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- Actually, 21 new shows. The 22nd was Centennial, a 26-hour maxi-series that usually aired as two-hour episodes, if not three hours, and was randomly scheduled on Sunday nights some weeks and Saturdays other weeks between October 1978 and February 1979. It wasn't exactly a regular weekly series but still lengthy enough to be regarded as a new series, nevertheless.
WKRP in Cincinnati and Taxi had two of the best themes of all-time!
wkrp theme is actually a pretty good full length song.
If I recall correctly, the Taxi theme was just a piece of stock music they pulled out of the library. Somehow it was perfect.
...and I misremembered: it was specially composed for the show, but not as the main theme tune--it was the theme for a guest character in the third episode, and replaced the more upbeat original theme.
It's interesting that the WKRP song is a love-lost ballad addressed to, I always imagined, an ex-girlfriend of Andy Travis who never appears in the show (though I guess one did show up in an episode). It's this odd side note.
And two of the best sit coms as well.
I remember looking at Conrad Janis in "Mork and Mindy" and thinking that he was an old man. He was younger then than I am now. I also did not find out until later that he was a famous bandleader previously and so it made sense for him to run a music shop in the TV show. Also, he is still alive at 93 years old.
That's what is so weird. I'm 50 and I talk to guys my age and we're all like big kids, still.
I was watching an old episode of The Bob Newhart Show, and I realized that I am older now than Bob was then, and that makes me feel...old.
@@campbellpaul it’s a blessing and a curse that our generation has been able to never really grow up.
@Aunchient Pistol Cigarettes, booze, and more stress back then.
@@biaknoxsousa788
I know what it was!
They lacked Facebook, TikTok, and Amazon tracking their behaviors computed by algorithms that make our lives so much better today.
To this day, when I hear the Taxi theme I can still hear my mom say it's time for bed.
Most depressing theme ever
I always thought that myself. Now I hear it as more peaceful than depressing. Second half of the Bob Newhart Show theme is pretty depressing in its own right.
@@patientmental875 I think it was because it meant bedtime, at least for me. It was and still is depressing .
MASH was the theme that meant bedtime for me...I hated that song.
Listen to a song called Night Moods sometime. I think you'll recognize it if you ever saw the show. Night Moods is by Bob James who wrote the song Angela which was used as the Taxi theme.
Never missed an episode of Battlestar Galactica. Own the Definitive Collection on Blu-ray. RIP Richard Hatch.
Can we all pretend that Galactica 1980, or whatever that last season was called, doesn't actually exist.
@@christopherconard2831 haha, that spinoff sucked!!!
Bee Dee Bee dee
I liked the theme music better than that of Star Wars. It would have been incredible in a theater.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 It was played in a movie theatre. There was a Battlestar Galactica movie and the them was awesome in a movie theatre.
"Wanna know something?"
Just by watching the intro for "Mork & Mindy" I realized what a great comedian Robin Williams was, all despite his long battle with his personal demons. We'll still mourn his sudden passing till the end of time.
#FOREVERMRWILLIAMS
I grew tired of Robin Williams' shtick in roughly three-and-a-half seconds (give or take...).
You da man, Senor Roma. Don't tell SpeedWarrior1, though (I wouldn't wanna be de-deified).
Watching these good ol' shows from a simpler time, is my anti-depressant.
Simpler???
The Seventies were not a simpler time. You were just younger.
@@davmpls The TV shows were simpler. You could watch them as escapism from the problems of life, as opposed to now where the problems have permeated entertainment and you are hard-pressed to find a show that isn't pushing an agenda.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 You are so right. I completely agree with you.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 Wow. You are deluded. There are literally thousands of shows across countless networks to choose from. You want escapism? For God’s sake, the top movies now are all superhero movies. We’re being choked with escapism. I’ll bet you’re one of those people who thinks that “the main character is a black woman” is “pushing an agenda.” You really don’t need escapism. You need to tune in to the beauty of the real world.
1978, middle school, possibly the happiest summer of my life! A toast to the class of ‘83!
Here's to you fellow graduate from 83. 🍻
Same here.
I graduated high school in 1978... boy does this bring back some memories!
Love those late-70s/early 80s mini-series, Centennial being one of the best. The Thornbirds, Shogun, Rich Man Poor Man, Roots, etc. All great stories.
Roots and Shogun were my favorites.
I loved WKRP! Andy had some awesome hair. Bailey was such a cutie. Johnny cracked me up. By the way, BOOGER!!!!!
I got the BOOGER reference!
This is my coveted Silver Sow Award!
The Thanksgiving turkey giveaway from the helicopter was classic 🤣🤣🤣
WKRP "As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
@@zband9016 the pinedale shopping mall has just been bombed by turkeys 😂😂😂. I just had to rewatch that clip 👍👍
WKRP. Best show ever! Thanks for the upload.
How many shows have you seen?
That Battlestar Galactica theme music was so awesome..
bee dee bee dee
And so ORIGINAL sounding!
Never seen it!
BSG BABY! One of the greatest sci-fi shows. That and Buck Rogers were my jams as a 10 year old.
"By your command."
Part of the reason Buck Rogers existed was because BSG got cancelled. They re-used some of the sets and props originally made for BSG, and the lighter tone for Buck Rogers was because some execs thought BSG wasn’t “fun” enough.
"But the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
Ted Kennedy?
Loved that part
Probably inspired by Wilbur Mills.
Classic
Mary Tyler Moore must have been a good judge of talent because on her show "Mary" she had two unknowns named David Letterman and Michael Keaton.
13:30 yeah I was wondering if that was David Letterman
David Letterman and Michael Keaton were already popular stand-up comedians. They both had already been on television series.
The show only aired 3 episodes. The variety tv format was past its prime.
Those guys had big peckers🐔
Bob James theme for Taxi is brilliant.
Loved taxi I drove a taxi for awhile in the 80s loved it it was much safer then
Bob James' song Angela was used as the Theme from 'Taxi' - a brilliant jazz ballad that's more than 5 minutes long. He also wrote a very cool tune called Night Moods that was used in at least one episode.
I really liked the theme for Flying High. A little surprised the show didn’t become successful. It seemed to fit that era of TV pretty well. Boy, was Connie Sellecca gorgeous!
I remember that show the added a laugh track around the 3rd episode and it just killed it it's so did not belong
tolfan Good memory, good god!
Whenever I forget that she was one of the most beautiful women who ever lived, I watch a clip like this and get a most welcome reminder.
And she did Hotel, if I remember ...
@@hornkraft9438 yes with barbara Streisand husband
I loved Centennial, watched the entire mini series even as long as it was, lots of great stars in it, sadly many are gone now.
I catch it on cable every do often. I still enjoy the show. Despite the fact I was in my second year of grad school in 1978-79, I made time to watch it. It took effort to keep track of when it was going to be on, but I and my housemates didn't want to miss it. No VCRs or DVRs back then.
I was a Paper Chase nerd!
Me too, especially enjoyed the episodes on Showtime a few years later.
The best show of all time was the Incredible Hulk, 1978-1981, starring Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, and Jack Colvin.
Loved the Incredible Hulk
I agree, that show was just fantastic. I loved Jack Colvin’s character so much
Not even close
A great show surely, but the BEST of all time?
Loving these theme song mixes! I love classic TV and grew up in the 70's and 80's but found a BUNCH of shows I was not familiar with thanks to your videso, have made an extensive list, going to try to find seasons of them to watch.
Very nostalgic, Thank You!
I'm proud to say that I grew up watching all of these. And looking for them here and there on the internet or a provider on tv to relive that time in my life. As a kid, Never missed BattleStar Galatica
It's crazy that in '78 The Rolling Stones were already 15 years old.
steve leslie Some Girls is a great album.
@@samanthab1923 The Stones remained great until about the time of "Emotional Rescue" and after that they became mediocre, though they continued to sell out concerts and sell a ton of albums. I couldn't name any of their songs produced after the early 80s.
jeffw1267 I hear you. Worked with a girl in the 90s who was running around to see them during Steel Wheels. Ugh. But they still draw me in. While watching Argo I heard T&A from Black & Blue & it brought me right back to HS days 😂
As were some of their girlfriends according to Mackenzie Phillips.
@@gregp103 well i can see that you're just 15 years old. No i don't want your id.
That's not the first opening to Taxi! Christoper Lloyd wasn't even involved with the show. The first season should have Randall Carver in the opening credits.
After learning about all these, I realize now that I didn't really watch that much tv as a kid. Missed a lot of shows that never appeared in my area. I would have liked Battlestar- but Space 1999 was amazing to make up for it. "In Search Of" with Leonard Nimoy was great too.
Back when they wrote REALLY good intro music
Sadly, the great TV shows intros are nearly gone because they cut into the commercial revenue…
Thank you for sharing, RwDt09! I was born in 1978, so this montage really resonated with me! For every successful program like "Mork & Mindy," "Taxi," "Vega$," or "WKRP In Cincinnati," there were quite a few stinkbombs this season like "Flying High," "Grandpa Goes To Washington," "In The Beginning," "W.E.B.," "The American Girls," and "The Waverly Wonders."
An interesting bit of trivia is that "The White Shadow" and "Diff'rent Strokes" would both premiere in November, long after the fall season was off and running. "Strokes" replaced the short-lived "Kotter"-esque sitcom "The Waverly Wonders," starring former NFL quarterback Joe "Broadway Joe" Namath. Speaking of "The Waverly Wonders," Larry Hagman was offered the leading role before going with his second choice--the amoral Texas oil baron J.R. Ewing on the long-running CBS nighttime soap "Dallas."
But there were some intriguing nuggets amid most of the fool's gold that season--"Battlestar Galactica," "Kaz," "Lifeline," "Sword Of Justice," "The Eddie Capra Mysteries," "The Paper Chase," and the miniseries "Centennial" come to mind.
The less said about both "Who's Watching The Kids?" and "People" (what incompetent network bigwig thought a weekly newsmagazine based on a magazine would be successful?), the better.
Thanks for uploading, RwDt09!
People was in the top ten for years abc imitated it with that's incredible so you are mistaken
I think you're confusing "People" (based on the long-running weekly entertainment magazine of the same name) with "Real People," which premiered on NBC the following spring.
I was ten and loved Sword of Justice. I remember a lot of these shows. I also read tv guide religiously and I remember that their team of critics claimed that Vegas and Battlestar and Mork were going to be huge hits. As a popular song of that era put it, “Two Outta Three Aint Bad”
Man.. the music for these shows was sooo good !!!
WKRP, Taxi, Mork and Mindy were iconic shows. The Paper Chase needs to be remembered. What can you say about Vegas? Also iconic and one of the greatest shows ever, only 3 seaons but decades of syndication. Always loved MTM.
Did you come here with a skull-full of mush?
@@richsackett3423 then one day, we'll all say....
@@daverindone655 “I knew you when”? You stumped me on that one.
Phyllis Davis
Say somethin about Vega$.
Some of the greatest shows of all times started in 78, but it was also fun seeing all the stinkers that I never even heard of.
Damn, I knew I saw a show at some point with McLean Stevenson as a priest. I didn't dream it after all.
Ive always loved that Taxi intro - some good ole Bob James.
The network hated it. It was completely contrary to sitcom intro music at the time. They were afraid people would be expecting a drama.
To me, the show did have kind of a serious feel to it. The comedy kind of seemed more like just a relief from the dramatic and sometimes depressing themes it explored.
"Mel 'n Collie:" ABC mid-season replacement (1973) starring Burt Mustin and Lassie as a grizzled, over-the-hill, seen-it-all P.I. and his android canine sidekick exposing the seedy underbelly of uptown Walla Walla.
@Ricky Roma It is great - I don't think it fits the show in the slightest. Obviously it didn't hurt the show at all, but it's such a mismatch in tone compared to the show.
The theme was titled Angela. They also used more songs by James, including a great jazz ballad called Night Moods, which was used as transitional or establishing shot music.
I like seeing the old las Vegas lights.
Sad to think none of it is left, Actors or Casinos.
It's funny watching these compilations and seeing not only shows that went on to become classics but the short-lived forgotten shows. Most of these short lived ones I never heard of or half the actors in them lol
Battlestar Galactica. Wonderful premise and plot.
I got the references to the Greek gods but I knew nothing of Mormonism and didn't realize that this was done by a Mormon producer. Interesting.
Still one of my all time favorite shows.
I can't wait for the 78 season, 1977 is going by so slow for me.
Bossman Have a feeling that it’s not gonna be much better.
I hear that new show "Three's Company" is pretty good though.
DAMN they played the OG WKRP intro with the announcer? I remember those hot summer nights in 79 as a little kid watching that show!
After years of being a primetime TV junkie I would say this was my last somewhat active year. Turned 14 and found many more interesting things to do with my time - mainly listening to music and working. Looks like I didn't miss much. Did have a dedication to WKRP and the occasional MORK when Morgan Fairchild was on it :P Didn't see TAXI until the Rev. Jim years. But will never forget The Incredible Hulk episode when he's dosed with LSD XD
Man, people in 1978 watching that Battlestar Galactica intro must have been like 'THE BROUGHT STAR WARS TO TV!'
Yep. it was pretty cool at start, but worn on rather quickly. Same with Buck Rogers, which only had 1 good season, season 2 was a total creative shakeup and failure.
George sued them too!
Poor Mcean Stevenson just couldn't get that hit show after MASH.
Jim Belushi as Bert Gunkle.
13:08 Great time for a Rolling Stones retrospective! Who knows how much longer they'd be around.
Steven Watchorn EXACTLY ...
They squeaked out another 41 measly years SOMEHOW
@@ricolewis2949I believe they embarked on their first "farewell" tour in 1982...they've made a solid career out of all that farewell touring!
I almost forgot how great it was growing up in the 70's and 80's . I left home in 1988 @ 17 yrs old to join the USMC and spent 33yrs there.
13:09 lol! a salute to 15 years of The Rolling Stones hits!
"Here's a dime. Call your mother and tell her you're not going to be a lawyer." Larry Hagman said he had two scripts to choose from for the 1978 season: "The Waverly Wonders" or "Dallas." I wonder how that turned out?
That's funny.
God, I LOVE the intro to The Paper Chase! It's too bad it was short-lived. :(
The classical music to the later years wasn't bad, either, just not Pop 70s.
It was revived a few years later but it didn't have the same vibe for me.🇬🇧
Best show for me, was is and always will be Emergency! I love both Randy Mantooth and Kevin Tige. Love from Marysville California KMG 365
Wow...what a bagful of absolute classics!
I attended a live taping of a Taxi episode, hoping to see Andy Kaufman but he didn't appear in that episode. They had a live band that played the theme song at the top of the show
Andy "So Funny, I Forgot To Laugh" Kaufman .
Neat. I would have loved to have seen a live taping.
Back when TV didn't suck.
lol most of these were trash. Nostalgia's a hell of a drug.
R.I.P. Robin Williams.
He just went back to Ork.
BSG 🙌🙌🙌 Dirk Benedict, John Colicos, Jonathan Harris, Anne Lockhart, just perfect. This show needs to come back to MeTV or H&I.
I live in Canada, so we are just getting some of these shows now. I look forward to seeing more of Jack Albertson.
I AM Canada.
You'll like Chico and the Man
Oh God I hope that you are joking 😂😬!!
I mean, we're behind in a lot of things, but *_41 years_* - ??
lol, Canada is another planet, light years away
Wow what a year! WKRP, Battlestar, Mork, Taxi, Paper Chase, Vegas
So many inspired by blockbusters movies -- W.E.B by Network, Battlestar Galactica by Star Wars, The Paper Chase by the same. The resurgence of the movie industry in the late '70s changed the face of TV.
DAMN , now I feel old . I watched most of these as they were broadcast .
So did I
Paper Chase was one of the all-time great TV programs.
Dull
@@jerrywoods4066 Hardly. But it's not an action show. It's more cerebral and about cultivating character (in individuals) and justice (in society).
@@christophergraves6725 yeah I know . I tried watching it back then. Couldn't get into it. The characters were not very interesting
@@jerrywoods4066 People are different. I loved the show and could identify with what the students were going through since I was in graduate school at the time. I also appreciated the issues that they addressed in the law as well as the bonds of friendship forged under the duress of demands of their classes.
@@christophergraves6725 I get it. My buddy is a teacher. He liked this show alot.
Rest in peace Mr Hatch.
AgnosticProle I Know it hurt me he passed away, part of my childhood just died as well
The Life of Tony oh my god I forgot that! 😖
Keep the Faith. So say we all by the Lords of Kobol
He was in both incarnations of BSG.
Wow what a monster year for tv. So many classics. WKRP, Taxi, Battlestar Galactica
You had to have TV guide or News Paper to know when they were on....
Master Chief 00117 Omg 😲 that's right! But we only got 7 channels so it was easy to flip thru. Reception was terrible on all. Watched anyway.
My grandparents came for a visit they got into an argument with my mom then yelled at me,so my dad mom and I went for a ride, I was snickering ,so my dad asked me what I was laughing about, and I pulled out the tv guide and showed it to him, l both my parents laughed their tails off. Grandparents went crazy looking for it
Not really. I rarely ever used one in ‘78. There weren’t many channels, the schedule was fairly consistent, and promos were on constantly to remind you when shows were coming on.
I didn't. I was a child but I was a walking TV Guide. You could ask me any night any time and I could tell you what was going to be on from 7pm-midnight, even though I had to be in bed by 9pm. I needed a TV Guide when more channels started popping up and then, in the mid-90s I didn't care anymore. There are shows on now that I hear are on their final season number seven and I think, "I never heard of this show and it's been on seven years?"
@@mortimerbrewster3671 7 seasons these days are a year and a half.
That Sunday when Battlestar Galactica premiered it was interrupted by the signing of The Camp David Accords. When the signing ceremony was over the show picked up where it left off. I had set my schedule for that day by Galactica's premier and had to report for work at 11 PM for the overnight shift. No (widespread use of) VCRs in those days. Going forward, every Sunday night for months was defined by watching Battlestar Galactica before i had to head-in to work. If early starts were scheduled then I missed that week's episode 😥 . I haven't watched much of Battlestar Galactica over the past several decades but I still have a high opinion of it out of a sense of nostalgia.
Cool
Was just thinking of the peace accords today. Sad what is happening in Israel now.
@@deidrezbiegien5549 You said it. Broad implications for global stability.
1978 Arguably the best year for new shows ever.
That would be 1982.
1978 was definitely a memorable year, and I was only 7. I remember the snowstorm of '78, we dug crazy tunnels and forts in my yard and on the lake. These shows WERE SO BAD.
I remember that I was much older got weeks off school
Hey, remember when we used to have snow? Pepperidge Farms remembers. Snow forts in Rhode Island for days....
Tell me more about your lake fort. That's why I'm here.
I was 11.
@@williampowell3378 So?
WKRP was one of the best sitcoms of all time. Some classic television in that show. Same with Taxi.
My friend still references the famous Thanksgiving show. WKRP was iconic.
Anyone remember the phone cops episode? Hilarious.
Replacement for the Bob Newhart show then Newhart replaced it.
@@slurve44 was phone cops 👮♂️ also tied in with being locked or caught in the transmitter tower during a tornado. Just remember Johnny paranoid about the phone cops are coming lol
@@robinhood480 I honestly can't remember. Like you, I just remember him thinking the phone cops were after him for smashing the phone.
I had Battlestar Galactica colorforms! And I had the Mork suspenders and wore them proudly in kindergarten.
so many of these near and dear to my heart and my childhood like WKRP, Taxi and Mork and Mindy others I don't remember at all like Sword of Justice and Mary and remember Kaz was a good show thought it was cancelled too soon.
That VEGA$ theme was great! As was Baretta, SWAT, The Love Boat and Starsky & Hutch among others.
When I was a kid, if I was watching Taxi, it meant there was no school the next day because it came on at 9, and that was my bedtime on school nights. I loved Taxi. How can I be 55 now, wasn't I just 10?
Trip down memory lane.
Four well-remembered debuts: Battlestar Galactica, Mork & Mindy, WKRP and Taxi
I was 1K, What a flood of memories, the music of the television themes, life when it was so much better than today, I need a time machine.
You were 1,000? How old are you today 😏
@@nonamegame9857 🤣 I meant to say I was the one thousandth like.
I get home on the weekend, make a drink , and put on 70's tv show intros. it makes me forget about the rotten world for a while.
This brings back memories. Sadly, some of the "flops" of this season were some of the best shows on. Like "The Paper Chase," got cancelled after one season on CBS only to find a new life on Showtime Television for several seasons after the series was repeated on PBS. "Kaz," which should have been renewed on CBS as well. And one of my favorites of that season "Sword Of Justice" that NBC never gave a chance to.
I remember Ron Liebman won an award for Kaz (People's Choice, I think) and when he came up to accept the award, he joked about Kaz not being pre-empted because it had already been canceled.
Michael Keaton, David Letterman in MARY.
Yeah, whatever became of those guys?
@@peterwyetzner5276 "They're living on the air in Cincinnati. Cincinnati WKRP." Not really...
Second city alums
David Letterman was on mork and mindy as a jerk lol
@@daveyhouston he played himself? :p
BSG, Mork & Mindy, WKRP and Taxi! The fall season is looking great so far!
The promo with Rue McClanahan and Dabney Coleman(and Jack Gilford) was called "'Apple Pie'. lasted 7 episodes.
Had to dig through the comments quite a bit. Thanks for naming the show.
It’s Such A Simpler Time
Which Makes Things More
Simpler Today.
"You come in here with your minds full of mush, but you leave here with razor sharp, double-edged legal dual mind blades."
Mr Fucking Show
That was long before How To Get Away With Murder. 😉
Or words to that effect...
Oh god thank you for the memories of these shows and great love for robin William ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😅😅😅😅😅😅😅🎉🎉🎉🎉
The WKRP episode about the turkey's is comedy gold.
This brings back a lot of memories.
Dude, take me back to ‘78!
To bad Battlestar Galatica, only lasted about 20 episodes, would have loved it if the found earth, Galatica 1980, they found earth, but with only some of the original cast
I was 7 in 1978. Looking back, I realize Judy Landers did something to me. ❤😂
WKRP and Taxi? Tv excellence that hasn't been touched since.
I feel old.
so do i.....i was 6 back then :D
I'd already had my first kid! :)
hoosierwood because we are......haha but we were lucky to live in this time.i think tv was special in the 60s and 70s.my kids don't understand you had to wait for programs you wanted to see.
Tiger Tiger - Hallelujah and pass the frijoles mon ami.
I know right?
DACK
RAMBO!
I love that name!
I completely forgot about Sword of Justice! That show had a great antihero premise and some clever episodes. Why hasn't it been remade over and over?
It's a cool hollywood name. He played one of the coolest characters on DALLAS as short lived as it was.
suffering succotash... lmao... wow, how long did it take for you to realize she was lying?
Dack Rambo: Also the male lead in "Dirty Sally." Short-lived but, I was a kid and I got a kick out of it.
I love his name, too! It has a Troy McClure-esque feel to it!
We played VEGA$ in the Junior High marching band, true story.
Man, I love these show openings. I don't even think that today's shows have openings any more. If they do, it's like three seconds long.
Battlestar Galactica was my Star wars. Always wanted to go and see Star wars, but we were ...well, short money. So Battlestar Galactica took its place, and I loved it.
"Mork & Mindy"(R.I.P. Robin), WKRP, TAXI, VEGAS. I even remembered "Dick Clark's Live Wednesday", "Flying High", "The Paper Chase", "Apple Pie", & "Who's Watching The Kids". Poor "Mary", she didn't have a chance and doesn't the show "Waverly Wonders" reminded you of "The White Shadow"? If Joe had the producers & writers of "The White Shadows" but he wasn't so lucky. 1978 was a great year.
What a great year for new shows. All my favorites.
Battlestar Galactica, Mork & Mindy, WKRP, Taxi, The Paper Chase, Vegas. Great year for new shows.
the paper chase was based on the 1973 feature which also starred John horseman and Lindsay Wagner was in it also.
Lindsay Wagner - a major heartthrob of mine during the 70s...
Amazing how many significant shows that year. Paper Chase was something. Outside of Houseman what an incredible array of nobodies on that show!
It did have a few future stars, though. Robert Ginty, Marylu Henner, Kim Cattrall, John Goodman, etc.
In the Beginning (16:28) was another attempt of Maclean Stevenson to find sitcom success after he left MASH. His first attempt was "Hello Larry" which was the butt of jokes long after it was cancelled
One of the great mysteries of Maclean Stevenson's career was that he created such an unforgettable character on one TV serries but could never make a success out of any other series.
Some of these shows look interesting. I look forward to them coming out this fa...oh wait.
Forget it.
Don't worry. Hollywood will be remaking them all soon enough. I hear they're casting Will Smith as Kingsfield in "Paper Chase - SJW."
Wow, perhaps the best year in the history of television! So many legendary shows (Taxi, Mork and Mindy, WKRP, Vegas).
So Colonel Blake from MASH became a priest after getting shot down over the Sea of Japan?
Sorry but I’m only just watching these amazing videos. A lot of childhood memories here as a lot of these shows were shown in England. Not so much the obscure shows but certainly the hit shows. My all time favourite show ‘Starsky and Hutch ‘
With Huggy Bear! :-)
Today’s modern tv shows just have garbage cold openings with no personality or titles. You won’t be able to do a video like this in 30 yrs today’s crop of tv shows. Not saying anything about the overall quality just the lack of distinctive opening credits.
TV's been over for a decade.
Blame it on commercials. Depending on the show, the opening credits were between 1-1.5 minutes and the episodes were longer than they are now. They needed to do away with the opening credits in order to take advantage of every minute not spent on commercials. Personally, I prefer they just get to the show and play the credits over the opening sequence.
Would be a bunch of fake reality shows