Aside from great comedy and drama, one of the best things TV has given us over the years are awesomely catchy theme songs.
AOL TV has compiled a list of their favorite show-opening tunes and pitted them against each other in a tournament-style poll. Click here to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime, we want to know: What are your favorite TV theme songs?
Are you partial to the pop-rock intricacies of The Brady Bunch or The Greatest American Hero or do you prefer the simpler melodies of The Simpsons and M*A*S*H?
Share your picks after the jump.
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Larry Gelbart, the writer who made M*A*S*H a TV hit, died Friday in his Beverly Hills home, after a battle with cancer. He was 81.
In 1971, TV execs approached Gelbart about adapting Robert Altman's M*A*S*H for the small screen...
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We really should've known better. We waited two weeks for Brothers & Sisters' "shocking death," when all along we should have realized that what the network had been teasing for weeks (months even, among insiders) in the end wasn't all that shocking — especially when it didn't even really happen.
Oh well, maybe we're all patsies. But to make ourselves feel better, after the jump are the TV deaths that actually delivered a gutshot and had us talking about a character's demise the next day — for all the right reasons.
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New releases announced today, August 1:Chowder - Volume 1 will be coming out November 4 M*A*S*H - Repackaged Individual Season Sets will be coming out November 11 Scrubs - The Complete 7th Season will be coming out November 11 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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The other day I filled my cookie card with 12 stamps and was rewarded with a free cookie. Last year I used points from my local grocery store to give me a sizable discount off a waffle iron. I use airline points to get free flights, and points earned at the theater for free movie tickets. Programs like these are designed to reward customers for being loyal — they're designed to keep people coming back.The home entertainment industry seems, for the most part, designed to screw its loyal customers. "Oh, you bought the regular edition of the movie? Hah! We have a super-duper special edition with 20 minutes of new material, new extras and other awesome stuff you'll want because you're a fan of the movie." I'll admit to falling for the trap a number of times; I own two copies of The Bourne Identity on DVD (and another on HD DVD); two copies of Criterion Collection's Brazil release (because the first wasn't anamorphic); I had two versions of Last of the Mohicans before I sold one; an...
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