And I still do a passable Callan impression... no-one ever gets it tho :(

Well, before they altered the unusual time signature.

it's this:

or possibly this:

[Strange Report]

though I am also partial to the imaginary film theme of the Riviera Affair [blogged passim]

which evokes its world so perfectly

My 1st thought was this!

you're all wrong and the answer is:

I had a schoolteacher who maintained that it was a Dutch traditional tune-but also that the words should be "I had some ham on an Amsterdam tram" ...

While Google is strangely silent on the latter idea, the former may be true:

"Eye Level" was produced originally for the De Wolfe Music Library and selected by Thames Television to be the theme tune for their Netherlands based detective series, Van der Valk. The work was based on a Dutch nursery rhyme[citation needed] which Jack Trombey wrote a top line for, and Simon Park arranged for his own orchestra and conducted. The track was fully entitled "Eye Level (Theme from the TV series 'Van Der Valk'). The song based on the music, with suitable lyrics added was called "And You Smiled", and was performed by Matt Monro.

The tune became popular with audiences and, in a move which was unusual at the time for both library works and television themes, Columbia Records issued it on a single (catalogue number DB 8946) with the theme to Granada Television's drama series Crown Court, entitled "Distant Hills", on the b-side. The record entered the UK chart and spent 22 weeks in the Top 40, four of them at number one. Total sales were 1,005,500, gaining the award of a gold disc.

In the US, it was used as theme music in 1970s TV and radio commercials for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. It was also used for TV adverts for Alton Towers, in its pre-Lunar Park mode of gardens, fronted by Frank Muir and in the 1980s for Oranjeboom lager using "tulips" for "your lips" as "wrap tulips around a pint today".

---Wikipedia

The theme to The Flashing Blade has probably had more influence on me than anything else:

Avengers and Roobarb are taken so I'll go for Herb Alpert's It's a Knockout theme

Unfortunately edited here, but I'm sure you all remember it in its majesty. Ooh, look, there's Brian Jacks :-)

And, as mentioned on another thread recently, this was always pretty 'badass'... Friday night, 6 o'clock, BBC2. "In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned..."

The Sweeney:

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads:

and

1st series of 'the wire'? Other than that what about starsky & hutch or even better the Rckford Files?

A profound rush for any Irish expats who love GAA.

Joe 90

Top tune for a top show.

The two obvious (by some distance from the others (rhubarb and Custard, Blue peter? We're supposed to be looking st good songs not for a proustian rush right?) best ones are gone (Avenues and alleyways and Whatever happened to the likely lads) I will add this in although Im not even that convinced myslef although that may be more to do with the shitty sit com....

I offer "The Box Of Delights." Also the best title sequence ever.

My FPO has been reading some Moomins recently and I loved this tune...

and I actually bought the soundtrack for this series...

But as for grown up telly this came on shuffle recently and I was transported...

I am now off to weep for my lost childhood...

Great spot on the Mr Rossi front Ganglesprocket.

Mine would be "A round with Alliss" or Music Box Dancer as the Americans know it.

Makes me happy and sad - sublime

Waylon Jennings's ran it close

There have been no decent TV themes written since the mid 1980s?

What about

or

Hill Street Blues

White Horses

always mesmerised me as a kid. Unfortunately this version has some production team noise bleeding onto it, and it is also tailed by an alternate version that has some adenoidal hippie whining about how no-one knows something or other. The original is beautiful, though.

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Furry eco-warriors. I really love this piece of music by Mike Batt.

if its the tune, the credits or the brilliant combination of the two that makes this such a good one. And for anyone who likes the show, Season 4 starts this Friday in the UK

And thats the best performance of it too

..and the Swingle Singers herald the Reverand Stanley Unwin

This very Word offering. And it's not how I remember it.

But this is better

"Get Smart"

and also thanks to those who reminded me of "The Avengers" and "The Wombling Song", not to mention "Hawaii Five-O" and a couple of others I can't remember (Shiraz is being consumed...)

Sticking with "Callan" as No 1 though

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