“When I was growing up, one of the shows my father used to watch was “Hogan’s Heroes.” I had not actually watched the show since the early 1970s so the show itself was long forgotten but the theme music was always a bit of an earworm, popping up randomly in my head from time to time during the decades since.
About a week ago, I noticed that entire episodes of Hogan’s Heroes was on YouTube and decided to click on one.
As the opening credits played, everything was instantly recognizable to me even though it has been maybe 45 years since I last saw it.”
I was a kid in the 1970s and I watched LOTS of tv. Not just for entertainment, but as a way to provide myself with escape and comfort from my misery because I was being raised in an abusive and dysfunctional home.
One of the many syndicated reruns of classic tv shows i watched daily in the 70s was The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. But for reasons I dont know, they suddenly stopped airing reruns of ghost and mrs muir. And never aired them again. As a result, i dont have episodes of that program memorized the way I do with many other classic sitcoms. BUT the opening theme remained with me.
Fast forward a few decades and I’m aimlessly surfing youtube when i run across some videos of full episodes of ghost and mrs muir posted there. I begin to watch one of them and as soon as the opening theme plays, all of the sudden I’m flooded and overwhelmed with fond, nostalgic memories of myself as a kid, sitting in front of the living room 25 inch color tv (the only tv we had in the apartment, unlike today where people have a tv in almost every room), watching daily syndicated reruns of my favorite classic tv shows, movies, and cartoons. More than just entertain me, they really did a good job in helping me preserve what few shreds of sanity I had as well as provided me with much needed laughter, happiness, and joy in an otherwise joyless existence.
The opening theme to ghost and mrs muir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el4ooVafQ8Y
Here's one for you, there was a short-lived show in the mid 1970s called "James At 15". That show resonated with me because I too was 15 the year that show came out and it was filmed in Boston, where I lived at the time. In fact, I remember walking past a scene as it was being filmed in Cambridge near Harvard Square.
This is the theme to James at 15.