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Best TV Theme Tune...The Final

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by bamos
Ok, place your votes please. We've whittled it down, and these are the final ten. Place your votes in the most exciting poll EVER.
And if you disagree with any of the finalists, well, tough. An expert team (me and my mates) discussed it over some strong belgian lager the other day, so the list is non-changeable/discussable/refundable etc...

1, Grange Hill
2, Grandstand
3, M*A*S*H
4, Cheers
5, Littlest Hobo
6, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
7, Minder
8, Only Fools & Horses
9, Brush Strokes
10, The A-Team

(for those wondering, Lovejoy and Berjerac were voted off at the semi-final stage)
bamos | 22 Dec '04, 09:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Best TV Theme Tune...The Final

I can't believe you left off Byker Grove!

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Voted out at the quarter-final stage I'm afraid. It was however, praised by the judges for it's use of regional accents and excellent echo conclusion.

A-ha-a-ha-a-ha....

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Grange Hill has an advantage because it originally had a great theme tune, and then the revamped series had a revamped theme tune. surely this must have been taken into consideration when deciding the shortlist...shouldn't this lead to a disqualification or at least a handicap?

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You are so wrong Bamos... although I realise I am stuck in a bit of a time warp here these are all surely better. (Dr who is a serious contender for being a really good piece of music, it was fairly experimental, the woman that did it originally doesn't get the credit she is due, I cannot remember her name)

1) The title music of the original saint series (with Roger Moore)
2) The Avengers (with Diana Rigg) (great great title sequence)
3) The Prisoner
4) The Magic Roundabout
5) Coronation Street (I dont particularly like it, but it is soooo the best of its type, whatever that is)
6) Rawhide
7) Dr Who
8) Star Trek (the original one)
9) A man called Ironside (Quentin Tarentino used bits of it in Kill Bill)
10) Hawaii 5 0

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" the woman that did it originally doesn't get the credit she is due, I cannot remember her name"

Delia Derbyshire?

Re: Best TV Theme Tune...The Final

GRANGE HILL

der de de derrr

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I'll see your Minder and raise you Brush Strokes

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The old BBC Test Match Cricket theme

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There was great competition in the 'Sports Theme' section, with MOTD and 'Soul Limbo (the crickeet tune) highly rated. But ultimately, Grandstand won the day, because it made one of us think of Des Lynam. Which, when drunk, was a great reason for it's inclusion.

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No, it's got to be QUANTUM LEAP.

and Blockbusters.

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Rhubarb & Custard

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Saved By The Bell - it pre-empted Busted by a good 10 years!

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captain planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Quantum Leap, wow. I loved that show...From the list I would say Grange Hill but I think Neighbours should have been there - great tune and lyrics!

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well its obviously TMNT....

Splinter taught them to be fighting teens, (he's a radical rat)
Leonardo leads, Donatello does machine's, (that's a fact chap).
Raphael is cool but crude, (gimme' a break!)
Michaelangelo is a party dude (Hurray!!).

Re: Best TV Theme Tune...The Final

yes Quantum Leap!

and Red Dwarf ;)

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Fuck me, it's gotta be Dr Who. Obvious ain't it?

But i can't believe nobody mentioned Knight Rider.

Also good: Transformers, Mask, Streethawk, Man from UNCLE, The Prisoner, Dukes of Hazard, Visionaries...

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I woulda gone for Byka, Byka , Byka, GROVE, WOOOO!

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Seinfeld.....umm

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oh oh oh transformers!!

transformers, robots in disguise...

tmnt is still best though.

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Oooh Gaara you're right how could I have missed Man from Uncle

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Gah! No 'Chockablock'? That was a piece of Kraftwerkian GENIUS!

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I forget alot of theme tunes, was the Incredible Hulk series theme tune not memorable, I'm very sure it was and Grange Hill will never be no 1.

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where did Diff'rent Strokes get to?

anyway...A Team gets my vote, as the Grange Hill theme changed a few times.

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No Return Of The Saint?!?

(for anyone who cares, you're likely to have heard it in I'm Alan Partridge series 2, when he's airdrumming along in the car in the graveyard. It's like 'Plug-In Baby' gone disco. Genius.)

Oh, and i'll go with Minder.




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