If you don't want to boot up your flight sim and shoot down Zeroes in your F4U after you see 'Devotion', flip on the 'Black Sheep Squadron' title track. Complete with air raid horn.
Michael Kamen's for 'Band of Brothers' and 'From the Earth to the Moon' if miniseries are in play. End credits for the latter are also a personal favorite which they used during the Apollo 8 earthrise scene.
I still can't stop snickering at some nothing of a show called "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" that virtually no one has ever seen (or knew existed) landing at #4.
If you don't want to boot up your flight sim and shoot down Zeroes in your F4U after you see 'Devotion', flip on the 'Black Sheep Squadron' title track. Complete with air raid horn.
Michael Kamen's for 'Band of Brothers' and 'From the Earth to the Moon' if miniseries are in play. End credits for the latter are also a personal favorite which they used during the Apollo 8 earthrise scene.
Justified theme is excellent...great primer for a great show
Also, for those of you who don't know, Alan is from Jersey, an OG internet guy and a Giants fan. There's a reasonable chance he's a lurker, or even a poster.
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The list is mixing a lot of apples, oranges, dragonfruit, etc. We've got sitcoms, dramas, and kids shows, among others. We've got instrumental themes alongside ones with lyrics, preexisting songs right next to ones written expressly for each show, etc. We tried to cover as many bases as we could in terms of style, genre of music, genre of show, and era, among others, but that's ultimately an impossible task. There's only one game show theme, one talk show theme, and one sportscast theme, and no reality show themes at all. (One of them got cut late in the process.) The top 100 shows list received some entirely fair criticism for leaning too heavily towards scripted TV. Making these lists is an impossible balancing act in many ways, where once you introduce one type of show or song, then you in theory should be considering all of them. (It's one of the reasons Matt Zoller Seitz and I put so many limitations on ourselves for TV (THE BOOK).) In some cases, we chose to avoid that kind of problem, like when someone proposed using "Handbags and Gladrags" from the U.K. Office, before everyone else recognized what a can of worms we'd be opening to have only one international show. But we probably could have cast a wider net in terms of the kinds of American series featured.
In terms of time periods, the gravitational pull of those Seventies songs was incredibly powerful. What an amazing, amazing decade for theme music, such that at least half the list could have been filled with songs from that era and there wouldn’t have been a single, “What is that doing there?” As it is, we had to leave off relatively famous ones like Baretta and What’s Happening??, as well as some more obscure ones like Making It. (My friend Joe Adalian suggested that when I wondered if we could use some disco; the CHiPs theme is probably the closest the actual list got.) The penultimate draft of the list was actually missing a few more, but we collectively decided we couldn’t leave off S.W.A.T., The Odd Couple, and some others.
I still can't stop snickering at some nothing of a show called "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" that virtually no one has ever seen (or knew existed) landing at #4.
Exactly.
And tell me how Knight Rider isn't top 10, let alone top 100??!!?!?!?
I still can't stop snickering at some nothing of a show called "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" that virtually no one has ever seen (or knew existed) landing at #4.
Exactly.
And tell me how Knight Rider isn't top 10, let alone top 100??!!?!?!?
JFC.
Knight rider theme was my first phone "custom" ring tone. Once you could use mp3's or whatever sound clips were back then it was my first order of action to get it and make it my ring tone.
lol.
I still think it's a good ring tone but now like half the planet I have the default iphone ring tone that makes everyone look at their phones like the mental patients in Strange Brew.
unless I missed it and if i didn't this list has 0 credibility. Not top 100? It should be top 20.
I've always said that for the people who don't like the current National Anthem because of the lyrics or it's too hard to sing or whatever, the A-Team theme music should replace it. There are no words, but the stadium crowd can just yell out the melody. It's very patriotic and energetic sounding even without actual words:
"And now...everyone please rise and remove your hats for our new National Anthem"
Everyone: DANT DAN DANNN! DUNT DUN DAAAAA!.....
Neither is Gilligan's Island
Perry Mason
Get Smart
Married With Children
Animaniacs / Pinky & The Brain
The Fall Guy
The Honeymooners
Patty Duke
Magnum P.I.
Hill Street Blues
The Cosby Show
Inspector Gadget
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Laverne & Shirley
Golden Girls
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Simpson's
Neither is Gilligan's Island
Perry Mason
Get Smart
Married With Children
Animaniacs / Pinky & The Brain
The Fall Guy
The Honeymooners
Patty Duke
Magnum P.I.
Hill Street Blues
The Cosby Show
Inspector Gadget
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Laverne & Shirley
Golden Girls
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Simpson's
I could keep going. Trash list.
Gilligan's Island is #2, and some of those others are also on the list (Simpsons is 18, maybe more on the list), but agree with the overall sentiment.
there's a tie at #2, but the next song is #3 when it should be #4.
So there are 101 songs (assuming I didn't miss any other ties further down the list).
Neither is Gilligan's Island
Perry Mason
Get Smart
Married With Children
Animaniacs / Pinky & The Brain
The Fall Guy
The Honeymooners
Patty Duke
Magnum P.I.
Hill Street Blues
The Cosby Show
Inspector Gadget
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Laverne & Shirley
Golden Girls
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Simpson's
I could keep going. Trash list.
Gilligan's Island is #2, and some of those others are also on the list (Simpsons is 18, maybe more on the list), but agree with the overall sentiment.
I would have put Sanford #1 over The Jeffersons, but the Jeffersons isn't a bad choice.
Doesn't even make the list.
Someone's little sister got a job at Rolling Stone.
And another ommission I thought strange was Magilla Gorilla- "how much is that gorilla in the window?"
Link - ( New Window )
Living Single at 47
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt at 26
Succession at 25
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend at 4?
Joe DiMaggio might make there all-time baseball list because of Marilyn and a coffee maker their grandma had.
If you don't want to boot up your flight sim and shoot down Zeroes in your F4U after you see 'Devotion', flip on the 'Black Sheep Squadron' title track. Complete with air raid horn.
Michael Kamen's for 'Band of Brothers' and 'From the Earth to the Moon' if miniseries are in play. End credits for the latter are also a personal favorite which they used during the Apollo 8 earthrise scene.
Living Single at 47
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt at 26
Succession at 25
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend at 4?
Joe DiMaggio might make there all-time baseball list because of Marilyn and a coffee maker their grandma had.
I had no idea also what too man cooks is. And after watching that intro in no way shape or form should that even be close to 10.
If you don't want to boot up your flight sim and shoot down Zeroes in your F4U after you see 'Devotion', flip on the 'Black Sheep Squadron' title track. Complete with air raid horn.
Michael Kamen's for 'Band of Brothers' and 'From the Earth to the Moon' if miniseries are in play. End credits for the latter are also a personal favorite which they used during the Apollo 8 earthrise scene.
Justified theme is excellent...great primer for a great show
Batman
Star Trek
Joke!
a hot dog makes her lose control
What # was The Sopranos?
Nope. TikTok Babysitters.
What # was The Sopranos?
Pretty high, around 20, deservedly
The lyrics are pure poetry.
CHIPS is #96. But your point still holds.
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used to be relevant and good decades ago. Now I'm pretty sure its written by crappy AI.
Nope. TikTok Babysitters.
It's worse than I imagined.
Lone Ranger?
Mr. Lucky?
Thanks to those who mentioned Rawhide, Beverly Hillbillies and some of the other glaring omissions
"MoonLighting" (A Young Cybil Sheppard)
"MoonLighting" (A Young Cybil Sheppard)
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but the Munsters has to be in the top 10.
Doesn't even make the list.
Can't believe this. Munsters is one of the best.
Nope. Glaring omission.
The list is mixing a lot of apples, oranges, dragonfruit, etc. We've got sitcoms, dramas, and kids shows, among others. We've got instrumental themes alongside ones with lyrics, preexisting songs right next to ones written expressly for each show, etc. We tried to cover as many bases as we could in terms of style, genre of music, genre of show, and era, among others, but that's ultimately an impossible task. There's only one game show theme, one talk show theme, and one sportscast theme, and no reality show themes at all. (One of them got cut late in the process.) The top 100 shows list received some entirely fair criticism for leaning too heavily towards scripted TV. Making these lists is an impossible balancing act in many ways, where once you introduce one type of show or song, then you in theory should be considering all of them. (It's one of the reasons Matt Zoller Seitz and I put so many limitations on ourselves for TV (THE BOOK).) In some cases, we chose to avoid that kind of problem, like when someone proposed using "Handbags and Gladrags" from the U.K. Office, before everyone else recognized what a can of worms we'd be opening to have only one international show. But we probably could have cast a wider net in terms of the kinds of American series featured.
In terms of time periods, the gravitational pull of those Seventies songs was incredibly powerful. What an amazing, amazing decade for theme music, such that at least half the list could have been filled with songs from that era and there wouldn’t have been a single, “What is that doing there?” As it is, we had to leave off relatively famous ones like Baretta and What’s Happening??, as well as some more obscure ones like Making It. (My friend Joe Adalian suggested that when I wondered if we could use some disco; the CHiPs theme is probably the closest the actual list got.) The penultimate draft of the list was actually missing a few more, but we collectively decided we couldn’t leave off S.W.A.T., The Odd Couple, and some others.
Behind the scenes of Rolling Stone's best theme songs ever list - ( New Window )
Exactly.
And tell me how Knight Rider isn't top 10, let alone top 100??!!?!?!?
JFC.
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I still can't stop snickering at some nothing of a show called "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" that virtually no one has ever seen (or knew existed) landing at #4.
Exactly.
And tell me how Knight Rider isn't top 10, let alone top 100??!!?!?!?
JFC.
Knight rider theme was my first phone "custom" ring tone. Once you could use mp3's or whatever sound clips were back then it was my first order of action to get it and make it my ring tone.
lol.
I still think it's a good ring tone but now like half the planet I have the default iphone ring tone that makes everyone look at their phones like the mental patients in Strange Brew.
I've always said that for the people who don't like the current National Anthem because of the lyrics or it's too hard to sing or whatever, the A-Team theme music should replace it. There are no words, but the stadium crowd can just yell out the melody. It's very patriotic and energetic sounding even without actual words:
"And now...everyone please rise and remove your hats for our new National Anthem"
Everyone: DANT DAN DANNN! DUNT DUN DAAAAA!.....
Not with Ashley and Becky running the show now. Nope. Too toxic.
Car 54
Mr Ed
Mash
The Jackie Gleason Show
Bonanza
Beverly Hillbillies
Branded (and the parody "Stranded" toilet paper version too!)
etc.
[quote] I'm of a certain generation and have my favorites.
Car 54
Mr Ed
Mash
The Jackie Gleason Show
Bonanza
Beverly Hillbillies
Branded (and the parody "Stranded" toilet paper version too!)
Upon further review, you get my vote ... Car 54, Mr Ed were great.
Stranded ... trapped on a toilet bowl, what do you do if you’re stranded, and don’t have a roll ... to prove you’re a man, you must ....
a hot dog makes her lose control
haha - and no "GillIgan's Island"? A travesty
Garbage list.
Neither is Gilligan's Island
Perry Mason
Get Smart
Married With Children
Animaniacs / Pinky & The Brain
The Fall Guy
The Honeymooners
Patty Duke
Magnum P.I.
Hill Street Blues
The Cosby Show
Inspector Gadget
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Laverne & Shirley
Golden Girls
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Simpson's
I could keep going. Trash list.
Neither is Gilligan's Island
Perry Mason
Get Smart
Married With Children
Animaniacs / Pinky & The Brain
The Fall Guy
The Honeymooners
Patty Duke
Magnum P.I.
Hill Street Blues
The Cosby Show
Inspector Gadget
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Laverne & Shirley
Golden Girls
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Simpson's
I could keep going. Trash list.
Gilligan's Island is #2, and some of those others are also on the list (Simpsons is 18, maybe more on the list), but agree with the overall sentiment.
So there are 101 songs (assuming I didn't miss any other ties further down the list).
...Spoiler Alert...
these are at the top of that list:
1. Cheers
2. M*A*S*H
3. Sanford & Son
4. The Simpsons
5. All in the Family
6. The Jeffersons
Paste Magazine The 50 Best TV Theme Songs of All Time - ( New Window )
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Not on the list.
Neither is Gilligan's Island
Perry Mason
Get Smart
Married With Children
Animaniacs / Pinky & The Brain
The Fall Guy
The Honeymooners
Patty Duke
Magnum P.I.
Hill Street Blues
The Cosby Show
Inspector Gadget
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Laverne & Shirley
Golden Girls
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Simpson's
I could keep going. Trash list.
Gilligan's Island is #2, and some of those others are also on the list (Simpsons is 18, maybe more on the list), but agree with the overall sentiment.
Oops! Missed that. Thanks.