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The '80s - TV theme tunes

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The '80s weren't such a bad decade (unless you were an Orient fan of course with the drop into the 4th tier for the first time in our history).

But getting to stay up late on a school night and watching with my wonderful parents The Equalizer (starring Edward Woodward) with this intro music still sends shivers down my spine 40 years on!!

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Please post your favourite 80s TV theme tunes here for nostalgia fans like me.
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I used to love Minder, it had a terrific theme tune.
Sung by a band called Kenny, l believe.

The brilliant Only Fools and Horses was also around the same period.
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Chicken Dhansak wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:47 pm I used to love Minder, it had a terrific theme tune.
Sung by a band called Kenny, l believe.
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Hill Street Blues a great series and classic theme tune:
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Hill Street Blues a great series and theme tune was a classic:


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MalvoliO wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:32 pm The '80s weren't such a bad decade (unless you were an Orient fan of course with the drop into the 4th tier for the first time in our history).

But getting to stay up late on a school night and watching with my wonderful parents The Equalizer (starring Edward Woodward) with this intro music still sends shivers down my spine 40 years on!!

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Please post your favourite 80s TV theme tunes here for nostalgia fans like me.
Was a great show as was the joke. Do you know what Edward Woodward would be called without the letter D. Ewar Woowar.

As for theme tunes, Magnum PI was never bettered.
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Er, I think Airwolf would like to have a word.

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And Terrahawks, A-Team, Knightrider, Count Duckula, Moonlighting, Dallas, Bergerac etc...
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Taxi was a great tune also:


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Chicken Dhansak wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:47 pm I used to love Minder, it had a terrific theme tune.
Sung by a band called Kenny, l believe.
Pretty sure that the bloke who played the Terry character wrote the theme tune and sang the theme tune.
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Last one from me. Probably. What Glynis didn’t make up for, the theme tune did.



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