Sundays have their own peculiar energy...
Theme from Antique's Roadshow...
Theme from Songs Of Praise...
Theme from Last Of The Summer Wine...
Theme from That's Life.
#HAPPINESS CANCELLED
Haha, yes,
Summer Wine also had the added grim village misery to add to the dreary atmos, but
That's Life! remains the nadir of TV memory dread for me, despite some amusing things (and to be fair they highlighted some important issues)... it just had a grim 'the misery of ordinary life' vibe about it, and sent you to bed with it's blowsy trumpet theme.
Aside from a number of the aforementioned -
Highway (with Harry Seagoon),
Bullseye,
Spitting Image,
All Creatures,
Bread,
Heartbeat and
Howard's Way (which my parents never missed) don't forget
Supergran and
Terrahawks. There was the school-tomorrow anxiety, but at least some of the shows were actually entertaining.
Oh yeah, and:
It was the South Bank Show that sounded the death knell for me, I might have been into artsy stuff way earlier if I didn't treat that theme tune as "MUH, SCHOOL TOMORROW", who knows.
Definitely 'That's Life' for me too, but also the theme to The South Bank Show - I'd often be bidding the rest of my family goodnight and leaving the living room just as the titles played, and would always wonder what such a spectacularly titled and themed programme could actually be about.
Aside from the fantastic theme tune,
TSBS had some fantastic episodes, like 'The Art of Walt Disney', which featured animator Richard Williams talking about
The Thief and the Cobbler. So there was the possibility of going to bed feeling excited and thrilled, despite the Monday-to-come blues!