With the remake of Hawaii Five-O on CBS and Euph's compilation of said theme song got me to thinking.
What are your top-5 favorite TV series theme songs and maybe a reason as to why - reminiscing, or being reminded to hurry up with washing the dishes or hurry to get off the toilet because your favorite show is on!
1: Hawaii Five-O original. Performed by the most successful instrumental band in American pop/rock history, The Ventures. The driving drum beat, the horns tempo - just makes you want to get up and dance. Jack Lord? I'm not teh gehy but he had the looks and demeanor to be reckoned with. Via my many travels throughout Hawaii while living in the Marshall Islands, I visited many of the iconic landmarks filmed in the series including the Punchbowl Crater Memorial Cemetery and the ʻIolani Palace. "Book `em Danno, murder-one"!
2: Cheers. I loved this series and have a ton of life-long defining events related to watching Cheers. From my days in college to Saturday evening living on Kwajalein to watching the cast's drunken post final episode appearance on Johnny Carson. While working for the SDC in the late 80's and early 90's, the gov sent me to several DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) computer schools in New Bedford, MA just outside of Boston. I always made at least one trip to the Bull and Finch Tavern, the outside picture of the Cheers bar across the street from the Boston Commons each trip. Drank a few expensive beers, bought the Cheers mug and t-shirts and left. The inside is way, way, way different than what you see on TV - very dark and small.
3: Hill Street Blues - don't know why but when that show was in its prime, it was must watch TV.
4: Star Trek TOS (The Old Series) - Hope for humanity - Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty et all. Spawned THE most popular and enduring TV and film Sci-Fi genera franchise period! Nuff said...
5: M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless). While Alan Alda turned into a metro-sexual girly man, the series found me with tears during many episodes. The final episode, aired in Feb 1983, was the most watched by viewer numbers in history and was ONLY surpassed by the 2010 Super Bowl but NOT by ratings or share, only number of people watching. Most tearful episode for me - Last episode of season 3, 1975, Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) is discharged and sent home. Last scene finds Radar announcing Colonel Blake's plane shot down over the Sea of Japan - there were no survivors.