, based on music and the actual filmed content?

The Newhart opener is really nice, especially the longer version. A lot of great Vermont scenery, with a great Henry Mancini score.

I'll cast my vote for the opening of Get Smart. Maxwell Smart going through the doors before falling through the floor in a phone booth is a classic.

This is a tough one, I'll rank them in order of preference:

1. Family Ties

2. Newhart

3. Green Acres

4. WKRP

5. Taxi

6. Laverne & Shirley

7. The Big Bang Theory

Family Ties is my favorite, but the Taxi opening (music and film) is by far the most intriguing, a melancholy opening for a comedy series, one of a kind.

Back in the early 1960's there was this daytime soap opera that started with a closed pair of entry gates, similar to what was at the street entry at the Beverly Hillbillies mansion. The opening title sequence would roll, and then the gates would open.

Then at the end of the show, the closing credits would roll, the gates would swing shut.....fade to black.

I'r's been killing me trying to remember what show that was. (any help welcome)

As far as shows that I can recall....Cheers was always kinda energetic.

Bewitched
Mary Tyler Moore
The Munsters
Wonder Woman
Batman
The Wild Wild West
The Monkees
Green Acres
Gilligan's Island
The Love Boat
I Dream of Jeannie
The Brady Bunch
That Girl
HR Pufnstuf
The Jetsons
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
The Mickey Mouse Club
Zorro
Gidget
Cheers
The Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Josie and the Pussycats
Jonny Quest
The Flintstones
Hawaii Five-0
Mission Impossible
Hawaiian Eye
Get Smart
Lost in Space
Star Trek
Scooby Doo Where are You?
The Banana Splits
The Partridge Family
The Addams Family
The Pruitts of Southhampton
The Herculoids
Dallas
Knots Landing
Smallville
The Twilight Zone

Twin Peaks
The X-Files
Hill Street Blues
Dawson's Creek
Miami Vice
Everwood
Friday Night Lights

Best ever

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Of course, there's also Tom Slick

The Jeffersons
Amen
Alice
Maude
What's Happening
Good Times
227

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Surprised no one said The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

happy days 11th season intro

A-Team Season 5 intro

the Jeffersons 10th 11th intro

Knight rider

Incredible Hulk

Airwolf

Knight Rider

Miami Vice

Newhart

WKRP in Cincinnati

So many to choose from! Besides what you guys already wrote. I would say:

Vega$
CHiPs
Macgyver (season 1)
The Rockford Files (all)
Kojak season 5

I've only watched a few episodes, but I love the Dallas theme and intro from a design standpoint. The way they edited the aerial views of Dallas with the three shots of the cast members was very well done. You knew you were watching appointment television.

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Dynasty and Falcon Crest also had great themes by Bill Conti. Most of the primetime soaps from the 1980s and 1990s had memorable themes.

I like the Perfect Strangers theme and intro for the views of Chicago.

Most of my favorite intros are from some of my favorite shows:

Happy Days, Diff'rent Strokes, Gimme a Break!, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, The Hogan Family, Silver Spoons, Webster, Mr. Belvedere, Cheers, The Wonder Years, Three's Company, Leave it to Beaver, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Brady Bunch, Unsolved Mysteries, CSI, Without a Trace, American Dreams, Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Incredible Hulk, CHiPs

Cheers
The Twilight Zone
The X-Files
All in the Family
Gimme a Break!

No one mentioned the early seasons of Drew Carey? I used to looove the way he'd dance!!!