I’m taking a quick break from the November 7th election blogging for a little light hearted fun. These are my thirteen favorite TV show theme songs from the 70s and 80s when I was a kid. Any thoughts? I expect some Wizbang readers will have favorites that I didn’t list.
13. The Muppet Show
10. Magnum PI
7. Dallas
6. Miami Vice
5. The Monkees
Update: Several people have chastised me for not including Gilligan’s Island and maybe I should have. What I especially like about the Gilligan’s Island theme is that you can sing Amazing Grace to it as well. Try it. It’s pretty funny.
I find I simply cannot get thru a single verse of Gilligan’s Island sung to the tune of Amazing Grace without either giggling uncontrollably, or breaking back into the original lyrics.
And my mind just explodes trying to do the reverse and sing the lyrics for Gilligan’s Island to the tune of Amazing Grace.
And my mind just explodes trying to do the reverse and sing the lyrics for Gilligan’s Island to the tune of Amazing Grace.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’ve all forgotten the 2 of my favorites…
Mannix –
And the Mod Squad.
ABC Movie of the Week Theme (Burt Bacharach’s “Nikki”)
NBC Mystery Movie Theme (Henry Mancini)
Ironside
Speaking of Gilligan’s Island, it also had SO many cool songs in different episodes that I never forgot. I remember a Hamlet episode where they sang “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” and another one where Gilligan sang “G-I-Double L- I – G-A-N spells Gilligan…… that’s me!”
And of course, the Brady Bunch had songs in episodes that we all still sing – even that guy who did “The Creation of Dance” had to include the “We gotta keepon, keepon, keepon, keepon dancin’ all thru the night!”
How about the theme music from the original Battlestar Galactica? That was a great bit of marshal music.
my 2 cents. the best, absolutely baddest ass theme song….
Rythym Heritage: Theme from S.W.A.T.
Plus, gotta give props to the theme show master writer: Mike Post!
The Rockford Files
The Black Sheep Squadron
The White Shadow
Magnum P.I.
Hill Street Blues
The Greatest American Hero
The A-Team
Hardcastle and McCormick
Riptide
L.A. Law
Wiseguy
NYPD Blue
Quantum Leap…to name a few