What are you top 5 theme songs from each decade, 1950s-2000s?

Here's my list

1950s -
1) I Love Lucy
2) Make Room for Daddy
3) The Donna Reed Show
4) Leave it to Beaver
5) The Honeymooners

1960s -
1) The Dick Van Dyke Show
2) Bewitched
3) F Troop
4) Get Smart
5) The Patty Duke Show
Close Calls: Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie (B&W version)

1970s -
1) Mary Tyler Moore
2) Happy Days
3) Hawaii Five-O
4) The Bob Newhart Show
5) Little House on the Prairie
Close Calls: The Odd Couple, The Brady Bunch, WKRP in Cincinnati

1980s -
1) Cheers
2) Hill Street Blues
3) The Cosby Show (the "elevator music" version)
4) The Golden Girls
5) Who's the Boss?
Close Calls: The Facts of Life, China Beach

1990s -
1) Friends
2) Mad About You
3) Full House
4) Saved by the Bell
5) The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Close Calls: Doug (!), Ally McBeal

2000s -
1) American Dreams
2) The Office
3) The West Wing
4) Reba
5) Survivor
Close Calls: Parks and Recreation

1950's
1) I Love Lucy
2) Bonanza
3)
4)
5)

1960's
1) Bewitched
2) I Dream of Jeannie
3) The Munsters
4) Petticoat Junction
5) Andy Griffin Show

1970's
1) Hawaii Five-O
2) Are You Being Served?
3) Laverne & Shirley
4)
5)

1980's
1) Full House
2) Growing Pains
3) Kids Incorporated
4) Mickey Mouse Club
5)

1990's
1) Power Rangers
2) Care Bears
3) Charmed
4) Keeping Up Apperances
5) As Time Goes By

2000's
1) Wizards of Waverly Place
2) Gossip Girl
3) Gilmore Girls
4) ICarly
5)

I know I left a lot of spaces blank but I don't really know what to put down. The only two shows from the 50's I watched are I Love Lucy and Bonanza.

1950's
1) I Love Lucy
2) The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
3) Make Room for Daddy
4) Leave it to Beaver
5) I Married Joan

1960's
1) The Monkees
2) I Dream of Jeannie
3) The Munsters
4) Petticoat Junction
5) The Andy Griffith Show

1970's
1) Hawaii Five-O
2) Happy Days
3) Barney Miller
4) The Brady Bunch
5) The Patridge Family

1980's
1) Cheers
2) Growing Pains
3) Growing Pains
4) The Golden Girls
5) Designing Women

1990's
1) The Nanny
2) Dharma and Greg
3) Seinfeld
4) Ally McBeal
5) Friends

2000's
1) CSI
2) NCIS
3) Parenthood
4) Cold Case
5) American Dreams

This List Was Edited on 8/27/2016 to reflect my changing tastes.

1980's:
1. Family Ties
2. Growing Pains
3. The Facts Of Life
4. Dynasty
5. The Golden Girls

Honorable Mentions for the 80's: A Different World, Falcon Crest, Who's The Boss, Married With Children and Charles In Charge.

1990's:
1. Dawson's Creek
2. Beverly Hills, 90210
3. E.R.
4. Law & Order
5. Ally McBeal

Honorable Mentions for the 1990's: Melrose Place, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Sisters.

2000's and 2010's:
1. The Big Bang Theory
2. 30 Rock
3. The O.C.
4. Parks & Recreation
5. One Tree Hill

Honorable Mentions for 2000's and 2010's: New Girl, Modern Family and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

I don't have five from each decade, but here are my five current favorites in no particular order...

Parenthood
The Big Bang Theory
Parks and Recreation
Life Unexpected
Survivor

I can't do it by decade, but he are some of my favorites.

(Instrumental)

Family Affair
Dynasty
The Colbys
Hawaii-5-O
The Dick Van Dyke Show
M.A.S.H.
Archie Bunker's Place
Rhoda (NOT the la-la-la-la-la version!)
Little House on the Paraire
The Waltons
Hill Street Blues

(Songs that were Radio top 40 hits)

Friends
Party of Five
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Welcome Back Kotter
Angie

(Showtune songs sung in bars, at campfires or on bus trips, that everybody knows)

Gilligan's Island
The Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
The Addams Family
The Brady Bunch
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Jeffersons
The Flintstones

(Others)

The Patty Duke Show
Phyllis
The Golden Girls
Designing Women (especially The Ray Charles Version)

Welcome Back Kotter



:eek: I totally forgot about that one!! Great theme song.

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markway895 did you forget about

S.W.A.T
Rockford Files
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Route 66
Planet Of The Apes TV
Peter Gunn



I can't do it by decade, but he are some of my favorites.

(Instrumental)

Family Affair
Dynasty
The Colbys
Hawaii-5-O
The Dick Van Dyke Show
M.A.S.H.
Archie Bunker's Place
Rhoda (NOT the la-la-la-la-la version!)
Little House on the Paraire
The Waltons
Hill Street Blues

(Songs that were Radio top 40 hits)

Friends
Party of Five
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Welcome Back Kotter
Angie

(Showtune songs sung in bars, at campfires or on bus trips, that everybody knows)

Gilligan's Island
The Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
The Addams Family
The Brady Bunch
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Jeffersons
The Flintstones

(Others)

The Patty Duke Show
Phyllis
The Golden Girls
Designing Women (especially The Ray Charles Version)

1990's

1) Friends
2) Ally McBeal
3) Dawson's Creek
4) X-Files
5) Family Matters

2000's

1) Gilmore Girls
2) Futurama
3) Battlestar Galactica
4) Firefly
5) Scrubs

Some faves

- The Beverly Hillbillies (60s)
- Gilligan's Island (60s)
- Good Times (70s)
- Happy Days (70s)
- Hawaii Five-O (70s)
- Laverne & Shirley (70s)
- Mary Tyler Moore (70s)
- Over There (00s)
- Starsky & Hutch (70s)
- SWAT (70s)

70's:

1)Happy Days
2)Laverne & Shirley
3)Brady Bunch
4)WKRP In Cincinatti
5)Taxi

80's:

1)Bosom Buddies
2)Family Ties
3)Diff'rent Strokes
4)Newhart
5)ALF

90's:

1)Growing Pains
2)Friends
3)Family Matters
4)Fresh Prince
5)Step by Step
6)Boy Meets World (both versions, excluding 1st season)
7)Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (later seasons)
8)California Dreams
9)Saved by the Bell
10)Full House
11)All That
12)Kenan & Kel

ooooops! I forgot Wonder Years, that goes no.1 for the 90's probably. Ah, I forgot Cheers as well. So many good ones!

1950s:
I Love Lucy
Leave It To Beaver

1960s:
Gilligan's Island
The Munsters
The Dick Van Dyke Show
F-TROOP
Bewitched

1970s:
Happy Days
The Jefferson's
Laverne And Shirley
Good Times
What's Happening

1980s:
The Golden Girls
Cheers
Night Court
MacGyver
Full House

1990s:
Family Matters
Mad About You
Wings
Empty Nest
Frasier

I can't do it by decade either, but here are a few of my favorites:

Barney Miller
The Bob Newhart Show
M Squad
Hart to Hart
Hotel
Perry Mason
original-recipe Hawaii Five-O
original-recipe Star Trek

Not by decades, but here's my top 10 theme songs:


10. Laverne & Shirley
9. The Nanny
8. Roseanne (later seasons with lyrics)
7. Cheers
6. The Torkelsons
5. Brotherly Love
4. The Golden Girls
3. Blossom
2. Step by Step
1. Baywatch "I'm Always Here"

I'll do my top 10 of all time as well.

1. Laverne & Shirley
2. The Greatest American Hero *
3. Perry Mason
4. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
5. The Muppet Show
6. M*A*S*H
7. The Nanny
8. I Dream of Jeannie
9. Designing Women (season 1)
10. Family Ties *

* Indicates I like the theme but not the show.

The theme that always resonated with me was "Perry Mason"....a classic!

Other notables: Mission:Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, Andy Griffith, The Jeffersons and Frasier.

My favorite sitcom theme was from the short-lived Phyllis Diller show "The Pruitts Of Southampton".