TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

[Satchmo Distel]

Deliberate:

University Challenge (My Perfect Cousin, Undertones)

Meet The Wife (Good Morning, Good Morning, Beatles)

Going For Gold - Shed Seven (not sure if this was deliberate)

Star Trekkin' - The Firm

Top Of The Pops - Rezillos

Dynasty - Kiss (Prince)

Inadvertent/Coincidental/caused by the ubiquity of the expression:

That's Life - Frank Sinatra

Crossroads - Robert Johnson

[Kevin S]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Dallas - ABBA, The Day Before You Came

[Mumpo]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Good Morning Britain - Aztec Camera

[Kevin S]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

[Sabrina The] Teenage Witch - Eels

[3 Colours Red]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

When Elvis Costello sang Watching The Detectives, I don't think he had Jasper Carrott and Robert Powell in mind.

[longeared]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

(Get your kicks watching Bruce on the old) Generation Game - St Etienne

[Jah Womble]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Top of the Pops is also hidden within the lyrics of:

Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats
Saturday Gigs - Mott The Hoople
Knocked It Off - BA Robertson

Some other 'deliberates':

Dallas (The Day Before You Came - Abba*)
All My Children / Dallas (The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five)
Miami Vice (Walk the Dinosaur - Was (Not Was))
Rockford Files (Ballad of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five)
Growing Pains (I Got Five On It - Luniz)
It's a Knockout (Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel)

In the title:

News At Ten - The Vapors
Match Of The Day - Genesis

(*Edit: I note that Kevchenko got in first while I was compiling this!)

[Kevin S]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Baywatch - Eels, Susan's House

[Fussbudget]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Wheel of Fortune - Hot Chip, Take It In

[Stumpy Pepys]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Sleeper — Sale Of The Century

[G-Man]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Green Acre and The Beverly Hillbillies - Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

Sesame Street - Billy Joel's "Pressure"

Captain Kangaroo - The Statler Brothers' "Flowers On The Wall"

[Sean of the Shed]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Come Dancing - The Kinks
(Final) Countdown - Europe

[Sean of the Shed]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

There's a subsection to this theme.

[sw2borshch]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

No love for Karel Fialka's 'Hey Matthew'?

[IronSeaPower]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Fingerbobs is mentioned in Clinic's single "Come Into Our Room"

[Fussbudget]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

The Likely Lads in that Libertines song.

[Geoffrey de Ste. Croix]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Famous and Dandy (Like Amos And Andy)- The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy.

Belle And Sebastian- Belle And Sebastian

[Satchmo Distel]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Captain Kangaroo, Shogun and The Late Late Show - Re-Ron by Gil Scott Heron

[Senyor Pirotecnic]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Man About The House – Belle & Sebastian, Photo Jenny
Not The Nine O'Clock News – The Fall, Mere Pseud Mag Ed
Trumpton, Chigley - Half Man Half Biscuit, Trumpton Riots

[Heliotrope]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

I guess Black Flag's "TV Party" is too obvious.

[Ray de Galles]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

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[Patrick Thistle]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Barenaked Ladies reference the X-files in One Week. Catatonia sang about Mulder and Scully but didn't mention the name of the show.

[irony towers]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Dynasty - Kiss (Prince)

[jwdd27]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Estelle's "1980" mentions Dynasty, Dallas, Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Cosby Show.

[irony towers]

TV Show Titles in Song Lyrics

Oprah Winfrey, Ricki Lake - Strong (Robbie Williams)