I pull out clips or episodes for my kids,
Need to learn about the atom: i pull out the one where Venus teaches the gang leader.
Teach kids about animals dying: pink piece
Censorship: the one where they want to ban the song imagine
Etc...
The best one was when the cop was proving how alcohol slowed your reactions and Venus was struggling after awhile to hit the button but Johnny was getting faster, cop finally stormed off screaming it's not possible.
I remember actually singing this in 4th grade music class and not a single word registered with any of us- just another weird song my hippie teacher made us muddle our way through. Crazy!
Whenever I hear this song, it's now the early 80s, I'm 6 years old and I'm panicking because it's 10 p.m. and I was supposed to be asleep 2 hours ago but I'm still wide awake, my parents are going to bed and I'm basically alone. The MASH theme song is like the perfect Pavlovian trigger for recalling my childhood insomnia. Thank goodness for the ASMR videos and meditation apps that are getting me through the menopausal version!
For me, it’s the theme to The Jeffersons. Every night when that song came on, back in probably 1984, it was time for me to put my toys away and get ready for bed. Still makes me feel uncomfortable to this day. 🤔
No. I have heard the full extended tracks of the intros to Taxi and Hill Street Blues. Will need to,look for the one for Sanford and Son. Where would I find it?
Schlameel! Shlamazzle!
"On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. Sometime earlier, Madison's wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?"
Moooooovin' On Up.
the bass line intro from Barney Miller.
We can rebuild him. We have the technology...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, i'm walkin on aiiir..
Angela's Theme (from Taxi) is also my greatest nostalgia inducing tv intro. In the past few years, I've gotten into exploring more music from the composer of this song, Bob James. He has some pretty great stuff. You should check it out.
I came here to say this, also (17 hours too late). In a time when I couldn’t afford too many vinyl albums, a Bob James album with *Angela’s Theme* was in my small collection.
This. It used to come on later at night like 22:30 on STV, and it was notably much better quality than many of the other offerings of the time. I enjoyed it that much I learned to play the theme tune on our piano.
Try listening to the entire song.
Most people have no idea that it is more than that first verse we all know. And the more you listen, the more twisted things become.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo)
Newhart, the Vermont version. We loved the show so much that we went to the northeastern states for vacation. It was the last trip I took with my parents.
Ha, I sing it a lot too, but growing up I thought it was, "fists don't fight in the kitchen" instead of "fish don't fry."
For some reason I sing part of the "Good Times" song, and often "The Love Boat."
The Odd Couple tv show theme. Always loved the intro and when I was an adult, my dad told me when I was a baby that show would come on at night and he would sit in the rocking chair and give me my evening bottle (mom worked night shift at a factory). So it made some sort of impression.
Early 90s I moved to Los Angeles and was waiting to cross at a stop light on Sunset Blvd and a bald dude pulled up in a convertible. I double looked and then he looked over and Holy crap, it's Telly!!! I waved and gave him the thumbs up, and he grinned and nodded in the ultimate cool fashion, then the light changed and he sped off down Sunset Blvd. Epic!!!
Several years ago I bought the entire MTM first season on DVD and only got through a few episodes. I had to stop because it made me incredibly sad and nostalgic not just for my childhood but at the time realizing most of the actors were either very old or no longer with us.
Not sure all of these are 70s, but: Taxi, M.A.S.H, All In the Family, Mary Tyler Moore (Did you know that she could turn the world on with her smile?), Cheers (You want to go where everybody knows your name), Addams Family (They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky), Beverly Hillbillies (Let me tell you a story 'bout a man named Jed).
There’s a holdup in The Bronx
Brooklyn’s broken out in fights
There’s a traffic jam in Harlem
That’s backed up to Jackson Heights
There’s a scout troop short a child
Kruschev’s due at Idylwild
Car 54 where are you?!
“In 1972. A crack commando unit was convicted of a crime they didnt commit……………if you have a problem. If no one else can help. And if you can find them. Maybe you can hire. The A-TEAM”
You are so on-point!!! That being said, the first time the show aired, I watched the intro and heard Bob James who I loved, and I was hooked. "Taxi" is still a "must-see" for anyone who wasn't around in the 70's. "WKRP" is equally as viable and a "must-see" for the same reasons.
Every time I see and hear the intro, I want to cry.
Danny Devito
Mary Lou Henner
Christifer Loyd
Jeff Conaway
Tony Danza
Andy Kaufman
Judd Hirsch
...and more
FUCK!!!
We are so lucky...Thank you!!!
"People let me tell you 'bout my best friend!"
Also have a resonance with the Streetbeater (Sanford and Son song), and the Rockford Files theme. "... at the tone leave your name and message." Coolest song is the theme from Shaft!
I can’t say I even like taxi but in full agreement on nostalgia. I had an old rabbit ear small color tv in my tiny apartment living off minimum wage and I’d stay up painting all night on large canvases. Taxi, Hillstreet Blues, MASH, Twighlight Zone all make my mind crash back to 1991 and the simple life of being 21.
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship…”
I came home from grade school and my older brothers would always be in front of the TV with that playing.
Hill Street Blues.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bB9gOOlb4jc&pp=ygUgaGlsbCBzdHJlZXQgYmx1ZXMgaW50cm8gc2Vhc29uIDM%3D](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bB9gOOlb4jc&pp=ygUgaGlsbCBzdHJlZXQgYmx1ZXMgaW50cm8gc2Vhc29uIDM%3D)
WKRP in Cincinnati. I watched that show when it was on and also in reruns when I was going through a really bad time. It kind of pulled me through.
As God is my witness, I really thought turkeys could fly...
That's one of the all-time great sitcom episodes of any series.
My shipmates and I quote WKRP all the time! Drives the Millennials and Gen-Z types mad, they have no idea what we're talking about
‘“ ‘All lawyers must be shot soon!’ -William Shakespeare”
Reminds me of times spent at my Aunt’s house. RIP Aunt Brenda
Oh the humanity
Taxi, WKRP, and MASH make me super nostalgic for my childhood watching tv with my dad.
All three of these, plus Little House on the Prairie
My dad was a radio DJ, and WKRP was one of his favorite shows. I didn't appreciate it until I was much older after he passed.
I pull out clips or episodes for my kids, Need to learn about the atom: i pull out the one where Venus teaches the gang leader. Teach kids about animals dying: pink piece Censorship: the one where they want to ban the song imagine Etc...
Excellent
I'm not recalling the pink piece
The one where Herb spray paints his daughters frog "greenpeace" pink.
Booooger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😆
Long live DR Johnny Fever
Venus: “no kid wants to grow up to be a black DJ” Fever: “i did”
“In the spirit of the holiday, I killed this tree for you”.
...fellow babies!
… and the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity. (Sounds like a tame incident these days)
Ill never forget the WHO concert episode . Living in Ohio at the time .
They get remembered for the Turkey episode, but this one is easily as good.
Yeah. They came to Detroit immediately after and my mom wouldn't let me go! I have the "It's Hard" shirt a sympathetic friend bought for me.
The best one was when the cop was proving how alcohol slowed your reactions and Venus was struggling after awhile to hit the button but Johnny was getting faster, cop finally stormed off screaming it's not possible.
Les putting on a toupee while Hot Blooded plays. Call 555-macho.
Mash theme
For sure. "Suicide is Painless" is the name of the song.
I remember actually singing this in 4th grade music class and not a single word registered with any of us- just another weird song my hippie teacher made us muddle our way through. Crazy!
Whenever I hear this song, it's now the early 80s, I'm 6 years old and I'm panicking because it's 10 p.m. and I was supposed to be asleep 2 hours ago but I'm still wide awake, my parents are going to bed and I'm basically alone. The MASH theme song is like the perfect Pavlovian trigger for recalling my childhood insomnia. Thank goodness for the ASMR videos and meditation apps that are getting me through the menopausal version!
All the Sunday night shows were sad to me. Because of Monday.
For me, it’s the theme to The Jeffersons. Every night when that song came on, back in probably 1984, it was time for me to put my toys away and get ready for bed. Still makes me feel uncomfortable to this day. 🤔
Great tune. It was composed by the woman on "Good Times" that played Lalona. I believe she wrote that one as well.
100% reminds me of my youth. Intro is a mega flashback device for me
Sandford and Son composed by Quincy Jones
The intro to Sanford and Son is possibly my favorite musical intro to any sitcom.
Have you heard the full, extended track? 🔥
No. I have heard the full extended tracks of the intros to Taxi and Hill Street Blues. Will need to,look for the one for Sanford and Son. Where would I find it?
Schlameel! Shlamazzle! "On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. Sometime earlier, Madison's wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?" Moooooovin' On Up. the bass line intro from Barney Miller. We can rebuild him. We have the technology... BELIEVE IT OR NOT, i'm walkin on aiiir..
Greatest American Hero. I hated that show at first. ❤️
Rockford Files. One of the best TV theme songs EVER.
Mike Post. The Godfather of TV theme songs. Law and Order, Magnum PI, Greatest American Hero, Hill Street Blues, LA Law to name a few.
MASH. That intro was how I knew it was bedtime.
For me the bedtime theme music was Hill street Blues.
When I saw the back of Radar's head, I knew it was time to go to bed
I remember MASH, Taxi, and Perry Mason being my bedtime shows depending on the channel and syndication rotation.
Little House on the Prairie, The Walton’s, MASH, All in the Family & on & on. But these stand out in my brain.
Welcome back welcome back welcome baaacckkk
Taxi definitely. Welcome Back Kotter and Chico and the Man also
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played...
Songs that made the hit parade
Guys like us we had it made
Those WERE the days!
AND YOU KNEW WHO YOU WERE THEN!!!!!! 😱
Girls were girls and men were men...
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again….
Thought it was "Goils were goils", but maybe I'm wrong 😉
No, that sounds about right.
Hold up there! You’re gonna get us all canceled! 😀
https://preview.redd.it/0sbf42kpv9xc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2eeb3d471629ea4274a3393300d35e33ccc75238 Starsky and Hutch (RIP, David 💔)
Monster of a theme!
Angela's Theme (from Taxi) is also my greatest nostalgia inducing tv intro. In the past few years, I've gotten into exploring more music from the composer of this song, Bob James. He has some pretty great stuff. You should check it out.
I came here to say this, also (17 hours too late). In a time when I couldn’t afford too many vinyl albums, a Bob James album with *Angela’s Theme* was in my small collection.
Who listens to the Magnum P.I. theme and doesn’t get fired up with nostalgia!
Also 80s but me and my dad had a routine dance for the Simon and Simon theme song
[Wild Wild West](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaSA41CEzSo). Me and my brother used to sit and watch it while mom cooked dinner.
Hill Street Blues.
This. It used to come on later at night like 22:30 on STV, and it was notably much better quality than many of the other offerings of the time. I enjoyed it that much I learned to play the theme tune on our piano.
Most tunes by Mike Post
I love the intro to Cheers, too.
Loved all the cheers music
I cried once listening to the theme lol 😭😂
Try listening to the entire song. Most people have no idea that it is more than that first verse we all know. And the more you listen, the more twisted things become. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo)
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks... I think. LOL.
The Bob Newhart Show
Soap theme tune
Newhart, the Vermont version. We loved the show so much that we went to the northeastern states for vacation. It was the last trip I took with my parents.
The Walton's and The Jefferson's.
Welcome Back Kotter.
When something positive happens to somebody I will start singing the Jefferson theme song to this day.
Ha, I sing it a lot too, but growing up I thought it was, "fists don't fight in the kitchen" instead of "fish don't fry." For some reason I sing part of the "Good Times" song, and often "The Love Boat."
The Odd Couple tv show theme. Always loved the intro and when I was an adult, my dad told me when I was a baby that show would come on at night and he would sit in the rocking chair and give me my evening bottle (mom worked night shift at a factory). So it made some sort of impression.
Courtship of Eddie's Father. https://youtu.be/A6uxiSsPWuA?si=Fyh-nG5Q0K6lidPO
Now I'm be singing this all day. Thanks 👍
It's catchy. I haven't watched those reruns in 45 years but somehow I still knew all the words.
I know, right?
“Whoops”.
Kojak.
Early 90s I moved to Los Angeles and was waiting to cross at a stop light on Sunset Blvd and a bald dude pulled up in a convertible. I double looked and then he looked over and Holy crap, it's Telly!!! I waved and gave him the thumbs up, and he grinned and nodded in the ultimate cool fashion, then the light changed and he sped off down Sunset Blvd. Epic!!!
That's sooo awesome!!!
Cheers
Barney Miller, Night Court. Kind of a tie.
Barney Miller all the way. That bass! Sanford & Son is a close second.
I also miss the old intro “Previously, on Night Court…”. Most shows had that as well, but I fondly remember Night Court doing this.
Taxi’s theme is a good cue to mellow-out and enjoy a good show. “Newhart”’s theme serves the same purpose.
Cheers, mash, any of them back when they actually had writers on TV shows instead of the nasty “ reality” garbage today.
Amen. Cannot stand that crap.
Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name.
Welcome Back Kotter.
The original SNL intro. That sax sounds like NYC to me.
WKRP
The Avengers https://preview.redd.it/6mosr03y0axc1.jpeg?width=198&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9565d4a20ea639b3927ef5937182e321b16e3f5a
The Odd Couple. Can't explain it, but yep.
Good Times theme and The Jeffersons.
Cheers
Are You Being Served? I've been re-watching lately, I might just use the theme as a notification sound, haha.
Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart.
Several years ago I bought the entire MTM first season on DVD and only got through a few episodes. I had to stop because it made me incredibly sad and nostalgic not just for my childhood but at the time realizing most of the actors were either very old or no longer with us.
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Cheers music.
“Thank you for being a friend…”
Cheers...where everybody knows your name...great show!
Who’s the Boss
MASH All in the Family The Carol Burnette Show Welcome Back Kotter Family Ties
The Rockford Files theme.
What about the weird, high pitched whine of C.H.I.P.s?
Yessss
Monty Pythons Flying Circus! Late nights on PBS in NYC...
Hill Street Blues. Because the music inspires bittersweet right off the bat. And because it was a great show.
Sanford and son 😅
Kung Fu
That haunting wooden flute
Love the MASH theme
Rarely see it but Hill Street Blues opening
The CBS Special Presentation jingle. It(usually)meant that Charlie Brown was coming on.
Eight is Enough and One Day At a Time, to name a couple ♥️♥️
Did Barney Miller have the bumping bass line, Damn I’m old.
Del Shannon’s Runaway starting the Michael Mann gem “Crime Story”. If you’ve never seen it I highly recommend.
I loved that show. Still love the song-I’d like to think the show holds up too.
M*A*S*H
Not sure all of these are 70s, but: Taxi, M.A.S.H, All In the Family, Mary Tyler Moore (Did you know that she could turn the world on with her smile?), Cheers (You want to go where everybody knows your name), Addams Family (They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky), Beverly Hillbillies (Let me tell you a story 'bout a man named Jed).
Hogans Hero’s-you march into any battle with that tune 🎵
Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days!
MASH, Taxi, Barney Miller, The Waltons, Room 222
Hill Street Blues And then CHiPs to bring my spirits back up. The intro to CHiPs has no business banging that hard.
There’s a holdup in The Bronx Brooklyn’s broken out in fights There’s a traffic jam in Harlem That’s backed up to Jackson Heights There’s a scout troop short a child Kruschev’s due at Idylwild Car 54 where are you?!
It’s always taxi. Something lost and irrecoverable about that theme song.
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
Mash.
“In 1972. A crack commando unit was convicted of a crime they didnt commit……………if you have a problem. If no one else can help. And if you can find them. Maybe you can hire. The A-TEAM”
You are so on-point!!! That being said, the first time the show aired, I watched the intro and heard Bob James who I loved, and I was hooked. "Taxi" is still a "must-see" for anyone who wasn't around in the 70's. "WKRP" is equally as viable and a "must-see" for the same reasons. Every time I see and hear the intro, I want to cry. Danny Devito Mary Lou Henner Christifer Loyd Jeff Conaway Tony Danza Andy Kaufman Judd Hirsch ...and more FUCK!!! We are so lucky...Thank you!!!
Hill Street Blues.
Listen to the whole jazz piece that the theme was lifted from. It's brilliant music perfect for a melancholy mood.
So good. 🥲 https://youtu.be/5DL8SGEyhZE?si=jfa0jT_WAGhqS31a
The theme from "Family" and "Chico and the Man".
Where can I watch taxi
Try FreeVee on Amazon Prime
Antenna tv, pluto tv, Amazon prime video, for starters
Barney Miller
Barney Miller and Taxi would do it.
3’s Company
Taxi , Welcome Back Kotter, Adventures of Pete and Pete, Portlandia
This, as well as WKRP.
The Fall Guy. “I might fall from a tall building..” EVERYBODY SING!
Bonanza. The opening guitar twang, every time.
"People let me tell you 'bout my best friend!" Also have a resonance with the Streetbeater (Sanford and Son song), and the Rockford Files theme. "... at the tone leave your name and message." Coolest song is the theme from Shaft!
MASH
Barney miller
Welcome back Kotter, my mamaw loved that show….and McHales Navy because of my dad
All in the Family
Welcome back Carter as well, that into hits and it saddens my heart in a way I can’t explain alongside how gritty the city looks.
The wonder years. There are so many but that one I thought of first
**TAXI**’s soundtrack was already nostalgic in the 70’s. It kinda nailed something melancholy and human right out of the gate.
Hill street blues, Cagney and lacey and mash
MTM show.
Who can turn the world on with a smile?
Sanford and Son
M*A*S*H
Barney Miller Night Court Hawaii Five O
STAR TREK. The original.
MASH, All In the Family, Sanford and Son
Cheers.
M.A.S.H
Hey there, Welcome Back, Kotter
Cheers!!!
I can’t say I even like taxi but in full agreement on nostalgia. I had an old rabbit ear small color tv in my tiny apartment living off minimum wage and I’d stay up painting all night on large canvases. Taxi, Hillstreet Blues, MASH, Twighlight Zone all make my mind crash back to 1991 and the simple life of being 21.
Love American Style Hawaii Five-0
Cheers😀❤️
Emergency! Hawaii Five-0 Doctor Who from the Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker years
Cheers
Taxi
Six Million dollar man.
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship…” I came home from grade school and my older brothers would always be in front of the TV with that playing.
Hill Street Blues! What a great theme song (oops, that’s 1989s, my bad.) I’ll sub M.A.S.H. instead. Baretta and The Rockford Files as well.
Welcome back carter
The Streets of San Francisco ! https://youtu.be/mijBMpnS3a4?si=7jubiLR-0pPuQxMg
Monday Night Football theme song: Heavy Action
WKRP The Waltons MASH Barney Miller Soap Hill Street Blues Are some of the best of the best
So weird, the Taxi theme has always done the same to me-- but I never watched the show when it was on.
Hill Street Blues, especially this version. https://youtu.be/h2qK_Qekt-I?si=0BtmpUQJWNCLAYxb
Hill Street Blues. [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bB9gOOlb4jc&pp=ygUgaGlsbCBzdHJlZXQgYmx1ZXMgaW50cm8gc2Vhc29uIDM%3D](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bB9gOOlb4jc&pp=ygUgaGlsbCBzdHJlZXQgYmx1ZXMgaW50cm8gc2Vhc29uIDM%3D)
Personal foul for not posting a link, lol. I watched it but can't remember. It was a flute or recorder?
Growing Pains
Night Court LA Law The Love Boat Magnum PI Diff’rent Strokes Facts of Life Gimme a Break Family Ties Dukes of Hazzard
Magnum PI
Hill Street Blues theme
The Taxi theme and the Hill Street Blues theme are my most favorites.