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Is it just me or do parts of the Red Dwarf theme sound a bit like the music to the daytime quiz Going For Gold

To the Manor Born and Yes Minister is one of the more obvious examples
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  • JordyDJordyD Posts: 4,007
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    Dettol advert sounds like a remix of the original ITV Daybreak theme, including the original sting straight after the titles. Another version of this was used to promote Countrywise on ITV last year.
  • GloriaSnockersGloriaSnockers Posts: 2,932
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    Something about the theme tune to 'Ripper Street' reminded me of the theme tune to 'Monroe'. That said, they're probably nothing like each other :)

    The last half of the Blockbusters theme tune always felt like the theme tune to something else from years earlier, but I could never get my brain to tell me what it was.
  • Fairyprincess0Fairyprincess0 Posts: 30,075
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    Superman and star wars.....
  • BlurayBluray Posts: 661
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    Fairyprincess0 wrote: »
    Superman and star wars.....

    We're in the tv section here......and they don't sound alike at all.
  • BlurayBluray Posts: 661
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    retroguy wrote: »
    Is it just me or do parts of the Red Dwarf theme sound a bit like the music to the daytime quiz Going For Gold

    To the Manor Born and Yes Minister is one of the more obvious examples

    Isn't this thread amazingly similar to this other one you started....

    http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1804440&highlight=theme
  • pinkyponk34pinkyponk34 Posts: 1,244
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    Can't think of any.
  • baldtonybaldtony Posts: 105
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    Emmerdale and the Six Million Dollar Man
  • molyeshamolyesha Posts: 414
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    The second 'Grange Hill' theme tune (not the famous sausage-comic-strip one) always seemed very like 'Cagney and Lacey' to me.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 366
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    Ski Sunday & The Horse of the year show
  • 80sQueen80sQueen Posts: 792
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    The Chase & Sky Sports News
  • AnthonyCAnthonyC Posts: 2,238
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    molyesha wrote: »
    The second 'Grange Hill' theme tune (not the famous sausage-comic-strip one) always seemed very like 'Cagney and Lacey' to me.

    What about the first Grange Hill theme and Give Us a Clue...? :)
  • mikwmikw Posts: 48,715
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    The tripods and Casualty - both composed by Ken Freeman
  • KodazKodaz Posts: 1,018
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    Fairyprincess0 wrote: »
    Superman and star wars.....

    I really have to agree with this- it's the first one I thought of. I always got them muddled up when I was a kid, and looking back I can see why.

    Yeah, I'm sure that one could nitpick that they're not 100% identical, but the main sections are *very* similar in both style and melody.
    Bluray wrote: »
    We're in the tv section here

    True; I wouldn't have posted here if Fairyprincess0 hadn't already, but, er... they've shown both films on TV at some point, so there. :D
  • KodazKodaz Posts: 1,018
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    AnthonyC wrote: »
    What about the first Grange Hill theme and Give Us a Clue...? :)

    Apparently they were both versions of the same tune.
  • excelentsexcelents Posts: 1,384
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    The Tripods and Casualty
  • LabLab Posts: 2,338
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    Chris Moyles Quiz Night & Alan Carr Chatty Man
  • C HorseC Horse Posts: 747
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    OK ... not QUITE what was asked for, but I couldn't resist ...

    The start of "New York, New York" and which famous TV show?
  • OpEdOpEd Posts: 579
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    Sanford & Son

    &

    Monty Python's Flying Zir Kusssssss...

    ...

    Wait, no. That's probably not a good one. I'm no good at this... for some reason.
  • BellaRosaBellaRosa Posts: 36,549
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    Fairyprincess0 wrote: »
    Superman and star wars.....

    :eek: Your right. Got that tune in my head now :D
  • biscuitfactorybiscuitfactory Posts: 29,392
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    Theme to "The Wright Stuff" reminds me of Dancing In The Streets.
  • Saltydog1955Saltydog1955 Posts: 4,134
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    The themes from Sex and the City and Louis Theroux's Wild Weekends.
  • CoriakinCoriakin Posts: 112
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    I never noticed it myself but my mother insisted that the themes for 'Miss Marple' and 'By the Sword Divided' were practically identical.
  • SaturnVSaturnV Posts: 11,519
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    Men Behaving Badly theme is pretty much the same as the tune in Pulstar by Vangelis
  • marobbymarobby Posts: 155
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    I know it's not another theme tune but to me Pointless theme is Cliff's Devil Woman slowed down
  • VetinariVetinari Posts: 3,345
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    baldtony wrote: »
    Emmerdale and the Six Million Dollar Man

    I haven't heard the Emmerdale theme for decades, now, but the first four notes of the original Emmerdale Farm theme matched the Six Million Dollar Man exactly.

    Although that had never occurred to me until I read your post.
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