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Your Top 5 TV Themes

Started by Sin Agog, July 23, 2017, 04:25:19 PM

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July 23, 2017, 04:25:19 PM Last Edit: July 23, 2017, 05:51:21 PM by Sin Agog
QuoteYour Top 5 TV Themes

Top 5 TV Themes, you say?  While we're on the topic, what are your Top 5 TV Themes?  My Top 5 TV Themes would probably be:

Monkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOFAD6e9Bk (always had a soft spot for that soft rocky closing song as well, which, unless I'm mishearing something, begins with the words, 'A long time ago, when men were all gay').

The Adventures of Pete & Pete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcqSfAHvuAo

The Adventures of Robin Hood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbyYr6L5xQM (the guy who wrote this, Dick James, got more money out of the Beatles early on than any of the actual Beatles, having hoovered up most of their publishing rights.  I can do a pretty cracking rendition if I say so myself)

Mysterious Cities of Gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5Y_ogiyi0

And because my mind seems to be stuck on kids shows, I'll go with The Moomins' theme, 'cause I'm a sucker for those primitive electronic rhythms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN6DzUpPXwM

So what are your Top 5 TV Themes (preferably TV Themes, and five of them- your top 5).

Top 5 TV Themes.

EDIT: Wait, I think I need to put in the Penderecki-lite Children of the Stones music somewhere.  Imagine how many children must have had an awe-overdose after listening to this disquieting pagan noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V6dSNlh0_k

Steven

#1
July 23, 2017, 05:06:37 PM
Rawhide or the Blues Brothers' cover will do.

Ulysesse 31 - I especially like this live action video remake.

Jayce And The Wheel Warriors - More awesome 80s rock anthemness.

The Raccoons - Run With Us

Pole Position - Hey-o, hey-o, hey-o!

Cerys

#2
July 23, 2017, 05:11:26 PM
Quote from: Steven on July 23, 2017, 05:06:37 PMThe Raccoons - Run With Us

Oh, hell, yes.  I used to be impatient while watching The Raccoons because I wanted to get to the end and that song.

Serge

#3
July 23, 2017, 05:21:15 PM
'Doctor Who' in all of its different iterations, obviously.

'The Prisoner', complete with sound effects.

'Sorry!' because.....it's just great.

The original 'Peep Show' theme from series one, fuck knows why they replaced it with that indie rock shit.

'The Persuaders' - John Barry's finest hour.

DrGreggles

#4
July 23, 2017, 05:45:26 PM

BlodwynPig

#5
July 23, 2017, 06:42:16 PM
Miss Marple
Bergerac
The Bill (first funk incarnation)
Snooker (especially that downtempo stuff they had in 2016 accompanying player profiles)
...can't think for a 5th

Neomod

#6
July 23, 2017, 07:08:30 PM
Follyfoot seconded

Weekend World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dpq4sExgs

The New Avengers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpog_8g3LY

My World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKibbJS-Gw

The Rockford Files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Cx26-928

oh and the bittersweet

The Sweeney (End theme)1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fspz4PTEpy0

1. Which meant it was time to go up the wooden hill to bedfordshire

Mr Brightside

#9
July 23, 2017, 08:34:54 PM
Quote from: newbridge on July 23, 2017, 07:16:01 PM
TWIN PEAKS!

X-Files

Unsolved Mysteries

Father Ted

Malcolm in the MiddlE

First three are correct (Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Unsolved Mysteries), but then the other two are The Twilight Zone and Batman The Animated Series.

Blumf

#10
July 23, 2017, 09:35:39 PM
The Money Program - Wow this is going to be a fucking kick ass show... oh.. it's just about a 3% adjustment in MIRAS and a talk on the harmonisation of manganese nodule production across the common market.

MST3K has already been mentioned, catchy and perhaps the best example of explaining the premise in the theme tune. La La-la

Street Hawk - Always a sucker for electro-synth stuff

The Highwayman - A bit of a cheat here, because I've never watched the show, but that theme tune!

Pigeon Street - The background music was pretty good too.

Alberon

#11
July 23, 2017, 09:37:47 PM
One of the Man From U.N.C.L.E. themes.

https://youtu.be/3_NytrnoI_Q?t=1m54s

Henry Mancini's classic Peter Gunn Theme.

https://youtu.be/YaMlsgijzuM?t=25m19s

The Professionals

https://youtu.be/PCFVEvZvo3g?list=PL3YxTPg8m9E5FoFxQ_X0mi3JWKA69h8h2

Stuart Copeland's theme to The Equalizer

https://youtu.be/g87nDBIyqeU

The electro genius of How!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XK0RImTvh0


And one final little oddity that will stay lodged in my mind forever from ITV School's output, Picture Box.

https://youtu.be/NM6TiVj9OUk

Norton Canes

#12
July 23, 2017, 09:51:10 PM
Quote from: Alberon on July 23, 2017, 09:37:47 PM
And one final little oddity that will stay lodged in my mind forever from ITV School's output, Picture Box.

https://youtu.be/NM6TiVj9OUk

Manège by Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet

Alberon

#13
July 23, 2017, 09:52:46 PM
Of course you'd know that one!

greenman

#14
July 23, 2017, 10:01:52 PM
The Rockford files mmust be near the top not just in itself but as the launchpad for Mike Post to do the theme for almost everything on US TV for 20 years afterwards.

Norton Canes

#15
July 23, 2017, 10:09:26 PM Last Edit: July 23, 2017, 10:27:15 PM by Norton Canes
Anyway.

1. = Peter Howell's arrangement of the Doctor Who theme (sorry, Delia) (and be sure to listen 'till 1:50 for the bit that didn't make it into the programme)

1. = 'Deadly' Dudley Simpson's theme for The Tomorrow People

1. = The 1980's Tomorrow's World theme (can't find the composer, annoyingly) (ah, wait... "Replacing the jazz-based tune that had introduced 'Tomorrow's World' since 1965, a new electronic-style theme by Richard Denton and Martin Cook was used from January 1980.")

1. = This unholy racket: Sid Dale's Marching There and Back, the theme to Screen Test

1. = Go on, we'll have Force Field

Dex Sawash

#16
July 23, 2017, 10:12:32 PM
Hong Kong Phooey
https://youtu.be/Va_Rmpd3PZI

The Monkees
https://youtu.be/vHHZb7c3Qy8

Lancelot Link; Secret Chimp
https://youtu.be/0d5dKBMK5mo

Petticoat Junction
https://youtu.be/2Jx2jEPvh88

And Rockford Files


im barry bethel

#17
July 23, 2017, 10:38:58 PM
Quote from: Neomod on July 23, 2017, 07:08:30 PM

oh and the bittersweet

The Sweeney (End theme)1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fspz4PTEpy0

1. Which meant it was time to go up the wooden hill to bedfordshire

I always liked the dichotomy between the bombastic opening and melancholy closing, in a similar vein The Incredible Hulk (okay it's only the first 5 seconds of the opening that's any good)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2DB3NqAKKk0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PaDvUM5m-Ug

The Littlest Hobo but in Spanish

https://myspace.com/thelittlesthobo2/music/song/the-spanish-version-21535077-21336559


Dogtanian also in Spanish

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bA0G3b7qc8s

There's lots of early eighties themes that are memorable, The Greatest American Hero, Riptide, Quincy but you'll always click your fingers to The Fall Guy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F4LX8PPMuOY


Then there's all those kitschy 60's sci fi programs like Land of the Giants/Plant of the Apes/Lost in Space but my fav is Time Tunnel

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDowitqL1Rc

Brundle-Fly

#18
July 24, 2017, 12:03:06 AM
Impossible request.  Lots of brilliant nominations already. I'll chuck in five anyway.

60s
Man Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0VrTUhPw6M

70s
Ace Of Wands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD48Xe8ul28

80s
The London Programme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPa1RFAivy4

90s
Oz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO_sId4JOAg

00s
Footballers Wives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cJRsVNIi8g

samadriel

#21
July 24, 2017, 12:17:23 PM
https://youtu.be/Xm8WmiKj5go
Ducktales in Finnish. Uncut - oh-ohh!

Serge

#22
July 24, 2017, 01:42:50 PM
Quote from: Norton Canes on July 23, 2017, 10:09:26 PMThe 1980's Tomorrow's World theme

Ah shit, I'd forgotten that - something will have to go from my Top 5 to make way for that. The full-length version turned up on this Soul Jazz compilation a few years back. There was also a re-edit on the Director's Cut label - christ! - EIGHT years ago, backed with a re-edit of Giorgio Moroder's 'Evolution'.

greenman

#24
July 24, 2017, 02:25:33 PM
Airwolf does pretty obviously ripoff Trans Europe Express, Knightmare starts off almost the same as Going For Gold as well.

All Surrogate

#25
July 24, 2017, 04:40:57 PM
At the moment, I can only think of one that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think):

UFO

buzby

#27
July 24, 2017, 10:25:33 PM Last Edit: July 24, 2017, 10:42:56 PM by buzby
Quote from: Norton Canes on July 23, 2017, 10:09:26 PM
Anyway.
1. = The 1980's Tomorrow's World theme (can't find the composer, annoyingly) (ah, wait... "Replacing the jazz-based tune that had introduced 'Tomorrow's World' since 1965, a new electronic-style theme by Richard Denton and Martin Cook was used from January 1980.")
Yes, it was Denton & Cook, who also composed the Floyd-esque theme for Hong Kong Beat, The Great Egg Race and the mighty Quiller

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned - D&C's TW theme, The Money Programme, The Persuaders and and of course Jam for World In Action (the composition of which has been hotly disputed by all parties involved in the last few years), but I think Ed Astley's theme for The Baron, and the fuzzed-out rock of Weekend World (Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain), the shuffling light jazz of Farmhouse Kitchen (Fruity Flutes by Reg Wale) and Paint Along With Nancy deserve a mention.

ollyboro

#28
July 24, 2017, 11:24:27 PM
The Mr Men
The Sweeney
Prospects
Sportsnight
Dick Turpin

ollyboro

#29
July 25, 2017, 08:32:28 AM
Bollocks. Forgot about Arena.
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