# Unforgettable TV show theme music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741 "2006-07-23T20:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/1 "2006-07-23T20:19:00Z")
The original Star Trek The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson Peter Gunn Andy Griffith Show Jeopardy! Alfred Hitchcock I Love Lucy Dragnet The Smothers Brothers Show The original Saturday Night Live Taxi Cheers Mission: Impossible Mannix ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/2 "2006-07-23T20:33:10Z")
The Muppet Show. The Honeymooners. The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The Munsters. The Addams Family. The Bob Newhart Show. And of course the theme songs that became hit singles, like Happy Days, Welcome Back, Kotter, Laverne and Shirley, SWAT, Miami Vice, Beverly Hillbillies (released by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/3 "2006-07-23T20:34:24Z")
Sorry for the double post. There’s also the Sopranos (Woke Up This Morning). ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/4 "2006-07-23T20:47:48Z")
Hawaii Five-O! Don’t remember much about that show, but I remember the theme music. ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/5 "2006-07-23T20:52:40Z")
All of the music from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Pink Panther (Even though it was written for the movies. George of the Jungle Time Tunnel (Compsed by John Williams before he was famous.) Underdog Perry Mason And Mission Impossible Peter Gunn was the best. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/6 "2006-07-23T20:56:32Z")
The Avengers. The Prisoner. The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Dr. Who, Secret Agent and T.H.E. Cat. Peter Gunn was the best however. And the Manhattan Transfer’s cover of the Twilight Zone theme don’t suck at all. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/7 "2006-07-23T20:57:30Z")
Mr. Lucky The Steve Allen Show (Sunday evening) Bonanza The Bob Cummings Show Captain Kangaroo American Bandstand The Twilight Zone Mike Hammer ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/8 "2006-07-23T21:02:13Z")
> [@Revedge](#): > > Time Tunnel (Compsed by John Williams before he was famous.) Another such show: Checkmate ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/9 "2006-07-23T21:22:52Z")
The Rockford Files ---
**Author:** ![Hedonism\_Bot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hedonism\_Bot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedonism_Bot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/10 "2006-07-23T21:35:37Z")
I’ve always dug the opening and closing of the Ren and Stimpy show. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/11 "2006-07-23T21:37:52Z")
_The A-Team_ _Speed Racer_ _Batman_ ---
**Author:** ![shizaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@shizaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shizaru)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/12 "2006-07-23T21:39:22Z")
The theme to the first Blackadder series. The theme to Red Dwarf The theme to Farscape The theme to the original Tomorrow People. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/13 "2006-07-23T21:46:27Z")
M_A_S\*H Naked City 77 Sunset Strip ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/14 "2006-07-23T21:48:08Z")
_Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex_ _The X-Files_ _Firefly_ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/15 "2006-07-23T22:02:21Z")
Barney Miller Buffy the Vampire Slayer Star Trek Deep Space Nine Iron Chef (theme from Backdraft) Brady Bunch Gillgian’s Island Sesame Street (original) Friends (unfortunately) The Midnight Special Scoby Doo Josie and the Pussy Cats HR Puff-n-stuff The Flintstones The Jetsons Rawhide ---
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/16 "2006-07-23T22:09:11Z")
It’s unforgetable in as much as once it’s in your head it doesn’t leave - the theme to the BBC TV Series of _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_, which was reprised and made even more parasitic by the recent film. And now it’s in my head. Great. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/17 "2006-07-23T22:15:07Z")
Just want to know: does anybody remember the little ditty that went with Gerald McBoing Boing? Rocky and Bullwinkle Fractured Fairy Tales Mighty Mouse (the Andy Kaufman version) and of course, Mickey Mouse Club Howdy Doody The Lone Ranger Superman ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/18 "2006-07-23T22:27:36Z")
C_H_I_P_S Cagney & Lacey The Mystery Movies (Columbo, Banacek, Madigan, et al) Stingray Spider-Man Dark Shadows Quincy Jonny Quest ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/19 "2006-07-23T22:45:53Z")
Monty Python’s Flying Circus The Fact’s of Life The Wide World of Sports ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unforgettable-tv-show-theme-music/365741/20 "2006-07-24T00:09:12Z")
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