Great tv theme tunes

[jayne lee wilson]

Some cool tunes here..!....especially Wild, Brideshead and Tinker Tailor..... I'd forgotten most of these...

As for Jan Hammer & Miami Vice re. #6.....

Couldn't get more quintessentially 80s than this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8-ItRoHJM0

[teamsaint]

Talking of cool....

[jayne lee wilson]

I loved this one so much back then, I taped it on my Dad's Open Reel.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r553WbuIl8

[teamsaint]

A fine song from Elvis Costello that was the theme for Scully.

[jayne lee wilson]

Classic case of..... great song, shame about the (latest) series... (I'll still watch tomorrow's finale of course.....)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PU74AObMfE

Love the strings' injection of urgency around 0'55....

[cloughie]

I suppose if you count Vaughan Williams 6 being used for A Family at War, you must be able to include Respighi’s The Birds, Mozart’s Musical Joke, Khachaturian’s Spartacus, Sibelius’s Pelleas & Melisande and many others.

Like the Forsyte Saga’s use of Eric Coates Halcyon Days! Or the scherzo from Bruckner 7 in the ‘Rupert ogf Henzau’. Mind you nowadays they don’t tend to use classical music as there is more cash in writing a new theme - however it is interesting that on listening however that themes are not totally dissimilar to some well-known piece maybe Mahler, Barber or JS Bach.
Other memorable themes
Avengers
Z Cars - very familiar to both Everton and Watford fans
And Colditz.

[teamsaint]

Not made on a shoestring..... nice bluesy feel complete with the oh so voguish sax.....

[zola]

Hill Street Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2fGzKiqRM

[pastoralguy]

Does anyone remember 'The Flaxton Boys' which used Prokofiev's 'Classical Symphony' as its theme tune? My very favourite was Carl Davis' waltz for the 1980's series 'Hollywood' which made a huge impression on me as a teenager. Years later, I discovered a friend who had taped them all and kindly loaned me them to copy. Fascinating stuff.

[Petrushka]

Robinson Crusoe. One of the great TV theme tunes, never forgotten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE10msGsCn4

Thunderbirds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__8f-HDai64

[Edgy 2]

Does anyone remember 'The Flaxton Boys' which used Prokofiev's 'Classical Symphony' as its theme tune? .

Yes

[Edgy 2]

Robinson Crusoe. One of the great TV theme tunes, never forgotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE10msGsCn4

Wow,that’s brought back some memories of my childhood,brought a tear to my eye

[visualnickmos]

Wow,that’s brought back some memories of my childhood,brought a tear to my eye

Oh yes - Robinson Crusoe ; Best TV programme theme tune ever. Robert Hoffmann, my first ever boyhood TV 'crush' - never left me.

[johncorrigan]

I love the combination of picture and music that introduces 'The Prisoner' with Patrick McGoohan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWTdmwwK-ME

...and in the 90s there was a remake of Herge's 'Tintin' with a fantastic theme tune, which manages to tie the images and opening credits together brilliantly. Great cartoons too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb-9TIr31i0&list=RDQM2lHeWIQgZzU&start_radio=1

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Lone Ranger was an interesting one. The title music skill fully avoided the main William Tell Overture gallop theme concentrating on the opening fanfare and the coda. I suspect this was to avoid confusion with the sung version of the William Tell series on the other channel.