Amazing Stories Intro 1987 "Parental Guidance Suggested"
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2024
- From my VHS archive. This is the intro to what was evidently the Spring 1987 re-airing of "The Wedding Ring," which was evidently deemed sufficiently violent to warrant a warning at the beginning. Contains the preview, intro, bumper, and end credits. The announcer voice-over during the end credits is annoying (it's an egregious practice), but it does provide a snapshot of NBC programming sometime in the Spring of 1987, when 'Amazing Stories' had moved to Friday nights.
Brings me back... Sunday evenings. Amazing Stories was how I ended my weekends and kicked off my school weeks. :)
Jason Vyzer Amen brother
Yup. Although I remember watching them on Mondays after ALF.
That's right NBC delivers the best in da 80's.
I just miss this era altogether; announcer's voice over the end credits and all. When television was treated like a five star dining experience as oppose a late night run through a fast food window. That's what makes this really special because it is, as you said, a "snapshot" of NBC in '86. Hell, we don't even have real intros or end credits to TV shows anymore, so this is like finding gold. Thanks!
Yeah, those are the 2 main reasons, why most TV, especially network TV, today in the 2010s, sucks donkey dick! LMFAO!
FireMadeFlesh II television always was a late night run through the fast food window. The older fast food just looks better than the terrible newer parody lower quality fast food. The quality of all of this ‘mass entertainment’ was always bad compared to real culture and necessarily gets worse as it parodies itself.
FireMadeFlesh II right there with you brother. I miss the 80s and 90s like crazy. Life was so much more without internet and cell phones
yes i agree....growing up in the 80s was the best....the intro gives me goosebumps....loved it back in the day..
*BRAVO* Excellent description!
Brings back the memories. Life was good. Elementary school. Playing with friends. Family got along. Life was new and exciting. Now... not so much. :(
I agree..i was 12 and in grade 6..i was so happy and thin..now i am 47..depressed , overweight, divorced and miserable. Living paycheque to paycheque...crying myself to sleep...in a studio apartment..
IKR
The 80s had problems too, but compared to the modern B.S. I'll take the '80s "to the last breath [Kirk]."
@@donsharma6136don't give up!
Literally the good ol days.
@@donsharma6136I hate to hear that but believe me I get it. I'm not far behind you. Lost the love of my life to lymphoma approaching mid 40s & completely lost.
gives me goosebumps listening to that intro....as a kid it was so cool seeing the beginning of this show...left me in awe and allowed me to dream....those were great times.....I miss the early 2000s when they would show this at 2am on the sci fi channel....i would wait to watch it to relive my past through the shows.....so many that hadn't seen...
I 100% agree
It's as close to time traveling as we can get
@Vegan Higler Ok
Great comment. I was born in '81 and I feel Exactly the same about this - even about the 2000's airings on Sci-Fi... I discovered they were airing this show during a terrible sickness where I couldn't even sip water without it coming back up for 4 days. They had a marathon of Amazing Stories on Sci-Fi and I just laid around puking and watching it all day 🤣
That ending clip hits me right in the feels after all these years.
Feel the chills
Another incredible musical theme by the GOAT, John Williams!
All John Williams does is create masterpieces for TV or motion pictures.
This man is the goat, a national treasure and is irreplaceable.
Brings me back to when my siblings and I got along. Gives me the chills
One of my earliest memories is this intro! Remains my favorite TV intro to this day. Babysitter episode is still my favorite. My friend's parents had it on tape and we must've watched it 20 times back in the day.
Look up “The Mission” & “Family Dog!
Those will bring back memories and they’re listed as some of the best episodes too!
I loved watching this as a kid.
Deep down in our hearts it's all love. That is what makes this special. We are reaching back to our innocence. Childhood wonder and love!
I remember renting the VHS of this show in the 90's here in Italy and watching it with friends when we were teenagers. Yesterday, after more than 30 years, I watched the "Mummy Daddy" episode with my little nephew (13y) and I was so glad that he really enjoyed it! (even Italian teens can understand English now!)
WOW... Between the music and the VHS "warbling", talk about a flashback... I love it!
Lol, oh yeah! Thumbs up if you can remember VHS warbling! 😁
@@brandonpage7087 and adjusting the tracking!
I love nostalgic videos.
My sisters and I couldn't wait for this to come on back in the 80s.
0:19 - 1:18 One of the best intro sequences of a TV show ever. The closing credits theme at 1:36 is beautiful.
The theme music was composed by the legendary John Williams!
My dad and I used to watch this all the time when it was on.
0:19 "In Stereo (Where Available)" Man, that was a big thing back then.
lol we didn't even get that in the UK till 1989!
Just like how the early 2000s say "In High Definition"
Remember when NICAM stereo was a thing?
We had it in NY in late 80's and all through the 90's.
Love the logo there for the NBC shows.
I just had such a strong nostalgic backflash my damn eyes rolled back into my head and when I came out of it, I said, “hey dad can I go get some Oreos?”
After you finish dinner son. Lol. For real this intro definitely takes me back.
This show premiered at the time of the introduction of television stereo sound, and its superior scoring and orchestration took full advantage of it. The new standard included a DBX noise-reduction system that made television audio sound better than FM-stereo radio. Nobody remembers this today, and we all now take for granted digital-quality television/movie/streaming sound, but it was a revelation back in the day. I remember reading a newspaper article the week before this series debuted that it was the most expensive television show in history (up to that point), at the then-breathtaking "more than a million dollars" per episode. It's a shame it didn't catch on and have a longer run. That was a very exciting time for television programming in America.
Yes. This was before NBC CBS and ABC became social justice propaganda in 2021
This intro is my entire childhood.
Watching the sun setting during the end credits of the show on a Sunday night, was my way of knowing that the sun was figuratively setting on my weekend; and the next day was Monday morning.
it reminds me of my childhood memories , i used to watch this .
Man, I was only 2 or 3 at the time, but I definitely remember this series, & I remember how I was scared shitless when I first saw the episode, "a head of the class"!! lol. The suburban town used in the end credits looks alot like Cuesta Verde, lol! Man, that Universal logo at the end always creeper me out too. To me, it is in the top 5 of scary logos, along with the Stephen J. Cannell productions logo.
The 1970s and 1980s had a ton of ominous television logos back then just in general
@user-cr8dq7sc6h, yes, absolutely! I so miss scary logos. I wish they were still around. Today's logos are so boring.
Amazing show from an amazing time miss those days.
I loved getting all kinds of snuggled in a blanket with popcorn and watch Amazing Stories every week.
My childhood memories ❤️❤️
I remember those special effects being the best that I’ve ever seen! Great show!
I so miss the 80' I love this show it would come on Sunday evenings miss those times
I was born 84 and this intro is one of my earliest memories. My parents loved this show and so did I. My favorite episode is miscalculation
I was born in 84 too but my favorite episode was Mirror Mirror
OMG "on an all new episode of Mimi Vice" what a flashback! Those were the days!
It's strange, but I have to wonder what happened to all of those people sitting in front of the TV right before the intro completes. A completly (to me) no name generic family, with a kid who was about my age when this first aired. What were their lives like? Are they still alive? Where are they now?
I watched this show back in the mid 80s and this living room scene really stuck with me for some reason.
yes me too...i loved the intro and always got me to wonder about life, the world, monsters, mysteries, etc etc....I became a historian and it helped me graduate college cause it inspired me as an adult....always will have a place in my soul until i check out....
This whole series has always stuck with me. Especially the episode "Go To the Head of the Class"! Most of all, though, I remember the opening credits & theme.
And the scene of the caveman from the opening telling stories now reflected on the TV was a great touch.
I wonder the same thing about the family from the intro to Monsters.
@@abracadaverous They're probably sitting around, watching the grandchildren enjoy their candy critters.
This is my heart! Thank you so much Mr Spielberg!
Nostalgia, one of the few rewards we get when getting old
I definitely enjoyed the hell out of this show in High School.
Amazing how Spielberg is telling us right here in the intro that storytelling used to be an organic family affair, with the father or grandfather telling stories to his own kids and grandkids, folk stories that had probably been passed down since time immemorial, but by 1986 the entire world forgot their own stories and instead sat around the TV and watched some bland feel-good story thought up by Hollywood where zero imagination is required on the part of the now-passive consumer audience. So instead of learning our culture from our own fathers or grandfathers, guys like Spielberg are now our father or grandfather. Sad.
How the hell did they have computer graphics like that for a TV series intro in 1987 that's incredible
It was pretty incredible at the time. Not much or maybe nothing else like it on TV at that time as far as 3d graphics. Then only 6 years later Jurassic Park came out in theaters, then 2 more years toy story, and now 2024 and everyone takes the technology for granted that it's barely 40 years of use in entertainment.
Right after BTTF at the Universal pictures department.
@@Rickydiculusyep.
1982 was TRON.
The Last Starfighter also had limited CGI with the final battle.
Then there was the owl at the beginning of Labyrinth.
It wasn't that revolutionary by 1986. Expensive maybe, but lots of logos were CGI'd, because geometric shapes were easier to render. (That's still the basis... Model the surface in triangles, then render shading and textures.)
By 1986, you had Luxo Jr., Great Mouse Detective, and Young Sherlock Holmes pushing the cutting edge.
For the record, The Twilight Zone relaunch used more CGI in the episodes than AS. A year later, Star Trek: The Next Generation would push that even further.
This does make me wonder...
What was the first TV series to use computer animation regularly?
Possibly the screen displays on the bridge of Battlestar Galactica?
Fifty years of CGI in cinema.
The Academy had the perfect opportunity to increase ratings last year with a special celebration of the Fiftieth anniversary of West World, Fourtieth anniversary of snubbing TRON for the SFX Oscar, and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Look at the SFX Oscars... You have historical dramas being nominated! It's used everywhere now.
25 years after Toy Story, and nobody considers the CGI Lion King to be an animated feature...
Amazing Stories was one of those 80's enigmas. Great writing, high value production, talented guest stars(John Lithgow won a damn emmy for his portrayal in "The Doll".) Even with all that it just could not win its timeslot in the ratings and the network declined to pick up a third season.
I remember as a toddler in 1986 - 1987 my parents watching this show then the one episode my parents sat me and my siblings in the living room family dog i love the intro of Amazing Stories nostalgia
those awesome childhood memories
One fine show...I still miss it. When new, I watched every ep, always liked anthology shows. It should have been on at least 5 seasons. I miss the 1980s and my twenties. (smile) This show needs to be on You Tube in full episodes. It is on DVD.
I remember the one with Mark Hamill, when he was a kid a dwarf came to him and told him to never throw away anything he loves, then when he's an adult he's homeless but he's still got all his stuff and it's all worth a fortune. I took that episode to heart and kept everything I could. Now all my stuff is worth about $20 but I can still go through it and remember the good times.
😂😂 You think; I did what they said & I can finally get outta this hole! Definitely More than a little disheartening!
Awesome that Craig Safan collaborated with John Williams on the music for this series. If you're a Teen Wolf fan, like I am, you'll know that Craig Safan also did the song "Win in the End", for that movie's soundtrack. Pure 80s awesomeness!!
The creative consultant, Richard Matheson, is legendary. ;)
I remember when this aired on TV in the 80's. It was one of the highlights of my week. When that intro started I knew I was in for a treat! My favorite Amazing Stories are The Mission, and Moving Day. Besides that I also like Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day," and the quirky "The Peanut Butter Solution."
I remember this too, though I was only 2 or 3 at the time. Don't remember too many of the episodes though, I mainly remember the episode "A Head of the Class", which scared the shit outta me! Christopher Lloyd was scary as hell in that episode, lol.
I do, however, also remember the episode featured in this video, as well.
The Peanut Butter solution. Ah, classic
Damn good episode, now glad Steven is bringing this back on 🍎📺👍
This is far, the best days of our childhood... where watching tv is a pleasure to all and having dreams and deep imaginations come together... i wish this would all get back to tv circulation nowadays... this is what kids and kids a like at this millenium needs. To straight up their morals and perceptions in life.
That announcer during the end titles was Bill Wendell of Late Night with David Letterman.
Very nostalgic..back when the days were splendid ☺️
Amazing Stories, or as I knew it as a kid "that scary show that comes on after ALF"
This used to come on after ALF??? Cool, lol.
This series had a lot of lighthearted episodes and a lot of scary episodes. They did various genres on this show.
Loved this show as a kid!
memories of sweet childhood times came flooding in.
when i watched this show years ago, my family was whole and life was so simple and happy.
I mean really. Look at today’s time. So much going wrong in the world. Life was so much simpler back then and you didn’t have to worry about the TV shows and movies you watch being insanely woke.
Man, I was only 6 or 7 years old, but I remember loving Amazing Stories, such a rich and well acted series, great network tv programming!
Owning both seasons now on DVD is a real treasure for me.
In the film Ready Player One, you can hear a brief bit from this theme during the big battle towards the end.
That's right because Alan Silvestri did a great job on the film!!!
I remember watching this with my mom in BBC1
Watch this as a kid like back in 2004?? Was interesting...😊😊old stuff are gold indeed... it has that cozy 'sit down tgt w the fam no other distraction' full of life lessons kinda vibe to them😊😊
The original sci fi channel aired the reruns around in the early 2000s and by 2010 it had stopped usually around 2am here in California...I used to stay up to watch it..
@@80sfreak42 oh... wow.. ya... i supposed i saw those reruns in the early 00s then... me and my siblings specifically rmbred one episode 'the sitter', the show would air just before sch starts in the afternoon, and that episode was interesting and also kinda creepy for us kids😊😊but a good one for kids
@@kjthekunoichi yes I remember seeing that one too...the sitter..it had a young seth green playing one of the kids...I wish the new sci fi channel would show amazing stories again...I sure miss them..cheers from California..
@@80sfreak42 hahah yeah the sitter is a good show for young kids heheh... it has a bit of mary poppins and nanny mcphee plots😊😆😆such old sch tv shows would be great if they can be aired once in a while to show kids nowadays who are can be too absorbed in their gadgets...😐😐 greetings from Singapore btw!👍
I always loved the introduction, the stories were great but I thought the introduction outshines the stories!
Wow this is very nostalgic i miss the good old days. With our old TV☺️☺️☺️
missed that show
I loved it and I still do..I gotta find them all for my kid
TIL: Cavemen were clean shaven....
The one talking reminds me of John Cena in a wig 😂.
Back when life was so simple. I miss those days 🙂
And when current TV shows weren’t woke
That is actor Ray Walston (of the 1960's sitcom "My Favorite Martian") in the role of the storytelling caveman.
0:12 "You hear that kid. Off to bed!" "Dad, I waited all week to see Amazing Stories!" "Oh, okay. But no nightmares." "I promise!" [I had nightmares] (me, at age 9. Not even kidding!) :D
Hell yea. Very very true.
This shit was the jam on a Sunday night back in 1986.
Strangely enough, I don't remember any of the stories featured, but the theme song and intro have stayed with me, as a reminder of 80s greatness.
Ah the memories. Me and my family would sit around and watch this among other shows.
This was when TV was good not now with all reality tv now
I loved this show.
Yo, i actually remember seeing this when i was younger and it was a good tv series along with others too.
Like poltergeist the legacy, The Hitchhiker, tales from the crypt, Friday the 13th, tales from the dark side, monsters. They were all very good at the time and we all enjoyed watching them.
0:50 love the transition from sword to spaceship
Mirror, Mirror is one of my favorite episodes from Amazing Stories. Family Dog is pretty good too. The mummy one is pretty funny. There is a few others I enjoyed too.
Family dog was amazing lol
Brad Bird did Family Dog before Iron Giant and Incredibles films.
Man the 80's were better.
So much better
Facts!
As a 54 year old man, I can tell you the women were better, too. I definitely don't have the dirty old man syndrome because the young women don't turn me on the way the young women of the 80s did.
Yes! Better TV shows back then and there were more great movies back then and we didn’t have many franchise movies and or anything that was woke back then
@@JLee-g6wdefine "Woke "
This makes me very happy.
I remember first seing 3 stories as a child, always loved the intro and it was my first vhs with my native language dub because at that time mostly all vhs were pirated with russian dub
This is what hear when I watch Back to the Future.
I wouldn't forget that caveman storyteller in the intro
Love John Williams music for intro/ outro it's beautiful
Here because Amazing Stories is back!
Watching that episode and other episodes of Amazing Stories on SyFy network back in da 90's was childhood memories, btw Get Back To The Head Of The Class is my personal favorite halloween episode with Chris Lloyd of BTTF and the director Bob Zemeckis. Plus Steven Spielberg's The Mission.
I remember that one. And a episode where a kid was trapped in the movie Psycho. Possibly a 3rd where another kid creates a girlfriend from paint?
@@cheryllynnverellen6572Miscalculation.
Assisti muito Amazing Stories na minha infância. Saudades dessa serie incrível.
Robert Abel And Associates did the opening computer graphics titles for this show? Awesome.
In the 1980s, TV experimented with anthologies again (Amazing Stories, a relaunch of Alfred Hitchcock Presents), but couldn't quite get it to work.
"imagery computed on Gould 9080 Computer" are credits you would not see today.
The times when the whole family watching together. & The only gadget to distract you is a gameboy
From caveman back to caveman. What a leap through time!! When tv was cool!!
Ain't that the truth!
September 22nd, 1986 when this originally aired was a Monday. This has to be from a separate undocumented air date since Miami Vice never aired on a Monday night.
Looking it over (and consulting with Wiki's entry for the '1986-87 United States network television schedule'), it seems evident that you're correct - this clearly aired on a Friday, so it must be one of the re-showings that aired in Spring of 1987. In my VHS collection, none of this stuff was precisely dated, leaving me to guess when a lot of it was taped.
@@PoisonedDragon1964 I think I remember Friday night airings. Maybe in the summer after it initially aired? Trying to match up that Miami Vice episode which I watched religiously but can't seem to find it based on episode descriptions on Wiki. Thanks for posting by the way. This stuff is nostalgia gold for me. Even old announcers who did the intro dialogue give me that feeling. I miss real t.v.!
@@PoisonedDragon1964 May 1st, 1987 is when that Stingray aired and the Miami Vice episode too. This is a great piece of tv nostalgia you posted.
Dorothy and Ben episode was by far the saddest but heart warming episode to watch imo.
This seems to have been aired on a Friday from the "Miami Vice" and "Stingray" announcement. All internet sources say this was a Sunday and then Monday show. For me I remembered this show with what seemed like a weekend time slot of Friday and Sunday. Any ideas on this Friday time slot?
I remember Monday's, after cub scout meeting
I used to love this show when I was a little kid,and I remember the opening credits well.Sadly I can't hardly remember the episodes,the only one I remember is a guy gets ahold of some kind of magic chemical/potion that allows him to bring pictures to life(mostly swimsuit models) by pouring it on their photo,it's kind of like a weird science rip off from what I can actually remember.
I barely remember this from when I was 5 years old or so, I like knowing now where it was from
I wish I could find old episodes of this show
Danny and Rhea were about to start blastin.
! CGI in 1986. who knew? The bomber episode was my favorite.
lol CGI was used in 1981 for the Genesis Proposal sequence in Star Trek II. It was intensive that the film was delayed for release by a year.
Was that the one with Kevin Costner as the pilot with the airmen stuck in the belly gun? That's the only one I actually can remember from my childhood.
@@chrisd530 Yes, my favorite episode as well.
@@captaincorleone7088 1982, and no. It wasn't delayed for the Genesis sequence, which was rendered by PIXAR, then a division of ILM.
@@peterthx PIXAR didn't exist till 1986! It was rendered by the Graphics Group at ILM, elements of which were subsequently spun off into PIXAR.
The work on the sequence began in *1981* when Bob Sallin, producer of TWOK approached Dr. Alvy Ray Smith at the Graphics Group and expressed an interest in using computer graphics within the film.
I like to think that Parental Discretion card played before the beginning of "Go To The Head Of The Class," too. That episode is GREAT, but that end shot is traumatizing!
What happens in the episode and in the final shot?
Loved Amazing Stories. Gotta be honest in that commercial Rhea Pearlman is looking kinda hot.
God the feeling
You mentioned the announcer voice-over during the end credits. They did this to tell about upcoming shows. Now they just do it during the show.
I pray Apple doesn't screw up the spirit of what made this Show so wonderous to watch in the first place...
It's remaining true to the original premise.
I miss the 80s
I always suspected this theme was done by John Williams, b/c most of the music tones sound an awful lot like the music tones from NBC Nightly News around this time frame as well.
If you have amazon music, the Amazing Stories album is on there.
Life was good then