Best TV Theme Song

[JackSparrow]

I don't know if you guys got 'Dr. Who', in the U.S. but the theme tune was great.

[Louweasel]

I second that! De de de dum, da de de de dum, da de de de dum...ooooOOOOoooooooo.....

Also Myrddin's, Ski Sunday was a FAB tune ( i once played it with an orchestra), and quite a good programme too.

Knight Rider, yes. I remember Air Wolf, and what about Streethawk?

The Sweeney was a good theme tune too.

[Schiavona]

1) Theme to 'Jimy Neutron, Boy Genius'
2) Theme to 'My Life As A Teenage Robot'

I watch a lot of cartoons......

[telkanuru]

Malcom in the Middle theme, by They Might be Giants

[albemarle]

Magnum P.I theme is a pretty good nostaglia trip!

[dunastor]

I second the A-team

[Nusy]

ER
Married with children (!!!)

From movies I really liked the 1492 and Chariots Of Fire... Vangelis forever!

[Elemental]

I have a CD with a bunch of old saturday morning cartoon theme songs being performed by bands from the 90's. It was really cool.

Here's the track list:

Tra la la Song (One Banana, Two Banana) [The Banana Splits] - Material Issue
2. Go, Speed Racer, Go! [From Speed Racer] - Sponge
3. Sugar, Sugar [From the Archie Show] - Mary Lou Lord
4. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? - Matthew Sweet
5. Josie and the Pussycats - Tanya Donelly
6. Bugaloos - Collective Soul
7. Underdog - Butthole Surfers
8. Gigantor - Helmet
9. Spiderman - The Ramones
10. Johnny Quest/Stop That Pigeon - The Reverend Horton Heat
11. Open Up Your Heart And Let The Sun Shine In - Frente!
12. Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) - Violent Femmes
13. Fat Albert Theme - Dig
14. I'm Popeye The Sailor Man - Face To Face
15. Friends/Sigmund And The Seamonsters - Tripping Daisy
16. Goolie Get-Together - Toadies
17. Hong Kong Phooey - Sublime
18. H.R. Pufnstuf - The Murmurs
19. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy - Wax

Here's the amazon page where you can listen to clips of the songs:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...03031?v=glance

[scrapinpeg]

Originally Posted by JackSparrow

I don't know if you guys got 'Dr. Who', in the U.S. but the theme tune was great.

Sounds a lot like Pink Floyd's "One of These Days." Was one a ripoff of the other?

[vraptor]

OK, the best way to do this is to stylisitically categorize this effort.

Best jazz style... Tie between Route 66 and LA Law
Best faux-Wagnerian... Star Trek Voyager
Best can't-get-it-out-of-your-head-for-some-reason... St. Elsewhere
Best cheesy drama... Hawaii 5-0
Best Brit entries... Tie between the Avengers and Time Team.

There was also a PSA spot that aired during the 70s for littering or some such that had a jingle that just damned near impossible to get out of your head but I can't remember the specifics.

[scrapinpeg]

Originally Posted by vraptor

There was also a PSA spot that aired during the 70s for littering or some such that had a jingle that just damned near impossible to get out of your head but I can't remember the specifics.

Was that "Give a hoot, don't pollute / Never be a dirty bird / In the city or in the wood / Help keep America looking good"?

If it was, I want to express my deep displeasure with you for planting that jingle in my brain now.

[oso97]

Gilligans Island

Star Trek Enterprise

[Maeve_Mari]

Originally Posted by scrapinpeg

Was that "Give a hoot, don't pollute / Never be a dirty bird / In the city or in the wood / Help keep America looking good"?

If it was, I want to express my deep displeasure with you for planting that jingle in my brain now.

Do you remember the pollution commercial with the native american who, after seeing the dirty America, has a tear in his eye!? Oh. No theme song, but it was such a moving ad.

[vraptor]

Originally Posted by scrapinpeg

Was that "Give a hoot, don't pollute / Never be a dirty bird / In the city or in the wood / Help keep America looking good"?

If it was, I want to express my deep displeasure with you for planting that jingle in my brain now.

Nope, that wasn't the one I was thinking about. It was a little synthesizer ditty without lyrics, written in either a minor or diminuitive key. I haven't been able to find it since.

[jBirch]

Originally Posted by vraptor

Nope, that wasn't the one I was thinking about. It was a little synthesizer ditty without lyrics, written in either a minor or diminuitive key. I haven't been able to find it since.

Can't believe nobody mentioned Happy Days, Three's Company or Cheers yet.

[ThatReallyHurt]

Originally Posted by Maeve_Mari

Do you remember the pollution commercial with the native american who, after seeing the dirty America, has a tear in his eye!? Oh. No theme song, but it was such a moving ad.

Do you remember the Mr. Yuck commercials from, like, 25 years ago? That was some creepy music. Scared the heck out of me when I was a little kid...

"Misterrr Yuck is meeeeeannnn... Misterrr Yuck is greeeeeennnn.... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

I remember cutting off the circulation in my Mom's arm a few times over that one...

[pacer]

i'd have to agree with Myrddins Gummi Bear theme song - my daugher would wake me up at 5:30 every morning to watch that show with her. I still remember it for Toady's comment -Toady takes a kicking and keeps on licking. (I imagine few in the audience remembered the John Cameron Swazy ads for timex)

[Westley]

Damn Birch for calling Cheers!

Three best, in no particular order, are:

Cheers
Highlander's "Princes of the Universe" and, last but not least,
the theme to Star Trek TNG.

[LUDICROUS]

The theme song to the (movie) Team America movie. I know, I know, but you gotta hear it.

America
America

*drums and riff start*

AMERICA! HERE TO SAVE THE MOTHERF*CKING DAY YEAH! Terrorists your game is through, cuz now you gotta answer to AMERICA! FF*CK YEAH! What you gonna do when we come for you now...

Lol.

[neevel]

Originally Posted by scrapinpeg

Sounds a lot like Pink Floyd's "One of These Days." Was one a ripoff of the other?

Yeah, there was a little snippet of the Dr. Who theme slipped into that song, as a recognition that the base lines are very similar. The Dr. Who theme predates Pink Floyd (first ep., complete with theme, premiered in November 1963).

I've always liked the opening theme and sequence from The Prisoner- the vignette of No.6 purposefully shooting down the road in that Lotus Seven to tell his keepers where they can stick it meshes perfectly with the music.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy opening sequence is a short but cool- the banjo nicely turns the usual SF expectation of a symphonic or completely electronic theme on it's head.

Since I seem to be stuck on the subject of Brit SF shows, I'll also put in a mention for the Red Dwarf closing song.