Today I stumbled upon the opening credits of a sitcom I’d never seen before: the short-lived Angie, from 1979-1980, on ABC. It was a romantic sitcom starring Donna Pescow, an actress I’d previously associated with 1970s reruns of The Match Game (but who’s apparently better known for Saturday Night Fever), and Robert Hays, later of Airplane and the Starman TV series. It started out as a ratings hit, but it apparently crashed and burned after the lead characters got married in the second-season premiere.
Still, I love this theme song — it’s so 1970s and cheesy and tuneful! It’s by Maureen McGovern and apparently became a brief pop hit and now I can’t get it out of my head. And how about that whole come-into-the-circle-and-pose-and-smile thing? That’s so Love Boat! Awesome. (I’ve always wondered how the actors know where to stand so that they’re inside the circle. How does that work?)
Even better, here’s the full song:
Heh, nice. What I sometimes can’t get over is how we managed to watch such long intros back then. That one was a whole minute and a half! I guess that’s what every show did (theme song, actor credits, etc.), but now it seems like they pack the show content to the very edges of the time slot so you can’t change the channel. Smart, but shrewd.
I can’t stop watching it.
A waitress at the Duplex used to do TV theme song trivia and that was one of the songs she sang. I still love it–it’s been on my iPod for years.
This is so weird. I was JUST thinking about this show/theme song last week.