The Best TV Programme Intro' Ever?

[DexterTCN]

Hmmm...the Dexter one is based on another (non-murdery) one but I can't remember what.

True Blood. The Professionals.

 

[Citizen66]

This doing the rounds again?

Browsing with my kindle so everyone who posted up a youtube vid with no summary or even a hint rendered the thread pretty much redundant.

The Littlest Hobo always used to be popular on these threads.

Twin Peaks has to be the best theme tune.

 

[Steel Icarus]

The Littlest Hobo always used to be popular on these threads.

I've recorded a cover of that theme tune on me 4-track, done in the style of "Just like honey" by the Jesus and Mary Chain - Ronettes drums, masses of reverb, noise, double time at the choruses, etc. Sounds fucking appalling and brilliant all at once.

 

[stavros]

I've said it before on previous incarnations of this thread, but they were before you could add videos;



Does this ever get repeated anywhere?

 

[Belushi]

 

[albionism]

 

[The Octagon]

I've said it before on previous incarnations of this thread, but they were before you could add videos;



Does this ever get repeated anywhere?

Heh, I still get that theme tune stuck in my head at least once a week or so

 

[ska invita]

This is clearly the winner on many levels though.

hA HA - good call

doctor who. still the same theme tune for nearly 50 years

There have been different Doctor Who opening sequences over the years, but this one is the most psychedelic of the lot, and would be my nomination for best of all time. imagine this burning down the tube on your b&w box in the corner of your sitting room

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"The complete William Hartnell howlaround title sequence tests available as a bonus feature on the An Unearthly Child DVD."
Worth going full screen for that one...

also Littlest hobo - more about the song than the credits, but still up there

 

[ringo]

I get told off if I don't fast forward through this quick enough. Too visceral, apparently, which probably means it's quite successful.

 

[ska invita]

Sorry is well and truly stuck in my head now :grrrr:

an apology would be nice

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Sorry is well and truly stuck in my head now :grrrr:

an apology would be nice

Shame the show was so shite. I have always loved the intro. I have the full version somewhere. It's awesome.

 

[ska invita]

Shame the show was so shite. I have always loved the intro. I have the full version somewhere. It's awesome.

id love to hear that. its like a cod fusion-reggae-lounge tune. very catchy too.
the show is forever hilarious in my rose-tinted mind! ho ho

***Found this slightly longer version at 1.20 - sounds like it could be the whole thing - has an extra horn part
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Sorry.html
VERY comprehensive site that one for tv theme tunes

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yeah that's the lot.

I used to collect vinyl TV themes when I was younger. My favorite was always the hichikers guide to the galaxy but I was always disappointed that it basically plays the opening theme, then turns to non musical nonsense for two minutes before playing the closing theme.

 

[ska invita]

Yeah that's the lot.

I used to collect vinyl TV themes when I was younger. My favorite was always the hichikers guide to the galaxy but I was always disappointed that it basically plays the opening theme, then turns to non musical nonsense for two minutes before playing the closing theme.

hitchhikers is an epic one for sure.
going to rip sorry fora ringtone!
what else is in your tv bag AS?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Off the top of my head, I know I have a few Dr Whos, Blakes 7, The Tripods, Minder (also have his wife singing the minder theme), Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Postman Pat, Home and Away, Big Deal, Tomorrows World, Eastenders, Swap Shop, blue peter and some 80s Japanese anime. I also have stuff like the 7inch vinyl of Street Fighter 2 turbo (which I am quite proud of), and ads like Ski Yogurt and the red car and the blue car race for milky way.

I have loads of shite though, like fame .

 

[ska invita]

Minder (also have his wife singing the minder theme),

Ha ha!

I also have stuff like the 7inch vinyl of Street Fighter 2 turbo (which I am quite proud of), .

have you ever heard the Pixies cover of a nintendo game NARC? Pretty cool:


and the original game music here

NARC is a 1988 arcade gamNARC is a 1988 arcade game designed by Eugene Jarvis for Williams Electronics programed by George Petro. It was one of the first ultra-violent video games and a frequent target of parental criticism of the arcade game industry. The object is to arrest and kill drug offenders, confiscate their money and drugs, and defeat "Mr. Big". It was ported, not long after, to the NES and several home computer systems in 1990. In 2005, it was also updated into a brand new game for the Xbox and PS2.

Rock group Pixies recorded a cover of the theme song from the original arcade game, originally written by game music composer Brian Schmidt, and released it as a B-Side to their 1991 single, "Planet of Sound". They titled the cover "Theme From NARC", and it consisted of frontman Black Francis singing the song title several times, while the band played the theme music.e designed by Eugene Jarvis for Williams Electronics programed by George Petro. It was one of the first ultra-violent video games and a frequent target of parental criticism of the arcade game industry. The object is to arrest and kill drug offenders, confiscate their money and drugs, and defeat "Mr. Big". It was ported, not long after, to the NES and several home computer systems in 1990. In 2005, it was also updated into a brand new game for the Xbox and PS2.

i heard someone play something like the music from R-Type (I couldnt quite place it, but it rang a bell) on Rinse FM in the middle of dubstep-y set - sounded great

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I have heard this before, I didn't know it was a computer game cover.
I covered the theme from Rakuga Kids once.

Ariston used the actual gameboy music from robocop for an ad.

 

[stavros]

I've always had a soft spot for the HIGNFY theme;

 

[ska invita]

I've always had a soft spot for the HIGNFY theme;

By "Big GEorge" i seem to remember off the credits! By the way, am I the only one who thinks the inclusion of Obama at the end of the current credits playing basketball is getting on for racism? Its not funny in any way - whys it there?

Sorry to keep going on about Sorry, but found this in IMDB

The theme tune to 'Sorry!' is quite exceptional. It was originally written for a soap opera about 'Sloane Rangers', the trust funded and upwardly mobile sect of London society that saw fit to dress country style in town and vice-versa. This series didn't make it to our screens but the signature music suited the premise of 'Sorry!' very well as the cyclical nature of the melody is a wonderful illustration of Timothy Lumsden's frustrating life. A slightly reggae influenced rhythm section chugs and pumps away as the melody is played on a sophisticatedly urban sounding electric piano with punctuation from what is either a wah-wah guitar or a synthesizer. The horns are obviously performed by the same musicians that did 'Pigeon Street' and the first 'Only Fools and Horses' theme tune. Ronnie Hazlehurst's typically classy arrangement is a good example of this man's devotion to his work although I don't know if he actually wrote the thing, I expect he did.

and wiki says

The theme music was composed by Gaynor Colbourn and Hugh Wisdom, and arranged and conducted by Ronnie Hazelhurst.

"The horns are obviously performed by the same musicians that did 'Pigeon Street' " made me laugh

lets see:


One intro song that often pops into my head iwhether i want it to or not is this

do you feel sorry for me?

oh, and another that regularly plays in my head is the corrie melody (thanks for the memories) - which is a great intro all round.

An old hippy cabby once told me that he used to live with Jimi Hendrix in camden, and theyd always sit down to watch Corrie, and oen day Jimi picked up his axe and came up with 3rd stone from the sun, based on the corrie theme tune! (the bit at 0.43)
#
surely bollocks of the highest order - but a good story

 

[Louloubelle]

 

[kained&able]

the answer is clearly an 80's cartoon but im unsure between bannaman, thundercats, jimbo and the jetset or transformer......... oh actually its clearly the 80'spowerballadtastic Jayce and the wheeled warriors.



clearly

actually you know what i've changed my mind the answer is the fresh prince of belair



see if you lot know the extra verse!

dave

 

[Louloubelle]

 

[albionism]

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

see if you lot know the extra verse!

dave

First season only.

 

[Louloubelle]

the intro and outro to Captain Scarlet are great! I was sooo excited by this as a kid

 

[Casually Red]

this does it for me


and this

 

[purves grundy]

A horse running about

 

[Casually Red]

whooooo !!! ( makes scary ghost noise to terrified younger brother and refuses to let him hide behind sofa)

 

[The Octagon]

The Outer Limits was a good one too.

 

[ska invita]

the intro and outro to Captain Scarlet are great! I was sooo excited by this as a kid

definitely - those mysteron rings were dead erie
in fact all the gerry anderson stuff is gold. my personal favourite is Stingray - again both inntro and outro - intro is the exciting stingray tune (Standy by for Action! Anything can happen in the next half hour!), whilst the outro is the haunting mermaid love song Aqua Maria