#ForgottenTVLyrics: The Master List

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The list (so far):

1. The A*Team [full theme]
2. Absolutely Fabulous
3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents [Charles Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette]
4. Alice ["There's a New Girl in Town"]
5. All in the Family
• Full lyrics
• A satirical version, aimed at the FCC!
• All In The Family [closing theme]
All In The Family [closing theme with lyrics!]
6. American Bandstand
7. The Andy Griffith Show
8. Angie ["Different Worlds"]
9. Banacek
10. Batman
11. Baretta (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)
12. Barnaby Jones
13. Barney Miller
14. Baywatch
• Original theme ["Save Me" - Peter Cetera]
• Syndication ["I'm Always Here"- Jimi Jamison]
Baywatch Hawaii "Let Me Be the One" written and performed by Carlos Villalobos, Glenn Medeiros and sung by Fiji.
• Baywatch Nights [Alfonzo Blackwell - The Nights Will Never Be the Same]
15. Beverly Hillbillies [The full music has a third stanza about Drysdale]
16. Beverly Hills 90210
17. Bewitched
18. The Big Bang Theory
19. The Bill Cosby Show ["Hikky Burr"]
20. Bonanza
21. Breaking Bad
22. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
23. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
24. Candid Camera (UK)
The Carol Burnett Show Celebrity Sweepstakes
25. Charlie's Angels
26. Charmed [Love Spit Love - "How Soon is Now"]
27. Checkmate
28. Cheers
• My Kind of People
• Another Day
• original demo
• Final Version
• Prost, Helmut! [The German version]
• Cheers (Versión española)


29. Chico and the Man
30. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
31. CHiPS [theme only, but a rockin' 12" version]
32. Combat!
Community
33. The Cosby Show [Seven different versions]
34. Dallas
35. The Dating Game
36. Davy Crockett
37. The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd [full theme?]
38. DC Superhero Girls
39. Deadwood
The Diamond Head Game
40. The Dick Van Dyke Show
41. Diff'rent Strokes
42. Dr. Kildare
43. Downton Abbey
44. Duck Tales
45. Duck Tales (2017)
46. The Dukes of Hazzard
47. Dynasty
48. Ellen [Texas - So Called Friend]
49. The Facts of Life
50. The Fall Guy
51. Family Feud
52. Family Guy
53. Family Matters ["As days go by" - Jesse Frederick
54. Family Ties ["Without Us"]
55. Fawlty Towers
56. Felicity
57. Fireball XL5
58. Flo
59. Forsyte Saga [Eric Coates - The Three Elizabeths Suite - Halcyon Days]
60. Frasier ["Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs"]
61. Friends [The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You ]
62. The Fugitive
63. Full House
64. Fuller House [Everywhere You Look - Carly Rae Jepsen]
65. Funny Face / The Sandy Duncan Show [Need a source!]
https://www.discogs.com/Jack-Jones-The-Kind-Of-Girl-She-Is/release/6913129
66. Futurama
67. Gidget [Johnny Tillotson - (Wait 'Til You See) My Gidget]
68. Gilmore Girls [Carole King - "Where You Lead"]
69. Good Times  https://www.discogs.com/Prime-Time-Good-Times-Theme/release/2156410 4:14 version ####
70. The Golden Girls
71. The Greatest American Hero
72. Disney's Gummi Bears
73. Gunsmoke
74. Happy Days [alternate lyrics]
Hart to Hart
75. Have Gun Will Travel
76. Hawaii Five-0
77. HBO 1983 Intro
You can watch a documentary on the creation here!
78. Here Come the Brides ["Seattle" by Bobby Sherman]
79. Hill Street Blues
80. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [The Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer]
81. The Hogan Family [Roberta Flack - Together Through The Years]
82. Hogan's Heroes
83. The Honeymooners ["You're My Greatest Love"]
84. Hotel
85. House


• "Teardrop" by Massive Attack (U.S.)
• "House" by Scott Donaldson and Richard Nolan (Europe)
• "House, M.D. Main Theme" by Jon Ehrlich and Leigh Roberts (Singapore and Netflix) ####
86. Howdy Doody
87. I Dream of Jeannie
88. I Love Lucy
89. I Spy
90. The Incredible Hulk: The Lonely Man Theme
91. Ironsides
92. It Takes A Thief
93. Jeopardy!


• 1964-1975 "Take Ten" by Julann Griffin ####
• 1984-1991
• 1991-1997
• 1997-2001
• 2001-2008
• 2008-Present
94. Joannie Loves Chachi
95. The Joker's Wild
96. Kim Possible
97. Knot's Landing ###
98. Kojak (Second theme)
99. Kojak (First theme)
100. Kojak (Third theme-Fifth Season)
101. L. A. Law
102. Land of the Giants
103. Laugh-In
104. Laverne & Shirley (Making Our Dreams Come True)
105. Law and Order
106. The Lawrence Welk Show
107. Leave It To Beaver (The Toy Parade)
108. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/lifestylesRichFamous.html
109. Living Dolls [Who's The Boss spin-off]
110. The Love Boat
111. Looney Tunes ["The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"]
112. Lost In Space
113. M Squad [Count Bassie!]
114. Mad About You ["Final Frontier"]
115. Mad Men
116. The Magician
117. Magnum, P.I.
118. Makin' It
119. Malcolm in the Middle
120. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. [I need a source!]
http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/man-from-uncle-theme-has-lyrics.html
121. Mannix
122. Marcus Welby, M.D.
123. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
124. The Mary Tyler Moore Show


• First Season
• Second Season
• Joan Jett version, all three stanzas, third stanza rewritten



125. M*A*S*H
126. Masterpiece Theater [Rondeau from Sinfonies de Fanfares - Suite de Symphonies - Jean-Joseph Mouret]
127. Maude
128. Merrie Melodies [Merrily We Roll Along [I need a source!]
https://www.discogs.com/Bugs-Bunny-With-Mitch-Miller-His-Orchestra-Merrily-We-Roll-Along-I-Taut-I-Taw-A-Puddy-Tat/release/2834101
LT116: Billboard Frolics by dannyjmurray1 The first appearance in a Warner Brothers cartoon. Are these the original lyrics?
129. Miami Vice
130. Millennium
131. Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
132. Mission: Impossible
133. Mr. Belvedere
134. Mister Lucky
135. The Mod Squad [cover]
136. The Monkees
137. Moonlighting
138. The Munsters
139. My Favorite Martian [Are the words legit? Or added later?]
140. My Living Doll [colorized, legitimate lyrics?]
141. The Naked City


• "This is the Naked City" by George Duning (1958-59)
• "Somewhere in the Night" by Billy May (1960-62)
• "The {New} Naked City Theme" by Nelson Riddle (1962-63)
142. Name of the Game
143. NBC Mystery Movie
144. NBC Nightly News [John Williams - "The Mission"]
145. NCIS
146. Newhart###
147. Newlywed Game
148. Night Court
149. Now You See It ["Chump Change" by Quincy Jones]
150. NYPD Blue
151. The Odd Couple
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152. One Foot in the Grave
153. One Life To Live [1984-1991, Peabo Bryson]
154. One Life to Live ["Brand New Start"]
155. One Saturday Morning
156. Once and Again
157. Pee-wee's Playhouse
158. Peter Gunn 


• Original theme
• ["Bye-Bye", lyrics added later]
159. Perfect Strangers
160. Petticoat Junction
161. Phineas and Ferb ["Today Is Gonna Be a Great Day"]
162. Playboy After Dark ["Playboy's Theme"]
163. Popeye
164. Punky Brewster ["Every Time I Turn Around"]
165. Rawhide
166. Red Dwarf
167. Remington Steele
168. The Ren & Stimpy Show
169. Renegade
170. Richie Brockelman, Private Eye
171. Riptide
172. The Rockford Files
173. Roseanne
174. Route 66


• original theme
• Lyrics added later


175. St. Elsewhere
176. Sanford & Son ["The Streetbeater"]
177. Saturday Night Live - Closing Theme (A Waltz in A)
178. Seinfeld
179. Sesamstrasse [German]
     • Opening
     • Closing [One of my fave beats! Those horns!]
180. Sesame Street


• Opening
• Closing
• ...and the "funky chimes"!


181. Silk Stalkings
182. Silver Spoons ["Together"]
183. Simon & Simon
184. Six Million Dollar Man ["Wine Women and War"]
185. Smallville [Remy Zero - Save Me]
186. Soap
187. The Sopranos [Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One)]
188. Space 1999
189. Square Pegs
190. Star Trek
191. Star Trek: The Next Generation [originally from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"]
192. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
193. Star Trek: Voyager
194. Star Trek: Enterprise
195. The Streets of San Francisco
196. Stephen Universe
197. S.W.A.T.
198. TaleSpin
199. Taxi ["Angela"]
200. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Original theme (1987-1996)
• 2003-2009
• 2012-present
201. Texas Wheelers [John Prine - Illegal Smile]
202. That 70s Show [Big Star - In the Street 1972]
203. thirtysomething
204. Tic Tac Dough
205. The Time Tunnel
206. To Tell The Truth
207. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson


• Toot Sweet
• It's Really Love
• Johnny's Theme
208. 21 Jump Street
209. Vega$
210. The Waltons
211. Welcome Back Kotter
212. What's Happening!!
213. Wheel of Fortune Theme 1975-1983
214. White Shadow
215. Who's The Boss? ["Brand New Life"]
216. Wild Wild West
217. The Wizard of Odds
218. WKRP in Cincinnati
219. Wonder Woman
220. X-Files
221. "The Young and the Restless" (Nadia's Theme)

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Future reference

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• The Untouchables [theme only]
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• The Rogues [by Nelson Riddle]
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• Tic Tac Dough (1990 version)
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• Ripley's Believe It or Not [by Henry Mancini]
• Game Shows!  https://www.discogs.com/Various-Classic-TV-Game-Show-Themes/release/487454
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rugolo#Film_and_TV_Scores
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Conti#Other_film_and_television_credits
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrold_Immel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_DeBenedictis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Post
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conlan
• John Williams (NBC News, Olympics, Amazing Stories)
• https://www.discogs.com/Prime-Time-Good-Times-Theme/release/624111 disco versions of Good Times and Soul Train?
• https://www.discogs.com/Prime-Time-Motown-Presents-Prime-Time-Performing-TV-Themes-The-Way-You-Like-To-Hear-Them/release/1677555
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• John Williams
• NBC Sunday Night Football^[5]
• Amazing Stories
• Checkmate (TV series)
• Land of the Giants
• Lost in Space
• The Time Tunnel
• The Tammy Grimes Show^[6]
• The theme for Great Performances

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Main_Title_Theme_Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_television_programs_by_season

• https://www.discogs.com/Chuck-Barris-Themes-From-TV-Game-Shows/release/493124
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Train#Theme_music

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Forgotten TV Lyrics: Ironsides

While this is an instrumental, it's the uncut theme to Ironside, so I include it in the "Forgotten TV Lyrics" index.

Besides, it's Quincy Jones, one of the great soundtrack composers of the 20th Century!

If you're looking for a copy, it's available on the Smackwater Jack album!

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the music on the series:

The opening theme music was written by Quincy Jones and was the first synthesizer-based television theme song, though in 1971, Jones recorded a fuller four-minute band version for the album Smackwater Jack.^[3][4] This recording was then edited and used for the opening credits of the fifth through eighth seasons (1971–75). (The entire album track can be heard in the fifth-season episode "Unreasonable Facsimile" as Ironside and team track a suspect on the streets of San Francisco.) In addition to the opening theme music, Quincy Jones composed the entire score for the first eight episodes. Oliver Nelson took over those duties up to the end of the winter to spring 1972 episodes. Nelson was then replaced by Marty Paich for all the episodes from the beginning of the fall of that year up until the last episode that was produced in the spring of 1974. The song "Even When you Cry" with music by Quincy Jones and lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman was performed by James Farentino in the episode 'Something for Nothing' while Marcia Strassman had already sung it off-screen in the earlier episode 'The Man Who Believed' both during season 1.

I wonder if that Season One score has been released?

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The New York Channel

The New York Channel

Showing only television shows and movies which take place in New York City!

Would it be possible to program a cable/satellite/internet channel showing only television shows and movies which take place in New York City?

Sure... it's easy to fill up a daily programming grid with shows (try it with friends at a bar!), but what about an entire year's worth of programming?

52 weeks x 7 days a week x 24 hours a day = 8,736 hours of programming!

(Hmm... that doesn't seem too bad.)

Rule #1: You cannot double book a show.
No "an hour of Seinfeld!" like some local stations advertise.

Rule #2: Only one movie a day, Monday-Friday; two-a-day on weekends.
Rule #2-A: Each movie block should have a different movie theme.
For example, Saturday night would be "Creature Feature".
Sunday evening would be "Hollywood Blockbuster". (Just like ABC used to do back in the 1970s.)
[Maybe I'll post a separate thread on New York movies by genre...]

Rule #3: Saturday and Sunday may each have a 3-hour block for a sporting event.

Rule #4: The episodes must exist, available for broadcast.

Rule #5: No talk shows, soap operas, or skit comedy.
Rule #5-A: Except for Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners), prime time soap operas, and Saturday Night Live.

Rule #6: Short lived shows may be shown one day a week, preferably on the weekends.

Long running series should be scheduled Monday-Friday (260 episodes...approximately 10 seasons). Shorter series should be scheduled on Saturday and/or Sunday. (52-104 episodes.) Longer series can be scheduled every day (365 episodes).

If something can't make the full 260 airings (like Seinfeld), then shorter series can fill the gap. Rule #1 applies.

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Let's assume a year which starts on a Sunday... That means 52 weeks of Sunday-Saturday, with one Sunday left over.

So... 365x24 = 8,760 hours of programming.

Subtract from that:
  Rule #2. Nine movies a week. Let's program 2 hours a movie. (Maybe 2.5)
That's (52 x 9 x 2) + 4 [two movies on that extra, last Sunday] = 940 hours. 10.7% of programming.

That leaves: 7,820 hours of programming.

Rule #3. Three hours of sports programming for each Saturday and Sunday. (52 x 6)+ 3 = 315 hours of sports programming.

That leaves: 7,503 hours of programming. 85.7%

So let's start filling those time slots!

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The series (with number of episodes in parenthesis):

Sitcoms

• All in the Family (208 episodes)
• Archie Bunker's Place (97)
• 704 Hauser (6) [A black family moves into the Bunker's house in the 1990s.]
• [Maude is set inTuckahoe, Westchester County, New York, and is disqualified.]
• The Jeffersons (253)
• Checking In (4 episodes!)

Archie Bunker and friends account for 284 hours of programming.

• Barney Miller (168)
• Fish (35)

101.5 hours of programming.

• Diff'rent Strokes (189)
• [The Facts of Life was set in Peeskill, NY, in Westchester County, and is disqualified.]

94.5 hours of programming.

These three franchises account for 480 hours of programming, or approximately one-half of one percent. (About 1 hour, twenty minutes of each day.)

• Bewitched (254) [half Manhattan, half suburbia]
• Bosom Buddies (37)
• Car 54, Where Are You? (60)
• Cosby (95)
• The Cosby Show (202)
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (65)
• Dear John (90)
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (158) [half Manhattan, half suburbia]
• Family Affair (138)
• Friends (236)
• Head of the Class (114) [+ Billy (13)]
• How I Met Your Mother (208)
• I Love Lucy (181) [I'll include the suburban episodes, since they still live in the metro area.]
• The Jackie Gleason Show (156) /The Honeymooners (39)
• The Joey Bishop Show (123)
• Just Shoot Me!(148)
• Kate and Allie (122)
• King of Queens (207)
• Love, Sidney (44) [+Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend tv movie]
• Mad About You (164)
• Make Room For Daddy / The Danny Thomas Show (351)
• Night Court (193)
• The Nutt House (11) [Yes... but it has a great cast, and co-created by Mel Brooks!]
• The Odd Couple (114) [Hmm... did Felix and Oscar ever meet Kate and Allie?]
• The Patty Duke Show (104)
• Rhoda (110)
• Seinfeld (180)
• Spin City (145)
• Taxi (114)
• That Girl (136)
• Welcome Back, Kotter (95)
• Will & Grace (194)

4601 episodes, 2300.5 hours of programming.

• Saturday Night Live (750+!) [The "no double booking" rule! So, 365*1.5 = 547.5 hours] [I'd slot this in the "talk show" time slot of 11:30 PM-1 AM.] [If run as a non-stop marathon, it would last 46+ days.]

480+ 2300.5+ 547.5 = 3328 hours of programming.

38% of the annual total!

Drama

• McCloud (46) [6@60, 34@90, 6@120]
• 360+ 3060+ 720 = 4140 / 60 = 69 hours of programming
• Naked City (138) [39@30 mins., 99@ 60 mins.]
• 1170+ 5940 = 7110 / 60 = 118.5 hours of programming
• Baretta [Uknown east coast city, perhaps Newark]
• Beauty and the Beast (56)
• Cagney & Lacey (125)
• CSI: NY (197)
• Dr. Kildare (190)
• The Equalizer (88)
• Fame (136)
• Felicity (84)
• Kojak (118)
• Law & Order (456!) [365 hours]
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (343+)
• Mad Men (85)
• NYPD Blue (261)
• Sex and the City (94@30 mins.)
• Ugly Betty (85)
• Ryan's Hope (3515!) [Yes, a soap opera set in NYC! 30 minutes long]
• 182.5 hours of programming. [Or, if run as a non-stop marathon, 73+days.] [ Oh, wait... Rule #5. Disqualified, and I doubt episodes exist for broadcast.]

2367.5 hours of programming!

Cartoons [Yeah, I'm thinking of a Saturday Morning block. 52 Saturdays x 5 hours of programming?]

• Spider-Man (various)
• Spider-Man (52) [1967]
• Spider-Man (26) [1981]
• Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (24) [1981]
• Spider-Man (65) [1994]
• Spider-Man Unlimited (13) [1999]
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (13) [2003]
• Spectacular Spider-Man (26) [2008]
• Ultimate Spider-Man (78+) [2012]

297 episodes, 148.5 hours of programming.

• The Critic (23)
• Futurama (140)
• Gargoyles (78)
• Hey Arnold! (100)
• The Real Ghostbusters (173)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (193) [1987] 
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (157) [2003]
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (78+) [2012]
• Top Cat (30)

972 episodes, 486 hours of programming

148.5+486 = 634.5 hours of programming.

Divide by 52 Saturdays, and that's over 12 hours of programming each Saturday Morning!

Or I run Spider-Man five days a week in an afternoon timeslot, and keep the rest on Saturday, on a 7-hour block?! Possibly grab TMNT (428 episodes) as another M-F afternoon block. That leaves an average of 5 1/4 hours of cartoons for Saturday morning.

The totals, so far:

• Movies 940
• Sports 315
• Comedy 3328
• Drama 2367.5
• Cartoons 634.5

7585 hours. 86.6%. *SIGH* I need to find 1175 hours of additional programming... 49 days...

• The Nanny (146) 73 hours.
• Brooklyn Bridge (34) 17 hours.
• Archer (75+) 37 hours.
• The Defenders (132) 132 hours
• Dream On (120) 60 hours
• Jessie (101) 50.5 hours
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (195) 195 hours
• Louie (53+) 26 hours
• News Radio (97) 48.5 hours
• Veronica's Closet (66) 33 hours
• Wizards of Waverly Place (106) 53 hours

725 hours. 8310 total. 450 hours to go. 19 days.

• Caroline in the City (97) 47.5
• Boardwalk Empire (56) 56
• White Collar (81) 81
• Rules of Engagement (100) 50
• Gossip Girl (121) 121
• 30 Rock (138) 69
• Everybody Hates Chris (88) 44

468.5 hours 8778.5 total!

So we made the "deadline"!

The breakdown:

• Movies 940
• Sports  315
• Comedy  3919.5
• Drama  2969.5
• Cartoons  634.5

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How many of these shows would you watch?

If you had to pick one episode from each of your favorite series, which would they be?

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Forgotten TV Lyrics: The Love Boat

The #forgottentvlyrics to The Love Boat!

The song was written by Charles Fox (music) and Paul Williams (lyrics). It became the theme music of the popular American television series The Love Boat, broadcast between 1977 and 1986. Jones's version was used as the opening tune for most of the seasons, only to be replaced by Dionne Warwick's cover in the last one.

(From the Wikipedia article.)

This is one of the rare TV themes available at karaoke bars. I like to sing it, as it has a nice disco beat, with a lounge lizard style. (Nothing against Mr. Jones, it's just the way I sing it.)