Best TV Theme Tunes / Opening Titles
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Slowmart wrote:
I can't believe it took 16 posts to get to the correct answer!
Honourable mentions for The A Team, The Sweeney and Airwolf but The Professionals has the music and the title sequence.0 -
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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This ^^^^ Bow bow bowwww.Pross wrote:Slowmart wrote:
I can't believe it took 16 posts to get to the correct answer!
Honourable mentions for The A Team, The Sweeney and Airwolf but The Professionals has the music and the title sequence.
I remember the kids in the playground wanted to be Doyle because Bodie sounded like bogie.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
Professional a big favourite - great tune, car crashing through plate glass and 2 cops driving around in 70's RWD cars.
Also:
Original Grandstand tune.
Also the Muppet TV show opening tune.0 -
Many of the above are excellent and I'd somehow forgotten them...
One that sticks with me (haunting more than musically extraordinary) is the original '70s series Survivors, where a plague wipes out much of humanity and a few random individuals scrape by in the Marches.
For some reason I recall the female lead (posh) driving a Jensen Interceptor prior to the Gotterdammerung and switching to a Volvo 145 after it... so Home Counties aspirational mid-70s.
The titles had a scientist dropping a test tube and then showed a (his) passport being stamped as he spread the mystery infection across the globe.
Surely one of the billions of free view channels (Dave, Paul, Jack) can find it and broadcast it. Then again, maybe not... I may be wearing my rose-tinted specs again.0 -
"A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
PTP Runner Up 20150 -
BBC F1 coverage. The Chain - Fleetwood Mac. Perfick.0
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I'll go with these two, not giving my age away much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wys7_FZkPr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecwd_Ww8tHQ0 -
Here's one for Mac33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FX51pXcs_w0
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My favourite alien conspiracy titles - 'Dark Skies' from the 90s (but set in the 60s):DJ58 wrote:Here's one for Mac33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FX51pXcs_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKOv9yexS1Y0 -
Oh I forgot about…
Land of the Giants.
What awesome design and audio. Apologies if it's already been called.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMIe5ut ... freload=10tick - tick - tick0 -
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Oh Oh Chongo its......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtzKQKNSQNo
A flying submarine !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakLADv--ms
So don't yell help!, help! ......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peejzh5rIRsAlways be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.0 -
Space 1999:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09BzitMkUCw0 -
Taggart - i did enjoy the program way back when0
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The Sopranos vs Breaking Bad
both great tunes..and even better shows!!!
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In a similar vein (pun intended) of recent US shows, True Blood has a good theme tune.0
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Hong Kong Phooey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_Rmpd3PZI0 -
The Shadow Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fViWsBm_1Ac0 -
"Cheers" and "Hill Street Blues" always win these. :P
Cheers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvRGh2NEjSU
Hill Street Blues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2fGzKiqRM
Thomas the Tank Engine but, the mashup version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjVC_jrHcHI
Grange Hill (original):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7gAEsI0XY
Crimewatch :twisted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu5FR368Qpk
Krypton Factor (original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lORRNu4Zv1I
Jamie and the Magic Torch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMMow_Itqw
Bananaman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHEFlD_VDM
Love Boat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo
Supergran:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4
I saved the best one for last...
Street Hawk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCItnKrXvMM0 -
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Manc33 wrote:"Cheers" and "Hill Street Blues" always win these. :P
Cheers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvRGh2NEjSU
The Cheers theme tune is incredible.
Another opening title ... the Simpsons! It's run its course now but is iconic none the less.tick - tick - tick0 -
The Persuaders0
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seanoconn wrote:
Good shout, what happened to Dougie Lampkin?LakesLuddite wrote:
Don't know, but my other half went to school with him somewhere near Bradford. She had a bit of a crush on him apparently.0 -
I saw mentions of two great ones: The Rockford Files and The 6 Million Dollar man - by the late great Oliver Nelson.
Sanford & Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE
My English teacher went to school with Demond WIlson.
My favorite, theme from Mannix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXRCqjMri2YInfinite diversity, infinte variations0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCFVEvZvo3g
