One you haven't heard for ages.

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
I haven't heard this since 1968, I doubt the series has been repeated at all since - a lot of it is what they term as 'lost', I understand.

As soon as it popped up in the You Tube suggestions, I could remember it - and Danny Scipio - and the scene with the stiletto stabbing...

Yonks ago, I bought a John Barry cd, There is 23 tunes on there, and sadly I remembered the majority of them. It's absolutely brilliant.
 

Gramaisc

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Yonks ago, I bought a John Barry cd, There is 23 tunes on there, and sadly I remembered the majority of them. It's absolutely brilliant.
He did a lot of good themes - I remember Vendetta being quite hard and dark for the time, when people were used to stuff like The Saint.

Even the "good guys" weren't very nice.
 

BobClay

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One of the best film sound track men in the business in his day. Famous of course for various Bond movies, but this one from The Quiller Memorandum was a masterful theme for a much darker spy story.

 

Gramaisc

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One of the best film sound track men in the business in his day. Famous of course for various Bond movies, but this one from The Quiller Memorandum was a masterful theme for a much darker spy story.

Ah, Matt Monro - I hung on to be a Wednesday's Child....
 

BobClay

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It was based on a novel written by Elleston Trevor (under one of his many pseudonyms) a very prolific writer. No Aston Martins or fancy gadgets, and Alec Guinness putting in some early practice for his George Smiley role on the box.
 

BobClay

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This is just absolute madness. But every time I here it, it cheers me up no end. And the crazy bastard doing the dancing ? (whatever it is .. :o) … well that's somebody I want to go drinking with … :pint:

 

BobClay

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Annie Lennox. Mad as nitro-glycerine impregnated cotton wool. But what a powerhouse lady singer …. :teef:

 

BobClay

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Many years ago I watched a TV Series called Harry's Game, based on the book by Gerald Seymour. The group Clannad were asked to produce a song for the series, and did they ever deliver. It's as dark and sad as the book, and from what I remember the TV series followed the book fairly closely. The song was a big hit.

 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Many years ago I watched a TV Series called Harry's Game, based on the book by Gerald Seymour. The group Clannad were asked to produce a song for the series, and did they ever deliver. It's as dark and sad as the book, and from what I remember the TV series followed the book fairly closely. The song was a big hit.

Back in the 1990s, BBC NI had a series called Give My Head Peace - essentially a sit-com based loosely on Harry's Game. Two families, one of each 'type', all the stereotypical characters - great fun, if you knew what was going on....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_My_Head_Peace
 

Noah

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Many years ago I watched a TV Series called Harry's Game, based on the book by Gerald Seymour. The group Clannad were asked to produce a song for the series, and did they ever deliver. It's as dark and sad as the book, and from what I remember the TV series followed the book fairly closely. The song was a big hit.

Which, for some obscure reason, reminded me of the TV series The One Game with the theme tune Sayon Dola by Chameleon.

 

BobClay

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I seem to remember the original Amercian band that did this used the word 'rebels' instead of 'British.' Perhaps they didn't want to annoy us, (we might have sent a gunboat .. :teef:) Fortunately the great Lonnie Donegan had no such qualms. :britain:

 
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