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I hate that scream that starts the opening to Cold Case. I always try and hit my remote before that starts.

The opening theme music to Without a Trace isn't bad, but I hate how they slow it down and play that same piano theme during any "dramatic" moment in the show. "Doo-doo, doo-doo, duh duh duh duh-duh..."

Yea that scream on cold case is very annoying.
I like the opening of trace but they really got to stop using that "Doo-doo, doo-doo, duh duh duh duh-duh..." thing because they always disapear when that music comes on, maybe if they stopped playing it they wouldn't disapear?

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Originally Posted by kenbuzz
What?? Rockford Files, The A-Team, and particularly The Greatest American Hero all kick ass, and I's sure Hill Street Blues, CHiPs and Quantum Leap all have their fans. Here's the list, you be the judge:

The A-Team
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Blossom
CHiPs
The Commish
Doogie Howser, M.D.
The Greatest American Hero
Hardcastle & McCormick
Hill Street Blues
Hooperman
Hunter
L.A. Law
Law & Order
Magnum, P.I.
Murder One
NewsRadio
NYPD Blue
Quantum Leap
Remington Steele
Renegade
Riptide
The Rockford Files
Silk Stalkings
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Wise Guy

most of those tunes are great, newsradio is kick ass and nypd blues theme is a classic, i will agree that la law was pretty bad through.

I like the Quantum Leap theme but they tried to "jazz" it up or something for season 5 and it sounds awful.

"Frasier" closing them has been mentioned and thanks to Net porn, I giggle everyting I hear it. :lol:

Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin'. <b>Tossed salad</b> and scrambled eggs
Oh My! Mercy! (alt: Quite stylish.)

And maybe I seem a bit confused, yeah maybe, but I got you pegged!
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
But I don’t know what to do with those <b>tossed salads</b> and scrambled eggs.
They’re callin’ again.

Any theme song written by Allan Thicke ("Facts of Life") is automatically bad.

An oldie but a baddie: the "Alice" theme. Probably because I can't stand to even look at Linda Lavin, much less hear her croak out a tune.

Basically I pretty much can't stand any huggy feel-good theme song, that sings about standing tall, striving for something better or living up to your dreams. Hurl.

Gotta second the "Law & Order" theme. That oboe or clarinet part in the middle sounds like a random collection of attonal, anti-rhythmic notes to my ears. Dropping a box of cymbals down the stairs would produce a more pleasing composition.

I've always disliked the "X-Files" theme. Blashphemy, I know, but... what the hell is it? You're watching the teaser of an episode where hideous inbred mutants are burying a baby alive in their front yard during a storm, then they cut to the opening credits feathring a theme song that sounds like an army of 1950s gas station attendants whistling while marching down main street. I just don't get it. Is it supposed to sound spooky? If so, then it fails. Miserably.

I'll throw out another one:

The "new" Unsolved Mysteries theme music

The original was classic! It put you in that ready to be creeped out mood for the show. The new music sucks ass!

I've heard that the DVDs contain the new music as well, otherwise I would have picked them up already.