it was shown on television on a saturday morning, as i used to look forward to watching it when i was at school and as soon as i got out of bed on a saturday morning the tv went on for my normal saturday morning viewing on tiswas lol this was an added extra but was definitly shown on a saturday morning in our area, no doubts about that, dubbed in to english with the mouths out of sinch with the spoken words ..lol loved it though lol
@maddythegaff - I'm sure this was on BBC Northern Ireland on Saturday mornings in the early/mid seventies. Saturday was the only day we were allowed to watch TV and I remember eagerly waiting for this and the Aeronauts...?
meeting great mates butts lebby and blacky on the metro coming back from the toon at a weekend full of drink singing this song and trying to sword fence great days
@bibbleblab11 Yeh definitely. It was originally shown on Monday evenings in Spring 1969. Loved it. It's actually quite a complex story to follow. But when I was a kid I think I just loved the fight scenes, the plot was a bit over my head and we all used to impersonate the terrible dubbing.
There were some weird ass Czech kid's programmes on too - anyone remember one with a horrible little midget that lived in a tree? There was a also a big (fake) fish that came and talked to people.... very sketchy memories of that one...
Sorry guys but this was never on on saturdays, it was a "school holiday special". Interesting that these were all foreign productions ( White Horses, Belle & Sebastian Robinson Crusoe) but it didn't register with me at the time, though the dubbing was diabolical lol. Happy Happy times. Miss them x
omg,this tune has been birling in ma heid for years now (no one else seems to remember it) memories of Saturday mornings in front of the old B & W telly in the corner of the living room are flooding back now ( think I was secretly in love with our dashing hero as an 8 year old) GOOD TIMES !!!!!
I remember all of these too, most vividly. Oddly many of the most memorable were foreign productions, despite the quality of home grown programmes. Sadly, so much of children's TV is rubbish now, or maybe I am just showing my age...
@SuperSpiderlady im just after finding this on the net after all these years i never taught id see this again used to love getting up on a saturday to watch it
@MrM894 you n me both, many yrs and a lota water gone under a lota bridges since i last heard it but ive remembered how it goes all these yrs n often find my self humming it, thank fook for youtube n the internet
@MrM894 you n me both, many yrs and a lota water gone under a lota bridges since i last heard it but ive remembered how it goes all these yrs n often find my self humming it, thank fook for youtube n the interne
My goodness, this brings back some memories! I'm getting addicted to 1970's TV: it's so much better than modern stuff. And the theme from this is great. "It's better to have fought and lost than not have fought at all." Indeed.
For me the best theme tune/song ever: rousing tune and words that stirred the heart... so many memories of a happy childhood. cant believe that after all these years it still sounds so good and can transport one back to childhood
Noggin the Nog, Marine Boy, Banana Splits, Scooby Doo, Herge's adventures of Tintin, Multicoloured Swap shop (Saturdays), Robinson Crusoe, Skippy, The Aeronauts, The Flashing Blade, Hong Kong Phooey, The Double Deckers, Robinson Crusoe, Daktari, Pogle's Wood, Magic Roundabout, White Horses, Belle and Sebastian. Long summer days with nothing to do. Those were the days..
@adamkincaid1234 aaa..white horses! (on white horses.snowy whit.e...) U take me back Adam, tales from the riverbank, tomorrow people, follyfoot, herb garden, THE PERSUADERS,& Protectors,Champions... Belle and Sebastian & RC... 'Ive been alone on this Island' B&W but supa theme. Those were the days..
@moonshinersdaughter1 you take me back too. I forgot tales from the riverbank! I used to watch it on the settee in our lounge in north London, one hand spooning the rice pudding form the bowl on my lap, the other holding my mum's hand. Ah, the simple, happy joys of childhood. To me, the 60's was a wonderful sunny paradise where everyone was happy and nice to each other. If I could have a 'groundhog day' over a decade, it'd be that one:)
@adamkincaid1234 You must be 43 -46 ? Those were the days.. And Tarzan, flashing blade was definately the best though, great tv, great times. 'And light and love and happiness are well worth fighting for'
@adamkincaid1234 Check out the opening theme to Follyfoot .It is a song called 'The Lightning Tree' and is performed by a group called The Settlers .In my opinion it is up there with the theme tunes to Belle Et Sebastien and White Horses .
Some great posts here, loved this with it's fine theme tune.
HOWEVER, we enjoyed the summer hols thro the 70s (it WAS sunny almost all the time, snow every winter, how perverse!), so we had the pleasure Robinson Crusoe with its so dreary theme, and Belle et Bluddy Sebastien (only good when the mountain rescue chopper appeared), EVERY summer for years & years & years. We think the Beeb were instructed to show them with the sole purpose of driving the kids outside to play in the fresh air....!
great series, takes me back, does anyone remember the arabian knights and shazan. childrens t.v for it's time was great, or maybe it was because it was compacted into short periods. there is too much for kids now to choose from and not nealy as good.
At the age of 9, the blonde girl out of this programme made me know I was heterosexual. She was fantastic. Oh, and Alexandra Bastedo out of "The Champions".
@gnash555 You took the flamin' words straight out of my mouth! Just add Ingrid Pitt to the list, when I was sneaky enough to watch late night Hammer Horror.
@gnash555 Countess Dracula was one of my favourites, along with the Vampire Lovers :P But I also liked her in Where Eagles Dare. I always wanted to go to one of those big signing events they have, where you can get autographs as Pitt sometimes attends.
This seemed to be repeated during every summer holiday during my childhood. They had a weird view of what they thought children would like to watch back then!
you tube ...is like a time machine...just been back to when i was about 5 years old..as the fonz once said happy days .............ps no spell check on here so here i go
As a very young boy I never knew what Flashing Blades was about. It was a decent enough show. Something to watch with a kick-ass theme tune. I remember the sounds, especially the voices being so focused, clear and close, until I realised what dubbing meant.
Strange to think that us in our thirties are the first to be able to revisit our youth (thanks to YT and similar) in such microscopic detail. I just watched Barnaby the friggin Bear for christ's sake!
so brilliant l carnet stop listing to this and as a kid it brining s back some good memoires on t.v. then but thy were the days a up l getting a bit older but still a kid inside of all of us l think watching all the old stuff again is brilliant thanks
God this brings back memories. Long summer school holidays in the early 70's.
I remember Casey Jones, Champion the Wonder Horse, The Whirleybirds, Robinson Crusoe, Banana Splits I could go on. Great days which seemed to last so long, time seems to fly now. I think I'm getting old LOL.
Loved the theme tune to this - used to ride off on my Chopper afterwards imagining it was a Horse LOL.
This was brilliant better than Swap Show that replaced it. I can't see it was a tele mile stone having Noel Edmonds on our screens or Keath Chigwins come too that. Flashing Blade was what Saturday morning's about that with Flash Gordon they also used to show if I remember.
fantastic! so many great memories of school holidays, watching this, robinson crusoe and white horse, amongst others - simple times and happy times! thank you for posting this!
Great retro TV.Opening titles,sense of speed,bombardment of Casal ,gripping!Theme tune excellent.!.As for ham acting it didn't matter,if you can handle dubbed voices at 10 you could watch anything.Big thumbs up for french cinema.Just bought this and Robinson Crusoe from Amazon.Arthur of the Britons next..Thanks for the memory jog.
I'd forgotten this show! Loved it along with Blue Peter, Magpie, The Banana Splits, H R Pufnstuf, and the show which terrified my childhood, The Singing Ringing Tree. Best of all though was Robinson Crusoe, and the music is still brilliant.
A Saturday morning TV show called On The Waterfront did a new version of this dubbing their voices onto the episodes - very funny and co-written by a certain Russel T Davies
I just (just) remember this. I vaguely remember an episode where it was something to do with a message written beside a well. I remember a character in a harlequin costume. What I mostly remember though is being puzzled why they always seemed to be galloping backwards and forwards over the same bit of open space. I got the same feeling watching the film The Two Towers.
Can't forget that tune, brings back distant memeories, had no idea what the program was about really but loved the tune and the images, those were the days, carefree days of childhood.
The theme song was "Fight" by The Musketeers (written by Alex Masters), which was issued on a Philips single in 1969.......squashbuckling stuff. And for other TV nerds like myself the original French show was called Le Chevalier Tempête (you guessed it ...the blade flashing). I think that it depicted the War of the Mantuan Succession (1628-1631) between the French and the Spanish and the besieged fortress was the garrison in the city of Casale. Brilliant stuff !
Only in the 1970s could you have had a children's adventure serial set during the War of the Mantuan Succession. I mean, can you imagine trying to pitch THAT to a TV company now.
When TV was a treat - I remember going to my grandmas and seeing this and Folly Foot and White Horses and Belle and Sebastian.....great great kids TV! Im glad im 44!
Who remembers the p***-take version that used to be shown on one of the Saturday morning shows in the 90s? It was the original film with new dubbed dialogue - written by Russell T Davies of Dr Who fame!
FYI the TV series which showed that version of The Flashing Blade was 'On The Waterfront', was on around '88-'89. Hilarious northern accent dubbing and sound effects. There are some episodes of it on YouTube.
Brought back some fab memories..we use to make wooden swords,and batter each other with them....imagine the health & safety,getting on the way they were riding them horses....classical..
Ha-Haaa!! What a terrific series and brilliant theme tune.
It dates the people I work with when you hum the tune and they all shout out "The Flashing Blade" at the same time, like some kind of tourettes syndrome...
Interestingly, the guys singing this English version sound just like "The Spectrum" who sung the alternate version of the closing credits for "Captain Scarlet"
I remember watching this on TV in Farnborough Hospital (Kent) in 1969 after I had my tonsils out. This is a real trip back in time, thanks so much for posting!
I used to have this as my ring tone :o)
1066nemo 3 days ago
Best theme tune of all time. l'm transported back to a time when I galloped everywhere on my imaginary horse while singing this song. Great memories.
purdonme 4 days ago
it was on saturdays great show the kids of today missed out
ianerpb 2 weeks ago
This vid is popular on Micronesia
dailypinoyshowbiz 2 weeks ago
it was shown on television on a saturday morning, as i used to look forward to watching it when i was at school and as soon as i got out of bed on a saturday morning the tv went on for my normal saturday morning viewing on tiswas lol this was an added extra but was definitly shown on a saturday morning in our area, no doubts about that, dubbed in to english with the mouths out of sinch with the spoken words ..lol loved it though lol
MrStaffy01 3 weeks ago
@MrStaffy01 It was on a Sat morning. This, Casey Jones and Champion the Wonder Horse were the start of Sat Kids tv mid 70's.
dirkbogarde44 3 weeks ago
@maddythegaff - I'm sure this was on BBC Northern Ireland on Saturday mornings in the early/mid seventies. Saturday was the only day we were allowed to watch TV and I remember eagerly waiting for this and the Aeronauts...?
CJWensleydale 4 weeks ago
Strange responses for this video once more.
fryejames12 1 month ago
Deffo on a Saturday morning in N Ireland wouldent have missed it.
mac6460 1 month ago
Found it, at last!
verfugbarkite 2 months ago
I have not seen this for at LEAST 38 years - thanks SO much!!
Pixel1962 3 months ago
@Pixel1962 you can get it as a dvd from amazon
WhitewashTheThird 2 months ago
meeting great mates butts lebby and blacky on the metro coming back from the toon at a weekend full of drink singing this song and trying to sword fence great days
SuperJimdeb 3 months ago
2.14 gives him the hairy amllet (head but)
skunkhead2007 4 months ago
The tune really sticks in my mind from my childhood but don't ask me what any of the episodes were about. You can tell I am a singer can't you?
sugaarandspicee 4 months ago
does anyone remember a cartoon from about 66 or 67 about a flying robot that wore a cape with i think had kids on his back
offtowigan 4 months ago
@offtowigan This flying robot with a cape and a kid on its back might be Gigantor, hope this helps :)
Keefymonoped 4 months ago
@offtowigan gigantor
ryalke 4 months ago
does anyone remember the redubbed comedy version?
thanqualthehighseer 4 months ago
@thanqualthehighseer seem to remember trevor and simon doing it on a saturday show ....Giddy up horsey.... lol
robwaying 4 months ago in playlist 70 childhood
@robwaying That was soooo funny wen they dubbed it
moonshinersdaughter1 4 months ago
@robwaying yes...the spoof versions of this are the only ones I remember
mrspivvy 3 months ago
@thanqualthehighseer On the Riverfront................or something, it had one of the Nolan sisters in it.
colinsmylie1 3 months ago
I did not like Heidi and you can't make me watch it....
AdrianWoodward71 4 months ago
zoro was cool also...
AdrianWoodward71 4 months ago
POG P.O.G POG ppllluummmbbbbb!!!!!
AdrianWoodward71 4 months ago
Iron Maiden based their whole career on this tune. lol.
Gonzoidz 5 months ago
shivers up the spine job with that song. I still knew most of the words watching this.
RadiantsUK 5 months ago 2
With respect Maddy there was a time in the 70's whn this was on BBC on Saturday mornings.
bibbleblab11 5 months ago
@bibbleblab11 Yeh definitely. It was originally shown on Monday evenings in Spring 1969. Loved it. It's actually quite a complex story to follow. But when I was a kid I think I just loved the fight scenes, the plot was a bit over my head and we all used to impersonate the terrible dubbing.
WhitewashTheThird 2 months ago
That Czech show was called The Singing Ringing Tree
vorbaden 5 months ago
There were some weird ass Czech kid's programmes on too - anyone remember one with a horrible little midget that lived in a tree? There was a also a big (fake) fish that came and talked to people.... very sketchy memories of that one...
Sledge101 5 months ago
awwww great times, i also recall casey jones, champion the wonder horse and the whirly birds.....summer holiday tv was the absolute best.
dazzabillypunkpsycho 5 months ago
Anybody got the Aeronauts? i remember this from 1972 again previously dating from the late 60s.
silverblueeye 5 months ago
Hi it was shown on BBC on Saturday morning 1975 during the summer at about 9.25am, although it did date from the late 60s.
silverblueeye 5 months ago
that was sat morning tele it was brill
GUNSLINGER1V1 5 months ago
Splendid stuff. Mum, where's my tea?
ellenmeilee 5 months ago 2
the best of childhood memories...
ChrisDoylefly 5 months ago
This and Robinson Crusoe should be shown again in the mornings on BBC ,instead of breakfast TV crap
britishpolitics1 5 months ago
Sorry guys but this was never on on saturdays, it was a "school holiday special". Interesting that these were all foreign productions ( White Horses, Belle & Sebastian Robinson Crusoe) but it didn't register with me at the time, though the dubbing was diabolical lol. Happy Happy times. Miss them x
maddythegaff 5 months ago 6
@maddythegaff It was on Sat mornings and other times. Remember it was repeated on several occasions.
dirkbogarde44 3 weeks ago
fantastic
caderidris1 6 months ago
omg,this tune has been birling in ma heid for years now (no one else seems to remember it) memories of Saturday mornings in front of the old B & W telly in the corner of the living room are flooding back now ( think I was secretly in love with our dashing hero as an 8 year old) GOOD TIMES !!!!!
weevonny65 6 months ago
brilliant! holiday memories...
MAGNUM2F 6 months ago
First time I've ever seen this in colour! One of those favourites aired on Saturday mornings or during school holidays.
JFredUK 6 months ago
fantastic to see this again,like the others,i grew up watching this and loved it !!!!
shortblack123 7 months ago
I remember all of these too, most vividly. Oddly many of the most memorable were foreign productions, despite the quality of home grown programmes. Sadly, so much of children's TV is rubbish now, or maybe I am just showing my age...
redsforalltime 7 months ago 3
it's summer-no skooll-no skooll,ohhh Yeees. Now were's scooby.
22midgley 7 months ago
l remember this as a kid on t.v it was brilliant good times as a kid
MorrisManDanceMan 7 months ago
omg. Transported back to the 70's and Saturday morning telly. Never thought I would see this again and loved the intro music. Brilliant
SuperSpiderlady 8 months ago 3
@SuperSpiderlady im just after finding this on the net after all these years i never taught id see this again used to love getting up on a saturday to watch it
MrM894 8 months ago
@MrM894 you n me both, many yrs and a lota water gone under a lota bridges since i last heard it but ive remembered how it goes all these yrs n often find my self humming it, thank fook for youtube n the internet
MadGeeza69 7 months ago
@MadGeeza69 what part of england are you from
MrM894 7 months ago
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@MrM894 you n me both, many yrs and a lota water gone under a lota bridges since i last heard it but ive remembered how it goes all these yrs n often find my self humming it, thank fook for youtube n the interne
MadGeeza69 7 months ago
Oh my god! I'm being catapaulted back into the early 70s and summer holidays children's TV!
VinnyMonster1 9 months ago
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@VinnyMonster1 i know it was great !!
Coleshill1 8 months ago
My goodness, this brings back some memories! I'm getting addicted to 1970's TV: it's so much better than modern stuff. And the theme from this is great. "It's better to have fought and lost than not have fought at all." Indeed.
Boingusboingus 9 months ago
good sig tune, but probably sounded better in French. Robinson Crusoe was an instrumental.
callipposhots 9 months ago
Just heard the original French version 'Le Chevalier Tempete'. This version is considerably better!!
matelot95 10 months ago
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TheAmazingMrFinn 10 months ago
For me the best theme tune/song ever: rousing tune and words that stirred the heart... so many memories of a happy childhood. cant believe that after all these years it still sounds so good and can transport one back to childhood
lifeskyblue 10 months ago 2
Noggin the Nog, Marine Boy, Banana Splits, Scooby Doo, Herge's adventures of Tintin, Multicoloured Swap shop (Saturdays), Robinson Crusoe, Skippy, The Aeronauts, The Flashing Blade, Hong Kong Phooey, The Double Deckers, Robinson Crusoe, Daktari, Pogle's Wood, Magic Roundabout, White Horses, Belle and Sebastian. Long summer days with nothing to do. Those were the days..
adamkincaid1234 10 months ago 33
@adamkincaid1234 aaa..white horses! (on white horses.snowy whit.e...) U take me back Adam, tales from the riverbank, tomorrow people, follyfoot, herb garden, THE PERSUADERS,& Protectors,Champions... Belle and Sebastian & RC... 'Ive been alone on this Island' B&W but supa theme. Those were the days..
moonshinersdaughter1 4 months ago
@moonshinersdaughter1 you take me back too. I forgot tales from the riverbank! I used to watch it on the settee in our lounge in north London, one hand spooning the rice pudding form the bowl on my lap, the other holding my mum's hand. Ah, the simple, happy joys of childhood. To me, the 60's was a wonderful sunny paradise where everyone was happy and nice to each other. If I could have a 'groundhog day' over a decade, it'd be that one:)
adamkincaid1234 3 months ago
@adamkincaid1234 You must be 43 -46 ? Those were the days.. And Tarzan, flashing blade was definately the best though, great tv, great times. 'And light and love and happiness are well worth fighting for'
pinarellolimoncello 2 months ago 2
@adamkincaid1234 Check out the opening theme to Follyfoot .It is a song called 'The Lightning Tree' and is performed by a group called The Settlers .In my opinion it is up there with the theme tunes to Belle Et Sebastien and White Horses .
TheHumbuckerboy 3 weeks ago in playlist Liked videos
Never ever forgot this programme and the words to this theme,,,,brill and happy memories,,,,nice one
tutonicshane 10 months ago
Some great posts here, loved this with it's fine theme tune.
HOWEVER, we enjoyed the summer hols thro the 70s (it WAS sunny almost all the time, snow every winter, how perverse!), so we had the pleasure Robinson Crusoe with its so dreary theme, and Belle et Bluddy Sebastien (only good when the mountain rescue chopper appeared), EVERY summer for years & years & years. We think the Beeb were instructed to show them with the sole purpose of driving the kids outside to play in the fresh air....!
RockinRedRover 11 months ago
Yeah ! I always think of this and Robinson Crusoe together.
Long hot school summer hols. Good times !
blines799 1 year ago
I loved the lyrics.....If we ever need an alternative national Anthem, they should use this...pretty much says it all!!!!
Spandau1945 1 year ago 2
8 people have really bad childhood memories when they hear this song.
bshieldsbb01 1 year ago 2
why would any one dislike this vid .........i mean just cos they dont remember it ffs
ricspeed1971 1 year ago
What a theme tune, so rousing!
TheUTubeTeamSucks 1 year ago
Yea, but what a woman !
onionsonions62 1 year ago
great series, takes me back, does anyone remember the arabian knights and shazan. childrens t.v for it's time was great, or maybe it was because it was compacted into short periods. there is too much for kids now to choose from and not nealy as good.
ThePrefacedcarnage 1 year ago
At the age of 9, the blonde girl out of this programme made me know I was heterosexual. She was fantastic. Oh, and Alexandra Bastedo out of "The Champions".
gnash555 1 year ago
@gnash555 You took the flamin' words straight out of my mouth! Just add Ingrid Pitt to the list, when I was sneaky enough to watch late night Hammer Horror.
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
@BigMrFirebird
Are you my alter-ego???!!
Ingrid Pitt was MAGNIFICENT!!
Apart from her more obvious attractions she had a ridiculously sexy nose.
The stable scene was from 'Countess Dracula" is, ahem, still 'in the bank' to this day.
During the '80's I had a girlfriend who was a completely ditzy P.I.T.A.
but I tolerated her for 3 long years just because she bore a striking resemblance to Ingrid Pitt!!
gnash555 1 year ago
@gnash555 Countess Dracula was one of my favourites, along with the Vampire Lovers :P But I also liked her in Where Eagles Dare. I always wanted to go to one of those big signing events they have, where you can get autographs as Pitt sometimes attends.
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
@BigMrFirebird
I'm not sure how to break this to you....
You do know she's dead don't you?
gnash555 1 year ago
@gnash555 Oh great. Any other bad news ya wanna bring me?
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
@BigMrFirebird
Don't shoot the messenger mate!
Pitt dead.
Bummer eh?
I'll resist the temptation to make a bad back - from - the - dead joke...
gnash555 1 year ago
@gnash555 You'll tell me Caroline Munro's dead next....
BigMrFirebird 1 year ago
@BigMrFirebird
Nah, But I bet she's just a middle-aged woman now...
gnash555 1 year ago
This seemed to be repeated during every summer holiday during my childhood. They had a weird view of what they thought children would like to watch back then!
evo5dave 1 year ago
Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe, Double Deckers, Banana Splits and Pitkins. What a childhood.
antmusic76 1 year ago 3
@antmusic76 not forgetting the theme for The Persuaders... Brilliant memories along with the Kids from Fame and Belle and Sebastien
PURPLEBEATTIE1 11 months ago
This was in colour?? It's the first time I've ever seen it in anything other than black and white!! LOL
JFredUK 1 year ago
is it really 40 years?
ChrisDoylefly 1 year ago
land of the giants & this
VONCEIL1 1 year ago
Greatest key change ever. EVER!
NeedleHitsTheGroove 1 year ago
Where have the years gone?
fifthof 1 year ago 2
you tube ...is like a time machine...just been back to when i was about 5 years old..as the fonz once said happy days .............ps no spell check on here so here i go
rick66649 1 year ago
A true blast from the past. Everything a young lad in the 70's could want swords, fights, horses and a thumping score!
Truly happy days - a world away from the plastic garbage served up to today's younger generation.
KRAMNOSTRIBOR 1 year ago
wow!!! so long ago!!!!!!!!!
ferkinskin 1 year ago
As a very young boy I never knew what Flashing Blades was about. It was a decent enough show. Something to watch with a kick-ass theme tune. I remember the sounds, especially the voices being so focused, clear and close, until I realised what dubbing meant.
BlakeVII 1 year ago 2
from the folks who brought you white horses........cool music..bad dubbing. prefer the original...augrera wrath of god...
MrCrispian 1 year ago
from the folks who brought you white horses........cool music..bad dubbing.
MrCrispian 1 year ago
This brings back some memories ,School Holidays in the early 1970s
good times and great TV unlike the rubbish on today
Sugarmaker1000 1 year ago 2
awesome...thanks for uploading..
1000biggles 1 year ago
I used to hate this type of show, but at least this one had a good theme tune.
Strawberry7Lynn 1 year ago
Strange to think that us in our thirties are the first to be able to revisit our youth (thanks to YT and similar) in such microscopic detail. I just watched Barnaby the friggin Bear for christ's sake!
reknawfiend 1 year ago
so brilliant l carnet stop listing to this and as a kid it brining s back some good memoires on t.v. then but thy were the days a up l getting a bit older but still a kid inside of all of us l think watching all the old stuff again is brilliant thanks
MorrisManDanceMan 1 year ago
God this brings back memories. Long summer school holidays in the early 70's.
I remember Casey Jones, Champion the Wonder Horse, The Whirleybirds, Robinson Crusoe, Banana Splits I could go on. Great days which seemed to last so long, time seems to fly now. I think I'm getting old LOL.
Loved the theme tune to this - used to ride off on my Chopper afterwards imagining it was a Horse LOL.
brunster64 1 year ago 2
Wow...Saturdays watching this as a child...loved it....god i feel old now...lol :)
lovesmehorse 1 year ago
what a classic
robinstancombe 1 year ago
This was brilliant better than Swap Show that replaced it. I can't see it was a tele mile stone having Noel Edmonds on our screens or Keath Chigwins come too that. Flashing Blade was what Saturday morning's about that with Flash Gordon they also used to show if I remember.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 I had completely forgotten that all these great kids' shows were put aside for Swap Shop with Noel Tidybeard.
fifthof 1 year ago
bought this on amazon!!!!
g1641 1 year ago
good stuff in a saturday 10.30am type way
RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF 1 year ago
This and the Robinson Crusoe title songs defined what school holidays were all about
aoleslie 1 year ago 14
I just love it and the theme, any idea were i can get it?
jacqueline5035 1 year ago
supercool!!!
cruyffianslip 1 year ago
Loved watching this as a kid. Especially loved the terrible dubbing - we used to laugh and try to emulate it! Still a great programme though.
CombatRocks 1 year ago 2
fantastic! so many great memories of school holidays, watching this, robinson crusoe and white horse, amongst others - simple times and happy times! thank you for posting this!
116montana 1 year ago
summer hols,watching badly dubed french action series aaaaaah those were the days!
skinnyrichard 1 year ago
Great retro TV.Opening titles,sense of speed,bombardment of Casal ,gripping!Theme tune excellent.!.As for ham acting it didn't matter,if you can handle dubbed voices at 10 you could watch anything.Big thumbs up for french cinema.Just bought this and Robinson Crusoe from Amazon.Arthur of the Britons next..Thanks for the memory jog.
strongarmofthepaw 1 year ago
Wasn't this re-shown in the late 80's on a Saturday morning kids' TV show, with a comic dialogue replacing the original dubbed English dialogue???
maninthestreet01 1 year ago
I'd forgotten this show! Loved it along with Blue Peter, Magpie, The Banana Splits, H R Pufnstuf, and the show which terrified my childhood, The Singing Ringing Tree. Best of all though was Robinson Crusoe, and the music is still brilliant.
Ginandor 1 year ago
O, man this was ace.
tintin20001967 1 year ago
started in the late 60s, and ran and ran and ran. Fond memories of school holidays.
slimboyfathead 1 year ago
can remember this when i was a child and the banana splits plus the hair bear bunch too
ragandshag 1 year ago
oh mate you just took me back to childhood.....i loved this bloody shw!!! and robinson crusoe, flash gordon, banana splits lol
zu1875lu 1 year ago
I think this was a foreign show, that was dubbed, i saw it as a kid.
squirm13 1 year ago
Crickey! Summer hols - this rogramme, the Banana Splits, Snow White Horses, Robinson Crusoe, The Aeronauts...... brilliant.
lazydog67 1 year ago
I loved the theme tune when I was about 10!
TMCRyan 1 year ago
Ahhh watching this at the Saturday morning picture show in the ABC ahhhh happy days.
weescotchegg 1 year ago
Does anyone know what the font is called that's used in the titles? So 70's!
Bowwowwow2 1 year ago
classic!
kayrosx1 1 year ago
this takes me right back to my youth good times
zone1doorman 1 year ago
A Saturday morning TV show called On The Waterfront did a new version of this dubbing their voices onto the episodes - very funny and co-written by a certain Russel T Davies
neilogden2007 1 year ago 2
Fantastic, summer holidays were spent watching this, then Huckleberry Fin, then going out to play :)
Oh the entire series on DVD is under a fiver on amazon! just ordered it :)
gallan947 1 year ago 3
@gallan947 Is it thanks for telling me that.
Professor6871 1 year ago
This and Robinson Crusoe were my favourites.....funny how they both had great tunes.
tony1721 1 year ago 22
If anything sums up the school holidays its this programme . Great theme tune
rarebutgreat 2 years ago 4
Fantastic. I loved this series as a teenager. Brilliant to find the theme again.
katafract2000 2 years ago 3
I just (just) remember this. I vaguely remember an episode where it was something to do with a message written beside a well. I remember a character in a harlequin costume. What I mostly remember though is being puzzled why they always seemed to be galloping backwards and forwards over the same bit of open space. I got the same feeling watching the film The Two Towers.
Dave
mrpinks 2 years ago
Another awesome TV theme from my childhood. I always loved this music. Thanks for posting. :-)
Boosteroid 2 years ago
I loved this as a little girl. Memories of the summer holidays. The music unforgettable. Wonderful serial.
MrsJosephMerrick 2 years ago 4
Carefree summers of the 1970`s .
One summer we got flashing blade , the next Robinson Crusoe , and the last white horses .
Excellent television for a 6 year old at the time
crimewave66 2 years ago 18
@crimewave66 god yes mate!! flippin briliant !!! LOL
Coleshill1 8 months ago
@crimewave66 add to that "the banana splits".
musicalprofessor 7 months ago
Can't forget that tune, brings back distant memeories, had no idea what the program was about really but loved the tune and the images, those were the days, carefree days of childhood.
ufewl 2 years ago 2
this brings back good days as a kid then brilliant
MorrisManDanceMan 2 years ago 4
What you sow, so shall you reap
magslyfarnham1 2 years ago
The theme song was "Fight" by The Musketeers (written by Alex Masters), which was issued on a Philips single in 1969.......squashbuckling stuff. And for other TV nerds like myself the original French show was called Le Chevalier Tempête (you guessed it ...the blade flashing). I think that it depicted the War of the Mantuan Succession (1628-1631) between the French and the Spanish and the besieged fortress was the garrison in the city of Casale. Brilliant stuff !
magslyfarnham1 2 years ago
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hugh0221 2 years ago
life and love and a penis, are well worth fighting for ?
ianupton 2 years ago 3
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ianupton 2 years ago
they give that castle a twatting with those cannons 1.10
ianupton 2 years ago 3
Fab, but no wonder I had such bad taste in men him and Tarot,who could match them???
Thanks
beardysgirl 2 years ago
What a creepy programme - i remember the tune - shockingly bad acting!
cillablack100 2 years ago
check out the guy at 0:06 doing a forward roll - lol
psybinetic 2 years ago
I'm liucky enough to own the entire series on dvd - a truely great series - one of the best ever for kids - and what a theme song!
1thiswas 2 years ago
l agree with you all the kids tv was much better then like Joe 90 and captain scarlet they were days as a kid then . l wish l go back in time
MorrisManDanceMan 2 years ago
Loved this when I was kid. Now 46, and kids TV is crap these days. Feel sorry for my kids.
TheMegaCritic2000 2 years ago 4
Only in the 1970s could you have had a children's adventure serial set during the War of the Mantuan Succession. I mean, can you imagine trying to pitch THAT to a TV company now.
Great stuff!
Exthulla 2 years ago
Don Alonso...he should be up there in the pantheon of best ever television baddies!!!
roots66andrisin 2 years ago
ooooo those spanish devils jejeje
MrTeddyBear1961 2 years ago
Thus I live my life according to that creed
theonlyantony 2 years ago 2
This series was never off in the 70s/80s.
SuperZebadee 2 years ago
im 44 to remember this and on white horses good old you tube
seanthemeat 2 years ago
When TV was a treat - I remember going to my grandmas and seeing this and Folly Foot and White Horses and Belle and Sebastian.....great great kids TV! Im glad im 44!
sparkleshoes 2 years ago
summer hols, nogin the nog, robinson crusoe, great days
shaftsbury94 2 years ago 32
Ah the long summer holidays !!
I miss not seeing this on the TV anymore. Great music.
rarebutgreat 2 years ago
wow you got most of what i remember as a child not seen these shows since ......ago lol nice one
petenvikkie 2 years ago
Who remembers the p***-take version that used to be shown on one of the Saturday morning shows in the 90s? It was the original film with new dubbed dialogue - written by Russell T Davies of Dr Who fame!
gleamhound 2 years ago
I remember that! Hilarious it was too!
sparkleshoes 2 years ago
FYI the TV series which showed that version of The Flashing Blade was 'On The Waterfront', was on around '88-'89. Hilarious northern accent dubbing and sound effects. There are some episodes of it on YouTube.
mukatuna 2 years ago
That dubbed show was pure genius...
krancioch 2 years ago
Brought back some fab memories..we use to make wooden swords,and batter each other with them....imagine the health & safety,getting on the way they were riding them horses....classical..
marcus19633 2 years ago 2
Ha-Haaa!! What a terrific series and brilliant theme tune.
It dates the people I work with when you hum the tune and they all shout out "The Flashing Blade" at the same time, like some kind of tourettes syndrome...
Fond memories.
AngryOfMayfair 2 years ago 3
I still remember the words of this.... god it was so long ago.. 45 now
idreamed 2 years ago
Anyone know who sang the theme tune to this??
losgrindos 2 years ago
Possibly the best title sequence ever,used to get so excited when it came on then 5 minutes later remember that the show was absolute mince.
20sovereign 2 years ago 2
Yipee it's the school holidays...oh hang on i'm 40 now :(
pawnsacrifice1 2 years ago 2
I'm 50 yipee Hee Hee! good memories
mancsmoveseast 2 years ago
Interestingly, the guys singing this English version sound just like "The Spectrum" who sung the alternate version of the closing credits for "Captain Scarlet"
GrahamMercer 2 years ago
I remember watching this on TV in Farnborough Hospital (Kent) in 1969 after I had my tonsils out. This is a real trip back in time, thanks so much for posting!
GrahamMercer 2 years ago