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Cagney & Lacey - Bill Conti
Miami Vice - Jan Hammer
Knight Rider - Stu Phillips
Taskmaster - The Horne Section
Twin Peaks - Angelo Badalamenti
Jeeves & Wooster - Ann Dudley
Krypton Factor - Art of Noise
BBC Test Cricket - Soul Limbo by Booket T & the M.G.'s
I Dream of Jeannie - Buddy Kaye
Bottom End Credits - The Bum Notes
The Bridge (Bron/Broen) - Hollow Talk by the Choir of Young Believers
Bod - Derek Griffiths
BBC Darts - Douglas Wood who also did the Snooker
Big Brother - Elementfour, which in reality is another Paul Oakenfold vehicle, a criminally underrated (but very wealthy off all his royalties) artist.
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George - Chi Mai, a classic bit of Morricone
BBC Formula 1 - (A bit of) The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
Game On - Where I Find My Heaven by the Gigolo Aunts
Peep Show - Flagpole Sitta by Third Eye Blind
2.4 Children - Howard Goodall (a leftfield choice for best TV comedies? It was insanely popular and re-watching one earlier it's actually pretty good for a family friendly)
Roobarb & Custard - Johnny Hawksworth (a perfect match for the programme)
Grandstand (with classic ident!) - Keith Mansfield
Casualty (the original) - Ken Freeman
Mission Impossible - Lalo Schifrin
Three from Laurie Johnson
Animal Magic
The Avengers
World in Action (orig)
LA Law - Mike Post
Magnum PI - Mike Post
Mid 80's Top of the Pops - The Wizzard - Paul Hardcastle
Tomorrow's World (1987-93) - Paul Hart
Man in a Suitcase / TFI Friday - Ron Grainer
Tales of the Unexpected - Ron Grainer
Benny Hill Show - Yakety Sax, Ronnie Aldrich
Terry & June - Ronnie Hazlehurst
Please Sir! - Sam Fonteyn
Ski Sunday - Pop Goes Bach by Sam Fonteyn
World in Action (the later theme!) - Mick Weaver and Shawn Phillips (there is some argument about who wrote this!)
1986 Mexico World Cup ITV coverage, latterly Saint & Greavsie - Aztec Gold, Silsoe. The BBC one was also good - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgfKIeIgO4E
Might as well chuck up Nessun Dorma (it has to be the 1972 recording!!!) from Italia 90. When you actually read-up about this section in the opera though...
The Equalizer - Stewart Copeland
Sportsnight - Tony Hatch
My So Called Life - Snuffy Walden
This Life - The Way Out
Bloody hell that's a list and a half. I watched too much TV as a kid.
There's a whole other thread waiting to happen for film scores and tunes...