They’re masterpieces compared to now. And, the best part was they were just entertainment. And I’ve never understood reality TV. well, actually, I did like that one where they were outdoors people and had to race to somewhere. I especially remember Patagonia as one season. That was interesting, they were doing something. But who the hell cares about rich people sitting around on their fat asses (literally). We all have families lol. We all know other people. Why is watching someone else’s life so interesting? It boggles. We all LIVE reality TV! Give me some escapism, please.
William Katt. Greatest american Hero should never have been cancelled. Great theme song. I remember talk of bringing it back. Seemed like a hit at the time.
Recently saw reruns and I loved the show back then and now too. The theme song was actually a hit on AM radio too. Those were the days... maybe the last of a great era. Today sucks !
I'm doing research into unmade Superhero movies & Jim Henson was planning to direct MARVEL'S SECRET WARS: THE MOVIE a live action 15 rated adaptation of the comic storyline in 1988 a full year before Tim Burton made dark superhero movies the norm with Batman. As it would have been a British movie, funding was an issue & killed it in 88 but Henson was still involved in 90 when he died & its interesting to think were his career would have gone had he lived & made other non-Muppet movies.
He was in the process of selling everything to Disney when he died. His death stopped the sale. His family eventually came back to it and sold years later.
I was 14-18 during this time period, and had a TV in my bedroom, yet recall NONE of these shows. The only reasonable explanation is you have retrieved these intros from an alternate universe.
Good comment. I say the same thing. I was around then, though younger. Never saw any of these. The networks must have not given these shows enough of a chance.
Yes! It was kind of a low rent Magnum P.I. type 1980's "buddy-buddy" show. It kept with the likes of Riptide, Simon and Simon, The Fall Guy and to a lesser extent The Greatest American Hero. I watched Hardcastle and McCormick semi regularly on ABC where it ran for a couple of years. They also re ran the show in the late eighties and early ninties on Saturday afternoons or something. It was a decent show in the day, but really does not hold up very well today. It was kind of silly, a lot of shooting, punching and running folks down with cars although no one ever really got hurt. I think it was Brian Keith's last TV show on the downslide and end of his career.
@@310McQueen I sure do. Every other week it seemed he was having to repair the bullet holes in it. It was almost like the A- Team with all the gun fire but no people were injured. Hah.
By law (United States Constitution, Amendment 28, Section 4), Suzanne Pleshette must have a television series basically at all times, with no more than 7 months elapsing between subsequent series.
"Believe it or not" the Greatest American Hero theme song was hardly forgettable as it joined just a very few select television theme songs to make a hit on the music charts and get airplay on radio stations. (Hawaii Five O, Ballad of Jed Clampet, and Petticoat Junction are some of the others.) The show, of course, is another matter.
The Greatest American Hero was a great show. Super hero with flaws and doubts. A great mix of comedy and action. Maybe you were watching a different show?
@@channingyourtatum6726 I had grown up by the '80s and worked nights a lot in that decade, so I didn't have much time for television. I remember watching the show a few times, wasn't exactly my cup of tea, but it wasn't horrible either. What the last part of my comment meant was more about how the show did with general audiences. As I recall it didn't last very long, one or two seasons, wasn't it? I had no intention of trashing the show. Thanks for your reply.
@@wellston2826 Without checking, I believe that it was on for 3 seasons. You could technically say 2.5 because I believe the 1st season was a mid-season replacement. Either way, ABC did lose faith in it. I believe that was because it didn't get the ratings they wanted and it was a bit more expensive to produce than they liked. Thanks for your return response and have a great weekend!
B'Elanna Torres (Roxanne Dawson) was in Nightingales before her Voyager Days. She was credited as Roxanne Biggs....since she was once upon a time married to DS9's Damar.
Wow!..... I just long for those days. I had such a good time in my youth. The 70's and 80's was a great time to be a kid and teen. I'm glad I had that chance.
I remember watching "You Again?" during its first run. As a child I loved Jack Klugman and figured it'd be awesome because he was in it. Stamos was obviously still an unknown here.
I didn't think Stamos was unknown at this point, since his role as Blackie Parrish on General Hospital (1982-84) was popular with soap viewers. He was making his first forays into primetime with Dreams (CBS, 1984) and You Again?, but I think both were the victim of stiff competition. Not even Full House was an immediate hit.
He did. It was Mike Post... everything from Hills Street Blues and Law and Order to Greatest American hero, Quantum Leap, and tons of other shows that never made it past 1st season. The man was EVERYWHERE on television... where there are cops, cities, and electric keyboard, there is Mike Post :)
@@dandiacal oh how awesome--thank you! tv/film composing was my dream as a kid, and Post's music was a big part of that soundscape for me as a 5-8 year old. You rock!! :)
as more and more new shows popped up it was realized that not everyone would be catching first episodes so they often had "Long Versions" of intros that were aired maybe five or six times that would tell the story of what the show was about and then they went to a short version once the show caught on and they could go back to selling more ad space....if it went into rerun the songs might have gotten even shorter again. On some dvd versions they got lazy and just threw on the long version for every episode. I have the Bosom Buddies (Tom Hanks) first season and the bloody theme song is two minutes and fifty eight seconds...they kept the long version for each and every episode on the dvds!!!!
It was a slower paced, gentler time back then. People would sit back and relax and just watch the intros with their family, pets and horse while the gas mantle gently glimmered.
Some of the best memories of TV shows come from the theme song... as soon as you hear an opening note or line, you instantly know the show. Today, theme songs are practically non-existent. Also, a lot of theme songs were opportunities for musicians to be seen/heard. Waylon Jennings, Billy Joel, many others... not everyone had CMT, MTV, VH1, etc in the 1980s.
I only remember Snoops with Venus Flytrap. I also remember High Mountain Rangers which was like the first season of Jesse Hawkes before it got reworked.
Amen. Gritty, colorful, eccentric, funny show. I was hoping Frank's Place would succeed so some of the cast would host the(short lived) Jambalaya Jam, a Louisiana music festival in Philly. Didn't work out like that.
I watched every episode of Blacke's Magic. The Colby's I remember as well. I think it was a spin off of Dynasty. I love watching these intros. It is such a neat blast from the past!
If you liked Blacke's Magic, then there's a couple other old shows you may like: The Magician starring Bill Bixby. A magician who gets involved solving crimes. Feather & Gather starring Stephanie Powers and Harold Gould. She's a lawyer and her dad is a con man. They get involved with solving crimes. I used to love those shows.
Jim Henson Hour for TV or Public TV and anything at all connected with his genius to entertain the young and young at heart goes well beyond "memorable" to become a treasured classic. Jim Henson's magic and talent continues to reward all in viewing the treasure left to us that Disney Studios was wise enough to purchase rights to part of his amazing legacy.
Oh My Goulashes! DADS! That was the show! I remember some 30+ years ago I saw an episode where the girl wants to make dinner, but take substantially longer than she should. & the males start to slowly go insane from hunger! It was cancelled right after that & I could never remember the name! Thanks!
Real, proffessional nurses apparently called the show out back in the day. I remember some said it did not depict what actual nurses did and the excess T & A. The women were pretty but I did not contunue watching it because the show was just plain bad. But then again, does TV ever get lawyers, cops, doctors and nurses right?
William Coulman I found a DVD of The Storyteller a while back. The DVD cover was blatantly trying to capitalize on Lord of the Rings fame at the time (young kid's picture set in the middle of a huge ring). Just as I was about to make fun of it, I realized what the show was and bought it immediately! :)
Susan Walters from “Nightingales” later played “Mulva” aka Dolores on Seinfeld. In the same show, Roxann Dawson later became B’Elanna Torres on Star Trek Voyager.
So someone made "Dads", it didn't work; then two years later they make "My Two Dads", same exact thing but with a different cast, and it lasts for four seasons? TV is strange.
looking at the timing of air dates, it was less than 1 year between them my guess is 'Dads" was dismissed as a 'Kate & Allie' Gender flip... whereas 'My Two Dads' had the benefit of hype from '3 Men & a Baby' coming out that fall (similar premise of Bachelors of different "styles" being forced into child care)
"Hey, hey, trying to work it out/Compromise, that's what it's all about/So we're doing the best we can working together/There's gonna be changes, changes in your life/And maybe these changes will open up your eyes/There's gonna be changes, changes in your life/Changes right before your eyes"
"I feel the thunder I can smell the rain /I see the broken clouds of fear at the edge of the plain/I can see (grims?) of red, for the night has fled/and I can fly at the edge of the sky/oh I want to reach out my hand/and find the strength to stand/at the edge of the sky there's a road in the distance/it's not too far to follow for the one who keeps his eyes keeps his eyes at the edge of the sky/I see the light of tomorrow shining like the truth in Jesse's eyes/at the edge of the sky!
You're right. I was in my late teens at the time, and don't remember seeing any. I have the barest memories from other media that "Gung Ho" and "Dynasty The Colbys" existed, but the others I have completely never heard of them before now.
I've been having such a blast watching all these montages during the "break". I worked in network TV throughout the 90's and 2000's and just love seeing all the familiar production names and marveling at how many of these actors are still working today. Something that always makes me grin are how many times you see "...With Joe Gorgonzola as Ben Fitzpatrick" and you have to ask who the hell is Joe Gorgonzola and how the hell did his agent land him that credit?! Sometimes I go look them up and see they've had no career whatsoever. Crazy how some of these shows had absolutely no recognizable names in the cast at all yet some are star-studded and they all just failed.
So many modern shows have to run short for the extra commercials, so they don’t have time for the long, old school intros. Maybe just a title card or words over the opening.
Sometimes you can look at these intros, having never seen the show, and know exactly what every character is like. 99,9% of these sitcoms followed the same damn formula
NBC literally dominated the 80s with Hill Street Blues, Cosby Show, Cheers, Family Ties, Miami Vice St Elsewhere. Those shows never stood a chance if they were up against them.
all I did was watch Tv in the 80's I don't remember a single one NBC had the best shows back then , Thursdays , Fridays , Saturdays Sundays where all these come from !?
Mike B I looked into it, and the original show from which this one was spun off (equally short-lived and unmemorable) was executive produced by Robert Conrad’s daughter and also featured his son-in-law. Comically nepotistic.
"Nothing is easy, but you have to play/The hand that you were dealt/Though nothing is easy, on a sunny day/The coldest ice will melt/So let's live and love and smile/The struggle's all worthwhile/Nothing is easy, but our luck will change/The way we knew it would/Cuz nothing is easy, but we'll rearrange/The bad into the good/Nothing is easy but we're gonna be all right/We're gonna be all right/We're gonna be all right. . . "
10:05- Aaron Spelling reworked this controversial 1989 series into the 1995 syndicated series "UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL" , with less emphasis on sex, a slightly different setting, and a new cast. That version lasted nine episodes.
Exactly my thoughts, and Ricardo Montalban as well. But yeah, my mouth fell open to see Barbara Stanwick's name in there! (as well as her appearance, only knowing her from her golden age films)
The Colbys as a spin off ran concurrently with the main series, so you mention "Dynasty" today you might either remember it all as one series together. Yet "Knots Landing" was always distinct from "Dallas".
What the heck?!? I was practically glued to the tv in the 80's and I can't remember any of these. Though did anybody else catch B'lana Torres (sans klingon makeup) in that "Nightingales" intro?
The 80s might seem cornball now, but I'd take most of these show's over lame reality TV any day.
They’re masterpieces compared to now. And, the best part was they were just entertainment. And I’ve never understood reality TV. well, actually, I did like that one where they were outdoors people and had to race to somewhere. I especially remember Patagonia as one season. That was interesting, they were doing something. But who the hell cares about rich people sitting around on their fat asses (literally). We all have families lol. We all know other people. Why is watching someone else’s life so interesting? It boggles. We all LIVE reality TV! Give me some escapism, please.
@@mangot589 rich people sitting their asses was the premise of Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, etc.
@@MDK2_Radio well said.
Survivor was worse thing to happen to nerwork t.v.
@@coachb2766 Totally agree.
William Katt. Greatest american Hero should never have been cancelled. Great theme song. I remember talk of bringing it back. Seemed like a hit at the time.
Coach B I loved the show and the theme song.
I loved The Greatest American Hero.
I loved that show!
True, but its not one of the 22 shown here.
Recently saw reruns and I loved the show back then and now too. The theme song was actually a hit on AM radio too. Those were the days... maybe the last of a great era. Today sucks !
In an alternate universe, Jim Henson lives for 30 more years, and The Jim Henson Hour becomes as iconic as The Wonderful World of Disney
If he'd only lived to a reasonable (not even ripe old) age, just think of all the wonderful things he would have bequeathed to us...
I'm doing research into unmade Superhero movies & Jim Henson was planning to direct MARVEL'S SECRET WARS: THE MOVIE a live action 15 rated adaptation of the comic storyline in 1988 a full year before Tim Burton made dark superhero movies the norm with Batman. As it would have been a British movie, funding was an issue & killed it in 88 but Henson was still involved in 90 when he died & its interesting to think were his career would have gone had he lived & made other non-Muppet movies.
Boring shows tend to have boring intros, mediocre shows tend to have mediocre intros oh, you got to get a person's attention before you can keep it😊
He was in the process of selling everything to Disney when he died. His death stopped the sale. His family eventually came back to it and sold years later.
@@rogerrambo4172 That would have been fantastic.
I was 14-18 during this time period, and had a TV in my bedroom, yet recall NONE of these shows. The only reasonable explanation is you have retrieved these intros from an alternate universe.
badger500 I only remember the Colby’s
I just found this, and I agree. Though likely many of these were from pilots that their shows got off the ground and were never shown again.
They are from my universe
I remember watching You Again (my best friend had a crush on John Stamos), and Nightingales. I remember The Colbys, but I never watched it.
Good comment. I say the same thing. I was around then, though younger. Never saw any of these. The networks must have not given these shows enough of a chance.
My mom was a big fan of those night/daytime soaps. Anyone remember Falcon Crest??
Who not!. Dallas, Dynasty, Santa Barbara just to name a few....
My Mom loved Dallas and Dynasty.
Avignon CBS owned Friday nights in the 80s with ‘Dukes of Hazzard’, ‘Dallas,’ ‘Falcon Crest,’ & ‘Beauty & The Beast.’
I was a kid in the Eighties and had the biggest crush on Kristian Alfonso
Falcon Crest was terrible I thought
Wow. I pride myself on my memory of the 80s, there is some stuff on here that I have no recollection whatsoever! Thanks
I'm not sure if all of these were American-made series. "The Colbys" being the only one I've ever even heard of, I wouldn't know for sure.
I don't remember any of these and I grew upnin the 80's. Does anyone remember Hardcastle and McCormack
No just McMillan and wife.
Just as one of the many X & Y shows, like Jake & the Fatman, Simon & Simon, and the rest. I didn't find it interesting when it was on the air.
Yes! It was kind of a low rent Magnum P.I. type 1980's "buddy-buddy" show. It kept with the likes of Riptide, Simon and Simon, The Fall Guy and to a lesser extent The Greatest American Hero. I watched Hardcastle and McCormick semi regularly on ABC where it ran for a couple of years. They also re ran the show in the late eighties and early ninties on Saturday afternoons or something. It was a decent show in the day, but really does not hold up very well today. It was kind of silly, a lot of shooting, punching and running folks down with cars although no one ever really got hurt. I think it was Brian Keith's last TV show on the downslide and end of his career.
My dad watched that show but for me it was only worth watching for the car. Anyone remember the Coyote car?
@@310McQueen I sure do. Every other week it seemed he was having to repair the bullet holes in it. It was almost like the A- Team with all the gun fire but no people were injured. Hah.
I had forgotten the tags "In Stereo Where Available."
And CC (closed captions)!.....
Oh...I LOVED Nightingales!! These are all so fun to see again. Back then we just didn't have a way to campaign to save shows the way we do now.
We would write letters to the stations and networks. It only worked if they had a large enough response....which was rarely.
By law (United States Constitution, Amendment 28, Section 4), Suzanne Pleshette must have a television series basically at all times, with no more than 7 months elapsing between subsequent series.
Don't forget about her costar Susan Walters as that beauty was everywhere in the 1980's n early 1990s, ;)
Best comment ever
"Believe it or not" the Greatest American Hero theme song was hardly forgettable as it joined just a very few select television theme songs to make a hit on the music charts and get airplay on radio stations. (Hawaii Five O, Ballad of Jed Clampet, and Petticoat Junction are some of the others.) The show, of course, is another matter.
The Greatest American Hero was a great show. Super hero with flaws and doubts. A great mix of comedy and action. Maybe you were watching a different show?
@@channingyourtatum6726
I had grown up by the '80s and worked nights a lot in that decade, so I didn't have much time for television. I remember watching the show a few times, wasn't exactly my cup of tea, but it wasn't horrible either. What the last part of my comment meant was more about how the show did with general audiences. As I recall it didn't last very long, one or two seasons, wasn't it? I had no intention of trashing the show. Thanks for your reply.
@@wellston2826 Without checking, I believe that it was on for 3 seasons. You could technically say 2.5 because I believe the 1st season was a mid-season replacement. Either way, ABC did lose faith in it. I believe that was because it didn't get the ratings they wanted and it was a bit more expensive to produce than they liked. Thanks for your return response and have a great weekend!
@@wellston2826 Eh, I liked it as a kid and thought it was a cool concept, but I also remember thinking that it dragged too much at times.
And you're talking about this because...?
It's like watching "Too Many Cooks".
I like too many cooks
Lol I was thinking the same thing
That Muppet Hour opening unlocked some deep memories, I completely forgot it, but watching it I remembered it frame for frame, crazy how that works
Awkward mugging for the camera? Check. Forgettable theme song? Check. Failed comedians? Check.
3:30 Wow! Scott Bakula, way b4 his enterprise commanding days. Even b4 his leaping days.
B'Elanna Torres (Roxanne Dawson) was in Nightingales before her Voyager Days. She was credited as Roxanne Biggs....since she was once upon a time married to DS9's Damar.
I never realised how much he looks like Jamie Lee Curtis before....
His future wife Chelsea Field in nightingales...
I loved The Jim Henson Hour! Looked forward to it every Sunday it aired!
“Nothing is Easy” looks like it had every 80s tv trope combined into one show. Plus, the theme song is a banger.
Scott Grimes (Nothing is easy) is the voice of Steven Anita Smith in American Dad.
It sounds like a song that could very easily get extended radio play and be on top of the charts.
Kristy Swanson the original Buffy !
God I miss Jim Henson.
Look what Disney did to the Muppet Show.
Jofer Jeff yeah how is god gonna help?
I spent my Sunday looking up the actors on Wikipedia. It took me a long time...but it was fun.
@@zapkvr - It's a phrasal thing, as well as a tonal thing, dingus.
@@marlonmontelhiggins8570 the frickety frack does that even mean?
Wow!..... I just long for those days. I had such a good time in my youth. The 70's and 80's was a great time to be a kid and teen. I'm glad I had that chance.
I remember watching "You Again?" during its first run. As a child I loved Jack Klugman and figured it'd be awesome because he was in it. Stamos was obviously still an unknown here.
It was based on a British sitcom, "HOME TO ROOST".
I thought so!
I didn't think Stamos was unknown at this point, since his role as Blackie Parrish on General Hospital (1982-84) was popular with soap viewers. He was making his first forays into primetime with Dreams (CBS, 1984) and You Again?, but I think both were the victim of stiff competition. Not even Full House was an immediate hit.
Sounds like the same person composed all the theme songs.
ferociousgumby that's good. Think you're right. His name was hammy Hamilton.
He did. It was Mike Post... everything from Hills Street Blues and Law and Order to Greatest American hero, Quantum Leap, and tons of other shows that never made it past 1st season. The man was EVERYWHERE on television... where there are cops, cities, and electric keyboard, there is Mike Post :)
All these shows look pretty much the same too.
@@ingridfong-daley5899 ruclips.net/video/2HYLSu1RMsA/видео.html
@@dandiacal oh how awesome--thank you! tv/film composing was my dream as a kid, and Post's music was a big part of that soundscape for me as a 5-8 year old. You rock!! :)
As awful as these intros and shows were I'm really missing the 80's right now.
I remember Nightingales and Snoops only. Loved Tim Reid. He was in another cancelled forgotten show, Frank's Place, that I really enjoyed.
I MISS THE 80'S SO MUCH.
What killed these shows is the fact that their intros went on for about 30 seconds longer than they should have.
as more and more new shows popped up it was realized that not everyone would be catching first episodes so they often had "Long Versions" of intros that were aired maybe five or six times that would tell the story of what the show was about and then they went to a short version once the show caught on and they could go back to selling more ad space....if it went into rerun the songs might have gotten even shorter again. On some dvd versions they got lazy and just threw on the long version for every episode. I have the Bosom Buddies (Tom Hanks) first season and the bloody theme song is two minutes and fifty eight seconds...they kept the long version for each and every episode on the dvds!!!!
It was a slower paced, gentler time back then. People would sit back and relax and just watch the intros with their family, pets and horse while the gas mantle gently glimmered.
@pannoni10 TV lacked personality back then. It's less boring today.
@@ian_b 😂 I love these kinds of jokes.
Some of the best memories of TV shows come from the theme song... as soon as you hear an opening note or line, you instantly know the show. Today, theme songs are practically non-existent.
Also, a lot of theme songs were opportunities for musicians to be seen/heard. Waylon Jennings, Billy Joel, many others... not everyone had CMT, MTV, VH1, etc in the 1980s.
Sad that so many actors had their one chance and then got on a failing show and then disappeared forever...
That may have been a good thing for them.....Fame & money do not always equate to Happiness !!! !!! !!!
I feel like I'm watching an alternate timeline.
@John Bold most likely pilots that never got picked up
I thought that myself. Biff Tanen became the president so who knows.
@@toddstewart9070 lol good one there!!!
Was going to write that but you beat me to it. Seeing Dolphin Cove. Totally forgot that.
I only remember Snoops with Venus Flytrap. I also remember High Mountain Rangers which was like the first season of Jesse Hawkes before it got reworked.
"TV devours actors at about the same rate that a whale devours plankton." - Bruce Willis
Only Bruce made it!...
"We're going to need a bigger boat..."
What? That's not Willis?
I didn't know Willis was an expert on whales & plankton...
lol
TV also devours actor's hair
The one thing i do remember is the "In Stereo where available" logo from NBC.
Good memory. All the networks had that in 1988 and 1989.
The theme song for Nothing Is Easy makes it sound like a Barbie commercial
The '80's was a pretty tough time for me. I attempted suicide twice but overcame the horrible times and finally make a pretty decent life for myself.
With Shows like 'Gung Ho' Airing, you'd be forgiven. :P
Are you still seeking help?
Once a suicide thought always a suicide thought!
Yes; Adam Ant has successfully passed the 80s.....now, the 20s.
+J.A. 263737668 Yikes, that's a terrible way to look at it. Probably best not to even put the idea in his head.
I hope you are healed and are doing OK now
I remember Snoops because the Reid's had to settle for it after the awesome Frank's Place was cancelled by CBS.
Looked like a copy of Hart to Hart.
Amen. Gritty, colorful, eccentric, funny show. I was hoping Frank's Place would succeed so some of the cast would host the(short lived) Jambalaya Jam, a Louisiana music festival in Philly. Didn't work out like that.
Frank's Place was a VERY good show, a head of it's time in many ways...
I had forgotten all about Jim Henson Hour!
Also the unofficial final star of every show was the blistering sax in the background of every theme song.
I watched every episode of Blacke's Magic. The Colby's I remember as well. I think it was a spin off of Dynasty. I love watching these intros. It is such a neat blast from the past!
If you liked Blacke's Magic, then there's a couple other old shows you may like:
The Magician starring Bill Bixby. A magician who gets involved solving crimes.
Feather & Gather starring Stephanie Powers and Harold Gould. She's a lawyer and her dad is a con man. They get involved with solving crimes.
I used to love those shows.
It’s amazing how many of these I watched but have forgotten. Thank for the walk down memory lane
Jim Henson Hour for TV or Public TV and anything at all connected with his genius to entertain the young and young at heart goes well beyond "memorable" to become a treasured classic. Jim Henson's magic and talent continues to reward all in viewing the treasure left to us that Disney Studios was wise enough to purchase rights to part of his amazing legacy.
8:53 Daphne Maxwell Reid, later the 2nd Vivian Banks on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (90s sitcom)
Dads..seems like the inspiration for 'My Two Dads'.
I seriously watch My Two Dads to this day!
Oh My Goulashes! DADS! That was the show! I remember some 30+ years ago I saw an episode where the girl wants to make dinner, but take substantially longer than she should. & the males start to slowly go insane from hunger! It was cancelled right after that & I could never remember the name! Thanks!
"The Jim Henson Hour" was cancelled for "Baywatch". Tween me was REALLY mad about that.
10:06 Nightingales, the story of an obsessive-compulsive woman who can't stop doing Jane Fonda workouts and putting pencil erasers in her mouth.
That was the 80s!....
lol,,,great comment.
So....we're talking...an hour's worth of content?
Real, proffessional nurses apparently called the show out back in the day. I remember some said it did not depict what actual nurses did and the excess T & A. The women were pretty but I did not contunue watching it because the show was just plain bad. But then again, does TV ever get lawyers, cops, doctors and nurses right?
I loved the Jim Henson hour. The Storyteller was my favorite part.
William Coulman I found a DVD of The Storyteller a while back. The DVD cover was blatantly trying to capitalize on Lord of the Rings fame at the time (young kid's picture set in the middle of a huge ring). Just as I was about to make fun of it, I realized what the show was and bought it immediately! :)
It took me years to figure out that the Jim Henson Hour had the Fashion Doll Sketch.
Lol at young Scott Bakula. I remember some of these shows-top of the hill & the one with Mr. & Mrs. Reid. RIP Jim Henson.
ChristineCAlb1 quantum leap
Susan Walters from “Nightingales” later played “Mulva” aka Dolores on Seinfeld. In the same show, Roxann Dawson later became B’Elanna Torres on Star Trek Voyager.
Oh totally remember watching this show. Came in handy.
In Nightingales she is credited as Roxann Biggs.
@@bonghunezhou5051 IIRC she's 'Biggs' in Season 1 of Voyager, 'Biggs-Dawson' for a couple seasons, and ended the show as 'Dawson'
@@TJ52359 Her married name was "Biggs" when at the time her husband was Casey Biggs. He played Cardassian Legat Dumar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I remember watching Blackies Magic. I can't remember much more about it but I was into magic back at that age.
+Aiden Cael, lurch321 It was "Blackes" (10:03), not "Blackies". An innocent mistake (by the orig. commenter) I assume.
The only reason Blacke's Magic got on the air was that Levinson and Link were hot properties because of Murder, She Wrote.
So someone made "Dads", it didn't work; then two years later they make "My Two Dads", same exact thing but with a different cast, and it lasts for four seasons? TV is strange.
Sign o' the Times as Prince would say!....
looking at the timing of air dates, it was less than 1 year between them
my guess is 'Dads" was dismissed as a 'Kate & Allie' Gender flip... whereas 'My Two Dads' had the benefit of hype from '3 Men & a Baby' coming out that fall (similar premise of Bachelors of different "styles" being forced into child care)
Casting can be everything. Shows can end up very different with different actors.
"Hey, hey, trying to work it out/Compromise, that's what it's all about/So we're doing the best we can working together/There's gonna be changes, changes in your life/And maybe these changes will open up your eyes/There's gonna be changes, changes in your life/Changes right before your eyes"
wow, I'm amazed how many of these I remember... I really did watch too much TV growing up
#2 I remember as a cool show at like 2 A.M., funny...I don't recall any others. Glad to never have got to much in to the old tube. Great Vid. Good job
Some of these intros seemed to be longer than the shows themselves.
Hah! Love it! 😅
Fantastic! some of these definitely give off an Adult Swim, “Too Many Cooks” vibe!
As you may have noticed the late 80s, we were very excited about computer animation.
00:00 - Jim Henson Hour (NBC) 1989-1993 - 12 eps (1 unaired)
00:40 - You Again? (NBC) 1986/87 - 26 eps
01:37 - Dads (ABC) 1986/87 - 9 eps
02:11 - Nothing Is Easy (CBS) 1986/87 - 19 eps (6 unaired)
03:06 - Gung Ho (ABC) 1986/87 - 9 eps
04:16 - 13 East (NBC) 1989/90 - 16 eps
05:09 - The Pursuit Of Happiness (ABC) 1987/88 - 10 eps
05:43 - Mr. Sunshine (ABC) 1986 - 11 eps
06:17 - The Nutt House (NBC) 1989 - 10 eps (5 unaired)
07:15 - A Fine Romance (ABC) 1989 - 12 eps (5 unaired)
08:14 - Snoops (CBS) 1989 - 13 eps
09:18 - Blacke's Magic (NBC) 1986 - 14 eps
10:05 - Nightingales (NBC) 1989 - 13 eps
11:42 - Peaceable Kingdom (CBS) 1989 - 12 eps (5 unaired)
12:40 - Dolphin Cove (CBS) 1989 - 8 eps
14:03 - Studio 5B (ABC) 1989 - 10 eps (7 unaired)
15:31 - Top Of The Hill (CBS) - 1989 - 13 eps (3 unaried)
16:50 - The Colbys (ABC) 1985-1987 - 49 eps
18:26 - Jesse Hawks (CBS) 1989 - 6 eps
20:13 - Gideon Oliver (ABC) 1989 - 5 eps
20:52 - Dream Street (NBC) 1989 - 6 eps
22:22 - Hardball (NBC) 1989/1990 - 18 eps
You again was actually not to bad. John Stamos has got to be a vampire. He never ages.
...and other lies we tell ourselves
Uh...have you seen him lately? He ages. He looks damned good doing it...but still...he has aged.
You again was called Home to Roost in the uk 1985-1990
All those names who didn't ''make it''. Hollywood is tough man... and so big.
Klipkultur listen to the nothing is easy theme song
At least Scott Bakula got a second chance with Quantum Leap.
44excalibur and became captain of the enterprise
@@44excalibur And John Stamos too!...
@@carlosalomar7877 Yep. lol
"I feel the thunder I can smell the rain /I see the broken clouds of fear at the edge of the plain/I can see (grims?) of red, for the night has fled/and I can fly at the edge of the sky/oh I want to reach out my hand/and find the strength to stand/at the edge of the sky there's a road in the distance/it's not too far to follow for the one who keeps his eyes keeps his eyes at the edge of the sky/I see the light of tomorrow shining like the truth in Jesse's eyes/at the edge of the sky!
Where the streets have no name?
Definitely “crimson red”.
SO much better than today's shows. Cops in Louisiana, cops in ny, cops in chicago, ... abusive chefs, REALLY?
You're right. I was in my late teens at the time, and don't remember seeing any. I have the barest memories from other media that "Gung Ho" and "Dynasty The Colbys" existed, but the others I have completely never heard of them before now.
I was busy watching Star Blazers when this stuff was airing.
I had no idea Scott Bakula was in the Gung Ho TV show. I also spotted Scott Grimes (The Orville, Gordon Malloy) as a kid.
I spotted Scott Grimes from the orville too!
I was wondering why that name was familiar!
Bakula also did Eisenhower and Lutz prior to Quantum Leap. Grimes has done dozens of voices in Family Guy and American Dad.
Man, it’s like 80’s primetime tv from another dimension! 😮
All shit shows, but at least they were in stereo (where available).
0raffie0 lol!
I miss seeing that notice on TV.....
raffie -And closed captioning
Shit from two directions! Well, count me in!
Hahaha!
If it wasn't for this video, these TV shows would be forever lost.
I've been having such a blast watching all these montages during the "break". I worked in network TV throughout the 90's and 2000's and just love seeing all the familiar production names and marveling at how many of these actors are still working today. Something that always makes me grin are how many times you see "...With Joe Gorgonzola as Ben Fitzpatrick" and you have to ask who the hell is Joe Gorgonzola and how the hell did his agent land him that credit?! Sometimes I go look them up and see they've had no career whatsoever. Crazy how some of these shows had absolutely no recognizable names in the cast at all yet some are star-studded and they all just failed.
So many modern shows have to run short for the extra commercials, so they don’t have time for the long, old school intros. Maybe just a title card or words over the opening.
Incredible that 75% of these people were never seen again!
Wrong Thomas. All of these people have been seen over 50 thousand times on this youtube video, including yourself.
Then you have people like Scott Bakula and John Stamos who went on to much bigger things. Not that they could have gone onto smaller things.
Yeah, all the montages I've seen so far have an incredible trail of dead. No, Exclusive. That we're seeing them here's doesn't change that.
Nothing is Easy... Scott Grimes, he plays the helmsman on The Orville now...
@@ExclusiveLM but not on TV (that's what he meant)!...
Sometimes you can look at these intros, having never seen the show, and know exactly what every character is like. 99,9% of these sitcoms followed the same damn formula
Jay Lee Yeah.. they all sucked
They mostly still follow that same formula, lolz.
Or in some cases look at the intro and not even have a clue if your looking at an hour adventure (sci-fi or fantasy) or a sitcom
I was just thinking that same thing...you're 99.9% correct!
NBC literally dominated the 80s with Hill Street Blues, Cosby Show, Cheers, Family Ties, Miami Vice St Elsewhere. Those shows never stood a chance if they were up against them.
Also, L.A. Law.
some of them Never stood a chance regardless
Loved the Jim Henson Hour!! OMG, I watched You Again
The 1980s were treasure trove of forgettable TV, I guess!
Where do you get all these? I love every single video you create!
Cooper Hilinsky Awesome clips. I miss this kind of television!
Try RUclips!....
Of all the movies to base a tv series on.....Gung Ho?
Yep.
A Song For Dee Vee looks absolutely dreadful
... and Richard Tyson's Mullet as Richard Tyson
...And 'twas the least of these, "13 East" at 4:16 Its lack of any attempt toward attraction is breathtaking.
all I did was watch Tv in the 80's
I don't remember a single one
NBC had the best shows back then , Thursdays , Fridays , Saturdays Sundays
where all these come from !?
how did the artist/songwriter for the Jesse Hawkes intro theme song not get sued by U2 for ripping off Where the Streets Have No Name?
woodsz33 He threatened to send an endless stream of Robert Conrad's kids to Bono's house unless he backed off.
woodsz33 it does sound like a crappy U2 cover band.
Maybe Bono liked the show!...
Exactly!!
Mike B I looked into it, and the original show from which this one was spun off (equally short-lived and unmemorable) was executive produced by Robert Conrad’s daughter and also featured his son-in-law. Comically nepotistic.
"Nothing is easy, but you have to play/The hand that you were dealt/Though nothing is easy, on a sunny day/The coldest ice will melt/So let's live and love and smile/The struggle's all worthwhile/Nothing is easy, but our luck will change/The way we knew it would/Cuz nothing is easy, but we'll rearrange/The bad into the good/Nothing is easy but we're gonna be all right/We're gonna be all right/We're gonna be all right. . . "
Its amazing to me how many themes were just busted out for TV of the 80s and so fast
There must have been a t.v. intro factory in Hollywood. A lot of these songs sounded alike.
15:39 "Do you now, or have you ever, worn a supersuit given to you by aliens? Answer honestly, sir."
I watched a lot of TV in the 80's, and I don't remember any of these ones.
Don't forget your Wilkins coffee when watching the Jim Henson hour
Your right these were forgotten or never seen. Though there were a few I might have checked out it I knew they existed. Especially, at the end.
It seems like there were a billion guys that looked like Leonard Frey in the 80's on TV
Wow that’s a great video only remember a hand full of those shows. Hats off to you for remembering them
10:05- Aaron Spelling reworked this controversial 1989 series into the 1995 syndicated series "UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL" , with less emphasis on sex, a slightly different setting, and a new cast. That version lasted nine episodes.
Dynasty II had big names: Heston, Ross, Campanella and the great Stanwyck. Wow!
Exactly my thoughts, and Ricardo Montalban as well. But yeah, my mouth fell open to see Barbara Stanwick's name in there! (as well as her appearance, only knowing her from her golden age films)
Shame it still sucked... and after Falcon Crest, Caulfield's career was deep-sixed after a possible start on Grease 2. Even that wasn;t that great...
Aaron Spelling was quite skilled at attracting the great Golden Agers. Bette Davis starred in the Hotel pilot, before her role went to Anne Baxter
The show was terrible, but it had one of the best theme around
@ NO!
"The Colbys" was a moderately successful show that ran three seasons. Really out of place in this list of shows that maybe aired three episodes.
The Colbys as a spin off ran concurrently with the main series, so you mention "Dynasty" today you might either remember it all as one series together. Yet "Knots Landing" was always distinct from "Dallas".
Watched what I thought was a lot of TV in the 80s… Only show I ever heard of was The Colbys. Any of these shows last more than a few episodes?
The last one Hardball stars Detective Taggart from the Beverly Hills Cop film (John Ashton) and the bad guy from Kindergarten Cop (Richard Tyson).
I don't think it came to my side of the Atlantic. I live in Ireland
theme songs were friggin AWESOME!!!! so much meaning
These all look like what someone would make if they were making fun of '80s TV shows.
Some of these I do remember and where it's applicable they're a moment's memory in a vast 'warehouse' of little snippets.
Loved the Jim Henson Hour!!!
Charlton Heston gave us the 10 Commandments playing Moses and broke them all in Dynasty ll the Colbys! -Bob Hope.
What the heck?!? I was practically glued to the tv in the 80's and I can't remember any of these. Though did anybody else catch B'lana Torres (sans klingon makeup) in that "Nightingales" intro?
Well I vaguely remember the Colby's, but I definitely didn't watch that crap.
I forgot how much crap used to be on TV back in the 80s. That's one reason why libraries and bookshops were still fairly popular back then.
I consider myself a total child of the 80's, you know sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll...and all that. Even I don't remember any of these.
I’ve never seen any of these shows, but Blacke’s Magic, Peaceable Kingdom and Top of the Hill look like shows I would’ve enjoyed.