The theme was parodied brilliantly on SCTV “as sung by Lorne Greene.” Unfortunately, I don’t see a clip for it on YouTube. 
I remember that in the 80s, there was a fad for stickers. Girls at school would have sticker books, there were mall kiosks that sold only stickers, and there was a ridiculous variety. Scratch and sniff, textured, puffy, liquid filled, even color changing liquid crystal “mood stickers”. Funny how it just seemed to disappear overnight.
Greenie Stick-M-Caps. Or caps in general: usually a strip of paper with small circles of gunpowder. You’d put them in a cap gun and they’d sound like a real gun going off (well, not as loud, but they did give a nice little bang).
Greenie Stick-M-Caps would stick to individual “bullets” instead of being a strip. Allowed for more “realism,” plus (spring-loaded) bullets that actually flew out of the gun. Because the bullets were spring-loaded, they couldn’t penetrate much (though I suppose they could . . .
Wait for it…
Shoot your eye out.)
I remember the TV series Something Wilder. Particularly the episode where Alice Cooper sang the beginning of The Barney Song (I love you, you love me).
Betcha Alice himself doesn’t remember that.
Yes, yes, and yes. You must be about 60-65.
Crap, missed the EDIT menu. 
One of my earliest cartoon memories is (wait for it!) Little Black Sambo. Seriously!
(Did you know it was originally set in India, and not Africa? Which explains why there’s a tiger in it.)
Pow wow the Indian boy,
loved all the animals in the wood…
I turned 63 in January. I ain’t no spring chicken.
I loved the Greenie roll caps you could load into the magazine of a Mattel tommy gun. You could fire ten shots in a go if you pulled the bolt back all the way, meaning a roll was used up after five bursts. Best of all was when you tossed a whole role into a campfire or barbecue and the caps all went off at once. Then the grownups would yell and bitch at you and demand to know what you threw in there! 
Where phosphates are concerned, there’s a retro malt shop I sometimes go to here in Toronto. They make their own fountain drinks (syrup, soda water), but when I asked if I could have a cherry or a lime phosphate, they had no idea what I was talking about. It think phosphates are truly a lost art.
Slip 'N Slide. Complete with steel stakes that if came out of the ground, you could impale yourself on.
Play Ground Spring Riders. I’m surprised still made “For residential use only” So there is a bit of a disclaimer.
Back in the day, basically a steal/cast iron cartoon character mounted on a heavy duty spring. If you’re ‘riding’ forward and back or side to side and fall off, expect it to bounce back and break a part of you. (or any unfortunate bystanders)
Even better: setting them off with your fingernails.
Does anyone else in the known universe remember the breakfast cereal (and TV commercials for) Clackers? Yes, it tastes like Graham Crackers–if GCs were made out of corrugated cardboard.
Ever hit the whole roll with a hammer?
I remember Stax cereal. Marty Engels did at least one commercial for them. “If you get tired of eating them, you can always … STACK them!”*
Stax—stack. Geddit?
*They too tasted like cardboard.
Not that I can recall, though I bet some of the guys I played Army with did.
Now tell me who remembers Marty Engels? 
Mr. Shirley Jones? (I’m not looking)
Saddle shapes reminds me of the enclosed metal swingsets where you pump yourself by pulling two metal levers, and were presumably safer because it was difficult to fall out of the frame. Saddle shapes seem to have the opposite problem but they are both modernist-looking playground designs. I can’t find an image for them because I can’t remember what they were called.
I don’t remember them being called “Saddle Shapes” but I do remember similar concrete modernist climbable structures in Chautauqua County up until the very early 80s when they seemed to disappear overnight (I imagine safety concerns may have been involved.)
Bingo! Also half of I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster.
Can you name the other half? 