Best TV Themes (music)

[Shangas]

My favourite TV themes...

- Lord Peter Wimsey (1970s series with Ian Carmichael).
- Jeeves and Wooster (1990s series with Fry & Laurie).
- Poirot (1990s- series with David Suchet).
- Upstairs Downstairs.
- Fawlty Towers.
- Midsomer Murders (1990s- series with John Nettles).
- The Addams Family (1960s series).
- Dragnet (1940s radio, 1950s-1970s TV, Jack Webb).
- Casualty 1900s (2000s series).
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1990s series with Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Edward Hardwicke and Rosalie Williams).

I nearly forgot this one...

The Dick Van Dyke show's theme-tune.

 

[Smithy]

Without a shadow of a doubt and by an amazingly long chalk, the theme for "The Professionals"...

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[lolly_loisides]

Ok, this is by no means the best TV theme song, but the lyrics always made me smile and Billy Connelly singing the song is abit of a bonus too.
"After her they're all big girls blouses, she got more front than a row of houses! Hang about, look out, it's Supergran"
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[Smithy]

Actually has anyone mentioned "The Goodies"? That was a hoot of a theme as well.

 

[Chas]

What, you mean "goody goody yum yum"?

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Big Brassy theme to "The Avengers"

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[Puzzicato]

Dr Who
Dad's Army
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
X-Files
M*A*S*H
The Muppet Show

A few of you have mentioned the Professionals - I will have to go home and watch the DVD again, because I remember the car smashing through the window but I cannot remember the theme!

 

[Yeps]

Shaka Zulu (okay, it was a mini-series, shoot me)
Doctor Who (I like most of the variations)
Big Bang Theory (yes I do sing along)
And from my childhood...
Magic School Bus
Wishbone
Bill Nye the Science Guy. I still break out singing these sometimes.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Magnum P.I.

M*A*S*H

NCIS

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Yakkety Sax (The Benny Hill Show)
El Choclo (tango) -- (Murder, She Wrote)
Runaway -- (Crime Story)
(unknown title) -- (What's Happenin')

 

[jamespowers]

Yakkety Sax (The Benny Hill Show)
El Choclo (tango) -- (Murder, She Wrote)
Runaway -- (Crime Story)
(unknown title) -- (What's Happenin')

Definitely Crime Story. :eusa_clap

 

[Lily Powers]

"I Love Lucy" is just plain iconic to me and makes smile. But my all time favorite, hands down, is "Route 66." I just love it.

 

[LordBest]

Rome
Doctor Who
Buffy
Jeeves and Wooster
Poirot

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Home Town Blues -- Hizzoner

Hizzoner was a short-lived sitcom that aired on NBC in 1979 that starred David Huddleston as the mayor of a small Midwestern town. I recall that the show always opened with David Huddleston performing the song which he also wrote.

 

[Yeps]

Rome
Doctor Who
Buffy
Jeeves and Wooster
Poirot

I forgot Jeeves and Wooster. That might be my favorite of all.

 

[scottyrocks]

I always likes the theme from Baretta, sung by Sammy Davis Jr.

 

[MisterCairo]

Three's Company

 

[MisterCairo]

My favs:

Monty Python's Flying Circus (Liberty Bell)
Jeeves and Wooster (1990s with Fry and Laurie, scored by the Art of Noise's Anne Dudley)
Corner Gas (Canadian sitcom, scored by Craig Northey of the Band "The Odds")
Hogan's Heroes (anyone know that Bob Crane played the drums on that? He was a great band drummer)

 

[Jennifer Lynn]

Let's see...a few of my favorites (debatable as being 'best of'):

- Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (The theme from the Nerf Herders rocks!)
- Carnivale's theme music (definitely fits the theme of the Dust Bowl era)
- Firefly - I love the theme song so much, I'm learning to sing/play it on my guitar
- Doctor Who theme song (extremely recognizable to me)
- A-Team theme song (I'm a child of the 80's...looked forward to hearing it every week)

 

[Jennifer Lynn]

Definitely Crime Story. :eusa_clap

Loved Crime Story's theme song as well.