NBC ABC & CBS Movie Intro History (LAST UPDATE!)
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- Now including NBC's "Movie of the Week" variations from 1979-1987, plus the rare "New CBS Tuesday Night Movies" intro.
For the first time on CZcams, a full collections of (almost) every intro from NBC, ABC, and CBS's respective movie night series-all with no or limited announcer interference! For those searching for a favorite opening, the order is as follows:
NBC (Late 1960's-1972)
NBC (1972-1976)
NBC (1976-1978)
NBC (1978-1979)
NBC (1979-1980)
NBC (1980-1981)
NBC (1981-1984)
NBC (1984-1987)
NBC (1987-1991)
NBC (1991-1995)
ABC (1964-1967?)
ABC (1968?-1970)
ABC (1969-1975)
ABC (1970-1974)
ABC (1974-1981)
ABC (1981-1986)
ABC (1987)
ABC (1987-1990)
ABC (1990-1994)
ABC (1994-1997)
ABC (1998)
ABC (1998-2002)
ABC (2002-2003)
CBS (Late 1960s-1972?)
CBS (1972?-1974)
CBS (1974-1978)
CBS (1978-1983, 1986)
CBS (1984-1985)
CBS (1986-1989)
CBS (1989-1993)
Thanks to everyone who collected the historic opening, and a VERY special thanks to RichYong and Brandon Lee Reed for inspiring this video. Their original histories are linked below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxlWj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DADmU...
And as they say at the movies: Sit back, relax and enjoy the show! - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I get very emotional watching this. Takes me back 40-50 years, a young boy at home with the parents and family, a feeling of excitement and anticipation to see a movie! Then I come back to the present and realize my childhood, my parents, the house I grew up in are all gone, never to return.
I know what you mean. Life today vs. how simple it seemed to be back then. FredFlix has some promos with ABC Daytime when they had shows like Brady Bunch, That Girl and others in the middle of the day. That seemed cool!
Matt Foley I bet you were happy to get your own home to get away from the rents
@@sherryhannah498 Take your meds.
@@mattfoley6082 wish I didn’t have to take meds
As if this CZcams post itself wasn’t enough, then I see your comment. I’m sorry, Man. You’re not alone in your feelings on this. I know that doesn’t help the situation. I lost my Mom NOV 13, 2020 during deployment and wasn’t able to visit before or after due to COVID. I returned to the U.S. July 11th. Definitely not the same, a lot I can’t say.
Nothing, absolutely nothing can top the ABC Sunday Night Movie “star tunnel" intro from the 1980s.
Spending the weekend with the grandparents during the late 1970s and being able to stay up late and watch the movies with them. Grandma always serve popcorn or ice cream she also had candy bowls scattered around the house filled with peppermint candies and twizzlers Dum Dum suckers bit-o-honey bars who could forget snacking on Oreo cookies with a glass of milk during these times.😊
It’s all about 16:54 for me. The Star Tunnel was the absolute peak of intros. Everyone else can go home. 😂
As soon as these intros started, parents across the nation were saying, "Hurry up kids, the movie's on!!"
Really miss those times of getting the JiffyPop ready to watch something special on TV; TV that was, save the cost of buying a television set, paying the monthly utility bills, and buying all of the cereal (with prizes inside), toys/games, OTC medicine, fast food, hair care products, etc, that was advertised, was FREE. After 60+ years of all sorts of entertainment, domestic & foreign, some of the most memorable films I recall were Movies of the Week, or Saturday Night at the Movies. Love these intros, but I had no idea there were so many different ones! Thank you for the post!
Hearing all of these themes and seeing the graphics really hits home. We watched so many of the network movies then. ABC's 'Movie Of the Week' was huge as was the 'ABC Sunday Night Movie' and 'The CBS Friday Night Movie'. There were many summer nights where we kids would be outside playing and then we would hear the horns from the opening credits blaring through the front door or window or our home or a neighbor's and THAT's when we dropped everything and ran inside to watch the movie! ABC and CBS had the best orchestrations. Very memorable. Later, NBC upped their game with the music and graphics as well. My all time favorite is certainly the ABC theme to 'The Sunday Night Movie' from the mid-70s at 14:36.
It was a special time in our younger days, though I doubt if we ever realized it at the time. Those years are gone forever, but never forgotten. For those of us that experienced growing up in the 1960's and 70's, these wonderful reminders of the entertainment world we had can make us grateful for what we have now, and those are our precious memories. Let us hope we never lose them. "Thank you" for posting!
There were so many nights at the movies on NBC because it seemed like regular new comedies and dramas for NBC in the 1980-1981 season were just not working out well. They had to keep Hill Street Blues or they'd be given a bad rep. In the end, Fred Silverman marched away and was replaced by Grant Tinker and Brandon Tartikoff as the years passed. It was Tartikoff that saved NBC in the mid 1980s.
Why did they stop making these?
These were some award winning pictures in the day.
Big time stars.
Bring them back.
YES! We all want them back! You, me, everybody! We all want them back.
Movies that were actually WORTH watching! And here's the thing; so many years later, THEY STILL ARE!!!
CBS just brought theirs back for a limited time last year, not sure why this video didn't include it
Because most of the movie rights went to cable channels like USA, TNT, or FX.
As much as I appreciate the nostalgia of watching these bumpers, I don't want to go back to that time where movies were interupted by commercials, and were edited for time and content.
ABC always had my favorite music and graphic intros on their movie nights... and also my favorite announcer and narrator voices :) ..but all of these are really good fun to remember. ABC just brings back a lot of great memories especially the one starting at @ 14:38.. The NBC Mystery Movie theme by Henry Mancini is also a wonderful theme from the childhood days and good old days of family TV :)
The ABC movie announcer on the one from the earlier 1970s (the TRIPPY one) was the same guy that did the voice to the robot on Lost In Space !
@@LannieLord - Yes, the opening credits for ABC's 'Movie Of the Week' was announced by Dick Tufeld. He was a well respected and much sought after announcer. He did RCA television commercials, the robot's voice on 'Lost In Space' and he also announced the opening and commercial break segments for ABC's 'The Hollywood Palace.' He did SO much voiceover work, the man was never short on work!
Agree 100% about ABC having the best announcer (geez, I forgot how much the NBC guy sounded like a dork), and I'll never forget his intros to The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, particularly how after the recap ends he'd say in that deep voice, "And now..." just before the intro credits start. My favorite movie intro graphic of all time was ABC's "Star Tunnel" at 16:54, particularly when paired with the build-up music at the beginning.
As soon as I heard the ABC promo music, it was so familiar and the coolest of the 3 networks.
Nice upload! This is ultimately how I discovered my love for the movies and when movie premieres were big TV events.
Sadly, movies are now taken for granted thanks to the many streaming platforms that have spoiled the industry and have taken the magic and anticipation away from movies.
The ABC star tunnel started at the 17:00 mark is my personal favorite!
Bond nights on ABC were always a fave!!
Bond and Superman for ABC for me. The Incredible Hulk and the Bionic couple for NBC and Star Wars and Rocky on CBS
@@davidjames468 definitely can relate to these associations with the movies and the networks!
I remember when 'War of the worlds' was a big television debut event on TV. WOW!
I Agree With You! Make Movies Great Again!
Sooooo many feelings right now! Thank you for this amazing trip down memory lane! ❤️
This gave me chills. Back when TV was "Must See" and epic. You don't know how many times my day or week was ruined by missing a show or special.
I sure remember watching this back in the day. The ABC Movie Of The Week which aired from 1969 to 1975 had a lot of cutting edge films. A lot of those Movie Of The Week films were produced by Aaron Spelling, Danny Thomas, Spelling/Thomas and Spelling/Goldberg Productions. Other production companies include Bruce Lansbury, Douglas S Cramer, Self Productions, Lorimar, Miller/Milkus, Metromedia, Leonard Stern, etc. Always a mix of theatrical and made-for-tv films. Nowadays, cable channels such as Hallmark, TNT (Turner Network Television), Lifetime have picked up the slack.
This is a time machine! I am taken back to the 1960s and I'm a kid again!
I think the "Saturday Night At The Movies" intro at the beginning of this clip was first used way back in September, 1961, when the network began running major feature films on that night.
Supposedly, NBC began running feature films on Saturday nights in the fall of 1961 because their prime time lineup on Saturdays during the 1960-61 season was being killed in the ratings by Lawrence Welk on ABC and "Gunsmoke" on CBS.
NBC executives thought that a weekly series of recent (1950-59) movies that hadn't been seen on TV before, featuring hit films and well-known stars, would make the network competitive on Saturdays.
Haven't seen this in years, thank you!
OHHHHH MY!! How welI I remember the original NBC Night At the Movies theme. It's a memory that never left my mind since whatever night 55 years ago. I'd say this is the GREATEST of all movie info themes every made, background included!! The movie intro from the mid-80s ain't shabby either. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
The 2 best theme intro's are by ABC. The one at 14:36 which was from 1975 to 1981 and the ABC Star Tunnel theme from 1982 to 1986 at 16:54
The Star Tunnel on ABC was absolutely epic! The instant you heard the first couple of notes, you knew what was coming. ABC was also the last network to stop running movies, several years after the other two stopped. I wonder if their viewership was considerably higher than the other two?
It's very cool that you pulled all of these together, but it would be sooo great if you could have pinned down the years for as many of these as possible.
I Remember When I Got My Old Television
On ABC NBC CBS Night At The Movie's.
Network TV was a powerful thing in its day.
The CBS intro is why I used to think blue and green made red.
ABC had Original Films Produced for Broadcast and included some films that were so well received that they were released at theaters after running on Television. Brian’s Song a film about Brian Piccolo (James Caan ) and Gale Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams )who were teammates on the Chicago Bears from 1965 - 1970 where they struck up a friendship before Piccolo was diagnosed with cancer and DUEL a thriller starring Dennis Weaver as a man terrorized by a Semi-Truck with an unseen driver directed by a young Steven Spielberg other Films included Daughter Of The Mind starring Ray Milland as a scientist who’s being haunted by his dead daughter-or is he just going insane? The Boy In The Plastic Bubble John Travolta’s big acting debut which led to him leaving the T.V. Series Welcome Back Kotter to pursue a big screen career.
thank you so much. you don't know how much i appreciate these nostalgic things. wow didn't realize NBC had so many different ones, i was just a kid but i do remember them all. and i swear it sounds like the same announcer guy for each network lol!
By far THIS is the ONLY comprehensive listing of the various movie logos and intros for all three major networks through the years. The ONLY comprehensive listing.
There are one or two CBS New Tuesday/Friday Night Movie intros and logos from 1972/3 that were inadvertently skipped over; and one Thursday Night Movie bumper from 1973 that was missed. But Obsolete Video has those among their scraps. If I aee them, I will forward them immediately...
Are these what you meant, because these are promos, NOT intros:
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@@MultiAnimationdude ...oh no. I understood that you meant intros. From viewing other logo histories by FredFlix, Obsolete and one or two others, I'd seen a couple that weren't on your list that you would not have missed because your research was that thorough. I thought that if I saw them again, I'd flag them and get them to you, that's all. Sorry if I overstepped; I just liked your television movie logo history that much. It's the best out there so far...
I already looked through all of Obsolete's movie-related videos through a Bing search, but I can check FredFlix myself and see what I supposedly missed. Don't worry about it.
In the early-mid '80s, there was an NBC Late Night Movie on Sundays, whose opening included classic film scenes. When it was cancelled, the time slot (10:30 Central, 11:30 Eastern) was given back to the affiliates.
Wow, I had forgotten how many nights the networks devoted to movies back in the day! (And a lot of the TV movies dealt with hard-hitting social issues, too - like rape, teen alcoholism and race relations).
Loved on ABC when the TVs went on in those SF homes. Used to make America feel cozy and connected through a real shared experience.
Are you talking about the placeholder 1987 openings with partial Star Tunnel title track, where the broadcast title faded in at the bottom of the screen, and an old-style NCI CC icon appeared in the top left of the screen?
The ABC theme music 🎵 was my favorite out of all three (3) networks back then. The late great composer and arranger BURT BACHARACH (R.I.P) wrote the theme music for the abc movie of the week. The theme song was called "NICKI" named after his late daughter.
Just read that the ABC narrator (60s-early 70s) was the man who did the robot voice on Lost In Space.
Joel Crager, who was the main voice of ABC until 1976.
Dick Tufeld was the voice of the robot. I think he did CBS movie voiceovers at some point.
From wikipedia:
For many years, until the early 1980s, the announcer for all of ABC's movie shows was network staff announcer Joel Crager.[6] Afterwards, the duties would be handled first by Ernie Anderson, and then others, including Gary Owens (with the announcer depending on the film's tone; Owens would do so for comedies).
Sounds like William Schallert from The Patty Duke Show. He did voiceovers too
@@mattfoley6082 Ernie Anderson will remain in peoples heads for saying "The Loooooove Boat".
At least, between all three networks, all seven days of the week were covered. But not at the same time, of course.
All the major networks really had great intros from the time I was just a little girl in the 1970s watching the Movie or miniseries Big Event of the Week or The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie with McMillan & Wife or Quincy ME. To watching as an adult in the 80s & 90s. Such memories . Now it’s 2023 and the networks pulled the plug around 2004 altogether on the Movies of the Week. Very very sad 😢
Abc 80s and early 90s is most memorable to me. I do remember that last CBS ones just we always watched ABC the most.
It was nice having 3 channels
This promo for ABC Movie of the Week (13:00), modeled on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 stargate sequence, was created by Harry Marks and Douglas Trumbull in 1969. The ABC Monday Night Movie promo (14:45) was created by Robert Abel and Harry Marks in 1970.
Trumbull did some work on the last Quentin Tarantino movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
The "Movie of the Weekend" promo was from where the "rotating cameraman" (first seen at 12:30) opening sequence for New York station WABC-TV's "4:30 Movie," "Saturday Night Movie" and "Sunday Night Movie" (all backed by Walter Raim's 1968 "Big Show" theme) had been lifted. It had been created by Harry Marks in 1971.
The Stargate one is definitely my fave of these openings. For its time, it was incredibly progressive and visually stunning.
The early CBS themes are my favs. Equally love the symphonic and more "jazz band" versions.
Please add timestamps to description otherwise we can't tell which is which.
8:55 This exact same intro appeared before the April 1985 SNL miniseries parody A.D. 13 Part V: A New Beginning.
NBC Wednesday Night At The Movies, Presents! Red Skies At Morning! Starring Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, and Tim Matheson!!
Really appreciate this. Thank you.
2:31 interesting intro using the NBC sound signal
During a time when you look forward to watching TV on certain nights. Now it's all crap with these streaming services.
The good old days of when Network TV ran movies at certain nights, especially on Sunday night. 🎞️
Those days were perfect after playing outside, wash up, eat, and watch a movie with our families. Now it is lonely Saturday's and Sunday's for a lot of kids to be away from their parents because the whole stinking weekend on all major networks is all about football and drinking and betting on games. Even on Monday, on a school day, mind you, it's football.
Sometimes, the intros were better than the movies themselves. My favorite music is on the CBS introductions.
Opening at 2:01 reminds me of the beginning credits from the early Friday the 13th films..
Wonderful!! Thank you!!!!!
@ 25:23 CBS has the most fascinating graphics for that time period!! This Had to be from an international source, for both graphics and musical scoring. Very dream-like and otherworldly. The one @ 25:02 looks like a pre-cursor to those late night movie CBS graphics. Amazing. Any information about these rarities would be greatly appreciated!!
I think that's from the same era when the Late Movie started airing. The prime-time movie intros changed but they kept the CBS Late Movie intro the same practically until the end of its run
@@chrismcgovern1647 CBS went with a disco-like theme by fall 1978, but kept the good ol’ theme for Late Night until the mid-eighties I believe. I wonder if The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies theme only lasted for the first half of season 1973/74. I never saw it back then. Fascinating!
@@redriverwave Yes, I don't remember that one either, I also don't remember ever having seen ABC's Movie of The Weekend
@@chrismcgovern1647 I kind of remember that one, Chris. Must have been four years old and weepy from the beautiful sounds.
ABC mid to late 70's was the best
What a treat!
Love these
I seem to remember an old "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" opening that featured a rotating stack of blank cinema marquees, with the series title coming in from the center of the screen. Does anyone else remember it?
Which is which? I love that you did this; is it possible to put cues or something so that I know which is which?
Every night was accounted for except Monday night on CBS
Memories
You forgot abc novel television, and nbc mini series cbs mini series.
The NBC Saturday Movie with the big crawler on the 'cinema' shows the word 'TURD' in 8ft high letters for a brief moment. 😊
I’m maybe too young, and might live in a different region, but I know my own nostalgia like anyone else, and it makes me feel a certain way to see it. I’m only 46, by the way. Some of those Early ABC Sunday night movie intros did recall some memories. You felt like you could go out and succeed from that alone as a kid. Kind of like learning to write in cursive in grade school….
But why did they change it to ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week? Wasn't the ABC Wednesday Night Movie good enough?
Do to the popularity of The ABC Movie Of Week. They had both a Tuesday and Wednesday Movie Of The Week for the 1972-1973 season and continued on until the 1974-1975 season.
In between they had an ABC Movie Of The Weekend for the 1971-1972 season which aired on Saturday nights and The ABC Suspense Movie for the 1973-1974 season.
@@frankdenardo8684 I remember the ABC Suspense Movie featured KILLDOZER . Stephen King LOVED all those TV movies and --LOTS of his books are based on them.
Ah those inocent days gone by give me my childhood back !
Back when General Electric owned NBC and Westinghouse owned CBS and god knows who owned ABC
Capital Cities owned ABC before Disney took over.
Two industrial companies and... something else.
Now each network is within a major media conglomerate.
@@gregsells8549In order (as far as I can remember):
ABC
Capital Cities
Cumulus Media (radio), Disney (TV)
@@fromthehaven94 Yes--
ABC (Disney)
CBS (Paramount)
NBC (Comcast)
FOX
Does anyone have a fiull version of 'spinning reels'?
More to my interest, how about the 1974 woodwind version of theme?
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WOW! Some collection. I remember NBC had the lamest movie . ABC and CBS had better ones like Planet of the Apes and James Bond. Remember when AIRPORT was like : plan you night around it ? 11:54 My entire childhood. 15:17 my entire High School years . 26:15 Tonight : Planet of the Apes !
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LOVE SHIT LIKE THIS!!
Before cable.
The Best !! Almost every night of the week the networks brought on tv & miniseries from the70’s to the End of the 90’s with these colorful exciting intros !! Then came garbage reality Tv in 2001 and they trashed made for TV movies completely “oh too expensive too make” So we’ll make cheapie reality Tv garbage instead !! Well I watch CZcams now where I know the quality of network TV movies and quality now resides Exclusively. Tv is no longer worth watching.
14:36 James Bond is back!
You still missed the rare 1984 NBC Movies intro that was used for only a few weeks or so with a different music cut than the rest.
This video has it: czcams.com/video/2DZIg7iuBes/video.html
Seeing these is like areal time capsule into my earliest childhood memories of the start of the 1970s to my young adult years thru the 80s, 90s and the very early 2000s when the big three networks cut the lifeline cord on quality made for television movies and miniseries. Huge mistake !!! so they could instead redirect that allotment of money to unscripted reality Tv and prime time game shows. Garbage!! Absolute waste of money . Tv is not worth looking at in the 2020’s . I watch Tubi and CZcams also Looknow2 for tv and movies from the 20th century . Looking at these intros for TV movies is Absolutely priceless!!!
Seven Network, Nine Network & Network Ten at The Movies
In Australia
You forgot CBS Late Night Movie.
For a time in the '80s, there was an NBC Late Night Movie on Sundays.
The one starting at 11:50 has always been my favorite. 16:53 my least favorite.
take off some of stupid shows and put on get movies. Cost to much to mark ? low Rating ? why ?
All the old movies, good & bad, were not only snapped up by Cable TV networks, but streaming video providers as well. 💻
The three major networks collectively trashed making made for television movies around 2000 CBS, NBC & ABC all said “Too Expensive to make” So we’ll make Reality Tv Shows instead and now Network Tv is GARBAGE barely worth watching . Biggest. mistake the networks ever made. Now they are losing out to the ever growing online streaming services. Stupid fools all at the networks!! The 70’s -to 2000 was the heyday for great Television. Personally I really miss Tv from these decades . I watch CZcams and Tubi mostly now as they offer many of the miniseries and TV movies of the 1970-2000 and so much more quality viewing Tv today simply DOES NOT OFFER and Hasn’t for about 20+ years now!! A real shame🥲☹️
18:35 To 31:34
7:55 25:23