On Radio 4, the music for "Uncanny"

Bergerac.

Touch of Frost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEinCgoA48E

Taxi

Brideshead Revisited

Dad's Army

Not sure you can beat The Sopranos

 

The Sopranos Opening Credits Theme Song | The Sopranos | HBO - YouTube

Alabama 3. They used to drink in my local in Brixton quite a lot, one of the local open-mic singers joined them, eventually. 

The Sweeney

Minder

The Professionals

They were relatively successful anyway, but must have made a pretty penny out of that.

Top 3 TV series ever, for me.

Oh forgotten my absolute fav...

thirtysomething...

https://youtu.be/P6Mz3NbT1p0

Starsky and Hutch

Music better in the JTQ version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEjXPY9jOx8

LOVEJOY!

https://youtu.be/tWUEuQ25g-0?feature=shared

Airwolf.  Shame on you, Sinjun.  

Always thought it bad form to vote for yourself, so to speak.

Airwolf is a good shout, Pez.

Baywatch. 

Van der Valk

Doctor Who

It's quite obviously the A team

Bangers & Mash

Succession 

Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Simpsons 

Oh, and Bodger & Badger

Hill Street Blues wins this I'm afraid

The Fall Guy.

Always was the best. Always will be the best.

Early 70s TOTP. Whole Lotta Love by CCS and surreal FX. 

“Hill Street Blues wins this I'm afraid”

Now that’s a Mike Post Theme

Goodness, I confess to having no idea how prolific Mr Post was!

A quick google suggest he (or his team) composed the themes for dozens of era defining US shows including:  The Rockford Files (which was the one show I really wanted to watch when I was around 10 but I was sent to bed instead); LA Law; Murder One; The A Team; Magnum PI; Quantum Leap; and Diagnosis Murder (and lots of other shows I am not familiar with). 

Quite a career, all told

And in the ultimate po mo move, it’s also a song by Pete Townshend. Who has not to my knowledge himself written any tv themes.

Hill Street Blues is great.

Cheers B - that (new) knowledge has taken me down a veritable wormhole of 70s and 80s music!

Succession obviously. The music, the faded photos, pure class. 

And the Simpsons Succession-themed opener, majestic.

Dogtanian and the Muskehounds. 
 

End. Of. Thread. 

Good shout by Stardust.

Galaxy Rangers, Joyce and the Wheeled Warriors, Prince Valiant. The Racoons.

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

Half of Manfred Mann soundtracking Bob being middle-class and Terry stiffed by a bolshie bus.

Hazell

and the outro to Taggart

both by Maggie Bell

Late entry and a banger

https://youtu.be/F5Sb9AoirSU?si=lOvWTd4UqY1ZC2qU

And who can forget, other 60s kids

https://youtu.be/FRLJYbXHAuI?si=PHWJB9kWqkgfW8xW
 

obvs a big fave of Miki Berenyi 

Hazel was repeated during covid and actually nowhere near as bad as I remember. Lots of great 70s London locations 

When I was a kid I also loved the theme to Johnny Briggs, Fun House and Round the Twist. 

Okay, from that era (sort of):  Mr Benn (my favourite show ever as a kid although I think they only made 8 or 10 episodes; and Rentaghost (early series only)

The A Team

Thundercats

The Wire

Cheers

Littlest Hobo

Grandstand

Succession

White Lotus 

Dexter was good and obviously the Simpsons wins it for creativity over the years. 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LBIgXhiOpeQ&si=htuVBDwFdjPxvC8i

Ski Sunday?

Another Mike Post

The West Wing?

Six Feet Under?

Classic - Dr Who

Modern - Succession 

Couple of good shouts here, but really enjoyed TransSexB's accidental Chambo @17:27. 

Monkey Magic

Airwolf, A-Team, Streethawk.

Boom.

Holy trilogy right there. 

CliveWarren

Joyce and the Wheeled Warriors

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Is that Jayce's mum?

The West Wing has an utterly shit theme tune and the opening credits are like someone described 80s opening credits to them in a voicemail and they did their best. 

Quantum Leap

Dr Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator… AND VANISHED, mofos.

My elderly friend in the new South London/Surrey ULEV zone has taken to playing the Steptoe and Son theme. They all want rid of cars and vans and they'll have us back on horse and cart.

https://youtu.be/I7ly_tp-9SY?si=YBGuYwaP4XPkFqbP

Pony and trap more like*

*one for the Londoners 

Also

i see none of the Britpop kids have made my Miki connection. 
 

Eeyore we have very similar ears. 
Succession is pure class. 
A couple of others 

Black Beauty and Poirot both my boat float. 
 

Black Beauty - two words - Stacy Dorning

Black Beauty is a fabulous theme tune, but it's forever tainted by association with that long term resident of the Linton travel tavern :(

So is one of ABBA’s utterly greatest but, y’know, get over it and sing the song 

All I can remember is the rousing music and the majesty of that horse. You’ll have to explain the rest. 

Well there’s your Lloyds Bank student account for a start. 

What Pinot says. Hill Street Blues

Damn autocorrect shooty!

Hsb a definite contender but sounds too like a bank. 

Succession, a clever reuse of a snippet from Beethoven's Pathetique. 

Some excellent choices above.  

I would throw in rhubarb and custard, jamie and his magic torch and a sausage of grange hill.

Always liked Auf Wiedersehn Pet

Agree with Stardust, I can still sing all the words to Dogtanian, and to 80 days around the World from about the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fhOPHtOtw

Wang I asked out one of the Grange Hill cuties. Rene someone or or other. She turned me down. I think I dodged a bullet. 

This transports me to a time of optimism and youth.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pThIeuKD6uM

She is not leaping out from a google search prodster

Joe 90

On the way to the airport for my first rotarywingframe lesson we pretty much played the Airwolf theme tune on a loop. A special place in my heart tbh.

Mentioned above in passing but The Rockford Files deserves its own post.  I’m now contemplating buying a 1974 Pontiac Firebird Esprit just for the laughs. 

Game of Thrones

True Detective (first season)

Sopranos still #1 though

Jamie and the magic torch. Bangin'

My research tells me she played Pamela Cartwright. She was a sweetie. In fairness she might have also dodged a bullet. 

Some quality early 80s hair on the lass proddy.  

Oh yes, first season true detectives. It’s a grower.

I too believe I could recall all the words to dogtanian and the muskahounds. Indeed, I will probably be singing that for days now. 

@PS - Alan partridge...

True Detective (season 1) - the music and visuals perfectly captured the hillbilly/backwater location setting but also eluded to the dark themes of TD.

Band of Brothers - not so much the visuals but the music alone.

Baywatch - “Always keep them running….all the time running…..run…run Yasmine run”

Oh Yasmine. You were no Pammy.

The Bill. 
 

Casualty (90s) 

Touch of Frost 

Dallas

Tromb has this as the fall guy is the correct answer.  A Team second.  Will give the Sopranos third (and possibly most atmospheric theme tune ever). 

The only thing I remember about the Fall Guy intro is Ms Thomas in a bikini. Are you saying there was music playing too?

Has anyone said “Greatest American Hero” yet?  That intro was awesome.

Casualty.

For anyone who said the Bill it has to be the original and not the awful jazz version they had one point.

60s / 70s children's programme Magpie.

The Spencer Davis Group (under the alias Murgatroyd Band) with Steve Winwood at the height of his vocal prowess.

Seriously, listen to it.

The images from the title sequence are also really trippy.

Only fools and horses

Tales of the unexpected