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TV Intro's You Still Remember!

post #1 of 62
4/21/08 at 8:47am
Thread Starter 
A Good TV Intro sets the mood for a show. Preferably with a catchy Theme song accompaning it. There were a lot of great TV Intros in the 80's (e.g Magnum PI, Quantum Leap). But its a dying art right now.

What're your favourite TV Intros?

Here's my pick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzEb5IzdcrU
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post #2 of 62
4/21/08 at 9:11am
that music is HORRIBLE.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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post #3 of 62
4/21/08 at 9:13am
Thread Starter 
Yeah...retro isn't it?
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post #4 of 62
4/21/08 at 9:44am
This thread begins and ends with this.
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post #5 of 62
4/21/08 at 10:20am
For some reason I can rememebr the theme to pretty much every TV show I have ever seen.

Which is great at parties but compleatly useless for anything else.
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post #6 of 62
4/21/08 at 10:23am
Thread Starter 
Don't forget this as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPkLPn3tns
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post #7 of 62
4/21/08 at 10:57am
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QktVh64BYx4
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post #8 of 62
4/21/08 at 11:28am
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wzEb5IzdcrU

Here's a show that needs to be remade, don't skimp on the superb intro.
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post #9 of 62
4/21/08 at 11:30am
My favorite openers are Star Trek, The A-Team, Glen A Larson's Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, and Knight Rider.
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post #10 of 62
4/21/08 at 11:36am
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Originally Posted by Snaieke View Post
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wzEb5IzdcrU

Here's a show that needs to be remade, don't skimp on the superb intro.
Here's a memorable intro for your post:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HKjUBd0OCIE
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post #11 of 62
4/21/08 at 11:38am
Lucan!
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post #12 of 62
4/21/08 at 11:46am
X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost because they don't really have one. I tend to despise the intro.
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post #13 of 62
4/21/08 at 11:52am
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Originally Posted by duke fleed View Post
My favorite openers are Star Trek, The A-Team, Glen A Larson's Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, and Knight Rider.
I was <THIS> close to posting the Buck Rogers one also, mostly because the ultra-hot Connie Sellecca was married to Buck (Gil Gerard) in real life (at the time the shows were on the air).
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post #14 of 62
4/21/08 at 11:59am
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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber's EYE CONDITION! View Post
If the Star Trek II series had gone forward in the 70s, THAT would have been the opening. I just know it.
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post #15 of 62
4/21/08 at 12:01pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lEx9r5enZsk
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post #16 of 62
4/21/08 at 12:28pm
I can't really link because I'm on a work computer but this thread does not continue without mentioning all of the The Wire intros and the old Homicide: Life on the Street intro.

Also worth mentioning, Sam & Max: Freelance Police and of course FREAKAZOID
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post #17 of 62
4/21/08 at 4:53pm
This thread is an answer to the timeless question: "Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening tv?"
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post #18 of 62
4/21/08 at 4:58pm
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Originally Posted by Peter Strauss:Actor/Gardener? View Post
X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost because they don't really have one. I tend to despise the intro.
What are you talking about? BSG has FOUR! The opening text, then a cold open, then the credits, THEN the "flash forward" montage!
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post #19 of 62
4/22/08 at 1:17pm
Always loved the opening to the second season of The Munsters -- the thunderous surf rock quitar and Fred Gwynne smashing through the door. Buck Rogers was great, especially for the William Conrad narration. The tijano music filled first season to Simon & Simon.
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post #20 of 62
4/22/08 at 1:49pm
Batman Beyond.
Mainly because the animated rave sequence always makes me lolol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlobFExM-UM
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post #21 of 62
4/22/08 at 2:43pm
One of the things I love about that sequence was that there was no CGI used, that shot of Bruce Wayne's head at the end was done on Bruce Timm's kitchen table with a bust of Wayne's head.
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post #22 of 62
4/22/08 at 2:59pm
I'll assume, cuz I'm too lazy to click them, one of the links posted goes to the awesome Small Wonder theme.

I think Cheers is probably in the top 10.
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post #23 of 62
4/22/08 at 3:09pm
Hill Street Blues is definitely in the top ten.
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post #24 of 62
4/22/08 at 3:10pm
You guys are KILLING me here. Now I'm all jonesing to go out and buy Batman Beyond DVD's to rewatch them.
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post #25 of 62
4/22/08 at 3:11pm
I'd think FRIENDS would be in the top 10, especially as the seasons progressed.
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post #26 of 62
4/22/08 at 3:22pm
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
That started at this tropic port
aboard this tiny ship

The mate was a mighty sailing man
The skipper brave and sure
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour
A three hour tour

You can't even look at the damn words without hearing every note of it in your mind.
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post #27 of 62
4/22/08 at 3:23pm
Good Times, Sanford and Son, and Night Court.
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post #28 of 62
4/22/08 at 3:44pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwH1taatvyM

Good old days, man. Good. Old. Days.
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post #29 of 62
4/22/08 at 7:02pm
Thread Starter 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loUNo...eature=related

How could anyone forget this?
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post #30 of 62
4/22/08 at 7:10pm
Favorites from way back when:

A-Team

The Fall Guy

Simon & Simon

Knight Rider

Ah, the 80's...
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post #31 of 62
4/22/08 at 7:53pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu9M6...eature=related

Couldn't find the opening just by itself...
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post #32 of 62
4/22/08 at 8:32pm
My grammar got away from me, Parker.
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post #33 of 62
4/22/08 at 8:40pm
Airwolf, bitches.
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post #34 of 62
4/22/08 at 9:31pm
MacGyver. The ice cream eating is the best.

And really how could you forget this one?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IuYrRebvFHc&feature=related

and the original first opening:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=elNNmY3apEg&feature=related
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post #35 of 62
4/22/08 at 10:08pm
Two ends of the police show spectrum:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=miWfaUPGG88

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cfgNcwOi6WM

Four Mike Post themes mentioned so far and not this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzabxjknJo
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post #36 of 62
4/22/08 at 10:41pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRZ_kH9ZQiI Mr. McGee ..... Don't make me angry.
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post #37 of 62
4/22/08 at 10:48pm
Of course....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hm6WWHeVUc
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post #38 of 62
4/23/08 at 5:52am
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Originally Posted by Brendan View Post
MacGyver. The ice cream eating is the best.
In the episode where the ice cream eating clip is from, MacGyver throws the half eaten ice cream in the garbage, which infuriated me as a kid. Why would you throw away perfectly good ice cream? I don't care what terrorist you're chasing, you could still take the delicious ice cream with you and eat it on the way.
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post #39 of 62
4/23/08 at 6:24am
I don't know why but I always hated the intros where the characters would be doing something and then suddenly look at the camera and smile over their credits.

Why are they watching me?! I should be watching them!?!


Now, someone post Step By Step.
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post #40 of 62
4/23/08 at 9:42am
The X-files is the first one that came to mind for me, but that's most likely because it will probably always be my favorite show. The music and the imagery go a long way towards making it memorable (especially the music), and I think it would be hard to argue otherwise whether you're a fan of the show or not.
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post #41 of 62
4/23/08 at 11:14am
Love how this one goes from easy-listening to ominous.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfl0m6U8IE
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post #42 of 62
4/23/08 at 11:39pm
Shows I vaguely remember...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQb1ZD9W8_c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SASkqWyn40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLLyS88_DB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj8j-Wzc388
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPJp2NNEWs
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post #43 of 62
4/24/08 at 12:18am
Lots of my favorites already mentioned, but wanted to add this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-o_7AGJRQ

RIP John-Erik Hexum.

And because the theme song can still be found rattling in my head 20+ years later, I give you Sectaurs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZ8K9NxxZ4
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post #44 of 62
4/24/08 at 12:20am
Never thought I'd see this again.


Boomshakalaka! Enjoy that, bitches.
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post #45 of 62
4/24/08 at 1:29am
The title for this thread is so glorious.
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post #46 of 62
4/24/08 at 5:27pm
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Originally Posted by Vader View Post
Never thought I'd see this again.
Boomshakalaka! Enjoy that, bitches.
I used to love me some Time Trax. I totally forgot about his computer that looked like a woman from Victorian England.
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post #47 of 62
4/25/08 at 6:53pm
Having grown up with Nick at Nite...

Get Smart, Alfred Hitchcock Presents..., and Gilligan's Island are the intros/themes that still creep back to me once in a while.

As for the more obtuse intros, it begins and ends with this. At least for me.
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post #48 of 62
4/27/08 at 5:56pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A4hZmKj-CiM

One of my favourites, too bad the quality isn't better.
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post #49 of 62
4/28/08 at 9:59pm

Hammer!!!

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dF6HIiWCh7k
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post #50 of 62
4/28/08 at 10:39pm
PMR, The Phoenix, Automan, and The Highwayman were some of the series I watched regularly. It's funny, Judson Scott had no problems with his name being in the credits of The Phoenix, but he had his name removed from Star Trek II Wrath Of Khan. The Highwayman was decent, but I enjoyed Automan alot more.

Cigam Retah, Sledge Hammer is one of my favorite cop series. I thought the show was hilarious and clearly ahead of it's time.
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