Eastenders Title Screen

Re Corrie theme.

Surely there must have been a change at some point, because if you listened to the end theme on one of the early GPlus repeats, it sounded lower than the current ITV1 transmissions. (Rerecorded when Corrie went 'NICAM Stereo where available', maybe ?)

Does anyone have recordings of the various versions? (I suspect 1960's version used to Nov 1969, 1970's version used to when they went Stereo, then the current version.)

Slightly off topic, I know Corrie's first 'colour' episode, according to other sources, was a mixture of B&W & Colour material, due to lack of colour film location(B&W era opening titles & location film & colour VT).

When Corrie went temporarily back to B&W in late 70/early 71, due to the ITV colour strike, did they reuse the 1960's B&W titles, or just a B&W version of the early colour titles?

I preferted the original version of the Eastenders theme.

As for Corrie well its just a better quality recording now.

Emmerdale definatly perfered the original theme to that.

Crossroads best version of the theme was the Paul McCartney and Wings version first heard at Arthur Brownlow's funeral.

Wasn't the colours trike purely effected at the recording end, and the production all the way to actually being recorded on VT was still in colour? If that's true then I'd assume they would have just used colour titles that weren't in colour.

The story goes that for the first colour episode they decided they've have a big coach crash injuring several of the main characters, on location. The idea was that the colourful location shots would be used to show off the fact that it was the first non b/w episode.

Unfortunately they didn't have the colour film, so the first colour episode was the next one, set in a rather drab looking hospital.

Mid-90s Emmerdale for me.

The original Crossroads theme was good. The 2003 version of it is dire.

If you read the Daran Little book, that came out around the 40th birthday, it mentioned that this first 'colour' episode actually had colour VT interiors, but B&W exteriors(establishling shots etc).

Does anyone have a contact at Granada, that could verify that ?

yes JM.

I think the way our soap titles stay the same shows how things can be left alone unlike Neighbours who constantly faf about with theirs/

Oh you ain't seen anything yet, just nip round a few Neighbours sites and you'll soon find at least the caps. Dire is one word, that's being diplomatic, very disappointed in the 'direction' they've taken.