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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knots4ever" data-source="post: 364751" data-attributes="member: 4475">Oh no surprise with that at all.The rights to the French theme song belong to Haïm Saban and TF1. Same applies to the A-Team, Knots Landing, Hart to Hart and any of the other 80s shows which were given a French song with lyrics (obviously not all of them TF1 but some other channels too). Saban made millions out of this in the 80s, especially by using his connections to push those songs onto radio stations, by producing records and in parts even managing to get them into the charts (due to the number of spins on friendly radio stations)!Warner Discovery has no rights to any of them and is (rightly) not interested in wasting money on something that is of no value to anyone other than a few people in France who may have preferred the French themes over the originals. Saban was very active in Germany as well but with theme songs this was mostly limited to cartoons, luckily!(Almost) all of those Saban themes are cleared indefinitely for broadcast but not for streaming.</blockquote>