I was wondering about that the other day while watching an episode of The Rifleman.
Here is the show's original opening... (The closing in also there, but you can ignore that part, since we are specifically dealing with the first part)
The Rifleman
There. That was quite nice, wasn't it? Just the right amount of gunshots, not too loud, the kind of opening that draws a person toward the tv set.
Now, let us imagine that cjhsa was in charge of coming up with the opening. I imagine it would look like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMzVDo9wVA