awend79

[TimsDale4ever]

If anyone wants to hear this gorgeous theme in its entirety, type in the search field "aw ep4361". Around 1979/80, the show stopped running the vertical crawl and starting using flash credits in front of random still shots of that episode. Oddly, episode 4361 is the LAST time they used this theme on 09/04/81 (30 years ago!), but it still holds up even today as {one of} the loveliest themes ever. LOVE OF LIFE was the only other theme (1977-80) that could possiby compete.

[lovesyorkies1]

Beautiful music. Wish I could find for my ipod!

[radiodj1520]

I Believe This Was A Video Clip Of "Another World" Video Close From March 23, 1979.

[scottyfilmbuff]

lovely closing it's almost heart warming. whats even funnier is the ad for that fossil david brinkly doing the news lol.

[krystlerita]

Who's the baby with Mac and Rachel? Was that Amanda?

[kdizzle79]

@krystlerita Yes, that is baby Amanda

[gspinc1]

Who composed this score? It is amazing...brilliant...

[TimsDale4ever]

@gspinc1 John Rubenstein.

[gspinc1]

@TimsDale4ever I began watching AW around 1982 and did not know this theme. It is quite beautiful. I cannot even tell you how I began watching AW; there must have been something subliminal in those silvery block letters and the purple haze of the new 1980's opening montage that caused me to race home from school to catch the last 20 minutes or so of AW..it was an AWESOME SHOW! It will be back one day!!!

[Imfromaroundtheblock]

I always wondered why all the soaps (except Days of Our Lives) went to commercial break then rolled the credits, and Days went straight from the last scene straight to the credits.

[saynotoursoap]

@Imfromaroundtheblock Days was not the only soap to do this. In the 1960's and 70's when As the World Turns was still one half hour, it also segued directly from the last scene into the closing credits.

[Imfromaroundtheblock]

@saynotoursoap

That's interesting to know. Question. Did Days do this from day one?? Or was it something they did later on......I wonder why ATWT stopped when they expanded to an hour?

[Imfromaroundtheblock]

@saynotoursoap

Really? Did they leave the cue from the last scene playing during the credits when they did this? Just wondering. Thanks :)

[softwater88]

stiffkids2006 . . . totally love this ending of Another World. Miss the old days . . . espeically 1979. I was only 12 years old/young. I wish the soaps were still this good, and not so much youth oriented as on today's soaps. This was a beautiful theme . . . too bad it stopped . . . too bad all the soaps tried to be like prime-time television series . . . thanks you so much.

[coolwafferman]

This has to be a Thursday episode because, normally on Friday's my mom said soaps used to play the extended version to themes song,s and have the actors names listed as well. Also, "The Rockford Files" came on Fridays.

[saynotoursoap]

@coolwafferman The Rockford Files did not always air on Fridays. In Feb/March 1979, it was telecast on Saturdays. This episode is from Friday, 23 March 1979. The episode of BJ and the Bear, referred to in the NBC voice-over, is Never Give a Trucker an Even Break. Dracula '79 was an NBC special which compiled all of The Curse of Dracula segments from the series Cliffhangers, and it aired only in the spring of 1979.

[sexymama1966]

love the font that was used to display the credits:)

[awtribute]

@sexymama1966 I know the AW logo used a font called Craw Modern but I've never heard definitely which was used for the closing credits. The ones that AW and Texas used after this one were too plain, compared to these above.

[sexymama1966]

@awtribute i didn't like the plain font(after they switched the theme)...too generic for my taste.

[staytunedfor]

I would guess this is from 11/29/1979.

[TimsDale4ever]

So beautiful. Love how the rings logo surrounds the Proctor & Gamble credit. 1982 and beyond be damned, but the rings logo and the Rubenstein theme is the epitome of ANOTHER WORLD -- and ALWAYS will be.

[awtribute]

@TimsDale4ever Some later stuff I liked, but it was ALL about ^ ^ ^ ^ this logo and theme!! Never gets old for me....

(Too bad some of the NBC promo v/o's on this clip were during the network's prime time low point LOL)