TV Show Theme Songs Evoke Fond Memories?

[Bertha Venation]

Any TV show theme songs evoke fond memories for you? Memories of happy times watching the show, or of your life at the point when the show was popular?

For me it's the Partridge Family song -- "C'mon, Get Happy!" It's not the song, or the show, or the times. It's a vague memory of being crazy about my sisters even though they kicked the shit out of me daily. The song has strangely become a talisman for me, representative of the relationship between the three of us and how close we all are now. And how freakin' guilty they feel now for being so mean to me. Hah!

I played that song at my eldest sister's 40th birthday party. No one but my sisters and I even knew what it was, and that felt just about right.

How about you?

[flamingyouth]

1. I agree with you

Whenever I see that partridge hatching out of the egg, I get the warm fuzzies too.

I admit to also being partial to the "Love American Style" theme by the Cowsills, although I haven't heard it in about 30 years!

You know, the Cowsills were the inspiration for the Partridge Family show... so they sort of fit into this thread! :-)

[7th_Sephiroth]

12. had a g/f

who was a big anime fan and a demon in the sack, allways wanted to to it during sailor moon, so that theme brings back memories

[GOPEC]

2. Cheers

We used to get together to watch in college.

[Skittles]

3. DR. WHO

I haven't heard it in a long time but when I do I am suddenly very, very young and living in England. . . .

[Capn Sunshine]

4. Pretty much anything from 69-75

sigh
College years

[MinnFats]

5. Hawaii Five-Oh!

Jack Lord, protector of the Islands!
(he never made an arrest that would stick...in this universe. He always beat his suspects' asses.)
Once he was brawling with this guy on a cliff and the guy started to go over. McGarret grabbed his hand and while the guy's dangling over the cliff he orders the guy "confess!" So the guy says "I did it. I killed her!"
McGarret hauls him up turns to Danno and says :Book 'Em, Danno" and the show ends....like that's going to get them a conviction!

[peekaloo]

14. ever notice Jack Lord's shoes?

He must've been short because it looks like he was sportin' 3 inch heels on those kicks. Of course his hair added another three inches.


*shallow observation*

[Art_from_Ark]

6. Lots of 'em

Bonanza
The Big Valley
He and She
Love American Style
The Odd Couple
It's About Time
Get Smart
Rockford Files
Barnaby Jones
The Avengers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
CBS Sunday Mystery Theater
The Waltons
Pink Panther
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner ("Overture, hit the lights...")
Jonny Quest
Monkees
Lancelot Link
Partridge Family (both versions)
The Wild, Wild West
Green Acres
Petticoat Junction (never watched it though)
Space 1999
Star Trek
Mr. Zing and Tuffy Show
Captain Kangaroo

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Quincy

My favorite show of all time...and I still watch it on the Hallmark channel. :-)

[SiobhanClancy]

9. Quincy was a GREAT show!

I wish I got the Hallmark channel:( Actually,I've never even HEARD of the Hallmark channel.

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Do you have Comcast?

I know you're in MA too, it's on Comcast. I can't remember which number channel.

[SiobhanClancy]

17. Yes..

I have a Comcast digital package,but I don't see Hallmark channel on it. I could be blind,though,and just overlooking it:)

[MissMillie]

8. Taxi

something about the flute sound that is so familiar, maybe because I was in woodwind ensembles when I was in high school.

[terrya]

10. "Green Acres is the place to be!"

I LOVE that theme song. Written by the great, underappreciated Vic Mizzy, who also wrote the theme to "The Addams Family". I loved "Green Acres", the show itself. But the theme song is a classic.

Oliver : "Green Acres is the place to be. Farrrrrrmmmm livin' is the life for me. Land, spreadin' out so far and wide. Keep Manhattan and give me the countryside"

Lisa: "New York is vhere I'd rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Darling I love you, but give me Park Avenue"

Oliver: "The chores"

Lisa " "The stores"

Oliver: "Fresh Air"

Lisa : "Times Square"

Oliver: You are my wife"

Lisa: "Goodbye city life"

Oliver and Lisa "Green Acres we are there"

Well, I just showed my somewhat unusual love for this song by posting the lyrics. :-)

Terry

[BurtWorm]

20. How many regulars can you name?

PS: I don't have TV Land, so I'm finding that I'm remembering them rather imperfectly: Mr. Haney, Mr. Kendall, Fred Ziffle and his wife (whose name I don't remember), Arnold the pig, Mr. Drucker, those painters (the woman with the man's name), Ev... I've probably got most of the names wrong.

[supernova]

11. Getting in the Wayback Machine

Oh Gosh

Love American Style theme - yes! I loved that show, thought it was funny as hell.

Suicide is Painless (M*A*S*H) - It's not that it's a happy song -- it isn't, but I just knew that I was in for 30 minutes of sheer wonderment and intellectual acrobatics. SiP is a wonderful, painful folk song in it's own right. Listen to the lyrics if you ever get the chance.

Batman - C'mon you can't resist! DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA BATMAN!!

Green Acres - yes, I often felt more like the painter girl rather than Lisa.

The Buffy and Angel Themes grab me similarly today.

[mac56]

13. Captain Kangaroo, without a doubt.

Also Leave It To Beaver, and Where The Action Is.

Oh baby, come on - let me take you where the action is!

[VelmaD]

16. The theme from "Star Blazers"...

reminds me of running home from school with my little brother every day to watch.

From college, the themes from "Animaniacs" and "Tiny Toon Adventures" bring back great memories too. My friends and I would meet in the tv lounge every afternoon to watch those 2 shows then Jeopardy and then the news before running to dinner. We'd scarf down a meal in 10 minutes or so so we could catch most of the rerun of Star Trek: Next Generation. God we were geeks. :-)

[Bridget Burke]

18. Theme from "Twin Peaks"

Also the Julee Cruise (sp?) CD: "Floating into the Night"--which includes several numbers used in the show. Very atmospheric. Not so reminiscent of any personal experiences, more like: "What the #$^#* is David Lynch going to come up with this week?"

Also--for the show references--themes from "Due South" & "Northern Exposure." Both shows also used a wide variety of music in their sound tracks.

Yes, I find the Great North quite exotic. And where the heck are the "Northern Exposure" DVD's?

[trof]

19. Andy Griffith Show

Our dog "sings" to two songs, only.
Nothing but these two.
Just puts her snout up and ooooooooooooooo.
The theme from the Andy Griffith show when the whistling starts.
The other is about the first three bars of "It Could Happen to You" by the Four Freshmen.

[trof]

21. BTW, Bertha

Like your name.
Shades of D. W. Griffith.
I think you've been listening to Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers too long.
;-)

[Bertha Venation]

22. Bertha & Griffith

TY, I like my name too. I'd link to the thread in which I told how I chose it -- and in which I deflated iverglas' lame attempt to smear me as a racist, but I don't remember the title of the thread, who started it, or what forum it was in (and I'm not a donor yet so I can't search).