Coolest Opening Credits to a TV Show

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Married With Children, easy. Especially when it was a new episode so they had that extra bit of footage with Al giving everyone money. Beautiful opening!

Bebop, South Park, and Macgyver are good too. Ahh, the Macgyver theme song. Yeahh.
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B5, FarScape, StarGate, Galactica.

The Simpson's is entertaining, though, as is Futurama.
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Get Smart, Cowboy Bebop, The Dead Zone.
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Jack of All Trades :twisted:
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Get Smart,
Fresh Prince of Bel Air,
Cheers,
X-Files,
Futurama,
Simpsons,
Married With Children,
Airwolf,
MACGYVER!

And, just as a D-generation/late show tribute.

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Battlestar Galactica's opening was very good. I haven't seen B5 yet, so I'll have to wait to give you my opinion on that.
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If people are going to say Airwolf and A-Team, I'm saying Knight Rider! OH YEAH!
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Deep Space 9. The one from the first series, with the lone trumpet playing over timps.
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Magnum PI. Just for the soundtrack. I love the 80s.

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Babylon 5 and a tv show they should bring back so you kids could see it SWAT.
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Definitely Cowboy Bebop, with Batman the Animated Series a close second.

As for ending themes/visuals (which seems to flow naturally from the topic), I'm partial to the American version of GundamW (the Japanese ending sucks ass).
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Any show by Stephen J. Cannell. Anything with a theme written by Mike Hammer, Cowboy Bebop, Powerpuff Girls, Three's Company, The Dick van Dyke show (just loved to see if he was going to fall or walk around the ottoman), The Andy Griffith Show (the orignial, with the whistling)...
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Cowboy Bebop
Babylon 5
Cheers
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Anyone else love the opening credits from the Prisoner?

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Yes, the DS9 opening credits wasn't that bad. I am trying to remember the show that the opening credits are from. I'll get backwith it in a lil while (probably).
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The Babylon 5 season 5 credits were pretty cool, and I've always liked Deep Space 9's and Voyager's opening credit sequences.

Also, not a TV show, but I really liked First Contact's opening credits.
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While the show is only okay, I really like the song used for Earth: Final Conflict's opening.
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B5 openings. But also Andromeda (first season) and EFC had a nice music.

MacGyver, Magnum and Airwolf are almost classics :)
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Serial Experiments Lain opening; NieA_7 closing; Vandread opening; Cowboy Bebop; Chobits Closing 2; The Simpsons; Futurama; Excel Saga; Love Hina.
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Cowboy Bebop

Johnny Quest


Both of these have the best opening soundtracks you could get. 8)
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Damaramu wrote:Jack of All Trades :twisted:
Loved the opening song on that one. :D
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Dark Shadows
Hardcastle & McCormick (first season)
Greatest American Hero

note: the theme music has a lot to do with these being good

The Six Million Dollar Man -- "We can rebuild him..."
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Cowboy Bebop has a really great opening. I also liked B5's season 5 opening.
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Definitely Cowboy Bebop, with Batman the Animated Series a close second.
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