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    Default Your Top 5 (or 10) favorite tv theme songs

    Back when almost all tv shows had a theme song, some were brilliant, some were fun, some were mediocre, and some were just terrible. What ranks in your list of best or favorite tv theme songs?

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    Could only get my list down to 11, in no particular order.

    1. The Banana Splits
    2. Doctor Who
    3. F-Troop
    4. Hawaii Five-O (original series)
    5. The Jeffersons
    6. Lost in Space (the familiar John Williams theme, not the other one)
    7. The Rockford Files
    8. Sanford & Son
    9. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
    10. The Wild, Wild West
    11. Peter Gunn

    Honorable mentions: The A-Team, Batman, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Dallas, The Electric Company, Firefly, Happy Days ("Happy Days," not "Rock Around the Clock"), The Monkees, Josie and the Pussycats, Mission: Magic, NBC Mystery Movie, The Partridge Family, St. Elsewhere, Star Trek (TOS), WKRP in Cincinnati, Rawhide, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Mary Tyler Moore Show

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    In no particular order

    Psych
    Perfect Strangers
    Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum PI
    Monk
    The Addams Family
    The A Team
    Firefly
    The Dukes of Hazzard
    Frasier
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    1) The X-Files
    2) Star Trek: The Original Series
    3) Doctor Who (2005 - 2007)
    4) Cheers
    5) The Addams Family
    6) Firefly
    7) Gilligan's Island

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    Finding this difficult. Cheated and made two lists.

    HBO (basically in order)
    Succession
    The Sopranos
    Game of Thrones
    The Young Pope
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    The Wire (all seasons)
    True Detective (season 1)
    The Night Of
    Boardwalk Empire
    True Blood
    Gentleman Jack

    Not HBO (No Order)
    Mad Men
    Downton Abby
    Smallville
    Charmed (how soon is now)
    Buffy
    Taxi
    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
    Daily Show
    South Park
    Star Trek: TOS
    Happy Valley

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    "Love is All Around," MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
    "The Early Morning Song," THE FRIENDLY GIANT
    "Maybe Tomorrow," THE LITTLEST HOBO
    "Fireball," FIREBALL XL-5
    Theme for ROOM 222 (Jerry Goldsmith)
    "Hurra, hurra . .." theme for MEISTER EDER UND SEIN PUMUCKL
    "Die Biene Maja," DIE BIENE MAJA
    "Definition," DEFINITION theme later used for Austin Powers
    "Seattle," HERE COME THE BRIDES
    Theme for THE NBC MYSTERY MOVIE (Henry Mancini)

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    X-Men: TAS is really the only one I can hum without thinking about it, but there’s tooooooooons that I like.

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    In no particular order: (I will not mention anime, because that's its own category, imo)
    -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    -- Angel
    -- Firefly (I almost didn't do three Joss Whedon shows, but that's silly - I loved all three!)
    -- The Equalizer
    -- Justified
    -- The A-Team
    -- Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
    -- Star Trek: Enterprise (The first one! Before they made it all peppy :P)
    -- Hill Street Blues
    -- Teen Titans (japanese version)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Kelly View Post
    Theme for THE NBC MYSTERY MOVIE (Henry Mancini)
    I still think of that as the "Theme from Bedtime," because I always had to go up to bed just when my parents were settling in to watch Columbo or Macmillan and Wife.

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    1. Airwolf
    2. Miami Vice
    3. Star Trek: Enterprise
    4. X-Files
    5. Thundercats

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    In no particular order:
    Star Trek: TOS
    Magnum PI (Original)
    Hill Street Blues
    Gilligan's Island
    ER
    Knight Rider (original)
    Greatest American Hero
    WKRP in Cincinnati
    MASH
    Happy Days

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    First one I thought of was Dr. Who, so I'll go with that.
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    Hawaii Five-O
    Star Trek TOS
    Supergirl
    Sanford and Son
    The Big Bang Theory
    The Simpsons
    Car 52 Where Are You
    Green Acres
    The Beverly Hillbillies
    Peter Gun

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    My top 10 (in alphabetical order):

    Game of Thrones
    Hawaii 5-0 (original series)
    Miami Vice
    Mission: Impossible
    Star Trek (The Original Series)
    Strike Force (1981)
    S.W.A.T. (original)
    The Equalizer
    The Sopranos
    Wonder Woman

    Animated top 10 (in alphabetical order):

    Astro Boy
    Batman Beyond
    Batman: The Animated Series
    Jonny Quest
    Josie and the Pussycats
    Justice League
    Men In Black: The Animated Series
    Sailor Moon
    Speed Racer
    Spider-Man (1967)
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