Just a few notes from the beginning of a tv show’s theme song can trigger a flood of nostalgia from your past. For this weekend’s theme, we go back to the theme songs of tv shows that were classics for us. Whether they’re just a few years old or decades old, share the opening music for shows that were among your faves.
I’m going back to the ’60’s and ’70’s to start things off, when opening music for tv shows seemed to be so iconic (and most of which have been remade as films or new tv series). My first selection is from a cult show, the forerunner of the X Files and many other shows that used supernatural stories (the opening is actually so amazingly tame and spartan):
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Mission Impossible
The Wild, Wild West
The Six Million Dollar Man
Hawaii 5-0
The Prisoner
Cheers
Frasier theme tune – Kelsey Grammer
JOHNNY RIVERS – Secret Agent Man 1966
Theme From Peter Gunn (Mancini, 1958)
Petticoat Junction
https://youtu.be/NiK_Mag70AM
Captain Kangaroo
https://youtu.be/tSW-LJJHH3U
Looney Tunes
https://youtu.be/u80XKY_ucFQ
M – I – C – K – E – Y
You know the rest.
https://youtu.be/f5ZOcIc_pKk
Lassie
https://youtu.be/xHc9IpX5TBg
Green Acres
https://youtu.be/0MzfDcAUkb8
Car 54 Where Are You?;
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdyBJoM22cI
This show shook up the “establishment,” not to mention the censors.
The Carol Burnett Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tMMoLur9ho
Love American Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHuI0Pw0m8
That Girl
Mr. Ed;
Ni-i-i-ce pi-i-i-ck, Wi-i-il-bur-r-r!
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir;
That’s a blast from the past!
Comedy tonight!
Curb Your Enthusiasm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM
Seinfeld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GtyrJ-alM
The Office
Hogan’s Heroes
https://youtu.be/5lIjVzgWShw