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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.
OK I give up, how do you embed a YouTube link on this pox-ridden forum software?
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"
This would bring a tear to a glass eye. Still gets me.
Nice tribute to Ronnie Hazlehurst here…
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Prize for anyone who can remember which other program had the same theme tune as Grange Hill
And I fully agree with Alan Partridge on the merits of this one...
My best mate at A Level collage was called Bod, and we teased him rotten.
And this I still miss, kids tv these days seem to miss out on the classics...
Not sure if this link is gonna work or not, but does anyone else remember this bonkers programme, Neat and Tidy?
And the Big Bang Theory must be one of the best current themes I reckon.
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Also surprised nobody has posted Knight Rider or the A Team yet.
Spaced actually used both the ATeam and Grange Hill tunes at various points.
Even though I don’t like cricket, this was a memorable tune from my yoof.
All my other memories are already here, with perhaps only the second one below missing.