You woke up this morning Got yourself a BEST TV THEME TUNES POLL NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION gun (End date - 12/11/12

Top Cat

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Sweeney
Sorry! (find, if you can, Matt Berry covering it)
Blake's 7
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
It's A Knockout
Are You Being Served?
The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin
The LWT music (aka "here they come now, Morecambe and Wise")

(haha, xposted on 3 while typing)

Mickey Mouse Club

Home Improvement
COPS (Inner Circle - Bad Boys)

Ask The Family ("Acka Raga" by Joe Harriott & John Mayer)
Weekend World ("Nantucket Sleighride")

The New Zoo Revue, mostly because I had the hots for Emily Peden and her miniskirts.

MST3K Love theme (end credits song)

Chappelle's Show

Brit kids show nostalgia section:

Fingerbobs
Here Come the Double Deckers
Animal Magic

Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
Kung Fu
Mastermind
Randall and Hopkirk Deceased (1969 version)
The Persuaders!
The Protectors
The Film Programme aka Film 72,73 etc (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free by Billy Taylor)

The Daily Show ("Dog On Fire," written by Bob Mould, performed by They Might Be Giants)
The Colbert Report ("Baby Muggles," written and performed by Cheap Trick)

The Great Space Coaster

The Bill!

Tales of the Crashingly ObviousUnexpected

Jem
Beverly Hills Teens (this outdoes Jem imo)

The Mysterious Cities of Gold

Wonder Woman
The Fall Guy

I never knew Colbert's theme had a name, and that it is "Baby Muggles".

beverly hills teens is definitely in the "way better than the show" category, but no way does it beat Jem!

MacGuyver

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

Damn Doc, you may be right. Her theme IS truly outrageous. xp

Six Feet Under
Pee-Wee's Playhouse

"Linus and Lucy"
Transformers

Bucky O Hare

Does Linus and Lucy count?

Yeah, not sure that's really a "theme." This, maybe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pao_SasEs1k

oops, this is the one i was thinking of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3YGbD75Lo

OH GOD WAIT THE BUGS BUNNY/ROADRUNNER HOUR!!!!

"Overture, curtain, lights! This is it, we'll hit the heights . . ."

yeeeeeeeeessssss

is it just from a charlie brown christmas or was it used on just the normal cartoon?

hmm, Match Of The Day?
if you're in two minds, I'd say don't nominate. However...

The Big Match

(I forever sequentially associate the LWT jingle and 'The Big Match' theme tune. Ah, 70s nostalgia.)

Phil D, you read my mind. Was just about to post that.

ON WITH THE SHOW, THIS IS IIIIIIIIT!

Dexter

are we just voting for the song itself or also the video that goes along with it? Because that makes a pretty big difference for the Dexter theme song

I would nominate Firefly if its opening theme was the Band's "Ain't No More Cane" (and it is whenever I watch it; cumbersome, but worth it).

yah, great opening credits on Dexter
xp

Callan

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

So, Road Runner has his own theme right? "Road Runner! The coyote's after you!" Or is that just a part of the "On with the show this is it" theme of the Bugs Bunny Road Runner hour?

I think that was a separate song/theme.

There were several incarnations:

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show

ABC began re-running The Bugs Bunny Show on Saturday mornings in August 1962. The series was rerun in color beginning in 1965, and remained on ABC until September 1968. At this point, the series switched to CBS, where it was combined with The Road Runner Show (which had aired on CBS since 1966) to create The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour.[5] The standard Bugs Bunny Show opening and the announcer's introduction of Bugs Bunny ("that Oscar winning rabbit!") were directly followed by the rabbit's saying, "...and also starring my fast feathered friend, the Road Runner", after which The Road Runner Show's theme was played.

I believed "Linus and Lucy" appeared in some of the various Peanuts specials, but I'm not sure about the cartoon series. And I wasn't entirely sure if we were counting things like Television specials.

Cowboy Bebop "Tank!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6jCJZEFIto

There have been enough Charlie Brown specials over the years for it count, I'd think.

So re the Looney Tunes, er, tunes, in order to give each character their due, is it cool to nom this way:

The Bugs Bunny Show
The Road Runner Show

cos I totally think of them as distinct without having one contained in the other the way the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner hour/show does.

Can I vote for the Law And Order "DUN DUN" noise as well as the theme tune?

petticoat junction

Mad Men

thank god no-one has nommed the benny hill show yet