I can't believe no one mentioned:

Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide.
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square

You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.

Hehe...I think that's one of the songs I ended up singing with my wife when the original conversation came about.

I'd have to go with Fraggle Rock and the Smurfs for cartoons and for real tv shows Cheers is tops for me

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:

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"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)

Wow, most of my favorites are already here.

The Munsters
The Incredible Hulk (the closing theme, mainly)
Get Smart
Galaxy High School (just watched a tape of this the other day. The Eagles' Don Felder composed the opening theme)
Spider-Man (60's version, not so much the 90's one)

Cartoons used to have great opening themes. If you watch Fox toons lately, there isn't one out of the bunch that isn't a crime against humanity.

The Wonder Years
M*A*S*H
Hawaii 5-0
The Dukes of Hazard
The Sopranos
The Fall Guy
Monster Garage
Charmed
The Simpsons
Roseanne
Andy Griffith Show
Who's The Boss?
Step By Step
Smallville
WKRP (the song during the credits too)

Have to agree with the frist post M*A*S*H and the theme song is Suicide is Painless.

Through Early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see

(chorus)
That Suicide is Painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

Try to find a way to make
All our little joys relate
Without that ever present hate
But now I know that it's too late
And (chorus)

The game of life is hard to play
I'm going to lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say
That (chorus)

The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
And to another give a seat
For that's the only painless feat
'Cause (chorus)

The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works it's way on in
The pain grow stronger watch it grin
For (chorus)

A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
Is it to be or not to be
And I replied "Oh why ask me."
Cause (chorus)
And you can do the same thing if you please

for the rest i would have to say

Transformers
G.I. Joe
Las Vegas
Evangelion (import anime)
Theme from Macgyver.

OOOH! Bonus points! Too bad I don't really have anything to award.

Of course, it should be said that the words were only used in the movie version, and were never part of the TV theme song. (Probably too depressing).

<blockquote>Well I'm not the kind to kiss and tell
but I've been seen with Farrah
I've never been with anything less than a nine, so fine
I've been on fire with Sally Field
Gone fast with a girl named Bo
But somehow they did not end up as mine.

It's a death defyin' life I lead
I take my chances
I die for a livin' in the movies and TV
But the hardest thing I ever do
Is watch my leadin' ladies
Kiss some other guy while I'm bandagin' my knee

I might fall from a tall building
I might roll a brand new car
'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman
that made Redford such a star.

I never spend much time in school
But I taught ladies plenty.
It's true I hire my body out for pay, Hey Hey
I've gotten burned over Cheryl Tiegs
blown up for Raquel Welch.
But when I end up in the hay
it's only hay, Hey Hey.

I might jump an open drawbridge
Or Tarzan from a vine
'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman
that makes Eastwood look so fine.</blockquote>
Who'd'a thunk it? Lee Majors could sing. Sort of.

Let's get really old...here a a few old shows with awesome them music:
The Untouchables
Peter Gunn
Naked City
77 Sunset Strip
Route 66

Check 'em out....Better than anything today!!!

Gilligan's Island
Wonder Years

I may have missed THAT 70'S SHOW on previous lists, but that's one of my favorites these days.

Dukes of Hazzard, hands down :thumbsup:
I enjoy the first and second season themes to Naruto also.....immensly

Smallville- Save Me by Remy Zero
Friends- I'll Be There for You- The Rembrandts
Scrubs- ?
I know there are more, but I just don't watch that much TV to really remember.

Cowboy Bebop - It's going to bring back Jazz single handedly!
Cheers
Fraggle Rock
The Wonder Years
Family Guy

And while maybe not "great," it is addicting and very good for annoying sing alongs on
bus trips while a senior in Band. (Yes, we were nerds.)
Spongebob Squarepants? :P

Oh yes, ROSWELL. I can't belive no one said it.
Angel, Welcome back Cotter, KnightRider. Were good to.

As for animation, Transformers, DBZ, Naruto(season 2 opening), Aquateen Hunger Force (number 1 in the hood G).

Ed, Edd, n', Eddy Theme Song.

airwolf
a-team
knight rider
alf
the muppet show
amongst some of them

How about Hill Street Blues? I've always liked that theme song.

I just had to add one I forgot- Walker, Texas Ranger. Any song performed by Chuck Norris makes the list for me.

Hate to be a party pooper but are we just listing our favorite tv shows, or the shows we grew up with now? Seems they'd be the themes we remember/like the best; i.e. for me it's macgyver/murder she wrote as they were on together when i was a kid. nowadays i geek it out with ds9 being my favorite star trek theme...and stargate sg-1's is cool too. all the old school disney cartoons...haha ducktales, woo-ooo. the late-80's sitcoms like cheers, cosby show, growing pains, night court, etc i can all remember too. ah the good ole' days...now everyone just uses the pop song of the month.

What's Happening - I can still picture Roger, Dwayne and Rerun bouncing the ball down the block at the end of the show.

Fat Albert - Hey, Hey, Hey

The A-Team
Knight Rider
and.....
MIAMI VICE.

Anyone remember Peter Gunn?

Hockey Night in Canada

nuff said

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There's a new show called Rescue Me that has an AWSOME theme song!

C'mon C'mon Lyrics by The Von Bondies
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On another day c'mon c'mon
With these ropes I tied can we do no wrong
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young

With my teeth locked down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young

Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I ever learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)

As I make my way c'mon c'mon
These better nights that seem too long
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young

With my teeth locked down I can see the blood
Of a thousand men who have come and gone
Now we grieve cause now is gone
Things were good when we were young

Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I never learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)

Is it safe to say? (c'mon c'mon)
Was it right to leave? (c'mon c'mon)
Will I never learn? (c'mon c'mon)
(c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)

And know this day these deepened wounds don't heal so fast
Can't hear me croon of a million lies that speak no truth
Of a time gone by that now is through

Smallville Theme Song

that von bondies song is cool
i didn't realize it was on a show

Hawaii Five-O (The bongos are great!!!), Miami Vice (the place of Miami feels like Miami and Miami.....and some more Miami), DS9, cause I'm a geek and the Defiant rocks, and of course...
Space Ghost Coast to Coast. (I dunno why).

thanks for the MP3 earlier and the lyrics to Suicide is Painless. Classics, dudes!

What about Magnum P.I ,has some nice beats to it.

Airwolf and Married with children are the best!!!

Three's Company, I have no idea if it's been mentioned.

Woke up this morning,
got yourself a gun,

Only two other people mentioned the sopranos. I am three.

I love the Firefly opening song:

Take my love, take my land,
take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

Take me out into the black,
Tell them I ain't coming back.
Burn the land and boil the sea,
You can't take the sky from me.

There's no place I can be,
Since I found Serenity.
But you can't take the sky from me.

Absolutely awesome, and it captures the feel of the show exactly. Understandable, really, seeing as the song was written before any real work began on the show

Spiderman (60s version)... a groovy classic
Angel... moving and moody
Gilligan's Island... gives a perfect plot synopsis in a catchy tune.
Barretta... you can't go wrong with Sammy Davis Jr. singing The Sparrow (Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, no... Don't do it!)

Magnum P.I. and Hawaii 50

Theme from Twin Peaks
Theme from Northern Exposure
Twilight Zone
Moonlighting Theme

Oh man, my faves have to be Beverly Hillbillies, My Three Sons, and Andy Griffith. Everyone I know can sing the BH words. And that whistling on Andy Griffith? Classic.

Cheers was the first one to pop into my head. I also loved the Animaniacs one.

Also, the theme to Sanford and Son. It was so groovy and catchy.

Fresh Prince of Bel Air - one of the few intros I know by memory.
Anamaniacs - Why doesn't anybody show reruns of this show?
The O.C. - Californiaaaa...homer pick, I live in the OC.
CSI and CSI Miami - pretty cool