You woke up this morning Got yourself a BEST TV THEME TUNES POLL NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION gun (End date - 12/11/12

The Clothes Show (In the Night by The Pet Shop Boys)

Brideshead Revisited

I presume you mean the NANANANANANABATMAN one but hey

That's the one.

Also

"For Pete's Sake" - the Monkees 2nd season closing credits song. Probably my favorite Monkees track.

Not really feeling kosher about nominating repurposed songs, but both The Golden Girls and Portlandia would get my votes if I weren't so skittish.

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

I thought the robot voice "More than meets the eye" was so cool when I was a kid.

xpost (I guess that IS admittedly a new recording in the case of TGG.)

Roobarb & Custard

I don't think most people know the song from The Golden Girls for anything other than being The Golden Girls theme.

BBC Cricket/Test Match Special (Soul limbo)
Black Beauty
Father Ted

"Get Stuffed"

The theme song for the late-night 5 min cookery programme, "Get Stuffed"

I thought the robot voice "More than meets the eye" was so cool when I was a kid.

*brain fart* the robot sings "robots in disguise"

Full House
Friends
Tiny Toon Adventures
Batman: The Animated Series
Deadman Wonderland

World In Action

Batman Animated Series

every villain on that show has a theme and most of them are amazing (Freeze, Clayface, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Joker, Penguin) but I'm not sure if those count

xp sorry, missed it

Tomorrow's World

Family Matters gets my obligatory Jesse Frederick vote: "There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls."

the bill cosby show - the orig show

60 Minutes

every villain on that show has a theme and most of them are amazing (Freeze, Clayface, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Joker, Penguin) but I'm not sure if those count

― g simmel, Friday, 2 November 2012 14:21 (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think that they do if you name them. I know im nomming and voting for the Ultimate Warrior and Dusty Rhodes themes, don't see why cartoon character themes are any different.

I think there's a strong case for separate results roll outs by jurisdiction of voter here.

Friends

I will ceaselessly mock anyone who votes for this. I love the show, but the song makes me want to DIE.

nah everyone loves a pointless brit/american divide over something that comes 47th in a poll or whatever

Rawhide
Champion the Wonder Horse

Do British shows have theme songs?

We have tunes, expertly crafted by library musicians and/or the Radiophonic Workshop!

Six Million Dollar Man

The White Horses

M*A*S*H

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"Fruity flute" - Farmhouse Kitchen
Magpie
Whole lotta love - CCS (Top of the pops, obviously)
Doctor Who theme (70s version)

Tomorrow's World
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 2 November 2012

For avoidance of doubt, we'd better make that:

Tomorrow's World (1966-1979, John Dankworth)
Tomorrow's World (1980 onwards, Denton & Cook)

The Prisoner - Ron Grainer (iirc)

in that case

Mr. Freeze Theme (Heart of Ice episode)
Clayface theme (Feat of Clay episode)

those two are essential

The Prisoner
University Challenge (OG version)

The Prisoner (1967-8) obvs

fresh prince of bel air

"Different Worlds" from Angie, the short-lived Robert Hays/Donna Pescow sitcom
Both "Newhart" and "The Bob Newhart Show"

What's Happening!

mostly sport:

Channel 4 Tour de France theme (by Pete Shelley!)
Radio 2 - Sport On 2 (technically not tv, but you'll allow this one)
Grange Hill
Grandstand
BBC Snooker theme
Miami Vice - Crockett's Theme
Formula One (i.e. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain)
Sopranos

Was just about to mention Miami Vice

Can we include the Open University theme?

The Magic Roundabout

do commercial jingles count? probably not. but just know that you're missing out on the Big Red and Juicy Fruit jingles

NBA on NBC theme (composed and performed by John Tesh)

Dave Allen at large

The Great Egg Race

I think there's a strong case for separate results roll outs by jurisdiction of voter here.

Not interested in seperate roll outs but an addendum with country specific votes would be cool.

DuckTales (mentioned it before, but this song was so good that it literally almost killed me)

321 Contact
Seinfeld
Perfect Strangers
Night Court
Northern Exposure
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers

Doctor Who theme (70s version)

Why you hurt Delia in her haert

(I agree it’s probably easiest to put down either a generic “Dr Who Theme” entry, or lump all nommed versions (Ron/Delia, Letts edit of Delia 1, Letts edit of Delia 2, Letts edit of Delia 3, Hodgson/Kingsland “Delaware” version, Murray [shudder] Gold 1, Murray Gold 2, Murray Gold 3, Murray Gold 4 into one. [Or make sarahel pick just one out of the last four, since she’s not specified.])

Our Alice can do this theme with every word, precisely.

Full song or TV version?

Britishers, you get a HUGE fail for not nomming:
- MINDER!!!!!!

This song is called I Could Be So Good For You btw fyi a hoy hoy, but was indeed written to be the theme (and reached #3!)

I assume this isn't eligible, but a most excellent 8 seconds all the same:

I’d vote for the Thames ident tbh

If ppl don’t know, the Cheers theme (Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy is another one with a full-length version that came out as a 7” but was never used in the show until once, eight years in:

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

Looking through the nominations, I'm assuming the theme to "60 Minutes" means this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvWL0EdoVko

Yes. And I was (only kind of) joking.

Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
On The Move

Match of the day

i always disliked the cheers song since childhood.

it's like, too sappy sounding for a sitcom. i want all my sitcom themes to sound like "whats happening."

this is probably a tougher question that i wouldn't be able to answer without thinking really hard, but which shows had the best 5-second transitional music between scenes? and which cartoons had the best music playing in the background while the story was taking place?

i don't remember which shows did this, but there were a couple 80's cartoons that straight-up stole the background music from heathcliff and inspector gadget.

they were prolly in other shows produced by DIC but still.. the budget must have been so low that they couldn't throw together something new, figuring no one would notice.

I just remembered Pepper Ann! And Fillmore! Is it too late to nom those now? And the Kim Possible theme by Christina Milian (hey, I liked it).

weeds - I liked the conceit of having it performed by a different artist week to week.

One more? Bizarre Japanese children's show with a ten second theme, not one note wasted:

Kure Kure Takora (aka Gimme Gimme Octopus)

Chocky

one more rep for Mysterious Cities Of Gold. no kids show should have a theme this melancholy.

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

and this MONSTER too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6yJLCPFFE&feature=related

i still really really want to go in the Fun House

one more rep for Mysterious Cities Of Gold. no kids show should have a theme this melancholy.

i suppose not, but this is kind of the best song ever.

i still really really want to go in the Fun House

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:20 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

in many ways I've never left

y'all can carry on nominating until tomorrow morning, when i will finally get around to the tallying and voting thread. until then argh illness and dark room.

stoked that there is a wider base for 'mysterious cities of gold'! Absolutely haunted my memory from age 6/7 until I rediscovered the show in my late teens.

ok you've got until i make a cup of tea to sort out how you want yr doctor who themes or whatever and then i'll make the next thread.

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