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Fear the Death Ray
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Best TV theme songs, past or present
They don't write TV themes like they used to. Where is the equivalence of Hill Street Blue, Cheers, or even the Brady Bunch (I know, I know)?
So, I am really racking my brain thinking of a current worthy theme song... anyone?
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THE REASONS - Now Available!
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ALICE
lock thread ETA: There are no current ones worthy of old ones.
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Rawhide
I could listen to the theme song all day.
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Fear the Death Ray
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I did like X-Files, but again, that's a long time ago....
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself. -- Agatha Christie ![]() ![]() The Pacific Between • A Bunch of Stories (2006 IPPY Award) WIP: Beyond the Banyan Tree - draft 9, 125,000 words Home Page | Blog | Reviews |
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Il Cavaliere Marino
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Perry Mason
Peter Gunn Mission: Impossible Man from UNCLE Have Gun Will Travel And of course, Underdog ![]() I agree, Rawhide is a great one, too. |
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Part of it for today's themes is that they've significantly reduced the time allotted to opening credits. And the only songs [with lyrics] I can think of within the last couple years were pre-recorded, not composed specifically for the show.
I do like Smallville's pick of using Remy Zero's "Save Me" as their song. It was a favorite of mine and then I heard it changing channels one day after the show debuted. It fits thematically. Too bad the band broke up. Let's dig up a YouTube clip of Josh Groban doing a tribute to theme songs during the last Emmy Awards ... My favorite is in there ... Happy Days. For current theme without lyrics, I like The Office. Last edited by katiemac; 02-11-2009 at 07:51 AM. |
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Five by Five
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Also ... Friends. And that one, I think, was actually original, for the show. It didn't make a Rembrandts album until 1995 and the show premiered in 1994.
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Fear the Death Ray
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself. -- Agatha Christie ![]() ![]() The Pacific Between • A Bunch of Stories (2006 IPPY Award) WIP: Beyond the Banyan Tree - draft 9, 125,000 words Home Page | Blog | Reviews |
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Current faves:
Boston Legal -- BOW BOW babaa bup bup bowwwwwww! Becker -- sweeeeet guitar licks ... favorites from the Seventies: Barney Miller M*A*S*H Sanford and Son Chico and the Man
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The first song that sprang to mind was Hawaii Five-O
Then The A-Team. uh...yeah.
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I love Jim Diamond's 'Hi Ho Silver' from the series 'Boon' in the 90s. I like all the old Barry Gray ones from the 60s though for the Gerry Anderson series, UFO, Joe 90, that sort of thing.
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Dragnet (Danger Ahead)
Bonanza Get Smart Lost in Space and Al Hirt blowing the hell out of that trumpet on The Green Hornet. Geez, I'm really showing my age, aren't I? |
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I loved the I Dream of Jeannie theme, too. Annd Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And Gilligan's Island. Last edited by katiemac; 02-11-2009 at 08:47 AM. |
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I'm still partial to the theme to "The X-Files".
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The Andy Griffith Show
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Behold, yon interrobang!
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(First one to pop into my head.)
This example of Love, American Style from features credits from the episode with "Love And the Happy Days", the pilot for Happy Days.) Space: 1999 first season theme. ("Well, it's 1999 now." "Yep." both sip coffee "Shouldn't Martin Landau be on the moon by now?") Captain Kangaroo original theme. ("Puffin Billy") Not that "Good Morning, Captain!" crap they used in the mid 70's. First season theme for That Girl. I can't find a clip from the final years where they had lyrics. Last edited by BenPanced; 02-11-2009 at 10:08 AM. |
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figuring it all out
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some more recent ones
Firefly
Rescue Me Ed (first season only) ETA Highlander Last edited by justsomeguy; 02-11-2009 at 11:48 AM. |
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practical experience, FTW
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A couple from the late 1980's not mentioned yet:
Miami Vice L.A. Law Both made a stereo hookup to the T.V. worthwhile. "Star Trek"'s Deep Space Nine and Voyager sounded great, too.
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I was always partial to the theme music created for the old Johnny Carson show, you just felt excited when Doc Severenson got the band going and ed McMahon made the announcement...Great theatre....
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Living the dream
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Welcome Back, Kotter! Whatever you thought about the show, the theme song matched perfectly in tone and lyric.
I also liked Facts of Life and WKRP. Most recently, I like The Office and Survivor. |
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