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TV's Top Tunes: With Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé, The Fontane Sisters, Ray Anthony. Musical show featuring a top artist of the day plus top bands.
English. Tracklist: 1. Theme From Ben Casey. 2. Medley: Theme From The Dick Van Dyke Show / Dobie. 3. General Electric Theatre Logo. 4. 87th Precinct. 5. Theme From Route 66. 6. Medley: Theme From Andy Griffith / My Three Sons The Theme From The Television Series Featuring Fred MacMurray.
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- David Browne,Sean T. Collins,Jon Dolan,Elisabeth Garber-Paul,Andy Greene,Joe Gross,Tatiana Krisztina,Michaelangelo Matos,Noel Murray,Mosi Reeves,Alan Sepinwall,Rob Sheffield
- ‘WandaVision’ Several shows on this list changed their theme songs over the years. WandaVision changed its theme song for every episode — twice in one episode, in fact!
- ‘Terriers’ Some theme songs wind up long outliving the show they were in, like Harry Nillson’s “Best Friend” from The Courtship of Eddie’s Father. Sometimes, though, a great song gets doomed to obscurity right along with the short-lived show it introduced.
- ‘Three’s Company’ The Boogie Nights of sitcom themes. Three’s Company is the hijinks of three swingin’ singles sharing a 1970s Santa Monica, California, party pad: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, and Suzanne Somers.
- ‘Rescue Me’ The Denis Leary firefighter drama needed intro music to match the anguished pain of its FDNY characters in the aftermath of 9/11. Enter garage rockers the Von Bondies, whose “C’mon, C’mon” was the exact kind of furious howl the series needed.
- 2004-2007, 2014, 2019; “We Used to Be Friends” by The Dandy Warhols
- 1994-2004; “I’ll Be There For You” by The Rembrandts
- Ironside:1967-1975 by Quincy Jones
- 2002-2003; “The Ballad of Serenity” by Joss Whedon
- 1997-2003; by Nerf Herder
- 1993-1994; by Randy Edelman
- 1981-1986; “The Unknown Stuntman” by Dave Somerville
- 1978-1991, Revived 2012-2014; by Jerrold Immel
- 1964-1966; by Jack Marshall
- 1978-1982, 1991-1993; by Tom Wells and Hugh Wilson with Steve Carlisle Vocals
Uploaded to YouTube by Veronica Mars This 2003 Dandy Warhols track was both bracingly of-the-moment and completely appropriate for the Kristen Bell-led teen detective show. Veronica Marsran three seasons, had a film continuation released in 2014, and will return for a multi-episode run on Hulu this year.
Uploaded to YouTube by alliemaster93 We’re practically legally obligated to include this one. The Rembrandts co-wrote the original minute-long version of the tune with Friends producers David Crane and Marta Kauffman, Kaufman’s husband Michael Skloff, and musician Allee Willis. The song became so popular, with DJs playing it on the radio, that the ...
Uploaded to YouTube by TeeVees Greatest Raymond Burr headlined two much-loved dramas with highly regarded theme songs. Legal drama Perry Mason’s theme had a jazzy swagger that befitted the character borne from Erle Stanley Gardner’s detective stories (some of which ran in The Saturday Evening Post). Ironsidefeatured Burr’s wheelchair-bound crime so...
Uploaded to YouTube by Mikey Mo The first Joss Whedon show on the list, the space western Fireflyboasted a theme composed by the writer himself. It was performed by Sonny Rhodes, and remarkably infused the sp...
Uploaded to YouTube by Krasus Joss Whedon gets a lot of credit for revitalizing genre TV. His first hit, based on the film that he wrote, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, came packed with a great theme. It starts with a nod to the old Universal horror days with a fugue on organ. Then it rips into four-on-the-floor post-punk surf-rock, turning the old them...
Uploaded to YouTube by 6201Films This weird western starring Bruce Campbell ran for only 27 episodes in the mid-1990s. However, it earned a cult following and is fondly remembered by TV critics. Incredibly, the theme lives on, having been appropriated by NBC for its Olympics coverage since 1996.
Uploaded to YouTube by oneforperry Producer Glen A. Larson wanted to develop a show featuring a stunt man. Coincidentally, his friend (and frontman of The Diamonds) Dave Somerville had written a song about a stunt man for a show that never went forward. Inspired by the song, Larson created the character of Colt Seavers, a stunt man and bounty hunte...
Uploaded to YouTube by TeeVees Greatest Jerrold Immel broke into television composing scores for Gunsmoke in the early 1970s. He would go on to write the theme for Dallas and score 55 episodes of the show. He also created themes for other shows like Dallas spin-off Knots Landing and the third season of Walker, Texas Ranger. The Dallastheme, an impr...
Uploaded to YouTube by POP COLORTURE The surf-inspired theme for monster comedy The Munstersreceived a Grammy nomination in 1965. Some readers might recognize the song from Fall Out Boy’s 2015 song “Uma Thurman,” which used the theme as the source for its primary sample.
Uploaded to YouTube by Classic Sitcoms This theme joins The Fall Guytheme (and many others) in expressly describing what the show is about. In this case, it mainly reflects the story of station program director Andy Travis (Gary Sandy). After a decent run on CBS, the show became enormously popular in syndication. It was revived for a short run in t...
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