Give "Seinfeld" some love.
"'Extremely High Voltage.' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer SimpsonBZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz" - Frank Grimes

Cheers people! Where is the Cheers song?? I miss TV shows having theme songs. Some other great ones:
Greatest American Hero
Cosby
Family Ties
Dynasty
Dallas
LA Law
One Day at a Time
Three's Company (definitely the cheesiest)

You wanted the best, right?
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Yogi Berra

Huh wtf dude, lol

PWNED!!!
This is the greatest TV theme song of all time!
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Yogi Berra

You have the right to your opinion I still consider it the best tv theme song ever

Even though WKRP is one of my favorite all time shows, I disagree with your assessment that its theme song is the best in tv history. In fact, it's kinda lame.

Undeniably best theme song ever in the history of television
You must mean the extro. The intro is pedestrian, but the final song is the not only a great rock song, but a great rock parody.
You will probably disagree. That's the nature of discussions they have two sides.

I'll throw in the theme songs form Taxi and Ironside, but Rockfiles, WKRP and Welcome Back Kotter are all great.
-stay thirsty my friends

I've also loved the ending instrumental song from the incredible hulk, when David Benner, ventures on to his next journey hitchhiking for a ride. ..that piano music would come on and I would start crying

A innocent child's mind running wild. I use to sit in front of the television and imagined living in hazard county race and beat the Duke boys and have Daisy run into my arms.

When I was little, for some reason I thought the line "town to town, up and down the dial" was "up and down the aisle".
I thought it referred to Andy going from job to job after marrying and divorcing.
Hey, it worked in my nine year old mind.

i would substitute the "Simon & Simon" theme song for the " San Fran" instrumental theme song as Number Two in this list "Rockford" is definitely the best instrumental theme song ever by a long way great song maybe the best TV theme song ever and i'd make it a tie for "Barney Miller" with "Taxi" for Number Three instrumental theme song
and while i know many people love "The Jeffersons" theme song it never did anything for me first, WKRP is Number One imho for theme song with lyrics i think "Mary Tyler Moore" theme is Number Two
take care,
cormac
"One star in the sky
so I named it Otis Redding"
John Hiatt

"Taxi" was mentioned up there somewhere. I also loved the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour theme.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

I'm so surprised you did not include the theme song for "Taxi". I actually started watching the show because I loved the theme song.

Another good one instrumental i just thought of
Mission impossible (TV show)

Top 3 with lyrics

1. WKRP
2. The Jeffersons
3. Baretta (sp?)
   I liked Kotter, I just got tired of it.
   Top 3 Instrumental
4. Rockford Files
5. SWAT
6. Combat (don't know why but it's always resonated with me)

I liked Beta so much better than VHS.

I used to do that with my Beta VCR. If I remember right, I had about 4 hours of themes. I had to stop doing it when I switched to VHS. With Beta (or at least the machine I had), when I pressed Stop, the tape stopped in its tracks (no respooling back into the case) - if I then pressed Record, it would start recording right there. With VHS, the tape movement in and out of the case made this kind of recording next to impossible.

Television's Greatest Hits
are okay if you like your TV themes reproduced and that don't sound like the originals.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

If you like TV theme songs you should check out the
Television's Greatest Hits
series. There are eight volumes with about 60 themes on each. Amazon has some available.

When I was a teen in the 70s, I used a portable tape recorder to capture every theme I could get. I started with "The Odd Couple" and went from there. So I still have two hours of catchy themes still playable on cassette, even some from Saturday morning cartoons and live action programs like "Lidsville" and "HR Pufnstuf." Remember in that era they played the "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley" themes on the radio as singles? And they did well on the charts! What a simpler time that was.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

My top 3
1 wkrp
2 welcome back kotter
3 mash (theme song)

Thinking about it id say top 3 with lyrics
1.welcome back kotter
2.wkrp
3.the Jefferson
Just instrumental

1. Rockford files
2. Streets of San Francisco
3. Barney miller