My vote goes for the gospelish " Movin’ on up" from the Jeffersons.
I cast mine for “Love Boat.” I have this dream of being a lounge singer and covering that song.
Cheers.
And, dare I suggest it, Welcome Back Kotter.
The Loooooove Boat
Soon will be making a-noth-er run
The Loooooove Boat
Promises something for e-very-one
Set a course for adventure
Your mind on a new ro-mance …
Thank you, jumblemind. That song is gonna be in my head all day now.
I used to love the theme song to “S.W.A.T.”
Oh cripes. There’s so many.
Theme to The Monkees.
Rockford Files.
Star Trek
Star Trek, Next Gen.
My brain has malfunctioned. I can’ think of any more right now. ugh.
I’ll cast another vote for Cheers.
Man, this went to 3 pages up to just about a week or so ago.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=31661
The theme music for Hockey Night in Canada, it can’t be beat. Cartoons also have great themes ie The Jetsons, The Tick and The Simpsons.
Bonanza!!!
The Animaniacs
Pinky & the Brain
Hawaii 5-0
The Adventures of Superman!
Of course, you need the hyperbolic voice over to really make it work, but I’ll take just the music in a pinch.
You’re all wrong, of course.
They greatest TV theme song is, as all reasonable people know, Quicy Jones’s immortal *Sanford & Son[/]
The original A-Team theme.
A-Team all the way. And we are backed up by no less a rescource than the Encyclopedia Britannica
“Greatest American Hero”
“believe it or not, I’m walkin on air…”
You kids!
It has to be a tossup between Rawhide and Have Gun Will Travel.
Unless you don’t insist on a song, in which case the best is the intro to the original Outer Limits.
“We now return control of your message board to you.”
Peter Gunn or Perry Mason. Icy cool.
Oh, and Route 66. They really captured the sound and feel of bias-ply tires on hot blacktop.
doo DO doo doo doo doo doo doo DO doo doo doo doo doo doo DO doo doo doo doo doo doo…ba-bum bum BUM!
(That was “I Dream of Jeanie”, not my favorite TV theme song (that honor would go to “Futurama”) but it’s got a catchy beat, doesn’t it?)
Josie and the Pussycats
Underdog
Speed Racer
The Powerpuff Girls
Cartoons have the best theme songs