Just heard this for the first time in over 40 years, I'm in my 50s now and wow, tears are trickling down my face. It's amazing how a piece of music can do this to a grown man. Brings back lovely memories of a a kinder, simpler time, at home with a 'bad cold' off from school with my dear late mum checking in on me. What a privilege to have grown up in such a loving home. Mum and dad both gone during the last few years. Thanks for sharing this beautiful music.
It seems most of us remember this because it brings back times when we were off school with measles, ear ache or we were just bunking off. Chokes me up somewhat. Reminds me of simpler times - times I'll never get back.
+Captain Snort Absolutely! Tucked under the sheets from your bed (but actually downstairs!) with the obligatory bottle of Lucozade (the crinkly gold cellophane removed) :)
I think the reason why so many of us feel so sad when hearing this iconic theme tune is that it represented a time where as children we felt safe. Mum probably stayed at home to look after us while dad brought home the money. We had real friendships, not "friends" on social media. If I wasn't well enough to go to school I always watched Crown Court with mum. Mum and dad died a long time ago now but some music always reminds me of them. We didn't have any money to spare but we never went without. I'm so grateful that my parents put their children first, althought we didn't realise that at the time.
Hindsight's a demon at times. I found out only recently how much my mother had stuck up for me in the game of family politics, and realised how much she'd gone without so I could have stuff. Now she's in a care home thinking that I'm my father and I'm too ill myself to repay her anyway.
Pipkins, The Sullivans and Rainbow....these were the days when television was best. Never shall British culture see these halycon days again. Our childhoods were the best. Farewell 1970s Britain. We will shall never forget you.
What a beautiful piece of music. Takes me well and truely back to when life was ok and mom and dad were there to make dinner before going back to school. Good times 💖 God bless all 💕
It's called Distant Hills. I got hold of it on a CD: Top Dog: Retrospective of Classic TV & Radio by De Wolfe Music. A collection of themes less often included in collections. Three tunes from Vision On, Top of the Form, Angling Today, George and Mildred, Farmhouse Kitchen, there's even Roobard and Custard. Van Der Valk is on there too - "Eye level" Distant Hills is the final track and to me it has the most powerful "back to a lost time" factor.
I remember my mam watchin this , she died when I was a teenager , this theme really takes me back to a time when everything was so perfect , very sad hearing it now
This show is currently being shown on the old channels of freeview. I remember watching it when i used to be off sick from school. Happier times than the twisted world we love in today.
Oh god, the nostalgia really hits :( Having lost my dad not so long ago, theme tunes like this make me quite sad and like some of you, remember those lunchtimes ill and being at home with the folks having lunch, etc. |Everything seemed brighter and nicer then... I suppose it is just nostalgia but it can hit you a bit :(
Remember watching this and thinking it was real, scared the he'll out of me because I should have been at school,!! Take me back to a better place, a better England :(
Hells Bells. Straight back to 1976 or so. I got impetigo ( horrible infectious rash) when I was in the first year of infant school. As my parents worked I spent the days at my nans and she used to watch this. Think it came on after lunch. Funny isn’t it....I can remember the opening and closing themes like it was yesterday but ask me what I had for dinner three days ago......! I know seeing things through the eyes of a child is totally different than that of an adult, but crikey the UK seemed a much nicer place back then. Take care everyone.
The UK has the advantage of being able to quickly re-shape itself. That bypass is so neat! The Rover is somewhat dated. But the harpsichord of this theme tune is the best possible actual use of a harpsichord.
I should know, being a year older than you. Remember Crown Court when growing up. This music is in C major - my musical memory is very good and I have perfect pitch!
You knew you'd successfully legitimately skived off school for the afternoon if you still at home to watch this, followed by 'General Hospital'....happy days:):):)
So glad to see this video. I was really little when this programme came on and the music used to make me cry it was so sad sounding. Now when listen to it, I still think it's sad but with a touch of nostalgia but really appreciate the orchestration I it, especially the beautiful clarinet at the beginning
I remember watching this at the time and even back then thinking it was a sad tune, I was a sensitive soul, my mum had a record called "Little Rosa" by a fella called Red Sovine (look it up, it's incredibly sad, Like "Honey" by Bobby Goldsborough in parts) I was so traumatised listening to that song (my mum used to play it all the tiime) I got so saddened from listening to it, I snapped the record in half, I wasn't quite 10 years old at the time.
@@truckingscouser Aw I love Bobby Goldsboro, I know the song you mean. I love his other song 'Summer The First Time' too, it's one of my faves. It makes me feel so nostalgic somehow, yet I don't know if I was even born when he released that song, or I probably was only just born. Me and my sis were also very sensitive to music as children. We're singers too and from a very early age, I knew I loved music. Sounds like you're the same. I literally would get a lump in my throat if I heard emotional music when I was a kid x
Fiona, you need to give Little Rosa a listen, its heartbreaking, the version by Red Sovine, although I can't seem to find a version that sounds like the one my mum had. He also had a song out called 'Teddy Bear' that's also a tough listen :-( Another song that also gets me, is Excerpt from a teenage opera (commonly referred to as 'Grocer Jack') by Keith West, oh my life, when the kids start singing... :(
Ha! lol... I remember rushing home on my yamaha fizzy to watch this with my old mum during my lunch hour when i was an apprentice mechanic,, the tune esp brings it all back. The seventys ... days of optimism!.... where did it all go wrong.lol
I remember this well from my early school days, as it was frequently on after Rainbow, and if you were lucky, Friday's edition was the best - The verdict! Great times indeed!
let me suggest to my learned friends, that this presentation represented not just the measure of a sick day, but twice the measure. and good for you too. all rise.
Always remember watching this when I used to pretend to be poorly to get a day off school. At 4 O clock I seemed to get well again and it was out on the bike with mates :)
This footage shows clips from a Crown Court story called 'Marathon,' broadcast in 1975. It was among Zoe Wanamaker's earlest TV acting work. This story was unusual in it's format, being a 75 minute film, rather than the usual three half hourly episodes. ITV shown it in the evening, not the normal lunchtime 1.30 slot.
Just the same as everyone else here it seems, this is such a lovely, sad and nostalgic tune. I'm now 50 and reminds me when I was ill off school and if my Mum was shopping in town, and would drop me off at my grandmothers house. It always seemed to be raining. My grandmother had a black and white TV in her front room, she had a nice sofa and I'd snuggle underneath an old grey blanket she had, watch this, and wait for Mum to bring me back a curly wurly from her shopping :)
This evokes such powerful memories of my school days and my parents it's so evocative and more so as my dear mother and sister are gone! but always in my heart and this theme brings them back so much! miss you both! your brother and son!
I was sad enough to watch some re-runs on a now defunct channel. The really sad thing was, not only childhood memories, but I enjoyed the plot lines as well. The amount of actors who went onto greater things from this is amazing. Well written, well acted, and the jury making its own mind up. Brilliant.
I can't remember specifics, but I recall that the plots were always interesting and different from other shows. Disputes between neighbours, family feuds, dodgy tradesmen, etc. One that stands out is a climber demonstrating a point by climbing up the front of the judge's bench in full mountain gear.
Loved the theme tune and it was so poignant if you were upset at the end if there was a guilty or not guilty verdict. Loved this show as did my parents x
That's the only time I ever saw it. :D I think they should bring it back, early evening though. The real jury would be an even more interesting experiment now, seeing as prejudices have got much worse, less blatant with laws, but definitely much worse underneath. That's probably why they'd never bring it back, for accusations against what would be obvious differences of punishments dependent on the particular diversity of the defendant.
What a superb series this was. I have to agree that it was a real treat to be off sick from school in the late 70s/early 80s! They were re-running this on 'Legal TV' on Sky last year - fantastic. Shame the channel disappeared.
+Pork William - Same here growing up in NZ and then after this use to flick over to TV2 for Prisoner (cell block H) which followed Days of Our Lives - an American soap.
+Pork William - Same here growing up in NZ and then after this use to flick over to TV2 for Prisoner (cell block H) which followed Days of Our Lives - an American soap.
+Pork William yes ,remember rainbow, and the pipkins, used to be on only when you was sick. sit in front of the tv all day (only one telly )in the 70"s. good times
Not forgetting Jamie and the magic torch, Chorlton and the wheelies, Animal kwackers, Gideon, and when you were ill, puking through the night, your parents take you out saying "the fresh air will do you good!" God, what a thing nostalgia eh? :')
Fabulous. A marvellous piece of music that deserved more than being the B Side to The Simon Park Orchestra's surprise number one Eye Level (theme to Van der Valk) in 1973.
@cjhdeen. Good TV, from a bygone era. Probably would be terribly dated today. It's another world now. If you're of an age be forever grateful for the memories of those those halcyon 70's days and nights.
I should know, having been born in 1970. Remember the programme and the theme tune - which was actually different (a trumpet solo work by the composer Leos Janacek). I saw Crown Court when off sick from school. My father was a Community Beat Officer and would take prisoners to court.
the classic tune of the seventies child pulling a sickie. when you heard this it was nearly time for your friends to come home and play-out. this was when you suddenly felt a lot better but your mum told you that there was no way that you could go and play because you had been too ill for school. and you wish you had gone....
We have the technology to go back in time, and our time was a golden era of music that's never happened before or since. I don't know if it's a good thing or not.
Very evocative. Amazing how certain snapshots can conjure such vivid memories among so many. Great stuff. Inspired upload, among all the trash on this thing.
This should be brought back! With a TV audience voting! Show should be done live with various endings available depending on how the TV audience had voted. A daytime winner for ITV!
What a wonderful program that represented a period of which one can never relive. Never ! The children of today don't know of the wonderful life the kids lived throughout the 70s. Yes, we pretended to be ill and supporting a nice bottle of Lucozade under the blankets.Very funny that when school was over we suddenly got somewhat better within ourselves.It's a period of which I'll never ever forget and the so many friends who have unfortunately passed by including many of my finest of friends, the best friends anyone can ever have, our greatest of companions, namely our dogs. Yes, the music and the beautiful period in one's. life growing up in a beautiful world unlike of today and it certainly chokes one up, that is for sure. "Ive got tears in my eyes!
I used to love this series. Watching it over lunch before having to dash back to middle school. I was devastated when I went to senior school and realised that dinner hour was an hour later there. No more Crown Court. No wonder I hated school.
I've only ever seen it on one compilation "Top Dog" from De Wolfe records. There were a few instrumentals in the 70s that became hits. This was the b side to Eye Level (Van Der Valk). Sleepy Shores, the theme to Owen MD was another.
Crown Court was made by Granada and shown on the ITV network from 1972, when tv hours were deregulated, until 1984 when it ended. I remember it being on at 1.30-2.00pm, after the News at One. It's nice to see Richard Wilson, John Barron and Zoe Wanamaker in this video-it brings back many memories! Thank you!
I well remember watching Crown Court when growing up and off sick from school. It started when I was two and finished when I was fourteen! CJ, Susan Harper and Victor Meldrew in a previous existence.
This is called 'Distant Hills' by the Simon Park Orchestra. It was the B-side of their No1 hit single from c1973, 'Eye Level' aka Van der Valk. The opening of Crown Court was heralded by the fourth movement of the Sinfonietta by Leo's Janacek- it seemed quite formidable and caught the viewer's attention . Those were the days 😃
I remember watching this with an elderly and as it sadly turned out very poorly Alaister Sim as the judge, not long before he died. I was amazed to see him a week or two Later in a Christmas Carol, made some 25 years before. Great telly with some of our best and brightest.
I was a child when this was on television and I loved watching it with my nan when home on holiday from boarding school in the early 1970s. I am now 60.
theres a part of me that wishes i was born in England in the 60s as a white boy whos dad was a railway engeneer and my mum taught music at the local primary school. and me and my two brothers a sister went to the lake with our dog fluffy to watch old mr tillerson angling from his dingy while eating his cheese sandwiches and listening to the bbc..id sit in the sun occasionally stealing a glimpse of Mildred the most beautiful girl ive ever seen playing with a kite with her dad.and when i got home to my mums kitchen the smell of freshly baked scorns would fill the air while this song would filter through lounge telling me dad was home watching crown court
This makes me nostalgic for the days when barristers and judges were sensible, deep-thinking people who carefully sifted and weighed evidence in order to arrive at a just verdict. Not like the slick politically and financially motived hacks we have these days.
Being at Leicester Crown Court stirred up a few memories of watching the series thinking that it would never happen to me but it was horrible and I never want to repeat it again
I loved this..watched it with my mum when off school after lunch.we also used to watch armchair thriller and mr and mrs with derek batey..oh and the galloping gourmetx
This piece called Distant hills was used over the end credits. They used something bit more sinister for the opening and I always thought this tune helped sympathise the outcome whichever way it went! Just for the record Benzade1, although in the 1.30ish slot, Crown Court appeared on ITV, not the Beeb!
Very handy too, when you got to that age, when you came up ageist the local law. has a teen....Learnt a lot from this show and got me out of a lot of hassle with the police....Thanks.
There’s plenty of things I wished I’d done differently, but then, it could be a whole lot worse I suppose.it’s never too late to try and make your life better. I’m not preaching to you, just saying I know what you mean.
@traffic71 I'm just finding out that sometimes it can be too late to put things right a long time before you realise they're wrong. Hindsight's a right bugger.
WHY HAVE THEY NEVER RELEASED THIS PROGRAM ON DVD OR EVER REPEATED IT ON GOLD TV STATIONS . THIS TV COURT DRAMA SERIES IS BETTER THAN MOST BEING MADE TODAY
I have these on DVD - nailbiting TV and truly quality drama! And I couldn't agree more - the revenue from the calls would easily cover the budget and MORE some, as it is indeed cheap TV (a single location, small cast etc). Still have a physical jury in there of course for authenticity but putting the decision in the public's hands would be a BRILLIANT touch!!! I know it's become a cliche, but they really don't make 'em like this any more, sadly...
Hadn't heard this tune for years, heard it on Scala radio this week, like everyone of my generation watched with my mother who passed away in 1975 me aged 9 ,yes it was the b side to van der valk, but also apparently the jury were members of the public and were picked randomly from Manchester where the show was made.
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I used to run home from school at lunchtime to watch this. My mum would have my dinner ready for me. I loved this show. I miss my mum. 😢
Mums were great.. ..I miss my Mum too.
I'm not sure that I will cope when the time comes..
so do i
I did the same...watched it at lunchtime from school..sorry about your Mum...miss mine too...
Only watched it when I was laid on the sofa, off sick from school 🤢 Ps. Nice to see CJ playing the judge 😀 (CJ from Reggie Perrin)!
Just heard this for the first time in over 40 years, I'm in my 50s now and wow, tears are trickling down my face. It's amazing how a piece of music can do this to a grown man.
Brings back lovely memories of a a kinder, simpler time, at home with a 'bad cold' off from school with my dear late mum checking in on me. What a privilege to have grown up in such a loving home. Mum and dad both gone during the last few years. Thanks for sharing this beautiful music.
acting brilliant music fantastic
Same here - off school, Crown Court! I used to go mad if I had to go back before the verdict episode. So much lovely nostalgia with this music.
Spot on great times gone forever
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I hear ya pal.😢
It seems most of us remember this because it brings back times when we were off school with measles, ear ache or we were just bunking off. Chokes me up somewhat. Reminds me of simpler times - times I'll never get back.
hear hear
+Captain Snort Absolutely! Tucked under the sheets from your bed (but actually downstairs!) with the obligatory bottle of Lucozade (the crinkly gold cellophane removed) :)
In a glass bottle with the Dalek knobbly bits on the neck and bubbles the size of planets. That stuff was the best placebo ever.
Totally agree.
have to agree.Incredible how nostalgic I felt listening to this.Yes-"choked" is the word. Where the hell did those days go...............?
I think the reason why so many of us feel so sad when hearing this iconic theme tune is that it represented a time where as children we felt safe. Mum probably stayed at home to look after us while dad brought home the money. We had real friendships, not "friends" on social media. If I wasn't well enough to go to school I always watched Crown Court with mum. Mum and dad died a long time ago now but some music always reminds me of them. We didn't have any money to spare but we never went without. I'm so grateful that my parents put their children first, althought we didn't realise that at the time.
A lovely sentiment.
Hindsight's a demon at times. I found out only recently how much my mother had stuck up for me in the game of family politics, and realised how much she'd gone without so I could have stuff. Now she's in a care home thinking that I'm my father and I'm too ill myself to repay her anyway.
Absolutely, best times ,
@@Benjiesbeenbetter.That kind of love is unconditional. She wouldn't want you to feel bad about it.
@@GoosePlaysGuitar Thanks.
Pipkins, The Sullivans and Rainbow....these were the days when television was best.
Never shall British culture see these halycon days again. Our childhoods were the best. Farewell 1970s Britain. We will shall never forget you.
What a beautiful piece of music. Takes me well and truely back to when life was ok and mom and dad were there to make dinner before going back to school. Good times 💖 God bless all 💕
I feel exactly the same...
Thanks friend....! That means a lot..... Happy times 👍
It's called Distant Hills. I got hold of it on a CD: Top Dog: Retrospective of Classic TV & Radio by De Wolfe Music. A collection of themes less often included in collections.
Three tunes from Vision On, Top of the Form, Angling Today, George and Mildred, Farmhouse Kitchen, there's even Roobard and Custard.
Van Der Valk is on there too - "Eye level"
Distant Hills is the final track and to me it has the most powerful "back to a lost time" factor.
Its amazing how abit of music can provoke so much emotion , I remember watching this at lunchtimes when I was a kid and I'm now 50 ..
same
53. Another few years gone in the blink of an eye .
53. I remember Crown Court but a different theme tune (possibly Janacek?)
Some of our finest British actors / actresses appeared in this. Thankfully most of us can say we lived through the best times.
Victor Meldrew, Susan Harper and CJ 'I didn't get where I am today without putting criminals behind bars'!!!
I remember my mam watchin this , she died when I was a teenager , this theme really takes me back to a time when everything was so perfect , very sad hearing it now
This show is currently being shown on the old channels of freeview. I remember watching it when i used to be off sick from school. Happier times than the twisted world we love in today.
Oh god, the nostalgia really hits :( Having lost my dad not so long ago, theme tunes like this make me quite sad and like some of you, remember those lunchtimes ill and being at home with the folks having lunch, etc. |Everything seemed brighter and nicer then... I suppose it is just nostalgia but it can hit you a bit :(
Totally agree with you.
Yep.
Remember watching this and thinking it was real, scared the he'll out of me because I should have been at school,!! Take me back to a better place, a better England :(
"Muuuuum...my tummy still hurts!"
"No it doesn't! You're back to school tomorrow!"
Hells Bells. Straight back to 1976 or so. I got impetigo ( horrible infectious rash) when I was in the first year of infant school. As my parents worked I spent the days at my nans and she used to watch this. Think it came on after lunch. Funny isn’t it....I can remember the opening and closing themes like it was yesterday but ask me what I had for dinner three days ago......! I know seeing things through the eyes of a child is totally different than that of an adult, but crikey the UK seemed a much nicer place back then. Take care everyone.
The UK has the advantage of being able to quickly re-shape itself. That bypass is so neat! The Rover is somewhat dated. But the harpsichord of this theme tune is the best possible actual use of a harpsichord.
I should know, being a year older than you. Remember Crown Court when growing up. This music is in C major - my musical memory is very good and I have perfect pitch!
@@angelacooper2661still love this music but also the opening theme. That seemed very mean and dark.
@@traffic71I am an amateur string player in an orchestra and understand moods in music very well.
I remember it well. Lunchtime. Off sick. School holidays. Watching. And what a beautiful theme....
Chicken pox got to watch bagpuss as well god I miss the 70's!!!!!
You knew you'd successfully legitimately skived off school for the afternoon if you still at home to watch this, followed by 'General Hospital'....happy days:):):)
So glad to see this video. I was really little when this programme came on and the music used to make me cry it was so sad sounding. Now when listen to it, I still think it's sad but with a touch of nostalgia but really appreciate the orchestration I it, especially the beautiful clarinet at the beginning
I used to watch it at 5 years old. Apart from Shoestring, it is a very early solid memory.
I remember watching this at the time and even back then thinking it was a sad tune, I was a sensitive soul, my mum had a record called "Little Rosa" by a fella called Red Sovine (look it up, it's incredibly sad, Like "Honey" by Bobby Goldsborough in parts) I was so traumatised listening to that song (my mum used to play it all the tiime) I got so saddened from listening to it, I snapped the record in half, I wasn't quite 10 years old at the time.
@@truckingscouser Aw I love Bobby Goldsboro, I know the song you mean. I love his other song 'Summer The First Time' too, it's one of my faves. It makes me feel so nostalgic somehow, yet I don't know if I was even born when he released that song, or I probably was only just born. Me and my sis were also very sensitive to music as children. We're singers too and from a very early age, I knew I loved music. Sounds like you're the same. I literally would get a lump in my throat if I heard emotional music when I was a kid x
Fiona, you need to give Little Rosa a listen, its heartbreaking, the version by Red Sovine, although I can't seem to find a version that sounds like the one my mum had. He also had a song out called 'Teddy Bear' that's also a tough listen :-(
Another song that also gets me, is Excerpt from a teenage opera (commonly referred to as 'Grocer Jack') by Keith West, oh my life, when the kids start singing... :(
A lovelyvtune. It's an oboe at the beginning though.
Ha! lol... I remember rushing home on my yamaha fizzy to watch this with my old mum during my lunch hour when i was an apprentice mechanic,, the tune esp brings it all back. The seventys ... days of optimism!.... where did it all go wrong.lol
The seventies were a pretty messed up time, but we had optimism. We believed things would get better.
Oh boy, I love that EVERYONE remembers this as something that was on when you were ill off school :D
I'm reminded school summer holidays in the 70's, lazy afternoons at my great grandmothers flat - happy memories I will cherish forever!
I remember this well from my early school days, as it was frequently on after Rainbow, and if you were lucky, Friday's edition was the best - The verdict! Great times indeed!
I have all the series on DVD Seeing some of the actors that started out on Crown Court now is remarkable.A landmark series
let me suggest to my learned friends, that this presentation represented not just the measure of a sick day, but twice the measure. and good for you too. all rise.
You got that bunkum right.. Cool!
Always remember watching this when I used to pretend to be poorly to get a day off school. At 4 O clock I seemed to get well again and it was out on the bike with mates :)
Oh aye son, we all did that!!!
I didn't play truant from school because I had frequent ill-health, catching colds and a lot of trouble with asthma!
This footage shows clips from a Crown Court story called 'Marathon,' broadcast in 1975. It was among Zoe Wanamaker's earlest TV acting work. This story was unusual in it's format, being a 75 minute film, rather than the usual three half hourly episodes. ITV shown it in the evening, not the normal lunchtime 1.30 slot.
Just the same as everyone else here it seems, this is such a lovely, sad and nostalgic tune. I'm now 50 and reminds me when I was ill off school and if my Mum was shopping in town, and would drop me off at my grandmothers house. It always seemed to be raining. My grandmother had a black and white TV in her front room, she had a nice sofa and I'd snuggle underneath an old grey blanket she had, watch this, and wait for Mum to bring me back a curly wurly from her shopping :)
Very haunting theme tune, brings back a lot of memories of an eighties lunch-hour!
This evokes such powerful memories of my school days and my parents it's so evocative and more so as my dear mother and sister are gone! but always in my heart and this theme brings them back so much! miss you both! your brother and son!
Wonderful piece of music.
I was sad enough to watch some re-runs on a now defunct channel. The really sad thing was, not only childhood memories, but I enjoyed the plot lines as well.
The amount of actors who went onto greater things from this is amazing.
Well written, well acted, and the jury making its own mind up. Brilliant.
I can't remember specifics, but I recall that the plots were always interesting and different from other shows. Disputes between neighbours, family feuds, dodgy tradesmen, etc. One that stands out is a climber demonstrating a point by climbing up the front of the judge's bench in full mountain gear.
2:11
I didn't get where I am today without playing an esteemed judge.
A truly great theme tune. Love the way it builds up, just beautiful!
Great series. Unforgettable theme tune
Loved this show! Richard Wilson as Jeremy Parsons QC was definitely the best. His character was so sarcastic but funny when cross-examining!
I DON'T believe it!
Watching this was a treat as it meant i was at home sick - off school. Great memories 😊
Some big TV stars were seen in this outstanding series.
Loved the theme tune and it was so poignant if you were upset at the end if there was a guilty or not guilty verdict. Loved this show as did my parents x
Many actors learned their craft by appearing as guest stars on this show.
The theme tune to every sick day!
That's the only time I ever saw it. :D
I think they should bring it back, early evening though. The real jury would be an even more interesting experiment now, seeing as prejudices have got much worse, less blatant with laws, but definitely much worse underneath. That's probably why they'd never bring it back, for accusations against what would be obvious differences of punishments dependent on the particular diversity of the defendant.
The perfect theme for naughty people going off to prison.
Gosh this brings back so many memories of when I was a a child going primary school... used to love watching this
What a superb series this was. I have to agree that it was a real treat to be off sick from school in the late 70s/early 80s! They were re-running this on 'Legal TV' on Sky last year - fantastic. Shame the channel disappeared.
This tune reminds me of my young days at home watching TV after the kids lunchtime TV ended and adult TV started at 12.30pm.
Oh Kapricorn, I can relate to everything you said! Brings back so many memories! The theme tune is beautiful too....
Blimey, I remember when I was off sick from school during the '70s, and this would be on ITV about 1pm...
+Pork William - Same here growing up in NZ and then after this use to flick over to TV2 for Prisoner (cell block H) which followed Days of Our Lives - an American soap.
+Pork William - Same here growing up in NZ and then after this use to flick over to TV2 for Prisoner (cell block H) which followed Days of Our Lives - an American soap.
Richard Booth We had Prisoner Cell Block H over here in the UK during the 1990's; it was awesome
+Pork William yes ,remember rainbow, and the pipkins, used to be on only when you was sick. sit in front of the tv all day (only one telly )in the 70"s. good times
Not forgetting Jamie and the magic torch, Chorlton and the wheelies, Animal kwackers, Gideon, and when you were ill, puking through the night, your parents take you out saying "the fresh air will do you good!" God, what a thing nostalgia eh? :')
Fabulous. A marvellous piece of music that deserved more than being the B Side to The Simon Park Orchestra's surprise number one Eye Level (theme to Van der Valk) in 1973.
the Theme was called "Distant Hills " and was infact played at the end of the programme and not the beginning
Yes - a work by Leos Janacek was played at the start.
@cjhdeen. Good TV, from a bygone era. Probably would be terribly dated today. It's another world now. If you're of an age be forever grateful for the memories of those those halcyon 70's days and nights.
I should know, having been born in 1970. Remember the programme and the theme tune - which was actually different (a trumpet solo work by the composer Leos Janacek). I saw Crown Court when off sick from school. My father was a Community Beat Officer and would take prisoners to court.
I use to watch this. It brings back memories.
the classic tune of the seventies child pulling a sickie. when you heard this it was nearly time for your friends to come home and play-out. this was when you suddenly felt a lot better but your mum told you that there was no way that you could go and play because you had been too ill for school. and you wish you had gone....
Look at all the now famous actors and actresses who cut their teeth on this fine piece of work by Granada Television !
We have the technology to go back in time, and our time was a golden era of music that's never happened before or since. I don't know if it's a good thing or not.
Very evocative. Amazing how certain snapshots can conjure such vivid memories among so many. Great stuff. Inspired upload, among all the trash on this thing.
I used to sit and watch this with my mam as a bairn great memories.
This should be brought back! With a TV audience voting! Show should be done live with various endings available depending on how the TV audience had voted. A daytime winner for ITV!
What fantastic times!
What a wonderful program that represented a period of which one can never relive. Never ! The children of today don't know of the wonderful life the kids lived throughout the 70s. Yes, we pretended to be ill and supporting a nice bottle of Lucozade under the blankets.Very funny that when school was over we suddenly got somewhat better within ourselves.It's a period of which I'll never ever forget and the so many friends who have unfortunately passed by including many of my finest of friends, the best friends anyone can ever have, our greatest of companions, namely our dogs. Yes, the music and the beautiful period in one's. life growing up in a beautiful world unlike of today and it certainly chokes one up, that is for sure. "Ive got tears in my eyes!
I used to love this series. Watching it over lunch before having to dash back to middle school. I was devastated when I went to senior school and realised that dinner hour was an hour later there. No more Crown Court. No wonder I hated school.
Great series, wish it was still on
Christ,, the memories of my school days..ha ha.watched this and the wrestling!!
edster daniels And Afternoon Plus ;).
I forgot about the wrestling. Hmmm. Snooker or wrestling. Let granny decide.
Guru Nanak, this takes me back to childhood memories. Susan Harper, CJ and Victor Meldrew in court!
reminds me of the good old days everyafternoon i used to watch crown court
Brilliant drama without 'coming up on today's show...' Telly drama at it's best.
Wish they would repeat this series!
Remember these well . Great tv days back then
I love this tune so much, lots of good memories. I can play this on my synth, might make a modern version soon.
Same here Steve. Some beautiful chords in such a simple theme.
It's in the key of C major. I am an amateur string player in an orchestra and possess perfect pitch. My musical memory is very good!
I too watched on many a sick day and now I'm a Crown Court Advocate!!
I just like to say, what an awesome piece of music this is. It should be better known, preserved somewhere.
I've only ever seen it on one compilation "Top Dog" from De Wolfe records.
There were a few instrumentals in the 70s that became hits. This was the b side to Eye Level (Van Der Valk).
Sleepy Shores, the theme to Owen MD was another.
Crown Court was made by Granada and shown on the ITV network from 1972, when tv hours were deregulated, until 1984 when it ended.
I remember it being on at 1.30-2.00pm, after the News at One.
It's nice to see Richard Wilson, John Barron and Zoe Wanamaker in this video-it brings back many memories!
Thank you!
I well remember watching Crown Court when growing up and off sick from school. It started when I was two and finished when I was fourteen! CJ, Susan Harper and Victor Meldrew in a previous existence.
Ah John Barron & Richard Wilson - what a fabulous series crown court was - some of our finest actors appeared in it....
CJ and Victor Meldrew. I didn't get where I am today without dispensing justice. I DON'T believe it (the judicial pronouncement).
Fond memories of my childhood watching this show. Spent alot of my adult life in Crown Court..
This is called 'Distant Hills' by the Simon Park Orchestra. It was the B-side of their No1 hit single from c1973, 'Eye Level' aka Van der Valk. The opening of Crown Court was heralded by the fourth movement of the Sinfonietta by Leo's Janacek- it seemed quite formidable and caught the viewer's attention . Those were the days 😃
This programme was amazing. remember it like yesterday...
I remember watching this with an elderly and as it sadly turned out very poorly Alaister Sim as the judge, not long before he died. I was amazed to see him a week or two Later in a Christmas Carol, made some 25 years before. Great telly with some of our best and brightest.
I was a child when this was on television and I loved watching it with my nan when home on holiday from boarding school in the early 1970s. I am now 60.
You are therefore 7 years older than me, as in the early 70s I was Play School age. Now just turned 54!
Great theme from magical times gone by.
Sigh.......
theres a part of me that wishes i was born in England in the 60s as a white boy whos dad was a railway engeneer and my mum taught music at the local primary school. and me and my two brothers a sister went to the lake with our dog fluffy to watch old mr tillerson angling from his dingy while eating his cheese sandwiches and listening to the bbc..id sit in the sun occasionally stealing a glimpse of Mildred the most beautiful girl ive ever seen playing with a kite with her dad.and when i got home to my mums kitchen the smell of freshly baked scorns would fill the air while this song would filter through lounge telling me dad was home watching crown court
Mwanza Lungu it’s scones!
This makes me nostalgic for the days when barristers and judges were sensible, deep-thinking people who carefully sifted and weighed evidence in order to arrive at a just verdict. Not like the slick politically and financially motived hacks we have these days.
Being at Leicester Crown Court stirred up a few memories of watching the series thinking that it would never happen to me but it was horrible and I never want to repeat it again
Best telly theme ever.
That judge didn't get where he was today without knowing a good legal decision ! .
As to Jeremy Parsons, QC - when the verdict was announced, he said, “I DON’T BELIEEEEEEEEEEEVE IT!!!!”.
I loved this..watched it with my mum when off school after lunch.we also used to watch armchair thriller and mr and mrs with derek batey..oh and the galloping gourmetx
This piece called Distant hills was used over the end credits. They used something bit more sinister for the opening and I always thought this tune helped sympathise the outcome whichever way it went!
Just for the record Benzade1, although in the 1.30ish slot, Crown Court appeared on ITV, not the Beeb!
You are thinking of Janacek with the trumpet fanfare tune!
Thank you@@angelacooper2661! Just looked it up and BINGO!! It's Sinfonietta Op 60 IV Allegretto. Another memory preserved!!
lol i remember this,my god how the years fly
So how often did Jeremy Parsons QC tell a witness:"I don't BEE-LEEVE it !"
It's very nostalgic mate.
Had to be there I suppose.
Wonderful.
this used to be on lunchtimes when I was in primary school
Feel conditioned?
Makes me want a glass of Lucozade and a spoonful of Venose. Now was Pebble Mill at One on before or after this?
Before on BBC 1. Then this on ITV. Then General Hospital.
As I remember it, this was on ITV about 2pm after The amazing world of Kreskin/ Indoor League and the news at 1 with Robert Key.
Very handy too, when you got to that age, when you came up ageist the local law. has a teen....Learnt a lot from this show and got me out of a lot of hassle with the police....Thanks.
When programmes had theme tunes that lasted more than a few seconds . . .
I listen to the music and read the comments with tears in my eyes knowing I fucked up life wishing I could do it all again..
There’s plenty of things I wished I’d done differently, but then, it could be a whole lot worse I suppose.it’s never too late to try and make your life better. I’m not preaching to you, just saying I know what you mean.
@traffic71 I'm just finding out that sometimes it can be too late to put things right a long time before you realise they're wrong. Hindsight's a right bugger.
WHY HAVE THEY NEVER RELEASED THIS PROGRAM ON DVD OR EVER REPEATED IT ON GOLD TV STATIONS . THIS TV COURT DRAMA SERIES IS BETTER THAN MOST BEING MADE TODAY
Memory is a funny thing. I came here expecting to hear Janáček 😆 Totally forgot about this piece. Thanks.
Some great familar faces in this clip John Barron, Richard Wilson and Zoe Wanamaker with really shot hair- awesome.
Yes that was the opening music I rember that very well, sat in the Kitchen wating for my lunch.....Crown court on and my mother watching it.....
I have these on DVD - nailbiting TV and truly quality drama! And I couldn't agree more - the revenue from the calls would easily cover the budget and MORE some, as it is indeed cheap TV (a single location, small cast etc). Still have a physical jury in there of course for authenticity but putting the decision in the public's hands would be a BRILLIANT touch!!! I know it's become a cliche, but they really don't make 'em like this any more, sadly...
oh my god that makes me so sad :( Me too... I wish I could go back in time sometimes
...and then BONG!!!! This is the News at One with Leonard Parkin
Hadn't heard this tune for years, heard it on Scala radio this week, like everyone of my generation watched with my mother who passed away in 1975 me aged 9 ,yes it was the b side to van der valk, but also apparently the jury were members of the public and were picked randomly from Manchester where the show was made.