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Indeed-- have whole series; love how practically everything else moves except the players.
Here's another one of mine: The Streets of San Francisco.
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WKRP In Cincinnati
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Barney Miller (here are two from that):
--First, from season 3 in 1976 ("Videotaped before a live audience at ABC Television Center in Hollywood"):
--Then from season 5 in 1979 (copyright is from 1978), where the credit is "Videotaped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood" (this one is higher-pitched, and has the Four D Productions logo cut off):
--First, from season 3 in 1976 ("Videotaped before a live audience at ABC Television Center in Hollywood"):
--Then from season 5 in 1979 (copyright is from 1978), where the credit is "Videotaped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood" (this one is higher-pitched, and has the Four D Productions logo cut off):
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The live or semi-live closing credits to DARK SHADOWS which, if the show ran short, might see those closing credits run on and on and on...
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The Sons and Daughters cliffhanger, freeze frame & then fade into sepia has always been a favourite of mine.
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Probably my favourite end credits are Crossroads. The main show used to end on a cliffhanger and then the credits would roll in 2 directions, vertically and horizontally, to continue the idea of it being a crossroads. The full theme tune would play and it comprised 2 themes which would crossover in the middle (another Crossroads vibe) and everything would culminate in a short scene which would take the cliffhanger on a bit further. Every element of the ending was brilliant.
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These are all great details I hadn't thought of.
All the same, I found myself laughing watching the video of the titles as I couldn't put Acorn Antiques out of my mind (from about 3:20 below).
I have the new huge Crossroads set coming next week and I'm curious to know how many hundreds of episodes it will be before I can watch without laughing.
Oh - I either didn't know or had forgotten about this. And it was decades before the Marvel Cinematic Universe films made the "mid credit scenes" and "post credit scenes" some of the most tantalising, enticing moments.
Home And Away also did these "mid credit scenes" for a short while at the very beginning and I really liked that additional little "Easter egg" for those who stayed tuned... (even though it meant missing the beginning of Neighbours over on BBC1).
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This brings back so much childhood nostalgia, one of the best ever British TV themes:
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I've always loved the theme and credits to Dick Turpin. Couldn't find just the end credits so just FF the episode.
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Honorable mentions for three short-lived crime and adventure series from the 70s that were from Columbia Pictures Television, and all three with the Sunburst/Abstract Torch of that studio (Larry White with them on the first one, and Bennett/Katleman on the other two; all three of these clips have the opening and end titles [also, first and third were on ABC, and middle one was on CBS]):
--The Feather and Father Gang (1976-77):
--The American Girls (1978):
--Salvage 1 (1979; two openings, and end titles):
--The Feather and Father Gang (1976-77):
--The American Girls (1978):
--Salvage 1 (1979; two openings, and end titles):
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Another great set of end credit was for Crown Court. Unusually, this series had a completely different theme for its opening and closing titles and both were top tunes. The show would end with the verdict of the trial and the credits would roll over the continuation of the drama showing reactions of all the main participants in the court case.
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The end theme from All in the Family. Considering the title, wistful, sad,lovely.
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Sadly, I'm not in the group that think it's one of the best. I think a good end title sequence is more than just a theme tune but also the film that is shown with it. The Dallas ending was just a still shot of Southfork, it would have been more interesting had they used film of Southfork taken from a moving aircraft.
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Never thought of it that way! I think this is why I enjoy seeing the end titles of that short-lived 1978 American Girls series I mentioned above: because it showed film of the titular girls traveling around looking for the next story to cover, and discussing how they're going to do it (or it could have been just idle chit-chat to pass the time; who knows?).
This film does, however, stop for the last few seconds of this sequence, but the last few seconds of Jerrold Immel's music (Immel of course known for Dallas) makes up for it, IMO.
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