without a doubt, mine would be
Ballad of Serenity, the theme to Firefly
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UqW6yvH1ua0
I get goose bumps everytime I hear it.
I don't think I've ever been so sad to see a show get canceled.

Any other great Theme songs?

Here's my favorite;



http://youtube.com/watch?v=JYyL1Y_HwkQ



My second favorite



http://youtube.com/watch?v=VmtJV8IRKgE

OK you asked for it.Here's my favorite.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SFnvLC83ew

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Yup Rawhide was a fave for me too......
I loved the movie 'Serenity' btw.
Hill street Blues- I sadly miss those old golden years of real tv drama.

My contemporary favorite is the theme song for the star trek spin-off show of a few years ago- 'Enterprise'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPn-lTytfGo

My most favouritest-test is Hawaii 5-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w

My childhood obsession favorite was 'The Avengers' [with Diana Rigg Wooohoooo! -> for you too Cross, or did you fancy Tara King more?] ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0YOlU3SMgs

Diana Rigg was a hottie ,but then so was Honuor Blackman

I like that Enterprise theme.

Diane Rigg is hot.

Someone name this show lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9VgJAdMTZc

That would be the Theme to Grizzly Adams.
But I don't remember it being sung by a lounge lizard.

I think it was on right after this show

Man, I have a lot of favorites, but tell me what cartoon had a better theme song than this

I know it's an Anime movie now, but when I was a little kid running home after school to watch it in half hour episodes on tv all I knew was that it was a cartoon and the good guys sometimes died.

Speaking of imported anime, there were several cartoons like that.
What's strange if you think about it, even though the shows were originally broadcast in Japan.
None of the characters looked specifically like what we would see as Asian.
The one I was hooked on was G-force.


Goes to show what an impact some shows had because of a catching hook in their theme song.
The whistling part to "The Andy Griffith Show"
The double snap in "The adams family"
The piano introduction to "Cheers"
People that never even watched these shows could probably easily identify each of them

I suppose I had better put mine in ...





1st http://youtube.com/watch?v=_BH2jcNruUs





2nd http://youtube.com/watch?v=GO8v59DJawA ( just for Hellfighter ).......

G-Force was AWESOME!!!

I dedicate this one to Bargod

Muhahahaa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6LZzVCpYDY

Who could forget the Sleestac



Or Chaka the monkey boy



BTW, this is being made into a movie starring Wil Ferrel as the father.

Old skool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPEGt4A7zjA...feature=related

The writers must have been really out there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jsgrEcNbHg


I always loved the intro to sanford and son
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE

LOL, Hamma should get a kick out of the show -and to help him lose that welsh twang in his cockney efforts.
We can catch reruns of it on BBC Canada cable tv from time to time Crossy......




I watched this one religiously as a young'un.... so bizarre.....

Not really a theme song but was probably more identified with the show then the actual theme
Got a lot of laughs from this one
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4FNIEn5CTyM

Ahhh! One of my smurfing names, Sleestak!

Here's a fun one: What's Happening

Okey dokey,
So none of you were gutsy enough to come out upfront with it, but I'm pretty sure this one was amongst your REAL all-time favourites;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8MWdNG3wsw

While that is a beautiful song, I prefer this version.

LOL
I remember practicing the Re-Run Dance while watching that show.
You have to admit, for a big fat guy he was pretty light on his feet
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_2rDgZWqvhY

The original dancing with the stars.

Ohhhh man.... I got'ta throw in a few of my favorites! Great topic Robert.

My First:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SivUT1x7j18

Second:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzhwx8aOO0A

Third:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d8FTPv955I

Snowman,

Loved Taxi and All in the Family, nick at night used to run both of those shows as well as the Dick Van Dyke, show which always kills me....

I steelhead a lot up you way over on the vermillion, nice area

Glad everyone got a kick out of the topic.

Funny note about All in the Family.
I saw Jean Stapleton ( Archie's Wife ) on some kind of variety show. Someone mentioned how they loved the way she sang the theme. They asked something along the lines if she had to practice to sing that bad. She just looked at them for a second, then replied, "Nope, thats my real singing voice"
Then to prove it she sang the musical scale, it was like nails on a chalkboard.
LOL

Blitz I'm a huge sanford and son fan as well.....

I like some of the instrumentals... like MASH and A-Team

I love it when a plan comes together!

I have thought about this in the past and this seems like an appropriate place to bring it up...

I've always found it odd how some of the funniest comedy shows have had really mellow theme songs.

First off, the classic intro "Suicide is Painless", for MASH
Taxi
Cheers
Moonlighting

I'm sure there are more, but those always stick out in my mind.

And lets not forget this one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc3nrU8E-gQ

This is an outstanding topic, Robert!

I've really enjoyed the memories.

My only problem was with a couple of the shows that HF and CoI posted, I couldn't detect an accent.

I'm amazed that no one came up with one of the most memorable theme songs, a sound that defined a decade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miWfaUPGG88

I've always wondered if they used the instrumental version of "Suicide is painless" on the show because the lyrics were considered unsuitable for network TV. It was a great show, I'm proud to admit I cried like a baby at the end of the last show.
I can still picture Hawkeye and B.J. trying to say goodbye but not being able to do it.
Then Hawkeye getting in the helicopter, lifting off to see the message B.J. left by spelling out Goodbye in white rocks on the hill of the heli-pad
Just thinking about it almost makes me need a tissue.

Dammit Druid, that gave me goose bumps and made me tear up...

A little triva I just ran across.
* Robert Altman who directed the original movie made $70,000, while his son who wrote the lyrics for the theme made almost $1,000,000 in royalties from the song
* This was the most watched episode in TV history.
* Commercial time during the finale cost more than during the super bowl that year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lQad3ah16w



remember this one Hell ??????

nope - just a few years before my time [ also the reason I only found out about earlier Avengers shows with Honor Blackman only many years later].... then when it had its second run in the 70s, I was watching other popular comedies like these;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P6r6-gZYkI...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXT0nHG9Qwc...feature=related

I remember watching some of served 5-6 years ago when they ran it on PBS.
Pretty funny but no where close to my all time favorite British Show, Benny Hill

I love the Winnebago

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7KfFx_UZ5ZU



And the Greatest song George Costanza ever sang.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e9Q3orQhEcA

They still do re-runs of Being Serverd ,but not the follow up one where they all buy a hotel together which is much funnier.

This show freaked me out when I was a kid. Up until this point PBS was all about kids shows...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E&feature=related

This is a good example of the weirdness...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xNuQ7Do_Ro&feature=related

your right chris that was a wirad arse show ,but you would be surprised to know that the village it was filmed in is the most sort after place in the UK.......





Still hows this to cheer you up mate.......



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k7U-_tJVmw

In the US, NBC stole the concept for your show and called it "Sanford and Son." I loved that one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE

John Cleese and Eric Idle are legends.

I love that stuff.

Makes me a little sad.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bhHrOgOkXZw



Classic

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU

I was wondering when we'd get to Little House on the Prarie. What a wonderful show to grow up with.

Now, I can't believe I forgot Welcome Back Kotter, but I have to say that being a kid in NJ at that time I saw how city life was (at times).
I know it's different now, but at the time I would be amazed at how certain places looked compared to how I lived.

I saw that one once, but one or two of the previous cast were not in it if I remember correctly so it lost its old chemistry from my perspective....

Remember this one? hint "I'm gonna get you Butlahhh!".... the most pervy mini/skirt packed show [besides Benny Hill] a kid could get away with watching;-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUR2eQugqgo...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1si5KrPhfX4...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvTaHtQUoz0...feature=related




The big beach bubble always scared the crappola outta me as a kid.
Funny to think about that now....

What about this one...
(I guess at least Mustangman will remember it )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qlLtvX4xOM

I love how one reference to a show's theme song, reminds me of a bunch of others.

The Twilight Zone had a classic intro theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

And how could we miss Get Smart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMj5LuT5hk

And my all-time favorite theme from the Wild Wild West. The opening credits shown in this clip doubled as the outline for every episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCgq8q9Ofw

oooh, oooh, oooh, one more!!! How did a bunch of WWII gamers miss this one?!?!

Hogan's Heroes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJfSI4cKWLY

And finally, this show is most likely where Jim, aka Stryker9, learned his outstanding jeeping skills:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZcbifYqpGc...feature=related

dont know if im reposting any of these ,this topic is full of memories.blew me away especially with the cartoons .heres a couple of my early favs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_PJZ41vVFU



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC88U1SyQQw



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4HW85rDmr8




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JIDN1I69jQ

LOL, I forgot about 'F troop'.... another class one for me!

The theme song to Hogan's Heroes made me want to learn the drums and the theme song for F-Troop was the first song I ever figured out for myself on the piano. Pretty funny, or is it sad, to realize how much influence these old TV shows had on one's life.

Might as well get these out of the way:

Eight Is Enough

One Day At A Time

Alice

I couldn't find the actual intro's to Rockfor Files or Barney Miller.

Seeing as how this is a gaming website, we may as well make a game out of it

http://www.televisiontunes.com/game.html

Can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned already.

Never watched the show but it had a good theme song.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xDyRdhSIqlo