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You have to listen to one TV theme song, twice a day, for a year. Which one will you pick? Which TV theme songs and pieces do people hold most dear?

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As of writing, Ranker has over 21,000 voters choosing their favourite TV theme songs. The winners?

2024. Ranker. Top 20 Best TV Theme Songs Of All Time
1.  The Pink Panther
2.  The Addams Family
3.  The Flintstones
4.  Scooby-Doo
5.  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
6.  Batman
7.  Happy Days
8.  The Twilight Zone
9.  Cheers
10. Gilligan’s Island
11. The Muppet Show
12. Sesame Street
13. Friends
14. Hawaii Five-O
15. M*A*S*H
16. The Simpsons
17. Mission: Impossible
18. Looney Tunes
19. The Jetsons
20. The Golden Girls

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Moving to the UK… Classic FM and Radio Times polled 20,000 adults around their favourite TV themes. how many of these do you know and like?

2021. Classic FM + Radio Times. Top 10 Theme Songs + Composers
1.  Inspector Morse
2.  The Onedin Line
3.  Downton Abbey
4.  Game of Thrones.
5.  Wolf Hall
6.  Band of Brothers
7.   Van der Valk (Eye Level)
8.  Brideshead Revisited
9.   Pride and Prejudice
10. Poldark. Anne Dudley

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And, finally, in 2022, Rolling Stone Magazine crowned their Top 100 TV Theme Songs of All Time.

2022. Rolling Stone. Top 12 TV Theme Songs
1. The Jeffersons
2. The Brady Bunch + Gilligan’s Island. Tie
3. Sanford and Son
4. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
5. Mister Rogers’ Neighbourhood
6. The Twilight Zone
7. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
8. Friends
9. The O.C.
10. Too Many Cooks
11. Game of Thrones
12. Hawaii Five-O

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