Best of British TV Themes Quiz
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- čas přidán 14. 09. 2023
- Get ready to rewind the clock and tune in to the television of the 60s, 70s and 80s with the Best of British TV Themes Quiz.
In this quiz, I'll transport you back to the golden era of British television, where unforgettable theme tunes set the stage for iconic shows. Here's how it works: I'll play snippets of 25 classic British TV theme songs, and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to correctly identify the shows those tunes belong to.
Challenge your friends and family, relive some favourite TV memories and see if you're the ultimate British TV theme aficionado. Are you sitting comfortably? Your journey through British TV history begins now!
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My miserable score will remain private! If you still get a point for shouting at the screen "Oh, that's errr, oh it's, can't think of it's name" then I got them all🤣🤣as it is I shall have to reflect on my poor performance and do better next time. That was great, a real trip down memory lane there so thank you very much👏👏👍
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Sounds like a full house then Martin!😀
@@stuviewtv I kicked myself by getting my sweeny mixed up with my professionals🤣 but pleased I remembered mind your language straight away and although I've yet to get a 'full house' your quizzes are so entertaining that I don't get too upset about the score, it's great fun✌️🍻
Almost the same as you.
I said Follyfoot for Black Beauty.
I still think that the theme to Black Beauty stands up as a genuine piece of classical music. Absolutely beautiful.
I'd add also add the Lightening Tree theme from Follyfoot.
This can be confirmed because I also know, just how much fudge is required to give a kid a treat and the preferred destination for anybody having a bath in a private jet with a bar of Coussins Imperial Leather soap.
Fantastic vid as always Stu, even though I was thwarted by 'The High Road' and at least three others where shouting "Robin's Nest" proved fruitless.
I often find shouting the same answer repeatedly eventually pays dividends...sadly, not this time though it seems!
Yes!! The Black Beauty theme tune was a classic, along with Follyfoot...🐴🐴 l nearly put “Robin’s Nest” instead of “Sorry” and I always mix up the theme tunes of Yes Minister” and “ To the Manor Born.” Happy Memories 📺
But was this fudge full of peppery goodness?
@@Matelot123 Not only was it full of Cadbury goodness, but it was very small and neat. :)
Now, "Do you want the fish"?
The theme to the Czech dubbed in English programme 'White Horses' was also very pleasant.
“Get your trousers on, you’re nicked!” Another great selection and great commentary, Stu. Thanks.
We're the Sweeney son, and we haven't had any dinner.
Great work Stu. Another wonderful trip down Memory Lane. My wife and I got quite a few. We too thought it was 'to the manor born....' 😂😂😂❤
Glad you enjoyed it! Amazing how often those two series are mixed up when it comes to their theme tunes.
Yes that one tripped me up as well.
I missed out on 8. Thought it was to the Manor born. 17.
Some great memories for me. The Dick Emery Show was a family favourite! Oh you are awful…. So many great characters that would never be revived today.
20/25. Yes Minister tripped me up. I guessed To the Manor Born.
Why were the shows back then. So much better than the shows of today .
You only remember the good, your mind blocks out the bad. No-one even back then considered Crossroads to be good. Or Take the high road. Or Albion Market (remember that abortion?)
There's some good stuff on modern TV/streaming. Fringe was a masterpiece, fir example.
Damn you, Ronnie Hazelhurst. Thought Yes Minister was To The Manor Born...
You're not alone there Dan!
@@stuviewtvyeah the beginnings are so similar, another 10 secs and the difference is far easier to spot though 👍
Brilliant way to spend a friday night, i really enjoyed this :D
Fantastic, thank you!
Oh, thank you for this! Some of those themes took me back! The Black Beauty theme, however brief, actually brought tears to my eyes.
My pleasure! That Black Beauty theme often gets me too, such a beautiful and stirring tune.
Love it so much I made it my phone ring tone. Whenever an annoying tune gets stuck in my head, I only have to play Galloping Home to drive it out again.
@@socratesrocks1513 I agree with you. It's one of the most beautiful and evocative tunes ever to be played.
Well I came a cropper on 'Take the high road',which i suspect many will!
And, I'm ashamed to say 'Hi De Hi' also.
Your graphics are brilliant Stu! 👍🙂
Thanks!
I got that one, then talked myself out of it.
That was good😊 enjoyed that quiz...some of those programms were on late it brought back memories of me thinking oh its bed time = school in the morning...oh no😮. Loved black beauty❤. Got about 6 wrong..yes including manor born..Not!. Thankyou,👍
As a child that grew up in the late 70s and ealry 80s this was right down my street. However still got 7 wrong!
I got some of the tv themes right like Crossroads (heard it was famous for its wobbly sets) lol 😂, Blockbusters. No-one was a better host than the late, Bob Holness. (RIP Bob!),
Black Beauty, Hi-De-Hi, The Sweeney, Minder, The Professionals, forgot about, Tales of the Unexpected (loved that song and series), Parkinson (RIP Parky) but I don’t remember the other tv themes as I was born in 1980 but a few of the programmes like, The Professionals, The Sweeney and Minder are still repeated on tv.
Ouch! 8 wrong! And yeah you got me good on the Yes Minister thought it was To The Manor Born! Lulled into a false sense of security by the first ten and then there was much groaning!🤣
Same here...lol. 😅
Great Quiz! I didn't get everything right..... , BUT it was good to hear Old UK TV Themes. Some Wonderful Themes existed many years ago.....
Brilliant ! So glad we found this channel 😊
That's great to hear - thanks!
Great stuff, love these, and happy to say I did actually get a couple wrong, but only because I thought they were something else! I got Hammer House of Horror straight away though - I was very lucky to meet Peter Cushing, when he took a Sunday off filming his episode, "The Silent Scream". Not the series scariest (that was probably The House That Bled To Death) but definitely a chiller. He was staying at a hotel run by my best friend's parents, and my mates mum came up and said "Peter is in the lounge if you want to go and say hello". 1980. Three years after he played Moff Tarkin in Star Wars. I was 13!! Are you kidding? My mate and I spent two very chatty hours talking to this sweet, gentle, charming and friendly gentleman. He even bought us a coke each!! A memory I cherish every day.
Oh wow, that is fantastic. What a fabulous memory to cherish. Peter Cushing was one of my acting heroes, as was Christopher Lee. Wonderful that you got to chat with him for so long and it's nice to hear how nice he was. I never got to meet Peter but I did get to meet Christopher Lee about twenty years ago. That was a bucket list moment for me and he was a true gent too,
Loved to have got the double, but alas....another mate met Christopher Lee a few years back and said he was also a true gentleman.
Lucky guys.....
@delbydoo, Hi there! I love watching the Hammer Horror films and my favourite actor from those movies was the late, great Peter Cushing and I had a crush on Christopher Lee when he was young in the Hammer Horror movies. What you wrote about Peter, that was great and very sweet of him, he brought you and your friend a coke and chatted to you both. It shows that he was a gentleman, kindhearted and a lovely man 🥰.
Another great quiz stu. These really bring back some great memories. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing, took me back....
Great video! Really appreciate your content as it takes me back to better times in the late 60s-70s when I was growing up. TV was so much better then with none of this modern PC, gender identity nonsense.
Definitely the golden age of television back then.
Yeah, The Sweeney never bothered with political correctness!!!
I knew nearly all the themes but just couldn't remember the the programmes. Good to remember the good old day's tho
I enjoyed that. Remembering all but 1, it was great to hear them all once again.
Absolutely great. So many memories. A tear came to my eye at number 3. I got 22. Clearly watched too much telly. Thanks, Stu. 😊
You're very welcome!
Black Beauty theme is in my opinion the very best theme tune ever
Great quiz and yes I thought number 22 was To The Manor Born!
Great quiz thanks again Stu I had 13/25👍👍😁
Thanks Ken!
Fab! Was hoping to hear 'Blake 7', that theme was epic!
I recognised all of them except "Never the Twain."
No - that's a confession not a boast!
Yeah, the Yes Minister and TTMB threw a spanner in the works!
A lot of the ward shots on Angels were filmed at the Walsgrave hospital in Coventry
Absolutely loved this nostalgia, I knew most of them, what's more we used to watch most of them, which is shocking to think about
Glad you enjoyed the memories!
Brilliant Stu , I got about eight wrong and although I remembered the theme songs matching them to the shows was a bit tougher.
A walk in the park for me, this one. Got every single one right. But then, it is a bit of a hobby of mine collecting theme tunes, so I wasn't likely to miss any of these.
Top stuff!
6 wrong. Thanks for another brill quiz
I didn't do too bad, considering I was just a small child in the seventies, and wasn't allowed to watch many of these shows... I got about two-thirds of them right.
Did anyone else have a weird thing going on with some of these theme tunes? A few of them ('Angels' and 'Z-Cars' being two examples) I was absolutely CERTAIN had lyrics to them - I was even trying to remember them, to help me guess the theme tune by singing them - but, once I knew the answer, I knew they didn't, they were only ever instrumentals. Maybe some tunes just had such a solid beat and melody line they sounded like they SHOULD'VE had lyrics.
Lots of memories for me.
There’s times I think tv programs were better back then.
I look through FreeSat program menu now and the frequency I can’t find anything to watch
Eye Level (theme from Van der Valk) was number one in 1973, so you were a year out.
It was all going so well until 19 and 20. Also missed 25, so 22/25 declared. 17 one of the best themes ever. Fond memories of 4pm Saturday afternoons watching the wrestling. Happier, simpler times. Good quiz.👍
I used to love watching the wrestling on a Saturday afternoon. Just a shame there was about two hours of horse racing to get through first!
Only got about half right.Theme tune for Black Beauty being one of my favourite TV series as a young teenager.🙂
Sign of a mis spent childhood here with 24 . The one I missed was Angels as I kept repeating that's the one it couldn't be.
Its surprising how just a few notes can jog great memories, thank you for the smiles. 17 correct
You're welcome 😊
Really well put together !
Totally honest 17 for me, mostly due to age!
Would love to go through more torture like this, especially as a first-time viewer and brand-new subscriber!
Keep em comin’!
JCHK
Glad you enjoyed the video, despite the torture! Thanks so much for subscribing.
A poor 12. I recognised a lot more but couldn't put a name to them. Used to watch Hammer house of horror with my grandad - that certainly made me the horror fan that I am today - The house that bled to death is the one that is the most memorable and I've seen that one a fire few times since then. Great video.
Thanks!
Great selection. I managed to get about two-thirds of them right.
Thanks Stu. Another great quiz. 22/25.
Great score!
The scariest 'Hammer House Of Horror' was one with a man driving down a country road at night in the rain.
A shadowy figure in a yellow Souwester appears as if from out of nowhere. The driver stops to pick him up and later gets stabbed in the throat if I remember rightly by a withered hand but with a very long sharp nail attached to it.
The Two Faces of Evil- definitely one of the scariest of all the episodes.
I really enjoyed this
Many thanks.
OK, I got all of them, so I'm definitely in that 'oldie' demographic now. :D
Re: Hammer House of Horror, the one that sticks in my mind is the hitch hiker wearing a yellow sou'wester and hat, who hikes in the pouring rain and has a long, sharp, pointed fingernail that he uses to cut those who unwittingly pick him up.
Awesome score!
The Hammer House of Horror episode that scared me the most was ' Two faces of evil '
Whhooaaa!! Hammer House of Horror!! I thought I was free of that nightmare!! All I remember is witches and blood in a bowl of custard! I was menatlly scarred by this programme!!!
I only got 16 correct,
but some I knew of and some i just couldn't remember the names,
Some others on here done really well though!🔥
Well done Ye high scorers 👏 🔥
but thank you StuView👍 scores aside, you really do bring us niche folk together with our love and brilliant memories of days gone by of these particular decades,
We need StuView, you are that place we can drop into and deeply reminisce, almost as if we are back there,
the innocence and goofiness of being a bairn back then💙🔥
This place retains my interest and I'm so happy I found it,
Visiting your channel, where everything in your content makes sense and is so happily familiar🔥🔥
Yes Minister did catch me out. Such a smart TV show. I wonder what Sir Humphrey Appleby would make of this lot.
The Z Cars theme was called Night Patrol I think.
Ha that was fantastic 😁👍
nice one, ah the memories i got 19/25 and yes i did think of Brian Jacks can still feel the pain of those squat thrusts 😮
I love this
Thanks!
Small correction - the Van der Valk theme was released as a single in Nov 72, but it didn't top the charts until almost a year later in Sept 73.
Thanks for the info - much appreciated
How cool was that video 👍…got a pretty solid 22 out of 25….As for Hammer there were two episodes for me that stood out, one with Peter Cushing and Brian Cox and the other one with Diana Dors!
Oh yes,they were both classic Hammer episodes!
I achieved a score of around 9.
I was amazed that Mind your language pulled in around 18 million viewers. We only had around 3 or 4 channels which was generally light hearted entertainment, unlike the dross we have nowadays with over a hundred channels.
Good work Stu. 👍🎵🎼
Thanks!
Got them all, but the Yes Minister theme was confused with To the Manor Born. Regarding the hammer House of Horror, the theme was just brilliant and with it, you did not feel anything sinister until the face at the window of the house/castle!
Very enjoyable. Got about 70%.
One of my favourite shows Z, cars and van der valk .
Amazing video thanks so much for uploading! Got a lot of these but not all. I recognised the themes, but couldn’t match them to the show. I loved Minder me, my dad and me used to watch it when i was 10/11 years old. It was rubbish after Dennis Waterman left though. Thanks again pal, all the best
Many thanks!
Angels, Take The High Road, Superstarts and World of Sport are the only ones I missed.
I love these quizzes!
I got 23
Growing up in the 70s and 80s all my attention was funneled into those three channels and then four, with a concentration on comedy
The ones I got wrong was the second one that was too scary to watch as a child and the one you said could be confused for another tune which I did. I hope that's abiguous and far enough down the comment to avoid spoilers!
Keep it up! 😊
Many thanks!
Got most of em, missed Dick Turpin (sounded familiar) and Superstars (Thought international athletics, so close) and yes, I was thinking TTMB for Yes Minister, probably cos it didn't start with the chime.
Truly enjoyed that Stu...
All of them right, but one! As 'yes minister ' I truly did get mixed up with ' to the manor born' ha ha 😂..what a good prediction you had , that some of us might get it wrong 😂
Glad you enjoyed it! Amazing how those two shows get mixed up. Mind you, the theme tunes are so similar.
Only two, Black Beauty solely because I have watched Alan Partridge several times (it’s played at the end of the last episode of series 1 and Lynn shares this fact), it’s also the theme tune used for a Finnish comedy series in the late 90s. And Generation Game I knew only because I’ve binged that on CZcams.
I still remember how the entire country stayed in to watch the final episode of Z-Cars. Didn't it end with the cast standing behind the police station shutters as they went down for the final time?
I got 18 , didn't get :
Van der Valk
Z cars
World of sport
Take the high road
Angels
Superststars
Dick Turpin
Great work again Stu, enjoyed that ! Cheers
Many thanks!
I don't think Hammer's House of Horror ever actually scared me, but a few of the stories still stick in my mind.
The house that bled to death.
The one with the genetically engineered plants and the adopted kid seeing the ghost of their real one who died after eating some of it.
The one with the dream loop. "Why did you do it? Why did you kill your wife?"
And the one with Peter Cushing as, what they originally think, is a concentration camp survivor, but he was one of the guards. And traps them in their house at the end with an electrified force field.
Some great episodes there.
Thriller seamed like a popular drama on a Saturday evening back in the early seventies but my Mum was always reluctant to allow me to sit up and watch it. If only I had a portable TV set in my bedroom then!
12/25! And yes, I confused the theme tune with To the Manor Born! Aww...😮
Started off really well and then it got tough
Really good quiz Stu
Thanks!
Does anyone remember Dick Emery? as a small boy in the sixties i appeared on stage with him in a Cardiff theatre, great memories.
Oh wow, that's fantastic!
Lots of memories there thank you :) hammer house of horror .. Used to watch those late at night after parents went to bed. Stand out episode was " The house that bled to death" with blood coming out of the pipes .. Still remember it now
Glad you enjoyed the memories! The House That Bled to Death seems to be the one that most people remember. Not surprising considering that scene with the blood in the pipes!
@@stuviewtv'Charlie Boy' with the Nkisi doll was always my favourite.
William Moore who played Timothy's (Ronnie Corbett) father is "Sorry" was Mollie Sugden's husband in real life.
superb, around 85 percent
Many thanks. Nice score too!
1. Hello Miss Diane-2. We're the Sweeney son and we haven't had our dinner yet-3. Lloydes, the sign of the black horse-4. I'll have a P please, Bob-5. Oh my gawd, it's her indoors-6. ?-7. Hello campers-8. Rhaul Dahl introduction-9. My guest tonight..-10. Z Victor 1-11. ?-12. Dutch courage-13. An Irishman walks into a pub-14. Didn't they do well-15. ?-16. Language Timothy-17. Coming up at 2.15 we have Mick McManus taking on Kendo Nagasaki-18. Cover me-19. Hurry Nurse, bedpan-20. ?-21.?-22. Just popping next next door to see Johnny Walker-23. Stand and deliver-24. Hello honkytonk-25. ?...... I thought I'd just give some alternative titles to those I could think of but those with the question mark, my mind went blank. Excellent upload.
Many thanks! Some nice alternative titles there.
Got 20/25, a few i knew but couldnt remember
Hammer House of Horror.
Most frightening. Maybe The Two Faces of Evil, the hitchhiker episode.
Then the Peter Cushing one where he kept Brian Cox trapped with a tiger.
Think I'd agree with you there. Good choices.
The Hammer house of horror episode that terrified me as a child was 'The two faces of Evil', with the hitchhiker... but my favourite will always be 'Charlie Boy' with the evil Nkisi Doll.
I love your quizzes, this one was frustrating… I sat there saying “oh, god, what was that… oh, of course!” Brilliant. You asked about Hammer House of Horror, I remember one episode that featured a dinner reunion for a group of air crash survivors and I think a reporter gate crashed to get a story. Turned out the survivors only survived because they resorted to cannibalism and the journalist ended up staying for dinner, I believe he was delicious.
Glad you enjoy the quizzes. Many thanks! Oh yes, I remember that episode of Hammer House of Horror too. The Thirteenth Reunion I think it was called.
Im ashamed to say I knew every one
Then again brings back some happy memories.👍
Well done!
Dick Emery, very funny guy, met him in the sixties and appeared on stage with him at the. New Inn Theatre Cardiff.
Francis
Ron Grainer also wrote the iconic theme music to The Prisoner. Starring Patrick McGoohan as number 6
23/25🤩🎊 A great score from me.... but then I am from an age when my childhood was spent watching only three channels on television 📺 I was doing brilliantly until “Angels.” I recognised the tune, but forgot the programme!! The only series I had never heard of was “Hammer House of Horror.”🧛🏼♂️ Great Quiz🤔 With so many wonderful television 📺 theme tunes 🎶 You could do another Quiz🧐
Nice score! Yes, there's definitely more than enough great themes for another quiz.
Dunno whether I'm a bit ashamed to say I got 24 out of 25. ("Hammer house of horror" being the one I missed). I always felt I was outside playing in the street & park as a kid... but seeing my score on this quiz makes me feel I spent more time in the house than I remember !!! One I thought you might have included was "Just good friends" another Ronnie Hazelhurst ditty... I absolutely love the the final credit trumpet solo version more than I should for some reason... I think I must've subliminally heard it during a particularly happy event in my youth.
Other potentials... "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and "the flashing blade"
Great work as ever Stu. Thank you once again.
P.S "Superstars" always makes me think of Brian Jacks, Geoff Capes AND Ron Pickering.
Kevin Keegan falling off the bike too on Superstars - ouch!
Network released The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe on DVD a few years ago, my wife had never seen it, so began her crush on Robert Hoffmann. The soundtrack CD is brilliant (Robert Mellin & Gian-Piero Reverberi) which I still play regularly.
@@KarlMB64 Its weird when you see someone from 60+ years ago and find them VERY attractive.... It's like feeling attracted to a ghost from the past, that no longer exists. It happens quite often when I watch old films / TV. Current ideas of "beauty" don't really work for me.
I might search out that OST CD as if the main theme is anything to go by, then it should have plenty of beautiful tracks.
All the best.
8 wrong, but hey who else thinks the theme tune to Angels is in a league of it's own. And blimey, didn't a very young me fancy nurses Fiona Fullerton and Joanna Monroe--Swoon!
thanks from wigan , lancs
only got the mind you language one wrong. Superstars will always stand out to me as my uncle was on it with his mate Geoff Capes, and gave me the T-Shirt afterwards as a kid.
Wow, that's great that you got the t-shirt from Superstars.
23/25 I dropped on Angels and Hammer House of Horror. I knew HHoH too, but couldn’t think of the answer in time. Angels I didn’t know at all, only that it was actually filmed at Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry….where I was born…50 years ago today.
Happy birthday to you!
Take the High Road stumped me, but the one that devastated me was when I confidently said “To The Manor Born”. 😳
Proud of myself that I only got 3 wrong!😊 The old memory still working.
22/25 - would have been 23 if I hadn’t confused World of Sport and Grandstand!
Nice score!
The font used gave an extra clue for no. 6
The exterior shots for no.19 were done at St James Hospital, Wandsworth, now demoloshed.
just done the quiz with my mum (i was born in 74, she was born in 52) didnt go too well lol. knew most of the themes, just couldnt connect them, i still have the Minder theme tune on vinyl single, i'm guessing my Dad must have bought it, fancied himself as a bit of a Terry Mccann in those days, Capri included. went a bit Arthur Daley later on, Jag included.
Dave Allen was on TV past my Bed Time mostly & some like Z Cars & Van Der Valk were never seen, most of the rest are immediately recognizable, the brainwashing is deep.
So proud of myself for getting Take the high road goodness knows how !
As a 15yo in 1980, I was allowed to watch Hammer House of Horror on a Saturday night. I don't remember being particularly scared by any episode though. Still watch the DVD box set occasionally.
I was 11 and I remember watching it, the one that always sticks in my mind I think was called the House that dripped blood or something the blood pouring out of the pipes onto the kids birthday party will stay with me forever haha.
OMG! This is the first quiz that I hate having a very good score. Guess I'm goanna have to start buying adult nappies soon. Thank you Stuview TV for this.(sarcasm level 11) Also thank you Stuview TV for your great uploads, I suppose? (sarcasm level 0).