TV theme song tourney

Cafe Society
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This is silly, but…

Let’s determine the best tv theme song of all time. We’ll do the standard 16-song elimination matchup. First thing we need to do is determine the 16 finalists. So, list your top 5 tv theme songs of all time. Each one you list gets one point. The top 16 enter a single-elimation matchup…

Only one vote per person, etc etc. We’ll freeze voting in one week.

My top 5:

Sanford and Son
Hill Street Blues
The Sopranos
St. Elsewhere
Mary Tyler Moore

2

My nominations:

The Rockford Files
Maverick
The Andy Griffith Show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hogan’s Heroes

3

The Wild Wild West
Gilligan’s Island
Green Acres
Hawaii Five-0
Secret Agent Man

4

The Peter Gunn Theme
The Original Battlestar Galactica
Rawhide
The Theme From S.W.A.T.
Dr, Who (original Series/70’s version)

5

The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
Family Guy
Cheers
The Dukes of Hazzard

6

Sanford and Son
Barney Miller
Good Times
Maude
Mission: Impossible

7

Barney Miller
The Brady Bunch
WKRP in Cincinnati
MASH
All in the Family

8

The Sopranos
Gilligan’s Island
The Jeffersons
Cheers
The Simpsons

9

The Jeffersons
The Simpsons
The Odd Couple
Good Times
Dukes of Hazard

10

WKRP in Cincinnati
Taxi
St. Elsewhere
Hill Street Blues
Welcome Back, Kotter

(PS: My vote for WKRP is not a homer vote - I loved the song before I moved here.)

11

Route 66
Peter Gunn
Green Acres
Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color
Rawhide

12

Mission: Impossible
Hawaii Five-O
Original Battlestar Galactica
The Greatest American Hero
Friends

13

Magnum PI
Mission: Impossible
Greatest American Hero
Mike Hammer (with Stacy Keach)
Dukes of Hazzard

14

No need to be defensive. That’s an excellent choice.

"Baby, if you’ve ever wondered,
Wondered whatever became of me,
I’m living on the air in Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, WKRP. "

15

The Flintstones
Good Times
South Park
WKRP in Cincinnati
Mary Tyler Moore

16

“…Gary called me up and asked me to write his theme song…”

17

The Greatest American Hero
Misssion: Impossible
Peter Gunn
Cheers
Friends

18

Friends
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
The Addams Family
Hey Arnold (Listen to this if you’ve never heard it!)

19

I wanna amend my list–

The Peter Gunn Theme
The Original Battlestar Galactica
Rawhide
The Theme From S.W.A.T
Route 66.

20

Power Rangers - original series
Recess
Survivor
Mission Impossible
Fresh Prince
Friends