[rab] It's not the opening from Handel's Messiah is it?

Update:
1. Bob the dog - ISIHAC Theme 2. Chalky - Coronation Street 3. HB - Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 4. Raak - Thunderbirds 5. Kim - The Archers' Theme 6. rab - Roobard and Custard 7. Bob the dog - Pomp and Curcumstance, Edward Elgar 8. Lib - Blind Date 9. ZK - Dangermouse 10. penelope - Blue Peter 11. Watty - Porridge 12. Kim - Tom & Jerry [Fred Quimby version] 13. Herr Bratsche - Monty Python 14. Raak - Star Trek 15. Bob the dog - Dr Who 16. rab - Have I Got News For You 17. Darren - Bergerac 18. Chalky - The Sweeney 19. Darren - Rentaghost 20. rab's plang-chonger - ???

[Darren] Nope. A hint?

No 21. Another TV theme. 80's/90's.
Do-dooo,do-do-do-do-do-doooooo
La-laaa, la-la-la-la-la-laaaaa-la [repeat lines 1 and 2]
Da-daaa-da, da-daaaa-da, da-da-da-da-da-daaaaa,
Da-daaa-da, da-daaaa-da, da-da-da-da-da-dahhhhhhhh, bom-bom-bom.

[Dazed5 - number 21] It's Blackadder. [rab - number 20] Yes please.

Number 22. Yet another TV theme from the 80s.

dum-diddliddle-dum-dit-dit dum-diddliddle-dum-dit-...
dododummydummydummydummy-dooooo-do-doooo
do-diddliddliddliddliddliddle-doo-doooo
dododummydummydummydummy-dooooo-do
dodiddliddliddle-dee-dee do-dooo
do-do-do-dooo dee-dee-dee-doooo
dee-dee-dee diddliddliddle-doo
do-do-do-dum-doo do-do-do-dooo-dooo, dee-deeeeee
dum diddliddliddliddliddliddliddliddle.... etc.

[Darren] Sure is.

No. 20; Late romantic, Classic FM friendly piece, though if you're a Classic FM devotee the chances are you've only ever heard the slow movement. I posted the start of the first movement.

Very large orchestra for this one. Composed in the late 1800's... normally

Da-da-da-da-DUM,
...da-da-da-da-DUM,
...da-da-da-da-da-da-da-DUM, da-dum.

I suspect Watty will get this one straight away...

um, sorry about the "normally" there, was going to write something else but deleted it and missed a word.

Um, sorry, this is number 23.

[rab] your number 20 is Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto number 2 in C minor and I claim my £5.

*laughs* Indeed. No. 23, as JLE knows, is my mobile ringtone, also known as Symphony No.2 "Resurrection" by Gustav Mahler.

[JLE] Can't stretch to a fiver, but how about some penny chews? I had a hunch you might get that one :) Did I get the number of opening chords right?

[rab] No, you only had about half of them. There are a full *eight* main chords at the start of each of the first eight bars (which you gave a "plang" to), the first seven each having a "chong" on the lowest bass F of the piano halfway through the bar...

And now a piece that you might be able to guess, just from the rhythm that runs through the entire piece as a background, which I'll give two bars in italics
TUM-tiddly-UM-tiddly-UM-tum
TUM-tiddly-UM-tiddly-UM-tum...
Deeeeeeee, da-da-doo-da-da-da dee, da-da-deeeeeeeeee - Da-da doo-da-da-da-deeee.....

[JLE] Now that (number 24) is Ravel's Bolero.

*grin*

updating:
1. Bob the dog - ISIHAC Theme 2. Chalky - Coronation Street 3. HB - Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 4. Raak - Thunderbirds 5. Kim - The Archers' Theme 6. rab - Roobard and Custard 7. Bob the dog - Pomp and Curcumstance, Edward Elgar 8. Lib - Blind Date 9. ZK - Dangermouse 10. penelope - Blue Peter 11. Watty - Porridge 12. Kim - Tom & Jerry [Fred Quimby version] 13. Herr Bratsche - Monty Python 14. Raak - Star Trek 15. Bob the dog - Dr Who 16. rab - Have I Got News For You 17. Darren - Bergerac 18. Chalky - The Sweeney 19. Darren - Rentaghost 20. rab's plang-chonger - Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto number 2 in C minor. 21. Dazed - Blackadder. 22. Darren's dum-diddliddle-dum-dit-dit ? 23. JLE - Mahler's Symphony No.2 "Resurrection" 24. JLE - Ravel's Bolero

I reckon Watty and Darren should be choosing the next two tunes , although Darren's No 22. [80's TV] has yet to be guessed

Clues? New tunes?

OK, here's 25 and it's 90s TV.

RattattattattattattATT!!
dada duhhhh, dada duhhhhh, dada duhhhhh da-da.
dada duhhhh, dada duhhhh, dada deeee da-da.
dada duhhhh, dada duhhhh, dada duhhh da-da,
da-daaaaa, da-daaaa, da-daaaaa, da-da.
(repeat from second line)
dadada daaaa-daaa-daa-daaaa, daaa-daaa-daaa-daaa,
dum-da-daaaa-da daaaa-daaaa-daaa-da,
dum-da-daaa-daaa daaaa-daaaa-daaa-daaa DAAAAAAA
(repeat first bit again)

Does anyone want a clue to number 22?

[Darren] Yes please!

[Brendan] OK, think Richard Briers.

Ever Decreasing Circles. A puzzlingly unrepeated top-quality classic...

[Darren] Number 25 - Men Behaving Badly?