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Soundtracks to Copaganda

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Theme music from police procedurals, mystery series, and adjacent TV programs, occasionally with commentary.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Regarding the AI skin people are calling an “actress” Studio types would LOVE this to succeed, so the skin is being featured and anthropomorphized in the mainstream press. Remember, movie producers left money on the table pre-1910 and refused to credit movie actors

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The sitcom CARTER COUNTRY premiered in the fall of 1977, about nine months into its namesake's presidential administration. Victor French and Kene Holliday starred as a small-town Georgia (white) police chief and (Black) sergeant dealing with changing race relations www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZf5...

CARTER COUNTRY opening credits ABC sitcom

YouTube video by Gilmore Box

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

THE FALL GUY (1981-1985) was apparently conceived as a star vehicle for Lee Majors' trademark wince, for which his role as a stuntman-cum-skiptracer provided opportunities aplenty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9e...

The Fall Guy intro (1982)

YouTube video by jinglescollection

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I've been away from this beat for too long, let's come back with THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjmO...

THE MAN FROM UNCLE Season One Long Opening

YouTube video by lp45cdwoman

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I posted the intro from MANNIX (1967-75) on my main last year but for some reason (probably because i mixed up the two accounts YET AGAIN) never put it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=guJi...

Mannix Series Intro - Season 1 (1967)

YouTube video by 70s TV Detectives

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

MIDSOMER MURDERS (1997-) adapts Caroline Graham's Inspector Barnaby novels set in a fictional rural English county. The show's tone combines dark themes with more than a little comic relief. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV-a...

Midsomer Murders TV Series Intro for Season 1 - Episode 1

YouTube video by Bill Samson 665

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

DEATH IN PARADISE (2011-) is another one of Mom's frequent shows. It's about a stuffy English detective reassigned to a (fictive) British Caribbean island with a French colonial history. The Englishman changes every few seasons, but the premise remains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkVe...

Death in paradise intro

YouTube video by General Slop

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I've been spending a lot of time at my mom's house lately, and that means hours of LAW & ORDER: SVU (1999 and counting). (Thanks, Peacock!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXN...

Law & Order: SVU Opening Title Sequence (Theme Song)

YouTube video by Law & Order

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

VERONICA MARS (2004-2007, mostly) was a noir implementation of the Nancy Drew formula: teenage girl with law-enforcement dad starts solving cases with him and on her own. The theme music is the Dandy Warhols' "We Used to Be Friends" www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ugb...

Veronica Mars Season 1 Opening Credits

YouTube video by Veronica Mars

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I've been holding off on THE AVENGERS because the theme went through several revisions as the cast changed. This version, introduced with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in 1966, is the one most folks associate with the show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Ji...

The Avengers Season 4 Intro Plus

YouTube video by campgalore

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Having now discovered a KOJAK action figure on eBay I am beginning to think the toy companies just licensed any show that regularly had car chases

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

for contrast, the show i think really nailed it musically was THE ROOKIES (1972-6) www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9fs...

'The Rookies' TV Intro (1972)

YouTube video by Bionic Disco

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I'm a little inclined to think the STARSKY & HUTCH (1975-9) theme tries a little too hard, at least in this iteration, to catch that funk vibe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_vN...

Starsky & Hutch (Intro & Outro) Season 2

YouTube video by 11db11

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

When I was a kid KOJAK (1973-78) had a rep for being too intense for younger viewers; watching clips of Telly Savalas harassing witnesses and suspects showed me why that might have been so. (Also the pilot was based on a real-life rape & murder case.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY2r...

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

OK, finally getting around to SPENSER: FOR HIRE (1985-88). Urich also played the character in a series of TV movies during the early '90s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=69WB...

Theme Song | Spenser for Hire | Warner Archive

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Zuckerberg is Edison, Musk is DW Griffith. Thank you.

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I got distracted by Robert Urich a couple days ago, but mentioning Raymond Burr's huge office in KINGSTON: CONFIDENTIAL reminded me of Tia Carrere's implausibly large office in RELIC HUNTER. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq4J...

Relic Hunter Intro

YouTube video by isurukill

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

In between VEGA$ and SPENSER: FOR HIRE, Urich played former CIA operative and current action oceanographer Robert Gavilan in one season of GAVILAN (1982-3). www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY1_...

Gavilan Main Title

YouTube video by Lee Goldberg

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

We've already seen early-career Robert Urich in the ensemble cast of S.W.A.T. A few years later he moved into a lead as PI Dan Tanna in VEGA$ (1978-81). www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD-w...

Vega$ Series Intro - Season 1 (1978)

YouTube video by 70s TV Detectives

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

After IRONSIDE, Burr's next series was KINGSTON: CONFIDENTIAL (1977), in which he played a newspaper magnate who solved crimes through his editors and reporters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2m-...

"Kingston: Confidential" TV Intro (and Bumper)

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

IRONSIDE (1967-75) put Raymond Burr back in crime drama just a year after the cancellation of PERRY MASON. Here he plays a police chief who returns as a consultant after an assassin's bullet leaves him paralyzed from the waist down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtgQ...

Ironside 1967-1975 TV Theme

YouTube video by War Dogs

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

As we've seen in some other shows of the era (e.g. HARDCASTLE & MCCORMICK), the late '80s was more open to theme music with lyrics. Fox's MOD SQUAD update 21 JUMP STREET aimed for younger audiences and I'm a bit surprised they didn't release the theme as a single. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekfL...

21 Jump Street Season 1 Opening and Closing Credits and Theme Song

YouTube video by Steven

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

THE ROCKFORD FILES (1974-80) gave James Garner his first TV his since MAVERICK, in the role of an ex-con (wrongfully convicted and pardoned) PI working low-rent cases in Southern California and living in a trailer. Very mid-70s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zY...

The Rockford Files Season 1 Intro

YouTube video by 1000 Mission Street

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

HART TO HART (1979-84) belongs in the same "rich people solve crimes" subgenre as MATT HOUSTON (and Batman, I guess), but was more successful. Note the use of strings here to suggest luxe (and perhaps femininity, Stefanie Powers being a lead) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kPv...

Hart to Hart Theme (Intro & Outro)

YouTube video by 11db11

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Sweeping horns and strings laid over a disco beat make the CHARLIE'S ANGELS theme one of the most 1970s things ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtaE...

"Charlie's Angels" 1976 TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Like superhero stories, Westerns often embody law-enforcement themes but have their own set of tropes, so OI haven't been super interested in posting any music from them. One exception is WILD WILD WEST, because "science fiction spy Western." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCu...

"The Wild Wild West" TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I've been steering clear of superhero stuff so far because it's a totally different vibe, but I do want to post THE GREEN HORNET (1966-7). www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIws...

Green Hornet Open

YouTube video by tvradiodude

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A less successful POLICE STORY spinoff was DAVID CASSIDY, MAN UNDERCOVER (1978), in which the former Keith Partridge tried to shake his teen-idol image through the time-honored vehicle of a police procedural. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmFe...

"David Cassidy: Man Undercover" TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Occasionally a POLICE STORY episode would get spun off into its own series; the most successful of these was POLICE WOMAN (1974-78), starring Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Pepper Anderson, who mostly worked undercover in roles that often excused revealing costumes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmv...

Police woman Intro

YouTube video by TVTunes Quiz

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

POLICE STORY (1973-77) was an anthology series created by LAPD detective-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh. The full theme music only ran over the end credits; this video contains four different arrangements of Jerry Goldsmith's tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8WA...

Police Story Theme (4 Different Versions)

YouTube video by 11db11

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

THE UNTOUCHABLES (1959-63) ran approximately four times as long as Eliot Ness' historical operation against Al Capone's syndicate (counting Capone's conviction as the end date). www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZTj...

"The Untouchables" (1959) TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Speaking of MACGYVER (1985-92), Richard Dean Anderson's beloved action engineer had one of the most generic theme tunes I've ever listened to. Could easily run behind the credits of ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT or some half-hour sports highlight show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hAg...

MacGyver Intro Season 1

YouTube video by Fuzziato

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Former Hardy Boy Parker Stevenson played asocial genius Austin James in the Sherlock Holmes (and possibly MACGYVER)-inspired PROBE. James owned some sort of tech company that he barely paid attention to while solving a lot of sciencey crimes. Isaac Asimov co-created. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5jy...

Classic TV Theme: Probe (Isaac Asimov)

YouTube video by David Gideon

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

CROSSING JORDAN (2001-07) was a crime-lab procedural set in Boston and starring Jill Hennessy as forensic pathologist Jordan Cavanaugh. Hence the Celtic music in the season 1 theme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z308...

Crossing Jordan (2001-2007) Season 1 Intro

YouTube video by ThatAlexDude

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I'm running out of intro clips for NBC MYSTERY MOVIE spokes, so let's pivot to 1985's half-season MacGRUDER & LOUD, in which our buddy cops are secretly married. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bvh...

MACGRUDER AND LOUD 1985 - John Getz, Kathryn Harrold - opening credits

YouTube video by PREHISTORICTELEVISION1956

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

In this week's newsletter, I give some thought to company's going all-in on America as a brand (and how TV is serving this up) ... plus, the return of NBA on NBC also means the return of "Roundball Rock," which I think is a good thing — a signature piece of music functions as a logo in audio form!

When companies go all-in on America as a brand

Plus the power of "Roundball Rock" ... and a look at the celebrity documentary industrial complex.

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

TENAFLY (1973-4), another second-season entry in the NBC WEDNESDAY MYSTERY MOVIE, was sort of the opposite of blaxploitation: Harry Tenafly (James McEachin) lived with his wife and kids in a suburban tract home, drove a sensible car, and worked for a large agency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-5c...

Tenafly Theme (Intro)

YouTube video by 11db11

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The second season of NBC WEDNESDAY MYSTERY MOVIE carried BANACEK over from the first and added three new legs. THE SNOOP SISTERS (1973-4) starred Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as a mystery novelist and her sister (and typist) who solved crimes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRI7...

Classic TV Theme: The Snoop Sisters

YouTube video by David Gideon

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The third original leg of the Wednesday installment was MADIGAN, in which Richard Widmark reprised his 1968 movie role as an NYPD detective, now transplanted to Europe. This is the intro to the second episode "The London Beat." www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fh1...

"Madigan" TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Another original leg of the NBC WEDNESDAY MYSTERY MOVIE was COOL MILLION (1972), with the premise that retired CIA agent Jefferson Keyes (James Farentino) was so good at detective that he could command one million 1972 dollars per case. (music starts at 5:00) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRC...

"Cool Million" TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

BANACEK (1972-4) was a spoke on the second NBC MYSTERY MOVIE wheel, when the show split into a Sunday and a Wednesday installment. George Peppard played the title role, an insurance investigator whose paychecks came from recovering stolen items. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvTj...

Générique - Banacek (Saison 2)

YouTube video by Le Monde des Avengers

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

IT TAKES A THIEF (1968-70) featured Robert Wagner as an elite jewel thief/cat burglar who had been pressed into service stealing for Uncle Sam. This intro is from the pilot and may be less familiar than the theme that succeeded it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCGm...

It takes a thief Intro

YouTube video by TVTunes Quiz

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

William Conrad was tapped for NBC's 1981 adaptation of NERO WOLFE when Orson Welles dropped out for reasons that vary depending upon the source. A young Lee Horsley played Archie; the show ran half a season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvAF...

Classic TV Theme: Nero Wolfe (William Conrad)

YouTube video by David Gideon

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I just realized I haven't posted the third spoke of THE MEN's wheel. JIGSAW starred James Wainwright as a missing-persons specialist with the CA state police. Haven't found a theme posted, but here's the opening five minutes of the pilot, with title music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATfV...

JIGSAW 1972 Man on the Move James Wainwright, Vera Miles TV Pilot - Director William Graham

YouTube video by Hard To Find Rare Videos

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I've been busy and tired and fallen well behind my post-a-day target, but it's time to start catching up. Today's first theme is ADAM-12 (1968-75), a Jack Webb coproduction about LAPD beat cops Pete Malloy and Jim Reed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=57gS...

Adam 12 Theme Song Intro

YouTube video by CrazyAboutTV

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Here's the second spoke, rendered in messed-up VHS: THE DELPHI BUREAU, featuring Lawrence Luckinbill as a guy with a photographic memory putting it to work in counterespionage for Uncle Sam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-RH...

"The Delphi Bureau" TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The easiest spoke of the MEN wheel to find is ASSIGNMENT: VIENNA, which featured Robert Conrad as American spy hunter Jake Webster, who operated a bar and grill as cover for his covert work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJW...

Assignment: Vienna Theme (Intro & Outro)

YouTube video by 11db11

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Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

ABC's wheel series THE MEN (1972-3) is mostly memorable only for Isaac Hayes' theme music, hot on the heels of his success with SHAFT and hitting the R&B chart that year. I couldn't find a clip of the actual show intro, unfortiunately. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiy...

Isaac Hayes - Theme From "The Men"

YouTube video by Stax Records

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I love the signature trumpet riff in the theme for THE MAGICIAN (1973-4) with its stage-magicky (and maybe problematically orientalist) opening and final classical flourish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAsa...

"The Magician" TV Intro

YouTube video by The Rap Sheet

Soundtracks to Copaganda @copshowtunes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

DIAGNOSIS: MURDER was a spinoff of JAKE AND THE FATMAN (1987-92), which I didn't count as a late-career procedural because William Conrad already had so many cop shows on his resume (e.g., CANNON) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy4q...

Jake and the Fatman intro

YouTube video by jayleno2000