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80s TV Theme Tunes….warning..may contain earworms.

59 replies

MamaBobo · 21/05/2026 13:45

After doing a quiz about 80s TV on YouTube I’ve ended up with an earworm that I just can’t shake. Every time I stop consciously thinking about other stuff up it pops, sometimes aloud 🙄. Anyone else got a TV theme tune earworm that they’d like to share?

I might jump an open drawbridge,
Or Tarzan from a vine,
Cause I’m the unknown stuntman
That makes Eastwood look so fine

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FasterSmootherBrighterRicher · 23/05/2026 13:12

CaramacBar · 23/05/2026 11:59

A panther that is positively pink THINK!

On just after
”Wait till your father gets…
until your father gets
wait tim your father gets home…
(we knowwwww)”

Jamesblonde2 · 23/05/2026 13:40

MamaBobo · 23/05/2026 11:53

I’m surprised it’s taken so long for this one to come up! Absolutely loved Minder.
How about this opening theme?

Used all my options,
worked off my dues,
laid all my cards down,
there’s nothing to lose,
don’t want tomorrow to be like today,
that’s why I’m breaking away

The closing theme from the same show is much better known I think?

Auf Wiedersehen omg class. Hilarious!

tothesea · 23/05/2026 15:02

Barnaby the bear’s my name
Please don’t call me Jack or James

that’s all I can remember!

Taytocrisps · 23/05/2026 15:02

We had a CD years ago with theme tunes from '80s TV.

Loads of brilliant ones - Dallas, Dynasty, Cagney & Lacey, Hill Street Blues etc.

Icantfindanewname · 23/05/2026 15:12

TRIGGER WARNING

Love auf weidersein - I had the 7 inch single!

Anything sung by Denis Waterman 😍

On a happy note:
"It's cold outside
There's no kind of atmosphere
I'm all alone
More or less
Let me fly
Far away from here
Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun
I want to lie
Shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh
Mango juice
Goldfish shoals
Nibbling at my toes
Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun
Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun"

And on an opposite emotion, although it started in the 70s...

"Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...

that suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please."

Jamesblonde2 · 23/05/2026 16:00

Taytocrisps · 23/05/2026 15:02

We had a CD years ago with theme tunes from '80s TV.

Loads of brilliant ones - Dallas, Dynasty, Cagney & Lacey, Hill Street Blues etc.

These were brilliant TV tunes. I’ll add Taxi and Cheers to that list.

MamaBobo · 23/05/2026 19:39

MrsMoastyToasty · 23/05/2026 10:18

Come walk the night
Come fly by day
Something is sweeter
'Cause we met 'long the way
We'll walk the night
We'll fly by day
Moonlighting strangers
Who just met on the way

That takes me back, aged 15, watching on the TV in my Mum and Dad’s room (who knows what they were watching downstairs) because it was colour and my portable TV was black and white! I just loved Bruce Willis. Fabulous!

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Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 25/05/2026 11:03

CaramacBar · 23/05/2026 11:59

A panther that is positively pink THINK!

We loved the pink panther. One of my stepdad’s friends sent us a bendy pink panther which we played with for ages.

Livpool · 25/05/2026 11:05

My fave:

Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes, it's a duck-blur!
Might solve a mystery
Or rewrite history!

DuckTales! Woo-oo!
Everyday they're out there making
DuckTales! Woo-oo!
Tales of derring-do, bad and good
Luck Tales!

D-d-d danger lurks behind you
There's a stranger out to find you
What to do, just grab on to some...

DuckTales! Woo-oo!
Everyday they're out there making
DuckTales! Woo-oo!
Tales of derring-do, bad and good
DuckTales! Woo-oo!

Not pony tales or cotton tales, no,
DuckTales! Woo-oo!

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