Best TV show openings?

[anytimepally]

I always thought Fraggle Rock had the best theme song ever, which always helps for a great opening. Always liked the Star Trek opening, too.

 

[wwfpooh]

Like I said, anything Henson worked. The same with certain WWE themes and various songs by the 'maniacs. But what about Disney, beyond TDA (and its When You Wish Upon a Star anthem)? It had a lot of good shows besides TDA, but the main ones that I loved were The Mickey Mouse Club March (Mickey's personal theme song) and the theme from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Then again, both were done by the fabulous Sherman Brothers, so they were bound to be good).

 

[Erine81981]

Here a few that i've grown to love over the years.

Animated Alf Cartoon Series
Donald Duck Presents
Garbage Pail Kids
Foofur
The Wuzzles
Pacman
Fantastic Max
Dennis the Menace
Super Mario Bros. Super Show
Earthworm Jim

Loved everyone of these and more to come.

 

[wwfpooh]

Actually, Donald Duck Presents was basically a compilation of earlier Donald Duck shorts with wrap-arounds that started out with Donald Duck's personal theme song. And I loved Dennis the Menace, even if Margaret irritated the fudge out of me (just as she irritated the Joey that was best buds with the neighborhood menace, Dennis). Remember when Dennis and the gang were the spokes-characters for Dairy Queen? ^_^

 

[D'Snowth]

Are we not talking about the whole opening (both sight and sound)? Are we just talking about the theme song alone?

 

[wwfpooh]

We're discussing both, I believe. XD

 

[anytimepally]

Me too.. another good opening, especially if you count his little blurbs after the song is Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... best profile in TV history?

 

[Drtooth]

And ironically, just like the PR franchise, the Sonic franchise that it had apparently bested within ratings terms had its best theme via the opening of the Sonic [SatAM] cartoon entitled "The Fastest Thing Alive".

More to come...XD

Of course, that's not to Discount the Original Japanese Sonic X opening (with delicious Japanese wordplay, COMPLETELY lost in translation), and even Sonic Underground which, frankly, the opening is the only thing good about that dire show...

and let's not forget the First opening to Muppet Babies... say what you will about Japanese outsourced animation... they do one shell of a job with the opening titles animation. Check out that pull out on "I got my Computer" "I Flip through the air." Too bad the rest of the series didn't look like that.

 

[D'Snowth]

We're discussing both, I believe. XD

Well it seems like the rest of you are just discussing the theme song only.

 

[tutter_fan]

I tell you one thing, some game shows have pretty cool openings. Take "Press Your Luck" as a good example: Rod Roddy: (After he gives the 3 players names, and gives a brief statement) Today, these 3 players are after High Stakes (or Big Bucks) BUT, they'll have to avoid the Whammy, as they play the MOST EXCITING GAME OF THEIR LIVES (The board behind the players starts to fill up with dollar values, prizes, and whammies) From Television City in HOLLYWOOD, It's... (Audience):TIME TO PRESS YOUR LUCK! And now, here's the host of PRESS YOUR LUCK, PETER TOMARKEN!