Used to stay up for this, then go to bed immediately. To this day, I still don't know what this program was about.
@The_ATARI_King
7 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, isn't it amazing how some music/images resonate even though they had LITTLE (to less) impact upon your life. I was born 1972 so my teenage school years were the 1980s (84-89) Sunday nights Mum let me watch Spitting Image and then this came on but this Tune (and the images) ALWAYS meant bed, and the sorrow that the weekend was over and it was back to school tomorrow !!
@dogstar75
7 жыл бұрын
1971, exactly the same.
@EA7SC
7 жыл бұрын
This and Tales of the unexpected
@marksouthern6588
6 жыл бұрын
Eazy T I use watch it as a kid even school night after me mam was a bit lax ...and watching this made me want become an artist
@sgillman16
4 жыл бұрын
It's called Variations 1-4 by Julian Lloyd Webber
@kc1973able
4 жыл бұрын
1973 for me, and your so right ah Nostalgia to a world that was so colourful and down to earth. I miss um
@TomUK737
5 жыл бұрын
After more than 30 years, this still reminds me of Sunday nights and having to go to bed for school in the morning lol
@wadfather
3 жыл бұрын
staying awake after spitting image just to hear the theme tune, then to hear "tonight on the south bank show, hungarian opera" before turning off.
@amoretchaplin180
3 жыл бұрын
OMG! Same! Just said that to someone on Facebook ha ha!
@CJ-ft9yo
3 жыл бұрын
me too but more going to work the next day !
@jamiemcneil9682
3 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@jamiew1664
3 жыл бұрын
Man same!!!! I came here to write the same message. That tune reminds me of a feeling of bed time soon, school in the morning, still haven’t done my homework.. trying to do stuff to buy more time awake so my mum doesn’t send me to bed. This would have been mid 80s
@antwerpsmerle1404
7 ай бұрын
This programme broadened my cultural horizons enormously, and gave me a lifelong love of the arts. Thank you SO MUCH, Melvyn Bragg!
@Thunderpuddle
10 ай бұрын
Imagine just how much work went into these sequences..
@ZIGZAG12345
Жыл бұрын
There's some serious "swagger" about them. The funky musical intro with "T H E S O U T H B A N K S H O W" being spelled out, the artwork/animations, hands of God. Awesome. I came for the tune, remembering it from childhood, but was fascinated enough by the intros to watch all of it! Thanks for the upload, probably very few people have this on VHS and even less willing/able to convert it to KZitem! 👍
@aliengod3528
2 жыл бұрын
Born 1975 in UK. This brings back bloody memories. I love it!
@StuartVallantine
6 жыл бұрын
All hail the collected works of The Mighty Patrick Gavin! Shame such great title sequences are associated with going to bed early before school.
@haileyshannon7548
9 жыл бұрын
The South Bank Show had some pretty kick-ass title sequences, it really gets you excited and makes you want to watch!
@marksouthern6588
6 жыл бұрын
Hailey Shannon the show was art in itself
@Dbdbe1
8 ай бұрын
Amazingly evocative if you grew up in the 1980s, particularly if you had parents who worked in the arts as I did
@bearzebob
3 жыл бұрын
I always remember spitting image on before this on a Sunday evening at my Grannies house, good times!
@Cool2BCeltic
8 жыл бұрын
It's not too difficult to imagine an episode of The South Bank Show which starts with Lord Bragg saying "Tonight's programme is all about our opening credits over the years" and then going on to feature interviews with the animators and television executives involved in the creation of these opening titles. Seriously, these opening titles would have made a good subject for an episode of The South Bank Show.
@davidjatt3251
6 жыл бұрын
you're really terrible. what do you expect from football fans though
@danwoodhouse9290
5 жыл бұрын
or the previewswhere Lord Bragg starts with "Tonight on the South Bank Show.........."
@darkstar7
3 жыл бұрын
True
@GGoAwayy
Жыл бұрын
Maybe it was? I remember seeing basically all of these intros broadcast sometime in the 90s just like this (where I first saw/heard this theme). Im not sure what show it was. I dont think I ever caught an actual episode.
@SentinelTera
6 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, from the days when ITV actually bothered to pay any kind of notice to the arts and regularly devote space to discussing them instead of clogging up the schedules with tripe 24/7.
@marksouthern6588
6 жыл бұрын
SentinelTera well said
@PurushaDesa
5 жыл бұрын
Arts coverage on the BBC isn’t that much better with some brief exceptions on BBC Four.
@ramblerandy2397
4 жыл бұрын
@@PurushaDesa But at least the BBC still do. Look at the Sicilly and Italy Unpacked series as just one example. Along with [still] half decent documentaries fronted by experts rather than celebrities, Environmental programmes that aren't afraid to push the truth, rather than the popular. Nature programmes that deal with the harshness, and not the cuddly cuteness. Does ITV do any of that? Of course not. They are funded by advertising, for which the viewing public pays for every branded product that advertises on the commercial network, and they may buy. Nothing is for free.
@GrahamPearson-oo4uy
7 ай бұрын
Melvyn Bragg (aka Lord Melvyn Bragg or Baron Melvyn Bragg) was for 45 years the presenter of The South Bank Show. The South Bank Show was a ITV Sunday seasonal series when I first heard about it but from 2012 it has been a Sky Arts seasonal series. There will be a new presenter for the forthcoming series to replace veteran Lord Bragg.
@jacksugden8190
9 ай бұрын
Amazing after 31 years to see all those old clips again, that Lloyd-Webber Theme and Variations Cello and Orchestra by Paganini 1 -4 survived for 14 years.
@fanboy2015
6 жыл бұрын
It was shown here in the states back in the 1980s. Enjoyed the show very much.
@alexwells6876
4 жыл бұрын
The best piece of music for a TV Theme ever created, without doubt.
@weedaveanderson
2 жыл бұрын
Of course, it was created in around 1807 by Paganini; Caprice 24.. but you knew that I’m guessing.
@GGoAwayy
Жыл бұрын
@@weedaveanderson I dont think any orchestral version does it for me... I need Julian Lloyd Webber's Variations.
@alexwells6876
Жыл бұрын
@@GGoAwayy 7 months late, but i agree
@stuartberryman2817
2 жыл бұрын
It brings back so many memories hearing the theme
@manweller1
Жыл бұрын
Lord I miss this show
@ShinobuSakurazaka
6 жыл бұрын
I can remember the show's name and the intro music from years ago but I can't remember a password I set up yesterday! >:(
@tcehaus2600
5 жыл бұрын
A theme tune so cool, they have not had to change it in decades...
@sgillman16
4 жыл бұрын
It's Variations 1-4 by Andrew Lloyd Webber from his musical Song and Dance
@Wagoo
4 жыл бұрын
I don't think you should mention Lloyd Webber without citing Paganini's Caprice #24 as the original source..
@ChiroVideosTVlondon
Жыл бұрын
@@Wagoothe ALW album was called Variations, as it was variations of that theme. Later used in Song and Dance Act 2 and here. In case you were being disingenuous…
@Mechanismo77
2 жыл бұрын
after all these years still remember the theme tune with that amazing arpedgio ... brillant theme tune !!
@julian_day
Жыл бұрын
came here for the arpeggio
@airborneyvb6544
Жыл бұрын
This is just a banger of a tune. That’s it. 👍👍
@zippygotsillyagain
6 жыл бұрын
The first programming language I ever learnt seriously was something called 'IDL'. It included various array generation functions, all ending with '... gen'. Often when I used these functions, this theme tune would irrepressibly start whirring in my head and I would be powerless in stopping my brain from listing the whole family of functions to the beat at the beginning. Viz.: # bind-gen, ind-gen, find-gen, lind-gen.... dind-gen, cind-gen... #, etc.
@watchspotting
5 жыл бұрын
List of the best in order: 6. They 5. Are 4. All 3. The 2. Best 1. The third one
@win33adam
5 күн бұрын
This reminds me of watching Hale and Pace or Spitting Image. Then when this came on I knew it was the end of the weekend, and time to go to sleep as I had school the next morning.
@nathancox5316
Жыл бұрын
This show used to play on the Bravo cable network in the U.S. I also used to watch episodes at the Museum of TV and Radio, now The Paley Center for Media. The animation in each of the credit sequences is dazzling. The music, just in case you were unaware, was by Andrew Lloyd Webber from his album Variations, which later became the "Dance" section of his show Song and Dance.
@clairecassey5880
11 ай бұрын
LWT was the home of the ITV theme tune banger: The South Bank Show, The London Programme, Dempsey and Makepeace, World of Sport, Weekend World, Please Sir...
@shellsbignumber2
7 жыл бұрын
1980-1981 was my favourite.
@matthewakian2
6 жыл бұрын
This is when intros were intros
@lorrainecouch348
9 ай бұрын
👉⚡👈 I came for this... it's part of my investigation 🧐 Loved the interview with Francis Bacon... I think that's how you spell it? I wonder if he got Philadelphia'd...? It looked like it was heading that way. I'm currently getting Pepsi cola'd LOL...LOTS
@michaelmoore8371
2 жыл бұрын
Classic documentary show 👌 one of the 👌 I wish it would make a comeback, itv sucks now thank you 😊.
@81chipper89
Ай бұрын
I was born in '81, like everyone else this programme meant bedtime and back to bloody school in the morning. I still have no idea what this programme is actually about, as i never watched it, i just remember it being on.
@wirhannah
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the last one for sure - I seem to think that was the one on the opening credits for the episode that commemorated the 25th anniversary of Sgt Pepper's release
@rajnirvan3336
Жыл бұрын
Memories of all but bedtime ans school next day
@dronebee83
8 жыл бұрын
Look at the first 10 seconds of the 82-83 intro, then compare it to the intro to the BBC gameshow Telly Addicts circa 1985.
@TonySpike
8 жыл бұрын
DroneBee i think that was the point of the intro ...an homage to television
@vikingsmb
6 жыл бұрын
or to our nautical heritage as we are an island nation (use of semaphore)
@xtraspecialmango
3 жыл бұрын
You can see the animation bugdet slowly getting smaller throughout the years...
@meerkatz74
Жыл бұрын
A deconstruction masterclass as the idents progress
@latenightlogic
2 жыл бұрын
As an Aussie I’d never heard of this show until I became a massive blur fan, I want to know if this show is big in the uk, because it doesn’t have a Facebook page, a twitter or Instagram account, yet it’s been running pretty constantly since 1978… can anyone help?
@80ssynthfan48
Жыл бұрын
Being an arts programme and being on quite late when it was on terrestrial, I'd guess it wasn't an enormous ratings hit, but yes it was an institution in a way I suppose. It went to Sky Arts after ending on ITV.
@barcyorky
4 жыл бұрын
They should really bring this show back!
@mrgobrien
3 жыл бұрын
new episodes of it now (2020) run on the sky arts channel
@sgillman16
4 жыл бұрын
Variations 1-4 by Julian Lloyd Webber
@Dreamskater100
5 жыл бұрын
Sublime.
@Kiwi-od7eh
2 жыл бұрын
I still find myself humming the tune, even now
@mtalsi1
2 ай бұрын
I would stay up just for the theme tune then sleep!
@DJShadesUK
6 жыл бұрын
How has this theme tune stuck in my head? I've NEVER ever watched an episode of the South Bank Show but there is a new commercial on UK TV (in 2018) that is using part of the SBS theme. It was one of those "Where do I know that from?" moments. My first guess was "Its not the South Bank show, is it?" so I fired up KZitem but only listened to the first few seconds of the theme before dismissing it. 10 minutes later I recalled a connection with Michealangelos Creation of Adam - Again, why that detail stuck in my head I do not know... I've never watched the South Bank Show!! 10 minutes later I was sure the Creation of Adam link was with the SBS so decided to watch this video properly and - GOD DAMMIT - I was bloody right first time!! How? HOW has the SBS done this to me???!??? LOL
@sgillman16
4 жыл бұрын
Song is called Variations 1-4 by Julian Lloyd Webber
@AdeBamforth
2 жыл бұрын
Does anyone actually know which animator or studio animated the titles? It feels like it could only be Richard Williams though I haven't seen it credited as such.
@dohaperson1
5 жыл бұрын
Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber
@sgillman16
4 жыл бұрын
Yes. From Song and Dance
@ChiroVideosTVlondon
Жыл бұрын
@cricketexplained8526Hence it being called Variations
@80sandretrogubbins25
5 ай бұрын
The one marked 1989-1990 was definitely used in 1986.
@matthewakian2
6 жыл бұрын
I love surrealist art animation like that. Is it a genre?
@Dear1Stupit1Dog
3 жыл бұрын
Can someone help me? I remember an opening to a tv show in early 90s that i used to think it was from The South Bank Show, but now i believe it wasn't. Opening was mostly made in stop motion. It had a Brontosaurus like dinosaur that almost looks like it was made by Aardman studio and it had The South Bank Show theme but it was more Techno like. Does anyone know what i am talking about?
@minchmoorramblers6856
3 жыл бұрын
Did they ever have Charley Sollers on this? Or Proposition Joe?
@MondySpartan
6 жыл бұрын
Love Island is nothing compared to this.
@okamian
2 жыл бұрын
Station Eleven sent me here...
@martinbroughtonlenihan5827
4 жыл бұрын
i cant remember the italian composer,please help.
@martinbroughtonlenihan5827
4 жыл бұрын
just came to me, the genius that is paginini
@ChiroVideosTVlondon
Жыл бұрын
Paganini is the source, but this is from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s album of variations of that theme, with his brother on cello.
@stephencampbell2115
8 ай бұрын
One great episode is Melvin Bragg getting roaring drunk with the painter Francis Backn
@hotelmario510
6 жыл бұрын
Who is the person at 1:20 supposed to be? Siouxsie Sioux?
@lmjones7716
5 жыл бұрын
Patti Smith. See the 'Horses' album cover.
@hotelmario510
4 жыл бұрын
@@lmjones7716 I never thanked you for this! I'm not sure who most of the caricatures are, to be honest. I recognise Ella Fitzgerald, Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen and that's about it.
@julianlarsen5209
Жыл бұрын
3:40 It looks like the word "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer".
@andrewhuckle803
5 жыл бұрын
I always remember a Spitting Image sketch, " and now The South Bank Show, please remember to switch your television set off properly" 😁😁
@mrgobrien
3 жыл бұрын
1:07 - ernest hemmingway?
@neilcraig7254
2 жыл бұрын
I think so with Bob Dylan before him.
@Elgrug
6 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know who all the caricatures are in the 1982 version? The only one I'm 100% sure of is Woody Allen at the end.
@Elgrug
6 жыл бұрын
I think George Lucas is in there (seated, as the word 'bank' is being finished off) and someone suggested Roman Polanski a few places early, plus Beryl Cook is probably the woman in underwear near the start. Anyone agree? Any others?
@akizeta
5 жыл бұрын
@@Elgrug Definitely Beryl Cook, done in a very Beryl Cook stylee (and with nipples showing, too, tsk tsk). The others I have no idea anymore, if I ever did. Is #3 Patti Smith?
@Elgrug
5 жыл бұрын
@@akizeta The more I've looked up pictures of Patti Smith the more I think you're right.
@mrgobrien
3 жыл бұрын
my guesses with ? where i have no idea - john gielgud, ? (it looks like michael heseltine but he is politics), ?, the presenter melvin bragg himself, ?, ?, liza minelli, ?, ?, ?, steven spielberg, ?, ?, ?, woody allen - and then - ?, jack lemmon and walter matthau (from the odd couple movie), and i think the last pair are 2 different men but i don't know who.
@CarolineSonny
2 жыл бұрын
Sunday night 10pm
@BigScaryLaser
8 ай бұрын
lol yep up too late, a spot of spitting image also :)
@robbieg1461
7 жыл бұрын
What is the name of the title song
@PoisonedDragon1964
7 жыл бұрын
According to Wikipedia, "The theme music is taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Variations composed in 1977 for his brother, the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. This is based on the theme from Paganini's "24th Caprice".
@sgillman16
4 жыл бұрын
Specifically "Variations 1-4" by Julian Lloyd Webber, as heard on "The Premiere Collection" album
@Charlotte-zi1fd
6 жыл бұрын
This looks very random
@salvadormarley
6 жыл бұрын
I wonder why they couldn't draw the Beatles at 0:33?
@wotdoesthisbuttondo
6 жыл бұрын
Great title sequence, crap show.
@danwoodhouse9290
5 жыл бұрын
unless it was someone who you actually had heard of then it was alright.
@xylfox
4 жыл бұрын
Based on Paganinis 24th caprice. Why doesn´t any fuzzie here mention it?Terrible ignorance and superficiality nowaday though getting information so easy.Only smombies running around.
@RichardM-kv4uu
3 жыл бұрын
The most unbearlably pretentious TV show ever made. Made the arts about as interesting as watching already dry paint drying.
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