Best TV Themes (music)

[Quigley Brown]

The Patty Duke Show had a catchy one...can't remember it, though.

Some Brit comedy show called The Goodies had a funny one.

 

[Merlin]

Hands down, the best TV theme song of all time was the theme to Barney Miller. The funkiest bassline this side of James Jamerson, a wailing blues guitar, and a horn section hot enough to melt steel. My only complaint is that it's over in under a minute.

The theme to Sanford and Son gets an honorable mention, too. Harry James and his band did a fantastic version of that a few years back. Makes me wish they'd done the Barney Miller theme while they were at it.

 

[topcat]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B000002UH6001008/ref=mu_sam_Tune in your dials to the Ultra Lounge cd TV TOWN and give a listen,'specially the
Dick Van Dye/Alvin Show Theme sample.
The Human Jungle Theme deserves mention too.......

Course I don't think I have to spelll out what my favorite
TV theme is.................."provided its with dignity"

 

[photobyalan]

This site seems to have the most TV themes together in one place. It's not pretty and it's a bit cumbersome to play the files, but the sheer volume more than makes up for it.

 

[Gray Ghost]

My favorites:

Dukes of Hazard

Hogan's Heroes

M*A*S*H

McHale's Navy

Lone Ranger

Gray Ghost (1960's TV show about Col. John Singleton Mosby, CSA)

Swamp Fox (Disney Show about General Francis Marion of SC during the Revolution played by Leslie Nielson. In the show he had a dry humor and did not show any of his future comedic talent. More of a drama show from Disney. Had a real catchy theme song. Just loved the show. Every once in awhile, the Disney Chanel will have a Swamp Fox marathon.)

Gray Ghost

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Don't have cable, but: ah,yes, Leslie Nielsen. Swamp Fox.
On the other TV Theme Song thread but not this: Wild Wild West. http://mythemes.tv/

 

[rcinlv]

Cheers!

Where everybody knows your name.

Kinda like here.

Cheers,

RC

 

[GOK]

As others have said;

The Avengers (New Avengers was pretty cool too)
The Prisoner
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
The Addams Family

Plus;

Pinky & The Brain
Tales of the Unexpected
Spiderman
Captain Pugwash
Black Beauty (used to give me goosebumps as a child!)

Also, my absolute favourite (and I'm certain Moustache will agree with me here!), Reilly, Ace of Spies.

 

[CharlieH.]

Pinky & The Brain! How could I forget that one?!

 

[Smithy]

For me:

The Professionals
M*A*S*H
Roobarb and Custard
Piece of Cake
Bewitched
Who Pays the Ferryman
Blackadder
Dr. Who

 

[DeeDub]

But they're cousins, identical cousins all the way...

The Patty Duke Show had a catchy one...can't remember it, though.

One pair of matching bookends, different as night and day.

That song was so catchy, I still catch it as an ear worm from time to time. What, 40-some years later?

 

[Ruby Slippers]

I loved the theme songs to Perfect Strangers and The Golden Girls.

I am a complete Nerd.

 

[Fatdutchman]

Peter Gunn...coolest...themesong...ever.

Also, the American Bandstand theme (the original, big band,pre-Barry Manilow version).

Didn't the Stacey Keach Mike Hammer TV show have "Harlem Nocturne" as its theme? Cool daddio.

 

[Mr. Rover]

Spongebob Squarepants?

 

[Warden]

The two that spring into my mind are

The Sweeney, a polically incorrect 1970s TV drama staring the late John Thaw (Inspector Morse). Lovely 1970s Ford car chases.

Click here to hear the theme tune.

How to you get a suspect to talk in a police interview in the 1970s? You grab him and say "We're the sweeney son and we hav'nt had any dinner".

Plus the Jeeves and Wooster theme tune, a must for a chap from the golden age.

Click here to hear the theme tune

Harry

 

[Tommy Fedora]

Nothing makes me feel like traveling like the theme to Route 66.
I've loved Corvette's ever since.

 

[Ed]

Mr Ed

Mr. Ed

A horse is a horse....of course, of course

 

[Lady Day]

Um Charlie's Angels! (instrimental) DUH!

And The Mysterious Cities of Gold

LD

 

[Amy Jeanne]

One Day At A Time
Diff'rent Strokes
Out Of This World
Just The Ten Of Us
Mr. Belvedere
Small Wonder
The Munsters
Kidd Video
Dallas
Duck Tales
WKRP in Cincinnati
It's Gary Shandling's Show
The Young Ones

Are my most favourites! Yup, I'm a proud child of the 80s.

 

[Brian Sheridan]

Didn't the Stacey Keach Mike Hammer TV show have "Harlem Nocturne" as its theme? Cool daddio.

Yup it did...a cool theme song for a real cheesy show!

I'll add the theme from Hustle (the BBC/AMC show)

BRS