Sometimes composers were brought in at the last minute and told to write 24 seconds of "something catchy and memorable and sum up the entire premise of the show in case somebody had never seen it before," but Diff'rent Strokes - which Thicke also sang background on - was different, he said. Most of his theme songs in the '70s were jaunty intros for game shows - Billboard has a roundup of some of the better ones, including the original intro song for Wheel of Fortune - but the sitcom songs were an "interesting challenge," he told A.V. Thicke called them "almost a lost art" in a 2010 interview with A.V. That may not seem like a big accomplishment now, but TV themes songs used to be a big deal. on TNT, the theme song never feels like it completely fits and isn’t as hum-able or memorable as others on this list. Thicke also wrote more than 40 theme songs, including two of the best from the 1970s and '80s, The Facts of Life (1979-88) and Diff'rent Strokes (1978-85). They can let us know, even before the first scene, exactly how Will Smith became The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, or that Lost is about a bunch of ghosts letting out long farts into a microphone. A great theme song has the ability to perfectly capture whatever its introducing. But he was famous in his native Canada before that, and he'd already been nominated for three Emmys - as a writer for a Barry Manilow talk show and as producer-writer for America 2-Night and its predecessor, the underappreciated cult hit Fernwood 2 Night. 6 Famous Theme Songs With Secret (Horrifying) Lyrics. Jason Seaver, the psychiatrist dad on the 1985-92 sitcom Growing Pains. Alan Thicke, who died Tuesday, was reportedly as nice as the character that made him a household name, Dr.
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