"the end of the Premier League football games played on Saturday afternoon. The original theme was ""News Scoop"" by Len Stevens, which was used until 6 November 1971. From 13 November 1971 to 11 October 1975, another tune, composed by Barry Stoller who also composed the ""Match of the Day"" theme, was used. The programme's longest running and best known theme, composed for the programme by Keith Mansfield, was first heard at the end of the 11 October 1975 edition (the 1000th edition of Grandstand) and remained until the end of the programme's existence. Grandstand (TV programme) Grandstand was a"
"chronological order. The programme is now shown on Eden, Yesterday and Dave. The theme tune is called ""The Long Boot"", by Jeff Knowler. Sam Wollaston writing for Guardian Unlimited described James May's 20th Century as ""essentially Top Gear, masquerading as something educational"" but conceded that if ""teaching history can be achieved through Top Gear, then maybe that's not such a bad thing"". The New Statesman thought that James May was ""ill-suited to the task in hand"" and described the biggest problem as May being unable to ""put his wretched motors behind him"". The Lancashire Telegraph wrote positively of the show"
"penalty. Dragnet (theme music) ""Dragnet"" is an instrumental theme from the radio and television show of the same name. It was composed by Walter Schumann for the radio show, and was also used on the subsequent television series and later syndication of the TV series under the name ""Badge 714"". The theme is in two parts: an opening signature ""Main Title"" (the ominous ""Dum - - - de - DUM - DUM"") and the ""Dragnet March"" used over the end credits. Popular chart hit versions were recorded by Ray Anthony and his Orchestra (1953) and The Art of Noise (1987)."
"and early 1990s, a number of competing programmes were introduced, including Channel 4's ""driven"", ITV's ""Pulling Power"", Granada's ""Vroom Vroom"" and BBC World's ""India's Wheels"". Some of the presenters on ""Driven"" would go on to present ""Top Gear"". The show's opening theme music from the very first programme in 1977 was the Allman Brothers Band instrumental ""Jessica"" from the album ""Brothers and Sisters"" (1973), although remixed versions were used after 1999. For much of the series' lifespan, Elton John's instrumental ""Out of the Blue"" from the album ""Blue Moves"" (1976) played over the closing credits. The opening and closing titles"
"until 1971, when NBC News correspondent Frank McGee joined the show. Composer Ray Ellis penned an instrumental theme entitled ""This is Today"", a jazzy, up-tempo piece that served as the program's main theme until 1978. Because ""This is Today"" closely resembled Stephen Schwartz's song ""Day by Day"" from the musical ""Godspell"", Schwartz successfully sued for copyright infringement. ""This is Today"" was revised as a result, with the second version of the piece incorporating the familiar NBC chime signature was used until 1981, at the close of the Tom Brokaw–Jane Pauley era. The chimes were also used throughout the program to"
"the original ""Swinging Cymbal"" theme were used occasionally by Alan as jingles in the show. By April 1970, the show used a new version of ""At the sound of the swinging cymbal"" arranged by former Ladybirds singer Barbara Moore and recorded by Brass Incorporated. This version is still used by the BBC today. The Propellerheads modernised the song in their 1998 re-imagining ""Crash!"" which was included on the second soundtrack of the movie . After joining BBC Light Programme from Radio Luxembourg in 1961, Alan Freeman used the piece as his theme music for ""Records Around Five"" and a year"
"1955, with original music by Federico Mompou. He served as Principal Conductor of the Royal Bellet from 1959 from 1972. He arranged ""La fille mal gardée"" (original music by Ferdinand Hérold and others), to choreography by Frederick Ashton, for the Royal Ballet in 1960. Lanchbery's delightful re-working also included some Donizetti and much of his own invention. This work includes the famous ""Clog Dance"" used for many years as a theme tune for ""Home This Afternoon"" on BBC radio. In addition to the revenue from his recordings, Lanchbery had his income supplemented by the copyright he earned from his orchestral"
"custom arrangement more in keeping with the style of light entertainment programming. In 1981, David Clark took over as producer/director and commissioned a new theme tune, followed in 1988 by a theme song written and composed by Alan Braden, which remained in use until the end of the Thames series in October 1991. Uniquely, the Braden theme song featured separate lyrics for both the opening titles and closing credits. The programme has been repeated on satellite TV and is also still parodied in British comedy. It was frequently referred to by Humphrey Lyttelton, chairman of BBC radio's long-running ""antidote to"
"theme song himself, using an old music hall number. The series was briefly revived by London Weekend Television in 1978 as a series of short sketches on ""Bruce Forsyth's Big Night"", with Drake and McGee reprising their roles. Drake made a number of records, most of them produced by George Martin for the Parlophone label. The first, ""Splish Splash"", a cover version of a rock and roll song originally recorded by Bobby Darin, got into the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 7 in 1958. An edited version of ""My Boomerang Won't Come Back"", became a mid-chart"
"episodes, 1972–1974)<br> Amy Winthrop – Charlotte Mitchell (52 episodes, 1972–1974)<br> Kevin Gordon – Roderick Shaw (51 episodes, 1972–1974)<br> Squire Armstrong – Michael Culver (31 episodes, 1972–1974)<br> Vicky Gordon – Judi Bowker (26 episodes, 1972–1973)<br> Jenny Gordon – Stacy Dorning (25 episodes, 1973–1974)<br> Police Constable Dickins – Kenneth Thornett (16 episodes, 1972–1974)<br> Albert Clifton – Tony Maiden (14 episodes, 1972–1974)<br> Ned Lewis – Stephen Garlick (11 episodes, 1973–1974) Transmission dates given are for the network; they varied in London. The theme tune, ""Galloping Home"" was written by Denis King and performed by the London String Chorale. In 1973 it won the"
"Don't Ask Me (TV programme) Don't Ask Me was a popular British television science show made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and ran from 1974 to 1978. It attempted to answer science-based questions and contributors included Magnus Pyke (natural sciences), Rob Buckman (medicine), David Bellamy (biology), Miriam Stoppard (medicine), and Derek Griffiths. Those behind the scenes included Adam Hart-Davis, who later became a well-known science presenter in his own right. The theme music was ""House of the King"" by the contemporary Dutch progressive rock band Focus. The series was rebroadcast for a time on TVOntario. A follow up"
"show theme song entitled ""Down at the Long Branch Saloon"". Sheet music for the piece was sold as a souvenir of the show which included a photo of Mrs. Mock as Dodge City Kitty on the front. The song was used in the show until 1966 and was re-introduced sometime after 2000 and is currently the show finale. The copyright is currently held by Mrs. Mock. A new theme song - ""The Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City"" - was introduced in 1967 and was written by JoAnn Bock, Bruce Dillman, and George Henrichs. It was used until 1984 in"
"listed The Dean Martin Show The Dean Martin Show, not to be confused with the ""Dean Martin Variety Show"" (1959–1960), is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit ""Everybody Loves Somebody"". The series was a staple for NBC, airing Thursdays at 10:00 for 8 years, until its move to Fridays at 10:00 for the final season and change in format. ""The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast"", a series of specials spun off from the"
"- Doorman Mrs Schepers - Manageress Jaak Van Hombeek - Policeman Paul Van Roey - Drillmaster post Jaak Germain - Overseer The theme tune for the series was 'Living it up', recorded by Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra. Featuring Kaempfert's characteristic trumpet sound, it became very popular at the time the first series was airing. In series 1 Zeppos drove an Austin Champ ex-British Army Jeep style 4x4 vehicle powered by a Rolls Royce engine. Zeppos drove an amphibious vehicle in series 2 and 3, resulting in this type of car being referred to as a 'Zeppos' in Flanders even"
"solve a difficult puzzle. Alan Thicke composed the show's original theme, which was titled ""Big Wheels"". In 1983, it was replaced by Griffin's own composition, ""Changing Keys"", to allow him to derive royalties from that composition's use on both the network and syndicated versions. Steve Kaplan became music director starting with the premiere of the 15th syndicated season in 1997, and continued to serve as such until he was killed when the Cessna 421C Golden Eagle he was piloting crashed into a home in Claremont, California, in December 2003. His initial theme was a remix of ""Changing Keys"", but by"
"Drene Time Drene Time (aka The Drene Show) was a 30-minute radio variety show starring Don Ameche and singer-actress Frances Langford as co-hosts, airing on NBC's Sunday night schedule (10-10:30pm Eastern) in 1946-47. The series was sponsored by Procter & Gamble's Drene Shampoo, and the announcer was Tobe Reed. ""Drene Time"" usually opened with Langford singing a big band-style arrangement. Then Ameche and Langford would slip into comedy, often aided by co-star Danny Thomas, in routines involving Thomas' frustration that Ameche was less of an actor than Thomas. After another musical number and a commercial spot for Drene Shampoo, Ameche"
"General Hospital (UK TV series) General Hospital is a British daytime soap opera produced by ATV that ran on ITV from 1972 to 1979. It was not modelled after the American drama of the same name. Rather, it was an attempt to replicate the success of its predecessor, ""Emergency - Ward 10"". The original theme music was ""Girl in the White Dress"" by the Derek Scott Orchestra which was used until 1975, when it was replaced by Johnny Pearson's ""Red Alert"" for the 60-minute episodes. In 1972, ITV started to broadcast programmes on weekday afternoons, triggering a new wave of"
"theme tune was initially identical to that used for the ""On the Ball"" segment of ""'World of Sport"". In later years, the introduction to the show began with St John and Greaves as cigarette cards from their playing days on the opening credits, and the theme tune was changed to a piece named ""Aztec Gold"", composed by Silsoe, which, at the time, was being used as the theme tune for ITV's ""The Big Match"", after being the theme tune for the station's coverage of the 1986 World Cup. Although the show predominantly dealt with football, it also covered sports such"
"as the children thanking the sponsors at the beginning and end of the show. The show's theme song was written by Stephen Horelick, Dennis Neil Kleinman, and Janet Weir; Horelick also served as the series' music director and composer and received an Emmy nomination in 2007 for his work on the series. Over the show's 23-year run, it went through three variations of the theme song. The original theme was performed by Tina Fabrique and featured one of the first uses of the Buchla synthesizer in a TV theme song. The original opening sequence consisted of a cartoon butterfly transforming"
"segments of the show were shot outside the big top, including one occasion when the Brotherhood of Man sang ""My Sweet Rosalie"" sitting in a particularly unstable looking lifeboat. The show's theme, ""Summertime City"", written and sung by Mike Batt, was a UK Top 10 hit in 1975. Very successful in its day, the show was briefly revived in the 1980s, but by then the tastes of the viewing public had moved on (see Variety shows history). 5 July 1975<br> Location - BBC1 Big Top at Blackpool.<br> The first of a new series of variety shows featuring artists appearing at"
"and drummer Jack Parnell. An arranger for visiting Americans such as Frank Sinatra, he wrote jingles for commercials in the later 1950s. His theme music for the Anthony Newley series ""The Strange World of Gurney Slade"" (1960) reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart, and still resurfaces in fresh contexts. Harris also provided the theme music for the London Weekend Television (LWT) TV series ""The Gold Robbers"" (1969), the BBC 1 science-fiction series ""Doomwatch"" (1970–72), the LWT drama anthology series ""Big Brother"" (1970), the LWT police drama series ""New Scotland Yard"" (1972), the ITV comedy series ""Odd Man Out"""
"were a number who made repeated appearances including Bryan Michie, Roy Rich, Godfrey Winn, Robert McDermott, Richard Murdoch, Gary Miller, Kenneth Horne, Sam Costa, Desmond Carrington and David Jacobs. One of the most popular was George Elrick, who sang his own lyrics over the theme music, beginning with ""Dooodle-dum-de-doodle-dum"" and ending with ""I'll be with you all again tomorrow morning"". The programme ended when the Light Programme was replaced by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 in 1967. Its short-lived successor, ""Family Choice"", was broadcast on both Radios 1 and 2, but by September 1969, had also ended. In"
"coverage of athletics events such as the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, plus highlights of domestic Grand Prix races and the Cork City Sports and Morton Games. Three theme tunes were used during the programme's run. A catchy brass-led theme played by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra ran from 1973–87, replaced for one year by a heavy rock intro. From 1988 onwards, the programme used the distinctive keyboard riff from the Europe song ""The Final Countdown"", which had been a Number 1 hit in 25 countries, including Ireland, in 1986. The original recording was used from 1988, but a re-arranged version"
"series made Hitchcock a celebrity. The title-sequence of the show pictured a minimalist caricature of his profile (he drew it himself; it is composed of only nine strokes), which his real silhouette then filled. The series theme tune was ""Funeral March of a Marionette"" by the French composer Charles Gounod (1818–1893). His introductions always included some sort of wry humour, such as the description of a recent multi-person execution hampered by having only one electric chair, while two are shown with a sign ""Two chairs—no waiting!"". He directed 18 episodes of the series, which aired from 1955 to 1965. It"
"on the programme in 1979 to demonstrate how modern pop music was created using multi-track recording techniques. The end result was liked enough by both the viewers and programme producers to be retained as the permanent theme, and Oldfield additionally recorded a new version of the programme's closing music, which runs for just 20 seconds and has never been commercially released. The released version of the theme is actually a further re-recording, which incorporates many subtle changes compared to the TV version, in addition to eliminating the opening snare drum roll, extending the piece to a more suitable duration for"
"Instrumentalist with Orchestra in 1964. The same recording was used as the closing theme for ""Vision On"", a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1976. (Was that not Bert Kaempfert's version?) The Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut performed her gold medal-winning floor routine at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich to a live piano version condensed to about 1 minute 9 seconds. ""The Muppet Show"" featured ""Java"" at the beginning of episode 22, where it was danced to by two creatures. The bigger creature constantly knocked the smaller away. At the end of the song, the small"
"The Dean Martin Show The Dean Martin Show, not to be confused with the ""Dean Martin Variety Show"" (1959–1960), is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit ""Everybody Loves Somebody"". The series was a staple for NBC, airing Thursdays at 10:00 for 8 years, until its move to Fridays at 10:00 for the final season and change in format. ""The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast"", a series of specials spun off from the final"
"Family Favourites Successor to the wartime show ""Forces Favourites"", Family Favourites (remembered by its later name Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2 and the British Forces Broadcasting Service until 1980. It was a request programme designed to link families at home in the UK with British Forces serving in West Germany or elsewhere overseas. It was a big success. It had the memorable signature tune ""With a Song in My Heart"" (original played by Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra) and was presented by a variety of well-known radio personalities including"
"dolls to a driving-themed video game, released for the PlayStation 2 platform in 2006. The ATV game show ""The Golden Shot"", presented by Bob Monkhouse, adopted ""Captain Scarlet"" as the theme for its 1967 Christmas special. Broadcast live on 23 December, the programme featured guest appearances from Francis Matthews and ""The Spectrum"", who performed their latest single, ""Headin' for a Heatwave"". To complement the TV episodes, Century 21 released five further ""Captain Scarlet"" stories as audio adventures on vinyl record EPs, each running to approximately 21 minutes, and starring the original voice cast, in 1967. ""TV Century 21"" script editor"
"and personal stories of burn recovery from the Bali Bombing. Since 2000, the program has officially been designated a ""documentary series"", with only one or two segments filling an hour-long episode, due to CRTC regulations that count documentaries, but not older-style newsmagazines, as ""priority programming"". In the 2012–2013 season the program began experimenting with loosening the format, with occasional three story episodes. For a period of time in the late 1970s and into the 1980s, the program's introductory theme music used part of ""Fool's Overture"", a song by the UK band Supertramp. The current theme was composed by Doug Pennock,"
"bringing it to a larger audience. The second series of eight episodes aired on BBC Two from November 2007; the third series aired from November 2008; and the final series aired from 31 May 2011 until 5 July. Comparisons were made by critics to the successful American comedy ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", and positive comments were made about ""Lead Balloon""'s characters, particularly Anna Crilly's Magda, the Eastern European housekeeper. The first series was released on DVD in November 2007. The show's theme tune is a cover version of ""One Way Road"", written by Noel Gallagher and performed by Paul Weller. The"
"Labour MP Brian Walden between 1977 and 1986, after Jay became Ambassador to the United States. Conservative MP Matthew Parris took over in 1986, resigning his seat, and presented the programme until the series ended in 1988. Walden in particular gained a reputation for ""grilling"" his interviewees over an extended interview. Parris, on the other hand, was largely criticised for his lighter and more laid-back style. The theme music used throughout the series run was the closing bars of ""Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)"", originally written and recorded by the progressive rock group Mountain. Weekend World Weekend World was a"
"the programme was ""West End"" composed by Laurie Johnson. When the series moved over to ITV in the late 1960s, a new theme was incorporated entitled ""Horizons"" by Frank Talley and The New Concert Orchestra which was used until 1977. In 1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber composed a new theme for the series that was used until the early 1980s. When the series returned to the BBC in 1984, ""Newsweek"", a piece composed by Graham de Wilde for KPM Musichouse, was used as the theme. ""Whicker's World"" was a huge ratings success in the UK, and one of the longest running"