All Time Favourite Theme Tunes

Another big sports theme, Midweek Sports Special - I believe Nick Owen used to present.

This theme to Tomorrows world was its best. short lived.

The diying days of the regional look. Not only the greatest tune but also probably the biggest BBC logo ever seen on TV

You believe correct, Sir, as can be seen (and heard giving the aggressive hard sell teasers) in this clip..

Wanders in..
Drops Exhibit A into thread..


Then, changes gear - and drops Exhibit B into thread. And, this is one of the best news themes anywhere..
(for some reason You Tube doesn't want to start the clip where I tell it to start the clip )



I would also put the Marc Sylvain/Richard Jacques re-boot of the Fifteen To One theme in - but I can't find a clean version of it knocking around.

(EDIT - Thanks to TVMan, a brief burst of it has been uploaded below. The full clean version is played out on the 5am early morning repeat, over the credits. Turn it up, and play it loud..)

Wanders out.

This is clean, but sadly missing the bed part

Spotlight had some terrific themes in the 90s. That one was composed by Guy Michelmore, who at one point presented Newsroom South East. The preceding theme used by Plymouth was, in my opinion anyway, equally good:

I'd also like to nominate this as one of the finest visual trails and specially commissioned themes in recent years. Absolutely stunning.

It felt very uncanny valley to me, wasn't a fan.

I wasn't as much of a fan of the visuals, but I thought the music was absolutely superb.

Forgotten just how good the theme tune was, such a powerful piece of work in every way.

The London 2012 theme was sublime - one of many memorable BBC Olympics themes:







As for regional news themes - 8:08 in this video used to scare the living daylights out of me when I was a youngster:


(a few other crackers in this video too)

Loving this thread.