10 Nostaglic TV Theme Tunes We Just Can't Let Go

7. The Bill (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc4Hqde7aDA When the Bill finished it's final story in 2010, many felt disheartened, with the show having stood for everything and everyone. The antics of Sun Hill police had been legendary for almost three decades and it was as much a staple of UK television as that bowl of cereal you had for Breakfast in the morning. And, as good as the show was, nothing could replace the classic (late 80s) version of the show's theme tune €“ accompanied onscreen by the closing titles and the shot of both a male and female police officer "walking the beat" upon the cobbles. And, yes, while this list is about the opening theme tunes of programmes €“ the Bill's closing tune was almost identical to it's opener €“ so I'm going to let it slide. The 88' theme was composed by Andy Pask and Charlie Morgan, scrapped in 1998 for something that felt a bit more "jazzy" and current, though if you ask me - and many often do - the strengths of a long standing show remain in the familiar nature audiences share with it's theme tune. It seem's there's just no account for taste, although the fact I can remember playing this stupid game with my younger brother involving hiding from the television because we'd "forgotten to pay the Bill" (being Irish, we didn't understand the meaning of the word in a Police sense) is clearly indicative of the effects the show had on both ourselves and our long suffering parents.