What do you people think are the best TV themes out there in TV-land.
My sugestions (there’s a bit of UK bias here, admittedly):
- Red Dwarf
- Match of the Day (BBC1)
- COPS
okay bluecanary,
I guess I’ll introduce some American bias here and choose:
Hawaii-Five-O
Great song and fantastic opening sequence.
Robotech
Speed Racer
My Secret Identity
Greatest American Hero
Baby Blues (Uses The Barenaked Ladies ‘It’s All Been Done Before’)
Futurama
Qualified entry:
Enterprise - it’s a good song, just a really odd choice for a Star Trek theme.
Mr. Lucky
Peter Gunn
Mission Impossible
Almost forgot:
The Avengers
Hill Street Blues
Twilight Zone
Ditto Hawaii Five-O
Big vote for Mission: Impossible.
Gilligan’s Island (inspiration for the LOTR filk I wrote)
Simon and Simon
Rockford Files
Taxi
3rd Rock from the Sun
Gunsmoke
Maverick
Here is the link to that filk.
Mission Impossible, although my parents would never let me watch it.
What? No votes for Cheers?
Sometimes you wanna go
Where everybody knows your name
And they’re always
Glad you came…
Welcome Back, Kotter
St. Elsewhere
L.A. Law
My favorite themes would coincide with some of my favorite shows from the 80s.
In no particular order:
- Remington Steele - Henry Mancini
- The Fall Guy - Lee Majors
- Airwolf
- Magnum P.I.
But my favorite, and it always gives me goosebumps when I hear it, Hank Williams Jr.'s Monday Night Football theme.
thirtysomething
ER
Boomtown
Cowboy Bebop (“Tank!” by Yoko Kanno and the Seat Belts)
Peter Gunn (by Henry Mancini)
The Green Hornet (by Al Hirt)
Mission: Impossible (by Lalo Schifrin)
Hawaii Five-O (by ?)
Batman (the animated series theme by Shirley Walker AND the campy '60s show theme by Nelson Riddle and Neal Hefti)
The Flash (by Danny Elfman)
I enjoy the Simpsons theme along with most of the others posted here.
Say what you will, I actually like the theme from Three’s Company.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
“Drivin in my car
Livin like a star
Ice on my fingers and my toes
and I’m a Taurus.”
Curb Your Enthusiasm has a great one too. Futurama as well. Those are the only three I never fast forward through.
Welcome Back Kotter
&
WKRP
Yup, yup.
The Rockford Files (the version with the guitar break)
Stingray - Anything can happen in the next half-hour!
Dr Who
The theme tune for UFO is pretty cool too but it’s probably too obscure, anyone else remember it?