This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. As it's the last Thursday of the month, it means we get another TV version of the blogathon. This month, the theme, no pun intended, is TV Theme songs or scores. We did this one back in April 2021, and at that time I did a theme-within-a-theme of classical music being used as TV themes. However, in the intro, I mentioned another possible theme, and so I've decided to use that theme. All three themes were written by Mike Post, who gave us a bunch of memorable themes in the late 1970s and 1980s. Indeed, all three themes were also released as singles and became Top 40 hits:
The Rockford Files (1974-1980). James Garner plays Jim Rockford, an ex-convict turned private investigator who lives in a trailer in Los Angeles that also doubles as his office. If you think the Los Angeles locations are nice, perhaps you should try the next show instead...
Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988). Tom Selleck's mustache plays Thomas Magnum, a Vietnam vet who, having been demobbed, is now in Hawaii where he's a private detective working for reclusive (and unseen) author Robin Masters. Serving as intermediary and Magnum's nominal boss is Higgins (John Hillerman). Magnum often enlists the help of two friends, helicopter pilot TC (Roger E. Mosley) and bar owner Rick (Larry Manetti) in his cases.
Hill Street Blues (1981-1987). Ensemble series looking at the lives of police officers in a precinct in an unnamed large city, led by Lt. Frank Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti).
4 comments:
Good to see someone else likes those retro themes - thanks for the flashbacks of some tv greats.
Love, love, love The Rockford Files and Magnum PI, the original, was great. Hill St. Got so many awards but I never got into it when it was on. Maybe I should give it a try.
Although, for people of our age, they're not vintage. :-)
Hearing the Magnum theme is giving me major childhood flashbacks
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