TV Show Theme Songs

[hefdaddy42]

Hey, let's get everyone's favorite TV show theme songs listed.

What is your favorite TV show theme song, and why is it the WKRP in Cincinnati opener?

[Adami]

X-Men: The Animated Series.


You're welcome.

[El Barto]

Hawaii Five-0 

[T-ski]

It’d be a long list of Mike Post themes from the 80’s.

[gmillerdrake]

Quantum Leap - As soon as I'd hear that theme song I'd geek out

[Stadler]

The Rockford Files

M*A*S*H

The Partridge Family

[soupytwist]

Is saying The Monkee's cheating?

[faizoff]

Knight Rider

ChiPs

AirWolf



The sitcoms shows had great songs too, Different Strokes, Jeffersons, Good times..

sooo many, like several of them.

[Chino]

The Adventures of Pete and Pete had a pretty good banger of an intro.

[Stadler]

Is saying The Monkee's cheating?

No more than the Partridge Family.  I LOVED that song (and I have a PF CD somewhere).

[jammindude]

Did we say That 70s Show already?

And definitely the Cheap Trick version and not the first season version (although that had a certain charm to it as well)

I also like the sped up “punkier…grrl riot” version on That 90s Show.

[billboy73]

X-Men: The Animated Series.


You're welcome.

Yes! Just watched the whole series with my daughter over the past couple of months.  Loved this show growing up and the theme song is amazing.  Can't wait for the new X-Men '97 show.

Been watching a lot of Friends lately, and that song is so damn catchy.  The Rembrandts wrote a perfect fit for that show.

Another one is Unsolved Mysteries.  That one creeped me out as a kid.

[ZirconBlue]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Firefly
Veronica Mars
Chuck



ETA: Wynonna Earp

[hefdaddy42]

Is saying The Monkee's cheating?

Hell no!


A few of these I haven't heard, but overall, awesome choices thus far!

[Grappler]

MacGyver    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn9pI-KTkQA

[King Postwhore]

Barney Miller
Welcome Back Kotter
Hawaii Five O
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Muppets Show
Kids in the Hall

[hefdaddy42]

Welcome Back Kotter

Welcome back

[Stadler]

Did we say That 70s Show already?

And definitely the Cheap Trick version and not the first season version (although that had a certain charm to it as well)

I also like the sped up “punkier…grrl riot” version on That 90s Show.

AND

Barney Miller
Welcome Back Kotter
Hawaii Five O
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Muppets Show
Kids in the Hall

I can honestly say I have actively put on both "That '70s Show" (Cheap Trick) and "The Theme From Dukes of Hazard" (Waylon Jennings) as songs to hear them as songs. 

[Adami]

Personally I'd rule out any theme that uses a pre-established song. Or else you're just picking popular songs you like.

[TAC]

Sanford And Son
The Jeffersons
Gilligan's Isle
Barney Miller
Banana Splits

[Stadler]

Sanford And Son
The Jeffersons
Gilligan's Isle
Barney Miller
Banana Splits

Sanford and Son was another good one.

[krands85]

Game of Thrones

Succession

X-Files
A few that came to mind.

[Stadler]

I like Yellowstone

[hefdaddy42]

I like Yellowstone

For instrumental, symphonic themes, that one is VERY good.

[Chino]

I don't know how I forgot about Westworld. The song combined with the visuals is excellent.

[soupytwist]

Mission Impossible theme has always been awesome as are Doctor Who and Original  Star Trek.

[Harmony]

I loved the theme song to Rescue Me

The Odd Couple and Mod Squad were pretty good too

[Stadler]

I loved the theme song to Rescue Me

Bon Iver, am I right?  That is a good tune.

[Harmony]

I loved the theme song to Rescue Me

Bon Iver, am I right?  That is a good tune.

The Von Bondies

[TAC]

I like Yellowstone

For instrumental, symphonic themes, that one is VERY good.

Just checked it out.
Wow that is nice, especially with the visuals.

[pg1067]

Friends
The Big Bang Theory
Cheers
The A-Team
Dallas
The Addams Family
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

[Jamesman42]

Childhood post

X-Men from the early 90s
The Magic School Bus
Arthur

[jammindude]

“In the not too distant future…next Sunday A.D.”

[Cool Chris]

I will go to my grave thinking the opening to The A-Team is the greatest television opening theme/sequence ever. You get the synopsis of the show in 68 words, words every boy who grew up in the 80s should have memorized. Then a bombastic theme plays over clips from the show, setting you up for the quintessential 80s action you are about to experience. I also love what they did with the theme in Season 5, with the drum intro and clips from the trial episodes, before the new version of the theme kicks in.

What is your favorite TV show theme song, and why is it the WKRP in Cincinnati opener?

The WKRP in Cincinnati opening theme is indeed good. Not the subject of the thread, but the ending theme is the greatest song played over closing credits in the history of television.

[jammindude]

What is your favorite TV show theme song, and why is it the WKRP in Cincinnati opener?

The WKRP in Cincinnati opening theme is indeed good. Not the subject of the thread, but the ending theme is the greatest song played over closing credits in the history of television.

I came here to say the same thing. As much as I love the opening, there are days when I would say the closing credits were even better.

EDIT - I learned a fun fact about that song a few months ago. Apparently they were originally supposed to write some lyrics for that song and the gibberish that you hear was a demo recording that was intended to just be a guide vocal for the melody. But they ended up not being able to think of any lyrics and liking the guide vocals so much that they just left it.