Bergerac comeback

[squire5]

Just noticed on the news that Bergerac is making a comeback.I always liked the theme music with that lurvly fretless bass.I've googled best I can,it but nowhere can I find out who the bass player was.Anybody know?

[visog]

John Nettles? 

[cetera]

I thought it was Mo Foster?

[visog]

Just now, cetera said:

I thought it was Mo Foster?

It was. I was just having a joke at the OP who didn't check these forums!
 

 

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Not sting then ..

[PaulWarning]

42 minutes ago, squire5 said:

Just noticed on the news that Bergerac is making a comeback.I always liked the theme music with that lurvly fretless bass.I've googled best I can,it but nowhere can I find out who the bass player was.Anybody know?

I loved the original series back in the day, tried watching a rerun episode recently, it had not aged well 😕

[squire5]

I never watched it right through but I remember the fretless bass in the theme tune.For some reason Mo Fosters name seems important, but it might have been some wee unheard of session man.Still like it though.

[hubrad]

I came here hoping for some wine chatter! 👍

[PaulWarning]

Shame John Nettles won't be doing a cameo, the end of the Starsky and Hutch film was brilliant

[skidder652003]

My claim to fame as an extra in the origional series 🤣

I was working the summer season in Jersey back in the 80s at the Opera House, great days

Weirdly they've been filming here in Torquay for the new series this week.

There's a super dooper posh house that was used for some cr@ppy reality TV show a couple of years ago.

I imagine its the baddies house in some upcoming episode.

[tauzero]

I saw something about the casting of this - IIRC Charlie Hungerford is now a woman.

[PaulWarning]

57 minutes ago, tauzero said:

I saw something about the casting of this - IIRC Charlie Hungerford is now a woman.

could be a trans woman, another box ticked 

[tauzero]

8 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

could be a trans woman, another box ticked 

 

How long will you be able to resist saying "woke"?

 

Anyroadup, it's Zoë Wanamaker who AFAIK isn't trans. Irish actor Damien Molony is playing Jim Bergerac. Philip Glenister was in one episode of the original and is returning as a character called Arthur Wakefield, which I suspect will be a recurring character as he's one of the only three mentioned in several articles about the cast.

[Geek99]

9 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

Not sting then ..

Or carol kaye

[Geek99]

9 hours ago, PaulWarning said:

I loved the original series back in the day, tried watching a rerun episode recently, it had not aged well 😕

It had Celia imrie in it so wasn’t all bad 

[tauzero]

Just now, Geek99 said:

It had Celia imrie in it so wasn’t all bad 

 

And Leela Louise Jameson.

[Geek99]

Holy Mary yes. Both very much caught my teenage attention 

[tubbybloke68]

Can’t stop humming this bloody tune now! 😂

[snorkie635]

I seem to recall that the original theme tune was re-mixed or such like. Both versions were good, but one was really great.

[Lozz196]

First one for me, bass and guitar had better sounds 

[YouMa]

George Fenton wrote it. He did loads of other stuff. A bit like Ronnie Hazlehurst.