--- title: Watch Neil Patrick Harris Sing the Doogie Howser Theme Song description: Neil Patrick Harris revisited one of his earliest characters in his long career when he sang the Doogie Howser theme song. canonical: https://time.com/4606912/neil-patrick-harris-doogie-howser-song/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T20:45:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:38.445Z og:title: Watch Neil Patrick Harris Sing the 'Doogie Howser' Theme Song og:description: Here's to everyone's favorite teenage savant og:url: https://time.com/4606912/neil-patrick-harris-doogie-howser-song/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta471506be5d5be06/6988b37acd1bba581b703703/nph-doogie-howser.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 10th Anniversary CNN Heroes og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Neil Patrick Harris Sing the 'Doogie Howser' Theme Song twitter:description: Here's to everyone's favorite teenage savant twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta471506be5d5be06/6988b37acd1bba581b703703/nph-doogie-howser.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Neil Patrick Harris Sing the Theme Song from _Doogie Howser M.D._ > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic) Neil Patrick Harris attends the 10th Anniversary CNN Heroes at American Museum of Natural History on December 11, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic) Roy Rochlin—FilmMagic  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 19, 2016 8:45 PM UTC At 43, [Neil Patrick Harris](http://time.com/4530853/neil-patrick-harris-family-halloween-photos/) has a career that spans nearly three decades, but he still hasn’t forgotten one of his earliest roles — that is, the teenage medical wunderkind, [Dr. Douglas “Doogie” Howser](http://time.com/3996152/neil-patrick-harris-doogie-howser/). During _Vogue_‘s “73 Questions” at his Harlem townhouse, between rapping the lyrics to [songs from the hit musical _Hamilton_ ](http://time.com/4580054/beyonce-hamilton-mashup/)and revealing [_How I Met Your Mother’_s Barney Stinson’s best pickup lines](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2093469%5F2093468%5F2093463,00.html), Harris took time to recreate the distinctive theme song for one of the first television shows he’s starred in, _Doogie Howser M.D._ Harris also noted laconically that in 2016, a grown-up Doogie Howser would most likely be in “rehab.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4606912/neil-patrick-harris-doogie-howser-song/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4606912/neil-patrick-harris-doogie-howser-song/"},"headline":"Watch Neil Patrick Harris Sing the Theme Song from Doogie Howser M.D.","datePublished":"2016-12-19T20:45:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:38.445Z","description":"Here's to everyone's favorite teenage savant","url":"https://time.com/4606912/neil-patrick-harris-doogie-howser-song/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Neil Patrick Harris","Vogue","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta471506be5d5be06/6988b37acd1bba581b703703/nph-doogie-howser.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta471506be5d5be06/6988b37acd1bba581b703703/nph-doogie-howser.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"10th Anniversary CNN Heroes","caption":"10th Anniversary CNN Heroes","creditText":"Roy Rochlin—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4606912/neil-patrick-harris-doogie-howser-song/","name":"Watch Neil Patrick Harris Sing the Theme Song from Doogie Howser M.D."}}]}] ```