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Best TV Theme Tunes

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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,829
    SE7toSG3 said:
    (i) 86 World Cup ITV Theme
    (ii) Taxi
    (iii) The Littlest Hobo 


    I liked the 78 Argentina one 
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
    I am truly shocked at only one previous mention of Hill Street Blues. This is the ultimate intro into any TV program which nearly everyone over 40 could name within a couple of seconds without having to think about first.

    Also the BBC cricket theme from the 70s and 80s - Soul Limbo
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,959
    I must confess to being a huge Twin Peaks fan, so you might think I'm biased.

    Nevertheless, I nominate Twin Peaks. A piece of music as weird and wonderful as the show itself.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    The Professionals
    The Sweeney
    Peaky Blinders 
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    A toss-up between Joe 90 (already listed) and this one:
    Barry Gray's music for the early 1970s sci-fi series UFO  
    (another splendid creation by Sylvia and Gerry Anderson)

    https://youtu.be/1qDy4OMAkgY
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,613
    Moonlighting.

    Argentina 78 WC.
  • magic1999
    magic1999 Posts: 469
    Cricket theme that used to be on BBC 
  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,808
    MrOneLung said:
    Midweek Sportsnight 
    Great memories of mum allowing me to stay up on a school night to watch that night’s European match.

    The Sunday Big Match also evokes memories.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,122
    Battlestar Galactica, Original 70’s/80’s tune
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    The theme from CHiPs always got my pulse racing when I was a boy. How I wanted to be Erik Estrada.
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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,588
    edited April 2020
    AddickUpNorth said:
    The theme from prisoner cell block h
    always got my pulse racing when I was a boy.

  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    guinnessaddick said:
    AddickUpNorth said:
    The theme from prisoner cell block h
    always got my pulse racing when I was a boy.


    Lol very good!
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,691
    Hornchurch said:
    Hill Street Blues
    for those that want some Hill street blues back into their lives its all on All 4 online (unfortunately not on catch up through TV)
    "Lets be careful out there"
    https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hill-street-blues
  • Strasburger
    Strasburger Posts: 957
    How are we at page 3 and no 
    Twin peaks? 
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,842
    MrOneLung said:
    Ski Sunday 
    or is it Horse of the Year.... Hum one and you think its the other (or at least I do)
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    Black Beauty
    The Equaliser 
  • floydroadfaithfull
    floydroadfaithfull Posts: 4,778
    How sad am I that I used to have a CD? Come to think of I think it was a box set!!
    Best on there was the A team 
  • FSLN1
    FSLN1 Posts: 263
    Hornchurch said:
    Hill Street Blues

    Good call. I'm currently re-watching this on C4 catch up. I was made for an old school television and as it was shot for US TV it's got a certain graininess that suits the general theme. It's stood up reasonably well for a programme that's 40 years old.
  • Sarrf_London
    Sarrf_London Posts: 523
    Hawaii 5 O. Great memories of band with five wind guys in a Cowes yacht club. Great to dance to.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Better Call Saul
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  • FSLN1
    FSLN1 Posts: 263
    On further investigation Mike Post wrote the theme tunes for a number of US TV shows mentioned here - Hill Street Blues, Magnum P.I., NYPD Blue, the A-Team and the Rockford Files plus many others:


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