Well stumbled onto some old music from a 1970’s TV show and got all misty eyed about the past, well not really because I’m Mr Diogenes of Sinope usually woof. So here is a chance to post your favourite theme tunes from your past and what did you like about the show and how ridiculous they seem now. Not many shows stand up to the test of time.
Well here’s one from me…
Old TV themes and the shows you remember?
April 19, 2011 by Syd
44 Responses
Kitler,
Were those tornados in Alabama, weather or climate?
I know JD watched this one….
OK I’m feeling like an anime fix:
Not there yet…
Ahhh, that’s better…
For many decades this was the first song millions of American kids heard every morning:
Dr Dave I’m familiar with the music and have heard of the show but this was our children’s TV….
Well…this explains a lot of what I’ve always suspected about Brits. In fact, I think it just solved the pointman mystery for me.
Dr Dave: You’ve solved it???!!!!
You rarely get to hear the lyrics to this American classic:
May I just say (and who’s gonna stop me?), since Dr Dave posted the theme to Bonanza (which one never forgets), that Michael Landon had incredibly long ears? And also that Lorne Green is a very masculine, sexy name. The man wasn’t bad, either.
Sorry ol chap. Your site is ok but theme songs isnt a cutting edge topic.
Bosco: He knows. That’s why he chose it. See?
Who could forget this one….
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Bet none of you remember THIS!!
Well I didn’t THINK I’d got it to embed! Just goes to show…..
Sorry folks – can’t get this to embed – you know how useless I am!!
The Lone Ranger
I heard the music from Black Beauty on the wireless the other day.
Which reminds me, I can’t find my copy of Tom Sharpe’s Riotous Assembly.
It must have gone the same way as my copy of “The economic definition of ore” which was signed by Lane and presented to RSM (shows how much they valued it, that it ended up in a second hand shop).
Do you really still call it the ‘wireless’, Ian? Isn’t that — I dunno — about 50 years out of date?
Not at all,
a cat’s whisker set with a piece of lead sulphide as the semi conductor is cutting edge technology ’round these parts.
You’re not local, are you?
No, Ian, but I’d like to be!
One more from the 60s, then it’s off to bed…
An American classic…
Dr Dave didn’t the dolphin die tragically in in Tuna net, he tasted quite nice.
Probably right. And Skippy was turned into Adidas running shoes and dog food. Skippy and Flipper were essentially the same show in different settings with different animals.
Kitler,
You were right…this IS fun!
Aww thanks Dave… I resisted the urge to put that one in. The term “bush kangaroo” btw is a tautology: there’s no “chic, urban, apartment-dwelling, chardonnay-sipping kangaroo”, you know 😉
I’m told the first draft was called “Skippy the bush fly”
I read somewhere that Skippy was banned in Sweden. It was determined that the show leads children to think animals can do things they really can’t. I’m tellin’ ya…there’s no foolin’ them Swedes.
Kitler, if you’re like me you drank this one in with your mothers milk. Dave and other Americans you might not be familiar with it.
It’s a puppet thing…
Ozboy yep I grew up with that and this one…
Or maybe…
The Magic Roundabout…
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Or this version…
Y’all don’t know quality television…
DrDave I didn’t see this until the 1980’s but still pretty funny.
…or the greatest TV cartoon theme of them all: probably was responsible for re-introducing the harpsichord to popular music in the 60’s:
And the runner-up:
Something a bit more highbrow:
I think I may have seen superchicken.
Well here’s another one from the 70’s…