“Come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the junction…”
“Greeeeeen Acres is the place for me…”
“Meet Cathy who’s been most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Barkley Square…”
I second/third “I Dream of Jeannie.”
Also:
“Bewitched”
“Batman”
“Hawaii Five-O.”
“The Avengers” (Diana Rigg in black leather doesn’t hurt)
“Dick Van Dyke Show”
“Odd Couple”
“Partridge Family”
“Combat”
And…
“Leave it to Beaver.” During the last couple seasons, they gave it a swing groove.
Maverick was always a favorite of mine and yes, I sometimes find myself singing or humming it.
Sugarfoot Easy lopin’ cattle ropin’ Sugarfoot
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
Welcome Back Kotter
The Golden Girls Thank You for Being a Friend by Andrew Gold
The Jeffersons
One Day at a Time
Sanford and Son
Route 66
Get Smart!
Make Room for Daddy maybe not fair since it was Oh Danny Boy
Dave’s World
The Great Gildersleeve That was the '50s and I think I spelled it wrong. I’m pretty sure Foghorn Leghorn was patterned on Gildersleeve
That’s enough.
Johnny, I can’t believe I let you do that! There are… so many more! My head won’t shut up now. I’ll get you, you know… 
I have Hawai’i Five-O on my iPod -
**Room 222 ** will run thru my brain whenever I’m walking thru a corridor with a lot of doors
One of the best!
But where’s the love for:
They’re creepy and they’re kooky,
Mysterious and spooky…"
THE classic 60’s theme song, IMHO.
Howzabout some cartoons?
Jonny Quest --great instrumental!
Top Cat
Beany and Cecil --“A Bob Clampett cartoo-oooo-ooo-nn!”
Believe it or not, I’m walking on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flying away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it’s just me
May I put forward:
Hennesy for great, great saxaphone jazz;
The Roaring 20s for great Charleston;
The Smith Family (with Henry Fonda) and Harrigan and Son (with Pat O’Brian) for the wonderful use of existing songs as theme music. The Smith Family used “Primrose Lane” and Harrigan and Son used “H-a-double r-i-g-a-n.”
My father used to tune into The Smith Family only for the theme song. I fell in love with jazz from Hennesy, and was introduced to vaudiville tunes through Harrigan and Son. As for The Roaring 20s, heck, all of the music was great not just the theme song.
see, now, I hate this song for reasons other than just TV watchers do.
We learned a barbershop arrangement of it which pretty much ruined it for me
Not that it’s a bad arrangement, it’s really quite good and sounds great when sung by a whole chorus - but every time I hear it on the iPod (because the radio station I listen to won’t play it0 all I hear is the bass part to the BBS version - :eek:
There is the theme for The Odd Couple by Neil Hefti and then there is Barny Miller. I love that one oh and the theme from The Rockford Files.
I can’t remember the theme to The Rat Patrol (in COLOR!).
It sounded as close as possible to “Colonel Bogey March,” with tremolo violins underneath. Visualize a jeep going over a sand dune and it may pop into mind.
How about “Who was once a little green ball of clay?” GUMBY!
Whenever I need to “crank it up a notch”, be it at work, in a game, or even just getting ready to hustle out the door, I start to hum (sing?) “Da da da daaaah, Duh duh duuuuuh!”
The A-Team!
Nobody’s mentioned the “Perry Mason” or “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” themes yet.
British sitcoms have a couple of classics: “One Foot in The Grave” and “Keeping Up Apppearances”.
“Monty Python” and “Fawlty Towers” are also favorites of mine.
I have a CD called Ultra-Lounge: Tiki Sampler and it has the theme from The Munsters, My Three Sons and The Apartment on it. Good Times (ain’t we lucky we got 'em).
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir sounded like a sea chanty. Sort of:
[sub]DUNN[/sub]-dun-[sup]dun[/sup]-dun
[sub]dun-dun[/sub]-dun-[sub]dun-da-dun[/sub]…
Nanny & The Professor was…
Since the day that nanny came to stay with us
Fantastic things keep happening.
Is there really magic in the things she does
Or is love the only magic thing that nanny brings…
For what it’s worth, this says Foghorn is a radio-character takeoff.
Great piece of cartoon lore, I think I always knew they were mocking a southern politician, but I never knew who or that he was fictional.
I now have to find out more about Senator Claghorn
Jim