Most Popular TV show theme music of all time

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Cheers, per TV Guide : http://www.tvguide.com/news/greatest-tv-theme-songs-60-1064098.aspx

 

No Cheers? Poll fail!

 

Batman - if it was good enough for both The Who and The Jam to cover, it has to be pretty good!!

 

I like lots of the songs listed but the Addams Family theme should have been included also.

Probably not poll worthy but I love the Peter Gunn, Perry Mason and Alfred Hitchcock theme songs also.

 

BARNEY MILLER
SANFORD & SON

Those are my favorites anyway, both sadly not mentioned in this list.

 

Yes..some good one's left out. Even hawaii 5-0. However, I believe it will come down to Gilligan, Andy or Brady

 

I Love Lucy would probably be my pick, but I chose MASH. I used to tell people how cool the song was in the movie and how the lyrics were so perfect in the context of the movie and the opening shots of the guy with his chest hanging open, but they were so sick of the song they didn't want to know.

 

The end credits of the "Huntley-Brinkley Report" which used the second movement (scherzo) of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 1952 recording by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Orchestra

 

The Original Bill Cosby Show circa 1969. What did he say in the song? Something on the order of..."gotta get some rackets and some rope (or rolls?) and some Reeson-rosin, ha ha ha." I don't think anyone ever deciphered those lyrics.

 

Peter Gunn

jerol

 

Welcome back kotter another one I left off

 

None of the above!

Hill Street Blues!

 

The Honeymooners...

 

Happy Days?
Dick Van Dyke?
The Monkees?

 

A couple of Twilight Zone themes should be on there

 

So by "Popular" did you mean, "Best Known Song" or "Favorite Song (not show)" or "Highest Quality Song?"

You've got a lot of good ones in the poll, (i voted for • Andy Griffith),
and I know you couldn't list them all, but how did you not include MY favorites, right? ;-)

• The Bob Newhart Show
• Hogan's Heroes
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• Mission Impossible
• Sanford and Son
• Barney Miller
• The Wild, Wild West
  
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• The Walton's

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Mary Tyler Moore, Leave It To Beaver, The Rifleman, Rawhide, Petticoat Junction, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, The Munsters, The Fugitive, The Naked City, Seinfeld, Mad About You, The Streets of San Francisco, Route 66... wow, and there's tons more if ya think about it... that's a big business

 

I voted Batman Theme, wasn't it a hit record in the 60s? Not sure any of the others were chart hits except maybe Bonanza.

from the internet:

On February 6th, 1966 Neal Hefti's "Batman Theme" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on March 6th it peaked at #35 (for 2 weeks) and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
And on the very same day that Mr. Hefti's version peaked at #35, the Marketts' covered version was peaking at #17 (also for 2 weeks)...
Plus on the same day that Mr. Hefti' version entered the Top 100 (Feb. 6th), Jan & Dean also entered the chart with song titled "Batman" (their version reached #66 and stayed on the Top 100 for 5 weeks)...
Another 'Batman' themed record also charted in 1966; "Batman and His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman entered the Top 100 on May 22nd, 1966 for a three week stay, reaching position #70...

 

Voted for The Brady Bunch which is my favorite sitcom - although Gilligan's Island is about a millionth of a mm behind,if that.

Also love the MTM theme - possibly equal to the above two themes.

And how about some themes that are post 1980?

Family Ties
Cheers
Friends
CSI
NCIS
Perfect Strangers
NYPD Blue

 

That would be my choice

 

The Rockford Files by Mike Post was a hit single. It should be in the mix.

 

I would guess if you could do a poll of every person in the US of all ages, i would say The Brady Bunch followed by Sesame Street

 

Thread fail. Rawhide was not an option.

 

That's because Cosby isn't really singing anything decipherable, haha! It's all phonetic like you wrote.
Hicky-burr! Hicky Burr!

 

These lists are always based upon current opinions.

I think "the Most Popular" has everything to do with the era in which the show was running, and whoever watches these shows today.

In it's day, I imagine the "Davy Crockett" theme was the most popular. Big ratings, big hit single containing the theme.
"Happy Days" too in 1975.
"Welcome Back Kotter" which had a number one hit single based upon the theme.

You could say that in the 90s, "Friends" was the mosts popular theme.

Perhaps someone might say the "Breaking Bad" theme is the most popular from the last few years!