Shows that use pre-existing songs as their themes.

randomuser2349 8 months 14 days ago Posts: 854	Do you know when TV shows use pre-existing songs for their theme songs? For example: Happy Days: Speed Grapher (has a bit of suggestive content): If so, what do you think of them, and which ones are your favourites?

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Drahken 8 months 13 days ago Posts: 2145	The old dennis the menace show used stock music for it's theme (if you pay attention, you'll notice the same stock music in a couple road runner cartoons). Also, the CN version of knights of the zodiac used the pop song "I ran" as it's theme.
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Sunriser 8 months 13 days ago Posts: 7684	I'm not a fan of this- Why would you want to associate a song you hear on the radio with a show? The CSI shows are the worst about this. Plus, I like original melodies and lyrics that kinda tell you what the show is about. I love playing "name that theme song" trivia games.

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bassman21 8 months 13 days ago Posts: 12793	There have been a lot of shows that have done this. Greatest American Hero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBKqwdxUH8U Taxi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuPZ4NaRiv4 Married with children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAKaJE4gjYg Friends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQtveTUZrS8 Malcolm in the Middle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_glhTAK-Y

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Casey_Jones 8 months 13 days ago Posts: 336	bassman21 wrote: There have been a lot of shows that have done this. Greatest American Hero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBKqwdxUH8U Taxi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuPZ4NaRiv4 Married with children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAKaJE4gjYg Friends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQtveTUZrS8 Malcolm in the Middle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_glhTAK-Y The Friends theme was actually written for the show. However they did use a premade song for the pilot when the planned title for the show was "Friends like us" And Family Matters originally used this as their theme and of course there's The Wonder Years

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Drahken 8 months 12 days ago Posts: 2145	The UK show "sugar rush" used a blondie song as it's theme.
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pizzaman 8 months 10 days ago Posts: 45	bassman21 wrote: There have been a lot of shows that have done this. Greatest American Hero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBKqwdxUH8U Taxi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuPZ4NaRiv4 Married with children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAKaJE4gjYg Friends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQtveTUZrS8 Malcolm in the Middle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_glhTAK-Y Greatest American Hero was an original piece that made it on to the charts.

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bassman21 8 months 10 days ago Posts: 12793	pizzaman wrote: [ Greatest American Hero was an original piece that made it on to the charts. You're right. From wiki "In the late 1970s he started working for record producer and composer Mike Post. Post was hired along with Stephen Geyer to write the theme tune for a new TV series titled The Greatest American Hero, about an average high school teacher who comes into possession of a superhero outfit, and, as luck would have it, Scarbury was given the opportunity to record it. After recording the full-length version of the song, entitled "Believe It or Not", it was edited down to a minute for broadcast as the theme song for the show. The show's success (along with its catchy theme song) prompted Elektra Records to first release it as a single, shooting up to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981. An album by the same title was also hastily produced and it also sold well."

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