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

PopePalpatine · 14-09-2019 10:31pm

DelBoy Trotter wrote: »

[.YOUTUBE]BBC Grandstand[/YOUTUBE]

[.YOUTUBE]BBC rugby[/YOUTUBE]

[.YOUTUBE]BBC cricket[/YOUTUBE]

[.YOUTUBE]BBC snooker[/YOUTUBE]

How could you leave this out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z-dJ35fOiM

...that said, I grew up in the era when ITV showed it, so this was my experience:

Ipso · 15-09-2019 12:38am

prinzeugen · 15-09-2019 1:18am

CHiPs, A-Team, Thundercats, MASK.

I was odd because I loved classical music from about 7. Thanks to watching Inspector Morse.

JupiterKid · 15-09-2019 1:54am

Knight Rider (1982-87)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo8Qls0HnWo

JupiterKid · 15-09-2019 4:11am

Fame (1982-85)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tze87LfeOtY

IAMAMORON · 15-09-2019 4:17am

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

Twin Peaks

The X-Files

MacGyver

Round the Twist

JupiterKid · 15-09-2019 4:44am

Space: 1999 (1974-77). Loved this sc-fi show on its first re-run in the 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SpX8bVEmJo

Your Face · 15-09-2019 3:11pm

crashplan · 16-09-2019 12:11pm

Street Hawk

DelBoy Trotter · 16-09-2019 12:47pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3NHNdh3kE

keano_afc · 16-09-2019 1:06pm

Brilliant thread. The 80s was just a magical decade for intros.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0O-2oAvNTo

crashplan · 16-09-2019 1:21pm

Only Fools and Horses.

Capt. Autumn · 16-09-2019 2:03pm

Ipso · 16-09-2019 4:44pm

Road Runner and Coyote

jmayo · 16-09-2019 5:41pm

ofcork wrote: »

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

Here you are ... it was only MUURDEER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNUh4L0OhA

Loved this from Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgGsBCHZM0U

Also these ones ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVtVru9KXao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mijBMpnS3a4

JupiterKid · 18-09-2019 3:11am

Loved this cartoon so much when I was a kid...

Danger Mouse (1981-1992)

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

rocksolidfat · 18-09-2019 3:34am

Not sure if you could have been a kid in the 1990s and not have these etched somewhere in the back of your mind, for all time (and also still being convinced that the ghost in the hall of the X-Files intro is feckin' real!!):

noel1980 · 22-09-2019 6:29pm

Does anybody remember "Jem" ? This was a guilty pleasure of mine

paleoperson · 22-09-2019 8:10pm

Huge impression? None honestly.

That I thought were really good: Xena Warrior Princess, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

saabsaab · 22-09-2019 8:31pm

The Avengers intro (Steed & mrs Peel). Inspired to get a sharp suit and a good looking partner!

Ted_YNWA · 22-09-2019 8:43pm

Only ever saw snippets of the show growing up, but the multiple doors have left an implant in my brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ObCoCm61s

saabsaab · 22-09-2019 8:48pm

Yes, Get Smart one of the best ever. Another 'The Equalizer'

Purgative · 22-09-2019 9:05pm

Eleysian · 22-09-2019 9:40pm

http://https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wc_09iQ4l5k
Not sure if this link will work but Belle and Sebastian. It was about a little French boy and his dog in the Pyrenees in France.

odyssey06 · 22-09-2019 9:43pm

Well I am guessing it made an impression on whoever named the band Belle and Sebastian!

1800_Ladladlad · 22-09-2019 9:59pm

I still frequently visit these two. I wish they were longer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgC18L6UOKQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzZmU0aGmcc

whisky_galore · 22-09-2019 10:06pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2huQB-DmE

Quantum Erasure · 22-09-2019 10:07pm

loved the concept of the intro to Desperate Housewives,

also the intro to Nip / Tuck

paleoperson · 23-09-2019 12:53am

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

I still frequently visit these two. I wish they were longer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgC18L6UOKQ

After all these years I finally know what the hell the last bit is about. I thought it was just babble.

crashplan · 27-09-2019 11:51am

Dukes of Hazard

ER

Up Donegal · 27-09-2019 1:08pm

The intro from Heidi (1970's)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTlpgrZS4E

harry Bailey esq · 27-09-2019 2:20pm

Clueless how to put the YouTube link in so I copied the lyrics..
Theres a voice, That keeps on calling me
Down the road, Thats where I'll always be
Every stop I make, I make a new friend
Can't stay for long, Just turn around
and I'm gone again
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on
Down this road, That never seems to end
When you adventure, lies just around the bend
so if you want to join me for awhile
just grab your hat, come travel light
thats hobo style
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down
Until tomorrow, The whole world is my home
so if you want to join me for awhile
just grab your hat, come travel light
thats hobo style
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on
Theres a world just waiting to unfold
brand new tale no one has ever told
we've journeyed far but, you know it won't be long
we're almost there, and we've paid our fare with the hobo song
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

Zorya · 27-09-2019 3:19pm

Some of the tunes that had me running to the sitting room are already mentioned - Faaaaaame! I'm gonna live forever! - And - Suicide is painless..

(loved that show)..Black Beauty, Little House, Chips, Brady Bunch, all recognisable tunes still in my head.

One not mentioned that I would (passionately) sing along all the words to is -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JCehDOy54

Fcuk it I still sing that!

This is embarrassingly sappy but I adored this - don't know why my brothers always left in disgust when it came on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL8wzVLEyvg

And I was so insanely in love with this guy...so I raced in when this tune came on too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EI6jDeRtAs

Purgative · 27-09-2019 3:46pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Clueless how to put the YouTube link in so I copied the lyrics..

My pleasure

Quantum Erasure · 27-09-2019 4:42pm

Hangdogroad · 27-09-2019 8:41pm

Can't link as on phone but creepiest intros were.

Children Of The Stones.

Tales Of The Unexpected.

Chocky.

Mad_maxx · 27-09-2019 8:59pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Can't link as on phone but creepiest intros were.

Children Of The Stones.

Tales Of The Unexpected.

Chocky.

I occasionally stumble across tales of the unexpected on sky arts at weekends, some of the stories are quite good, huge number of stars appeared in it,John Mills and Denholm elliot were in several, ran for a decade from the late seventies

Wibbs · 27-09-2019 11:15pm

Never really got into the reruns of Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds are go, or UFO, but as a little kid, so little I can't remember any of the stories

, I did love Stingray for some reason. Actually, and in the spirit of our thread, I reckon it was the theme music most of all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs

Of his other stuff I thought Space 1999 was bleedin brilliant.

I adored the Eagle spaceships in it, because they looked real and like they would work in actual space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SpX8bVEmJo

Mad we thought that was the "Future(c)" back then and the fantasy is now 20 years in the past. :eek:

One I remember from very early on. I think it was on the BBC(so only for the Jackeens with the "pipe TV", or Culchies with huge aerials, of which there were a few) on saturday mornings just before Swapshop? "Champion the Wonder Horse".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtijl8SWV-A

Tbh when the theme tune kicked in I'd look for my brekkie, or play with my lego or action man or Dinky Stuka(not euphemisms

) until the theme tune came on again which meant it was over. Ditto for Skippy the bush kangaroo. Hated that bloody show tbh.

Just as young I remember this, Bagpuss, again for the piped TV folks who could get the BBC.

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

My first experience with nostalgia was when that was rerun in the mid 80's when I was a teenager and I used to secretly watch it for the buzz of memories. IIRC it was on around lunchtime, 1:30is after Pebble MIll at one? IIRC cos it was when I went home for lunch from school. Oddly the older I got, the less nostalgic I have become in general.

I've always binged on documentaries and one advantage of being a kid in the 70's is that you really were spoilt for choice with non dumbed down TV documentaries. It was really the first era of TV documentaries(and kids TV too in many ways). The World About Us was but one I remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsTV7eJ2aa8

Civilisation, the World at War, Life on Earth, Cosmos, the list was a long one. Same with kids programming too. RTE wasn't too shabby at times either, what with independent film makers like Eamon de Buitlear and Gerrit van Gelderen producing fantastic stuff. David Shaw Smith who learned his trade at the side of the aforementioned Gerrit produced with his wife Sally, "Hands" for RTE chronicling the traditional skills of Ireland. IMHO one of the finest documentary series of the type and not just in Ireland either.

Hands_%28TV_series%29_title_card.jpg

I reckon that's a series in such need of reviving, maybe take the concept beyond Ireland to Europe and hunt out and record dying traditional skills there too, and traditional skills coming back too, what with the Interwebs increasing the market and audience for such things.