The Official TV Theme Show Thread

[EdRomero]

I'm going with the Golden Girls

[brian]

The Three’s Company theme song feels like the guy who wrote it missed three deadlines then turned it in after an all-night coke binge.

[Ryan]

The Three’s Company theme song feels like the guy who wrote it missed three deadlines then turned it in after an all-night coke binge.

That would be Sesame Street’s Joe Raposo

[EdRomero]

Facts of Life invades my brain a lot.

Also:

[bfj]

I take issue with Golden Girls since it was already a popular song before Golden Girls was a show.

[EdRomero]

I take issue with Golden Girls since it was already a popular song before Golden Girls was a show.

I did not know that. Mind blown.

[duff]

Cheers

And M*A*S*H

[EnochRoot]

I take issue with Golden Girls since it was already a popular song before Golden Girls was a show.

Yes, the Lonely Boy also wrote Thank You for Being a Friend.

He reminded me of a poor man's Harry Nilsson. Or Nilsson reminded me of an edgier Gold.

[EnochRoot]

a good theme song would be Monk's "It's a Jungle Out There," by Randy Newman.

eta: the original theme song done by Jeff Beal is good, the way Frasier's intro theme opens the show unobtrusively. But Adrian Monk required a Randy Newman treatment.

[bfj]

[tennbengal]

Cheers

And M*A*S*H

Both of these. With Cheers still an easy #1.

[Pruitt]

5-0 has to win.

But here's a couple from the way back machine.

[tennbengal]

From the other thread, Rockford Files is in the discussion for best ever.

Orginal Magnum PI was an all-time banger.

Dukes of Hazzard has a place in the pantheon somewhere.

[degenerasian]

From the other thread, Rockford Files is in the discussion for best ever.

Orginal Magnum PI was an all-time banger.

Dukes of Hazzard has a place in the pantheon somewhere.

I thought for sure you'd pick WKRP.

[tennbengal]

That one too. Another example of a theme song that sets the stage for the show.

[Johnnie]

You know your TV theme was (mostly) good if it was sampled in a hip hop song:

[Johnny Carwash]

I think this one was legit good in a light-classical way. It's like you told Johann Strauss "Hey, write a theme for a show where this old lady goes to a different town every week and someone gets killed but also it's meant to be generally upbeat and whimsical."

[Ryan]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard that one without “Prime Time Wrestling is coming up next” over it

[Johnnie]

And now I'm down a YouTube rabbit hole thanks to this link:

https://www.whosampled.com/song-tag/TV%20Theme/







I'll stop there, but man there's so much good music.

[degenerasian]

Mission Impossible

[duff]

I will always have a spot in my heart for the A-Team.

[P.D.X.]

Synthwave progenitor

[brian]

No love for Greatest American Hero yet? IIRC it’s the only TV theme song to reach #1 on Billboard charts.

[brian]

Definitely the only one to be a gag on Seinfeld.

[bfj]

I feel like there should be an instrumental vs vocal bracket style tournament.

[bfj]

Hill Street Blues, Dallas, Northern Exposure and Love Boat came to mind this afternoon.

[bfj]

No love for Greatest American Hero yet? IIRC it’s the only TV theme song to reach #1 on Billboard charts.

Miami Vice hit #1
The Heights theme hit #1 - How Do You Talk to an Angel
Greatest American Hebrew (as we used to call it) peaked at #2, according to this link.

[govmentchedda]

[Pruitt]

[Reaper]

Ummm, being from Philly, it's gotta be...

[Reaper]

And since Sesame Street was already mentioned in this thread, I give you Olivia on Sesame Street, Alaina Reed, as well as a teenage Regina King, who I just mentioned over in the Movies thread.

[EdRomero]

[Rush2112]

Miami Vice hit #1

Written by Jan Hammer former keyboardist for the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

I like the theme from The Jeffersons, I also find it useful to get ear worms out my head.

[DaveInSeattle]

No love for 'Good Times'?



And one of my faves....SWAT:

[Johnny Carwash]

Underrated (both the music and the show):

[pruitt2]

A classic.