Tv theme tunes
The Willy Fogg theme is the only one I’ve come across that gets that many views. On Youtube, you only seem to get adverts on videos that get viewed a lot. It’s not an amazing song but it’ll give you a chuckle.Īnyone from my year at school reading this will get a laugh from it. Just like the Family Ness theme, I was amazed to find the BBC actually released this as a single in the 80s. I’ve always liked this theme, even though it came from one of the most boring shows ever made.
You’d have to be Scottish and roughly 30 years old to appreciate it I think.
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I’d like to think someone will be skimming through this article and suddenly think ‘Shit…there’s full single versions of the opening and closing credits to Family Ness?!’. The Family Ness (opening and closing themes) Have you heard what rubbish they play as the theme to Sportscene on BBC these days? THIS is a proper football theme. It suits the show brilliantly and most episodes had a fantastic build up to the intro. I’ve never seen Miss Marple, but there are two different themes from two different eras both the polar opposite of each other and both brilliant.
I know it exists because it was played in a pub one night, and it has been one of life’s ‘side-quests’ for me to find it ever since. I’d love a CD quality version of this theme if anyone could tell me where to get it. Would you believe this was written by acclaimed composer Hans Zimmer? Of course you would, because it’s fantastic.
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The only theme from a show that is on TV today, I wind up my brother by making him sit through the entire opening credits whenever we watch a new episode. I actually bought the DVD of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads on the strength of loving the song. I love the He-Man theme, but the theme itself is a lot better than the opening credits, which spend a bit too much time telling the story. The one most commonly associated with the 5th Doctor is the best version by a mile, and should still be the theme to this day. The only question you might ask here is ‘Which Dr Who theme’, but for me, there can be only one. It was going to be 10 but I couldn’t whittle it down, so decided to round up instead. Of course, there are exceptions to that, but on the whole, it would seem the more recognisable theme tunes – the ones you wouldn’t mind adding to your MP3 playlist – are from a by-gone age.Įxcluding shows with good themes that have borrowed songs from elsewhere – shows like One Tree Hill, Community or How I Met Your Mother to name but three – here are 20 of my favourite TV themes. There are loads of other shows that still use a ‘theme’ but just borrow a section of an independently released song from a mainstream band and call it their own. Many shows – like Breaking Bad, Grey’s Anatomy and Castle to name but three – are skipping the traditional TV themes altogether now, with a mere 2 or 3 second jingle 10 minutes into the show to signify the ‘Opening Credits’. Television theme music seems to be becoming a thing of the past, which is a shame.