Ultimate TV Theme Songs!

[Zomby Woof]

"Hawaii Five-Oh" - you know it's your earworm now! :D

[southpaw]

1. Barney Miller

an earworm... but a tolerable one.

[Zomby Woof]

4. I love that opening bass line!

:thumbsup:

[Jamastiene]

2. "You take the good. You take the bad..."

The Facts of Life. Now, there is an earworm from Hell.

[Zavulon]

24. If that song gets stuck in my ear today,

there is no place on Earth where you can hide from me. ;)

[Jamastiene]

28. :P

Not even under my bed? :P

:hide:

[Zavulon]

33. I don't think so. After all,

every judge in the hemisphere would be on my side. Fortunately, I'm generally pretty good at ejecting stuck songs from my head, so you're currently in no peril at all :)

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. you know it's funny but...

The second before I clicked on this thread the theme from Hawaii Five-Oh started playing in my head and then it was in your thread...freaky huh? I guess it is truly the ultimate TV theme song earworm

[RedStateShame]

5. Rockford Files

Has there ever been a better sounding harmonica part in a TV theme song? Don't bother looking it up, I already checked for you, and there hasn't.

[Zomby Woof]

9. GREAT theme, GREAT show!

I love the different answering machine recording every episode... it was the ancestor "The Simpsons" changing their opening montage every week. :-)

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Yup

"Roseanne."

Better yet, it's blues harp. :thumbsup:

[Deja Q]

6. Doctor Who

The Avengers (season 5)

[ceile]

17. Seconded Dr. Who

[MrCoffee]

7. Sanford and Son - Streetbeater by Quincy Jones

[CBGLuthier]

15. The earliest episodes

Had some great variations on the theme for incidental music but they dropped that after a while.

[Phillycat]

23. Abso-frickin-lutely.

By far the best. BY FAR.

[koneko]

47. I second that

that's what I was thinking as I opened up the thread!

[Jokerman]

8. Hill Street Blues, Green Acres, Tom Slick. n/t

[southpaw]

10. Carol O'Connor and Jean Stapleton singing 'Those Were the Days'

at the beginning of All in the Family...

I also dig Peter and Lois Griffin's homage to that classic on The Family Guy.

[flamingyouth]

11. Maude and Good Times

I feel like this thread is being dominated by the '70s. :D

[Zomby Woof]

13. Let us not forget...

QUINCY! Those catchy horns! That quasi-swing makes me sing. :bounce:

Another great 70's icon. (Okay, so he crossed-over into the 80's, but I never held that against him!) :D

[flamingyouth]

16. I've got to get the Quincy DVD!

:D :bounce:

[MorningGlow]

12. WKRP in Cincinnati

I'm a sucker for poppy TV theme songs that turn up on the radio once in a while. Welcome Back Kotter too...

Funny, once they went from TV to radio; nowadays they get pulled from radio for a TV theme.

[CBGLuthier]

14. Kolchak (the original), The Prisoner

Six Feet Under, Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Funeral for a Marionette)

[Lautremont]

18. Believe it or not,

I'm still on the air
I never thought I would last so lo-o-ong
With that silly suit and blond curly hair
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's still me.

Actually, the bar-none greatest TV them is SWAT.

[SteppingRazor]

19. Whoa! I was gonna say Hawaii Five-O when I saw the subject!

:thumbsup:

[Zomby Woof]

20. How could you not?

:D

[Zavulon]

21. Magnum P.I. I also liked the 2003 Twilight Zone theme music. (NT)

[Zavulon]

22. Lest I forget, Night Court had good theme music, too. (NT)

[YankeyMCC]

25. The Original BSG

- The show may not have been great (although I think it was good in a way as a show for kids) but come on! you can't beat that opening theme. :)

Other favorites of mine:

MASH
Star Trek
All in the Family

(As a kid I made a cassette, remember those, of a bunch of TV themes

[Mojambo]

26. It's Garry Shandling's Show n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Super Chicken!

When you find yourself in danger
When you're threatened by a stranger
When it looks like you will take a lickin'
(Buk-buk-buk-buk)
There is someone waiting
who will hurry up and rescue you
Just caaAAALL for Super Chicken
(Buk-GAAA!)

But if you're afraid you'll have to overlook it
Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it
(Buk-buk-buk-buk)

He will drink his Super Sauce
and throw the bad guys for a loss
And he will bring them in alive and kickin'
(Buk-buk-buk-buk)
There is one thing you should learn
When there is no one else to turn to
CaaAAALL for Super Chicken
(Buk-buk-buk-buk)
CaaAAALL for Super Chicken
(Buk-GAAA!)



Edit: AUDIO!
http://www.digital-sledgehammer.com/superchicken/sounds/sctheme_full.mp3

Plus... George udda Jungle!
http://www.digital-sledgehammer.com/superchicken/sounds/tom-slick-theme.mp3

Get 'em (and other neat stuff) here: http://www.digital-sledgehammer.com/superchicken/

:bounce:

[sfdiva]

30. Fraggle Rock! n.t

[Montauk6]

31. "Early to rise, early to bed..."

In between I cooked and cleaned and went outta my head...

If you don't love Alice, THEN KISS MAH GRITS!!!!

[jus_the_facts]

32. The Andy Griffith Show.....

[Burma Jones]

34. All in the Family

Those Were the Days....


Boy, the way Glen Miller played. Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days.
Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days.
And you know who you were then, girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
People seemed to be content. Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days.
Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win.
Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin.
Hair was short and skirts were long. Kate Smith really sold a song.
I don't know just what went wrong. Those Were The Days.

[Mz Pip]

35. CSI

but then I really love The Who.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[taterguy]

36. Zevon's theme for the Fox show Action

It only lasted a few episodes so I don't know if it counts as an ultimate theme song but it sure was catchy

[cedahlia]

37. Knight Rider, Simon and Simon, and Barney Miller

all kick ass. I used to love to shake my booty to the Barney Miller theme when I was a little kid...ah, memories!

And I also love the closing theme of "The Incredible Hulk" and the opening and closing themes of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" (child of the 80's, I am!) :-)

[bif]

38. "Man from U.N.C.L.E." "Wild, Wild West" "Get Smart"

[bikebloke]

39. Mission Impossible

Mannix

Looks like I covered Saturdays nights of long ago.

[SoyCat]

40. I never actually watched the show but I always liked the theme to Picket

Fences. I can't even pinpoint why I liked it.

[BrotherBuzz]

41. Rawhide

[RedStateShame]

42. My current favorite, Squidbillies

Sung by the great Billie Joe Shaver.

My dreams are all dead and buried
Sometimes I wish the sun would just explode.
When God comes and calls me to his kingdom,
I'll take all you sons'a bitches when I go.

[Fox Mulder]

43. My favorite?

I wonder...

;)

[citizen snips]

44. James Bond

[turner52]

45. t.v. themes

1. Addams Family
2. F-Troop
3. Gilligan's Island

[mtnester]

46. "We're movin on up...to the east side..to a deluxe apartment

in the sky-y-y-y-...mo-ovin on up, to the east side.we finally got a piece of the Piiiiiiiii!

[u4ic]

48. Hockey Night in Canada!

The REAL Canadian national anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTminVBxo9Y (not quite the version that I remember; it seems to be abbreviated...)

Red Dwarf (the old version) is a very close second (I can only find it in Spanish?). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXeFyhP8iP8

[DisgustedTX]

49. Welcome Back

A pop classic.

[Nailzberg]

50. CHiPs!!!

Final Answer. Lock the thread.