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

JupiterKid · 11-09-2019 10:38pm #1

So AHers, was there the intro theme to a TV show that really had a big impression on you when you were younger, that made you think “that’s cool, I’d really like to be a deep sea diver/doctor/copper/pilot etc” ?

For me, one TV show intro that had a massive influence on me as a young child was Channel 4’s Brookside, launched in 1982 and ran until 2003. The newly built housing estate of Brookside Close in Liverpool fascinated me at the age of 7 and I went on to specialise in housing and urban planning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ouHMcdQjw

Any TV shows or TV show intros that left a lasting impression on you?

11-09-2019 10:41pm

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Have memorised it word for word.

Deebles McBeebles · 11-09-2019 10:44pm

Glenroe. Sunday nights, back to school the next day.

And now I'm a farmer, cheating with a girl name Fidelma.

Last bit was a lie, I just fully read the OP.

Mad_maxx · 11-09-2019 10:46pm

Blockbusters

RMAOK · 11-09-2019 10:46pm

Mcgyver

ongarite · 11-09-2019 10:49pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDMYDC2jjKM

oneilla · 11-09-2019 10:59pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

So AHers, was there the intro theme to a TV show that really had a big impression on you when you were younger, that made you think “that’s cool, I’d really like to be a deep sea diver/doctor/copper/pilot etc” ?

For me, one TV show intro that had a massive influence on me as a young child was Channel 4’s Brookside, launched in 1982 and ran until 2003. The newly built housing estate of Brookside Close in Liverpool fascinated me at the age of 7 and I went on to specialise in housing and urban planning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ouHMcdQjw

Any TV shows or TV show intros that left a lasting impression on you?

Brookside for me too. Now I'm married to my sister after I buried the neighbour under their patio.

The high horse brigade · 11-09-2019 11:01pm

Sopranos

storker · 11-09-2019 11:02pm

The World at War; those faces in the flames and that music stayed with me for years after I first saw it at the age of 7 or 8.

The Episode 1 cold open was also particularly powerful...

Rock Lesnar · 11-09-2019 11:03pm

Airwolf

griffdaddy · 11-09-2019 11:03pm

The Bill... You knew some IC1 male was about to get lifted around Sun Hill as soon as that punchy theme tune kicked off.

BDI · 11-09-2019 11:06pm

The city of gold

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ki99YBVKyw

11-09-2019 11:10pm

BDI wrote: »

The city of gold

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ki99YBVKyw

great shout!

the bishop sequence from monty python

BDI · 11-09-2019 11:14pm

Mask

Ma ma ma mask
Mask crusaders working overtime fighting crime, fighting crime

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Z1yLO9C-Q

It’s not a cool theme tune if it doesn’t cram fighting crime into the lyrics

Immortal Starlight · 11-09-2019 11:16pm

dickangel · 11-09-2019 11:16pm

The X-Files intro tormented me as a kid. Particularly the clip with the spirit in the hallway on CCTV. I'm nearly certain it caused some sort of anxiety problems for me.

Also He-Man, what an epic theme song.

Quantum Erasure · 11-09-2019 11:30pm

Seaquest DSV

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 11-09-2019 11:33pm

Threads.

80s BBC drama about a nuclear war, starting wit ha bomb being detonated over northern England. I was about 12 at the time, and it was the middle of the cold war. and it frightened the **** out of me that such a thing was very, very possible at any moment.

Agent Coulson · 11-09-2019 11:34pm

Your Face · 11-09-2019 11:54pm

padd b1975 · 11-09-2019 11:57pm

Twin Peaks.

Ipso · 12-09-2019 12:18am

Tour of Duty

Tell me how · 12-09-2019 12:40am

Macgyver.

Even now, when I'm doing a clear out, I look at a shoe box with a laser pointer, yo-yo, pen knife and bag of rubber bands amongst other things and think, 'better hold on to them, just in case'.

Hotblack Desiato · 12-09-2019 12:44am

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

Junkyard Tom · 12-09-2019 12:59am

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

Gave me my love of country music and joyriding.

neirbloom · 12-09-2019 1:05am

Al Bundy used to remind me of a neighbour of mine way back when.

Oh and anyone who wasnt a kid in the ninetys mightn't know this one. One of the most painfully annoying intros but the first that always springs to mind when I'm all nostalgic

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JupiterKid · 12-09-2019 2:13am

I loved the A-team, MacGyver, V and Airwolf as a kid back in the 80s.:)

Loved the 80s re-runs of these 1970s TV shows too...

Wonder Woman (1975-79)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3a_JDIT4mw

The Six Million Dollar Man (1974-78)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGO57y4td-c

The Bionic Woman (1976-78)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz_DT54sfAo

tonycascarino · 12-09-2019 2:49am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqLNr7GMWB0

Ficheall · 12-09-2019 2:55am

I think Sharky and George helped me to avoid many red herrings on Plenty of Fish.

Pinch Flat · 12-09-2019 3:03am

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

Ipso · 12-09-2019 4:48am

Quantum Leap
The Greatest American Hero

pappyodaniel · 12-09-2019 5:02am

I love the simplicity of this introduction, class tune to go with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07tYdd7drSE

olestoepoke · 12-09-2019 5:27am

Pinch Flat wrote: »

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

I loved this show as a kid. I googled it recently and was surprised to learn it ran for 18 years 1972- 1990. Canadian humour at its best. Loved that show. My favourite was hill street blues though sorry:)

CarrickMcJoe · 12-09-2019 5:32am

Jim'll Fix It ....

padd b1975 · 12-09-2019 6:06am

Prisoner Cell Block H.

EmmetSpiceland · 12-09-2019 6:07am

China Beach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFXmkbj5BY8

Deja Boo · 12-09-2019 6:16am

"Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got. Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot. Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and they're always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see our troubles are all the same..."

Hannibal_Smith · 12-09-2019 6:16am

Your Face wrote: »

Do you know in the first series they used to say '10 years ago a crack commando unit...'. But then as the show carried on they had to change it to 'In 1972 a crack commando unit...'

Random info

lawred2 · 12-09-2019 6:18am

Cheers

And Italian football

BeerWolf · 12-09-2019 8:42am

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

Who doesn't like this awesome intro and show?

SuperGrover · 12-09-2019 8:48am

Lars von Trier's The Kingdom. Bonkers stuff and a full on gothic intro...

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

Thelonious Monk · 12-09-2019 8:49am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8LkTnKtcg

This is my fave TV intro. Must be the best TV music ever written, by the legendary John Barry.

dublinjock · 12-09-2019 8:52am

Tizwas

Health and safety would have a nightmare if that show was shown today.
There never be another show like it.

RhubarbCrumble · 12-09-2019 9:21am

BDI wrote: »

The city of gold

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ki99YBVKyw

Around the world with Willy Fogg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nqN_7eGItM

and

Dogtanian and the three muskehounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xO72s5EBY

Normally watched on a Saturday morning during "Anything Goes", then in later years "Pajo's Jukebox"
Ahh, 80s tv was the business

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-09-2019 9:33am

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Around the world with Willy Fogg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nqN_7eGItM

and

Dogtanian and the three muskehounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xO72s5EBY

Normally watched on a Saturday morning during "Anything Goes", then in later years "Pajo's Jukebox"
Ahh, 80s tv was the business

If we're going down that road...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

DelBoy Trotter · 12-09-2019 10:16am

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3lOD44Oexw

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67xXbTaQlKI

73bc61lyohr0mu · 12-09-2019 10:19am

Star Trek The Next Generation

EmmetSpiceland · 12-09-2019 10:32am

dublinjock wrote: »

Tizwas

Health and safety would have a nightmare if that show was shown today.
There never be another show like it.

That little boy dressed as a rabbit “singing” his heart out. Wonder what he’s up to now?

Porklife · 12-09-2019 10:37am

Ulysses... I wanted to be Yumi.. thought she was so cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diH8TXZKfuQ

Also, dogtanian and the three muskehounds... when he sliced the apple in the air. I thought it was amazing! Tried to recreate the scene aged about 6 and almost cut my hand off. I remember my mom had to use an entire packet of plasters on me and the blood just kept soaking through. idiot.

Wibbs · 12-09-2019 10:40am

storker wrote: »

The World at War; those faces in the flames and that music stayed with me for years after I first saw it at the age of 7 or 8.

The Episode 1 cold open was also particularly powerful...

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.

*Put it another way the distance in time between that documentary and the end of the war is the distance between us today and 1991. Not so long ago.

JohnnyFlash · 12-09-2019 10:40am

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

China Beach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFXmkbj5BY8

Dana Delaney was a bit of a minx in her time. Would definitely have given her a dart.

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

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