Best TV series theme songs of all time

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I can remember well the theme music, although I was not old enough to stay up and watch.
 
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When that show was being aired, most of the school girls I knew liked Davey Jones. Most of the boys thought Peter Tork or Mickey Dolenz were the coolest.

I heard that the Monkees were an American attempt to copy the Beatles’. Not sure if it is true, but that’s what I heard in some of the media.
 
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One of my favorite lines from that show was when Horshack said he asked a girl out and she told him, “Arnold, if you were the last man on earth, I’d start dating trees.”
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Kind of reminds me of the exchange in ‘Dumb and Dumber’ where Lloyd asks Mary if he had a chance of dating her and she replies something to the effect of “like one in a million”, to which he replies, “So I do have a chance then!”.
 
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Surprised I haven’t seen Hawaii Five-O mentioned. Here’s a comparison of the intros of the original series and the newer series.

 
Ah, the 80’s. Where the theme songs were better than the shows they were attached to:

 
The new version was pretty much junk, but I remember when my husband and I went to Hawaii I was all excited to find that our hotel suite looked directly onto that building where Jack Lord was filmed on the roof. The building had seen better days, unfortunately.
 
It’s a classic one, and one that probably helped bring attention (and tourists) to Hawaii back in the day.

When my wife suggested we go to Hawaii on vacation a few years ago, I jokingly told her that it probably wasn’t a safe place to visit if all the crime I see weekly on ‘Hawaii Five-O’ is any indication.
 
Big butter bowl of Lucky Charms cereal and this show every Saturday morning. And my mom would wonder why I was such a spaz the rest of the day 😏
 
I was too young to appreciate the Monkees when they were on prime time and then on Saturday mornings, though I did like their theme song and I find their schtick interesting/ funny now. Agree that Nesmith was definitely the smartest and most interesting one.

I did like this short-lived bad imitation of the Monkees though. It came along some years later when I was just about hitting puberty.

 
If somebody already suggested it, then I apologize for reposting, but I think The Dukes of Hazard has a great opening theme song.


And of course you can’t forget The Greatest American Hero

 
I will go with…

Theme to Mannix:


And undeniably, the theme to the “Rockford Files”, released as a single:


And an acknowledged classic, beyond the TV show, “Peter Gunn”:


“Perry Mason”, “Courtship of Eddie’s Father”, “Rawhide”, of course, there are plenty more.

Oh, can’t forget these:


 
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From the UK, here is a very sweet song, very Baroque, I think they speak in limericks…the TV show was called Follyfoot I believe, the Settlers doing “The Lightning Tree”…


LA Law above to, good choice.
 
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I remember this show had the John Birch Society neighbor who saw Commies under every bush.
Sort of the 1970s version of Dale Gribble from King of the Hill.

 
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Thank you for sharing that, Victoria33. I was hoping that a few people would share some theme songs from countries outside the U.S. as well. That is a pretty song.
 
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For whatever reason, I don’t remember ‘Wait Till You Father Gets Home’ and have no valid excuse for not remembering.
 
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