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    I swear that the famous theme to Grange Hill had previously been used on a little remembered ITV weekday sitcom a few years earlier. Something about people in a house converted into bedsits. Small World something like that?



    Anybody remember? Am I mistaken?

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    name='GRAEME']I swear that the famous theme to Grange Hill had previously been used on a little remembered ITV weekday sitcom a few years earlier. Something about people in a house converted into bedsits. Small World something like that?



    Anybody remember? Am I mistaken?


    Grange Hill got there first according to Wikipedia. I remember having many debates about whether it really was the same music as Give Us a Clue since it was (and still is) quite hard to believe that a programme would choose music that was still in use.

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    Give Us A Clue I'm sure used the same music. It's called Chicken Man I think on a Themes International LP.

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    The self same music was featured in an American ,ahem, gentleman's interest film I saw many years ago(purely for research purposes).

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    I definitely remember Give Us A Clue using the same theme as Grange Hill in its early incarnations.

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    name='mattypark']I definitely remember Give Us A Clue using the same theme as Grange Hill in its early incarnations.


    all i can think of now is a sausage on a fork being thrust towards lionel blairs face!

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    My memory might be well faulty here but I seemed to recall the first series of George And Mildred having the same theme as something else and then changing it - don't know if this rings any bells or whether it was similar to the Grange Hill theme. I do remember Give Us A Clue having the same as Grange Hill so I guess George And Mildred must have been a different one again. Any ideas?

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    I'm trying to think of an episode of The Sweeney, one with George Layton in it, and it had 'Roobarb and Custard' type electronic music in it played now and again, it did seem similar to the Grange Hill theme.

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    No, the piece of music used in the Sweeney episode you are referring to which starred George Layton and Patrick Mower is called Holy Mackerel by Brian Bennett.



    I think it was also used as the theme tune to a BBC2 Rugby programme (Rugby Special?)

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    name='jezandliz1']No, the piece of music used in the Sweeney episode you are referring to which starred George Layton and Patrick Mower is called Holy Mackerel by Brian Bennett.



    I think it was also used as the theme tune to a BBC2 Rugby programme (Rugby Special?)


    Cheers J, I knew that piece from The Sweeney episode had been used elsewhere, it's very of it's time but would sound very dated and odd to modern audiences now.

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    name='woody']The self same music was featured in an American ,ahem, gentleman's interest film


    I find this to be bloody hilarious.

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    On a similar theme [see what I did there], my 7 year old has become somewhat devoted to the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants, I have noticed at various times that they have used the Grange Hill, Bless This House & Terry and June themes and the Charley Farley & Piggy Malone tune from The Two Ronnies, very surreal indeed.

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    name='jezandliz1']No, the piece of music used in the Sweeney episode you are referring to which starred George Layton and Patrick Mower is called Holy Mackerel by Brian Bennett.



    I think it was also used as the theme tune to a BBC2 Rugby programme (Rugby Special?)


    A seminal composition by the Shadows drummer.



    I feel that it met its perfect match in the Arthouse film The Prowler, a homage to the

    German Expressionist masters Robert Wiene, F W Murnau and, especially, the

    choreography of Mary Wigman.



    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMjJdvB2b_w"]YouTube- Prowler - Caught in the act of burglary[/ame]

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    That's the piece, thanks for posting the link Freddie, some strange films people make of themselves!

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