LOVE IT

Anything Gerry Anderson did was fun, well except for the second season of Space 1999 (What were you THINKING!) Still one of the best TV theme songs evar.....
http://www.videosift.com/video/Space-1999-Sci-Fi-Tv-Intro-1975-1st-Season-Greatest-Sci-F

Hey TB, this one needs tending to: http://www.videosift.com/video/Every-annoying-TV-theme-song-from-the-last-30-years

This is the best tv theme song ever written! Space 1999 runs a close second in my book

Man this is just some pilot that totally blew-was this crap even on??? And this is NOT, a kickin' TV theme song...its an embarrassingly cracker-fied, TV theme song...

Hey! I just started a new playlist on tv themes. I'd like to add your Magnum pi, but it's dead. I left an embed on the comment thread that I'll edit off later.

best tv theme song ever.

Suicide is Painless...

but lets have a laugh.

As you may know Ive created a playlist of many of the dead videos on the sift. As its been there for awhile, and there have been quite a few views of it, very few vids have been fixed or discarded. I thought a list just of yours might be of some help. The list below are all your videos on my playlist. There may be a few errors, but I gave it my best shot.


http://www.videosift.com/video/Sesame-Street--Mr-Hooper-isnt-coming-back
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-man-has-his-priorities-straight
http://www.videosift.com/video/Airbus-A380-test-flight-I-thought-these-things-were-bigger
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sinatra-and-Jobim
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sesame-Street-In-Color
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hippo-Vs-Crocodile-Anyone-wanna-give-odds
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-ancient-sport-of-Tree-Catching
http://www.videosift.com/video/KLF-Justified-and-Ancient-Stand-by-the-Jams
http://www.videosift.com/video/KLF-Justified-and-Ancient-Stand-by-the-Jams
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Daily-Show-10-Fckng-years-Holiday-Edition
http://www.videosift.com/video/George-Bush-thinks-that-the-Prime-Minister-of-Canada-is-a-Pl
http://www.videosift.com/video/NEW-High-Fashion-Log-for-Girls
http://www.videosift.com/video/Every-annoying-TV-theme-song-from-the-last-30-years
http://www.videosift.com/video/Chrysler-Tomahawk-V10-Viper-Powered-Motorcycle
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Log-Drivers-Waltz
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ren-and-Stimpy-Black-Hole
http://www.videosift.com/video/Yogi-Bear-by-John-K-A-Day-in-the-Life-of-Ranger-Smith
http://www.videosift.com/video/Talking-Heads--Nothing-But-Flowers
http://www.videosift.com/video/Connie-Chungs-show-is-cancelled-this-is-her-reaction-W
http://www.videosift.com/video/Vincent-Price-on-the-Muppet-Show--Halloween-Spectacular
http://www.videosift.com/video/Its-a-Wonderful-Life-With-Bunnies
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Office-Michael-Scott-kisses-Oscar-NSF-Homophobes

You video needs tending.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Land-of-the-Lost-TV-Theme-Classic-70s-Saturday-morning#119919

three comments:

(1) i'm confused as to how this works.

i understand you're afraid of siftbot, but crazy addicts will want to understand how this works. even if it's complicated, can you explain?

(2) it's not intuitive so far

i just gave the 10th vote to get farhad's robot guitar video published. but when you go to the front page, it's not there (some osama bin laden / family guy clip is first). when i started writing this, it was on the third page. a couple minutes later, it's on the second page, even though it still has the same number of votes and the same sift score.

so there seems to be a significant random element, or else the activity from the last X minutes is heavily weighted.

the problem with that model is that the published videos will jump around so much that sifting sequentially through 16 pages of videos (current number included in the hot sift) will be confusing. if it takes 5 or 10 minutes to get from page 2 to page 3, videos may pop down the list and "reappear" on page 3, or pop up the list and be missed entirely.

which means it will impossible even for hardcore addicts to know when they've managed to cast eyes on everything published. and there will be no way of knowing when you've "caught up", ie. seen everything published since last time you checked.

(3) i don't think this is a necessary innovation, in part because it's not adding much new beyond the "top videos -- 24 hours page" to the stereotypical superficial visitor (who looks at the front page or two and the top 15 sidebar, but not much else).

right now, here's how the hot sift stacks up against the top videos -- 24 hours page:

-- osama / family guy (#1 hot sift, #2 top 24)
-- restless goalie (#2 hot sift, #6 top 24)
-- beck loser (#3 hot sift, #1 top 24)
-- simpsons epcot center (#4 hot sift, #4 top 24)
** pedophile apeshit (#5 hot sift, #17 top 24)
** simpsons wiggum twin peaks (#6 hot sift, #19 top 24)
-- strangest tourist attraction (#7 hot sift, #9 top 24)
** family guy creationists (#8 hot sift, #16 top 24)
-- radish seed timelapse (#9 hot sift, #7 top 24)
-- silence of the lambs trailer (#10 hot sift, #8 top 24)

only 3 videos are on a different page than they would be, all with >10 votes in <10 hours, and thus all certain to be top of the 24 hour page before long (as older videos disappear)

From Wikipedia:

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? was a popular children's television game show, loosely based off the computer game of the same name. It aired on PBS from 1991 to 1996 and was hosted by Greg Lee with Lynne Thigpen as "The Chief" and Rockapella as the house vocal band and comedy troupe (Rockapella featured Barry Carl, Sean Altman, Elliot Kerman, and Scott Leonard - Jeff Thacher joined for the final season). The show's theme song, penned by Altman and David Yazbek, is one of the most well-known TV themes in television history, according to the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. The show holds the record as being the longest running game show on PBS and is the second longest running kids' game show behind Double Dare.

I'm not sure admitting to in-depth analysis of TV theme and pop songs is something you want to do in front of a lot of people.

I watched the link from oohahh, and while it is interesting, the only part I balk at is the fact that he says we should NOT respect another person's belief system. I think that is where the danger absolutely lies.

My family is Fundie...poor things. I grew up in a Fundie household, so the Bible was shoved down my throat at a very early age. My mother still sends me emails saying she is sad that my son and I will burn in Hell. My son's father is from a family of Orthodox Jews. His sister took me aside after my son was born and told me that they would not recognize our child as their nephew if he wasn't circumcised...because that is their belief. Nothing personal.

This is the kind of fanaticism that causes the most hurt and bitterness. Religious dogma does not work in practice. But it does not make my family evil...it does not make my ex's family evil. It makes them unyielding, thus unable to grow as Human Beings.

But all I can do is respond. I cannot change their beliefs, but I respect their right to have them. After all, they are the ones who are missing out on a beautiful relationship with an amazing child.

As a side note, I think it's hilarious that the Super Mario Brothers Super Show TV Theme is related to this sift.

ditto swampgirl, greatest tv theme ever (except, maybe, mission impossible)

diggin through the dusties.
just the facts from youtube: "Nancy Sinatra, Frankie Avalon, & Lola Falana perform a medley of current TV theme songs on the Hullabaloo television show on December 6, 1965.

The following songs are included: Hullabaloo, Bonanza, Bewitched, The Andy Griffith Show, "Moon River", Beverly Hillbillies, "Everybody Loves Somebody", Flipper, Branded, The Flintstones, Action, & Candid Camera"

n.b. they get the Andy Griffith theme wrong, in that it's actually a song called "Down by the fishing hole" (but don't forget your fishing pole)....