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.

Lovejoy! So catchy.

Scott and Bailey...mostly because I enjoy the series so much.

- Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.

True Blood and Strike Back.
Bought DH the albums they came from (he loves stuff he has never heard before), then pinched them for the car

south bank show

i tried getting the music this is based on, but they have really jazzed it up.

oh torn

White Horses (makes me cry)
Taxi
Starsky & Hutch
Edge of Darkness (Eric Clapton)
Red Dwarf
The Sweeney (at the end, the slower version)
The Bridge
Sherlock

Another one for The Littlest Hobo and Follyfoot Farm!

Also, The Golden Girls.

White Horses for me too, so evocative of my childhood. Was it set in Croatia, I associate it with an au pair we had from there (Yugoslavia then).
Wallander (K Branagh's version), Nostalgia

Tenko s so evocative from its theme. I think the closing credits is a beautiful piece of music in itself.

I used to have an album of tv theme tunes in the 80s (being a cool teen!!) - it had some awesome themes on it like Howard's Way, Miss Marple, Minder, Bergerac and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.

I loved Miss Marple and Howard's Way themes most.

Oh and Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds was stirring stuff! Yay to those who mentioned We Are The Famous Five