# What are your top three TV show theme songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618 "2015-03-21T17:32:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/41 "2015-03-21T22:55:27Z")
Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo “A man who guards our things as if they were his own”. Huntley-Brinkley Report ending credits- 2nd movement Beethoven’s 9th symphony Beverly Hillbillies. actually a lot of those 1960s crap sitcoms had good, humorous songs ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/42 "2015-03-21T23:02:31Z")
1. [The Jeffersons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09qnRfZY-k) 2. [One Day at a Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYBNu-AuSQ) 3. [Laverne & Shirley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzF8_df1R8) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/43 "2015-03-21T23:02:44Z")
I don’t think I’d change any of mine, but I just remembered _Superchicken_. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FKss2pBYQ6Y/hqdefault.jpg "The Super Chicken Cartoon Theme Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/44 "2015-03-21T23:17:42Z")
_[North of 60](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96RZrcR-wSg)_ _Red Dwarf_, mostly the end theme _Barney Miller_, second iteration ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/45 "2015-03-21T23:20:35Z")
No love for Gilligans Island? ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/46 "2015-03-21T23:34:30Z")
[quote=“RivkahChaya, post:43, topic:715618”] I don’t think I’d change any of mine, but I just remembered _Superchicken_. [/QUOTE] Well, yes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/47 "2015-03-21T23:36:52Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > No love for Gilligans Island? Plenty of love for it - and the _Brady Bunch_ theme, while we’re at it (that Sherwood Schwartz was a gas) - emanating from me. Just not enough to make it into my own personal Top Three. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/48 "2015-03-21T23:42:00Z")
The Dick Van Dyke Show I Love Lucy Rocky And Bullwinkle ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/49 "2015-03-22T00:23:37Z")
_ **The Persuaders** _ was a very 1970s TV show about mismatched buddies (Tony Curtis as a brash US self made millionaire and Roger Moore as a suave UK Lord) solving international crime. The title credits saw a montage of biographical press cuttings for the two characters with a musical theme which was nice but always seemed very melancholy, even dirge like. [Tv Theme The Persuaders (Full Theme) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99QQIXez4M) _ **The Sweeney** _ had a gritty, brassy theme befitting a 70s tough British cop show and then had a more melancholy arrangement of the same theme for the closing titles - Equally befitting for a show that often had the police failing to catch the bad guys. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVbgn7xG2-Q) 1999 to 2001 saw Slade lead singer Noddy Holder doing some acting in 1970s set nostalgic comedy _ **The Grimleys** _. One episode only ended with Noddy’s character (a music teacher) musing on lost opportunities and playing an acoustic version of Slade hit _ **Cum On Feel The Noize** _ over the end credits. [Noddy Holder Cum On Feel The Noize Accoustic Grimleys - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVFLMRkxThM) Very sad moment. Within the context of the show it was implying this was an alternative version of the real Noddy Holder who had dreamed of being in a band (such as Slade were) but never dared to pursue his dream. The show was great comedy - especially when Lewis “_ **The Professonals** _” Collins was playing the sadistic PE teacher but many comedic references come from 1970s Great Britain so not necessarily something Americans would find easy to follow. TCMF-2L PS _ **The Professionals** _? Supposedly tough but now mocked as unintentionally homo-erotic law enforcement show. A UK version of _ **Starsky and Hutch** _ I suppose with a cracking theme tune all of its own [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCFVEvZvo3g) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/50 "2015-03-22T00:35:38Z")
Rockford Files The Untouchables Peter Gunn ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/51 "2015-03-22T00:50:03Z")
A lot of the ones I’d have mentioned already are (Friends, MASH, Welcome Back, Kotter, etc)… A few anime, to get in ones that haven’t… [ROD the TV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxsoJ6gcDT4) (The full length version, which I couldn’t find (who’d have thought that ‘rod xyz’ would be hard to search on) is even better.) [Durarara!!! first OP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk3ZJslK2ks) (This is the full version.) [Soul Eater second OP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obL44Ljv2VQ) (TV version - couldn’t find a copy of the full version that didn’t have crap sound…this song is the main reason I even watched the show, being a fan of the singer.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/52 "2015-03-22T00:54:46Z")
My three favorites have already been mentioned: Jonny Quest, Mission Impossible, and Peter Gunn. Just to add a new one though, here’s a link to [Ironside](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGfnoORaC2c). ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/53 "2015-03-22T00:57:16Z")
Friends Laverne & Shirley The Beverly Hillbillies ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/54 "2015-03-22T00:58:03Z")
Showtime’s [Brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaSfJY-xs4Y&list=PLM98G2z5lG-Kg2ngrTy0Rbv8e9HZVyGLb) (Sorry about the video, there doesn’t seem to be a quality posting of any of this show’s episodes.) Gonna meet the family, Don’t kid about my brothers and me, We don’t have a pedigree But we’re brothers… … Shoop, Doo-Wah! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/55 "2015-03-22T01:00:31Z")
The Avengers Sanford & Son (Streetbeater) [The Bill Cosby Show (1969)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0B7bauQkwM) (Hikky Burr) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/56 "2015-03-22T01:17:10Z")
Blackadder [Barretta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAUFuTKdWAw) ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/57 "2015-03-22T02:20:12Z")
_The Flintstones_. _Breaking Bad_ (but not until I heard the extended version in the penultimate episode). Third place would probably have to go to _M_A_S_H\* or _The Beverly Hillbillies_. Honorable mention to _Hawaii Five-O_—I just recently found out that I used to hang out in elementary school with the son of the guy who wrote that theme song. Never knew it all these years. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618/59 "2015-03-22T03:13:47Z")
Where is the love for the theme from Moonlighting sung by Al Jarreau??? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NFiu0L7zJX8/hqdefault.jpg "Al Jarreau - Moonlighting (Pilot Theme)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFiu0L7zJX8) ---
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I can’t limit it to just three. Quincy, M.E. The Bob Newhart Show. Police Squad. Night Court. I Spy. Quantum Leap. (That Mike Post has written a lot of memorable themes, hasn’t he?) ---
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> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > [Barretta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAUFuTKdWAw) Say, that’s pretty snazzy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-three-tv-show-theme-songs/715618.md?page=4)