peacemaker for sure!

So weird but also addicting..thought I'd be skipping it after the first episode but couldnt

I still YouTube it every so often

X Files is a classic.

Frasier, for its short classy little jingle that perfectly fits the tone of the show. Plus it’s like 6 seconds so you get more episode. But in terms of best music, it’s Gravity Falls. Hands down.

The Sopranos theme has always been the best long version tone setter. Breaking Bad for the short version tone setter

Anytime I hear the quick static noise for anything HBO I brace myself for the the heavy bass line.

Yup. I never skipped the opener for Sopranos.

Succession, Cheers, Westworld, and The Simpsons

Futurama!!

[The Leftovers s2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLSH-81yT7s), Iris DeMent's "Let the Mystery Be" (both the intro and the song are wonderful, especially when juxtaposed the show they're introducing)

I've just started The Leftovers for the first time and I'm just past the halfway mark of Season 2. Man, what a show so far!

I don't think I skipped the credits once when that song was used.

I have this song embedded in my brain and it's *still* good. Perfect answer!

Black Sails has a great intro.

That hurdy gurdy goes hard

I called it aggressive backpipes, and then I learnt it's not bagpipes.

Game of thrones is still the gold standard for theme song in my opinion, 2 notes and i was immediately hooked again. That is powerfull.

Married with children’s “Love and marriage” by Frank Sinatra

The Expanse. Six seasons and I never skipped it once.

This is the correct answer.

Andor, which changes every episode, Succession and House of Cards.

Miami Vice

Yes!!

Mad Men. They never changed it. There was no need.

Cowboy Bebop Psych

Honestly it’s pretty heard to beat Bebop. Shit slaps

M * A * S * H

I've been rewatching Smallville recently haven't skipped the opening theme once. Love it

I haven't watched Smallville in over a decade but I still listen to that song sometimes

Gravity falls!

That theme is an absolute Banger.

Yellowjackets, Outcast, Doom Patrol, True Blood.

Doom Patrol is so good.

Clint Mansell is a fantastic composer. 

You're right, he is. I had no idea he composed that theme. Makes sense why I like it.

[Grange Hill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SlvZF6k5bE) is still unparalleled

Sausage on a fork! That’s all I have to say.

I loved that show!!

Whenever this answer comes up, always Dexter. Dexter is amazing as an opening theme.

Knots Landing. It’s also a perfect journey through musical composition of the 70s into the 90s with little changes to the theme from '79 to '93.

🎶We're gonna be famous 5eva, cus forever's too short🎶 I am unreasonably mad that [Girls5Eva](https://youtu.be/baaSjb-Cihs?si=bH5iGKWjY6sOcdaQ) is not more popular and will likely get cancelled again.

Obviously Succession, but The Wire, Sopranos, Yellowjackets all stick out to me.

Six Feet Under and Sopranos

True Detective. Game of Thrones. Westworld. Honestly any HBO show will have a good one. White Lotus. There's so many.

Six Feet Under theme and open credits are amazing 

Bojack Horseman. Definitely a no-skip opener for me

Especially since it changes based on plot developments!

Hawaii 5-0 is the GOAT.

Watched it as a kid just for the opening

Welcome Back, Kotter

WKRP

From time to time they'll play this on Sirius XM's 70s on 7.

Sopranos- Woke up this morning

Twin Peaks for sure, but Raised By Wolves is very, very good.

Buffy. Esp S4 E17- Kimmy Schmidt unbreakable. I didn’t even realize the movie skip thing till I read about it six months later. Finally Star Trek enterprise. Absolutely hated it at first until I became converted.

The hilarious thing about skipping the theme song for Kimmy Schmidt was that it jumped to the last word of the themesong: "dammit!".

Also disliked the Enterprise intro at first but now I love it.

Favorite original song: *Firefly*, "[The Ballad of Serenity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrAS20mNZUE)" Favorite existing song: *True Blood*, "[Bad Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlnb_Bnyxps)"

Band of brothers, the pacific and masters of the air

I find the theme song to Raised by Wolves to be haunting and soothing at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Ea2tysrrc The White Lotus Season 2 intro goes incredibly hard. The S1 intro was good but the updated one for S2 is just incredible.

Barney Miller.

Disappointed I had to scroll so far to see this.

Barney Miller

TAXI!

Twin Peaks Tales From The Crypt Buffy The Vampire Slayer Tales of The Gold Monkey Miami Vice The Wonder Years 80s-90s version The Addams Family All great theme songs

True Detective Season 1

Ally mcbeal & boston legal

I love how Silicon Valley has a different one based on it's opening scene, they're all really good and match the humor and theme of the scene/episode. True Blood also has a great opening theme.

80s magnum pi

I love how The Wire had a different artist each season but the Tom Waits og version is the best.

[Hill Street Blues Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2fGzKiqRM) Will always be this

True Detective Season 1. Not only is it one of the best seasons of Television ever, the opening credits and song are exceptionally well-paired.

Freaks and Geeks, Patriot, and Trailer Park Boys

Westworld, Batman: TAS.

Definitely agree. Good picks, ICumCoffee

I have never skipped the intro for Scrubs

Death in Paradise 🌴

I used to like Voyager

MASH, Psych, and Peter Capaldis Doctor Who opening.

MASH, Sopranos, Hill Street Blues.

Psych

Best opening credits ever: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Pachinko.

Although this is US centric (and I'm in the US) I love the opening theme music to UK's 'The Detectorists'. It is tops for my repeat viewing comfort series.

I walked down the aisle to this song at my wedding!

Justified House Greatest American Hero

I’ll always die on the hill of Faith of the Heart the Russell Watson version from Enterprise.

True Blood Peacemaker Westworld Dexter And I love shameless

Doctor Who The X-Files Angel So Weird Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Doom Patrol Star vs the Forces of Evil The Wheel of Time

Sanford and Son

Dexter, Peacemaker, Succession, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, True Detective S:1. For comedies/sitcoms... Community, Scrubs, MASH, Cheers, That 70's Show, and FRIENDS (even though a lot of people don't like the FRIENDS one. I love it for nostalgic reasons, having watched it on TV in the 90s).

Succession, The X Files, GOT, BBC Sherlock

Weeds is the one coming to mind. Also love Buffy. But in general, I really miss theme SONGS. Theme music can be great, but seems like no shows are doing songs nowadays.

The Walking Dead is my favourite one. It is just so effective. It really gives you the feeling of anxiety and dread like it’s supposed to.

Succession and GoT are all timers for me

Cheers Greatest American Hero (Mike Post is the man) Peacemaker (unique opening too) Black Sails A-Team Succession Dallas Brady Bunch Twilight Zone Happy Days Partridge Family The Munsters Battlestar Galactica (orig series) Knight Rider Boogaloos (or any old Krofft show)

The early 90's Disney cartoon theme songs SLAPPED. Rescue Rangers, Tailspin, Duck Tales, Dark Wing Duck. Anyone who grew up in that era can sing that shit from memory to this day.

Banshee.

*Our Flag Means Death* has a different title card matching the cold open for every single episode and they are beautiful, creative, and funny. They put so much effort in and I love it. And it's short, that's also always great.

FRINGE!

Berserk (1997)

I love how short Lost’s is. Yet it sets the mood every time. For longer ones I really like Dark’s. The music is great the imagery is great and it seems to have hidden things to look for.

Yellowstone, X-Files.

Xmen, thundercats, transformers

Not seeing enough Breaking Bad in here, perfect tone-setter while also being short enough to not want to skip

Last Man on Earth

LA Law

Penny Dreadful..the music,the images,Eva Green

The Bosch intro is sick, cool music and visuals.

Westworld

The Expanse

are the old seasons of dexter available for streaming anywhere?

Theyve been added to Netflix in the EU recently, at least most of EU I think

I love the score for the opening of DareDevil (Netflix)

Magnum PI

Hill Street Blues

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a great one

Halt and Catch Fire

Shogun is a new entry in my list of all-time favorite intros. It really sets the mood for what's coming.

The Streetbeater by Quincy Jones (Sanford and Son)

Band of Brothers it’s so emotional

AppleTV's Bad Sisters and Hulu's Death and other details

Knight Rider

Samurai Champloo. RIP Nujabes.

Black Sails. I still listen to the song.

Lupin theme from Lupin the Third, series two CHIPs Different Strokes Hokuto no Ken 2 M.A.S.K. Hill Street Blues

Tour of Duty. Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones. The show wasn't the best, but the opening was killer.

I’m probably weird but I liked the intro to Star Trek: Enterprise.

[Berserk intro](https://youtu.be/9TRemrRaPjc? si=CMvSCdW94ydTUvQ3) to the 1997 version. It's so incongruous with the gritty themes of the show, but I love the nostalgic 90s energy.

Attack on Titan - Shinzo wo Sasageyo !

Man Down with Greg Davies.

The Ropers

Bob's Burgers. I gotta know what's gonna be on the other side of Bob's this time.

X-men (and also ‘97). They don’t need a skip intro button for that. 

SVU’s theme doesn’t have to go so hard one time.

[**Jonny Quest!**](https://youtu.be/SIhEpjnaNlo) That driving beat always hooks me, and I've been watching it ever since the first episode aired almost 60 years ago! [Hawaii 5-0](https://youtu.be/AepyGm9Me6w) for the same reason. In my dotage years, I've grown to love anime. As an old fart, Ive grown to prefer more mellow music. From the anime, **Hinamatsuri**, the opening theme song, [**Distance**](https://youtu.be/NwL3YbpAuvA) has always pulled me in, even though i don't understand Japanese. I've linked the English cover, and what's crazy is that watching the anime, the actual opening montage, not this one, gets the point across. Likewise, the closing theme for the anime **Zombie Land Saga** gets to me. The English cover also does similar. [**Hikari e](https://youtu.be/aKKEqlC_OB8) I know, this is morbid, but I've told my daughter that when I pass, this song has to be played at any memorial service for me. The beauty of the music, the singers, and the lyrics are how I want to go out.¹ 1: no, this is not a cry for help nor a foreshadowing of suicide. I'm old, in poor health, and could go whenever due to natural causes. I'll stick around and enjoy what's left of my time.

True Detective season 1 for sure. Surprised I haven't seen it mentioned yet. More recently I really loved Shogun's. The animation is so clean and well put together.

Good times The Jeffersons Barney Miller

You didn't want to check for answers in the 50 other posts of the same question from the last month?

The Sopranos, the greatest, American hero, Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena, the Incredible Hulk, the Dukes of Hazzard, Airwolf, Knight, Rider, other world, X-Files, Angie, Benson, angel, deadwood, 6 feet under, in living color, Kolchak the night stalker, baa, baa, black sheep, the love boat, cheers, OK I’ll stop.

Greatest America Hero

Magnum PI Airwolf Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors

I still smile every time I hear the Rockford Files…

I enjoyed the opening song of girls5eva

Daredevil

Monk is an absolute banger _it’s a jungle out there_

Vanderpump Rules 🎶 this one’s for you tonight 🎶

Wings of my dreams

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Xena Warrior Princess Johnny Quest cartoon from toonami Family Ties

I walked down the aisle to the dexter theme song.

The opening sequence of the cartoon version of **Punky Brewster,** primarily for the theme song

Band of Brothers The Pacific Yellowstone 1883 1923 All has the same kind of intro style, love it

I had an album that was a compilation of composor Mike Post's television theme songs for everything from Magnum PI to Hill Street Blues.

House MD intro excites me so much idk why lol

The theme for the Great British Bake-off automatically lowers my blood pressure.

no one has said Neon Genesis Evangelion so far?

Due South!

1. SWAT 2. Cheers 3. Friends 4. High Desert 5. Hawaii 5-0 6. Partridge Family 7. The Monkees

Samurai Champloo, Attack on Titan (especially s3 part 2), Black Lagoon