Vision On opening theme:
'Accroche Toi, Caroline' by The Paris Studio Group

Vision On gallery theme:
'Left Bank II' by The Noveltones

Vision On clock bit music:
'Gurney Slade' by Max Harris

The theme and the gallery music were both on "The Sound Gallery 2" which was released by EMI a couple of years back. The Max Harris track hasn't been available since the early 1960s.

Get in touch with me via my site (http://www.bluejam20.freeserve.co.uk/) if you have difficulty getting hold of any of them, or if you just want more info.

I don't have the original, but I do have a cover version as performed on "Blue Moon in a Function Room" by the mighty Billy Jenkins. It's just called Vision On theme, though.

>Get in touch with me via my site (http://www.bluejam20.freeserve.co.uk/) if you have difficulty getting hold of any of them, or if you just want more info.

Many thanks, but I have the first them all, and the clock music track - by this do you mean "The Burbles"? - is on a Zomba/Bruton production music CD and is actually called "Goofy". Maybe "Goofy" is an alternative title to "Gurney Slade", or perhaps there were two pieces of music used for the clock as the series progressed.
But it's "Java" that I'm really after...
TJ, are you by any chance the "TJ" who organised the Blue Box Dr Who convention in Bournemouth in 1993? In which case, I'm the Simon Harries from Bournemouth University who made a documentary about it. By Jove, isn't this pleasant?
I'll certainly check out your site...

>TJ, are you by any chance the "TJ" who organised the Blue Box Dr Who convention in Bournemouth in 1993? In which case, I'm the Simon Harries from Bournemouth University who made a documentary about it. By Jove, isn't this pleasant?
>I'll certainly check out your site...

Having now seen your site (great, will look forward to reading it in greater depth), you're obviously not - for a start, that TJ was female!
Not only do I talk to myself, I've also started answering my own postings. I'm really on the slippery slope....

>Not only do I talk to myself, I've also started answering my own postings. I'm really on the slippery slope....
Nah - I wouldn't say that! But on the subject of you - I take it you ARE the same Simon Harries who sent me the drawings of the TV logos for me website. Very good they were too. Any more would be appreciated....

http://tvzone.come.to

There's an excellent version of Java in the B side of the Beautiful South single 'One Last Love Song' BTW...

The Gurney Slade music (jazzy flute/piano) was the theme to a TV series called The World Of Gurney Slade, starring Anthony Newley and made in the early 60s. The music also got used on those First Direct adverts featuring Bob Mortimer a couple of years ago (he was on a merry-go-round - that one).

Simon - I know the Burbles music you're referring to, and that was definitely different.

When could there be a Vision On soundtrack album? The most evocative long-player ever? I feel so.

>When could there be a Vision On soundtrack album? The most evocative long-player ever? I feel so.

God, that would be so brilliant! I was watching two episodes the other night, and apart from the tracks already mentioned in this thread, the whole show was just dripping with jazz. Hardly anyone spoke (for years in my childhood, I thought Tony Hart was dumb, until he started "Take Hart" and suddenly developed a garrulous streak) apart from the intro and outro and "we're sorry we can't return any of your pictures" etc, so they had to fill the dead-air sound with something. The whole show was just totally surreal and all accompanied by the best of Blue Note!

To say nothing of that "professor" in the white lab coat, running round the countryside, being chased by tractors, accompanied by "comedy capers" music.

A "Vision On" soundtrack album must be released. Anyone work at the BBC who can dig out the Vision On music cue sheets?

i can't stand splitting hairs, but the series was called 'the strange world of gurney slade.' one ep (the first, i think) was shown as part of jon wyver's pitifully underrated (and unrepeated) 'tv heaven.'

sorry about the hair-splitting.

j xxx

'Gurney Slade' was definitely used for some regular feature of "Vision On" at some point, although my memories are way too hazy for me to able to recollect properly.

Incidentally, I agree that "The Strange World Of Gurney Slade" was fantastic (I too saw the TV Heaven repeat)... I'll be putting an article on the series up on my site soon.

Simon done:

>To say nothing of that "professor" in the white lab coat, running round the countryside, being chased by tractors, accompanied by "comedy capers" music.

David Cleveland, in fact. Who also became the similar Cid Sleuth in Jigsaw. He wrote and co-directed/performed with David Wyatt. He's thinking of starting a web site about the professor/Vision On, so any contributions would probably be welcome.

Cheerio

Steve

>'Gurney Slade' was definitely used for some regular feature of "Vision On" at some point, although my memories are way too hazy for me to able to recollect properly.

Didn't it involve an animated cuckoo clock? BTW if you want to own this wonderful piece of music, the only available source is a 1997 compilation called "The No. 1 Jazz Album" (cat.no. details tomorrow!)

>i can't stand splitting hairs, but the series was called 'the strange world of gurney slade.'

Split away, Jason! I regard much of this site as educational....

one ep (the first, i think) was shown as part of jon wyver's pitifully underrated (and unrepeated) 'tv heaven.'

It was - and the Vision On title sequence turned up in the 1974 Opening Shots montage. Bliss....

TV Heaven, incidentally (and TV Hell for that matter) were perfect examples of how to do intelligent archive programming on television. If only TV people remembered them more fondly.

>TV Heaven, incidentally (and TV Hell for that matter) were perfect examples of how to do intelligent archive programming on television. If only TV people remembered them more fondly.

Couldn't agree with you more, Justin. I remember "Tv Hell" fondly, though I don't really remember "TV Heaven" - Frank Muir presented it, didn't he?

>David Cleveland, in fact. Who also became the similar Cid Sleuth in Jigsaw. He wrote and co-directed/performed with David Wyatt. He's thinking of starting a web site about the professor/Vision On, so any contributions would probably be welcome.

Steve - how does one contact him? If you happen to know, drop me a line: [email protected]

>Couldn't agree with you more, Justin. I remember "Tv Hell" fondly, though I don't really remember "TV Heaven" - Frank Muir presented it, didn't he?
>
TV Heaven, Channel 4, Saturday nights in early 1992 - a whole evening of programmes from a given year, broken up with old adverts and title sequences. No talking heads, no funny knowing bits, just letting the clips do the talking and crediting the viewing audience with a little intelligence. Why the hell didn't they do any more?