1960s TV Theme Songs Trivia Quiz

1960s TV Theme Songs and Openings
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1960s TV Theme Songs and Openings
Fifteen questions revisit the music, narration, visual gags, and signature credit sequences that opened major 1960s television hits.
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1960s TV theme trivia covers an era when an opening sequence could become almost as familiar as the program itself. The questions mix sung introductions, instrumental themes, animated credits, recurring visual gags, and composers behind the music.
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What This Quiz Covers

The quiz covers a three-hour-tour ballad, a farm-versus-city duet, finger snaps from a spooky sitcom, a burning-fuse spy opening, a whistled fishing sequence, animated credits, security-door comedy, and memorable instrumental composers.

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  1. The lyric "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale" opens the theme to which 1960s sitcom?
  2. A burning fuse runs across the screen during the opening credits of which spy series?
  3. Who wrote the eerie guitar-and-bongo theme heard in the best-known opening of The Twilight Zone?
  4. Which comedy opens with a famously whistled melody as a father and son walk toward a fishing hole?
  5. Who composed the surf-influenced instrumental theme used for the 1960s police series set in Hawaii?
  6. Who composed the famous five-beat theme used for the original television version of Mission: Impossible?
  7. Finger snaps punctuate the famous opening theme of which spooky 1960s comedy?
  8. The line "Here we come, walkin' down the street" begins the theme to which 1960s comedy series?
  9. Which police drama begins with a pounding instrumental theme over fast-moving Hawaiian scenery?
  10. Which animated series' theme promises viewers a "yabba-dabba-doo time"?
  11. Which sitcom's opening ballad explains how an Ozarks family became wealthy after discovering oil?
  12. Which sitcom opens with a musical argument over whether farm life or city life is better?
  13. Which sitcom's opening credits repeatedly feature a living-room ottoman as part of a running visual gag?
  14. Which fantasy sitcom uses an animated opening showing its magical heroine flying on a broom?
  15. Which comedy's opening sends its lead through a maze of security doors before he reaches a telephone booth?
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