Animaniacs
Addams Family
Gilligan’s Island
Flintstones (just barely over The Jetsons)
MAS*H
I’d have said Soap!, but that wasn’t really a song, it was a narrated intro.
Futurama is my #1
WKRP
The Simpsons
Twin Peaks
MST3K
The Flintstones
Gilligan’s Island
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Twilight Zone
Mission: Impossible
Cowboy Bebop
Angel
Cheers
Law & Order
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Wild Wild West
The Simpsons
Twin Peaks
Twilight Zone
Mission Impossible
Why is it every time I make a list of anything I come up with something else later? Well I picked my five, but I want to bring up Psych as my absolute favorite currently on television just because not enough people I know know of it and they really should.
Wow, this is a pavlovian exercise. Some series didn’t have such a great theme but you loved the show so much you began to salivate as soon as you heard it. But the best for me are:
Hawaii Five-O
Jason King
S.W.A.T.
Mission: Impossible
The Persuaders
By the way, if anyone needs to have his/her memory refreshed, here is a good place to start.
My picks (in no particular order):
–“Peter Gunn”
–“Route 66”
–“Miami Vice”
–“Twin Peaks”
–“The Simpsons”
For those who need to refresh their memory of the TV theme songs picked in this thread, check out this web site.
The Rockford Files
Doctor Who - the original
Mission Impossible
Hawaii Five-O - hardly ever actually seen the show, but surely everyone knows this.
Peter Gunn - never seen the show, when did it last get shown?
See also all the CSI themes, but that’s cheating really.
I’m almost regretting starting this, but I’ll tally up the nominations next weekend, I promise. Also, I’ve slapped myself a few times for missing some obvious ones.
Firefly
Rawhide
The Addams Family
Monk
Psych
Rawhide
Hogan’s Heros
The Simpson
Drew Carey
The Adams Family
If it were a TV show, I’d nominate Charlie Brown Christmas
Hill Street Blues
Mission Impossible
The Lone Ranger (aka The William Tell Overture)
Stranger on the Shore(English TV series - clarinet composition by Acker Bilk)
Perry Mason
Surprised no one has nominated the theme to Sesame Street!
The first Happy Days theme (Rock Around The Clock)
MASH
Cheers
Police Squad
Rockford Files
Just a suggestion, but you might consider awarding the top five in a number of different divisions as Billboard does types of music.
Classical music themes like, the Lone Ranger, Super Chicken and Green Hornet.
Story telling theme songs like, Gilligan’s Island, Dukes of Hazzard, Flintstones.
Jazz theme songs like, Peter Gunn, Hennesey, Monk and Frasier.
Rock n’ Roll theme songs like, Drew Cary Show and Happy Days
It might lessen the stress a bit.
- Secret Agent Man
- That 70’s Show
- Twilight Zone
- The Honeymooners
- Speed Racer
Which Drew Carey theme? Moon Over Parma? Five O’ Clock World? Or Cleveland Rocks?
I’d guess the third, since it’s the best-known. It was an Ian Hunter tune before the Presidents of the USA re-recorded it for Drew Carey.
MASH
WKRP in Cincinnati
Gilligan’s Island
Magnum PI
The Simpsons*
Cleveland Rocks.
ETA: It’s strange how few people mention “Twilight Zone” when the phrase “cue Twilight Zone music” has entered our language.