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Uploaded by on Apr 17, 2010

Wilfred Josephs orginal and classic theme to the long running BBC television series. First broadcast in 1964 the popular science show has notched up over 1000 episodes since first broadcast 46 years ago. The Award winning Josephs also composed the theme to the television series I claudius and the score for the film version of the popular BBC series All Creaures Great and Small

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  • Help me out, people - this isn't the "original" theme, is it? This is the 80's Radiophonic Workshop makeover (which I love, by the way), with sampled human voices... probably a Fairlight, Emulator or whatever pricey keyboard the BBC was using at the time. Sorry to be pedantic about a fantastic clip, but this definitely isn't "original", any more than Matt Smith is the "original" Dr Who.

    Info above talks about 1964 as the first transmission date - they certainly weren't sampling in those days.

  • @midlander4 hi there and many thanks for your comment, actually i think it is the original score - or at least the one they were using for the show in the early 1970s.....anyway it was certainly the easiest one i could find for this wonderful much missed show

  • Thanks for posting this. Pity it's never been released on any of the BBC theme tune CD's.

  • @peggymount ....yes it really is hard to find....pity as its one of the bbc's best i think......glad you enjoyed listening to it.....;)

  • @davidleigh65 It is indeed a stand out theme.. I'm going to give it a go at a cover version and I'll post it up. But better to hear the original:-) And thank you for the composers name, duh! I should have known, I've watched I Clavdivs so many times and never caught his credit. Shame.

  • @peggymount hey 'peggy' yes be great to hear a cover version if you manage to post it up sometime....:)

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  • Man! I've been looking for this for AGES. Thanks.

  • @midlander4 You are certainly correct. The first few seconds are the pure, original theme and then it is a sample, etc.

  • @davidleigh65 Didn't mean to sound snipey - I'm just delighted to hear this fantastic theme again.

  • The aiens from Close Encounters play this on their i-Pods

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