What is your favorite tv theme song/composition?

Since many on Audiogon are baby boomers television must have been a big part of your childhood. In grade school my mother allowed me to stay up until 10pm to watch Barnaby Jones. She knew I wouldn't make it past the great Jerry Goldsmith theme. My current favorite is the dark and haunting John Rubinstein composition for the ABC drama Family.

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eddiejay Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3 posts 04-10-2011 at 05:29pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Wow...good question. It would be a three way tie: The Beverly Hillbillies The Addams Family Theme song to The Ozzie & Harriet Show
maxnewid Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 449 posts 04-10-2011 at 05:19pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete What an entertaining thread! Great suggestions. I agree with Hawaii Five-O and Andy Griffith. How about going way back: Batman, The Monkees, Lost in space, and the Twilight Zone.
tocchet Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 10 posts 04-10-2011 at 05:12pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete It would have to be the theme song from Sanford and Son.The Streebeater by Quincy Jones.It's as good as theme songs get.I smile every time I hear it,suited the show perfect.
jerico Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 131 posts 04-10-2011 at 05:02pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Dukes of Hazzard theme song ("The Good Ol' Boys), courtesy of Waylon Jennings!
erikt Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 268 posts 04-10-2011 at 04:30pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Johnny Quest
cyclonicman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 693 posts 04-10-2011 at 04:30pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The theme song for the Late Show- The Syncopated clock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJOdbGziVg
rcrerar Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 215 posts 04-10-2011 at 04:02pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Rockford Files
mofimadness Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,987 posts 04-10-2011 at 03:23pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The Addams Family.
bianchi27 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 189 posts 04-10-2011 at 03:19pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete second version of the barney miller theme; about 40 seconds of some really cool stuff starting right off with the base intro. second all time would be the munsters theme
vegasears Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,173 posts 04-10-2011 at 02:58pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Northern Exposure & the original Battlestar Galactica.
ncarv Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 983 posts 04-10-2011 at 02:46pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Rawhide by Frankie Laine: Rawhide theme song
jaybo Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,478 posts 04-10-2011 at 02:28pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete theme from the andy griffith show...there is a version with lyrics as well. a masterpiece.
baka1969 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 101 posts 04-10-2011 at 01:21pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hey Michael, Remember the "Hogan's Heroes" theme? :)
sufentanil Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 782 posts 04-10-2011 at 12:30pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete My all-time favorite TV theme show is Hawaii Five-O. Here are some of my runner-ups: Airwolf Miami Vice MASH (mentioned above with "Suicide is Painless") Hunter Hill Street Blues (Man, I'm really dating myself!) Michael
onhwy61 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,218 posts 04-10-2011 at 10:33am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Tom Waits "Way Down In the Hole" by various artists in "The Wire".
baka1969 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 101 posts 04-10-2011 at 08:59am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete "Suicide is Painless"

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