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

[fishdishwish]

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.

[PestoSurfissimos]

White Horses

closely followed by

The Moomins

& Poddington Peas

[Shoopshoop2]

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George-Ennio Morricone

The World at War

[YouGotTime]

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.

[LightastheBreeze]

Captain Scarlet

[eatyourveg]

by miles

comes second followed by



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

[HesterShaw]

Perfect for the subject.

[HesterShaw]

Bum! ShoopShoop beat me to The World At War.

[SirChenjin]

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.

[SirChenjin]

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

[storynanny2]

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

[olaflikeswarmhugs]

Smallville without a doubt

One Tree Hill comes in a close second

[fishdishwish]

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!

[TheWomanTheyCallJayne]

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

[Wishyouwould]

Dallas

[HesterShaw]

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.

[Bumpsadaisie]

Ah Juliet Bravo ... how I loved that!

[fishdishwish]

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

[HesterShaw]

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

[SuzanneCrazyEyes]

Twin Peaks

[chutneypig]

True Blood
The Bridge
Airwolf

So decisive.

[ohmymimi]

Probably

[ohmymimi]

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

[ohmymimi]

Nearly forgot 'Champion the Wonder Horse'!

[Plomino]

Miss Marple

Murder One from the nineties ? I think