And i'll second Hill Street Blues
And for good measure, I thought I'd sneak in Earthworm Jim. ;-)

I don't like the theme to Welcome Back Kotter

anyone else like those old game show themes?

like
Tic-Tac-Dough
Family Feud
SuperPassword

and of course,
The Matchgame !!

The Waltons by that Goldsmith guy.

The Practise

The Colbys and all the ones from Conti

Howard is great

For you SFT I even include The Simpsons

Now, SFT where have u been? Spitted out. I wanna know, I need to know, I must know.

Yes! The "High Incident" theme was great! I had forgotten about that one. There was almost a release of some of this music, but alas, it didn't happen. Too bad.

And of course any tv theme written by Jerry Goldsmith.

Stingray
Joe 90
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet

and both versions of Space:1999

What was interesting about the series, to me, wasn't merely the evilness of the various characters, but the sheer helpless humanity of them. Livia was vile throughout the series, and yet in the last episode or two we begin to understand where she might be coming from. (Remember the way Sian Phillips pronounces the line "I'll be in Hell!" Somehow she manages to make us feel sorry for her, despite all that we've seen her do.)

John Hurt also managed something similar with his portrayal of Caligula. "The thing about Caligula," he said years later, "is that he was so obviously trying to make it all RIGHT." It's an interesting approach, and a fairly smart one: as written, Caligula is merely insane, not entirely responsible for what he does. (And what he does, or appears to do, is infinitely worse in the implications of the script than what we know of Caligula himself. Mr. Ruger, I wonder if you've read a rather strange recent biography which attempts to make him out to be a decent and misrepresented gentleman. I can't remember the title, I merely browsed it at the library a year or so ago.)

music, as I recall, was pretty good. was it Colin Towns? can't remember...

My Top ten TV theme tunes are as follows:
(in no particular order)
Airwolf
Babylon 5
Man from UNCLE
ST:Voyager
Taggart
ER
Doctor Who
The X-Files
Crockett's Theme from Miami Vice
Inspector Morse

Music very much influences me as to whether I will actually like the programme itself. If its a good stirring tune, for an action programme, you can bet I'll like the programme!

The scariest tune on TV anytime has to have been Doctor Who.

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