Greatest TV theme tune of all time

Add your suggestion to the shortlist at the bottom!!

I’ve always liked a lot of Simon May’s work but particularly Holiday 86 and People. As well as the jazzy end to Howard’s Way.


Full version of Holiday

I’d forgotten about Howard’s Way. Cracking pot boiler drama, and yes, fantastic ( and gloriously long) closing credit sequence and music

The theme to Treasure Hunt , Peak Performance by Zack Lawrence.

A silly show, but a truly legendary theme:

Or how about Andrew Lloyd Weber's epic 1980 Whicker's World theme:

I would have suggested Interceptor's theme as well, aside from the fact it's actually a cover of a Chopin piece.

So in order for Lawrence to have two themes here: I'd nominate Forcefield.

One hopes people are clicking on the link and voting!

Some of the best theme tunes are for sport programmes, and they tend to be the longest lasting too:

Grandstand


World of Sport


ITV Football (originally the Mexico 86 theme tune)


But the best isn't a TV theme at all:

The Office is on there, and that's a rearrangement of a pre-existing piece.

Someone posted the Simon May holiday theme tune, but the one I remember is this...


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Looking outside of the UK, there is Star Trek Voyager , with a wonderful score by Jerry Goldsmith.


TinTin The Animated Series


The Good Fight


And some of my favourite classic UK show themes...

999


Poirot

Composed by Christopher Gunning

Children's Hospital (1994)

Debbie Wiseman composed this theme (as well as Judge John Deed)

Edit:
One more mention...

The original closing theme for Casualty (which I think is better than the opening theme)

And while we're on the subject of theme tunes