Likewise there was a short-lived Jim Carrey comedy called “The Duck Factory”. It was largely forgettable but I liked the theme song. “It sure beats working for a living…”
Miami Vice. Loved the theme song. Could never get into the show.
The Texas Wheelers. Mid-70s sitcom with Jack Elam, Gary Busey, and pre-Star-Wars Mark Hamill. Undistinguished, but they used John Prine’s “Illegal Smile” as a theme song. Memorable because it was John Prine and because it’s the only TV theme song that sung the praises of smoking pot. Also because it had absolutely no connection with anything in the show.
Well, the magazine on the show was “People and Crime”, but close enough.
A young Steven Spielberg directed one episode, a science fiction one set in a dystopian future (which they rationalized as “a dream”). The horrible year where pollution has gotten so bad that everyone has to live underground? 2017!
Script by Philip Wylie, who wrote many classics, including When Worlds Collide.
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The clear and indisputable winner:
[/QUOTE]It’s supposed to be good theme songs on bad shows. That was…something.:eek:
How have I never heard about that show?
“Different Worlds”, the theme to short lived 70s sitcom “Angie”. Back in the days when a TV show intro could last 1:37.
The show was pretty bland Quinn-Martin fare, but I always liked the crazy, soaring synth riff from Medical Centre.
ok I might have destroy and obliterate and stomp all over this theme (with steel-toed, CSA-approved work boots) as being one of the sappiest and pedestrian of all time: the absolute zenith of limp, 80’s grossness and mediocrity.
With mascohistic glee I’d annoy folks in my younger days by goin “beeeeeeee-lieve or not, I’M comin on in, I never thought I could feel so free-hee-heeeeee, flyin away ON a wing and prayer, who could it be, believe it or not, it’s just, meeeeeeeeee…”
Ah yes, ole golden-throat Jack Jones.
There’s a real snazzy lounge waiting for him, way up there.
Great number to inspire a stupid kid like myself back in the 70’s to form roving SWAT squads that would stealthily sneak from one back yard to the next without being seen. (indeed - how not be seen). Accompanied, of course, by our imitations of the sound of that scratchy, twangy? guitar effect (originally done through a wah pedal, possibly?)
I did not enjoy the current Amazon series The Man in the High Castle, although I’m sure many people would argue that it doesn’t stink at all.
But I think the opening sequence is mesmerizing.
S.W.A.T. was what I was going to post. It’s just so 70s!
Love American Style was one of the greatest comedy shows that was ever on TV.
Great themes, bad shows:
The Lone Ranger
The Green Hornet
Lost in Space By John Wiliams
Dragnet
I have great memories of Mission Impossible but I didn’t think to much of it when I rewatched it a few years back.
The Loop only aired 17 episodes, but the theme, Hockey Monkey, will be sung for generations to come.
Or at the very least the theme was my favorite part of the show.
Since when was George of the Jungle a show that stank? GotJ ROCKED!