Favorite TV Themes from Yesteryear

[Jot the Dot Dot]

There is the English export Man About The House http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mroyWhvpL-8 reincarnated as "Three's Company" (I always prefered the English version), and the spin-off George And Mildred http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twMFWMb5N4A

[professordeb]

Well I'll own up to a couple of shows that were "sinful" pleasures of mine.
Love watching a female kick butt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhYs...eature=related
And her one true love who had his own show a few seasons later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7tV7...eature=related

[AYS]

Batman! I loved that show when I was a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgE-...eature=related

My absolute favorite show when I was a kid.

[Simone411]

Another one of my favorites!

Theme from Route 66

[aliceanne]

I liked the theme song from the show "Providence". It was a cover of the Beatles "In My Life" by Chantal Kreviazuk.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_u...?v=WcchRhFUMF8

[skatesindreams]

Don't know if this has been done, but let's give it a shot: Favorite TV themes that some might not be familiar with, from yesteryear. Two of my favorites from British TV are (and please give links), The Persuaders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99QQIXez4M

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I loved John Barry's music; and the show.

Interesting fact: I remember Roger Moore saying that the pictures of "him" when younger, in the Intro montage, are actually of his son.
His former wife destroyed all early photos of Sir Roger.

[skatesindreams]

Forgive the double post.
No discussion of great TV themes is complete without this:

"The Twilight Zone":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk

[FigureSpins]

Not a show from way back when, but one of the many reasons I love Psych is because of the perky theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obwIt...eature=related

I love the way they play with the theme song. The Bollywood version was just awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAvNK-hmTBg

Forgive the double post.
No discussion of great TV themes is complete without this:

"The Twilight Zone":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk

Agreed, a hands down winner.

Loved The Addams Family, Munsters and Gilligan's Island theme songs, along with:

Quantum Leap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBbyeEzLdvE
(My kids also loved this show - one DD skated to this song)

I Dream of Jeannie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNg-xClEnqM

Bewitched
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnuEoDex12U

[Simone411]

I loved the Westerns. A few of my favorites.

The Rifleman

The Big Valley

Have Gun Will Travel

The Real McCoys

The Virginian

The Wild Wild West

[Susan1]

I'd love to see Big Mike in full costume doing that--sounds like you had a fun group to work with at that time. I don't have anything to compare but I was in a college classroom when one student mentioned Saturday morning cartoons and "Conjunction Junction" was mentioned and the entire class starting singing except for a foreign student who was at first startled then laughed at us. Nice moment. http://youtu.be/mkO87mkgcNo

Conjunction Junction reminded me of the ice skating Schoolhouse Rock - "2 and 2 are 4, 4 and 4 are 8................" where she traced the numbers on the ice like the old school figures.

[escaflowne9282]

Conjunction Junction reminded me of the ice skating Schoolhouse Rock - "2 and 2 are 4, 4 and 4 are 8................" where she traced the numbers on the ice like the old school figures.

http://youtu.be/nzycxJUjdWI It's pretty catchy, and I'm loving that she does the right loop in a spread eagle position

[Susan1]

http://youtu.be/nzycxJUjdWI It's pretty catchy, and I'm loving that she does the right loop in a spread eagle position

That wasn't what I remembered at all, but it was neat.

[Cachoo]

Conjunction Junction reminded me of the ice skating Schoolhouse Rock - "2 and 2 are 4, 4 and 4 are 8................" where she traced the numbers on the ice like the old school figures.

I forgot all about this--thanks for posting it. I didn't fall in love with figure skating until I was an adult.

[Gypsy]

The Adams Family http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVDJvrBFDDc

& Dark Shadows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSbCqp_a3iE

[A.H.Black]

I guess I'm going to show my age now - but these are awesome:

Rawhide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2fONPgIJE

Secret Agent Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K90joT4RSnA

Mission Impossible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55NuWQCh78

Peter Gunn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6FY9DZcSoA

I also love It Take as Theif - which someone posted

I'm with you. I always loved Rawhide.

My sister lived in the Peter Gunn house for several years in the Hollywood Hills. Great house - especially on the inside.

[A.H.Black]

Whoever added Beauty and the Beast - I like that one too.

Here is my offering for the day -

Law and Order - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS9oNBJEtNU

One of my local stations is showing the original episodes with Michael Moriarty on Saturday evenings. I'm enjoying them.

[Cachoo]

Don't know if this has been done, but let's give it a shot: Favorite TV themes that some might not be familiar with, from yesteryear. Two of my favorites from British TV are (and please give links), The Persuaders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99QQIXez4M and The Sweeney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuaXBH2-d0c . Love to know what's out there from Russian or European TV.

I never even knew this series (The Persuaders) existed--wonderful theme.

There was a British series that ran on PBS that was several years old when I first saw it but I was hooked anyway. It was called "The Sandbaggers" about the good old bad old days during the Cold War. Here's the theme:
http://youtu.be/sSCmoSHlTwg (apologies if it was posted earlier)

[Tak]

I'm really surprised nobody mentioned two of my all-time favorites

The Cheers song [Everybody knows your name]

and the theme from Moonlighting - probably one of the best TV themes ever - but then I love Al Jarreau.

[skatesindreams]

I cant believe that no one has mentioned this one:

"Hill Street Blues" - another by Mike Post, who wrote so many others already in this thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yevI8xCAKuc

[Karina1974]

I cant believe that no one has mentioned this one:

"Hill Street Blues" - another by Mike Post, who wrote so many others already in this thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yevI8xCAKuc

It was the 2nd link in my post.