EastEnders | The last time the Original Theme/Titles were used!

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@tp1026 10 жыл бұрын

Hearing comments like 'I didn't know the credits were ever that long' make me feel so old. Haha

@MondySpartan 6 жыл бұрын

I love on how the credits sync with the music

@simplywonderful1 8 жыл бұрын

Nice there's no interrupting broadcaster

@Kazavop 6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Dove ikr, back then you could appreciate the actors. Now, the first 7 notes play and then "now on BBC 1, we join bla bla bla for bla bla bla"

@neobe195 4 жыл бұрын

Kazavop Next on BBC One: We join Alan Carr for a big night out, with Peter Kay and a whole host of guests. And on BBC Scotland, it’s the Nine.

@franciscomeazza7833 9 ай бұрын

The original theme of Eastenders sounds good. EastEnders is a legend forever

@morgansifer 2 жыл бұрын

The original theme packed a much bigger punch than today's watered down, sped up version. I miss it.

@theparrybrothers Жыл бұрын

The current version is at the same speed as this one, but it's definitely watered down compared to this one! This instruments used in this version allude to several different cultures and there's an ambience to the mix. The current version is just generic clean-affluent-British orchestra with no atmosphere to it.

@CrashFan03 6 ай бұрын

@@theparrybrothers idk what you're talking about it sounds nearly identical, just without the bells and it uses somewhat more modern synths. i think the ambience you're referring to is the older recording/mastering quality. if they recorded the original one today without any changes aside from the recording equipment i think it would sound almost exactly the same as the modern one

@97channel 6 жыл бұрын

Sunday afternoon schedules on BBC1 back in the 80's went something like... 1.15pm Eastenders Omnibus 2.15pm Eastenders End Credits 6.30pm Songs Of Praise

@andrewscott1253 4 жыл бұрын

then last of the summer wine or antiques roadshow.

@user-le3vw9jw4p 3 жыл бұрын

Ksjslaks

@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 3 жыл бұрын

Or the latest Formula One race.

@chrisdawson6156 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's right I remember that especially songs of praise

@MisterPolitical1 2 жыл бұрын

Is that from 1985 till 1990?

@roseynick 10 жыл бұрын

I never realised the ending sequence was ever that long!

@user-le3vw9jw4p 3 жыл бұрын

Jsjsajals

@kevinjoyce285 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's incredibly long but they want people to have a jam.

@DomenicoMarsala 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-le3vw9jw4p eh?

@AutieTeleDexBaBrBo 3 ай бұрын

The BBC knew how long that cup of tea was going to take on the National Grid.

@stevenbeaven1 15 күн бұрын

Yep, when EastEnders started the credits were 1'32. At some point, the TV marketing people got their hands on the channels and insisted credits be no longer than 30" (without a good reason.) It was to stop people switching over. TV marketing people aren't tele watchers, but they think they know how tele watchers (aka viewers) behave. If the signature tune is catchy enough, most people sing along to it. We all love a good sing-song! The marketing dept never understood that.

@ryanwilliams1800 6 жыл бұрын

It all went down hill once they stopped using this theme

@legonfan2261 3 жыл бұрын

@shyman2012 9 жыл бұрын

In the days when the BBC end credits were allowed to run on and on and on and no Americanisation involved! who turned it over during the end credits? No one did I bet!

@djco5782 9 жыл бұрын

No continuity announcer talking over them either.

@stickytapenrust6869 6 жыл бұрын

Continuity announcers talking over the end credits of programmes back then was common but wasn't compulsory.

@tobeytransport2802 4 жыл бұрын

Ferguson Videostar is it compulsory now then?

@AdamDawson3 7 ай бұрын

It would be nice if for the 40th Anniversary episode in 2025 they used the original theme and only for that episode

@waivedwench 4 жыл бұрын

I miss the old EastEnders!!

@LaurenceReeves 4 жыл бұрын

Ah man, I wish I could have experienced these days, it was a better time then.

@OfficalGamingFFC 11 ай бұрын

I really liked these credits

@yzaabellanosa1405 8 жыл бұрын

I love the show

@astontrainspotterandroblox 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the blue river at the start is all blue I love it no under construction like 1999 or 2003

@danielstanford907 2 жыл бұрын

The Eastenders theme tune sound like a good R&B tune.

@aaronjamesfolan 4 жыл бұрын

Love how much more dramatic it sounded

@FITTMANN 4 жыл бұрын

Original and Best 😁

@Majotsukai 5 жыл бұрын

I remember as a child my mom would watch this. Such a nostalgic tune.

@paulbootland9691 4 ай бұрын

In my opinion the best theme and titles ever.

@charliechaz1982 3 жыл бұрын

When did they ditch the Sunday omnibus? It was always something I would casually watch on a Sunday afternoon if I missed episodes in the week which I often did. It had a comforting familiarity to it much like alot of BBC weekend TV back then. I guess it must have been when they started doing more episodes in a week which was a bad move as the quality dropped and put alot more stress and working hours for all the staff and cast. An omnibus as well would be overkill I suppose.

@keithlivingstone5321 2 жыл бұрын

The days when you could actually read end credits & they weren't speeded up like today. Also the Middle 8 appeared twice in the end theme.

@del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 4 жыл бұрын

0:32 frank eating Ricky hair

@del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 4 жыл бұрын

Cheryl Dawn Stevens no idea tbh

@_ellen_is_trash_ 6 жыл бұрын

I only started watching EastEnders back in 2014, (I'm 12) and I haven't seen this theme or title card, and I have to say, I like it better than the one we have today!

@ablueberrya10 5 жыл бұрын

i watch eastenders in 2017 when i was 10-11

@tobeytransport2802 4 жыл бұрын

I’m 15 now and have never watched it, I usually watch the theme and change over!

@tessamilano5697 6 жыл бұрын

One of my grandmothers favorite shows. Brings back awesome memories

@martinwatts517 8 жыл бұрын

This was surely an omnibus edition with the middle eight running twice. Shame it is so short now.

@stuey1979 6 жыл бұрын

Martin Watts I would say they ran the middle eight twice because it was the last time it was getting used.

@stephenmcconnell1000 6 жыл бұрын

I have to say that's not the case. I remember watching this with the family when I was 10 in 1986 and let me tell you the credits seemed to go on forever. The length of the music was dictated by the fact that for most of the main cast, only a couple of them were billed on screen at any one time and each pairing remained on screen for several bars. These days of course, the credits scroll upwards, very quickly, so the theme tune generally doesn't need to last as long.

@DuncanMcA 4 жыл бұрын

Stephen O'Donnell yes virtually every UKTV Drama episode from the 80s had the two middle-eight credits. Only episodes with very few cast didn’t have it. After 1990 it was still occasionally used but less often. When it moved to the jazzy credits in 1993 they used the two middle-eight version of that for the first half dozen episodes or so then mostly the shorter (but still long by today’s standards) version. Now it’s the 1994 version, basically identical to today’s, the end credits are just about 10 seconds longer than the opening. Longer version (one middle-eight) only used on omnibus and extended episodes by that point.

@Thisistrulyoddtv_Mark 2 ай бұрын

I think it still this long on the last episode of the year they do long credits to honor all who was in it during that year

@Shauny12 6 күн бұрын

0:24 those uniforms 😭

@ablueberrya10 Жыл бұрын

Characters: Frank Ricky Mandy Aidan Clyde Michelle Sharon Phil Pat Pauline Arthur Kathy Richard Mitch Mark Pete Nigel Sylvia Danny Taurus Dr Simian 1st Nurse 2nd Nurse

@ItsDoge131 Жыл бұрын

+ more

@creamclassic 12 жыл бұрын

Cheers for this upload too :)

@mm91ie 12 жыл бұрын

original theme was the best.

@Jackzilla2006 Жыл бұрын

1985 38 years Ago

@shawneldridge4524 7 жыл бұрын

I think PBS needs to bring this back television series back on don't ask me why they discontinued it because I don't know. I will say PBS made a bad choice to discontinue this TV series it was fantastic and it was very popular. Anyway I am surprised no other cable network has picked us up and continue this series like I said it was fantastic and it was well liked & loved and everybody enjoyed watching this. The other thing I'm very surprised is that the BBC America Network has never played this on their Channel. It is a British television show I think I could be wrong but I'm just saying. BBC America Network should have take this up and play this on their Channel well that's what BBC America is right. As far as I can remember they never did if they did at one point I'm sorry I don't know I hate being wrong. I'm just saying. I noticed something and I don't know if a lot of people has noticed this either. But if you ever did noticed this check this out right if you ever noticed all the great TV series that we all love and enjoy watching plus the good TV series or TV shows we all like and that's very popular and does great they want to take them off the air. And the ones that don't make sense or that nobody likes or enjoys or watches they want to keep on the air. Like really give us fans what we want. What we want is EastEnders back on PBS or another Channel like BBC America.

@charlieminaj2 6 жыл бұрын

It’s the same with home and away or neighbours, we can watch that here in England, I find it odd that BBC America doesn’t show Eastenders, that’s crazzyyy😩

@IcySlavKat 7 ай бұрын

It's sad because back in the early 2000s they actually showed proper British shows on BBC America although I don't think they ever aired EastEnders, but by around 2008-2009 almost the entire audience of BBC America came to watch Doctor Who and reaching peak viewership in 2011 because of the Series 6 opener of Doctor Who, and then slowly other shows started dropping off the channel until practically the only British shows on it were Doctor Who and Planet Earth by David Attenborough, but then after October 2022 Doctor Who left and is now exclusive to Disney+ so now all they play is repeats of Star Trek The Next Generation, the occasional other Star Trek series, and the very repeat of Planet Earth and Star Trek isn't even British the only remotely British thing about it is that The Next Generation star Sir Patrick Stewart and that's it.

@mattpoulter1832 9 жыл бұрын

Love the old Version or as we call it the omlibus Edition

@karenwhatley 8 жыл бұрын

1985 is when EastEnders started Long time EH

@liamjpbrady 7 жыл бұрын

Coronation Street was already 25 years old when Eastenders started though!

@derekhorne8076 7 жыл бұрын

And The Archers was 9 years old when Coronation Street started!

@MondySpartan 6 жыл бұрын

"EE" you mean, there isn't any letter H in "EastEnders"

@stickytapenrust6869 6 жыл бұрын

I think he means EH as in "eh?"

@matthewhaskins9451 2 жыл бұрын

Eastenders is the best ever

@15hl 5 жыл бұрын

Surely the last time these titles were used was 9th May 1993 for the omnibus?

@owendude12383 12 жыл бұрын

I think the episode was when Mandys baby died notice she is with Ricky at the start running into the hospital and Ricky crying into the arms of Frank

@MAD4DS 6 жыл бұрын

Mandy and Ricky were rushing for a Doctor as Aidan had overdosed. At the end Ricky is comforting Frank as Pat had been sent down.

@pwincessnafzxxx 12 жыл бұрын

wow that was mandy salter at 0.26

@ashleybuckley5594 5 жыл бұрын

Thursday 6th May 1993

@gobotoriart 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a cold River

@Meanmanmartin2007 11 жыл бұрын

Wasn't the final episode with this theme tune the one where "Pat went down for 6 months"?

@newuk26 7 жыл бұрын

On Frank?

@RebornAudio 4 жыл бұрын

newuk26 I know this is 2 years old, but I just let out the loudest laugh 😂😂😂😂😂

@jayrobinson7554 5 ай бұрын

@@RebornAudiome too 😂😂 6 years old now.

@stuey1979 6 жыл бұрын

This is not original theme and not the original map. The original theme theme went out of use in 1991, there was a very similar but alternate recording theme that was used for about 6 months 1991-1992. This theme is a splice of the single release version and came into use in 1992, and was used until this episode in 1993, after which they got the jazzy theme and the map went colour. This map sequence is technically the 3rd. The first was used in the first month in 1985. After which it changed ever so slightly and then remained constant until 1990. In 1990 this map appeared and was an enhanced and cleaned-up version of the original. It was used until this episode in 1993. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hd2jYNqDvM2ofZc.html That is the original theme and the 2nd map sequence. And yes, I probably do need to get out more.

@MAD4DS 6 жыл бұрын

Touché, my friend. Touché.

@jane1975 5 жыл бұрын

Stu Willo Jazzy theme was shite, and I am glad they got rid of it as it didn’t fit the soaps nature.

@madabbafan 3 жыл бұрын

Not forgerting at some point they added the millenium dome to the map

@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 3 жыл бұрын

@@madabbafan .... which ruined it for me. Just looks so tacky.

@MarkGenner-xz4zu 29 күн бұрын

1985

@INAAMAMAN 12 жыл бұрын

they still use it

@MAD4DS 12 жыл бұрын

@owendude12383 No it wasn't, Aidan had an overdose and collapsed, then Ricky & Mandy brought him to hospital! :)

@ablueberrya10 4 жыл бұрын

@Cheryl Dawn Stevens no, he survived

@thesmithersy Жыл бұрын

I can see why they cut it. The end credits were too long.

@charlieminaj2 7 жыл бұрын

If the credits were ever this long I probably wouldn't turn it over till it finished, like if you don't know this tune or the duf dufs you haven't seen television, I can't stand the newer eastenders the song is alright tho

@user-le3vw9jw4p 3 жыл бұрын

Ksjslakslks

@eddiegrant159 3 жыл бұрын

Not bad

@robloxplayer007 11 ай бұрын

What year was it?

@gobotoriart 3 жыл бұрын

EastEnders By Juliet Ace

@diamondstudd 7 жыл бұрын

Interesting to look at with, Blue water, no Canary Wharf, no Millennium Dome/o2, no Olympic Park and no Stratford City

@weirdofreak2505 7 жыл бұрын

diamondstudd Canary Wharf is extremely dangerous because the daleks and cybermen fought each other there and thousands of people died.

@MondySpartan 6 жыл бұрын

...And Rose got sucked into parallel universe thus the Doctor lost her.

@paddystrongjaw9995 6 жыл бұрын

TehMondasianSpartan and lets not forget it’s full of ghosts

@MAD4DS 12 жыл бұрын

@creamclassic No problem, did you get my previous reply on your last comment? :)

@user-le3vw9jw4p 3 жыл бұрын

Skoskslsks

@ufc-highlights-tiktok Жыл бұрын

I have to go to see the doctor today I will have my baby back in the morning so I can have them 😅 the car and then go back to work I eeryyb go get a 😊

@gambasTV 8 жыл бұрын

wtf the water is actually blue

@Thereviewer-lg6yr 8 жыл бұрын

+rocknrollrocksout Was Frank comforting Ricky or vice-versa?

@stuey1979 6 жыл бұрын

It was supposed to be completely black and white, but when they stuck the photos together they could see the join lines in the Thames... so they cut out all the “water” and placed the “land” on a solid blue paper background instead.

@robertgoh8261 6 жыл бұрын

This was 1993

@georgebennett972 5 жыл бұрын

No it 1985

@abrindley7265 4 жыл бұрын

The episode was 1993

@pyeltd.5457 4 жыл бұрын

A Brindley it 1944

@stephenmcconnell1000 9 жыл бұрын

Back in the days when the credits ran for so long that the middle-eight played twice and when sitars were used in the middle-eight to represent the East End's mixed ethnic groups. They seem to have got rid of that now in the current arrangement, which is a mistake, I think- especially since the East End of London is now more ethnically diverse than ever.

@DoctorVision 6 жыл бұрын

Oh it's still there just buried underneath.

6 жыл бұрын

*especially since the East End of London is now more ethnically diverse than ever.* You mean there's hardly any white people left, right?

@richardmadden8742 5 жыл бұрын

@ Sadly true, driven out to Essex and beyond.

@stephenmcconnell1000 5 жыл бұрын

Danny Moon is still there just buried underneath, but I don't think the sitars are.

@EastEndersWALFORD 2 жыл бұрын

Very deep duff duff and a bit quieter too

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@robertgoh7420 3 жыл бұрын

1993

@paulinegenner2588 4 жыл бұрын

1991

@user-le3vw9jw4p 3 жыл бұрын

Kshakajks

@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 3 жыл бұрын

Just looks so stupid with the Millennium Dome/O2 Arena right in the centre these days.

@archi3_250 5 жыл бұрын

God it were long

@DouglasEWolfe 11 жыл бұрын

what date was this

@madabbafan 3 жыл бұрын

It was in 1993 (going by the roman numerals at the end)

@muk8804 3 жыл бұрын

Was this a Sunday omnibus?

@jmypunzalan7091 8 жыл бұрын

1992

@MAD4DS 6 жыл бұрын

1993.

@georgebennett972 5 жыл бұрын

1985

@artsed08 5 жыл бұрын

MCMXCIII - 1993

@cambogauci7009 4 жыл бұрын

Djid

@TheBillSO54 9 жыл бұрын

Anyone able to date this episode?

@MAD4DS 9 жыл бұрын

May 6th 1993

@emilyjones5019 8 жыл бұрын

+Thebillso54 Early May 1993, before 11th May 1993.

@laurenjeffery340 6 жыл бұрын

I think it was in 1992 since they didn't broadcast any episodes with this theme in 1993 where we got the worst theme since that theme is a bit to American/Hawaiian

@MAD4DS 6 жыл бұрын

This was dated May 6th 1993, the episode before the new theme was introduced.

@gobotoriart 3 жыл бұрын

EastEnders By Kotlen Lee

@shaunc1703 9 жыл бұрын

This theme sounds very dated and the drum roll/duff duffs was not as good back then and there was no Hi-Hats in the original just lots of claps the bells sound good tho

@97channel 9 жыл бұрын

Shaun C Apparently, the first tune they commissioned was some orchestral masterpiece, yet was rejected because it wasn't very catchy. So they came back with something that would easily catch your ear and hook you into tapping or whistling along. Hence the heavy focus on simple bells, claps and whistles.

@user-le3vw9jw4p 3 жыл бұрын

Ksjslaksls

@charlieminaj2 6 жыл бұрын

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