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Line 94: * The US and UK versions of ''[[Coupling]]'' each used different covers of "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps". The UK original uses a version by Mari Wilson. The US remake uses a sped-up version by [[CAKE (band)\|CAKE]]. * ''[[Community]]'' uses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGbjR1Y9Qo "At Least It Was Here" by The 88.] The Filipino cooking show ''Cooking with Sandy Daza'' on TV5—then known as ABC 5—used [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CVc98tKtSk "Invitations"] by the English jazz-funk band Shakatak as its theme. ''Cosmos'', the [[Carl Sagan]] documentary series, used ''Heaven and Hell [side 1, third movement]'' by Vangelis as its theme tune. Several other Vangelis pieces were used in the soundtrack, including "Pulstar" and "Alpha". * ''Cover Up'', a short-lived CBS action-drama, used Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero" as its theme. Line 249: ** The original 1970s-80s run of the show opened with Garrison Keillor singing Hank Snow's "Hello Love", a #1 country hit in 1974. * The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\|CBC Radio]] international affairs program ''Dispatches'' used "What It Is" by Mark Knopfler, which this troper is now unable to hear without superimposing the comforting yet authoritative voice of Rick MacInnes-Rae. * [[Rush Limbaugh]] ~~uses~~used the instrumental parts of "My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders as his theme. * [[A Christmas Story\|Jean Shepherd]] opened and closed each episode of his long-running local New York radio show with "Bahn Frei" by Austrian composer Eduard Strauss. * The theme song for ~~most~~ ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)\|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' and most of its spin-off media is "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the [[Eagles]] from their 1975 album ''One of These Nights''. It appeared as the opening theme for the television and radio programs and appears in the scene introducing the titular guide in the 2005 film adaptation. * ''[[The Doctor Demento Show]]'' used the 1947 jazz song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyz3g3vRb-8 "Pico & Sepulveda" by Felix Figueroa and His Orchestra] as its theme. * ''[[As It Happens]]'' has, over the years, used and uses different versions of Moe Kuffman's "Curried Soul" as its theme. * The Filipino Christian radio station DWXI—owned by Mike Velarde as part of his El Shaddai charismatic movement—uses the theme song from ''[[Somewhere in Time]]'' as its background music for the opening prayers on most if not all of their programmes. == Video Games ==