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Every now and again, they manage to write a particularly catchy song to run with the credits of a TV show. Some of my favorites, in no particular order, are:

The Rockford Files
The Equalizer
Barnaby Jones
Midnight Caller
Mission Impossible
The Persuaders (British)
Van der Valk (British)
Inspector Morse (British)
The Incredible Hulk (end credits music)
Law & Order

Anybody else got any favorites?

Battlestar Galactica (Both original and remake)
Andromeda (Season1 ONLY)
Star Trek: DS9
Band of Brothers (It was a miniseries)
Sopranos
Smallville (This theme song could not have been better for a series about Superman)
Hill Street Blues

These are just off the top of my head.

Sopranos
24
Smallville

Rockford Files.
The Original BattleStar Galactica.
Magnum PI
Hawaii 5-O
The Young and the Restless (American Soap Opera)
The Incredible Hulk (end theme)
Law&Order
Mission Impossible
AirWolf

And this one 80's show that I forget the name of, that had spies hiding as cover models. It's the one that the guy shot himself on set playing with a gun loaded with blanks. Themesong was "I need a Hero"

And, the one I still hum today: The Muppet Show!

Battlestar Galactica
MacGyver
Magnum P.I.
Hill Street Blues (Thanx, Stravo)
Fame
SeaQuest DSV
Babylon 5, especially Season 5

to name a few.

Benny Hill Show Theme
A-Team
Crocketts Theme from miami Vie (does that count)
Van De Valk

and lastly Hawai 5 - 0 because i used to be able to play it on the cello.

SG1 tends to get stuck in my head. Sesame Street did when I was young

Secret Agent Man (the 2000 remake)

My picks:

The Prisoner

Doctor Who

Mission Impossible

Mannix

I, Claudius

Gunsmoke

Batman: TAS

Cowboy Bebop

The Twilight Zone (Bernard Hermann's season 1 theme)

Cosmos

NYPD Blue

Get Smart

Dark Shadows

Victory At Sea

The Avengers (Laurie Johnson's jazz-beat theme)

The Saint

Space: 1999 (Barry Gray's season 1 theme)

Max Headroom (season 2 revised theme)

The Rat Patrol

Law & Order and SVU
Star Trek DS9
Space Above and Beyond
Lois & Clark
Angel
Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
JAG
Stargate SG-1
ER
Battlestar Galactica
Knight Rider
MacGyver
The A-Team
Airwolf
Magnum P.I.
L.A. Law
Hillstreet Blues
Cheers
Batman Superman Adventures
Batman Beyond
Linus & Lucy (Peanuts theme)
Unsolved Mysteries
Pink Panther
Olympic Theme

Perry Mason
Star Trek: TNG
Get Smart
Doctor Who (second rendition: the one that came about around the time of the Third Doctor)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Unsolved Mysteries
One more, but I can't remember the name - it was like Cops of the fifties, which they later made a spoof off of, and spawned that infamous four-note opening theme.

Forgot to mention The Wild Wild West, Rawhide, and Peter Gunn in my list.

Sharpshooter wrote: One more, but I can't remember the name - it was like Cops of the fifties, which they later made a spoof off of, and spawned that infamous four-note opening theme.

DRAGNET!!!

(note: it took Nit and I both grabbing our hands yelling 'oh crap oh crap, I know this one' to remember the name of the show)

Star Trek TNG.
Deep Space 9.
Smallville.
Andromeda.
Total Recall 2070.
Earth Final Conflict.

M*A*S*H...IIRC its title is something like suicide is painless...now that's just classic

How can you not mention Firefly?

Don't watch too many TV shows these days.. all i can think of is pretty much all anime theme songs are catchy.. I mean.. they can't not be catchy >_<

Babylon 5 (Seasons 1, 3, and 5 were the best)
Cheers
M*A*S*H* (the theme song is "Suicide is Painless," BTW)
Mission Impossible
X-Files
Space: Above and Beyond

The Munsters.

The Green Hornet
Remington Steele

-Got to give kudos to mancini.

Forgot those:
Remington Steele. Always Remington Steele.
Airwolf. I can't believe I missed that.
The A-Team
STAS (no, NOT BTAS, which I consider an extension of the movie score)
Fraggles
Space Rangers
DarkWing Duck
DangerMouse
Silverhawks
Raumpatrouille
Der Fahnder

LadyTevar: 'This one 80's show' seems to have been Cover Up. Unfortunately, details are sparse.

So many of my favorites have already been posted:
B5-S5
Haibane Renmei
Planetes(only if the opening sequence is included, the song itself isn't that wonderful but the opening scenes set the feeling of the show, it's similar to the theme/opening to Enterprise)

Jack of All Trades

A girl i knew at URI had dozens of these on a CD. She also had a second disc that was all saturday morning cartoons. It was great drunken 3 AM entertainment.

my favorites:

Knight Rider
The A-Team
Miami Vice
Hill Street Blues
The Twilight Zone
M*A*S*H*
Law and Order

and the greatest TV theme song of all time:

HAWAII FIVE-O!

*dons a hula skirt and sings
da-da-da-da dah-dah, da-da da da dah!

Most of my other favorites have already been mentioned.

Outlaw Star
Stargate Atlantis
Firefly
Star Trek Enterprise (the original alternate theme)