Variations On A Theme: Vol. 4 of TV Series Closing Music (1950s, '60s & '70s) 

Here goes my 👍🏼and see you later. 💜🤟

I grew up in southern CA in the 60s & 70s, approx 30 miles south of Hollywood (on the coast) where the majority of these shows were filmed.

Bronco, Sugarfoot and Cheyenne themes came back to me to sing along after 60 odd years... Thank you for that and more. 🎶🎵🎶💜🤟

"The FBI" Back in the days when the FBI actually engaged in law enforcement. 🥴 The Carol Burnette Show with Tim Conway and Harvey Korman was the best comedy show for years 😁

Oh, those were the days!!!!

Great memories!

Awesome volume with a fantastic mix that brought back a lot of memories. Standouts were the WKRP extended cut and of course closing it out with Carol Burnett which was (and still is) one of my favorite variety shows. Tim Conway & Harvey Korman comedic legends. Looking forward to volume 5 tomorrow.

0:10 After two seasons ( 1959-61) MATTYS FUNDAY FUNNIES featuring HarveyToons characters was retitled MATTYS FUNNIES with BEANY and CECIL in January of 1962 for 26 wks. Mattel continued to sponsor the series. The opening was reshot with Matty and his sister Belle being redesigned. "You can tell it's Mattel it's swell". 1:21 THE QUICK DRAW MCGRAW SHOW ( originally airing in b/w)aired in first run syndication for three seasons (1959 -61)sponsored by Kellogg's . CBS picked up the series reruns for three seasons ( 1963-66) The Kellogg's sponsorship was removed from the CBS run . 1:21 THE FBI closing credits were from a season one episode. Lynn Loring played Inspector Erskine's ( Efrem Zimbalist Jr) daughter She was dropped after the 12 th episode of season one( 1965-66) . Ford sponsored the series ( season one was co-sponsored by Alcoa and American Tobacco Co) solo after season one until its conclusion in the Spring of 1974. This was Quinn Martin's longest running series @ nine seasons.

Thank you Fred for the time you put in keeping us entertained!❤

Perfect way to end a Sat morning of classic cartoons, with the closing credits of even more classic shows. An episode of Honey West, with a pre-Brady Bunch/Marcia Maureen McCormick, as Margaret Mary Driscoll character, and probably one of Aaron Spelling's first production's too! Also, right after that from an EP of My Favorite Martian, with Batgirl actress Yvonne Craig, as Louise character. All these actors n actresses appearing in earlier shows/movies, than those I remember seeing them in, such as Ryan O'Neal in Peyton Place and pre-Dukes of Hazzard Boss Hogg Sorrell Booke, in The Naked City! 😮 Awesome memories, Thanks Funday Fred. 👍

WKRP total flashback for me !

WOW!!! I REMEMBER these shows!!! Back when I was growing up!

Out - standing!!! Fred, thanks so much for 4 nights (and hopefully more) of “Sing-A-Longs!!!”

It amazes me how prominent Westerns were when I was 4 and 5 & yet here I am recognizing these snippets, even some of the seemingly more obscure.

You,ll Never ever see or hear anything like this ever ever again and it,s so sad and unbelievable !!!!!

Thanks, Fred, for the memories. I remember a lot of these shows, also some from TV Land, Antenna TV, and so on. Greetings from Charleston, West Virginia. 13:16

And closing it all with the 'Carol Burnett' ending with her little ear tug was a stroke of genius.

Great music. Thank you. Re: The FBI closing scenes...Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. said in an interview that the Ford vehicles you see him drive away in were VERY new, hot off the assembly line. They were so new, often the interiors were not yet complete. You can't see it, but sometimes he was so uncomfortable due to lack of a finished seat or dashboard. What a hoot!

The glory days of television keeps on coming! Lots of nice westerns in this one. I know there was a time when some people (mainly tv critics) complained that there were too many of them on prime time, but I for one, would have loved to be born just a few years ealier to experience that golden age of abundance of cowboy shows. By the time I was old enough to watch tv, they were very few still running. Mainly Gunsmoke and family-favorite Bonanza were still putting out brand new episodes. Most of the other western shows were syndicated reruns. I really appreciate you discretly adding the name of the show on the lower left corner (nice vintage font btw!), as a couple of them I never watched and wouldn't have recognize the theme otherwise. Great job once again Fred! Thank you so much!

Leave it to Fred to show stuff I haven't seen in ages. :) Damn, I love the jazzy Honey West theme.

By the way forgot to thank you Fred, for this marvelous collection! 👍

Another fine compilation of program outros. Thakns Again, FredFlix. 📺

I didn't know that it was just one guy, Dayton Allen, doing all the voices on Deputy Dawg. I see that the musical conductor on The FBI was Dominic Frontiere, the guy who composed the creepiest music ever on TV for The Outer Limits. I think I read somewhere that the lyrics for the music for WKRP weren't really lyrics at all, just a guy improvising nonsense words to a musical soundtrack. I see they had Sorrel Booke a/k/a "Boss Hogg" on Naked City.

After the first three segments I was wondering how you managed to steer clear of WKRP (without a doubt the *greatest* closing theme song in TV history), and now I see it was so you could collect all those guest stars who never shared an episode. Now I just gotta keep waiting for the most forgotten series of my era: Room 222.

Best one this week, Fred ! And that WKRP was above and beyond ! 😂👍

I noticed Paul Maxwell turned up in Bourbon Street Beet. Not long afterwards he moved to England for the rest of his life where he provided the voice of Steve Zodiac in Fireball XL5

I remember Those Cartoons, but Matt's Funday was before my time.

Is there anything that you can’t do Fred…it’s a FredFlix- O - Rama…Four in a row!

Great series 👏 👌 📺

1960s TV was Great. Thanks for the Memories.

Haven't heard alot of this since I was a little boy.

❤❤❤❤ this don't see deputy dog in long while wonderful Fred thank you

I remember Boris Karloff's Thriller each episode had different end title music.

18:44- "MY LITTLE MARGIE" was sponsored by Scott Paper Company (on NBC) from 1953 through 1955.

Thanks Fred 👍

Thank you, Fred.

0:02 I remember seeing a red H there. Neat how it was originally shown.

Thanks again, Fred! Also thanks for including the show names when they aren't shown. 4:15 - BRONCO had a good partner in "The Skipper" (if that's what he was to him). Too funny that "Otis Campbell" was the bartender. 5:30 - I understand that BRONCO only came about because of a contract dispute that Clint Walker had w/ WB. 7:55 - BOURBON ST. BEAT apparently used the same font for its credits that TWILIGHT ZONE did. 8:55 - I miss THRILLER on MeTV. Maybe it'll come back eventually. I didn't like all the episodes, but some were pretty good. I remember "Worse Than Murder". Constance Ford even admitted to Rod Serling in a letter that it wasn't a very good episode. It was unintentionally funny in places though. I imagine that Hubbell Robinson had to give up his production company to become a CBS exec in 1962. 10:20 - I fondly remember seeing Joey Bishop's show on TV Land and was occasionally taping it when it was on 5-6 AM CT, just before TV Land dumped it at the end of 1999. I think it's better than a lot of the garbage on TV Land now. Danny Thomas' sitcoms (and there were many) had an unusual habit of crediting the guest stars very close to the end of the credits instead of near the beginning (as shows usually did). It makes me pay attention to all the credits more than usual, and maybe that was Mr. Thomas' intention. 11:10 -- I read that Leon Lontoc, who played Burke's comic chauffeur, was a barber who took acting jobs when he could get them. When he had an acting job, he'd hang up a sign on his barbershop door that he was off working that day. Kathy Kersh, who had a guest part here, was probably seen by more people than any other time in her career when she had a guest part on the highest-rated BEVERLY HILLBILLIES episode, "The Giant Jackrabbit". 11:55 - I'm pretty sure "Bruce" (appearing as "Himself") was Honey West's pet ocelot. This episode had both the future "Marcia Brady" and "Uncle Leo". 15:17 - That had credits from several WKRP episodes, including probably my favorite (maybe next to "Turkeys Away"), "Fish Story". Bill Dial, credited as an actor there, was credited as the writer for "Turkeys Away", but creator/producer Hugh Wilson claimed to have rewritten the whole episode before it was produced. 17:28 - From Part 3 of the Bradys' Hawaiian trip. I think this part was mostly filmed in CA, as the cave was a set that I've read was used for GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, and the luau was apparently filmed in a studio with fire marshals watching the flying torches. Leon Lontoc took another day away from his barbershop to appear at the luau. 17:58 - "Charlie Weaver" on THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER. RIP to original theme co-writer Cynthia Weil, who wrote many great songs with her husband, Barry Mann, for over 60 years. Like HAZEL, this show used bright yellow cards, maybe to prove it was in color. At least the lettering wasn't in the hard-to-see sky blue that HAZEL used this season. 20:28 - Aah...those Season 2 WAGON TRAIN lyrics are a bigger earworm than the HAZEL lyrics! At least they only lasted 1 season. I like the theme introduced in Season 3 and used for the rest of the series. 21:50 - I think the next 2 themes are beautiful, giving another reason to watch their closing credits.

Interesting. I saw Ralph Bakshi's name in the Deputy Dawg credits. The dude got around for sure.

12:08 Margaret Mary Driscoll... Maureen McCormick. On "Honey West." And at 12:11 you can catch a glimpse of our little Brady-to-be on the left side of the screen.

@ 17:59 Always loved the cool bossa nova vibe of The Farmer's Daughter closing theme. (Should have been used as the opening theme too. IMO.

Glad I was born in 1946😊

Queexdraw! Hey there babalouie!

Another really fun episode! Great job

I don't know if anybody remembers, but every week, at the end of The Sonny and Cher Show, though I didn't see it, due to the fact that I was in bed before the second half of the show, from the family TV, I heard some thumping, then a roar, I think it was a logo from one of the production companies, have you seen it?

I swear one time I was watching a syndicated episode of WKRP with the closed captions turned on, and the poor closed captioner tried to come up with the words to the end credits theme (famously the words are just gibberish that someone improvised to make it sound like a real rock song). I don’t remember any of the words they used, but I feel sorry for the poor person who tried to decipher them.

The credits for the final season of My Favorite Martian resembled Bewitched.

Anyone notice on Honey West in the credits Maureen McCormick is a guest star you can see a little girl next to Anne Francis, that's her

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sometimes the intros and closings are better than the show itself.

Nice job on the WKRP megamix Fred. Can't understand what the hell the guy's singing, but it sounds cool.

17:59- "'THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER' was brought to you by....... *CLAIROL!* Creators of the exciting NATURAL look in beauty- and tonight, by MISS CLAIROL! Hair color SO natural, only your hairdresser knows for sure!"

I don't know where you found some of these, but it's fantastic. Great job Fred.

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Another awesome video Fred! Well done, as always. Quick question - is there any way that the FBI closing can be gotten separately? I would love to send it to my brother who owns both a ‘65 and a ‘66 Mustang and shows them at various car shows.

William T. Orr was a very busy man.....

Bronco theme and the theme from the New Casper Cartoon Show - written by the same composer?

Nice one again and Sonny was just as bad as i remember lol

No Crusader Rabbit?

Didn't like when they added music to the "Bonanza" theme.

❤no sign of volume 5 when will you bring it back?

What happened to Vol. 5?

HEY,CHASTITY

Another home run from our friendly neighborhood time traveller, xilFderF. 🏆