Greatest TV Theme Songs

[Elvis 3375]

3 hours ago, Elvis said:

This is pretty cool....

 

 

 

 

 

Also, I bet my son that I would buy him a red 328 if he learned to play that perfectly. 

[mininghorn88 2298]

Bewitched 

Leave it to Beaver

[59 Burst 434]

Barney Miller opening base line. To this day that lick is a beast.

[DalTxHornFan 3118]

You guys are doing this all wrong:

 

[Richard Kimball 1499]

On 4/16/2021 at 12:02 AM, Butch Had Not said:

 

Never cared for the show, but this was one of the all time best openings. It was worth watching just to see Heather Thomas come through those swinging doors in the blue bikini. 

It's also is a reminder of how terrific some of the action sequences in movies were before everything went CGI. 

It's two-fold. First, those stunts were dangerous, and when you watch stuff like the guy hanging onto the helicopter, you know it's real. A guy really had to get on a helicopter and hang onto the runner. Saw a sequence recently where they showed before and after on a CGI scene with Supergirl and the Flash. in the CGI scene, Supergirl flies out of the scene like a bolt of lightning, while the Flash uses his arms to create a wind storm. In the before CGI sequence, Supergirl jumps about a foot off the ground while the Flash waves his arms around. You know nothing is at risk in these CGI sequences. 

The second thing is that it's a different kind of actor and special effects person doing the scenes. The old guys like Hal Needham were a little bit outlaw and also incredible risk takers. The new people are mostly in front of green screens on a set and the special effects people sit in front of computers for hours. It doesn't seem like they have an understanding of anything outside of the studio. 

Edited November 30, 2022 by Richard Kimball
typo

[atomheartbevo 89816]

Dynasty.  Every band nerd kid that played trumpet in the 1980s/early 90s wanted to learn it and saw it as justification for learning the trumpet while their cooler friends were learning percussion or guitar.

 

[Texzilla58 4744]

Great themes above, no doubt, Peter Gunn so cool, but this old geezer is partial to the late 1950’s WB Westerns, in no particular order:
Maverick
Cheyenne
the Rifleman
Bronco Lane
Sugarfoot
Bat Masterson
the Rebel

You left out a few…

Have Gun Will Travel
Branded
A bit later, Bonanza

Riders in the Sky did a great parody of Have Gun Will Travel called Pallindrome. Brilliance as almost every line is a pallindrome fit into a little western scene.

[Nole-4-Life 804]

On 9/1/2020 at 5:16 PM, HouTex said:

Magnum P.I.

Especially this part...

[HouTex 1894]

22 minutes ago, Nole-4-Life said:

Especially this part...

Yes.  Selleck’s expression was perfect.  

[Crapinon 2276]

The extended version...

 

[Rip76 4963]

 

This automatically puts me on the floor in front of the TV when I was about 9.