Watching this makes me so lonely for the past .. This also makes me sad and want to cry as well .. I know that we should never dwell in the past , but the past is the only place in time where I had parents and grandparents who were still alive in times of trouble and despair .. And though these days are forever gone , it's soothing to know that this share of Ryan's hope brings back such fond memories .. Thanks for sharing ..
Sarah, me too. Since I lost my parents and grandparents I long for the same. I never wanted to be a person who lives in the past but now it's where my family is. It was also a much simpler time than now so it's good we can transport back there just for an episode...or a theme song ❤
You are not alone. My mother loved this show. On holidays and early days at school I remember hearing this theme playing upstairs as I had lunch downstairs. I am a fan of Voyager but I will always remember Kate Mulgrew on Ryan's Hope!
@@kevinyoung1858 Mine too! I remember playing in the living room while my mom watched the show (I also remembered Marg Helgenberger's Siobhan, because of her red hair, and I think she was involved with Seneca back then, which as a kid I thought was an odd name because it reminded me of the apple juice brand. LOL)
Yes, so true best soap theme ever, plus the closing credits full versions are wonderful. being able to listen every instrument and nuance and appreciating its beauty
Watching this really made me get a teary eyed. When I began Ryan's Hope in the early 80's, I was in my early teens and life was so much simpler. Also the fact that good, quality soaps are a thing of the past and now people would rather watch the trashy Real Housewives franchise.
Thank you so much for these memories! My mother was an ABC soap viewer and I remember this tune in the summer out of school. Always meant Mama was not to be disturbed til around 2 (she didn't care for General Hospital.). Thank you for the memories
@@CoopyKat so true! Even nowadays when I watch OLTL on UA-cam or The Edge of Night or whatever soap I watch, I hate it when my partner wants to talk to me. I'm like, 'Cant you see I am busy???!'. Lol. He just does not understand
Everytime I listen 2 these themes I get sooo nostalgic & start crying. I can remember as young as 4 yrs old watching my mother looking @ this soap. It brings such happiness as well as sadness, bc My mother was soooo very abusive 2 me @ such a young age ,however it was not all bad either . The abusing didn't start until 1980 after brother was born.
I literally only got the opportunity to see 5 episodes of Ryan's Hope in my life, and I wish I could've watched more of this serial soap, but I was too young. 😓
The 4th Opening and second theme premiered on the day that I was born! This soap opera gave us Kate Mulgrew and Yasmine Bleeth; one of the best soap operas with one of the best soap opera themes of all time.
5th Opening was their best, if not one of "the" best, and one of my top five favorite soap openings ever. The opening was cinematic and captured the Ryans and the Coleridges, Delia and Jack, in just the right contemporary light. It still resonates. After said 5th opening, and as cast members came and went, I am sorry, but production got sloppy and incorporated video images interspersed with their film images, and then back to film images, before they went to all videoed images towards the end of the series run. This really was a highly unique and original soap I wish ABC had loved a little bit more.
5th Opening was such a breath of first air. When Claire got to come back and make it RYAN’S Hope again. I will never forget the first time I saw that they put “my people” back in the opening. I especially loved seeing the Coleridge children arm in arm looking stunning coming down those stairs. This opening should have lasted longer. I liked that theme better than the 84-89 one.
Ryan's Hope was scheduled for noon each weekday. Most ABC affiliates had noon newscasts by the early 1980's so many weren't clearing the show at all or were tape delaying it until after midnight. This caused the show to not attract enough advertising revenue to be profitable so it was cancelled and the noon to 1pm hour officially being handed back to the affiliate stations to program as they may. I think the only soap opera left on afternoon network television is General Hospital and I bet that show is on life support.
Yeah. It had such a warm feel to it. Nora Roberts should have written for the Show. I have read The Gallaghers of Ardmore and The McGregors who are Scottish. She too is if Irish Background
One of those 8 million cable channels could make a fortune showing these old shows all day long. This and All My Children. Start from the beginning. I wonder if these old shows have been deleted now.
I am one month younger than Kate Mulgrew.Both of us born in the Spring of 1955.Loved Mary and Jack Mary and Maeve saw through Jack's prickly exterior and the emotional barriers he had put in place to keep him from getting hurt.Underneath those walls,was a sensitive,caring man.Maeve did not excuse his behavior,but she respected "Mary's choice " as she often referred to him.
Pretty neat. Some were a little hard to make out. I know the famous Marg Helgenberger one running between her brothers but later there is a different actress but I can’t make out who it is. I don’t recall the Tishina Arnold hotdog one at all. It’s also the worst shot of any of the openings. It figures she didn’t a get a glamorous one but they did improve it a bit with the running up the steps one which I do remember. I always liked Roger’s and the red corvette. He was sooooo cool. Good memories. Keep up the good work.
I was 5 yrs old when I started watching Ryan's hope from the very first episode where deliah pushes frank down the hospital stairs I was intrigued by the characters Kimberly rae Michael faith Joe frank mave Jill shavon to many to remember what a classic soap opera there used to be a channel called soapnet that used to run classic episodes of Ryan's hope 🙂
Isn't Kate Mulgrew kicking @ss as The Maid Mrs. Steiner in Garden Of Shadows the "Prequel" to Flowers In The Attic where you see what happened in Foxworth Hall between 1918-1957. Bonechillng.
This theme song gets me so emotional that tears fill my eyes and make me cry happy joyous tears with goose bumps. The only thing better than the opening themes are the (CLOSING THEMES) LONGER FULL COMPLETE SONGS. the music only improved through each rendition
Although I never got to see Ryan's Hope in the daytime, their times in Their Bar is so Zen & Calm compared to The Rovers on Coronation Street or even The Queen Victoria aka The Vic on Eastenders. Nadine Coyle formerly of Girls Aloud would have been perfect to play an Irish Relative to help run the Bar and sing a song as well.
If you can check out Fair City which was about Folks in a fictional Irish Town. Keith Duffy formerly of Boyzone acted on it as well as Coronation Street
Keith also made a Cameo apperance on As The World Turns where he performed with Boyzone and did a show with Nadine Coyle in memory of a partner who died. He devotes alot of his time to educating folks about Autism since his daughter is Autistic.
I personally liked the 80's versions shown. If I saw the one with Maeve and Johnny with the baby, I'd be like "Huh"? I didn't notice a sound difference from the 5th to the 6th, it sounded the same. I'm unclear what you meant. The sights of the cast in New York City was cool! When I saw the final opening it was sad, as it seemed like Johnny, Maeve, Roger, Jack? And a bunch of people who were young. I didn't know the man who appeared before Sister Mary Joel? An older man near a body of water in Central Park?
Beautiful ps miss ALL my children when are they going to have the Reboot and yes I know it's opening of Ryan hope just in case anyone say anything ok sorry to be rude rough week
Ryan's Hope was canceled and replaced by Loving in the same timeslot but it was a completely different show. When Loving wzs canceled a few years later, some of the characters moved to The City, which was kind of a spin-off of Loving.
This is all shot in NYC, I tear when I hear these openings, because this was the Prime of the Twin Towers and how different NYC was back then...🥲 Wasn't Tynisha Arnold the only Blk character in the entire series? In the opening it looks like her character is stealing a hot dog?
Watching this makes me so lonely for the past .. This also makes me sad and want to cry as well .. I know that we should never dwell in the past , but the past is the only place in time where I had parents and grandparents who were still alive in times of trouble and despair .. And though these days are forever gone , it's soothing to know that this share of Ryan's hope brings back such fond memories ..
Thanks for sharing ..
It will trigger sentiment and gratitude and make you cry like a MF!
Sarah, me too. Since I lost my parents and grandparents I long for the same. I never wanted to be a person who lives in the past but now it's where my family is. It was also a much simpler time than now so it's good we can transport back there just for an episode...or a theme song ❤
@@user-dianejcml :💔
Your words are sweet and true
OMG this is making me cry. I always loved this theme and this reminds me of my Mother when she would watch this when I was a toddler
You are not alone. My mother loved this show. On holidays and early days at school I remember hearing this theme playing upstairs as I had lunch downstairs. I am a fan of Voyager but I will always remember Kate Mulgrew on Ryan's Hope!
Ditto! Thank you
It teared me up too
I'm crying too! It reminds me of my great grandmother, this show is how we started our day when I was a little kid
@@kevinyoung1858 Mine too! I remember playing in the living room while my mom watched the show (I also remembered Marg Helgenberger's Siobhan, because of her red hair, and I think she was involved with Seneca back then, which as a kid I thought was an odd name because it reminded me of the apple juice brand. LOL)
I miss this show! I want to watch it from the first episode on!
Time goes by so fast I was 12 years in 1975 when Ryan’s Hope premiered and the baby in the original opening is almost 50 years old.
Greatest soap theme ever. Love the shots of NYC in the 70's and 80's. Thanks so much for putting this together!
Yes, so true best soap theme ever, plus the closing credits full versions are wonderful. being able to listen every instrument and nuance and appreciating its beauty
And Democrats RUINED NY!
I watched it from the premiere episode to the series finale. It was one of the first shows I recorded on my first VCR! 😂
Watching this really made me get a teary eyed. When I began Ryan's Hope in the early 80's, I was in my early teens and life was so much simpler. Also the fact that good, quality soaps are a thing of the past and now people would rather watch the trashy Real Housewives franchise.
I was named after this soap opera (Ryan Hope) it was my grandmother favorite ❤
Thank you so much for these memories! My mother was an ABC soap viewer and I remember this tune in the summer out of school. Always meant Mama was not to be disturbed til around 2 (she didn't care for General Hospital.). Thank you for the memories
No Problem at all. I wish i was watch One Life To Live on ABC, it was cancelled on January 13, 2012 and Ryan's Hope ended in 1989.
LOLLL yes true soap fans couldn't be disturbed while watching these shows. This is when the soaps were really good.
@@CoopyKat so true! Even nowadays when I watch OLTL on UA-cam or The Edge of Night or whatever soap I watch, I hate it when my partner wants to talk to me. I'm like, 'Cant you see I am busy???!'. Lol. He just does not understand
My favorites are the 2nd and 4th ones. Miss this show so much!!
Everytime I listen 2 these themes I get sooo nostalgic & start crying.
I can remember as young as 4 yrs old watching my mother looking @ this soap.
It brings such happiness as well as sadness, bc My mother was soooo very abusive 2 me @ such a young age ,however it was not all bad either .
The abusing didn't start until 1980 after brother was born.
Truly the best & miss their great well written dialogue & acting. Bring back Maeve!! Long live Helen Gallagher
Yep. It makes me cry.
Shyddd we're in the age of live streaming now BRING EM BACK!
I think she passed away Helen Gallagher
Helen Gallegher showed up on One Life To Live as one of Vickie's Psychiatrists. It was wonderful to see her again.
So did Nancy Addison. 😢
I literally only got the opportunity to see 5 episodes of Ryan's Hope in my life, and I wish I could've watched more of this serial soap, but I was too young. 😓
I so miss the past years
The 4th Opening and second theme premiered on the day that I was born! This soap opera gave us Kate Mulgrew and Yasmine Bleeth; one of the best soap operas with one of the best soap opera themes of all time.
The 4th opening I remember the most, I started watching it in the summer of 1980.
I loved this show. Deliah was my fave character. Wonderful cast ❣
It was soʻ wonderful to see Delia return on General Hospital as Ava Jerome's mother. Ilene Kristen is still so fabulous. 🙂
Delia Reed Ryan Ryan Coolridge Ryan.....and I believe she was married a fifth time, just not sure lol.
Thanks for posting they were beautiful openings.
Thank you for bringing Ryan's Hope
5th Opening was their best, if not one of "the" best, and one of my top five favorite soap openings ever. The opening was cinematic and captured the Ryans and the Coleridges, Delia and Jack, in just the right contemporary light. It still resonates. After said 5th opening, and as cast members came and went, I am sorry, but production got sloppy and incorporated video images interspersed with their film images, and then back to film images, before they went to all videoed images towards the end of the series run. This really was a highly unique and original soap I wish ABC had loved a little bit more.
16th and the last opening were good too - Ben Shelby was so dreamy, lol
5th Opening was such a breath of first air. When Claire got to come back and make it RYAN’S Hope again. I will never forget the first time I saw that they put “my people” back in the opening. I especially loved seeing the Coleridge children arm in arm looking stunning coming down those stairs. This opening should have lasted longer. I liked that theme better than the 84-89 one.
Yep. It breaks my heart.
Me and this soap was Born Ryan's Hope 1975
I remember watching this in 1982 in the Bronx when I was 6 lol.
Those were the days.
Indeed!!!!
The good ole days.
Did anyone catch Tichina Arnold from Martin, Everybody Hates Chris and The Neighborhood at 11:10?
Always remembered her being on Ryan’s Hope
@@marionsmith676She was also on All My Children
You know what? I thought that was her. I wasn't sure.
I didn't remember Tichina was on soap operas
ABC should not never, ever, ever cancel Ryan's Hope! NEVER!
You Got That Right. I Don't Know What happened to That 1970s soaps.
@@ryanshope3316 Loving is supposed to be canceled not Ryan's!
Ryan's Hope was scheduled for noon each weekday. Most ABC affiliates had noon newscasts by the early 1980's so many weren't clearing the show at all or were tape delaying it until after midnight. This caused the show to not attract enough advertising revenue to be profitable so it was cancelled and the noon to 1pm hour officially being handed back to the affiliate stations to program as they may. I think the only soap opera left on afternoon network television is General Hospital and I bet that show is on life support.
In loving memory of Helen Gallagher 🙏
First (July 7, 1975), second (August 4, 1975), and fourth ((March 3, 1980) were the best.
Ryan's Hope intros were too heart warming and gets ya a bit misty eyed sometimes 🤔🥺
Yeah. It had such a warm feel to it. Nora Roberts should have written for the Show. I have read The Gallaghers of Ardmore and The McGregors who are Scottish. She too is if Irish Background
@@laminage what Irony!
I loved this soap from day 1
Ryan’s Hope was a special gem
@@bmills1982 Me Too!
This makes me have butterflies. It reminds me of my older sister and her best friend watching this at 11am. I was like 6 or 7
I was 15 when this soap first came out.I was really sad and mad when it went off the air .
that theme song played at 5 in the morning at my son when he wakes up on soap net
This is beautiful
One of those 8 million cable channels could make a fortune showing these old shows all day long. This and All My Children. Start from the beginning. I wonder if these old shows have been deleted now.
Alot of them are on here but not in order.
I am one month younger than Kate Mulgrew.Both of us born in the Spring of 1955.Loved Mary and Jack Mary and Maeve saw through Jack's prickly exterior and the emotional barriers he had put in place to keep him from getting hurt.Underneath those walls,was a sensitive,caring man.Maeve did not excuse his behavior,but she respected "Mary's choice " as she often referred to him.
Lots of beautiful memories that's when Mommy was alive
The 80s openings started out in film, then as actors came and went, they had to edit in videotape clips because they couldn't afford film anymore.
My absolute favorite soap of all.
I love that soup too and I miss it myself I wish it was on again along with Santa Barbara
The early openings are sweet...the later ones look like the intro for ABC's "Bachelor In Paradise".
•crawls into a ball crying•
*cries next to @legalboxers* 😭😭
18 openings in 14 years? No wonder it didn't last longer. lol
Pretty neat. Some were a little hard to make out. I know the famous Marg Helgenberger one running between her brothers but later there is a different actress but I can’t make out who it is. I don’t recall the Tishina Arnold hotdog one at all. It’s also the worst shot of any of the openings. It figures she didn’t a get a glamorous one but they did improve it a bit with the running up the steps one which I do remember. I always liked Roger’s and the red corvette. He was sooooo cool. Good memories. Keep up the good work.
I was 3 when this show started but I remember the baby one the most.. Summers were the best because I could watch Ryan’s Hope.
The 9th opening of Ryan’s Hope was the one that caught my attention. 5:14.
These openings can pass for a intro to a ABC primetime drama instead of a Daytime Soap Opera
That's Right.
Tough time slot vs young and the restless
I was born in 73. I remember these melodies.
I understand why this show was canceled, soaps can run hot and cold especially over a long period of time.
I know, right? It upsets me.
Man...that would have been 25th anniversary (1975-90) of Ryan's hope if they could made it one more year.
That's right!
15th.
@@ryanshope3316I am hoping that Ryan's Hope could make it to streaming soon.
Absolutely wonderful show!!! The ABC affiliate in San Antonio cancelled it 2 years before it went off the air, made me so mad!!!
❤ Ryan's Hope ABC 7/7/75-1/13/89. Episode 3,515. Riverside New York
This is wonderful. I’m surprised that Rae, Kim, and Seneca were never in the introductions.
All of those video tape cut ins of sultle changes . They should have kept the old theme with the held up baby at the end !
The 2nd opening was the best
I w9sh they would show the reruns .I loves this soap
I was 5 yrs old when I started watching Ryan's hope from the very first episode where deliah pushes frank down the hospital stairs I was intrigued by the characters Kimberly rae Michael faith Joe frank mave Jill shavon to many to remember what a classic soap opera there used to be a channel called soapnet that used to run classic episodes of Ryan's hope 🙂
Isn't Kate Mulgrew kicking @ss as The Maid Mrs. Steiner in Garden Of Shadows the "Prequel" to Flowers In The Attic where you see what happened in Foxworth Hall between 1918-1957. Bonechillng.
I was 3 years old in 1975
That's Nice.
Man, so many intros. Days has like 3 total in 60 years and one of those is just an HD version of the previous one 😂
I remember this show as a kindergartener back in 76.
This theme song gets me so emotional that tears fill my eyes and make me cry happy joyous tears with goose bumps. The only thing better than the opening themes are the (CLOSING THEMES) LONGER FULL COMPLETE SONGS. the music only improved through each rendition
My mother watched Ryan’s Hope.
why did this show have so many different intros?
I believe that I saw the first episode while sitting in the guard shack in 1975.
Phil and Keely soap opera Ryan hope
Peace love wow!
Funny song family
Although I never got to see Ryan's Hope in the daytime, their times in Their Bar is so Zen & Calm compared to The Rovers on Coronation Street or even The Queen Victoria aka The Vic on Eastenders. Nadine Coyle formerly of Girls Aloud would have been perfect to play an Irish Relative to help run the Bar and sing a song as well.
Yep. It makes my heart so happy.
@@ryanshope3316I also love reading Books by Nora Roberts that focused on The McGregors (although they are Scottish) and The Gallachers Of Ardmore.
If you can check out Fair City which was about Folks in a fictional Irish Town. Keith Duffy formerly of Boyzone acted on it as well as Coronation Street
Keith also made a Cameo apperance on As The World Turns where he performed with Boyzone and did a show with Nadine Coyle in memory of a partner who died. He devotes alot of his time to educating folks about Autism since his daughter is Autistic.
Tichina Arnold?
Hey I saw Tachina Arnold from "Martin" didn't know she was in the opening credits Respect!
I saw that but I wasn't sure
Cool
I personally liked the 80's versions shown. If I saw the one with Maeve and Johnny with the baby, I'd be like "Huh"? I didn't notice a sound difference from the 5th to the 6th, it sounded the same. I'm unclear what you meant. The sights of the cast in New York City was cool! When I saw the final opening it was sad, as it seemed like Johnny, Maeve, Roger, Jack? And a bunch of people who were young. I didn't know the man who appeared before Sister Mary Joel? An older man near a body of water in Central Park?
Beautiful ps miss ALL my children when are they going to have the Reboot and yes I know it's opening of Ryan hope just in case anyone say anything ok sorry to be rude rough week
It's okay.
...and not to mention Pam from Martin 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😏😉
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!! THAT WAS HER!!
I never liked the opening with random people in them. I preferred the ones with actors on the show.
Was Kate Mulgrew on this show?
Yes
Did this turn into Lovin' then turn into The City?
Ryan's Hope was canceled and replaced by Loving in the same timeslot but it was a completely different show. When Loving wzs canceled a few years later, some of the characters moved to The City, which was kind of a spin-off of Loving.
So if the show is called "Ryan's Hope" and is about the Ryan family, shouldn't it have been called Ryans' Hope (as in the hopes of all the Ryans)?
Who is the blonde on the carousel
👋🏻📺❤️😚📺📺🌟😍✌🏼
Grant Show and Yasmine Bleeth
Hey, CAPTAIN JANEWAY TRAVELLED TO THE PAST.
It's captain Janeway
It's not a bad melody at all.
ABC
This is all shot in NYC, I tear when I hear these openings, because this was the Prime of the Twin Towers and how different NYC was back then...🥲 Wasn't Tynisha Arnold the only Blk character in the entire series? In the opening it looks like her character is stealing a hot dog?
I THOUGHT THAT WAS PAM FROM MARTIN. I HAD TO DO A DOUBLE TAKE
I remember the opening where they dance with the baby.
So many darn soaps back day .only was a cbs viewer soap 🧼 fan.
Grant Show and Yasmine Bleeth.