September 2011
50+ Main Titles: 1950–69
CREDITS
Thanks to the UCLA Film & Television Archive for letting us use their remastered opening for The Goldbergs.
Categories: 50 / Celebrities / Television
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"The Man, The Myth and The Legend",,,The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore). Get them-there votes in Western Fans !
Posted by: Dirk | 09/22/2011 at 10:13 AM
Really, what other opening music has been so 'intertwinned'with our chilhood ? Only as we grew up and lost our innocence, did we realise it was, The William Tell Overture that we were listening to as we watched...The Lone Ranger & 'Silver' race acroos our T.V. Screens, Really, no other opening sequence, comes close !
Posted by: Tonto. | 09/22/2011 at 10:26 AM
Lets get saddled up, fellow 'Range-Riders', and give our Hero...50%.Put your,'Silver Bullet on No.33...The Lone Ranger.
Posted by: "Get 'um up Scout". | 09/22/2011 at 10:35 AM
The choices are for best opener, not best theme song, which would explain why the Lone Ranger's theme, The William Tell Overture, is eligible. It's the entire dramatic opening people have voted for!
And again, this list stops at 1969, before The Jeffersons, Good Times, Mary Tyler Moore, M*A*S*H, All in the Family, and many others that have been cited as "missing."
Posted by: David M. Lynch | 09/22/2011 at 06:18 PM
Wow. I've been reading your stuff for about a year now and this is basically the only sh*t I dont agree with. Give atleast a little credit where credit is due. Kobe got his ass kicked by this so called fluke. So what? Chill out. No one said the Rockets were the best team.
Posted by: moncler jackets outlet | 10/08/2011 at 05:01 AM
Your list forgot two "historical" half hour family comedies from the 1950's: Ozzie and Harriett, and Father Knows Best.
These two shows featured " white, middle class" families living with INDOOR Plumbing in nice houses. This was one of the first "visual" clues to poor Southern African- Americans that not all of America still used "outdoor" plumbing!
Marshall McCluen: The Medium is the Message!
Posted by: barkleyg | 10/19/2011 at 02:28 PM
and i slowly go insane
i hear your voice on the line
but it doesn't stop the pain
if i see you next to never
Posted by: cheap air jordan shoes | 10/28/2011 at 06:42 PM
Hey what about (insert name of show that started well after 1969)??? Golly, you guys sure are stinkers for missing that one! Also, to the obsessive who's voted for the Lone Ranger a thousand times, give it a rest, will 'ya.
Posted by: Ug | 11/17/2011 at 10:44 PM
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Posted by: Walter | 11/20/2011 at 11:30 AM
Mannix!
Posted by: Bunny | 11/21/2011 at 10:47 AM
What happened to the Roy Rogers Show on Staurday Mornings?
Posted by: Robert W. Rusch | 11/23/2011 at 05:57 AM
Another vote for The Defenders -- if anybody has a link to it, I'd love to get it. Been searching for years. Gorgeous trumpet solo; Dynasty is the closest thing to it, but not quite there.
Posted by: Ongaku | 11/26/2011 at 03:04 AM
The Lone Ranger was the first show I saw on TV
Posted by: Grapefish | 01/03/2012 at 10:20 AM
I can't believe no "Mod Squad". No reason to vote then. It was cool!
Solid, Baby!
Posted by: Jan | 02/18/2012 at 07:43 PM
You left out Secret Agent Man aka Danger Man (UK) and "Secret Agent Man" (song), written by Steve Barri and P. F. Sloan used as the opening theme for American broadcast of the TV series Danger Man
retitled Secret Agent Man
Posted by: Della | 04/19/2012 at 08:02 PM