I pitched on a BATTLE OF THE PLANETS film many, many moons ago. I still think it's one of my best IP takes...but it predated the era of making sequels to what we loved as kids as opposed to just directly remaking them. So, having the characters now "grown up" and dealing with the fallout of their previous life as heroes before coming back together confused the studio, I think. What can I say - I'm a visionary. Or something like that.
Would loved to have seen that, Cole! Sounds like a terrific idea. I had something similar in mind about the kind of Narnia/Alice/D&D TV Show in which these kids have become traumatised adults, but then Kieron Gillen went and write his Image series DIE. Ah, well. :P
My childhood calls me, with added goosebumps, whenever I hear the theme from Doctor Who… not just any version though, and there have been many over the years! The specific one I’ll always feel in my bones is from the late ‘70s/‘80-‘81 era when Tom Baker was the scarf-wearing, jellybaby-wielding Doctor; favourite of many of my era!
It didn't help that my favorite aunt lived in Ft Lauderdale, and I visited her a lot during that time period. I got to see some of the places where the show filmed. I love behind the scenes stuff.
The Dallas theme song! It's still my favorite nighttime soap opera. I wasn't allowed to stay up to watch it but I listened from the stairway, and talked about it with my teachers at school. I was about nine or ten when it premiered, way too young for any of that hanky panky in the hayloft. JR is still one of my favorite TV crushes.
Unsolved Mysteries theme takes me back to being a kid and watching the show on an old black and white tv in my bedroom at the family cottage. It was on early in the morning for some reason, and it felt especially creepy in black and white. Rewatching the show now whenever I hear that synth intro music it reminds me of being younger and watching it those early mornings.
oddly enough, the first song that comes to mind mind for me is the theme from Sanford and Son Quincy Jones sort of bluesey jazz score was in line with the theme of the show and Redd Foxx always seemed to be a personification of the old curmudgeon, but hilarious.
The X-Men theme song, the Batman animated theme, the Batman Adam West Theme, The Twilight Zone theme, but then also Popeye, as my grandmother would tape episodes of that and Mighty Mouse and the Smurfs to mail to us when we lived abroad when I was 2/3 and we would watch them on repeat until the VHS wore out.
I'm realizing there is something wrong with me. I have almost no recollection of cartoon theme songs even though I probably watched them more than any live-action series until I was 10. Weird.
Ooh! I love this question. Weirdly, the theme song I can sing along to the most is from a show I never liked much but seemed to be on all the time - The Littlest Hobo. I now find it incredibly nostalgic. In terms of theme tunes I can instantly recall it would have to be The A-Team or the 1978 German TV adaptation of Heidi, or maybe Bonanza. Theme tunes in the 80s were amazing!
In a weird case of generational memory turned simulacra: my eldest son hums the "A-TEAM" theme because he learned it from me...but has never watched the series. It really is one of the most epic, contagious theme songs of the 80s.
Wow Cole, so many!! Well my childhood would’ve been late 60s I remember finally enough I think on Sundays Walt Disney came on and it was immediately followed by outer limits. If you know what that is a sci-fi show, we weren’t really allowed to watch it but as soon as the music started, I had to strange beginning, and I would put my hands over my face and peek out between my fingers until they dragged me away from the TV set. I couldn’t wait for the day when I could watch the whole thing. It was much better than Disney.😊
Green Acres (is the place to be. Faaharm living is the life for me)...with the fabulous Eva Gabor busting out "dahling I love you but gimme Park Avenue!"
'Battle of the Planets' (that or 'Knight Rider'). Both the pinnacle of human creation to my eight-year-old mind.
I pitched on a BATTLE OF THE PLANETS film many, many moons ago. I still think it's one of my best IP takes...but it predated the era of making sequels to what we loved as kids as opposed to just directly remaking them. So, having the characters now "grown up" and dealing with the fallout of their previous life as heroes before coming back together confused the studio, I think. What can I say - I'm a visionary. Or something like that.
Would loved to have seen that, Cole! Sounds like a terrific idea. I had something similar in mind about the kind of Narnia/Alice/D&D TV Show in which these kids have become traumatised adults, but then Kieron Gillen went and write his Image series DIE. Ah, well. :P
Battle of the Planets! Children’s TV peaked right there!
Haha! I saw Star Wars when it first aired on (UK) TV and didn't yet have access to it on VHS. So this was the next best thing for sure.
My childhood calls me, with added goosebumps, whenever I hear the theme from Doctor Who… not just any version though, and there have been many over the years! The specific one I’ll always feel in my bones is from the late ‘70s/‘80-‘81 era when Tom Baker was the scarf-wearing, jellybaby-wielding Doctor; favourite of many of my era!
"Inspector Gadget". I was a fan and went out as him for Halloween.
Dun da dun Inspector Gadget
Dun da dun da dun Woo-ooh!
Indeed.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
a tale of a fateful trip,
that started from this tropic port,
aboard this tiny ship ...
It's amazing how, even though I haven't watched a "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" ep in, oh, 40 years, I can still recall everything about that theme song.
that, or Scooby Doo's theme song
and of course, the Doctor Who theme ...
Miami Vice. I was so into the show I made my brother pick the soundtrack tape as a freebie from Columbia House. I was 10 yrs old. 😎
That show sold such a sense of cool...and it started with that theme song.
It didn't help that my favorite aunt lived in Ft Lauderdale, and I visited her a lot during that time period. I got to see some of the places where the show filmed. I love behind the scenes stuff.
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The Dallas theme song! It's still my favorite nighttime soap opera. I wasn't allowed to stay up to watch it but I listened from the stairway, and talked about it with my teachers at school. I was about nine or ten when it premiered, way too young for any of that hanky panky in the hayloft. JR is still one of my favorite TV crushes.
I also toyed with picking the holy trinity of Dallas, Dynasty and The Colbys!
There are so many: The Brady Bunch, Mary Tyler Moore, All in the Family, Good Times, The Jeffersons....yes I was child of the 70s!
"THE JEFFERSONS" - that's a theme song!
Unsolved Mysteries theme takes me back to being a kid and watching the show on an old black and white tv in my bedroom at the family cottage. It was on early in the morning for some reason, and it felt especially creepy in black and white. Rewatching the show now whenever I hear that synth intro music it reminds me of being younger and watching it those early mornings.
It's remarkable how you bringing this up immediately triggers that music in my mind and gives me chills.
oddly enough, the first song that comes to mind mind for me is the theme from Sanford and Son Quincy Jones sort of bluesey jazz score was in line with the theme of the show and Redd Foxx always seemed to be a personification of the old curmudgeon, but hilarious.
I don't think that's odd. I think that's a hell of a theme song!
The X-Men theme song, the Batman animated theme, the Batman Adam West Theme, The Twilight Zone theme, but then also Popeye, as my grandmother would tape episodes of that and Mighty Mouse and the Smurfs to mail to us when we lived abroad when I was 2/3 and we would watch them on repeat until the VHS wore out.
I'm realizing there is something wrong with me. I have almost no recollection of cartoon theme songs even though I probably watched them more than any live-action series until I was 10. Weird.
Ooh! I love this question. Weirdly, the theme song I can sing along to the most is from a show I never liked much but seemed to be on all the time - The Littlest Hobo. I now find it incredibly nostalgic. In terms of theme tunes I can instantly recall it would have to be The A-Team or the 1978 German TV adaptation of Heidi, or maybe Bonanza. Theme tunes in the 80s were amazing!
In a weird case of generational memory turned simulacra: my eldest son hums the "A-TEAM" theme because he learned it from me...but has never watched the series. It really is one of the most epic, contagious theme songs of the 80s.
Isn’t it! I actually got a bit choked up in the opening credits when the film was released. That monologue took me straight back to my childhood!
Wow Cole, so many!! Well my childhood would’ve been late 60s I remember finally enough I think on Sundays Walt Disney came on and it was immediately followed by outer limits. If you know what that is a sci-fi show, we weren’t really allowed to watch it but as soon as the music started, I had to strange beginning, and I would put my hands over my face and peek out between my fingers until they dragged me away from the TV set. I couldn’t wait for the day when I could watch the whole thing. It was much better than Disney.😊
I do indeed know "THE OUTER LIMITS"!
Oh gosh, I kinda gotta hear it to know it. But the Brady Bunch an Scooby Doo come to mind.
Green Acres (is the place to be. Faaharm living is the life for me)...with the fabulous Eva Gabor busting out "dahling I love you but gimme Park Avenue!"
I’m dating myself here but The Brady Bunch is that show for me. 😍
This is a pretty big one for most readers here, as it turns out!