'Approaching Menace' is the theme tune to which TV quiz show?
Mastermind (TV series) Mastermind (TV series) Mastermind is a British television game show for the BBC, famous for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness. Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of "Mastermind" has never changed—four and in later contests five or six contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the contestant's choice, the other a general knowledge round. Wright drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II. The atmosphere is helped by "Mastermind"s famously ominous theme music, "Approaching Menace" by the British composer Neil Richardson. The quiz programme originated
Chicken Man (theme tune) replaced by a re-recorded version from 1988-1989. After being replaced by a completely different theme tune, it made a reappearance in the final series of "Grange Hill" in 2008. An entirely different arrangement of "Chicken Man" was also used as the theme to early series of the British quiz show "Give Us a Clue", despite the fact that it was already being used on "Grange Hill". It lasted as the theme tune from 1979 until 1982, when a new producer/director commissioned an entirely new theme tune. Most recently, the tune has been used as a jingle for the El Árbol