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Tales Of The Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected is a British television series made by Anglia Television for ITV that aired between March 24, 1979 and May 13, 1988. Each episode told a story, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, with an unexpected twist ending. Most episodes were based on short stories by Roald Dahl and he introduced most of his own stories himself, giving short monologues explaining what inspired him to write them.

The theme music for the series was written by composer Ron Grainer. The theme was twice released in 1979 (RK 1018, March 30, 1979; RK 1021, September 7, 1979), credited to Ron Grainer & His Orchestra.

RK 1018 (b-side: "Paul Temple")

RK 1021 (b-side: "Malice Aforethought")

Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson that initially aired across the ITV network between September 1965 and December 1966.

Thunderbirds follows the exploits of the Tracy family, headed by American industrialist and ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy. Jeff is a widower with five adult sons: Scott, John, Virgil, Gordon and Alan. The Tracys make up International Rescue, a secret organisation founded to save human life. They are aided in this mission by technologically advanced land, sea, air and space vehicles that are called into service when conventional rescue methods prove ineffective. The most important of these vehicles are the five "Thunderbird machines", each assigned to one of the five Tracy brothers.

The score was composed by Barry Gray with the theme tune known as "The Thunderbirds March". The theme was twice released as a single, first in 1965 and then in 1981 when it spent two weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #61.

PRT, 7P 216, 1981

Tomorrow's World

Tomorrow's World is a British television series about contemporary developments in science and technology. First broadcast in 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003.

For many years, it had an instrumental theme tune composed and performed by John Dankworth, up to 1979. It was not specially released as a single but did appear as the b-side to a song called "Bitter Lemons", credited to the Dankworth Big Band and released on September 28, 1973.

From January 1980 until 1985, a new theme was created by Richard Denton & Martin Cook. It was released in May 1980.

A theme tune produced by Paul Hart & Joe Campbell was used between 1985 and 1991, but was not released as a single.

The Dankworth Big Band

Richard Denton & Martin Cook

Top Of The Pops

Top Of The Pops is a British record chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1964 and 2006. The programme was the world's longest-running weekly music show. For most of its history, it was broadcast on Thursday evenings and each show consisted of performances of some of the week's best-selling popular music records, usually excluding any tracks moving down the chart, including a rundown of that week's singles chart.

The show has had many theme tunes over the years and between 1970 and 1977, an instrumental version of the Led Zeppelin-Willie Dixon composition "Whole Lotta Love" was used, performed by CCS. The theme was not released as a single in its own right but was the b-side to their 1970 single "Boom Boom". However, it is listed as "Whole Lotta Love" by Official Charts, peaking at #13. It was meant to be re-released for the show's 10th anniversary in 1974 but was was withdrawn over a misunderstanding between RAK and EMI. It did, however, get a re-release for the 20th anniversary.

A special version of Phil Lynott's "Yellow Pearl" was commissioned as the new theme music and used between July 9, 1981 to March 27, 1986. It was originally released in March 1981 when it spent three weeks on the chart, peaking at #56 but was re-released on December 11, 1981 with an updated cover to show it as "the theme from Top Of The Pops". It was 23 seconds shorter than the original release. The re-release peaked at #14 during a nine week run at the end of the year.

This was replaced by "The Wizard", by Paul Hardcastle from April 3, 1986 to September 26, 1991. It was released as a single in September 1986 peaked at #15 on the chart.

PHIL LYNOTT: "Yellow Pearl" (1981)

CCS: "Whole Lotta Love" (1984)

PAUL HARDCASTLE: "The Wizard (Part 1)" (1984)

Triangle

The Two Of Us

The Two of Us is an ITV comedy series starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Janet Dibley that focused on Ashley and Elaine, an unmarried couple living together, at a time when this was becoming increasingly common in Britain, but still considered slightly controversial in some circles. It was produced by LWT and broadcast over four seasons and 32 episodes. The series debuted on October 31, 1986.

The theme tune was composed by Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke, and performed by them under the name of Silsoe.

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