FULL version of this classic theme, with proper end and no fade-out. Dreamy, swirling, never-ending music, which you could lose yourself in. High quality 320kb/s audio soundtrack.
I’m 41 and the nostalgia is insane. Insanely good... I used to dance in front of the tv every single episode for the whole song...Yes, I was an annoying little shit.
@@martinjcooney4537 I think I remember an episode with a murdered husband and the wife served the police officers in attendance lamb sandwiches and it turned out that a leg of lamb was the murder weapon which she had cooked and the cops had eaten. Or that’s a mashup of prepubescent tv I’ve misremembered 🤷♀️ as my parents used to watch a Hitchcock programme that had similar “twists in the tale”.
Reminds me of Sunday nights, lying in bed and hearing this music from the tv downstairs! A wonderfully bizarre programme, in which u just knew something fucked up was going to happen, whether watching it or not! A nostalgic great!
Makes me sad to hear this but in a bittersweet way. My Ma and I used to watch this together and used to love the music... I wish more than anything that she was still around to share this memory. 😥
She will still share your Love and memories with her, Love never dies, it is impossible. Love is the only truth and is eternal. God is spirit, as we are spirit. We should be excited about the future when we shall be with them again more clearly after we pass on .
Can't stop listening to this. This is the best, clearest version I've ever heard. What I love about it are the textures Ron Grainer's layered on it. I can hear saxophone, possibly flute and/ or piccolo, harpsichord, pipe organ and synthesizer in there as well as guitar, bass and percussion. I've looked to see if there any notes made of the recording but haven't found any yet. Many thanks again!
All those unlikely instruments put together create a sound that's very hard to pin down. I know on the surface it's a carousel waltz but the way it gels is much more than the sum of its parts
Yep, just brought back memories of my childhood, being allowed to watch the opening theme song then being banished to bed , scared shitless after watching this!
Fantastic theme to a most splendid, classic TV series (I have the complete DVD box set), and with the wonderful bridge that you don't get to hear on the episodes themselves! I am almost at the ripe old age of 50 and I grew up watching and loving this show... and it - and this theme - never fails to send a cold chill up my spine! Thanks!
This is one of only a few pieces of music that brings so many images into my mind whenever I hear it .... mortality, chance, adventure, magic, fate, and London during the period when I lived there.
Me too. I similarly find it weird when people say they were scared by the theme music of Picture Box when they were kids. Doctor Who or World in Action, I can understand, but not Picture Box.
This music only becomes creepy after watching a few (creepy/scary) episodes of TOTU. After that, it's easy to make the link and from that moment on, every time you hear this music, you think about these scary episodes. However, not all episodes were scary. Some had a very surprising end.
It makes me feel both empathy towards my fellow human, and repulsion. I'm puzzled and slightly worried about my response to it, yet I keep returning to it.
Love this. Gorgeous piece. I just wish they had showed more of the silhouette dancing, as she is such a perfect counterpoint to the music. Like the music, she flows with grace.
@@islingtonfreenewsmedia there is a brilliant DVD box set which contains all 112 episodes. It's not super cheap, I paid around £70 for mine, but given it's 19 discs and every single episode I can truly recommend it if you want to see them all again in decent quality. Will never regret getting mine, so much childhood nostalgia and most episodes work great even today.
I used to remember when I was about 7, on a Sunday in the UK this was on & I would watch it with my mum clutching a cherry soda stream. I always found the opening/ closing credits more scary than the actual story.
Quality theme from a quality TV series from Anglia in Norwich. This was the usual standard of good programming. Used to watch it at my grandmother's on black & white in the 1970s ?
Music for my funeral. I watched this program as a kid, absolutely terrifying stories that probably gave my imagination a secret place all of its own. The deadly crite snake, the hitchhiker, the town clown. Imagine, Road Dahl introducing the show just like it was yesterday, and I'm transferred back 45 years to a small terraced house in 1976, luton - dreadful place.
The music used to creep me out big time back in the day.. when my aunty used to watch it. I had to go out of the room till the music finished.it just really scared me and I would just cry if I heard it 😂😂
Just for the first time since my childhood I am watching this beautiful series again - and first time in the original language, thanks to the enormous dvd-box by Network. The music is highly addictive: sweet, beautiful and yet a bit eerie. Never heard this full version before with variations and bridges, the longer it gets, the more it sounds like a carrousel waltz, which was actually the visual title sequence of the German Television version back then in the 1980s... And I love the visual collage technique in this extended opener, really nicely done, thank you so much for sharing!
Many years ago i was in my cousin's house and an episode came on the tv. As soon as the tune started,his wife said:"Oh,that tune is so spooky!" I think it's a beautiful piece of music. I've been watching the show since i was 9,and i really liked the tune then aswell!
Great tune, and a great series, great shame also that we have lost now, so many of our wonderful actors of the 60s who made these wonderful series like Tales of the unexpected never to return.
I loved this. Great credits. Rush to the TV excitedly music. And as closing credits was even better, post-punchline twist. I just have the one of John Mills stuck forever in my head, the umbrella man off to Manchester. Manchester? Doesn't it rain a lot there? "Yes!" says John with a smile, "yes it does!" ..........Clung, clung, clung....
The music is creepy because it is anachronistic, (especially true when it was aired because it was only slight out of date). Like music from a derelict fairground playing long after people stopped visiting. Weeds crawling over an old speaker nobody ever turned off...
I would be mystified after each episode, trying to decipher what had just happened and why, going to bed i would have the most incredible dreams mesmerised under that hypnotic theme tune, this will always remind me of my Grandparents and the late 70, early 80s, when winters were winters and summers were summers. Shit i must be getting old.......
Lo interesante de estas series radicaba en el terror psicológico que enfundaban, es decir tenías que pensar para poder asustarte. Tú mismo hilvanabas mentalmente cada aspecto de la historia para llegar a una conclusión que, en muchas ocasiones, eran más espeluznante que lo que realmente se mostraba. ¡Qué grandiosa imaginación!
Fabuleuse série et merveilleux générique. Une partie de mon enfance. Elle était diffusée sur FR3 le dimanche après-midi. Si quelqu'un possède des épisodes en français... Fabulous serial and wonderful music. A part of my childhood. It was broadcast diffused on FR3 on Sunday afternoon. If somebody possess episodes in French....
Am 43 years old i remember watching this the tales of the unspeated i use to watch it when i was little i was scared even the turn at the start of it too.
I remember it would come on in my grandmother’s in the 1980s. I was too young to recall the plots, but the opening music and piece stuck in my mind. Among everything else, there is a certain innocence to the piece, which doesn’t happen often in contemporary shows and art. This series has probably ended up in the paradoxical existence of having been very popular at first, then acquired cult status in later years. The same can be said for something like Auf Wierdersehen Pet. It was so big at the time, that pubs used to empty as people went home to see the next episode. Yet you’ll never see it being pushed on any fashionable digital channel, even the ones which include stuff from yeteryear. There must be an interesting reason why this happens. But I’m happy that certain shows are left untouched. That way, they can still be escaped to, which is the main attraction of entertainment for me, at least.
For some reason this song reminds me of clowns, Gypsies. Still scares me. Still drawn to find and listen to this song. Nostalgia at its highest peak. Im 47years now... Still gives me shivers lol.
This always reminded me of it being school the next day as it was shown on a Sunday night and I hated some lessons on the Monday morns at school. We did always used to copy the dancing and it got us laughing.
What an absolutely epic track. Ron Grainer was a legend writing some simply marvellous theme music for TV and films in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Just a masterpiece.
Haunting, evocative and unforgettable tune. So perfect for the theme of the show. The joker tossing a dice in the air which way will it land? Death? Fortune? Who can say, unexpected.
There is just something eerily intoxicating about this piece of music. Still gives me goosebumps and I’m 39.
I love it as well 💜
Ron Grainer had an incredible talent and was well ahead of his time.
Sunday night pure hating your having to go to school and i would hear this. Always reminds me of school dread
Definitely 47 here.
It sounds sweet...but it really isn't
iam 42 now and this still gives my the chills.. school in the morning . man time flys.
I'm 42 now listening to this... So Nostalgic. Don't recall watching it but I loved and remembered this evocative melody.
I am. 52. Beautiful sound track peace ✌
I’m 41 and the nostalgia is insane.
Insanely good... I used to dance in front of the tv every single episode for the whole song...Yes, I was an annoying little shit.
@@martinjcooney4537 I think I remember an episode with a murdered husband and the wife served the police officers in attendance lamb sandwiches and it turned out that a leg of lamb was the murder weapon which she had cooked and the cops had eaten.
Or that’s a mashup of prepubescent tv I’ve misremembered 🤷♀️ as my parents used to watch a Hitchcock programme that had similar “twists in the tale”.
- Bang on mate
Am 52 and still haunted by this theme. They used to screen this around midnight too!
One of the best pieces of music ever written. Instantly gets you into character ready for what's to come..........
Reminds me of Sunday nights, lying in bed and hearing this music from the tv downstairs!
A wonderfully bizarre programme, in which u just knew something fucked up was going to happen, whether watching it or not!
A nostalgic great!
30 People got scared to buggery by this music. Nearly a 1,000 appreciated its quality.
I'd say the that 1,000 were also scared to buggery, even as they appreciated its quality.
Appreciated the music or the buggery?
Makes me sad to hear this but in a bittersweet way. My Ma and I used to watch this together and used to love the music... I wish more than anything that she was still around to share this memory. 😥
Chomp Chomps hey man, sorry to hear she isn’t around. My mum and I used to watch this together too, she was a big fan of this music
I think what your mum would want you to do is to get a good job and a partner mate.
Yeah we all dearly miss our parents but as they say life goes on
She will still share your Love and memories with her, Love never dies, it is impossible. Love is the only truth and is eternal. God is spirit, as we are spirit. We should be excited about the future when we shall be with them again more clearly after we pass on .
@@damian-795, thank you that's beautiful ❤️
When I was young this theme used to scare me so much I could not sleep for school in the morning..now I’m 47 years old I love it😁😁😁👍🏻
Can't stop listening to this. This is the best, clearest version I've ever heard. What I love about it are the textures Ron Grainer's layered on it. I can hear saxophone, possibly flute and/ or piccolo, harpsichord, pipe organ and synthesizer in there as well as guitar, bass and percussion. I've looked to see if there any notes made of the recording but haven't found any yet. Many thanks again!
nickhirst999 love it memories...propa spooky😳😳😳😳😳
Power ballard track
All those unlikely instruments put together create a sound that's very hard to pin down. I know on the surface it's a carousel waltz but the way it gels is much more than the sum of its parts
Cool. No wonder I liked it. Roald Dahl and Ron Grainer working together is something I as a Canadian only just hearing about this show did not expect.
Yep, just brought back memories of my childhood, being allowed to watch the opening theme song then being banished to bed , scared shitless after watching this!
This music and opening sequence used to scare me as a child. Now aged 46
If you're over 35 - nostalgia, eh?
If you're under 35 - when we were kids, this was basically the equivalent Black Mirror without all the gizmos.
Or Non-Cyberpunk British Twilight Zone.
Gerry Lynch roald Dahl
😠
Gerry Lynch What's black mirror?
Defo
What if, 3 years ago, you were EXACTLY 35!?
This song reminds me of my grandmother, she use to watch this when we visited her on Sundays.
Fantastic theme to a most splendid, classic TV series (I have the complete DVD box set), and with the wonderful bridge that you don't get to hear on the episodes themselves! I am almost at the ripe old age of 50 and I grew up watching and loving this show... and it - and this theme - never fails to send a cold chill up my spine! Thanks!
Pure magic! There are just a handful of really memorable television theme tunes and this is one of my favourites.
This is one of only a few pieces of music that brings so many images into my mind whenever I hear it .... mortality, chance, adventure, magic, fate, and London during the period when I lived there.
This and the World In Action theme are the most nostalgic for me
Absolutely love this tune, brings back the memories.
a very sinister theme. love it.
The music just bombards you... Great stuff and what a show. Takes me back.
Oh dont u just LOVE tales like that? The theme tunes 1 of my favourites 2! Fantastic😜😜😜
A tune full of mystery and intrigue. Timeless classic.
Indeed
Everyone seems to be creeped out by this theme, but is it weird that I find it somewhat calming and just easy listening?
Ripper2509 same
Me too. I similarly find it weird when people say they were scared by the theme music of Picture Box when they were kids. Doctor Who or World in Action, I can understand, but not Picture Box.
This music only becomes creepy after watching a few (creepy/scary) episodes of TOTU.
After that, it's easy to make the link and from that moment on, every time you hear this music, you think about these scary episodes.
However, not all episodes were scary. Some had a very surprising end.
It was more so the association of the stories that made it a psychological reminder of the programme.
It makes me feel both empathy towards my fellow human, and repulsion. I'm puzzled and slightly worried about my response to it, yet I keep returning to it.
Love this. Gorgeous piece. I just wish they had showed more of the silhouette dancing, as she is such a perfect counterpoint to the music. Like the music, she flows with grace.
ahh the memories and nostalgia I used to watch this with my Nana and fall asleep on her shoulder before bedtime 😢😿💔
The strange feeling at the end of an episode, the WTF-moment when people are just staring with their mouth open and this tune begins to play.
How mesmerised this tune used to make me feel..
Fantastic piece of Music!!
Great theme - I have all 112 episodes, what a classic!
Which one had that vampire in a carnival side-show? I think it was from this series, hey.
Wow that's a great collection to have - do post them up Jamie!
@@islingtonfreenewsmedia there is a brilliant DVD box set which contains all 112 episodes. It's not super cheap, I paid around £70 for mine, but given it's 19 discs and every single episode I can truly recommend it if you want to see them all again in decent quality. Will never regret getting mine, so much childhood nostalgia and most episodes work great even today.
@@thewideeye Brilliant and many thanks for that.
I love it,!! 💯 I remember being a child.. And it stuck in my head for 40 yrs.. I feel euphoria x
I've always loved this piece of music. It's as haunting as it melodic
_"A wise man only believes in lies, trusts only in the absurd, and learns to expect the unexpected."_
I used to remember when I was about 7, on a Sunday in the UK this was on & I would watch it with my mum clutching a cherry soda stream. I always found the opening/ closing credits more scary than the actual story.
Quality theme from a quality TV series from Anglia in Norwich. This was the usual standard of good programming. Used to watch it at my grandmother's on black & white in the 1970s ?
Wonderful Theme!! could listen ALL day long!!
Music for my funeral. I watched this program as a kid, absolutely terrifying stories that probably gave my imagination a secret place all of its own. The deadly crite snake, the hitchhiker, the town clown. Imagine, Road Dahl introducing the show just like it was yesterday, and I'm transferred back 45 years to a small terraced house in 1976, luton - dreadful place.
The Flypaper was the best episode I think. It was chilling. Still has an effect on me all these years later
Beautiful theme , ahhh the memories 😉
The music used to creep me out big time back in the day.. when my aunty used to watch it.
I had to go out of the room till the music finished.it just really scared me and I would just cry if I heard it 😂😂
Just for the first time since my childhood I am watching this beautiful series again - and first time in the original language, thanks to the enormous dvd-box by Network. The music is highly addictive: sweet, beautiful and yet a bit eerie. Never heard this full version before with variations and bridges, the longer it gets, the more it sounds like a carrousel waltz, which was actually the visual title sequence of the German Television version back then in the 1980s... And I love the visual collage technique in this extended opener, really nicely done, thank you so much for sharing!
A really lovely waltz melody.
Many years ago i was in my cousin's house and an episode came on the tv.
As soon as the tune started,his wife said:"Oh,that tune is so spooky!"
I think it's a beautiful piece of music.
I've been watching the show since i was 9,and i really liked the tune then aswell!
Beautiful piece of music,takes me back to better times,'get up them apples and pears' my Dad would say meaning stairs to bed.
I cant believe I still feel this sensation of anguish
Hard to believe how old and brilliant the theme is and brilliant it still is, from 1979 to 1988
I'm 43 now... BUT THE MEMORIES ❤💙💚
I'm halfway through the DVD box-set, and the episode title shown here, is THE creepiest and scariest yet !--- Aaaaagh !
That intro scared the living daylights out of me as a kid
Hello of part of a chilean listener this music was played in the probably last Blur concert on chile and well i cried this song is beautiful
Great tune, and a great series, great shame also that we have lost now, so many of our wonderful actors of the 60s who made these wonderful series like Tales of the unexpected never to return.
I loved this. Great credits. Rush to the TV excitedly music. And as closing credits was even better, post-punchline twist. I just have the one of John Mills stuck forever in my head, the umbrella man off to Manchester. Manchester? Doesn't it rain a lot there? "Yes!" says John with a smile, "yes it does!" ..........Clung, clung, clung....
Finally found this soundtrack. Been looking for ages!
The dancer goes crazy!
life is full of mystery's great piece of music
Never saw this series, just discovered it, and now can't stop listening. Awesome. Amazing how a few notes can grab you.
The music is creepy because it is anachronistic, (especially true when it was aired because it was only slight out of date). Like music from a derelict fairground playing long after people stopped visiting. Weeds crawling over an old speaker nobody ever turned off...
wow very poetic, thanks for those thoughts.
Wow perfect description.
Had to go and Google it. It like the tritone music off key known as devil's chord.
I remember watching rerun of this in the late 90's early 2000's as a kid it totally creeped me out
Never fails to give me goosebumps. my dad would read Roald Dahl to my siblings and i and also introduced us to the show.
My all time fav' TV theme tune! Marvelous!
A Great Piece Of Music
Thanks for taking the trouble of uploading in HQ sound. It really does justice to such a great piece of music.
thanks for posting, lovely!
This theme was very spooky on a winters night.
I would be mystified after each episode, trying to decipher what had just happened and why, going to bed i would have the most incredible dreams mesmerised under that hypnotic theme tune, this will always remind me of my Grandparents and the late 70, early 80s, when winters were winters and summers were summers. Shit i must be getting old.......
I love this music and this is honestly one of my favourite programmes and I'm only 20 too 😊.
Brett Sinclaire same man
scary shit in its time
Born in the late 70' only would remember this... 💝
Hey im 18 and I still this watch the series. may have not been there for the prime but i watched them all on VHS
Fabulous and every programme was superb.
The programme that rarely had a happy ending ... and at best always an uncomfortable ending ...
Were they twist or cliffhanger endings?
@@lusyhognaston3777 - It was generally a "twist" at the end which usually spelt misfortune for at least one character.....
@@woohooboy I need to watch it then, I like a good twist.
I remember "The Flypaper" being particularly horrible.
@@KaitainCPS What happened in that?
Love this piece of music, takes me back, and i loved the all the wierd but sometimes real events, that can happen in life!
When i was a Youngster i used to find this Chilling!.
Just found this show on Amazon Prime and love it!!!!
Lo interesante de estas series radicaba en el terror psicológico que enfundaban, es decir tenías que pensar para poder asustarte. Tú mismo hilvanabas mentalmente cada aspecto de la historia para llegar a una conclusión que, en muchas ocasiones, eran más espeluznante que lo que realmente se mostraba. ¡Qué grandiosa imaginación!
I remember as a teenager dancing around the room like the girl happy carefree days
Fabuleuse série et merveilleux générique. Une partie de mon enfance. Elle était diffusée sur FR3 le dimanche après-midi. Si quelqu'un possède des épisodes en français...
Fabulous serial and wonderful music. A part of my childhood. It was broadcast diffused on FR3 on Sunday afternoon. If somebody possess episodes in French....
Am 43 years old i remember watching this the tales of the unspeated i use to watch it when i was little i was scared even the turn at the start of it too.
Love this edit. cheers. :)
2:03 London Street Scene -- a distinctive lion's head carved at the centre of a large wheel, with a royal coat of arms visible in the background.
true master-piece ....just wow.highly melodies
It's hauntingly beautiful, I think it would sound nice played shadows style on electric guitar
When i was a kid this music used to creep me out, because it's so jolly but you knew you were about to see something sinister ............
Super music,, one of the best ever theme's,,if not the best...
I'm 45, I used to watch with my father. Maybe, I was 6 or 7 years old.
Hypnotic
+David Topchiev Hypnowaltz
70's/80's classic right here friends
Royal Jelly !
My fuckin' baby's like a Human Queen Bee !
It was always the case when this was on in our house, it was time you were in bed. I'm now 41 years old
Lol, this and the Friday night "appointment with fear" when TV was actually entertaining!
Hmmm... No words! Great tune :)
Composed by Ron Grainer who did the Doctor Who theme too
+Ian Thomas An interesting piece of trivia. I never knew that. I can see the correlation.
he had help with the doctor who theme though,
It's more trivial than interesting, to be fair.
But 'unexpected' to some!
Ian Thomas - Haha! Yes indeed.
I remember it would come on in my grandmother’s in the 1980s. I was too young to recall the plots, but the opening music and piece stuck in my mind. Among everything else, there is a certain innocence to the piece, which doesn’t happen often in contemporary shows and art. This series has probably ended up in the paradoxical existence of having been very popular at first, then acquired cult status in later years. The same can be said for something like Auf Wierdersehen Pet. It was so big at the time, that pubs used to empty as people went home to see the next episode. Yet you’ll never see it being pushed on any fashionable digital channel, even the ones which include stuff from yeteryear. There must be an interesting reason why this happens. But I’m happy that certain shows are left untouched. That way, they can still be escaped to, which is the main attraction of entertainment for me, at least.
Love this, brings back childhood memories :)
For some reason this song reminds me of clowns, Gypsies. Still scares me. Still drawn to find and listen to this song. Nostalgia at its highest peak. Im 47years now... Still gives me shivers lol.
Quality upload
This always reminded me of it being school the next day as it was shown on a Sunday night and I hated some lessons on the Monday morns at school.
We did always used to copy the dancing and it got us laughing.
What an absolutely epic track. Ron Grainer was a legend writing some simply marvellous theme music for TV and films in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Just a masterpiece.
You knew it was Sunday night when this on tv
Bloody superb !!
Haunting, evocative and unforgettable tune. So perfect for the theme of the show. The joker tossing a dice in the air which way will it land? Death? Fortune? Who can say, unexpected.
loved this as a child, so mysterious!
One of my favourite theme tunes. Sky Arts channel still show repeats in the early hours during the week