Knight Rider I would have Knight Rider higher on this list but, like Miami Vice, it’s more of a cinematic TV theme song as opposed to an 80s sitcom theme.
Any themes, scores, or songs which are billed under a different name than their respective television series title are shown in parentheses, except in cases where they are officially billed as 'Theme from Series Name', 'Series Name Theme', etc., which are omitted. Another one of the best 80s TV theme songs that works as a narrative for the show meaning you could jump in at any episode and be pretty much up to speed with the plot.
The final product became the first TV theme ever to win a Grammy for Best Song Written for a Movie or TV Show. They are sorted alphabetically by the television series title.
Quincy Jones was kickin' it with "The Streetbeater," the theme for Sanford & Son, as were John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful with the Welcome Back Kotter theme, Henry Mancini with the song of note for Charlie's Angels, Mike Post with The Rockford Files, the Brady Bunch with, well, The Brady Bunch theme, and, of course, the Banana Splits with "The Tra-La-La Song." Michael Parks' reading of "Long, Lonesome Highway" was the theme for Then Came Bronson, too! In other words, this is one crazy, kooky, and utterly fine album of TV themes for any collector - or strange person who wants to relive television in the 1970s for any reason. TMBG always had a stack of half-finished songs around, so they grabbed one that felt right and tailored the rest to fit the show. Where else could you find a former rockabilly prince (in this case none other than Sonny Curtis) writing and singing the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show? That's right, the guy who wrote "Rockin' Around with Ollie Vee" and "I Fought the Law" wrote "Love Is All Around," the show's theme. Share this post on Digg Technorati Twitter Spurl this Post Reddit Wong this Post 02-14-2009 08:04 PM 2. I think it was great theme music, it would be stuck in my head often. No matter how you slice it, the music from the TV themes to the big shows of the 1970s was either creative, corny, fun, or some combo of all three. Whats everybodys favorite 80s TV Show Theme song or theme music My favorite theme tune is the one from Airwolf. Leave it to the folks at Time Life Music to assemble a collection of television themes to bring you back to those places in the 1970s where all was sweetness and light - or at least you thought it was because you were too young to know differently you were blasted out of your gourd and/or you were a teen and your folks were occupied by the tube while you were doing more "meaningful" things.