Lunch Break Videos: TV Theme Songs from “Laverne and Shirley,” “The Patty Duke Show” and “Alice.”

Making Our Dreams Come True is one of the great TV theme songs and LaVerne and Shirley one of the great sitcoms of all time. Stars Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams were an inspired match. OK, all together now: “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. · Sclemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated!”

Since Patty Duke was just 15 years old when she won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, it must have been hard to find a single role to follow that up with – so she found two!

On The Patty Duke Show, she played American teenager Patty Lane who loved boys, ice cream, and sleepovers AND Patty’s identical cousin Cathy who comes from England to live with the Lane family. The show aired from 1963-66 and the first season will finally be released on DVD on Sept,. 29.

The theme song have some fun lyrics that begin like this:

Meet Cathy who’s lived most everywhere,

from Zanzibar to Berkeley Square;

But Patty’s only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights- what a crazy pair!

But they’re cousins, identical cousins all the way;

one pair of matching bookends, different as night and day.

And finally, the theme from Alice. I always loved that show – especially the season that co-starred the great Diane Ladd as Belle. She had replaced Polly Holiday when Flo got her own spin-off and Ladd won the Golden Globe Award before heading back to movies after just a single year with the show.

This opening theme features Ladd along with series star Linda Lavin and the rest of the cast.