1985 TV Show Openings Part 4

[westholmes2001]

The Last Precinct: Premiered after Super Bowl XX, but was cancelled two months before the series ran. The show only ran for eight episodes, airing them on Fridays alongside the hit Miami Vice. Other shows that debuted after the Super Bowl: The Wonder Years (XXII), Airwolf (XVIII), Family Guy (XXXIII), American Dad (XXXIX), The A-Team (XVII) (was the third episode; the first with Dirk Benedict as Face) and Homicide: Life On The Street (XXVII).

[jwgreek8606]

the Foley Square logo looks like the Sesame Street logo!

[musiclover77able]

I remember Different Strokes, Mr. Belvedere, and Melba show. Where's Small Wonder?

[fgldnglbs]

Trapper John looks like the forerunner of veteran vehicles like Diagnosis Murder and Matlock, the difference from the latter being some recognizable names in the cast and guests. Or maybe Murder She Wrote might get that mantle as someone will rerun it from time to time. St. Elsewhere and ER rendered Trapper John dated along with other long-running onetime hits.

[flilguy]

I honestly don't recall watching the shows. I was 15 or 16 when the shows were aired. I thought Trapper John MD was over in like 1983.

[mn02002]

It's amazing i lived near Melba Moore, I met her on my way home, i knew she looked familiar , when I finally asked her she said yes, she is real as real gets very polite. wasn't the first time I met her , met her several times before, at a American Red Cross function. she is a very talented person. marjorie

[mrfreespirit]

Most of these shows I don't even recall! Too bad no one plays them anywhere...

[tyrese3745]

They're off track. What happened???

[vnisanianisback]

@tyrese3745 What do you mean by "They're off track"?

[jtighe1]

Great shows and opening themes in the 80's. I miss this stuff.

[NICKTUBER80]

I remember the Mary theme blasting from the living room while i was in bed around the time i was in kindergaten, wow this brings back memories... sniff

[luckyc120]

melba moore had her own tv show!!!

how come she didnt do more acting?

[yaywhewclips242]

Isn't Lourna Luft Lucy Ball's daughter (she and Desi Jr. are half-siblings??)

I remember on the Mary show the title of the Newspaper was changed due to a REAL Newspaper w/ the same name!! "MAry" was no Lou Grant (one of my favorite shows-if not THE favorite- about journalism)

Melba Moore was a popular singer in the mid-1970's. i Didn't know she had a show?? It musta tanked!

[bobtwcatlanta]

She is Judy Garland's daughter

[tyrese3745]

It did. "Melba" premiered on the night of NASA Challenger disaster and was immediately cancelled after that because of very low ratings.

[gcc007west]

One of the best sites I started out watching. Please keep on going.

[vnisanian2001]

I really wish Warner Mus Group would face the facts and get over it: They do not own the rights to "Diff'rent Strokes" (Sony does).

[scorpius319]

Yeah, they should wake up and realize that this helps to advertise and seeing these brings back nostalgic moments which one may want to revisit by buying a dvd season set or two.

And technically, the TV airing of these show intros Sony doesn't own (how does one own a broadcasted episode that happened to be in the air 24 years ago), it's like saying,...OH I own last month, it's mine, I bought it yesterday

[mrfreespirit]

I have to agree with you. Watching these intros makes me want to catch the shows somewhere, DVD or TV.