Surprises abound in this goosebumpy hit of nostalgia, a countdown of dream themes curated by the ITV and voted for by the public. Hear the Swedish lyrics sung to Emmerdale! Find out how much Yorkshireman Ronnie Hunt was paid for playing that trumpet line on Corrie! Meet the woman who danced saucily over the Tales of the Unexpected credits! Some entries couldn’t be more deserving: big, brassy numbers that made you thrilled to be tuning in, like Don Harper’s two themes in one for World of Sport, for instance, or Barry Gray’s inextinguishable Thunderbirds. Others, you feel, are only here because they belong to world-conquering series rather than being memorable compositions. And there are the kind of gaspy omissions that make such programmes ideal watercooler fodder (where are The Persuaders! and Black Beauty? And Stingray? And…). The occasion couldn’t pass without “feem toon” specialist Dennis Waterman, who had serious aspirations beyond wearing silk shirts on Top of the Pops: “I wanted to be the next Dylan!”