Guess The 70s TV Show Theme Song! 

Hell my first husband joked we did not need one he had me. Although the music was good the past was the worsts in reality. lol

And we only had 3 stations to choose from.the dark times.

for tv time i was usually sitting in the lazboy with my mom. at some point i got big enough that the two of us in the same chair was more like being wedged in there, and my elbow to her belly was the only way i could get out of that chair. she got tired of my elbow to the gut, and started changing channels herself.

Not fun. My tv dial button broke and I had to use a pair of players...one time I got mildly electrocuted...Not fun at all.

My parents' joke for us kids was that we were born because there weren't remote controls yet. Now when when my elderly mother gets apologetic for asking me to get up and do something for her, I remind her now that we have remote controls, I need a purpose in life. 😉

Amen brother lol

You cannot keep up with that much water down content nowadays.

I thought the same. LOL

I missed three out of the bunch even though I watched every series in the video (save for one aimed at tween girls nostalgic for a period of history beyond their comprehension presented in so whitewashed a manner Tucker Carlson would proudly give it a slow clap standing ovation).

BWAHAHAHA !!!! ME TOO !!!!

These were NEVER good

@@splibb Some were good for their time and some were even innovative for their time. Have there been better-yes. Have there been worse-yes!

3 channels of TV beats 200 channels plus Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services?????????😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I remember my much younger self watching a majority of these shows. Great memories that included my now deceased parents. The laughter shared in our old home still brings a smile to my face. Blessed to have those memories.

@@66HTown Agreed!

2 Grandbabies 10 & 8 😮 it's all u tube and vids and media. They and my youngest Son (divorced) just vid out....sorry...it will never be that way again....like the first time of anything...right? 1967❤😂😊

I am with you, miss good ol innocence....my dad Is dying, my family is JWs and I am not so they don't let me see him. I cried too.

Our father in heaven

@@cnance1972 I am so sorry for your loss. My parents are both gone. I was so close to my brother growing up and now political differences are an ever present wedge between us. Praying for Peace to be in you and with you 🙏

I am with you..... almost all of my family members are gone....

“That was!”

I NEVER DID i knew i was hugely blessed /

NOOOOO GREAT TIMEZ LOL

That picture sure didn't look like her.

@@christelheadington1136 cucumber

Yes, and a great woman as well.

I wanted to be her when I grew up! Lol

@@jeanmarieteresa4067 We all did! She was a totally new version of a grown woman to us. Single, professional career, lived on her own, declined a few proposals of marriage, she had her own life. Mary was a trailblazer to us little girls growing up in the 70s and I love her for it.

Yeah! I was my dad's remote control LOL

I remember! I couldn't sit like that for more than 2 minutes today! We (kids) sat like that for hours! Since most homes had only one TV - it had to be a group event....so much better than today.

No, think about it. We were all doing a lot in those days. Everyone did.

My dad splurged for the box “remote” with a cable to the tv. So not remote. Well I guess it was. Lol

I feel exactly the same way. I distinctly remember attending school, doing homework and participating in the usual extracurricular activities. But after listening to this it made me think all I ever did was watch TV.

I'm not so old. I agree they had the idea they were acting for lots of people, from the USA to many other countries, so they were more lovely, Matthew (they thought even there could be children like me watching them.) The difference in age: here they were launched after a long time ago our dictature had ended, so we watched old episodes, but we did not even realized about that. BTW, Wonder Woman is some new concept of Superwoman I saw some years ago in some Web Page. 'Three's company, too' was seen first by 1990s. M*A*S*H* was a mad old brothers' madness: TV was for them entirely and they even loved any word, any thing said by them. They always shushed us when it started!

@@wstnli725 You mentioned something about your dictature ending. Where are you from?

@@matthewwilson9656 Spain.

I'm with you there Matthew.

How innocent we ALL were.

In grade 7, we had arguments about the lyrics. Most of us heard 🎶GROSL red grapes? Our teacher recorded it and we listened in class. 🎶Gee, our old LaSalle ran great!

Guys like us, we had it made

@@xgwke5867 And we didn't know it.

The older generation always says the old days were better when they're on their deathbeds.

Absolutely my favorite show from the 70’s

Yes. The world almost made sense....

Waitress asked me, last night, "Anything else I can get you?" And I said, "Can you reset the world to 1979?"

But we were expecting to get blown to Kingdom Come any day, by those ICBM’s!!!

Life was easier when someone else took care of us.

@@terriseaton3049 But all we wanted was independence!

I loved the 70's too...a comfortable decade...at least in western massachusetts.

Do any tug at your heartstrings as much as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Little House on the Prairie?

I missed four. One of the best decades for songs.

@@t-bo2734 The waltons theme too

I wish I could have grown up in the seventies

3 channels of TV beats 200 channels plus Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services?????????😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

So classic that l was able to identify the three shows l never recall watching. (Though l also missed 3 that l watched almost religiously.)

Me too 😄 born in 58 ❤

It's the only good thing about the internet.

I grew up in the 80s, these were still played then.

@@doloresdemar2347 1958 was a great year...I'm the same vintage!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYAAAAAHHH ....Big time

This world now will end up in HELL.

Just remember though. We have memories of simpler times but our parents had different view of they world that they grew up in. Their childhood was simpler times and what we view as that our parents and elders saw things getting worse. Smile because it will only get worse. That's what history has taught us. Yet we still get behind our chosen person come election time as if they are gonna do something to make a difference. That always baffled me why people do that.

@@claycarpenter8625 By the time you're an adult, you should know it's about the lesser of two evils. Career politicians lie to get your vote. Business men lie to get you a better deal.

@@claycarpenter8625 Things were better in the 1950s than they were in the 1930s and 1940s. Things were better in the 1980s than they were in the 1960s and 1970s. If the current direction of the country/world is altered, as I hope it will be, the 2030s will be better than the 2010s and 2020s. Good and bad are both cyclical. No rational person would say the 1930s & 1940s were better than the 1950s or 1980s.

@@t-bo2734 well it depends what you are talking about. If you are talking about advancements in technology and stuff man has made to make our lives more comfortable then heck yeah it's way better, but the state of humankind as far as violence, drug abuse, homelessness, lawlessness, poverty, murder is horrendous. God told us men would advance from bad to worse and we see that. All these things humans invent and create are becoming more and more are for an escape in our personal lives because the world around is so bad. We sit there and watch the news and think how awful and then the next day we hope in our $100,000 cars to catch a plane for our luxury vacations. As long as these things don't affect us personally we our content in the "bubble" we created to shield us from all that.

Everyone did

Nah they all liked Farrah.

I didn't like either. But now, seeing Linsey back then. She was better looking then I remembered. Still don't like Farrah. Another nice looking one was Linda Carter. There were a few others also.

Daisy Duke!

How did you survive you years of growing up with a name like "Rex Harrison" ---- "Mr. Dolittle"/"Henry Higgins"?☺️ If it's a pseudonym... That's a good name to choose!!

Amen!!!

Very true and the memories. Didn't have the 6 million dollar man though. It was more popular than the bionic woman.

Better than now, no doubt, but I liked the 60s better.

U know it!!!

@@freedomsnotfreefreedomsnot3270 It depends... as a little 8 year old girl, I watched more Bionic Woman than the Six Million Dollar man, which is more relatable to boys of that era.

😵‍💫😲I remember doing that too, with my cassette recorder!! ☺️☺️ Although, I recorded themes of movie soundtracks that were appealing/memorable/moving to me, because I knew the networks (all 3 of them 🤭) weren't going to repeat a showing for at least another year - - if they were repeated at all. One movie that will always be in my heart is the theme to the movie "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" ❤️by Dave Grusin with the lead actor, Alan Arkin.

NY* Amen to that.

Not a chance. You must have lived somewhere else.

When girls were girls and men were men.

Before the bloody internet destroyed the world

@@MichaelSIngle-gn9qz there were plenty of gay people in the 70s it was just legal for anyone to kill them so they didn't tend to tell everybody for fear of people like you 😜

That sure is a fact😊😊😊😊😊

jfiorello68 yes they were!

That is because you were a kid with no bills or other adult problems. Thanks mom for doing a great job !!!!!

We had the first amendment, very little political correctness but was naive to the harm on others.

T'airn'KA Well I don't believe in political correctness since just another control technique, but I do agree that humans have a natural knack for hurting others until we become awakened to the fact that we are hurting others by word or deed.

it always came on before Carson in my house

Did you know the name of the theme? Suicide Is Painless.

Have you seen the MASH movie? It has the lyrics to the theme song Suicide is Painless.

Through early morning fog I see

That is my favorite show of all time. I practically know the scripts by heart I've seen them so much. When Jeopardy had MASH as a category I swept it easily.😍😍😍

What's funny while listening to all these themes. I thought the same thing and damn I'm old lol

Me too! 😆 I'm 54 But they forgot Six Million Dollar Man!

No shit, I knew all but one of these and somehow that's disturbing to me.

Same, lol 😂, and I thought I was outside more!

Apparently so did I Tom....

I missed emergency so don't feel bad. But let's be honest. We would play outside all day. Run inside every once in awhile to grab a mayor McCheese glass full of kool-aid and while we were in there catch a Jim Croce or Olivia Newton John song on the radio and head back out. Come in for a home cooked dinner at the table with the most important people in the world to you. Then settle in with these shows till mom tucked you in. Its no wonder we can't forget these shows. Who would want to.

@@jamesmaurer8349 omg yes! You just described my childhood! 😆

Thats so funny, only one that stumped me too, Mc Cloud! That was fun to hear them all tho. Great times.

The 'McCloud' one was the only one I missed, got all the others. Wasn't it packaged with 'The Sunday Night Mysteries' with 'Columbo' and 'MacMillan and Wife'? Yeah, on after my bedtime but my parents watched them.

It was after your bedtime/

The guitar riff wasn't bad either. Js

Better than Peter Gunn?

Randall Marsh forgot for a moment on that one

That was Corol Kaye fromt the Wrecking Crew. They were a loose set of studio musicians that basically did 90% of all themes or backup music on albums.

It wasn't the hook, but whoever played on The Bob Newhart Show was tearing it up, too.

, Murder One!

Mine was the Little House theme. First note.

That was in the 80's section of these videos.

Conversely, some of the intros here were late 60s

And "Rhoda"

Totally agree!! 2 of my favorites

I was expecting to hear Love Boat as well.

I love the Bass-Wine for, Disney's Jungle Book, lnstrumental,"Whatcha Wanna Do?". :D

I When Today Use It Own See It The Only Has First Season Every Day Good Changed Many Classic Television Shows Bloopers Action Crime Comedy Drama Music Sitcom All in The Family, M.* A.* S.* H.* The Six Million Dollar Man, Happy Days, Barney Miller, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart, Alice, Welcome Back, Kotter Good Times, The Love Boat, Vega$, CHiPs, Mork & Mindy, One Day At a Time, Donny & Marie, The Jeffersons, WKRP in Cincinnati, Soap, Taxi, Archie Bunker's Place, The Bob Newhart Show, Baretta, Little House on the Prairie, Carter Country, Sanford and Son, What's Happening!!, Emergency!, Hawaii Five-O, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Starsky and Hutch, The Waltons, Maude, The Rockford Files, Family, Eight is Enough, Battlestar Galactica, The Muppet Show, and Charlie's Angels Yes Good

no the best decade for music was the 80s hands down

My favorite TV show was Emergency.

Quincy M.E.

@@OmgAuntySuzanne16 Quincy? Seriously?...shudder.

@@Frunobulax74 no im not kidding, the 80s was the best in music, movies wrestling

Totally agree with that!

Brad Dollahite I was born in 2001 and I agree, TV I grew up with sucks

All they show on TV now is reality show crap and news about Hollywood celebrities. They only have a handful of decent show to watch.😩

The _show_ is strange. *_Liking it_* is not.

@@tejaswoman Thanks. I even liked All in the Family. Even though Archie Bunker, was kind of a racist jerk at times... but Edith was a sweetheart...I loved her. Thanks for your comment, GOD Bless you. 🌻

I always liked Soap. But the humor was kind of weird.

Soap was twisted.... And it was supposed to be because it was a mockery of the daytime soap opera.... That's why it aired on TV at night. I loved it's dry and twisted humor. P.S. Bob is missing again.

@@jimmyfortrue3741 Oh ok, I didn't know that... thanks for the info. ☺

Don't forget "Airwolf" or "Battlestar Galactica". I think this went for a lot of popular shows with not quite memorable themes, along with the ones you have to die to forget. Plus licensing fees.

Airwolf was really cool but mid 80s

I just bought a bass guitar after not playing for 45 years and the first thing that came to me was the theme from Barney Miller.

Yeah but I was also looking for WKRP

@Jack Rene WTAF?! What kind of a sociopath hacks their friend's social media accounts?

Uh, no and no. Did you forget the Vietnam War and Watergate? Stagflation? Gas lines?

You have a TERRIBLE memory.

100%. The people responding are obviously pseudo SJW. A d not alive then. Christian Liberation obviously has done at least the negative research from then. But it was a good time. Well, except or New York, who was begging for more police because their city was a shi*hole. And the resulting disaster of gangs taking over. Which is going to happen pretty quickly again with the “progressive” policies now. Sad, but true. Mike, I’m with you.

@@mangot589 Really? I only missed five and American institutional racism has been damned obvious my whole life. Maybe not to people with their heads up their butts.

Boy u couldn't make those kind of great shows now! They are the best!

Theme song needs more cowbell.

@Gordon Shumway Yep,, he doesn't know the difference between acting and real life. Definitely a tool

Sanford and Son was my favorite. My Dad and I used to laugh our asses off. Chico and the Man,the short time it was on.

Sanford and son! Yessssss

Moonlight Lady mission impossible, Ironsides, kolchak the night stalker,mannix,beretta, and on and on

@@cliffbraun3850 I was also hoping for the mod squad theme, alas no luck

agree I wanted to be julie and have linc and pete for best friends on mod squad!

I agree on a lot of the comments down here but I guess they put them in order of 70's 80''s or wherever this is still great memories !

Mod Squad was more from the late 60s, wasn't it?

Totally agree. More variety of content.

Harry Fox, you got that right

I knew them all too. Miss them. Bring them back

Even better in the 60's.

@@carollund8251 I was just thinking the same thing. But there were some really good shows in the 70's too.

No good writers

Some are better, i.e. Big Bang Theory, Seinfeld. Some streaming service original series shows are way better, i.e. Jack Ryan, Man in the High Castle.

No they copy them

Nope just reality shows, not a lot of talent there. I think thats why people are so angry, they can't even escape reality when watching TV.

if they made TV shows like that today.. cancel culture would wipe them out in an instant

We had 4 channels but 2 were CBS, one NBC and one ABC.

PREACH

If you ever find the time machine, let me know here on RU-vid. I'm game!😎

Hahaha those are the exact four that I missed as well!!!! I never watched those shows. And same with the others! Guessed within a few notes!

@J-PEZ Agreed! Those shows were not popular in syndication.

some of those are in the 80s video he did. I'm missing Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers

As someone born at the butt end of '74, I feel your pain on that one.

I graduated from high school in 1979. Where does the time go.

Let's see..... 1975 was 44 years ago. 44 years before that was 1931. Why does 1975 seem like yesterday to me?

@@brenthaymon280 punk kid.

It's not possible :(

Me, too. I got almost every one of them correct. But those were the days!!!

"Should have be doing my homework." Uh, yeah....especially grammar

Hardly know any of these: was doing me homework ..... GORGEOUS THEME MELODY at 3:55, though, for "Little house on the Prairie".

Yeah same here

Does anyone remember Super train? It was only on for 1 or maybe 2 seasons. Have a great day everyone.

I used to watch Little House on the Prairie with my mother too. She died in 2013.

RIP for both :)

Rosemary Montez I used to watch it at my grandparents house, great memories!

Thought it was just me. My mom loved little house on the prairie and Michael Landon. Made me miss watching with my mom too.

Took a whole lot of climbing just to get up that hill and we're moving on up Eastside to a Deeeluxe apartment in the sky

@@vickihshallenberger3644 🖒

@ I think it's means they would be eating steak and lobster from now on

I often wondered how one would cook beans on a grill, being a teenager back then.

I thought it was grits instead of fish(maybe I am right? lol)

I loved that show, too, especially Randolph Mantooth.

Same here,. Loved the show, big crush on Randolph Mantooth.

Yeah he was cute but my favorite was Chet, he was so funny

Great show. I still watch Emergency on Cozi TV. Have seen every episode three or four times.

Beth Applegate EMERGENCY! theme song is my ringtone, all time favorite show! I meet Randy Mantooth last summer, he was just a nice as you would think he would be. I tell you 12 yr old me was going nuts but 58 yr old me was cool as a cucumber.🤣

Yes, and actually shows worth watching. Now we have thousands of channels with nothing on them.

Remember the "Battle of the Network Stars" show they did? Annually, I think.

Mike Zip Not really though. I’m sure there were all the colors of the rainbow then that there are today, they were just covered by clouds.

don't forget PBS; which had the British comedies and Dr. Who

David Pike I remember there was station WTTV channel 4 I lived in Indiana so I would say 4 stations as a child & Nightmare hosted by Sammy Terry came on every Saturday night at 10 or 11 O'clock on channel 4 & after school we would watch Cowboy Bob & Janie good old 📺 days 😀January 11, 2020

Yes! People these days make it out like women-led comedies are new and progressive. How quickly we forget our history.

And the Muppets are a British show...

I could've done without the Muppets, that was for little kids--I sure didn't watch that crap in the 70's! "Women-led" shows: well you know, that was the age of Women's Lib--too bad that never went anywhere... ;)

​@@not-so-smartaleck8987 You might think that because they're puppets, so the show seems to have a children's aesthetic, yet the dialogue is unquestionably sharp-edged, witty, and thematically skewed to adults.

Aren't you a good little politically correct social justice warrior snowflake! You counted up all the women-led shows (oh brother). Make America Great Again! MAGA!

Most TV shows today have no thems songs anymore, they don't use them because people will change channels so they go right into the show.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE OLD!

I've heard of "bubblin' crude," but "bubbling crud" is a new one on me. ~ Jed

Thanks for taking that break from telling the kids to get off your lawn

I missed CHiPS (thought it was "Taxi") and Starsky & Hutch (didn't watch that show much). I wonder, which ones did you miss?

I remember that theme. It was the "it's time to go to bed" music on Sunday nights (I believe.)

Totally agree. Would have gotten the Mystery Movie theme for Sunday night.

Mark Gardner I wanted to add “something different.” Like I thought it would’ve been interesting to add a show that wasn’t technically on it’s own show. You know what I mean? :)

@@songtrivia Well now you can just upload the entire Mystery Movie theme as it's own video, and blame popular demand, because this thread is mildly popular, and I demand! ;)

@@songtrivia Then you should have done the Banacek theme.

Makes sense, Rex.

Makes perfect sense

Same

Where I lived in Connecticut we could only get ABC and CBS so NBC shows didn't exist to me.

Same here. Unfortunately, I only missed two. So I am scum.

late 70 here, same.... didn't really start watching tv and remembering till 76-77, watched most of these on reruns

I missed "The Bionic Woman." Let's face it, it is iconic but who in the heck actually WATCHED IT? Good to see Lindsay Wagner (and Lee Majors) are still with us and looking goood! (hey, why no "Chico and the Man?")

Ack, a Bad 3 here!

You fucking liar

@trf12567 , hilarious, I thought my brother and I were the only ones that ran in slow motion making bionic sounds! 🤣

Well, I'm old and only got about 1/2 of them. They were good shows though, goodness !!