{"id":9598,"date":"2006-05-29T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T18:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/05\/29\/tv-theme-songs.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:39:15","slug":"tv_theme_songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/29\/tv_theme_songs.html","title":{"rendered":"TV Theme Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

SONN takes on the thankless task of identifying the Best TV Theme Song<\/a> evah. Thankless in that the corpus is so huge, and the associations between given tunes and their shows (and the title sequences themselves) is so tight, that it’s exceedingly difficult to come up with a “best.”<\/p>\n

That said, just thinking of “classic” TV (which then includes current faves like “Firefly”), I can’t argue too much with his first choice of “Hawaii Five-O,” though I’d likely give the nod to “Mission: Impossible.” Or, maybe the oiriginal “Jonny Quest.” “Doctor Who,” perhaps. Even “Maverick.” <\/p>\n

But, damn, I’ve got a ton of TV show MP3s I could point at, not to mention audio and video tapes of main title sequences I love, and I know I’m forgetting eleventy-dozen I like even better than those.<\/p>\n

The flip side to the discussion, the Worst TV Theme Song<\/a>, the nominees are even more endless, and though I don’t fear leaving out something I love, I find it hard to actually force myself to think of them.<\/p>\n

So … what are your nominees (in either category)?<\/p>\n

Posted by Dave-o-Tron.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SONN takes on the thankless task of identifying the Best TV Theme Song evah. Thankless in that the corpus is so huge, and the associations between given tunes and their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,361,42,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-media-music","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132113,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/26\/rip-ron-glass.html","url_meta":{"origin":9598,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Ron Glass","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Nov-16 9:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very sorry to hear of Ron Glass' passing. 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