What is the perfect movie/TV theme song?

[Maccagirl]

Mine is "The Pink Panther" along with "Bonanza" and "A Hard Day's Night".

[Badfish]

1. I just love this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5DnqW3F57E

Fucking cowbell.

[Bunny]

2. Mission Impossible.

The ultimate in cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGeRgFa-hI


And, for my sweetie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjy-fnsmWR4
:loveya:

[Kaleva]

3. Hawaii Five-O

[applegrove]

21. I love the music for Hawaii 5-0. My brother had it on an album and I used to listen to it

over and over again.

[MorningGlow]

4. Twin Peaks

Music matched the mood perfectly. The X-Files was also good in the same way, but I think Twin Peaks beats it.

[XemaSab]

10. The x-files theme sounds like it was written in the early 90's

The twin peaks theme could have been written today.

[LiberalEsto]

5. The theme from the tv show "Mr. Ed"

"A horse is a horse, of course of course
and noone can talk to a horse, of course
that is, of course, unless the horse
is the famous Mr. Ed"

Enjoy your earworm, fellow Boomers!
:evilgrin:

[PassingFair]

6. Bunch of good ones from series: Treme, The Wire, Weeds

Six Feet Under.

Love them all.

Most especially "Way Down in the Hole" from "The Wire".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4g

[piratefish08]

7. Brady Bunch

[WinkyDink]

8. "Georgy Girl." "Alfie." "Moon River." "To Sir, With Love." "A Summer Place." "Where the Boys Are"

[Mendocino]

9. The theme from

Jonny Quest.

[Tikki]

11. "Streets of San Francisco" theme...every time I listen...

to it..makes me want to pack my bags and head up there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNrJdMjYIZA

Tikki

[kentauros]

12. David Shire's "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3"

The original, not the remake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLw0Htsjoj8&feature=related


And Jonny Quest for TV-themes :D

[Bossy Monkey]

13. Rockford Files, Wild Wild West, Jonny Quest nt

[blogslut]

14. I don't know about perfect

But I always thought the opening bars of the "Hill Street Blues" theme were so sweetly tragic.

EDIT ADD: The teevee theme song that makes me most happy/dancy is the one for "Futurama".

[Brigid]

15. "Movin' On Up" from "The Jeffersons."

That one came to mind instantly. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Three's Company; Bonanza; Mission Impossible; ST:TOS; Cosmos; BATMAN

[pokerfan]

17. Jonny Quest (don't laugh)

Listen to it http://www.televisiontunes.com/Jonny_Quest.html">here.

According to wiki:
The percussion-heavy big band jazz theme music for the 1960s series and each episode's score were all composed by Hoyt Curtin. In a 1999 interview, he stated that the jazz band for the series consisted of 4 trumpets, 6 trombones, 5 woodwind doublers, and a 5 man rhythm section. Alvin Stoller or Frankie Capp usually played drums. While a string section comes in at moments of tension or pizzicato for comic relief, the score is primarily driven by a big brass sound. Curtin stated that the band took about an hour to record the main theme. It contained a trombone solo performed by jazz veteran Frank Rosolino, and a complex riff in which the trombone players were physically unable to keep up with the rapidly changing slide positions needed. Cues in the series were generally recorded in one take, done by a regular group of union session players who could "read like demons". The cues were, of course, later recycled for other Hanna-Barbera series (The Herculoids, The Fantastic Four, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, etc.).

[bluedigger]

18. "Suicide is Painless" - Mash

[XanaDUer]

19. Hawaii 5-0

nt.

[Swede]

20. Once Upon A Time in the West

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHe07HT5NQA

[Kat45]

22. "Peter Gunn" is a great song. Also love the theme for "All in the Family."

It fits the show so well, a perfect introduction to the main characters.

[iris27]

23. the theme for Firefly.

It fits the series so perfectly.

[Bryan]

24. I'll try to break it into categories

Best classic TV theme: Al Caiola, "The Mod Squad Theme"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd85Qim_Z6A

Best modern TV theme: Tom Hajdu and Andy Milburn, "Homicide: Life on the Street"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZLSomwuLw

Best TV theme written by Mike Post, because he deserves his own category: "MacGyver"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hfzlQKKqVU

Best TV theme that wasn't composed for a TV series: The Go! Team, "Junior Kickstart"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQg7qOB5Heg

[kid shelleen]

25. Route 66, The Twilight Zone, The Monkeys, Cowboy Bebop,

The Banana Splits, Lost In Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea.