The original theme had a dramatic buildup to the four-way Truck Driver's Gear Change accompanied by synthesizers and saxophones. The prototype theme from the second Trebek pilot also qualifies as this, thanks to the drum fills. In 1992, the theme was remixed to include a bongo and shaker track, but the tournament and celebrity games would use a combined version of both.
The 1997 arrangement was smooth and jazzy with more diverse instrumentation and guitar and sax solos near the end. The 2001 update also deserves a mention, with its quicker tempo and freestyle solos. It helps that the latter version brought back the second half of the "globe swoosh" used to introduce the show.
The 2008-2021 version. It's nice and relaxing, plus the eleven-note ending is styled after the iconic Daily Double sound effect.
Likewise The Greatest of All Time version has been the dubbed either as the movie version or more appropriately the Final Boss version bringing a cinematic sound and heavy percussion to add to the grandeur.
The think music is iconic in itself, but the current version with a small orchestra taking over the second half of the song from the pianos is awesome, particularly when it cues up and the made-for-HD backdrop turns from blue to red.
The music used for the Eliminator in the UK version (which was reused in the Australian version). Listen to the soundtrack version, which has additional lyrics that make it even more awesome.
Finders Keepers gets a jazzy main theme prominently featuring guitar and saxophone to get the contestants and audience revved up for the room-trashing that awaits. The syndicated version adds extra trumpets for extra adrenaline.
Whatever one's opinion of Think Fast, the theme music is as high-octane and blood-pumping as the score for a game show with emphasis on thinking - and acting - fast should be.
The main theme of Make the Grade pairs the usual Kalehoff guitars with synthesisers to create an appropriately tense atmosphere for the academic showdown of the game itself.
Not a traditional soundtrack, but a lot of the songs from Whose Line Is It Anyway?, especially if Wayne Brady is involved.
His operasongs. The opera song at the end of "Songs of The Western" in particular, for Wayne's ultrahigh note at the end, as well as the most epic gargling ever. Brad even manages to gargle in tune.
Brad singing a ballad to a girl named Niroshi, the Political Science and Economics major... We'll put on some sun-tan looooshiii. A lot of the songs from Drew Careys Improvaganza.
From 1988-2002 The BBC had a policital program called On The Record; this was its opening. Not only is the music cool, it has Victoria Tower (a.k.a Big Ben, though that's the name of the bell) transformed into a crocodile in it..
As a gift to their viewers for helping raise over for charity, Jimmy Fallon had Stephen Colbert perform the infamous Rebecca Black song Friday live on his show, along with The Roots and Taylor Hicks, creating what is probably the single most epic musical number in late-night comedy history.
Jeux sans frontières (Games without Frontiers or Games Without Borders) was a Europe-wide television game show. The theme song has two parts, and both are awesome. Youtube link. If you are from Europe and grew up in The '90s, it will bring heart-warming tears in your eyes. The first part is the Prelude from Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum, written near the end of the 17th century. It is often known as "the Eurovision theme" as it was adopted as the ident of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) / Union européenne de radio-télévision (UER) and has played at the start of every Eurovision Song Contest. It is no less awesome for any of this.
The theme toWipeout. Manages to be silly and badass in the same fifty seconds, perfectly capturing the transition from the silly qualifier to the serious Wipeout Zone.
Classic Concentration, which ran from 1987 to 1991, has one of the classiest music packages in the medium.
Say whatever you want about the creator of the show himself, but when separating an "artist" (for lack of a better term) from their work, you have to admit that the theme song for Jim'll Fix It is actually very beautiful in itself.
If you want some Taiwanese game show theme tunes, try out Hao Pen Io which is a catchy and jovial tune that is essentially Wipeout in 1990s Taiwan.
The theme music to the Peter Tomarken-hosted Wipeout (1988) (a trivia game unrelated to Wipeout (2008), the obstacle course show), titled "Peter's Theme", is remembered just as fondly as the show itself. Unfortunately, there's no clean copy of the tune available, but there is a nice piano cover to enjoy.
Edd Kalehoff's bouncy Moog synthesizer theme is a perfect fit for "television's most exciting hour"—so much so that it was unchanged for 35 years, and was finally remixed when Drew became the host.
Despite the perceived flaws of the 1994 nighttime version, it did have a pretty cool saxophone rendition of the daytime theme, also by Kalehoff. After this version was cancelled, its theme was later reused for Bruce's Price is Right in the UK, as well as several other international versions.
From the show's debut in 1975 until 1983, they used Alan Thicke's "Big Wheels", a groovy horn-driven piece that is reminiscent of Maynard Ferguson's "Give it One". The latter was used in the show's pilots.
In 1983, "Big Wheels" was replaced by Merv Griffin's "Changing Keys", a jazzy tune with several key changes. Fans consider it to be the definitive theme song. It was re-orchestrated many times until 2000, and it was brought back in 2021 with a new arrangement.
had a dramatic buildup to the four-way Truck Driver's Gear Change accompanied by synthesizers and saxophones. The prototype theme