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• Space 1999
• The Persuaders
• The Avengers

And also, the French version of the Ulysses 31 anime. Well, from the album, the intro is probably the weakest part of what remains to this day one of the best anime OST. Even more so considering it was supposed to be a young kids TV anime. Link to full album <- this is not your usual anime for kids type of music :)

Not a TV show, but still best theme ever (and the best anime ever maybe too)? The original Ghost in the Shell.

And yes they're all old stuff, like me. Sorry youngsters, you were left out of the loop ;)

Chainsaw Man's opening theme is amazing. I rock that song all the time. It's just a great track.

Not well known enough, but HBO’s Sharp Objects has a great soundtrack.

Either the original French dub or English dub opening to Code Lyoko.

Either one can easily get me pumped to watch an episode or two of the show anytime, anywhere.

Edit:

Full version of the English dub opening. Missed that the one I put was just the short version used in the intro.

Battle of the Planets

Barney Miller

the most late 80s theme

the most early 90s theme

Some great responses so far.

I'm going to go with The Day Today. It perfectly captures the tone of early nineties news and current affairs shows, and it's unnecessary grandiose, bombastic, urgent and it just keeps on going for far too long. It couldn't be more well-suited to the show.

Every now and again I find the Ulysses 31 intro playing in my head for no reason, and I'm ok with that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

Actual song starts ~40s in

Adding an obscure one: Judy Greer did a short-lived sitcom with Chris Parnell in the late 00s called Miss Guided. She played a high school guidance counselor. The theme song was played for all of about 2-3 seconds at the beginning of every episode, but that was enough for me to find the band. The song is Beautiful Possibility by The Lisa Parade.

I like Superjail (dont know if it was a song already or if it was made for the show)

A lot of ranma 1\2 songs are also really good

sanford and son’s theme is a segment from a quincy jones song called streetbeater. the full song has a great solo section

321 Countdown or Sesame Street. Let's be real

Blue Thunder

Battle of the Planets, original Battlestar Galactica, Space:1999, Sanford and son, The Jeffersons, Good Times

Series: "From" Que Sera Sera https://youtu.be/PDd-180FQ8U

Good question.

I suddenly couldn't remember what McGyver theme was but I remembered it's quite a banger.

And I wasn't mistaken.

https://youtu.be/yOEe1uzurKo

I think I had it on like my Nokia 3210 as a custom ringtone.

One that wasn't good but definitely an earworm:

But currently I've got the Voyager theme stuck in my head but it's somewhat boring, but all the Star Trek themes are good. Perhaps best is ofc It's been a long road from Enterprise.

Someone said "Buffy" and that was good, yeah. I don't think "Angel" is bad either. https://youtu.be/vpAol_17mO0 sounds a bit like Apocalyptica tbh

Now that I checked quite a few, seems like in the late 90's early 00's lots of openings had barely a theme song, 80% just the main character recapping the premise of the show

Off-topic: Is this the only post across all of Lemmy whose comments are nearly 2x as many as its upvotes?

Hawaii five o & Tatort