M*A*S*H
A comedy that opens every week with casualties being carried off a helicopter. Nurses and surgeons run for the landing pad while the theme plays underneath — an instrumental of a song the network would not let anyone sing, because of what its chorus says.
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Seasons 1–11
One entry for eleven seasons. The montage was recut over the years, but only to keep up with a cast that turned over almost completely, which is the same reason Breaking Bad has one entry — the sequence itself never changed. Johnny Mandel's melody is played rather than sung throughout: the lyric is called 'Suicide Is Painless', and the network wanted the words nowhere near a Sunday night.