# TV Shows You Remember -- But Just Because Of Their Music/Themes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024 "2006-01-08T17:30:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024/21 "2006-01-09T04:45:22Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **The Texas Wheelers**. I listen to their theme song all the time, since they used John Prine’s “Illegal Smile.” The oddnesss of using a song about marijuana use for a prime time family comedy is memorable. > > Though I wouldn’t mind seeing it again, if only to see Mark Hamill before **Star Wars**. **RC** oddly enough Jonh Prine insists _“Illegal Smile”_ is NOT at all about POT, it is a song about his childhood, playing (hiding) in a closet…cite would be his liner note on _Great Days: the John Prine Anthology_ just what i read… ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024/22 "2006-01-09T05:07:03Z")
Airwolf Knight Rider Blue Thunder Battlestar Galactica (original series) Sledge Hammer! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024/23 "2006-01-09T06:00:44Z")
> [@Millit the Frail](#): > > “I want **Charles in Charge** of me!” > > Nothing about that show except the theme sticks. I remember an episode where everyone’s trying to get tickets to a sold-out Springsteen concert. Charles wins two in a radio contest. Both his best friend (Willie Aames) and his girlfriend (Jennifer Runyon, I think…better known as the blonde student that Bill Murray was testing for psychic powers - and hitting on - at the beginning of _Ghostbusters_) think that Charles should take them, and tension mounts. So Charles takes one of the kids instead. And the theme was performed by the Go-Gos. Oh! And one of the kids, Nicole Eggert, later went on to make a low-budget hooter movie with both Coreys (Feldman and Haim). It was called [Blown Away](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103843/). ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024/24 "2006-01-09T06:12:11Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > “ **It’s About Time** , > It’s about space, > It’s about two men in the strangest place…” > > Aside from those lines, the premise of astronauts who somehow found themselves in prehistoric times, and Imogene Coca playing the main cavewoman, that’s all I’ve got. You beat me to it **Biffy**! And of course you realize we have none other than Sherwood Schwartz to thank for this one don’t you? [Here.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059997/) That damn song will pop into my head at the weirdest times. And years apart. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024/25 "2006-01-09T06:21:49Z")
**The Rockford Files**. Very memorable theme tune, but no idea what it was about, apart from having James Garner in it. Same with **Hawaii Five-O** as others have mentioned. Only that wasn’t James Garner. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024/26 "2006-01-09T07:28:21Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I can remember Vickie (there were actually two of them, I think) but besides her and the theme song, I can’t remember anything else from that show. There were three of them. Vickie, a guy around her age, and a much younger kid - sort of a kid genius type. The other two characters changed actors a few times, but IIRC Vickie was there the whole time. And speaking of 3-2-1 Contact… CONtact! It’s the REAson! It’s the ANSwer! It’s the MOment! When everything happens…CONtact! I’m going to bed now, if I can get that out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024/27 "2006-01-09T08:06:18Z")
Lots of shows from my childhood. **Kids Incorporated** had a really catchy theme song, and I know the titular kids worked in a night club (?), but that’s about it. **Dear John** – _Dear John…Dear John…By the time you read these words, I’ll be gone_, and a sappy looking Judd Hirsch. **Jem**. Truly, truly, truly outrageous. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024/28 "2006-01-09T14:04:32Z")
I think the #1 answer to this question has to be “The Twilight Zone.” “Cue Twilight Zone Music” has become a meme. Also “Hogan’s Heroes” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-remember-but-just-because-of-their-music-themes/339024.md?page=1)