Public Eye (1971): Intro & outro.

The opening and closing credits from an episode in the 1971 series of the ITV detective drama Public Eye that ran from 1965 to 1975.

Initially filmed in black and white, the show started to become filmed in colour during this fifth series so some episodes are in colour and others in black and white. Interestingly, the opening credits of this colour episode are also in black and white, highlighting what a time of transition this was.

The atmospheric theme music was written by Robert Sharples. Another of the great tv show themes from this period.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Public
• Eye
• Marker
• detective
• ITV
• 1971

[SeventiesMania]

You beauty, I've been looking for this for ages. Didn't 'The Man Who Didn't Eat Sweets' turn out to be a polygamist?

Frank Marker charged six guineas a day I seem to recall, ha ha.

[mutinyonthekitkat]

@SeventiesMania

Yes, Peter Sallis had a multiple life with different women. Marker doesn't even tell any of them at the end. He's always drinking tea as well.

I've always remembered the music to this series even though I was too young to remember anything from the episodes or even that it was called Public Eye. It seems slow-paced by modern standards but like Crown Court, it's a quality programme that's great to see again now its on DVD.

[gratecourt]

@matelot95 Yes, sorry - my brain was crossing wires with "Manhunt".

[matelot95]

@gratecourt Alfred Burke

[gratecourt]

OMG I've been wanting to see Alfred Lynch walk down that alley into the camera for FORTY YEARS. Thanks

[45rpmSINGLES]

Aside from Peter Sallis I note the credits also include Gareth Thomas & Colin Baker . Are these Blake of Blakes 7 & Dr Who !

[SeventiesMania]

@mutinyonthekitkat Ah, that's not bad for me to remember that, as I haven't seen it since UKGold showed it in about 1995! I ought to get the DVD boxsets now, really :-)

Crown Court, ahhhh. I have a complete CC story from around 1974, the one with the Count Dracula stage show that went wrong. I really ought to post it in bits on here, and see if YouTubers can come up with the right verdict.