What are your top three TV show theme songs?

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

  1. The Jeffersons
  2. One Day at a Time
  3. Laverne & Shirley

I don’t think I’d change any of mine, but I just remembered Superchicken.

North of 60

Red Dwarf, mostly the end theme

Barney Miller, second iteration

No love for Gilligans Island?

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I don’t think I’d change any of mine, but I just remembered Superchicken.

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Well, yes. :slight_smile:

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.

The Dick Van Dyke Show
I Love Lucy
Rocky And Bullwinkle

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

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

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

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.

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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

Rockford Files
The Untouchables
Peter Gunn

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 (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 (This is the full version.)
Soul Eater second OP (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.)

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.

Friends
Laverne & Shirley
The Beverly Hillbillies

Showtime’s Brothers (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!

The Avengers
Sanford & Son (Streetbeater)
The Bill Cosby Show (1969) (Hikky Burr)

Blackadder
Barretta

The Flintstones.

Breaking Bad (but not until I heard the extended version in the penultimate episode).

Third place would probably have to go to MASH* 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.

Where is the love for the theme from Moonlighting sung by Al Jarreau???

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?)

Say, that’s pretty snazzy!