Favourite TV theme tunes

[Stephenite]

They bring back memories of being at home, off primary school with mumps and stuff. I've come over all emotional now.

What was that other one which went

'It's right to fight for what you want,
And all that you believe,
It's better to have fought and lost,
Than not have fought at all.

As long as you have done your best,
And no one can do more.
Then life and love and happiness,
Are well worth fighting for.'

?

Others got it right - The Flashing Blade. But i've added what i think are the right words.

Some great memories here.

Monkey

 

[Stephenite]

Sheer, unbridled joy:

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Looking to download the theme tune and i stumbled upon this:


"Many thanks, bizarrely, to the British Council's website for scotching the theories of those claiming it had something to do with Gazza's arrival at Lazio, and divulging the real answer: "When Channel 4 televised live Italian football in the 1990s the opening credits had a typical piece of Italian commentary exclaiming 'Golaccio!!!'" it notes. "Interestingly, although this phrase sounds Italian it isn't. It actually comes from a kind of folk memory of what Latin commentators sound like. Programme makers Chrysalis reveal that the man who wrote the theme music, Steve Duberry, 'sort of imagined it from a phantom Brazilian/Italian memory' and recorded it as part of the music. If you had to translate it, it would be something like 'goaltastic!'."

Tim Galimberti-Small mails in from Milan to add: "As any Italian will tell you, it comes from Jose Altafini, Brazilian ex-player-now-commentator, who is famous in Italy for using Spanish/Brazilian words in his live commentaries to games. His uttering has become somewhat of an ironic idiomatic expression in Italy, to be uttered when a truly spectacular "Brazilian-looking" goal is scored. I believe it was actually his voice in that tune."

But while 'Golaccio' might not be promoted by Italian language purists, Guillermo Pérez Carazo mails in from Madrid to contend: "Actually it's a Spanish word. It's the result of fixing the augmentative termination '-azo' (which means 'massive') to the word 'gol', the Spanish fashion of writing and saying the English 'goal'. So, the meaning of 'golazo' would be 'great goal', and it's naturally and often said by pundits and fans when they get impressed by a goal (something like 'oh, what a goal, man!')."


Somebody had written, after this was posted on a forum sometime ago, "I bet you've been waiting years to share this!"

 

[Shaun]

Black Beauty - just something about the kettle drums and racing violins.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Black Beauty - just something about the kettle drums and racing violins.

What, this?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=105pWhPusV0&feature=player_embedded

 

[SquareDaff]

The Professionals.
Thunderbirds.
The Champions.

and more recently Babylon 5.

 

[sdr gb]

Another old kids show.

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGKSjiw0HQ[/media]

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How can all of you ignore this?:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

Enjoy:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9QZFdW8uQ&feature=related


also, I like The Pink Panther, but I always found this tune a lot better:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Thunderbirds with its countdown and then the frantic music over the spoilers and then the theme tune.

Most Gerry Anderson stuff is great though.

 

[Arch]

I once had the misfortune of happening across an exhibition with some of the tunes that they play in Orange Marches. One just cracked me up because it was BLATANTLY the Z Cars tune!!
Every time I hear that tune now, all I think of are a load of bigots twats all dressed up like the soldiers from the Mcleans Toothpaste ads marching along playing flutes - not a terribly great image.

'Blatantly' implies some sort of deception and wrongdoing, of which there is none . It was a folk tune before Z Cars used it. It's called Johnny Todd:

http://www.feniks.com/skb/music/lull7.html

I know this, because I work with a guy who happens to be called Johnny Todd.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

'Blatantly' implies some sort of deception and wrongdoing, of which there is none . It was a folk tune before Z Cars used it. It's called Johnny Todd:

http://www.feniks.co...usic/lull7.html

I know this, because I work with a guy who happens to be called Johnny Todd.

I was being a bit daft, a bit like wondering why they built a river under a bridge

Annnyway, I heard this old one yesterday and it is now stuck in my head. Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=vsc84LmZ6QE

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh and these are always good:

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CM6Mi-Yrt8&feature=related[/media]

 

[TheDoctor]

Thinking of TV science fiction, I give you 'Blakes 7'

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnautWFuEnQ[/media]



and 'Sapphire and Steel', which is one of the oddest things I've ever seen.
I never did figure out what the hell was going on.

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gjHmEUiaxo&feature=related[/media]

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And then, there came THIS!!:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related


The original serious sounding one complete with organ.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Get a swatch of those green shorts!


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[Dayvo]

Parts of that Blake's 7 video, sounded like [media]
]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx7RWW36wes[/media]