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TV Themes: How I Met Your Mother

Posted in TV Themes, tagged , , on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Take a pinch of Seinfeld, wrap him up with Friends, add a touch of Raymond and a little bitty bit of original ideas (apologies if this gave you an unwelcome earworm). The stew would give forth How I Met Your Mother, one of the finest current comedy series, admittedly at a time when there are [...]

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TV Themes: The Golden Girls

Posted in TV Themes, tagged , , on July 8, 2009 | 14 Comments »

You can imagine the initial pitch for The Golden Girls: “It’s like the Brady Bunch only they are 40 years older and without the guys.” It is quite amazing that any network bit. It took a great deal of courage, I think, to commission a show about four widowed or divorced women of a certain [...]

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TV Themes: Welcome Back, Kotter

Posted in TV Themes, tagged , , on June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

It took the crazy success of Saturday Night Fever and Grease to bring Welcome Back, Kotter to German TV, cashing in on cast member John Travolta’s rise to fame at about the same time as the series ended its five-season run on American TV in 1979. The happy upshot of this was that by the [...]

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TV Themes: Hill Street Blues

Posted in TV Themes, tagged , , on June 3, 2009 | 7 Comments »

During the recent Social Living Top 5 craze on Facebook (are you my friend yet. If not, click here), I was confronted with the urge to list my five all-time favourite TV series. Topping my list was Hill Street Blues — not because it is intrinsically superior to my other all-time favourite TV dramas, such [...]

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