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…
Airwolf
Knight Rider
Blue Thunder
Battlestar Galactica (original series)
Sledge Hammer!
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.
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. That damn song will pop into my head at the weirdest times. And years apart.
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.
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.
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.
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”