tube quality, which is pretty poor? Better than nothing though?
peterdelane 4 years ago
Haunting is bloody right...my God how awful that feeling you describe is. Used to get it with South Bank Show too and if you managed to stay up Cell Block H tune...the roses one...((shudder))
peterdelane 4 years ago
FANTASTIC...........Howards way.
I was 15 at the time,used to watch it with the family on a sunday night,classic BBC program.LOVE IT.That intro just does it for me.Blissful memories...
starpupil 4 years ago
Excellent show and great song sung by Marti Webb. Evokes fantastic memories of my move to Hampshire in the early eighties. Went to the areas they did the filming of Howards Way. Fantastic lovely hot summer days, with the gorgeous blue sea and the yachts and the whole sailing fraternity. Wonderful memories. I still enjoy the whole amazing experience every summer here in wonderful Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Thank you Howards Way. Brilliant. 10+
lizbeth3220 4 years ago
A classic example where the title music of a tv show is the best part of it.
I can imagine how this music must take a whole generation back to sunday nights before the new school week. For me and many schoolkids of the 1970s it's probably the theme to 'That's Life'that's most evocative in this way. Agggh, horrible memories of not having done homework.
mutinyonthekitkat 4 years ago
TOTALLY agree ! Lol !
Iceblooo 4 years ago
But the theme was so long it at least seemed to be helping to prolong the weekend and hold off school.
hermituker 4 years ago 2
its funny how almost every sunday in england, you could hear this dam tune ring out across the land, then almost the whole country...click as they change to somthing better,
kinsuemei2 4 years ago
I was born in 1971;I used to love the theme tune of 'Howards Way' in the mid 1980s,as a teenager-BUT,at the very second it ended I would stop watching,as bluntly,I would NOT wipe my arse on the scripts of the episodes of this programme-nuff said!
patrick180271 4 years ago
What a beautiful piece of music. Thank you for posting this.
czechstop 4 years ago
Yeah, I always remember this emanating from the living room as I scrambled to guess some French homework, or scribble 5 minutes worth of Graphics at 10pm for the next day. Arrghhh!
Martin958 4 years ago
Luved this one Thkxs.
cambridge7 4 years ago
HaHa I'm with you on the school thing. I was always gutted when it ended. Brings back alot of happy memorys, thanks for uploading it.
evie1887 4 years ago
Certainly bedtime after this one. Britain's answer to the glossy Dallas-type US soaps.
raymonde01 4 years ago
Ha, ha, speaking of oil they could've made a spin-off series set just across the water in Fawley --- "Howard's Grey".
newagent 4 years ago
if you like this type of music look up world in union xlent 10 out of 10 the words you cant hear but the again always hear work that out lol same as lord of the dance as it goes dance dance where ever you may be i am the lord of the dance said he and i need you all where ever you may be listen it all comes 2 gether
plumdj2000 4 years ago
Happy memories Brilliant soap
baldimanseven 4 years ago
Blimey, and I thought the fact that Ken Masters wore a medalion ten years past their time was upsetting enough!!
Any chance of uploading some end credits from a standard episode? There were some on the site but seem to have disappeared (bar the Marti Webb version), with a rather funky saxophone arrangement.
JayFirestorm 4 years ago
I just learnt to play this on piano it was in a sheet music book i came on youtube to see if it was on here and it is lol
tulipfiend 4 years ago
Aunties very own super soap. :)
pipoo1 4 years ago
Long summer nights..........Happy days!
pjw12340 4 years ago
Always there, your love was always there da na na na etc!!! I thought i'd already left a message re the song I REALLY started to think it was just in my head! So imagine my relief.
girlkins 4 years ago
"Always There" was sung by Marti Webb.
SaintGeorge1978 4 years ago
Please upload the actual song ..they used to play just instrumental in the background usually, however...I loved the song and the lady singing it. I dont know her name also!!! PLeaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
TopBestseller 4 years ago
I loved the music, but hated that it was definitely bedtime...
Who knew this was such a widely-held feeling?
tomtenbob 4 years ago
Loved the music to this when i was growing up.
chrisniss91 5 years ago
Aah so many memories...I agree with everyone, and yep its those sunday night memories...school in the morning :[
destructivedandy 5 years ago
Great boat, Laser 28 called Flying Fish, I used to race on her from Cowes in the Solent!
seguima 5 years ago
Bring it back!
mercerben 5 years ago
This is brilliant great to see it again brought back lots of good memories for me! This was good Sunday night tv! lol
princessleia29 5 years ago
LOL, the music filled me with sadness as the weekend was over and school was in the morning.
fossy111 5 years ago
@fossy111 A few years to late in response this comment but spot on! Exactly how I used to feel when I was young back in the 80's!
Markjuk 1 year ago
@fossy111
LOL! I know the feeling. For me on a Sunday night it was Last of the Summer Wine and That's Life. And I'll hate those programmes and their soundtracks to my dying day.
TheHarecat 1 year ago
@fossy111
This and Points of View were the weekend killers when i was a kid
DCTheGuitarist 1 year ago
@fossy111
God, hearing this music again literally took me back 20 years. Knot in my stomach, school bag packed in the hall, weekend nearly over. Then the jazzy end credits and you knew the weekend was completely over.
Jeeves and Wooster and Poirot themes still have the same impact.
CherryGarrard 1 year ago 2
brilliant tune and programme!
mason642 5 years ago