Taggart Start & End Titles (Intro/Outro) 1985
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- The start & end titles ( Intro/Outro ) of the Taggart Episode "Murder in Season" starring Mark McManus. This includes the Ident/logo for Scottish Television.
Images/Audio - STV, Clear Vision, Maggie Bell. - Zábava
There was never a more realistic British cop than Jim Taggart, you looked at Mark McManus' wonderfully emotive face and appreciated that this was a man who'd seen 30 years on the rough streets of Glasgow.
Got to be one of the best TV themes ever.
Aye uve got that rite pal
Great show too, especially when Jim Taggart was in it
Is it Tina Turner that sings the outro?
@@grahamspragg7494 it’s the Scottish singer Maggie Bell.
@@grahamspragg7494 Iit was Maggie bell who did the vocal on "No Mean City".... the Taggart Theme.... there are a number of live and studio recordings on youtube. In my opnion this one is hard to beat - czcams.com/video/uhWPwP51Hag/video.html
...met Mark McManus while working for Scotrail on a train going to Lanark a few years before he died. Me and my fellow ticket collector were debating about who should go and chat up a lovely young lady that had caught both our eyes. We dithered for a bit in discussion over this when a very recognisable voice from behind us shouted " fur goad sake will wan o yous dae it " !!! We turned round and sitting there grinning was Taggart himself . We couldn't believe it and we were so chuffed. Anyways he was absolute gent and shook our hands. We didn't bother him as we wanted to let him have his privacy. So back to the girl...who had got off by this time lol. It didn't matter though as Taggart had made our day 😁
Brill story thx for sharing,Mark rip big man
Great story cheers
can't beat it good Scottish programme and brilliant soundtrack
Craig Petrie - awesome show mate. Mark McManus was brilliant as Jim Taggart, may he rest in peace. I get my weekly fix watching the old episodes on Freeview channel drama.
My nan would record this at night, and watch it while I ate my cornflakes in the morning before school. This was my morning song- not bad.
Remains the greatest ever Scottish TV series.
Maggie Bell, brilliant vocal and great backing singers too!
I'm loving watching the old Taggarts on STV Player, archive section. Absolutely brilliant!
Taggart and The Equalizer...top 80's tv that you weren't allowed to watch when you were a kid in the mid 80's...
Where in UK you from Ron, sure you remember the female lead: C.A.T.S. Eyes!
But did you watch it every week??
@@mikekaraoke C.A.T.S Eyes was a spin off series of The Gentle Touch both starred the late Jill Gascoine as Maggie Forbes [ DI Maggie Forbes in Gentle Touch, well technically WDI ], never saw the spin off, but The Gentle Touch was a very good series [ well series 1- 4 anyway ] that was repeated in the 90's on Granada Plus and recently [ 2018 ] on Talking Pictures. Some of the dialogue was cut though ie censored or for time constraints on both channels. There are a couple of uploads of the TGT on here and at Dailymotion too.
I used to cry to stay up and watch it lol 😂
@@jane1975 C.A.T.S Eyes was a flaky derivative of The Gentle Touch from memory. Thought it was crap and didn't bother watching it much after realising it seemed inferior, despite being a kid.. I think we were very advanced kids and teens mentally in the UK in the 80s and 90s! Kids now could never watch this kind of stuff like Taggart and Cracker! Are you kidding me? lol
@@josephd.2725 Yeah, we have a wimpy generation.
What a great show that was! The music, the wax/embossed title shots to give it that seedy and gritty aura. Always a dark and brutal murrrder to investigate!
Ah. Brings back memories....watching bodies being dismembered as a 10 yr old... wtf...?
Brilliant programme.
We grew up quicker in the 80s.
Scottish TV actually made this and it was brilliant. Kids today would be blown away by that. Mark McManus, he was born in Scotland, also started being known as an actor in Australia (after his family moved over) and then he came back over. Sadly went downhill after his wife died (just wouldnt turn up for filming) and he died a year later.
At the time, the local station would air Taggart a bit past my bedtime. I would hear the theme as I'm lying in bed. My brother was a bit of international tv venturer.
I always remember as a kid of Taggart being good but quite violent and brutal!
I remember an episode where some lad had his fingers pounded in some baking machine or other.
Yeah and one where a bloke got shot through the neck with a crossbow bolt and slowly choked to death!!
@@DarrenBonJovi that scene gave me the fear when I was a kid. If I’m not mistaken it was a young John Hannah
And a guy being attacked in a tent with an ice pick
An episode really frightened me ad a youngster. It showed a masked intruder breaking into a woman's house, and opening a tin of beans. His eyes seemed to glow in the dark.
This show and awesome theme song branded Glasgow for years.
One of those themes that absolutely captures the essence and tone of the series.
Taggart is not Taggart without Mark McManus. It was his face and attitude he brought to the role he played that I liked. I stopped watching it when he died.
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@@mrFIFAboy98 agree pal
Yes absolutely right. I'm with you there.
Aye we Laddie
Contradiction in terms without him. Couldnae agree more. Great show with him in it and a soundtrack in a million.
Maggie Bells original recoring of the theme with a tremendous brass section backing was absolutely brill !
Where can I find it
@@billyboy9833 It is available on both youtube & Spotify, but yo find a number of versions all by Maggie Bell. You will have to hunt through them to find the bet one with all the clout !.
Loved this show when I was a kid. One of my favourite stories was the one with “The Bowman”
Brilliant theme Sunday night ITV. Next day primary school that Sunday feeling.
Nah, was on a Wednesday 8:30
Yeah, always remember it being on midweek. At least it was on my ITV region, Granada.
this was television at it's best with great characters and stories told in every episode and came around
the time when shows like dempsey and makepeace was airing this needs an re-release on blu ray
with interviews from the remaining cast of the show.
It's a really great music theme I've ever heard. And it's a really best film I've ever seen!
Holy moly I was 3 years old in 85. Great memories of Taggart, The high life and Rab C Nesbit to name a few.
Love this theme. Reminds me of my nan, she loved this series!
best ever tv intro/outro......now go n fetch ya shinebox!
"No Mean City" is one of the greatest TV themes ever, courtesy of composer Mike Moran and perfect vocals by blues rock singer Maggie Bell.
Speaking of Maggie, here she is being brilliant on a 1983 episode of _Pop Quiz_ hosted by Mike Read (also featuring Dave Edmunds, Martin Chambers of The Pretenders, Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers, John Deacon of Queen and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet): czcams.com/video/LH7igCpLJo0/video.html
They should have done a throwback to this theme on the final episode's end credits as a coming full circle. Would have been nice to have seen that rotoscope of Mark McManus just as the credits faded out for the last time also as a tribute to the show's titular character.
In the way Thames did with The Bill? It's a nice idea, but there was no formal announcement that the series was ending, so no reason to alter the end titles of (what turned out to be) the final programme.
Superintendent Jack ‘the biscuit’ McVitie was played by Iain Anders who was actually English but had a good Scottish accent.
Superb theme, splendid series. 👌
I always laugh at the fact that Alex Norton was in Taggart playing the lead detective, however he was also a murderer in taggart right back in the early days....a butcher from memory. Then he was asked in 'Two Doors Down' if he liked taggart. What a great arc. 😂😂😂😂
Yassss , I don't know why this song can remind me of Glasgow. And it has nothing to with taggart. Its real n gritty, its a mean song. Love it
Apparently the creator of Taggart, Glenn Chandler took the names from headstones in a Glasgow graveyard when creating the characters for the series…
I miss Taggart so much.
Shit gets real when the taggart theme comes on
Yeah, so dark, so brutal.. love it!
Very good
rip mark yes he totally made the programme not the same without him.I'm like you u I do watch the old ones bud.
Craig Petrie - I know what you mean, I was upset when he died, and 23 years later we're still watching. A terrific actor. So is James McPherson as Jardine. My only crime is I've never been to glasgow, let alone scotland. That will have to change soon.
It's noo the same glasga but u can still see the location filming
When you heard that haunting bassline to kick off the show, you strapped in for another gruesome murrder!
Fantastic.
Mike Moran en est le brillant compositeur si j’ai bonne mémoire.
25 years today since Mark McManus died.
Mark,great guy!
We like Taggart - even the new ones.
Taggart is really tough….. Randy but tough with it
Not just a good actor for the part, but a rugged face to go with it, being a former boxer. His face represented the grittiness of the show. It was finished as we knew it once the actor Mark McManus passed away.
I would give my right bollock for a decent copy of this recording of ‘no mean city’. I don’t think it exists anywhere else 🤷♂️
Loads of people will already know this, but for those who don't, the late Brian Connelly, lead singer with British band Sweet, was Marks' brother. (And by the way, far from being a glam rock band they could fair belt out some heavy music when they felt like it. Me and mates used to play the B sides of their songs in the juke boxes in the pub).
Taggart wasn't Taggart unless there was a dismembered arm in a bin bag on a rubbish tip.
You would be surprised by the matter of fact way Glaswegians mention dead bodies being found in the Clyde on a regular basis.
Hardest theme tune still.
Epic tune
Epic
Superb TV.
A time when the polis WERE the polis!
Pure tongs.😘
I hated this as a little kiddo. I like it now lol
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Alan partridge got me here
There's been another morrderr!"
looking for Taggart with Mark McManus in french version........If someone knows how to find................thx
My word, that is niche.
@@DarrenBonJovi it was popular in france.
Taggart was made of granite!
Ya tube.
Glasgow No Mean City
theres been a murder hehe
No mean city alex
used to like this, unfortunatley he wrote the them to new tricks which is beyond irritating.
Alex fergusons brother