I don't think I'll ever get bored with watching this - I loved it as a kid (back in the 70s) & it still fascinates me now, it's such a fantastic combination of music & visuals... x
Wonderful groovy, funky 60's music! Listening to this you are instantly transported into a magical world where *anything* is possible! And brain modification techniques that we can scarcely imagine are carried out via magnetic tape, fantastic stuff!
I loved this show as a kid. And I'm only 21; I had three VHS tapes of thepisodes which I watched over and over and over again- I don't rememeber it ever being broadcast on TV back then.
I think the original purpose of that design was to have an area of tape coils under glass as wide as the tape, to pick up the slack safely in case the reels did not stop at the same time. By making the glass enclosure only as wide as the tape, loops would form ribbons but never snag on itself. It's not a design flaw, just to account for sudden spool stops and variable speeds.
on reflection now (at the - ahem - age of 47) i think the thing i loved about Joe 90 was he was a kid in all respects but when he transformed although he still looked a kid he tripped up all the adults and solved the cases !
This show was so very well done! And I always loved the theme! I remember I wanted to have a suitcase like that, too! Memories... Well, that just proves that I'm not getting any younger!!! Thanks for sharing! BTW: these were a lot better than the crap the poor kids have to deal with today, no?...
Great theme,especially enjoyed the orchestral version.Only in the 60's could you get away with brain-washing a 9 year old to deal with Security threats to the nation,nowadays his old man would be jailed for this,and Social Services would have learned from their mistakes and it would'nt happen again.
This makes me feel smug. Young people are raving about the Joss Whedon show DOLLHOUSE, and I can say I saw the same sort of concept 40 years ago as a boy!! Except Joe gets to keep his own personality and only attaches skills from the brains of experts...
It was always 'Thunderbirds' as the awesome theme when I was a nipper but one day, hearing these again I realized I was wrong! My fave Barry Gray theme (Sorry, don't like the 'No Strings Attached' Version though!)
I love the sound of that Farfisa organ. Never saw this show. Don't remember it being on in the 60's with his more popular Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 and Supercar or Stingray. Is this available on video? Any info please?
you could buy that briefcase when I was a kid, but sadly I never had one :(. Anyway, the social services would be straight round if a nine year old child was subjected to what Joe was!!
Looks like they put him in a big rotating functional MRI. Funtional MRIs are now used in conjuction with computers, to accurately READ MINDS in this century 21 we now find ourselves in >Gerry was so prophetic.
Too bad about the leisure suit; this was the mid/late '60s. Obviously his folks were tight-arsed C. of E., or he could've had some kick-arse threads. Too bad Supermarionation technology evolved so slowly: Supercar's Jimmy Gibson looked like such a fucking goblin next to Joe...
Pitty the system the used on him could not become reality . If it could then mankind could do what no man has done before . Understand the workings of a woman's mind . Work it out .
Never saw Joe90, altho I was (and am) an Andersons fan. Prob. it didn't play in Phila. area growing up. Not sure I wanna see it, either -- this intro totally FAILS to tease the story/background us /draw us in. Looks more like a merchandising piece to me -- I presume you could BUY toy replicas of all the cool stuff Joe used? Worst Anderson intro ever. Main character does nothing but sit google-eyed while some Prisoner-style shiite does stuff around him. Could be a big sound system for all we know
Man, these were the days when the brits produced epic programmes and epic films!
I don't think I'll ever get bored with watching this - I loved it as a kid (back in the 70s) & it still fascinates me now, it's such a fantastic combination of music & visuals... x
One of Barry Gray's finest ? ...He wrote so many great theme tunes... I'm spoilt for choice. Love it !
I thought I would never hear this music again, reminds me when I was 5 and watched Joe 90 on the tv, 34 years ago!
Wonderful groovy, funky 60's music!
Listening to this you are instantly transported into a magical world where *anything* is possible! And brain modification techniques that we can scarcely imagine are carried out via magnetic tape, fantastic stuff!
IS THE FIRST TIME IN 35 YEARS THAT I GET TO HEAR THIS !!!!!
Many thanks ! This was part of my chilhood, !!
I'm almost cring...
Thanks a lot
The british and their awesome graphic style!!
Imagine how cool for a kid to be a full on secret agent -only in marionetteland!
I loved this show as a kid. And I'm only 21; I had three VHS tapes of thepisodes which I watched over and over and over again- I don't rememeber it ever being broadcast on TV back then.
Just watched this approx. 17 times in a row, many thanks!
I was never keen on Joe 90, but the theme tune is out of this world.
this is a huge northern soul dance tune!!!!
I think the original purpose of that design was to have an area of tape coils under glass as wide as the tape, to pick up the slack safely in case the reels did not stop at the same time. By making the glass enclosure only as wide as the tape, loops would form ribbons but never snag on itself. It's not a design flaw, just to account for sudden spool stops and variable speeds.
So damn funky man!!! I wanna dance!!!!
Such a cool piece of music.
amazing theme...great old sixties...:)
LOve this version rather than the recorded commercialy released version. The Drummer was very hot : )
You've made a nice job...Well done!!!
Loved this as a kid...My favourite of all the Anderson shows!!!
Made the same year as me :)
briliant.,.i am fuckin crying.... where did all them yrs go.. thanks for the tune... lush xxxx
Barry Gray=LEGEND&GENIUS
wow what a tune i love barry grays songs
how cool is this takes me back
I ordered this from Amazon, received a video called "Joe-69" which funnily enough also included shiny spinning mind altering orbs, disgusting... :)
Excellent, it is nice to be able to show this to My Kids. Thanks.
Nice part of my child and miens friends, every friday evening with JOE90, thanks for this.
Good Video of the intro & the end titles & i especially like the pause were you Joe close up ,after all the show is about him
on reflection now (at the - ahem - age of 47) i think the thing i loved about Joe 90 was he was a kid in all respects but when he transformed although he still looked a kid he tripped up all the adults and solved the cases !
Fab,Brilliant,excellent,great series and a great theme tune.
Go ahead and dance - I do. It is a great 60s tune
Best I've heard. Brilliant job!
Why did every kid at school in the 70s who wore glasses get called Joe 90???
Barry Gray = Music Genius bar none !
BRILLIANT!!!!
This show was so very well done! And I always loved the theme! I remember I wanted to have a suitcase like that, too! Memories... Well, that just proves that I'm not getting any younger!!! Thanks for sharing!
BTW: these were a lot better than the crap the poor kids have to deal with today, no?...
We have this TODAY, in century 21 that Gerry and Sylvia accurately envisioned back in 1969.
Great theme,especially enjoyed the orchestral version.Only in the 60's could you get away with brain-washing a 9 year old to deal with Security threats to the nation,nowadays his old man would be jailed for this,and Social Services would have learned from their mistakes and it would'nt happen again.
This makes me feel smug. Young people are raving about the Joss Whedon show DOLLHOUSE, and I can say I saw the same sort of concept 40 years ago as a boy!! Except Joe gets to keep his own personality and only attaches skills from the brains of experts...
Now it seems very childish, but when I saw 34 years ago I found wonderful add congratulations...!
It was always 'Thunderbirds' as the awesome theme when I was a nipper but one day, hearing these again I realized I was wrong! My fave Barry Gray theme (Sorry, don't like the 'No Strings Attached' Version though!)
I love the sound of that Farfisa organ. Never saw this show. Don't remember it being on in the 60's with his more popular Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 and Supercar or Stingray. Is this available on video? Any info please?
you could buy that briefcase when I was a kid, but sadly I never had one :(. Anyway, the social services would be straight round if a nine year old child was subjected to what Joe was!!
Thanks for this :)
It looked like the kid was going to spue his lunch. It remind me of this ride called the gravatron
Made me proud to be a specky kid.
massive at Wigan.
thanks for posting
Image the british secret service had a machine like that!
JUST A SUGGESTION!! Try watching the opening theme to Joe 90 after smoking a joint???? Then you will know how they came up with the ideas.
GO JOE! YOU'RE THE BEST! Apart from Captain Scarlet.
Like it . Tha's a good one that .
Looks like they put him in a big rotating functional MRI. Funtional MRIs are now used in conjuction with computers, to accurately READ MINDS in this century 21 we now find ourselves in >Gerry was so prophetic.
Too bad about the leisure suit; this was the mid/late '60s. Obviously his folks were tight-arsed C. of E., or he could've had some kick-arse threads.
Too bad Supermarionation technology evolved so slowly: Supercar's Jimmy Gibson looked like such a fucking goblin next to Joe...
now thats a computer
all i can say very very trippy when yer look back on the whole thing.i dont think my parents knew about ACID
2:56 IPOD?
Harry Palmer's son?
excellent!
All that gear he had back then would probably fit inside a phone nowdays but would be much less impressive
Great theme. But that machine in the title sequence, spooling out the used tape like a broken cassette player ... seems like a design fault really...
@SR71ABCD: We do. But keep that to yourself!
Dollhouse has been canned FYI
The new TV show Dollhouse kind of sounds like a similar idea.
Whenever I see Joe 90 I can't help but think, brain cancer... you know what I mean?
Pitty the system the used on him could not become reality . If it could then mankind could do what no man has done before . Understand the workings of a woman's mind . Work it out .
@Mythteller It was only a kids TV programme. Get a life!!
Never saw Joe90, altho I was (and am) an Andersons fan. Prob. it didn't play in Phila. area growing up. Not sure I wanna see it, either -- this intro totally FAILS to tease the story/background us /draw us in. Looks more like a merchandising piece to me -- I presume you could BUY toy replicas of all the cool stuff Joe used? Worst Anderson intro ever. Main character does nothing but sit google-eyed while some Prisoner-style shiite does stuff around him. Could be a big sound system for all we know