Night rider or air wolf as an kid from the eighties. Now all anime series have banger openings.
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Air wolf. Never saw the show, player the NES game, but it slaaaaaps.
First season of True Detective was superb: Far From Any Road by The Handsome Family
The Leftovers (my absolute favorite show of all time and severely underrated imo) altered its opening theme a few times, but the standard season 2 version was my favorite: Let the Mystery Be by Iris DeMent
Not the best tv show theme, but Voyager has the best ST theme out of all of ST.
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My gf has been rewatching “ER” so i’ve been subject to the theme song, but i really do not mind. The theme song slaps. It feels very unique but maybe it wasn’t so much back then and even though I have only watched it indirectly i feel it sets the tone of the show perfectly.
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How I met your mother had a banger of an opening IMO. For anime it's Dan DA Dan season 1. But 321 Contact and the Fraggle Rock themes are the best.
Breaking Bad.
I don't like theme songs...
Arthur theme song kinda slaps.
Jekyll Jekyll Hyde Jekyll Hyde Hyde Jekyll
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The soprano's
I was a fan of Alabama 3 back in the late 90s. Small band, in the UK. I used to go to as many of their gigs as I could, usually in small clubs, pubs, side-stages at festivals. They released this fantastic album: 'Exile on Coldharbour Lane' (which is still on my rotation a quarter of a century later). Hoping they do well, because they're awesome.
Then I got a contract gig in early 2000, in the US. Started figuring out US TV. There's this new show, called the Sopranos which I've heard good things about. Put it on. Fucking hell, that opening theme tune! It's the same band i used to see in venues that could barely hold 50 people! Mind blown, but so happy that they'll have earned a shitton of money!
Obviously Pokemon season 1. I want to be the very best, like no one ever was.
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If the Theme from Hawaii Five O doesn’t get your heart pumping, you should call your doctor
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The 80s had amazing TV show theme songs. If I only had to pick one it would be Miami Vice.
It may not have been the catchiest song that you'd catch yourself humming
But I really dug the opening for American Gods
The song is sort of reminiscent of Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin, which is of course very fitting
And all the imagery is also very spot-on
The first season, IMO, was probably one of the all-time best seasons of a show I've ever seen
But man did it take a hard nose-dive after that for a few different reasons.
golden girls and i’ll fight you if you say different
The littlest hobo for sure
Can't pick just one.
MASH, The Sopranos, Lilyhammer, Berlin Station, Bosch, The Newsroom, Shameless
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The Expanse
Barney Miller
Also, the theme to Succession always got me hyped up. The part when it's showing the kids riding on the elephant, right after the bridge, the piano subtly changes from previous parts. So good.
I've never seen a single episode of Magnum PI, but I regularly listen to the theme song. I think you might like it if you liked Knight Rider.
Raised by Wolves. Not a banger as much as a haunting memory you didn't know you had.
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Lost in Space: Season 3 You'll never guess who composed this one. Go ahead and look it up, I want you to experience the sheer awe I did when I found out.
Think for me it's probably the expanse for how well suited the opening and theme is to expressing the vibe of the show.
Other shows I'd rate the theme music/opening vibe favourably include:
The 4400 (2004 version)
Battlestar Galactica
Community
Foundation
Flight of the Conchords
Halt and catch fire
Mandalorian
Silo
Westworld
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Sesame Street closing credits
Succession.