It's that time of the week kids.
[b]**EDIT - has to have been written for the show **[/b]
So, TV Theme tunes that you can listen to as a piece of music in their own right.
As ever, I'll start:
Hill Street Blues
Ski Sunday
and
A friend of mine has an album on vynil that is the theme turn to Mr Rossi in every language that the show was syndicated in
"so you want me to write da theme tune, sing da theme tune"
Minder, obviously
Does it count if it was a proper record first?
Makes me smile when I remember some of the characters. 🙂
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Does it count if it was a proper record first?
No, sorry
*hastily edits rules*
Weekend World
Don't Ask Me
I may just be showing my age here.....
AND missed the specially written bit in your edit.
I don't care, they're both awesome
Taxi was going to be other choice
Grandstand. They need to invent a new show to use it.
Here's another cracker
Professionals.
Showing my age a bit...
In that case, here's another Mike Post (composer of Hill Street Blues) masterpiece...
Tangerine Dream goodness.
Seems there's an extended version too...
Hawaii Five-O
Airwolf
MASH
Best US 'action' theme
Magnum PI
The Persuaders - John Barry. You've got to like a bit of John Barry.
One Foot In The Grave
EDIT:
Thunderbirds!!
😉Best US 'action' [s]theme[/s] Tashe
Grandstand is a masterpiece, by Keith Mansfield.
He also composed the groovy original theme to The Big Match...
Been done already...
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**EDIT - has to have been written for the show **
Damnit. That kiboshes my pick. **** it, I'm posting it anyway...
Apparently he's dead...
Still love this..
Been done already...
Which of those is a TV theme?
The main them intro is a bit short for listening to as a piece of music in its own right though. Whole lot here adds more to it.
I just reread the title.
Sorry, I'd been singing war movie themes to myself for the last 10 minutes.
I'm working from home, the cleaners are here and it's a bit too much like Blitzkrieg for my liking.
The first album I ever bought, still got it as well 😀
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Theme from Drifters. May have been a song already, but hey, it's fabbo
Steady yourselves, it's about to get a bit dusty...
I'll just leave this piece of awesomeness here.
Rhubarb and Custard
Knightrider or Airwolf.
If you're putting up youtube vids please include the 'artist - title' as those of us at work cannot see youtube. okta.
Alan Partridge dad who hosted screen test in the 70's
Couple from my childhood, complete with Thames TV ident
(sorry jekkyl)
Tomorrow People
Littlest Hobo.
"There's a voice....keeps on callin' me...."
Joe 90 is a good one.
Here's the German equivalent, for a show called Space Patrol. It's a bit nuts...
Alan Partridge dad who hosted screen test in the 70's
Michael Rodd?
Fun screen test theme fact: This was the music that used to pop into my brain about five seconds before I used to have a frontal lobe seizure... 🙂
Not had one for years, so feels a bit weird to
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Star Fleet - Brian May rock manga puppet madness
'Supergraaaannnnnn'
/children's scottish accent.
*flicks fingers around near ears ending with them perked up pointing upwards with eyebrows raised*
I don't think I can include these as they were songs before the TV shows, but The Wire - Tom Waits "Way Down in the Hole" and Misfits - The Rapture "Echoes" have to rank with the best 🙂
and this
and of course this one -
This is making me feel very old...
+1 for Thunderbirds
Topical for this time of year, Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony was used for CBBC's "The Box of Delights" Christmas series. Properly magical.
I'll have to rip this off the vinyl later, I think it's the only theme tune music I've ever bought
Dave Kelly "Lonesome Man Blues" from this
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Starred Tim Roth, superb TV series
Bewitched
Remember my Mum buying this on 7"
Monkey Magic
Always enjoyed the Johnny Test theme when my kid used to watch it
There's a definite pattern to the age of all these themes.
Last one from me for now!
6 Feet Under
So approximately all of the theme tunes before about 1985 😀
*edit - except DezB's!
Here's the daddy
Not wishing to spoil the theme:
1. Thunderbirds
2. Hair Bear Bunch
3. Hammer House of Horror
4. Knightrider
5. Hawaii 5-0
6. Take Three Girls ('Lighflight' theme by Pentangle)
7. Black Beauty
8. Magnum PI
9. Dallas
10. M*A*S*H
11. Bewitched
12. The Addams Family
13. The Munsters
14. Stingray
15. Scooby Doo
(No particular order) but special mention goes to the 'The Six Million Dollar Man', without which we would never as kids have made that 'neh-eh-eh-eh!' noise whilst running around in painfully-exagerrated slow motion. Forever.
should be in there
...and some years later, watching with the kids:
"You've got to fight for what you want, and all that you believe...!"
t's fabbo
it's really not
Flashing Blade! Excellent.
Was just thinking a few things.
1. Why if he is 'stronger and faster' did the Six Million Dollar man slow down to half speed whenever trouble arose?
2. Imagine [s]listening[/s] being made to listen to a whole album of 'Best TV Theme Tunes Ever' 😯
#freewednesdayaddams
A couple of more modern ones.
Starsky And Hutch zjooshed up by JTQ:
Red Hand Gang:
Can’t believe 3 pages and no one has said doctor who
Cheers,
nickc - Member
t's fabbo
it's really not
Gotta be impressed by someone who's only contribution to a thread is so utterly pathetic.
For you and your mentality 😛
Clearly the winner is Dr Who......
Point of order - Ski Sunday is a grey area because it's basically Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor transposed to a major key and sjushed up a bit with the drum rolls and so on.
About 3 mins 10 on here
A couple of more modern ones
RRH was released in 1994 😯
Screentest was mad, in retrospect! I wonder who the drummer was?
I’d like to nominate Shoestring:
How could I forget Twin Peaks? Best show AND best theme ever.
Is it just me that gets a bit wobbly listening to the Mr Men theme then?
😳
DJ (Mixmaster Morris, I think) played it at about 7am at one of the first raves I went to back in the early 90s, ending a set of cosmic ambience. Powerful stuff.
Three pages and no...
KungFu and Grizzly Adams would appear to belong.