I can remember watching this the first time it was shown on BBC1 in 1971, as a 7 year old. It was shown right through the 1970's almost every summer holidays. Golden memories, along with other programmes such as 'The White Horses' and the original 'Belle and Sebastian', 'Noggin the Nog', etc. Now in my 57th year, I still love the intro to this show!
@davehodges1843
3 жыл бұрын
So glad i was born in the 60,s growing up with these wonderful tv series, except for the scary Singing Ringing Tree.
@canecreek00
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah i remember it being on once a week on a morning, cant remember if it was a Saturday morning or a Sunday morning.
@christopherheath7340
2 жыл бұрын
I had forgotten about The White Horses
@kerraptregolls4929
Жыл бұрын
Do you remember the singing, ringing tree.
@kerraptregolls4929
Жыл бұрын
@@davehodges1843 I loved the singing, ringing tree. X
@taxirob1297
4 жыл бұрын
Who else went straight out after the show and started sword fighting?
@davidsanderson5918
3 жыл бұрын
We started pretty much after the theme tune finished....at the beginning of the programme, that is!!
@foxitewhig
3 жыл бұрын
Was any other response possible?
@DANGERGOUGH
3 жыл бұрын
Me
@baronvonmaximillionsnell2757
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, has kids. My late father has a few foyle's in the shed.
@mattpalmer5123
2 жыл бұрын
me
@joeowenstalkingsense4439
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant times the 1970s for kids.
@johncarroll8053
5 жыл бұрын
Long summer holidays , also Robinson cruse
@davehodges1843
5 жыл бұрын
@@johncarroll8053 So glad i was born in the 60,s, not like kids of today, we had a brilliant childhoods, no gadgets or consoles or mobile phones.
@321scully
5 жыл бұрын
@@davehodges1843 We relied on ourselves for everything unlike the snowflakes we have raised now.
@graemestarkey7524
4 жыл бұрын
@@321scully stupid comment.
@duncanrobinson3200
3 жыл бұрын
@@davehodges1843 Very true, I was born in 64 and remember this and Robinson Crusoe in the summer holidays in the 1970's.
@67lionsoflisbon37
4 жыл бұрын
Seriously! TV for a 70s kid was beyond brilliant. So many great shows.
@andrewbrown2628
3 жыл бұрын
As a fellow CELT, I could not agree more
@simonmillard8931
Ай бұрын
They don’t make shows like this anymore!!!
@GravityBoy72
4 жыл бұрын
I watched this school holidays, love the theme tune... NEVER understood what was going on.
@davidsanderson5918
3 жыл бұрын
Me neither.
@philmellor4885
3 жыл бұрын
Lol, so true...lots of charging around on horseback and boys own fistucuffs is my fond memory.
@simoncrisp3936
3 жыл бұрын
Likewise. Enjoyed the swordfighting, muskets and horse charges.
@MrSavvynet
3 жыл бұрын
Same - it was great though 😂
@oldishandwoke-ish1181
3 жыл бұрын
Franco-Spanish war.
@andrewhaddock7996
Жыл бұрын
A theme tune with lyrics you could live by .
@Skin-ve2tt
4 жыл бұрын
Always on TV every morning during the school holidays in the 70s. Love it!
@philldavies7940
2 жыл бұрын
I remembering watching ti in the 70;s asa kid never knowing what the hecks going on, every episode had a bunch of Frenchmen dashing around on horses having sword fights, the next week the same, did it ever end or just fade away?
@andrewrowlands157
2 жыл бұрын
Agree with everyone who says the 1970’s was a golden age for children’s TV. Especially on Saturday morning. The Flashing Blade Whirlybirds Champion the Wonder Horse and one only I seem to remember Les Chevaliers du Ciel - a couple of French fighter pilots who were always ejecting into survival situations…
@delstrain8590
4 жыл бұрын
Its better to have fought and lost , than not have fought atol. ! Vive le liberty!
@easystar123
5 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1963 and this was one of my favourite tv programmes early on a Saturday morning in the early 1970s.
@davehodges1843
4 жыл бұрын
Me to born 1963
@dom24363
4 жыл бұрын
Same here. Champion the Wonder Horse, another classic
Born in 1964.so many wonderful programmes in those days. This was one of my favourites. Bought the dvd and still have it on my phone as a ring tone.
@leightondavies7413
3 жыл бұрын
Same year as me
@tonygray8207
Жыл бұрын
Same year as me
@markwhite8791
Жыл бұрын
And me🎉
@janjones4959
3 жыл бұрын
This takes me right back to my childhood, love the theme tune, I still remember the words lol.
@Dabberontour
2 жыл бұрын
Haha I never found out what did happen in the end
@davehodges1843
5 жыл бұрын
Brings so many good memories from my child hood.
@exiledscouser919
4 жыл бұрын
This was great. Born 62 and me and my brothers would all stab away at each other with sticks to the intro. I remember a character called Don Alonzo who was always playing chess, the baddies were pointlessly besieging a castle but the hero’s came and went as if they weren’t there. Knew it was dubbed but your brain tunes that out and we were enthralled watching something incomprehensible with the BEST theme tune. Great memories thanks for posting.
@garywoollard810
5 жыл бұрын
The intro was was longer than the programme lol.
@skguy7
Жыл бұрын
My childhood in the 70s ! Just the best TV !
@catherineearnshaw8472
3 жыл бұрын
Those were the days!!! Why Don't You, The Banana Splits, Jackanory Playhouse & this. 📺
@PP-ez9hd
3 жыл бұрын
Loved this as a kid ,, brings back so many memories
@christophermatthias3327
4 жыл бұрын
Love and life and happiness are well worth fighting for so right those were the days loved this series when was a younger couldn't wait for it to come on
@gerry5134
5 жыл бұрын
Reminds of Saturday mornings and waking up to no school that day !! 😁😊😉
@yabeebay
3 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1959 and remember this first being broadcast in the UK in 1969 (I think ) on Tuesday evenings before the early evening news. Around that time there was also a version of Robinson Crusoe which I think was German. Such great TV, and big budget too.
@grahammurfitt4460
Жыл бұрын
Like the rest 6 weeks holiday viewing think was later shown early Saturday? Thought it was nonsense stuff but actually loosely based on a small war
@raheelrazvi8475
4 жыл бұрын
Best theme tune of any TV show ever
@1967Rev
4 жыл бұрын
this and the banana splits and the arabian nights,saturdays,oh and buster crabb,was it flash gordon,or Shazam,an suddenly he could fly?
@andrewpage6603
4 жыл бұрын
I’m sure Iron Maiden wrote the lyrics for this. Used watch re-runs of this when I was a kid. Hilarious! The fight choreography was all over the place: one bloke would fire a flintlock pistol and about 20 blokes would fall dead.
@michaeldean7220
Жыл бұрын
With Bruce directing the sword fighting! 😊
@alangordon2062
5 жыл бұрын
FANTASTIC..SO MANY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
@millionseller001
4 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see this again..I'm surprised it's not on youtube...
@sot730
4 жыл бұрын
remember this as a child,love the theme tune and the sword fights.use to have my pretend sword at the ready and basically fought against anyone with a sword. great stuff and made a change from Andy Pandy.
@jonnywyattgreengreen3301
3 жыл бұрын
Its brings back so much happy memories so much love this classic series. School summer holidays were amazing as a kid Flashing blade 🙂📺☀️
@Philliben1991
2 жыл бұрын
9 seconds into this Children's TV programme and two people are killed in an explosion and the song informs us we HAVE to fight, it's not optional!. Towards the end there is a head butt and a stabbing which makes me think this programme might have been especially popular in the Glasgow area.
@craigdavidson2278
5 жыл бұрын
My child hood......
@stephen6262
4 жыл бұрын
I remember this I am 53
@glynatmore1817
2 жыл бұрын
This was a french froggy tv programme I think that was dubbed into English. Oh happy days. Robinson crusoe also.
@anthonymullen6300
4 жыл бұрын
I reckon everybody in the below comments is the same age as me.... Old! 😭
@67lionsoflisbon37
4 жыл бұрын
Yep and lucky to have seen tv like this! Old and happy.
@freyallarganswald4746
4 жыл бұрын
Lol, I’m 54. My dad loved this show and I always watched in cuddling into him. Happy innocent days of childhood. 🤗
@67lionsoflisbon37
4 жыл бұрын
The flashing blade, Robinson Crusoe, White Horses, Belle and Sebastian, the Banana Splits, Champion the Wonder Horse, the Double Deckers etc etc plus cartoons galore. Plus long summer holiers! Always seemed to be hot and sunny! Rose tinted specs? Maybe. But I remember life being good. Happy days. Happy to be this old. Thanks for posting 😁
@mickpowell8503
3 жыл бұрын
@@67lionsoflisbon37 and kids programs used to have a good old tear up in them with none of this safe space rubbish.. Happy days..
@simposayerman
Жыл бұрын
with puffs of smoke from those cannons no wonder they never penetrated those castle walls
@marquonuk
3 ай бұрын
I still know all the words from the theme tune decades later. :-)
@robertwilkinson2232
4 ай бұрын
Always so badly dubbed great fun though
@sailorhms
9 ай бұрын
I was lucky enough to be a 1970's kid, I loved the theme tune then and it's still great now all these years later. The galloping music fits the scenes of the horses going all out through the bushes and long grass, also the scenes bombarding the castle with the music still going are amazing.
@davidtownsend6367
4 жыл бұрын
Cotnflakes for Saturday breakfasts.
@paul70uk
3 жыл бұрын
Suddenly I'm ten years old again!!!! Marvelous.
@sarahrasmussen9949
Жыл бұрын
As a child, I used to watched this.❤👍
@tenburywellsmartin7576
2 жыл бұрын
Best opening theme to any Childrens programme ever by a country mile...!!!
@marcusanimation100
Жыл бұрын
Joint faves with White horses, Follyfoot and Tarot themes.
@ArnieMcSarnie699
Жыл бұрын
Black Beauty has got to be up there with the best tunes for kids shows.
@Schoolshorts456
5 ай бұрын
1970s for kids rulled 🎉🎉
@leetaylor7179
5 жыл бұрын
6 weeks holiday as a kid, ahh bliss .
@leetaylor7179
5 жыл бұрын
would rather be back in the 70s eh Gareth.
@leetaylor7179
5 жыл бұрын
I do remember the water margin yes, also monkey ! not alot of choice in those days so i spose anything a bit different was exciting to watch haha, youtube is great for reminising !
@namesake-uv8ug
11 ай бұрын
Theme tunes back then we're amazing , and very catchy .
@MAGNUM2F
11 ай бұрын
loved this show back in the day.
@elainemiddleton6159
4 жыл бұрын
Remember galloping down blackpool beach to this theme tune
@grahamjeffries4566
4 жыл бұрын
Always knackered after the opening theme
@rickyj5547
3 жыл бұрын
It got me interested in 17 century history
@user-po9sg3ks4p
3 жыл бұрын
No recoil from them cannons lol
@superseagoat
4 жыл бұрын
Watched this in the 70s. Had no idea it was dubbed.
@desmondhull5778
Ай бұрын
These children's programmes of the late 60s and early 70s built young characters and hopes and dreams.The youth of today dont know what they missed .
@clockmonkey
5 жыл бұрын
I thought the episodes were longer.
@g4obb
5 жыл бұрын
Time dilation, my boy...
@gerry5134
5 жыл бұрын
😂😁😀🤣😊hehehe
@Leon-lt5gv
3 ай бұрын
I ended up loving history because of this programme ' watched it late 70s ' brilliant 👍🤣
@TheUTubeTeamSucks
4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, school summer holidays in the late 70's, early 80's … TV in the mornings - Why Don't You?, King Of The Rocket Men & Flash Gordon Serials, The Banana Splits (which had its own carton serials in it as I remember) … and The Flashing Blade with The Chevalier & Guillo … great days.
@drkakophanos3013
4 жыл бұрын
But didn you watch another great French TV series...The Aeronauts? kzitem.info/news/bejne/xqWurpyPsoR6f2U
@stanssoapbox
4 жыл бұрын
'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Arabian Knights' were the cartoons in the Bananna Splits.
@ilovenitnat
4 жыл бұрын
TheUTubeTeamSucks don’t forget Robinson Crusoe.
@plumduff3303
4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha brilliant memories
@davidsanderson5918
3 жыл бұрын
@@ilovenitnat That one TOWERS over everything else for me. Got the DVD boxset....and had the VHS boxset before that!!!
@barbaraannecortina7899
4 жыл бұрын
I remember this with fondness and it really pissed me off when On The Waterfront decided to REALLY take the piss by dubbing over it in 1988. However, I don't think I'd be getting the dvd any time soon because, due to it being in full colour, the episodes were feature-length.
@duncanrobinson3200
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I remember that and thought it was really disrespectful to a great serial.
@PP-ez9hd
2 жыл бұрын
Ohh my childhood right there !!! I used to sit on the rug , getting pinged by hot embers exploding off our open coal fire , whilst lurching backwards and forward, half riding along with them and the other half wen the embers burnt through my pjs ,, then after fighting for the French I would again be carried away with the banana splits and ohh hoo chongo,, danger island ,,, comeback 70s , apart from racism sexism child abuse and green shield stamps
@markwells7130
2 ай бұрын
I voted this to be our National Anthem a few years back
@steveconvery1189
5 жыл бұрын
Fab great programme
@richardkent2014
9 ай бұрын
This is how I imagine Europe against the European Union today
@carlh429
4 жыл бұрын
Loved watching this in the mid 70s on BBC1 on a Saturday morning.
@rootcause7662
3 жыл бұрын
Broke more than a few chairs pretending to ride horses to this damn song lol
@samholden4171
3 жыл бұрын
Love the theme tune but thought the series was boring
@markaitcheson3212
3 күн бұрын
My god how shit does it look now? Ha ha
@indiana146
2 жыл бұрын
My pals dad had real swordz on the wall we had sword fights but blades werent live so it was ok
@freyallarganswald4746
4 жыл бұрын
My dad loved this, I am amazed that I Remember the words lol
@simonmillard8931
Ай бұрын
This is like a precursor to sharp
@CrfgBhed
9 ай бұрын
Flash Gordon the original
@MarkO-ry2ud
2 ай бұрын
I always watched this
@fuluimranibomani6223
5 ай бұрын
I also did sword fighting after the show,as kid...what kids series... you'll never get these's kids TV series again...the music 🎵🎶🎵 alone is 🏆 priceless...ha!!!
@trainingaccount7528
4 жыл бұрын
Memories
@stephennoonan8417
2 ай бұрын
0:42 0:06
@ellenglyndleyful
2 жыл бұрын
*I WAS the Flashing Blade* with my Mum getting getting Green Shield Stamps... *A TRIUMPH*
@davehill584
Жыл бұрын
This show made me the man I am today and never ever a slave! Just amazing. Look at the pasty, lame kids of today... . Blessing or curse? Both.
@clarkavenue6654
6 ай бұрын
I put a bet on this. Lost
@markopolo12008
3 жыл бұрын
Aahh the memories.. all outside for a sword fight.. Goosebumps all over 😁👍
@marcoftheshaw
3 жыл бұрын
those lyrics have become relevant Skal Wulf
@brrrainy5477
3 жыл бұрын
Really, Really Miss Sat’Day Mornin’ Kids Telly. Best Themes, this White Horses and Robinson Crusoe. Rip Your Heart Out.
@vantheman1238
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@Transcendvision1
2 жыл бұрын
Bring all these 70s childrens TV shows back on normal terrestrial TV.
@minot.8931
Жыл бұрын
One of the great Flashing Blade unanswered questions is how Casal could be bombarded by the Spanish remorselessly for 20 episodes and yet still didn’t become a pile of ruins. 😅
@ggagg123
Жыл бұрын
Probably the first show I remember watching, either in 1979 or 1980. Happy memories.
@SafetyProMalta
Жыл бұрын
Oh my sweet lord...1971/2 God i'm old.
@WedgePee
11 ай бұрын
First shown in English in 1969. (The original French version, Le Chevalier Tempete, was four 75-minute episodes and was late 1967!)
@janesmith9024
2 жыл бұрын
We loved this particularly the music too and the song at the start as children in the 1960s. I just found my sister's 1979 letter where she had seen it on TV after many years and recorded the music as it was so important to us even then. These days things are free on youtube - we are very lucky. Today 2022 looking to the part beyond the music at the end reminds me of the awful Russian invasion of Ukraine how in 2022 as well as in the 1600s featured invaders still destroy pointlessly.
@philipcollins8471
10 ай бұрын
Definitely one of the best theme tunes out there, we d watch on a Saturday morning then go out on are choppers or home made trackers and have are own adventures just as good as the blades 😂 what a time was the 70s we actually thought we could make a hot air balloon after watching mysterious island and float away, but after much frustration we went breaking windows and starting fires on railway embankments.😂
@Georgieastra
Жыл бұрын
Now this song is credited to Alex Masters and The Musketeers. Is it an English version of the French original or is it something completely different written for the UK broadcast?
@WedgePee
11 ай бұрын
Here’s the original French intro: kzitem.info/news/bejne/lo1uv5OwmF93enYsi=zmtJyRopsLVrCZKN
@Georgieastra
11 ай бұрын
Thanks. UK version is better.
@alantrue7316
2 жыл бұрын
Superb, visceral 70's school holiday excitement and not a clue what was happening!!
@WhitePlasticBags
3 ай бұрын
La France Fière 👍
@simonjennings9098
2 жыл бұрын
great
@richard4132
2 жыл бұрын
Longing for the past when I hear this. The music so evocative - I'm back as a kid running into the sun and the garden.
@redd605
3 жыл бұрын
Going to the shop to get my comets in the paper shop then watching this or treasure in Malta or G force cartoon in swap shop ,or wait till your father gets home with that , brilliant theme tune .man in a suitcase before world of sports or grandstand what can you say , children programme was more educational and presenters where like superstars and you knew there names
@Martin-lk7uk
Жыл бұрын
In the words of Paul Whitehouse brilliant
@henryfitch8710
2 жыл бұрын
I am, too, a 1960s child and watched this show avidly in the 1970s.
@markshere1022
3 жыл бұрын
They always seemed to be on a horse fleeing the scene, or fighting with swords!!! Never seemed to have time for eating!!!!
@stevenroberts5741
3 жыл бұрын
Use to love this as a kid.....a lot of galloping that's for sure! 🙄😁
@Marlborough1704
2 жыл бұрын
Loved watching this growing up in the 70s!!!!
@ChristopherPHammond
2 жыл бұрын
I'd be sword fighting my sister's teddy with one of the stair rods from the wooden hill. 😁
@davidcampbell2032
7 ай бұрын
Breakfast in front of the Tv and watching these great shows
@thedancechannel2515
3 жыл бұрын
Very poor that there is no blu-ray.
@philipverity113
2 жыл бұрын
The theme of nothing other than true heroism!!!! Hussar !!!
@phill1709
2 жыл бұрын
I always remember they were always holding a castle at seige
@scottmallory298
3 жыл бұрын
Ingenious to make the percussion sound like galloping horses
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