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I open with.
Banana Splits
Oooh good call.
Edit, but also BananaSplits
Those last 3 the tunes popped straight into my head.
Onzadog has my second favourite.
Picture Box was always a bit sinister and creepy for me.
Bit like noseybonk.
I remember that Picture Box intro but can't remember anything about the actual show.
On a similar vein to my last one:
Ace!
Oh, and this one of course...
chips
love chorton and the wheelies
Crocketts theme from Miami vice, awesome.
Also this in a creepy way.
wacky racers
This used to have me glued to the screen...
And this too...
Has this been done?
road runner
and Dr Who obviously!
Came to post The Dukes of Hazzard. Pleased to see it there already .
Would stand up on its own even if it wasn't a theme tune.
some flanged sax
One for the youngsters there......
You’re all wrong...
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The Sweeney, good shout. I watch way too much tv! Since I’m a big Leoš Janáček fan I’ll post one last one: from the days with no 200 tv channels, no dvds, no ‘on demand’..., where if you were home from school at lunchtime you watched
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IniuDc5j6EA
At the moment, it's Luther.
Crap show, great theme!
MASH - can you imagine a song called "Suicide is Painless" being allowed now?
Oops, Scud beat me to it.
Has this worked?!
Classic, such a great song and lyrics that really suit the program it precedes!
No, changed my mind again.
When i was a lad of 16 i used to work in a little corner shop in a vilage called Denmead in Hampshire, Davy Jones from the Monkees (above) used to pop in every sunday for 10 Cafe Creme cigars, easy to spot as he had a horse stud down the road and was only short but insisted on walking around in a Barbour stockmans jacket that came down to his ankles and a wide brimmed hat, and with his half UK half US accent, he definitely stuck out
+1 for The Persuaders and John Barry.
OK I give up, how do you embed a YouTube link on this pox-ridden forum software?
Copy and paste.
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Right click on the video. Select "Copy video URL". Paste that into here. Click "Submit".
The hanged man (also used by the two Ronnies!)
Funkiest theme ever.
The Flumps theme tune is, to my mind, the alternative national anthem.
However I love this one - a friend of mine has, on vinyl, an album which only has this song on it, repeated in every language the show was broadcast in
cocks I've forgotten how to post videos
Westerns were on all the time when I was growing up. This was my favourite:
A couple of contrasting ones...
Some cracking ones.
Not forgetting Barry Gray tunes like Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet :
The cricket would get zapped in our house the second this finished:
Never have children. You can start to like their theme tunes as well...
Never have children. You can start to like their theme tunes as well…
Too true
I take that back......this is way better......
There's some absolute classics above, my favourite is The Littlest Hobbo but I'm quite liking Cristobal Tapia De Veer's scores, he's done Utopia, Humans and Black Mirror
Still the best version.
Are there so many 1970s and early '80s selections here because we're mostly of a certain age, or because they really don't make them like they used to? A bit of both I reckon.
I used to be quite into '70s session music and there was a lot of crossover between that and famous UK TV themes by the likes of Keith Mansfield (Grandstand), Ronnie Hazlehurst (so many BBC shows) and Tony Hatch (Crossroads, Emmerdale, Neighbours - and wrote Downtown for Petula Clark).
Not my fave piece of music, but the Crossroads theme has a massive Proustian effect on me, as my mum and dad were religious viewers...
Nice tribute to Ronnie Hazlehurst here...
Mike Post is probably the most famous US TV composer (A-Team, CHiPS, LA Law, Rockford Files etc). This is his masterpiece IMO...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqH3qCxz2x0
And finally, hankies at the ready for this one - all the feels, as the kids say...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0b0m2rqyc&t=93s
brilliantly nuts
Peak Haselhurst - from the comments "Kind of sexy repulsive English funk"
