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Thread started 09/05/11 8:52am

SeventeenDayze

Best TV theme song of all time?

Hi Orgers! Which TV theme song is the best of all time? Please share smile I personally think it's a tie between Sanford & Son and the People's Court, LOL! smile

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Reply #1 posted 09/05/11 8:57am

Shaolin325

My picks:

1. S.W.A.T

2. Welcome Back Kotter

3. Good Times

4. Taxi

5. Barney Miller

I'm not sure of the titles of any of the songs. I believe S.W.A.T. is called "The Theme From S.W.A.T."

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Reply #2 posted 09/05/11 10:47am

unique

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the fall guy

cheers is a close second

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Reply #3 posted 09/05/11 11:00am

debbiedean2

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SeventeenDayze said:

Hi Orgers! Which TV theme song is the best of all time? Please share smile I personally think it's a tie between Sanford & Son and the People's Court, LOL! smile

Ditto on People's Court lol

My favs are

Maude

WKRP in Cincinnatti

Welcome Back Kotter

Greatest American Hero

The Backyardigans

The Jeffersons

Good Times

I'M NOT SHOUTING, JEEZ!
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Reply #4 posted 09/05/11 11:08am

goodwillt7

the only ones i can think of off the top of my head...

Good times

Jeffersons

Golden Girls

Cheers

Mad about You

Fresh Prince

#MichaelJackson #JanetJackson #Prince
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Reply #5 posted 09/05/11 11:18am

theAudience

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A list saved from the last time this subject came up.

Perry Mason (#1)

Detective/Spy shows...
Peter Gunn
Mr. Lucky
I Spy
Kojak
Ironside
Mission: Impossible
Mannix
The Saint
Dragnet


Sci-Fi/Mystery shows...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Dark Shadows
Night Gallery
One Step Beyond
The Outer Limits
Tales From The Darkside
The Twilight Zone


Miscellaneous shows...
Andy Griffith
Barney Miller
Baretta
Batman
Beverly Hillbillies
Bonanza
Chico and The Man
David Letterman
(original 4-piece arrangement, w/occasional addition of David Sanborn)
Family Ties
Fawlty Towers
The Flintstones
Fractured Fairy Tales
Good Times
Hill Street Blues
In Living Color
Ironside
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
Lost In Space
Magnum P.I.
Maude
Miami Vice
Mike Hammer
(Harlem Nocturne)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Moonlighting
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
Munsters
New York Undercover
Night Court
The Odd Couple
Peanuts
Pink Panther
Police Woman
Rawhide
Roc
Room 222
Route 66
Sanford & Son
Sea Hunt
Secret Agent
Sesame Street
The Sopranos
Soupy Sales
St. Elsewhere
Streets of San Francisco
S.W.A.T.
Taxi
The Wire
Tightrope
Top Cat
Tracey Ullman Show
(George Clinton)
Twin Peaks
The Untouchables
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
Welcome Back Kotter
What's Happening?
The Wild Wild West
Wonder Woman



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

peace Tribal Records

"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all."
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Reply #6 posted 09/05/11 11:55am

MickyDolenz

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Bonanza ~ David Rose

Rawhide ~ Frankie Lane

Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow ~ Sammy Davis Jr.

Three's Company ~ Julia Rinker & Ray Charles (not him, a different one smile )

Ballad Of Gilligan's Isle ~ The Eligibles

For Petes Sake (closing credits theme) ~ The Monkees

Good Ol' Boys ~ Waylon Jennings

Chico and the Man ~ Jose Feliciano

Movin' On Up ~ Ja'net DuBois

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #7 posted 09/05/11 12:09pm

rdhull

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Maude

"Climb in my fur."
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Reply #8 posted 09/05/11 1:00pm

BobGeorge72

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Sanford & Son!!!!!!!!! fro dancing jig

Whenever you say that you can't, that's when you need to be trying.
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Reply #9 posted 09/05/11 1:43pm

thatruth

Sanford and Son theme...hands down my all time favorite

Fat Albert theme

Greatest American Hero theme

Sesame Street original opening and closing theme

Taxi theme

Rockford Files theme

Night Court theme

Reading Rainbow original theme

Cheers theme

Soul Train themes from 1972 to 1988

(Special mention, although not a original theme, China Beach used one of my favorite Motown songs, Reflections by the Supremes)

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Reply #10 posted 09/05/11 3:42pm

Hudson

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Reply #11 posted 09/05/11 3:57pm

leecappella

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Not in any particular order:

  1. Desperate Housewives
  2. Falcon Crest
  3. Good Times
  4. Guiding Light
  5. Modern Family
  6. My Three Sons
  7. Looney Tunes
  8. Alias
  9. Two And A Half Men
  10. The Jeffersons
  11. Batman
  12. The Young And The Restless
  13. The Six Million Dollar Man
  14. The Pink Panther Theme

Sorry. I know your thread only asked for THE best instead of a list:)

[Edited 9/5/11 15:57pm]

[Edited 9/9/11 2:33am]

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Reply #12 posted 09/05/11 4:03pm

NDRU

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Every time this comes up I gotta mention:

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Reply #13 posted 09/05/11 4:19pm

babynoz

Mission Impossible

Smallville

Hawaii Five O

Barretta

Monday Night Football

The Munsters

Amen

Oopsie...forgot The Green Hornet biggrin

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Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise.
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Reply #14 posted 09/05/11 4:28pm

babynoz

Dont' forget Johnny Quest and Barney Miller cool

Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise.
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Reply #15 posted 09/05/11 4:34pm

vainandy

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Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #16 posted 09/05/11 4:38pm

babynoz

And The Pink Panther

Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise.
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Reply #17 posted 09/05/11 4:41pm

NDRU

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babynoz said:

And The Pink Panther

That really is great

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Reply #18 posted 09/05/11 4:41pm

Timmy84

  1. Soul Train (split between '73, '75 and '83 themes)
  2. Sanford & Son
  3. The Jeffersons
  4. All in the Family
  5. Night Court
  6. The Pink Panther
  7. A Different World (Aretha version)
  8. Roseanne
  9. The Cosby Show
  10. Daria
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Reply #19 posted 09/05/11 4:45pm

vainandy

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Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #20 posted 09/09/11 1:15am

DiscoFunkChick

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[Edited 5/8/18 16:14pm]

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Reply #21 posted 09/09/11 2:19am

Gunsnhalen

My personal favorite

and my other favorites cool

Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener

All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen

Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce

Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive
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Reply #22 posted 09/09/11 6:54am

BobGeorge72

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Duh...and of course...Twin Peaks, composed by the great Angelo Badalamenti!!! coffee

Whenever you say that you can't, that's when you need to be trying.
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Reply #23 posted 09/09/11 1:21pm

bobzilla77

Ask any bass player - the correct answer is BARNEY MILLER.

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Reply #24 posted 09/09/11 1:51pm

Paris9748430

You can't go wrong with Donny!

Or Q and Mr. Cosby

JERKIN' EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!!!!
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Reply #25 posted 09/09/11 1:54pm

mjforever

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Reply #26 posted 09/09/11 3:27pm

leecappella

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mjforever said:

Was this ever a tv show? Disqualified! LOL.

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Reply #27 posted 09/10/11 5:38am

Hero0101

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Can't have this thread without Lucy:

or Nancy Botwin:

or Spike Speigel:

or Scrooge:

and last but not least, one of my personal faves, Count Duckula:

=0P

Brace yourself
The best is yet to come
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Reply #28 posted 09/10/11 6:09am

whitesockedfun
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The Jeffersons

Laverne & Shirley

Sanford & Son

CHiPs

and this one!

Just like the white winged dove...
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Reply #29 posted 09/10/11 6:45am

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