Favorite TV Composers

Below is my list of favorite twenty TV Composers of all time, alongside the TV theme songs that I believe made each of them one of the greatest TV composers of all time.

I have listed these musically intelligent, creative, and gifted composers from #1 to #20 (with #1 being my very favorite). Each composer and composition has been chosen for it's overall chemistry of creativity, appropriateness, musical intelligence, and uniqueness. I have also added a link to their TV theme song on YouTube below for your convenience.

#1) Jennie Muskett - Spooks Theme

#2) Sean Callery - Elementary Theme

#3) Patrick Gowers - Sherlock Holmes Theme

#4) Andy Price - Robin Hood (BBC) Theme

#5) Jay Gruska - Lois & Clark Theme

#6) Richard Markowitz - Wild, Wild West Theme (1960s version)

#7) Christopher Gunning - Inspector Poirot Theme

#8) Barrington Pheloung - Inspector Morse Theme

#9) Jim Parker - Midsommer Murders Theme

#10) Irving Szathmary - Get Smart Theme (1960s version)

#11) Ken Howard and #12) Alan Blaikley - Miss Marple Theme

#13) John Addison - Murder She Wrote Theme

#14) Walter Schumann - Dragnet Theme

#15) Marius Constant - Twilight Zone Theme

#16) Charles Gounod - Alfred Hitchcock Presents Theme

aka 'Funeral March of a Marionette'

#17) Earle Hagen and #18) Herbert Spencer - Andy Griffith Theme

#19) Jay Livingston and #20) Ray Evans - Bonanza Theme