The first theme from the original Outer Limits, by Dominic Frontiere.
The first Twilight Zone theme by Bernard Herrman.
The Virginian
Gunsmoke
The FBI
…and getting out of the '60s, Stat Trek–TNG and Voyager.
Yes, Hill Street Blues and Rockford Files–in fact, just about anything by Mike Post.
Perry Mason
Twilight Zone theme
I have to second “Having an Average Weekend” from Kids in the Hall
I have to agree with a lot of the ones listed already. Another favourite is the theme to **Mr Show with Bob & David **. Then again I like everything about that show.
Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict has a neat theme song. Should be enjoyable to all those cello fetishists.
That’s the theme from CSI.
I love it, too. Very appropriate. Good show, too.
Also, in no paticular order:
Barney Miller
Just Shoot Me (similar funky guitar riff, like Barney Miller)
Northern Exposure
ER
And I liked the funky island theme from Survivor. Oh, shut up.
Perhaps very few people will recall a Steve Bochco flop series called ‘Murder One’, which tanked in the US and fared marginally better over here in the UK. Anyways, the opening titles and music were the best I’ve ever seen, for any TV show, and all the incidental music was also excellent.
Otherwise:
Mission Impossible
Hill Street Blues
Most of the Gerry Anderson stuff had good music - Joe 90, Thunderbirds etc.
Dr. Who (original Radiophonic Workshop version)
And for all UK Dopers, who could possibly leave out the theme to The Wombles? A tune which anyone who ever heard it once will be able to remember till they draw their dying breath.
Cops
Norm
Barney Miller
Banana Splits