Correction to my earlier post: should’ve said “Tuesday”. I was looking at the wrong part of the page.
Friends.
Die Die Die
It won’t go away.
I hate it so
I liked the theme to Alice when I was little. How weird.
Also on Nick at night they used to show the Patty Duke Show. The theme was the preposterous set up for the premise of the show…
But they’re cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.
Where Cathy adores a minuet,
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette,
Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes her lose control –
What a wild duet!
Ok …they were struggling for shows in those days.
One of the funniest theme songs, that I just loved, was the theme to the “Garry Shandling Show” on Fox - too funny! “This is the theme to Garry’s show, the opening theme to Garry’s show, Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song…I’m almost halfway finished…”
Very cool
Of course The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy!
Fern - was walking around this morning at work singing Welcome Back Kotter. I probably shouldn’t tell anybody that.
*Northern Exposure * had a catchy one. I actually found a book at a flea market that had all the songs used in every NE episode by title and artist. Picked it up for $1. Of course, I haven’t even opened it since I got it.
MAS*H is an all time favorite - without the lyrics
Barney Miller and Night Court were both fretty funky with the bass.
I Dream of Jeannie is so addicting…i’ve made it my email-alert noise, and when i finally get a better cell phone, i’m going to make it my ring tone
the funny thing is, i didn’t even watch the show all that often
I don’t watch tv much now but throughout my life I’ve loved (and hated) a number of tv show themes.
Favorites:
The greatest american hero
Cheers
Alien Nation (sung in an alien language!)
Ed (I’ve never watched this show and don’t know if they even still use it, but I remember reading that the theme was a Foo Fighters song. This is a plus in my book!)
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Least favorites:
Family matters
Full House
Perfect Strangers (great show, awful theme song sounds like it was trying to rip off the laverne & Shirley song of a decade or so earlier)
Step By Step (why did all those “tgif” shows have such awful music? Why was it all written and sung, apparently, by the same people?)
Growing Pains
Three’s Company
Friends
And my least favorite of all…
All in the Family! I know it was supposed to sound like they were just two people in their house singing a song, but my god how annoying it sounded!
I think it was supposed to be annoying.
I’d vote for The Sopranos as the best.
Hated the show, but I thought Ally McBeal had a good opener. Ditto 90210.
Smallville. Very good opener. Decent show.
Also liked Miami Vice. Great opener. Very underated show.
I can’t believe no one mentioned WKRP In Cincinnati
I like the themes from The Munsters and Peter Gunn.
Here’s a vote for The Addams Family. I’ll ditto Smallville, Firefly, MST3K, Greatest American Hero, Barney Miller, and Sanford and Son. The fiancee votes for John Doe as well.
The Love Boat theme stinks on ice.
Thank You! I was beginning to worry.
“Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
They’re the modern stone age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They’re a page right out of historeeee”
have a gay old time everybody
(do I win anything?)