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1. "Dr. Who" - so, so, so, awesome
2. "Get Smart!"
3. "Lost in Space"
4. "Planet of the Apes" (short live mid-70's spin off of the film series)
5. "the Munsters"
6. "the Addams Family"
7. "Hawaii Five-O"
8. "Ironsides" - (Crap show, great theme!)
9. "Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse" (awesome bass line)
10. "Insomniac with Dave Attel" (drunken Klezmer workout)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry but, I hate theme songs

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Then why are you posting to this thread?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got nothing better to do and I don't want a friends thread to be unanswered.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Spongebob Squarepants End Credits Theme
2. Super Chicken
3. Munsters
4. Gigantor
5. Kids in the Hall (Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet)
6. Norm (Doug & the Slugs' "Too Bad")
7. This Hour Has 22 Minutes (serious news magazine them, but with kazoos)
8. Batman (my phone at work sorta sounds like it, doo-dooo!)
9. Magilla Gorilla
10. Magnum P.I.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

You like the SpongeBob end credits the most?

That's awful

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh, hey, I've never said anything about your shitty taste in music.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

1. CALIFORNIA DREAMS
2. David the Gnome
3. Denver the Last Dinosaur
4. Charles In Charge
5. MASH
6. Boy Meets World
7. 90210
8. Clarissa Explainz It All
9. Batman: TAS
10. Cheers

― TX, Friday, 6 February 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh, hey, I've never said anything about your shitty taste in music.

Yeah, that's because I'm a kid. Never insult a child unless you are one yourself.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

10. Bosom Buddies- The only good Billy Joel song
9. Family Ties- "Sharing the Laughter and Love"
8. Captain Caveman
7. The Flinstones
6. Welcome Freshmen- Weird Nickelodeon show with rock instrumental
5. The Simpsons
4. Munsters
3. Saved by the Bell
2. Growing Pains
1. Who's the Boss?

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

In particular order:

The Munsters
The Prisoner
Simon & Simon (the slide gtr kills me)
The Banana Splits

― kar120c, Friday, 6 February 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to be honest.

I like the Simpsons theme song, when played by a four string quartet.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

As opposed to a five or six string quartet?

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

OH sorry!

Who cares!

I made a mistake! WOoohoo!

Let's all correct the 12year old child!

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

no no, only when all the instruments played by the quartet have a combined total of four strings.
so like, tuba, sousaphone, electric keyboard and ukelele.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

twas only a small joke. You seem to like to dish it out, no?

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought you were 13.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

agree w/ dr. who :)

how come nobody mentioned FAT ALBERT!

― pete from the street, Friday, 6 February 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

No!

I did mean a string quartet. You know, violin, violin, viola, and cello.

I thought you were 13. \

I will be on Valentine's Day.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

well, your kid days are numbered, champ.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

numbered in single digits.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I know.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll start stockpiling insults.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah! But you're not a teenager. So you can't insult me. Only inslut the people who are around your age.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm 16.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn!

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Barney Miller
Sanford & Son
The Rockford Files
CHiPs
The A-Team (complete with spoken intro)
Knight Rider
Magnum P.I.

I can't think of 3 more I really like.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, Rockford is awesome.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Twin Peaks
Jackass
Kids in the Hall
Sealab 2021
The Young Ones
Beavis and Butthead
Good Times
The Brady Bunch
Hong Kong Phooey
The Addams Family

― rainman (rainman), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm 16.

If you're six-teen, why aren't you at school?

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Cuz I'm a bad-ass.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

1. "The Office" (a particularly sad cover of "Handbags and Gladrags" by someone named Big George)
2. "Mr. Show" by Mark Rivers
3. The old HBO "feature presentation" epic theme song from the 1980s.
4. "Freaks and Geeks" (Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation")
5. "Six Feet Under" by Thomas Newman (maybe it's just cause I love th show so much)
6. "Sopranos" = "Woke Up this morning / got myself a gun..." just for the little horn squiggle at the beginning.
7. "Twin Peaks" by Angelo Badalamenti. GORGEOUS.
8. "All in the Family" = awesome, and didn't they play it themselves for EACH episode?
9. "Cops" = "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle. So iconic, and, for reasons too complicated to get into here, I love this show.
10. "The O.C." = "California" by Phantom Planet. Got no excuse. Love the show, love the song.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Cuz I'm a bad-ass.

So, you're skipping school?

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't stop singing the Rockford theme. Which sucks, cuz I'm working on a review of a blues record. Uh, for my Grade 11 English Class.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

1. The Simpsons
2. Growing Pains
3. The Daily Show
4. Mr. Belvedere
5. Cheers
6. King of the Hill
7. Twin Peaks
8. Good Times
9. The Adventures of Pete and Pete
10.Blues Clues

I love theme songs!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Theme songs are ok, when played for the show.

It just really bugs me when, in the middle of the day, one just gets stuck in my head and won't stop!

― Aja (aja), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Gigantor

Nice!

5. Kids in the Hall (Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet)

The actual title of the track, trivia fans, is "Having an Average Weekend"!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Gigantor because I first heard it by the Dickies (superior version).

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I love how on that Shadowy Men album they put a song called "Theme from TV" on there to fool folks. I used to play "Having an Average Weekend" in a band. It's even more fun to play than it is to listen to.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't read anyone else's yet:

1.The Munsters (Electric version)
2.Pete & Pete (Almost a tie for first)
3.Kids in the Hall (OK I saw that one, but it's a great song)
4.My Favorite Martian (Because it's about 10 seconds long)
5.Batman (I guess)
6.WKRP - Closing credits
7.Columbo
-OK, now I cheat I can't hink of any more good ones -
8.Sanford & Son (Duh - This should be #4 - I even own the Sanford & Son record and used to play it all the time.)
9.Hawaii Five-O
10.Barney Miller

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

6.WKRP - Closing credits

OOH! So fuckin' OTM!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you heard the newish Atomic 7 album? Led by Brian Connelly of SMonaSP. It's called Gowns By Edith Head and it's tasty and full of great titles.

Chock Full O'notes
Sexy Action Cool
Your Ironic T-Shirt
Haggar Party Slacks
Day Of The Deadbeats
Man With The Golden Card
Her Sassy Kiss
Theme From Atomic 7
Swinger's Ear
Cold Black Dead Heart Polka
Save Your Fork There's Pie
Artistry In Nachos
Hairbone
Seven Stranded Castanets
(You're Not Having Fun) Till You're Dialing 911
Guitar For Sale
Mimi, Queen Of Bathurst
Loving Not Gouging
Phantom 101

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Muppet Babies theme is incredible. I still hum it to myself 15 years after it stopped showing.

I also like the Garth Merenghi theme music - I know it's supposed to be taking the piss but it's fucking excellent.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

10.) Dukes of Hazzard
9.) What's Happening?
8.) The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson ("Johnny's Theme")
7.) Young Ones
6.) Good Times
5.) Barney Miller
4.) Mary Tyler Moore Show ("Love is All Around")
3.) Rockford Files
2.) WKRP in Cincinnati
1.) Hawaii Five-O

I'm looking at this list thinking, not one theme beyond 1984? Try as I might, I can't think of one. Definitely not "Friends".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

well, the TV Show theme is largely a thing of the past.

― Huckadelphia (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 February 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Simpsons
Daily Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fresh Prince of Belair!!!
Kids in the Hall
Drew Carey Show
Addams Family
Family Guy!!!!!
That 70s Show (because it made Alex Chilton rich!)
Cheers
Twin Peaks

― sym (shmuel), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be more hip-hop TV theme songs

― sym (shmuel), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Was that Bob Mould song they based the Daily Show theme on ever released on anything?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be more hip-hop TV theme songs

Are there any? I can't think of one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

fresh prince of bel-air

― pete from the street, Friday, 6 February 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1# The Persuaders - John Barry
and
1# The Mysterons Theme (from Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons) - Barry Gray

2# Raumpatrouille aka Space Patrol (1966) - Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra
3# The Avengers - Laurie Johnson
4# Out Of This World - Tony Hatch
5# Miss Marple Theme - Ron Goodwin
6# The Streets of San Francisco - Tom Scott
7# The Odd Couple - Kenyon Hopkins / Neil Hefti
8# Der Kommissar - Herbert Jarczyk (Orchester Joe Jerkins)
9# Hawaii 5-0 - Lalo Schifrin (The Ventures)
10# Signor Rossi (Viva La Felicità)- Franco Godi
11# Peanuts - Vince Gueraldi
12# Robbi, Tobbi & das Fliewatuut - Ingfried Hoffmann

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, take the last two off my list and put the Muppets and Clone High on. Sesame Street should be on there somewhere too.

― sym (shmuel), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

No-one's mentioned Square Pegs!

(have they?)

― Shooz (shooz), Friday, 6 February 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

how('s) come(s) no one has mentioned Ren & Stimpy's beginning and end themes. they're jazzy.

― Nate (Nate), Friday, 6 February 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

#1. Gatchaman (dare da dare da dare da! umi no jigoku ni hosomu kage...)
#2. Battle Of The Planets
#3. G-Force
#4. Twin Peaks
#5. Silver Spoons ("here we are, face to face, a couple of silver spoons, learning to find, we're two of a kind... *ahem*)
#6. Greatest American Hero ("believe it or not I'm walking on air, i never knew... *ahem*)
#7. Great Space Coaster ("...climb on board!")
#8. Land Of The Lost ("marshall will and holly, on a great expedition")
#9. The Ben Stiller Show (by Dweezil Zappa)
#10. The Scarecrow and Mrs. King

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 6 February 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

In No Particular Order
Cowboy Bebop
Fragle Rock
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Harvey Birdman Attourney At Law
Fooly Cooly - Closing Theme
The Golden Girls (Thank You For Being A Friend)
Mr. Show With Bob And David
Pete & Pete
Ren & Stimpy
The Angry Beavers

.......I Like Cartoons

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Friday, 6 February 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

You are a cartoon

― sym (shmuel), Friday, 6 February 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Match Game
Sanford and Son
Good Times
What's Happenin'
CHiPs
Mannix
Square Pegs
Three's Company
Wide World of Sports
the A-Team

― angel duster, Friday, 6 February 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Scarlet
The Tomorrow People
Jungle Ted & the Laceybuttonpoppers
Dr Who
A Whole Scene Going
Ask the Family
Vision On(The Gallery)
New Avengers
Battlestar Galactica
Randall & Hopkirk(Deceased)
Animal Kwackers
White Horses
Adam Adamant
Nanny & the Professor

― Paul R (paul R), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Grange Hill

― jamiefake, Friday, 6 February 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego," you mentalists!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 6 February 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Rockapella do the Where In The Wirld Is Carmen Sandiego Theme?
That Show Rocked. The Game Show.....Not The Cartoon

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Friday, 6 February 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The cartoon was "Where on Earth," I think

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 6 February 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Sanford and Son

I hate hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE Kids in the Hall.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 7 February 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Themes with lyrics that seem to have something to say about the show:
THE JEFFERSONS!!!
Good Times
Mary Tyler Moore

70s studio psuedo Jazz worked well for these themes:
Barney Miller
Hill Street Blues
Rockford Files

Cop Show Music: (get out that fuzzy wah wah thing)
SWAT
The Rookies
The Streets of San Francisco
Baretta "Don't Do the Crime, If You Can't Do the Time" Sammy Davis...what more do you need.

Deconstruction of a theme:
The Garry Shandling Show
Seinfeld

― earlnash, Saturday, 7 February 2004 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

How is the Rockford Files theme pseudo Jazz?

― applepie baseball, Saturday, 7 February 2004 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Cagney and Lacey
Dallas
The Littlest Hobo
Cheers
Match of the Day
The Protectors (? - is that the one with Avenues and Alleyways by Tony Christie? That one anyway)
Only Fools and Horses
Minder
The A Team
Teachers

I also like the version of Handbags and Gladrags used in The Office but I'm not ditching any of the above for it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 7 February 2004 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

omg ! i forgot 'Van Der Valk' (Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level)
place #3

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Saturday, 7 February 2004 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

my life is apparently mostly animation; witness the following:
Cardcaptor Sakura (all 3 seasons, even though most people hate the 2nd OP---i like the full version of it, but not the TV-size edit)
the Pocket Monsters OP (the Japanese one---the 4Kids English one is just awful)
Teen Titans (both English and Japanese)
Cowboy Bebop
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Invader ZIM
Twin Peaks (or really, almost anything Badalamenti has done, ever. well, i might not love that "Inside the Actors Studio" theme completely, but...)
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
The Brak Show
Space Ghost Coast to Coast (can you beat Sonny Sharrock? can you? huh?!?!)
Sealab 2021
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (even when i didn't particularly care for the show, i did quite like the opening theme. simple but effective!)
Millennium (the first two seasons, anyway. the opening, much like the show itself, got ruined in the third season.)
Pinky and ~~Orson Welles~~ the Brain
Blue Submarine No.6 (too bad the show isn't as good as the theme!)
Kaikan Phrase (music much better than show or manga. really. /\ucifer is quite good.)
Powerpuff Girls (both OP and ED and remixes of the OP and ED are quite good. though why no Bis credit on the City of Soundsville album, i wonder? seems a glaring error, really.)
Fullmetal Alchemist
Romeo's Blue Skies (it is cheesy, yes, but lovely. and i also blame Oniisama E...)
Macross (again, cheesy, but can't resist singing along. and random English is a bonus!)
Sam & Max: Freelance Police
The Tick (the animated one, not that other thing they did...)
Batman: the Animated Series (yay Shirley Walker!)

when i was little, i quite liked the Tom & Jerry theme and the theme from Punky Brewster (the TV show, not the cartoon).

drat, now i've given away my age. XD

― janni (janni), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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