You woke up this morning Got yourself a BEST TV THEME TUNES POLL NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION gun (End date - 12/11/12

Welcome to the ILX TV theme tunes poll.

Hopefully it should provide us all something a little more different and light hearted to talk about and enjoy while shit goes crazy with elections and storms and overpolling and everything else.

Nominate as many tv theme tunes as you'd like. I'll collect the list and start a voting thread after next Monday. Feel free to choose any piece of music associated with a TV show i.e. just because a band has also released that theme as a song elsewhere doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed here. No remixes or anything though, what made the show only.

Youtubes welcome.

My Three Sons

Crazy non MM/DD/YYYY date schemes!

Knight Rider
Barney Miller
The A-Team
The Simpsons
The Equalizer
Sanford & Son
Welcome Back Kotter

Spider-Man (1967)
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
The Spectacular Spider-Man

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The Streets of San Francisco
SWAT
I Spy
The Mod Squad
It's a Living
One Day at a Time
The Love Boat
Sesame Street
The Twilight Zone

Yeah, a hoy hoy. Do you mean November 12 or December 11?

The Jeffersons

Batman
Hawaii 5-0

Hopefully those will fight it out for 1-2

Underdog
Taxi
Fish
The Tracey Ullman Show

Have Gun – Will Travel

Can we nominate each iteration of The Cosby Show's theme? Because it changed every season.

Also, Fat Albert. HEY HEY HEY

Doctor Who
The Rockford Files

Oh crap I forgot Americans do things in that silly backwards way. I mean the 12th November.

Star Trek

But this is def going to be my ballot #1. So the bizness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgPZ81xA_Ao

If you want to vote for something that isn't the general theme or if it changes please specify i.e.

Sienfeld bassline
The Wire Season 2 theme
Some show w/ a different end theme End Theme

So Whine-dawg is that a vote for The Nanny?

WKRP in Cincinnati opening theme
WKRP in Cincinnati end theme

WMC - There have been many Batman shows over the years. Can you be more specific? I presume you mean the NANANANANANABATMAN one but hey

The Price is Right?

The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Alice
Silver Spoons
Saved By the Bell
Little House on the Prairie

The Facts of Life

Starsky & Hutch

Thunderbirds
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
The Avengers
This Is Your Life (UK)
Twin Peaks
Crossroads
White Horses
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Man in a Suitcase
Mission Impossible
Z-Cars

Should I maybe do a corresponding youtube thread?

Greatest American Hero

X-Files
Underdog
Salute Your Shorts
Hey Dude
Clarissa Explains It All
Rugrats
Rocko's Modern Life

The Clothes Show (In the Night by The Pet Shop Boys)

Brideshead Revisited

I presume you mean the NANANANANANABATMAN one but hey

That's the one.

Also

"For Pete's Sake" - the Monkees 2nd season closing credits song. Probably my favorite Monkees track.

Not really feeling kosher about nominating repurposed songs, but both The Golden Girls and Portlandia would get my votes if I weren't so skittish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFremDKDDFE

I thought the robot voice "More than meets the eye" was so cool when I was a kid.

xpost (I guess that IS admittedly a new recording in the case of TGG.)

Roobarb & Custard

I don't think most people know the song from The Golden Girls for anything other than being The Golden Girls theme.

BBC Cricket/Test Match Special (Soul limbo)
Black Beauty
Father Ted

"Get Stuffed"

The theme song for the late-night 5 min cookery programme, "Get Stuffed"

I thought the robot voice "More than meets the eye" was so cool when I was a kid.

*brain fart* the robot sings "robots in disguise"

Full House
Friends
Tiny Toon Adventures
Batman: The Animated Series
Deadman Wonderland

World In Action

Batman Animated Series

every villain on that show has a theme and most of them are amazing (Freeze, Clayface, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Joker, Penguin) but I'm not sure if those count

xp sorry, missed it

Tomorrow's World

Family Matters gets my obligatory Jesse Frederick vote: "There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls."

the bill cosby show - the orig show

60 Minutes

every villain on that show has a theme and most of them are amazing (Freeze, Clayface, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Joker, Penguin) but I'm not sure if those count

― g simmel, Friday, 2 November 2012 14:21 (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think that they do if you name them. I know im nomming and voting for the Ultimate Warrior and Dusty Rhodes themes, don't see why cartoon character themes are any different.

I think there's a strong case for separate results roll outs by jurisdiction of voter here.

Friends

I will ceaselessly mock anyone who votes for this. I love the show, but the song makes me want to DIE.

Karl has recently been working as a voiceover artist on UK digital television station Nuts TV.

He is well known for his recurring role in the commercials for the Flash brand of cleaning products.

He supports Charlton Athletic F.C..[1]

Oi Jacko

oh no, no jest w/ animal hospital, the sublime contrast twixt the halting emoto-quiver of a kenny g and the fiery overblown brotzmannesque eye-bleeder wounded bleat-howl of a distressed animal in need of veterinary assistance, atop the most artfully banal breezy workaday daytime ditty is nothing short of jaw dropping. the sheer inoffensiveness of it is so titillatingly offensive that I love it, and i think they knew exactly what they were up to with this.
better than cagney and lacey anyhow.

Dad's Army

big blue marble
chico and the man

Bots Master
Reboot
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Star Trek: Deep Space 9

so have we named all the tv themes yet then

A quick control-f for Lancelot Link Secret Chimp reveals that the answer to your question is "No"

Lancelot Link Secret Chimp

also:

Man About The House
Whodunnit
Butterflies
Angling Today ("The Mugwump")
Crown Court

Soap

Lancelot Link Secret Chimp

Fuck, how did I forget this??? I was just talking about it last week...

I'll do the second tally tomorrow. Need to throw these in though:

WWE Ultimate Warrior Theme
WWE/WCW Dusty Rhodes Theme
WWE Stone Cold Steve Austin Theme
WCW Monday Nitro Theme
WCW nWo Theme

Wait if we can do individual wrestlers' themes this is gonna get crazy.

Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank
Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank
Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank
Blankety Blank
Blankety Blank

nah man, it's had a remix

I have had wine and seen fireworks and had more wine, which is the perfect condition to have a sudden fit of remembering childhood tv themes and posting six billion of them on this thread. back in a bit

(after reading whole thread) NickB, Billy Dods, aldo OTM. and "an addendum with country specific votes would be cool." -- yes!

Think you guys have covered most things I like but here's a couple more:
Danger Man
Hart Beat (Tony Hart, not the crappy Nick Berry Heartbeat)

and two from the "ok, you don't have to like the show" category:
Third Rock from the Sun
Galaxy High

(I really hate the Eagles but if Galaxy High and HGTTG both make it that's two Eagles-related themes I'll be voting for - the redeeming power of synths I guess)

A wee bit of Australiana...

Rod & Val Taylor's Inner Space [Sven Libaek]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1SkOAtYT08

Four Corners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXM5rNop3cA

Er, RON & Val Taylor's INNER SPACE, that is.

Thank you for the Blankety Blank remix spacecadet! Makes me think of v/vm's mix of Snooker Loopy

Kids Incorporated

duck tales
gummy bears
chip and dales rescue rangers

gummy bears

thank you. I was hesitant to go there.

im super ill and not in the mood for 15 mins of c&p so either i'll sort this tomorrow morning or wednesday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBRYsAfchkY

Raggy Dolls
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Alvin & The Chipmunks

Hey guys hey guys - I haven't had time to read any of this thread bcz it's been growing too fast but can I push against the thread title and suggest that only actual theme tunes should be in the final noms list, not old songs reused?

also everyone listen to the theme from Bob Spiers-directed 90s Australian sitcom The Adventures Of Lano & Woodley and enjoy it popping into your head for the next few years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP0A9TxOciI

Doctor Who theme (70s version)

Why you hurt Delia in her haert

(I agree it’s probably easiest to put down either a generic “Dr Who Theme” entry, or lump all nommed versions (Ron/Delia, Letts edit of Delia 1, Letts edit of Delia 2, Letts edit of Delia 3, Hodgson/Kingsland “Delaware” version, Murray [shudder] Gold 1, Murray Gold 2, Murray Gold 3, Murray Gold 4 into one. [Or make sarahel pick just one out of the last four, since she’s not specified.])

Our Alice can do this theme with every word, precisely.

Full song or TV version?

Britishers, you get a HUGE fail for not nomming:
- MINDER!!!!!!

This song is called I Could Be So Good For You btw fyi a hoy hoy, but was indeed written to be the theme (and reached #3!)

I assume this isn't eligible, but a most excellent 8 seconds all the same:

I’d vote for the Thames ident tbh

If ppl don’t know, the Cheers theme (Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy is another one with a full-length version that came out as a 7” but was never used in the show until once, eight years in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMNVNRybluQ

Looking through the nominations, I'm assuming the theme to "60 Minutes" means this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvWL0EdoVko

Yes. And I was (only kind of) joking.

Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
On The Move

Match of the day

i always disliked the cheers song since childhood.

it's like, too sappy sounding for a sitcom. i want all my sitcom themes to sound like "whats happening."

this is probably a tougher question that i wouldn't be able to answer without thinking really hard, but which shows had the best 5-second transitional music between scenes? and which cartoons had the best music playing in the background while the story was taking place?

i don't remember which shows did this, but there were a couple 80's cartoons that straight-up stole the background music from heathcliff and inspector gadget.

they were prolly in other shows produced by DIC but still.. the budget must have been so low that they couldn't throw together something new, figuring no one would notice.

I just remembered Pepper Ann! And Fillmore! Is it too late to nom those now? And the Kim Possible theme by Christina Milian (hey, I liked it).

weeds - I liked the conceit of having it performed by a different artist week to week.

One more? Bizarre Japanese children's show with a ten second theme, not one note wasted:

Kure Kure Takora (aka Gimme Gimme Octopus)

Chocky

one more rep for Mysterious Cities Of Gold. no kids show should have a theme this melancholy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfb_BBnXFHw

and this MONSTER too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6yJLCPFFE&feature=related

i still really really want to go in the Fun House

one more rep for Mysterious Cities Of Gold. no kids show should have a theme this melancholy.

i suppose not, but this is kind of the best song ever.

i still really really want to go in the Fun House

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:20 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

in many ways I've never left

y'all can carry on nominating until tomorrow morning, when i will finally get around to the tallying and voting thread. until then argh illness and dark room.

stoked that there is a wider base for 'mysterious cities of gold'! Absolutely haunted my memory from age 6/7 until I rediscovered the show in my late teens.

ok you've got until i make a cup of tea to sort out how you want yr doctor who themes or whatever and then i'll make the next thread.

ILM BEST EVER TV THEME TUNES VOTING THREAD - VOTING ENDS 28th November 2012