There are still shows that use a show title and no music or just a couple of chords - “Revolution,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Arrow,” “The Middle” - but I like and want a theme. Most cable programs take advantage of this and use snippets of a song for a theme song. There is also more music being produced than ever before, so it’s a no-brainer that several programs will pick from the large catalog of songs.

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With William Daniels, Norman Lloyd, Ronny Cox, Bonnie Bartlett. It’s a craft that’s becoming as rare as shoe repair and record stores. No Chemo, Sabe: Directed by Eric Laneuville. The practice of an original theme song has dwindled to a smaller number of programs, but it’s still a substantial number with several people like Gustavo Santaolalla (“Hell on Wheels”), Mike Post (“Law & Order”), Bear McCreary (“The Walking Dead”) and Bobby Morganstein (“NCIS,” “Criminal Minds”) making regular made-for-TV works.Īnd while the lyrical made-for-TV themes are scare these days, when they do come around (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Psych,” “Community”) they are something to take note of. The song, as far as I can make out, is a mellow look at the themes of depression, schizophrenia and madness throughout the album. With cable’s rise, there are now more shows than ever before and even more theme songs. Many themes were also written specifically for the show - “The Facts of Life,” “The Jeffersons,” “Bewitched,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” etc.ĭuring the 1990s many sitcoms stopped using theme songs, and by that time, drama theme songs were down to around half a minute - notably was “Law & Order” slicing its theme from 80 seconds to just under 45 seconds in the early 1993.īy the mid 2000s, the theme song had started to creep back into shows. “Mork and Mindy” and “Bosom Buddies’” both lasted for more than a minute. That song gave me a lot of joy in a dark time.Even some comedies had long theme songs. It helped that its first line was “I’m not sick but I’m not well”, and I was going through a very confusing period at the time. There was a period when I listened to Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger (the song that opens Peep Show) on repeat. Other times a track is brought in to serve as the show’s mascot, and becomes indelibly linked.īelle & Sebastian’s The Boy With The Arab Strap and Teachers perfectly mirroring the cheek and levity at the heart of it. A perfect recent example: Isobel Waller-Bridge’s grungy opening music for Fleabag all dark riffs and clashing cymbals that reflected the chaos of the protagonist’s personal life – like day-old mascara bleeding from the speakers. More frequently, opening music is bespoke. You can play Vonda Shepard’s Ally McBeal opening at my funeral. Starring Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd, Ed Begley Jr., Stephen Furst, Mark Harmon, Eric Laneuville, Howie. It is the entrée to something delicious, but flavourful in itself. Opening Credits for the fourth season of St. A show’s opening music is really the theme to preparing a bowl of snacks, throwing oneself into an armchair, and pressing play.

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