1980s Tv Theme Songs

Iconic 1980s TV Theme Songs

This directory features selected TV theme songs from the 1980s, including sitcoms, dramas, action series, crime shows, and animated programs. Each listing links to its show’s page with details about the theme music, composer, and opening sequence, all organised in one place.

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Cheers

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(Song: “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”). Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name.

The Golden Girls

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(Song: “Thank You for Being a Friend”). Thank you for being a friend. Traveled down the road and back again. Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant.

And if you threw a party, invited everyone you knew. You would see the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend!

Growing Pains

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(Song: “As Long as We Got Each Other”). Show me that smile again. (Ooh show me that smile). Don’t waste another minute on your cryin’. We’re nowhere near the end (nowhere near). The best is ready to begin.

As long as we got each other, we got the silver line. As long as we got each other, it’s gonna be just fine. (Ooh-oh-oh). We’re gonna be just fine!

MacGyver

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(Instrumental Theme) Composed by Randy Edelman. This theme is the ultimate 80s action synth track. With its driving percussion and soaring electronic melody, it perfectly matched the high-stakes ingenuity of Angus MacGyver.

DuckTales

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Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg. Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes, it’s a duck-blur! Might solve a mystery, or rewrite history!

DuckTales! Woo-hoo! Every day they’re out there making DuckTales! Woo-hoo! Tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales! D-d-d-danger! Watch behind you! There’s a stranger out to find you! DuckTales! Woo-hoo!

Miami Vice

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(Instrumental Theme) Composed by Jan Hammer. This was the first television theme to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It defined the “Aesthetic” of the 80s with its Fairlight CMI synth sounds and high-energy electronic drums.

Knight Rider

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(Music: Composed by Stu Phillips). (Spoken Intro): Knight Rider. A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.

Who’s the Boss?

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(Song: “Brand New Life”). There’s a brand new life around the bend. And it’s for you and me to share. We’re gonna find it on the rainbow’s end, and I’m gonna be there.

So if you’re feeling down and out, don’t you worry. We’re gonna make it in a hurry. Brand new life! Brand new life! Brand new life!

Full House

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(Song: “Everywhere You Look”). Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV. You miss your old familiar friends, waiting just around the bend.

Everywhere you look, everywhere you go. There’s a heart (there’s a heart), a hand to hold onto. Everywhere you look, everywhere you go. There’s a place, of somebody who needs you. Everywhere you look!

The A-Team

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(Music: Composed by Mike Post). (Spoken Intro): In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.

Family Ties

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(Song: “Without Us”). I bet we been together for a million years, and I bet we’ll be together for a million more. It’s like I started breathing on the night we met, and I haven’t taken a breath since you walked through my door.

Sha-la-la-la. What would we do baby, without us? What would we do baby, without us?

The Wonder Years

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(Song: “With a Little Help from My Friends” – Joe Cocker). What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song, and I’ll try not to sing out of key.

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends. Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends. Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends.

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Song Title Moonlighting Artist Al Jarreau Composer Lee Holdridge & Al Jarreau Premiere Date (UK) 26 May 1986 Final Episode …

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Song Title DuckTales Theme Artist The Disney Afternoon Studio Chorus (Original: Jeff Pescetto) Composer Mark Mueller Original Premiere 18 September …

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Cheers Theme Song And Lyrics

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Song Title Where Everybody Knows Your Name Artists / Writers Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart Angelo Show Cheers (NBC) Original …

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Song Title Thank You for Being a Friend Artist Cynthia Fee Original Songwriter Andrew Gold (1978) Premiere Date (UK) 1 …

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Song Title Everywhere You Look Composer Jesse Frederick & Bennett Salvay Show Creator Jeff Franklin Original Air Dates September 22, …

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