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
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
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
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
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…
And finally, hankies at the ready for this one – all the feels, as the kids say…
