is a song by Norwegian synth-pop band a-ha, released as the third single from their debut studio album, Hunting High and Low (1985).

Its success secured for the band the prestige of having number-one single status on both primary Anglo-American popular music charts on either side of the Atlantic.

Starting as a sad ballad, it explodes into something much more, as chugging guitars and operatic synths keep pace with Harket's evocative vocal stylings.

was directed by Steve Barron and was shot on location over three days early October 1985 at Udney Hall Gardens and the Victorian Gothic Church of Saint Alban the Martyr, both situated in Teddington, Richmond upon Thames, in England.

The young lovers (played by Morten Harket and Bunty Bailey), having survived the ordeal of the story in the first video, now face one another in the woods at night.

", supplemented by session drummer Lindsay Elliott,[11] and a bass player,[13] inside a Gothic church, filmed mainly in black-and-white with splashes of pastel coloring.

The music video for the band's next single, "Train of Thought", would pick up from this cue shot, making a visual and story trilogy of "Take On Me", "The Sun Always Shines on T.V."

was the only single released from the 2003 a-ha album How Can I Sleep with Your Voice in My Head, the music video for it being directed by Pal Waaktaar's wife Lauren Savoy.

for their original home movie about three vain actors in Los Angeles after listening to Hunting High and Low at the gym.

The home movie later evolved into a television pilot with the now-familiar title when the characters were turned into pub owners in Philadelphia.

In 2017, a-ha appeared on the television series MTV Unplugged and played and recorded acoustic versions of many of their popular songs for the album MTV Unplugged – Summer Solstice in Giske, Norway, including "The Sun Always Shines on TV" (featuring Ingrid Helene Håvik).

[52][53] Norwegian Eurodance group Diva, consisting of singers Helene Sommer and Elene Nyborg, released their version of "The Sun Always Shines on T.V."

[56] A music video was made to promote the song, directed by Lauren Savoy, wife of Paul Waaktaar-Savoy of A-ha.

"[57] British magazine Music Week rated it three out of five, adding, "This clubby cover and remix of A-ha's 1985 hit (huge in the duo's native Norway) could well take off here.

[60] DJ Jon Pleased Wimmin reviewed the song for Muzik and gave it four out of five, declaring it as "a big pop smash for the summer.