# Best TV Theme song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168 "2001-08-31T18:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/61 "2001-09-02T04:45:40Z")
That’s My Bush! \*He’s the president in resident He’s kind of in charge He’s got the whole country singing: That’s my bush! Life is hard at the price of fame When you’re president, everyone knows your name Hey what’s that thing? It’s my bush! I can’t believe he’s actually in the White House That’s our maaaan… That’s my bush… Ohhhh, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah.\* Love the “can’t believe he’s actually in the white house” line. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/62 "2001-09-03T00:17:51Z")
“Riverboat ring your bell Fairthee well Annabell Luck is the lady that he loves the best…” “Maverick is the name” They just had a “Western” marathon on TVLand last week. The “Maverick” theme song is damned catchy. Also, the tune to “Alias Smith and Jones” (also part of the marathon). also: “Cheers” “The Waltons” (composed by Jerry Goldsmith, sigh) “Now and Again” (nifty sf series just recently screwed over by Sci Fi) has a GREAT theme song. I always made sure I watched the credits - just loved that song. “Star Trek - Voyager” (Jerry Goldsmith, again. Did you know that “Voyager” won the Emmy instead of “Friends”, which it was up against that year? Ha!) “Farscape” - this theme is starting to grow on me. Another vote for “Rockford Files”. and, “All in the Family”. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/63 "2001-09-03T00:40:42Z")
In two days, no one’s mentioned **Car 54 (where are you)**? Does the music to **Hockey Night in Canada** qualify for this thread? If so, you have your “Best TV Theme Song”. ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/64 "2001-09-03T01:37:38Z")
Knight Rider. The A-Team. Battlestar Galactica. Gary Shandling’s Show. \*\*Spiderman and His Amazing Friends \*\*- _really good_ Fraggle Rock. Crossroads. The Muppet Show. The Incredible Hulk. Quincy. The Equaliser. Oh, how could I forget… _ **THE ODD COUPLE** _ ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/65 "2001-09-03T01:44:48Z")
The Benny Hill Show Buck Rogers Get Smart ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/66 "2001-09-03T01:52:17Z")
All the ones I can think of are on here somewhere or other, with the possible exception of one: “Millenium.” ---
**Author:** ![idiot\_box](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc79bd/32.png) [@idiot\_box](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiot_box)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/67 "2001-09-03T01:58:45Z")
The Love Boat come aboard, we’re expecting you… and LOVE!!! can’t remember fantasy island, but probably similiarly cheesy. ahh, the seventies… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Fromesiter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Fromesiter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Fromesiter)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/68 "2001-09-03T03:21:36Z")
Hrm, got a few that still roll around in my head now and then. Tour Of Duty Batman Beyond Batman Inspector Gadget The Munsters Cheers ---
**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/69 "2001-09-03T17:25:41Z")
the streets of san francisco. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/70 "2001-09-04T01:54:12Z")
How could y’all leave out _ **The Price Is Right** _ ?! DAT dat da daaaaaaa, Dat dat da daaaaaaa, Da da, da DA DA, da DA DA Da DA dah, dah, dah da daaaaaa, DAH dah da daaaaaa, DAH dah da dah, DAAA, daaaaaaaaaa! Da DAH da DAH da dah, dah da da dah dah, da da dah! ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/71 "2001-09-04T02:32:47Z")
Well, somebody did mention Dallas. I like that one so much, I used to turn on the TV at 8pm just to hear it, then turn off the TV to miss the idiotic show. Green Acres is the best sing-along, bar none. And the Bugs & Daffy theme from a few years ago… (overture, dim the lights, this is it, we’ll hit the heights…ya know what hights we’ll hit…on with the show this is it!!) I think this thread got my musical brain seizures going at least as much as the “what song keeps going through your brain” thread over at (I think) MPSIMS… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/72 "2001-09-04T02:48:00Z")
Bearflag70 wrote: > [@](#): > > Buck Rogers If you were _very lucky_, you got to see the pilot episode in the movie theaters, where they played the whole theme song **with lyrics**. If you only saw it on TV, you got to hear the lyrics to the **first verse** of the theme song, during the end credits, **maybe**. ---
**Author:** ![LaToyota\_Corolla\_Falana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@LaToyota\_Corolla\_Falana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaToyota_Corolla_Falana)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/73 "2001-09-04T03:09:20Z")
No music ever got a viewer into a better state of mind for watching a show than the whistling tune for the Mayberry / Andy Griffith Show. No song ever introduced the viewers to the characters and situtation better than Gilligan’s Island. Rockford Files’ theme music is so cool, it’s on it’s own level. The theme for M_A_S\*H always made me snicker because the lyrics are about suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/74 "2001-09-04T03:10:59Z")
Six Feet Under ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/75 "2001-09-04T03:56:36Z")
Wait, no one’s mentioned _ **Wonder Woman** _?!! \*Wonder Woman! Wonder Woman! All the world is waiting for you! And the power you possess. In your satin tights, Fighting for your rights And the old red-white-and-blue! Wonder Woman! Wonder Woman! Now the world is ready for you! And the wonders you can do. Make a hawk a dove! Stop a war with love! Make a liar tell the truth! (ca 1974 funk-horns-piano) Wonder Woman! Get us up from under, Wonder Woman! All our hopes are pinned upon you! And the magic that you do. Stop a bullet cold! Make the axis fold! Change your mind, and change the world! Wonder Woman! Your a wonder, Wonder Woman!\* One minute and forty seconds at the beginning were better than an entire season’s worth of scripts! What about _ **Alice** _? I always kinda liked that one, especially when I learned that Linda Lavin (a _great_ actress) sang it herself. And what about _ **MAUDE** _, for chrissakes? _That uncompromising, enterprising, anything-but-tranquilizing, right-on Maude!_ No _ **Alfred Hitchcock Presents** _, either? ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/76 "2001-09-04T04:04:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lemur866 \* > \*\*And the absolute classic of this genre is MST3K. \*\* Indeed. MST3K’s theme also deserves consideration for its wonderful ending: _If you’re wondering how he eats and breathes, And other science facts, Then repeat to yourself, “It’s just a show; I should really just relax!” For Mystery Science Theater 3000!_ And I have to second whoever nominated the Blackadder theme, in all its incarnations. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/77 "2001-09-04T05:24:04Z")
All right, you asked for it: **Angie** \*Leeeeeeet the time go, Let the love grow, Let the rain show’r, Let the rose flow’r, Love it conquers, love it binds, Love it seeks, and … love it finds! Come to each other from a diff’rent world, Drawn to each other by the love inside of us, Give to each other our diff’rent worlds, Long as we can do it, Life’ll let us breeze right through it! Leeeeeeet the time go, Let the love grow, Let the rain show’r, Let the rose flow’r, Love it conquers, love it binds, Love it seeks, and … love it finds! Oo oo oo oo, Oooooo, oo oo oo OOOOOOOOOOOOO! Oooooo, oo oo oo oooooo! Love it conquers, love it binds, Love it seeks, and … love it / Love it conquers, love it binds, Love it seeks, and … love it finds!\* ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/78 "2001-09-04T05:26:18Z")
OxyMoron wrote: > [@](#): > > _That uncompromising, enterprising, anything-but-tranquilizing, right-on Maude!_ Funny you should mention this, because in Sunnyvale, near where I live, there’s a street called Maude Avenue. Several times while driving somewhere in Sunnyvale, I’ve had to make a **right on Maude**!! ---
**Author:** ![anenquiringmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anenquiringmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anenquiringmind)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/79 "2001-09-04T07:34:30Z")
“Growing Pains” theme song… “As Long As We Got Each Other” by B.J.Thomas and Dusty Springfield and by B.J.Thomas and Jennifer Warnes #2 Greatest American Hero- I really wish they would show reruns of that show… ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168/80 "2001-09-04T18:58:33Z")
_The Jeffersons All in the Family Murder, She Wrote I Love Lucy Gilligan’s Island Threes Company Happy Days_ (the second version, **not** \*Rcok Around the Clock) \*I Dream of Jeannie Alfred Hitchcock Presents Dragnet Green Acers Green Hornet Mission Impossible Mary Tyler Moore Twilight Zone Laverne and Shirley Perry Mason [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-theme-song/79168.md?page=5)