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

[Stargazer]

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.

 

[dfergie]

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 ...

 

[primestar31]

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

 

[Mr Tony]

Night Court

 

[BobaBird]

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

 

[MikeD-C05]

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

 

[MikeD-C05]

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 ?

 

[Bobby]

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.

 

[dfergie]

 

[Peter Parker]

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

I know the words to only three songs.

Happy Birthday
The Theme from the Beverly Hillbillies
Lydia the Tattooed Lady


I am working on the theme to The Big Bang theory but I keep missing the last line to the first verse.

 

[Peter Parker]

I had a high school teacher who insisted that the voice of Mr. Ed was Richard Nixon. I suspect he was wrong but it is an amusing concept.

 

[jayn_j]

I had a high school teacher who insisted that the voice of Mr. Ed was Richard Nixon. I suspect he was wrong but it is an amusing concept.

Alan Lane: Voice of Mr Ed Allan Lane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

His last roles were in voice over acting, including providing the speech for Mister Ed (1961–1966). In 2003 he won the TV Land Award for the category "Favorite Pet-Human Relationship" as Mr. Ed.

 

[dfergie]

I'd never thought of it but the voice was pretty close, Nixon had more stubble in the debate though

 

[MikeD-C05]

I know the words to only three songs.

Happy Birthday
The Theme from the Beverly Hillbillies
Lydia the Tattooed Lady


I am working on the theme to The Big Bang theory but I keep missing the last line to the first verse.

Well at least we have two songs in common. I've never heard of Lydia the Tattooed Lady.

 

[MikeD-C05]

I'd never thought of it but the voice was pretty close, Nixon had more stubble in the debate though

I had read somewhere that they used to shove things like a carrot up the horses butt to make him grimace and move his lips like that in Mr. Ed. I wonder if they made Nixon talk the same way?

 

[Bobby]

Well at least we have two songs in common. I've never heard of Lydia the Tattooed Lady.

Here ya go:

 

[KAB]

I've never heard of Lydia the Tattooed Lady.

It was not a TV show/theme. From the Marx Bros "At The Circus", late '30s.
Bobby...saw that on a Dick Cavett special a few months ago.

 

[LER]

I am working on the theme to The Big Bang theory but I keep missing the last line to the first verse.

You might try tweeting up @billprady He can probably help you

 

[jayn_j]

I am working on the theme to The Big Bang theory but I keep missing the last line to the first verse.

Barenaked Ladies - The Big Bang Theory Lyrics

They only sing the first verse on the opening theme, but I really like the second verse better.

 

[Peter Parker]

I know what that the the lyrics are but for whatever reason I get tongue at that piect.