The series debut was some point after 1976. The theme song, I’m pretty sure, was sung by Maureen McGovern. After a teaser is over, she sings in voice-over something like: “Let the love __, let the love __, Love is sweet. Love is kind. Love is __
…and so divine!”
As the song progresses, one sees various scenes of a pleasant metropolitan downtown. There may be several moderately unusual festive sights, such as a lot of balloons.
Help!
Here ya go.
Weird. I was recently wondering what happened to the girl (Donna Pescow) from Saturday Night Fever who had a short-lived sitcom. I was too lazy to look her up.
Sorry, thought you said an “old” series. That one’s too new for me…
I can just barely remember this show when it was in first run. My mom had a cassette or record single of the theme song, though. The song was at least as popular as the show, if memory serves.
For those who don’t or can’t click on the Youtube link, the sitcom was Angie.
Here’s the first half of the first episode, including the full opening with the song in question.
Me = train wreck.
I saw “Maureen McGovern” and my head thought “Maureen McCormick.”
Me, "The chick from The Brady Bunch sung a sitcom theme song? Huh.
Ironic that Doris Roberts seems to be the only one still working regularly.
Doris Roberts is the ultimate television survivor. She’s walked away from the twisted wreckage of more series than almost anyone and lived to join another flight crew.
She’s had a hell of a career, movies, television, and Broadway. I don’t recall her being the reason for the failure of any of those series (I don’t think you’re saying she was), they probably lasted longer because she was in them. Doris and Peter Boyle were the only reason to watch Everybody Loves Raymond.
I remember Angie being on the air, probably watched no more than 5 minutes of an episode though.
As I recall, Angie came on as a midseason replacement and shot to the number one spot overnight due to the popularity of Saturday Night Fever. Its ratings fell drastically once Donna Pescow (whom I absolutely adored) was no longer flavor of the month among the Great American Public.
Interesting bit of trivia: Donna Pescow’s co-star, Robert Hays, later played the lead in the TV series Starman, as an alien dad of a half-human child. Also later on, Donna Pescow played the human mother of a half-alien child in the TV series Out of This World.
It wasn’t just that. As I recall, “Angie” had an especially cushy Thursday night time-slot between the Top-5 “Mork and Mindy” and the Top-20 “Barney Miller”. Once ABC removed “Angie” from that slot, it sank like a stone.
To this day, I can’t listen to “If I Can’t Have You (I Don’t Want Nobody, Baby)” without thinking of Donna. Every time I do, I just melt. 
I remember “Angie” solely from its broadcasts on ABC on their daytime lineup in the summer of '85 (remember when the networks aired sitcom reruns alongside the soap operas?).
Holy Jeez, you just brought me back in time. I haven’t even thought of that song in over 30 years, at least, but I remember it like I heard it on tv yesterday.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that tremendously. The location where I go online in the morning has multiple PC issues, and no sound.
No one can blame you if this is a result of a youthful crush.
Thanks to you, too.
Ah, another victim of the phenomenon of time “telescoping” in. 
Life seems to be full of these coincidences, doesn’t it?
THAT’S why I so closely associated the show with M&M and Donna Pescow with Pam Dawber! Merci beaucoup!
Vaguely. (One of my women friends seems to be several years younger than me, unlike my main squeeze. It now seems more likely that she’ll remember the show if I bring it up in an e-mail.)
music Let the time flow!
Thanks to all who have contributed. It was fun.