Have to admit, apart from "Miami Vice", I haven't heard tell of any of the TV shows whose theme tunes have been suggested overnight. (They mustn't have made it across the Atlantic).
I'm really annoyed that "Dallas" started in 1978. Because it's theme tune would make an epic programme!
For the past couple of months, I've been watching "Highway To Heaven". To be honest, I think it would make a boring skating programme. But, I thought I would throw it in. Here is the full-length version of the tune:
Daniel Caine - "
Highway To Heaven"
The other 80's series that I am watching at the moment (well, I was until the channel changed it's schedules at the start of this month, dropping it mid-series!) has a great theme, but I'm not sure it would translate into an Ice Dance programme:
Mark Snow - "
Crazy Like A Fox"
Before them, I was watching this. Loved the programme (and the music!), even though I don't really like David Hasselhoff. There are so many full-length versions on YouTube that just don't quite sound right that I have decided to just link to the opening titles:
Stuart Phillips - "
Knight Rider"
From cars to helicoptors. This is what was on Legend TV before they started showing "Knight Rider". I loved this series, but they destroyed it when they changed the cast and, well, everything else for Series 4. This is another tune that has lots of full-length versions on YouTube that don't quite sound right so, again, I am just linking to the opening titles (This wasn't the version of the titles that I wanted, but at least it is from Series 1. Most of the videos of the titles on YouTube are from Series 2 or 3):
Sylvester Levay - "
Airwolf"
Nah, I don't think either of these would make good skating programmes. Apart from anything else, how do you interpret a car or a helicoptor?!
I really didn't intend this to be so weighted towards American programmes. But, I haven't actually watched much British TV from the 80's.
One British series that started in the 80's that I did watch (albeit not from the start) was "The Bill". But, I don't really like the original version of the theme tune (Charlie Morgan and Andy Pask - "
Overkill") used from 1983 to 1987. My favourite was the
version used from 1988 to 1997. But, it would be more associated with the 90's than the 80's.
Because I haven't watched it, I am not sure when exactly it is set. But, I have to include "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet". The closing theme is one of those songs that has become iconic. Honestly, I don't think it would be suitable for an Ice Dance programme. But I do think the opening theme would:
Joe Fagin - "
Breakin' Away" (Opening Theme)
Joe Fagin - "
That's Living Alright" (Closing Theme)
Another series I haven't watched, but which has an iconic theme tune, is BBC soap "EastEnders":
Simon May - "
EastEnders"
And if you don't want an instrumental, here is a version with vocals provided by one of the original cast members:
Anita Dobson - "
Anyone Can Fall In Love"
Sorry, Anita, but I prefer the instrumental version. (It would probably have made all the difference if she had been accompanied by her now husband, Brian May...) Although, I'm not sure either would be great for skating to.
I have to end with a local programme. And it has to be the music that was used as the theme for Ulster TV's iconic Friday night chat show, "Kelly", which started in September 1989. I can't find a video on YouTube which includes the theme, so here it is at the start of one of the early episodes on the NI Screen Digital Film Archive:
https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/kelly-alex-higgins-leo-sayer-su-3057
But, somehow, I have a feeling that the music is a wee bit older than the 1980's...
OK, I think that's enough for now.
It was a bit of a waste of time making this post out, because I have linked to lots of tunes but, out of all of them, I only think one would be suitable for skating to!
CaroLiza_fan
so i don't think anyone would use it
. It did show in Canada, and I loved it, and the theme music. I bought the complete set on DVD so I could watch it again occasionally.
I'd noticed the Deanna/Diana pair-skater coincidence, but hadn't done the translation to get Deschamps=Delafield until now. 
No, this name was around a lot longer than they. I guess it's time I confessed that The Real Diana Delafield is my sister-in-law, or at least, it was her name before she married my oldest brother, and that was over 60 years ago. She always wanted to skate but never had the chance to learn. I tried persuading her to learn as an adult, but couldn't coax her onto the ice, although she's a big fan. So when I joined GS and needed a user name, I decided to give her a chance to become part of the skating community, in a manner of speaking. However, quite a few people by now have addressed me by her name and I was feeling a bit of a fraud.
(Not enough to step into a phone booth, if there were still any, and emerge as myself, but enough to feel guilty.)
pineapple on it... 
