8.8 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Hanns Wiedmann Final episode date 27 February 1967 Number of seasons 1 | 8.8/10 Country of origin GermanyYugoslavia First episode date 12 September 1966 Composer Bojan Adamič Number of episodes 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Hanns Wiedmann, Vladimir Carin, Gitta von Cetto Opening theme Ivo Robić instrumental version Similar The Flashing Blade, Follyfoot, Pipkins, Mary - Mungo and Midge, Here Come the Double Deckers |
The white horses tv series start sequence
The White Horses is a 1965 television series co-produced by RTV Ljubljana (now RTV Slovenija) of Yugoslavia and German TV (Südwestfunk).
Contents
- The white horses tv series start sequence
- The white horses tv theme by jacky with jackie s lee s personal story and lyrics
- Plotline
- Transmission
- Theme song
- References
The white horses tv theme by jacky with jackie s lee s personal story and lyrics
Plotline
The story follows the adventures of a teenage girl Julia (played by Helga Anders) who leaves Belgrade to spend a holiday on a stud farm run by her Uncle Dimitri (played by Helmuth Schneider), where with the help of head groom Hugo (Franz Muxeneder), white Lipizzaner horses are raised.
In the first episode, stallion Boris is stolen by gypsies who dye his white coat brown so that no one will recognise him. Julia and Hugo set off to find Boris and upon his recovery an affinity is formed between girl and horse.
Transmission
The series, called Počitnice v Lipici in Slovenian and Ferien in Lipizza ("Holidays in Lipica") in German, comprised thirteen 25-minute black and white episodes.
A dubbed version was broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1968, and repeated for many years afterwards. This dubbed soundtrack was thought lost for many years but recently reel-to-reel audio tapes of twelve of the thirteen episode were found.
Theme song
The theme song to the German version was played by Ivo Robić.
The UK theme song - written by Michael Carr and Ben Nisbet and later back dubbed onto all versions, was simply titled "White Horses", and credited to "Jacky" - was sung by Irish-born Jackie Lee. It became a top 10 hit in the UK charts in April 1968. The book The Penguin Television Companion claimed it to be the best television theme in history. It has been copied and used many times since, including:
The White Horses ON DVD With The Original Dubbed English