Top '80s TV Show Opening Themes (Part 2)
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- 1. Automan
2. Blue Thunder
3. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
4. Charles in Charge
5. Chips
6. The Colbys (Dynasty II)
7. The Cosby Show
8. Dick Turpin
9. Diff'rent Strokes
10. A Different World
11. The Facts of Life
12. Family Ties
13. Flamingo Road
14. Growing Pains
15. Hardcastle and McCormick
16. Head of the Class
17. The Hogan Family / Valerie
18. Hotel
19. LA Law
20. The Love Boat
21. Matt Houston
22. Max Headroom
23. Night Court
24. North and South
25. Perfect Strangers
26. Quantum Leap
27. Riptide
28. Santa Barbara
29. Silver Spoons
30. Sledge Hammer!
31. Small Wonder
32. St. Elsewhere
33. Star Trek The Next Generation
34. Streethawk
35. T.J. Hooker
36. Tales of the Golden Monkey
37. Thirtysomething
38. What's Happening Now!!
39. The Wonder Years
The original video featured the intro to 'Murder, She Wrote' but I had to cut it out due to copyright issues. That's why the video now includes 39 and not 40 tv opening themes.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro (Dynasty)
01:48 Automan
02:56 Blue Thunder
04:26 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
04:48 Charles in Charge
05:13 Chips
06:22 The Colbys (Dynasty II)
07:49 The Cosby Show
08:44 Dick Turpin
09:24 Diff'rent Strokes
10:15 A Different World
11:19 The Facts of Life
12:11 Family Ties
13:11 Flamingo Road
14:42 Growing Pains
15:42 Hardcastle and McCormick
17:15 Head of the Class
18:21 The Hogan Family / Valerie
19:35 Hotel
21:14 LA Law
22:44 The Love Boat
24:28 Matt Houston
25:58 Max Headroom
Murder, She Wrote (deleted due to copyright issues)
26:22 Night Court
27:03 North and South
29:09 Perfect Strangers
30:39 Quantum Leap
31:51 Riptide
33:24 Santa Barbara
33:58 Silver Spoons
34:58 Sledge Hammer!
35:52 Small Wonder
36:53 St. Elsewhere
38:17 Star Trek The Next Generation
39:59 Streethawk
41:23 T.J. Hooker
42:46 Tales of the Golden Monkey
43:45 Thirtysomething
44:49 What's Happening Now!!
45:50 The Wonder Years
Still missing:
1) Battlestar Galactica
2)Benson
3) BJ and the Bear
4)Eight is Enough
5)Manimal
6)The Powers of Matthew Star
7) Vegas
8) Voyager
And grisly Adams 😮
A lot of things TV show I remember and some I don't...and the ones that I do remember were good TV show
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Thank you so much🙏🙏🙏🙏. I couldn't believe they complaint about copyright issue. Without videos like yours, people would forget those shows🤦🏼♀️
Put this in the description so it creates chapter markers.
- Sadly, I had to shorten the intros to 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' and 'Charles in Charge', otherwise the video would have been blocked in North America due to copyright infringement.
- Two weeks after I uploaded the video it got blocked in North America due to copyright infringement because of the intro to 'Murder She Wrote'. So I had to cut this intro out. That's why the video now featured 39 and not 40 tv opening themes.
- I ran a poll about whether I should include the Cosby show or not, in light of the Bill Cosby sexual assault cases. 73% (out of 1733 votes) said that I should include it, many people saying that the other actors who put their hearts into that work shouldn't be penalized (a lot of them cut ties with him).
Considering what so many other actors did, in that case none of these intros should be included. Cosby was a positive force for race relations and understanding, and his show one of the highest rated.
@@n.d.m.515 I absolutely agree. This show had a positive impact at that time because it was about rich and successful black people.
Never liked Cosby, even back then - just because he was so clearly a phoney
COSBY show was inspirational as an inner-city yoot growing up.
Has to be included.
But MOST EGREGIOUS was Leaving out Murder She wrote. You should have just dubbed yourself in HUIMMING the intro 🤣🤣
I couldn't stand the guy back then and still can't... no need to be politically correct... if it offends anyone to dam bad.. people need to stop being wimps.
Man, between part 1 and part 2, I felt transported back to my childhood!!!
haha this video gives me quite a lot of value
Back when tv theme songs and the intros were masterpieces❤❤❤❤
back when we had ..... DIVERSITY and ... FEMALE LEADS already, without it being pounded down our throats
@@WirmerFlagge Facts
@@WirmerFlaggeTruly. We need there to be more focus on telling creative stories on film and TV, not focusing solely on ticking virtue signaling boxes
@@user-cr8dq7sc6h even in this thread they are censoring us
Hearing Quantum Leap and Next Generation hit me hard, cause those were two of my mom's favorite TV shows. She passed away earlier this year and today (12/10/2023) would've been her 60th birthday.
Deepest condolences 2 u....
Sorry to hear that. R.I.P. But your mom had great taste in TV shows! They were some of my favorites too.
RIP TO YOUR MOM AND MY MOM PASSED ON FEBRUARY 1ST,2020 (NON-COVID RELATED) AND JULY 24TH,2023 WOULD HAVE BEEN HER 61ST BIRTHDAY. THE 80'S SHOWS SHE WATCHED THE MOST WHEN I WAS A KID WERE GOLDEN GIRLS,THREE'S COMPANY AND MC GUYVER PLUS TWO 60'S SHOWS IN BONANZA AND EMERGENCY!!
As Sam would say, “oh boy” may she RIP
I'm sorry to hear that; 60 is very young these days. You should have had a lot of years with her. I hope in time the themes will bring only good memories.
Watching these makes me wish I grew up in the '80s. Those were much better times than what we're dealing with now. 😓
It was great. these shows are classics.
Yes and No... I was also young and, so, not aware of lots of problems. Lots of wars around the world, but less information about them. And the iron curtain through Europe...
60’s and 70’s TV shows were also great. Today sucks especially the reality shows which are hard up fillers.
Absolutely. We didn’t have all this political crap back then.
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I can't speak for Europeans, but things were generally improving in North America from the 1970s up until 2010. After 2010, the culture wars hit, and things got worse. The culture wars even divided families and long time friends. Young people were brainwashed in universities, to the point that the started to teach racism in the form of "reverse racism" to youth who now want to reinstate racial segregation when they have never faced real racism in their entire lives. Boys are treated like broken girls, and parents have lost their rights over their own children to the government and school systems like in Communist China. That was not there before 2010. Racism was practically taboo in North America by the time the mid 2000s hit. Everyone tolerated everybody's culture and lifestyle, and no strangers were trying to push anything down other people's throats.
Those of us lucky enough to have grown up in the 80s are being transported back in time right now. This is absolutely fantastic. Man I miss the 80s!!
Yep. When life was better and we had better TV shows and movies
Me too l miss the 1980s
Growing Pains, Family Ties, Quantum Leap, Cosby Show... man were we spoiled! ❤
Thanks for adding the Cosby Show...no need to rehash the legal history, but the show meant so much to me growing up. Same with A Different World-my parents were HBCU grads, but it definitely reinforced my desire to go an Hbcu.
A Different World holds up well even today. Most underrated show from the 80s/90s. IMO, Whitley and Dwayne have the best arc of any couple in tv history - enemies to friends to romantic couple to married
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Stephen J. Cannell and Mike Post got me through most of my childhood
hell yeah they did, i remember seeing Stephen Cannell as the bad guy in the show Renegade, and going Nooo! he created all my favorite tv shows! he can’t be the villain! 😂😂
Since I only watch TH-cam now it was fun revisiting my childhood shows. Nice recognizing the actors names.
Thank you, Mike Post and Pete Carpenter for so many good TV themes!
IKR?! they were theme kings back then!
The time when an intro was part of the series, and not just an unanvoidable neccessity that shortens the advertising time.
Thanks for taking us back to a simpler time. "Growing Pains" or "Family Ties" definitely tie for my favourite 80's sitcom theme. 🥰♥️
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Family Ties got me in the feels
It wasn't simpler, unless you were too young to be aware of what was happening.
I've already rewound the videio back four times just to hear the "LA Law" . I'm an 80s baby , will be 42 soon, and although tis show and so many orhers were on during my formative years ( i did grow up watching "Full House" and the Friday night ABC TGiF line up) . I absolutely love these compilation videos. Thank goodness for Lifetime and Nick at Nite for airing alot of these shows in syndication in the 90s and 2000s and upto the 2010s.
MeTV does a lot of old shows.
Back when tv was worth watching...
Yep. Now almost every TV show is woke propaganda
Riptide, what a great underrated show, it was my 80s favorite, thanks for including it in this 2nd part
It's a A Team spin off.
Riptide was awesome!
Was looking for a part 3. Didn’t see The Equalizer or Beauty and the Beast. But 1 & 2 are great. Thank you!
Yeah, a part 3 could be made and it would still be great .. so many good things were made in the 80's!
Thanks for adding Hardcastle and McCormick! I love the intro so much.🏎💨💨💨
And the Love Boat. 😄
Love Boat theme seems it's changed over the years.
We weren't just lucky. We were blessed.
Hell yes! ❤
True 1980s is the best decade ever
That was great! The opening scene was a great period piece. Most of the sitcoms shown were hugely popular. Also interesting to see some notable actors in early roles (ie. Patrick Swayze, Kirstie Alley, Denzel Washington). As for Murder, She Wrote, it reminds me of Sunday nights at my grandparents' house. Cabot Cove had an awfully high homicide rate!
Yah! I told my friend about the show's premise, and he said it should be called,
'Murder, She Brought' , lol
LOL yep!
And Jason Bateman. I TOTALLY forgot about the Hogan family.
Wherever Jessica Fletcher went, there was sure to be a murder! She was certainly a murder magnet.
80's were the era of Lifestyles of the Rich and famous, and our sitcoms demonstrated our fascination with such.
Perfect Strangers-I got chills of emotion hearing this again. I could almost visualize being back in the living room of my family’s old house. Quite possibly the best theme song in an era of best theme songs.
Many thanks for all you do.
This was a bittersweet journey. Thanks for reviving some memories!
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for including Santa Barbara! Even though it was a soap opera, not a primetime show. I loved that show so much, and the theme song is epic!
I really loved Santa Barbara! I was sad when canceled it!
Some forgotten gems here ! I also used to watch 'BJ and the Bear.' A trucker and his chimpanzee.
And a good theme song, too. Greg Evigan was FINE!
I was born 1970. I remember loving BJ AND THE BEAR. But that's all I remember. Was his truck red & white.
OMG "Head of the Class" - such a great show. And one of my favorite theme songs of the 80s.
Despite that dumpster fire Dan Schneider being involved.
@@kevinnelson66 Well, we obviously didn't know what he'd become at the time.
Bill Conti's score for North and South was peerless. It was also fantastic to hear the themes of St. Elsewhere and Murder, LA Law, and Murder, She Wrote. It was fun to see if I still remember the actors who starred in these shows and my batting average was pretty impressive.
I loved these shows, i had crushes on Sondra Huxtable from the Cosby show, Carol Seaver from Growing Pains, Whitley Gilbert from A Different World : )
So glad to see part 2 😁 Missed some of my favorites in the first one but here they are. Some of them 😉 Hardcastle and McCormick, TJ Hooker, Quantum Leap, Family Ties etc And some I haven't thought about in years! 😄 Looking forward to pt 3 😉😉
Za mě taky seriál Hardcastle And McCormick
Wow , Family Ties, I’d forgotten how much I loved that show
The show that made Michael J Fox a huge star in the 80s and 90s.
Never noticed how Brian Keith got so jacked for his Hardcastle and McCormick role. RIP
Thank you for uploading this. I feel I'm a teenager again!
From Chile I wish you have a
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 2024 🎆🥳
wow, bring me so many memories! so sad the culture we live in
It’s a shame that almost every movie and TV show that airs in the early 2020s are nothing but woke propaganda
Different Strokes, the Facts of Life, and the Love Boat are still bangers! And damn, I forgot Aretha sang the Different World song! 😱
Man i was a coach potato in the 80's 98% of the shows here I watched.
It’s a shame that St Elsewhere’s finale had an absolutely horrendous ending
I loved Automan a lot, it was one of my favorite shows..anyway I remember them all with affection
🎉 greetings from coastal Mississippi. Thanks for the memories.... I watched 31 of these shows. Excellent research. 😂
Watched a lot of these shows here in Australia at one time or another. Thanks for putting this all together.
Great memories, in this part i only have viewed 19 and those were the ones aired in the Netherlands. The Colbys i didn't know either. Some are really good and ashame we could not see them. I loved Quantum Leap, because i like science fiction and all the family series i loved too and of course Sledge Hammer and North and South because of the love scenes🫣😁
Thank You for Part 2
Enjoying then all.
When they knew how to score, compose great music for the whole show and write great scripts that had a good story line
Hard castle and McCormick! The song is so great! Wow….north and south- when every single woman on earth fell in love with Oory….Patrick swayze! Good memories….thank you…I forgot about some of these….
Petrocelli, Family Matters, Streets of San Francisco have also great opening theme songs, just to mention. 😊Amazing collection of both videos (part 1 and part 2 ) . I love the 80's.😍
Hell yeah SRG, thank you so much for creating a 2nd part and including my request ! ❤😊💯 15:42
wow some great memories thanks back down memory lane
CHiPs is one of my favourite all time themes but most 80s shows just had a different style and feel when it came to the intro theme
Favorite.
And before that Adam 12.
LA Law easily the best opening with the iconic music - just an all round great show!
TV Theme songs of the 1980s were the best
The L.A. Law theme is definitely in my top ten list of 80s themes. Love it , The trunk closing and seeing the LA Law on the Ca license plate just sets the whole vibe for the show. I'm a little biased since I'm an LA girl , born and raised. Loved seeing that trunk close whenever I'd watch the reruns since the show was on in my formative years.
Wow - the memories! Thanks for this!
I'm more into 90's TV shows cause that era was my childhood but I adored some TV shows from the 80's: Dynasty, Knight Rider, Superboy, Quantum Leap, Magnum P.I., Buck Rogers, LA Law, The A-Team, Alien Nation, MacGyver, The Dukes of Hazzard
So sad the tv opening theme songs are a thing of the past. Which they would come back.
Quantum Leap and Star Trek TNG still sound GREAT!
Captain Kirk looked so exhausted TRYING TO BE TJ HOOKER.😂😂😂😂
Heather Locklear was the only reason to watch the show…
North and South……. So brilliant. ❤
This was a time when the rest of the world wanted to be like America and people wanted to be American. By the way the Wonder Years is without question of the greatest television shows ever made and I am not exaggerating. It was way ahead of its time.
I so agree
I'm Canadian and was in my 20s during the 80s. I don't remember any time that the rest of the world wanted to be American. I do remember some people thinking people in other countries wanted to be, but I don't remember them actually wanting to be.
“Whatchoo talkin bout Willis?” Lol, we used that line over and over.
It’s so sad that Bruce Willis is in declining health
@@user-cr8dq7sc6h it IS so sad! 😭 But they’re referring to the famous line from Diff’rent Strokes
Loved loved loved this! Missed seeing these shows, missed some too but loved it
No Wiseguy??? loved that show. Ken Wahl was the Man.
Good Selection!
A little TNG knowledge:
That is V1 of the opening titles of the show. Over the course of the show's history it had three versions. V2, used for season 2, only has the music changed. V3 starts off in a nebula & flashes to a different ringed planet.
I'm a trekkie. NO SHAME.
4 versions - season 5 had the Superman-style title.
4 versions - season 5 had the Superman-style title
Same. No need for shame in the face of such awesomeness.
Ty for the best memories. Mom and Dad were sitting with me watching these movies Ty
yeahh,,it is full of memorable stories,,,God,,,,if I could turn back the past time,,,,,,😢
I want to go back
It was a better time. Only thing we wish we had back then were cell phones!
Molte serie tv riportate in questo video sono state trasmesse in Italia sulle televisioni della Fininvest (ora Mediaset) e della Rai.... che ricordi...ero ragazzino.....viva gli anni '80...
Danke, lieber SRG, was für ein schönes Video 🥰🥰🥰
Oh MY God! PERFECT STRANGERS! 😭
If you do a part 3 don't forget Benson. "I heard you!" 😂
Take a drink for every intro that includes:
* A helicopter
* The Golden Gate Bridge or Hollywood Sign
* A robot or intelligent computer
* Spoken narration
Hard mode:
* Mike Post
Thanks for the original version of Family Ties.
This had to be the worst version of "The Love Boat" intro (Dionne Warwick). Jack Jones did the original 8 seasons and it was spectacular.
Some of my all-time favorite shows here and in part 1. I was thrilled to see Sledge Hammer! because I thought I was the only one who remembered that show, but sad at the lack of Stingray.
I remember the last episode where he had to disarm a nuclear bomb.
"Trust me. I know what I'm doing."
BOOM 💥
"HAAAAMMERRRRR!!!"
A few of these were shows that began in the 70s. I never knew Dana Carvey was in Blue Thunder
Me either! 😮
Always looked fo0rward to Sledge Hammer.
They just don't make good tv shows anymore, like these. I miss the 80's.
We had way better TV shows in any era before the early 2020s
Me too
Mmmh... No matter how many clips you include, there's always someone who complains that something was missing 🙄😤...
Thank you for your work and the nice memories! 😊
I enjoyed it a lot!! 👌👍👍
Lesser known tv shows then such as Crazy Like A Fox,Strike Force,Last Precinct and Trapper John,MD(most of its seasons were in the 80s)also have memorable opening themes.
Thank you so much, transporting me to happy childhood memories.
Some of these never showed here in Australia and lookin back at Automan def a TRON influence unless automan was Disney?
Both list are a great collection and I only missed 1 show: Mission Impossible. Iconic intro
I loved the following theme tunes Dallas The A Team and The Golden Girls. I never missed an episode of Dynasty and Knots Landing Great memories
Great Part 1 & 2. *Midnight Caller is another classic 80s TV intro*
Dynasty. I never watched it but the intro was cool and there were pretty ladies on it.
My favorite theme here was Perfect Strangers.
Here's some others with special notes:
The Buck Rogers theme was great, and the musical version was better than the movie's lyric version, which was sung Wimpily.
You included Charles in Charge's 1st season theme. the 2nd and on was much better.
Cosby Show was cool how they changed their song every year.
I never watched Hardcastle & M, but the song was Rockin!
LA Law had a great smooth tune.
And Murder She Wrote was a fun piano theme.
Star Trek TNG was a beautiful song, and glad you played the full version from season 1.
Before dinner at 6, there was an hour block of TV that my dad watched. Anything that ran. I watched some 70's reruns and 80's too late to air in Mountain time zone. It fell there. Star Trek:TNG fell there. I watched with dad.
Need to include Wiseguy, Voyagers! and Cover Up.
No Taxi??? Such a crime! :). Thanks for putting these together!
Sandford and Sons too... Electric Company... 3-2-1 Contact... Reading Rainbow... The Jeffersons... 227... Mr. Belvedere... Coach... Kung Fu... maybe it's time for a part 3?
Taxi was a 1970s tv show
Great job!
Hope you had a great Day. 💕
Love your Videos. ❣️
Greetings from Germany. 💞
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Drive! Hardcastle & McCormick had an absolutely killer theme song!
These are the shows you couldn't wait for week after week!
Quantum leap scared the crap outta me. So did SOAP, Mr. Belvedere, Dynasty, and Silver spoons
I loved St. Elsewhere theme and to see Denzel Washington that young. Awesome
Denzel Washington has seriously never been in a bad movie. Very rare track record
Loved all these shows
There were a number of good shows on this list.
Did you also know that the theme song for _Perfect Strangers_ was also used as the intro to _The Simpsons_ episode "Treehouse Of Horror XV" (2004)?
Its ALL ABOUT THAT CHIPS THEME. The DISCO VERSION.
It's ALL ABOUT STEPHANIE BEACHAM AND EMMA SAMMS.
I swear, Mike Post and Pete Carpenter wrote the soundtrack for the 1980s.
I live in the Netherlands and only know about 15 of these TV shows. Dutch television had to choose what to buy, and these shows were clearly not as popular as the ones presented in Part 1. Bear in mind we had only three channels until 1988, and we didn't have TV during the day until 1993. Also, we had of course, our Dutch shows and European shows (German krimis!). But I loved the Cosby show and Family Ties.
Wow… Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks
Brings back a lot of good memories
Tons of memories flying by here . Great collection of intros .Thanks for the fun.
Alexis was rarely sorry letting people think things that were not true were. She was hands down one of the three villainous females on prime time you hated to see get what she wanted.
But seriously.. the 1980s was a decade where TV did more to try to give people an idea of how real life should be.. and we didn't take time to appreciate it.
I lived for chips !! I hope that I can meet Eric Estrada some day. Love him !!
Very nice you missed a few legendary ones such as Amen, Mama's Family, The Jeffersons, Family Matters, Archie Bunkers Place, In the Heat of the Night, Fantasy Island and Empty Nest.
Jefferson’s is from the 70s
@@user-cr8dq7sc6h true but the Jeffersons stay on air until the mid 80s if I remember correctly and then Amen came out
YESSSS. 80 baby here ❤.