Favorite TV Themes from Yesteryear

**nubka** · 11-28-2011, 08:05 PM

How could I possibly forget this one?

Keeping up Appearances http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO8aYz90eVU

**Cachoo** · 11-28-2011, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Simone411

Love Is All Around from the Mary Tyler Moore show.

^^this^^

**Cachoo** · 11-28-2011, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by Cachoo

^^this^^

There was such an effort to make the feminism appear radical and not needed: This show (and this song) came along at the right time.

**znachki** · 11-28-2011, 08:24 PM

I guess I'm going to show my age now - but these are awesome:

Rawhide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2fONPgIJE

Secret Agent Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K90joT4RSnA

Mission Impossible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55NuWQCh78

Peter Gunn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6FY9DZcSoA

I also love It Take as Theif - which someone posted

**Cachoo** · 11-28-2011, 08:29 PM

"Cheers" TV Intro http://youtu.be/iqaSWj8ygrc

"Carnivale" Intro http://youtu.be/U-Onb-FqR74 (weird but I like the music/historical pics
and Tarot cards mixed together)

"St. Elsewhere" (look for young Denzel, Mark Harmon, David Morse, Howie Mandel, Ed Begley Jr. among others (including one of our hometown favorites at the time-- Cindy Sikes)
http://youtu.be/YnvNZoRJJtM

**Beefcake** · 11-28-2011, 10:23 PM

Cachoo listing two of my all-time favorite shows in Cheers and St Elsewhere. (Loved Carnivale, too, for that matter.)

Mark Harmon's mustache.

But, hey, such was the fashion back in the day.

**falling_dance** · 11-28-2011, 10:31 PM

Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?

**Jot the Dot Dot** · 11-28-2011, 10:46 PM

Blossom, as sung in Dr. John's unmistakable voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0HhHnwFcs&NR=1 And a song that was a Bob Dylan/Rick Danko colaberation, that found a new audience: Absolutely Fabulous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYvbL_AAIoY

**Cyn** · 11-28-2011, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by nubka

Back in the 60's, I always liked Mickey the best, but I've now switched to Peter!

My older cousin was madly in love with Davey Jones. She would get as close to the television as she could get and pretend that we was singing just to her...

for Peter Tork fandom!!

I always thought Davy Jones was cute (though never a crush of mine), but that stupid Brady Bunch episode when Marcia got him to sing at the school dance destroyed any street cred (if there was such a thing back then

) by appearing on that show, especially for "Marcia Marcia Marcia!!"

.

A little OT (or to make it relevant, here's the Theme song from The Brady Bunch), but even as a little kid of five years, Marcia worked my last nerve far more than Jan Brady ever did. The scene when she got beaned in the shnozz with the football was hands-down one of my favorite moments in that show

.

Even at young age, I was

X infinity that she ended up going to the dance. My rampant

imagination at the time wanted the guy she ended up going to the dance with who she originally dumped in favor of the school hunk to tell her "oh HELL no after the way you dissed me," forcing her to be stuck at home alone the night of the dance and suffer that karmoic *poink* for being such a snotty, superficial beyotch

.

**AYS** · 11-28-2011, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by Garden Kitty

PL, I've wondered that too.

We can't leave off these classics:

Partridge Family

I'm glad someone else admitted this one first.

Originally Posted by Simone411

Love Is All Around from the Mary Tyler Moore show.

One of my very favorites!

And of course, M*A*S*H

**Jeanine** · 11-28-2011, 11:19 PM

Haven't been able to look through all of the links so forgive me if these have been mentioned

The Littlest Hobo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=banXT6azA-4 (my all time favourite!)

Black Beauty http://youtu.be/rIeA-ETWk0I

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3Z_7ITUEE

Mysterious Cities of Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcH_ZTF6smY

Ulysses 31 http://youtu.be/OZ4c1X5ene8

Around the World With Willy Fog http://youtu.be/6nqN_7eGItM

The Raccoons (Run with us!) http://youtu.be/r29ih2hsAes (intro) http://youtu.be/JLVe1NkQA78 (Run with Us)

**Grannyfan** · 11-28-2011, 11:21 PM

My all-time favorite theme music, Peter Gunn, has already been mentioned. I loved that show. I was just a kid, but I was in love with Craig Stevens.

Here are the themes from my two all-time favorite TV series:

Andy Griffith Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzQXeC5O01Y

Dick Van Dyke Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_8QW8LO-c

And a famous composition as theme music from The Alfred Hitchcock Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt4N9argVi8

**Grannyfan** · 11-28-2011, 11:26 PM

I had to add this one. For a kids' show, it had to be one of the saddest sounding melodies.

Lassie (June Lockhart, Jon Provost series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0tXJJoM9Fo

**AliasJohnDoe** · 11-28-2011, 11:32 PM

Three that come mind that I'd like to see skated to. Miki Ando skated to a piece of "Rome".

"Six Feet Under": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainvoGG51kc

"Rome": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDDPd...eature=related

"Deep Space Nine": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsOE73pxpys

**Cachoo** · 11-29-2011, 01:13 AM

Originally Posted by Beefcake

Cachoo listing two of my all-time favorite shows in Cheers and St Elsewhere. (Loved Carnivale, too, for that matter.)

Mark Harmon's mustache.

But, hey, such was the fashion back in the day.

I don't like the mustache but he is still a honey--what a charmed life.

I wish HBO would have given Carnivale another season. There is so much bad fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal--whatever---it was nice to see that genre done so well.

(Beefcake--we used to simply clear Thursday nights to be a family tv night starting with Cosby and ending with NBC's fine drama's like Hill Street or LA Law. Cheers was always my favorite. This thread brings back good memories.)

**LilJen** · 11-29-2011, 01:37 AM

Best sing-along ever: "AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!" (ROWWWRRRRRR!!!)

dh is quite fond of the bass line from the Barney Miller theme song.

**LilJen** · 11-29-2011, 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by PrincessLeppard

I've always wondered why no one ever skated to the theme from McGyver. They could have had duct tape on their costume. And a safety pin.

Why does no one ever think of the voids?

Ooh, there's an ISI spotlight idea. . . . not that anyone would even get it. . .

**Cachoo** · 11-29-2011, 01:56 AM

Ok--this is admittedly hokey but if you like fairytales- http://youtu.be/qeUhrLoMIYo

I'm also a Vonda Shepard fan and always liked the Ally McBeal theme and also consider one Barry White song something of a second theme song because it was used so much (and that unisex bathroom!)

http://youtu.be/JfeRb9_Ymmk

http://youtu.be/pQN1COeI75E

**Cachoo** · 11-29-2011, 02:04 AM

Originally Posted by Jeanine

Haven't been able to look through all of the links so forgive me if these have been mentioned

The Littlest Hobo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=banXT6azA-4 (my all time favourite!)

Black Beauty http://youtu.be/rIeA-ETWk0I

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3Z_7ITUEE

Mysterious Cities of Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcH_ZTF6smY

Ulysses 31 http://youtu.be/OZ4c1X5ene8

Around the World With Willy Fog http://youtu.be/6nqN_7eGItM

The Raccoons (Run with us!) http://youtu.be/r29ih2hsAes (intro) http://youtu.be/JLVe1NkQA78 (Run with Us)

I didn't know anyone else ever saw Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It is always interesting to see these young casts and following their career paths. I forgot that River Phoenix was on this show.

**Garden Kitty** · 11-29-2011, 02:08 AM

Somebody had to do it (and if I missed it earlier in the thread, sorry)

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