Some of your favorite TV theme songs... (1 Viewer)

[Eric-S]

The fact that the TV theme song is being pushed out to make more room for commercials, I thought I would give you all the chance to list some of your favorites. Some of mine would include...

The Rockford Files

Taxi

Barney Miller


Thanks,

EJ

 

[gene c]

Hawaii 5-O needs to be on that list. Book'em Dan'o.

 

[mylan]

Love Rockford Files and Hawaii 5-0
I'll add Growing Pains (especially the later version with no music)
Laverne and Shirley
Happy Days
Magnum P.I.
Cheers

 

[Rob Gardiner]

THE SIMPSONS
THE SOPRANOS
MARRIED... WITH CHILDREN
THE ODD COUPLE

 

[Linda Thompson]

I love the music from Will & Grace...sorta reminds me of the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown scores a bit.

I also enjoy the themes from:

Wings
Futurama
La Femme Nikita
Silk Stalkings
Alien Nation
Hercules
Xena
Renegade
Psych (too short!)
Star Trek - TOS
The X-Files
Emergency!
Rockford
The A-Team
Bonanza
WKRP

EDIT - Oops! Forgot one of the absolute best: M*A*S*H

 

[Bryan X]

Don't forget Greatest American Hero.

 

[Al.Anderson]

Lots of good ones. I'll add Mission Impossible.

 

[Rob Gardiner]

A few more

GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
COWBOY BEBOP
SAMURAI CHAMPLOO
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

 

[Brian Perry]

There's no doubt in my mind that Hawaii Five-O is the best opening sequence ever created. To this day, when I'm re-watching an episode on Tivo, I never fail to watch the song in its entirety.

I also have to second the nomination for Cheers. Maybe it was just the anticipation of knowing a great show was coming, but I'll always fondly remember hearing that song on Thursday nights.

And my honorable mention goes to The Beverly Hillbillies.

 

[Yee-Ming]

Say what you want about the program, but Voyager had a great theme. Similarly, Battlestar Galactica TOS had an absolutely brilliant theme, nicely reprised in the new one as "The Colonial Anthem".

I actually rather like the Law & Order theme. And it's interesting how they've managed to create interesting, yet different, riffs of it for SVU and CI.

And how about that hoary old chestnut, LA Law? That trumpet riff followed by a heavy opening beat that coincides with the trunk of the car slamming shut, displaying the custom license plate?

 

[todd s]

S.W.A.T. (the tv show, not the movie)
Wild Wild West
The Flash
Batman: The Animated Series
Superman: The Animated Series

 

[Andrew Chong]

(mostly) past and (a few) present:
The Addams Family
American Bandstand (Bandstand Boogie)
The Andy Griffith Show
Beauty and the Beast (Lee Holdridge)
The Benny Hill Show (Yakety Sax)
Bonanza
The Brady Bunch
Charlie Brown Specials (Vince Guaraldi)
Cheers
Dinosaurs (Bruce Broughton)
ER
Family Guy
Fraggle Rock
Frasier (Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Futurama
Hill Street Blues
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Howard Shore, John Lurie)
MacGyver
Matlock
Miami Vice
Millennium (Mark Snow)
Mission: Impossible
Monk (Jeff Beal)
The Monkees
The Muppet Show
The Office (US version)
Sesame Street
Sherlock Holmes (Patrick Gowers)
The Simpsons
The Sopranos
Third Watch (The Crystal Method)
Tiny Toon Adventures
The Young and the Restless
Wings (Franz Schubert)
The X Files

 

[LewB]

Car 54
Hogan's Heros

 

[Colin Davidson]

Since I didn't see it mentioned AND I am currently watching season 2:

Airwolf

 

[JonZ]

Welcome To Eltingvile

I put it here for all to enjoy.....

http://rapidshare.com/files/15064433/THEME.mp3.html

 

[Jordan_E]

"Believe it or not George isn't at home..."

Magnum PI
Sanford and Son
King of the Hill

 

[Alex-C]

WKRP in Cincinatti
with a special shout out to the rockin closing credits theme.
(meow)

I was born in 1970, so Taxi hit its stride during my pre-teen years. And as anyone from my era remembers, Taxi was on at 9:30 pm. Well, hearing that smooth flute intro was the sound of bedtime for me. There was something so mystically adult about that show but that theme song was and still is a haunting reminder of my bewilderment of the adult world. Funny how music can do that !

 

[Paul Padilla]

Another vote here for Barney Miller & Taxi.

What about the ever popular "Suicide is Painless" MASH

 

[Harpozep]

Ok, :
Gilligan's Island

Adams Family

Hawaii Five O

Odd Couple

Mash

See, I'm semi Old. Newer themes need not apply
BTW, absolute favorite movie theme, Conan!

 

[Shane Martin]

Not listed:

The Fall Guy.

A guilty pleasure of mine growing up.