I miss the days of real TV programmes like the Flashing Blade, & the Banana Splits, & Here Come The Double Decker,s I wish we could go back to those days does anybody agree with me
My TV as a kid, The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe, The Water Margin, Monkey, Dick Turpin, The Banana Splits and Why Don`t you. Remember them all like it was yesterday.
I can still remember being 7 years old, stood tall and strong, in the alley between my parents house, singing this passionately, with tears running down my cheeks...
You got to fight for what you want, For all that you believe. It's right to fight for what we want, To live the way we please. As long as we have done our best, Then no-one can do more, And life and love and happiness Are well worth fighting for. And we should never count the cost, Or worry that we'll fall. It's better to have fought and lost Than not have fought at all. Let's always take whatever comes And never try to hide. Face anything and anyone Together, side by side. You got to fight for what you want, For all that you believe. It's right to fight for what we ...
Thanks so much - really appreciate it when people take the time to do this! Now l’m going to translate it and put it on French networks. Good for demonstration marches and should be sung every day in schools…
At some point in 1968 some BBC executive sat down and thought "would British kids be interested in a shite, poorly dubbed, French-language series about the French-Spanish War of the Mantuan Succession 1628 - 1631?". Luckily for us, the mad bugger thought "yes!"
How nice to hear this again after all these years. I remember it so well, not the programme though, just the theme tune! Like others have mentioned, also watched Robinson Crusoe on a Saturday morning, again another great theme tune!
i am 57...live my life by words...remember words...my wake up alarm tune everyday for past 2yrs...always brings a smile💖 BUT😎...what is amazing🤔😂😂 if you remember that BBC never showed them in order or even a whole series as only showed during summer holidays when school programmes were turned off 😂😂😂😂😂
Yep in my 50's and transported back to lovely kid time sat in front of the TV. Happy days. The dubbing was awful but we didn't care because the music was brilliant.
Used to watch this as a kid Saturday mornings alongside the banana splits. Never had a clue what was happening, badly dubbed and the series seemed to last forever without ever concluding. Great theme tune though.
I got the DVD recently and - although I must have watched every run of this on holiday TV in the 60s & 70s - I've only just understood what on earth was going on. I think the theme tune; the horse riding; the fighting (and the odd bit of canon fire) were obviously more important to my younger self than trying to figure out the story-line!
Flashing blade, White horses, Belle and Sebastian Robinson Crusoe great Summer Holidays mornings, then out for some footie, man hunt, allalio til dark or until my mum sent my sister to drag me home
Yeah, well said Mike, Loved all of those. A thoroughly enriching experience watching those. Even now in my fifties the feeling I got from Belle and Sebastien and Robinson Crusoe, the snowy cabin, the hot tropical beach, it has stayed with me and has formed a deep connection to those environments. I can't help but wonder what the millenials will be imprinted with! We were very lucky to have had such a rich and diverse feast of entertainment.
I used to love watching this Series amongst others, during the summer holidays in the `60`s. Certainly a rousing theme tune & the words are very apt even today.
It's an anthem, an inspiration. I live my life like this and still stand tall. I did watch it at a formative time of life, maybe 6 years old, but the sentiment is spot on!
Aye, Banana Splits with the "Danger Island" sequence! Also Shazzan, and the omnipresent Robinson Crusoe with 900 episodes, or so it felt like. Happy days. Yes, the lyrics are extremely relevant now.
Once tried to watch this series on DVD when bored in College, as I enjoy historical period shows, and have a good memory for and interest in them. It was the most boring and unmemorable experience of my life. I watched every hour of it, and I couldn't tell you anything about it. There was just nothing exciting, no drama, all people talking in rooms and looking at maps, or occasionally riding horses.
OMG I still remember this tune I watched this every week! It got me into horses and horse riding at a young age (which go me lots of girl friends!) Also looking after 6 horses every day AND Black Beauty all thanks to this series!
Grabbing a brush or a mop and singing this at the top of your voice during the summer holidays. You can stick your iPhones, laptops and whatever where the sun don’t shine in comparison - if you’re reading this do it now it makes you feel bloody great still - if you can of course ie bad back, dodgy knee etc
I watched this in the earlier part of the 70s,well before Space 1999. Also watching Tarzan and seeing quicksand scenes (as well as The Hound of the Baskervilles and reading Lorna Doone) got me trying to recreate quicksands and bogs in the garden. Which didn't go down very well with my dad when he put his foot into them - at least until he found his roses grew really well in them.
Why am I only thinking about this now. Ah yes coming up to the time when I’d be waiting to watch this in thee six week holidays. Oh to be a kid again 😊
Ah...they used to show this in a kid's T.V show, 'On The Waterfront', if memory serves, a long time ago. Think it was ridiculously dubbed over by the cast of said show though! Fun times! Was it like some sort of revolution inspired historical drama show? Oh, and remember the show, 'Silas'? With a boy riding a horse in the opening credits?That was a dubbed over import too!
What times 70s 80s i would go back and stay there in a hart beat you can have your 60s you can have your 90s but the 70s and 80s where times you had your seasons to you had the best warm summers and every year it snowed on time and i mean snow nun of that slush they call snow now out with your pals making a sledge out of what you could find having fun remember playing football over the feild and the game lasted all day for hour and hour you would go home have somthing to eat come back and get back in to your game magic and you dont see penny for the guy eneymore take your brothers best pants and steal your dads news paper and get to it what times the good thing about the brain it stores all them lovely times we had am glad i had my time then what a child hood loved every min could someone please invent time travel and take me back to then coz 2022 is not what its cracked out to be 👍😉✌
I believe it was about a border conflict between France & the Spanish empire. The fort at the beginning is a french one trying to hold out against Spanish forces. You can tell the Spanish troops due to their helmets, same as those worn by the Conquistadors.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with the sentiments of the song it would seem to imply that any dispute large or small should be resolved by firing a cannon at your opponent.
Oh I loved this show and tried to copy some of the moves. Amazing to see these riders galloping at full speed with no helmets. Health and Safety did not exist and no one cared getting hurt fighting among each other. It was another era when males could do what they do best without fear, and females could so their thing and be feminine.
Damn! It's 2019, I'm 57 and yet I remember every word of this theme song. What a blast from the past. Thank you.
So do I - same age
Same age - so do I
Me to
And me 58. Loved this
Same here
I'm so happy that i was a 70s kid, Wouldn't it be great too go back to those days and stay there for good,
Yes it was a great time to be a kid
Yes please!!!
yes, 😂, wouldn't it just,
1970’s 6 week school holidays, always Sunny, fun and innocence..!! Happy Memories❗️❗️👍
Great memories!!
I miss the days of real TV programmes like the Flashing Blade, & the Banana Splits, & Here Come The Double Decker,s I wish we could go back to those days does anybody agree with me
the three musketeers cartoon and the one with the beach buggy, great days. that stuff inspired kids to better things
Dilly sisters😆
My TV as a kid, The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe, The Water Margin, Monkey, Dick Turpin, The Banana Splits and Why Don`t you. Remember them all like it was yesterday.
The most inspirational song ever ... I've tried to live my whole life by the sentiments of this song
DigiProduct Marketer Me too , but I’ve come up against so many little back back stabbers through my life , mostly at work .
Totally agree...great telly...wonderful tune....stunning values for life
wow. I thought it was just me
@@mrleesdaraver nope , it inspired me and i would play with my soldiers after the programme , singing the song lol
Me to , awsome
Brings back my childhood in the 70s...along with Robinson Crusoe & On white horses....
Long school holidays watching in the mornings eating sugar puffs
Haha....so true!
Living it large😄
Boiled egg and toast and flashing blades, summer 68 or 69?
Amazing times
Golden Nuggets - the original ones.
What a memory from childhood. Loved watching this and my daughter bought me the dvds.
I can still remember being 7 years old, stood tall and strong, in the alley between my parents house, singing this passionately, with tears running down my cheeks...
Never has any song screamed louder to be remade and yet it's never been done. An awesome track, quite possibly my favourite lyrics of all time.
Its one of those shows i grew up in the 70s where i remember the music more than the show it was infectious!.
You got to fight for what you want,
For all that you believe.
It's right to fight for what we want,
To live the way we please.
As long as we have done our best,
Then no-one can do more,
And life and love and happiness
Are well worth fighting for.
And we should never count the cost,
Or worry that we'll fall.
It's better to have fought and lost
Than not have fought at all.
Let's always take whatever comes
And never try to hide.
Face anything and anyone
Together, side by side.
You got to fight for what you want,
For all that you believe.
It's right to fight for what we ...
Thanks so much - really appreciate it when people take the time to do this!
Now l’m going to translate it and put it on French networks.
Good for demonstration marches and should be sung every day in schools…
At some point in 1968 some BBC executive sat down and thought "would British kids be interested in a shite, poorly dubbed, French-language series about the French-Spanish War of the Mantuan Succession 1628 - 1631?". Luckily for us, the mad bugger thought "yes!"
As a kid I could climb the highest tree , any garage roof , run fast as the wind , great music , it’s like still part of me
Dogs bollock of a show well ahead of its time👍👍👍
Ohh how I'd so love to see this on tv again.. brings back so many happy memories.. and what a theme tune! I've never forgotten it, and never will!
Me neither!
@@carolebarker2195 was so wonderful to see this again! Those where the days, right?????!
@@EmmaLouise105 Absolutely! I even remember writing "Isobel De Sospel left the convent" in my diary back in 1976, lol! It was a rattling good yarn!
@@carolebarker2195 Yes it was!!! Itd be great if the series was shown again!!
It's 2024 now and I still remember most of the words, well, half tbh. Loved this when young.
This takes me back as a kid. Watching Mr Ben, Bod, Finger mouse & then finding my older brothers scud mags.
Ah the memories, thanks.
Wonderful.
I can never remember much about the series, but always remember the song😄
Same here, the words have stuck in my head all these years.
With the times we live in now,they're attaining a rekindled significance.
Same here - can remember the song so well but nothing about the programme!
School holidays in the 70's....happy memories
Followed by `Why Don`t You`
First half of every episode was a sword fight to get into a besieged castle, the second half was a sword fight to get out of a besieged castle
How nice to hear this again after all these years. I remember it so well, not the programme though, just the theme tune! Like others have mentioned, also watched Robinson Crusoe on a Saturday morning, again another great theme tune!
The Robinson Crusoe music has lived in my mind for decades. Incredible series.
Everyone reminiscing here are in their 50’s
Not me, I have 3 months left of my 40s!
No!
jubbaronny don’t say that li,e it’s a bad thing lol (I’m 55)
What do you mean young whippersnapper! I'm 62 and still remember them all (especially Desert Crusader, that was my favourite!)
not 48 yet
They need to use this tune for the enough is enough campaign 😍
Watch this in the summer holidays. Ahh simpler (better) times
The 50s, 60s, 70s,, had the best intro music ever.
i am 57...live my life by words...remember words...my wake up alarm tune everyday for past 2yrs...always brings a smile💖 BUT😎...what is amazing🤔😂😂 if you remember that BBC never showed them in order or even a whole series as only showed during summer holidays when school programmes were turned off 😂😂😂😂😂
those words are of now!
Aaaaahhhh, can’t get the theme tune out of my head! I will be driving the family up the wall ……. Brilliant
Yep in my 50's and transported back to lovely kid time sat in front of the TV. Happy days. The dubbing was awful but we didn't care because the music was brilliant.
i am 51, saw the show in the 70's , all i remembered was the theme tune , and it was french dubbed , thank you for putting the song up
Used to watch this as a kid Saturday mornings alongside the banana splits. Never had a clue what was happening, badly dubbed and the series seemed to last forever without ever concluding. Great theme tune though.
Along with Danger Island and the cartoon of 3 Musketeers
I got the DVD recently and - although I must have watched every run of this on holiday TV in the 60s & 70s - I've only just understood what on earth was going on. I think the theme tune; the horse riding; the fighting (and the odd bit of canon fire) were obviously more important to my younger self than trying to figure out the story-line!
Flashing blade, White horses, Belle and Sebastian Robinson Crusoe great Summer Holidays mornings, then out for some footie, man hunt, allalio til dark or until my mum sent my sister to drag me home
Memories..... of a better time.
Flashing Blade on the Banana Splits show on a Saturday morning
@Jonty still got my Herbs 1969 annual...
And HR puffinstuff , singing ringing tree ,the memories
Yeah, well said Mike, Loved all of those. A thoroughly enriching experience watching those. Even now in my fifties the feeling I got from Belle and Sebastien and Robinson Crusoe, the snowy cabin, the hot tropical beach, it has stayed with me and has formed a deep connection to those environments. I can't help but wonder what the millenials will be imprinted with! We were very lucky to have had such a rich and diverse feast of entertainment.
I used to love watching this Series amongst others, during the summer holidays in the `60`s. Certainly a rousing theme tune & the words are very apt even today.
This one or White Horses and memories of long hazy summer school holidays come flooding back.
Same here.
And the music to Robinson Crusoe. Memories to bring a tear to the eye
It's an anthem, an inspiration.
I live my life like this and still stand tall.
I did watch it at a formative time of life, maybe 6 years old, but the sentiment is spot on!
And the banana splits, school summer holidays.
Love the tune. Lyrics are probably more relevant now than then I'm thinking.
Aye, Banana Splits with the "Danger Island" sequence! Also Shazzan, and the omnipresent Robinson Crusoe with 900 episodes, or so it felt like. Happy days. Yes, the lyrics are extremely relevant now.
Once tried to watch this series on DVD when bored in College, as I enjoy historical period shows, and have a good memory for and interest in them. It was the most boring and unmemorable experience of my life. I watched every hour of it, and I couldn't tell you anything about it. There was just nothing exciting, no drama, all people talking in rooms and looking at maps, or occasionally riding horses.
Grew up watching this, seems like yesterday
Total classic, best kids tv ever !
PHWOOOOAAAAR!!!! Has there ever been a more rousing song to a swashbuckler??? My testosterone level rose spontaneously, just listening to this!!!!!
Make a great national anthem
This, Robinson Crusoe and The Aeronauts were the themes to my childhood!
Boy used to love The Aeronauts !.....and the gentlenesss of Crusoe, soundtrack etc.
OMG I still remember this tune I watched this every week! It got me into horses and horse riding at a young age (which go me lots of girl friends!) Also looking after 6 horses every day AND Black Beauty all thanks to this series!
Proper loved watching this on Saturday mornings, then play out with me mates and come home at tea time,,👍👍
Loved this Saturday morning
I remember watching this in England when I was about 9 or 10. I'm sure you can buy this on Amazon. I have the boxset of the Water Margin.
Oh wow the Water Margin i forgot that ever existed....so enjoyable
Managed to get a copy of the TV show on dvd brilliant
Just found this, happy memories, this always used to be on during the long summer holidays at school
Loved this....takes me back to being 5 in front of the TV
Snap born in 64
I loved this show and it’s the reason I got into fencing as a kid. Happy days 😊
I loved this ...the music the hero the horses 😍😍😍
Anyone notice the road sign at the being of the charge, loved this programme too as a kid, that and the Double deckers, Banana splits 🍌😊
Rousing theme and series,an indelible favourite!!!
It's 2021, I'm 54. Me and my mate Paul were big fans of this here in England. Cracking theme tune, but never managed to get the single.
ah school summer holidays :)
Grabbing a brush or a mop and singing this at the top of your voice during the summer holidays. You can stick your iPhones, laptops and whatever where the sun don’t shine in comparison - if you’re reading this do it now it makes you feel bloody great still - if you can of course ie bad back, dodgy knee etc
Admit it!! You are singing along to this!!
Fantastic summer holiday memories ❤❤
I loved Sundays. Space 1999 then Tarzan lol
This was way before Space 1999
I watched this in the earlier part of the 70s,well before Space 1999. Also watching Tarzan and seeing quicksand scenes (as well as The Hound of the Baskervilles and reading Lorna Doone) got me trying to recreate quicksands and bogs in the garden. Which didn't go down very well with my dad when he put his foot into them - at least until he found his roses grew really well in them.
Space 1999 was first broadcast in 1975, the year I left school. So repeats of The Flashing Blade may well have been around when Space 1999 was on.
We were spoilt for choice in the 1970s when it came to great theme tunes and intros. It perfectly matches the visuals. Awesome.
I used to love this.
Love this. Always on during the school holidays in the 70s - Quality!
I loved this when I was a kid.
time to stand firm ...those lyrics are our watchwords
I bought the dvd collection brilliant
Saturday morning pictures along with Larry "Buster" Crabbe as Flash Gordon !!
Whirly Birds and Skippy the Bush Kangaroo anyone?
Ah, man. My eldest turned 18 today and he has a smashing Civil War (Royalist, obvs) hair-style. I woke up whistling this... and here it is!!
Remember this from early 70s as a kid, always show in school holidays, dubbing was chronic.
Life was simpler then as kids take me back to that time school hols and out till late not a care in the world
It brought so many memories when I watched the DVD Of The Classic Tv Series The Flashing Blade
these lyrics are a rallying cry...listen
Summer holidays morning TV.Banana Splits-Monkees-Daktari-Robinson Crusoe-The Flashing Blade.....Who wants to play out!
Why am I only thinking about this now. Ah yes coming up to the time when I’d be waiting to watch this in thee six week holidays. Oh to be a kid again 😊
lockdown 2020
then take the words and use them as a rallying call.
it matters more than you can imagine
Best TV theme tune
And me 😊 I even bought the dvd box set
Britain should make this song the new national anthem.
Ah...they used to show this in a kid's T.V show, 'On The Waterfront', if memory serves, a long time ago. Think it was ridiculously dubbed over by the cast of said show though! Fun times! Was it like some sort of revolution inspired historical drama show? Oh, and remember the show, 'Silas'? With a boy riding a horse in the opening credits?That was a dubbed over import too!
Saturday mornings, unforgettable tune.
Does anyone remember White Horses?
Sure! You must be a Brit my age ;)
Its Saturday morning again!
a classic
And the fight against Putin and his goons 😍
another memory got this on dvd but my m8s dont remember it until they watched it 😂
Aaah. Fond memories....
A rapier made from a garden kane and margarine tub lid.😮
Should be the anthem for EVERY school these days.
Learnt off by heart and applied to the letter to stop the rubbish that is filthying up society
Class theme from classic TV
I never knew that it was filmed in colour!
Could be you had a black and white tv like we did :)
I remember iiin black and white!
I think at the time my dad had a b&w set.
Most films on TV were filmed in b&w.
Still are on bbc😂
What times 70s 80s i would go back and stay there in a hart beat you can have your 60s you can have your 90s but the 70s and 80s where times you had your seasons to you had the best warm summers and every year it snowed on time and i mean snow nun of that slush they call snow now out with your pals making a sledge out of what you could find having fun remember playing football over the feild and the game lasted all day for hour and hour you would go home have somthing to eat come back and get back in to your game magic and you dont see penny for the guy eneymore take your brothers best pants and steal your dads news paper and get to it what times the good thing about the brain it stores all them lovely times we had am glad i had my time then what a child hood loved every min could someone please invent time travel and take me back to then coz 2022 is not what its cracked out to be 👍😉✌
Win France!
America Stand Shoulder to Shoulder With You!
You Win!
Enemies Destroyed!
Regards!
Paul
🇺🇲🇨🇵😎✌️⚡🦂☢️🗽
Need to do this Now everyone
Hear, hear!
im 49. vaguely remember this, remember more of swap shop, tiswas
dickie davis world of sport, why dont you. etc
Happy memories. I have a vague memory that the villain was called Don Diego. Could be wrong.
I used to watch this on a Saturday morning after my paper round but buggered if I can tell you what it was about?
I believe it was about a border conflict between France & the Spanish empire. The fort at the beginning is a french one trying to hold out against Spanish forces. You can tell the Spanish troops due to their helmets, same as those worn by the Conquistadors.
@@long-timesci-fienthusiast9626 The helmets were called morions.
@@stephenjamieson3833 Thanks, I only knew them by their unique shape. Never would have guessed that name.
The Spanish took possession of Holland.
I only found this out recently from a guy who has Spanish/Dutch ancestry.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with the sentiments of the song it would seem to imply that any dispute large or small should be resolved by firing a cannon at your opponent.
Exactly, the nessage seems to be if for instance a shopkeeper accidentally short changes you, go back and challenge him or her to a sword fight.😝
All that's missing is the 'Robinson Crusoe' intro ;-)
Why were all our summer/easter holiday TV shows dubbed euro series..?? I loved them
bbc budgets probably meant it was far cheaper than making their own
Oh I loved this show and tried to copy some of the moves. Amazing to see these riders galloping at full speed with no helmets. Health and Safety did not exist and no one cared getting hurt fighting among each other. It was another era when males could do what they do best without fear, and females could so their thing and be feminine.