Your Fav TV show openings ? [Archive]

Mikey

Mar 14, '08, 7:03 AM

I have a lot of favs, but I think Hogan's Heroes was the best opening ever made for a TV show.. :grin:

YouTube - Post-Pilot Intro to Hogan's Heroes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFkqCEYON8)

What is your favourite opening ?

livnxxxl

Mar 14, '08, 7:08 AM

Wow! Hogan's Hero's is a good pick. With so many great shows out there it is a challenge for me to pick just one favorite so I will have to say the following just off the top:

Starsky and Hutch
Dukes of Hazzard
The A-Team
Space 1999

Mikey

Mar 14, '08, 7:12 AM

F-Troop season-1 was always a fav of mine too

YouTube - F Troop Season 1 Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwFADi4Y38)

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The Toyroom

Mar 14, '08, 7:14 AM

Off the top of my head...

Twilight Zone (any season)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bewitched
The Flintstones
Hawaii Five-O
Sanford and Son
The Munsters (2nd Season)
The Brady Bunch (5th Season)

Adam West

Mar 14, '08, 7:57 AM

Nothing like the opening sequence to "Batman"....so campy and yet I never get sick of it.

toys2cool

Mar 14, '08, 8:37 AM

I like Twilight Zone and Chips :grin:

monkey tennis

Mar 14, '08, 8:49 AM

Banana Splits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2se2I70CJ0&feature=related
Youtube Banana Splits

The Monkees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0FUvLfxyp0
Youtube The Monkees

Spider-Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJV4KqK0LpY
Youtube Spider-Man

Ulysses 31
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8
Youtube Ulysses 31

Knight Rider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bykGaVXx3Ck
Youtube Knight Rider

Monkey (Monkey Magic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg
Youtube Monkey

toys2cool

Mar 14, '08, 8:53 AM

Yeah Knight Rider was awesome to,i forgot to put the tales from the crypt
YouTube - Tales From The Crypt Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyUE2mpw7bI)

Seeker

Mar 14, '08, 9:03 AM

"Space The Final Frontier.........." Nuff said.

Mikey

Mar 14, '08, 9:13 AM

mitchedwards

Mar 14, '08, 9:20 AM

A-Team

Brue

Mar 14, '08, 9:44 AM

The Adventures of Superman

MASH

I like a bunch of the others mentioned as well

palitoy

Mar 14, '08, 9:51 AM

UFO
YouTube - UFO Opening Sequence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4nMFHXxro)

Mikey

Mar 14, '08, 10:00 AM

UFO
YouTube - UFO Opening Sequence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4nMFHXxro)

To this day, i've still never seen an episode OR EVEN THE OPENING of UFO...

Man, that is soooo Space: 1999 meets Captain Scarlet

I really got to make it point to get these soon.

Airdave817

Mar 14, '08, 1:05 PM

Gotta go with the musical themes.

1) Hawaii Five-O
2) magnum, pi
3) Munsters
4) Dennis The Menace
5) Leave It To Beaver
6) Dick Van Dyke
7) Captain Kangaroo
8) M*A*S*H
9) Bonanza
10) The Wild, Wild West

These are great music beds. Honorable mention has to go to the theme at the end of every Incredible Hulk episode.

Now, for visual openings -
1) Batman - it's just cool
2) Get Smart - gotta love the image of walking through all those doors just to get to a payphone entrance.
3) Gilligan's Island
4) F-Troop
Both Gilligan's Island and F-Troop set up the show like you don't see much of anymore.
5) M*A*S*H

toys2cool

Mar 14, '08, 1:09 PM

The Knight Rider link says "This video is not available in your country. "

I thought youtube was universal ?

yeah i thought so too,I found it strange when i got the same message

Seeker

Mar 14, '08, 1:11 PM

Lidsville, heck anything from Sid and Marty Kroft. That was just a whole bunch of strange technicolor freakyness.:juggleyes_y:

monkey tennis

Mar 14, '08, 1:11 PM

The Knight Rider link says "This video is not available in your country. "

I thought youtube was universal ?

Strange.
:music-smiley-016:

toys2cool

Mar 14, '08, 1:21 PM

the HitchHiker show intro use to always freak me out,there was something about that little song

HardyGirl

Mar 14, '08, 1:42 PM

Too many to name! Lots of 70s shows, Krofft, sitcoms, cartoons. But seriously, I'd be here all year trying to list all my faves! :yeah:

Adam West

Mar 14, '08, 1:59 PM

One other one I forgot...."The Six Million Dollar Man". I always thought it was one of the coolest intros. to any TV Show.

Sideshow Spock

Mar 14, '08, 2:05 PM

Folks.. it doesn't get any better than this:

YouTube - Six Million Dollar Man Open (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39co0zKbQAQ)

And obviously, tho not quite in the same league:

YouTube - Bionic Woman original version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owxnDnSzFCo)

And lest we forget this awesomeness:

YouTube - Incredible Hulk T.V. Series Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TujifzRVETA)

grayhank

Mar 14, '08, 2:33 PM

Lots of favorites:

X-Files
Battlestar Galactica (current series)
Angel (loved the theme music)
Six Feet Under
Star Trek (TOS)
Lost in Space
Land of the Lost
Cheers
Hill Street Blues
Charlie's Angels
Justice League Unlimited
Wonder Woman (1st Season)
CSI (all of them because the Who are great and any show that can get away with using "Baba O'Riley" (CSI:NY) as a theme song is fantastic!)

jwyblejr

Mar 14, '08, 2:39 PM

The Simpsons before they cut everything down to just the Couch Gag.

Hector

Mar 14, '08, 2:55 PM

My favorite of all times has always been The Avengers with Patrick Mcnee and Diana Rigg (the second one is with Linda Thorson as Tara King, that one is not as good)...

YouTube - The Avengers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYKMnTADbxY)

I think it's the classiest opening of any show...Rigg is so sexy and cute...and Mcnee is so suave and debonair, and oh...so British, lol.

:yes:

Bo8a_Fett

Mar 14, '08, 6:58 PM

To this day, i've still never seen an episode OR EVEN THE OPENING of UFO...

Man, that is soooo Space: 1999 meets Captain Scarlet

I really got to make it point to get these soon.

U.F.O. was actually born out of the ideas for the next season of Captain Scarlet and once Anderson got the idea of a moonbase in U.F.O. he developed the idea from U.F.O. next season to concentrating on the moonbase element giving rise to Space 1999.

I love:
The Prisoner
Dr Who
Blakes 7
The Tomorrow People
Sapphire & Steel
The Goodies
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Grange Hill
Catweazle

monkey tennis

Mar 14, '08, 9:17 PM

Grange Hill

Be Careful and Watch out for the BIG Sausage

Wise4671

Mar 14, '08, 9:32 PM

For me it was always the Batman T.V. show. Loved it as a kid and still takes me back to some great memories when I see it :-)

Got this done a few years ago (Calf)

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f342/Wise4671/tat.jpg

livnxxxl

Mar 15, '08, 5:51 AM

wayne foundation 07

Mar 15, '08, 7:42 AM

WKRP only because I loved that theme song

Action Burt

Mar 15, '08, 9:04 AM

Most have already been mentioned, but these are mine....

Starsky and Hutch
A Team
Magnum PI

And of course the Rockford Files

YouTube - The Rockford Files (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alni85nm_mE)

Talking of Rockford does anyone know if any of the special episodes made in the late 90s are available ?

Captain

Mar 16, '08, 2:03 AM

Hard to pick a favourite.....up until the mid eighties or so, just about every show had a great opening. Yet another feature modern television shows just dont have.

The Bat

Mar 16, '08, 5:49 AM

I always loved the "Get Smart" opening!!

grayhank

Mar 16, '08, 10:12 AM

This one goes way back and although not really much of opening you always ended up singing along. Anyone remember ZOOM on PBS? I always wanted to be one of the Zoom kids, especially after the rollcall segment (yeah I know, my expectations weren't very high when I was kid :wink_y:). That Bernadette chick and the freaky thing she did with her arms - was always a topic of debate.

YouTube - Zoom - Bernadette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCJDBKih688)

The very first episode

YouTube - Zoom episode 1 part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyFBUzZMEJs&NR=1)

YouTube - Zoom episode 1 part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULWYDt6QbBg&feature=related)

YouTube - Zoom episode 1 part 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoz2ryGmpNo&feature=related)

YouTube - Zoom episode 1 part 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xzGfhBbMgc&feature=related)

Surfsup

Mar 17, '08, 5:13 AM

Thunderbirds, Spider-Man (60s) and Doctor Who have always been favourites of mine.

Dave Mc

Mar 17, '08, 6:35 AM

For Classic TV, it would have to be Rockford Files or S.W.A.T.

jds1911a1

Mar 17, '08, 7:26 AM

"Space The Final Frontier.........." Nuff said.

agreed

johnmiic

Mar 17, '08, 12:33 PM

Classic shows: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Odd Couple, The Munsters, Get Smart, Sanford and Son, Chico and The Man, Batman, In Search Of... what a great themes these shows had!!!! Some of these really rocked!

Not exactly classic: Ally McBeal, Scrubs, Sledge Hammer!, Riptide, GAH, Max Headroom, House, Charmed. There was a British show called Star Cops which had a Justin Hayward, ( of the Moody Blues), song. I liked it a lot tho it is regarded as saccharine as the power ballad from Enterprise. I can't seem to get The 6 Million Dollar Man and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century off my mind.

I really like what they did with the new episodes of Doctor Who. There's this additional, ominous, string section in the new theme which sends a chill down my spine like, yeah, it's DW but it's gonna be scary!