Falcon Crest season 9 opening credits 2

[Sugarbehr1967]

Horrible...I hated the final season..and it's music..sad such a grand soap opera went out in such sad, pathetic shambles..

[Retrotv]

I like the themes that Falcon Crest had, and this one is OK, but this season was just two words, not good.

[msmithstud]

i prefer the original, but this is a nice change.

[toastietube]

Hate the season 9 intro music. Hate that there's no more "and Susan Sullivan as Maggie". Worst character death ever. Maggie's death made me scared of swimming pools for life.

[NFitalianGuy]

These new characters were so lame and boring. How did the writers think that the fans would be able to embrace them? It takes a few seasons to really get the back story and to like the characters.. The show went down hill esp when they had Angela attacked and slip into a coma..

[jmjfanss]

@NFitalianGuy

Robert Foxworth's departure was the beginning of the end of this once great series.

and aside from Gregory Harrison, the show really jumped the show after season 6 and contined until the final episode.

[showdown8974]

Don't shill out an upgrade to an initial concept. The typical family storylines make place for ruthless business action and daring television. The best season to me.

[Tenor5274]

I aconcur- maggie's death was a huge disgrace! Without Robert Foxworth, the show just deteriorated! I think he served as a viable foil for Angela. This opening theme was dreadful! I miss Bill Conti's original bombastic opening!

[petercox9]

paint themselves into a corner is exactly what they did when they killed off the fabulous melissa agretti cumson as played by the extraordinary ana alicia. melissa was to falcon crest what pamela sue martin was to dynasty as fallon and what donna mills was to knots landing as wicked abby. melissa's greatest scenes were when she was going off the deep end. she was such a dichotomy-- good catholic girl and sensual vixen. she loved hot men, but then she would start feeling guilty and go looney.

[dramaticguy]

Just seen season9 it was pretty bad,Maggie's death unlikeable OTT characters like the terrible Cockney brothers,least Jane Wyman came back for the end.

[Koach127]

I always loved this version of the theme, but I couldn't associate it with the show. I wish they had made a spin-off and used it for that.

[TheFameFlame]

I prefer the original version. One of the best theme songs ever. Made you excited to see the episode. But I gotta say, Kristian Alfonso is one of the most beautiful women to appear on TV ever.

[danecph76]

I know this is not the classic Falcon Crest - but for me this is Falcon Crest ) 

[HartToHart]

SEASON 4 & 9 has the best THEME song !!! I love it.. who has this in STERO as MP3 ???

[cag1970]

No, no, a thousand times no...If the plot twists didn't cause Falcon Crest to jump the shark, this theme sure did...No, no, no!

[jmjfanss]

@cag1970

Actually it was season 6.

[adheckle]

Kristian Alfonso undoing that towel makes me quiver.

[msmithstud]

this opening is obviously not as classical as the original, but it's a nice change.

[dontlayeggs]

This is the best opening! Although I've never seen the series. lol

[Nemesis7293]

Bill Conti's gorgeous score is totally decimated. Why the hell did they have to try to turn it into something by Jan Hammer?

[jadewarlock]

@Nemesis7293 Rumor had it they tried it to be in a similar vein to "Knott's Landing." That show changed their tune and it picked up a couple of seasons while here it pretty much crashed and burned.

Then again, it's been said the two biggest mistakes were killing off Melissa (Ana Alicia) and Maggie (Susan Sullivan). Killing them off didn't allow for either to return if the ratings dropped, and they did particularly with Alicia's firing. People think that's what killed the show there.

[Nemesis7293]

@jadewarlock I think your assessment is very astute. I'm no conservative to say that any change is change for the worse, but I must say that this new version of the theme is simply not up to the previous ones. I find it terribly wrong-headed, as do I the writing in the season it accompanies. Sad, bad, and in the wrong direction. You simply can't kill off MAJOR characters like Maggie and Melissa and expect to maintain audience sympathy or interest.

[jadewarlock]

@Nemesis7293 I've only seen a couple of episodes from Season 9 myself, and totally agree with you. The music didn't help out at all. I think sadly the best scenes I saw were Maggie's death (very eerily done) and then Angela's final speech in the story.

And yes, the original theme rocked - Even not watching the show on a regular basis I could identify the series with that theme. This one... well... I did get it confused with "KL" as we did watch that night soap the most.

[jmjfanss]

@jadewarlock

and let's not forget that gregory harrison was great in his role as the ultra ruthless michael sharpe and other villians were great in this one.

[gravelandgrain100]

@jmjfanss -

the core of "Falcon Crest" had left back when Foxworth left. It became less about the land and the legacy-more about vindictive businessmen(Richard and Michael). Basically went all "Dallas" on us fans. The music was light years better before with the original theme.

[jmjfanss]

@gravelandgrain100

But it was high tech compared to the junk out today.

TV of today is even worse.



[ElJefeNLA]

@jadewarlock Maggie's death disturbed me very much. I couldn't sleep that night. I still get chills when I think about it 20 years later.

[myrabradwell40]

@ElJefeNLA Maggie's death was erie ....The way she drowned... The last season was pretty erie in itself..

[dramaticguy]

@ElJefeNLA Maggie had survived so much.to die like that was rotten.

They should have Maggie kidnapped then turn out to be alive like Val in Knots Landing.

[ElJefeNLA]

@dramaticguy I would have accepted that more than I could that horrible death. They should have shown her actually drowning all the way to make sure we ALL WERE disturbed. That happened over 20 years ago and I still can't erase that horrible image out of my mind.

[jmjfanss]

@jadewarlock

Actually it started to go downhill when robert foxworth left, season 6 was really the beginning of the end of this once great series.

[jadewarlock]

@jmjfanss Sadly I think he was going to return but they didn't do it. Unlike shows such as "Dallas" they really kept painting themselves into a corner until there was no where else to go.

I didn't watch this series that much, but from what I've seen it's vastly underrated. It tends to get overlooked by the likes of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." I also like "Hotel" for this reason - it's a more mature version of "The Love Boat."

[jmjfanss]

@jadewarlock

But robert foxworth's departure still was the beginning of the end of the show.

[ranfeng9]

1988年,我在中国看此剧集。谢谢！Thanks!

阿弥陀佛...

Wishing that you are all AMITUOFO！

[azzorroww]

when the show was finally broadcast first time it was in season 3 i did not see the first two until many years later, and that was by total accident on in the mornings daily, i met emma's boy friend a trucker dwayne, can't remember the actors name and emma wa mentally unstable hidden by angela, another soap in another part of the world a countey practice from australia i also enjoyed a medical drama in the out back, every citzen in wanden valley must of got sick there.

[connyben]

This is not the classic Falcon Crest. But I think this theme is actually pretty good and it worked well with the direction the show was taking this season, with a more action-packed and dark style.

[alslevie1986]

Does this intro include Pilar coming out of the shower.?

[Koach127]

Wasn't that Bobby Ewing that came out of the shower?

[qttroassi]

slamming a jail cell door in their face-possibly one of televisions most disgusting moments. And this is comming from a guy that is turned on by a woman wearing wearing a uniform ...

[qttroassi]

I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend alot of people who were fans of this in any way but I could'nt stand this fuckin shit :( !!!! period, from as far back as I could remember. I dunno maybe it was because I was too young to be into it (I was born in 1975). My mother and grandmother idolized it like they were watching the pope. Just painfull memories of laboring over candyass grade school homework and hearing it in the backround. They had one episode where someone dreamed Jane Wyman was a cop

[ma932588]

This was the worst season ever and then it got cancelled. Im not surprised. I thought this soap was so much better than Dallas, which preceded it. I couldn't believe what the writers did to it. Did they really have to kill off Maggie in the swimming pool? God forbid that one of the last original cast members would leave the valley alive.

[connyben]

@ma932588

Nah, season 8 was worse :)

[elawton1980]

We have to remember this was in 1989. That synthesizer-based, electronic music was all the rage at the time. I can't really blame the show for doing what was popular at the time with some of the general public. The "FC" producers were kind of at the mercy of the network, as well, which wanted to attract a younger audience. Yeah, the new theme wasn't great, but keep in mind the context of the times.

[IDRIS1130]

The writers really destroyed this great show in the late 80s!

[Xstorm69]

God u said it! I loved this show! So amazing with amazing characters-Angela, Richard, Melissa, Emma, etc. I was pissed when they messed it up! They tried at the last minute to fix it but it was too late.

[IDRIS1130]

Way way to late! Like they say if it aint broke.

[darqueman]

I don't remember this opening! How did they mess up such a CLASSIC opening theme song. Wow that was bad!!!!!

[IDRIS1130]

You are so right this opening really sucks!

If it aint broke!

[Jibjub80]

They messed this one up. The original versions were so much better. I don't know why they had to change it.

[feriante2006]

Oh, that terrible season

[StreathamG]

GOD THAT MUSIC IS JUST AWFUL - I've just been thrilled by the beautiful opening to season 8 and then this travesty. The producers really didn't have a clue - part of the joy of these eighties TV soaps was the opening themes - not something that occurs nowadays - and to ruin it so spectacularly was a sin - I'm sure many loyal fans turned off in absolute disgust.

[avon96734]

Was this really what they changed it to? I thought it was some weird remix.

[MrInmyopinion]

For 8 years they had a theme tune that everyone knew, then in season 9 WTF!! it looked like and sounded like a bad TV movie. At least Knots Landing knew how to change there theme tune without TOTALLY losing the identity of the show. Its just bad.

[fearfera]

Woweeeee...I have almost 200 episodes of Falcon Crest from the 70's & 80's...on DVD's!!!

[NEXTGENSKYN]

falcon crest didnt come out till ''1981''

[thedemon1987]

WTF!!! im not up to these yet, im currently on like season 5 i think the ones with simon mccorkindale, but where the hell is chase, maggie, cole, and emma? do tye all die or something? and the music sucks that opening string kinda thing that they had was a iconic thing like the opening riff to dallas!

[ImperialAtlantis]

Cole leaves midway through s6 and Chase dies at the end of it.  Emma got written out in s8, brought back for the beginning of s9, then written off again (don't you love people that can't make up their minds?). Maggie drowns in ep 1 of s9 in what is one of the most disturbing scenes I've ever seen on TV.

[thedemon1987]

oh, so basically all the good characters just fade away,

[cloverfield911]

I liked how Falcon Crest ended.

At least they tied up all the loose ends, everybody had made peace, Angela made her great last speach, ...

and there was no need for any dodgy follow up mimi-series ect.

[JamesLiveProductions]

This is just so random!

[jrelite1]

This version of the opening is my favorite. I don't like all the filmed pieces with the hand on the stair rail, hand loading the gun,etc. Those are just stupid and looked totally staged compared to using clips of scenes with peoples faces in them.

[houtakiboy]

No David Selby and Susan Sullivan? Its like Smallville now, without John Glover and Michael Rosenbaum.....ergo....the series fucking dies.

[ImperialAtlantis]

I never thought about that before, but I like the comparison. Although I'm not completely sure what you mean, since David Selby is still on the show. And they still had money left after they paid him, unlike the dollar fifty Smallville has left after they pay Tom Welling ;)

[harluk2k9]

Well, judging from the previous comments, some here hated, while others liked this new version of the theme. True, this one can't be compared to the original classical masterpiece. But personally I thought this version sounded pretty cool. Sure it sounds totally 80's & dated TODAY, but what did you guys expect? You need to remember it was MADE in the 80's/early 90's. With a "Yanni" flavor suitable to THAT period in time. Surely you can't expect it to have a contemporary 2k's sound now, do you?

[JamesLiveProductions]

No offense to the show but thats a crap music version. I preferred the original!

[joacim99]

I dont like the new music!

[SharonTateFan4ever]

Love when Angela is propped up in bed and throws the gun at Charley!

[gay1967]

season 9 die titelmelodie unterscheidet sich hier von den anderen openings, gefällt mir leider nicht mehr, die season 8 openings fand ich besser.

[54spiritedwill54]

I like the ''jazzed-up'' disco remix the best.

[harmjaap]

geweldige opening! echt spannend ook!

[lockebell]

I really liked this theme. Not as good as the original, but it worked somehow. This season was not good, but I did enjoy Emma blowing Charlie away at Xmas time. :)

[jeff24ryan]

This theme was really cool. But the show lost something in mid season despite Gregory Harrison

[jmsweat]

This opening theme stunk so bad. They should have ended the show after season 8 especially since Jane Wyman wasn't able to appear in much of the season.

[klakaniza]

i dont like this version off original theme, too. BUT: if you compare the pics in the different openings, here in the last season you also can see scenes that are used in this season. so the different kind of the intro fits very good to the new music.

[scorpio888]

I loved the Season 8 theme the best, but the show was ruined by Season 4 (tons of unnecessary network interference).

This new Season 9 version of the theme I didn't dislike --- it was an interesting change, but it's the new theme DESIGN which was the real error: no show can alter its basic graphic motif all that much before the audience realizes the producers no longer have any sense of what their show is about.

It's like changing the cast too much, or painting the mahogany wood pink.

[jas240sx]

I did not really watch this show, especially after the first few seasons so I cannot comment on the cast, plots or anything else...but I love this intro.

[TampaGS]

This version of the theme does not compare to the majesty of Bill Conti's original masterpiece, so I don't compare them. Patrick O'Hearn did a good job of adapting Conti's score to fit the tone of the 9th season. Though I hated the storylines, I still like O'Hearn's take on the theme for what it was. I enjoy his original recordings too.

Considering the the show won its only Emmy Award for the music of season 8, it is interesting they chose to make such a stark stylistic change.

[wilehart1978]

I will never forget this sequence and when I didn't see Susan Sullivan in the opening credits, I was shocked. When her character drowned in the pool, I knew it was over and after Angela went into a coma and we had to suffer with a near season of the Michael Sharpe show, it was time for the show to take its final bow. The only interesting part of this season is when Jane Wyman returned for the last three shows. The opening sequence was horrible.

[atlmuscleman]

I think they altered the theme so much in a (failed) attempt to freshen it up and give it a "90's flair." Sadly, it doesn't compare with the earlier seasons' moving theme music.

[lizlawton]

Maybe it's because I'm a child of the 80's, but I actually always liked this synth-based theme. Ah, the good old days when I had four channels and always had something to watch. Now I have 300 channels, and there's never anything on!

[muscle38g]

the best version of this night time soap-opera

[pwt3000]

I'm one of the other 5 who likes this theme as well as the more majestic, epic ones.

[ssosmcin]

Oh man, this is what happened later in the show? Samurai swords and Lorenzo Lamas doing roundhouse kicks?

Wow.

[ImperialAtlantis]

That was kind of the point of season 9. With Angela in her coma, Lance and Pilar estranged, and Charlie and his relations running ruff-shod over everyone, the first half of the season was about losing everything. But they fought back, and the second half was about them getting it all back. That was the coolest thing about this season and the opener reflects that.

[wilehart1978]

These opening credits were just horrible. The music almost as maddening. I can't stress enough how much I hated both. The season was terrible. I put the credits for this season in with Kont's Landing's 11th season where no pictures of any cast members were present and Dallas' decision to alter their iconic opening sequence for no reason.

[sfuhere]

Yuk. That version of the theme music is naff beyond belief. So eighties and plastic, whereas the original theme was classic and has aged well, this version is incredibly dated. I hadn't heard it before - and wish I never had!!

[beachjock2]

I really liked this version of the opening credits. I agree that the last season of Falcon Crest was pretty poorly written and moving in a wrong direction. However, Falcon Crest was the only nighttime soap to have a real "last episode." I applaud the writers for bringing closure to the show. Also, I want to thank them for bringing us into the world of Falcon Crest for nine years!

[bavaro6]

i love this opening

greetz from germany

[DS9Sisko]

The original theme music is classic and beautiful. But I am one of maybe 5 people in the world who loved this version, too. DIfferent strokes.

[k9maxie]

didn't like that intro to the show

[bushwacka1980]

God that version of the theme is awful!

[travis082185]

are the following season 9 scenes posted?

charlie suffocating angela

emma shooting charlie

emma visiting angela in the hospital and her(angie)waking up briefly

[rickram1961]

Jane Wyman was truly a legend of the Silver Screen. She will be missed.

[Dibrini]

Jane Wyman passed away today, she was 93.

[jmsweat]

I hated this theme music. WHY did they do this to it during the show's last season?? Since Angela hardly appeared, Season 8 should have been the last.

[Jim856796]

They should have used the previous 8 seasons' opening theme as the end theme for the show's series finale.

[koppie0]

I have the complete series on dvd, in orginal english with dutch subtitles (not disturbing), who will buy it from me?

[dramaticguy]

I couldn't believe it when they killed off Maggie,ok Susan Sullivan wanted to leave but please,Maggie deserved a happy ending.

[bigal650]

@dramaticguy They should have brought Chase back so he could have taken her away from the valley once and for all. He was her true love, not Richard.

[jmjfanss]

@bigal650

They were gonna do that in 1988, but due to the writer's strike, it was not gonna happen.

[jojogoshopping]

ya think they were going for a younger audience with the super sexed up opening?

[MiguelDante]

I kinda like this opening, too! But the best was with Jane Wyman in the Rolls-Royce on the Golden Gate Bridge!

[bennjr]

I liked this too, the series started over here today.

[generator06]

I guess I'm in the minority, but I love this reworking. It was completely new and unlike other nighttime soaps. The pace of the music, and the cutting of the images was well done. I also liked the slowed down version of the Knots Landing theme they used one year...It was a little Kenny G-ish...but once again, it was nice to hear something new.

[diamondeye1]

I feel exactly the same way. It rather reflected the show itself, sexy and intelligent. I still liked the original, too, and the show in general. It's the snob in me, but I felt this show with its continental sensibility of wine-making and culture was more sophisticated than the redneck saga Dallas, though I did trudge through it to get to FC. This show is sorely missed.

[finn3602]

I liked the music...but the show had fallen apart by this time. No Ana-Alicia, No Susan Sullivan, No Jane Wyman etc. I feel the show actually ended after season 8. FC was a different show in season 9...and the credits show it!!!

[Restlessi]

But Jane Wyman is ideed included in the cast opening of that season?!

[finn3602]

True...but her character was put into a coma for most of the season...she was only in 4 episodes the entire season. That sucked!

[Restlessi]

Yes, but better than nothing. It also sucked that Maggie had to die.

[bigal650]

@Restlessi Jane Wyman was in the opening but she spent most the season away from the set because of her health and Angela Channing was in a coma as a result

[tnawcwvictoria]

Well here's something else why the show went downhill:

When FC moved to Thursday Nights right before Knots Landing, the show was up against Cheers and Seinfeld and that's when it really went downhill.

and plus, Gregory Harrison of Logan's Run: The Series and Trapper John, M.D. joined the cast of the final year of FC.

and I agree, losing Susan Sullivan, Ana-Alicia and Abby Dalton was the real downfall and so was the theme to the show.

and plus, it was the end of an era!

[VaultMasterDBT]

Seinfeld did not premiere as a series until just a few weeks after FC concluded it's 9-year run on CBS.

[TampaGS]

Falcon Crest only aired four episodes in its final Thursday timeslot. CBS had already determined by the time they removed the show from the Friday night lineup that there would not be a tenth season.

[wilehart1978]

I knew from episode one of this season. The bad opening credits that didn't have Susan Sullivan, Maggie's death, the Thursday night move and the Michael Sharpe show format -- it was over for this pride gem of CBS' awesome primetime soap trio! Sadly Dallas would die a slow painful final season as well. Knot's Landing final season was not a bad, but by that time there were just not alot of primetime soap fans left.

[copperline78]

i HATE this version! The show was going completely in the wrong direction.

[thesmutpeddler]

this is, by far, the most horrible reworking of any soap opera theme. it's "new-age" synthesizer sound (think car commercial) is even more dated sounding than the original orchestrations used during the early-mid 80s seasons. Yecchhh. But thanks for posting! It was interesting to go back and give it a second look after all these years. Now where's my barf bag...?

[bennjr]

I like the ''jazzed-up'' disco remix the best.