David K. Israel
Lunchtime Quiz: TV Theme Songs
by David K. Israel - October 10, 2008 - 10:30 AM

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If you played along during our last How Did You Know? you already have a head-start on today’s TV Theme Song Quiz. Get your nostalgia on by turning up those speakers and seeing how many of the classic theme songs you know by ear.

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Comments (11)

  1. I can name that tune in 3 notes…sadly I only needed to listen to a second or two of most of those songs to know the answer. Know my tv show theme songs (even to those I didn’t watch!).

    posted by Beth on 10-10-2008 at 10:45 am

  2. Embarassed to say I got 100%.

    Even more embarassed to admit that I have more than 100 television themes, and songs used as themes, in my iTunes collection including a version of the Get Smart theme with Bob Crane (yes, of Hogan’s Heroes) on drums.

    However, Mike Post is still the king of this realm.

    posted by Tim on 10-10-2008 at 11:07 am

  3. 15 for 15 baby. thanks to my mom for letting me sit in front of a tv and watch old reruns.

    posted by grant on 10-10-2008 at 11:09 am

  4. I am NOT embarrased to say that I got 100%. Honestly, I regularly listen to Televisions Greatest Hits Volume 3 (70′s and 80′s). It has many of these themes on there. Suprisingly, there are some very strong songs on there (including Believe it or Not from The Greatest American Hero and the number one hit Welcome Back by John Sebastian from Welcome Back Kotter). Highly recommended and it helped me to a 100% here.

    posted by Ian on 10-10-2008 at 11:22 am

  5. When my three-month-old daughter has one of her crying fits, one of the things that consoles her is loud singing. (She seems to like my voice, which means she might have terrible taste in music.) Anyway, I wind up falling back on TV themes. Mr. Belvedere, Gilligan’s Island, Perfect Strangers, Cheers — it’s really quite a performance.

    posted by Jason English on 10-10-2008 at 11:27 am

  6. 100% and proud of it. Number of those I never watched but the guesses were intelligent – i.e. never would have done it without the pictures.

    posted by gwdmaine on 10-10-2008 at 12:04 pm

  7. 100%

    Hey did you spell potatoe wrong?

    posted by Don on 10-10-2008 at 12:32 pm

  8. 13/15. I mixed up two shows that I never saw (Soap and Benson). But I got a few right that I had never seen, too!

    posted by Miss Cellania on 10-10-2008 at 1:38 pm

  9. 100% Oh my my my… I guess I watched WAY too much tv as a young ‘un… most of those were not yet ‘reruns’

    posted by Amy on 10-10-2008 at 11:40 pm

  10. @ Don- No, in the singular form, potato has no “e”, just like tomato. The -es is added to make it plural. And that is your Spelling lesson for the day! :)

    posted by Orange on 10-11-2008 at 7:17 am

  11. This is embarrassing! I got a perfect score, and I don’t even own a TV!

    posted by Lisa on 10-11-2008 at 9:57 am

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