Best original TV theme ever.

[shmily_dana]

Rockford Files (w the answering machine message)
Mission Impossible
Wild Wild West

Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Gilligan's Island
Get Smart
Addams Family
I Dream of Jennie

Twilight Zone

Prisoner

All these perfectly establish the tone of the series. I think I've also established my age.

[Theben]

Originally posted by shmily_dana
I think I've also established my age.

With clarity.

[Pax]

Cowboy bebop
Farscape
B5

[Zero]

knight ryder opening theme is so sexy. david haselhoff is the man.

and mcguyver = can make bombs out of ur jizz + used condom + some leftover cupcake. damn.

totally unrelated to opening theme, but i just wanted to share that.

too sexy.

[Edan]

Murder One or maybe The Tripods.

[Zero]

on a somwwhat related note, see my new sig for why mac > all

[bipolarbear]

I'd say that Fmily Guy, Rugrats, are adequate
but he bestest ever is the old schol rap song that Aqua Teen Hunger Force has! FLCL has nice music in general too.

[Zero]

my name is!

shake zula the mike rula, the old schoola!~

[bipolarbear]

You wanna trip, I'll bring it to ya!
Frylock and I'm on the block~

[bipolarbear]

Although I'm almost obliged to say I agree, for lyrics you can't beat Red Dwarf.

That show was sooo damn funny! I loved hte episode with the tlakie toaster. "Would you liek a crumpet?"
And the one where they fight the war on the planet that is a wax museum! Such fine comedy, we are truly deprived in the states.

[Rex Little]

A few candidates, off the top of my head:

Rockford Files
Battlestar Galactica
Maverick
Greatest American Hero (yeah, I know it was sappy, but I liked it)
Eight is Enough (not the godawful song, but the bouncy instrumental they had originally)
Dallas

[Sikander]

Probably my most favorite is the theme from Mission Impossible by Lazlo Shiffrin.

Honorable mentions:

Wild Wild West
Hawaii Five-O
Daktari
Batman
Johnny Quest
Super Chicken
George of the Jungle
Rockford Files

[bipolarbear]

Hawaii Five -O and George of the Jungle are good
I liek I dream of Jeannie
and Dick Van ****
Get Smart is teh w00t! too!
Teenage Mutnat Ninja Turtles
G.I Joe
NBC Nightly News w/ Tom Brokaw
welcome back kotter
i love lucy
Seinfeld(no real song, just a basic bassline hting htta gets repeated)
Mad About You(mediocre show, i liked the song most of all)

some of the worst are conan o'brien
jay leno
cheers
different strokes
brady buch(evrything about that show was complete and udder crap)
Friends

[Ben Kenobi]

if anything i could say this cab is rare,
so I yelled to the cabbie, "Yo homes, to Bel Air!"

"I pulled up to the house around 7 or 8er
and I yelled to the cabbie, yo hommes, smell ya later,
I looked at my kingdom I was finally there,
ready to sit on my throne, as the prince of bel air."

[molly bloom]

From my early childhood I vividly recall the anticipation and fear that the opening bars of the B.B.C. Radiophonic Workshop's tune for 'Dr. Who' would produce. The people in that outfit were geniuses at manipulating sound.

I also loved 'The Prisoner' and 'The Avengers', and the soundtrack to a series about a down at heel British private eye called 'Public Eye'. The Roger Moore 'The Saint' was great too.

'U.F.O.' and 'Captain Scarlet' both had memorable theme tunes too (Siouxsie and the Banshees covered the latter on their demo tape) but 'Stingray' and 'Fireball XL5' were even better. As a passing nod to Laz's mention of 'Black Beauty' (banned in apartheid South Africa) I'll mention 'Follyfoot' .

Of American shows I grooved to 'Hawaii 5-0', 'Hill Street Blues' and the 'X-Files', but the composer for the soundtracks of 'Boston Public' and 'Six Feet Under' lnows his beans too.

'The Addams Family' was a delight, as were less well known British ones such as 'The Children of the Stones' 'Time Slip' and the Tomorrow People' .