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

The Orb · 10-08-2020 01:56AM

If you're a child of the 70s, the Superstars theme

https://youtu.be/VvuBx7iwD0U

ohnonotgmail · 10-08-2020 08:19AM

Cagney and Lacey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMB_cwgy6mY

The Streets of San Francisco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mijBMpnS3a4

cj maxx · 10-08-2020 12:17PM

I take it the A-Team is here somewhere
It has to be

ShatterAlan · 10-08-2020 01:02PM

the purple tin wrote: »

Are You being Served?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQo7u6dGTeQ

The Good life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ysdEPflIc

Sorry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJ6g1E2XBw

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV6m9NlsOJ4

How can any of those themes be considered good music FFS?

Are you being served? Seriously? A woman rattling off what's on each floor in the lift.

Rick_Rack · 10-08-2020 01:02PM

Narcos without fail! Followed by Sopranos theme

ShatterAlan · 10-08-2020 01:21PM

the purple tin wrote: »

Ren and Stimpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHPmI8x72Rk

Dexter's Laboratory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2813GjWPBU

King of the Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUZIQufgukA

Your music collection must be a psychologist's dream to analyze.

Errashareesh · 10-08-2020 01:32PM

ShatterAlan wrote: »

How can any of those themes be considered good music FFS?

Are you being served? Seriously? A woman rattling off what's on each floor in the lift.

Crikey, people have differing tastes!

The Sorry! theme is class in my opinion.

Feenix · 10-08-2020 02:16PM

LA Law

joeguevara · 10-08-2020 02:17PM

Only Fools and Horses Outro. - Chas and Dave at their finest.

Always thought the intro was sung by Rodney but I think its the shows writer, could be mistaken.

10-08-2020 02:19PM

BOON - Hi Ho Silver..... classic tune

COVER UP (very short lived 80s series) - Holding Out For A Hero (not Bonnie's version)

Another mention for THE SOPRANOS

Galwayguy35 · 10-08-2020 06:47PM

Falcon Crest

StevenToast · 10-08-2020 06:50PM

Jake and the Fatman.....superb climax....classic 80's

ArnoldJRimmer · 11-08-2020 12:04AM

The correct answer is Cheers, nothing else comes close, but here are a few others I like which I don't think have been posted yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67xXbTaQlKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac3fQDhNmSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqzz7B7V2IE

1hnr79jr65 · 11-08-2020 05:35AM

A few more favs of mine.

I know this not a theme tune but always enjoyed this. Pennys theme in french (Sophie)

the purple tin · 11-08-2020 08:44AM

ShatterAlan wrote: »

How can any of those themes be considered good music FFS?

Are you being served? Seriously? A woman rattling off what's on each floor in the lift.

I'm very Sorry

you feel that way Alan.
Matt berry released an album of his favourite TV theme tunes and those ones very ones feature on it. Have a listen you might like them better than the originals.
Just a small gesture that I hope will go some way to making things right between us again Alan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pinYgTWT6Ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiaGzoiHX1s

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

the.red.baron · 11-08-2020 09:47AM

Lovejoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8_Lw9XFMIE

Toast of London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdqu-HObUbo

michael palin hemmingway adventure theme, can't find a link

joeguevara · 11-08-2020 09:52AM

Oh Cant believe I forgot Minder theme Tune. Cracker https://youtu.be/bNRkwNC9Ms4

Also loved when Little Britain took the pi55 out of it https://youtu.be/eDZemZ-CVXE

salmocab · 11-08-2020 09:54AM

It’s probably been mentioned but the MASH theme, suicide is painless, was great and the full version with words is a great piece

the purple tin · 11-08-2020 04:36PM

Happy Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slvGKU7HF6M

The Waltons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmRcP8S7Bo

Bread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=464mTZFTWNk

Sanford & Son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE

11-08-2020 04:50PM

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

The Prisoner

When I was about 10 I got a tape called Power Themes which was the theme music for all the Gerry Anderson produced TV Series, from Thunderbirds to The Prisoner, but remixed with a hip/hop sound and clips from the series. The one for the Prisoner is one of my all time favourites. I found it recently on YouTube:

Some of my own suggestions, apologies if they have been mentioned before:

Batman The Animated Series.
Thunderbirds
Stingray
The Saint
Shaft
Fortitude
Dexter
Taxi <--- Probably my favourite of the lot.

Already mentioned but Due South and Twin Peaks are terrific.

11-08-2020 04:56PM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Wasnt exactly the theme tune, but the intro song of the first episode, Better Than a Dream, from The Dreamstone, starts about 2 min 20 in, link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vcKW9sq8n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vcKW9sq8n8&t=140s

Katie Melua has covered it, so it must be good

I've been trying to figure out the name of that programme for years!

New Home · 11-08-2020 05:18PM

Pyridine · 11-08-2020 06:45PM

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Wasnt exactly the theme tune, but the intro song of the first episode, Better Than a Dream, from The Dreamstone, starts about 2 min 20 in, link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vcKW9sq8n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vcKW9sq8n8&t=140s

Katie Melua has covered it, so it must be good

Holy sh1t, I only remembered this as the song hit its chorus!!!

Don't know if it was mentioned already but The Leftovers season 2. Very apt theme for the series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRyirVgs1yc

JupiterKid · 11-08-2020 07:12PM

Ulysses 31 has to be the very best cartoon show intro theme song ever made. No contest.

Very fortunate to have been a child in the 1980s when the quality of cartoons was pretty much at its zenith.