What Is Your - ONE and Only - Favorite TV Show Theme Song ...and why?

[TerpWomenFan]

I like Fresh Prince, Speed Racer and Knight Rider. This isn't my favorite show but this is such a cool opening theme song.

 

[RoadMaster]

 

[SoCalCanine]

If you never saw the show The Cisco Kid, each episode ended with some sort of quip with both riding off laughing as they said “Oh Pancho”. Oh Cisco”.

I am old enough (but just barely!) to remember Cisco and Pancho.

 

[GoUconn7961]

Mary Tyler Moore because it was "How will you make it on your own?" in season one. The whole theme song was about the doubt that a woman could survive on her own without a man. They changed it to "Who can turn the world on with her smile...you're going to make it after all."

That was big in the 70's - the show was groundbreaking for women and women writers.

 

[JellyBean]

I was six or seven living in an unhappy household when this show first hit the airwaves. It came on after dark, in color and was the best sound I had ever heard. Still hear it at the first hint of adrenaline.

OMG!! Totally forgot about this classic. Saturday mornings in the 70s and 80s were the best!!

 

[JellyBean]

Mary Tyler Moore because it was "How will you make it on your own?" in season one. The whole theme song was about the doubt that a woman could survive on her own without a man. They changed it to "Who can turn the world on with her smile...you're going to make it after all."

That was big in the 70's - the show was groundbreaking for women and women writers.

I loved that show for many reasons but the biggest factor, as a kid back in the 70s growing up in Minneapolis, seeing that "Minneapolis" exit sign and some of our downtown features here in Minneapolis, plus the Fran Tarkenton jersey, is why that show will always be in my top five favorite shows and theme songs.

1). Stanford & Son
2). SWAT (1970s) I think 1976 range.
3). MASH
4). Starsky & Hutch
5). Mary Tyler Moore

 

[JellyBean]

For me, it was the Cisco Kid - the first western TV show I can remember as a kid, and one great theme song..!

I always loved watching that show just before going to church on Sundays back in the day. This show and Leave It To Beaver

 

[cullaville]

 

[JellyBean]

Always a classic.

 

[CL82]

It was only supposed to be a three hour tour!!!!!

Stuff happens.

 

[CL82]

 

[Ozimoto]

Surprised this one hasn't shown up. Mike Post wrote a lot of movie and TV theme songs.

 

[Ozimoto]

I also liked this one. The show that lead to all the current hospital dramas...

 

[Aluminny69]

This little known theme song was definitely an ear worm.

 

[Jackcatscal]

Winky Dink and You! The very first interactive television show--you put the "magic screen" (a piece of clear plastic) on the TV screen, and drew on it with your "magic crayons." I remember having to draw a bridge to help Winky get across a chasm to escape the bad guys.

Of course, if you were too poor to send off for the magic stuff (like me), you just drew on the TV screen with your own crayons, much to the annoyance of the parents.

 

[uconnfan68]

Tony Soprano driving up the New Jersey Turnpike to the tune of "Woke Up This Morning."

Surprised this didn't get page 1.

 

[visitingcock]

Read a full page. No Peter Gunn?

Gave up.

 

[Spaceman213J]

I'm sticking with my choice but being a product of the 80's, 90's and nd 00's there are a nuber of theme songs that are forever burned into my memory. Some include the theme songs from Family Ties, Happy Days, Friends, Cheers, Hill Street Blues, MASH, Laverne & Shirley, The Wonder Years, The A-Team, the Flintstones, The Simpson. I watched a lot of TV. My favorite TV theme song is "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" for the show Chuck, but I loved it before it was a theme song.
I could also name 50 more shows, the Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, Frasier... etc.

 

[Iluvacc2]

A classic comedy

 

[Iluvacc2]

A classic drama. I loved all of the 80’s nighttime soaps: Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Knots Landing.

 

[CB360]

The Original Dexter theme. It's Querky and matches the show perfectly.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

"Suicide is Painless" for Mash.

 

[f1f1ferrari]

The original Doctor Who theme:

 

[willtalk]

Winky Dink and You! The very first interactive television show--you put the "magic screen" (a piece of clear plastic) on the TV screen, and drew on it with your "magic crayons." I remember having to draw a bridge to help Winky get across a chasm to escape the bad guys.

Of course, if you were too poor to send off for the magic stuff (like me), you just drew on the TV screen with your own crayons, much to the annoyance of the parents.

When they first stated the show, you could send off and get a plastic to put on your screen for 50 cents. It think later you had to buy a set. I remember it took me some time to save up the money and I finally got the big set. Well the show only lasted a few more months, but therewas still a lot of cool stuff in the set to play with even without the show. The plastic that came with it was too small for the tv screen anyway. I do not think it was made for a 21 inch set.

 

[Spaceman213J]

There was also a show that only lasted for 1 season on FX called 'Terriers'. It was a great show and it's theme song was an ear worm waiting to happen for those who heard it. I think it was called 'Gunfight Epiphany'. For modern shows, 'Long Hard Time To Come', the Justified theme song, would also fit the bill.