Actor Robert Culp passed away yesterday at the age of 79.  Many folks from the Baby Boom generation and earlier likely remember him most for teaming up with Bill Cosby in the 1960s television show I Spy.  Perhaps younger generations remember him as the father of Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond.  I think I’m not alone, though, among Generation Xers in remembering him as William Katt’s sidekick, Bill Maxwell, in the early 1980s television show The Greatest American Hero.  The show also produced Joey Scarbury’s only hit song — “Theme from Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not),” which peaked at Number 2 in August 1981, and can be heard above.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i7u3fl-hP8

The Fredriks perform a perfect medley of TV themes including Family Guy, The Simpsons, OC, Married with Children, 2 and Half Men, Cheers, Freeks and Geeks, X-Files, Firefly, The Office, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Scrubs, Charles in Charge and many more. The sad thing is that theme songs of TV shows are now less than 5 seconds. I guess a medley in the future will take two minutes.