Great TV Intros

[MacNimon]

What are your favourite tv intros? In this modern age it seems to be a trend for many (but obviously not all) tv series to have their opening credits appear over a scene from the episode itself, rather than in a specially created opening sequence. So lets just have a look at some of those great intros from the past...whether it's a genuinely great sequence or not, or even if you just love the theme tune of a particular series, the odds are that you'll find it on YouTube.

So get searching folks, and share your favourites here...I'll kick things off with some of my favourites...

This was always one of my Doctor Who favourites, it was the one I was first aware of and it was a bit of a shock when they changed it...

This is the first Avengers title sequence I ever remember seeing as a boy...

Blakes 7 Seasons 1 & 2

Sticking with 70's sci-fi for the moment, here's the original Battlestar Galactica intro...Battlestar Galactica

Buck Rogers In The 25th Century S1


The intro for the original 1963 season of The Outer Limits...
The Outer Limits

A couple of ITC classics to finish off with this time...Steve Forrest starring as John Creasey's The Baron
The Baron


and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)...great childhood memories of these classics!
Randall & Hopkirk

[duncan]

Some that stand out from my childhood memory are The Tomorrow People, Magpie and although not a TV programme, I always loved the Thames TV ident

[Andrew Curnow]

I always used to rather like this one:

Battle of the Planets

And this one:

Cee-ties of Gold

And, so that you don't think I spent all my childhood watching cartoons, this is surely one of the all-time greats. Kind of simple, but genius nevertheless:

Flippin' 'Eck Tucker!

And finally, not a kids show at all, but again kind of simple, but inspired, and so tremendously memorable all these years later:

Secret Army

[Perry Vale]

Dallas.

[SiHart]

I see Andrew chose Secret Army- I was going to do that. I really like the way those titles have constant movement, like the airmen fleeing the country. Great stuff and a very stirring theme too.

I'd have chosen Blake's 7 too. I love those titles!

A recentish favourite of mine, has been...



Very stylish, thematic and cool!

[stuartdg]

All the big 80s "supersoaps"

Dallas
Dynasty
The Colbys
Knots Landing
Falcon Crest(my fave)

The Prisoner

UFO

Twin Peaks

[Nyder]

Children of the Stones!!!

[Anthony Williams]

I've always loved these:











(yes, the original for Red Dwarf! I much prefer it!)

[Jon Masters]

Too many to choose from, but first to come out at random is

[Rob McCow]

And, sadly, the Simpsons version.



(Don't forget - you can embed videos by typing "youtube" "/youtube" in square brackets, without the quotation marks, then pasting the code (not the whole link) into the middle)

[MacNimon]

I just bumped this up to let you guys who are also on Facebook know that I'm the one behind that TV Themes page you may have been asked to like there...I just thought that it would be another way of collecting together a bunch of great tv themes. So feel free to post any favourites you might like to share

[Darren]

Life on Mars remains one of the most innovative and enthralling series the BBC have produced.

[Terry Leptil]

As we've had The Crystal Maze, here are all the intros from another 90s Channel 4 favourite show of mine:



They certainly got weirder over the years.

[Jason Thompson]

Well, surely these have to be some of the best cartoon intros of all time?

[Rob McCow]

Holy Adora! I'd forgotten all about the She-Ra Intro. She-Ra! She-Ra!

It's EXACTLY THE BLOODY SAME as the He-Man one though. Nice way to establish your own identity.

[Mike Saville]

Sapphire and Steel.

[Dino]

The big "This Week" fanfare that accompanied clips from this week's episode at the start Of Space 1999. It happened just before the theme tune, which to be fair, could only disappoint after such a build up!


And it freaked me out as a child but I love it to death now... I, Claudius.

[Rob McCow]

Space 1999 eh? I'll have to dig out the Notts 1999 video... wonder what happened to that?

[Jason Thompson]

Holy Adora! I'd forgotten all about the She-Ra Intro. She-Ra! She-Ra!

It's EXACTLY THE BLOODY SAME as the He-Man one though. Nice way to establish your own identity.

Well in their defence they were never trying to establish any identity other than 'He-Man for girls'....

[Zbigniev Hamson]

I must not have watched Gamesmaster beyond series 2 as my memory of it was that it was always on the oil rig and most of that seems like something from a parallel universe. I can't believe that blatant McDonalds sponsorship was on the original airings was it? I didn't think programmes were sponsored at all back in the early 90s, never mind as blatantly as that...