JoeinAR 1,949 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I'm sure we've done this, but if we have its been a long time, if we haven't then it's been too long. It the most modern age of television where advertisement is at a premium and content is at the lowest amount of time in history, theme music and theme songs are nearing extinction. So what's your favorites? I still say Goldsmiths Walton theme is the best thing ever done for tv but Lost in Space Season 1 and then 3, Hawaii 5-0, and the Rockford Files. I'm partial to the Wild Wild West. Songs would include Cheers and Friends.Check out televisiontunes.com for a lot of good memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,044 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Would it be cliche to mention Star Trek? Hawaii 5-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Lost in Space Season 3Land of the Giants (both themes)I Dream of JeannieSix Million Dollar ManBattlestar Galactica (original series)The MunstersAmazing StoriesChipsMashEight is Enough (1st Season instrumental theme) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Dallas Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,521 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Without competition -- TWIN PEAKS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 https://youtu.be/Flvxbw8YYM8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,374 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Game of Thrones, Twin Peaks, House of Cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,293 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 And of course... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Game of Thrones, Twin Peaks, House of CardsI don't know the last one but the first two are iconic. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 GoT? Iconic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 Would it be cliche to mention Star Trek?Hawaii 5-0 no its iconic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,843 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 My 2 absolutely favourites (if we don't count cartoon series) are these: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stempel 136 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Captain FutureTheme from the German Version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Knight Rider Also, screw it. THIS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Jerry's Voyager theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Dennis' DS9 theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 GoT? Iconic?The main theme? Yes, it's become iconic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Well, maybe thats not surprising. It's a real earworm. I'll be humming it like mad for 10 weeks straight soon...again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I was listening to my Nigel Hess CD the other day. He has written so many fine TV themes, many of them for programmes that almost nobody remembers (Testament, The One Game, Classic Adventure, etc.). The pick of the bunch for me is his theme for the Cornish detective series Wycliffe, with its memorable cello solo played by Anthony Pleeth. I know I post it whenever this topic comes up, so sue me. And here is my favourite TV theme by Christopher Gunning, The Big Battalions, even if it does owe quite a lot to Ennio Morricone's The Mission. So many catchy theme tunes have been written for sports programmes, but surely the finest from this sceptred isle still has to be Ski Sunday, no? Here is Sam Fonteyn's classic played by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,374 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Newsradio is another great one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Zippy, George, Bungle and Geoffrey enjoyed the trippiest children's theme tune of all time, Rainbow. And so did I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Airwolf is way up there. Voltron too. Then Deep Space Nine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Does the Brian May/Van Halen version of Star Fleet count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 My favorite theme song for a television show growing up (Reading Rainbow): And one of my all-time favorite sci-fi themes for a show (Farscape): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 Why not post the show in addition to videos.Some won't load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 One of the best. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_Sv6TO11TNg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,364 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 https://youtu.be/nHEzigyqzf8 - The Prisonerhttps://youtu.be/75V4ClJZME4 - Doctor Whohttps://youtu.be/iq-YeD4L-bg - Mission : Impossible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Avatar: The Last AirbenderFringeFillmoreHouse of Cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,641 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,716 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 This is one of my favourites. Agatha Christie's Poirot by Christopher Gunning:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmsV5caLzqM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHall 30 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 "Space: Above and Beyond" by Shirley Walker"seaQuest DSV" by John Debney (Seasons 1 and 2)"The Cape" by John Debney (1996 show about NASA astronauts, not the 2011 superhero show) https://youtu.be/nDV8Vaz7ymI"The Young Riders" by John Debney https://youtu.be/klXBEhySNp4"Due South" by Jay SemkoWinnie Cooper's Theme from "The Wonder Years" by W.G. Snuffy Walden (This was not the main theme, though)"JAG" by Bruce Broughton was already mentioned but I like that one too."ER" by James Newton Howard, (Marty Davich's scores for individual episodes were great too. That is a good CD)Someone mentioned "Knight Rider", but in my opinion the music composed by Don Peake for Seasons 2-4 was better than the main theme and season 1 music which was composed by Stu Philips.Which brings me to what is quite possibly the greatest TV theme of all time......"Battlestar Galactica" ! (1978) by Stu Philips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,554 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire.Wins, Hands dOwn ! Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHall 30 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire.Wins, Hands dOwn.I just listened to this. Wonderfully weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Young Indiana Jones chronicles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 It'd be awesome if Zack Snyder used this epic theme for Superman v Batman filmIMHO Zimmer should use this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Twin Peaks, easily.But I have a soft spot for this, corny as it may be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Yeah, we've done this before. And my answer remains (as it always will) the same: Battlestar Galactica (Stu Phillips). That show got better than it deserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 That is a great theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 It'd be awesome if Zack Snyder used this epic theme for Superman v Batman filmIMHO Zimmer should use this I prefer this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 It'd be awesome if Zack Snyder used this epic theme for Superman v Batman filmIMHO Zimmer should use this I prefer this one. Too plodding and and uninspired. Even their heroic walk in the intro doesn't look like they're excited to be there.Prefer the 2nd intro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,223 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Richard Harvey and Elvis Costello's score for Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,374 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Some more good ones here http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19888 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,223 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Glad to see your old avatar returning, Gloin! I'm hoping it will be back to normal around the time George R. R. Martin's next book hits the shelves... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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