Your Favourite TV Themetunes?

[aquarius1984]

Just has a whale of a time searching youtube for various Theme tunes off TV.

I have a selection of all time favourites so whats yours?

Im old enough to remember all 3 Grangehill opening titles but I cant decide which one was the best.

Its between the original and the 1990s one.

 

[aquarius1984]

The original

Watch out Mrs McCluskys about to confiscate that comic!

 

[aquarius1984]

One classic to the next - Mum this programme. Possibly the no.1 fan !

I used to love the theme song although Beryl crying every 5 minutes was hillarious the way she used to cup her face in her hands LOL

 

[aquarius1984]

The best ever neighbours one!

Thses days its pants

 

[aquarius1984]

Netherland NEVER used to wave .....

Something to watch before Pebble Mill at 1!

 

[badata]

Dallas, I dream of Jeanie, Designing Women, The Munsters!!!!

of course I'm a trumpet player so that is probably why I like these so much.

 

[rinso]

Where You Lead, from the Gilmore Girls

 

[hydralique]

My all time favorite is . . .

Perry Mason, followed by (in no particular order) the Dick Van Dyke Show, Green Acres, Bewitched, the Patty Duke Show, and I Dream of Jeannie. There is a really fine version of the Dick Van Dyke theme by Nelson Riddle which appeared on an Ultra-Lounge CD about 10 years ago . . . well worth buying.

Why do modern TV themes range from forgettable to really dreadful?

 

[agiflow]

How can anyone forget Hawaii FIVE-O.

 

[maytagbear]

They're creepy and they're kooky--

mysterious and spooky

They're altogether ooky,

The Addams Family!"

My second choice would be "The Rockford Files."

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[hydralique]

Oh yeah, Agiflow is right . . .

Hawaii Five-O is one of the all time greats, by the Ventures even! Wish they'd been playing that when I dropped by happy hour at Tiki-Ti last night in Silverlake. It is my favorite bar ever and the thought of sipping a Black Widow while admiring the stuffed blowfish on the ceiling and listening to the Five-Oh theme is just sublime. I'll have to suggest that to the owner next time I'm there.

 

[DADoES]

*YEARS* (in the 1970s) ago I recorded bunches of TV show themes onto cassettes. I ran across one of the tapes about 10 years ago, it was fun trying to figure what were some of them, particularly those with no lyrics. That tape may still be around here somewhere.

 

[andrewinorlando]

I Dream of Jeannie

The original theme from the first season! That was the best!

 

[rolls_rapide]

Doctor Who...

Preferably the 1970's theme, that was used for Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. That was the spookiest version.

The latest versions are far too orchestral.

 

[seamusuk]

Pebble Mill @ 1

Rob....

Surely you cant remember this- you would have been far too young surely lol??

Seamus
P.S
Rolls- I agree Tom Baker WAS Dr Who- where did he get those scarves !!

If its really Spooky music ya want does anyone from the UK remember the 2nd version of the schools programme Picture Box- or Tales of the Unexpected lol!

 

[lavamat_jon]

Pebble Mill... even I remember that! with Alan Titschmarsh... but it might have been a later version cos it was before the 1 o clock news.

(I used to love days off school - Good Morning with Anne and Nick, then Pebble Mill, Going for Gold, and a treat to see Neighbours in the afternoon instead of at 5.35!)

The BEST theme tune ever has to be this:

 

[seamusuk]

Jon...

Me thinks Pebble Mill may have gone on for longer than I thought...lol.

Ya defiantly cant remember Tom Baker as Dr Who tho

Seamus

 

[lavamat_jon]

And excuse me Nick but Neighbours is far from pants! :-D

Not really a theme tune, but this is the TV ident I grew up with... me and Matt were both talking earlier how symbolic the yellow 'Y' and the fanfare was in our childhood!

(in the last ident of the set, is shots of different parts of Lincoln Cathedral)

 

[goatfarmer]

Mr Magoo.