a local oakland and sanfrancisco rap artists did a hiphop remake of the theme called city limits. . . i didnt even know they sampled it from this show
I think the quinn martin group was on to something. The did Cannon and Barnaby Jones in the same fashion. Cool theme song and a announcer reading the names and title if "tonights episode". Today there is hardly a opening theme. Well, maybe Law and order....
They used the same announcer for "Police Squad," whose opening titles were a direct parody of ones like these. Of course, the on-screen episode name never matched the spoken one. And the guest star was always killed off during the credit sequence.
Having grown up with it in the 80's, I'm so happy to see good ol' KOFY back. Streets of San Francisco, and the dogs looking at the TV! The WB20 was an abomination, good riddance! Long live KOFY!
That scene here in the intro showing SF's "City Ran" Ambulances saddens me deeply. I can't believe a 130 plus year old service that's earned the sincere trust and respect of the city's residents could be forcibly destroyed by a low class profit before anything else company like American Medical Responce Ambulance. They've used strong arm tactics. A hundred year old anti-monopoly law, designed to fight oil companies has been used against SF Ambulance. AMR themselves are a monopoly, such hypocracy
Just heard an AMR horror story on Len Tillem's lawyer show on KGO radio the other day. The ambulance drivers laughed at and mocked this lady who had a seizure, delayed taking her to the hospital, saying she was "just faking it". :/
Jack Tripper, Boss Hogg and the MARJ DUSAY in one episode, together? The fates aligned in strange convergence for this one, folks. SAVOR IT. It will never happen again.
The actor who played Boss Hogg, Sorrell Booke was in the episode. He also played Mr. Sanders, Archie Bunker's boss on "All In The Family", and Saul Lefkowitz, Elaine's father on "Soap."
John Ritter is my favorite, alongside with Michael Douglas! However, he is best known as Jack Tripper in Three's Company I am going to subscribe to this and all videos by this user.
Whenever you saw the scenes of the different actors starring in "today's episode", you knew there was a good story coming. Today you just tune out and look away because you know you're about to see some average sad crap. Corporatism, folks: tune it out of television forever and bring back INDEPENDENT STUDIOS like Quinn Martin Productions!
Bradford Dillman also appeared in the 1983 film "Sudden Impact" in the film he played Captain Riggs. In "The Enforcer" he was Captain McKay". and he was also born in San Francisco, California on April 15, 1930.
That intro is pure Funk. Not cheesy. Most 70s detective shows used Funk intros: Wonder Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Baretta, etc. Funk was the word. The intros to show now just plain suck and so do the shows, like that CSI crap. This was quality drama!!!
Sorrell Booke who played boss hogg and John Ritter from threes company. Bradford Dillman is also a San Francisco native. This episode was made in his hometown.
This show and Miami Vice's opening credits seemed to be inspired by the opening credits of "Hawaii Five-O," because of the way they paid homage to their respective places in their title names.
Bradford Dillman - married to the breathtakinly beautiful Suzy Parker.
linusvanpelter 3 months ago
Tonight's episode...."Murder at the Boar's Nest."
LT1HILLINGHOE 6 months ago 3
@LT1HILLINGHOE nice.
testodude 2 months ago
@LT1HILLINGHOE LOL
Iron4343 2 months ago
Cannon has a very similar intro.
indyfan22k 7 months ago
Tonight's episode: "Murder at the Regal Beagle..."
harrison58 8 months ago 3
@harrison58 That was hilarious!!! I can't stop repeating it with that gritty voice in my head and each time I burst out laughing... every time!!
OreckBoy1 8 months ago
@OreckBoy1 That's because you possess a sense of humor, my friend. Plenty of gems out there still waiting to be joked-up...
harrison58 8 months ago
Remember it very very well..........another brilliant theme tune from a great police series.
TheCaulfield1 11 months ago
RIP Karl Malden and John Ritter. Two great actors from the good ole 70's :)
quickturtle 11 months ago 6
Actually at it's time was one of the popular cop shows of early 70s
richmjr67 1 year ago
Sorrelle Booke aka J.D. "Boss" Hawgg
kimmy1984 1 year ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
John Ritter looks stunned, he is like, what the fuck am I doing on this lame ass tv show?
mccarrpo 1 year ago
karl maldens nose was big cuz he broke it twice playing basketball when he was young.
jazzyfayy1983 1 year ago
i hope michael douglas gets better
jazzyfayy1983 1 year ago
Boy, different world back then. What do you guys think?
babystinky 1 year ago 2
Boss Hogg!
jrock2264 1 year ago 2
Yes, this was one of the best series of the 1970s.Another quality gem was Police Story which is all but forgotten.
saskwatcher 1 year ago
Just love the Wah-wah pedal in the theme music. Gosh, I miss those days!
barzouf94 1 year ago 2
Eduard Franz was in the original "The Thing". Good character actor!
kyokogodai 1 year ago
@dimpledick3inch he was queer as a foot ball bay
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
@dimpledick3inch John ritter didn't have to play being gay, he did have to play being straight, though.
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
One of the best cop shows of the 70's. Quality plots and overall great acting. I really hope the remaining seasons are released.
nmrman67 1 year ago
The German intro is better, because it's just the pure music, no talking.
watch?v=_EaSV4Mgjwo
gnaaade 1 year ago
love ;those old 70's theme songs. Especally the wakka wakka guitar.
patrick9648 1 year ago
young john ritter rip
nsteve1968 1 year ago
RIP Karl, Sorrell and John
oilingup 1 year ago
Yea, this is great.
It is a pity Michael Douglas never did anything after this. But then, TV can do that to a career.
Laceykat66 1 year ago 2
BOSS HOGG!!!!!
DarkAngel182 1 year ago 2
Boy this brings back memories! I had no idea that John Ritter was this old? The son of cowboy movie star, Tex Ritter
patsaxon 2 years ago
SF is an awesome city!
LGLG69 2 years ago 3
I think this was Michael's last season on the show- He would leave- only to be replaced by Richard Hatch.
rayjr62 2 years ago
The show was never the same after michael douglas left.
jaydee624 1 year ago
John Ritter, RIP!
SputnikJunior 2 years ago
Boss Hogg!!
ThunderAppeal 2 years ago 2
POLICE SQUAD!
glimmer2158 2 years ago
R.I.P KARL MALDEN..
alcatraz38 2 years ago
love sanfrancisco, went there in septmbr 2006,always wanted to go n its FANTASTIC,cant wait to go back, fae wee glasgow tony..
alcatraz38 2 years ago
This isn't right. John Ritter died, how could he be in this?
ArizonaDelRio 2 years ago
Well, John Ritter did die, but that was in 2003.
This episode was filmed in 1975.
That's how he could be in this.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago 4
No way! LIES! LIES!
ArizonaDelRio 2 years ago
no it's not a lie. as a matter of fact, John is coming back from the dead to kill your ass for asking that dumb ass question.
epics7 2 years ago
Nothing but LIES. How can you tell such LIES.
ArizonaDelRio 2 years ago
john died in 2003
FaithfullNightmare 2 years ago
MORE LIES.
ArizonaDelRio 2 years ago
i remember that. i was on my way here to the bay area, pumping gas in Reno NV when I heard it on the radio.
epics7 2 years ago
Love the funky theme, ah those days when the boys playing these would just jam it down.............. Yeahhhhhh
allseeingi 2 years ago 3
RIP malden hope that nose gets smaller and less bulbuss in heaven...
po58dvn 2 years ago
@po58dvn lol you wrong
jazzyfayy1983 1 year ago
RIP Karl Malden. Thanks for the memories
rampart1189 2 years ago 9
RIP Karl Malden
Crazymike1975 2 years ago
Karl Malden aways looked the same....ageless
angelfromgod333 2 years ago 3
Yes...His real name was Sorrell Booke :)
grannysand 2 years ago
silebrian,
I was wondering that too.
R.I.P. Karl Malden.
KatieLL 2 years ago
All this celebrity are passing away, There is Ed from Here Johnny! and Harve Presnell Facett, Michael Jackson. RIP
TheIxtlan 2 years ago
RIP Karl Malden!
larrybndc 2 years ago
It's amazing that Karl Malden is damn near 100 years old.
Nightowl358 2 years ago
Quinn Martin shows taught you how to pronounce actor's names, like Clu Gulager, Goo-lager, etc.
suir52 2 years ago
What was the point of the guy reading out the cast names oh yes for the blind :p
womblediehard 2 years ago
Sorrell Booke, of course, would in several years become an iconic figure as Boss Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazzard."
mtstroud 2 years ago 2
Are the fire trucks in SFO that small that only three fireman ride?
VanWADebbie 2 years ago
Whoa!!! BOSS HOGG WITH A MUSTACHE!!!
tybo09 2 years ago 3
a local oakland and sanfrancisco rap artists did a hiphop remake of the theme called city limits. . . i didnt even know they sampled it from this show
rfp415 3 years ago
I think the quinn martin group was on to something. The did Cannon and Barnaby Jones in the same fashion. Cool theme song and a announcer reading the names and title if "tonights episode". Today there is hardly a opening theme. Well, maybe Law and order....
mickeyp1428 3 years ago
They used the same announcer for "Police Squad," whose opening titles were a direct parody of ones like these. Of course, the on-screen episode name never matched the spoken one. And the guest star was always killed off during the credit sequence.
ophmarketing 3 years ago
They also parodied the "Tonight's Episode" line in the short lived "Son of the Beach" intro.
prausch65 3 years ago
These reruns are now playing on KOFY-TV 20 here in the San Francisco Bay Area, at 11 a.m. Monday thru Friday.
luisamarte2000 3 years ago 2
Having grown up with it in the 80's, I'm so happy to see good ol' KOFY back. Streets of San Francisco, and the dogs looking at the TV! The WB20 was an abomination, good riddance! Long live KOFY!
plasmadis 2 years ago
That scene here in the intro showing SF's "City Ran" Ambulances saddens me deeply. I can't believe a 130 plus year old service that's earned the sincere trust and respect of the city's residents could be forcibly destroyed by a low class profit before anything else company like American Medical Responce Ambulance. They've used strong arm tactics. A hundred year old anti-monopoly law, designed to fight oil companies has been used against SF Ambulance. AMR themselves are a monopoly, such hypocracy
narutofightindreamer 3 years ago
Just heard an AMR horror story on Len Tillem's lawyer show on KGO radio the other day. The ambulance drivers laughed at and mocked this lady who had a seizure, delayed taking her to the hospital, saying she was "just faking it". :/
plasmadis 2 years ago
I love the 70s fashion
sneyder69 3 years ago 5
this was the coolest show back in the day,course i didnt know back then what san francisco was like
Monchi2006 3 years ago 4
Jack Tripper, Boss Hogg and the MARJ DUSAY in one episode, together? The fates aligned in strange convergence for this one, folks. SAVOR IT. It will never happen again.
agenttorpor 3 years ago 3
To a young'n like me, it seems weird that they have an announcer for the opening.
EternalGuardian07 3 years ago
Their didn't make tv show like their us too!!!
carl7775 3 years ago
"Murder By Proxy" originally aired on October 23, 1975.
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
I meant to say Boss Hogg, Jack Tripper, and Alexandra Spaulding all in the same episode
bacardilvr 3 years ago
Boss Hogg, John Ritter and Alexandra Spaulding in the same episode, wow!
bacardilvr 3 years ago
good times
DarknessWolf00X 3 years ago
Boss Hogg was on this show?
TheLizardKing1967 3 years ago
The actor who played Boss Hogg, Sorrell Booke was in the episode. He also played Mr. Sanders, Archie Bunker's boss on "All In The Family", and Saul Lefkowitz, Elaine's father on "Soap."
DENo1MatchGameFan 3 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
This almost smells musty, somebody give it a decent burial please
PIGSICK1 3 years ago
Excellent series!
Anyone remember another QM production - Dan August (Burt Reynolds) which ran from 1970 to 1971?
iolani77 3 years ago
John Ritter is my favorite, alongside with Michael Douglas! However, he is best known as Jack Tripper in Three's Company I am going to subscribe to this and all videos by this user.
waddleduckie1 3 years ago
This episode also has Sorrell Book(Boss Hogg), and San Francisco native Bradford Dillman.
frankd1965 3 years ago
Karl's nose had it's own zip code...
ZIPPTPH77 3 years ago
dont you mean zit code
charlieboy7t5 3 years ago
I saw this epsisode yesterday, it was quite good.
This series is much better than many of todays, CSI isn't bad, but I like this one more.
Finnishleftwing 3 years ago
Oikeesti paras ohjelma mitä on :D Harmi vaa ku tulee nii myöhää :(
Whelen3016 3 years ago
Niin on.
Finnishleftwing 3 years ago
I still miss John RItter so much. He is a treasure to behold in this memorable episode of my favorite crime tv program.
waddleduckie1 3 years ago
They did a movie a few years ago with Karl Malden investigating Michael Doughlas'character murder,cheery,not,cue lots of flashbacks.
dramaticguy 3 years ago
LONG LIVE QM PRODUCTIONS!!!
FilmsRreel 3 years ago 4
Long live the famous QM boilerplate in which the announcer gives the roll call of regulars and guest stars.
Juliaflo 3 years ago
Boss Hogg and Tripper!
kebler823 3 years ago
im not into this version, there was a much jazzier version in season one i think. this one has the stars announced before the music action starts
MacGrurry 4 years ago
Whenever you saw the scenes of the different actors starring in "today's episode", you knew there was a good story coming. Today you just tune out and look away because you know you're about to see some average sad crap. Corporatism, folks: tune it out of television forever and bring back INDEPENDENT STUDIOS like Quinn Martin Productions!
raposofan 4 years ago 3
what year is this
josatinho 4 years ago
1975 - you can't read Roman numerals???
raposofan 4 years ago 2
lol
sexymama1966 3 years ago
Probably not, kids today do not even have to pass math or English to get their High School "Diploma"s.
A sadly ignorant world and it is a shame.
ColonelPhillipGreen 3 years ago
I did both, sort of, and I was in Special Ed when I was in high school.
disneyfan85 3 years ago
heh heh
ColonelPhillipGreen 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this one! I loved "The Streets" and watched it all the time! Why can't TV Land put it on?!!!
cowboyswin2007423 4 years ago
its on DVD now
se 1
MacGrurry 4 years ago
Just a touch more funky wocka-chucka in this season's theme than previous seasons.
jerseydevs2000 4 years ago
I loved this show, I wish it was back on the air. Watching the opening theme brought back memories of watching it on KVOS TV 12.
I woule also like to see the closing theme. Anyone have it so they could add it here?
ttonyat 4 years ago
I remember seeing this show on KOMO too. They reran it late at night during the 90s.
idahotvfan 4 years ago
Loved this show as a teen, and when I was 20, my college room mate and I used to stay up late to watch the old re-runs on TV.
dustyboots27 4 years ago
Bradford Dillman also appeared in the 1983 film "Sudden Impact" in the film he played Captain Riggs. In "The Enforcer" he was Captain McKay". and he was also born in San Francisco, California on April 15, 1930.
frankd1965 4 years ago
He was born a month before Clint Eastwood and he too was born in San Francisco.
arobb2007 4 years ago
That intro is pure Funk. Not cheesy. Most 70s detective shows used Funk intros: Wonder Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Baretta, etc. Funk was the word. The intros to show now just plain suck and so do the shows, like that CSI crap. This was quality drama!!!
zulubeat 4 years ago 12
Amen . . . !
gojira2006 4 years ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that guitar in this theme. If anything's "cheesy", it's today's junk. The '70's was too cool.
Ravenne68 4 years ago 5
The wah-wah guitar is cheesy, but also great. This is some of the kind of shit I miss about the 70s.
danmack6872 4 years ago
That wah-wah guitar music is very cheesy.
wontonton 4 years ago
I think it sounds almost like the music on Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse.
tennille1998 4 years ago
make that Jack Tripper, Boss Hogg and nu Alexandra Spaulding (Guiding Light) all in the same episode LOL
dereka79 4 years ago
my favorite tv star stars in here! ITs JOHN RITTER! What a lovely surprise! I want to get ALL of my favorite episode on DVD! Where can I find them?
elisan693 4 years ago
Sorrell Booke who played boss hogg and John Ritter from threes company. Bradford Dillman is also a San Francisco native. This episode was made in his hometown.
frankd1965 4 years ago
This show and Miami Vice's opening credits seemed to be inspired by the opening credits of "Hawaii Five-O," because of the way they paid homage to their respective places in their title names.
megamanj2004 4 years ago
Jack Tripper and Boss Hogg in the same episode...
rmille36 4 years ago
Oh My god. He is so hot. What a georgeous human being. I love so darn much.
JohnRitterlover 4 years ago