What are your favorite TV Show theme songs etc?
Golden Girls
M * A * S * H
Night Court
Cheers
Doctor Who
X-Files
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Good Eats
Mines more of a character theme song from a tv series.
Game of Thrones
The Addams Family
Gilligan’s Island
Batman 1966
Batman TAS
Lost in Space (original John/ny Williams version)
COPS
Adam 12
Married With Children
The Original Dragon Ball Z theme (challa head challa)
Go! from Naruto
Teen Titans
A cruel angels thesis from Evangelion…
Gurren Lagann - it was a bit of orchestra and rap lmao
Almost every TV theme from the 70’s and 80’s is nice.
Love the guitar and sax phone and the bad a$$ truck.
It was only for 3 episodes, but this is the most clever use of a villain hijacking an intro.
Evangelion was my favorite cartoon ever when I was growing up, even if until this day I can still barely understand it.
But I can relate to a lot of the themes on that list.
I was going to make my own topic regarding this very topic as a “spin-off” to the Top Anime Intros thread. As I was making it, this thread popped up suggesting that there was already a topic about it. I’m going to pull some of the ones from the “Top Anime Intros” thread (that don’t really fall under that category, IMO) and bring them here. Along with linking the sources of already suggested shows. Then, I’ll suggest newer ones that nobody has said between the two threads.
I up this with a Gargoyles Theme Song without the Narration. Yes, I prefer the theme song without the narration, sorry
Crediting this person for saying it, first, but they never linked it, so I will: Link to one of the iterations of it.
Link to one of the iterations of it
My own contributions (and can’t believe they haven’t been mentioned yet, in either thread ):
- The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Intro - IK nothing of this show. Just always thought it had a really awesome intro. It’s all IK about it LOL
- Justice League Animated Series Intro
- Stargate Atlantis S2 Intro
- Battlestar Galatica - One of the Iterations of it
- Angel One of the Iterations
- CSI: Miami S4-6 Intro
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Intro
- Criminal Minds S1-S15 Intro
I can understand why these weren’t mentioned 'cause these are more of my preferences
- Fairly Oddparents Intro
- Kim Possible Intro
- Hey Arnold Intro
- CatDog Intro
- Pinky and the Brain Intro
- Daria Intro - I can only find this really bad version of it.
- Sister, Sister S5-S6 Intro
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers S1 Intro
- Tiny Toon Adventures Intro
- CSI: NY S1 Intro & S5 Intro
- Rocko’s Modern Life Intro
- Animaniacs Intro
- Forensic Files Intro
That’s all I got, so far.
There are so many which I loved the theme song but not the show. Most of which are from the late 20th century. These are in no particular order.
CARTOONS
- Thundercats
- He-Man and The Masters of the Universe
- The Flintstone Comedy Hour
- Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
- The Transformers
- Ducktales
- M.A.S.K.
- Denver, The Last Dinosaur
- Mighty Orbots
- X-Men
LIVE ACTION
- Cheers
- Happy Days
- CHiP’s
- The Love Boat
- Charlie’s Angels
- Hawaii Five-O
- The Big Bang Theory
- Beverly Hills 90210
- MacGyver
- The Addam’s Family
While there are plenty more, those were the first ones to come to mind
Obviously with this character I have to throw in some love for the Mama’s Family theme:
And, since the Cheers theme was posted in the second post from '19 in this thread, I want to give a shout out to two of Gary Portnoy’s other great themes:
1.) Mr. Belvedere/“According to Our New Arrival” (probably my favorite TV theme):
a.) original aired version sung by the late, great Leon Redbone:
b.) The full version of the song from Gary Portnoy:
2.) Punky Brewster
I’ll also throw in plugs for Perfect Strangers (my 2nd favorite theme)
and Dear John