Monk just traded in it’s Emmy-winning first season theme song for a really disjointed and unsingable downer by Randy Newman. Everyone on the IMDB message board (including me) loves the old one and hates the new one.
I think The Rockford Files had the greatest theme song in TV History.
Hawaii Five-O had the bestest theme!
Great theme songs:
Law & Order
Cheers
ER
Battlestar Galactica (don’t laugh…the show was cheesy, but that opening music was good stuff)
Picket Fences
Bad Theme Songs:
The Practice (I like the show, but can’t stand this theme song)
Growing Pains (the initial version of the theme song was likeable, but then it got re-done in the later seasons, and it sounded dreadful)
Enterprise (outstanding visuals, but they need to drop the lyrics, quick)
The Daily Show. You know it’s quality TV when the theme song is by They Might Be Giants.
Speaking of Comedy Central TV shows with bad theme songs…The Man Show
Snooooopy - agreed Hawaii Five-O - best TV theme of all time.
Here’s an obscure one - the original theme to “Hardcastle and McCormack”. (They changed it for a while but luckily changed it back).
Bad Theme
“Cheers” - kind of bland - and with time it gets more annoying.
I used to like the TV theme song to Early Edition. Then they changed it.
I only saw it in reruns, but the theme to “The Saint” starring Roger Moore was a killer jam!
The theme to “Sanford and Son” was a funky vibe too.
I too must admit…I love the Sanford & Sons theme song
probably my favorite next to Step By Step
I had the Sanford and Son theme song as my Windows shut down sound for a while.
This thread reminded me how much I despise the theme song from “Absolutely Fabulous.”
Wheels on fire, rolling down the road…gurglesplat.
TNG
Voyager
The Justice League show on Cartoon Network
Baywatch
Soap. It’s odd, strange, and eminently hummable.
Cheers. Excellent song, in and of itself.
ER. Nice music.
Mission: Impossible. I love piano music, can you tell?
Ones I like: NYPD Blue, Six Feet Under, ER, The Sporanos.
Does 24 have a theme song, by the way?
No…no theme song for 24 I think Jack…is it? is just talking in the background about what the show is about.
Mission Impossible is pretty great!
Like: Speed Racer, The A-Team, Gilligan’s Island.