What's your all-time favourite TV theme tune?

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Inspired by the passing of James Garner, as The Rockford Files had a pretty cool theme tune composed by Mike Post (who also wrote the Hill Street Blues and A-Team themes, amongst others).

For me, it has be a tie between The Littlest Hobo & (despite it's rather dodgy lyrics) The Fall Guy. Oh, and the lovely sweeping orchestral piece that Granada used to play at closedown (remember those?!) in the 1980s.

White Horses

closely followed by

The Moomins

& Poddington Peas

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George-Ennio Morricone

The World at War

True Detective
The Sopranos
Orange Is the New Black

But I do have a soft spot for The Littlest Hobo too - it made me cry as a child and I am so glad someone said FollyFoot.

Ooh MissCalamity yy to Boon. I was only quite little when it was on but I still remember all the words. From a similar time Auf Wiedersehen, Pet's Breaking Away.

Captain Scarlet

by miles comes second followed by

Hadn't realised the horse theme - was never particularly into horses but these tunes stick in my mind

Perfect for the subject.

Bum! ShoopShoop beat me to The World At War.

Black Beauty - I so wanted a horse, and my miserable parents refused to cough up the £££s required for me to own a horse of the calibre of BB, and The Waltons because it gave me that warm, cosy, cardigan feeling.

YY to The Life and Times of David Lloyd George-Ennio Morricone upthread. Brilliant piece of music.

All those mentioned plus from the 70's, "Lightening Tree" theme tune for Follyfoot.

Smallville without a doubt

One Tree Hill comes in a close second

I always think it's brilliant how all those mid 80s imported cartoon series shown on BBC1 (Ulysses, Cities Of Gold, Dogtanian, Willy Fogg) had such memorable theme songs!

Most of mine have been said, doctor who etc
So I'm going to throw a random I which I like but shouldn't

Dallas

Oooh! Has anyone said ? Every child's first recorder tune!

And

And of course !!! It just made you want to get on a horse and gallop along a beach.

Ah Juliet Bravo ... how I loved that!

All great ones, Hester, although Heidi and Silas seemed to be on every summer when I was a kid in the 80s!

Oh they were! They went on for weeks in the summer holidays :)

Twin Peaks

True Blood
The Bridge
Airwolf

So decisive.

Probably

Probably 'Z Cars', but I do love 'Shaun the Sheep' and 'Arthur'.

Nearly forgot 'Champion the Wonder Horse'!

Miss Marple

Murder One from the nineties ? I think