Public Eye Theme Stereo 

Brilliant actor pity we don’t get masterpieces like this now instead of reality shite

Brilliant theme tune, brilliant series, and Alfred Burke, brilliant actor. If only more programmes of this quality were made today.

This takes me right back to being a child in bed while grown ups watched it and I could hear this music from downstairs.....so nostalgic

Absolute classic. They don't make them like this anymore. All we get nowadays are a bunch of untalented wannabes on endless reality tv shows.

Alfred Burke was an incredible actor, his performance as Frank Marker was what made this series so compelling, plus of course the wonderful theme music

Brilliantly played by Alfred Burke, Frank Marker was often not a easy person to get along with or even like, but never compromised his integrity & principles. Public Eye is sadly missed

im 56 now and i can smell the nostalgia ,,,,,,great timing reality at its sublime best,,,,,,God,,,,they were good ,,,,,on point acting skills ,,,,nothing on the horizon that i can see comes close

Thought provoking music of real quality. I loved the show and Alfred Burke was such a special player too.

Dark,gritty real ...When they say "they dont make 'em like this anymore" with Public Eye its a fact

There were some truly great TV and film themes written in the 1960s and 1970s.

I love the bass riff running through in this. I've played bass for 60 years and now watching this series again I've worked the sequence of notes. The bassist puts together notes you wouldn't normally play together which gives it that fabulous atmosphere. 10/10 :)

How cool can this this track get?! I remember this theme tune very fondly. The uniqueness of this track is that only the cymbals are played, but not the drums on the kit. The cymbals, the trombone, the piano, the double bass and a fifth instrument being a guitar played on dampened strings come together in an eerily beautiful way. The trombone in particular gives this tune its eerie sound. Lovely piece of jazz.

Just watched the final episode. I've been hooked on this for months. Proper telly!

Great theme to a great TV show! So glad I discovered this for the first time via Talking Pictures TV reruns- Alfred Burke is brilliant in this show

Mesmerising, could listen to it all evening,,,,,,,🎉🎉🎉

Great series, so sad that so many episodes were wiped. Beautiful jazz theme music.

I didn’t really appreciate this series ormthe brilliant theme music until I started watching it again on TALKING PICTURE Channel 328 on sky. Wow what an amazing soundtrack

Good to know others, even today, appreciate this theme and the programme. As a tv-watching child of the 60's all this wonderful stuff is hard wired into my brain. I hum this to myself when I'm out walking on dark wet nights and feeling low.

Great stuff, watching it now on talking pictures, on every night at 8pm

Great music, great show. Alfred Burke as Frank Marker was perfect casting. Classic Brit TV at its best. Thanks for posting this especially for the recompilation of the music, which is truly brilliant.

Been watching this on talking pictures! I'm sure you all watch talking pictures? This is on every night on there.

As a child I sort of remembered the series but it was this melody that stood out for me.

Best thing on at the moment on talking pictures alfred burke the understated loner with a moral compass love it seedy and greyKORF

perfect jazzy seedy track for Marker..

Great theme great program. When television was entertaining. Not just cheap

That note at 0.32 is so sleazy. No other tv prog wants me to transport back to those days more than this one. The theme music is brilliant. Thanks for uploading.

Arguably the best theme music ever composed. Loneliness and dark, drizzly, empty streets. Captures the feeling and mood of Frank Marker perfectly. Quite an intricate piece to score and play. Props to Bob Sharples and what I can only assume are session musicians. Giving Edwin Astley a run for the money here.

Superb moody discordant piece of music. Even more superb was Public Eye and Alfred Burke.

Lovely memories of tv in Glasgow Scotland in the 60s. Burke was an underrated actor but fitted this series to a tee. Another great theme by Bob Sharples of Coronation Street theme fame. I believe the trombonist playing the theme was Laddie Busby, a London jazz studio player. Thanks for getting this out there!

It's such a shame that ABC lost so many of the original VTR tapes ( missing believed wiped ) but TV was not considered to be important enough back then to save long term and many other shows like Z Cars etc. shared the same fate as the tapes could be reused . Luckily Thames kept all the episodes from 1969 onwards. One of the best series ITV ever did.

Just finished watching the last episode here on RU-vid. I really love the series, never paid any attention to it as a kid in my teens. Great theme also. thanks for uploading it.

There are times in life when you know you were privileged to have experienced.lt is not the earth shattering events of world history,that's a rarity for just a few individuals.l hark back to possibly more innocent times and pleasures.My point! well,l have to say this series in the original shaped me to what l am today.A love of distinctive but powerful music,the same with drama and a sense of appreciation when a actor or anyone in life actually can pull off a performance that supercedes the ordinary.This series had it all and then some.l have as many episode that l have found so far,a small but unique collection of T- shirts associated with the series but above all the greatest of memories of my time as a young man with a young man's dreams.

talking pictures is the best channel on freeview ,the re-runs of public eye with Alfred burke were superb , ditto gideons way with john gregson, great acting and excellent writing.

Great music and I watched every show back in the day. It’s still good and I love it. I am going to try and get this on the Jukebox in the pub, wondering what reaction it might get.💽🤷🏼‍♂️ At 64yrs old I am not to bothered.

I have n't heard this for decades. When it was originally screened I was a child. I remember it being on Saturday night, and the actor being interviewed on Pete Murray's Open House, on radio two.

Carlsberg don't make TV theme tunes......but if they did, this would be the best one "In the world!" 😍😍😍😍

Absolutely Brilliant

Just watched on Talking Pictures and was hooked, watched the lot one of the best things of it's time!

Fantastic tune, this and the theme from The Human Jungle and Peter Gunn are still in my head from when I was a nipper.

reminds me of walking around the dark wet streets of the Medway towns back in the early 70`s, felt at home then..miss them times,now just feel alien in my own country

So true! I think it's beautiful.

Being re-run on Talking Pictures TV, ( channel 81 on freeview) 8pm....

One of my favourite themes of all time.

Public Eye and The World At War were two of my all time greats, watched the originals series when new, Earley/Sharples who wrote the Marker theme + Burke were both cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium.

My fave episode so far is the one where the wife said her husband liked the chase and they both thought eachother were cheating when neither were while the lodger got throttled and the shopkeeper got punched by the copper. Other than that one it was the Asian well spoken conman episode and the one where a guy had 3 wives and a teenage daughter with one of them.

I've started watching the reruns of this again on TV and really realising how good it was

Great show and brilliant character acting especially from Burke; I think this theme is a bit more uptempo than the first one used in the series.

This was my introduction to Jazz when I was a child

So haunting so good

Happy days, gone but never forgotten.

It was as nostalgic as kid 50 years ago as it is now looking back 50 years.Something exestentially timeless about the 60's.

great theme, great actor, great series, from a great itv company, come back THAMES TELEVISION.

About time they released it as a single

Love this theme and the subltle guitar work in the background.

The theme was composed by Robert Earley otherwise known as Bob Sharples who did the music for the Opportunity Knocks programmes. He also led a number of orchestras on various BBC variety shows.

Has anyone got the original public eye theme tune? This version is great but the early one was even better for me. The wailing seedy feel is brilliant.

I was born in 1961 An I do remember this theme tune to tv programe watched by Mom + Dad - Mom also love Callen another gritty tv series -With the light bulb at the begining & his informer called 'stinky or smelly' ? Thanks for sharing this brought some good memories back ?

Poor Frank Marker got the shit end of it every time But he did have maybe the best theme tune out there

Superb job bringing this piece of music back to life. Great treatment.

When all the programmes had great tunes . 👍

I love this tune...Now I have to look up this show! Great Share!!

just so perfectly cool

what a tune brings chills down my spine,fantastic.

Talking Pictures T.V. brought me here too, haunting theme from a brilliant show.

Very atmospheric.

Excellent! Thanks

How can I get this as a ringtone? Anyone please?

Brilliant. When all involved in a TV series did a good job. Class:

Thanks so much.I've recommneded it to many.

Great music for an iconic series .

Very nicely done.

ground breaking theme tune

Mega tune.

Sounds good and makes it that bit more expansive - wish I thought of doing that!

as cool as the other side of the pillow haunted me for 20 years

Perfect......and just a hint of Satie.......?

They simply do not make them this good anymore. Watch on Talking Pictures every Thursday.

Saw every show and every series. Alfred Burke was great as Frank Marker. I would love to see this remade, but who could play Marker just as well?

I love this theme tune but trying to work out the time signature - It's beautifully weird .

Watching the series on talking pictures channel 81..

Im a late comer to Public Eye having caught some of the episodes on Talking TV I wonder if any more will be shown & if they will remake it or update it!

He always ran out of milk .

Absolute magic. Does anybody know the names of the musicians on this track, please?

watched all the programmes on utube does anybody know where I can get any more of them if they are available brill show

Who played the trombone? - great work

Any chance you could send me an mp3 of this music please

Who were the musicians?

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There is somewhere on the YT site that in the comments section suggested current actors who might be best suited to play the role of Frank Marker (hope I got the name right) in a TV or even film redux. The only one I can think of is Gary Oldman. Anyone got any other suggestions? This is the comments section after all.

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I only watch talking pictures don't watch any reality shite