Best of British TV Themes Quiz
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- 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.
“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.
Great quiz and yes I thought number 22 was To The Manor Born!
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.
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!
Brilliant way to spend a friday night, i really enjoyed this :D
Fantastic, thank you!
I enjoyed that. Remembering all but 1, it was great to hear them all once again.
Brilliant ! So glad we found this channel 😊
That's great to hear - thanks!
Manor Born...definitely! And then you explained why it wasn't. Good fun. Thanks. 😊
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!!!
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,👍
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!
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!
Its surprising how just a few notes can jog great memories, thank you for the smiles. 17 correct
You're welcome 😊
Hammer house of horrors! The ghoul, the house that dripped blood and creeping flesh were the ones I remember scaring me half to death as a young boy in the seventies.
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!
Same, as said to another commenter who said he recognised all😀 I said of course we all heard them all.. I got 11 wrong,.was.confident I'd do better 😂😂😂
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🔥🔥
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!
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!
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!
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.
Great quiz thanks again Stu I had 13/25👍👍😁
Thanks Ken!
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
20/25. Yes Minister tripped me up. I guessed To the Manor Born.
Same manor born 😂 11 wrong for me.
Started off really well and then it got tough
Really good quiz Stu
Thanks!
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?
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.
Angels, Take The High Road, Superstarts and World of Sport are the only ones I missed.
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.
William Moore who played Timothy's (Ronnie Corbett) father is "Sorry" was Mollie Sugden's husband in real life.
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 TH-cam.
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!
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.
The best Hammer House of Horror episodes were The Silent Scream, Charlie Boy and Children of the Full Moon
Great selection. I managed to get about two-thirds of them right.
wow happy memories! Thank you!
Got about 20% of them and recognised 75% of them... So many moments I kicked myself. I absolutely should have got "Sorry"... Damn! 😂
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.
I really enjoyed this
Many thanks.
Tales of the Unexpected gave me a few nightmares (and put me off B&Bs for a few years. Anyone remember the lady who murdered and stuffed her guests?) Ruddy terrifying!
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!
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.
Thanks Stu. Another great quiz. 22/25.
Great score!
Dick Emery, very funny guy, met him in the sixties and appeared on stage with him at the. New Inn Theatre Cardiff.
Francis
I got 13 out of 25. Not bad for a country boy from East Tennessee if you ask me.
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
Oh dear, only 12, must try harder!
Can't believe I didn't get Dave Allen! I knew the theme, but couldn't place it. I have bought shame on my self.
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.
I correctly answered all 30 themes. 😜Actually it was about 18 but this is the first time I've not tried to get a perfect score by pausing the video. 😉
Great job!
Im ashamed to say I knew every one
Then again brings back some happy memories.👍
Well done!
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.
superb, around 85 percent
Many thanks. Nice score too!
Got 21…missed Take the High Road (see I’m not alone tho), Dave Allen, Angels and Dick Turpin
Yes, lots of people seem to be getting that same one wrong.
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.
Loved this, but couldn’t identify 12 of them. That was due to my ‘going out phase’ when I was in the pub most nights!
thanks from wigan , lancs
21/25, a lot better than I did with putting names to faces! I was one of the ones that got To The Manor Born mixed up with Yes Minister/Prime Minister 🤬.
Great score.
Proud of myself that I only got 3 wrong!😊 The old memory still working.
Not too bad, a few had gone from the old memory bank, and yes I said To The Manor Born, love Yes Minister.
Hammer house of horror - I'm sure there was an episode where it had a children party with blood coming from broken pipe
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.
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.
One of these themes is Martin Kelners theme on his radio show 😁
The Hammer House of Horror episode that scared me the most was ' Two faces of evil '
All of these theme tunes were so iconic and I love them all.
But my favourite is Black Beauty.
Why?
If I remember correctly this was shown on a Sunday night around tea time- 5 ish
I would sit at the table with my parents🙏🙏🥴and there would be Shiphams paste sandwiches, walkers crisps and then Mandarin Segments and evaporated milk and cordial drink
We would watch Black Beauty and around8pm would be in bed ready for school
Lovely memories.
Black Beauty theme is in my opinion the very best theme tune ever
I love this
Thanks!
I thought I was doing well but I fell apart and only ended up getting 12 of them despite recognising the others and yes I thought it was to the manor born.
I only got 9
Guess i was too busy playing kiss chase and kick the can.
Hammer House of Horror - The House that dripped blood - or the one with the rabbit and maggots.
20..not bad as was born in 1976 😊
The superstars theme has got to be one of the best ever! Remember Kevin keegan falling off the bike.
Oh yes, what a great theme that is!
3 Black beauty, my favourite at the time
Got 80%
I recognised all of them except "Never the Twain."
No - that's a confession not a boast!
Who wasn't waving their hands around at 3:18?
I got 22 out of 25 happy memories.
Nice score!
21/25
Take the high rd
Angles
Yes Minister ( manor born mistake )
Dick Turpin
Nice to hear your voice too
24 out 25 i got hi de hi wrong lol great quiz stu loved it!
Nearly a full house!
@@stuviewtv eating tea watching old benny and miss diann,the good old days of tv,love the production on your vids,you stand out due that
@@stewartfooter3580 That's great to hear, thanks!
Sad to say I got all but one wrong - I never watched “Take the High Road”. Shows my wasted youth!
Never wasted if you enjoyed it!
I started so well either 4 out of 5 but finished with 5 but a lot more if you count 'oh I know that'
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Grange Hill and another show - Through the keyhole? - having the same tune, which always seemed unusual.
I've been trying to find the theme to the original series of Shaw Taylor's 'Drive in' without any success.
The Grange Hill theme was also used in early series of Give Us A Clue on ITV. Just for the first couple of years I believe.
I got few wrong as simply was too young when they 1st aired and probably wasn't interested in watching in the 1st instance
Eye level (1973)
What! No Match of the Day?
Thanks Stuview .. 3 wrong 👍
Great score!
Great content 🙂@@stuviewtv
Many many many moons ago I was working in a hotel in Devon and Michael Parkinson and his wife were seasonal regular guests and the most lovely people I still think of them very fondly Mrs Parkinson would call me Carl-baby
Oh wow, that's fantastic. Sounds like they were both genuine, down to earth people.
Only 60%
I did quite well. I got all the chat shows and sports shows wrong.
i got 8 haha
Was doing well till about half way through then they got a bit tough, only 12/25 for this quiz. Many thanks for putting this together.
Who didn't get Tales of the Unexpected after one second?
I got 4 but born in 1982
24
Great score!
Not to good 11/25 for me on this one
2 wrong
I.didnt get 11 of them 😮😮😮mixed msnor born n prime minister, yes.
Getting worse with a score of 12. Mind most of those i never watched to be honest