What are the best TV Themes?

[PeppermintTeaTime]

We've had a lot of lovely nostalgic threads lately which I've really enjoyed so I wondered what people's favourite TV themes are, both adult and children's TV.

I wasn't around for the original series and haven't actually watched it but the Black Beauty theme has to be one of the best. For some reason it makes me cry every time.

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Morse

i love all of these - is somebody going to do a Spotify playlist? I just wanted to add the South Bank Show for good measure.

I have Succession as my ring tone.

I love the Cheers one, if makes me well up…. …..Wouldn’t you like to get away…?

Cheers
Dawsons Creek
Howard's way (my all time favourite)
Ski Sunday
Men behaving badly
Absolutely fabulous

My favorite was the theme from "Taxi"

MacGyver.
I remember bringing my cassette player over near the TV and lining up a blank tape to record it. I think you has to press 2 buttons together to record. Sound quality was terrible but I was delighted.

Yeah I remember pressing play and record , mostly to record the top 40 . I wonder how many generations did that .😊

Not 'great' theme tunes, but definitely nostalgia value:

For those of us old enough to remember the excitement of a teacher wheeling in a humungous box tv, and being 'allowed' to watch late 1970s/early '80s primary schools programming, these will bring back memories!

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Some great ones mentioned - here's some more

MASH

The Edge of Darkness

Oh my God @TerryMeetsJulie those have taken me back!

And some more favourites

Band of Brothers

West Wing

Both these themes fit the series perfectly

The theme tune to Who Do You Think You Are gets me every time. There's something so evocative about it - questioning and curious but really calm and traditional at the same time.

I like The Sweeney's theme tune,not the brash intro one,but the closing one at the end. I've always thought it sounds very wistful.

Neither show is on TV anymore, but
Boomtown
Season 1 of The Newsroom

Hammer House if Horror
Tales of the unexpected,
Flambards

So so many

Black Beauty
Miss Marpel ( Joan Hickson’s)
Antiques Road show
last of the summer wine
Boon
Cheers
Golden Girls
Midnight caller
Johnny Briggs
Jamie and the magic torch
Dartanian and the three muskerhounds
Button Moon
City of gold
Prisoner Cell Block H
Dallas
Dynasty
Sons and Daughters
Cagney and Lacey
Law and Order
New Tricks ( basically anything Dennis Waterman sung)
Malcome in the middle
Buffy the vampire slayer
Angel
CSI the original
Peaky Blinders

I could go on for hours.

Not TV show but loved the Greenhall Whitley bitter ads and the Mcains It must be chips adverts.

My first thought was Van der Valk and Vicar of Dibley, but I also love all of the sports theme tunes like Grandstand, Ski Sunday, Horse of the Year, Test March Special.

Two theme tunes I absolutely loved were Jam and Jerusalem, "The Village Green Preservation Society" sung by the incomparable Kinks. The other was an old series called Take Three Girls, which ran from 1969 to 1971 and was sung by Pentangle, God I loved that series, there are only a couple of episodes saved on t'internet, the BBC taped over all the episodes as they were wont to do back then.

Due South
Sleepers
In the Red
New Tricks

Oh and forgot ER

@PickledMuffin, I know...it's bizarre!

Remember that's life theme too! Always reminds me of Sunday nights before school.