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What is the greatest television theme song?
March 24, 2022 | me

Posted on 03/24/2022 6:55:14 PM PDT by Beowulf9

I kind of lean toward Peter Gunn, but there are so many.

Mancini wrote it, btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdAuDHL9E4


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To: libh8er

Thank you! Yes! And how about Battlestar Galactica? The original series theme by Ted Philips. Bear McCreary revamped it for the remake.


241 posted on 03/24/2022 8:50:02 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Beowulf9

The Prisoner (start and end of show).
The Addams Family.
Captain Kangaroo (1960s)
Johnny Quest.


242 posted on 03/24/2022 8:50:56 PM PDT by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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To: OKSooner

Peter Gunn, hands down.

Written by the late, great Henri Mancini.


243 posted on 03/24/2022 8:52:21 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Fireball XL-5? You remember that one, too? One of my favorites. Boy that was a long time ago…


244 posted on 03/24/2022 8:55:23 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: NFHale; Beowulf9

Jonny Quest - by Hoyt Curtin. I own the limited edition release by La La Land Records. I used a special program to create pseudo-stereo. It sounds superb.

My other nominee - which I also own by La La Land Records - is: The Wild Wild West - by Richard Markowitz. It is positively symphonic and cinematic.

I realize some purists object to pseudo-stereo of mono, but I do so not just for the stereo effect itself: Separating sounds along the stage makes the nuances more discrete; subtleties become audible that tend to be buried in what I call the “logjam effect”: all frequencies piled on top of each other, and then further muddied by being doubled in two mono channels, creating a phantom center signal.

Modern systems do not play true mono. There were true hi-fi mono systems back in the 1950s and 1960s. They sound cleaner than two identical stereo signals coming from two spaced stereo speakers: point source versus two overlapping identical sound sources with timing distortion depending upon where one is sitting. (One could make a true mono hi-fi system, of course; most do not know to do so, or do not want to do the work.)


245 posted on 03/24/2022 8:56:15 PM PDT by YogicCowboy (I know what I like, and like what I know.)
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To: Beowulf9
I liked the Sopranos theme song. Never watched a single episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJpNmYeooQE

246 posted on 03/24/2022 8:57:06 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: All

The theme fromTaxi

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07tYdd7drSE


247 posted on 03/24/2022 8:57:27 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: BipolarBob

Gilligan


248 posted on 03/24/2022 8:57:41 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Lol, a “Modern Stone Age Family”

They had talent!


249 posted on 03/24/2022 8:59:46 PM PDT by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Thanks for bringing up Victory at Sea. Absolutely one of the best. I think it won an Emmy, back when that meant something!


250 posted on 03/24/2022 9:00:05 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Beowulf9

Can’t say, but quite possible.


251 posted on 03/24/2022 9:00:52 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: Tell It Right

Oh, I actually liked Enterprise, except it had the all time worst ending two episodes on TV. Maybe game of thrones beat it for bad rushed endings.

I particularly liked how the ship had issues, the plot line of evil insect aliens, and how the Vulcans were brought along.


252 posted on 03/24/2022 9:01:05 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: CletusVanDamme

“The Prisoner (start and end of show).”
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Excellent!


253 posted on 03/24/2022 9:02:25 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: Beowulf9

My Mother the Car…


254 posted on 03/24/2022 9:03:15 PM PDT by MHT
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To: rlmorel
The best rendition of the theme song from The Jetson was the AOL advertisement from 1996.

The Jetsons AOL Commercial (1996)

-PJ

255 posted on 03/24/2022 9:06:52 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: TChad

Treat yourself. It’s that good.


256 posted on 03/24/2022 9:07:10 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: Zuriel

Yeah, it was great! And looking back at it now, it’s STILL impressive!


257 posted on 03/24/2022 9:08:12 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Beowulf9
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuPrfX2I8w

258 posted on 03/24/2022 9:08:17 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: Beowulf9

A horse is a horse of course of course...


259 posted on 03/24/2022 9:09:01 PM PDT by drjimmy
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To: SAMWolf

If you’ve ever wondered…

Ya


260 posted on 03/24/2022 9:09:32 PM PDT by stanne
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