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Favorite TV Theme Songs
I don't know how it got brought up, but my wife and I were discussing the best TV theme songs a few days ago. I wasn't able to narrow it done to just a single theme, so I'm curious what others have to say on the subject.
Here's my nominations so far (in no particular order): 1) Odd Couple 2) M*A*S*H (Bonus points if you know the words) 3) Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4) King of the Hill 5) Dick Van Dyke Show 6) Cheers 7) Secret Agent Man I'm really tempted to nominate The Golden Girls theme, because I'm positive that if you started singing it in a room filled with 25-32 year olds everyone would join in. But, I just can't bring myself to do it. |
I always liked Hill Street Blues (showing my age here), Fraggle Rock, Mission Impossiable and Angel.
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Barney Miller, WKRP, Animaniacs, Looney Tunes.
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Semi Interesting Sidenote: When I was in high school I spent a quarter on home study. I pretty much spent the entire day watching TV while I did my class work. I still remember the schedule I watched:
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The <a href="http://mythemes.tv/series/themes/opening/nightcou.mp3">Night Court</a> opening theme is pure funk jazz brilliance!
Also, thanks for exposing me to MyThemes.tv! What a great site! |
Hmm, pretty hard to pick the best ones...
Let's see... Grizzly Adams---------------------------------Magnum P.I. Eight Is Enough (the second theme song)------Wonder Woman The Brady Bunch------------------------------McGuyver Mary Tyler Moore Show------------------------Hawaii Five-0 Monkees--------------------------------------Sanford and Son Branded--------------------------------------The Lone Ranger High Chaparral--------------------------------Fall Guy One Day At a Time----------------------------The Andy Griffith Show Jonny Quest----------------------------------Airwolf Green Acres----------------------------------Charmed Greatest American Hero------------------------Buck Rogers In The 25th Century Dynasty--------------------------------------Bonanza Family Ties-----------------------------------Welcome Back, Kotter Facts of Life----------------------------------Gilligan's Island Star Trek-------------------------------------Incredible Hulk Star Trek: The Next Generation----------------Newhart Battlestar Galactica---------------------------Mystery Science Theater 3000 So many more rattling around in my skull...;) |
Fraggle Rock and Alf had nice theme songs.. They come to mind off the top of my head..
Also, the theme song to Doogie Howser is pretty memorable. |
Wow. I can't believe I forgot Hawaii 5.0 and Jonny Quest. Both of them were my computer startup sounds for awhile.
Although, I gotta say, the JQ theme loses something without the accompanying visuals. So, that may be a mark down in the "greatest theme song" ever scoring. (I mean, if you can't see crocodile men, what's the point?) |
Unless I missed them here are some more themes to throw in:
Growing pains Knight Rider The A-team Miami Vice I wiill say that Greatest American hero was the first theme to come to my mind when I saw this subject |
Damn! There are so many and I know my brain won't recall them all. When I have time to think, I'll edit and add more.
Little House on the Prairie The Waltons Courtship of Eddie's Father Land of the Lost Gilligans Island Family Affair Shazzam! Captain Caveman I Dream of Jeannie Leave it to Beaver All in the Family Barney Miller Silver Spoons Benson I'm guessing only Gen-Xer's (I hate that term) will remember some of those... O'kay, to tired to think beyond the mid 80's, I'll have to post more tomorrow. Oh, one recent...Malcolm in the Middle..."Life is unfair....!" Ali |
I always loved:
Seaquest the Outer Limits (1995-2000) Black Sheep Squad. Cheers Stargate SG-1/Stargate: Atlantis MacGuyver Star Trek: TNG/DS9/VOY (NOT ENTERPRISE, GO AWAY RUSSEL WONG) Simpsons Farscape (I don't know why, I guess it grew on me) Cowboy Bebop the short lived Spiderman series on MTV (recent) I can't think of any more. EDIT: I forgot Airwolf, thanks Fremen. |
Tour of Duty.
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Underdog rocks
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Naruto Season 1, 2, 4
Cowboy Bebop Star Trek: The Next Generation MacGyver -Lasereth |
It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight. Gotta love the Muppet Show... or We've got a gorilla for sale...a yellow gorilla for sale. Won't you buy him...take him home and try him...gorilla for sale. See in the window, Magilla Gorilla...full of charm and appeal. Handsome, elegant, intelligent, sweet...He's really ideal. So if you want a yellow gorilla you can call your own... a gorilla who'll be with ya when you're all alone. "Its the MAGILLA GORILLA SHOW. I've not got some serious ear worms going on -- Thanks... :D |
Angel
A-Team Knight Rider Early seasons of Andromeda |
As said above, Buffy and the Muppets.
I'll also add: Kim Possible Queer Eye for the Straight Guy And, I kinda hate to do this to the guy with the TV tunes site, but he left a directory open... |
Muppet Show.
Joan of Arcadia is a song I don't like. :P The Simpsons always always always...gets stuck in my head. As well as Malcolm in the Middle and King of the Hill and finally FAMILY GUY. |
The Muppet Show, hands down.
Runners up include: The West Wing Charmed Dallas Night Court Falcon's Crest Battlestar Gallactica |
Muppet Show definitely
No one's mentioned the Simpsons yet, and I also throw in Batman Beyond's theme by Crystal Method |
My favorites at the moment are from "Gilmore Girls", "American Dreams", and "The O.C."
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Nickelodeon's The Tomorrow People. Both themes.
Also, agreed on Malcolm in the Middle. |
Sealab 2021 comes to mind.
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welcome back mr. kotter
batman the fall guy the older shows have the best theme songs! |
i always liked the "Angel" theme song done by Darling Violetta. the cello really makes the theme fit with the show.
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Muppet Show sure, but does anyone remember the Banana Splits theme songs or is it just me. For some reason I think about that one all the time.
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Millennium
NYPD Blue ( only thing i like about this series is the theme music ) |
All the Disney afternoon ones.
Ducktales, Dark Wing Duck, Gummi Bears, Tale Spin, Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop. - - - - - - TMNT, Super Mario Brothers Super Show, and there's another one i just can't put my finger on it. . . >< |
Dayum! How did I forget the Muppet Show and Night Court?
Couple more: The Ren and Stimpy Show - Reverend Horton Heat being clever. The Tick (the cartoon)- dop DWEE dopdopdop DWEEdau! |
Yes it's stupid, and yes it's probably very cheesy, and yes you'll probably laugh, but I kinda always liked the "Space: Above and Beyond" theme. I have a soft spot for martial themes.
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The Angel theme is awesome...very mellow and almost haunting.
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Get Smart
Alien Nation Parker Lewis Can't Lose Sopranos Fox NFL Sunday And the guilty pleasure... Spongebob Squarepants -Mikey |
Rockford Files
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My vote goes to McGyver.
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Airwolf, Great American Hero, Boston Public, those would be my top 3!
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How about Smallville? I love 'Save Me'
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doubt many of you would know it... but McCallum (starred John Hannah).
it used a really really sexy version of Cry Me A River (no, i don't mean that Timberfake crap, i mean the original). that and Cowboy Bebop are the only ones that immediately spring to mind. oh... how could i forget... ASTROBOY!!!... hands down... |
I'll add a few I didn't see mentioned here- Highlander (can't believe this one wasn't listed), Band of Brothers (even though it was a limited run), Six Feet Under, and Oz. I'm sure I'm missing big ones, and I'll add them if I remember them.
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captain planet
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Cowboy Bebop!!!!
FLCL!!! (the whole soundtrack is great) Harvey Birdman attorney at Law!!! The Secret Life of... Good Eats!!! And of course...Benny Hill!!! |
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. |
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I'd have to go with Fraggle Rock and the Smurfs for cartoons and for real tv shows Cheers is tops for me
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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: http://www.angelfire.com/nc/bobby6k/images/Mainlogo.jpg "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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just had to add one I forgot- Walker, Texas Ranger. Any song performed by Chuck Norris makes the list for me.
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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.
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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?
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Hockey Night in Canada
nuff said [/thread] ;) |
There's a new show called Rescue Me that has an AWSOME theme song!
C'mon C'mon Lyrics by The Von Bondies url=http://www.warnerreprise.com/asx/vb_cmoncmona_128-a.asx 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
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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.
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Airwolf and Married with children are the best!!!
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Three's Company, I have no idea if it's been mentioned.
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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
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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.
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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 |
CHiPs
Gotta love the funky bassline and the chintzy keyboard effects. I really like Randy Newman's theme song for Monk, but I also really liked the jazzy guitar-driven theme song they had the first season for the show. |
We're Animaniacs! We've got baloney in our slacks! Yakko packs away the snacks while Bill Clinton plays the sax, we're Animaniacs!!!
I'm sorry, I've had it stuck in my head since I first posted in this thread. |
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As for best theme songs, 3 jump to mind. Hawaii 5-O, Rockford Files and Get Smart. |
i vote for the simpsons and CSI
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Andy Griffith show...cant get it out of my head
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