agreed. after school I would always watch one of them, sometimes both, can't remember if they were on TV at the same time. also, Magnum, Riptide and Sweating Bullets were some of my favourites when I was about 6-10 years old :)
I was 13 years old, living here in Czech on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain, and shows like Airwolf were worshipped like miracles by children of my generation. We watched it on hundred times copied video tape, with amateurish Czech voice over (single voice for every character, no emotions), but I remember Airwolf distinctly (along with Bruce Lee movies, Big Trouble in Little China, all the ninja movies of the 80s...) . It was a heyday of electronic music, J. M. Jarre, we listened to Equinox and Enya's pop, it was summer and it was hot, and it was heaven...
I was born in ’82 and Airwolf was my absolute FAVORITE TV show!! 🚁 I wanted to become a helicopter pilot, and the theme song inspired me to study music 🎼 I did one of these things...
@@jeffkleist9679 Yeah, I didn't much care for TF1 but comparatively, it was easily best of the series. LOW bar. Both G.I. Joe's weren't great either. There are some pretty good animated films on both accounts, though.
What they forgot to add: opening titles became shorter because TV companies started to put more and more ads in, and the 48 mins show + 12 mind ads (= 60 mins) share became to something like 41mins-19mins and one trick to make the show shorter was to reduce the intro. (The other one is speeding up the end titles.)
I was about to leave a comment about how there was no Airwolf theme song in this, but now I'll just say there was not enough. Also, Airwolf was a great show relative to other shows of its time. Airwolf, Knight Rider and A-Team. That was the golden age of TV.
Fun fact: With his fourth Emmy Award victory for his performance on Breaking Bad (2008), he tied the record of Dennis Franz (NYPD Blue (1993)) for the most wins in the category "Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series"
Jan Michael Vincent shot a TV show next to my house when I was a kid. I just walked onto their the set and went over and hung out with him for 20 min while he was waiting for them to set up his next shot, cool dude!
@@AirwolfArchive I messed up! It was a movie. “Hit list” a movie i’m sure no one saw? I did find it on RUclips for free! Here’s the Wiki on it 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_List_(1989_film)
I am so lucky to have been born in a time when it wasn’t unusual to hear your favourite TV show theme being played on the radio. “S.W.A.T”, “Happy Days”, “Welcome Back Kotter”, “Miami Vice”, “C.H.i.P’s”, “The Rockford Files”, “WKRP in Cincinnati”, “Mary Tyler Moore Show”, “The Greatest American Hero”, “Hill Street Blues”… these are just SOME of the AMAZING themes we had back in the day on the radio. Think about the amazing jazzy instrumental pieces like, “Barney Miller, or “Night Court”, or the electric genius of “Knight Rider”? “Magnum P.I” had a rockin’ theme, and “The A-Team” always made me want to suit-up for battle! Let’s not forget the sci-fi classics of “Battlestar Galactica”, or “Buck Rogers”? Heck, even “Doctor Who” switched their theme in the 80’s, and it was FANTASTIC! The music back then was so incredible! Especially the ones you could sing along to! Who could forget the lyrics to sitcoms like “Laverne & Shirley”, or “Three’s Company”? Aw, sitcoms had the best theme songs! “Good Times”, “The Jeffersons”, “One Day at a Time”, “The Facts of Life”, “Who’s the Boss”, “The Muppet Show”, “Family Ties”, “Growing Pains”… and it wasn’t just the sitcoms that had words that went to their theme music. “The Dukes of Hazzard”, and “The Fall Guy” had LEGENDARY lyrics! And, don’t get me started with the CARTOONS! “Battle of the Planets”, “G.I. Joe”, “Transformers”, “ThunderCats”, “Silver Hawks”, “Droids”, “M.A.S.K.”, “Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors”, “Inspector Gadget”, “He-Man”, “She-Ra”… NONE of those themes suck! NONE OF THEM! And to think that before I was born, there were TV show themes like “Gilligan’s Island”, “I Love Lucy”, “Bonanza”, “The Flintstones”, “Green Acres”, “The Addams Family”, “Hawaii 5-0”, “The Green Hornet”, “Peter Gunn”, “Mission: Impossible”, “Star Trek”… like, for real… AMAZING music! You know how the old saying goes… “They don’t make’em like they used to.”
Airwolf was awesome... The helicopter unfortunately had a sad ending in Germany crashing after transporting a little girl to a hospital. The pilot did not know the terrain while in fog killing himself, a doctor & the assistant.
If you think that's sad, look up the story of the guy who played the main character in Airwolf (Jan Michael Vincent). You will freak out when you see how he looked at the end of his life and his final years are extremely tragic.
The music was written by Sylvester Levay - he is very famous in the German-speaking area like Austria and Germany. He wrote also musicals like "Elisabeth" (the Austrian empress) - and he also has a flat at the famous Schloss Schönbrunn (chateau) in Vienna/Austria, because he's such a fan of empress Elisabeth.
Stringfellow Hawke played the cello on his jetty / Stringfellow Hawke played his cello whole looking wistfully at a bird of prey / Stringfellow Hawke played the cello while someone arrived at his cabin...
The way he said " It was a bad show", the tone he used was a little sarcastic and not that serious. To me this was a joke and it shouldn't be taken seriously.
I imagine a reply to be: "Hey, look at Mr. Rockefeller over here who had a VCR in 1984!" As tangent, remember when tapes of major movies cost like $70 because they were priced for the rental market?
@@EdwardTonai I got my first VCR in the late 70s, and yeah it was pretty expensive. I think by 1984 prices had come way down and lots of people had them.
The openings were not just siren calls, of course, though they were that too. They were the trailers of the time. They were little movies that were meant to give you the spirit of the program you were considering watching. And even if the specific episode wasn't one of the series's better outings (quality fluctuated hugely), the opening still left you with an impression of what the show was at its best. E.g., not every episode of the original Miami Vice was a masterpiece (many were; some were not). But the opening credits sequence still gave you a hit of the prime Miami Vice feeling.
Finally! Airwolf gets some mainstream recognition in the 21st century! Now if a movie studio would just take notice and make a major motion picture out of it.
A studio made an amazing film adaptation of The A-Team, and it didn't make any money. They tried to bring Knight Rider back( with a fookin Mustang, bleh!), and that didn't last long. Then you have this political climate; trying to make an Airwolf, ANYTHING, worthy of it's predecessor, is impossible. The pilot would have to be a female, that is constantly telling her male co-pilot how badass she is, and how priviliged he is, just because he's a he. Every other role in the show would have to fit some kind of representation/diversity quota(and if you go back and watch those old episodes, the weekly cast was plenty diverse,even if the leads weren't). It would end up an affront to the legacy of the show.
Well, they were in Episode 17 of Season 3, so the show was on the outs. The first season was awesome, especially the Pilot movie. Of course, the only way to really appreciate it was if you'd watched the pilot of that godawful TV series based on the awesome movie _Blue Thunder._
What a joke. He's completely wrong, not just about the show but the fact that TV today needs a proper intro. Cranston wishes Breaking Bad had this intro. 😆
I really do miss those classic, awesome theme songs. Some were so memorable! Could you imagine being a composer of those and watching your bookings just slowly dry up as they got rid of them? Sad.
Airwolf, and the original versions of Magnum P.I. and Macguyver were my favourite shows when i was a kid. All had awesome openings and theme songs too.
As soon as I read this title the song started playing in my head. I had an Airwolf game for my Commodore 64, so the song played a lot for some time there.
Shows like Airwolf and Knight Rider are beloved and treasured for a reason. They are 80s time capsules. If you tried to make Airwolf today it wouldn't work.
"I have Airwolf. This is not code language. I am flying Airwolf because I own Airwolf. Nothing else I could say would make more sense given what I own and what I am doing at this moment."
Everyone loves Breaking Bad and Bryan Cranston. But whenever he says "Airwolf was a bad show" the comment section is full with "Hey man, I loved Airwolf". Perhaps he doesn't like the idea that Airwolf could track down the camper of BB in the desert in minutes and blow up the thing in seconds... Loved BB & Airwolf, JMV and Bryan Cranston ❤
loved that show. would love a good remake with original footage all the time instead of the same scenes recut over and over. The lengthy intro description makes sense now that I have heard it. Bryan and Conan teaching moment.
Also in some of these old shows the intro included a voice over that explained the premise of the show. Sometimes they asking was like 30 seconds. Think of The Six Million Dollar Man, The A Team, and many others. That continued into the 90s with shows like Quantum Leap. Even some comedy shows had that. Actually, the current sequel of Quantum Leap (2022) also has that!
The airwolf theme is my ringtone. I loved that show. I ended up joining the military as a sensor operator. I wanted to be String but I grew up to be Dominic. I was just thinking about how much different theme songs used to be. I was watching the new Equalizer and I remember the original theme being so intense...and I don't think the new show even has a theme song.
Airwolf had a great cast, intriguing stories and aerial sequences that rival big budget movies. Television series intros were like an invitation to the viewer to watch, especially when the sequences were longer. Many of us may not remember a particular episode but those themes found a place in your mind. Think Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five O, Friends. The list goes on. Sylvester Levay's Airwolf theme is among those themes.
Keep in mind TV show openings and theme songs were expected to make money, just like the show. Good TV opening and theme songs could, would, and did make on the Billboard 100, for example the Hawaii Five-O theme song by The Ventures. Its the reason Mike Post was so sought after, and is considered a legend.
Airwolf Theme is a masterpiece. I loved this show as a kid, and always DVR it when I see it in syndication. Episode format: Criminals hatch a diabolical scheme against a person with a tangential connection to the main characters. In the third act, it is revealed that the ONLY weakness in the otherwise perfect diabolical plan is if the good guys happen to have a super helicopter at their disposal. It was awesome!
Cranston was in another video where he claimed "the hero of the show was the helicopter", going by that logic is the hero of a cliint eastwood movie his magnum? The helicopter was the means to an end, nothing more, JMV and Ernie were the hero's. First season of airwolf was great, second was soso, JMV's drinking didn't help matters and season 3 was like they knew the writing was on the wall, so much recycled finale battles etc.
Well, he’s not entirely wrong. Knight Rider was the same way. We watched those shows in those days more for the vehicles than anything else. You have to remember that it was also during the time that Transformers was starting out, so the machines and vehicles were the stars
I remember running home from school, or at least picking up the pace, just to catch the theme song/music in the opening credits. I can still recall how excited I would get when seeing that face-to-face view ''Airwolf'' slowing rising from the bottom of the screen to the center, right before the start of the theme song/music. They used to show ''Magnum P.I.'' I believe after ''Airwolf'' and I'd think to myself the helicopter on Magnum was so ugly compared to Airwolf. No offense to those who like Magnum's heli but to me, one looked more full body-ish and sharp looking while the other looked like an egg with sticks sticking out of it.
One of my buddies -- with whom I spent godawful number of hours playing Call of Duty TDM -- would always play the Airwolf theme song in the background if he gets a killstreak like chopper gunner. (for those of you who get annoyed when random people play songs through the headset, we were on party chat, so only our group of friends would hear the song. we had a blast.)
Airwolf, Knight Rider and A-Team were the holy trinity of 80s action TV shows!
Don’t forget Miami Vice. 😎🌴
Yessir!
Airwolf, Knight Rider, A-Team. Couldn't have had a more badass childhood TV experience.
agreed. after school I would always watch one of them, sometimes both, can't remember if they were on TV at the same time.
also, Magnum, Riptide and Sweating Bullets were some of my favourites when I was about 6-10 years old :)
Even V was great
@AboveAverageMan97 People always forget about Manimal.
Amen to that.
Let's not forget Manimal, Misfits of Science, Jason of Star Command, Battlestar Galactica, yeah, we had it good
When “The Lady” pops up into the shot and that synth kicks in… the next hour was always a good time.
The Airwolf theme song was badass! It is soo '80s in the best way.
Rumors abound saying that they were supposed to make an Airwolf vs Blue Thunder movie
*is
Try the M.A.S.K theme.
@@DRacer90 "Battle of the Network Choppers"!
The moment I saw Airwolf in the title, I clicked! Airwolf, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Blue Thunder, Automan...80's TV!!!!
Yay for Automan!!! Good times, good times.
It's early 90s show in my countryz but still, yeah!!!!
I'm going to watch all those theme songs now, just for the nostalgia dopamine hit.
"Manimal" anyone?
@@thescubersteve5214 is that GK reference?
Airwolf was a badass show. This dude's off his rocker.
He's completely wrong. He wishes Breaking Bad had this intro.
@@pferreira1983 no lie there
@@pferreira1983 Okay, now someone needs to create a Breaking Bad intro set to the Airwolf theme...
@@TheOneTrueChris I could be excited to watch the show then. 😁
@@pferreira1983 Have you heard this version? Breaking Bad [MetroGnome COVER + REMIX]
The 80s was the best time for theme tunes.
I was 13 years old, living here in Czech on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain, and shows like Airwolf were worshipped like miracles by children of my generation. We watched it on hundred times copied video tape, with amateurish Czech voice over (single voice for every character, no emotions), but I remember Airwolf distinctly (along with Bruce Lee movies, Big Trouble in Little China, all the ninja movies of the 80s...) . It was a heyday of electronic music, J. M. Jarre, we listened to Equinox and Enya's pop, it was summer and it was hot, and it was heaven...
Totally! Exactly the same in Poland’s 80s :) What a time to be alive!
Greetings, Czech neighbor!
Wow! I never knew it was popular there! I was living in Prague 1999 till 2004.
i think i saw a czech dubbed macgyver, in the US lol
I was born in ’82 and Airwolf was my absolute FAVORITE TV show!! 🚁
I wanted to become a helicopter pilot, and the theme song inspired me to study music 🎼
I did one of these things...
I'm guessing you're flying apaches.
That intro 🎶 is 🔥.. Love the 80's
It's got staccatos and arpeggios. What more could anybody want? ... :)
One of my favorite shows of my childhood. Forever thankful to be Gen-X 🤘.
When we would hear the Airwolf theme we'd know it was BORGNINE TIME!.
Earnestly, Ernest!
Absolutely yes
Airwolf was awesome. It’s obvious we need a movie where he’s the villain
Cranston should be Miles Mayhem if they ever do a M.A.S.K. movie. Random af, I know.
@@seandoyle296 They allegedly are. It can’t be worse than the transformers in G.I. Joe movies I guess
@@jeffkleist9679 Yeah, I didn't much care for TF1 but comparatively, it was easily best of the series. LOW bar. Both G.I. Joe's weren't great either. There are some pretty good animated films on both accounts, though.
He did in 2012's Total Recall.
@@jjthebeerman yeah, I meant an Airwolf movie ;)
my family used to watch Airwolf back in the Philippines and that theme song we would always hum/sing every-time we see a helicopter
also watched airwolf there
What they forgot to add: opening titles became shorter because TV companies started to put more and more ads in, and the 48 mins show + 12 mind ads (= 60 mins) share became to something like 41mins-19mins and one trick to make the show shorter was to reduce the intro. (The other one is speeding up the end titles.)
End titles used to have music and full screen credits, then they switched to running credits over the last 30 seconds of the show.
I was about to leave a comment about how there was no Airwolf theme song in this, but now I'll just say there was not enough. Also, Airwolf was a great show relative to other shows of its time. Airwolf, Knight Rider and A-Team. That was the golden age of TV.
I would put mcgiver too
Hardcastle and mc cormick, street Hawk too
Miami Vice
The gold age of TV. If you were 10.
Magnum PI and SImon & Simon
Fun fact:
With his fourth Emmy Award victory for his performance on Breaking Bad (2008), he tied the record of Dennis Franz (NYPD Blue (1993)) for the most wins in the category "Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series"
I used to love Airwolf! I didn't even care about the cheese 🤣🤣
Jan Michael Vincent shot a TV show next to my house when I was a kid. I just walked onto their the set and went over and hung out with him for 20 min while he was waiting for them to set up his next shot, cool dude!
RIP JMV
That's so awesome!
What was the show?
@@AirwolfArchive
I messed up! It was a movie.
“Hit list” a movie i’m sure no one saw? I did find it on RUclips for free!
Here’s the Wiki on it 😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_List_(1989_film)
@@-C.S.R I did. Not too bad a movie, but could’ve been better. Hit and miss as far as Jan’s performance. Very Hawke though at times.
You won’t believe how popular Airwolf was in South Korea.
Almost as popular as Knight Rider, and much more popular than Renegade.
Oh wow, that's awesome. I never would have thought people over there were watching that show.
I am so lucky to have been born in a time when it wasn’t unusual to hear your favourite TV show theme being played on the radio. “S.W.A.T”, “Happy Days”, “Welcome Back Kotter”, “Miami Vice”, “C.H.i.P’s”, “The Rockford Files”, “WKRP in Cincinnati”, “Mary Tyler Moore Show”, “The Greatest American Hero”, “Hill Street Blues”… these are just SOME of the AMAZING themes we had back in the day on the radio.
Think about the amazing jazzy instrumental pieces like, “Barney Miller, or “Night Court”, or the electric genius of “Knight Rider”? “Magnum P.I” had a rockin’ theme, and “The A-Team” always made me want to suit-up for battle! Let’s not forget the sci-fi classics of “Battlestar Galactica”, or “Buck Rogers”? Heck, even “Doctor Who” switched their theme in the 80’s, and it was FANTASTIC!
The music back then was so incredible! Especially the ones you could sing along to!
Who could forget the lyrics to sitcoms like “Laverne & Shirley”, or “Three’s Company”? Aw, sitcoms had the best theme songs! “Good Times”, “The Jeffersons”, “One Day at a Time”, “The Facts of Life”, “Who’s the Boss”, “The Muppet Show”, “Family Ties”, “Growing Pains”… and it wasn’t just the sitcoms that had words that went to their theme music. “The Dukes of Hazzard”, and “The Fall Guy” had LEGENDARY lyrics!
And, don’t get me started with the CARTOONS! “Battle of the Planets”, “G.I. Joe”, “Transformers”, “ThunderCats”, “Silver Hawks”, “Droids”, “M.A.S.K.”, “Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors”, “Inspector Gadget”, “He-Man”, “She-Ra”… NONE of those themes suck! NONE OF THEM!
And to think that before I was born, there were TV show themes like “Gilligan’s Island”, “I Love Lucy”, “Bonanza”, “The Flintstones”, “Green Acres”, “The Addams Family”, “Hawaii 5-0”, “The Green Hornet”, “Peter Gunn”, “Mission: Impossible”, “Star Trek”… like, for real… AMAZING music!
You know how the old saying goes… “They don’t make’em like they used to.”
Bryan Cranston is really enjoying himself here
I gotta be honest, I only tuned into this for the Airwolf theme. It’s so amazing. It’s also my ringtone.... so.....
Airwolf was awesome... The helicopter unfortunately had a sad ending in Germany crashing after transporting a little girl to a hospital. The pilot did not know the terrain while in fog killing himself, a doctor & the assistant.
If you think that's sad, look up the story of the guy who played the main character in Airwolf (Jan Michael Vincent). You will freak out when you see how he looked at the end of his life and his final years are extremely tragic.
@@brendan5704 indeed. He definitely made all the wrong decisions of life.
@@ScottWaaHe was a victim of his own fame early in life & didn’t know how to handle it. Not everyone is equipped to take sudden fame & fortune well.
There is a replica Airwolf in a museum in California.
The music was written by Sylvester Levay - he is very famous in the German-speaking area like Austria and Germany. He wrote also musicals like "Elisabeth" (the Austrian empress) - and he also has a flat at the famous Schloss Schönbrunn (chateau) in Vienna/Austria, because he's such a fan of empress Elisabeth.
I watched this show but I can't remember anything that happened on any of the episodes except for the opening.
Same lol
You're not missing much. It did not age well
Stringfellow Hawke played the cello on his jetty /
Stringfellow Hawke played his cello whole looking wistfully at a bird of prey / Stringfellow Hawke played the cello while someone arrived at his cabin...
A lot of facing off with 80s villains..
@@jeffhiggins541 Compared to what back then. Nothing from the 80’s has aged well.
Airwolf, Knight Rider, McGyver, Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum PI all great series and have incredible theme song.
I like Cranston, so I’ll let the Airwolf comment slide
I don't know, have to think about this one....
No. Don’t. His episode was bad, but others weren’t.
I think I'm gonna play the Airwolf theme song on loop for the day. For nostalgia.
Wish this series was on my Netflix.
It’s on the roku channel if you have one.
Airwolf was a hit in the first season then plummeted. It was huge in Europe for its entire run.
Ah, Airwolf. I remember that, watched it as a kid, wanted to have such a chopper to myself... And that great theme music.
I decided I would save up my money and buy it piece by piece as a kid...then I found out how much one missile costs...
I thought Bryan Cranston was the coolest guy... until he crapped all over Airwolf.
Airwolf was great. TV wasn’t necessarily “better” then, but we enjoyed it more because it wasn’t 24/7.
Nah it was better. 😁😁
It was better in nearly every way.
I actually rewatched the episode he's in recently and his performance is awesome.
which episode was it?
Those 80s theme songs we’re the best, my favourites we’re street hawk and the equaliser...
I wonder if the internet will hate bryan cranston because he said airwolf is a bad show, probably not. He is a brave man 🤓
Maybe he said it as a joke, isn't that a possibility?
The way he said " It was a bad show", the tone he used was a little sarcastic and not that serious. To me this was a joke and it shouldn't be taken seriously.
Airwolf theme song 🎵 is dope .
Hey Conan, we had these things called VCRs back in the 80s. We could record Airwolf and watch it whenever we wanted to.
I imagine a reply to be: "Hey, look at Mr. Rockefeller over here who had a VCR in 1984!" As tangent, remember when tapes of major movies cost like $70 because they were priced for the rental market?
@@EdwardTonai I got my first VCR in the late 70s, and yeah it was pretty expensive. I think by 1984 prices had come way down and lots of people had them.
Wow you seem really hurt lmaoo
The openings were not just siren calls, of course, though they were that too. They were the trailers of the time. They were little movies that were meant to give you the spirit of the program you were considering watching. And even if the specific episode wasn't one of the series's better outings (quality fluctuated hugely), the opening still left you with an impression of what the show was at its best. E.g., not every episode of the original Miami Vice was a masterpiece (many were; some were not). But the opening credits sequence still gave you a hit of the prime Miami Vice feeling.
Airwolf, Magnum PI, MacGyver, Knight Rider, Dallas...back in the day when the theme song WAS the show.
This popped back up in my feed ……Also streethawk 😄
I saw Airwolf in the title, I clicked!
I have Airwolf theme as my ringtone for years. I've changed phones number of times but ringtone stays the same!
Finally! Airwolf gets some mainstream recognition in the 21st century! Now if a movie studio would just take notice and make a major motion picture out of it.
A studio made an amazing film adaptation of The A-Team, and it didn't make any money.
They tried to bring Knight Rider back( with a fookin Mustang, bleh!), and that didn't last long.
Then you have this political climate; trying to make an Airwolf, ANYTHING, worthy of it's predecessor, is impossible. The pilot would have to be a female, that is constantly telling her male co-pilot how badass she is, and how priviliged he is, just because he's a he.
Every other role in the show would have to fit some kind of representation/diversity quota(and if you go back and watch those old episodes, the weekly cast was plenty diverse,even if the leads weren't).
It would end up an affront to the legacy of the show.
That AA Battery joke was gold. 😂
More like copper topped.
Well, they were in Episode 17 of Season 3, so the show was on the outs. The first season was awesome, especially the Pilot movie.
Of course, the only way to really appreciate it was if you'd watched the pilot of that godawful TV series based on the awesome movie _Blue Thunder._
Blue Thunder the series was alright but it was no Airwolf.
I’ve only just started watching this. It could very well be the greatest thing on the history of youtube
if it wasnt for Airwolf he would have never met his wife. Long live Airwolf.
If it wasn’t for “Airwolf”, he wouldn’t have a showreel. No showreel? No “Breaking Bad”. Work that one out, Bryan.
80's shows were the best. Airwolf, Knight Rider, The A-Team, The Fall guy. All have great memorable theme tunes, although Airwolf had the best.
I miss TV show theme songs. Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica, and A-Team were a few of my favorites.
The perfect Haiku is only 2 words... 'Airwolf'
Yeah the opening to Simon and Simon went on forever also and it was probably the best song ever
Did someone say Airwolf? Childhood memory activated.
What a joke. He's completely wrong, not just about the show but the fact that TV today needs a proper intro. Cranston wishes Breaking Bad had this intro. 😆
Airwolf was awesome!! Loved the chopper and the song!
One of Cranston's shows sort of began the "short intro" trend. Malcom in the Middle sometimes was like 3 seconds.
That show from the nineties where he plays the dentist also didn't really have a title sequence.
This made my day. For Brian to reminisce and truly appreciate (in his own cheeky way) this iconic piece of synth wizardry, is just golden.
I loved AirWolf with Jan Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine. (String fella and Santini) I'm going to try and fine that to watch ir Tonight.😂
HOW MANY JAN MICHAEL VINCENTS DO WE HAVE?
I really do miss those classic, awesome theme songs. Some were so memorable!
Could you imagine being a composer of those and watching your bookings just slowly dry up as they got rid of them? Sad.
80’s TV Theme Songs Rock! I have them all on Music CDs
Kid of the 80s here!
Sorry but nothing beats this Decade!!!!
I remember watching this as a child and getting so excited when the theme song started.
Airwolf, and the original versions of Magnum P.I. and Macguyver were my favourite shows when i was a kid. All had awesome openings and theme songs too.
Airwolf was one of my favorite shows
Omg airwolf was and still is a much loved show.
As soon as I read this title the song started playing in my head. I had an Airwolf game for my Commodore 64, so the song played a lot for some time there.
Airwolf an all time classic!!!!
Airwolf was a great show! Love that show😃
Shows like Airwolf and Knight Rider are beloved and treasured for a reason. They are 80s time capsules. If you tried to make Airwolf today it wouldn't work.
Dude! I LOVE AIRWOLF! Remake with Bryan Cranston, please!
that theme song's iconic.
"I have Airwolf. This is not code language. I am flying Airwolf because I own Airwolf. Nothing else I could say would make more sense given what I own and what I am doing at this moment."
Was hoping to see this commented here
4 of those dislikes are Cranston's x-wives.
Everyone loves Breaking Bad and Bryan Cranston. But whenever he says "Airwolf was a bad show" the comment section is full with "Hey man, I loved Airwolf".
Perhaps he doesn't like the idea that Airwolf could track down the camper of BB in the desert in minutes and blow up the thing in seconds...
Loved BB & Airwolf, JMV and Bryan Cranston ❤
Airwolf was great. I actually have the team song as ringtone on my phone at work.
loved that show. would love a good remake with original footage all the time instead of the same scenes recut over and over. The lengthy intro description makes sense now that I have heard it. Bryan and Conan teaching moment.
5:10 Yeah, I'm watching this on my on phone at 4:57 AM in Sweden 🇸🇪🤷🏽♂️😏
Airwolf. My fav programme of my childhood. Only Miami vice came close 💛
I walked to grandmas after school and wait for my parents to get out of work and it was Airwolf and Nightrider then went home. Great times.
Also in some of these old shows the intro included a voice over that explained the premise of the show. Sometimes they asking was like 30 seconds. Think of The Six Million Dollar Man, The A Team, and many others. That continued into the 90s with shows like Quantum Leap. Even some comedy shows had that. Actually, the current sequel of Quantum Leap (2022) also has that!
I totally forgot that he was in that episode. I loved Airwolf!
I was born in 92 I loved this show in elementary school that helicopter is cool as hell
Airwolf was my childhood lol
American shows now are as long as the intro's of old shows. It shows the IQ and attention span of the average modern day american.
The airwolf theme is my ringtone. I loved that show. I ended up joining the military as a sensor operator. I wanted to be String but I grew up to be Dominic.
I was just thinking about how much different theme songs used to be. I was watching the new Equalizer and I remember the original theme being so intense...and I don't think the new show even has a theme song.
Airwolf had a great cast, intriguing stories and aerial sequences that rival big budget movies.
Television series intros were like an invitation to the viewer to watch, especially when the sequences were longer. Many of us may not remember a particular episode but those themes found a place in your mind. Think Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five O, Friends. The list goes on. Sylvester Levay's Airwolf theme is among those themes.
Two of my favorite 80s shows as a kid... Airwolf vs Knight Rider
I wonder which one would win.
Airwolf. Kitt doesn't really have much in weaponry.
Jan Michael Vincent was sooooo hot! What a great character name: Stringfellow Hawke.
Keep in mind TV show openings and theme songs were expected to make money, just like the show. Good TV opening and theme songs could, would, and did make on the Billboard 100, for example the Hawaii Five-O theme song by The Ventures. Its the reason Mike Post was so sought after, and is considered a legend.
How dare you insult Airwolf, Brian Cranston!
Airwolf Theme is a masterpiece. I loved this show as a kid, and always DVR it when I see it in syndication. Episode format: Criminals hatch a diabolical scheme against a person with a tangential connection to the main characters. In the third act, it is revealed that the ONLY weakness in the otherwise perfect diabolical plan is if the good guys happen to have a super helicopter at their disposal. It was awesome!
Cranston was in another video where he claimed "the hero of the show was the helicopter", going by that logic is the hero of a cliint eastwood movie his magnum? The helicopter was the means to an end, nothing more, JMV and Ernie were the hero's. First season of airwolf was great, second was soso, JMV's drinking didn't help matters and season 3 was like they knew the writing was on the wall, so much recycled finale battles etc.
Well, he’s not entirely wrong. Knight Rider was the same way. We watched those shows in those days more for the vehicles than anything else. You have to remember that it was also during the time that Transformers was starting out, so the machines and vehicles were the stars
The super vehicles were almost another character. So, he’s right in that sense.
Talkin' bout Jacob. "Jay,Dan when it hovers it sounds like this; fffss"
THEY CANT DO THIS!!!!
Crackle,crackle.
Just listened to that clip last night, so hilarious. Crackle Crackle
I watched this in 90's on Pakistani state television. It was very popular in Pakistan.
Loved Airwolf. We all thought that it was so cool. And that music gave us goose bumps
Air wolf is a great show
*Airwolf
Air Wolf was and will always be awesome !!!!!
I love Bryan Cranston's voice!! 🗣
I remember running home from school, or at least picking up the pace, just to catch the theme song/music in the opening credits. I can still recall how excited I would get when seeing that face-to-face view ''Airwolf'' slowing rising from the bottom of the screen to the center, right before the start of the theme song/music. They used to show ''Magnum P.I.'' I believe after ''Airwolf'' and I'd think to myself the helicopter on Magnum was so ugly compared to Airwolf. No offense to those who like Magnum's heli but to me, one looked more full body-ish and sharp looking while the other looked like an egg with sticks sticking out of it.
Gotta love the theme from Airwolf. To this day, it’s my default ringtone whenever anyone calls me.
Aaaah airwolf :)
One of my buddies -- with whom I spent godawful number of hours playing Call of Duty TDM -- would always play the Airwolf theme song in the background if he gets a killstreak like chopper gunner. (for those of you who get annoyed when random people play songs through the headset, we were on party chat, so only our group of friends would hear the song. we had a blast.)