Photo illustration by Matthew Cooley for Rolling Stone. Photographs in illustration by Chris Cuffaio/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images; © 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection; CBS/Getty Images; Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images; The Muppets Studio/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Imagesadvance for all the TV theme songs we are about to lodge back into your heads.
Despite periodic attempts to contract or outright eliminate them, theme songs are a crucial part of the TV-watching experience. The best ones put you in the right mindset to watch each episode of your favorite, and can be just as entertaining in their own right as any great joke, monologue, or action sequence.
Then we considered two main factors: 1)How great is it as a song? 2)How well does it prepare you for the show that follows, in terms of mood and/or an explanation of the premise? Sometimes, one factor weighed more heavily than the other, and many bitter fights were fought. Like any attempt to quantify art, there was ultimately a lot of gut feelings involved:
On its own, Theme Song A is an objectively better piece of music than Theme Song B, but Theme Song B is a much more perfect match for its show. TV’s Greatest Hits— is our attempt to explain why we chose these 100 over any or all of your favorites.
This list is fugazi without Growing Pains theme song being 1
T.H.E. Cat, one of the best opening themes of all time, should have been on this list... even if it is a deep cut!
If ‘The Gummie Bears’ and ‘Tailspin’ aren’t in this list, it’s rigged
1 should be Vanderpump Rules
It’s a Jungle Out There, the Randy Newman penned theme for Monk deserves a place on the list.
Are you kidding me? No Fringe? Ridiculous.
Baby, if you ever wondered, wondered, whatever became of, me....
How is 'The West Wing' not on this list? You're just wrong.
About half this list is absolute garbage!
Does anyone know who Mike Post is? Yeah, one of hus creations
No: -Knight Rider -The A-Team -The Professionals -Allo'Allo' -Blackadder -Why Don't You? -Supergran -Rentaghost -Coronation Street -Emmerdale -Eastenders -Jamie&His Magic Torch -Storybook International -True Blood -Between the Lines -Juliet Bravo -University Challenge ?
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Took me 4 times to see the top 20, your pop up adds are the worst
China Beach?!?!
RS notice how your tweets have hardly any response. You're now irrelevant
Hail to the Democrats was 1 on the Rolling Stone lust.
No A Team?!!!
Listen it’s Fresh Prince, hate him or love him that theme song is 🐐
Wow, this is THE MOST engagement that the RollingStone has had in a while! It sure is good that elonmusk opened Twitter again. I remember when the Rolling Stone was relevant.
Unless I missed this list is incomplete as it doesn't include the theme from Knightrider or that jazzy theme to the 70's Spiderman cartoon.
Cheers not top 10 get the fuck outta here
Cheers not top 10 get the duck outta here
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So, you chose violence with this. Got it.
So you never watched Smallville…Psych…Entourage…Power…The Office…Scrubs…Knight Rider…The A-Team…Angel…True Blood…Dexter…
Enjoyed this piece, but you forgot “And Then There’s Maude.”
WKRP at 78? Child, please.
Conspicuously absent: Secret Agent Man (!), The Avengers, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Due South, The Office (original BBC version), Portlandia, Weeds, Square Pegs.
'Chico and the Man'
How could you choose a version of Have Gun, Will Travel that cuts out the last line?
List is suspect. No Night Court?
Nothing from the CW can be top 10.
Growing Pains, Facts of Life should be on there. Also, All in the Family should have been much higher.
Where is Growing Pains
How did you not include Barney Miller and The West Wing
How did you manage to do this and leave The Jetsons Theme off the list?
Fish don't fry in the kitchen beans don't burn on the grill always wins.
Not the 'facts of life' earworm, surely.
KidsInc isn’t on here?! And 3’s Company is in the 90’s? I need people fired.
wrong link but twin peaks is 34 spots too low
Runoff Erection
Narrator: And then we realized JF is not funny at all.
Glitch in the matrix. It happens often, just roll with it folks, it should reset itself here soon.
Wrong link
This list is amateur hour. What about Magnum PI? Barney Miller? Quincy MD? Good Times? Knight Rider? Perfect Strangers? Family Ties? Silver Spoons? Facts of Life? Growing Pains? Punky Brewster? Webster? All of these are better than a full 25% of your crappy picks. Disappointing.
Few of these TV themes would have had commercial success if released with no association with a series. Taxi's Bob James theme is the best exception. Buffy's theme might have worked.
Mash?
Beverly Hills 90210? Family Matters? Cheers is too low. So is Three’s Company.
What an incredible coincidence that not a single non-English TV show made the cut.
1 is a Hall of Famer!
How could you miss The A-Team? One of the most iconic theme tunes ever
Ahem…
Damn, no love for Maude ? Sung by the legend Donny Hathaway, it's another funky Norman Lear theme song, in the vein of Good Times but better.
Um, did I miss the Family Ties theme? The Price is Right? Duck Tales?! I knew the Punky Brewster theme wouldn't make it but it's damn perfect for the show. I would have added King of the Hill, Nadia's Theme from The Young and The Restless, and the True Blood song.
You forgot one of my favs … Lou Grant
you goddamn millennials and your goddamn OC
How do you put WKRP in the bottom half? Outrageous!
KITHOnline deserves to be on this list
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