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There has always been this great irony in my life that my favorite childhood fictional character was a superhero who became a better individual by popping a pill. :eek:
And Super Chicken swilled the sauce.
Or a sensational punk treatment of it from Radio Birdman.
No one?
No one has yet mentioned The Bob Newhart Show?
The idea of a hero who gains sudden strength by ingesting something was not exactly original.
Second best theme song. The first?
Gigantor
OMG! I saw that show once as a kid and have been trying forever to dig up info on it. I think the local PBS station showed it for a few days in lieu of “Doctor Who”, and that opening theme song just about made my 8 year old head explode. I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that no such show actually existed and I had only imagined it. It’s nice to finally know that it really did exist. Thanks GuanoLad.
Aaaah! I did it again, I started from this thread and began clicking on links, and POOF! A whole hour gone to Youtube.
All right, here’s one long-forgotten TV show intro for a series called Police Woman that starred Angie Dickinson’s rack.
I have not clicked every link but Monty Python
clearly needs mentioned.
So do both versions of Space: Above and Beyond
I pret near busted when it got to the end of the Police Woman sequence and flashed the titles: This Week’s Episode: LADY COP DOWN!
You couldn’t come up with a better parody line.
Anyway, watching that intro made me realize that this show is about a lot more than Angie Dickinson’s rack. It’s about her legs, ass, and belly as well. And also her startled expression as she is grabbed, slapped, and otherwise manhandled.
Then she blows away a black woman with a shotgun.
Johnny, you should also add the Spanish-language version of “Secret Agent Man” (“Hombre Secreto”) from the Repo Man soundtrack to your playlist.
As for the OP, another vote for Rockford Files.
I’d love to see your beach tunes list. Mine has the Atlantics, the Bel-Airs, the Challengers, the Champs, the Chantays, Dick Dale and His Del-Tones, the Lively Ones, Los Straitjackets, the Marketts, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, the Surfaris, the Tornados, the Trashmen, and the Ventures.
Not quite a spy, but definitely in the same vein: M-Squad, theme by Count Basie, fedoras and fiery gunshots by Lee Marvin. 
The music might seem a little familiar even if you haven’t seen the show. :eek:
Quincy Jones checks in
101 tunes there now, so I won’t list them. But here are the artists:
Apache 64
The Beach Boys
Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack
Brian Hyland
The Champs
Dick Dale
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Mermen
Ritchie Valens
Santo & Johnny
Surf Punks
The Surfaris
The Tornados
The Ventures
The Waikikis
There is a fine laid-back version of the Hawaii Five-O theme done by the Blue Hawaiians, called “Martini Five-O”. Annoyingly, the only version up on youtube has been corrupted by the addition of Bob Marley vocals, but here are the Blue Hawaiians doing the Dick Tracy theme.
I have that Blue Hawaiians track – it was on a compilation CD I picked up at Starbucks.
That is a terrific CD - I bought it used a couple of years ago and it’s what got me interested in modern surf rock.
It has (in addition to classics from the '60s) newer stuff from the likes of Laika and the Cosmonauts, the Aqua Velvets and the Mermen. Highly recommended.
What, no love for the homespun and prosaic?
I loved the theme from The Waltons. Besides, being a trumpet player myself in junior high and high school, I remember my entire family sitting down to watch the show in the evening – my siblings, my parents and even my grandparents when they lived with us for a while. It was on of the few things we did together.
Our band even had the theme as part of our repertoire for a while.