a preview of my Top 100 theme songs

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This is ending up a more extensive process than my top 100 TV shows and movies were. For one thing, there are 166 contenders that will be narrowed down by 66. The others I have updated fairly regularly and only had 13 contenders each, plus what was in the existing top 100. I have done some favorite theme shows lists before but this might be the first top 100 for them. I am only allowing one theme song per show to keep room for more shows overall. There are some with multiple themes like Happy Days and Monk that would have both themes qualify if allowed.
Just finished ranking the smaller pools and will start ranking the complete list (through 100) tomorrow. My overall top 5 are picked out, and what will be #1. I am not revealing that until the complete list, but it will be one of the pool winners. pools listed below

My Top 100 TV Theme Songs

Pool A: 1. The Beverly Hillbillies 2. The Addams Family 3. Adam-12 4. 9 to 5 5. Blossom 6. The Andy Griffith Show (1st theme) 7. 7th Heaven 8. Alfred Hitchcock Presents 9. Benson 10. 3rd Rock from the Sun 11. Bat Masterson 12. Bewitched 13. BJ and the Bear 14. Birds of a Feather 15. Barney Miller 16. Blue Bloods

Pool B: 1. Cheers 2. Bonanza 3. Dallas (original) 4. Car 54, Where Are You? 5. Cops 6. Diagnosis Murder (season 6) 7. The Brady Bunch (season 1) 8. Charlie’s Angels (original) 9. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father 10. Charles in Charge 11. The Bob Newhart Show 12. Coach 13. CSI: NY (1st theme) 14. Captain Noah 15. Dear John 16. Dharma and Greg 17. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Pool C: 1. Fame 2. Evening Shade (violin theme) 3. Dynasty (original) 4. Dragnet 5. Diff’rent Strokes 6. Family Affair 7. Frasier (closing theme) 8. Friends 9. The Donna Reed Show 10. The Facts of Life 11. ER 12. The Dukes of Hazzard 13. The Dick Van Dyke Show 14. Doctor Who 15. Doogie Howser, M.D. 16. Family Ties

Pool D: 1. Greatest American Hero 2. Gilligan’s Island 3. Happy Days (2nd theme) 4. Hawaii Five-O (original) 5. Green Acres 6. F Troop 7. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 8. Head of the Class 9. Highway Patrol 10. Game of Thrones 11. Gilmore Girls 12. Growing Pains 13. Get Smart 14. Hart to Hart 15. Grizzly Adams 16. Harper Valley P.T.A. 17. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Pool E: 1. Laverne and Shirley 2. Jeopardy! (extended theme) 3. Knight Rider (original) 4. Law and Order (flagship) 5. I Love Lucy 6. Hill Street Blues 7. It’s About Time 8. Knots Landing 9. The Jeffersons 10. Life Goes On 11. Leave it to Beaver (whistling theme) 12. I Dream of Jeannie (season 2-5 theme) 13. Highway to Heaven 14. Hogan’s Heroes 15. JAG 16. Joanie Loves Chachi

Pool F: 1. MacGyver (original) 2. Matlock 3. Match Game (complete extended theme) 4. Magnum, P.I. 5. Mission: Impossible 6. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 7. Monk (2nd theme) 8. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 9. The Monkees 10. The Love Boat 11. M*A*S*H 12. Mad About You (original theme) 13. Married with Children 14. Mister Ed 15. Little House on the Prairie 16. Little Rascals 17. Malcolm in the Middle

Pool G: 1. Murder, She Wrote 2. The Odd Couple (original) 3. Night Court 4. The Munsters 5. Monty Python’s Flying Circus 6. The Partridge Family (2nd theme) 7. The Patty Duke Show 8. Mr. Belvedere 9. My Two Dads 10. The Nanny 11. Newhart 12. My Mother the Car 13. The Muppet Show 14. My Three Sons 15. Mork and Mindy 16. My Favorite Martian 17. Party of Five

Pool H: 1. Scarecrow and Mrs. King 2. The Rockford Files 3. Saved by the Bell 4. Psych 5. Petticoat Junction 6. Remington Steele 7. Quantum Leap 8. Picket Fences 9. Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In 10. Reba (2nd theme) 11. Secret Agent aka Danger Man 12. Seinfeld (extended theme) 13. Sanford and Son 14. The Practice 15. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1st theme) 16. The Ropers 17. Perfect Strangers

Pool I: 1. The Soupy Sales Show 2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 3. Star Trek (flagship) 4. Star Trek: the Next Generation 5. S.W.A.T. (original) 6. Three’s Company 7. Star Trek: Voyager 8. The Simpsons 9. The Three Stooges 10. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 11. Tales from the Crypt 12. Soap 13. Still Standing 14. Tabitha 15. Taxi 16. Too Close for Comfort

Pool J: 1. The Waltons 2. Wings 3. The X-Files 4. The Wonder Years (1st theme) 5. Walker, Texas Ranger 6. Welcome Back, Kotter 7. WKRP in Cincinnati 8. Who Wants to be a Millionaire (Regis) 9. Ultraman 10. Wonder Woman 11. Unhappily Ever After 12. Touched by an Angel 13. Two and a Half Men 14. Who’s the Boss? 15. The Twilight Zone 16. Trapper John, M.D. 17. What’s Happening!

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some clues
One pool was dominant with the top 4 shows overall. One show was the weakest of the pool winners, coming in at #32 overall (the point I am at so far).