Escape in Time: Popular British Televison Themes
by Various Artists

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CD Details

  • Released: November 27, 2015
  • Originally Released: 2015
  • Label: êl (UK)

Tracks:

  • 1.The Avengers - Johnny Dankworth
  • 2.Danger Man Theme - Red Price Combo
  • 3.Dateline London (Cutty Sark) - The John Barry Seven & Orchestra
  • 4.Juke Box Jury (Hit & Miss) - The John Barry Seven Plus Four
  • 5.Fireball Xl5 (I Wish I Was A Spaceman) - Don Spencer
  • 6.The Strange World of Gurney Slade (Gurney Slade) - Max Harris
  • 7.The Strange World of Gurney Slade (Hat and Cane) - Max Harris
  • 8.The Saint - the Les Reed Brass
  • 9.Steptoe & Son (Old Ned) - Ron Grainer
  • 10.Theme from 'Z' Cars - Johnny Keating & His Orchestra
  • 11.Coronation Street - Geoff Love & His Orchestra
  • 12.What The Papers Say - London Philharmonic / Malcolm Arnold
  • 13.Monty Python's Flying Circus (Liberty Bell - March) - Frederick Fennell
  • 14.Maigret Theme - Ron Grainer
  • 15.Comedy Playhouse (Happy Joe) - Ron Grainer
  • 16.Dr Finlay's Casebook (March From A Little Suite) - Trevor Duncan
  • 17.Animal Magic (Las Vegas) - Group Forty Orchestra
  • 18.Itn News (Non Stop) - L'orchestra Deveraux
  • 19.Top of The Form (Marching Strings) - Ray Martin & His Concert Orchestra
  • 20.Grandstand (News Scoop) - The Symphonia Orchestra
  • 21.Sir Francis Drake - Ivor Slaney & His Orchestra
  • 22.Face To Face (Les Francs - Juges Overture Op. 3 Hector Berlioz - Frank Chacksfield
  • 23.Tuesday Rendezvous (China Doll) - Bert Weedon
  • 24.Monitor (Serenade For Strings, Op. 11 - Marcia) - Dag Weren
  • 25.Moon Lullaby - Queen's Hall Light Orchestra (Mark Lubbock) (Arrival)
  • 26.Party Dress - The Telecast Orchestra (Tony Tamburello) (Arrival)
  • 27.The Awkward Squad - New Era Symphonic Orchestra (Philip Green) (Chimes of Big Ben)
  • 28.Spaceways - Melodi Light Orchestra (Jack Beaver) (Chimes of BiG Ben)
  • 29.Zero Minus Sixty - Melodi Light Orchestra (Robert Farnon) (Chimes of Big Ben)
  • 30.Minuet In F - Queen's Hall Light Orchestra (Sinclair Logan) (Checkmate)

Product Description:

UK collection. Escape in Time comprises musical themes from some of the most extraordinary and enduring British television programs of the 1960s. This was an exciting period of innovation, when the medium was thrillingly new and malleable, before television's artistic boundaries, its aesthetic criteria, had been established. Adventure series like The Avengers, Danger Man, The Saint and The Prisoner came both to symbolize the 1960s and reflect its preoccupations... affluence, espionage, the sexual revolution. Patrick McGoohan's monumental political allegory, The Prisoner brought subversion and surrealism into the home in breath-taking fantasy style which continues to speak to us. Remarkably, some aspects of the Prisoner were actually anticipated by Anthony Newley's avant-garde comic odyssey, The Strange World of Gurney Slade, another ground-breaking production that created an indelible impression upon anyone who saw it. The Avengers also became a British TV institution, evolving through the first half of the decade from film noir detective drama to a series that came to mirror the very 60s interactions between modernity and tradition. Johny Dankworth's suitably dapper original theme is included here, along with Edwin Astley's raucous music for Danger Man and The Saint, alongside such singular motifs as Juke Box Jury, What The Papers Say, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Geoff Love's adaptation of Eric Spear's theme - originally entitled Lancashire Blues - for Coronation Street.

Product Info

  • UPC: 5013929330139
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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