"TV Theme Music Original" Topic

Trying again. We are looking for instrumental music only this time, and only instrumental music composed for the program.

Some of my favorites:
The A Team
Wiseguy
Tales of the Gold Monkey
Combat!
Rat Patrol

Yes, a little heavy on brass and drums. I'm like that.

So I guess the Bug ate the first one.

OK,I'll try manfully to do my part in the reconstruction. Working backwards:

S.W.A.T.:
youtu.be/bIVWSjgHUkQ

Hawaii Five-0:
youtu.be/FMPsDEMSpOU

And,epitome of Fifties cool,Peter Gunn:
youtu.be/nz3WMFEC9Gs

My highly idiosyncratic list of personal favorites, roughly in chronological order:

Peter Gunn (1958-1961) – Henry Mancini
The Twilight Zone (Seasons 2-4, 1960-1964) – Marius Constant
Doctor Who (1963-1989, 2005 – present) – Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire
The Addams Family (1964-1966) – Vic Mizzy
Mission: Impossible (1966-1973) – Lalo Schifrin
Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980) – Morton Stevens
Sherlock Holmes (starring Jeremy Brett, 1984-1994) – Patrick Gowers
Inspector Morse (1987-2000) – Barrington Pheloung
Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993) – Anne Dudley
Midsomer Murders (1997 – present) – Jim Parker
Cowboy Bebop (1998) – The Seatbelts
Hustle (British series, 2004-2012) – Simon Rogers
Rome (2005-2007) – Jeff Beal
Inspector Lewis (2006-2015) – Barrington Pheloung
Sherlock (2010-present) – David Arnold, Michael Price

Searching through early shows for the "appropriated" music thread, I was surprised to find a pretty neat original, the Captain Midnight March:

youtu.be/6km6XsOSBD8

Off topic (sorry Robert),but I wonder how many still have their Secret Squadron Decoder Badge:

youtu.be/Llc_YLQ2fAQ

Or their Secret Squadron patch ("so if I need your help,I can recognize you in the street!"):

And all for the price of a jar of Ovaltine.

I was wondering how the initials for "Secret Squadron" became "SQ". But then I reflected that having a bunch of Fifties kids running around wearing "SS" patches wouldn't have gone over very well.

The Untouchables

Twelve O'clock High

Hogan's Heroes

Dragnet

Peter Gunn
Johnny Quest
NBC Mystery Movie
Rocky and Bullwinkle

"Maverick." Yeah, I know it had lyrics, but not when the show began. They only added lyrics later during the show's run.

"Wagon Train," was the reverse of the above; it had a rather poor song for its theme during the first season or two, but then switched to the classic instrumental theme that it used for many years.

"Gunsmoke."

Though I did not care much for the series, "The Virginian" (mid-60's)had a great theme.

Hey yeah,that was a good one:
youtu.be/hjjUlljGNK0

Miami Vice theme
Mash Theme
Black Sheep Squadron

Space 1999. Perfect for a show that shouted "Hey,it's the Seventies!" at the top of its lungs:

youtu.be/uLAsBzOOhLQ

The Prisoner
The Avengers
The Saint

House of Cards
Breaking Bad
game of Thrones
The Professionals
Starsky and Hutch
The Affair

Johnny Quest
Barney Miller (best one yet!)

Blake's Seven

youtu.be/pnautWFuEnQ

I think someone mentioned this one on the "mysteriously vanished" original thread:

youtu.be/qxB1Bq1qFFc

Space 1999
Simon & Simon
Magnum P.I.
The Saint
Peter Gunn
Get Smart
Route 66

Twin Peaks, Bewitched.

Cyrus: I too,loved the music of Twin Peaks-- all of it. There was an interesting recent interview with Angelo Badalamenti on NPR. You can read it (or better, listen to it) here:

link

(Give it a few seconds for the "listen" icon to appear)

This is easy. Can't beat A-TEAM

Hell,yeah!

youtu.be/VPDldtTT7hU

youtu.be/pfNCf59zIJohh

youtu.be/GlRz3UYhYUQ

And of course:

youtu.be/sWR0_0YaEzI

Which reminds me--skedaddle mentioned Black Sheep:

youtu.be/aDFTBtxILDk

UFO
YouTube link

I vote for Game of Thrones and Babylon 5