Favourite TV theme music (past or present)

[Answerprancer]

What's your top 5?

Mine (in no particular order):

1) Doctor Who (the original one)
2) The Body In Question (it's called The Greenwich Chorus)
3) Blakes 7 (especially those two chords at the end!)
4) World In Action (Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain)
5) Belle And Sebastien (haunting pretty song - major tear-jerker too)

[zzxxee]

1.... theme from black beauty
2....folly foot farm
3.....heidi THEME TUNE
4......TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
5....... blackadder

[Captin Kirk]

Dangermouse

[20SilkCut]

oh yes zzxee - i forgot about tales of the unexpected - loved that..

cant think of any more at the mo tho
oh i loved the theme music to that vampire thing....was on channel 4 a while ago

[Answerprancer]

Ahhh! Follyfoot! The Lightning Tree :-)

I forgot to add White Horses to my list.

[Answerprancer]

Ho Yuss !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnautWFuEnQ&feature=related

[mike11111]

Here is the the Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns from which the theme to Tales of the Unexpected is taken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdLoTPUNtD0

[Arksided]

Baywatch theme, Ill be ready (Jimi Jamison, lead singer from Survivor )
Buffy the Vampire slayer, nerf herder
Due south, no idea who did that?
Royale family Half A World's Away, Oasis
Thundercats.... it rocked :-)

[mxyzptlk]

Bonanza
The Good life
The Persuaders

[blackeyed]

kiss the rain(from dawson's creek)- billie myers
and the thunder cat's one too!!

[Count-A-Strong]

The Sweeney
Only Fools and Horses
Belle & Sebastian
Howards Way
Mastermind

[B00]

Can't think of many, but at top ofmy head these two...

Black Beauty
Clothes Show (Pet Shop Boys)

[Answerprancer]

Black Beauty was a classic, there were a whole bunch of kids TV progs from the continent I remember, I've already named Belle Et Sebastien (France) White Horses (former Yugoslavia), The Singing Ringing Tree. Some of those themes were great.
Does anyone remember that one set in Lappland with the kid singing "hoylala, hoylala,
hoylala" for the theme music?

[tonymclark]

I agree with a lot of the above, but am surprised no-one has yet mentioned Thunderbirds, one of the best rousing themes on TV.

[Answerprancer]

Oh yes! I remember Phil Cool saying that he had that as his 'entrance music' during a gig - classically dramatic.
5 (daaaa) 4 (daaaa) 3 (DAAAA) 2 (DAAAAA) 1 .....

[THC]

Theme from "Robinson Crusoe" (a German TV production, I think)

[TTG]

The Professionals
UFO
The Persuaders
Old Dr Who theme
My all time favourite...Weekend World (this was the Nantucket Sleighride theme and not World in Action...sorry answerprancer!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Ab8tX590

Just watched the credits as a kid because of the music!

[Answerprancer]

...oops, oh yes - I knew it was one or the other!

[BertiWooster]

The persuaders
The World At War
The main Music from the - ' Swiss Railway journeys ' programme , shown on the travel channel ( in fact I asked a question in music as to where i could get it from - Anyone know ? )

[daftgrandad]

1. Eye Level ( Theme from Van der Valk )
2. The Sweeney
3. The Lone Ranger ( The William Tell Overture )
4. Bonanza
5. Only Fools and Horses

[Answerprancer]

The Persuaders theme was fantastic - very dramatic, I've made a cover version of it.