OT: Best TV programme theme tunes ever

SickAsAParrot

Tales of the Unexpected

EKE_38BPM

Loving this thread. Its bringing back lots of nice memories. It does show our age though.

One of the young'uns will be along in a bit to say something like Big Brother or In The Night Garden!

Plumby Baby

This. End. Of. Thread.

We've got some half price cracked ice and miles and miles of carpet tiles,
T.V.s, deep freeze and David Bowie L.P.s,
Ball games, gold chains, whassa-names, and at a push,
Some Trevor Francis track suits from a mush in Shepherds Bush,
Bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush ...
No income tax, no V.A.T.,
No money back, no guarantee,
Black or white, rich or poor,
We'll cut prices at a stroke......
God bless Hooky Street,
Viva Hooky Street,
Long live Hooky Street,
C'est magnifique, Hooky Street,
Magnifique, Hooky Street,
Hooky Street

walkingbootweather

Theme from Mash

Suicide is painless

Wallace1492

Soul Limbo - Booker T and the M.G.'s (Cricket on the Beeb)

Because of You - Dexy's Midnight Runners (Theme from Brush Strokes)

Fight - The Musketeers (Theme to The Flashing Blade)

Theme to Casey Jones

bdave262000

Miami Vice
Taxi

rick_chasey

The original big brother theme tune is a good shout.

I always liked Ironside.


Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Thomas the Tank Engine, Inspector Gadget, and Pingu rinse them all though.

bdave262000

Different Strokes (What you takin about Willis)

Cholten and the Wheelies

Jamie and the magic torch

bdave262000

Kickstart

rjsterry

+! for Doctor Who (the original one) and Roobarb & Custard.

The Dangerman Theme as used as a theme tune by Mark & Lard when they did the evening slot on Radio 1. Obviously it's original use on TV is a bit before my time.

ince

Farscape
True Blood
Thundercats

rick_chasey

Has anyone mentioned The Wire yet?

mudcow007

Fresh prince of Bel Aire?

Bottom

Fraggle Rock

Boddington Peas (cartoon)

Trapdoor (dont you open that...)

Thundercats

andyb78

Red Dwarf?

NGale

I can' believe no one has yet mentioned Danger Mouse or Bananaman!

MASH and Due South are also very good

NGale

and of course can't forget:

Superted
Supergran
He-Man
The Family Ness
Henry's Cat
Round the Twist

jesus christ! I'm old :shock: :shock:

PBo

some great calls peeps!

with you all on Dr Who, H5O.

I quite liked knight rider.

As a Who fan, I like CSI intros.

Sport theme tunes usually give me goose bumps. That Soul Limbo or whatever the Beeb used to use for test matches, both C4, and ITV Tour de france. C4's is better, with the little "frere jaques" motif towards the end, but no complaints about the ITV version.

"The chain" for grand prix - and I hate GP!

Grandstand/Ski sunday - a derivation of some Bach

Horse jumping - Mozart's "Musical Joke" - We don't really hear enough of the full work, but think Mozart does Les Dawson (showing my age).

Don't hate Mambo no 5 that c4 used for cricket - but the C5 themes have been excerable!

MotD just hackneyed.

I wish i could remember the C4 "Kabaddi" theme tune! Best. Game. Ever.

PBo

ooh yes - good call on fresh prince!

and I forgot.

Scooby Doo!

NGale

I think we have all hit the realisation that there was entertainment before the internet!

One of my cadets nearly had a melt down last night when he heard that I remember a time before the internet and mobile phones. You could see his brain melting just trying to conceive of such a time

EKE_38BPM

Rick Chasey wrote:

The original big brother theme tune is a good shout.

I always liked Ironside.


Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Thomas the Tank Engine, Inspector Gadget, and Pingu rinse them all though.

I knew someone had to vote for Big Brother. Kids, eh?

Ironside was written by Quincy Jones and I have a version which is nearly 4 minutes long. Its brilliant.
Quincy Jones has a massive discography including theme tunes. He even wrote the music for The Italian Job (bet you never knew that)!

PBo

Wow - how did he find time to write all that whilst being a medical examiner - and having a cool theme tune himself?

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Ironside was written by Quincy Jones and I have a version which is nearly 4 minutes long. Its brilliant.
Quincy Jones has a massive discography including theme tunes. He even wrote the music for The Italian Job (bet you never knew that)!

PBo

NGale wrote:

I think we have all hit the realisation that there was entertainment before the internet!

One of my cadets nearly had a melt down last night when he heard that I remember a time before the internet and mobile phones. You could see his brain melting just trying to conceive of such a time

a stand up comedian did a skit about this - he was talking to a youngster...

"hey, geezer - you're old! What did you do before mobile phones?"

"Simple. We made plans in advance, stuck to them, and set off in plenty time to be there!"

bdave262000

Streethawk - Only 1 series made but very good. I even had a Steethawk t-shirt

rick_chasey

PBo wrote:

"hey, geezer - you're old! What did you do before mobile phones?"

"Simple. We made plans in advance, stuck to them, and set off in plenty time to be there!"

There is a solution, though it's a little extreme.

For friends who have a habbit of changing plans last minute - when I meet them I turn my phone off half an hour before I meet them.

Occasionally a reminder text that the plan won't change before I turn it off helps.

EKE_38BPM

bdave262000 wrote:

Streethawk - Only 1 series made but very good. I even had a Steethawk t-shirt

I used to imagine what would have easily been the best TV show ever.
A mash-up of Streethawk, Knightrider, The A-Team, Airwolf and Blue Thunder.

Streethawk as scout.
Airwolf as air support.
The A-Team as infantry.
Knightrider as ground support.
Blue Thunder as command and control.

Would have cost a bomb to make, but as a ten year old, I would have loved it!!!

bdave262000

EKE_38BPM wrote:

bdave262000 wrote:

Streethawk - Only 1 series made but very good. I even had a Steethawk t-shirt

I used to imagine what would have easily been the best TV show ever.
A mash-up of Streethawk, Knightrider, The A-Team, Airwolf and Blue Thunder.

Streethawk as scout.
Airwolf as air support.
The A-Team as infantry.
Knightrider as ground support.
Blue Thunder as command and control.

Would have cost a bomb to make, but as a ten year old, I would have loved it!!!

And MacGyver as demo expert

PBo

bdave262000 wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

bdave262000 wrote:

Streethawk - Only 1 series made but very good. I even had a Steethawk t-shirt

I used to imagine what would have easily been the best TV show ever.
A mash-up of Streethawk, Knightrider, The A-Team, Airwolf and Blue Thunder.

Streethawk as scout.
Airwolf as air support.
The A-Team as infantry.
Knightrider as ground support.
Blue Thunder as command and control.

Would have cost a bomb to make, but as a ten year old, I would have loved it!!!

And MacGyver as demo expert

with a paper clip and an elastic band, and a match.

Cleat Eastwood

the sound of brilliant summer holidays long ago

White Horses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6z8GUywyc

bdave262000

Another couple for those summer mornings.

Huckleberry Finn and his friends
The Red Hand Gang

Kieran_Burns

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

the sound of brilliant summer holidays long ago

White Horses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6z8GUywyc

Well, if you're going there: Black Beauty.