Recently started watching old 90s and 80s shows just for the fun of it, because I’m bored with all of the new stuff that’s coming out, and I fell into Knight Rider.
My review of the show so far aside, it’s got straight up the most banger theme music I have heard in a TV show in a very long time.
It got me wondering what other TV shows have really great theme songs?
Okay, I feel like Mission Impossible is cheating because everyone’s heard it and it’s obviously a banger.
And apparently Peter Gunn is one of those things that, at the very least, I’ve heard it, just never in its original context.
Both very solid contenders.
Highlander https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPWpP6w8AA although that’s also cheating
Swat Kats https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU
Yeah, Queen is definitely cheating.
Whatever the film company paid Freddie Mercury and Co. to do the music to the original Highlander movie was not enough.
But I don’t think I can say the same about SWAT Kats.
If you take out the zwoops and the fwooms and other sound effects that they used to match it to the animation, it’s just a really middling 80s guitar track.
Best is not cheating. Is best.
https://youtu.be/UAO2JBjRRBk
The A-Team
https://youtu.be/yg1Cx26-928
The Rockford Files
Sticking with the 80s theme: The Fall Guy
There’s loads of great 80s themes. Another one I remember the tune but not the show, went along the lines of ‘until tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving on’.