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This is Day #17 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge

The prompt is a memorable theme song/credit sequence song or orchestration from a television series

It's really the credit sequence that I'm looking for...

Here's mine from "Weeds"

Little Boxes Theme Song Intro for Weeds

Weeds premiered on Showtime in the early 00s, and was a series about a suburban housewife who was also a marijuana dealer. Kind of the female version of Breaking Bad, but with much more biting satiric wit, and lot less violence. Mary Louise Parker played the lead. It's pure satire and theme song pretty much sets the stage.

Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama[1][2][3] television series created by Jenji Kohan that aired on Showtime from August 8, 2005 to September 16, 2012. Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed mother of two boys Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Shane (Alexander Gould), begins selling marijuana to support her family. Other main characters include Nancy's lax brother-in-law Andy Botwin (Justin Kirk), who moves in to help raise her children, naive acquaintance Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon), narcissistic neighbor Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), who lives with her husband Dean (Andy Milder) and their daughter Isabelle (Allie Grant), as well as Nancy's wholesalers Heylia James (Tonye Patano) and Conrad Shepard (Romany Malco). Over the course of the series, the Botwin family become increasingly entangled in illegal activity.

[It lasted eight seasons, I stopped after S5. Television shows really shouldn't go past five to six seasons. Just saying.]

Date: 2020-10-14 02:02 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cjlasky7
Cowboy Bebop, "Tank!" (written by Yoko Kanno)

Cowboy Bebop is an anime that depends a great deal on its soundtrack to set the mood for its stories. "Tank!" is the perfect action series opener, a shot of adrenaline with bass and brass. Kanno shows mastery of a variety of musical styles over the course of 26 episodes, but nothing matches the excitement of that opening theme:

https://youtu.be/T6zDfxZ4NcE



Date: 2020-10-14 02:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cactuswatcher
It was The Richard Boone Show, a terrific, intelligent anthology program that didn't draw an audience because it was opposite Petticoat Junction of all things. (The program on the third network that year also failed to get another season.) I'd forgotten the tune that was it's theme. But I often heard it a few years later in college, because my roommate and I preferred the easy listening station to rock. Chasing around recently for these memes I was able to reconnect the song and the show in my mind.

Henry Mancini's "How Soon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPYa-E8HWs4
Edited Date: 2020-10-14 02:58 am (UTC)

Date: 2020-10-14 04:15 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] atpo_onm
This series was over three years in when all the fanatical raving about how stunningly brilliant it was finally got me to go out and buy the DVD set for Season 1 so I could check it out for myself.

Burned through it in a single weekend, by which time the opening theme was this total earworm. Went out later that week and bought the next two seasons.

By about the end of the fourth year, I'd sometimes skip past the opening credits simply because I'd keep intermittently hearing that music in my head for hours after the ep was over.

It is a masterful musical creation, and then was accompanied by those amazing visuals in addition. And hey! Pretty involving show, too! ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8

Date: 2020-10-14 05:21 am (UTC)
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Get Smart was a funny spy spoof when it first aired back in the sixties. It's still funny, too.

Date: 2020-10-14 08:47 am (UTC)
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The Addams Family theme "snaps fingers".

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