1970's TV Theme Song (1 Viewer)

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Sanford & Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIK9yffjRK8

Mary Tyler Moore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1GC6yXZ4e4

Good Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo6caNX1e84

Jeffersons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09qnRfZY-k

What's Happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apv9Kgkf-z8

Happy Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijD3WjREgw

Rockford Files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Cx26-928

Barney Miller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3Q8GNSKi4

Rhoda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnZL-MFKcT8

One Day At A Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xgDgTBmtI

Bob Newhart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PLEhiOeVA

Laverne & Shirley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ZXjY5rTHg

 

[Apple Jack]

S&S

Jeffersons

Happy Days

Rockford Files

Barney Miller bass slap

the rest

 

[Jules Winnfield]

What?

No SWAT!

 

[Das Boot]

What?

No SWAT!

That's the first missing one I thought of too. Hell, it was even a hit radio song.

 

[jon_mx]

From that list, Sanford. And Son,,,,,, but no MASH,,,,,?????

 

[SkyRattlers]

Other - Welcome Back, Kotter

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

 

[Christo]

Rockford Files is the best.

Other: Starsky & Hutch

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Other - Welcome Back, Kotter

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

Gabe Kaplan is terrible. He makes Ray Romano look like De Niro.

 

[SkyRattlers]

Other - Welcome Back, Kotter

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

Gabe Kaplan is terrible. He makes Ray Romano look like De Niro.

And this makes the theme song bad how?

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

When did Dukes of Hazard first air ? Best theme song ever. And Hawaii Five O. Definitely in the 70s.

 

[elguapo07]

Rockford Files is the best.

Other:

What this guy says

 

[FlapJacks]

Baretta

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5HNWhVXcjV8

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

And Hawaii Five O. Definitely in the 70s.

Great hair is for another topic.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Baretta

Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

That's what Sammy says.

 

[elguapo07]

Hill St Blues should be the gold standard for the 80s.

 

[Cjw_55106]

WKRP in Cincinnati

Taxi

 

[Al Czervik]

Some great TV theme songs in the 70's.

 

[rockaction]

Welcome Back, Kotter

Good Times

Jeffersons

Sanford and Son

One Day At A Time

Happy Days

All great.

 

[zamboni]

This is like picking your favorite child.

 

[zamboni]

Not as well known, but IMO this one never got/gets enough respect: Vega$

 

[Jayrok]

No Shaft, Baretta or MASH leaves this poll wanting.

 

[kentric]

I was going to say there were a lot of good cartoon intros but then I found most of them were in the 60s.

60s

Magilla Gorilla

Top Cat

Superheroes/Others: Tobor, Spiderman, Johnny Quest, etc.

70s

Cattanooga Cats.

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

There was some interesting commercials in the 60s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVyEPaY9ks

 

[dhockster]

Underrated show, underrated theme song: Barney Miller.

 

[HellToupee]

Hill St Blues should be the gold standard for the 80s.

Miami Vice down?

 

[HellToupee]

Rockfor Files of the ones listed

but to me Hawaii 5-0 is the best

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

I support the omission of Suicide is Painless, aka the M*A*S*H* theme as it was written for the movie.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Of those listed What's Happenin'

Of those not listed SWAT & H-5-0

 

[nirad3]

Other - Diff'rent Strokes

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

MTM is the only one that could have stood alone as just a radio song.

 

[Aerial Assault]

As a bassist who likes to slap and pop, had to go with Barney Miller.

 

[Del Griffith]

As a bassist who likes to slap and pop, had to go with Barney Miller.

On the bass, right?

 

[johnnycakes]

Boy the way that Miller played..."

 

[rockaction]

Hill St Blues should be the gold standard for the 80s.

Miami Vice down?

Cheers? Family Ties? Valerie's Family? Night Court, even? (For those that like that slap/pop thing and clarinets -- or was it the flute)

 

[Aerial Assault]

As a bassist who likes to slap and pop, had to go with Barney Miller.

On the bass, right?

Yes.

 

[rockaction]

MTM is the only one that could have stood alone as just a radio song.

I cannot tell if this is shtick or just personal preference. Dammit.

Kotter was sampled in an AZ song and sounded well in place in popular art distanced from the show.

Hawaii-Five-0 was the Ventures.

I don't care if the above post was serious, I just love those two songs.

 

[Gr00vus]

WKRP in Cincinnati

Closing credits music =

I went Rockford Files from the choices given.

 

[bcdjr1]

Hill St Blues should be the gold standard for the 80s.

Miami Vice down?

Cheers? Family Ties? Valerie's Family? Night Court, even? (For those that like that slap/pop thing and clarinets -- or was it the flute)

For 80s themes, I would pick Airwolf or Street Hawk.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Hill St Blues should be the gold standard for the 80s.

Miami Vice down?

Cheers? Family Ties? Valerie's Family? Night Court, even? (For those that like that slap/pop thing and clarinets -- or was it the flute)

For 80s themes, I would pick Airwolf or Street Hawk.

Greatest American Hero

 

[Fiddles]

taxi

 

[In The Zone]

Boy the way that Miller played..."

....."When girls were girls and men were men"......

....." those were the days. "

 

[Brony]

Went with Jeffersons. Also liked Mod Squad song,

 

[Deepster]

a) Wow. What a tough list. Lots to choose from here.

b) If anyone votes for Rhoda, they deserve a punch in the throat.

c) The All in the Family song is "Boy, the way Glen Miller played"

 

[Maik Jeaunz]

The White Shadow had a nice funky theme too.

 

[Gr00vus]

The White Shadow had a nice funky theme too.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

c) The All in the Family song is "Boy, the way Glen Miller played"

If I have to endure the cast singing the theme I'd rather listen to the Green Acres theme song.

 

[rockaction]

c) The All in the Family song is "Boy, the way Glen Miller played"

If I have to endure the cast singing the theme I'd rather listen to the Green Acres theme song.

He loves a good writer, but give him Park Avenue.

 

[Van Dyman]

Hill St Blues should be the gold standard for the 80s.

Miami Vice down?

Cheers? Family Ties? Valerie's Family? Night Court, even? (For those that like that slap/pop thing and clarinets -- or was it the flute)

I'm going to have that Night Court song stuck in my head all day now. Thanks.

 

[17seconds]

WKRP was a good one, better than a few that were listed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgrVP_J0BHk

Welcome Back Kotter theme is the best song of them all.

Favorite on this list is probably The Jeffersons. Sanford and Son close

 

[17seconds]

Three's Company not even mentioned yet

Best decade for TV themes

 

[17seconds]

Other - Diff'rent Strokes

Never noticed until now that the singing is pretty weak on that. Sounds amateurish