What’s your favourite TV Show theme tune of all time?

Insect Overlord

Only Fools and Horses, and Match of the Day.

Honourable mentions for X-Men, Inspector Gadget, Father Ted, and I was glad to see The Bill mentioned above.

Jimbob1977

Twin Peaks

Hawaii Five-O

Crockett's Theme from Miami Vice (Jan Hammer)

Around the Twist

The X-Files

The High Chapparal

Gremlinertia

Knight Rider

redbuck

Diff’rent Strokes

DMcL1971

The Greatest American Hero

threetrees

Why Don't You?

I loved it because of the irony..... Why Don't You switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?

Because if you did you wouldn't see the programme......

And don't get me started on the guy who puts his foot through the telley!

UrbanSprawl

The Prisoner

KungPao

Yeah, it doesn't get much better than Twin Peaks, some atmosphere, suited the show so well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXrjMaVoTy0

Church on Tuesday

jpfahy

The odd couple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af1h4ibpKJA

KungPao

Only Fools and Horses is another favourite, both the start and end tunes. Puts me in a good mood.


The original theme wasn't quite as iconic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaCg93od-qY

gingernut79

percy007 wrote: »

Littlest hobo

every single time. great tune.

todolist

Mission Impossible.The best tv theme music by a mile.

Pherekydes

The original Mission Impossible theme, the Rockford Files and The Onedin Line.

Mike Post composed some great themes. Apart from Rockford, he also did Hill Street Blues, Magnum, The A Team, and a staggering number of others (160 credits on IMDB).

Yeah, Spartacus though...

Insect Overlord

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

The X-Files

Can't believe I forgot that one! Iconic, so it was.

Has anyone mentioned The Fresh Prince of Bellaire yet?

KathleenGrant

MacGyver

Grandstand

Black Beauty

Moghead

Murder She Wrote

1hnr79jr65

These would be my fav tv themes.

KathleenGrant

Don't know how to put a link up.
I'm so old
(As my theme tunes would tell you)

Conall Cernach

Blake's 7

The Greatest American Hero

And of course The Monkees

Itssoeasy

ER was a great theme song. Baywatch had its good points as a theme song. Saved by the bell. Around the twist because it was nuts(both the show and the song). Pugwall was another. Ducktales if we are going cartoons. Animaniacs.

I remember listening back to a lot of theme songs from when I was younger and there was more effort put into the intros to some shows then is put into the main shows now.

dotsman

...a long forgotten, but epic...

...and some more recent...

Itssoeasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtyXnr5XV_A

I remember when I was younger I found this theme song weird.

KungPao

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I remember when I was younger I found this theme song weird.

Good call.

I never really liked the cartoon, but yeah that theme tune is kind of odd somehow, something off about it, probably the Japanese/South American mix or something.

However, extremely catchy.

bop1977

Strike back theme tune.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1K79gPFwq7g

sioda

Airwolf and Ulysses 31 for me
https://youtu.be/OZ4c1X5ene8
https://youtu.be/SfyhL-pFFMw

Ol' Donie

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

Twin Peaks

Hawaii Five-O

Crockett's Theme from Miami Vice (Jan Hammer)

Around the Twist

The X-Files

The High Chapparal

Oh jesus, Twin Peaks that's the one.

Better'n even Cheers.

Andrewf20

The chain for F1 grand prix in the 1990s:

fritzelly

Chalk McHugh wrote: »

Cheers. The tune always bring me back to my youth and what now seems to have been a much more innocent time.

Loved the Cheers opening sequence

And damn someone beat me to Blakes 7 - loved it as a kid (hasn't aged well as a series but the theme tune is still great, shame the reboot never went anywhere)

Love the theme tune for Outlander

There is just too many

Oooh UFO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qDy4OMAkgY