# Best theme music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507 "2002-05-23T16:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![downbylaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@downbylaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/downbylaw)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/21 "2002-05-24T13:33:04Z")
anybody ever see “superfly?” curtis mayfield’s soundtrack is freaking amazing, with an emphasis on “freaking.” ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/22 "2002-05-24T14:13:56Z")
OMG! No one has mentioned my all time favorite TV theme! **Barney Miller**! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/23 "2002-05-24T23:24:49Z")
It’s either **Hong Kong Phooey** or **The New Avengers**. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/24 "2002-05-24T23:35:19Z")
Mike Post (sometimes “with Pete Carpenter”) deserves some sort of award for most consistantly superb themes. Magnum P.I., Hunter, Silk Stalkings, Hill Street Blues, and I think Rockford Files among dozens of other great ones. Also, the Mike Hammer theme “Harlem Nocture” by Earl Hagen…TRM p.s. - Oh! And Monty Python! And the new “Enterprise” theme is great, and, and,… oh never mind ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/25 "2002-05-25T00:15:13Z")
I would like to nominate **The NBC Mystery Movie Theme** by **Henry Mancini**. Does anyone remember that? ---
**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/26 "2002-05-25T02:21:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > **No, but they did have a brief shot of a hippie street performer singing a variation of the classic Spiderman theme. Except instead of “he’s got radioactive blood”, it was “I think we should all just give him a hug”.** If you stick around till the very end of the credits they play the original theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/27 "2002-05-25T03:03:59Z")
Hi there. I had been lurking around for 2 months now, miserable that I had nothing of any substance to contribute, but am glad that I now can. 🙂 I grew up on MASH, Combat, Twilight Zone, Hawaii 5-0, Starsky & Hutch and Taxi, so I guess to me, they are my memorable best TV theme songs. I can still hum to them! Theme from Twin Peaks is another favourite. Cavatina from the Deer Hunter and Tubular Bells are other pieces that loop around in my mind, some days. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/28 "2002-05-25T09:16:35Z")
My picks, by category. Movie with Best Thme Song: “Star Trek: First Contact.” (It STILL gives me chills) TV Show: “Cybersix.” Video Game: “Sim City 2000.” R ---
**Author:** ![confessorknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@confessorknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confessorknight)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/29 "2002-05-25T13:01:51Z")
TV vampire show : Ultraviolet ---
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/30 "2002-05-25T13:50:34Z")
My good, no one mentioned. Cinema Paradiso. The whole movie music is a work of art. No one mentioned Chariots of Fire. ---
**Author:** ![TheTailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@TheTailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTailor)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/31 "2002-05-25T14:14:39Z")
Movies: Jurassic Park, Jaws, Air Force One, and Wing Commander (though the movie itself was worthless) TV: Cheers, DS9, ER, Real World (This is the true story…) Twilight Zone ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/32 "2002-05-25T21:10:30Z")
na-na-na-na-na-na-Na-na na-na-na-na-na-na-Na-na na-na-na-na-na-na-Na-na na-na-na-na-na-na-Na-na na-na-na-na-na-na-Na-na . . . Batman! starring Adam West as the Caped Crusader. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/33 "2002-05-25T22:16:18Z")
Theme from the _Halloween_, with the lone piano against the low strings, good _something-is-just-behind-you_ music. And what about the cheesy _Gonna Fly Now_ anthem from the Rocky movies? Everyone who has ever watched TV knows the theme to _Wizard of Oz_. from TV Land, anybody who grew up in the 70s could sing the entire theme to _All in the Family_, except for perhaps the next to last line. ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/34 "2002-05-26T06:46:33Z")
“Movin’ On”, mid seventies TV series starring Claude Akins. Merle Haggard did the theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Wisp00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/977dab/32.png) [@Wisp00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wisp00)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/35 "2002-05-26T07:21:39Z")
Theme from Forest Gump “Somewhere in My Memory” from Home Alone ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/36 "2002-05-26T07:23:50Z")
_Jurassic Park_ gives me chills. Every time. We played it in high school orchestra, and if you think it’s cool to listen to it on a stereo, try being in the _middle_ of it, with all that beauty swelling all around you… Oh, and welcome to the boards, **Luna**! ---
**Author:** ![Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/37 "2002-05-26T09:53:18Z")
Thank you, RaCha’ar. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/38 "2002-05-26T10:04:05Z")
My top TV pics: _The A-Team_ _Gilligan’s Island_ The original _Star Trek_ ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/39 "2002-05-26T12:30:44Z")
I’m gonna have to change mine to Jurassic Park too. Again, I’d forgotten how good it was till I downloaded an mp3 (thanks to this thread). ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507/40 "2002-05-26T16:49:55Z")
Six Feet Under Queer As Folk Picket Fences I think someone may have already mentioned this, but I love the Good Times theme. Sanford and Son What’s Happenin’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-theme-music/110507.md?page=3)