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Show Tunes

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Frequency: 1 episode/20d. Total Eps: 35

In the TV shows you know and love, music doesn't just play pivotal roles in introducing the episodes, they shape your memory of them. Here, Stephen Steps Lowe takes a look at the stories behind the best and most-loved TV theme tunes of all time.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
01/08/2025
#87
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
31/07/2025
#80
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
30/07/2025
#72
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
29/07/2025
#58
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
28/07/2025
#44
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
11/10/2024
#88
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
10/10/2024
#69
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
09/10/2024
#59
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music History
08/10/2024
#33

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Show Tunes: Episode 34 - Airwolf 18.07.25

Friday, July 18, 2025 • Duration 03:59

The insistent arpeggiated bassline, soaring synth leads, and jet-engine-like whooshes don’t just suggest flight - they are flight.

Premiering in 1984 on CBS, Airwolf was the ultimate 80s TV cocktail: Cold War espionage, high-tech military gear, a brooding antihero in Jan-Michael Vincent’s Stringfellow Hawke, and most crucially - a helicopter so souped-up it made KITT from Knight Rider look like a rental car.

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Show Tunes: Episode 33 - Doctor Who 11.07.25

Friday, July 11, 2025 • Duration

We’re traveling through space, time, and sound to celebrate the Doctor Who theme - a true sci-fi classic that rewrote the rules of TV music.

The story of this theme is almost as out there as the show itself. While it was composed by Ron Grainer, the true architect of its iconic sound was Delia Derbyshire, a pioneering woman in electronic music. Working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she created the theme using oscillators, spliced tape, and no synthesizers – NONE. Remember, this was years before commercial synths were a thing.

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Show Tunes: Episode 32 - Scrubs 04.07.25

Friday, July 4, 2025 • Duration

If you’re a fan of early 2000s TV, chances are you know it: “I’m No Superman” by Lazlo Bane.

Short, catchy, and packed with personality - it’s as if the song idled up to the reception and said: ‘how about this?’ - insanely hummable it’s the perfect intro for a show that walked the tightrope between absurd comedy and gut-punching emotional moments.

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Show Tunes: Episode 31 - The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 27.06.25

Friday, June 27, 2025 • Duration 04:33

The chances are, you know most of the lines off by heart and you’ve rapped those lyrics more times than you can count

Before The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air even aired in 1990, Will Smith was already making waves in music - part of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. Their clean, feel-good party tracks like “Parents Just Don’t Understand” made them a household name, even earning the first-ever Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1989.

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Show Tunes: Episode 30 20.05.25 - Twin Peaks

Friday, June 20, 2025 • Duration 05:04

When Twin Peaks first aired in 1990, it was like nothing else on television.

Today, we're taking a walk into the misty pines and uncanny shadows of the Pacific Northwest as we explore the hauntingly beautiful theme from Twin Peaks - a track that has remained one of television’s most evocative and iconic musical moments. Co-created by filmmaker David Lynch (RIP) and writer Mark Frost (also of Hill Street Blues fame), the show brought surrealism, small-town secrets, and a mystery that bordered on metaphysical right into the world’s living rooms.

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Show Tunes: Episode 29 - Dukes Of Hazard 13.06.25

Friday, June 13, 2025 • Duration 05:27

Who hasn't tried to slide across the bumper or jump in the car window?... Right? RIGHT?

First aired in 1979, The Dukes of Hazzard was a wild mix of action, comedy, and rural Americana, following Bo and Luke Duke - two fun-loving cousins running afoul of the corrupt Boss Hogg while outwitting the law in their iconic Dodge Charger, the General Lee. But the theme song? That’s what stuck in your head long after the credits rolled.

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Show Tunes: Episode 28 - Miami Vice 05.06.25

Friday, June 6, 2025 • Duration 04:34

Jan Hammer’s Miami Vice Theme, a track so influential it didn’t just define a show-it defined an era. And encouraged designer stubble. It did.

The Miami Vice theme wasn’t your standard orchestral TV tune of the early '80s. Created by Czech-born composer Jan Hammer, the track broke the mold of the time by using synthesizers, electric drums, and a pulsing, moody atmosphere that was evident throughout the show's stylized crime drama aesthetic - where slo-mos and conveniently stacked fruit carts or cardboard boxes were on every corner.

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Show Tunes: Episode 27 - True Blood 30.05.25

Friday, June 6, 2025 • Duration 05:53

Gothic horror soap mashup theme track has one helluva bite

Jace Everett’s Bad Things is hot, sticky and sweaty. Much like the setting of the HBO TV show it soundtracks. Brilliant in its seedy, sexy undercurrent, this was a theme that nearly never was.

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Show Tunes Title: Episode 26 - Thundercats 16.05.25

Friday, May 16, 2025 • Duration 05:29

If you arrived here and have not said ‘the words’, there’s nothing more we can do for you.

Thundercats is amazing. You knew it then. You know it now. The theme is equally as iconic. This staple from the 80’s/90’s is every bit as iconic as remember. And then some. Thank you Bernie Hoffer. Thank you.

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Show Tunes: Episode 25 - Bewitched 09.05.25

Friday, May 9, 2025 • Duration 03:57

You may need to revisit that magic hour between returning home from school, doing some homework and then arsing about on your bike or climbing some trees..

....better still ask your folks about this one.

Bewitched, a sitcom that aired from 1964 to 1972, starred Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, a suburban witch trying to live a normal mortal life and Dick York as Darrin Stephens. The show blended domestic comedy with supernatural hi-jinks - and the theme music is unmistakable and unforgettable.

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