TV and Movie Theme Songs Of Our Youth

[+ azdr0710]

all this Mary Tyler Moore et al stuff - and @actor61 's lament a couple days ago about how bad TV has become - has me reminiscing about how great TV was back in my youth (late 60s to early 80s).....looking at the TV listings I posted in the MTM thread made me go look up the theme songs for some of them and others.....campy at times, but usually some talent....some good ones I found.....

 

Sunday Mystery Movie - haunting, catchy theme.....really like this:

 

 

before my time, but great music:

 

 

hadn't heard this in decades:

 

 

never got into Eight Is Enough, strangely....WEHT Grant Goodeve?!

 

[+ deej]

never got into Eight Is Enough, strangely....WEHT Grant Goodeve?!

 

Eight is Enough was a proper meme for the gay community.

 

I imagine Grant Goodeve fucked Willie Aames so hard the boy turned to Jesus. That's my explanation for it, anyway.

[Bearofdistinction]

http://grantgoodeve.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/grantgoodeve-nwbr.jpg

 

 

 

www.grantgoodeve.com

 

Grant Goodeve has made numerous TV, film, and stage appearances during 35 years in show business. He is now in his twelfth season as host of the Seattle-based outdoor/travel show Northwest Backroads. Home and Garden Television fans know him as the host of If Walls Could Talk from 2000 to 2004.

[longtime lurker]

The first two seasons of this one in 1974-76 were great, thanks to some of the same writers as the earlier STAR TREK. Only the third season was downright silly. Richard Chamberlain's younger boyfriend was on this one.

 

 

I read on a gay blog that you know you are heterosexual if you favor I DREAM OF JEANNIE over BEWITCHED. Those who are more flexible in their "orientation" are obviously BEWITCHED fans.

 

I think one of the reasons most of the syndicated re-broadcasts and DVDs sport only three copyright dates on their title cards ('64, '66 and '69) is because of the Chevrolet sponsorship announcements on so many others.

 

[+ azdr0710]

thanks @longtime lurker for that Land Of The Lost intro....watched it all the time and hadn't heard that theme since....man, those superimposed raft graphics are really primitive!.....

 

here's some more random stuff from the era:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pt2-F2j2g

 

not the original opening (stills only here), but fantastic John Williams music:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAidnO64NE4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QUqGg4gQ8E

 

[Bearofdistinction]

One of my favorites

 

[+ pitman]

[+ azdr0710]

RIP Mike Connors......

 

[Bearofdistinction]

Did not know that he was dead --- Did he ever do anything after MANNIX? I seem

 

to Remember a GOLDEN GIRLS Episode - but that is it!

 

Then again - who did not do a GOLDEN GIRLS episode -- In fact I think I was in a episode

 

where I tried to get Dorothy to put Mario Lopez out on the street to pay for the new toilet

 

that the girls needed installed.

[+ FreshFluff]

Find out what happens when people stop being polite and start being real.

[Kevin Slater]

You've all been remiss.

 

 

Kevin Slater

[caliguy]

thanks @longtime lurker for that Land Of The Lost intro....watched it all the time and hadn't heard that theme since....man, those superimposed raft graphics are really primitive!.....

 

here's some more random stuff from the era:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pt2-F2j2g

 

not the original opening (stills only here), but fantastic John Williams music:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAidnO64NE4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QUqGg4gQ8E

 

Speaking of Fantasy Island don't forget the Love Boat.

[+ azdr0710]

http://www.superseventies.com/primetime_79.gif

[+ azdr0710]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMo3rvYKRWI

[+ azdr0710]

Speaking of Fantasy Island don't forget the Love Boat.

 

[kewtex]

You've all been remiss.

 

 

Kevin Slater

 

 

A tidbit of trivia: Reza Badiyi created the title sequence of "Hawaii 5-0." He also created the title sequence that was used for the first three seasons of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

[handiacefailure]

I loved the theme from Dynasty and Hill Street Blues. I was taking Piano lessons when those shows were on and my piano teacher assigned me those theme songs since they were so popular then. She also assigned me Chariot of Fires.

 

One theme song I always liked from the 80s as well was St. Elsewhere

[Larstrup]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOOFdNWPP04

[Zman]

What a great walk down memory lane. I haven't thought of some of these shows in decades. (But I always rewatch Willy Wonka every few years. I love Gene Wilder in that role.) Here's another theme song from the era.

[Larstrup]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2mTILzStI

[Larstrup]

[bigvalboy]

Loved that sixty one...And the piano from Nelson Riddle

 

[+ azdr0710]

I loved the theme from Dynasty and Hill Street Blues.

One theme song I always liked from the 80s as well was St. Elsewhere

 

by the way, for those who don't know, the house in "Dynasty" (exterior aerials) is Filoli in Woodside, CA, open to the public for a fee....

 

http://www.filoli.org/

 

 

 

 

 

[bigvalboy]

I loved that Thunderbird and I loved Ed Burns...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrrcSieqMH8

[Zman]

HR Pufnstuf from the psychedelic studio of Sid and Marty Kroft! BTW the opening sequence was mostly filmed at Big Bear Lake in Southern California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obxfuFrUTzg