History Main / ReplacedTheThemeTune

* ''TheCosbyShow'' teeters the line of new theme and rearrangement for Season 5 with the orchestral version. It's probably an arrangement because a fragment of the theme is there in two or three places (but much less than the other 7 seasons' intros, which generally followed a 12-bar blues progression).

** Don't forget about the actual wrestlers themselves. This happens all the time due to forming new teams/factions, face/heel turns, ect. As a result it's harder to name someone that DIDN'T change their theme music than it is to name someone that has.

* ''RedDwarf'' switched from a ''2000: A Space Odyssey''-style opening theme to an instrumental based off the end credits theme in the third season, as the original theme was too sombre for a sci-fi sitcom. When those seasons were digitally remastered, they had a new opening theme that combined both themes.

* ''HakushonDaimao'' (which, like Gatchaman above, was produced by Tatsunoko) switched the opening and ending theme song halfway through the run.

* ''Gatchaman'' interestingly replaced it's opening theme, with the ending theme (and vice versa) around episode 20. The "new" opening is much better known than the original (which had a children's chorus in a fairly hard-boiled spies and superheroes show).

* ''Gatchaman'' interestingly replaced it's opening theme, with the ending theme (and vice versa) around episode 20. The "new" opening is much better known than the original (which had a children's chorus in a fairly hard-boiled spies and superheroes show).

* ''DeathNote'' had two themes. The first theme was ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2VyTSiEygI The World]]'', and the second was ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bvk3V_yPh4&feature=related What's Up, People?!]]''.

* ''TheJokersWild'' started out with Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9AbTVV2yY The Savers]]". Over time, the show changed themes like crazy: a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version composed by Alan Thicke titled "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdLfv62UpYw Joker's Jive]]", a [[http://www.gameshowthemesongs.net/sounds/Joker%27s%20Wild/1978%20Joker%27s%20Wild.mp3 re-orchestration of "The Savers]]" by Hal Hidey, a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyN3V31x5Eg new theme composed by Hidey]] (which was always the closing theme), and even another Perry and Kingsley song for a very short time. What's more, Barry and Enright also stole the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxG6zloL6w theme]] from ''[[BreakTheBank1976 Break the Bank]]'' for a tournament of champions.

* ''TheJokersWild'' started out with Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9AbTVV2yY The Savers]]". Over time, the show changed themes like crazy: a JimmyHartVersion composed by Alan Thicke titled "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdLfv62UpYw Joker's Jive]]", a [[http://www.gameshowthemesongs.net/sounds/Joker%27s%20Wild/1978%20Joker%27s%20Wild.mp3 re-orchestration of "The Savers]]" by Hal Hidey, a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyN3V31x5Eg new theme composed by Hidey]] (which was always the closing theme), and even another Perry and Kingsley song for a very short time. What's more, Barry and Enright also stole the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxG6zloL6w theme]] from ''[[BreakTheBank1976 Break the Bank]]'' for a tournament of champions.

* Taken to extremes in the second cour of MawaruPenguindrum where a different end theme was used in almost every episode.

* Over the course of its two-season run, ''CodeGeass'' changed the opening theme ''five times''. Of note, is the change to third theme - it came after [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode Lelouch accidentally geassed his sister into ordering the genocide of the Japanese & had to kill her to stop it]]]], and was only used for the final two episodes of the first season because of the drastic shift in tone.

* ''Hardcastle and [=McCormick=]'' started out with the hard pounding theme "Drive". For part of the second season, this was changed to the theme "Back to Back" which emphasized the friendship of the two title characters. "Drive" returned in Season 3.

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6J-wc5RJ_w&playnext=1&list=PL3C72FA75AD987F0D theme song]] to ''Nightly Business Report'' was changed in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twc3AXCMKj8 1988]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXJjnjerrck 2002]], and [[http://www.nbr.com/stations/tools/music/07-NBR-60sec-BUT.wav 2010]].

** The English dubs of each subsequent series ([[YuGiOhGX GX]], [[YuGiOh5Ds 5Ds]], and [[YuGiOhZexal ZEXAL]]) introduce one new theme song per series, but the same theme is retained throughout a series' run.

* ''YuGiOh'' does this with the Japanese version, but the English dub has two variations of the same theme.

* Over the course of it's two season run, ''CodeGeass'' changed the opening theme ''five times''. Of note, is the change to third theme - it came after [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode Lelouch accidentally geassed his sister into ordering the genocide of the Japanese & had to kill her to stop it]]]], and was only used for the final two episodes of the first season because of the drastic shift in tone.

* Over the course of it's two season run, ''Code Geass'' changed the opening theme ''five times''. Of note, is the change to third theme - it came after [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode Lelouch accidentally geassed his sister into ordering the genocide of the Japanese & had to kill her to stop it]]]], and was only used for the final two episodes of the first season because of the drastic shift in tone.

* ''HappyDays'' used "Rock Around the Clock" as its theme tune in its first season, then changed over to a DaysOfTheWeekSong especially written for the show.