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Old 08-13-11 | 10:06 PM
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Re: Best/worst tv show opening?

Originally Posted by Nick Martin
In a bit of shameless self-promotion, a while back I created an extended title sequence / summary of the show using the soundtrack album's extended version of the ANGEL theme:

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Nicely done. Glad we got a little "Grr. Argh." action at the end.
Old 08-14-11 | 01:39 AM
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Re: Best/worst tv show opening?

Originally Posted by the big train
It seems cheesy now, but Unsolved Mysteries scared the bejeezus out of this kid and the theme was a major part of that.

Not necessarily the best, but VERY effective.
Same here. Robert Stack's voice and smoky atmosphere added to that already very creepy theme that nowadays is dark and dramatic but it's hard to believe I was scared of it just as you were as a kid!

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Nicely done. Glad we got a little "Grr. Argh." action at the end.
Thanks. When I made that originally it was in 2007 or so, and it went through a whole series of revisions every little while before finally being happy with it. I knew how it had to open (shots of a the sunset, various L.A. cityscape images) and how it had to end (the famous alley, and the Mutant Enemy demon) so it was a case of filling in that gap.
Old 08-14-11 | 02:12 AM
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I think if Unsolved Mysteries didn't deal with Ghosts/Demons or UFO's/Alien Abductions, I wouldn't have been scared by it. There was a while there when they would have that shot of a Grey in the credits and it made a Pavlovian response out of the music.
Old 08-14-11 | 07:48 AM
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Re: Best/worst tv show opening?

I'm not sure whether this falls under best or worst. It does summarize the premise of the show and the song is difficult to get out of your head once you've heard it, but I look at it today and say, "that's bad!".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fk7HzTipI

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And I'd go with this one (only shown in the USA) as my all-time favorite.

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Old 08-17-11 | 07:11 AM
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Re: Best/worst tv show opening?

Another current fave of mine:

Old 08-17-11 | 07:55 AM
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Re: Best/worst tv show opening?

Favorites include Game of Thrones, Dexter, The X-Files, Scrubs, The Simpsons
Old 08-17-11 | 08:33 AM
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Re: Best/worst tv show opening?

I always loved the NYPD Blue intro

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Old 08-17-11 | 08:51 AM
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Re: Best/worst tv show opening?

Two shows where I like the show, and like the title music, but don't much like the title designs:

Night Court - yeah, it's an 80's sitcom, but the opening is just too 80's video, especially with the title flipping back on screen at the very end

Sons of Anarchy - the tattoos melting off to form the actor's names doesn't really work for me, especially the large last one
Old 08-17-11 | 09:29 AM
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One of my favorite when I was a kid. This is supposedly Tom Hanks favorite show as a kid too.

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Old 08-17-11 | 12:58 PM
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Old 08-17-11 | 12:59 PM
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Has this one been mentioned yet?


This one is also tremendously underrated and nearly forgotten:
Old 08-17-11 | 02:19 PM
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Game of Thrones. Nothing else on TV right now even comes close to that level of creativity and usefulness.
Old 08-17-11 | 05:39 PM
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Re: Best/worst tv show opening?

Ah, the great old British knights in armor swashbuckling series...

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