Bob's Full House

On The Up

The Sun Trap

Tales of the Unexpected (for the titles as well,enough to get a 10 year old me worked up)

>On The Up

Inspired choice!

"It's a funny old game
It's gedding bedda by the day
I could be a miwyonairre by May"

My eyes are watering at the memory. Did he write the lyrics?

TV Eye. Proto-thrash metal splendour in extremis.

Knight Rider *of course* (I'm assuming American shows count)

Minder. "Aye cood be-ah so gud fah yew/ laf yoo lak yoo wan-tah me tooo..."

Dogtanian (c)Adam and Joe

And, seriously, The Prisoner.

Oh, and Rhubarb And Custard.

Sorry, but I'll have to stop this thread on the basis that there is some good suggestions creeping in. As you know it is now C4 policy to choose everything for you and tell you why it is good or bad. Furthermore, we won't have any good themes as our new policy (we burnt our remit last bonfire night) means that we can't be bothered to do anything anymore, or put effort into making decent shows.

All enquiries to the forum, but as you know we'll either wipe them off or post a poorly researched half-arsed reply.

fuckyouandgoodnight

C4

FOR THE EIGHT THOUSAND MILLIONTH TIME, IT ISN'T "RHUBARB AND CUSTARD", IT'S "ROOBARB"!

I'm pretty sure that's the first time you've said that. I'd have noticed eight thousand million of them.

"Weekend World". For a moment, it made prog rock seem like a good idea.

Also, though I fear no one on this board will have heard of it, "Robostory". A wonderful orchestral piece. Daaaaa daaaa, daa daaa daa daa daaaaaaa...

Yeah, Prisoner.

Or Boon.

'Home to Roost'
'Fiddlers Three'

ROBIN OF SHERWOOD
Love that Clannad

BLAKE'S 7
Dudley Simpson's finest achievment.

FIRST BORN
Half man/ape thing.

EDGE OF DARKNESS

ROBOSTORY
Remember you are the lowest of the low...


FOR FUCK'S SAKE, HAVE TV CREAM TAKEN OVER THE FORUM AND MY MIND?

Diff'rent Strokes
Full Swing

Charles in Charge

Every Second Counts

The A Team

Rising Damp

Big John, Little John

Little House On The Prairie (the one at the end, not the one at the beginning)

Fraggle Rock

Ewar, you're a genius!


"Big John, Little John, what a way to grooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!"

Lady, you have taste.

Doctor in the House!

Da da da, da da da da da dada da etc...

And, predictably, The Goodies. My fave version was the LWT series, ever so slightly early 80s.

Farmhouse Kitchen

"Big John, Little John" always used to cut to the exact same crackly faded bit of film for the thrilling transformation sequence, which I seem to remember looking like it was filmed in a photo booth. One minute he was a small boy up a mountain, then next, an afro-headed teenager in front of a blue nylon curtain.

The Janet Brown Show.

Did you know that there's a Big John Litle John site with that very sequence available for all to see?

No I did not. Please furnish me with it, so that I may see the thrilling transformation with my own eyes and believe once more that man can become boy and back again.

marvellous stuff

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6009/bjlj.htm

The Muppet Show

MASH

Hill Street Blues

"Going Straight"

I'm not saying that it is the BEST thing Herring has been involved in, but I think that TMWRNJ was probably my favourite, simply because nothing like that had been done in that timeslot before, and it was brilliant.

If the point of this thread is to compare past work to TGP though then it is pointless. TGP is a SITCOM. If you must compare it to something compare it to other sitcoms.

That's the second time this week I've posted something to the wrong thread. Sorry.

Although I remember TMWRNJ had a rather 'ironic' theme tune so should be included!

I can't remember the theme music to the marvelous early eighties show about a gang of kids who know stuff about computers and stuff called "Whiz Kids" (main character Ritchie had a robot arm that fed him sandwiches and decades later, it gets a very bad write-up in TV Cream - mad, isn't it?) But it was probably quite futuristic sounding.

It was a computerised rendition of some Beethoven piece or other. Not exciting at all.

Oh damn yes I remember now. Another illusion shattered.

I too remember it. It was good. They should repeat it just for the theme tune. Yes.

'Bird Of Prey' (early 80s thriller about computers and stuff, starred that fat bloke and Roger Sloman as a civil servant who gets blown up) had really cool title music and a great opening sequence done on a computer.

-the old 'drop' ABC logo (early sixties, early 'Avengers') if that counts. "Pling Plong Plank - b'dum b'dum bummmm" - that was it's catchphrase.

-'The Prisoner' because it went on almost as long as the show itself. Add to that most ITC shows. 'Avenues and Alleyways' anyone? No irony.

-'Survivors'. Scariest theme ever.

-'The Goodies' - series 7, because I'm feeling obscure.

-'Ace Of Wands'

-original 'Dr Who' theme.

and loads of others, probably...

>marvellous stuff
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>http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6009/bjlj.htm


Went there

Scary Stuff (esp. the pic. of 'Marjorie wrapped up in chicken wire').

Does this site worry anyone else?????

Dogtanian gets my vote.

So chirpy,
so hard to sing along to (until you get to know the words)
So easy to annoy everyone at work, by singing it at 9.00am when no-one else is really awake.

Who could ask for more................?

Eighty days around the world,
De-da-de-da-de-da,
etc.

I remember the Beeb giving out song sheets to any tot who wrote in to CBBC asking for them.

For 'Around The World with Willy Fog', that is...

Willy Fog! *cue childish tittering*

Serious suggestions:

Whatever Happened To The LIkely Lads?

Laverne & Shirley

INspector Gadget

Ever Decreasing Circles

Fist Of Fun (series 1 version)

Parkinson

Michael Moore's TV Nation

Top Cat

A Bit Of Fry & Laurie (whistling one from series 1 - I know it's probably something famous, but I can't place it right now)

The Rockford Files

Not that I meant everyone else's choices weren't serious - just that I might have just typed On The Up for a joke.

Or did I...?

FOR GODS SAKE IT HAS TO BE: MR BENN.
oh yes, and of course: Blockbusters (1992), Quincy, Day by day(1981) and obviously (for no obvious reason) Central news west (1997).

"Ace Of Wands" theme rocks - and I've got the full version if anyone else out there is hunting it down as desperately as I once was...

The Prisoner
Edge of Darkness
The Persuaders
Steptoe and Son
Doctor Who
Tales of the Unexpected
The Equalizer
Dad's Army
Brass Eye
Vision On
Taxi
The Sweeney (opening and closing themes)
The Avengers
Dangerman
Cosmos
Not the Nine O'Clock News
Shoestring
Porridge
The Streets of San Francisco

Oooh I could go on and on on this one!

If news programmes count I would go for,
Spotlight 1997 - and 1999
Quite liked the horns from 1991 Breakfast News (gulf war titles) Coast to Coast (last one) and also those Inside Ulster titles, but I cant remember the year...Central News West isnt that bad either.

Jamie and the Magic Torch

The Young Ones

Fat Tulip's Garden

No. You're all wrong. Keep guessing.

Sale of the Century, Man About The House, Northern Life 1980, The Fast Show, James the Cat, Chain Letters, Grange Hill (the original one), The Banana Splits, Rainbow, The Sweeney, Benny Hill, UFO (that 1970 Gerry Anderson thing), Star Trek, Family Fortunes (1980).

My contenders:
ITV Generic Music '89
LWT '86-'89
Good Morning Britain
You Bet! (the music they played over the challenges was especially good)
TVS Coast to Coast
Going Live
Central '82-'84
The South Bank Show (superbly abstract)
And a few others that I've forgotten as well...

And before you ask, yes I have no taste in music, as is demonstrated by my worryingly large collection of songs from Stock Aitken Waterman artists.

Animaniacs

Northern Exposure

Twin Peaks

it's u!!

BENT HALO I AM WORRIED?

HOW COME YOUR TEHE ONYL ONE WITH A RED NAME?

NELE MORISEY GAVE IT TO HIM FOR SEXCUAL FAVOURSD

Bit of an obvious one from a master of the form, but it's got to be "The Persuaders". Goose-bumps. I liked both incarnations of the "Space: 1999" theme too - the first season's orchestra-with-fuzz-guitar and the second season's synth-layers and hyperactive brass. Though, I might be misremembering them. I've used 'season' instead of 'series' again, haven't I? Sorry, it seemed to read better.

>Tales of the Unexpected (for the titles as well,enough to get a 10 year old me worked up)

That's my step-aunt! (If there is such a thing - she's actually the (now ex, I think) wife of my step mother's brother. Somewhere I have home video footage of her doing an impromptu 90s version in my dad's kitchen, complete with her husband holding his lighter up in front of the camera.