💬 Weekly Question: What TV theme song immediately takes you back to your childhood?

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This week’s question isn’t a deep head-scratcher, but it will tell me a lot about you and give us all a chance to take a ride down the nostalgia slide together.

What TV theme song immediately takes you back to your childhood?

I want to know about the theme song that makes you feel five or eight or twelve again. The song that, when you’re somehow reminded of it, you can immediately start singing along with it like you still haven’t hit puberty. Tell me who you were back then, if you want; where you grew up; did you watch the show with your friends, your siblings, your parents?

I debated this one for a while, as there were a few songs that meet the requirements, so to say. But I also wanted to mull how each made me feel, how old I was, how it came to in some way be a soundtrack for that chapter in my life. So, after much deliberation, I’m going to go with the “Growing Pains” theme song (listen below). I was nine years old when it premiered in 1985, and I watched it religiously — either alone or with my family — for its first four seasons. It’s remarkable how quickly I find myself back in my childhood home’s living room, huddled next to the kerosene heater, on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

Interestingly, my memory completely blocked out the fact that the theme evolved with each season. B.J. Thomas and Jennifer Warne sang most of the variations, but Dusty Springfield suddenly replaced Warne in Season 4.

Now, your turn. Take me back to your childhood now!