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Compare [[Rearrange the Song]].
Related to [[Credits Jukebox]].
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== [[Anime]] ==
* This is normal for modern anime. Two-cour series will typically get a new OP and/or ED somewhere around episode 13. [[Long Runner|Longrunners]] will switch them less frequently. [[Oddly
* ''[[
* Taken to extremes in the second cour of ''[[
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', after two seasons, changed the singer of the opening song and then, two seasons later, changed the whole song.
* ''[[Pokémon (
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' does this with the Japanese version, but the English dub by [[
** The English dubs of each subsequent series (''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|GX]]'', ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* Averted with ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]''.
* Over the course of its two-season run, ''[[
* ''[[Lupin III]]'' shifted the opening of each of its series from time to time. The best known example is likely the second series, ''Shin Lupin III'', which used four distinctly different versions of the famous Lupin theme throughout its three-year run.
* ''Gatchaman'' interestingly replaced its 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).
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' used an Alan Thicke tune called "Big Wheels" until 1983, when it was ousted for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf37Dgj92QM Changing Keys]", composed by show creator [[Merv Griffin]]. "Changing Keys" was re-orchestrated several times (with Merv having little to no hand in the last two remixes) until the theme was finally retired in 2000 for an unnamed theme by Steve Kaplan. And ''that'' theme was retired in 2006 for the current tune, "Happy Wheels" by Frankie Blue and John Hoke.
* ''[[The
* ''[[Lingo]]'' used a short, looped "game show"-y music in seasons 1 and 2 (actually a remix of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA6t-URfPDY Dutch verion's theme]), and a completely different [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKIz_WAEnf0&feature=related rock theme] from Season 3 onward.
** The complete opposite could be said for the Dutch version. There the "game show"-y tune replaced a rock theme.
* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]''. Drew's own "Moon over Parma", "Five O'Clock World" by the Vogues and "Cleveland Rocks" by the Presidents of the United States of America.
* ''[[The Unit]]''. First "Fired Up", then a different tune by the same guy (perhaps because "Fired Up" was adapted from a Marine Corps cadence and therefore not a good choice for an Army-based show).
* In season 4, ''[[Big Love]]'' changed from "God Only Knows" by [[The Beach Boys]] to "Home" by Engineers.
* Each season of the ''[[S Club 7]]'' TV series had a different song as its opening theme. ''Miami 7'' had "Bring It All Back", ''LA 7'' had "Reach", ''Hollywood 7'' had "You" and ''Viva S Club'' had "Alive".
* The original ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' changed its theme tune a number of times during its run.
* ''[[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]]'' deliberately changed its opening and closing themes for each new series or special.
* ''[[Space: 1999]]'' got a new composer as part of a general makeover when Fred Frieberger took over as producer in season two.
* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' originally had a theme tune by Johnny Dankworth. It also underwent a complete makeover when production was switched from videotape to film, simultaneous with Diana Rigg's arrival, resulting in the more familiar Laurie Johnson theme.
* The change of ''[[Monk]]'''s theme tune is notable as it was implicitly referenced in-show, at a [[Painting the Fourth Wall]] monemt.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' made a point of doing this every season, to reflect the changing theme of the show.
* ''[[Happy Days]]'' used "Rock Around the Clock" as its theme tune in its first season, then changed over to a [[Days of the Week Song]] specially written for the show.
* ''[[The Partridge Family]]'': went from "When We're Singing" in season 1 to a similar-sounding but different song, "C'mon, Get Happy".
* ''[[Chuck]]'' went through several incarnations before settling on "Short Skirt Long Jacket".
* ''[[White Collar]]'' has a new theme for season 3.
** Which they changed back to the old theme a few episodes in.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' 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).
* During its run on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], ''[[Password]]'' changed its set and theme tune for the transition to ''Password All-Stars''. Robert Israel's synthesized theme was replaced by Bob Cobert's "Bicentennial Funk".
* ''[[Magnum,
* ''[[Simon and Simon]]'' went from a bouncy theme with lyrics from the first season to a more traditionally 80s detective series theme for the rest of the run.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[
* Licencing issues forced the removal of the cover version of "My Life" from ''[[Bosom Buddies]]'' reruns, while certain public domain episodes of ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' and ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' air on smaller stations without their famous themes.
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' had a different [[Instrumental Theme Tune]] each season for seasons 1-4. Season 5 introduced a [[Title Theme Tune]] that stayed through to the end.
* ''The Nightly Business Report'' has had four different theme tunes in its 30+ years on air, all were produced by Edd Kalehoff.
* ''[[
* The 1998-2004 version of ''[[The Hollywood Squares]]'' used its own song "I Love Hollywood," sung by none other than Whoopi Goldberg, from 1998-2002. Afterward, it switched to "Hollywood Square Biz," Teena Marie's 1981 single [[Real Song Theme Tune|"Square Biz"]] with new lyrics.
* In the first few episodes of ''[[Family Matters]]'', the theme song was Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World. It was quickly dropped in place for an original theme, As Days Go By.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Both ''[[WWE Raw]]'' and ''[[WWE Smackdown]]'' have changed their [[Real Song Theme Tune
** Don't forget about the actual wrestlers themselves. This happens all the time due to forming new teams/factions, face/heel turns, etc. As a result it's harder to name someone that DIDN'T change their theme music than it is to name someone that has.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Halo]]'' series used a new main theme for ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', although the original theme still occasionally appears.
* ''[[Syphon Filter]]: Logan's Shadow''.
* The ''[[Time Crisis]]'' series replaced its theme for the third installment, then heavily reworked that theme for the fourth.
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