Can someone tell me why in the wide, wide world of sports this ridiculous comedy show theme song was the first one I thought of too when I saw the topic?
In fact, 'Best' is so hard for me to narrow down that I'll just do the opposite and post the worst.
I LOVE that theme. Sue me. I also love the one they used in the tv commercials leading up to it.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:41 pm
by Isgrimnur
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:42 pm
by naednek
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:51 pm
by Sudy
Yeah, I'm having trouble separating "nostalgia" from "best" on this one. Some of the best modern ones (both music and animation-wise) are Ramin Djawadi's Game of Thrones and Westworld. I liked how Babylon 5's theme changed each season. They were each epic excepting the first one. (Or the second? I forget. One of them didn't move me quite as much as the others.)
This was one of my favourites growing up:
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:08 pm
by Anonymous Bosch
Daehawk covered most of my favourites, except for:
Alas, as a Youtube commenter aptly put it…
Andres Garcia wrote:We used to have a super-secret helicopter, an AI car, a crime-fighting hologram with a Lambo, a cool cop that drove a Ferrari, a team of Vietnam veterans helping the weak, a super-fast secret motorcycle, a cool stuntman that drove the coolest truck, oh and we had an agent that could build anything out of adhesive tape to fight evil governments... now we have Big Brother and the Bachelor.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:01 am
by Jeff V
Suicide is Painless -- M*A*S*H
Welcome Back Kotter -- I actually had the 45 of that.
Various Star Trek shows
Edit... I see it now in Daehawk's mass dump of theme songs. But still, this gets my vote.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:43 am
by $iljanus
They’re all pretty good. But the true winner is, of course…
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:18 am
by Isgrimnur
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:23 am
by Max Peck
There can be only one.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:30 am
by Skinypupy
Max Peck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:23 am
There can be only one.
That's good, but everything pales in comparison to this.
Sorry, them's the rules.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:39 am
by Max Peck
The Cowboy Bebop opening does seem to have influenced some of my other favorites.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:01 am
by JCC
The greatest TV show ever also has the greatest theme tune ever. The original version is the creepiest. I have loved all of the current iterations of it since it returned. But for nostalgic reasons to please my inner 8 year old, I include the early 80's version here.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:23 am
by coopasonic
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:33 am
by LordMortis
Almost forgot. Though it sounds much more worse than I remember it. Like I remember it how more modern synthesizers would play it today.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:24 pm
by Daehawk
For those wanting to hear the M*A*S*H theme song with words here it is .
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 1:54 pm
by Rumpy
This has always been one of my favourites. I feel that it's not just a good theme song, but a good song overall, one which really hits home the theme of the show.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:44 pm
by Daehawk
This is the theme that played at the start of the tv show Grizzly Adams. Such a calming serene melody.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:48 pm
by Smoove_B
Regarding most of these selections
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:57 pm
by Kraken
Here's one most of you won't remember.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:10 pm
by hitbyambulance
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:48 pm
Regarding most of these selections
not a TV viewer anymore (and haven't been for a looooong time) so i had to reach into the Far Distant Past for my selections
haven't seen that Grizzly Adams intro since the mid-80s! got a little teary-eyed on that one.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:37 pm
by coopasonic
and anything that has a skip intro button, I have no idea what the theme song is.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:08 pm
by Daehawk
Here's one most of you won't remember.
My wife knew that jingle all her life but couldn't remember the show it went to. I finally found it for her a couple years before her death. She loved it.
haven't seen that Grizzly Adams intro since the mid-80s! got a little teary-eyed on that one.
I know. Does it to me too sometimes. Loved that show.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:12 pm
by LordMortis
Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:57 pm
Here's one most of you won't remember.
I remember bit of the jingle but never knew the show. I have no idea how the jingle got in my head. It must have been used by something else in montage or ad or something years later.
Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:57 pm
Here's one most of you won't remember.
I remember bit of the jingle but never knew the show. I have no idea how the jingle got in my head. It must have been used by something else in montage or ad or something years later.
Twas a silly show, but I was 9. Gemini astronauts go back in time and meet cavemen -- what's not to like?
Here's another obscure one.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:28 pm
by Daehawk
if we veer into cartoon intros I got tons of those too.
I have to say I love this thread.
I come by and play them often in the day.
Re: Best TV Theme Songs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:38 pm
by LordMortis
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:48 pm
Regarding most of these selections
I'm just over three years off from the first round Senior Discounts beginning to apply, so whaddya expect? Soon, I will have to actually start getting informed about such things.