T.V shows have great theme songs. Here are my 5 favorite.
5. A-TEAM
4. MIAMI VICE
3. RIPTIDE
2. MAGNUM, p.i.
1. SIMON and SIMON
November 1985
Another Edition of my 5 favorite T.V. show themes
5. Riptide
4. Dallas
3. Night Court
2. Magnum, p.i.
1. Miami Vice
The boys of Riptide - just happy to be here.
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i can't believe you watched "Simon & Simon," let alone grooved along to the theme song. i just listened to the theme on my iTunes, and i guess the fact that it seems pretty boring is just an indication of what a different world it is in 2007. but the "Night Court" theme was - and remains - righteous.
Save A-Team, these are lame themes...
No WKRP (beging or closing), no Cheers, no Greatest American Hero? Puleeze.....
Also no Tales of The Gold Monkey??? That theme and show ruled!
i make no excuses. what can i say?
although i do think i was limiting myself to current shows. not sure when greatest am. hero or golden monkey aired. i loved both of those shows but for the life of me i can't remember the golden monkey theme.
yeah, no krp or cheers is a travesty. although when exactly was krp on? too lazy to check all these dates.
"Bring 'Em Back Alive" with Bruce Boxleitner kicked the butt of "Tales of the Gold Monkey". Can't say if it had a better theme tune though.
And if you disagree with me you are probably one of odd those people who thought that "Airwolf" was better than "Blue Thunder" (or that the Redskins are better than the Patriots).
you must have been limiting yourself to current shows cause the greatest american hero is the best theme ever and it ran from 81-83. also a big karaoke crowd-pleaser.
jamie, what's wrong with simon and simon? i recently watched a rerun on some channel that also airs nightrider and the a-team. maybe the "action channel"? i might have made that up.
my other favorites include: hill street blues, l.a. law (which we performed in middle school band...mr. mayo, whoo!), growing pains, what's happening, sanford and son and good times. good times might be second to GAH.
Weasel to say Bring em back alive was better than tales of the gold monkey is straight retarded...
Go colts!!!!!!
Pretty much every theme song people seem to like was composed by Mike Post. In addition to composing such classic small screen gems as Believe it or Not, the LA Law and Hill Street Blues themes, Rockford Files, etc., he also wrote the theme song to BLOSSOM of all shows. Weird. In reviewing his oeuvre on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006236/), I realized that pretty much the only themes I love with my heart that he has no affiliation with are Mr. Belvedere and St. Elsewhere.
Just as a side note, I miss the days when the opening credits really meant something. Nowadays, the main titles just seem sort of incidental, whereas when I was a younger lass, I used to get really amped every week to watch the opening credits for China Beach (Reflections) and Tour of Duty (Paint it Black). Also, bring back the Nam shows – I loved them!
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"Allroy Saves" was the most over-rated album of 1990.*
As for "Tour of Duty" Ms. CLC, the greatness of the title sequence was in inverse proportion to the suckiness of the show. Perhaps it was forever spoiled for me by my dad intoning "They are just begging for a mortar round standing like that" whenever the final silhouette shot of them on a ridge line rolled.
beth,
someone disagrees with your sentiment that no one cares about the opening credits anymore.
everybody talks praise about mike post but don't forget about pete carpenter... it was the team of mike post and pete carpenter till he died in 1987... rest his soul.
Weasel was your Dad in Nam? B/c my Dad was and he loved Tour of Duty! Now if he was and hated it I dig...And to slag my dad his fave Nam movie was Hamburger Hill so what the hell does he know...
My fave sequence in ToD was when they were escaping enemy fire and hightailing back to the Birds while Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower blared..."We gotta find some way outta here, said the joker to the thief" If that wasnt good TV I dont know what is!
Also weasel Airwolf def killed blue thunder as far as TV shows go...three words: Jan Micheal Vincent...nuff said.
ALSO weasel...are you dogging Descendents/All? c'mon dude those cats are legends!!!! All relocated to Missouri as a band so they could be centrally located for touring?!?! How cool is that?
Nomination for best series of albums from TV Show: Kids from Fame series..."High Fidelity..HI F-I-D-E-L-T-Y Hi" "Star maker, dream taker" "Desda desda desdamona!"
Chris, the British stayed out of Vietnam; we thought the Viet Cong were doing fine on their own.
From his side of the coin, my dad's favorite movie about Norn Iron is "Cal", which still holds up today thanks to the lovely Helen Mirren. Alas, weekly TV shows about the Troubles, the Falklands and Cyprus conflicts are few and far between so he has had to reserve his vaguely expert opinions for shows like ToD.
The All thing (and all of this goading): you know I'm pulling your leg, right?
Airwolf's JM Vincent pales alongside Blue Thunder's trio of Bubba Smith, Dick Butkus, and Dana Carvey for real though.
i forgot about Mr. Belvedere and St. Elsewhere. i love those, too!
BaChima T'ror - You're absolutely right. Mike Post - Pete Carpenter = no Rockford Files theme, among others.
Weasey - Tour of Duty was a very bad show with very amazing opening credits. Though if given the chance, I'm sure I would watch eight or so hours of it in a row. I had a crush on the Lt.
Listo - I've never seen the Wire, but if it has a good opening sequence, then I'm IN.
Weasel obviously I know about the leg pulling....but I kind of want to see a Falklands war show/movie...I never knew what the hell that was about! When I was kid I was like "Please thats not a real war"
I forgot about Dana Carvey, he had quite a career as a straightman pre SNL..anyone remember him in that Kurt Douglas/Burt Lancaster 80's movies?
All Rule, China Beach sucks
hater larry
Chris;
I've been looking for them half-heartely for years and have yet to find them over here, but both "An Ungentlemanly Act" and "Tumbledown" are good BBC movies on the little war in the South Atlantic. The first tells of the Argentinian invasion and is quite light-hearted in the British war movie tradition, while the second is much darker and stars that nice chap from Amanda Byrne's What A Girl Wants.
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