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Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs!
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Blackcatter Date: 24 Aug 01 - 12:36 AM Greetings all, Thanks for the compliments on the TV Theme Website. PAH: in order to grill beans you gotta turn them perpendicular to the grille and a big of pork fat will help them cook to a nice golden brown without burning. What I always wondered is why the Jeffersons would suddenly become better cooks (or at least stop eating fish & beans) just because the moved to midtown. pax |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: alison Date: 22 Aug 01 - 01:32 AM 4 was fingerbobs 8 was bagpuss slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Trevor Date: 21 Aug 01 - 04:37 AM 4 = Fingerbobs! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Mark Cohen Date: 21 Aug 01 - 04:20 AM Hmmm, alison, chewing gum to help him breathe...that must have been where they got the idea in "Mars Attacks!", when the Martian masquerading as a human woman kept chewing gum, which turned out to be a source of nitrogen! Come to think of it, that movie could well have been a TV series. It seems like the Brits and Aussies have taken over this thread! But that's all right, we have all the good shows. I mean, what do they have to compare with My Mother the Car, or I Dream of Jeannie, or My Favorite Martian, or Huckleberry Hound? (All right, it was Kellogg's....as was the Beverly Hillbillies. And Dennis the Menace was Skippy Peanut Butter, and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color was Kodak. You got Sky King. Well, now, you had your chance....) Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Trevor Date: 21 Aug 01 - 04:09 AM Is 8 Bagpuss? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: alison Date: 21 Aug 01 - 03:30 AM well done you have got these ones....
1. Camberwick Green
which leaves these....so I'll give more clues....
4. ... with my famous body swerve......another clue..... Yuffi lifts a finger.....
8. once upon a time, not so long ago, there lived a little girl and her name was Emily.........this one has already been mentioned above but to the wrong clue slainte alison
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Mark Cohen Date: 20 Aug 01 - 06:31 PM 'Spaw, if it'll help, Huckleberry Hound was sponsored by the same company that brought you Quick Draw McGraw. Nah....didn't think so. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: GUEST,PAH Date: 20 Aug 01 - 12:24 PM Peg, I was pretty sure on the Jefferson's thing but I used Blackcatter's site to double check!! It is "Fish don't fry" and "Beans don't burn". Frankly, I've never tried to cook beans on a grill but I imagine it can't be really easy. Little suckers falling through all the time.....maybe that's why they burn!! .....*BG*..... PAH |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Trevor Date: 20 Aug 01 - 11:58 AM Aagh! 'Time flies by....' was 'Chigley'. Sign of a mis-spent parenthood. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Trevor Date: 20 Aug 01 - 11:55 AM 'Here is a box a musical box...wound up and ready to play' - 'Camberwick Green' Therefore, 'Time goes by.....' must be 'Trumpton' |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Trevor Date: 20 Aug 01 - 11:41 AM Is 'get on board' from the 'Double Deckers?' 'Time flys by...when you're the driver of a train' (Chigley, Camberwick Green or Trumpton) 'let me run, to the sun' - 'White Horses'? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: GUEST,Tracey Dragonsfriend Date: 20 Aug 01 - 10:59 AM Let's see... from all those hours spent glued to Grandma's colour TV (the only one in the street - wow!) as a child - 1.Here is a box, a musical box Would this be Bagpuss, with the mice & Professor Yaffle? 3.up above the streets and the houses I'm sure this is Rainbow 8. once upon a time, not so long ago......... Maybe The Clangers? 9 ..... quicker than the human eye It's Hong Kong Phooey! 10. close friends get to call him T.C...... Definitely Top Cat 11. when, as if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared Good old Mr Benn And now I have the "body swerve" on the brain, but can't identify it... Aaagh! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: alison Date: 20 Aug 01 - 07:37 AM YAY..... thanks AliUK
1. Button moon clue to some of mine... two of them were very badly dubbed foreign programs but we got them every summer holidays............ slainte alison |
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Subject: Lyr Add: JIMMY JET AND HIS TV SET From: Mark Cohen Date: 20 Aug 01 - 01:48 AM 'Spaw, as I recall, the Beverly Hillbillies were brought to us by "the fine old folks at Kellogg's, Kellogg's of Battle Creek." Nabisco is right for "Out of the blue of the Western Sky, comes....Sky King!" And one of your guesses was close, 'Spaw, but for the wrong show! To keep this a musical thread, I guess I'll have to post the tune I wrote for this poem by Shel Silverstein--as soon as I turn the TV off!: JIMMY JET AND HIS TV SET (c)1974 Shel Silverstein I'll tell you the story of Jimmy Jet-- And you know what I tell you is true. He loved to watch his TV set Almost as much as you. He watched all day, he watched all night Till he grew pale and lean From "The Early Show" to "The Late Late Show" And all the shows between. He watched till his eyes were frozen wide And his bottom grew into his chair. And his chin turned into a tuning dial, And antennae grew out of his hair. And his brains turned into TV tubes, And his face to a TV screen. And two knobs saying "VERT." and "HORIZ." Grew where his ears had been. And he grew a plug that looked like a tail So we plugged in little Jim. And now instead of him watching TV We all sit around and watch him. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: AliUK Date: 20 Aug 01 - 12:18 AM Alison, lets try you on these ones. # We're off to ____________, along with Mr. Spoon. # Down in the meadow where the wind blows free, there you'll find the lightning tree... the first ones easy the second I think may tax. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: alison Date: 19 Aug 01 - 10:23 PM well done walrus... you got some
3.Rainbow looks like not too many UK types out there... slainte alison
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 19 Aug 01 - 07:39 PM Yep, Sky King and niece Penny were brought to us by the fine folks at Nabisco.....now RJR/Nabisco The Beverly Hillbillies came to us from R.J. Reynolds...also now RJR/Nabisco. Never watched Dennis and I'm wondering about ol' Huck......Was it a jelly or peanut butter company? Was Walt ever sponsored by Peter Pan? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: RangerSteve Date: 19 Aug 01 - 07:14 PM Sky King's sponsor was Nabisco. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: The Walrus Date: 19 Aug 01 - 02:53 PM Alison, UK kids TV Hmmm I'm tempted to say "Wireless with pictures? It'll never catch on..." (or "bring back the potter's wheel") All I can get are 3.up above the streets and the houses Rainbow ? 9..... quicker than the human eye Not Mighty Mouse by any chance? 10. close friends get to call him T.C...... Top Cat 11. when, as if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared I've a horrible suspicion that this is Mr Ben 12... he can outwit every foe...... (just for you 'spaw) The only one I can think of here is Danger Mouse (and I'm sure that's wrong) These are all a bit late for me, now if you'd mentioned "...the biggest, spottiest dog you'd ever seen..." I might have stood a chance. Best Wishes Walrus |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Mark Cohen Date: 19 Aug 01 - 03:33 AM Whoa, thanks, Blackcatter! Awesome site! And, Johnne, if that was a quiz, it's from "Everybody's Talkin'" by Fred Neil, sung by Nilsson as the theme to "Midnight Cowboy". If it's not a quiz, it's a good line anyway. Aloha, Mark PS, as long as we're on the subject of TV quizzes...how about sponsors? Do you remember the sponsor for: Sky King Dennis the Menace The Beverly Hillbillies Huckleberry Hound Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: GUEST,johnne Date: 19 Aug 01 - 01:09 AM gosh this was fun I got most of the first list correct but fell pretty short on the second. As for distinctive voices I give it to Sam Elliot everytime. JOhnne "Goin' where the weather suits my clothes" |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Peg Date: 18 Aug 01 - 10:18 AM whoa! I can't guess any of those alison! PAH: I typed it in wrong, it should have been "Things don't burn in the kitchen." But looks like I got it wrong; are you sure it is "fish don't fry?" I like "beans don't burn"; I had thought it was "things don't burn in the kitchen, things don't burn on the grill" but that wouldn't be a very good lyric would it?
peg
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: alison Date: 18 Aug 01 - 09:06 AM UK TV kids shows (some are titles, some are characters
1. Here is a box, a musical box slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: alison Date: 18 Aug 01 - 02:39 AM wild guess Peg's 7 Champion the wonder horse... we need someone to do UK kids programmes slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Blackcatter Date: 18 Aug 01 - 01:26 AM Greetings all Here's the site for TV theme lyrics: It's my site and has the lyrics & voice-overs to over 300 shows, as well as many of the variations (like the Drew Carey Show & Twilight Zone). pax |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Banjer Date: 17 Aug 01 - 09:37 PM Boy it sure is great sitting here listening to all you OLD TIMERS talking about this ancient history....*BG*....I'm either too young to remember some of this stuff or so damn old I done forgot most of it...Ain't quite figured out which!! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: GUEST,PAH Date: 17 Aug 01 - 04:27 PM The lyrics in the Jefferson's theme went like...
"Fish don't fry in the kitchen Unless of course "Thing don't burn in the kitchen" wasn't from the Jefferson's..... PAH |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Aug 01 - 03:33 PM There certainly was no mistaking Groucho was there? That's what I think too Brett and we seem to have agreement from Sins and others too. Even the movies put a tag on difference in voice and looks. I think TV just expanded the entire thing so much.........So many shows and all..........Anyway, I still love a great voice! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Naemanson Date: 17 Aug 01 - 02:56 PM I guess I am out of my depth on this one. I no longer have any little ones at home so I haven't seen any morning cartoons or kid shows in a long time. I do hear a lot of voices on Amy's Anime shows and all those characters sound the same. Peg, I agree with you about Jodie Foster's voice but is it distinctive? It used to be that a person in the movies in the early days had to have a voice that was easy to identify because they were so often on the radio too. These days radio is only a mobile music machine ( or talk machine) and nobody HAS to be identifiable without a picture. We have become a picture oriented society. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Aug 01 - 12:40 PM I seem to recall that too Sins, but I don't know who either..... The voice actors for the cartoon/Disney type features are not even all that unusual and the ones who are are older and using their voices in different ways. The younger ones are not too distinctive. Of course my favorite Disney character of all time is recent.......Timon......with the fantastic Nathan Lane supplying the voice. Great character and one I related to right away....then again, I can relate to Pumba too....in a way.............. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: SINSULL Date: 17 Aug 01 - 10:17 AM In the beginning was radio. A lot of those voices started there. Think Orson Welles. Then there were silent movies. When "talkies" came, some silent stars were laughed off the screen for their voices. But I can still hear Miss Brooks (wonder if she'd be Ms. Brooks, today) saying "Poindexter". Who was Poindexter? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Peg Date: 17 Aug 01 - 09:41 AM I always thought Jodi Foster had a nice speaking voice. Also Elina Lowensohn, Tom Noonan (not all that young), Bernadette Peters (again not all that young)... hmm you may be right...
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Naemanson Date: 17 Aug 01 - 08:30 AM You know, Spaw, I think you are right. Back then more attention seems to focus on the voice. Today it seems to be only looks. I could be wrong but try to separate out a distinctive voice amoung the current run of actors and actresses. I cannot think of any young performer (non singing) who has a distinctive sound. IMHO |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: RangerSteve Date: 17 Aug 01 - 07:46 AM Catspaw - Richard Crenna's character was Walter Denton. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Peg Date: 16 Aug 01 - 11:00 PM yes, catspaw: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids...
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: SINSULL Date: 16 Aug 01 - 10:47 PM You did - "Ole Rivers" Gale Storm and Zasu Pitts in "Oh Susanna!", Ann Sothern in "Private Secretary"(?). If it's ever on, take note: she was very sensitive about the size of her hips and had it written into her contract that she be photographed from the waist up. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Jeri Date: 16 Aug 01 - 10:37 PM Walter Brennan (grandpa), and I swear I just saw his name in a thread title somewhere. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Aug 01 - 10:03 PM I thought his name was Walter something.....Been a long time, but the voice he used was priceless....that nasal twang saying, "Miss Brooks, Miss Brooks".....Two great voces in that series...three actually. Gale Gordon played the principal with his great long suffering sound, as well as Eve Arden and her voice. Funny, but I remember the voices as being so different back then, perhaps it was becasuse it was so close to the days of radio where many of these people had also performed..........Think of Ann Sothern, Gale Storm, Eve Arden, the Meadows sisters (I had a mad crush on Audrey for some reason......then again, I still do sorta'....sorry to see her pass).....and all the others you knew just by listening. I guess that still may be true, but it seems a lot less nowadays. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Armen Tanzerian Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:59 PM Hello, it's me, My name is Syngman Rhee A mock-Korean version I used to amuse myself with. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: SINSULL Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:32 PM Poindexter, right? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:22 PM You're right Sins, it was "raised"....I thought about that too late, but what the hell....now I been caught. Banjer got The Real McCoys earlier....the other actor of "Our Miss Brooks" was Richard Crenna. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:20 PM WAG (Wild Ass Guess) on #4.....Bill Cosby cartoon stuff? I seem t remember something like that, but then again maybe not..... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: SINSULL Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:17 PM Catspaw #4 "The Real McCoys"? And, Spaw. Davy Crockett was "Raised in the woods so he knew every tree And kilt him a b'ar when he was only three." Grinned him to death I believe. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:16 PM 1) The Jeffersons 2) Good Times 3) Baretta 4) ?????? 5) Cheers 6) Born Free 7) Underdog 8) Felix the Cat Spaw
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: SINSULL Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:10 PM 5. "Cheers" 8. "Felix The Cat" |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: MMario Date: 16 Aug 01 - 09:06 PM #6 is Born Free |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:46 PM Uh-huh........gotcha' Sins...........I never actually saw it either of course...........
ZZAAAPPPPP....Damn....Where'd that lightning come from? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: SINSULL Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:38 PM It's Pinkie Lee. "Hey it's me; my name is Pinkie Lee". He did a grewat ad for Tootsie Pops with a 20' lollipop that had was hinged to show the center. Yeah - I watch Nick at Night. Couldn't possible remember Pinkie Lee. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: Peg Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:38 PM re: Green Acres: It's "land SPREADING out so far and wide", not "stretching" (I pegged the incorrect lyric from Gilligan's Island, too; I am not proud of this). The new trend is to have a 'theme song' which is actually a popular song of the day, instead of one written specifically for the show. Oh well... Okay here's some more for ya: 1. "Thing don't burn in the kitchen" 2. "Not getting hustled" 3. "Don't go to bed with no price on your head" 4. "And I'm gonna sing a song for you-oo" 5. "And they're always glad you came" 6. "As free as the wind blows" 7. "Speed of lightning, roar of thunder" 8. "Your heart will go pitter-pat"
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Quiz -- TV Theme Songs! From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Aug 01 - 08:10 PM Good job Banj!!! I knew you were good for something! Did you notice the Walter Brennan thread on Ol'Rivers I refreshed? LOL AS to # 6, this Burlesque comic and TV star's name is mentioned in "The John Birch Society" done by the Mitchell Trio. Spwa |
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