What's your favourite theme tune?

[Garcia Lorca]

fireball xl5

 

[Jayshat]

Hawaii 5-0 and Starsky and Hutch.

Ditto

70s child alert!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

the persuaders- a john barry masterpiece

Lots of good ones already listed; the Persuaders is excellent.

Also,

Mission Impossible
Beverly Hillbillies
Wild Wild West
Emergency
Rawhide
Danger Man

 

[Wookey]

Pink Panther, without a doubt.

 

[magneze]

 

[Tank Girl]

Robinson Crusoe

White Horses

But the best of all was Belle and Sebastien

when I got my first record player, I got a lot of my aunties old singles, and in amongst them was the theme to white horses, I don't remember the programme, but I loved the song - ponies

 

[MysteryGuest]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Written by Tim Souster, who was a bit of an institution on the British contemporary music scene. He ended up in Pseuds Corner for his piece "whirled music" which involved performers whirling instruments round on the end of strong cords so that the air passing through "played" them. The audience had to sit in front of a reinforced perspex screen in case any of the cords snapped. He also appears on "Map Ref" on Wire's LP "154". TS was an enthusiastic consumer of alcohol and may have died prematurely as a result.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Banana Splits song.

 

[magneze]

Written by Tim Souster, who was a bit of an institution on the British contemporary music scene. He ended up in Pseuds Corner for his piece "whirled music" which involved performers whirling instruments round on the end of strong cords so that the air passing through "played" them. The audience had to sit in front of a reinforced perspex screen in case any of the cords snapped. He also appears on "Map Ref" on Wire's LP "154". TS was an enthusiastic consumer of alcohol and may have died prematurely as a result.

too much information!

 

[MysteryGuest]

You can never have too much information.

 

[oooomegrapes]

Roobarb & Custard innit

just bought my fellas b/day card with rhubarb peeking over t top

 

[zoooo]

Ooh, yeah.

 

[MysteryGuest]

You can never have too much information.

Although the Australian industrial outfit founded by Graeme Revelle, SPK presumably thought otherwise, as their LP "Information Overload Unit" suggests. One meaning of SPK was Sozialistiches Patienten Kollektiv, though they also gave the meaning SePuKu (ritual suicide) and Surgical Penis Klinik.

more info here


I could go on...

 

[magneze]

Ooh, yeah.

http://80scartoonscontent.co.uk/sounds/flumps.mp3

Unbeatable IMO.

 

[Mation]

The audience had to sit in front of a reinforced perspex screen in case any of the cords snapped.

ooh and either Noah and Nellie or Rhubarb and Custard - I can't remember which. I mean I can remember the tune just not which programme it belonged to. Obviously.

 

[Julie]

Prisoner Cell Block H
"He used to bring me roses, I wish he would agaaaaaaaaaaaaaain"

"But that was on the outside, and things were different theeeeeeeen"

My fave: The theme from Cheers.

"Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your troubles sure would help a lot

Wouldn't it be nice to get away?

Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name
And they're always glad you came.
You wanna go where you can go
People are all the same.
You wanna go where everybody knows your name"

 

[rowan]

The World at War - probably the most suitable theme tune ever

Dr Who
The Edge of Darkness
Inspector Morse

 

[Argonia]

Written by Tim Souster, who was a bit of an institution on the British contemporary music scene. He ended up in Pseuds Corner for his piece "whirled music" which involved performers whirling instruments round on the end of strong cords so that the air passing through "played" them. The audience had to sit in front of a reinforced perspex screen in case any of the cords snapped. He also appears on "Map Ref" on Wire's LP "154". TS was an enthusiastic consumer of alcohol and may have died prematurely as a result.

One of my best mates from school was called Tim Souster.

 

[skyscraper101]

When I was very little, vivid memories of the World In Action theme, that Hammond organ. Fearsome sounds. And the image of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man which just looked like a scary God like figure. Stuff of nightmares to a 4 year old.



The closing credits were way more gentle. Still with the Hammond though. But more of a jam session by the end of it.

 

[skyscraper101]

I was always a fan of the 9 O Clock news theme too in the 1990s. I like the way it starts with suspense while the headlines are read out. Then this change to a dramatic military style, almost cannon like shots with the drums and a sense of fortitude. Then it kind of resolves peacefully, but with a air of danger

Check it.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Random bump Argonia



Littlest Hobo.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Written by Tim Souster, who was a bit of an institution on the British contemporary music scene. He ended up in Pseuds Corner for his piece "whirled music" which involved performers whirling instruments round on the end of strong cords so that the air passing through "played" them. The audience had to sit in front of a reinforced perspex screen in case any of the cords snapped. He also appears on "Map Ref" on Wire's LP "154". TS was an enthusiastic consumer of alcohol and may have died prematurely as a result.

I thought they nicked it from the Eagles.

 

[Yossarian]

Most recently:

 

[fishfinger]

A Barry Gray classic:

 

[kalidarkone]

Black beauty
The Persuaders

 

[Argonia]

I like the theme tune to Charmed.

 

[BassJunkie]

Just hearing this makes me begin to giggle, then laugh, then hold my sides, then fall over having completing lost control.

 

[Calamity1971]

Black beauty
The prisoner
Van der valk
Ski Sunday

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[danny la rouge]

Persuaders
Belle & Sebastien
White Horses
Follyfoot
Flashing Blade
The Double Deckers
Rockford Files
Vision On Theme (Left Bank Two)
Tales of the Riverbank
Black Beauty