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TV shows that completely changed their theme tune

and some that have been around forever (August 2017)

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BE
benriggers
BBC Schools' " Watch "
The late 80s / 90s :

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


I think this theme came in around 1996/7? Before that there was this (1992-1993)



and a rap-type version here (1994-96) (2.45 in)

NT
NorthTonight
Breakfast Time 1983-86



1986-1989

AN
Andrew Founding member
Probably best to keep news programmes out of this thread, as we all know that the long running news services have changed their themes many times over the last 50 years. It's more unusual for other TV shows.
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GM
Gary McEwan
Something in the back of my mind tells me that You Bet! changed it's theme not long after Darren Day took over from Matthew Kelly.

If scoured the web to see if I'm right but had no luck in finding anything.
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A former member
Something in the back of my mind tells me that You Bet! changed it's theme not long after Darren Day took over from Matthew Kelly.

If scoured the web to see if I'm right but had no luck in finding anything.


That would make it the third change since the 1st series in 88 and different theme to the one that everyone knows.
GM
Gary McEwan
Something in the back of my mind tells me that You Bet! changed it's theme not long after Darren Day took over from Matthew Kelly.

If scoured the web to see if I'm right but had no luck in finding anything.


That would make it the third change since the 1st series in 88 and different theme to the one that everyone knows.


Yeah I'm certain everyone knows that version that Jonathan Sorrell composed. But other two, the first one composed by Alan Lisk and the last one by Simon Webb are nowhere to be found.
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Something in the back of my mind tells me that You Bet! changed it's theme not long after Darren Day took over from Matthew Kelly.

If scoured the web to see if I'm right but had no luck in finding anything.


You can hear the new (Darren Day) theme in this video when the challengers come out and end credits.



Did this theme only run for the last series (series 10) ?
:-(
A former member
Does anyone have the 1st series theme?
MY
MY83
Probably best to keep news programmes out of this thread, as we all know that the long running news services have changed their themes many times over the last 50 years. It's more unusual for other TV shows.


Well someone on YouTube has already done Newyddion for us, so I think that could possibly be the last one Wink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSATc8s3DM8


Wipeout



100%



Family Affairs got remixed/rerecorded a few times over its relatively short run.

ITV - F1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTd9k5orwlM&list=PLSDp2linQT7ELbsjckcwGzqqC4anqHuma

BBC Snooker has been remixed several times, as has A Question of Sport
Last edited by MY83 on 28 August 2017 7:29pm - 2 times in total
GM
Gary McEwan
Something in the back of my mind tells me that You Bet! changed it's theme not long after Darren Day took over from Matthew Kelly.

If scoured the web to see if I'm right but had no luck in finding anything.


You can hear the new (Darren Day) theme in this video when the challengers come out and end credits.

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

Did this theme only run for the last series (series 10) ?


Yeah the last series this was for. It's as bad as I remember. It certainly wasn't the best theme anyway...
JA
james-2001
Another tune that people always assume was the same was Happy Days

The first two seasons used Rock Around the Clock by Bill Hailey and the Comets (although Happy Days was actually used over the closing credits if I remember rightly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHN5U_j4_o0

Season 3 onwards used the Happy Days theme that everyone tends to remember:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d8qQqmYKPo


You've forgotten they introduced an entire new version of the happy days theme during the final season.
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A former member
I think that should stay forgotten Wink

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