This show had the MOST influence on me growing up as a kid. It was my introduction to all things Supernatural and unexplained. That includes Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, Aliens and UFOs, Ghosts and other phenomena. I loved it, but I remember many episodes that completely terrified me. Going to sleep with the covers over my head trying not to move so that the Ghosts or Aliens wouldn't see me.
When this series aired, there weren't hardly any other outlets for this kind of material. No internet. No cable. No satellite tv. At least for most of us. And you couldn't record anything. So we would rush in every Sunday at 5pm to make sure we watched this show.
Looking back, I love just about everything 70's. This show positively captivated me and Leonard Nimoy was the perfect host. "Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had but not preserved, except in memory." This show and me watching it as a child when now deceased family was alive and well. This is preserved in my memory. R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy.
It was only as an adult, hearing his voice in the narration, that I realized that it was in fact.. Leonard Nimoy. A truly great man. We shall never see his like again..
just as was getting into this show (born late 1970), it went off the air!!! So happy to have gotten the DVD set from amazon, and has all the original stuff.
Me and my family would go visit our Grandparents on the weekends back in the 70s. We kids would eat dinner and watch this show. What an amazing time to be a kid.
Notice how much better it was when Lenard gave the commentary on the closing theme. The man had one of the most distinguished and believable voices in history.
I grew up with this show!!!!!! It was docudrama/reality TV before Reality TV was cool. This show introduced me to so many wonderful mysteries in our world, a true classic!!!!!!
yes I use to love this show as a little kid and leonard nimoys narration made it so interesting and compelling to me, infact this show is what sparked my interest in bigfoot! thank you mr.nimoy(spock) for the great memories and may ur immortal soul live long and prosper.
I loved this show as a young kid in the 70s. I remember I had to get ready for bed first and then I could watch the show. I was fascinated by the places they talked about. I wondered if I would ever get a chance to see those places like the ancient pyramids!!! Nimoy’s narration was excellent. Takes me back when I hear his voice.
Not only did this song creep me out, but so did that picture of Amelia Earhart. Keep in mind I was born in '77 so I wasn't exactly the target for this show but I saw it anyway. That plane looked like it was going into her head!
LOL! Same thing here. Amelia Earhart pic = scary as hell. Back then it reminded me of a mean gym teacher at my middle school who always yelled at the boys but never at the girls. I envisioned that plane to kamikaze into her head at full throttle.
This show with the incomparable Mr. Leonard Nimoy hosting was so ahead of its time. That the producers of 'In Search Of' were forward thinkers in a sense that they made a show entirely devoted to the unexplained is amazing. It really was the forerunner to shows like 'Unsolved Mysteries' and 'The X Files'. And later 'Project Bluebook' and 'Ancient Aliens'. This was the show where it all began. RIP Leonard Nimoy. 🙏🙏
Live Long and prosper Lenard Nimoy, may your Star Trek In Search Of be smooth, its no Mission Imposable for we all must follow one day. You were appreciated and will be badly missed.
"Many of the first seasons episodes had this dissonant piano-piano-synth, piano-piano-synth chord stab while showing the episode's title. I remember this sounded terrifying to my 6-year-old self." It really magnified the creepiness.
Extraterrestrials. Magic and Witchcraft. Missing persons. Myths and Monsters. Lost civilizations. And then the last one got tricky because they kept changing it from season to season. It was variously "special," "strange," and "unexplained" phenomena.
I found an electronic composition of this theme a while back, didn't know what it was.. hearing it brought back a forgotten afternoon memory.. this theme song playing on the TV in my dad's room, same time almost every day. Never knew what this theme was, brought me to tears when I heard it again so many years later. Gives me the chills to this day, dunno why. Lord guide and protect me.. I miss you Dad.
Saturdays? I went back and checked the local tv listings and it shows it was on Sunday afternoons. Are you trying to mislead the public for some nefarious reason?
Mr. Fred Miller you are absolutely RIGHT! i couldn't find one episode with the original theme and your right, about bringing back the memories of that show, because that's what i remember is the music score, the original one.
This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. The Producer's purpose is to suggest some possible exclamations. But necessarily the only ones, to the mysteries we will examine.
Before the History Channel and the Discovery Channel which both have went downhill with questionable reasons....there was "In Search of" hosted by Leonard Nimoy bringing the world to you .....minus the hype and flash.
If you want to hear that synth sound in all of its grandeur, look no further than Genesis! (Wind and Wuthering, 1976) (...And Then There Were Three, 1977) Tony Banks on the ARP Pro Soloist and Odyssey!! Songs in particular; Wot Gorilla and The Burning Rope.
I created lyrics to the In Search Of song: "It's the In Search Of song It won't last very long. We'll find out if It's real or it's bullshit. We'll see Bigfoot and ghosts Maybe some UFOs On the show ... here's the disclaimer! (disclaimer is read here) On the show ... now here's Spock!"
1:37 is the intro I remembered. The magic and witchcraft dance was terrifying to me as a child . I loved the show. That intro wasn't used much but is the one that stuck with me. Ok... reading the description, all this came at the end of some season one and season two episodes.
There is a fantastic show on UA-cam- The Why Files. It is like a better, updated version of In Search Of... but definitely more aimed at an adult audience.
Surprising how many people say they were scared by the show as a kid, yet today, so many decades later, few of the things they speculated on (Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, etc.) have been proven to be real.
Does anybody out there know if there is a CD available with the ORIGINAL music to these episodes, not lifted from the show itself? TV theme DVD sets never have this show. It must exist somewhere. The intro music to this show in the first season was so scary and spooky, it set the tone for years and years of terror-filled nights in dark situations! As an adult, it is funny now, but I would love to hear these songs in digital format. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you
I don't think there are any recording of the music used in the episodes. However, there is a genre of music you might want to look into called Library Music. The KPM Music Library releases are great, particular the ones by Ron Geesin, Eric Peters, and Alan Hawkshaw. Also check out Burton, This is like stock music which was recorded for use in TV and film in the late 70's and then the publishers would pick up the royalties if and when they were used, along with the sales of the records. Some of them were simple setups with just one or two musicians, a multitrack recorder, a couple of synths, drums, guitars while others are full funk bands or orchestras. Then there is the music genre called Hauntology and the Ghost Box label that take similar inspiration but with a British angle.
Neil Norman and His Cosmic Orchestra specialized in reproducing science fiction movie and tv themes using synthesizers and electric guitar. His music sounds a lot like this theme. So you might find that he covered it, or enjoy some of his albums.
These actually added more mystery to each topic. Too many clues too many possibilities which amounted to one great show and the fact that we actually know very little about our physical world.
They were constantly in search of these things but did they ever solve anything? One of them was about Sherlock Holmes. A totally fictional character. Just like Barack Obama.
I don't remember much from the shows other than one of them had 'something' in some kids closet in the dark. After that episode every night for like 5 years I swear my closet was slowly opening at night in the dark! The simple things can scare kids.
Cuando era pequeña lo veia, lo pasaban en Panamericana a las 3:30am de lunes a viernes, y me despertaba para verlo, es una lastima que no pueda conseguirlo actualmente =(
This show is a large part of the reason why the 70s was the greatest decade. I miss the 70s
I know,,,it was so,,,,interesting....so new...
I heard that!!!
This show raised me 😂😂😂😂😂
Nah the 80s
You and me both
This theme has stuck with me since the first time I heard it back in the 70's. Truly one of the greats!
Same Here. Kick ass Synthesizers!! So 70's
Reminds me of the synth solo in Heart's "Magic Man".
This show had the MOST influence on me growing up as a kid. It was my introduction to all things Supernatural and unexplained. That includes Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, Aliens and UFOs, Ghosts and other phenomena.
I loved it, but I remember many episodes that completely terrified me. Going to sleep with the covers over my head trying not to move so that the Ghosts or Aliens wouldn't see me.
I never worried because I knew my stuffed animals would protect me.
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I remember as a very young boy in the 1970s being riveted by this show.
Drew Hunkins oh Christ yeah this show absolutely ignited my imagination and set me on a life long fascination with sasquatch
I was 16, 17 when they first aired-i think I was the target audience. :)
Me too!
Amityville horror one fucked me up.
After Star Trek this is another thing that put Nimoy as something of a Godfather Obi Wan Kenobi type
Before the internet this was our internet. LOVED this show. Thanks for all the good times and making me think outside the box.
When this series aired, there weren't hardly any other outlets for this kind of material. No internet. No cable. No satellite tv. At least for most of us. And you couldn't record anything. So we would rush in every Sunday at 5pm to make sure we watched this show.
YES!!!
And Wild America!
Looking back, I love just about everything 70's. This show positively captivated me and Leonard Nimoy was the perfect host. "Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had but not preserved, except in memory." This show and me watching it as a child when now deceased family was alive and well. This is preserved in my memory. R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy.
My God super 70's memories. The interesting topics and the soundtrack made this tv show awesome.
RIP Leonard Nimoy you will be missed.
Very few actors have impacted people as much as his volume of work.
It was only as an adult, hearing his voice in the narration, that I realized that it was in fact.. Leonard Nimoy. A truly great man. We shall never see his like again..
Do you know that Nimoy was a freemason?👿
just as was getting into this show (born late 1970), it went off the air!!! So happy to have gotten the DVD set from amazon, and has all the original stuff.
RIP Mr. Nimoy. Even though you were Mr Spock to most people I'll always remember you for this show.
yep me to
John Herne add another. :) I will always remember you for this show too!
Me and my family would go visit our Grandparents on the weekends back in the 70s. We kids would eat dinner and watch this show. What an amazing time to be a kid.
Notice how much better it was when Lenard gave the commentary on the closing theme. The man had one of the most distinguished and believable voices in history.
when i was a kid...i love the show.....love the intro....great memories.
Same
This show gives me the "feeling" I can't explain.
Nostalgic feeling for me
I grew up with this show!!!!!! It was docudrama/reality TV before Reality TV was cool. This show introduced me to so many wonderful mysteries in our world, a true classic!!!!!!
Memories of my childhood return watching this wonderful program, but a part of my childhood passed away with Nimoy
Definitely a quality and thought provoking series that fosters STEM.
Best TV series in history!
I believe so too!!!
yes I use to love this show as a little kid and leonard nimoys narration
made it so interesting and compelling to me, infact this show is what sparked my interest in bigfoot! thank you mr.nimoy(spock) for the great memories and may ur immortal soul live long and prosper.
I can feel myself sitting in my beanbag chair in front of the fireplace watching this on our Zenith color consol TV. I just time traveled to 1977.
I always remember this theme in the same breath with "The Rockford Files": same era, similar instrumentation.
I loved this show as a young kid in the 70s. I remember I had to get ready for bed first and then I could watch the show. I was fascinated by the places they talked about. I wondered if I would ever get a chance to see those places like the ancient pyramids!!! Nimoy’s narration was excellent. Takes me back when I hear his voice.
Not only did this song creep me out, but so did that picture of Amelia Earhart. Keep in mind I was born in '77 so I wasn't exactly the target for this show but I saw it anyway. That plane looked like it was going into her head!
spacefunk77 funny u sead that the picture of Amelia Earhart freaked me out as a child
Holy crap I thought the same thing about that plane. I was born in 74. This intro would freak me out.
Yeah, the Amelia Earhart pic was creepy for some reason; same thing w/the music, unsettling yet riveting.
LOL! Same thing here. Amelia Earhart pic = scary as hell. Back then it reminded me of a mean gym teacher at my middle school who always yelled at the boys but never at the girls. I envisioned that plane to kamikaze into her head at full throttle.
I thought I was the only one! '75
This show with the incomparable Mr. Leonard Nimoy hosting was so ahead of its time. That the producers of 'In Search Of' were forward thinkers in a sense that they made a show entirely devoted to the unexplained is amazing. It really was the forerunner to shows like 'Unsolved Mysteries' and 'The X Files'. And later 'Project Bluebook' and 'Ancient Aliens'. This was the show where it all began. RIP Leonard Nimoy. 🙏🙏
Man, UA-cam really does have everything. Was just being nostalgic thinking about the intro music, and then HERE it is, just one google search away. :)
I was fascinated with this show as a young boy in the 70s. The theme takes me back.
This show, the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom were the three that I loved the most in the 70s.
I miss this show.
The whole series is on DVD in it's original form. The box set contains 146 episodes. I highly recommend it.
Rob I got the series on DVD still have not watched them all yet
History Channel has a remake with the new Spock hosting
Back in the early 80s, I've peed my pants a million times while watching this show. And I loved it.
I bet those around you didn't like it so much, though.
Live Long and prosper Lenard Nimoy, may your Star Trek In Search Of be smooth, its no Mission Imposable for we all must follow one day. You were appreciated and will be badly missed.
For me, my best episode was the MOAI of EASTER ISLAND and the BIGFOOT episode they were fantastic!
Brings back great memories from childhood. Thanks for posting.
I miss that show and remember watching it as a young boy.
Floods my mind and heart with memories of being a kid.
"Many of the first seasons episodes had this dissonant piano-piano-synth, piano-piano-synth chord stab while showing the episode's title. I remember this sounded terrifying to my 6-year-old self."
It really magnified the creepiness.
The theme song did me the same way.
Still does.
after a series of prime-time specials, the series was broadcast from April 17, 1977 - March 1, 1982
Tommy Retro's Blast From The Past! And now again in 2018
Con solo 7 años veia este programa que era bomm en lo sobrenatural,hoy 43 años lo recuerdo con mucha nostalgia..como pasa el tiempo 😔
tal cual así y lo daban en canal 10 casi a la medianoche.
Every time I hear Steve Miller's Swingtown, it reminds me of this song.
I loved this show, and the theme song. Thank you for uploading this.
Oh, how I used to feel safe while watching this show sitting beside my Mom....otherwise I'd be terrified beyond measure.
Anyone else get nightmares from this show as a kid?
Extraterrestrials. Magic and Witchcraft. Missing persons. Myths and Monsters. Lost civilizations. And then the last one got tricky because they kept changing it from season to season. It was variously "special," "strange," and "unexplained" phenomena.
In Search Of, CBS In The News, and any cereal commercial from the 70s. Memories 😢
I loved this show when I was a kid!! I miss those days really bad.
I miss this series,Leonard nimoy,s voice made each story believeable,, music made it eerie. Love to find it dvd.
I think it was on Sundays around 430pm. It signaled the end of the weekend and school was looming.
How I miss these """in search of shows""" R.I.P
this used to scare the bejesus out of me
In Search Of and Night Gallery... {shudder}
I want the creepy first part as a ringtone!
Dani McD me too, especially the episode on Bigfoot 😭
Especially the part on this video is right at the beginning. FREAKY!
Me too! #80sKids
Dam I'm old.
I found an electronic composition of this theme a while back, didn't know what it was.. hearing it brought back a forgotten afternoon memory.. this theme song playing on the TV in my dad's room, same time almost every day. Never knew what this theme was, brought me to tears when I heard it again so many years later. Gives me the chills to this day, dunno why. Lord guide and protect me.. I miss you Dad.
It sounds like the same music in both seasons just mixed slightly differently. I loved this show! Great TV dinner memories.
This was always on Saturday afternoons when I was a kid
Saturdays? I went back and checked the local tv listings and it shows it was on Sunday afternoons. Are you trying to mislead the public for some nefarious reason?
RIP, Leonard Nimoy.
Theme -1976 composed by W. Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder... a beautifully musically sophisticated electronic composition! Part of my childhood..
Mr. Fred Miller you are absolutely RIGHT! i couldn't find one episode with the original theme and your right, about bringing back the memories of that show, because that's what i remember is the music score, the original one.
I play this once a week when it's time for my kids to go bed so they can experience the same creepiness I did when I was their age.
This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture.
The Producer's purpose is to suggest some possible exclamations.
But necessarily the only ones,
to the mysteries we will examine.
And if this show were around today, it would be filled with peopleSecond-guessing the scientists from the basement couches
Before the History Channel and the Discovery Channel which both have went downhill with questionable reasons....there was "In Search of" hosted by Leonard Nimoy bringing the world to you .....minus the hype and flash.
I believe it was called Ancient Mysteries.
this show and a show called NIGHT GALLERY were very scary back then.
If you want to hear that synth sound in all of its grandeur, look no further than Genesis! (Wind and Wuthering, 1976)
(...And Then There Were Three, 1977) Tony Banks on the ARP Pro Soloist and Odyssey!! Songs in particular; Wot Gorilla and The Burning Rope.
Love this thank you for sharing watched this every week on sunday night
Love this theme takes me back
Fascinated by this show when I was a kid!
Love that mini-moog sound! Prog-Rock style!!!
Love the original show as a kid the theme song would scared me
I created lyrics to the In Search Of song:
"It's the In Search Of song
It won't last very long.
We'll find out if
It's real or it's bullshit.
We'll see Bigfoot and ghosts
Maybe some UFOs
On the show ... here's the disclaimer!
(disclaimer is read here)
On the show ... now here's Spock!"
You are most welcome! Yes, I loved this show as a kid, still love that spooky and groovy synth score to this day.
Me and my father used to watch that show going way back it was on Sunday Afternoons on
St. Louis TV Station KSD-TV Channel 5 (Now KSDK)
A childhood memory!
1:37 is the intro I remembered. The magic and witchcraft dance was terrifying to me as a child . I loved the show. That intro wasn't used much but is the one that stuck with me. Ok... reading the description, all this came at the end of some season one and season two episodes.
Yes the magic and witchcraft got me as well.
Awesome! Brings back some good ol memories!
That music is music to my ears.
Loved this show when I was a kid.
Remember this show very well brilliant!
Me. Tv. Should. Bring. It. Back. To. Tv.
This show was the best back then!
A great series and excellent opening/ending music.
This show used to give me the creeps. I couldn't watch it by myself for years. Until well into my teens.
There is a fantastic show on UA-cam- The Why Files. It is like a better, updated version of In Search Of... but definitely more aimed at an adult audience.
Thanks! A really fantastic show! This fueled my already wild imagination when I was a kid!
Every Saturday afternoon I watched this show as a kid .
Most shows now have deleted intro/outro music. What a shame.
I wish people walked around with their own personal intro/outro music as they went about their daily activities. It would be a nice change of pace.
Star Trek 3 - In Search of...
IN SEARCH OF… WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT 7:30 PM ON WCVB TV CH. 5 BOSTON.
Kenneth Huang 5/01/23.
Was it on WSBK as well?
Leonard Nimoy rocked! I miss him!
Love the music to the intro and ending, it was awesome
Surprising how many people say they were scared by the show as a kid, yet today, so many decades later, few of the things they speculated on (Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, etc.) have been proven to be real.
Does anybody out there know if there is a CD available with the ORIGINAL music to these episodes, not lifted from the show itself? TV theme DVD sets never have this show. It must exist somewhere. The intro music to this show in the first season was so scary and spooky, it set the tone for years and years of terror-filled nights in dark situations! As an adult, it is funny now, but I would love to hear these songs in digital format. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you
I don't think there are any recording of the music used in the episodes. However, there is a genre of music you might want to look into called Library Music. The KPM Music Library releases are great, particular the ones by Ron Geesin, Eric Peters, and Alan Hawkshaw. Also check out Burton, This is like stock music which was recorded for use in TV and film in the late 70's and then the publishers would pick up the royalties if and when they were used, along with the sales of the records. Some of them were simple setups with just one or two musicians, a multitrack recorder, a couple of synths, drums, guitars while others are full funk bands or orchestras. Then there is the music genre called Hauntology and the Ghost Box label that take similar inspiration but with a British angle.
WOW! I certainly will take your much-appreciated advice! COOOL!!!!! This means a lot ~ Thank you
Also check your inbox ua-cam.com/users/messages
Neil Norman and His Cosmic Orchestra specialized in reproducing science fiction movie and tv themes using synthesizers and electric guitar. His music sounds a lot like this theme. So you might find that he covered it, or enjoy some of his albums.
Will do!! I appreciate your time and information!
These actually added more mystery to each topic. Too many clues too many possibilities which amounted to one great show and the fact that we actually know very little about our physical world.
They were constantly in search of these things but did they ever solve anything? One of them was about Sherlock Holmes. A totally fictional character. Just like Barack Obama.
Thx for posting this ❤2023
Ahh the memories....that theme song gives me goosebumps 👍
I was eigth years old , amazing before and now...
I loved this show so much!
When A&E reran this series back in the 1990s, there was an alternate theme music that sounds totally different from these versions!
I used to love the program when I was a kid and teenager
I don't remember much from the shows other than one of them had 'something' in some kids closet in the dark. After that episode every night for like 5 years I swear my closet was slowly opening at night in the dark! The simple things can scare kids.
Kids scare easily. As a kid, I was scared by the original lost in space (the one with the clownish Dr. Smith)!
My favorite show as a child
That intro makes me remember when I was a child looking tv alone at the very night.
Cuando era pequeña lo veia, lo pasaban en Panamericana a las 3:30am de lunes a viernes, y me despertaba para verlo, es una lastima que no pueda conseguirlo actualmente =(
The Steely Dan song, "King of the world" always reminds me of this theme.