Chor Lau-heung (1979 TV series)


Chor Lau-heung is a Hong Kong wuxia television series adapted from the first three novels in the Chu Liuxiang novel series by Taiwanese writer Gu Long. Adam Cheng starred as the titular protagonist, Chor Lau-heung. The series was first broadcast on TVB on September 3, 1979. The 65 episodes long series was divided into four parts: The Legend of Mo-fa, The Great Desert, Legend of the Divine Palace and The Final Battle.

Cast

In 1979 around the time TVB released Chor Lau-heung, another Hong Kong television station RTV produced a similar television series titled It Takes a Thief. TVB and RTV became involved in copyright lawsuits against each other because of similarities between Chor Lau-heung and It Takes a Thief. TVB won the lawsuits and eventually RTV had to change the Chinese title of It Takes a Thief from 盜帥留香 to 俠盜風流, and the names of characters in the television series. It Takes a Thief started airing on 1 September 1979, two days earlier than TVB's Chor Lau-heung.

Reception

The series received good reviews from viewers in Taiwan after the first two episodes were first aired on CTV as part of the Golden Bell Awards screenings. Following that, CTV acquired rights from Hong Kong's TVB to broadcast the entire series in Taiwan, starting on April 18, 1982, under a Mandarin voice dub.

Music album

Chor Lau-heung is an album by Hong Kong actor and singer Adam Cheng, released by Crown Records in 1979. It contains the main theme song "Chor Lau-heung" and the insert song "Lau-heung's regret" from the television series. RTHK selected the main theme song as one of the Top Ten Gold Songs of 1979. In this album, lyricist Cheng Kwok-kong is credited as Kong Yu.
Track titleLengthComposerLyricsNotes
"Chor Lau-heung"
楚留香		3:18Joseph KooTang Wai-hung and Wong JimMain theme song of the 1979 TVB series Chor Lau-heung
"Oh Gal"3:03Cheng Kwok-kongOriginally sung in Japanese by Sawada Kenji
"Lau-heung hun"
留香恨
3:48Joseph KooTang Wai-HungInsert song of the 1979 TVB series Chor Lau-heung
"Nan hing nan dai"
難兄難弟
2:48Joseph KooCheng Kwok-kongMain theme song of the 1979 TVB series He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
"But yiu mun hou hon"
不要問好漢
3:39Joseph KooWong JimMain theme song of the 1979 RTHK series Yiu Wan
"Gip hau ching"
劫後情		3:16Chan Lai-wan
"San Lung Ng Fu Jeung"
神龍五虎將		2:55Joseph KooPeter Lai Main theme song of the 1979 TVB series San Lung Ng Fu Jeung
"Ji yau yuen mei yau fun"
只有緣未有份		3:35Joseph KooLo Kwok-jim
"Yeung lau jeung ngo ka yat boon ching yuen"
楊柳像我家一般青綠
4:16Tanimura ShinjiLo Kwok-jimCantonese rendition of "ii nichi tabidachi" by Yamaguchi Momoe
"King sum yat siu chung"
傾心一笑中
3:00Cheng Kwok-kong
"Koo mung chung wun"
故夢重溫
2:43Cheng Kwok-kong
"Chor Lau-heung"
楚留香音樂		3:02Joseph KooN/A