I have such happy memories of these, born in 71 I remember many of them. The music really comes right back! I remember before my family had a vcr and cable. When a good movie came on network tv, it was just awesome! Hard to explain, but life as a kid back then was so completely enjoyable! So much fun.
These made everything so much more epic and important, and you felt like you were going to a different place with all those tunnel effects. Brilliant stuff, huge nostalgia feels.
Hi Michael, would you by any chance be related to the great woodwinds player Ronnie Lang? (Among much more he also played the iconic sax solos on the movie "Taxi Driver"). My late father, Milt Holland, played with him on various sessions including an early 50's TV series by John Cassavetes called "Johnny staccato". On an episode called "The Parents" where they are pictured numerous times playing jazz as quote "beat next", ha ha, very campy but also very well played and recorded. Luckily you can now find those episodes on UA-cam. That would be a huge coincidence because at 00:14 in this video here my father is heard playing the Tablas!
He did this to? In the Tuesday movie of the week there was a movie that I haven't seen since it first aired. I think 🤔 it was called The Girl Most Likely To.
I am watching the Poseidon Adventure, and I believe it was an ABC Movie of the week feature in the 70's, so I searched and found this site. Brings back fond memories of my family all watching TV together.
This is great! When I heard the music I stepped back in time when I watched great movies with my family on the old b&w Philco, or various color televisions . You've made this 58 year old happy and nostalgic Mr Brandon. Thank you.
I was explaining to a younger friend, that from animation, clever photography to virtual. Machines that took up whole buildings to basically a smart phone.....times have changed.
Having coffee. Morning coffee. Reminds me of better days. My grandparents. Popcorn or ice cream. Top talent. Often not so great but good enough. Summers were hot. We had one fan. No ac. Cold winters, just a small wood stove. We went from black n white to color. We worked graduated and moved out. Time. I miss that great generation. My parents in the 80s now. Media sucks today. Like a water turd in the lawn. That the state of media. No responsibility to the public. Coffee and the good memories today.
Boy! at 00:14 have I been looking for this forever! Our dad, the late Milt Holland plays Tablas (he studied them since the late '50s but did so very intensively with the great Tabla Master Pandit Chatur Lal in India from 1963 until the untimely death of his teacher.) I think there might have been some other versions so if anyone happens to see/hear them please post a reply here! Thanks for posting this!!!
I just turned 50 and remember all the ones from 4:30 onwards. The star tunnel is the one I most remember (Superman - The Movie, all the James Bond films, Alien, etc.)
I know I watched a lot of abc growing up. They had the best shows and movies. They literally were my favorite network. So much so that I even tried to draw the logo. I was a nerd
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). Another wikipedia article credits announcer Dick Tufeld (largely known as the robot voice on Lost in Space). I'm confident that's his voice at 1:53.
When I hear and see the 1978 abc movie intro it takes me back to 1978. My life's dream then was getting a new John Deere 4440 tractor I was 19 years old then. All the neighbors had them it would be over 40 years till I got my dream tractor. This is one of the many memories that intro takes me back to.
I Definitely remember watching ABC Tuesday and Wednesday Movie 🍿🎥 of the Week in the 1970s. As well in the 80s with the Sunday Movie 🍿🎥 of the Week. Great 😃👍 Memories
My favorite intros were for The Movie of The Week with its slit-scan effects, the Sunday Night Movie from 1971 and the 1980's intros with the star-shaped tunnels, one of the first CGI intros. In today's age of streaming anything on demand, it must seem weird and hilarious to imagine waiting all week to watch a movie at a fixed time on analog linear television. And yet we still do that for modern movie theaters. 😏
This is a great compilation! Um, not that anybody asked, but in case someone was wondering, I think the slit-scan one with Burt Bacharach music [1:42] is out of sequence with the silhouette one [2:19]. The reason I know this is because I'm very old, and I was alive when ABC switched from the slit-scan one to the '80s neon star marquee [2:36], and I remember it being unsettling because of how abruptly it happened. Overnight, my world changed from that really dramatic and adult Burt Bacharach music to the more glamorous and triumphant star marquee theme. (Yes, even back then, I lived for this kind of stuff.)
Understand, that many of these uploads are converted from consumer-based analog videotape systems. As such, they are prone to a variety of hiccups (slow tape speed, twisted tape, particulate builup on the heads, unshielded interference, mal-aligned tape heads, etc.). Certainly, the quality posted here will have some obvious technical matters. It's amazing to me that so many media artifacts even exist among armatures.
1:39 This _ABC Movie of the Week_ title sequence was designed by Harry Marks. The accompanying theme music was an orchestral version of "Nikki", a song composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter (born 1966), who had Asperger syndrome. The theme was chosen by Marks and arranged by Harry Betts.
World premiere of an original motion picture?! Wow, we’re talking Oscar material here. LOL. Definitely oversold, but we still loved it. Best part was the Bacharach intro music...beautiful.
These intros bring back memories: settling down with my many siblings and my mom and dad to watch the movie of the week. Dad bringing out some popcorn that he'd just popped in a cast iron Dutch oven. Our big family gathered together rather than each person hunched over an individual device. That music - lots of horns, lots of strings. Good times.
These theme songs bring back warm and happy memories of when my family were all under one roof, eating dinner and watching our new color TV together. Then afterwards, that scary public service announcement would come on: " it's 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are". Then at midnight, all the screens would go off as they played the National Anthem. I miss those days.
I feel a mix of emotions , this brings to my mind the wonderful time when i lived at home , my parents were alive & all my sisters were at home (i was the the only boy in the family). I ache for that time again. It was a time of pure bliss. This video also has me felling a grate big feeling of melancholia sadness. Best way to push away those feelings is to live in the present.
My earliest memory is of the first 2001-inspired starfield intro. Off-the-wall nostalgia right now remembering watching these as a family. There were some actually very good made-for-TV movies with A-list talent back then. Though I still rejoiced when we got HBO in 1980 and NO MORE COMMERCIALS!
I think the 1980 logo with the shooting stars is my favorite of all of it accompanied with the NBC filmstrip intro.....its colors fit very well and it might even fit the colors on the USA flag and union jack as well
"I think the 1980 logo with the shooting stars is my favorite of all of it" I would happen to agree with that (albeit that sequence actually started in 1981)-- I think the colors and animation were meant to imply that this was the American Broadcasting Company having a movie broadcast (because of the colors of our Stars and Stripes).
I grew up with a black & white television during the 70s and early 80s (my family eventually brought a color tv and vcr by the 1985). Boy, you can imagine how my eyes would pop out when my family visited relatives or friends who had color tv and we stayed over to watch a movie. Just they bumpers alone made my sister and I realize what we were missing. But I'm grateful. I miss our small black&white.
1:39 This _ABC Movie of the Week_ title sequence was designed by Harry Marks. The accompanying theme music was an orchestral version of "Nikki", a song composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter (born 1966), who had Asperger syndrome. The theme was chosen by Marks and arranged by Harry Betts.
@@RaymondHng Unfortunately, she took her own life at the age of 40, which haunted her Dad to his grave. Very little was known about Asperger's back in those days. All he and Angie knew was she had a behavior problem. She was also very sensitive to sounds, especially lawn equipment and kept threatening to kill herself. Burt wrote in his book "Anyone Who Had a Heart" that he thought she was "crying wolf", because she didn't carry it out---until she finally did. His guilt over her death must have been unbearable.
1:38 is the slit scan that started in 1969...interesting about the early to mid-60s versions...I remembered a lot of TV stuff from back then but not the movie intros before '69...great collection!!! 4:31 is the star field and is my favorite...that started 1975 and ran until 1981 (too bad an impostor voiced that one because Joel Crager is the real person)...just gorgeous!!! 6:59 is the star tunnel that started in 1981 and is memorable also
@veronicaa.1416 1:39 This _ABC Movie of the Week_ title sequence was designed by Harry Marks and animated by Douglas Trumbull using the slit-scan process that he had created for _2001: A Space Odyssey_ . The accompanying theme music was an orchestral version of "Nikki", a song composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter (born 1966), who had Asperger syndrome. The theme was chosen by Marks and arranged by Harry Betts.
the more late modern ones are lacking something. maybe its not from my childhood? I don't know but they seem to have less flare than the early 80s ones.
I love these interstitials. They evoke in me feelings of both excitement and reassurance from my childhood. I miss those days of the big three networks. I recommend the intro to the CBS late night movie from the late 70’s - early 80’s.
Last week, CBS showed "Star Trek Into Darkness" on TV - no promos, no intros. My sister said she tried to watch, but too many commercials at the wrong time, and the annoying banners for other shows runnig acorss the bottom. Both CBS & Star Trek are owned by Paramount - so they just dump stuff with no panache, no flair, no thought to make it an event. TBF - Into Darkness was not very good. But it shows you how little care goes into broadcast television now. For Gen X guys like me - broadcast TV bound a diverse country together. Not everything was memorable. But when it was memorable, you would get 10s of millions of people all watching the same thing at the same time.
A rarity, that Wed. one was (it was for Dreams Don't Die in '84, IIRC). Not only that, but there was also one for a Saturday broadcast in 1986 (that one apparently represented here).
Milt Holland (On the fantastic Tabla solo clip starting at 00:14 ) is the first to introduce Tablas to the ears of the widespread USA television audience, (and therefore the majority of US North Americans), 2 years before The Beatles used them and were heard only by the more 'adventurous' adults but much of the youth of the world. Milt's teacher at the time was the great Table master Pandit Chatur Lal (who passed in 1965). He studied with him in India for a number of years. I'm one of the sons of Milt (I used to help him practice by keeping time - the best musical education of my life!)
@@deborahkallgren2236 That’s wonderful to hear Deborah! Did you hear it for the first time back when it was broadcast? When you did hear it was that the first time you’d heard those kinds of drums?
Tique, if I remember correctly, this theme aired starting like 1966 (?), when I was 7. I was up late after Disney and Sullivan and heard this for the first time. It immediately got my attention, so I'd try to catch it every week and stay up late just to hear it. When ABC stopped airing it, I had to rely on my memory all these years. So thrilled to find it here. I always thought it was congas, but now you've explained, it's unmistakably tabla. There's another video here that's has this one theme by itself. It takes me back to my childhood. Such a great performance.
@@deborahkallgren2236 Thanks so much Deborah! That makes sense for the timing of it, and later you might have started to hear tabla on the Beatles’ records. As kids we also used to get a thrill from hearing this, it was so modern also for its time even the visuals, the montage of different movie stars and such. I guess I was around 12 or 13 at the time if it first came out in 66. Also if you enjoy tabla drumming I highly recommend looking up Pandit ChaturLal on UA-cam, thankfully there’s a lot more material now than there was not that many years ago. He’s now gaining more very deserved acclaim than he might have over the years.
Thanks, Tique. I am a big Beatles fan; George is my favorite, so I've also heard a lot of Ravi and Anoushka Shankar. I got to thinking more about this, and remembered I actually recorded it when I got a cassette recorder for Christmas 1968. So the theme was still being aired then. That tape of odds and ends wore out long time ago, but it had some classic TV stuff, plus my parents and grandparents voices from that Christmas Day. Funny how these things jog the memory. I, too, thought the montage fit the music so well. So modern, so creative. Will check out the other music, for sure. Thanks for the background.
Brandon Well done I loved looking back at these opening intros for TV movies of the week . Really miss these movies of the week a lot of great memories when many weee worth watching.Thanx for these!!!👌❤️😀
How often this meant you were finally about to watch some awesome Sean Connery or Roger Moore James Bond film you didn't get to see in the movie theater.
The grandeur of these intros reminds us that there was a time when TV movies could be important, even cultural events - not just cookie-cutter holiday fodder on Lifetime or Hallmark.
Thank you, uploader! I watched these movie bumpers during 1970s and 1980s, and love them. I saw all of them while a teen and in my twenties, in kansas. The graphics of them are still cool in 2021, and bring back nice, cozy memories. I remember all the movies included with their original bumpers, in this video.
It makes you appreciate all the talent, technology and time ABC's graphics department spent into creating these intros. At the time of the earliest intros ABC was the #1 network in the USA and dominated the ratings for several years.
I remember all the nightime made for tv movies. When michael calls. Creepy when your 10. Lol. Helter skelter was more chilling than most horror movies in theatres.
I wish someone would show my favorite bumper of all time.... How i miss these times! When TV was actually watchable.... AHHHH Just saw my bumper!!! Thank you for spreading the word about me.
Oh I remember these short abc intro theme 🎵 music. I loved it. I liked the one with the stars. The red, white and blue stars. Imagine that intro in 3D.
LOL-- I thought many of these were in black and white because I didn't have a color set until 1982 -- especially the slit scan one and the mosaic one with John Wayne's image.
Amazing! However, I could almost SWEAR they also did the MUSIC from the "star tunnel" 80s intro with.... the GRAPHICS of the "late 70s" intro-the one they did just prior to that! At least, for a short time. Or, maybe not and it's just the way my head chooses to remember it. But, it would be cool for someone to create that.(I'd also probably label it as "not one of the true ABC Movie themes" if I had the ability to do it. But again, I would almost swear ABC was doing like that for a short time around 1980-81. Well, maybe I'm wrong.) Otherwise: EXCELLENT! Took me back. And the mid-70s one stuck an ever-so-faint chord with me. I JUST-ABOUT remember one or two of them.... But only ever-so-slightly. I was a bit too young to really remember those well.
Before VCR's, before cable, before DVD's, before the Internet, before streaming. Cherished moments in time...
Not complete without TV Guide, of course.
Well, we did have VCRs and cable TV when the 1980s Star Tunnel intro was around.
These were events, if you missed it, you missed it. Love our times so much better than today.
Took my bath, had my snacks ready, and a world of great movies unfolded before me. These intros were epic, and made tv movie night extra special.
I have such happy memories of these, born in 71 I remember many of them. The music really comes right back! I remember before my family had a vcr and cable. When a good movie came on network tv, it was just awesome! Hard to explain, but life as a kid back then was so completely enjoyable! So much fun.
Yes-u anticipated it, then prepared with snacks, and gathered around the tv w/ur family....
Such great memories back to the day when Sunday was the quiet night for TV. The Airport series and James Bond were always my favorites.
I'm 40 and I definitely remember the star tunnel opening (which is the best one in my opinion).
I've gotta agree with you
An absolute classic.
If only 40, I hope you Remember HBO Starship themes also😂.
Star Tunnel FTW!
I agree
This type of nostalgia is priceless. The beauty in each of these intros will remain unmatched.
Thank you Brandon for this..... 🥲✌🏾
Actually that’ll be 50 bucks
@@castle3267 Done.... 😂
@@castle3267No complaints from me either.
I would pay for TV to go back to these days.... 😂
These made everything so much more epic and important, and you felt like you were going to a different place with all those tunnel effects. Brilliant stuff, huge nostalgia feels.
Hi Michael, would you by any chance be related to the great woodwinds player Ronnie Lang? (Among much more he also played the iconic sax solos on the movie "Taxi Driver"). My late father, Milt Holland, played with him on various sessions including an early 50's TV series by John Cassavetes called "Johnny staccato". On an episode called "The Parents" where they are pictured numerous times playing jazz as quote "beat next", ha ha, very campy but also very well played and recorded. Luckily you can now find those episodes on UA-cam.
That would be a huge coincidence because at 00:14 in this video here my father is heard playing the Tablas!
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The 80s theme song makes me think about when the street lights come on you better be in the house. Pure nostalgia. Coming from a 44 year old.
A time I wish I could go back to.
This made me feel like a kid again.
Love the Burt Bacharach tunes - gives this some class.
He did this to? In the Tuesday movie of the week there was a movie that I haven't seen since it first aired. I think 🤔 it was called The Girl Most Likely To.
@@jacquelineroque5707 I wish someone compiled those Movies of The Week, and put them in a database.
Some of them still linger in my mind
Honestly, it figures.
He is easily one of the best composers I know , probably the most prolific.
Myfavvorite, the title is "Nikki" named after his daughter, mother was angie dickinson
@@davidribroma2425 RIP Mr Bacharach
I am watching the Poseidon Adventure, and I believe it was an ABC Movie of the week feature in the 70's, so I searched and found this site. Brings back fond memories of my family all watching TV together.
It's probably nostalgia talking, but the best intros were the ones from the 70s/80s. Thanks for putting this compilation together, Brandon. :)
Intro during the 1980s was more exciting and fun than the actual movie.
Depends on the movie that was being shown. I remember when they aired Superman II and Superman III. That was exciting after the 80s intro. 😊😊😊
This is great! When I heard the music I stepped back in time when I watched great movies with my family on the old b&w Philco, or various color televisions .
You've made this 58 year old happy and nostalgic Mr Brandon. Thank you.
57 and feel the same. I wish we all could go back.
@@FeguerFineArt Amen my friend!
@@FeguerFineArt AMEN to that!!
My faves are the late 80s & early 90s versions. Kickass graphics with the voice of the late Ernie Anderson. So lucky to grew up in the 80s & 90s.
I was explaining to a younger friend, that from animation, clever photography to virtual. Machines that took up whole buildings to basically a smart phone.....times have changed.
my favorite: 1980's with the red, white and blue effects...
Yes! It's so intense!
yes me too as well
I agree. Especially with the action packed intense theme music. To be a kid in the 1980s again.
Wow! Looking back , Abc had so many different tv movie opening variations. My earliest memories are from the seventies & beyond.
Having coffee. Morning coffee. Reminds me of better days. My grandparents. Popcorn or ice cream. Top talent. Often not so great but good enough. Summers were hot. We had one fan. No ac. Cold winters, just a small wood stove. We went from black n white to color. We worked graduated and moved out. Time. I miss that great generation. My parents in the 80s now. Media sucks today. Like a water turd in the lawn. That the state of media. No responsibility to the public. Coffee and the good memories today.
Boy! at 00:14 have I been looking for this forever! Our dad, the late Milt Holland plays Tablas (he studied them since the late '50s but did so very intensively with the great Tabla Master Pandit Chatur Lal in India from 1963 until the untimely death of his teacher.) I think there might have been some other versions so if anyone happens to see/hear them please post a reply here! Thanks for posting this!!!
either I am old or I watched too much ABC television movies...I remember every single on of those intros......
I just turned 50 and remember all the ones from 4:30 onwards. The star tunnel is the one I most remember (Superman - The Movie, all the James Bond films, Alien, etc.)
Too much TV!! I feel your pain Mr. Spanky.
@@TheBklynraider55 back then we only had 5 active channels, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and one local channel.
I know I watched a lot of abc growing up. They had the best shows and movies. They literally were my favorite network. So much so that I even tried to draw the logo. I was a nerd
@@RageTVHTX each television station had their own introductions....that was when we only had a handful of tv stations to watch.
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).
Another wikipedia article credits announcer Dick Tufeld (largely known as the robot voice on Lost in Space). I'm confident that's his voice at 1:53.
Excellent mention of the great Joel Crager. And yes, I believe that is Dick Tufeld at 1:53.
The headers with Joel Crager doing the intros were probably the best in the industry.
Remember growing up in the 80s hearing the star countdown.. Man it got me amped up!! You knew it was gonna be great 👍
The Star Tunnel, you mean? If so, yes, indeed-- one of the best setups for a movie broadcast that television has ever had.
When I hear and see the 1978 abc movie intro it takes me back to 1978. My life's dream then was getting a new John Deere 4440 tractor I was 19 years old then. All the neighbors had them it would be over 40 years till I got my dream tractor. This is one of the many memories that intro takes me back to.
I Definitely remember watching ABC Tuesday and Wednesday Movie 🍿🎥 of the Week in the 1970s. As well in the 80s with the Sunday Movie 🍿🎥 of the Week. Great 😃👍 Memories
The theme @1:40 is “Nikki” by Burt Bacharach. I’ve always loved that tune.
This one is by far the most memorable for me, it really hits my nostalgia bone.
The Star Tunnel intro still gives me goosebumps. The best music and graphics. Tonight, an ABC premiere, Superman falls in love....
6:24 Was always my favorite great music. Star tunnel would be 2nd favorite. thanks for posting this great stuff
My favorite intros were for The Movie of The Week with its slit-scan effects, the Sunday Night Movie from 1971 and the 1980's intros with the star-shaped tunnels, one of the first CGI intros.
In today's age of streaming anything on demand, it must seem weird and hilarious to imagine waiting all week to watch a movie at a fixed time on analog linear television. And yet we still do that for modern movie theaters. 😏
This is a great compilation! Um, not that anybody asked, but in case someone was wondering, I think the slit-scan one with Burt Bacharach music [1:42] is out of sequence with the silhouette one [2:19]. The reason I know this is because I'm very old, and I was alive when ABC switched from the slit-scan one to the '80s neon star marquee [2:36], and I remember it being unsettling because of how abruptly it happened. Overnight, my world changed from that really dramatic and adult Burt Bacharach music to the more glamorous and triumphant star marquee theme. (Yes, even back then, I lived for this kind of stuff.)
Understand, that many of these uploads are converted from consumer-based analog videotape systems. As such, they are prone to a variety of hiccups (slow tape speed, twisted tape, particulate builup on the heads, unshielded interference, mal-aligned tape heads, etc.). Certainly, the quality posted here will have some obvious technical matters. It's amazing to me that so many media artifacts even exist among armatures.
As a 47 year old, I remember the star tunnel version very well and I always like to go back and relive these types of moments from my childhood.
1:39 This _ABC Movie of the Week_ title sequence was designed by Harry Marks. The accompanying theme music was an orchestral version of "Nikki", a song composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter (born 1966), who had Asperger syndrome. The theme was chosen by Marks and arranged by Harry Betts.
This one is by far the most memorable for me, it really hits my nostalgia bone.
I remember the ABC 80's one and the HBO space ones the most
The score for “Airport” actually blends quite well with the Sunday Night Movie music of that time!
World premiere of an original motion picture?! Wow, we’re talking Oscar material here. LOL. Definitely oversold, but we still loved it. Best part was the Bacharach intro music...beautiful.
Niki will live on forever. He wrote that song his only daughter.
Movies that are produced for and aired for television are not eligible for competition for an Academy Award.
@@RaymondHng Yes, hence my joke.
These intros bring back memories: settling down with my many siblings and my mom and dad to watch the movie of the week. Dad bringing out some popcorn that he'd just popped in a cast iron Dutch oven. Our big family gathered together rather than each person hunched over an individual device. That music - lots of horns, lots of strings. Good times.
WOW! This takes me back and brings comfort ❤️
The good old star tunnel intro. I was born in 75 so I remember that one well.
You bet-- I was born in 1981, the year of its debut, so it dropped on ABC (debuted, that is) about 9 months after I was born.
These theme songs bring back warm and happy memories of when my family were all under one roof, eating dinner and watching our new color TV together.
Then afterwards, that scary public service announcement would come on: " it's 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are".
Then at midnight, all the screens would go off as they played the National Anthem.
I miss those days.
I feel a mix of emotions , this brings to my mind the wonderful time when i lived at home , my parents were alive & all my sisters were at home (i was the the only boy in the family). I ache for that time again. It was a time of pure bliss. This video also has me felling a grate big feeling of melancholia sadness. Best way to push away those feelings is to live in the present.
Song at 1:40 is called Nikki. Named for Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson’s late daughter.
This one is by far the most memorable for me, it really hits my nostalgia bone.
Probably the BEST upload on UA-cam!!!.....THANKS!!!
My earliest memory is of the first 2001-inspired starfield intro. Off-the-wall nostalgia right now remembering watching these as a family. There were some actually very good made-for-TV movies with A-list talent back then. Though I still rejoiced when we got HBO in 1980 and NO MORE COMMERCIALS!
I think the 1980 logo with the shooting stars is my favorite of all of it accompanied with the NBC filmstrip intro.....its colors fit very well and it might even fit the colors on the USA flag and union jack as well
"I think the 1980 logo with the shooting stars is my favorite of all of it"
I would happen to agree with that (albeit that sequence actually started in 1981)-- I think the colors and animation were meant to imply that this was the American Broadcasting Company having a movie broadcast (because of the colors of our Stars and Stripes).
I grew up with a black & white television during the 70s and early 80s (my family eventually brought a color tv and vcr by the 1985). Boy, you can imagine how my eyes would pop out when my family visited relatives or friends who had color tv and we stayed over to watch a movie. Just they bumpers alone made my sister and I realize what we were missing. But I'm grateful. I miss our small black&white.
The ABC "The 4:30 Movie" theme music is one of the all-time greatest and most memorable movie introductions!
1:39 This _ABC Movie of the Week_ title sequence was designed by Harry Marks. The accompanying theme music was an orchestral version of "Nikki", a song composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter (born 1966), who had Asperger syndrome. The theme was chosen by Marks and arranged by Harry Betts.
@@RaymondHng .Thanks for the information!
@@RaymondHng Unfortunately, she took her own life at the age of 40, which haunted her Dad to his grave. Very little was known about Asperger's back in those days. All he and Angie knew was she had a behavior problem. She was also very sensitive to sounds, especially lawn equipment and kept threatening to kill herself. Burt wrote in his book "Anyone Who Had a Heart" that he thought she was "crying wolf", because she didn't carry it out---until she finally did. His guilt over her death must have been unbearable.
1:38 is the slit scan that started in 1969...interesting about the early to mid-60s versions...I remembered a lot of TV stuff from back then but not the movie intros before '69...great collection!!!
4:31 is the star field and is my favorite...that started 1975 and ran until 1981 (too bad an impostor voiced that one because Joel Crager is the real person)...just gorgeous!!!
6:59 is the star tunnel that started in 1981 and is memorable also
That did sound horrible at 4:31.
By the way, the reason for the impostor's voice at 4:31, was because there was no voiceover for the Satuday Night Movie.
@veronicaa.1416 1:39 This _ABC Movie of the Week_ title sequence was designed by Harry Marks and animated by Douglas Trumbull using the slit-scan process that he had created for _2001: A Space Odyssey_ . The accompanying theme music was an orchestral version of "Nikki", a song composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter (born 1966), who had Asperger syndrome. The theme was chosen by Marks and arranged by Harry Betts.
The instrumentals in these intros are just TIGHT.
i miss ABC Sunday night movies
The Tuesday Movie of the Week with Bacharach's "Nikki" as the theme was the best
This one is by far the most memorable for me, it really hits my nostalgia bone.
This is some old school ABC world premiere movies I wasn’t even when these intro popped up Freaking awesome
I remember the theme song was filled with mystery, drama, and suspense. 🧐🧐📺📺 No voices just 🎵
The 70s & 80s could not be beat
the more late modern ones are lacking something. maybe its not from my childhood? I don't know but they seem to have less flare than the early 80s ones.
going back to 70s and before, you experienced the best part about TV at that time. it was free.😊
0:01 never saw this befor but I love the tune they used I keep playing it its got such a wonderful melody to it makes me happy😊
I love these interstitials. They evoke in me feelings of both excitement and reassurance from my childhood. I miss those days of the big three networks. I recommend the intro to the CBS late night movie from the late 70’s - early 80’s.
who knew a bumper could mean so much...
These were happy times wish I could go back I was so happy then!
Last week, CBS showed "Star Trek Into Darkness" on TV - no promos, no intros. My sister said she tried to watch, but too many commercials at the wrong time, and the annoying banners for other shows runnig acorss the bottom. Both CBS & Star Trek are owned by Paramount - so they just dump stuff with no panache, no flair, no thought to make it an event. TBF - Into Darkness was not very good. But it shows you how little care goes into broadcast television now. For Gen X guys like me - broadcast TV bound a diverse country together. Not everything was memorable. But when it was memorable, you would get 10s of millions of people all watching the same thing at the same time.
Thank god for streaming
For most of the seasons of the ABC Sunday Night Movie, the announcer was Joel Crager.
Always loved the during commercials promo at 9:33, I wanted to live in that house :) Thank you for posting, this is very nostalgic.
the Tuesday movie of the week and the Wednesday movie of the week were the best of ABC movie introductions to me
Brings back great memories
There's also the star tunnel versions for the Wednesday and Friday Night Movie too.
A rarity, that Wed. one was (it was for Dreams Don't Die in '84, IIRC). Not only that, but there was also one for a Saturday broadcast in 1986 (that one apparently represented here).
I remember the star tunnel. My favorite.
Nothing but the best in television back then
Milt Holland (On the fantastic Tabla solo clip starting at 00:14 ) is the first to introduce Tablas to the ears of the widespread USA television audience, (and therefore the majority of US North Americans), 2 years before The Beatles used them and were heard only by the more 'adventurous' adults but much of the youth of the world. Milt's teacher at the time was the great Table master Pandit Chatur Lal (who passed in 1965). He studied with him in India for a number of years. I'm one of the sons of Milt (I used to help him practice by keeping time - the best musical education of my life!)
I've always loved that percussive theme.
@@deborahkallgren2236 That’s wonderful to hear Deborah! Did you hear it for the first time back when it was broadcast? When you did hear it was that the first time you’d heard those kinds of drums?
Tique, if I remember correctly, this theme aired starting like 1966 (?), when I was 7. I was up late after Disney and Sullivan and heard this for the first time. It immediately got my attention, so I'd try to catch it every week and stay up late just to hear it. When ABC stopped airing it, I had to rely on my memory all these years. So thrilled to find it here. I always thought it was congas, but now you've explained, it's unmistakably tabla. There's another video here that's has this one theme by itself. It takes me back to my childhood. Such a great performance.
@@deborahkallgren2236 Thanks so much Deborah! That makes sense for the timing of it, and later you might have started to hear tabla on the Beatles’ records. As kids we also used to get a thrill from hearing this, it was so modern also for its time even the visuals, the montage of different movie stars and such. I guess I was around 12 or 13 at the time if it first came out in 66.
Also if you enjoy tabla drumming I highly recommend looking up Pandit ChaturLal on UA-cam, thankfully there’s a lot more material now than there was not that many years ago. He’s now gaining more very deserved acclaim than he might have over the years.
Thanks, Tique. I am a big Beatles fan; George is my favorite, so I've also heard a lot of Ravi and Anoushka Shankar. I got to thinking more about this, and remembered I actually recorded it when I got a cassette recorder for Christmas 1968. So the theme was still being aired then. That tape of odds and ends wore out long time ago, but it had some classic TV stuff, plus my parents and grandparents voices from that Christmas Day. Funny how these things jog the memory. I, too, thought the montage fit the music so well. So modern, so creative. Will check out the other music, for sure. Thanks for the background.
These bring back soooo many great memories!! Especially the movie of the week intro!!! ❤❤❤
Brandon Well done I loved looking back at these opening intros for TV movies of the week . Really miss these movies of the week a lot of great memories when many weee worth watching.Thanx for these!!!👌❤️😀
: The 1980s were the best for their opening sequences. The graphics and the music were perfect.
My faves were the seventies the eighties and the nineties brings back memories in those days yrs ago.
How often this meant you were finally about to watch some awesome Sean Connery or Roger Moore James Bond film you didn't get to see in the movie theater.
Or get to stay up past your bedtime to watch
😂 I've just been transported back to the 80s.
Exciting times, thank goodness for the TV Guide, and 99 percent of us could not afford a VCR in 1978, they cost about $2000 which is about $9377 today
Love this stuff I’m 60 years old this was fun and great times thanks for posting cbs had a similar one and I think so did nbc
The grandeur of these intros reminds us that there was a time when TV movies could be important, even cultural events - not just cookie-cutter holiday fodder on Lifetime or Hallmark.
Thank you, uploader! I watched these movie bumpers during 1970s and 1980s, and love them. I saw all of them while a teen and in my twenties, in kansas. The graphics of them are still cool in 2021, and bring back nice, cozy memories. I remember all the movies included with their original bumpers, in this video.
It makes you appreciate all the talent, technology and time ABC's graphics department spent into creating these intros. At the time of the earliest intros ABC was the #1 network in the USA and dominated the ratings for several years.
Reminds me of the freedom of speech, imagination, and artistic expression that was so dear and is frowned upon today. Soon to be extinguished.
Really appreciate you posting this.
Great ABC Movie Of The Week
The abc Tuesday movie of the week was the Best,, orchestrated very well
This takes me back in time to my childhood sadly no going back
I remember being so mesmerized of the star tunnel as a little kid
Always look forward to these every single weekend
I remember all the nightime made for tv movies. When michael calls. Creepy when your 10. Lol. Helter skelter was more chilling than most horror movies in theatres.
I Love ABC Logo
I wish someone would show my favorite bumper of all time.... How i miss these times! When TV was actually watchable.... AHHHH Just saw my bumper!!! Thank you for spreading the word about me.
This music… 🔥
Oh I remember these short abc intro theme 🎵 music. I loved it. I liked the one with the stars. The red, white and blue stars. Imagine that intro in 3D.
I miss this old quality of television 😢
LOL-- I thought many of these were in black and white because I didn't have a color set until 1982 -- especially the slit scan one and the mosaic one with John Wayne's image.
I don't remember the black and white bumper, but I saw all the others. Good times to be alive. I'm sorry they're gone.
0:35 I really like this one. Not just for the cool graphics, but the music.
Great presentation 👍... love this 😊
Love these old intro's
Love the violins. I wonder if kids would think these intros are as cool as we did.
Amazing! However, I could almost SWEAR they also did the MUSIC from the "star tunnel" 80s intro with.... the GRAPHICS of the "late 70s" intro-the one they did just prior to that! At least, for a short time.
Or, maybe not and it's just the way my head chooses to remember it.
But, it would be cool for someone to create that.(I'd also probably label it as "not one of the true ABC Movie themes" if I had the ability to do it. But again, I would almost swear ABC was doing like that for a short time around 1980-81. Well, maybe I'm wrong.)
Otherwise: EXCELLENT! Took me back. And the mid-70s one stuck an ever-so-faint chord with me. I JUST-ABOUT remember one or two of them.... But only ever-so-slightly. I was a bit too young to really remember those well.
Wow my teenage years the best times of my life
It's been a year and I'm back again. God, I miss these times.