What is your favourite television theme music, whether British or foreign ?

[WildRosie]

Mine is (Jam For) World In Action. A very powerful and thought-provoking piece that suited the nature of the programme perfectly.

I quite liked Barnacle Bill from Blue Peter before the Mike Oldfield arrangement displaced it. A pleasant, jolly hockey sticks kind of number.

How could I forget game of thrones?

Lots of those mentioned, especially M A S H but the one I haven't seen mentioned - from when I was a child and I don't even remember the programme - just hearing the theme tune.

I've just googled it
"The five-episode series portrays Marie-Hélène Ronsin, a young French teenager, on her first trip to England as an au pair. Speaking some English, but very shy, she lives with a family in Brighton, and faces the challenges of culture shock. The series was followed the following year by a sequel, entitled Stranger in the City."

I was 6 and I just vaguely remember it playing on a Sunday afternoon.

The Big Bang Theory
The Bridge
Ally McBeal
The West Wing
Dogtanian
Battlestar Galactica
The Expanse

For nostalgia, Byker Grove, Grange Hill and Huckleberry Finn

Detectorists
Dark

From my DCs childhood

In the night garden
Tweenies
Fimbles
Teletubbies
Balamory

Jamie and the Magic Torch
Bonanza
Chortlon and the Wheelies

Ski Sunday

@Tomatoesneedtoripen

The theme from The Bridge

Oh me too - hence my name! It's such fantastic music and the cinematography during the opening credits was incredible.

Dragon's Den
Fresh Prince of Bel Air

I think I'll have to set aside some time to have a listen to the themes mentioned on here. Would be a good trip down memory lane.

@HollowTalk
i did clock your name some time ago

The avengers
Hawaii Five O
Sopranos
The Wire
Vikings

And The Virginian

@Davros

Some more: The Jetsons The Barklays Wait Til Your Father Gets Home Top Cat Adam Adamant Upstairs Downstairs Etc

The theme to Wait Til Your Father Gets Home is one of those weird childhood memories that I actually had to Google to believe it existed. I was convinced it was my warped interpretation of something else, or a dream I had.

Sure enough... Ah, the 70's!

Black Beauty

I think Dangerfields theme tune sounds like Dr Blake...

I'm just watching some Tom & Jerry I'm Prime. That music is brilliant, not just the theme music but all the way through

Pink Panther

Banana splits

The Bridge - of course

Hill Street Blues - great beat. 'Let's be careful out there'. Actually this programme is well overdue a re-run or 2

Robinson Crusoe TV from the 1970s - lovely soaring strings

Ski Sunday - simply because I find it impossible to hum

@hollyandkit

Jamie and the Magic Torch Bonanza Chortlon and the Wheelies

Charlton and the Wheelies is a brilliant piece of music. I didn't realise how good it was until I tried to play along with it on the piano.

Van Der Valk
Cheers
Only Fools and Horses

Hill Street Blues

Feel really nostalgic reading about some of these programmes.

NYPD Blue
Hill Street Blues
Bosom Buddies
Twin Peaks
Justified

Vikings

Also Outlander, Hawaii 5-0, Ski Sunday, and Fraggle Rock