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RIPTIDE - 1980's Action TV Show Documentary (Rolling Thunder/The Rewatch Project)
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- In latest ep of the Rolling Thunder video-podcast, Mike from The Rewatch Project with Hannah and Mike , we will look at the pilot episode of one of the lesser known Stephen J. Cannell actioners of the 80's with the lighthearted 'everything but the kitchen sink' buddy-detective show 'Riptide'
This video first appeared on its own channel but from here on out, all future eps will be on The Rewatch Project Channel.
Join host Mike from ChinStroker VS Punter as he looks at this super-fun action TV show of the 1980's, through the prism of its pilot episode.
Riptide is an American detective television series that ran on NBC from January 3, 1984, to April 22, 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray.
The series was created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with Columbia Pictures Television for NBC. The main theme was composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. A midseason replacement, it debuted as a two-hour TV movie in early 1984. After its cancellation, reruns were aired on the USA Network during the late 1980s. The series currently appears occasionally on the schedules of getTV and Decades.
Badass vehicles, memorable theme tunes, awesome catch-phrases and car-flipping excitement: the action TV shows of the 80's had it all.
Join Mike from the 'Chin Stroker VS Punter' and 'Rewatch Project' podcasts as he takes an affectionate and nostalgic look, from a UK perspective, of the shows that were as big a part of his generation's childhood, as the adventure serials and westerns were for the previous ones.
#riptide #actiontv #80stv #80snostalgia
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Absolutely NOBODY was allowed to bother me on Tuesday nights. I sat glued to the TV and got to make some of the best memories I can reflect back on. Thank you for remembering this gem.❤
Ahhh gooood times
A-Team, Riptide, Remmington Steele was one of the best trifectas on TV, ever. Riptide had some of the best choreographed action sequences of any show.
Some of the stunts on Riptide looked REALLY dangerous. Fantastic stuff
On a 1983 TV interview on CZcams, Stephen said at that time he had a show coming up called, "Rolling Thunder" that show ended up being called Hardcastle and McCormick.
Am I the only one who likes or loves the Cannell Productions logo with Stephen writing very fast followed by throwing the paper in the air and him looking up at it before the animation takes over with the paper finally becoming the letter C on a stack of paper followed by the jingle music ending. (I call the music Cannell's theme) Also love Cannell's shows including this one.
I kind of vaguely remember watching this show in 1986 having just done my O-levels, and am sure it was shown at lunchtimes though. always enjoyed it as a light-hearted buddy detective show. looking it up coincidentally bought me here. great memories thanks for the update
Yeah, it was a daytime thing in the UK to fill-out the schedule in ITV so went under the radar. It was one that I only caught when I was off sick and then started videoing. Kind of felt like 'my own little secret' show as all my friends watched the other Cannell, Spelling, Larson and Bellisario shows but not this one.
Though I love all of the Cannell Logos, my favorite one is the smoking jacket logo from 1983, which is the first logo to be recorded in the office that was seen in every logo going forward except for some reason he used a different office room in mid 1984. the first office seen in 1981-1983 was the office he used at Paramount.
Riptide felt similar to Simon and Simon. I was a fan of both shows.
Yeah, that's a great point!
From 1981-1987 the original length jingle and the extended jingle were both dramatic and both featured the sound of a trumpet as well as violins. The extended jingle are two Cannell Jingles edited together in 1984 along with maybe some added synthesizer notes on the 6th and 8th notes. In 1987 the string guitar version featured a flute in place of the trumpet. The electric guitar version just had an electric guitar revving up before the ending notes and long keyboard note of the jingle. For shows that had logos before Stephen's in 1987-1988 they played shortened versions of the back then new jingles. All of the jingles are awesome. At the end of The Greatest American Hero two versions of the 8 notes jingles played over the 1981-1983 logo. The ending notes after the 8th note sounded like the ending of Believe It or not, there were 4 notes instead of the main 5 notes.
see, THIS is the kind of minutea that I LOVE
Supposedly Mike Post and Pete Carpenter created the Stephen J. Cannell Productions Jingles!