TV Show Intros That Left A Huge Impression on You...

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

This is the “theme” that gives me the biggest endorphin rush. It’s an ident but it generally denotes quality and has done for a long, long time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_uTMkmH08

mzungu

Crossbow. It was based on the legend of William Tell. I found the tune catchy at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwzozEFj_wA

maccored

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsJ4pALlbEM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

i think a lot of people are missing the point of the OP....


I always wanted to be a Gummi Bear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97QkO7nAn68

I think so too but it doesn’t really matter. Realistically, few of us are going to have a theme tune that significantly steered the course if our lives.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

bnt wrote: »

Six Feet Under:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JkGY1qC8Y

The whole series is highly recommended, unless you have recently suffered a bereavement. :eek:

Best finale of any show. The last three episodes are unbelievable. I rewatched the whole series earlier this year and was in daze for a few days after completion.

I feel like SFU isn’t as well-regarded as it should be.

Ger Roe

Thunderbirds are GO!. Enough tension and excitement to make beads of sweat drip off the forehead of a wooden puppet ..... and great music from composer Barry Gray.

padd b1975

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Best finale of any show. The last three episodes are unbelievable. I rewatched the whole series earlier this year and was in daze for a few days after completion.

I feel like SFU isn’t as well-regarded as it should be.

Absolute quality.

I always felt it was overshadowed by The Sopranos, despite having better characters.

JupiterKid

Raconteuse wrote: »

Was thinking of that too. Awesome Russian style tune by John Barry.

The Persuaders was an excellent show with an excellent intro. Was before my time but saw the re-runs in the early 90s. Curtis and Moore were a brilliant combination. Cool cars, good plots, great sets. And a cracking theme tune to boot, by none other than John Barry AND with synths too...super cool for the early 1970s!

bigar

I so wanted my own super copter

JupiterKid

I have always been a fan of sci-fi and shows with a space exploration theme. As an amateur astronomer, it is nice to stargaze and ponder on our place in the vast, vast universe...


Star Trek - The Next Generation (1987-94)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnDtvZXYHgE

Battlestar Galactica (The Original Show) (1977-80)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyHxYxc-Mo

bodhrandude

The original Edge of Darkness from 1985 with the Late Bob Peck and a memorable soundtrack with Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton, not long after Clapton guested on Roger Water's Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking album.

Quantum Erasure

foxy farmer

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmIsMzyohqM

Gave me my love of country music and joyriding.

Heather Thomas coming through the door in her pale blue bikini at the 0.57 mark did things to me that I didn't understand as an 8yr old boy. Mmmm Mmm hmmmm.

Quantum Erasure

OK, watch the first 4 mins and 5 seconds of this one.... (or at least from 2:20 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8PJOnzrF9w#t=140

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8PJOnzrF9w

storker

maudgonner wrote: »

This earworm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7T-VTL91k

This was responsible for my fascination with Tarot cards.

odyssey06

Ok, let's see if I can get the links to work this time.

Hearing these instantly takes me back to boyhood...

"We are the Famous Five..."

Jamie & His Magic Torch

storker

Wibbs wrote: »

When you have that level of sheer quality in documentary making by some of the best of the time - and the 70's was a high watermark already for TV docs - and so many people still alive who could tell their stores of that war*, and Lawrence Olivier doing the voiceover? Yeah, you're kinda set. .

...along with lots of use of the past tense. Call me old-fashioned, but I'm inclined to think that's the best tense to use when talking about history. Not that you'd know it from history documentaries today.

TV: "The Red Army tanks are rolling into Germany"
Me: "Good thing I didn't book that weekend in Berlin with Ryanair..."

Hotblack Desiato

Raconteuse wrote: »

Black Beauty - what an anthemic, unforgettable tune!

Crap show though :eek:

StereoSound

I was only watching this last night, first time I heard this intro in 25 + fckn years... This was a very good show. Why can't they make shows like this anymore ?? FFF YOU modern TV !

EmmetSpiceland

I realise this goes against the thread’s “theme” but this outro from the cartoon “The Racoons” still pops into my head from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWn_i2YiBYg

MetzgerMeister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xdK7wduVdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjRRmP4NYDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HNuAE9WdU

StereoSound

Home improvement, now that is one I watched growing up !

MetzgerMeister

StereoSound wrote: »

Home improvement, now that is one I watched growing up !

I still watch it! I love that show and I've seen the episodes so many times I can tell what the next line is going to be a lot the time.

StereoSound

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I still watch it! I love that show and I've seen the episodes so many times I can tell what the next line is going to be a lot the time.

I'll have to go hunting online and catch up with this show, I'm sure there were many episodes that I missed

MetzgerMeister

StereoSound wrote: »

I'll have to go hunting online and catch up with this show, I'm sure there were many episodes that I missed

There's 8 Seasons in total with about 25 episodes per season. There's more than likely 1 episode you haven't seen (I didn't until I downloaded the whole thing from Pirate Bay) where one of the kids does drugs.

RhubarbCrumble

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I realise this goes against the thread’s “theme” but this outro from the cartoon “The Racoons” still pops into my head from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWn_i2YiBYg

I loved that. Worked with a guy called Cyril a few years ago. Always had a sneer on his face so you can guess what everyone called him behind his back .....

Caegan

Tales of the Unexpected and the Equalizer.

bladespin

Hooked in a second!

Makepeace :eek:

JR fan, nearly met Larry Hagman at the races when I was a little fella.

:cool:

Amazing thread, loving it.

crashplan

Band of Brothers

buckley99

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAei6YFGlDQ

This for me was the epitome of cool! And I only recently found out, wrote by Stewart Copeland.

jmayo

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Beachcomers and the lost island. Showing my age....

Ahhh Nick and Relic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENMOwXwRTZU

Raconteuse wrote: »

Black Beauty - what an anthemic, unforgettable tune!

And just for you.
Be warned you will not get this out of your head for the weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u5NgC4lZ8s

retalivity wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H3JuQUQTLQ

Growing up, i wanted to be michael J fox and live in america because of this.

Shalalala.....

Oh Justine Bateman

What shows from 70s and 80s.
Fall Guy, 6 Million Dollar Man, Chips, Hawaii 5-0, Equalizer,

Now loved intro to Waltons and Little house on the Prairie, and could not stand the last show.
These were catchy and stick in the brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmRcP8S7Bo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MawR-tA61dM

And my favourite as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Cx26-928

odyssey06

I think growing up I wanted to do whatever Michael J Fox was trying to be on Family Ties... even then I saw dollar signs. It was the 80s.

Temptamperu

A pretty recent show called succession has got a great intro.

bnt

I like it when a show does something different. I still remember Kate & Allie, where the intros were minimal and had the two main characters having some bizarre conversation about something trivial. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUcZHVj8DM

I’d never heard of SNL when I saw this show, never knew that Jane Curtin had been a Conehead among other things.

mzungu

Catchy theme tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHWYAs0x90c

odyssey06

Yes Who's The Boss inspired a whole generation of male live-in nannies...

MonkieSocks

The Big Match theme music 1974-1980

Bit cynical

Who can forget...

Ipso

banie01

BeerWolf wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnWwN1z_UM

Who doesn't like this awesome intro and show?

I'm nearly 40 and can still sing that theme tune word for word!
And I often do :pac:
The shorts too, especially pinky and the brain.

Taz-mania and loads more too...

Jesus at the moment I'm chilling in bed watching The amazing world of Gumball and wondering if I can sue for Richard Watterson clearly being me!

The Tetrarch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbyYr6L5xQM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rHrLHIeyI

MonkieSocks

How much to rebuild him today?

The Sweeney Doing 90

IAMAMORON

I still miss Bagpuss… bigtime.

Battle of the Planets

And holy fúck I miss Colonel Deering, or was she in Battlestar Gallectica?

IAMAMORON

I forgot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 twelve.. Groooovy

ofcork

Cant believe knight rider and hart to hart haven't been mentioned!!

Jimbob1977

Twin Peaks

The X-Files

MacGyver

Round the Twist

noel1980

Your Face wrote: »

Ulysses 31 was brilliant - what a theme song

The Unsolved Mysteries intro:

I remember this one. Sky one, Sunday night IIRC.

Irish Guitarist

The Twilight Zone. I was about nine when the 1980s remake was on television.

They showed repeats of the original 1960s one around the same time. I think they had a different intro for every series but the most memorable intro was the one with the door.

I love the intros for Dogtanian and Willie Fog, brings back lovely childhood memories

Arthur Daley

Back when you needed to be able to tell a story, sing a song, and establish characters in 70 seconds between the credits