Crossroads (1964)

This is the original ITV motel soap that ran from 1964 to 1988, not the 2001 revival. Tony Hatch wrote its theme, a breezy, rising tune that sounds like a car pulling into the parking lot with the radio on. The soap became a byword for low production values, but nobody mocked the music. Wings recorded a special arrangement that was occasionally used from the late 1970s, a rare case of a pop band of that size adopting a daytime soap theme. Hatch had more to give television, as the Emmerdale entry shows.