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  • #16
    Re: Most haunting TV themes

    Originally posted by Marine Boy View Post
    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

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    • #17
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      I would have to say Journey To The Unknown.

      Very scary!
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      'Dreams come true if you want them to'

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      • #18
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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
        "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

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        • #19
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          The tomorrow people theme used to scare me

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          • #20
            Re: Most haunting TV themes

            Originally posted by Hooper68 View Post
            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.

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            • #21
              Re: Most haunting TV themes

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

              YouTube - Picture Box programme

              The tomorrow people

              YouTube - The Tomorrow People

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              • #22
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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!

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                • #23
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                  "The Pogles" - Postgate.

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                  • #24
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                    My sister used to watch Follyfoot, and I'd always leave the room saying it was all girly and about ponies and that, but really, I was freaked out by the theme song that went on about a lightning tree in creepy close harmony. I'm shuddering thinking about it.

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                    • #25
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                      "It's heart went crack when it took the rap!
                      The terrible rap of the thunder clap!"

                      I agree, the theme is kind of frightening ..........but brilliant as well.

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                      • #26
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                        Anybody remember 'Armchair Thriller' from the 70's ? Seem to remember that being pretty spooky.

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                        • #27
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                          Thriller (not the Armchair one) used to have a haunting theme and I remember the end credits having the goldfish bowl effect.

                          One of the most haunting themes was Roald Dahls tales of the unexpected. My Grandad loved it and used to whistle it all the time.
                          "GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER"

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                          • #28
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                            Originally posted by Marine Boy View Post
                            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.
                            when i saw this thread this was one i was trying to think of.
                            yes its scary even now it is.
                            but it was a fine show.

                            also quite haunting was the tripods theme snd the intro to patrick troughton as dr who it was black and white.
                            FOR THE HONOUR OF GRAYSKULL

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                            • #29
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                              Originally posted by scotchmist View Post
                              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!
                              I agree with the Onedin Line. It's a lovely piece of music but as a kid it totally unsettled me.
                              1976 Vintage

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                              • #30
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                                Originally posted by Trickyvee View Post
                                I agree with the Onedin Line. It's a lovely piece of music but as a kid it totally unsettled me.
                                I've never seen this but the music is the Sparticus suite, & has been used in a few other things.
                                The Trickster On The Roof

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