Best of British TV Themes Quiz 

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👏👏👍

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.

“Get your trousers on, you’re nicked!” Another great selection and great commentary, Stu. Thanks.

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....' 😂😂😂❤

Manor Born...definitely! And then you explained why it wasn't. Good fun. Thanks. 😊

The Black Beauty Theme tune I have as my ring tone I loved that. Show plus the horse.

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.

Oh, thank you for this! Some of those themes took me back! The Black Beauty theme, however brief, actually brought tears to my eyes.

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.

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! 👍🙂

Brilliant way to spend a friday night, i really enjoyed this :D

As a child that grew up in the late 70s and ealry 80s this was right down my street. However still got 7 wrong!

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,👍

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

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.

I got 13 out of 25. Not bad for a country boy from East Tennessee if you ask me.

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.

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.

I enjoyed that. Remembering all but 1, it was great to hear them all once again.

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!🤣

Absolutely great. So many memories. A tear came to my eye at number 3. I got 22. Clearly watched too much telly. Thanks, Stu. 😊

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.

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.

Damn you, Ronnie Hazelhurst. Thought Yes Minister was To The Manor Born...

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.....

One of my favourite shows Z, cars and van der valk .

Got about 20% of them and recognised 75% of them... So many moments I kicked myself. I absolutely should have got "Sorry"... Damn! 😂

Brilliant Stu , I got about eight wrong and although I remembered the theme songs matching them to the shows was a bit tougher.

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.

Its surprising how just a few notes can jog great memories, thank you for the smiles. 17 correct

Why were the shows back then. So much better than the shows of today .

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.👍

20/25. Yes Minister tripped me up. I guessed To the Manor Born.

Another great quiz stu. These really bring back some great memories. Thanks

Yeah, the Yes Minister and TTMB threw a spanner in the works!

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

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

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.

Only got about half right.Theme tune for Black Beauty being one of my favourite TV series as a young teenager.🙂

Brilliant ! So glad we found this channel 😊

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.

Does anyone remember Dick Emery? as a small boy in the sixties i appeared on stage with him in a Cardiff theatre, great memories.

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?

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

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. 👍🎵🎼

Fab! Was hoping to hear 'Blake 7', that theme was epic!

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 😮

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.

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!!!

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!

Started off really well and then it got tough Really good quiz Stu

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🔥🔥

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.

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.

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

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.

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 RU-vid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Take the High Road stumped me, but the one that devastated me was when I confidently said “To The Manor Born”. 😳

Great selection. I managed to get about two-thirds of them right.

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!

The best Hammer House of Horror episodes were The Silent Scream, Charlie Boy and Children of the Full Moon

Great quiz thanks again Stu I had 13/25👍👍😁

22/25 - would have been 23 if I hadn’t confused World of Sport and Grandstand!

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.

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.

I scored badly on this one but to comment on the hammer house of horror (one theme that I got straight away) I was 10 when they aired and the top three that disturbed me for life in this order was... the house that bled to death, the doppelganger one and Charlie boy, closely followed by the werewolf kids one. That short series was brilliant.

I really enjoyed this

Im ashamed to say I knew every one Then again brings back some happy memories.👍

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!

I love the theme tune to Sorry. There's a rave version on here somewhere. But I'm sure a cat says "miaow" in the theme and there was never a cat in it as far as I recall. As far as Hammer House of Horror goes there was one I think it was set on a farm and there were strange clones, possibly of children? I will check.

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.

wow happy memories! Thank you!

Dick Emery, very funny guy, met him in the sixties and appeared on stage with him at the. New Inn Theatre Cardiff. Francis

William Moore who played Timothy's (Ronnie Corbett) father is "Sorry" was Mollie Sugden's husband in real life.

Angels, Take The High Road, Superstarts and World of Sport are the only ones I missed.

Proud of myself that I only got 3 wrong!😊 The old memory still working.

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.

12/25! And yes, I confused the theme tune with To the Manor Born! Aww...😮

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.

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🧐

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.

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

Thanks for sharing, took me back....

Not too difficult as a lot of these programmes are still being repeated today.

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.

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. 😉

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! 😊

Got 20/25, a few i knew but couldnt remember

One of these themes is Martin Kelners theme on his radio show 😁

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!

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!

Got 21…missed Take the High Road (see I’m not alone tho), Dave Allen, Angels and Dick Turpin

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.

So proud of myself for getting Take the high road goodness knows how !

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