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[leave_me_light]

You know, the general trend of scrapping the themed intros is really making me sad. I do get that now that the commercials are taking up more and more space in the hour allotted for the standard format drama (not so much over here, but if I were an American watching these shows live, I'm pretty sure I'd lose my mind over all these "commercial"

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[momm2five]

I'm with you there! The theme songs were sometimes what made the show so memorable to begin with. I loved the old ones - and it was cool to browse through the ones you posted - and find some of my own!
Airwolf and Magnum PI are two of my favorites!

[wanderingsmith]

OMG!!!!!
Magnum PI! I haven't thought of that in....years!..-and now I'm seeing all my fav Tom Sellec (OMG.. I'd FORGOTTEN him! damn!) movies....

Ha!

thank you!

ever see High way to China? totally classic tall guy on white horse moment... and.. ooooh. gotta get me 3 men and a baby! gotta !

[momm2five]

Highroad to China, I believe! LOL! I never missed an episode of Magnum.

You're talking to one huge Tom Selleck fan here! You know how close we are to Detroit, right? Well, in the 80's it was rumored that he had a cabin up in Lexington (which would probably be just about across from Kincardin) so we were ALWAYS on the look out!! And he always wore the Tigers hat, made references to Detroit . . . etc. He rocked. And he told off Rosie O'Donnell!! WOO HOO! Go Tom! LOL!

[wanderingsmith]

doh! how could I forget that... might just have to try to get the DVD... wonder if it ever was made into DVD at all...

[wanderingsmith]

somehow missed Bonanza.. But I watched Dukes of hazard.. if at a time that I was so young that they are forever emblazoned in my mind as 'dukska viser' -imagine a little 3 year old voice.. what? I was raised in french. I may have spoken english when I was 4, but I shudder to think with what accent- lol, it took another ten years to come across the theme as it started playing and to see the title and make the connection to the weird name in my head...

oooh. MASH! China Beach! Highway to heaven, The vagabond and of course I still have "Yo Joe! .. fighting for freedom, against cobra and Dextro, GIJoe is there! GIJooooe... American heroooo" ROTFLLMAO, and to think back then I saw nothing wrong with those lyrics...

Remi sans famille, Mysterieuse cite d'or, and yeah the Star Treks.... can't imagine a show without a theme... though... I don't think I can come up with the Bones or House themes, ummm. it just keeps becoming a sadder and sadder world.

sigh memory lane. *musical* memory lane...

[momm2five]

Oh, China Beach was good, too. Hubby and I watched that a lot.

[wanderingsmith]

umm. I remember watching it al the time... but now.. its mixing and merging into the image of MASH somehow...

[leave_me_light]

Nice to see that while I've been out working, you've found a way to keep yourselves entertained out here :)

The thing that you guys might not realize is that all those totally inane American TV-shows that glued the kid in front of the TV until her parents discovered her and ridiculed her into doing something sensible reached those of us behind the Iron Curtain after the Berlin Wall had tumbled and along with intelligent children's programs, we lost the last vestiges of our innocence. Imagine the blank canvas of a mind that got all the 10-15 year old Cold War propaganda fulfilled macho-shows dumped on it... Of course our fledgling tiny private TV-channels just starting out could not afford the current shows so we got Latin American soaps and A-team, Knight Rider etc. Except about ten years after they had been considered even remotely good. For us it was the epitome of Western culture that we were now privileged enough to get a part of.

Yes, I have had a surreal childhood. From one extreme to the other.