# I need help recalling an old TV couple sitcom: **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103 "2013-05-11T20:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/1 "2013-05-11T20:30:31Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/2 "2013-05-11T20:36:24Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uenud_vexZA/hqdefault.jpg "Maureen McGovern: DIFFERENT WORLDS (Theme from "Angie") - 1979 Single Version") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uenud_vexZA) Here ya go. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/3 "2013-05-11T20:43:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/4 "2013-05-11T20:51:02Z")
> [@Trans Fat Og](#): > > The series debut was some point after 1976. Sorry, thought you said an “old” series. That one’s too new for me… ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/5 "2013-05-11T21:01:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/6 "2013-05-11T21:27:16Z")
For those who don’t or can’t click on the Youtube link, the sitcom was [Angie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078561/). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/7 "2013-05-11T21:33:14Z")
Here’s the [first half of the first episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tqPju_h2k), including the full opening with the song in question. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/8 "2013-05-11T21:45:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/9 "2013-05-11T22:39:18Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Here’s the [first half of the first episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tqPju_h2k), including the full opening with the song in question. Ironic that Doris Roberts seems to be the only one still working regularly. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/10 "2013-05-11T22:44:45Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/11 "2013-05-11T22:53:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/12 "2013-05-11T23:12:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/13 "2013-05-12T20:57:23Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/14 "2013-05-12T21:17:53Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/15 "2013-05-12T21:22:43Z")
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. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/16 "2013-05-12T23:41:02Z")
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?). ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/17 "2013-05-12T23:49:19Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uenud\_vexZA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uenud_vexZA) > > Here ya go. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-recalling-an-old-tv-couple-sitcom/658103/18 "2013-05-13T18:15:24Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Here’s the [first half of the first episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tqPju_h2k), including the full opening with the song in question. Thank you very much. > [@jayjay](#): > > For those who don’t or can’t click on the Youtube link, the sitcom was [Angie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078561/). I appreciate that tremendously. The location where I go online in the morning has multiple PC issues, and no sound. > [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > 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. No one can blame you if this is a result of a **youthful crush.** > [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uenud\_vexZA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uenud_vexZA) > > Here ya go. Thanks to you, too. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Sorry, thought you said an “old” series. That one’s too new for me… Ah, another victim of the phenomenon of time “telescoping” in. 😉 > [@AuntiePam](#): > > 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. Life seems to be full of these coincidences, doesn’t it? > [@NDP](#): > > 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. THAT’S why I so closely associated the show with M&M and Donna Pescow with Pam Dawber! Merci beaucoup! > [@installLSC](#): > > 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?). 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.) > [@bobot](#): > > 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. _music_ _ **Let the time flow!** _ * * * Thanks to all who have contributed. It was fun.