Best TV Themes (music)

[Diamondback]

+1 on Firefly. NCIS, Airwolf and Knight Rider (the no-voiceover cuts, preferably Extended Remixes).

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Some more favorite TV themes:

ABC News theme
Saturday Night Live (original 1975-80 version)
Mission Impossible (can't beat a classic! )
Love American Style
Butterflies (British sitcom)
Hill Street Blues
B.J. and the Bear
Dukes of Hazzard
Movin' On
SWAT
Concrete Cowboys (a short-lived TV show from the early '80s that starred country singer Jerry Reed)

 

[plain old dave]

FL-style theme music:

Route 66
Emergency! (Didja know Jack Webb was a jazz fan?)
Bewitched
I Dream Of Jeannie
The Donna Reed Show (first theme, not the later one)
The Lawrence Welk Show

 

[melanie]

I just love the True Blood theme tune, it is fab!

We are watching series 3 on the net over here, my hubby and I love it, but are finding it hard to get each weeks episode, any tips on how we can get them easily on the net?

 

[Miss Scarlet]

I just love the True Blood theme tune, it is fab!

We are watching series 3 on the net over here, my hubby and I love it, but are finding it hard to get each weeks episode, any tips on how we can get them easily on the net?

I love it too!!! I love the theme tune! Like you I watch it on the net. I found it on www.tvshack.net. I'm not sure if they have all the new episodes on yet, haven't checked.

 

[melanie]

Thanks, I'll try that site.

 

[Miss Scarlet]

Oh no! The site's been taken down. They've finally been caught

 

[Mahagonny Bill]

I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but for me the best T.V. theme is Tank! from the anime Cowboy Bebop

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The composer is Yoko Kanno. She has done dozens of film, T.V, and video work, as well as pop and classical music. Well worth looking into.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but for me the best T.V. theme is Tank! from the anime Cowboy Bebop

The composer is Yoko Kanno. She has done dozens of film, T.V, and video work, as well as pop and classical music. Well worth looking into.

I have to secoind & third this I totally forgot about Cowboy Bebop. I wish Adult Swim would play it more often. I also with they would make more episodes.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Didja know Jack Webb was a jazz fan?

Here's the Dragnet theme in its entirety.

Ray Anthony -- Dragnet (1953)
Capitol 2562

 

[Atomic Age]

Mannix

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It Takes a Thief

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Magnum P.I. (the first theme, not the one everyone knows) This was the theme used in the first 5 episodes.

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I Spy

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The Mod Squad

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Private Eye (short lived 80's TV show)

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Dark Shadows

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ABC Movie of the Week

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ABC Sunday Night Movie

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CBS Late Movie

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Doug

 

[Ed Bass]

Gilligan's Island, Green Acres, and Beverly Hillbillies are fun.

Agree totally with you on the Gilligan's Island theme song. The original, first (1964) season theme sung by the Wellingtons which begins with a few chords on a ukelele. The second and third season was not quite as whimsical.
Best,
Toots

 

[Atomic Age]

Agree totally with you on the Gilligan's Island theme song. The original, first (1964) season theme sung by the Wellingtons which begins with a few chords on a ukelele. The second and third season was not quite as whimsical.
Best,
Toots

But the cool thing was, everything you needed to know to watch the show, was right there in the theme song!

Doug

 

[HadleyH]

Perry Mason

For me, still the best!!!!!

"Park Avenue Beat" by Fred Steiner.



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[Nik Taylor]

The Saint

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[Atomic Age]

For me, still the best!!!!!

"Park Avenue Beat" by Fred Steiner.



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My favorite TV show ever!

Doug

 

[grundie]

The Prisoner
Tomorrows World 1987-1991 (the one with the French horns)
The X-Files
Doctor Who - The original Delia Derbyshire one followed by Peter Howells.
The Krypton Factor (Art of Noise version)
Start Trek Voyager
The Late Late Show (the Irish show)
Crackerjack (Chas'n'Dave)
Sesame Street
Man in a Suitcase
The Avenger
The Champions

 

[Rocketblast]

Oh yeeeah, I love the Rockford Files!
Minder (got to sing along)
The Littlest Hobo
Dukes of Hazzard
Huckleberry Fin
All the stuff that reminds me of my youth in front of the telly.

 

[Panache]

My favorites would be

The Prisoner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om8Xwa3MhaU


The Avengers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0YOlU3SMgs



Kolchak: The Night Stalker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfl0m6U8IE



The Wild Wild West

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLkVvlhy9_k&feature=related


Cheers

Jamie

 

[rkwilker]

Bonanza...and oh yeah...I always liked the theme to Tim Allen's "Home Improvement"