Last weekend there was a Brady Bunch marathon and here we are a week later and that song is still on my mind. 157 episodes and it's played at the start and end of each one. Make. It. Stop.

Which television theme songs stick out in your memory?

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The Monkees, Gilligan's island, Get Smart, MASH ... and the list goes on!

I really like the theme song from Cheers That one is the first theme song that comes to mind.

Then, not really a song, but I've always thought The Twilight Zone spooky music at the beginning of every episode was very cool.

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My favorite theme song is:

"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost, the Minnow would be lost.

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan, The Skipper too,
The millionaire and his wife,
The movie star
The professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle."

I think this has to be the best theme song ever!

Theme songs have the tendency to stick around for awhile, (in my head), long after the show has ended or gone off the air. Among the many I've heard, I have always liked the theme songs to "Silver Spoons", "Punky Brewster", "The Greatest American Hero", and the 80s animated Saturday morning cartoon, "The Littles".

"Greatest American Hero" must have been one of the first to use a real song as a theme? See it a bit nowadays, Friends, Roswell and so on but it seems to be only really a recent thing.

I was going to mention "The Greatest American Hero" too. In fact I remember the theme song more than I do the series.

There are other theme songs that got stuch in my head, like the ones from "Twin Peaks" or "The X-Files", because these melodies very well agree with the mysterious atmospheres in both series.

The "Facts of Life" theme song sticks out in my mind the most.

Well I'm going to date myself here, but I always liked the Lone Ranger's Opening Theme, The William Tell Overture. Classical Music and a western, how could you go wrong. Hi Ho Silver, Away.

I really liked the theme song attached to "Taxi"---no lyrics with it, though. There are so many that are just so darned recognizable! "Miami Vice", "The Rockford Files", (yes...) "Cheers", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", (another yes...) "Gilligan's Island", even "The Love Boat". That last being an example that often the theme song can be far more memorable than the show was . Oh, and I forgot to mention "Bonanza"....

I like the theme songs to Babylon 5, ST (all series), Legend of the Rangers, Buffy the Vampire SLayer, Boston Public, Dr. QUinn, seaQuest, Malcolm in the Middle, etc.

And my old high school's alma mater can be sung to the tune of Gilligan's Island - no stretching/condensing needed.

Cheers, Taxi, and Mary Tyler Moore have already been mentioned. I also like the original Bob Newhart Show, the original Happy Days theme (Rock Around the Clock), Laverne and Shirley, Bonanza, F-Troop (how many of you remember that one), Hawaii Five-0, Dragnet, Star Trek, Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, Hill Street Blues, the list goes on....
As you can see, I don't watch near as much TV as I used to watch.

Yeah, the theme song from "Hill Street Blues" is a classic. Shame on me for forgetting mentioning it.

Ah, yes, the Scooby-Doo theme. I think I will be singing that long into my 80's, or 90's!

My Top 10 TV Themes:

1. Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme
2. "Those Were The Days/Remembering You" from "All In The Family"
3. Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice" theme
4. The "Sanford and Son" theme
5.The "Addams Family" theme song
6. The whistled theme to "Andy Griffith" (the theme to "Ed, Edd and Eddy" runs a close second)
7. The "Dick Van Dyke Show" theme
8. That nutty theme song to "This is Garry Shandling's Show"! ("This is the theme to Garry's show/the opening theme to Garry's show...")
9. The "Hill Street Blues" theme
10. Bernard Herrmann's original theme to the "Twilight Zone"--far better than that Marius Constant nonsense!

Runners-up: The "Waltons" theme and the "Good Times" and "Jeffersons songs.

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1. Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme

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Mancini composed terrific tv theme songs. His creations for the "Remington Steele" and "The Pink Panther" shows are also awesome. Such a charismatic and talented composer!

The Beverly Hillbillies.

Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed
Poor Mountaineer barely kept his family fed
An' then one day, he was shootin' at some food,
An' up thru the ground came a bubblin' crude.
Oil that is! Black gold! Texas tea!

Yeahaaaah!!

I love old theme songs. I might make a few of you who've already dated yourselves feel slightly more dated, but I grew up watching most of those shows on Nick at Nite, and still love almost all of them. But, there is one theme song from my childhood that I just can't shake, and don't really want to. It helped define me as the tomboy I was. I sing it sometimes just for old time's sake...

"A real american hero, GI Joe is there..."

And how I would WOW the boys at my school when I recited the spoken section in the middle! "GI Joe is the codename for America's daring, highly trained special mission force..."

In my heart, while other girls wanted to be ballerinas and movie stars, I wanted to be Lady Jay. Flint was so dreamy!