Topic: TV Theme Songs

[Dr. Hasslein]

What are your favourite TV theme songs?

I've always had a thing about them, I've built up quite the collection over the years.

Some of my favourites include:

Happy Days
Raw-Hide
Full House
Speed Racer
Duck Tales

And I've had the theme to Growing Pains stuck in my head for the past few days. They are playing re-runs on TV at the moment.

[Achim]

Hmmm, tough to say "just like that". Would need to look at my collection or beyond to remember what's out there.

Two favorites are for shows I have never seen:
Rawhide (I only know the Blues Brothers version )
Mission: Impossible


Then there is
The Avengers
The Persuaders (? that show with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis)

I always liked the song from The Fall Guy at the time. Just now I watch Death Note (anime series) and like that theme song very much as well.

[kahless]

Rawhide (I only know the Blues Brothers version )

Best version ever... 

[Dragonfire]

I like the one for Big Bang Theory even though it is short.  I liked the one from Friends fairly well. 
Happy Days
Doctor Who

I know there are more, but this is all I can think of at the moment.

[Dr. Hasslein]

Another one I like is the theme from the Road Runner Show.

[DJ Doena]

I love TV Themes, I have whole audio CDs with them.

My favourites are the ones from my 80s childhood shows, such as A-Team and MacGyver and so on.

But Rawhide is also high on the list.

Unfortunately newer shows only use title cards instead of intros.

[Blair]

Wow.... let's see.... some I remember liking back at the time but have no idea if I'd still like them today


- 6Teen
- The Any Griffith Show
- Cheers
- Friends
- Happy Days
- Highlander
- MacGyver
- The Monkees  (back then, not now)
- Night Court
- Pinwheel  (only when I was really little, but almost 30 years later I still know the tune and lyrics)
- Punky Brewster (back then; I don't remember now)
- Total Drama Island
- Xena: Warrior Princess  (more for the narration than the music, though)

[kahless]

One of my favourites is the theme from "Cold Case" (Nara/E.S. Posthumus)!

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

A theme I never liked but that's nevertheless burned into my synapses: Dallas (hell, I'm whistling it right now  )

[Rogmeister]

Just like DJ Doena, I have entire CDs of TV themes.  Some of my favorites, arranged by genre:

Westerns
Rawhide
Maverick
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke (actually, the music at the end credits, it has a very short opening theme)
Bonanza
Lawman

Super-Heroes
Batman: The Animated Series
Justice League
The Adventures of Superman (mostly narration)
The Hanna-Barbera World of Super Adventure
The Flash
The Green Hornet

Various
The Brady Bunch
Gilligan's Island (even though I hated the show itself)
It's About Time
The Twilight Zone (especially the slower moodier theme by Bernard Herrmann)
Dragnet

[Dr. Hasslein]

The Twilight Zone (especially the slower moodier theme by Bernard Herrmann)

 

[Tom]

Off the top of my head:

Theme songs:
Cheers
Friends
Highlander
Psych
Due South
Red Dwarf
GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka, live-action)
Dawson's Creek (both songs)
Blackadder (all variations)
A Different World

Themes without lyrics:
all Star Trek (I even liked the one with lyrics)
Babylon 5 (especially season 3)
Knight Rider
Buffy
Angel
Lois & Clark


Anime:
Full Metal Panic
Noir
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Ah My Goddess (season 1 + 2)
Gunslinger Girl (season 1 + 2)
Gokusen
Genshiken (season 1)
Azumanga Daioh


Cartoons:
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (80s)
M.A.S.K.

[lyonsden5]

I miss the theme song. Back in the day evey show had a good song. Now, so many shows now just do that quick blurb of whatever and that's it. I guess it gives them another 30 seconds of advertising time they can sell. 

Current theme song favorites:
Chuck
Parenthood

Previous ones are to numerous to list. 

[Dragonfire]

I miss the theme songs too.

[Dr. Hasslein]

I agree, good theme songs are almost non existent these days. The last good theme song I heard was from an Australian mini-series called 'Very Small Business', its theme was epic!

One of the most unique and creative theme songs of all time I think is the theme to Garry Shandling's Show.

"This is the theme to Garry's show, the theme to Garry's show. Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song, I'm almost half way finished, how do you like it so far? How do you like the theme to Garry's show?"......  genius!