Top Twenty Favorite Classic Television Theme Songs

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Television theme song lyrics just aren't what they used to be. Assembled here for your listening pleasure are twenty classic television favorites spanning several decades—from Casper the Friendly Ghost in 1945 to Laverne and Shirley in 1976. Who among us does not have several of these classic (and sometimes annoying) theme songs committed to memory? This list is just a small sampling of the great classic television theme songs out there. Be sure to mention your own favorites in the guestbook, even if they don't have lyrics. What are you waiting for? Grab a TV dinner and enjoy the show!

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Casper the Friendly Ghost

Written by Jerry Livingston and Mack David

Casper, the friendly ghost

The friendliest ghost you know

Though grown-ups might

Look at him with fright

The children all
Love him so ...


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The Flintstones

Music by Hoyt S. Curtin, Lyrics by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

Flintstones,
Meet the Flintstones

They're the modern
Stone age family

From the town of Bedrock

They're a page
Right out of history ...


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Car 54, Where Are You?

by Nat Hiken

There's a hold up
In the Bronx

Brooklyn's broken out in fights

There's a traffic jam in Harlem

That's backed up

To Jackson Heights ...


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Mister Ed

by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston

A horse is a horse,
of course, of course

And no one can talk to a horse,
of course

That is, of course
Unless the horse

Is the famous Mister Ed ...


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The Beverly Hillbillies

"The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by Paul Henning

Come and listen to a story
'Bout a man named Jed

A poor mountaineer

Barely kept his family fed

Then one day

He was shootin' at some food ...


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Petticoat Junction

by Paul Henning and Curt Massey

Come ride the little train

That is rolling
Down the tracks
To the junction

Forget about your cares

It is time to relax
At the junction ...


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The Patty Duke Show

"Cousins" by Sidney Ramin and Robert Wells

Meet Cathy, who's lived
most everywhere

From Zanzibar to Barclay Square

But Patty's only seen the sights
A girl can see
From Brooklyn Heights

What a crazy pair! ...


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The Addams Family

by Vic Mizzy

They're creepy
And they're kooky

Mysterious and spooky

They're all together ooky

The Addams Family

Their house is a museum ...


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Gilligan's Island

"The Ballad of Gilligan's Island" by George Wyle and Sherwood Schwartz

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 ...


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F Troop

by Irving Taylor and William Lava

The end of the
Civil War was near

When quite accidentally

A hero who sneezed
abruptly seized

Retreat and reversed it
to victory ...


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Gidget

by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller

If you're in doubt

About angels being real

I can arrange

To change
any doubts you feel

Wait'll you see my Gidget ...


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Green Acres

by Vic Mizzy

Green Acres is the place to be

Farm livin' is the life for me

Land spreadin' out
so far and wide

Keep Manhattan

Just give me that countryside ...


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The Monkees

By Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart

Here we come

Walking down the street

We get the funniest looks from

Everyone we meet

Hey, hey
We're The Monkees ...


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Love, American Style

by Charles Fox and Arnold Margolin

Love, American Style

Truer than the

Red, White, and Blue

Love, American Style

That's me and you ...



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The Brady Bunch

by Frank DeVol and Sherwood Schwartz

Here's the story of a lovely lady

Who was bringing up
Three very lovely girls

All of them had hair of gold

Like their mother

The youngest one in curls ...


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The Mary Tyler Moore Show

"Love is All Around" by Sonny Curtis

Who can turn the world on
with her smile?

Who can take a nothing day

And suddenly make it
all seem worthwhile?

Well it's you girl,
and you should know it ...


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The Partridge Family

"Come On, Get Happy" by Wes Farrell and Danny Janssen

Hello, world

Here's the song that we're singin'

Come on, get happy!

A whole lot of lovin'
is what we'll be bringin'

We'll make you happy! ...


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All In The Family

"Those Were the Days" by Charles Stouse and Lee Adams

Boy the way

Glenn Miller played

Songs that made the hit parade

Guys like us we had it made

Those were the days ...



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Welcome Back, Kotter

by John Sebastian

Welcome back

Your dreams were
your ticket out

Welcome back

To that same old place

That you laughed about ...


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Laverne & Shirley

"Making Our Dreams Come True" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight

Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

We're gonna do it!

Give us any chance, we'll take it
Give us any rule, we'll break it ...


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  • top_10 Mar 16, 2012 @ 3:41 pm | delete
    Great lens!
  • dellgirl Mar 14, 2012 @ 11:07 pm | delete
    This is a very nice lens, I like what you've done here. You did a great job presenting this. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
  • rauspitz Mar 13, 2012 @ 3:05 pm | delete
    I bought a specific CD just because it had the Ballad of Jed Clampett. I am not making this up. Fun lens!
  • susieface Feb 29, 2012 @ 8:50 am | delete
    Hi Kim! I really had fun with this Lens because I knew a lot of guys (and girls) who worked on these shows - and back then I was trying to write for a lot of them. I'm new to Squidoo and a little unsure of mentioning this, but you seem to have an affection for the classic sitcoms - and this is how I earned my living for four decades. Anyway, I really do think you might enjoy my serialized lens, Confessions of a TV Comedy Writer.
    Thanks for the memories,
    Ted
    And - I honestly, sincerely apologize if you consider this Spam. Please let me know.
  • AnthonyAltorenna Jan 22, 2012 @ 9:16 am | delete
    Frightening... I still know the lyrics to almost all of these songs. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, back to watching a black & white TV in the family room with my brother and sister!
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