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What's the best TV theme song of all time? - VIDEO
by Bob Sassone, posted Nov 17th 2008 1:24PM
I think this is probably the 50th or 60th post about TV theme songs we've done here at TV Squad, either lists of our own or stories about other lists on the web. But it's one of the great all-time TV debates among fans so it's good to revisit the topic every few months.Paste has the latest list, their 40 best TV theme songs of all-time. Oh, we could talk about this for hours (and we probably will), but there are four thoughts that come immediately to mind after reading all 40 choices:
- The Rockford Files should be higher.
- Gilligan's Island should be lower.
- What's Happening! shouldn't be on there at all.
- The list isn't complete because it doesn't include the themes from Mannix, Stingray, Friends, It Takes A Thief, The West Wing, or The Dick Van Dyke Show.
I'm also not sure why they included the theme song from The Sopranos since it's a song that already existed and they say in the article that they aren't going to pick shows that have those type of songs (for example, The Lone Ranger's "William Tell Overture"). Anyway, it's a pretty good list in general, even if it does make some glaring omissions.
Here's the Mannix theme:
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