What are your favorite T.V. theme songs?

[Doc Average]

Oh, I love TV themes! In no particular order my favourites are:

The Prisoner
The Avengers
The New Avengers
U.F.O.
Department S
Joe 90
Captain Scarlet
Thunderbirds
Dangerman
Adam Adamant Lives!
Tales of the Unexpected
Whirlybirds
Perry Mason
Get Smart
Hawaii 5-0
Starsky & Hutch
Champion the Wonderhorse
Batman
Dr Who (original!)
The Sweeney

Better stop now!

EDIT: I forgot Wonder Woman!

 

[hatophile]

Beverly Hillbillies
Dukes of Hazzard ( I know, but it's Waylon for pete's sake)
Hawaii 5-0 is great!
I Love Lucy

 

[AtomicEraTom]

One of my absolute favorites "I'm a good ol' boy, you know my mama loves me, but she don't understand they keep a-showin' my hands and not my face on TV.

Dukes of Hazzard ( I know, but it's Waylon for pete's sake)

[video=youtube;Mbk81X6WHA4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbk81X6WHA4[/video]
Not the typical intro, but I always love the cheesy cartoon donkey, and they'd introduce all the cast, then Roy and Buck come out with the whole 'Hee Haw Gang'.
[video=youtube;Mn_Kw8xHovs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_Kw8xHovs&feature=related[/video]

 

[_Nightwing]

My picks

Veronica Mars:

In case you aren't familiar with it, don't write this show off as the dumb teenage crap it might look like at first glance. It was actually an incredibly well written modern film noir detective story about a girl who works for her PI father. It ran for three seasons, had a major mystery arc in each season with an individual mystery every episode, and a cast of characters which really changed and developed with the events. And it was really damn hard to solve those mysteries, no kidding. It wasn't like Scooby Doo or something where you see a guy in the first minute and say "Yeah it was the Carnival owner" - the episodes had characters working in collusion, hidden angles and unexpected new evidence, and all organic to the town and to reality, not some forced twist.

There was also a really great noir premise to the whole show - the father used to be the town's sheriff but was run out of office for persuing the wrong guy, his wife left him and his daughter Veronica gets raped at a party but keeps it to herself; their whole family life is destroyed. The show is also littered with film noir and hard boiled detective references, which is a nice bonus.

The reason I love the theme music so much is that I think it's a great modernization of the film noir concept, and also a perfect overview of the show - they manage to tell the entire story with merely the right melancholy mood and couple of lines of lyrics.

http://youtu.be/6jL3t-ibRG4


Firefly:

I think this qualifies as lounge-related. Sure it's a sci-fi, but it's a space western, and a damn good one at that. We're in the future, but also in the past, and with a story about freedom vs. government intrusion that's very relevant to the present.

I love the music because once again, it tells you the story of the entire show, and because "you can't take the sky from me" is probably one of the best lyrics ever written by a man.

http://youtu.be/LrAS20mNZUE


21 Jump Street:

Shouldn't need any intro.

http://youtu.be/YcuHL6lGXHs

 

[hatophile]

One of my absolute favorites "I'm a good ol' boy, you know my mama loves me, but she don't understand they keep a-showin' my hands and not my face on TV.



[video=youtube;Mbk81X6WHA4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbk81X6WHA4[/video]
Not the typical intro, but I always love the cheesy cartoon donkey, and they'd introduce all the cast, then Roy and Buck come out with the whole 'Hee Haw Gang'.
[video=youtube;Mn_Kw8xHovs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_Kw8xHovs&feature=related[/video]

I knew you'd weigh in on this one, Tom.

 

[hatophile]

This one:
[video=youtube;zP3K5a2ipAg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP3K5a2ipAg&feature=related[/video]

 

[MissChloeCorville]

I Love Lucy-The Dukes of Hazzard-The Munsters!!! Yes, sir, I like em!!!!

 

[MissChloeCorville]

Oh My God!! This is one of my favorite Cash songs!!!!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

[video=youtube;7fn7PKzf5tk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fn7PKzf5tk[/video]

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[scottyrocks]

The Munsters!!!

The first or second version? (I prefer the first). =o)

 

[Widebrim]

Oh, I love TV themes! In no particular order my favourites are:

The Prisoner
The Avengers
The New Avengers
U.F.O.
Department S
Joe 90
Captain Scarlet
Thunderbirds
Dangerman
Adam Adamant Lives!
Tales of the Unexpected
Whirlybirds
Perry Mason
Get Smart
Hawaii 5-0
Starsky & Hutch
Champion the Wonderhorse
Batman
Dr Who (original!)
The Sweeney

Better stop now!

EDIT: I forgot Wonder Woman!

Some good ones! I remember UFO when it came out here in the US, but do you have a copy of the theme to post? And I've got to add the Beverly Hillbillies, My Favorite Martian, It's About Time, the Jetsons, and the Flintstones!

 

[jbmilart]

Go to www.televisiontunes.com and you can find those themes you're looking for...downloads are free! Check it out.

Jim

 

[Widebrim]

^^Thanks, Jim!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Mr. Belvedere

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Streaks on the china never mattered before
Who cared?
When you dropkicked your jacket as you came through the door
no one glared
But sometimes things get turned around
And no one's spared
All hands, look out below
There's a change in the status quo
Gonna need all the help that we can get
According to our new arrival
Life is more than mere survival
We just might live the good life yet

 

[Flipped Lid]

How could I have forgotten The Rebel? I watched the show religiously as a kid and there is no bigger Johnny Cash fan than me anywhere. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

You know me oh, too well!

I knew you'd weigh in on this one, Tom.

 

[Widebrim]

And don't forget Sanford and Son...

 

[Jaguar66]

Great website, thanks for posting it. Personally, i've always loved "The Rifleman" theme...one of my favourite shows when I was a kid! I found some old episodes on www.archive.org.

I just looked at this thread, and I was going to say Rifleman also. Great tune.

Also the theme from St. Elsewhere
[video=youtube;mTd3g6sG8jM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTd3g6sG8jM[/video]

 

[hatophile]

You know me oh, too well!

I figured you'd like JC doing the Rebel theme, too, although I'm sure you don't remember that show!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I know of the show, because I enjoy the song, but have never watched it. It's my understanding that it only ran from 1959 to '61 or so?

I figured you'd like JC doing the Rebel theme, too, although I'm sure you don't remember that show!