Ian Dury - Profoundly In Love With Pandora (EMI)

Mr Dury teams up once more with his old pal, multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, for a tune already familiar to those TV addicts amongst you (it's the theme from The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, you see). Ian is at his very best here with lyrical gymnastics and a soft sweet chorus. A hit (I hope). (Paul King, Smash Hits, October 23, 1985)

The theme from the TV series from the book - The Secret Diaries Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4. No doubt the TV exposure will ensure some sort of a chart position, but as a record it's a limp souvenir. As an Ian Dury song it's a liquefying embarrassment. To be theme and not heard. (Roger Morton, Record Mirror, October 19, 1985)

It was a bit inevitable, I suppose, that this theme to The Secret Life Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 would surface as a single - Dury's first in ages. It's a whimsical song that fits in well with the TV series about teenage traumas, but doesn't stand up that well in its own right. Cute though ...  (Karen Swayne, No 1, October 19, 1985)

Note: Interesting that all the reviewers mentioned the TV show, but each titled it differently. Paul King was the one who got it right.