Most haunting TV themes

[scotchmist]

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The theme tune to the "Onedin Line" was always very haunting to me as a kid. The Doctor Who theme just sounded like nothing else on earth!

[Hooper68]

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The picture box theme was also a bit on the creepy side

YouTube - Picture Box programme

The tomorrow people

YouTube - The Tomorrow People

[Marine Boy]

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The tomorrow people theme used to scare me

I know what you mean. But it's a totally brilliant theme and I recall the feeling it gave me as I sat down to watch an episode as a child in the seventies.

[Hooper68]

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The tomorrow people theme used to scare me

[Emettman]

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At 1, Robinson Crusoe, no doubt.

But then there are other candidates:
If haunting has to include lyrical there's "The Onedin Line" theme
YouTube - Tv Theme Onedin Line (Aram Khachaturian)
otherwise we're looking at "The Magic Roundabout" for sheer "stick in the mind persistence".

And not a theme tune to a programme, but possibly the most evocative piece of all: The Vision On Gallery tune.
YouTube - The Noveltones - Left Bank Two - Vision On Gallery Theme

Back in the qualifying zone, the laid-back but mystical "Twin Peaks"
YouTube - Twin Peaks Intro

[kazboot]

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I would have to say Journey To The Unknown.

Very scary!

[CoteDazur]

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Re: Picturebox,

As far as I recall, Alan Rothwell used to sit in a chair and introduce a short film. Can't recall if it was a piece of fiction or fact based.
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I remember Picture Box well. I also recall the malicious glee of me and my friends as teenagers when Mr Rothwell turned up playing a heroin addict in Brookside. Cue lots of jokes of him shooting up whilst the Picture Box theme played. (teens are awful )

Other haunting tv themes:

The Book Tower
Armchair Thriller
Arthur C Clarke

[Derekflint]

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To quote TV Cream:
"catchphrase: Hello!"

Priceless.

[rossobantam]

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TV Cream: PACKET OF THREE to PICTURE BOX

described in tvcreams' own inimitable style

[Marine Boy]

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Re: Picturebox,

As far as I recall, Alan Rothwell used to sit in a chair and introduce a short film. Can't recall if it was a piece of fiction or fact based.

But rossobantum will certainly know.

[ecofugal]

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hi rossobantam
i love those themes.
Robinson crusoe is one of the most heart wrenching themes ever.
the incidental music is lovely too.

by the way what was Picture Box about.
all i remember is the tune and the presenters face.

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Ecofugal

[rossobantam]

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hi all,
thinking back on UK telly in the 70's there are some theme tunes that you just cannot get out of your head.

heres my list of the most haunting TV tunes

1. Robinson Crusoe - the french b/w serial with a Robinson looking like a young David Bowie.

2. The Picture Box - children's morning program - theme was played over a sort of musical box that revolved.

3. The persuaders - Roger Moore and Tony Curtis series

4. Belle and Sebastian - b/w series set in the Alps (i think)

5. The White horses - lovely theme -another b/w series from eastern Europe (i think)

eco you must be my long-lost twin......apart from Picture Box (which is cool by the way) EVERY other theme you mention I have posted before as my favs (some several times)

I am seriously spooked out!!
Robinson Crusoe et al WAS the 70's Summer Holidays for me (how I cried when his dog died)

Belle et Sebastian
YouTube - Belle and Sebastian TV theme tune

[Derekflint]

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It's one of my favourites and would certainly come under the heading of 'haunting', as would the incidental music that went with the series. I also agree with your other choices, especailly 'Belle and Sebastian'.

Your mention of 'The Persuaders' made me think also of 'Randell and Hopkirk Deceased' which had a haunting, spine tingling feel to it.

'Timeslip' perhaps? Or maybe that was just plain scary!

How could I have forgotten Randall and Hopkirk!!!!!

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Noah's Castle. Anyone remember that? It's on the B side of (Mike Reid's) Runaround. Brief end theme here Noahs Castle - Ending Theme Song

The Persuaders was a good one The Persuaders Theme Song

[Derekflint]

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Ulysses 31.

Not the theme - oh my no - the music within the episodes could be really foreboding.
Besides, the English translation of the French original is diabolical.
'Je suis Nono, le petit robo, l'ami d'Ulysse'
Becomes:
'I am Nono, a small robot you know, friend of Ulysses'

Utter spew.