Cult TV Classics

Scene from “Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion”

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TV Cult

Selected by Fred Roberts
Music Editor

 
Category: Poland / Czterej pancerni i pie
Song Title: Ballada o pancernych
Artist: Edmund Fetting
Year: 1966
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwCQW-22b44
 
Category: France / Navarro
Song Title: Navarro Blues
Artist: Herbert Leonard
Year: 1989
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpM08bpXeGo
 
Category: Germany / Der Fahnder
Song Title: Der Fahnder Theme
Artist: Stefan Melbinger
Year: 1983
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10GHFlZ3ZuY
 
Category: Germany / Tatortreiniger
Song Title: Tatortreiniger Theme
Artist: Carsten Meyer
 
Category: UK / Dr. Who
Song Title: Dr. Who Theme
Artist: Ron Grainer
Year: 1963
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V4ClJZME4
 
Category: US / Dark Shadows
Song Title: Dark Shadows Theme
Artist: Robert Cobert
Year: 1966
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyQDc9DsZzs
 
Category: Bavaria / Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
Song Title: Wanninger Theme
Artist: Eugen Thomass
Year: 1965
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdtXN6PD7i0
 

Category: US / Perry Mason 
Song Title: Perry Mason Theme
Artist: Blues Brothers (cover version)
Year: 2000
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQv3Qx-Oxnw

Category: Germany / Tatort
Song Title: Tatort Theme
Artist: Klaus Doldinger
Year: 1970
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvalGxHcgCw

Category: Germany / Raumpatrouille Orion
Song Title: Raumpatrouille Theme
Artist: Peter Thomas
Year: 1966
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-p5A_GislM

 

About the playlister:

Fred Roberts is a native of Cincinnati living in Germany since 1987 who enjoys subverting the arbitrary commercial process in which great works often go unrecognized. He has a dual B.S. in Computer Science and Psychology from Northern Kentucky University (1984) and a Masters in Psychology from Bielefeld Universität (1999). He contributed short stories to the early ezine “D A D A RIVISTA CULTURALE E/O TELEMATICA” (1995/96), and later to the short-lived Greenbeard Magazine, in 1997 receiving a Google Blog of Note citation for his Weblog indeterminacy.blogspot.com where he wrote 428 “one-minute short stories” inspired by found photos. Fred is also creator and designer of Elbot.com, an award-winning AI system. His interests include literature, film, photography and discovering all the well-kept sounds Europe has to offer.