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predate:be earlier in time; go back further

The Sopranos ran 1999-2007, The Wire 2002-2008. Simpsons still running for twenty years of so.

Obviously The Wire was running while those were too, which is unlike the elderly shows tha make up the rest of the list.

The government should do something.

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predate:be earlier in time; go back further

The Sopranos ran 1999-2007, The Wire 2002-2008. Simpsons still running for twenty years of so.

Obviously The Wire was running while those were too, which is unlike the elderly shows tha make up the rest of the list.

Correct, and the list was made in 2002 so The Wire isn't on it.

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This one put shivers up my spine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMjt92fVNA

I don't know if Twin Peaks was one of the best openings ever, but it must be one of the most beautiful theme songs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oDuGN6K3VQ

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I'm a little too young to remember this from the first time around...

I'm definitely too young to remember this from the first time around, but it's such a catchy tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXtpoO_DlDM

I couldn't find one that had the video to go with the music. However, I gather that the credits started with

Funny :)

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All very good examples.

I'm surprised that you missed Perry Mason:

(Jean Charest recently said that he chose law because of Perry Mason.)

A relaxed and affable Charest admitted on his first day of testimony that his idol when he was young was Perry Mason, the fictional television defence lawyer.

"He won all his trials and he saved the widow and orphan," Charest told head prosecutor Giuseppe Battista. "I wanted to do trials in front of a judge and jury."

Montreal Gazette
The Flinstones... a classic
Years ago, I was travelling in eastern Europe in a train compartment with an American - and Romanians/Hungarians who smoked cigarette after cigarette, drank and sang. At one point, they asked the two of us if we knew any Canadian/American folk songs. Folk song? The intrepreted question came out as: "A song that everyone in your country knows. Everyone knows immediately."

The American looked at me, and started singing: "Join us, with the Flintstones. Have a yabba-dabba do time... "

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ahem... from post #7 on this thread, I stated
Sorry. Guilty as charged.
What most of the show openings that have been mentioned have in coomon is the musicévisual combo. One exception... Law and Order... No music at the start, no stunning visual, just a short text. and yet, it is one of the best openings in recent years.
It seems to me that Law & Order opens much like the Hill Street Blues - except for the electronic music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWjhN86WLU&feature=fvw

Heck, they both have the "starring as" final credits and then the "created by" line. Same circus, different clowns.

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Sorry. Guilty as charged.

It seems to me that Law & Order opens much like the Hill Street Blues - except for the electronic music.

Created by the same guy - the great Mike Post.

One of his first jobs in television started when he was 24, as the musical director on The Andy Williams Show. Another early job was writing the theme music for the short-lived detective series Toma in 1973, but his big breakthrough (together with co-composer Pete Carpenter) came in the following year with his theme song for The Rockford Files, another series by producer Stephen J. Cannell. The theme also got cross-over Top 40 radio airplay and earned a second Grammy for Post.[2] Post subsequently won Grammys for Best Instrumental Composition for the themes for the television shows Hill Street Blues in 1981 and L.A. Law in 1988 as well as another Grammy in 1981 for Best Instrumental Performance for the Hill Street Blues theme.[2]

Post won an Emmy for his Murder One theme music, and had previously been nominated for NYPD Blue, among others. He has won BMI Awards for the music for L.A. Law, Hunter, and the various Law & Order series. The theme for The Greatest American Hero is one of the few television themes to reach #1 as a single record on the Billboard charts.[2]

Other TV music works include The A-Team, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Blossom, CHiPs, The Commish, Doogie Howser, M.D., Hardcastle & McCormick, Hooperman, Hunter, MacGyver, Magnum, P.I., NewsRadio, Profit, Quantum Leap, Renegade, Riptide, Silk Stalkings, Stingray, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, The White Shadow, Wiseguy, the BBC series Roughnecks, and Law & Order.

Mike Post Wiki Page

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I agree that the theme song is one of the things that makes all these openings great. Some of the shows like Hawaii 5-O had theme songs written by highly acclaimed composers. As a kid I liked the theme song to "Chico and the Man" written by Jose Feliciano, but the show was kinda dumb.

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For those that grew-up in the Pacific North West...

Aha! Now I know where Bill and Ted got the idea for the "Evil Us's!"

This robot is a dead ringer!

Hollywood is just full of plagiarism!

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"There is no point in being difficult when, with a little extra effort, you can be completely impossible."

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I agree that the theme song is one of the things that makes all these openings great.
You make a good point. The theme song is sometimes stronger than the show.

The same composer who created this:

... also created this:

And I'll also add, to be politically correct, that the composer was a woman.

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Well since you've resurrected it, I thought about this one a while ago.

I like the jazzy intros that were in style in that era, even as a little kid. The sort of big-band sound, with the horn section, radical beats and disonnant harmonies. Some other intros from that time in a similar style were already mentioned in this thread, like "Mission Impossible", "Hawaii 5-0".

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