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

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  • #32
    Insect Overlord
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    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. :)


  • #33
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  • #34
    Jimbob1977
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    Twin Peaks

    Hawaii Five-O

    Crockett's Theme from Miami Vice (Jan Hammer)

    Around the Twist

    The X-Files

    The High Chapparal


  • #35
    Gremlinertia
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    Knight Rider


  • #36
    redbuck
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    Diff’rent Strokes


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  • #37
    DMcL1971
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    The Greatest American Hero



  • #38
    threetrees
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    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!


  • #39
    UrbanSprawl
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    The Prisoner


  • #40
    KungPao
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    Yeah, it doesn't get much better than Twin Peaks, some atmosphere, suited the show so well.


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


  • #41
    Church on Tuesday
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  • #42
    jpfahy
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    The odd couple

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


  • #43
    KungPao
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    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


  • #44
    gingernut79
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    percy007 wrote: »
    Littlest hobo

    every single time. great tune.


  • #45
    todolist
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    Mission Impossible.The best tv theme music by a mile.


  • #46
    Pherekydes
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    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...


  • #47
    Insect Overlord
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    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?


  • #48
    KathleenGrant
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    MacGyver

    Grandstand

    Black Beauty


  • #49
    Moghead
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    Murder She Wrote


  • #50
    1hnr79jr65
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    These would be my fav tv themes.


  • #51
    KathleenGrant
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    Don't know how to put a link up.
    I'm so old
    (As my theme tunes would tell you)


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  • #52
    Conall Cernach
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    Blake's 7


    The Greatest American Hero


    And of course The Monkees


  • #53
    Itssoeasy
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    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.


  • #54
    dotsman
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    ...a long forgotten, but epic...




    ...and some more recent...





  • #55
    Itssoeasy
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtyXnr5XV_A

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


  • #56
    KungPao
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    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.


  • #57
    bop1977
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    Strike back theme tune.

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


  • #58
    sioda
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    Airwolf and Ulysses 31 for me
    https://youtu.be/OZ4c1X5ene8
    https://youtu.be/SfyhL-pFFMw


  • #59
    Ol' Donie
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    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.


  • #60
    Andrewf20
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    The chain for F1 grand prix in the 1990s:



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  • #61
    fritzelly
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    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


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