Coolest tv show theme music?

[arbusto_baboso]

I'll nominate 2 different shows.

Peter Gunn just had the all-time coolest theme music ever.

Star Trek: The Next Generation had the best classical theme music on tv (even if I did prefer the original series).

[sakabatou]

1. Batman: the Animated Series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEx9r5enZsk

[XemaSab]

39. Why yes, that is epic

:D

[Iggo]

2. Hawaii Five O. Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Streets Of San Fransisco.

To name three.

EDIT: Oh and The Munsters. That's four.

[arbusto_baboso]

5. Oops, forgot about Buffy.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. There's only one real answer to this question. Charles in Charge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtgIZD4nQtY

New boy in the neighborhood
Lives downstairs and it's understood.
He's there just to take good care of me,
Like he's one of the family.
Charles in Charge of our days and our nights,
Charles in Charge of our wrongs and our rights!
And I sing, I want, I want Charles in Charge of me.
Charles in Charge of our days and our nights,
Charles in Charge of our wrongs and our rights!
And I sing, I want, I want Charles in Charge of me.

[OhioChick]

4. Angel......Charmed......Bones to name a few. n/t

[Blue-Jay]

112. Charmed? Really?

The worst thing about that show was the theme song and Shannen Doherty's oddly uneven eyeballs.

[MrCoffee]

6. Sanford and Son

The Streetbeater

[Archae]

7. Miami Vice.

I hated the show, I loved the theme music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkurWAXgZs

[trof]

8. Whoa! Peter Gunn was my first thought.

How old are you?

[arbusto_baboso]

9. 43. But I watched a lot of late night reruns.

[NoGOPZone]

10. The Banana Splits

it was so good even Bob Marley borrowed it.

[Oceansaway]

11. Thank you for being a friend: Andrew Gold

Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant

I'm not ashamed to say
I hope it always will stay this way
My hat is off, won't you stand up and take a bow

And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew
You would see, the biggest gift would be for me
and the card attached would say,
Thank you for being a friend

Thank you for being a friend
Thank you for being a friend
Thank you for being a friend

If it's a car you lack
I'd surely buy you a cadillac
Whatever you need, anytime of the day or night

I'm not ashamed to say
I hope it always will stay this way
My hat is off, won't you stand up and take a bow

And when we both get older
With walking canes and hair of gray
Have no fear, even though it's hardly here
I will stand real close and say,
Thank you for being a friend

(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend
(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend
(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend
(I want to thank you)
Let me tell you bout a friend
(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend
(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend
(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend

And when we die, and float away
I'll see you there, and once again
Thank you for being a

Thank you for being a friend
(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend
(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend
(I want to thank you)
Thank you for being a friend
Whoa, tell you about a friend
(Thank you right now, for being a friend)
Thank you for being a friend
(I wanna tell you right now, and tell you again)
Thank you for being a friend
(I wanna thank you, thank you, for being a friend)
Thank you for being a friend

[rug]

12. Twilight Zone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2fONPgIJE&feature=related

[GReedDiamond]

33. I entered the Twilight Zone and I got "Rawhide"...

...which is not such a bad choice as it turns out.

Here is the Blues Brothers version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5N35kQAPv0

[rug]

50. Lol, wrong link.

[JBoy]

13. Rockford Files.

I actually bought that song on a '45 at the time.

[DFW]

108. Second that!

Over here, it's a tossup between Liebling Kreuzberg and Ein Fall Für Zwei.

[Richardo]

14. I've said it before, I'll say it again...

"The Jetsons" is the swinginest theme EVER! Listen to the string part at the beginning, then the trumpet solo for 'daughter Judy'.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35mJz04LIp4&feature=player_embedded#

The zen, almost haiku simplicity of the lyrics:

Meet George Jetson
His boy Elroy
Daughter Judy
Jane, his wife.

[Dr. Strange]

17. Along those same lines: It's Garry Shandling's Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac8cQuEzDCQ

[jobycom]

100. I was thinking of that one, too. Did you see the one where The Turtles sang it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcdy9CjZ6B8&feature=related

[GoCubsGo]

22. Yup!

That was the best, but lots of the kids' shows from the late 60s and early 70s was great stuff: The Banana Splits Show, as mentioned below, The Monkees, Bulwinkle and Rocky, Fat Albert, Lancelot Link Secret Chimp...

[Art_from_Ark]

37. Scooby Doo (1st season)

Spiderman, Bugs Bunny/Road Runner, Astro Boy, Pink Panther (early), Groovy Ghoulies

[XemaSab]

40. It's got a "Big Band" flavor

which is sadly lacking in contemporary music.

[taterguy]

15. Action, because it used Zevon's Even A Dog Can Shake Hands

But Peter Gunn was pretty cool.

[scottban]

16. The Banana Splits

Its good when played as metal

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

47. Tra la la, la la la la!

Good Choice!

[IcyPeas]

18. House/ Massive Attack

[XemaSab]

41. Good choice

:D

[Lucy Goosey]

73. Yes!

That was what I came in here to post.

[quickesst]

19. I'd say.....

"A Place In Time" from The 4400. Thanks.
quickesst

[TheMightyFavog]

20. BBC's adaptation of Wallander

So appropriate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZjTHBYF_9A&feature=related

[ceile]

88. Love that song!

[Maccagirl]

21. Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers

n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

38. That was a great song

"There's a man who leads a life of danger
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
With every move he makes
Another chance he takes
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow..."

[NoPasaran]

23. Hawaii Five O

[Kaleva]

24. Doctor Who

[Archae]

99. Which one?

Here's my favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVivT0ShC4

Tom Baker years!

[Kaleva]

102. Baker being the only Dr Who I ever watched, that version would be my favorite.

[begin_within]

25. Peter Gunn:

Peter Gunn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcflCzZlLcQ

Runner-up: Mission Impossible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55NuWQCh78

[Jade Fox]

26. Rockford Files, Perry Mason

[JanMichael]

57. Rockford Files was my 1st thought! nt.

[Robeson]

27. Don't know if it was the "coolest", but Barney Miller was definetly good.

[GreenPartyVoter]

66. +1000!

[annabanana]

28. The Theme to Gary Shandling's Show. . . .

(still makes me laugh)

[Biker13]

29. Jane and the Dragon

An animated Saturday cartoon, but Taarna, our "Orange Retriever" loves it! She's a feminist!

There once was a lady in waiting
Let's call her Jane.
That girl wasn't ordinary-

No way for me a lady stuck in waiting
I'd rather battle fire-breathing dragons
I knew I could prove that a girl could be a Knight
Though my friends all laughed at me
but...

I wouldn't be discouraged and trained in secret
Then a dragon pinched the Royal Prince
and everyone was freaking
So I went alone to the dragon's home
to slay the dragon

Hey now, hey now now

Jane and the Dragon are best friends now
Dragon's sweet, he let me save the young Prince
Then the King made me a Knight apprentice

Hey now hey now now...

With Dragon's help I'll be a Knight someday

[blue_roses_lib]

98. I came across that show by accident one Sat morning

While I was looking for something to play in the background while doing chores, and I like it. Different, and I do enjoy that song.:thumbsup:

[BlueJazz]

30. Kinda' liked the theme from "Knots Landing"

[pokerfan]

31. Jonny Quest

I'm serial.

The percussion-heavy big band jazz theme music for the 1960s series and each episode's score were all composed by Hoyt Curtin. In a 1999 interview, he stated that the jazz band for the series consisted of 4 trumpets, 6 trombones, 5 woodwind doublers, and a 5 man rhythm section. Alvin Stohler or Frankie Capp usually played drums. While a string section comes in at moments of tension or pizzicato for comic relief, the score is primarily driven by a big brass sound. Curtain stated that the band took about an hour to record the main theme. It contained a trombone solo performed by jazz veteran Frank Rosolino, and a complex riff in which the trombone players were physically unable to keep up with the rapidly changing slide positions needed. Cues in the series were generally recorded in one take, done by a regular group of union session players who could "read like demons."

Creator/producer Doug Wildey had this to say about the theme: It was excellent. The music to me is most important. All cartoon or animated adventure shows have wall-to-wall music -- the music never stops. What I wanted for the Jonny Quest theme music to do was the same job that other shows' music had done. On Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip and on and on, you could remember the music. When you heard that music it signaled when the show was going on the air. What I wanted was heavy drums -- jazz drums. They put out a record, by the way, "The jazz theme from Jonny Quest." Hoyt Curtin was the musical director and did a fine job.

Listen to it here: http://www.televisiontunes.com/Mp3.swf?file=themesongs/Jonny%20Quest.mp3

[kentauros]

96. Absofuckinglutely!

:D

Also, The Venture Brothers

[pokerfan]

109. Thanks!

Thought people would think I was nuts for suggesting a cartoon.

:hi:

[kentauros]

111. Yeah, but it was a prime-time cartoon.

How about The Simpsons? Is it "less" of a show because it's a cartoon? That's my argument for the naysayers, not you :hi:

[pokerfan]

113. Forgot it was prime time

I caught it later on Saturday mornings.

[GReedDiamond]

32. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ...

... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0YdU1L2yU

Twilight Zone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

The Simpsons (Danny Elfman), Green Day Version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhUtrDmB34

The Green Hornet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DunkGOeOdZA

[femmocrat]

34. Definitely, Peter Gunn. Also The X-Files. n/t

[nytemare]

35. The Addams Family and The Twilight Zone.

[burrfoot]

36. The West Wing; and Friday Night Lights n/t

[muffin1]

48. I agree with Friday Night Lights - great show, too.

Also, Six Feet Under.:)

[Art_from_Ark]

42. Wild, Wild West

The Avengers
Batman
Lost in Space
NBC Nightly News (Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 2nd Movement)
Issues and Answers (Carmina Burana)
Old ABC Olympics theme song
Mission Impossible

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. Nobody's mentioned "Perry Mason"? Bunch of young whippersnappers...

Here's my list:

Perry Mason
Rockford Files
Twilight Zone
Mission Impossible
Man from Uncle
Hawaii 5-0

[HEyHEY]

44. green wing

[MrScorpio]

45. The U.F.O. Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TQUdcYk82U

[targetpractice]

55. Love it!

And it's sister show... Space: 1999... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZW4groJro

[Orsino]

119. Now THAT takes me back. Thanks. n/t

[MadBadger]

46. The Wing

[Fridays Child]

49. This one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64GyuozXtnQ

[qnr]

51. Lexx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAlq8ykyE3I

[kimi]

52. Sopranos

and Hawaii 5-0.

[targetpractice]

53. Space: 1999

Season 1.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZW4groJro

[targetpractice]

54. Battlestar Galactica (1978)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHp9oZPqs8E

[SoxFan]

92. Good choice!

[asdjrocky]

56. Spider Man, after that, Sanford and Son.

Adams Family a close third.

[Iggo]

63. If we're doin' cartoons, I got a bunch more.

Speed Racer
Captain America
Spider Man
Kimba
Wally Gator (way more swingin' than The Jetsons)
Underdog
Gigantor

[Hudgie DeRobertis]

58. Stingray

The 60's kids show in "Supermarionation"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIkpLeQjGYs

[dmr]

59. Hawaii 5-0 and Maverick

I still sing Maverick. Circa: late 1950s - We'd sing Maverick and Cheyanne in 1st grade music class - and Goober Peas. Those 3 songs were on the same mimeographed piece of paper - which none of us could read half of. I kept that paper for years and years.

[flying rabbit]

60. Magnum PI

rockin the eighties

[Frank Cannon]

61. Starsky and Hutch: First Season

Lalo Schifrin FTW.

[BarbaRosa]

62. WKRP

Baby, if you've ever wondered,
Wondered whatever became of me,
I'm living on the air in Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, WKRP.
Got kind of tired packing and unpacking,
Town to town and up and down the dial
Maybe you and me were never meant to be,
But baby think of me once in awhile.
I'm at WKRP in Cincinnati..


Said to the bartender "Best night I ever had"
Singin' to the bar
Had a microphone (in)to her heart

I said -
Goodbye madam
I'd had a bird in hand

I said - I'm doing good
And put love in her heart

[guitar man]

64. Sanford and Son

Quincy Jones funk. ;)

[BeachBaby]

65. Law & Order.

[Iggo]

68. Bump-bummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Dunt-dunt-da-da-daaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh...

Bump-bummmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

[SoxFan]

93. doink-doink-da-doink-doink!

[NightWatcher]

67. the Greatest American Hero

[asdjrocky]

69. I forgot Barney Miller.

[Common Sense Party]

124. That was my number one vote. Then Rockford Files.

[bikebloke]

70. Mission: Impossible

[bif]

71. Ab-so-lutely!

Best theme music ever!

[cyberswede]

74. Best ever! n/t

[woo me with science]

116. Always was and always will be. nt

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

72. Agree with the Peter Gunn

as ONE of the best ever. There are so many good ones like;
Hawaii5-0
Ironside
I Spy

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

75. Haven't seen "The Big Bang Theory" mentioned!

"The History of Everything" by the Barenaked Ladies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItIdeKg5kt4

[Juche]

76. Masters of Horror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVQTdnrenLI

[TZ]

77. No one has said the X-files?

I thought that music was PERFECT.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

78. Cowboy Bebop- "Tank" by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqvsUs-iQvg

[fizzgig]

86. good call

:thumbsup:

[TheMightyFavog]

107. Best Soundtrack of any television series.

Yoko Kanno put together a hell of a band, including a few guys who played with big names like Miles Davis.

[mochajava666]

79. The Greatest American Hero and Night Court

My first thoughts were Hawaii Five O, The Rockford Files, Mission Impossible, The Wild, Wild, West, and The Munsters, but I saw that they were already mentioned.

[geardaddy]

80. Weeds; Season 1

with all the different versions of "Little Boxes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmNSEbgt1Dg

[Rambis]

81. Barney Miller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaNy1sEGOpU

[YankeyMCC]

82. Star Trek Enterprise

;)

I actually do like that one (the first version) but my actual choice for number 1 would be the New BSG theme. Really interesting and sets the mood exactly right.

And no one is mentioning "All in the Family", that's surprising.

[BeachBaby]

83. Twin Peaks.

[carlyhippy]

84. Hawaii 5-0 !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w

[rcrush]

85. FIREFLY! You Cant Take The Sky From Me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrAS20mNZUE

[rcrush]

90. The Ballad of Serenity kicks all their asses

[geardaddy]

87. The Bugaloos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja-GY94rKO8

[Iggo]

95. They're in the air an everywhere...

Flying high. Flying low. Flying free as the summer breeze.

[ceile]

89. Doctor Who or Stargate: SG1

[Love Bug]

91. "Enterprise"

:evilgrin:

[applegrove]

94. Laverne & Shirley, Hawaii 5 0.

[Kaleva]

97. So many!

Dr. Who
Mission Impossible
Hogan's Heroes
Bonanza
Hawaii 5-0
Miami Vice
My Three Sons
The Beverly Hillbillies
Rawhide
Peter Gunn
The Dick Van Dyke Show
FLCL's theme song "Ride on Shooting Star" by The Pillows
Gilligan's Island


And I could keep on listing more but the above are the one's that first popped into my head.

[jobycom]

101. Phineas and Ferb. I win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoV2adaRBWU

[Kaleva]

103. Youtube video of FLCL's ending theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI03ejx1_k8&feature=related

[Skip Intro]

104. Taxi, and MASH. ST too... nt

[backwoodsbob]

105. no one said welcome back Kotter?

wow

[Mad_Dem_X]

115. Yeah, that's a good one!

[AllenVanAllen]

106. Flagpole Sitta' on "Peep Show"

by Harvey Danger. I'm not sure it's the coolest but it was very fitting and pretty catchy.

Here's a bit of the intro to season 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38EhKzJ0zS8

Entire song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBgmC_USeoM

[Mojambo]

122. Nice to see someone mention that show

It's been the best thing on television for quite some time now and no one seems to know about it.

[AllenVanAllen]

126. I read that an American version was in the works.

I doubt it would have been as good.

[Mojambo]

127. Yeah. Very doubtful.

I'm just glad they're doing a 7th series.

I love that show so, so much.

[AllenVanAllen]

128. It's hilarious!

"He thinks he has suave spermatozoa."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9o2qTJw4Q

I wish they would release a region 1 dvd set.

[Mojambo]

129. It really is. Mark on not wanting to take Ecstasy

Jez: Jesus Mark, why didn't you bang one?

Mark: Because I didn't want to wake up dribbling in a phone box with a trucker's penis in my ear!

[flvegan]

110. Whale Wars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYqYQWk-YAw

[Mad_Dem_X]

114. Hawaii Five-0.

[LostInAnomie]

117. Love Boat

The LOOOOOOOVVVEEEEEE BOOOOOOOOAAAATTTTT.....

[Bzzzz]

118. True Blood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxINMuOgAu8

[Initech]

120. Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm

Love the sloppy bass intro music to Seinfeld.

[MicaelS]

121. The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E

[Mojambo]

123. Fawlty Towers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJz1Rbs3I8A&feature=related

[Bucky]

125. "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time... (Don't do it). & keep your eyeee-i on the sparrow!"

"Where can I go where the cold wind don't blow?.... (Well, well, WELL!!)"

(Sung by Sammy!)

[Steely_Dan]

130. Rockford Files