# What is the greatest TV Theme song? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900 "2000-09-20T20:19:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/1 "2000-09-20T20:19:29Z")
My vote goes for the gospelish " Movin’ on up" from the Jeffersons. ---
**Author:** ![jumblemind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jumblemind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jumblemind)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/2 "2000-09-20T20:22:17Z")
I cast mine for “Love Boat.” I have this dream of being a lounge singer and covering that song. ---
**Author:** ![rundogrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/3 "2000-09-20T20:27:17Z")
Cheers. And, dare I suggest it, Welcome Back Kotter. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/4 "2000-09-20T20:27:21Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/5 "2000-09-20T20:31:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/6 "2000-09-20T20:42:15Z")
I’ll cast another vote for Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/7 "2000-09-20T20:46:15Z")
Man, this went to 3 pages up to just about a week or so ago. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=31661](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=31661) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/8 "2000-09-20T20:51:57Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/9 "2000-09-20T20:57:58Z")
Bonanza!!! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/10 "2000-09-20T21:06:04Z")
The Animaniacs Pinky & the Brain Hawaii 5-0 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/11 "2000-09-20T21:10:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/12 "2000-09-20T21:25:11Z")
You’re all wrong, of course. They greatest TV theme song is, as all reasonable people know, Quicy Jones’s immortal \*Sanford & Son[/] ---
**Author:** ![Kvallulf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kvallulf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kvallulf)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/13 "2000-09-20T21:51:39Z")
The original A-Team theme. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/14 "2000-09-20T22:05:29Z")
A-Team all the way. And we are backed up by no less a rescource than the Encyclopedia Britannica ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/15 "2000-09-20T22:08:56Z")
“Greatest American Hero” “believe it or not, I’m walkin on air…” ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/16 "2000-09-20T22:33:11Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/17 "2000-09-21T00:14:43Z")
Peter Gunn or Perry Mason. Icy cool. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/18 "2000-09-21T00:15:53Z")
Oh, and Route 66. They really captured the sound and feel of bias-ply tires on hot blacktop. ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/19 "2000-09-21T00:28:51Z")
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?) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900/20 "2000-09-21T00:36:02Z")
Josie and the Pussycats Underdog Speed Racer The Powerpuff Girls Cartoons have the best theme songs [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-tv-theme-song/33900.md?page=2)