uplifting sitcom theme songs

i was gonna say perfect strangers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLMYIlLGBjs&feature=related

The Good Life

Metal Mickey

Movin' On Up

My brother made a video of himself with the Perfect Strangers theme to convince my parents it would be a positive thing for them to let him transfer high schools.

Non-Racist Britishes Sitcom #321

abc was the best for this shit:

step by step

Loved this as a kid

The Goodies - version 1
The Goodies - version 2

can only be one...ALICE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWZnGuTbT0&feature=related

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down a road and back again
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant

And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say
Thank you for being a friend

That Step By Step is awesome!

Punky Brewster

What are examples of some dark, menacing sitcom theme songs?

Home Improvement is very menacing even if you can get past the grunts

You just like the MTM theme song because it was written by Sonny Crutis.

Mr. Belvedere

was it ever explained why some fat British guy was trying to get to Pittsburg? I mean, did he rape and murder someone in England or something?

I dunno, but I remember that I used to think the first line was "Straight son of China/Never mattered before/Who cares?" which, combined with your backstory theories, sounds like the makings of a Steely Dan song.

"The show's theme song was performed by popular ragtime singer Leon Redbone. It was written by Judy Hart Angelo and Gary Portnoy, who had previously written the theme songs to Cheers and Punky Brewster. A never before heard full length version of the theme was recently released by Gary Portnoy on his latest CD, Destiny."

"Speculation emerged that the show had been abruptly canceled, so ABC aired the final two episodes (the two-parter series finale, in which Mr. Belvedere marries and moves to Africa) in the summer of 1990."

One Day At A Time

Was supposed to be uplifting, but ended up downpressing.

Man about the House

These songs would make an amazing CDRGO!

Blossom!

Happy Days

That 70s Show

Growing Pains

Family Ties

Cheers

the theme from 'to the manor born' is my favourite tv theme ever

& v uplifing in that

HEY, YOU GUYS!

We’re gonna turn it on! (turn it on!)
We’re gonna bring you the power! (you can do it!)
We’re gonna light the dark of night like the brightest day in a whole new way!
We’re gonna turn it on!
We’re gonna bring you the power!
We’re gonna tell you the truest words that you heard anybody say!

Moving out in a new way! Moving out in a new way!

We’re gonna turn it on!
We’re gonna bring you the power!
It’s coming down the lines, strong as they can be
Through the courtesy of the Electric Company!

GOOD TIMES

TEMPORARY LAY-OFFS etc.

dudes, WKRP! COME ON!

Maybe you and me were never meant to be, but baby think of me once in awhile...

well, I guess that's not terribly uplifting when you think about it

Good melody, though!

What are examples of some dark, menacing sitcom theme songs?

M*A*S*H wins.

WKRP has the best hidden verse (not played on the show):

Heading up that highway,
Leaving you behind.
Hardest thing I ever had to do.
You broke my heart in two, but baby pay no mind.
The price for finding me was losing you.

The Greatest American Hero

In my old apartment there was a busker outside my kitchen window who would play this on slide trombone.

The Taxi theme is sort-of dark: 3am lit up by a frail for-hire sign.

You don't get much more dark and menacing than the theme for this foreboding parable regarding the futility of man's co-existence with the diabolical mechanizations he manufactures for his own bidding and kinship.

I thought that was going to be "Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow."

No lyrics, but the Sanford and Son theme perks me up.

Full House! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs61cnX7pvg

ooooooh gotta get up gotta get out
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=weto0T8_txg&feature=related

I heard Alan Thicke on the CBC not too long ago promoting jPod, and he revealed that he was the one who wrote the Facts of Life theme song!

He wrote, like, every television theme song.

"Kate and Allie" theme song

(although "just when you think you're all by yourself you're not" might sound sinister rather than comforting if taken out of context)

And also, of course, the theme song from "Wonder Woman"

There's something that pisses me off about the "Men Behaving Badly" theme, it's meant to be upbeat, but it's in some weird, depressing jazzy scale that gives me a headache.