What happened to sitcom theme songs???

[Jadzia]

Howard's Way.

Twin Peaks.

I'll see your Twin Peaks, and I'll raise you,

Bread

and

Love thy Neighbour

and

Crossroads

 

[Captain Shaw]

Now the new crossroads theme is enough to make you want to be sick.
Dam i thought be had a smiley for that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGBjMFpDP-o&feature=related

 

[Kryton]

This is true. I was mostly thinking how odd it was that one was somewhat somber and the other more upbeat, yet they sounded rather the same.

Ah, John Williams. I was watching an old episode of 'Kraft Suspense Theatre' I believe it was and saw 'Music by Johnny Williams' in the credits.

People forget that when they watch an episode of "Gilligan's Island", John Williams composed ALL of the background/incidental music for the show...so every episode is filled with his memorable music.

Only he had NOTHING to do with the theme song...either version. Just the entire REST of the flavor of the show.

 

[wamdue]

Now the new crossroads theme is enough to make you want to be sick.
Dam i thought be had a smiley for that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGBjMFpDP-o&feature=related

thats not the crossroads theme I remeber, and I saw some of the revamp.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Howard's Way.

Twin Peaks.

I'll see your Twin Peaks, and I'll raise you,

Bread

and

Love thy Neighbour

and

Crossroads

All rise for the King of Feemchoons: Minder

EDIT: and here's the longer version featuring Dennis Waterman (who wrote the Feemchoon) singing the Feemchoon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKK-iB_mZI

 

[Captain Shaw]

Now the new crossroads theme is enough to make you want to be sick.
Dam i thought be had a smiley for that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGBjMFpDP-o&feature=related

thats not the crossroads theme I remeber, and I saw some of the revamp.

I remember when i first saw it i thought wtf.
I was off work ill and for a moment i thought i must be really ill and seeing things.

 

[cultcross]

You know, if we collected up all this crap off youtube (old programmes, old idents, old adverts, the national anthem played at midnight), we could reconstruct tv from years ago. It wouldn't take much work to tidy up the videos and build a video playlist with all the bits in the right places...

Or would that be going a step too far?

I think that would be wonderful, I'd love to watch that BBC2 wobbly-two ident with an announcer talking about what was going to happen on this first-run Star Trek: The Next Generation.
To come down in the morning and find a test signal on everything but channel 4 which was showing a rolling tape of cartoons which would quite regularly fuck up and it would be 20 minutes or so before anyone at the studio was awake and alert enough to fix it.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Just another thought: in the days before 24 hour television on the terrestrial channels, was anyone brave enough to stay up long after the national anthem had played and the haunting (scary) end of signal tone wailed, to see if (as was rumoured) there was this stern-sounding voice "reminding you to switch off your television set" to those who might have fallen asleep?

 

[wamdue]

this is more like the Crossroads theme I remeber

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdgGYo4lBio

I never liked that tone either

 

[John Picard]

I say, Old Chap! Pip! pip! Cheerio and all that rot! Care for some Bangers and Mash? Tally HO! Jolly good show, wot?

Cheeky git!

Cor, Matey! S'funny ol' world, innit?

I dunno 'bout you lot, but I'm innit fer Queen 'n Country. Spot me a fiver for a pint, eh.

 

[TGTheodore]

Well, since we've wandered quite a distance from sitcom themes, let me add two of my favorite cartoon themes.

Yogi Bear and The Flintstones. Both Hanna-Barbera productions which had jazzy themes with a lot of brass instruments.

"He will sleep till noon
But before it's dark,
He'll have every picnic basket
That's in Jellystone Park!"

--Ted

 

[Praetor]

This is true. I was mostly thinking how odd it was that one was somewhat somber and the other more upbeat, yet they sounded rather the same.

Ah, John Williams. I was watching an old episode of 'Kraft Suspense Theatre' I believe it was and saw 'Music by Johnny Williams' in the credits.

People forget that when they watch an episode of "Gilligan's Island", John Williams composed ALL of the background/incidental music for the show...so every episode is filled with his memorable music.

Only he had NOTHING to do with the theme song...either version. Just the entire REST of the flavor of the show.

Oh, I'd forgotten that. Thanks!

 

[Zachary Smith]

Cheeky git!

Cor, Matey! S'funny ol' world, innit?

I dunno 'bout you lot, but I'm innit fer Queen 'n Country. Spot me a fiver for a pint, eh.

Blimey, guv'ner! I'd be dead chuffed, Luv, But I'm ruddy skint, I am.