Beginning at 7 pm Central time tonight, Me-TV-FM will be presenting their first-ever TV Themes Weekend, featuring dozens and dozens and dozens of TV Theme Song Favorites throughout the weekend. (Their special broadcast will end at Midnight on Sunday … which is exactly the same time our polls will close.)
[You can listen live here: https://www.radio.com/metvfmmke/listen#.W6oi2vZRfcs]
So be sure to tune in throughout the weekend to hear some of your all-time favorites. (And remember … you can continue to vote up till midnight Sunday night.) kk
Hey Kent,
I am sending you a link to the Private Eye TV show that only got one vote, mine. The show was on after Miami Vice and only lasted 13 episodes, but the music by Joe Jackson stands up to any other TV theme. Enjoy!
Brodkorb
Actually, it currently has FOUR votes. (See below for further explanation as to how this is possible.)
It’s not a bad theme … and I had never heard it before.
Unfortunately, it is NOT on the final ballot, so no amount of voting is going to help it now. (kk)
I'd be interested in knowing which 117 TV themes only received a single vote
(I know I'm responsible for 7 of them).
Sincerely,
Todd W. Zimmerman
Unfortunately, that list doesn't exist anymore.
Along the way, people continued to vote for some of the titles NOT on the ballot ...
So the majority of the themes that only had one vote now have more.
We even received nearly two dozen "write in" votes ...
Some were very obvious omissions from the first list, simply because nobody had ever nominated them during that two week process.
(We'll be featuring a few of these during our final countdown, the weekend of November 21st and 22nd … and I think that you’ll be surprised by some of the GREAT themes you missed, a few of which may have even made The Top 100, had they only been nominated in time.)
However, NONE of these titles will make The Top 50 ...
Or even The Top 213 because they were NOT on the Final Ballot ...
And those are the only votes being counted that will determine the final tally.
We are, however, continuing to count those votes as part of the final tally when it comes to the total number of votes received, which just passed 22,000 last night.
But, since you asked ...
As I type this, only 33 titles remain on the list with one solitary vote:
The Abbott and Costello Show
All Creatures Great And Small
Amos 'n' Andy
Barnaby Jones
The Big Valley
Canon
Cimarron Strip
Cutie Honey
Dave Allen At Large
Department S
Emergency
Fantasy Island
Fractured Flickers
Gentle Ben
The Ghost And Mrs. Muir
The Gumby Show
Highway Patrol
Johnny Quest
Land of the Giants
Laredo
The Life And Times of Grizzly Adams
Man In A Suitcase
Mr. Magoo
My Little Margie
Naked City
Nanny and the Professor
Our Miss Brooks
Ozzie's Girls
Phineas and Ferb
The Rookies
Search
Supercar
Underdog
Van der Valk
(Now I will freely admit that I've never even heard of at least half a dozen of these titles ...
And may have only seen a few episodes of half a dozen others ...
The rest were never even on my radar!)
Now you can continue to vote for those titles if you're so inclined ... but in effect you're just wasting a vote, as NONE of these themes will be considered for the final list when we unveil it the weekend of November 21st and 22nd. Your time would be better spent sticking to the Final Ballot as it stands, where you'll get to see some of your all-time favorites duly recognized in our final countdown.
By the way, for those of you out there who love the mechanics of a countdown the way that I do, as I type this, a TV Theme would need a minimum of 131 votes to make The Top 50 ... and 64 votes to make The Top 100.
Only ONE title that earned the required ten votes to make the final ballot STILL only has those ten votes ... and that distinction belongs to the theme from Mighty Mouse. (C’mon … somebody out there PLEASE vote for this song!!! Where’s Andy Kaufman when you really need him?!?!) Allof the others have continued to receive another vote or two ... or seven. As such, there are currently TWO titles with 11 votes each ... and five with 12.
Meanwhile, at the top of the list, we just had our first TV Theme crack the 500 Votes barrier. There are now three titles with over 400 votes (and two more closing in on that figure that'll probably make it!) Eight themes have earned over 300 votes and 19 others have received 200 votes or more. (That accounts for 31 of your Top 50 right there!!!)
Me-TV-FM will be playing TV Themes all weekend long, beginning at 7 pm on Friday Night (11/7) and continuing straight on thru till midnight on Sunday (11/9).
Our polls will also close at midnight on Sunday ... so you've still got a few days left to cast your final ballots.
And then in two weeks we'll count down complete The Top 50 ... plus a
WHOLE slew of extras along the way ... so be sure to join us for that! (kk)
