This week, TWQ (The Weekend Question) asks about the start to some tv programmes.
Which tv programme intros do you like the most?
My answers are:
1: The Prisoner: This, without doubt, is by far the best of all, with an extra-long intro what goes on for some time. A classic!
2: CSI: Miami: The wonderful song 'Won't Get Fooled Again' by The Who launches the show off.
3: The Beverly Hillbillies: A great song starts this off, with the picture of Granny in her rocking chair on top of the Clampett car!
4: Washington: Behind Closed Doors: This mini-series had a great driving beat as it started.
Now it's over to you...
Definitely the theme tune to "Monk": "It's a jungle out there" - it has such an upbeat catchy tune to go with the tongue-in-cheek depressing lyrics
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Barney Miller, that bass is classic.
ReplyDeleteSimpsons, aaaaaaaaaahhhh the Simpsons... My daughter used to dance to that when she was uder two.
NYPD Blue was pretty good too. The drum beat and all of the quick images of NY.
Oh yeah, and Dr. Who as well.
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ReplyDeleteI loved Dick Van Dyke...song and when he trips over the ottoman! Also The Three Stooges...love that music and kibbitzing around.
I agree with you on CSI Miami. I'll add the USA dramady, Psych and Monk and well...The Monkees!
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The Prisoner intro is a favourite of mine aswell, especially as I only live about an hour or so from 'The Village'.
ReplyDeleteThe original 'comic strip' intro to Grange Hill was a classic, as were most of the Dr. Who intros.
sopranos.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not very good at watching whole series of anything and I assume the shows with different dramatised beginnings each week don't count?
Yes still Sopranos as a standard startup. The old Miami Vice has some retro quality in the fast editing at the start.
And the Prisoner, as you say is good, in that it retells the whole episode one in the credits.
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That cello bit in the intro for Angel. We don't use cellos enough. Especially not with lots of electric guitar immediately after.
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Knight Rider
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Aww, I nearly forgot about the Prisoner. It was classic -- still like watching it when they play marathons.
ReplyDeleteThere was a show in the mid '80s call The Equalizer that was written by Stuart Copeland (The Police) that I really love.
I like "Who Are You" by The Who with CSI: Las Vegas.
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I'm going to go with Full House. Those lyrics were f-in money.
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ReplyDeleteMy choices are:
ER intro
Cheers
MASH
The Facts of Life, because it was my all-time favorite show as a kid.
ReplyDeleteAlso, The Jeffersons. Just a rockin' song!!! :-)
Blue Murder, a canadian police show, had a spanking theme tune.
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Strictly Come Dancing and Dr Who. Oh and Neighbours, always puts a smile on my face, it sounds so cheerful.
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Grey's Anatomy (when they used to show it, although I'd rather have 3 more minutes of story)
I love the titles for Ugly Betty because they use classic French film style screens. Great stuff.
As for old shows:
Mission:Impossible is a classic
OH and all the various Simpsons intros are hilarious.
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ReplyDeletesurvivor! and monk! (and, now bear with me here) the theme song from the carnival cruise commercial! sailaway............ bee
I like the intro to CSI: N.Y. because the song Baba O' Riley is one of my favorites.
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ReplyDeleteOf those intros I only know the Beverly Hillbillies.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to add Star Trek: Enterprise to my list. Actually, it's probably at the top of the list, because I always felt as though if I didn't get to see the intro, it didn't matter if I watched the episode or not. I LOVE that intro....the song, the collage of ships, everything.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few shows have cropped up a few times in your choices. I must admit, I've never seen 'Monk'.
ReplyDeleteAnother favourite was the mirror universe start for the two part Enterprise story 'Through A Mirror Darkly'.
The Prisoner is a great choice! I'm going for oldies too. The 70s detective show Vandervalk had a great theme. The Avengers had a fantastic intro and wonderful title sequence, very arch. And how many times did I stay up to see the intro to The Sweeney or Starsky & Hutch, then get sent to bed...
ReplyDeleteThe Red Hand Gang had the kids humming along and jumping on trampolines. And the demented flute intro to the kids show Bod.
I have to agree with you on the Beverly Hillbillys theme and Rod serling starting the old Twilight zone was good and the music to the old Battlestar Galactica was good.
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ReplyDeleteYes, the Prisoner had a great entry. I always liked the Man from U.N.C.L.E. theme and the Get Smart theme songs as well.
Bewitched!!
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Ooh, tough question. I guess I'd say: "The Office," "Gilmore Girls," "Grey's Anatomy" and "My Name is Earl." But mostly because those are some of my fave shows.
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what is this 'TV' that you refer to?
ReplyDeleteDo you not have woodstoves to watch in the evening? hehe Michele
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Jean-Luc, I love the music for the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Big Love, and all the other shows on HBO, as well as Survivor. What a good question!
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Hmmmm, I've never thought about it much. I like the opening to Weeds, because I like that song. And I like the opening to Lost, because it's short, and to the point. It's adds that little bit of mysterious feeling, and gets right back to the show. Here via Michele's!
ReplyDeleteI never watched One Day at a Time much, but admit to loving the goofy theme song.
ReplyDeleteAlso love the Sopranos (that's my hood, yo!)
Andy Griffith Show. Best intro ever. No shoes!
ReplyDeleteMy faves are:
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The Simpsons
Vanished
Star Trek and Star Trek TNG (I frankly didn't like the Voyager intro...)
My favorites:
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Angel
Veronica Mars
Dallas, MASH, Friends, Cheers
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Dr Who
ST: VOY
And the Mirror Universe intro was good too.
- Tom
One of my favourites would have to be good old Gilligans Island ... that song just sticks in my brain. And Happy Days, too. More recent ones would be Six Feet Under and Survivor.
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Have a wonderful week.
Take care, Meow