Best and worstTV Theme songs

[redirish28]

Daria's theme and Boosom Buddies (My Life) For best.

Worst-- Friends (I'll be There for You)

[pokerfan]

1. Best: Jonny Quest (original)

Worst-- Faith of the Heart (Star Trek: Enterprise)

[woo me with science]

2. Best: Mission: Impossible

Worst: The Facts of Life

[ChoralScholar]

3. Good Times and Different Strokes....

Those were the days when theme songs were theme songs.

[BlueIris]

4. Best: Law & Order (Original series.)

Worst: The Nanny (Ugh! Awful!)

[backwoodsbob]

5. hmmm

either M.A.S.H. or welcome Back Kottor for best

,worst? Another vote for star trec enterprise

[KamaAina]

63. Hey, it could have been worse.

Fran could have sung it herself. :evilgrin:

The odd thing is, the rest of the music in "The Nanny" (jazz piano riffs, etc.) is good. Go figure.

[AtomicKitten]

6. Best: The Jeffersons Movin' On Up

---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9y4iXAso4I

[Graybeard]

7. Best: Paladin

Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man.
A knight without armor in a savage land.
His fast gun's for hire, he's the calling wind.
A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.

Paladin, Paladin where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin far, far from home.

Worst: I forget the forgettable ones.

[Tom_Foolery]

8. Best: Hawaii Five-O...

Worst: Walker, Texas Ranger :puke:

[applegrove]

53. Yup. Hawaii five-o. But I would have to make it a tie with Laverne and Shirley.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. Best: Peter Gunn. Worst: Leno

Peter Gunn TV show theme song by Henry Mancini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSEleg17T4w


The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Theme Song by Ben (SirNim)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXfKOOlgJ-M

[Tom_Foolery]

11. Peter Gunn is an excellent theme song...

I think I'll make it my new ringtone. My late mother had a friend whose brother was named Peter Gunn. He had the name long before the TV character. We also had a neighbor whose father was named Floyd Lawson, the barber on The Andy Griffith Show.

[Dr Morbius]

10. Worst: The Brady Bunch

Best: Scooby-Doo.

[JonLP24]

62. OK I'm changing my worst vote to Brady Bunch

I can't seem to remember the Scooby Doo theme song even though I saw that cartoon hundreds of times.

[Cruzan]

12. Best: Six Million Dollar Man

[Bennyboy]

13. WEEDS: Little Boxes....

Different artist every week too. But they changed it a few years ago.

[Kat45]

39. Yeah, that was pretty cool. I'm guessing they changed it because

they were no longer in Agrestic, living in little boxes.

[Swampguana]

14. Best - Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Worst - MASH

[Bertha Venation]

15. a note about the MASH theme song

It was part of an unforgettable scene in the movie the show was based on.

The first verse:

through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see
that suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please


:hi: SwampGuana

[pokerfan]

20. another note

Mike Altman is the son of the original film's director, Robert Altman, and was 14 years old when he composed the song's lyrics. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the 1980s, Robert Altman said that his son earned more than a million US dollars for co-writing the song while he only made US $70,000 for directing the movie.

[Swampguana]

33. Its a generation thing I think.

When I was a kid, I never liked it and thats the only time I remember hearing it, but I have a new appreciation for it thanks to you and pokerman. I was going by what I remembered hope you guys weren't offended.

[Bertha Venation]

46. oh, hell no, no offense taken at all

I'm sure you're right, it probably is a generational thing.

:)

[BlueIris]

44. Self-delete.

Blech.

[Swede]

16. Twin Peaks had a good theme music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oDuGN6K3VQ


The Love Boat would be a bad one.

[gratuitous]

17. Nobody's mentioned the theme from 60 Minutes? Philistines!

Also, I know all the words to the opening theme of Futurama.

[rbnyc]

18. Best: Damages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg0mKNweLBY

Worst: Facts of Life

[Xipe Totec]

19. Best: Hill Street Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yevI8xCAKuc


Worst: The Monkeys

(I refuse to post a link to that one)

[Brother Buzz]

21. Best: Rawhide - Worst: My Mother The Car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siOZDZ1A0OM

[woo me with science]

29. Rawhide was good!

I wouldn't have thought of that!

[AngryOldDem]

22. Best: (3-way tie): Maude; The Rockford Files; St. Elsewhere

Three-way tie with me.

Worst: Diffrent Strokes (I can think of plenty more, though.)

[rug]

23. Real Time is pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC2dUH8TpW8

Flipper is pretty bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EifnM3pRLdQ&feature=related

[soleiri]

24. The best

is Small Wonder

nothing else can compare.
The rest is tied for worst.

[MrScorpio]

25. UFO and Mission: Impossible - The Best

The Worst: Enterprise

[BlueJazz]

26. Best:Suicide is painless. Worst: 3 's company

[BlueJazz]

27. All you people have missed one of the best: WKRP in Cincinnati

[Lucian]

28. Best: The X-Files

Honorable mention goes to "Angel."

Worst: Friends. I'll have to agree with you on that one.

[Paper Roses]

30. Best: Peter Gunn, Worst: Beverly Hillbillies

[Lionel Mandrake]

31. Best: Perry Mason Theme by Fred Steiner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0tLpqo9jgc

[Politicub]

32. Best: Good Times

Temporary lay offs... good times! Easy credit rip offs... good times! Ain't we lucky we got 'em. Good tiiimesss.

[kwassa]

34. Worst: Boardwalk Empire

The theme is jarring in its complete lack of connection with the subject and era of the film.

[REP]

37. Weird hearing it without the words

[one_voice]

35. best....

The Sopranos, The Wire, True Blood, Good Times, X-Files, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, S.W.A.T. and some others.

Worst..

Friends, Facts of Life, Six Million Dollar Man, Three's Company, Love Boat, Who's the Boss..and many more.

Based on this I think I watch too much t.v.

[Angry Dragon]

36. Worst: Welcome Back Kotter

[Quantess]

38. Best: Mr. Belvedere

Worst: Eight is Enough

[Kat45]

40. Best: Peter Gunn, Sopranos, All in the Family, Beverly Hillbillies, the Jeffersons

I'm probably forgetting some good ones. Worst: Three's Company, The Facts of Life--I'm sure I'm forgetting some of these too.

[Biker13]

41. "Greatest American Hero"

Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself.
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
It should've been somebody else.

Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.

It's like a light of a new day-,
It came from out of the blue.
Breaking me out of the spell I was in,
Making all of my wishes come true-.

Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.


Biker's Old Lady

[redirish28]

42. Loved it in F9/11. My wife has a loves the song as well.

[murielm99]

43. Best: Peter Gunn.

Worst: Quincy. The music is simply terrible and does not relate to a show about a medical examiner in any way.

Neither best nor worst, but funny: Car 54, Where are You?

[BlueIris]

45. (Other) Best: The Practice. Other worst: Growing Pains.

Growing Pains theme was god.awful.

[zen_bohemian]

47. Best- Hawaii 5-0 (the old one)

Worst-All in the family

[NoGOPZone]

48. Best, the Banana Splits. Worst, Different Strokes nt

[flying rabbit]

49. Sanford and son and Magnum PI for the best.

The love boat for the cheesiest.

[Joe Fields]

50. Best: The Wild Wild West...Worst: The Brady Bunch

The theme from Mission Impossible was pretty good, too.

Wild Wild West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFf85RxteI8

Mission Impossible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3A6WgifJo

[Kaleva]

51. Peter Gunn, Rawhide, Bonanaza, The Lone Ranger, Hawaii 5-0,...

Dr. Who, The Beverly Hillbillies, Mission Impossible, My Three Sons, Miami Vice, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and possibly several more for best.

As for worst, if I can't think of the theme right away when the name of the show is mentioned, then the theme qualifies for worst.

[Kaleva]

52. The Family Guy version of Maude for best or worst.

[orleans]

54. top of my head i'd have to say

suicide is painless/mash theme

"Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...

(REFRAIN):

that suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.

I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it's too late, and...

(REFRAIN)

The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.

(REFRAIN)

The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
and to another give my seat
for that's the only painless feat.

(REFRAIN)

The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...

(REFRAIN)

A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
is it to be or not to be
and I replied 'oh why ask me?'

(REFRAIN)

'Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
...and you can do the same thing if you please"

music by johnny mandel
lyrics by mike altman

"Mike Altman (born 1955) is the son of film director Robert Altman.

"At the age of 14 he wrote the lyrics to "Suicide Is Painless", the theme song for his father's 1970 movie, MASH.<1> Speaking on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the 1980s, Robert Altman said that he was paid $70,000 for directing the film, whereas Mike made over a million dollars from the song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Altman

[mykpart]

55. Best: Bosom buddies. Worst: The Nanny or Fresh Prince of Belair

[KT2000]

56. Best: House

Worst: all music played on infomercials.

[wickerwoman]

57. My worst would be Queer as Folk or Dexter. Best is The Sopranos.

They're not horrible in themselves and they're both kind of appropriate to the shows, but both are inevitably cranked up much louder than the show itself, both have irritating sounds and both leave me scrambling for the mute button.

Best is hard to say. I agree about Weeds (Little Boxes) especially when they had a different guest artist for each show. I'd have to go with The Sopranos since it's so perfect it's hard to believe it wasn't written specifically for the show and even when I'm doing a marathon I don't always skip through the opening credits. I'll listen to it again and again.

[BlackHoleSon]

58. The Daily Show theme

by the incredible Bob Mould, formerly of the all-time great American band, Husker Du.

[KamaAina]

67. Its title is "Dog on Fire"

but you probably already knew that. :-)

[Skittles]

59. Best: Hawaii 5-0 Worst: Three's Company

YES

[CBGLuthier]

60. The worst ever, Enterprise. Best.The Persuaders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykLCAfVa410

[NewJeffCT]

65. I'll agree on Enterprise as the worse

damn, that sucked

[JonLP24]

61. I can only think of worst at moment

Weeds (first 3 seasons) and The Wire theme songs. I like The Wire one better.

[charlie and algernon]

64. the best is a tie between Band of Brothers and The Pacific

[KamaAina]

66. Best: Treme.

Honorable mention: Miami Vice, King of the Hill.

[Lindsey]

68. The best for me is WEED's (Little Houses) & Six Feet Under n/t