Favorite TV theme songs

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Just a few of mine:

L.A. Law
Dallas
Barney Miller
The Bob Newhart Show
Trapper John, M.D.
Hart to Hart

I'd have to say that the theme to The X-Files and the theme to Knight Rider are some of my favorites.

LA Law (love that sax solo)

Perfect Strangers:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdFhmRdBtno[/youtube]

Airwolf:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqcQUmKJEK8[/youtube]

The A-Team:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfuaUTH9Y4[/youtube]

Battlestar Galactica (original 1978 series):
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHD1uPVkyk0[/youtube]

Babylon 5 (they had a different theme for each of the five seasons, I like the ones for season 4 and 5 best):


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbKKhEZVVk[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w560Q8ELOg[/youtube]

I thought of some more favorites. None of these have words, either.

The Prisoner - British cult classic and Patrick McGoohan vehicle
Danger UXB - another British series
Home Improvement - I love the beginning: you can't tell where the beat is, and the jazz flute is awesome
Wild Wild West
The A-Team
Agronsky and Company - PBS news discussion show. Theme music was "Procession of the Nobles" from Rimsky-Korsakoff's opera Mlada.
Fantasy Island
and,
The Boston Pops TV show back when Arthur Fiedler was conductor. At one time, their them music was a medley of (mostly) classical hit tunes. I can still remember them:
(i) a fanfare that may or may not have been based on the opening of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess;
(ii) the overture to Rossini's William Tell;
(iii) Beethoven's Ode to Joy melody;
(iv) Bach's Little Fugue in c minor;
(v) the overture to Johann Strauss II's Die Fliedermaus;
(vi) Scott Joplin's The Entertainer;
(vii) john Phillip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever;
(viii) The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night;
(ix) the fanfare of (i)

Nurse Jackie

The Sopranos

This gem will always be my favorite:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC4lYtIW28Y[/youtube]

The song is creative and catchy, plus it's just great to see all the characters running all over the place!

However, I was not a fan of the shortened intros starting season five...

Welcome Back Cotter

Manix

Hawaii Five O

X-Files

Starsky and Hutch

The Avengers

Secret Agent Man

Dragnet (not the original, but the short lived new series in the Nineties which had a techno version of the original Dragnet theme).

Tezuka's 1965 Kimba the White Lion series has a very nice, catchy theme song. The vocals are great and the tune and instrumentals are amazing.

I also really like The Flintstones theme and the theme from the Quick Draw McGraw show.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2Cd9tyUvY[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvD73A9eXXk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0pV2faxne4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko_1dJ_bVHI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOlcvJ8M4ZY[/youtube]