Name your five favorite TV show themes.

Better than "Larry Sanders"? I doubt it.

Many times better, without a doubt. And that's taking nothing away from Larry Sanders, which was great.

The Wire, by the way, is by far the best series I have ever seen, bar none.

Better than "Larry Sanders"? I doubt it. That's on Youtube now, btw.

And Banana Splits Hong Kong Phooey Rhubarb

Only Fools And Horses, lovely and romantic!

The Young Ones- Ooooh That Rick mayalls a bit of alwight!!

The World Of Sport- used to love Dickie Davis.

Countdown- Love the clock ticking down , sounds so sweet,

Top Of The Pops (original), Great beat , get you in the mood for the show, and all the hunky guys dancing, ooooh i'm a card aren't i?

Among many of the other great themes not mentioned thus far:

The Virginian -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwVKcRqAc-0

The Rifleman (closing theme) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkM0NT4YMlo

Tetsuwan Atom -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2btYv8GaXk

But there are few shows' theme songs that can hold a candle to the great themes used in two recent HBO shows:

The Sopranos -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUT07eZoXPw

The Wire -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3t6io0vW-c

The Wire, by the way, is by far the best series I have ever seen, bar none.

Fraggle Rock

oh, and The Littlest Hobo

Monkey 'monkey magic'

'Mash'

TV shows? I prefer other ways to waste my time...

UFO...groove-tastic theme!

Oh four more to go: The Avengers, UFO, Mannix, Wild Wild West.

Without a doubt, Hawaii Five-O. Book him, Dan O.

Columbo.

Star Trek (the original), Dr Who, Kojak, Quincy MD, The Incredible Hulk.

Anyone say the theme to Grizzly Adams?

Brainiac's gonna be hard to top.

Did anyone say the theme from "Mash"? And Sousa for "Monty Python"?

How about the top five j-TV theme songs?

Hey Sarge, Alaska's top newspaper, The Anchorage Daily News, on Sunday endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for the White House, saying it would be too risky to put their Republican state governor Sarah Palin just "one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world.

No that's relevant!!

S

Robinson Crusoe.

Hawaii 5-0, Green Acres, Barney Miller, Charlie Brown Cartoon Theme (the older ones from the 60's), The Addams Family

"I Love Lucy"!!! clean comedy that still makes me laugh!

Knight Rider!

Hey Sarge, Alaska's top newspaper, The Anchorage Daily News, on Sunday endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for the White House, saying it would be too risky to put their Republican state governor Sarah Palin just "one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world."

I Dream of Jeannie is up there.

The Jeffersons and Welcome Back Kotter

Fat Albert was a goodie also.

But I do have to say that Mission Impossible is definitely up there.

S

I hope we can see a list of the top five themes overall.

Match of the Day - British football programme - De-de-DER-de-de-de-de-de

Grandstand - BBC's much-missed Saturday sport show. Had it has my ring tone for about a year.

benny hills

1 Andy Griffith Show 2 X-Files 3 Barney Miller 4 Beverly Hillbillies 5 Samford and Son

Some nice variety here.

I like Miami Vice.

In no particular order: Hawaii 5-0, WonderWoman (series with Lynda Carter), Cheers (that show with Ted Danson in a bar, the song was so nice), The Muppet Show (when Jim Henson was around), The Twilight Zone!

I have more favorites, but well... These are just five of them XD.

Brady Bunch

Twin Peaks, The Avengers, This Week in Baseball (80s version), ABC Monday Night Football (early 70s version), The Rockford Files

I meant the 1977 version of This Week in Baseball

I hate the 80s version. Sounds like music for pilgrims floating over to America.

Twin Peaks, The Avengers, This Week in Baseball (80s version), ABC Monday Night Football (early 70s version), The Rockford Files

SHAFT, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, DRAGNET, 77 SUNSET STRIP, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW

Love Boat Addams Family The Munsters Batman The Jeffersons

Steptoe & Son

Only Fools & Horses

Beverly Hillbillies

Friends

Touch of Frost

more or less but maybe not exactly in that order.

In no particular order:

-Taxi (Bob James' "Angela") -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -Barney Miller -Mission Impossible -SWAT

I just realised, I completely misread the question - there is no stipulation for the themes to be American. New list: Dr Who, The Water Margin, Monkey (or Sayuki here), Tizwaz and the theme from the cricket (Booker T and the MGs' Soul Limbo).

Dr. Who isn't American. Taxi, Toots Thielemans' Sesame Street, Hill Street Blues, The Green Hornet, Flash Gordon (the old 30's serial - the movie theme rocks, but it's a movie so doesn't count).

The Mary Tyler Moore Show Hawai 5-0 Good Times Welcome Back Kotter The Facts Of Life (as sung by Al Bundy)

The Dr Who theme used to scare me. That had no place being on TV before 9:00pm.

Peter Gunn

Happy Days Laverne & Shirley Love Boat Rawhide Batman

...plus The A Team.

The Dr Who theme - every version is great.

beverly hillbillies loved the lyrics,green acres and petticoat junction always humoured me when I heard them

All in the Family, pure gold. Taxi had a great jazz song as an opener as did Night Court.

Sanford and Son Brady Bunch Gilligans Island Star Trek (old school) Bugs Bunny Fresh Prince

"Mission: Impossible," "Hawaii 5-0," "The Addams Family," "Bonanza," "Ironside." There are so many memorable scores and theme songs from the 1960s and 1970s. Quincy Jones did a lot of them.

Does anyone remember that CD collection of television's greatest hits that came out in the late 1980s and early 1990s? It was fun to play it at parties and trivial pursuit. It had hundreds of themes from the early days of the TV up until that time. Very nostalgic. Current TV themes don't seem to have the same energy. But maybe in 20 years, today's TV show themes will be remembered just as fondly as those of the '60s and '70s.