ILM BEST EVER TV THEME TUNES VOTING THREAD - VOTING ENDS 28th November 2012

30 Votes.
35 points your #1, 29 your #2, 28 your #3 etc.
I don't like unranked lists so I'm not doing them.
In the email please tell me how they are ranked (i.e. top to bottom) if you do it in a way that isn't straight 1. 2. 3.

Email your votes to samuelpooley @ gmail.com (no spaces)

You don't have to pick from the list but I don't think ilx has ever had a write-in vote rank. Plus this is 600+ strong.

Other threads to consider:
BEST TV THEME TUNE POLL YOUTUBE COMPANION THREAD
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The nominations:
$25,000 Pyramid
30 Rock
321 Contact
60 Minutes
77 Sunset Strip
ABC's Wide World of Sports
ACTION NEWS THEME
Adventure Time
Airwolf
Alf
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alice
All Creatures Great and Small
All In The Family
All That
Alter Image (Channel 4, 1980s, by Mick Karn)
Alvin & The Chipmunks
Amazing Stories
American Band Stand
Andy Griffith
Angel
Angling Today ("The Mugwump")
animal hospital
Animal Kwackers
Animal Magic
animaniacs
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Are you Being Served!
Ask The Family ("Acka Raga" by Joe Harriott & John Mayer)
Automan
Azumanga Daioh
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Bagpuss (main theme)
Banana Splits
Barbapapa!
Baretta
Barnaby Jones
Barney Miller
BATFINK
Batman (Neal Hefti, 1966)
Batman Animated Series: Clayface (Feat of Clay episode)
Batman Animated Series: Mr. Freeze theme (Heart of Ice episode)
Batman: The Animated Series
Battle of the Planets
Battlestar Galactica (1978 series)
Baywatch
BBC Cricket/Test Match Special (Soul limbo)
BBC Snooker theme
Beauty and The Beast
Benson
Bergerac
Beverly Hills 90210
Beverly Hills Teens
Bewitched
Big Bad Beetleborgs
big blue marble
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Black Beauty
Blackadder
Blake's 7
Blankety Blank
Blossom
Bobby's World
Bod
Bonanza theme song sung by Lorne Greene
Bots Master
Bourbon Street Beat
Box of Delights
Branded
Brideshead Revisited
Bring 'em Back Alive
Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Bucky O Hare
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Butterflies
Button Moon
Cagney & Lacey
Callan
Camberwick Green
Camp Cariboo
Captain Planet
Captain Pugwash
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Car 54, Where Are You
Casualty
Catweazle
Champion the Wonder Horse
Channel 4 Tour de France theme (by Pete Shelley!)
Chappelle's Show
CHARLES IN CHARGE
Charlie's Angels
Cheers
Cheggers Plays Pop
chico and the man
Children of the Stones
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
CHiPs you guys
Chocky
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Clarissa Explains It All
class in a glass
Clone High
Columbo
COPS (Inner Circle - Bad Boys)
Cosmos
COUNT DUCKULA
Countdown
Cowboy Bebop "Tank!"
Crossroads
Crown Court
CSI ("Who Are You")
CSI: Miami ("Won't Get Fooled Again")
CSI: New York ("Baba O' Riley")
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dad's Army
Daktari
Dallas
Danger Man
Danger Mouse
Daniel Boone
Daria
Darkwing Duck
Dave Allen at large
Davy Crockett
Deadman Wonderland
Defenders of the Earth
Degrassi Jr. High
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Dexter
Dexter's Lab
Die Sendung mit der Maus
Different Worlds" from Angie, the short-lived Robert Hays/Donna Pescow sitcom
Diff'rent Strokes
Dinnerladies
Doctor Banner ... pelted by gamma rays" theme - Incredible Hulk
Doctor Who theme (70s version)
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Doug
Dr Katz
Dragnet
duck tales
DuckTales
Duckula
Dukes of Hazzard
Dynasty
Earthworm Jim
Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
El Chavo del 8
Emergency!
Emmerdale Farm
F Troop
Family Ties
Fat Albert. HEY HEY HEY
Father Ted
Fillmore
Fingerbobs
Fireball XL-5
Firefly
Fish
Flight of the Conchords
For Pete's Sake" - the Monkees 2nd season closing credits song.
Formula One (i.e. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain)
Four Corners
Fraggle Rock
frasier
Freakazoid
Freaks and Geeks
fresh prince of bel air
Friends
Fruity flute" - Farmhouse Kitchen
Full House
Fun House
Futurama
Galaxy High
Game of Thrones
German Sesame Street.
Germany's Tatort
Get Smart
Get Stuffed
Gilligan's Island
Girl from Tomorrow
Golden Girls
Good Times
Grandstand
Grange Hill (BBC, 1970s-early 80s)
Greatest American Hero
Green Acres
Growing Pains
Gumby
Gummi Bears
H.R. Pufnstuf
Happy Days
Hardcastle & McCormick
Harry's Game
Hart Beat (Tony Hart
Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law
Have Gun – Will Travel
Have Gun Will Travel (The Ballad of Paladin)
Hawaii 5-0
Hawaiian Eye
Heads And Tails
Here Come the Double Deckers
Hey Dude
HILL STREET BLUES
Hill Street Blues
HIMYM
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Hockey Night in Canada
home and away
Home Improvement
Homeland
Homicide: Life on the Street
Hong Kong Phooey
Hooperman
Hunter
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
I Married Joan
I Spy
In Living Color
In The Heat of The Night
In The Night Garden
Inspector Gadget
Inspector Morse
Ironside
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
It's A Knockout
It's a Living
It's About Time
Jamie and the Magic Torch
Jeeves & Wooster
Jeffersons
Jem
Jeopardy!
Jim'll Fix It
JOANIE LOVES CHACHI
John Craven's Newsround (closing sting: "New Worlds by John Baker)
Josie and the Pussycats
Kids in the Hall
Kids Incorporated
Kim Possible theme by Christina Milian
King of Kensington
King of the Hill
Kingswood Country
Knight Rider
Knightmare
Kojak
Kolchak the Night Stalker
Kung Fu
Kure Kure Takora (aka Gimme Gimme Octopus)
La Carabina de Ambrosio
LA Law
Lambchop's Playalong - The Song That Doesn't End
Lancelot Link Secret Chimp
Lars Von Triers' Riget (The Kingdom)
Late Night With Conan O'Brien
Late Night with David Letterman
Lavern and Shirley
law and order
Law And Order "DUN DUN"
'Left Bank Two' (the gallery theme from Vision On)
Linus and Lucy
Liquid Television
Little House on the Prairie
Living Single
Lois and Clark
Looney Tunes
Lost in Space (seasons 1 & 2 only!)
Lost in Space- but only the John Williams version
Louie
Love Boat
M*A*S*H
MacGuyver
Mad Men
Magnum, P.I.
Magpie
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
Malcolm in the Middle
Mama's Family
Man About The House
Man Alive
Man in a Suitcase
Mannix
Mary Tyler Moore
Mastermind
Masterpiece Theatre
Match Game
Match Of The Day
Matlock
Maude!
Medical Center
Melrose Place
Merrie Melodies
Metalocalypse
MIAMI VICE
Miami Vice - Crockett's Theme
Mickey Mouse Club
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
MINDER
Misfits of Science
Mission Impossible
Mod Squad
Moesha
Monkees
Monkey
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Moonlighting
MPD-Psycho - Strange New World (Lucy Monostone)
Mr Benn
Mr Rossi
Mr. Belvedere
Mr. Dress-Up
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
MST3K Love theme (end credits song)
Munsters
Muppet Babies
Murder She Wrote
My Three Sons
NBA on NBC theme (composed and performed by John Tesh)
neighbours
New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Newhart
NewsRadio
Night Court
Northern Exposure
NYPD Blue
Oi Jacko
Old Grey Whistle Test
On the Air
On The Move
One Day at a Time
Open University theme
Otherworld
Outlaw Star
Owen, M.D. ("Sleepy Shores")
Oz
paddington bear
Paranoia Agent
Partridge Family
Party of Five
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Pepper Ann
Perfect Strangers
Perry Mason
Peter Gunn
petticoat junction
Picture Box
Pinky and the Brain
Pokemon
Police Squad!
Police Woman
Polka-Dot Door
Pot Black
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Power Rangers Mystic Force
Prisoner / Cell Block H / Caged Women ("On The Inside")
Punky Brewster
QUANTUM LEAP
Rag, Tag & Bobtail
Raggy Dolls
Rainbow
Randall and Hopkirk Deceased (1969 version)
Raumpatrouille
Rawhide
Reading Rainbow
Reboot
Red Dwarf Closing Theme
Red Dwarf I & II
Red Dwarf!!
Renegade
Rhoda
Riptide
Robin Of Sherwood
Robin's Nest
Robot Chicken End Theme
Rockford Files
Rockliffe's babies
Rocko's Modern Life
Ron & Val Taylor's Inner Space [Sven Libaek]
Roobarb & Custard
Room 222
Round the Twist
Rugrats
Sailor Moon
Salute Your Shorts
Samurai Jack
Samurai Pizza Cats
Sanford & Son
Saved By the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo (original non-Scrappy version)
Screen Test
Scrubs
Sealab 2021
SECRET AGENT
Seeing Things
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sharky and George
ship to shore
Sifl and Olly
Silas
Silk Stalkings
Silver Spoons
Simon & Simon
Sister Sister
Six Feet Under
Six Million Dollar Man
Ski Sunday
Sledge Hammer!
Sneak Previews (Siskel & Ebert on PBS)
Solid Gold
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Sons of Anarchy
Sopranos
Sorry!
Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast
Space: 1999
Speed Racer
Spider-Man (1967)
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
Spongebob Squarepants
Sportsnight (aka Sportsnight with Coleman)
Star Trek
Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Voyager
Starsky & Hutch
Stingray (60s series)
Stingray (80s series)
Street Hawk
Super Chicken
SUPERTED
Supertrain (any version of the theme)
SWAT
Swedish children’s TV show “Alfons Aberg”
Tail Spin
Tales From the Crypt
Tales of the Gold Monkey
Tales of the Riverbank
Tales of the Unexpected
Taxi
Tazmania
Teen Titans
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Terrahawks
TERRIERS
The ‘60s Iron Man cartoon
The Addams Family
The Adventures Of Lano & Woodley
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Banana Splits
the BBC series Roughnecks
The Beachcombers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Big Match
the Bikers take Belfast theme - the Sons of Anarchy theme from the latter part of Season 3
the bill cosby show - the orig show
The Bill Cosby Show (Not the Cosby Show- I mean the one with “Hikky Burr” as the theme tune)
The Bill!
The Bob Newhart Show
The Brady Bunch
The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show
The Bugs Bunny Show
The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
The Champions
The Changes
The Clothes Show (In the Night by The Pet Shop Boys)
The Colbert Report
The Commish
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
The Daily Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Drew Carey Show (starting w/ season 2) - "Cleveland Rocks,"
The Electric Company
The Equalizer
The Facts of Life
The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin
The Fall Guy
The Famous Five
The Fantastic Journey
The Film Programme aka Film 72,73 etc
The Flashing Blade
The Flintstones
The Friendly Giant
The Goodies
The Great Egg Race
The Great Space Coaster
The Green Hornet
The Groovie Goolies
The Heights
The High Chaparral
The Incredible Hulk - Lonely Man Theme
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The League of Gentlemen
The Little Vampire
The Littlest Hobo
The Love Boat
The LWT music (aka "here they come now, Morecambe and Wise")
The Magic Roundabout
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Mighty Hercules
The Mod Squad
The Money Programme
The Monkees
The Munsters
the muppet show
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
THE NANNY
The New Zoo Revue
The Odd Couple
The Office ("Handbags and Gladrags")
The Partridge Family
The People's Court
The Persuaders
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther Show (the theme song by Doug Goodwin)
The Powerpuff Girls
The Price is Right?
The Prisoner (1967-8)
The Protectors
The Pruitts of Southampton
The Raccoons - Run With Us
The Rebel
The Road Runner Show
The Rockford Files
The Rookies
The Saint
The Simpsons
the sonic the hedgehog cartoon with the demented peer gynt music
The Sooty Show
The Spectacular Spider-Man
The Spiderman theme song, particularly the French version for the Quebecois market
The State
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
The Streets of San Francisco
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! end theme ("Do the Mario")
The Sweeney
The Time Tunnel
The Tomorrow People
The Tracey Ullman Show
The Tripods
The Twilight Zone
The Two Ronnies
The White Horses
The White Shadow
The Wire Season 1 (blind boys of alabama)
The Wire Season 2(Tom Waits)
The Wire Season 3 (neville bros)
The Wire Season 4 (kids version)
The Wire Season 5 (Steve Earle)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ("On the Other Side")
The Young and the Restless
Third Rock from the Sun
This Is Your Life (UK)
Three's Company
Thunderbirds
Thundercats
Timm Thaler aka Tim Tyler
Tiny Toon Adventures
Toma
Tomorrow's World (1966-1979, John Dankworth)
Tomorrow's World (1980 onwards, Denton & Cook)
Top Cat
top of the pops - andi peters era synthy thing
top of the pops - bill fartcastle
top of the pops - bill linett
top of the pops - brassy zep
top of the pops - drum n bass zep
Transformers
Trapdoor
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) - Soul Train theme '73-'75
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks - Laura Palmer's Theme
U.F.O.
Ulysses 31
Uncle Feedle (from Bagpuss)
Underdog
University Challenge
University Challenge (OG version)
Unsolved Mysteries
Untalkative Bunny
Van Der Valk (Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level)
Venture Bros
Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home
Walker, Texas Ranger
WCW Monday Nitro Theme
WCW nWo Theme
weeds
Weekend World ("Nantucket Sleighride")
Welcome Back Kotter
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
When The Boat Comes In
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
White Horses
Whiz Kids
Whodunnit
Who's the Boss
Why Don't You...?
Wild World of Animals (closing)
Wild World of Animals (opening)
Willow the Wisp
Wiseguy
WKRP in Cincinnati end theme
WKRP in Cincinnati opening theme
Wonder Woman
World In Action
WWE Stone Cold Steve Austin Theme
WWE Ultimate Warrior Theme
WWE/WCW Dusty Rhodes Theme
X-Files
X-Men (90's series)
Yakety Sax aka the Benny Hill theme
Yes Minister
Z-Cars
Zorro

Enjoy!

Blimey, by the time we got to woodstock or wot?

Right, I have boiled it down to 55

Haha, I forgot to nominate American Dad, so there will be a write-in vote.

Um, wait, so now we ONLY have "Doctor Who (70s version)"? I suppose that's better than only having "Doctor Who (Murray Gold version)" but still, I'm pretty sure that satisfies nobody.

Can we please just have a single "Doctor Who" entry, basically?

i guess. its not like the nominating thread wasnt open for ages tho to sort this out.

i guess a mod would have to sort it out and change the opening post?

Well, as far as I was concerned the majority vote on the nominating thread *was* to have a single entry... there was lots of discussion and that seemed to be the general consensus.

oh thats my oversite then, sorry.

oversight? gah. i dont understand life.

Kinda bummed no one included 227 or Amen.

considering some of the worst songs i've ever heard in my life are in the noms list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDlRsymDes

wait what, no BEVERLY HILLBILLIES?

o nvrmind

whoops! i was looking under "capt lou albano theme" for "do the mario" and didn't see it was listed.
there is a capt. lou albano theme but for some reason the only version on youtube is by NRBQ

This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m25NzM5OjmY

the version i'm thinking of was more nautical-ly, like sea shanty style.

fuck, forgot to nominate the Poirot theme. that's a gem

If there's only one Doctor Who theme why the f wouldn't you have made it the original

(Although obviously I approve of excluding Murray Gold, esp as the only nominator couldn't pick one)

People sure are cranky about Doctor Who themes.

If you like a Doctor Who theme, vote for a Doctor Who theme. If it places (which I'm certain it will), discuss which versions are best and worst at that time. For now, just consider any vote for Doctor Who a vote for Doctor Who.

(which I'm certain it will)

Bet you at least 10 of them don't

Delia 1> Delaware> Delia 2> Delia 3 (2 re-edit)>>>>>>>>>>> the rest>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Murray Gold 1> Murray Gold 3> Murray Gold 2> Murray Gold 4.

I think. I might be understating how much rational people hate the Murray Gold music.

Whatever, you guys! I'm just saying that a hoy hoy should count all votes for Doctor Who together and when it places we can all sort out the good ones from the bad.

We already did this conversation in the other thread! The majority of people thought it was better to just have one 'Doctor Who' entry! Which is probably why nothing else got nominated, b/c we thought it'd get fixed to just say 'Doctor Who'!

The main reason why I'm so het up about this is because it so easily deserves to win and I will be PISSED OFF if it misses out b/c of confusing entries.

xpost - or yes, what JF is saying in a more reasonable manner.

i'd vote for this version over all others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFxYDDnf6v8

and im cool w/ that emily. i must have just missed the decision. again, if a mod wants to fix it so it doesn't confuse anyone that will be cool. if they don't, i'll just collect all dr who votes together anyway.

feel like sarahel's vote should be separated from the herd

Are we doing "say what country you live in" on your ballot? I thought there was some appetite for that.

You can totally do that! And mebbe an age range too. I might email the one person who has voted so far and ask if they wanna give local.

Also, do you need a research assistant for the roll out, so we get proper composer credits and dates and whatnot? Or are you just gonna do youtubes and amusing anecdotes about Jack Lord and Keith Chegwin?

If you wanna be that research assistant then sure?

I think when more votes start to roll in and I can at least start to see a top pattern emerging then i can start looking into stuff. dont wanna waste it based on 1 vote for xxxx that isnt going to place though.

The theme from Mystery! on PBS wasn't nominated?

No, because you failed to nominate it.

oh my god that super mario supershow youtube just set off some awful memories

Are we doing "say what country you live in" on your ballot? I thought there was some appetite for that.

― Jeff W, Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:06 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You can totally do that! And mebbe an age range too. I might email the one person who has voted so far and ask if they wanna give local.

― "It's like death metal lyrics, but about a vagina." (a hoy hoy), Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:05 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like this idea a lot.

Kinda bummed no one included 227 or Amen.

Yeah, the theme from Amen in particular is pretty spectacular.

reviewing this list really makes me realize what was lost when "two good-looking guys driving nice cars and shooting at things while bad synthesizer music and/or foreigner rip-offs play in the background" was no longer a viable tv show pitch

also that if you sped the "alf" theme song up about 200 percent it'd basically be a squarepusher track

omg super mario supershow

at a really low moment a few years back the perfect strangers theme song reduced me to jibbering infant-like tears

i was sober, btw

next generation ftw, it's just so loose and funky when played out of context. on every sex tape i've ever made.

perfect strangers theme can kinda make me well up a little if it catches me off guard - you're not alone strongo.

come, weep with us everyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdFhmRdBtno

i think i have played this like six times in a row

*clutches blanket, swigs from bottle of white wine*

STAAAAAAAAAAAA
NDING
TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLL

I want to go back in time and have Richard Marx add this as a solo piano hidden track on the Hazard album

also there's no way i'm not doing a write-in for "amen"

xp lol otm

Where the fuck is Heathcliff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxI5fSp1cco

dammit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxI5fSp1cco

lol

Anyway - Heathcliff come on now ppl.

i hate you for that.

i need to go play "poing" like 92 times to get that out of my head.

Welcome to my world. The Heathcliff song pops into my head seemingly out of nowhere way more often than could possibly be considered normal and then it stays there. For hours.

speaking of shit that got robbed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqGQyMF5a_0

I wanna vote for Gummi Bears but only if I can do so for the German vers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6TidV9RqQM

There is some horrible, horrible crap lurking behind so many of these youtube links.

If you wanna be that research assistant then sure?
yes, twas an offer. I'll follow up when I submit my ballot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iTqoDH0vFU

perfect strangers theme is like, the worst

consider write-in votes for Amen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7cUsYXa4yw

re: perfect strangers, you're weeping because of the pain you're receiving while listening to it

wtf how is sherman hemsley kicking so much ass in under 40 seconds?

also ENBB i'm considering a write-in for heathcliff for similar reasons... it gets stuck in my head at least once a month.

Well, at least I'm not the only one.

you Perfect Strangers fans have seen this i hope

http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/

Worth a minor thread hijack -- Sherman vs. Nell grudge match:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6nQubo3n0

Man I am going into some serious youtube black holes because of this thread this afternoon.

Like, I completely forgot about Gimmie a Break and now I'm pretty sure I watched it all the damn time?

billstevejim you are dead to me fyi, also i am v sorry that your heart is made of coal

haha, understandable

i don't think this counts as a theme song but i'm putting it here anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-er6oycoJ_g

a lot of these are doubles, does this matter?

also can we vote for the regular mst3k theme or just the end credits theme

can't believe we missed Question TIme

most difficult part of the ranking process so far = deciding whether I like the Dick Van Dyke Show or Bewitched theme more

also wtf how did I miss that nobody nominated GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE

oh I see you can still vote for things that weren't nominated. good!

Got my 30, number 1 is a certainty, but finding it hard to order the others. Think I'll let nostalgia guide me.

haha, 70 "essentials" for me on a first pass

...including one write-in: "Have I Got News For You". How did I forget that?

Oh crap, George of the Jungle! It'll get at least one write-in.

I just remembered "Poirot" as well. *slaps forehead*

My first pass had 100 themes left. A reasonable number still easily cullable, though.

this is a cross between 'wow this great music' and 'omg I'm 5 years old sitting in front of the TV'

just realized I totally need to do a write-in vote for Wonderful World Of Disney

I VOTED!

Had a couple come in :D Not checked JF's but I'm asking people for age range (10-20, 20-30 etc.) and location. Any other info you guys might be interested in?

Oh yeah, that stuff isn't on mine. Will follow up.

Got it down to 41...some difficult choices coming up...

Could we just have one entry for Sons of Anarchy and The Wire (this was discussed/decided in nomination thread, pretty sure)?

Also, generic "Doctor Who" theme, please?!

Someone at some point should attempt to defend the indefensible that is Murray Gold's "contributions" to said theme music

i dont know sons of anarchy too well to comment. i think vote for the individual and i might make an editorial decision whether to bunch them all together or not when they are all in?

Sons of Anarchy has had the same theme song for its whole run, there was just one (or a couple?) episodes that took place in Ireland where they did a goofy celtic version of the usual theme, def not necessary as its own nomination

exactly

i'm sorry i nominated multiple variants of themes, i forgot ilx's penchant for nominating everything it can think of

Curse r/t/c posting 'Steptoe and Son' to the Prem thread making me wish v hard that I'd nommed it.

I really thought someone nominated Family Matters, or else I would have. Dammit!

Just thought of one I should have nommed: The Young Ones

I'd like to see a good cover band do a George of the Jungle/Car Jamming medley (but just once).

Just sent my ballot

got it, ty :)

remember the exciting husker du poll is also open. also technically i think the neptunes one is too, if you are in the mood for voting in many polls that should be awesome.

Someone at some point should attempt to defend the indefensible that is Murray Gold's "contributions" to said theme music

you're the only one repping for them, so

ballad of jed clampett

xp - if saying the equivalent of "someone, somewhere, must like Murray Gold's Doctor Who theme" = repping for, then repping for must mean something totally different where you're from

You forgot Homeland!

And might as well throw in nu-Who Doctor Who theme

― sarahell, Sunday, 4 November 2012 05:23 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

you got it in the poll >:(

i seriously want to know if anyone on ilx likes the Murray Gold theme.

which one?

any of them!!!!!!

The Homeland theme is the only jazz music I like

An overlooked classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nGrYEFG6Ho

fuck fuck yes willy fog is amazing. also stopit and tidyup which sounds a bit like nine inch nails for kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24fDKqXNv50

glad to discover i'm word perfect on the chorus to 80 days. verses are highly forgettable tho.

Is the voting still going on in this?

for another 9 days!

omg i forgot to nominate SURVIVOR
omg i forgot to nominate the MST3k opening theme

write-ins here i come!

btw a hoy hoy - some duplicates to watch out for: Monkees/The Monkees, Munsters/The Munsters, possibly Spider-Man (1967) and "The Spiderman theme song, particularly the French version for the Quebecois market"

Jeffersons/The Jeffersons

Hill Street Blues/HILL STREET BLUES amuses me actually, leave that in

"for the second season, the producers went for a tougher, more aggressive version of the theme, now sung in all capitals"

Also, take note everyone, "What's Happening!" was nominated by Phil D., don't miss it!

Another duplicate: Count Duckula/Duckula

so, first pass at the ballot is down to... eighty-five songs?!

fuuuuck mst3k thank you casino

glad to discover i'm word perfect on the chorus to 80 days. verses are highly forgettable tho.

― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge)

Ha, I can do the verses too.

8 votes so far.

Submitted for your approval, the theme from the HBO debacle John From Cincinnati (David Milch stopped Deadwood for this?!?) Surely one of the worst TV shows of all time, but the theme song is the sublime Johnny Appleseed by Joe Strummer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrWZlh7DnBE

Just sent one in!

i think i may have deleted a ballot that was in my spam filter by accident. if you have voted and not got a reply from me please send again. i've been making sure to reply to everyone and thank them for voting.

vote!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaYonB4G40c

Sent my ballot. Thank god for write-in votes: I missed the nomination thread, and it would've been awful if I'd had to exclude "Around the World with Willy Fog" and the 00s Justice League cartoon, as they're both in my top 10.

btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3jJb9TgJcg

do not despise the snake for having no horns, for who is to say it will not become the dragon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqsAye_EiA0

Doesn't seem to exist on Youtube, but I always had a soft spot for the theme to the Wilde Alliance; or maybe it was Julia Foster

Since submitting my ballot, I've been humming my head:

"ROCKO'S NORMAL LIIIIFE (Rocko's Normal Life!)"

No fucking Lion Man? Fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6F3D6kvY_c

yes, rocko's modern life is total classic xp

making my ballot now. about half is cartoons/children's shows and the other half are 60/70s shows

ugh, wish this was a 50-item ballot, so many good things getting cut!

Currently pruning out "Nick At Nite" stuff that I'm fond of but can't really say is better than the rest - F Troop, Get Smart, I Love Lucy... Dick Van Dyke is hanging by a thread here.

the Get Smart theme is totally great & on my ballot

most of my ballot is dedicated to "Nick at Nite" type stuff tbh

It's solid work yeah, just in terms of things that get stuck in my head more and less often...I dunno, I think I could sincerely do two entirely separate ballots of like, grown-up shows and kids' shows, or alternately, pre- and post-1980.

ok, sent it in. 30 slots def not enough.

A few of my votes ended up going to theme songs that are probably more well known than the shows themselves.

14 votes so far. All men too. Come on ladies, you must like tv too....

i will be casting a vote this weekend sometime

STAAAANDING TAAAAALLLL
ON THE WINGS OF MY DREAMS

Gah, I forgot to nominate Moondial, going to post a clip on the other thread.

Voted!

http://images.spaces.covers.com/Upload/UserImages/i_deed_it.jpg

Need to do some proper work on paring this stuff down. It will be done, I swear.

I'm really looking forward to the results thread. Hope it gets heated! Haven't voted yet but i will

Down to 54 on the first pass, and I suspect the numbers will come down quite close on the next pass because I didn't get rigorous until about halfway down the alphabet.

Sent! Gutted for my #31 as I thought I would have placed it higher, but I have a system for working out how to vote in these things and I've got to stick to it.

For my 1st pass, my rule was if I couldn't call up the theme music and most or all of its lyrics in my head just from the name of the show, it got cut -- even if it was a show I loved. That gave me a short list of 60, and it wasn't too hard to work from there.

is there a mod that can maybe change the date in the thread title?

i'm not going to be around for the next couple days, plus I don't know why i thought midweek would be a good time to end this anyway. i think i just picked a date at random. i'm not going to get around to calculating results till next weekend and will likely roll out results the following monday. so if you are feeling behind, you can vote until SUNDAY 2nd DECEMBER.

but really just vote now.

Right, I'm going to do this thing. My research has reminded me how dreadful the past was:
http://youtu.be/OuhSig9XTXg?t=2m35s

Right. Have slaughtered my first born, second born and third born... and my ballot still has 12 too many themes on it. Won't somebody think of the children?

But thanks for the extra time to plan the final atrocities.

Nearly done this. Disappointed to see the theme to The Big Match theme tune of the early 80s doesn't live up to my memories. I mean, it's the same tune, but...where's the magic?

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Sousa's Liberty Bell? Are there others here that weren't written for the show?

The Odd Couple

Somewhat similarly, written for the film.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

OK, 3 strikes and you're out.

Are there others here that weren't written for the show?
The Office, for starters.

I'm voting for both Pink Panther noms as separate tunes.

I nominated Monty Python and Alfred Hitchcock since I felt they were cases where people are more likely to associate those songs with the shows than on there own, which is different from the CSI themes which I think a lot of people will still associate as being songs by The Who, but maybe that's just my own opinion. And then there's also cases like The People's Court and Dave Allen At Large which use pieces of library music as their themes, that weren't necessarily written for a specific show.

The Lone Ranger sadly missing then

the CSI themes which I think a lot of people will still associate as being songs by The Who, but maybe that's just my own opinion.

Local classic rock station a few years ago was playing "Who Are You" when I flipped the radio on and for a split second I wondered why the theme from CSI was in their rotation before I remembered "oh right, The Who!"

Done!
guh that was hard

I think my shortlist was like 75 songs

Sousa's Liberty Bell? Are there others here that weren't written for the show?

yes, lots

they should have been a separate poll

hoy hoy stated outright that they were okay to be included

pedants can run their own polls iirc

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8484/8161683124_bff7f3e3da.jpg

pedants can run their own polls iirc

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, actually, Morbs isn't being pedantic, as there's nothing in the meaning of "TV theme" that voids the inclusion of music not specifically written for that purpose. Morbs is being grouchy, *I* am being pedantic.

guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is hard

cutting "American Bandstand" since it occurs to me that we might be voting for the original, instrumental theme and not the endearingly cornball, swaggering Manilow version.

I'm for complementary, not competitive, polling

obviously a lot of TV themes were appropriated from pre-existing songs, but there's such a wide variation from songs that were very famous beforehand to ones that are still almost purely known as themes that it's just kind of a pointless gray area to try to police imo

Agreed - I think the current approach makes total sense. Also, are people really going to vote for "Who Are You" as a TV theme, when there's so much other stuff on this list that no other ILX poll will ever include? I guess "The Monkees" is the real acid test of that logic though.

Plus, where does pre-exising start and finish? I know, for example, that "Approaching Menace" was used as incidental music in more than one TV show (including Doctor Who) - but to almost everybody else it's the theme from Mastermind, which came much later. "New Worlds" is a great Radiophonic piece, but most only know one bit of it, from the end of John Craven's Newsround.

I veauxted

me 2

Finally bit the bullet and sent mine in! Really once it gets to the top 30 though it's impossible to rank them except to say that the top ten or so are just unstoppable genius. If i did it tomorrow they'd all be in completely different order, I bet. Thanks again to a hoy hoy!

(and now back to tinkering on balls's rock ballot, i think i have that down to a hundred songs in no order...)

Just fwiw, if you people aren't voting for CHiPs, you're all dead to me.

sorry, I cut it at the last minute

I'll miss u

listening to CHiPs for the first time now - shit, this *is* pretty cool

it's a jam

but in a shortlist of 30, there's things that have to stay. like Minder and Dangermouse and Monkey and Kingswood Country

Is there a name for the ILX poll ballot phenomenon where, no matter how many votes you get in the poll, the ten beyond that are where you end up letting go of all the really quirky weird out-of-left-field stuff that you feel like a) made your ballot not feel totally generic and b) made your ballot look like it was written by a complete lunatic?

no

Oh man, this is HARD. I'm actually pretty much done, but I'm wavering on whether I should vote for Twin Peaks or Twin Peaks - Laura Palmer's Theme. Only one can make it in.

Write-in vote for Audrey Horne's theme?

Is a hoy hoy still accepting ballots? Totally forgot about it till just now.

Yes, until Sunday I think.

Sod it, I think I'm going for the inimitable creep of the main title, just so I can stop my agonising.

i would just vote for Rockford Files 30x

Got a shortlist. Need to order everything after Streets of San Francisco at #1.

DONE.

Hey guys and gals.

I'm still taking ballots! However, if it is Monday wherever you are when you read this, it is too late. Upto Sunday only.

Sorry, I have been away for a couple days. I have seen I've got some emails but I haven't had time to check them properly, reply etc. so don't worry if I haven't yet. If you have voted and haven't got a reply from me by tomorrow, please feel free to re-send it but I'm going to check spam filters etc. just to make sure I get every one I can possibly find.

Gonna do most of the calculating tomorrow.

Hope you all had a fun week and didn't go too mental over this.

Good kind of mental!

listening to CHiPs for the first time now - shit, this *is* pretty cool

There are two recordings: the more theme-y version used in the first season, and then the disco-y version used through the remainder of the series. I definitely prefer the latter version. Killer percussion, killer bass line, that weird ascending synth part...bliss.

S1: http://youtu.be/LYq8b0yIYr0
S2-end: http://youtu.be/VTDOLoDiOcg

I believe I've emailed back every confirmation. If you were one of the people in my spam filter trying to enlarge my penis, give me groupon offers or show me your boobs then I would have much preferred you to have put tv themes or ilx or something in the subject title first. Send it again with a new tag and I'll happily store money for a Nigerian Prince.

Watch out when you do the adding up cos there are a few duplicates in yr list (e.g. things appearing both with and without a 'the' in front of them, like White Horses [tum-tee-tum-tee-tum])

Voted. Much blood on floor. Funerals tomorrow.

Vote!

Seriously!

Done about half the tallying today and lol your vote really can change things imo.

oh shit when does this close?

working on my ballot

Nick if it is Monday where you are then its too late. I promise to finish counting tomorrow (this means Monday morning really tho).

Evening bump!

EEEEEEE

VOTE YOU MOTHERHUMPERS!

(And vote CHiPs!)

Throwing together a ballot atm - I spaced on this, so many thanks to ahh for extending the deadline!

def voting for CHiPs btw

zero hour voters, plz don't forget AIRWOLF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBd6ighzqYA

wait, so how the fuck did Martin not get nommed?

plz to consider MINDER

it could be so good for youuuuuuu

Voted! (for CHiPs!)

I hope a 12 minute version of the Wild Wild World of Animals opening theme surfaces someday cos that is so completely my jam

done & done - o man, the final round of pruning was brutal!

cutting things fine as ever, I just sent a list at like 20 seconds to midnight my time, but if that is too late then uh sorry, too bad

(hastily pruned loads of stuff I thought would get votes anyway, and also most of my lifetime's TV watching took place age 5-15 - age 16 was when I got internet access at home and started spending my life glued to a different screen - so ended up with like a 90% British kids shows list, making me that sad bastard nobody wants to end up sat near at the pub, as if I didn't already know)

oh shiii i just got like 5 ballots. you've got like an hour to send anymore and then i really must crack on calculating these fuckers.

Finishing mine up!

america is about 5/6 hours behind here, right?

i'm thinking i should hopefully be able to start the roll-out about 2pm gmt. gonna do 25 today, none tomorrow because i've got shit to do, 25 for every other weekday.

Sent!

wee!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mIB6EUaYyU

Finishing mine up right now...

me too! hold the phone!

whoa lotta latecomers to this party

sent!

Sent @ 11:54 PM local time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQt-p_nqhRU

what is the ballot count up to, ahh?

yeah I would also like to know how many people, in the end, contributed to this COMPLETELY DEFINITIVE list of best-ever theme songs.

I have just sent this. Sorry I have been slow - hope it's not too late...

depends on if you voted for CHiPS or not...

oh yeah sure *coughs*

johnny fever needs to see u out back

37, including myself.

Still got to input 25, including thinking up my own list.

Standing by a h h, if you need any help as we discussed, but I'm in meetings from now until 5pm UK time please note.

Its alright man, I'm p behind on all of this anyway.

Count Duckula and Duckula are the same thing, right?

Just 17 to go! And then fun can happen.

One day I'll learn excel...

14 left and just noticed two are running away with it. Whats strange though is that one of them has no #1 votes.

Is it too early to guess one?

Go for it. At the moment there are 8 shows in the top twenty I'm certain I've never seen an episode of and to break the top 100 a show only needs 37 points. Basically I think this could be one of ilx's more leftfield polls (or I just don't know enough TV). (Of course I've got 12 more ballots to go).

Anyone bored, wanting something to do and can play with photoshop want to make some fancy graphics?

i think the fun of this is that it's hard to say what's "leftfield" and what isn't, since there's not really any TV theme song canon, just shows people know and have different opinions and anecdotal evidence of how they're regarded

In terms of doubles and a show I don't know - are Miami Vice and Miami Vice - Crockett's Theme the same thing or seperate?

They're totally different tunes, both by the same composer though

crockett's theme is horrid btw, og mv theme 4evah

They're different. No idea why anyone would vote for the main theme when 'Crockett's Theme' rules so hard.

Duckula and Count Duckula are, I'm pretty sure, the same thing.

right you, outside

i am outside

Cheers.

I think when I roll out shows with multiple voting options, for the top one I'm going to calculate a bit in brackets saying (Show X + Show X 80s Cocaine Version + Show X Suicide Theme would have come #11 with 4999 points).

only about 5 more to go.

ILMs 101 FAVOURITE TV THEMES OF ALL TIME COUNTDOWN FEVER

wait how do you write a youtube url and not have it embed?

What with everything going on I didn't have time to vote in this :(
Crockett's theme is the most nostalgic music EVER, it was on a bank ad in the 80s and then a similar one was in a milk ad.

I think you can add an 's' to the url after the http bit e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fI7zm7RXHs

xp

i.e.e https

i.e.e?

cheers!

the extra E is for BYOE

where is the countdown thread? Alas, i am tired and search didn't find it

ILMs 101 FAVOURITE TV THEMES OF ALL TIME COUNTDOWN FEVER