Best TV Theme Songs

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:19 pm

This is easy.I grew up on this stuff.....Ive been waiting. Sit back. I've got this.

And remember..Happy Days was filmed in front of a studio audience

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:21 pm

That is such a tough question. "Best?" This word, it means too many things! It's hard to separate 'good song' from 'song for a show that I loved as a kid', from 'song from a show that had an impact on me', from 'song from a show that I've been watching recently and keeps getting stuck in my head.'

In fact, 'Best' is so hard for me to narrow down that I'll just do the opposite and post the worst.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:29 pm

Daehawk wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:19 pm

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:32 pm

stimpy wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:54 pm

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?

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:33 pm

telcta · Post by **telcta** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:33 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:38 pm

Blackhawk wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:21 pm That is such a tough question. "Best?" This word, it means too many things! It's hard to separate 'good song' from 'song for a show that I loved as a kid', from 'song from a show that had an impact on me', from 'song from a show that I've been watching recently and keeps getting stuck in my head.'

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.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:41 pm

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:42 pm

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:51 pm

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:

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:08 pm

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.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:01 am

Suicide is Painless -- M*A*S*H
Welcome Back Kotter -- I actually had the 45 of that.
Various Star Trek shows

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:08 am

It's not TV, but I can't resist.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:09 am

hehe I almost posted Automan.

Formix · Post by **Formix** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:44 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:31 am

Beverly Hillbillies
MASH

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:54 am

Trent Steel · Post by **Trent Steel** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:22 am

So far, everyone is wrong...

Edit... I see it now in Daehawk's mass dump of theme songs. But still, this gets my vote.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:43 am

They’re all pretty good. But the true winner is, of course…

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:18 am

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:23 am

There can be only one.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:30 am

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.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:39 am

The Cowboy Bebop opening does seem to have influenced some of my other favorites.

JCC · Post by **JCC** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:01 am

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.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:23 am

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 11:33 am

Almost forgot. Though it sounds much more worse than I remember it. Like I remember it how more modern synthesizers would play it today.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:24 pm

For those wanting to hear the M*A*S*H theme song with words here it is .

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 1:54 pm

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.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:44 pm

This is the theme that played at the start of the tv show Grizzly Adams. Such a calming serene melody.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:48 pm

Regarding most of these selections

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:57 pm

Here's one most of you won't remember.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:10 pm

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.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:37 pm

and anything that has a skip intro button, I have no idea what the theme song is.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:08 pm

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.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:12 pm

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 · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:23 pm

LordMortis wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:12 pm
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.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:28 pm

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.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:38 pm

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.