I’ve been watching Star Trek: Enterprise on Hulu for the first time (having entirely missed it when originally broadcast) and the theme song sounds weird to me; I’m so used to the orchestral themes of the other Star Trek TV shows and movies.
The opening theme sucked (every Trek fan I knew hated it), but the closing music was pretty good. They should have thrown out the former and gone with the latter.
I love that song! I made sure to never miss the opening back in the day, love it now… The SHOW was a bit slow and downbeat, there was plenty of comedy but it wasn’t stupid ‘lookit-tha-bucket-stuck-on-goober’s-head’ haw haw comedy. I felt there was a realistic vibe with these struggling characters, they would be ill served by merry circus music.
That’s horrible, in a cheesy, 80s Bryan Adams kind of way.
‘Taxi’ theme song… Whimsical and a bit melancholy, like the theme song from ‘Days and Nights of Molly Dodd’ was. I wonder if both shows were made by the same people…
Among Anime fans, the most mentioned theme song that does not match the show is Narutaru, (Shadow Star)
It is about dragons that befriend kids in the present.
Looks like fun… until after a few episodes, it turns into 100% nightmare fuel.
Speaking of anime, I always thought that the first opening song of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April) is sooo misleading. Sure, it’s all funs and games at first, but wait until you reach halfway of the series. 
I think it fits with Judd Hirsch’s character, though. Alex Reiger is basically Harry without the drugs.
Not to mention the Mirror Universe opening, which certainly made me sit up and take notice.
Alien Nation was the worst one ever. 
Oh, my…I never watched Alien Nation because, ugh, But that theme song is appalling!
I know, right? I mean what the heck was on David Kurtz’s mind when composing it. Sounds like a theme for alien’s mating lmao.
Game of Thrones was weirdly upbeat.
I really like the Alien Nation theme. But it doesn’t fit the visuals.
Space:1999
I remember as a kid watching the intro. Action packed space scenes with a kick-ass funky theme song to match. Then the show would start. …zzzzzzzzzzzzz…
The great, very missed Television Without Pity site said about the theme song to Perfect Strangers that it was overpromising things a bit. When you watched that show, did you think about “Standing tall! On the wings of my dreams!”? 80’s style over-earnest aspiration hasn’t aged well.
When McGoohan was on Columbo (playing a spy (and The Killer)) he said “Be seeing you” and wore a jacket that, if it wasn’t the same one, was very similar to the one in The Prisoner.
I guess he did escape the Village at the end after all.
Nevertheless, two Prisoner novelizations called the character “Drake”. I think a lot of people just assumed that it was the same character. McGoohan seemed to love playing secret agents.
I have to admit, I love the themes to both shows. I have a copy of the opening with the music as originally dubbed. It’s the same music, but it doesn’t fit right. The version as I saw it (I don’t know if it was recut for the series or for the American market) has the music much better timed to the action shown on the screen.
(I can’t find it on YouTube now. I’m not referring to longer and shorter versions of the opening – the original opening has the music very badly timed to the drama on the screen. I never saw it until I ot a set with extras on DVD)
The three color episodes are among the worst TV shows I’ve ever seen - going against absolutely everything Dangerman was about.
I agree that the song didn’t have a lot to do with the show. No Drake girls, after all.
Of course McGoohan would always deny that Number Six was Drake - it would cost him a lot not too. Interestingly, the second Prisoner novelization, by David McDaniel begins
“Drake woke.” And goes on with more or less the Arrival scene. I don’t think the name Drake is used thereafter.
The first novelization, but Thomas Disch, doesn’t use it as all according to my quick check.
If there is a third novel I’m not aware of it.
The book, btw, is copyrighted 1969. Ace 67901.
I took the ending to mean that we are all our own jailers, and that we can’t blame others for our imprisonment. YMMV.
Missed this in my last post. I don’t see Drake in the Disch novel at all, and, as I said, only at the very beginning of the McDaniel novel.