ABC Movie of the Week opening sequence, created in 1969
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- Pre-CGI motion graphics, designed by Harry Marks. Accomplished with slitscan camera.
Music: "Nikki", by Burt Bacharach
Voice over: Dick ("Danger, Will Robinson!") Tufeld
"The info I can give you on Movie of the Week is from my perspective at ABC. I was head of On-Air Advertising (promo) at the time and Barry Diller had this idea (𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘰𝘺 𝘏𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴 - 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯) for made-for-television movies, He named it "Movie of the Week" and created a new television format. He asked me to come up with a special title treatment for this new concept, and I enlisted someone I'd recently met, Doug Trumbull, whose last job was '2001, A Space Oddysey'.
"Doug had come to the office looking for work after working on 2001 for several years in England. I hadn't seen the movie, but he had the out-takes of the "Stargate" sequence with him. When I saw them I knew there had to be a way to transform Doug's brilliant abstractions into something that used typography. It worked and set the path for television graphics that followed."
- Harry Marks
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"The slitscan camera was basically an animation stand on steroids. The camera was mounted on a track which moved toward a large slit, behind which back-lit artwork passed, for each exposure. The moving camera caused the artwork to "scan" in the third dimension. This was not computer graphics, but a camera trick."
- Mark Simonson
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Only Burt Bacharach could come up with a tune like that. I know it’s just a TV show theme song, but it’s incredibly beautiful and takes me back to my childhood. Even the announcer’s vocalization and his reading of the over-the-top script add magic to this.
John beautiful memories
Totally! I hadn't heard this in over 40 years and I was transported right back to my best friend's house, warm summer night with the slider open, fresh air, laying on the white shag carpet, watching the big pedestal Zenith, some crazy flick about ants getting toxic at a resort, or the lady from Bewitched escaping a killer in a big house during a storm or parents desperately trying to find their kidnapped daughter whose been buried alive in a box. Good times!
Who was the narrator?? I'll Google it. Brought back feelings to.
@@mauricegilliam7102 If you find out, that would be awesome. He had a hell of a voice.
Believe it’s Dick Tufeld, “Danger Will Robinson, Danger”.
I'm 57 yr old and everytime I hear that ABC theme song I think about when I was a kid in the 70's and watching an ABC movie on tv 📺 with my family. I also get a little 😢 misty eyed because I was the youngest in my family and I miss my mom my dad and my older brother because their all have passed on.
I understand. In many ways, better times.
You're not alone. Me too. Me too...
To grow up in the 60's and 70's when TV was innocent. I miss those days.
yea tv use to be so innocent and i loved it but now tv is making us learn too much bullcrap
We all miss those days!
I miss those days too.
I miss those days too Twyla.
I can just feel it !!!! Living in Owings Mills , Maryland and going to Timber Grove elementary school and looking at this with my mother . Ahhh those were such beautiful days . I wish I could relive it for just a month at least .
when i was a kid i just loved this theme, it sent chills through me.
This brings a tear to my eyes.
how do you think i feel i want my childhood back
Larry Barrios mine too it's so nostalgic
I know what you mean Larry. And with these kind of dramatic and excitement show introductions and music, it MADE you want to watch the movie regardless of what it was ! I have memories of everybody settling into place in the living room with that music playing. Makes me sad actually.
Mike Rubinate ... You guys all make good points !!! I think what makes us 'Teary-eyed' is hearing the music...Immediately brings back memories of the sense of FAMILY when we were growing up. Your parents if not everyone, would be in the living room watching, but regardless of what room you were in, You could hear the TV set !
twilight's last gleaming watching this is tearing me apart, your right omg 😭😭
1 tv set, a transistor radio, spaghetti 4 times a week and fried fish every Friday night. Everyone was young, even the country was younger and everyone thought about "someday". It was a great time to be young.
machia0705 You said it well sir...
machia0705 in the old neighborhoods , every house had a porch . neighbors would stroll by and visit, we even used to bring the tv set out on the porch. now in slowburbia the porches are on the back of the house, and people seldom see their neighbors.go to a sports event where people spend hundreds of dollars on tickets , and maybe one in five persons doesn't have his face buried in a smart phone.
machia0705 I agree w/ everyone's post, but we all sound so old...lol!
less community , and more disconnect from each other.
Then greed and the corporate mindset took over; your comment was poignant and all too true. The 70s was my coming of age decade and with each passing year so dissimilar to them, they grow more sweet.
Whenever I am missing my mom I watch this, I lost her this past summer at the age of 50 to cancer, these weekly programs were one of her favorites she always watch, thanks for posting this.
Your story sounds like mine Joey. My mom was 51. She and all of the memories like these openings are frozen in time.
We can all relate. Lost my Mom at 55 in 2000.
Truly blessed we can share precious moments spent with them enjoying how TV brought families closer as a beautiful way to keep their memories alive.
Pretty sure they are smiling down now. God Bless...... 🙏🏾
Ah! This makes me long for a simpler time...when families were together. Granma and grampa in their chairs with tv in the corner and us kids watching and making popcorn in the fireplace. I had no idea the world would become like this. I am lucky to have grown up in the 70's. It was a good time to be a kid.
Amen!
I want to go back to these times,such good memories of childhood!
don64
I'm 52 years old now and I can still remember laying on the floor in the den, watching the ABC Movie of the Week with my family on our big RCA ColorTrak 26" Console TV set. The 1970s are gone now, but I will always cherish the memories!
We all do
We all do so much!
Yes!!
Oh man , talk about nostalgia, how I felt comforted by this on those cold and rainy winter nights watching TV as a family right up to the end :" alright kids, time for bed, school tomorrow." Now I'm pushing 60 and miss my folks so bad, now long buried and forgotten by the world.
They aren't forgotten brother!And they are waiting for you!
Joe Dollinter, Yes, so nostalgic. It's amazing how normal it was back then for entire families to watch television together. I grew up in a family of seven. And it seems like on the big movie of the night weeks, there were often a couple of neighbor kids or cousins over, so there might be nine or ten of us camped out all over the living room. In fact, we used to use our cub scout sleeping bags in the living room, pillows everywhere. No worries. How comforting just to think of it.
+Rahloh McDonogh As I think about it many of those movies were quite disturbing.I just remember my grandmother being there and feeling safe;
Rahloh McDonogh, That's right. A lot of those made for TV movies were horror films, suspense movies, or psychological thrillers. I remember being frightened by many, but so enveloped in family I felt safe. I had three of my brothers in the same bedroom with me. As I look around the block where I live today, I see many houses with one person living alone. And the condo and loft developments that have mushroomed around the neighborhood are full of single people living alone or couples without children. I doubt many of those folks are up late watching horror movies!
+Karim Bennett That Hope Lange one with everyone dressed like puritans comes to mind.
Wow. This brought back some memories. The power of music never fails to amaze me.
everything we had back then are the best todays cant beat our childhood it just cant
It's the instrumental version of "Nikki".
Indeed!!
Yes, I was 10 years old in 1970 brings back memories.
I'm flooded with memories of junior high school and the good things about that time. The cheese of the movie wasn't such a problem back then. We weren't so mean.
And it's freakin' Burt Bacharach. Wow.
He wrote the Movie Of The Week theme
@@frankdenardo8684 To be fair, he wrote "Nikki" and they bought it from him. That song is a reference to his daughter (that he had with Angie Dickinson), who has an incredibly sad story.
@@ferrisbueller6012 interesting story. I read she later took her own life which was unfortunate
The music theme and the announcers represented excellence in the broadcast industry.
Believe it or not, the announcer is Dick Tufeld. Doesn’t ring a bell? He was the voice of the Robot in Lost in Space.
Memories of sitting in front of our Admiral T.V. as a a kid with my family. A simpler time with T,V. movies like 'Brian's Song" and 'The Night Stalker" and artists like David Janssen and Angie Dickinson. Grateful to have been there. Thank you for posting.
I say tgat all the time to until I really start remembering Chet Huntly David Brinkly and Walter.
The civil rights movement the beginning years of Viet Nam, it was simple if you lived in a cave; maybe but otherwise; the crap has never stopped raining down on us EVER.
We just train ourselves to forget the lies and deception and replace the truth with fantasy and what it should be.
ABC NBC CBS FOX are government controlled propaganda hubs designed to push their approved narritive.
The six o'clock news gave everyone a reason to watch Saturday Night at the movies just to escape the real world tragedies.
In 1970 I enlisted in the Army I served in a combat artillery battalion and there was nothing simple about that time to this time or honestly; before that time.
But I like you and everyone like to say "It was a simpler time" lol
I got all emotional..wow this took me back....loved this theme song and movie of the week....247 movies made for television aired until the concept ran its course in May of 1975....I miss old tv..those of us who had it are truly blessed.
nesemarie this is so true 😢
i know tv back in those days are the best i hate how things changed today its nothing great about it at all i wann go back
nesemarie great films with titles such as seven in darkness, the ballad of Andy crocker, the over the hill gang, daughter of the mind, Carter's Army, along came a spider, night slaves, crowhaven farm, in search of America, escape, the forgotten man, the last child, the people, say goodbye Maggie Cole the night stalker, the night strangler, and many others. production companies included ABC films, Aaron spelling, Danny Thomas, Leonard Goldberg, Bing Crosby. those were the days.
TUESDAY movie of the week!
The visuals really are incredible, but for me it's the music that opens the door of memory. Hearing this connected me to my early teens, remembering my mom, the "tv room", the less hectic life. Life wasn't a bowl of cherries growing up, but hearing this is all positive. It made me seek out other tv themes and unexpectedly, when I found the theme to Room 222, I couldn't help but cry. Still don't know what it touched, but it was real. I'm glad to have those memories and feelings stirred again.
I’m with you on the ‘Room 222’ theme especially but also everything else you said here rings true.
@@dixgunI'm a 7os/8os kid. Room 222 was on at 5a on weekdays before the early morning news in the 8os. I always watched it eating my cereal before getting ready for school. So, also childhood memories from the following generation. Definitely, that song...!!
@@11dsw cool description. I can relate.
Seeing this intro brings back many emotions,can't explain them though!My age is starting to take toll.
Rahloh McDonogh mine as well memories
Chester Hill Yep
I can totally relate... same here....
@Konga 5000 well said my friend.. well said...
I've been reading a lot of these comments--wow, you've all touched my heart! There's a collective memory going on here for many 60's kids: listening to the MOTW theme behind a closed door while drifting off to sleep. I think that if any of us got together for a beer or two, we'd have a lot to talk about (and maybe some tears to shed) because we all experienced that time together---scattered but somehow together---and listening to this lovely haunting theme song from movie of the week.
I wasn't born in that era, but it somehow brings me back, too.
I'm a 70s kid and they were sure using it until the mid 70s.
Yup, I'm 45 and it gave me goosebumps! I felt like a kid again. What a great childhood I had. Wish I could go back.
I just love this ABC Movie of the Week theme for the 1970s - AWESOME Memories!
makes me sad brings back so many memories of my youth and loved ones I was surrounded by that are no longer here
anthony deluca yes me too i know the feeling all to well
anthony deluca so true I feel the same way tears streaming down my face , so poignant , 😢😢
strange how hearing this can bring such a flood of memories back happier times mom and dad and my little sister at home and grandma coming to visit all gone now
anthony deluca yes it was me and two brothers I was the middle child, were still here but mom, dad grandma, grandpa are gone, holidays to aren't the same,
believe me i knowhow you feel
I'm sitting here in kind of a daze....I never thought I'd ever hear this again except in a kind of scratchy faded faint memory in the back of my mind....it takes me back to one of the happiest times in my life... Isure do appreciate you putting this on the Tube...it means a lot...thanks again.
I'm with you. I was on the verge of tears and I wondered why. I got to thinking about it and with the state that our country is in now it makes me long for those days as a care free kid. It so sad to see our country circle the drain like it is now.
ABC is missing a goldmine, having not as yet released this great
series on DVD....
i miss all the old days so much i cant stand todays
nose job 😢😢
nose job 😢 I'm tearing up
Such a wonderful, almost magical memory from my childhood in Woodland, CA. Nostalgic as hell and wish I was back "there" again. For a minute we can because of this...
This melody triggers an uneasy euphoria in me. True, unpretentious art can do that to a person.
great comment !
Beautifully said, like poetry!
The word you looking for is magical that's how television was back then very peaceful and simple
RIP to Burt Bacharach ( May 12, 1928 - February 8, 2023). Condolences to his family and friends.
I still remember it like it was yesterday. I loved the ABC movie of the week. Sometimes my parents wouldn't let us stay up late to watch it, but when we did we would take our baths early and gather in front of the family TV to watch the ABC movie of the week! Can't replace those memories.
I never get tired of watching this. I wish there were more ABC Movie of the Week promos out there. The intro is so cool...
Oh man, The music brings back those memories!! I need a time machine!!
oh gosh! When I hear the theme song and his voice it triggers emotions of the 70s my school yrs. Sitting here now thinking and remembering. Mom can I stay up and watch this movie? I very much so miss those days :(
oh my goodness true childhood memories thank you
i know right that music is so magical
daminmancejin it takes you back to your childhood coming home or coming in the house to watch the movie
yea i always feel this way everyday my brain feeds the 60,70,80, and 90s all over again i miss the days we had im sick of todays
@@moonleverette5611 I remember this program back in the day.
The Ballad Of Andy Crocker, The Monk, Seven In Darkness, The Over The Hill Gang, In Name Only, Gidget Grows Up, Night Slaves, How Awful About Alan, Crowhaven Farm, Assault On The Wayne, The Forgotten Man, Five Desperate Women, Escape, Along Came A Spider, The Letters, The Point, The Night Stalker, The Night Strangler, Pursuit, The Chadwick Family, Hit Lady, Dead Man On The Run and many other films aired on this program that debuted fifty years ago.
What magical memories......the announcer is Dick Tufeld.......voice of the robot from Lost in Space. Thank you for sharing this with us
Well produced intro, and I remember thinking at the time that that music was the best I'd ever heard in my life..
This was classic TV!! I remember watching tv during the week & hear that theme song! Wow! Almost brings tears thinking about the good old days!!!! Love it!! Thanks for sharing!
Great comment as I felt the same exact pain. I heard this and was transported back to my childhood home and our living room and all the love and security I had with all my brothers and parents relaxing at our home back then. It even kind of brought a tear to my eye knowing it's all gone. Funny how a movie jingle can do all that. What great times those were. It's sad to see what we have on TV today. A total mess.
That's why I came here lol. The movie of the week was a family event, and back then was virtually like going to the movie theater.
DeliverTheWord1 I agree. Listening to a music jingle like this represents the hard work and excellence in a TV production like this..Somehow, the music sounds so lush. You can sense ABC wanted to let the viewer know that they were bringing the best technology. To the forefront.
What a nostalgic rush...just a mere 40 or so years ago, television movies were considered major events, and promoted as such. Even the opening music gave you a pang of excitement- that a big deal was about to happen. This 49-year-old appreciates it!!
I miss those day of TV so very much!
i feel like that everyday
I loved these movie bumpers. I was born 1959, so I saw them from 1969 on through to the 1980s. Anytime I watch them on you tube, they make me think of the simple times as a child and teen. I remember watching this movie, always liked Brian Keith and William Windom.
I remember watching the movie of the week in the early 70's. Watching this intro again brings back so many memories. Also the 4:30 movie, and Million Dollar movie intros. Ahhh the good ole' days
i miss all of that stuff so much it was so magical
I loved the movie of the week when I was coming up.as a kid.
I miss the good old days, movies back then was real movies,
I wish they could come back.🎬📺
I miss the 1970s and this intro brought back so many memories, we would all watch the night stalker when it was the premiere movie of the week
Wow - this was great. I always loved the Burt Bachrach music.
I have been wanting to see this intro for 23 years!!! I will always associate part of my childhood with watching this introduction to the ABC Movie of the Week and listening to Burt Bacharach's "Nikki".
Way cool- Movie of the Week was the first program we watched on our first color TV back in 1969..
this clip literally brings back my childhood. about ten years old , my parents were still alive and most of the older members of the family. simpler times, free from adult responsiblities. i wouldn't trade my childhood with todays youth for all the money in the world. today everything seems so pc and sterile.how three networks seemed to keep us entertained seven days a week seems amazing in todays world.
I remember when the ABC TV network first started airing The Movie of the Week in 1969. I was amazed at that time by the graphical video effects of the opening sequence. In those days, as a nine-year-old, all I had to worry about was getting along with my older siblings. Like so many others, I wish I could turn back the hands of time.
I am 43 too and this is totally my childhood! Many wonderful memories of a time forgotten.
BRING BACK MY FAVORITE ANTHOLOGY SERIES.....THE OLD ABC MOVIES OF THE WEEK
Oh God, Can't i just go back and be a little kid again, just for a little while? Thanks for sharing
Man -- this catapults me straight back to childhood, trying to sneak in a few minutes of the movie of the week before my mother told me to turn the TV off. The addictive Bacharach melody, the hypnotic 2001-style special effects … it's all back.
Watching this transports me right back to the early seventies! This opens a treasure trove of old precious memories and feelings! I used to watch these movies week after week gathered together with my family! I miss those days so much, it make me rather sad. The 21st century just isn't the same. It makes me wish I could just step into the screen and go back there again!
“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.” JFK 11/22/63
Wow, now this really brings back wonderful memories of my childhood that I truly cherish. I wish I could go back to those wonderful days❤️❤️
Ah, memories of Family nights down in the ole' rec room. Between this and the Sunday Night Movie theme its pure memory alley!
I feel the same - very evocative of exactly what I doing in my childhood when these movies came on. So glad I found it - better late than never.
Made-For-TV movies were great back then.
Love this whole thing...great memories.
I just wanted to say thanks to 'Sterling' & all of you fellow kids of the '60s & '70s for the commentary. Gosh- who says gosh anymore- this is akin to a school reunion but more a nostalgic reunion of our generations class. Make sure we keep it alive with sharing our memories of our youth. Again, thank you all for 'seeing what WE all see...'
Only seven channels on 'our tube' and we truly got more for less. Keep watching classic TV! God... time truly waits for no one. I just blinked. Thanks.
"Duel" was a powerful little thriller. Very effective!
Back when my family only had one tv set. Had to watch what Mom wanted to see.
this was when family watched tv together with only one set maybe two channels to watch and no remote, the simple day and times are long gone. so thankful for youtube it do take us back for some relief of todays tv shows.
Back when I'd have to hold the antenna through the entire movie so our family could watch ABC lol.
Hodgepodge Buhgodge Yep. I remember those days😀😀
Brings back many memories, and the movies were pretty good. Brings back the memory of my parents purchasing their first color tv in 1969- "the Movie of the Week" was the program we watched to "break in" the new set!!
love it, miss all the old shows we grew up with
I've got a downright Pavlovian reaction to this music... seeing the intro again is fabulous.
Takes me right back to being a kid and desperately trying to tune in our television to catch The Screaming Woman without my parents catching me.
I am 65 and the ABC Movie Of The Week was a big deal. These movies were good. I was in Junior High and my parents let me stay up until 11:00 pm, so I would do my homework in the afternoon and after eating dinner, helping do the dishes, and taking a bath, I then enjoyed watching television from 8:00-11:00 pm. I stayed up until 2:00 am on Friday to see the Horror Movie Late Show!
I loved those short story movies the theme was amazing
You know... I am glad that I am not the only one who is "strangely impacted" by this song. I can remember it as a child. And when I was about 20, I happened to hear it on the radio and got the title and artist. I have always been a Burt Bacharach fan, so it was thrilling to me to have access to listening to this song whenever I wanted. Glad to know there are others out there who appreciate it as much as I do!
Brings back memories of hearing my parents watching television in the living while it was bedtime for me because of school. The good old days.
Thank you for posting this! I loved the theme music! I love how the music makes you feel like something really incrible and yet poignant was about to be shown. I loved watching this as a kid with my sisters and grandmother. Such happy, simplier times, and so many great films that I have never forgotten: "The People", "Short Walk to Daylight", "The Screaming Woman", "Five Desperate Women", "Death at Love House". It's a crime that ABC has not released all of them on DVD!
Folks, these will always be cherished memories for us all. Keep them fresh in your mind always! I love em! 👍
I still watch this every week at some point. Brings back such great memories!
I know that this is a strong nostalgia jolt for baby boomers, but as a 90s child who never knew about this until the internet, I can proudly say that this one intro is a masterful consolidation of so many great talents (Burt Bacharach's haunting original piece mutating into a high-grandeur arrangement courtesy of Harry Betts played over evocative post-2001 A Space Odyssey slit scan work by Harry Marks and topped by a warm, comforting VO by Dick Tufeld) combining into something greater than the sum of its parts. Everyone involved in this intro,directly or indirectly, came together to create an emotional depth charge that can be felt by anyone, regardless of when they grew up.
such a beautiful, touching, 1970's feeling !
Oh my goodness!! What fantastic memories of my youth! I thought I would never listen to this wonderful opening theme music again! Thank You!!😃
Wow this brings back a lot of great memories when I was a kid long before cable TV, when television was family friendly.
My family watched these movies on our old RC Victor...lol. Floor model of course...later I got an used one for my room..smaller tv with an old tv stand that wobbled when I moved it around the room
Lol....I miss those days....
Hearing this song reminds me of being told its bedtime by my parents.....
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That is so funny! I remember hearing this while in the bedroom. Me and one bed, my brother Karl in the other, while mom and dad watched a movie. Can still hear my mother laughing during a funny scene. Then again, some were dramas and other suspense.
i know hearing this is sooo magical
depends what kind of movie it was.If it was a monster flick of some sort my parents let us watch it
I MISS THIS SO MUCH
Hearing this theme song,sure bring back some great memories in my childhood..
The Movie of the Week theme is forever emblazoned on my mind. Wonderful memories, thank you:)...
Thanks so much for sharing that great little piece of nostalgia I would hum that opening theme for years and completely forgot where it came from lol 😅
This movie of the week reminds me of the good old days of analog television with the old Crown tena rotor 2, Back then our first colour tv was a Eatons viking 26 inch made by zenith the antenna had to be aimed south to pick up channel 7 but channel 2 was the hardest to get signal was week and this was before cable , Life was so different then you always turned in to a tv station for a movie if you just wanted to relax and have a nice evening, those times are gone
1975 21 inch Hitachi with remote control , our first colour lasted years, dad sprung for cable . What a great time in Niagara.
This takes me back to the early and mid 70s when I was a kid, I'd be laying on the living room floor with no light on, just light from the tv and watching this and the movie, knowing my mother was going to say at anytime, "Ok time for bed, you got school in the morning ". Man, I miss those nights. I get a little misty eyed seeing and hearing this, what memories.
One of the most memorable tv intros… beautiful
I feel like crying, because of such great memories and I can't go back I'm stuck in the crazy world of today.
I know how you feel. These songs remind me of such a good time growing up. It’s all disappearing.
Miss those days
As a teen in the 70s I wanted to be an actor, and loved TV, and movies. ABC Movie of the Week was my favorite show, I thought the previews and intros where the coolest. I would record the intros on cassette tapes and listen to them later. We liked the movies so much, my brothers, a neighbor and I made a homemade Night Stalker movie. This intro brings back tons of wonderful memories from that time. The 60s and 70s were great years to be a teen. Great memories, thanks Sterlingyoyo for sharing.
Everyone in the house knew. Off the phone. Park your Schwinn bicycle. Come in off the front porch. Grab the cracker jacks, a charlston chew, and a 16oz pepsi in the hard glass bottle. We plopped on the avocado carpet. Parents sat on the couch with the plastic covers. The rabbit ears adjusted. Fuzz gone. It was indeed Tuesday and time for "Scream of the Wolf", " Bad Ronald" , " The girl most likely to..." " A Stranger in the Woods" , and my two favorites " One of my Wives is Missing" and "The Night Stalker". What a wonderful time to be a kid. Barry Diller from ABC. This was your idea. A classic signature memory of childhood. Thank You for making Tuesday nights frightening and beautiful to watch.
omg I'm Tearing Up Nostalgia
me too
Since the lack of new shows are on, wouldn't it be nice if ABC would do a movie of the week with this opening.
Sure wish I could go back to this time in my life. Those were some of the best tv movies ever made!
I was 5 yrs old listening to this intro! CLASSIC!
"Killdozer!" A classic! lol But NOTHING beats "Duel."
Those 2 were my favorites along with Ordeal.
I love the abc movies of the week...they should bring back the tv series anthology series a,great series.. on cable
Easier said than done due to the fact that TV networks are loath to spend money on creating movies made for TV, opting instead to produce cheap "Reality TV" shows.
Also, the majority of old movies are now the property of basic cable TV channels. 🎞️
Wow...my eyes watered up watching and hearing this again for the first time since I was a kid. I remember staying up late at Grandmom's watching these awesome movies on the 11" tv in her bedroom while the grown folks were downstairs...happy to share these memories with my peers from a time long ago...
Love this theme song! Reminds me of when I was a kid 😊
My mom would take us to the Lucky's store and get all the best snacks. She would cook breakfast for dinner. The t.v guide would be marked . And I would have on my favorite p.j's. The best times. When one parent worked, most people purchased homes, nice cars and vacations. ❤
Actually, the font used for this promo in 1969 was used later for the titles of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which first aired in September of 1970. The presentation - black background, multicolor type, repeated images - was also imitative of the ABC promo.
The type face is called Peignot Bold. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peignot_(typeface)
I still remember this opening, thanks for posting it
I feel exactly the same. I was a child of the 70s and this takes me right back there.
Also before cell phones and computers ! back then everything was a bigger, more exciting deal, as we hadn't been overloaded and dumbed down with an information and tabloid mentality. We played OUTSIDE,not in.
Actually, I was also still watching some TV series of the late '60s in that period too, such as "Adam-12," "The Carol Burnett Show," "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," "Here's Lucy," "The Mod Squad," and "Room 222." And I also remember "Arnie" (starring Herschel Bernardi) and a short-lived sitcom called "A Touch of Grace," which was Shirley Booth's terrific second sitcom after "Hazel" that not enough viewers watched, since it was on ABC against CBS' killer Saturday evening line-up.
000hhhhhhhhhh the soudn, that music. I haven't heard it in 45 - 50 years .... reminds me so sweetly of my grandmother and watching TV with her as a child in our living room. She'd be watching the movie of the week with enjoying her Carlton 100s with a few cups of Sanka. Miss her and those times so much.
You are so right on this. This theme brings me back to the days when i had to go to bed at 9pm on the dot. Good times back then.