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Several great themes listed so far. Of the ones not listed, I’ll add Remington Steele (another Mancini theme) and Simon and Simon.

Mancini wrote the "What's Happening!!" theme song. 

 

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Was the theme for the cartoon series. 

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Better than average...

 

About the time I had a Nicole Eggert poster on my wall...

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Rockford Files is strong, but I present a worthy contender with the record scratch twist that it is a closing theme:

 

Two of my faves, can't believe not mentioned.

This one might be cheating, though 

 

Lalo Schifrin could write some smooth stuff

 

And who could ever forget the sexy trumpet solos when Judy showed up

 

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Just another typical Mike Post / Pete Carpenter 80's theme (they were all the same) but the 65 Vette is tits.

 

11 hours ago, jetsfan76 said:

Two of my faves, can't believe not mentioned.

This one might be cheating, though 

 

Jeffersons was mentioned in post 12

Since DET didn’t post a link to the song. 

 

 

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Written and performed by the late great Sonny Sharrock.


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With that Steely Dan-ish lead in.

 

Some themes just freaking take you back to the exact time.

 

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This was a short lived sitcom on ABC, but it was hilarious.

I'm a sucker for the bittersweet themes like Hillstreet Blues, Taxi, etc., but Dynasty is my favorite theme. There's not even the nostalgia for me that so many themes are wrapped up with, since I've never seen a second of the show.

 

1 hour ago, Mole said:

I'm a sucker for the bittersweet themes like Hillstreet Blues, Taxi, etc., but Dynasty is my favorite theme. There's not even the nostalgia for me that so many themes are wrapped up with, since I've never seen a second of the show.

 

Ha. Me either.

It has that “Academy Awards,” theme going on.

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Won't embed, huh?

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On 1/28/2021 at 3:31 PM, HornPhD said:

Since DET didn’t post a link to the song. 

That was the 3rd version. Here's all 3. The original was by The Thrasher Brothers.

And here's a shot for shot recreate with Adam Scott and Jon Hamm

 

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On 1/27/2021 at 9:44 PM, jetsfan76 said:

This one might be cheating, though 

 

No, this is cheating.

 

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And by far the best lyric-less theme song

 

Don't think these were posted, if so, listen again.

 

 

 

 

 

It's become a cliche, but man, back in the day, Monday nights rocked.

 

On 1/31/2021 at 11:49 AM, RPM said:

That was the 3rd version. Here's all 3. The original was by The Thrasher Brothers.

And here's a shot for shot recreate with Adam Scott and Jon Hamm

 

That remake needs to happen. 

On 1/27/2021 at 10:57 PM, Longhornstampede said:

Lalo Schifrin could write some smooth stuff

 

And who could ever forget the sexy trumpet solos when Judy showed up

 

Entire Jetsons theme song:

Meet George Jetson.

His boy, Elroy.

Daughter Judy. 

Jane, his wife. 

Somewhere, someone is still getting paid royalties for that. 

The win up above for Mannix and the Jetsons.  Both truly awesome and that Jetson's car sound...

In the Welcome Back mode...Jose Fucking Feliciano

 

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The 100 Greatest TV Theme Songs of All Time
From Seventies sitcoms with expository jams to modern prestige classics with experimental scores, from 'Sanford and Son' to 'Succession,' from 'Match Game' to 'Game of Thrones'

WE APOLOGIZE IN advance for all the TV theme songs we are about to lodge back into your heads. Or maybe we should preemptively accept your thanks?

Despite periodic attempts to contract or outright eliminate them, theme songs are a crucial part of the TV-watching experience. The best ones put you in the right mindset to watch each episode of your favorite, and can be just as entertaining in their own right as any great joke, monologue, or action sequence. So we’ve decided to pick the 100 best theme songs of all time — technically 101, since there are two as inextricably linked as peanut butter and jelly — and attempted to rank them in order of greatness.

How did we figure this out, beyond just arguing about it over Slack, Zoom, ham radio, etc?

First, we assembled a massive list of great songs from throughout the entire long history of TV. We then pared that down by looking for diversity in terms of style of music, style of show, and era. (Honestly, the entire 100 could have been made up of shows from the Seventies. Apologies to The White Shadow, What’s Happening??, and many more that did not make the final list.) Some were written expressly for that show, while others were pre-existing songs given new life through their association with a particular series.

Then we considered two main factors: 1)How great is it as a song? 2)How well does it prepare you for the show that follows, in terms of mood and/or an explanation of the premise? Sometimes, one factor weighed more heavily than the other, and many bitter fights were fought. (There are still hurt feelings regarding which of ABC’s T.G.I.F. family sitcoms got the nod and which ones didn’t.) Like any attempt to quantify art, there was ultimately a lot of gut feelings involved: On its own, Theme Song A is an objectively better piece of music than Theme Song B, but Theme Song B is a much more perfect match for its show. 

This list — with many of the blurbs owing a debt to the wealth of theme song history in the book TV’s Greatest Hits by Jon Burlingame — is our attempt to explain why we chose these 100 over any or all of your favorites.

Enjoy, and get to humming.

Great themes above, no doubt, Peter Gunn so cool, but this old geezer is partial to the late 1950’s WB Westerns, in no particular order:

Maverick

Cheyenne

the Rifleman

Bronco Lane

Sugarfoot

Bat Masterson

the Rebel

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2 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

Sugarfoot

My Granny used to call me that. Used to make me laugh when it came on. One of my favorite western themes was a late 60's entry, The High Chaparral. Filmed in Old Tucson. Always thought that was cool.

Another was Laredo. 

 

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This is pretty cool....

 

 

 

 

 

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Was a huge fan of this one. Kenworths and Merle. Love it or gtfo.

 

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