What's your favourite theme song from a television show?
For me:
Cheers
Mash
Taxi
The Odd Couple
Star Trek (original series)
Big Bang Theory
The Price is Right
Post-avant-retro-demelodicized-electro-yodel-core is my jam.
Mission Impossible
Hawaii Five-0
Car 54, Where are you?
Peter Gunn
"insensitive prick!" – Danielle Algo
Doctor Who - original theme
Worst:
Star Trek: Enterprise
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I loved the Firefly theme.
X-files worked for me, too.
Flintstones.
The Friends theme, because once I was in a room of people, the Rembrandts came on softly in the background, and without anyone saying anything, everyone in the room clapped at the same time with the music. Then we all laughed. It was a strange and beautiful moment. ;)
Cheers
Friends
Star Trek (both original and Next Generation; Deep Space Nine wasn't bad, either)
Doctor Who, though it's hard to say which version. It got tweaked pretty regularly even during the original 1963-1990 run (listen to a Pertwee opening versus a Davison opening, for instance)
Peter Gunn (never seen the show but I know the theme from various sources)
Can't believe I forgot the Dr. Who theme! I'm partial to the older electronic versions from the 60s/70s.
Also, the theme from Game of Thrones is a great piece of music.
Post-avant-retro-demelodicized-electro-yodel-core is my jam.
Game of Thrones
The Unit (both songs)
The Contender
HBO's True Detective (first season) - not second season as much - Sorry Leonard Cohen!!!
The new version of Battlestar Galactica
I liked how The Wire had the same song, Down in the Hole, sung by a different person each season. Tom Waits and Steve Earle were my faves.
Also, like Burquette said, the Firefly song. Gotta disagree about the X Files - LOVED that show, but I thought the song and the opening credits were cheesy.
Outlander
Sons of Anarchy
Black sails
Game of Thrones
Beverly Hillbilly's, Son of Anarcy, Golden Girls, Seinfeld
Sitting at the edge of darkness
The Addams Family
Game of Thrones
Sons f Anarchy
True Blood
The Westworld theme grew on me as I got further along through the first season, but my favorite two are Sons of Anarchy and True Detective (S1).
The Wire (Steve Earle version)
Highlander (Queen FTW)
Buffy
Firefly
Naming songs that weren't specifically written for the show is kind of a cheat - e.g. Joe Cocker's awesome version of A Little Help from my Friends from The Wonder Years, or Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds for Weeds. They're great songs, but not really theme songs.
Post-avant-retro-demelodicized-electro-yodel-core is my jam.