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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 22:07:29 GMT 1
When I was growing up in the 1960's and 1970's I loved watching action and detective series on TV, we were spoilt for choice back then.
Not only were they great TV but they had brilliant theme music. I will post up my favourite TV programs and link the theme tunes.
Please feel free to comment or add your favourite ones.
First up
Danger Man
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 22:12:17 GMT 1
The Avengers
The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry),[2] aided by John Steed (Patrick Macnee). Hendry left after the first series; Steed then became the main character, partnered by a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), and Tara King (Linda Thorson). The series ran from 1961 until 1969.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 22:15:47 GMT 1
Man In A Suitcase
Man in a Suitcase was effectively a replacement for Danger Man, whose production had been curtailed when its star Patrick McGoohan had decided to create his own series, The Prisoner. Many of the Danger Man production crew moved over to the new series, which was initially to be titled McGill after its lead character.
Some of you might recognise this as the theme tune to TFI Friday.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 16, 2018 22:20:23 GMT 1
My favourite 60s programmes, in the 60s were, without question:-
Trumpton Chigley Camberwick Green
plus, an honourable mention for The Herbs.
I have DVD box sets for all four of these.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 22:49:47 GMT 1
The Man From UNCLE
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fiction television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC. It follows secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a secret international counter-espionage and law-enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. The series premiered on September 22, 1964, completing its run on January 15, 1968.
Their arch enemy were THRUSH (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity).
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 22:53:38 GMT 1
The Saint
The Saint is an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It was based on the literary character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in the 1920s and featured in many novels over the years. He was played by Roger Moore. Templar helps those whom conventional agencies are powerless or unwilling to assist or protect, often using methods that skirt or are outside the law.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 22:56:26 GMT 1
The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in Canada beginning on 6 September 1967, then in the United Kingdom on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968. It stars and was co-created by Patrick McGoohan, and combines spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama.
The series follows a British former secret agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village resort, where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. Although the show was sold as a thriller in the mould of the previous series starring McGoohan, Danger Man (1960–68; retitled as Secret Agent in the US), its combination of 1960s countercultural themes and surrealistic setting had a far-reaching influence on science fiction and fantasy TV programming, and on narrative popular culture in general.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:02:27 GMT 1
Mission Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series, created and initially produced by Bruce Geller, chronicling the exploits of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). In the first season the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. Each episode opens with a fast-paced montage that unfolds as the series' theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin plays, after which in drama's prologue we see Briggs or Phelps receive his instructions from a voice delivered on a recording which then self-destructs.
It also inspired a series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:12:30 GMT 1
Callan
Callan is a British action/drama television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972. It starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, an agent of a state secret service dealing with internal security threats to the United Kingdom. Though portrayed as having responsibilities similar to those of the real-life MI5, Callan's fictional "Section" has carte blanche to use the most ruthless of methods. In the storylines interrogation is by means of torture, while extrajudicial killings are so routine they have a colour-coded filing system. With the possible exception of La Femme Nikita, no TV series has ever presented a Western government agency in so sinister a light as Callan.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:15:30 GMT 1
The Baron
The show starred an American actor, Steve Forrest, as John Mannering, an antiques dealer and sometime undercover agent working in an informal capacity for the head of the fictional British Diplomatic Intelligence, Templeton-Green (Colin Gordon). He is assisted by Cordelia Winfield (Sue Lloyd) and David Marlowe (Paul Ferris).
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:19:42 GMT 1
The Champions
The series features Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett as agents for a United Nations law enforcement organization called 'Nemesis', based in Geneva. Barrett is a codebreaker, Stirling a pilot, and Macready a recently widowed scientist and doctor.
During their first mission as a team, their plane crashes in the Himalayas. They are rescued by an advanced civilization living secretly in the mountains of Tibet, who save their lives, granting them perfected human abilities, including extrasensory powers to communicate with one another over distances (telepathy) and to foresee events (precognition), enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities reaching the fullest extent of human capabilities.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:23:22 GMT 1
Department S
Department S is a British spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. It consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969 and 1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King (later featured in spin-off series Jason King), Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. These three were agents for a fictional special department (the "S" of the title) of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse (Dennis Alaba Peters).
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:28:49 GMT 1
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeffrey Randall and Martin Hopkirk. The series was created by Dennis Spooner and produced by Monty Berman, and was first broadcast in 1969 and 1970.
In the initial episode Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation, but returns as a ghost. Randall is the only main character able to see or hear him, although certain minor characters are also able to do so in various circumstances throughout the series.
The series was remade in 2000, starring British comedy duo Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:31:36 GMT 1
Jason King
The series featured the further adventures of the title character who had first appeared in Department S (1969). In that series he was a dilettante dandy and author of a series of adventure novels, working as part of a team of investigators. In Jason King he had left that service to concentrate on writing the adventures of Mark Caine, who closely resembled Jason King in looks, manner, style, and personality. None of the other regular characters from Department S appeared in this series, although Department S itself is occasionally referred to in dialogue.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:35:35 GMT 1
The Persuaders
The Persuaders! is an action/adventure/comedy series starring Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, produced by ITC Entertainment, and initially broadcast on ITV and ABC in 1971. The show has been called "the last major entry in the cycle of adventure series that began 11 years earlier with Danger Man in 1960", as well as "the most ambitious and most expensive of Sir Lew Grade's international action adventure series".
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 16, 2018 23:40:00 GMT 1
The Protectors
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series to exclusively use live actors as opposed to marionettes (following UFO).
The Protectors was first broadcast in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long—making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn (of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. fame) as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter (co-star of The Forsyte Saga) as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt (later to star in Space: 1999 and Howards' Way) as Paul Buchet.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jul 19, 2018 14:13:28 GMT 1
I'm too young to remember much about the 70s, and wasn't born in the 60s, but I was mad on Blake's 7 as a young kid, as well as Dr Who and The Muppets!
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 19, 2018 16:09:00 GMT 1
ok i was a bit younger but these would be mine
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers
Fantasy Island
The Incredible Hulk
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