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What Are the Best (and Worst) TV Theme Songs?
As part of a TV Guide cover story on an upcoming all-TV theme song edition of NBC's The Singing Bee, we want to ask you:
1. What is the best TV theme song ever?
2. What is the best TV theme song currently on prime time?
3. And what are the worst TV theme songs, both ever and currently?
Share your thoughts here, and then check back in the days ahead. This is but the first of many TV theme-song related TVGuide.com Asks... surveys to come!
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Oct 1, 2007 1:12 PM
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1) Five-way tie: All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Bewitched, Barney Miller, and Sanford and Son
2) Any CSI (I love The Who)
3) American Idol (is that really a "song"???)
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Oct 1, 2007 1:38 PM
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1. Best Ever (can't pick just one):
Hill Street Blues
Supertrain (not many know this one I bet)
Space:Above and Beyond
Lost in Space
LA Law
Wild Wild West
Angel and Buffy
2. Best Current:
Rescue Me
The 4400
3. Worst:
Grey's Anatomy now (not playing the theme)
Damages (just doesn't seem to fit the show to me)
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Oct 1, 2007 1:45 PM
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1. The best TV theme song of all time is The Avengers.
2. The best TV theme song for a current show is Desperate Housewives.
3. The worst TV theme song ever is The L Word.
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Oct 1, 2007 1:45 PM
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The Best TV Theme song is SAVE ME, Smallville by Remy.....AWESOME THEME SONG
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Oct 1, 2007 1:46 PM
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1. For me it's a tie between Friends, Saved by the Bell, The Golden Girls and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. If one of those gets stuck in my head I just can't get it out.
2. Smallville - Somebody Save Me (I mean, it just makes sense)
3. Honestly, nothing really comes to mind.
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Oct 1, 2007 1:56 PM
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Best now: Monk
Best ever: Giligan's Island, Mash
Best Children: Ducktales, Reading Rainbow
Worst ever: Married with Children, Law and Order
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Oct 1, 2007 1:58 PM
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1. I think the best theme songs capture the spirit of the show. Because of that, I choose -- Mary Tyler Moore, M*A*S*H, The Munsters, X-Files
2. Best current -- Friday Night Lights
3. Worst -- American Idol, Boston Legal, The Office (UK version)
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Oct 1, 2007 2:03 PM
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Oooh, yeah, I forgot about Fresh Prince. That was a good one too. 
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Oct 1, 2007 2:03 PM
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The best theme songs are the ones that are memorable, but not annoying and evoke the tone of the show.
Best Ever:
- M*A*S*H,
- Greatest American Hero (better theme song than show),
- Angel,
- The OC - the theme song really put me in the mood to watch the show.
- Ally McBeal - annoying show, but the theme song was perfect for what the show was.
Best Current:
The Office - another theme that just puts me in the right mood to watch the show.
Worst ever:
Couldn't think of much, most of the bad ones are just boring.
Growing Pains - just too annoying
Married With Children
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Oct 1, 2007 2:05 PM
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1) The X-Files, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Happy Days, Veronica Mars, Firefly
2) Criminal Minds, Weeds, How I Met Your Mother
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Oct 1, 2007 2:12 PM
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I love theme songs, but I can't pick favorites. I have TV Guide's 50 best theme songs cd. I love the one from Greatest American Hero even though I've never seen the show. My only commit is I can't stand ER's new theme song. They changed it last year for no reason and it just makes me mad. I liked the first one.
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Oct 1, 2007 2:16 PM
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Best TV theme song(s):
Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars S1&2, Charmed, Party of Five
Best TV theme song currently on: Bones! Looove the track!
Worst TV theme song ever: 7th Heaven, the Apprentice, Dawson's Creek
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Oct 1, 2007 2:19 PM
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Best ever...Greatest American Hero
Currently...Two and a half men
Worst...Adams family
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Oct 1, 2007 2:20 PM
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Psych - "I know you know that I'm not telling the truth, I know you know, you just don't have any proof"
Veronica Mars (I even liked the slowed-down "noir" version) - "A long time ago, we used to be friends but I haven't thought of you lately at all"
Both are perfect fits for their shows
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Oct 1, 2007 2:23 PM
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