Favourite TV Theme tunes

james73 · Favourite TV Theme tunes

James H

Alex Glass

Nice one James

Great idea

But you have just used one of the best.

james73

Only one of the best.

Get yourself on YouTube - there's plenty to pick from.
Here's another cracker...

James H

Fjord

Nonsense... this is the best intro ever. From it's kettle drum intro to the rich orchestral drama and just check out that driving Bass line and funky guitar work. A masterpiece of a theme tune

Alex Glass · Re: Favourite TV Theme tunes

Alex Glass · Re: Favourite TV Theme tunes

james73

james73

Listen to the guitar effect on this.

I have this whole theme tune on mp3.

*edit* - could Lewis Collins have possibly looked any more macho

in these credits??

James H

Fjord

I have to agree this was the best version as the second series was very lame in comparison.

Fjord

I'd forgotten about the 'Minder' theme tune which was one of my weekly favourites when I was a nipper.

I'm sure this charted in the top ten singles back in the day and not surprisingly. There's very high production values going on here and the slap Bass technique was quite advanced for the early 1980's. One thing that's apparent is that without a decent prominent bass line accompanying the main tune it all sounds very weak. Bass Rocks

james73 · Re: Favourite TV Theme tunes

james73

tombro

Thanks, Alex, for providing me with memories of two of my favourite television shows !

Tombro

samscafeamericain

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P0CHAZJr3OE

cheesylion

Not sure if this has been posted before anywhere but this is THE best TV theme tune placed on the opening credits of CSI. It works pretty well.

cheesylion

And this is just brilliant!! Vocals supplied by The Big Yin.

Alex Glass

Minder and now New Tricks are true light entertainment not complicated by plots within plots and always full of good fun.

Unlike the usual "Who Done It" what you see is what you get and they don't hold back on the information so that you have to watch intently so that you can work out who done it, which usually means you have guest at it because it isn't until the end that they give you the clue that fits all the pieces together. Mainly people are trying to work it out by thinking who looks like the baddie.

Mash the original

With the words

Alex Glass

Bonanza

High Chaparral

Doorstop

Catweazle

sputnik

the band on the minder tune were called kenny,they were part of the original members of the bay shitty rollers.the beiderbeck stuff was great,wheres james bollams knighthood?has he ever been in a rubbish series.

Doorstop

"Only When I Laugh" ... end of argument.

fastnet

I really love this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7KaxGt-2mM

AlanM

AlanM

love this one too

Alex Glass

Beat me to it with Hill Street Blues Alan

I have YouTube opened on the video and forgot all about it.

Alex Glass

Alex Glass

fastnet

ok...........how do you post the wee box of the vid ?????

i only get a link.....

Alex Glass

I usually quote from someone who has posted a video and just change the part of the code which relates to the actual video.

I am sure James can explaint it better than me.

james73

Alex Glass

This is so much easier and I forgot how yo explained it James.

Doorstop

I've got the siren from the Ironside theme tune as my text ringtone *nods*

Fjord

I could never work out how Ironside managed to chase criminals over the rooftops with a gun in one hand

Stuball

I've got stacks of tv and cartoon themes from the stall at the barras...

wee minx

Lone Groover

Alex Glass

Thanks for posting the Littlest Hobo Stu. Have a personal story about this intro but can't tell you as my daughter would kill me.

And

Thanks Mixi I was going to look for Callan as it was one of my old favorites.

wee minx

Stuball

Cartoons are the best themers

Lone Groover

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Played this in the car full pelt the other day - by christ that journey was much more meaningfullk than previous !

Doorstop

Unh@ppyb@st@rd

classic one

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w

AlanM

how about this one

AlanM

surprised no one has put this up

james73

James H

mrsam

Hopefully this is one foot in the grave

(Message from the mods - we fixed-ed it...

)

Mr Sam

mrsam

many thanks what was I doing wrong,
can you imbed sound files into a page say an mp3 file stored on a website?

untin I can the link will have to do

http://www.angelfire.com/film/s.h...Maid_Marion_and_Her_Merry_Men.wav

Mr Sam

P.S. mods hows about a technical help section for doghnuts like me who dont know thier arse from thier elbow?

james73

Becky

My all time favourite TV theme may not originally been done as a tv theme. It's Magie Bell singing the rockier version of No Mean City. I have it as a ringtone on my mobile!

Of course back then there was even a character in the show called TAGGART! I always thought they should have retitled the show 'No Mean City' when Mark McManus passed away. (Or binned it...LOL) I loved Jim Taggart. One of my favourite lines was when Mike Jardine was giving evidence in court and was a little 'too' honest. Deadpan, Taggart looked skyward and said 'Beam me up Scottie'!!

Peace.

Stuball

I've met Maggie Bell a couple of times.... she plays at the Ferry every so often

rotten milk

never really watched it, was a bit young for it and with only one telly, my folks didn't watch it anyway iirc 9-10pm, so i was away to ma bed!
everyone remembers the gung-ho opening theme, but always seem rather brave to have a different closer, esp. one that's so mournful
maybe highlighting, that although they were trying to get the scum off the streets, they didn't always win, or if they did, it was often a shitty victory

Alex Glass

Nice one RM fond memories of the Sweeney

Don't remember the title song but this programme was one of the very few programmes available during the long school holidays.

If I recall it has subtitles as well

rotten milk

surprising how long so many of these lasted
(yes esp. foreign/dubbed=cheap series)

i really like this tho, i have an mp3 of it and it's HUGE!

of course another fav even in the 70s was:

esp. satureday mornings before swap shop

Alex Glass

ahhh! the memories are flooding back RM

How about the original Addams Family

and the Munsters

Alex Glass

or what about Flipper

and don't forget Skippy

Alex Glass

they have probably been done but hey!

Thunderbirds

Captain Scarlet

Stingray

Fireball XL5

not forgetting Joe 90

not as big a hit as the others Supercar

dickyhart

magnum theme,

some top guitar played!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64GyuozXtnQ

rotten milk

if anything, however subconciously, represented the grimness of late 70s/ early 80s to a 9/10 yr old, it was (iirc) 8.30pm on a monday night

opening

can't find the closing titles, although similar to the sweeney, the closer was even more depressing than the opener (i do have an mp3 tho)

anyhoo, howzabout 12.00 noon on a sunday

(curiosly glasgow theme was a complete fluke

)

cybers

Sorely wish The Beeb would bring this beauty back... Loved it on before TOTP on a thursday night

rotten milk

naaa, much better with the mr. cleo laine versh

cybers

Agreed but just for checking there was the goddam awful version that was not bad when it got going. then it went for good lol

rotten milk

aaah the days when you could get a 5 min version of a theme tune on a BBC album - when really they only used a 30 sec. clip for the programme

"one for the railway fans"
opening

closing

rotten milk

ok, who remembers half past 8 on a tuesday night, BBC2?

for extra points, who is the snookerer and where he from?
(yes, this is the full versh of the tune, but you'll recognize the bits you recognize

)

rotten milk

of course, in 1982, after that, from 9.00-9.25pm, you would get THIS!

cybers

Kickstart

Oh and the Snooker Player is Eddie Charlton

james73

Becky · Tomorrows World

Lone Groover

Alex Glass

LG

Me too. I am always tempted to the toys on display whenever I see any relating to these shows.

wee minx

wee minx

brilliant proggy

cybers

AlanM

sputnik

ive got a copy of the worlds 1st hologrammed c d.it was a competition prize from tomorrows world and contains all of their theme tunes from throughout the years.p s anybody got the theme from marine boy.

Doorstop

There you go Sputters, don't say I never give you owt

rotten milk

didn't know the original at the time, but i remember this (has to be one of the best intros on both though - just on this one the funky guitars kick in instead of some nice strings - and i would love to be able to play that bass line!)

rotten milk

Marti

BIG DEAL...as well as being a good 80s series about a gambler (only 2 were made & i am waiting on series 2 being released on DVD) i thought it was a catchy toon...

And of course, who can forget (some may well want to...

) the Dallas theme...

sputnik

thanks for marine boy mr stop,it fair made me smile.a special fried rice to you from the san sui.ps ive got a cracking then and now pic for that place.