Thread: What are your favorite tv show intro's / opens / network promos from the past?

I have gotten into looking up old show intro's / opens / promos from 20-40 years ago.

Intro's (aka opens) have been shortened so much over the years and are just not the same as they used to be when they took pride in their intro's.

The network stations used to have slogans each year promoting their networks, movies, new shows coming in the fall.

M*A*S*H and the Walton's comes to mind... (The surviving Walton's were on the Today show the other day)and of course the Jeffersons and WKRP ...

Gilligan's Island (who doesn't sing that song once in a while?) Wild, Wild, West was always cool.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCgq8q9Ofw

and the later one:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLkVvlhy9_k

Night Court

My favorite network promo campaign is ABC's Still the One from '77(?).

Know all the words to Green Acres, Gilligan's Island, Beverly Hillbillies. Sing them still from time to time.

Originally Posted by BobaBird

My favorite network promo campaign is ABC's Still the One from '77(?).

Maybe they should recycle that theme song for ABC, this next year for Fall season ?

Ah, shades of 'Stand By Me:'

Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man.
A knight without armor in a savage land.

His fast gun for hire head's the calling wind.
A soldier of fotune is the man called Paladin.

Paladin, Paladin
Where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin,
Far, far from home.