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

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    #92
    JupiterKid
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    Baywatch was a guilty pleasure.

    In my student days , I wouldn't have dared to have admitted watching it to my college friends, preferring to discuss the importance of 1970s Pink Floyd, the environment, boycotting Nestle products or some other such "right on" topic.

    Let's face it...Baywatch was visual masturbation and there was eye candy galore for the guys and gals to ogle over, straight or gay. The actual plots of the episodes were irrelevant. It was all about storing those hot characters for the **** Bank.


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    #93
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    pappyodaniel wrote: »
    I love the simplicity of this introduction, class tune to go with it.

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

    Heaven.

    Jeff Conaway and Andy Kaufman in the credits there. Kenickie. :(


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    #94
    Stevieluvsye
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    Highway to heaven

    Knots landing

    Little house on the prairie


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    #95
    B0jangles
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    Saw this first as a tiny kid when it was rerun on telly, then never again until about 25 years later when the complete series came out on DVD



    Was still brilliant!


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    #96
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    Highway to heaven

    Knots landing

    Little house on the prairie

    Very memorable opening credits but a brutal show. Michael Landon had such a God complex.

    And Little House On The Prairie was pretty messed up at times.


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    1o059k7ewrqj3n
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTb3e8Pi1KY


    Breathe in that nostalgia and repeat after me.

    "Thank you kindly"


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    #98
    matchthis
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    Loved this, watched the intro every time

    https://youtu.be/y9K0SzFIf4A

    Jayce and the wheeled warriors

    The littlest hobo also deserves a mention

    https://youtu.be/lgGKSjiw0HQ


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    China Beach:

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

    China Beach was great.


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    #100
    tonycascarino
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    #101
    retalivity
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H3JuQUQTLQ


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

    Shalalala.....


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    #102
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    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


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    #103
    mzungu
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    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


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    #104
    maccored
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsJ4pALlbEM


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    #105
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    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.


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    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.


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    #107
    Ger Roe
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    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.


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    padd b1975
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    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.


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    #109
    JupiterKid
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    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!


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    #110
    bigar
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    I so wanted my own super copter ;)



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    #111
    JupiterKid
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    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


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    #112
    bodhrandude
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    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.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    Quantum Erasure
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    #114
    foxy farmer
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    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.


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    #115
    Quantum Erasure
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    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


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    #116
    storker
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    maudgonner wrote: »
    This earworm:

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

    This was responsible for my fascination with Tarot cards.


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    #117
    odyssey06
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    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

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #118
    storker
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    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..."


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    #119
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Black Beauty - what an anthemic, unforgettable tune!

    Crap show though :eek:

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #120
    StereoSound
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    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 !



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    #121
    EmmetSpiceland
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    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

    The tide is turning…



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