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4 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

It probably could have run longer but ITV was on a mission to kill off their long-running shows at this time (The Bill, Heartbeat, Wild at Heart, The Royal). I know some stopped watching after Nick Berry left. It was also another of those shows that never left one decade, wasn't it? 

 

Maybe it could have run longer. Whether it should have though...that is a different question. Personally I felt that it had run too long. That being said, I'm still slightly peeved that we never got a resolution to the question whether Oscar Blaketon, one of two original characters remaining at the end, had survived being impaled on a pitch-fork in the last episode.  <_<

And yes, the show never left the 1960s, even though it stretched believablility beyond the ridiculous. 

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Frankly, the last few years it almost was a waste of time.   ^_^

But I often have a hard time letting go of shows that I once loved, and I really loved this show.

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Reviving this old (yet delightful) thread again.... :P

 

I've been watching a re-run of this show during the summer, and it's such a sweet little show and it gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. None of the cynicism or bleak worldview that is so common in tv-shows nowadays. I wish there were more shows like this on tv now.

 

 

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Yes! I finally found a good version of this beautiful theme on Youtube.  :D

It's the theme music from the mini-series "A Woman of Substance", based on the book by Barbara Taylor Bradford.

 

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Funny what you find on Youtube when you're not even looking..... ^_^

Like this, the delightfully cheerful theme song to an old 1990s favourite; "The House of Eliott".   :wub:   Created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, who also created "Upstairs, Downstairs"

 

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How many TV themes made the charts?

Some I recall hitting US Top 40

SWAT

Rockford Files

Laverne & Shirley

Baretta

Happy Days

Any more? I'm sure there were many released as singles that didn't make the Top 100.

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1 hour ago, Paul Raven said:

How many TV themes made the charts?

Some I recall hitting US Top 40

SWAT

Rockford Files

Laverne & Shirley

Baretta

Happy Days

Any more? I'm sure there were many released as singles that didn't make the Top 100.

Two just off the top of my head are Dr. Kildare and Angie.

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On 7/24/2025 at 2:24 PM, Paul Raven said:

Any more? I'm sure there were many released as singles that didn't make the Top 100.

The X-Files theme wasn't successful in the US, but hit the top ten in a bunch of markets (notably, #2 in the UK). DJ Dado also had a remix of it that was successful around the world.

 

 

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Amber Tamblyn (Emily Quartermaine of GH) starred in the series "Joan of Arcadia" in which she played a teen encountering "god" who appeared in all genders/ages/races/philosophies.

The show aired 2003-2005.

The theme song was a song originally recorded by Joan Osborne in 1995.
She re-recorded it for the TV show.

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?
 


 

 

 

The story of the writing of the song
 

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