Where everybody knows your name.

I still know the words.

Toody and Muldoon!

I can see the waves breaking

Like you posted, it is easy to remember the visual shots which were perfectly timed to the music. The dancer in the club interspersed with the ocean waves sunset shot is outstanding. And the camera rapidly zeroing in to the hotel balcony as Jack Lord turns his head for a close-up is swag at its best!

It is hard for me to give a second place nod as there have been a lot of good tv show themes through the years. And a lot of those were cop shows like Hawaii Five-0.

They used a Lenny Cohen song…”Who By Fire”.

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I don't know how I never knew that! Thank you.

I liked the little flourish they added in the theme for Tara King.

The opening soft melody and the hard rock n roll close on the closing credits.

Johnny Cash sang it,,,,

I was waiting for that one to come up. Such a jazzy, sexy theme song.

So 1960 and so cool just like Pete

to be the theme from L.A. Law. An instrumental.

I'm pretty sure everyone else associated with the show has passed on.

I had probably heard "Mars" from Holst's "The Planets" by that time, so it wasn't quite my first experience with five beats to the measure -- but at the time, I didn't recognize it as such!

Don’t forget Paul Desmond’s classic, “Take Five,” played with Dave Brubeck.

And the fuse burning down through the credits as we see the different stars on the show as cool!

...."Burning Fuse" which makes perfect sense.

They broke up in 1968, the song was recorded in 1975.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show, “Love Is All Around.”

Perry Mason

The Avengers with Diana Rigg
The Persuaders with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore
Men from Shiloh the final season of what was The Virginian

It did not seem very descriptive but it was very nice.

That was a great series that deserved a better finale.

I loved hearing the flute from the Taxi theme song when I was a kid, especially since it was one of my favorite TV shows at that time.

And we did it our way yes our way making our dreams come true for me and you
😁

Every time I heard that sad, depressing version of "Edelweiss" sung by a wispy female voice, I felt like slitting my wrists. Maybe "favorite" isn't the best word, but definitely the most memorable.

My girlfriend, looking over my shoulder, said, "The Dick van Dyke Show". She, obviously, is less warped than I am (but not by much).

My all-time favorite Beatles song. It was recorded during the Revolver sessions in 1966, but I've read that John Lennon absolutely hated the finished recording. That might be part of the reason it was released in odd places in the U.S., filling space on the Yesterday...And Today album of odds and ends (and infamous for its original "Baby Butcher" cover photo), and used as the opening theme for The Beatles cartoon show that next season.

A beautiful song. Fills me with a feeling of euphoria whenever I hear it. Funny that I first heard it as a kid, while watching Saturday cartoons.

... my parents both worked and I'd sneak in and watch on their color TV in their room. I thought I was the only one to remember that show.

The theme was from "Piano Sonata in A Major" by Franz Schubert.

And perfectly choreographed too

The opening is a musical/dance scene to Five O'Clock World by the The Vogues.

was played locally except for two songs--Turn Around Look at Me, and Five O'Clock World, both went national.

George Maharis 😁. As an adult, “West Wing “. I loved the show so much and the theme fit it so perfectly.

“In the Avenues and Alleyways” from the 1970s British show “The Protectors”.

Thanks alot.

Melodrama meets Punk

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The way the bass starts it out!

Un sanitized movie version

Our son (just walking) at 6pm after NBC News would hear the MASH theme song and would run to the tv and put his hands on the screen until it finished.

Today he is a hospital Chaplain

horrors she saw, but would get get teary eyed and leave the room. I would suppose the TV codes had to clean up what the war deaths and injuries were like.

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