Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Ted Lasso joins Onedin Line on my list of classic TV tunes
The Sopranos, The Onedin Line and Ted Lasso feature in Tom Dunne's all-time favourite TV tunes.
As a child, special in many ways, my favourite TV shows were Batman, Mission Impossible, Star Trek and Bewitched. The arrival of each on our little screen would be heralded by their equally brilliant theme tunes. Each one was a call to action: “Sit down now!” they said. To my parents delight this left me instantly becalmed.
But in the 1970s something changed. A program called Van der Valk arrived. It was a crime drama, not that that mattered, but its theme tune was a piece called Eye Level. My reaction to it was completely different. I was no longer becalmed, I was mesmerised, led away, Pied Piper like, every time it played.
