In the UK, particular TV shows were always broadcast on a Sunday evening. For a certain generation of Brits, hearing their theme tunes, even now, evokes a memory of bath-time, homework and the crap prospect of going back to school after the weekend. Is/was there an American equivalent?

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  3. I’m old enough that it was America’s Funniest Home Videos.

    You’re the red, white and blue

    Oh the funny things you do

    America, America this is you

  4. The NBC Sunday night football game was always the universal “school’s tomorrow” signal in my house.

  9. Sunday night football, I grew up with that 8:20 game ending at 11:30 or so… always knew it was time.

  10. The Simpsons – Futurama – The X-Files

    (On the West Coast, SNF usually ended early enough to still catch most of this)

  14. Sunday night football theme song. That’s when shit got real. After football season it was the 60 minutes ticking clock sound

  18. America’s Funniest Home Videos with Bob Saget. When the theme song came on we were usually just finishing our shower and then we watched that before bed.

  19. It was the 90s Fox lineup… Simpsons, In Living Color, Married with Children, Herman’s Head…

  22. I remember the Lawrence Welk Show. I think that was Sunday nights. It was on during dinner and my folks would watch it. The closing song lives rent free in my head.
    “Good night, sleep tight,…”
    Aaaahhh!

  23. In the 60’s and 70’s we had Mutual of Omaha’s Animal Kingdom and Wonderful World of Disney.

  24. Life Goes On in the late 80s and early 90s. Sunday night or not, that show and its musical score were utterly depressing. Bonus points, however, for Ob-la-di ob-la-da being the opening song, even though I wasn’t quite old enough to appreciate it yet.

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