Favorite TV Themes/Openings

[I Am A Swede]

 

Maybe it could have run longer. Whether it should have though...that is a different question. Personally I felt that it had run too long. That being said, I'm still slightly peeved that we never got a resolution to the question whether Oscar Blaketon, one of two original characters remaining at the end, had survived being impaled on a pitch-fork in the last episode. 

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And yes, the show never left the 1960s, even though it stretched believablility beyond the ridiculous. 

[DRW50]

That sucks. It must make you feel like even watching the show was a waste of time. 

[I Am A Swede]

Frankly, the last few years it almost was a waste of time.  

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But I often have a hard time letting go of shows that I once loved, and I really loved this show.

[I Am A Swede]

Reviving this old (yet delightful) thread again....

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I've been watching a re-run of this show during the summer, and it's such a sweet little show and it gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. None of the cynicism or bleak worldview that is so common in tv-shows nowadays. I wish there were more shows like this on tv now.

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[I Am A Swede]

Yes! I finally found a good version of this beautiful theme on Youtube. 

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It's the theme music from the mini-series "A Woman of Substance", based on the book by Barbara Taylor Bradford.

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[I Am A Swede]

Funny what you find on Youtube when you're not even looking.....

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Like this, the delightfully cheerful theme song to an old 1990s favourite; "The House of Eliott".      Created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, who also created "Upstairs, Downstairs"

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[ChitHappens]

Mash

Hill Street Blues

The Jeffersons 

[Forever8]

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[I Am A Swede]

I love the opening and theme music to the new "All Creatures Great and Small". It is different than the original one, yet also pays homage to it.

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[Paul Raven]

How many TV themes made the charts?

Some I recall hitting US Top 40

SWAT

Rockford Files

Laverne & Shirley

Baretta

Happy Days

Any more? I'm sure there were many released as singles that didn't make the Top 100.

[All My Shadows]

Two just off the top of my head are Dr. Kildare and Angie.

[Maxim]

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One of my favorites. So iconic.

[te.]

The X-Files theme wasn't successful in the US, but hit the top ten in a bunch of markets (notably, #2 in the UK). DJ Dado also had a remix of it that was successful around the world.

 

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[janea4old]

Amber Tamblyn (Emily Quartermaine of GH) starred in the series "Joan of Arcadia" in which she played a teen encountering "god" who appeared in all genders/ages/races/philosophies.

The show aired 2003-2005.

The theme song was a song originally recorded by Joan Osborne in 1995.
She re-recorded it for the TV show.

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?
 

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The story of the writing of the song
 

Edited July 27 by janea4old

[Contessa Donatella]

I dearly loved JOAN OF ACADIA!!!