This video made me so sad. It reminded me of how happy I was as a child.... how life seemed uncomplicated.... Anyway, love this song. Thanks for posting it!

I played a policeman in this tv programe,i met some really great people, Glyn was a real gentleman and a pleasure to work with.We had some great times.

Hmmmmm....This is beautiful to watching again. I recall looking forward to seeing this TV show as a young boy in Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬. I remain so thankful to my creator that I witnessed those beautiful, wonderful days of the Earth 🌎, we don't have so much materialistically, but we have love ❤❤ and compassion for fellow human. Life was nice and enjoyable back then......

I was a paperboy from age 10 to 30! Love Renaissance too!!

I remember The Paper Lads. Sadly they all blew away.

My Dad used to manage Renaissance who wrote the theme tune and who still have a beautiful quality to their music. Crazy to hear it again. I love that I lived that period in time as a kid.

andrew edwards is my dad who played ian cant beleive its him in the 1970's haha brilliant

It was broadcasted in Israel when I was in elementary school (more than 20 years ago)... So I guess it was broadcasted all over the world. Great series! And... there is nothing like Renaissance nowadays! Nothing!

Angels must be jealous of Annie's voice

i loved the intro of this song back then as a kid!! So innocent back then!

I used to watch it, but i was convinced the theme tune was The Northern Lights. Memory playing tricks. I did go to school with Judith Pyle, who played Sam. Seaton Sluice Middle.

The Paper Lads. i used to watch it as a kid. never really appreciated the song until they stopped showing it. i wish i could get the song on mp3 formate. it brings back good memories just seeing nad hearing it again. i think the Renaissance chic has a heavenly voice.

The album version is far more orchestrated with synths than the TV show version. Thanks for uploading!

Different version of this song called 'Back Home Once Again', to that featured on Renaissance's 1978 album 'A Song for All Seasons', vocal by Annie Haslam😊

The PL these song is also on Renaissance's 1978 album 'A Song for All Seasons'. The musical arrangement is somewhat different- Annie Haslam (lead singer) multi-tracks extra soprano vocal parts and it sounds fab. What a voice!

I'd totally forgotten about this show... thanks so much for the reminder!

what a voice Annie has..yoda ( a fan )

great memories, i have been singing this reguraly for over 45 years

I loved this as a young’n, I always remembered the theme,I maybe wrong but I’m sure the Tudor crisp’s advert was based on the paper lads, the world was a better place then!

Back Home Once Again! "A Song For All Seasons" is absolutely my favorite album of all time.. Thanks for this video, I would love to see a whole show of the Paper Lads, I would probably love it!

being a kid in the 70's, special times..

Can remember we were on Holiday at Whitley Bay in the summer of 1978 when this programme was being broadcast I searched everywhere for the Book & finally found it in a small back street newsagent in Blyth lol

my god, were has my childhood days gone

Jesus,This is fantastic, i could spend the rest of my life trying to get near this level of bass playing and not get near,and what a piece of music to do it to. Having this way up front makes this classic sound even better. Got an easier one for you but would like to hear you do it..Swing out Sister's 'You on my mind'.

All 14 episodes are being released on DVD in late July, so you'll be able to see him in all his glory.

What a voice ❤❤❤

I remember this TV programme, well! I was only 13 when it came out in 1977. Great memories indeed!

brings back some very happy memories thanks for posting

Love this show was born in 72 and remember watching it with me mam although was only 5 but still knew it was the toon like. and just downloaded theme tune from Itunes 79p well spent.

RIP Glynn Edwards the actor who played the Bar Man at The Winchester Club in 'Minder'.

Does anyone remember a TV series that was around at this time called 'Striker' about a kid that was good at football?

Only 2 series (each made with 7 episodes) were aired. Series 1 was aired in 1977, and series 2 was aired in late 1978 and early 1979.

I've just bought two second hand books, 'Striker' and 'Striker:Second Leg'. I'd completely forgotten about the show until i read about it on a forum recently. Loved the books and the programme as a kid, unfortunately it looks as though there is no video footage at all remaining out there.

A very young David Crellin also appeared in this show. Years later, he re-surfaced as snide detective Alan Wakefield in "THE COPS" , a brilliant TV series.

used to love this.

You are spot on. Mr Dyker doesn't want Ben to play football because, unbeknown to his son, he himself is a former pro, who's career was ruined by injury.

I much prefer this simpler more direct version of the song that they re-recorded on their A Song For All Seasons album.

@jhillst @jhillst Each to their own, my friend. I was delighted when I just found this video but, in my opinion, this soundtrack doesn't even begin to compare with the studio arrangement which is so much more deeper and melodic. This is a mish-mash without the strong orchestral sequences...

@ahagestedt Track 5 KZfaq won't let me post the url to it on Amazon, but it is track 5 on the cd edition of ASFAS the same as it always has been...

hey peter nice to see this again, i was at school with you. [heaton]

@pngilman yes i remeber it well the album cover had a lady with a hat on and an umbrella behind her and falling rain , i would play it on my mams record player , i think it also had northern lights on the same album , happy days

@ahagestedt They wpuld have to call it "The Paper Persons"..lol

I.didn't see this when it was first on, busy at work, but a great song, good acting, well.staged and a North East now sadly consigned to the past under the demolition of the years.

Seems to be a different version to what Tyne Tees used as interval music.

Beautiful music! Renaissance in 70's is a fantastic band!!! Where do I find this Tv series???

I actually prefer this arrangement to the one that appeared on A Song For All Seasons.

I much prefer this version to the over arranged album version

if they revamped this show these days, they couldn't really call it the "paper lads," could they? would have to be "The Google News Lads"...or the "Blog Lads" or something. Or the "Lads Who Code a News Site".... oh man i'm a geek....

do you have the original northern lights , the album has a lady in rain ,looking downward,also the original paper lads theme was on this album

@jhillst me too...

no way wow blast from the past haha have heard about what he was like in benfield, my nan used 2 teach u did u know steve robson at all?

did anyone notice that richard gere acts in ' the paper lads ' ?

I always imagined the show was about reporters and not delivery boys. Then again, I'm not British so I wasn't sure what the exact meaning of "paper lads" was.

@NeilRob45 well siad sir

Just put of interest, does anyone know the actual shop featured? I live in Gateshead and just am interested in trivia like that.

peter, what happend with the acting after the paper lads and evenlng chronicle advert, thought i would have seen you in more stuff. havent seen you sinse we left heaton school.

@Isleofskye I guess it's just the lazy, "swinging" rhythm of the studio version that doesn't sit too well with me. I like the rhythm of this version better -- it's faster and more urgent, so it reflects the fast-paced lifestyle of the paper lads better. If you could take this version and find a way to extend it to the length of the album version (perhaps using some of the instrumental bits from the soundtrack), that would be almost perfect.

You're the only other person that I've come across that remembers it. I think the kids name was Ben Dyker although that might have been his dad - who I think also used to be a footballer when he was younger.

weird....this song seems to have disappeared from the renaissance catalog...at least on downloads. Crazy licensing issues, i'd guess. It's now not even available on the song for all seasons album (got rid of my LP in the 80's.....should'a known better)

Ha'way ere's ya Chron Missus! Aagh! Ouch. CUT. The Paper Boys was networked, wasn't it?

I always thought this was sung by Barbara Dickson. Great song nevertheless.

I know it can get cold delivering papers in the morning, but what a bunch of scruffs kids were then, duffle coats, parkas, bobble hats and, horrors, flared trousers. AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!

Newcastle in the 70s was a bloody grim place