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What are the best TV themes?

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GreenBeanMcGee · 06/09/2021 20:22

Kids' shows or adult's.

A few nominations.

Black Beauty I hate that it always makes me cry though.

Willy Fogg

Ski Sunday

999 The theme scared me but I still loved the show.

What are your favourite themes?

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Ginger1982 · 06/09/2021 22:16
Ginger1982 · 06/09/2021 22:21
FatLarrysBand · 06/09/2021 22:23

'Nash Bridges'; 'Phenom'; 'The Golden Girls'; 'Baywatch'; 'Watching'; 'Press Gang'; 'Chancer'.

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GreenBeanMcGee · 06/09/2021 22:24

I used to love watching the repeats of this in the '90s.

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FrankiesKnuckle · 06/09/2021 22:28

MASH

And Trapdoor 😬

TheDistortion · 06/09/2021 22:28

Battlestar Galactica
The Bridge
Enterprise
Original Star Trek

PedrosPony · 06/09/2021 22:31

The Raccoons still brings me out in goosebumps.
The wire for a more adult watch
Oh and I loved the theme tunes to Versailles and unforgotten

ILoveAllRainbowsx · 06/09/2021 22:34

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foxtailfluff · 06/09/2021 22:39

Kissyfur but no one seems to remember it apart from me Confused

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GreenBeanMcGee · 06/09/2021 22:41

I loved Kissyfur! It was one of my favourite shows as a young child. I think I wore the videos out. I can still hear that theme tune.

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speedymum1968 · 06/09/2021 22:43

i loved Here come the Double Deckers and Roobarb and Custard

FatLarrysBand · 06/09/2021 22:45

@PedrosPony

The Raccoons still brings me out in goosebumps. The wire for a more adult watch Oh and I loved the theme tunes to Versailles and unforgotten
Did you see Michael K. Phillips has died? 😔
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GreenBeanMcGee · 06/09/2021 22:45

Another video that I wore out.

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FatLarrysBand · 06/09/2021 22:45

Williams

RaraRachael · 06/09/2021 22:49

Black Beauty
Hawaii 5 0
Original Van der Valk
Between the Lines
Adventures of Maid Marian

foxtailfluff · 06/09/2021 22:52

[quote GreenBeanMcGee]I loved Kissyfur! It was one of my favourite shows as a young child. I think I wore the videos out. I can still hear that theme tune. [/quote]
I've finally found someone who knows what I'm talking about, I was starting to think I was going crazy

MandyMotherOfBrian · 06/09/2021 22:56

Think already mentioned but, Detectorists theme is beautiful. As is Britannia theme (Hurdy Gurdy Man)

Daisypps · 06/09/2021 23:10

Magnum

BoreOfWhabylon · 06/09/2021 23:11

Detectorists

KaptainKaveman · 06/09/2021 23:13

NYPD Blue.

Bbq1 · 06/09/2021 23:15

Only Fools and Horses
The Big Bang Theory
Dr Who
Grange Hill

RomanMum · 06/09/2021 23:28

Detectorists. I want that played at my funeral.

How we used to live.
Jeeves & Wooster.
AD Anno Domini, and along the same lines, I Claudius.

Ekofisk · 07/09/2021 00:00

Already mentioned:

Detectorists (and the Unthanks doing Magpie)
Shetland
Thunderbirds

I’d like to add:

Joe 90
The Prisoner
Man From UNCLE
The Sweeney
The Monkees
Trumpton
Top Cat

SinisterBumFacedCat · 07/09/2021 00:08

The Prisoner
Dogtanian and the three muskahounds
Friday Night Dinner
Death in Paradise

OooPourUsACupLove · 07/09/2021 00:14

Battle of the Planets!

Dedicated. Inseparable. Invincible!

Also Dallas, Magnum PI, Cagney and Lacey... basically I love a fanfare!

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