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TV series theme songs
« on: October 28, 2010, 03:00:24 PM »
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.
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Re: TV series theme songs
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2010, 03:49:08 PM »
Justice League (original theme and opening animation, not JLU, although JLU isn't bad. But JL is just awesome):



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« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2010, 04:07:59 PM »
1. M*A*S*H*  Yeah, PG I stole it.  I LOVED that show.  Hawkeye reminded me of my dad, not with political view, but appearance, and his love for fun.  I have watched every episode more times than I can count.  RIP Colonel Blake. 

2. Hill Street Blues.  Iconic show.  Everybody.  Be Safe Out There. 

3.  Miami Vice.  Lord.  I was only allowed to go out one night a weekend when I lived at home.  I went out on Saturdays.  Fridays were for me, Don Johnson, and a pizza. 

4.  All in the Family.  My Mom always said that my Granddad was the original Archie Bunker.

5.  China Beach~  Reflections, by Aretha Franklin.  I wanted to look like Dana Delany so bad. 

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Re: TV series theme songs
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2010, 04:09:43 PM »
I liked this one when I was younger, when the show was on.
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« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2010, 04:53:10 PM »
1. M*A*S*H*  Yeah, PG I stole it.  I LOVED that show.  Hawkeye reminded me of my dad, not with political view, but appearance, and his love for fun.  I have watched every episode more times than I can count.  RIP Colonel Blake. 

2. Hill Street Blues.  Iconic show.  Everybody.  Be Safe Out There. 

3.  Miami Vice.  Lord.  I was only allowed to go out one night a weekend when I lived at home.  I went out on Saturdays.  Fridays were for me, Don Johnson, and a pizza. 

4.  All in the Family.  My Mom always said that my Granddad was the original Archie Bunker.

5.  China Beach~  Reflections, by Aretha Franklin.  I wanted to look like Dana Delany so bad. 


Mmmm...Miami Vice - oh yes! Great choice and that song along with the visuals rocked! Same thing for me: At the time (1984) I was 24 and lived in a double wide with a high school party buddy. He worked for the INL nuke testing data center in Idaho Falls, ID and I worked for cable TV. Friday nights were ALWAYS beer, bong, TV, and pizza nights. Saturday was rock-n-roll bar nights. That lasted for two years until I figured out hanging on a telephone pole at 30' in a freezing blizzard stoned, was NOT a good career choice. So I dropped all of my old habits, moved to Pocatello, ID and enrolled in college.
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Re: TV series theme songs
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2010, 04:56:17 PM »
I liked this one when I was younger, when the show was on.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsWgG5v7A3A[/youtube]

Oh yea! What memories - I watched every episode, twice! I loved it when he would fly into the billboard sign - "I need the instruction manual for the suit!"
And Robert Culp???? The best!
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Re: TV series theme songs
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2010, 05:29:57 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2010, 08:14:22 PM »
1. The Night Stalker:TOS
2. Lost In Space the season they were flying through space
3. Battlestar Galactica:TOS
4. Twilight Zone
5. The 4400

I don't really know why I like any of those and I only chose the first ones in my mind.   I like a lot of TV show theme music.  Irwin Allen shows in the 1960s had a lot of great theme music.

Space:1999 and UFO just popped into my head too.  And Futurama.
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« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2010, 08:27:58 PM »
It's tacky, it's cheezy, but... the A-team.  Yeah!

Not a TV show, but 'Midnight Express' has an awesome theme.  (I'm going to give myself away on this one :-) :tinfoil2:).
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Re: TV series theme songs
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2010, 08:43:35 PM »
In no particular order...

Mission:Impossible
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGeRgFa-hI[/youtube]

x-Files
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDZBgHBHQT8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Battlestar Galactica (Original as well as new versions...yes. I'm a Galactica fanatic. :p)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHD1uPVkyk0[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3YVq0Hvd8k&feature=related[/youtube]


Hawaii Five-o
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w&feature=related[/youtube]


Star Trek
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjL8WXjlGI[/youtube]

Space:1999
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZW4groJro[/youtube]
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« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2010, 09:23:22 PM »
1. The Night Stalker:TOS
2. Lost In Space the season they were flying through space
3. Battlestar Galactica:TOS
4. Twilight Zone
5. The 4400

I don't really know why I like any of those and I only chose the first ones in my mind.   I like a lot of TV show theme music.  Irwin Allen shows in the 1960s had a lot of great theme music.

Space:1999 and UFO just popped into my head too.  And Futurama.
UFO!
Gawd it is hard to find anyone that remembers that series. Around 1972 or so if I remember. I loved it, moonbase and all.
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« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2010, 09:35:26 PM »
It's tacky, it's cheezy, but... the A-team.  Yeah!

Not a TV show, but 'Midnight Express' has an awesome theme.  (I'm going to give myself away on this one :-) :tinfoil2:).
I did not know that was the theme to Midnight Express. I always liked that song.

A-Team stands apart! It plays regularly on HDNet and I watch it whenever I can. Mr-T was all the rage back in those days!
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« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2010, 09:37:18 PM »
I always get chills when I hear it.  Clubber Lang was the best Rocky villain ever.
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« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2010, 02:43:31 AM »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCXbvRrz7Uo[/youtube]

Everytime I saw this I couldn't wait to see whos ass was going to get kicked.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM&feature=related[/youtube]

Mr T was reason enough to watch. "Shut up fool. I ain't gettin on no plane Hannibal."

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSaDPc1Cs5U[/youtube]

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« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2010, 02:57:23 AM »
And some more classics.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCgq8q9Ofw&feature=related[/youtube]

James West and Artemus Gordon. Secret agents in the Wild West.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKs1So89OV8&feature=related[/youtube]

TVs version of James Bond.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjFgdgp7yY[/youtube]

This one is as much for the opening as it is for the show itself.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1NiNKwueE[/youtube]


Edward Wooodward. The opening theme was done by Stewart Copland of the Police. Great show.
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« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2010, 05:35:04 AM »
UFO!
Gawd it is hard to find anyone that remembers that series. Around 1972 or so if I remember. I loved it, moonbase and all.

Before my time, but I happened to catch a few reruns on late night TV somewhere and became hooked. I even found a website devoted to it. http://ufoseries.com/  :cheersmate:
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« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2010, 10:01:42 AM »
Nothing beats the opener to Jonny Quest:


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« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2010, 10:36:22 AM »
1. The Night Stalker:TOS

Great show. Great character acting. Simon Oakland's interactions with McGavin were priceless. And whoever the harried-investigating-cop-du-episode was was usually hyserical, too. Ruth McDevitt was fantastic as well. They were all great.


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfl0m6U8IE[/youtube]





The Addams Family

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDJvrBFDDc [/youtube]


The Munsters:

[youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuHr00nxeew&feature=related [/youtube]



F Troop:

[youtube=425,350]  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwFADi4Y38 [/youtube]


Hogan’s Heroes


[youtube=425,350]   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UnB-9tIZAo&feature=related [/youtube]


And…

Love, American Style:

[youtube=425,350]    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHuI0Pw0m8 [/youtube]

This particular one had the Happy Days pre-pilot.

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« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2010, 10:51:47 AM »
Heh.  I remember when I was a kid, I was not allowed to watch Love, American Style.
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« Reply #20 on: October 29, 2010, 11:09:13 AM »
LA Law, why isn't LA Law on DVD?
Airwolf!
Dallas!
Simon and Simon
Hardcastle and McCormick[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRX4mlFi06A&feature=related]The BEST TV theme song EVER[/url]
OMG!!

The memories I forgot so much about. The thing about my little brain, is I tie periods, high, and lows of my troubled then successful life, to these TV series and the theme songs. I loved every one of those shows. Ernest Borgnine in Airwolf almost didn't work for me but because of his and Tim Conway's legacy in McHale's Navy, I enjoyed the series no less.
LA Law along with Night Court and Cheers was a BIG part of NBC's "must see TV" Thursday evening viewing for several years.

Simon and Simon? C'mon...Rick and his burned-up truck? I vividly remember watching the last episode sitting in my quarters on Kwajalein with tears! CLASSIC!
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« Reply #21 on: October 29, 2010, 11:14:00 AM »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCXbvRrz7Uo[/youtube]

Everytime I saw this I couldn't wait to see whos ass was going to get kicked.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM&feature=related[/youtube]

Mr T was reason enough to watch. "Shut up fool. I ain't gettin on no plane Hannibal."

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSaDPc1Cs5U[/youtube]

Every Wedsday night and Thursday night ,Had to watch Batman

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0qQGS4fXSY[/youtube]

Vic Morrow as Sgt Saunders and Rick Jason as LT Handley
Oh hell yes!
What was the other one...oh yea - The Rat Patrol. Going after Rommel in the African desert. Good lord - I was sooo young. My father (RIP) turned the family on to it:

[youtube=425,350]0ZcbifYqpGc[/youtube]
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« Reply #22 on: October 29, 2010, 11:16:10 AM »
Heh.  I remember when I was a kid, I was not allowed to watch Love, American Style.

Did they think LAS was too racy? Or were they Democrats? (Who might have thought seeing all those flags and such would be too patriotic).

Puzzled. I doubt they were Dems, and back then, most Dems weren't America-haters yet.

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« Reply #23 on: October 29, 2010, 11:24:15 AM »
Did they think LAS was too racy? Or were they Democrats? (Who might have thought seeing all those flags and such would be too patriotic).

Puzzled. I doubt they were Dems, and back then, most Dems weren't America-haters yet.

I was young, they thought it was too racy. Same with Laugh In.  Shoot, my Grandmother thought After School Specials were too racy for me, when I was a teen.
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« Reply #24 on: October 29, 2010, 11:31:41 AM »
Great show. Great character acting. Simon Oakland's interactions with McGavin were priceless. And whoever the harried-investigating-cop-du-episode was was usually hyserical, too. Ruth McDevitt was fantastic as well. They were all great.


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfl0m6U8IE[/youtube]





The Addams Family

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDJvrBFDDc [/youtube]


The Munsters:

[youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuHr00nxeew&feature=related [/youtube]



F Troop:

[youtube=425,350]  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwFADi4Y38 [/youtube]


Hogan’s Heroes


[youtube=425,350]   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UnB-9tIZAo&feature=related [/youtube]


And…

Love, American Style:

[youtube=425,350]    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHuI0Pw0m8 [/youtube]

This particular one had the Happy Days pre-pilot.

F-Troop was a favorite of mine. Ken Berry was silly but for my age at the time, I liked him. His post F-Troop casting on later Andy Griffith, then Mayberry, didn't really work for me.
F-Troop reminded me of Chuck Connors in Branded. Now that was classic and his "spitting" appearance in the movie Airplane was great!

[youtube=425,350]TXlUS5-ag_g[/youtube]

The Addams Family? Another that stands apart! Iconic and John Astin was outrageous! You just do not find actors like that anymore!
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