Best TV Themes (music)

[photobyalan]

This is a companion thread to "Your Top 10 TV Shows". What TV shows had the best title theme or song?

Here are my top 10:

1. Hawaii Five-0 (the hands down winner)
2. Hill Street Blues
3. The Sopranos
4. Mission: Impossible
5. The Rockford Files
6. Secret Agent
7. Taxi
8. Hogan's Heroes
9. The Odd Couple
10. The F.B.I.

I was intending to keep my list to 5, but it was just impossible.

 

[Senator Jack]

I'd add:

Medical Center (Lalo Schifrin)
The Avengers
The Prisoner
Peter Gunn (how did you let that go by?)
Honey West (only lasted a few episodes, but great soundtrack!)

 

[BegintheBeguine]

There was a thread about TV Themes...Disappearing or some such (I'm on flu medication, don't feel like looking it up )

Jambo
Mod Squad
and most of yours
http://mythemes.tv/

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Just two!

1.) Twelve O'Clock High

2.) Combat!

 

[Willi_Goat]

Since it was not a regular show I am not sure if it counts, but I am fond of the National Geographic Presents theme.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

It's in there. http://mythemes.tv/

More for me:
Cade's County
Ironside

 

[Matthew Dalton]

Dr. Who.

 

[Novella]

Gilligan's Island, Green Acres, and Beverly Hillbillies are fun.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Oh yeh!...

... and McHale's Navy!

-dixon cannon

 

[HadleyH]

Perry Mason

 

[anselmo1]

1. Hawaii Five-O
2. Perry Mason
3. Crime Story
4. Welcome Back Kotter
5. Mary Tyler Moore Show
6. Andy Griffith Show
7. Dick Van Dyke Show
8. Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
9. Where the Action Is---Afternoon TV show in the mid 1960's
10. The Jack Benny Show

 

[Sefton]

Senator Jack already wrote in two of my favorites: The Avengers and The Prisoner. I'll add a few others:
Dragnet
The Odd Couple (did someone list this already?)
Seasame Street (You know you watched it-as a child of course!)
Get Smart!
The Streets of San Francisco
Saturday Night Live
The Electric Company (Hey you guuys!!)
All in the Family
The Addams Family
The Munsters...

 

[patrick1987]

Three's Company

 

[Spitfire]

Just one:

Band of Brothers

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

Get Smart
Green Acres
Futurama
The Simpsons
Curb Your Enthusiasm (perhaps not actually a theme?)
Star Trek
The A-Team
Dukes of Hazzard

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Peter Gunn

High Chapparall

Buddy Faro

Super Chicken

 

[Doh!]

There was a thread about TV Themes...Disappearing or some such (I'm on flu medication, don't feel like looking it up )

Jambo
Mod Squad
and most of yours
http://mythemes.tv/

GREAT link, Beg! Yeah, I think I probably weighed in here before but some classics:

The Twilight Zone
Peter Gunn
Dragnet
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
F-Troop
Happy Days (the "Rock Around the Clock" season only)

 

[CharlieH.]

My picks:

The Flintstones
The Jetsons
I Dream Of Jeannie
Bewitched
Batman
I Love Lucy
The Twilight Zone
The Simpsons
Underdog

 

[LadyStardust]

I Dream of Jeannie! Jeeves & Wooster's is fantastic also, as is the Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett.

 

[Brian Sheridan]

I love TV Themes!

How about:

The Saint (by Edwin Astley)
Man from UNCLE (Jerry Goldsmith Rules)
Get Smart
Jonny Quest
The Persuaders (the master - John Barry)
Switch
It Takes a Theif (which really needs to be on DVD)
Theme from M Squad (Neil Hefti and the Count!)
Raven (the martial arts show not the kiddie show)
The Magician (Bill Bixby with a car phone in 1973!)


BRS