Body & Soul0 min ago
1960s television series
There was a series in the 1960 with a articularly haunting theme tune. Basically someone whistling (with a bit of echo added) and the sound of footsteps.
I seem to remember (but it might be my imagination) that the intro was a black and white shot of a man, at night, walking along a rain soaked street, but that might be wrong!
Anyone got any ideas?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thanks for the "public eye" suggestion but I don't think that's it. Web pages talk about the theme's trumpets and so on. The tune/theme I'm loking for was just a whistle, with an echo and the sound of footsteps.
Now that I try to whistle it myself I find that I don't remember it as welll as I thought, sorry Ethel! Anyway, think late 1960s maybe early 1970s mystery, possibly on ITV.
Can't remember the TV series but the tune you are describing sounds like Walking Whistling Blues by Les Paul (which came out in 1951). I don't remember it being used as a sig for a TV series.
The Strand cigarette ad has the man walking down the street (I don't think it was raining though) but the instrumentation was different - harmonica and guitar if I remember correctly.