Best TV Music Score

Oh the Huge Vanity | 1/26/2013 | Me

[Mike Darancette]

No Politics here.

What were the best music score for a TV Show/Series?

I'll go first

Victory at Sea Cosmos The Civil War Memphis Beat

[dirtboy]

The Equalizer

[GreenLanternCorps]

161 posts and no one has mentioned Space 1999?

Awesome theme...

[Mike Darancette]

Victory at Sea not just a catchy intro tune but a complete body of work.

[Fiji Hill]

Here are some of my all-time television theme music:

• Blue Star (from Medic)

• In My Garden (from The Voice of Firestone)

• If I Could Tell You (from The Voice of Firestone)

• Avant de Quitter Ces Lieux (from Lassie)

• Laugh and Be Happy (from Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade)

• When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain (from The Kate Smith Hour)

• Bandstand Boogie (from American Band Stand)

• Puffin' Billy (from Captain Kangaroo)

[Fiji Hill]

One I overlooked:

"Galop" (aka "Cavalry Charge") from Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" (from The Lone Ranger)

[hifidelity]

Can’t believe no one mentioned this yet...The Jetsons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjy-fnsmWR4

A couple other favorites:

Gerry Anderson’s U.F.O.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TQUdcYk82U
(Along with the obligatory girls walking by in tight futuristic outfits)
The Rookies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXfOuDGEAIE
That Girl - great orchestral arrangement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vx4xntslGA
Since I’m a bass player I have to throw in Barney Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-DmJ9H3ng
Another great score
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721Te40h4vg

[Errant]

found myself staying at his hotel in Santa Barbara

Wish I'd known that when spending some time there. Would have done the same.

Fess Parker - Archive Interview Part 1 of 7

[Errant]

“Go Hoss!!!!”

He was also a very comical actor. One of the funniest episodes was Hoss and the Leprechauns

[Poison Pill]

Peter Gunn. When you hear a good show theme like Hawaii Five-O or Barney Miller, you think of the show. Peter Gunn transcended the show.

[Errant]

Oops, let's try this again: Hoss and the Leprechauns

[mylife]

Cool!

[widdle_wabbit]

‘Near You’ by Francis Craig and Kermit Goell is very good...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZLpAMnclQ

Texaco Star Theater and Mr Television, Milton Berle.

Mr. Television

In 1948, NBC decided to bring Texaco Star Theater from radio to television, with Berle as one of the show’s four rotating hosts.

Francis Craig and Kermit Goell’s Near You became the theme song that closed Berle’s TV comedy shows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Berle#Career
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Peter Gunn, here is a Roy Buchanan take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFoHHXdBoM

Roy Buchanan, at home and on the road.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ZfQ47sISo

[Let's Roll]

Don’t think as a tv series but it was the theme for the old Marlboro commercials.

Those great looking men (I’m a girl), fantastic scenery and that music ? No wonder “they” were so obsessed with getting cigarette commercials off the air!

[real saxophonist]

Yeah, man - UFO! Here's another one from Barry Gray: Space:1999

Derek Wadsworth took over for the second season.

I had a few email conversations with Derek. He always downplayed his importance from that series, focusing instead on the children's books he wrote. Have to agree with him there. But he was really cool. Always answered his emails personally.

[Vaduz]

The Untouchables

[Errant]

Don’t think as a tv series...

It were mam, honest! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lofGX_Y25Ms

[BlueLancer]

NORTH AND SOUTH, BOOK II

[TexasTransplant]

Not a TV show but a mini series ... Lonesome Dove

TT

[Rebel_Ace]

Firefly, Ballad of Serenity
Barney Miller

[real saxophonist]

The Ballad of Serenity