Iconic TV theme songs before 1990
TV theme songs used to be radio hits.
At least six of them made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976 alone.
S.W.A.T. and Welcome Back both went to No. 1 that year.
Happy Days reached No. 5 and Laverne & Shirley No. 25.
Hawaii Five-O got to No. 4 in 1969.
Greatest American Hero stopped at No. 2 in 1981.
Miami Vice went to No. 1 in 1985 with no words at all.
Cheers barely charted, at No. 83 in 1983.
Peter Gunn charted in 1959 and again in 1986.