while i think knight rider is one of the coolest, another theme caught my attention because of it's brilliant expository function.
renegade.
lorenzo lamas motorcycles his way to foil plots of many a pastier-skinned villian. unfortunately i don't have a link for this musical gem (renegade fansites seem to be dead for some reason!) but imagine a gravely voiced man uttering the following words:
"He was a cop, and good at his job. But then he committed the ultimate sin, and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops who tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands. An outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter, a RENEGADE! "
i'll admit this raises more questions than it answers, and sounds like it was written by a fourth grader. but he's a renegade. he makes his own rules and looks damn good doing it.
ok, i admit i've never seen this show. but those are words from the actual theme song.
this song ranks right up there with stan bush's "
the touch" from transformers: the movie. covered by dirk diggler in boogie nights, "
the touch" offers wholly unprecedented self-assurance. (not techincally a tv theme, but certainly entertaining)