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  • Anybody know who wrote that? It's quite well done and I'd like to see what their other stuff is like...

  • I remember PBS logo,CBS,NBC,ABC etc back in the 70's and 80's and they were better than now. TV is not ever going to be the same. News is depressing and always about something stupid like Lindsay Lohan,or some "celebrity" doing something wrong. What happened to quality entertainment?

  • God I miss these times, so simple and you got excited about watching a movie. You have the great tv themes and opening to movie night. Its amazing how bad tv sucks now. Sure special effect may be better for shows but all in all the majority of shows are just shitty.

  • I love 80's network intros.

  • Damn I'm old!

  • @jbeautiful38 lol! me to!

  • This was one of the first ever CGI bumpers I remember. It was always cool to see back then.

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  • @Worldsofwonder2007 Agreed on how wonderful it is, but it's not apparently CGI (computer generated). On another version of this video, someone posted that he was the creator of the Star Tunnel and stated he did it by hand, IIRC. Some people speculate it was done by well-known designer Harry Marks, who was at ABC during that period.

  • @noirdamecom This is not CGI, it's all done with photographic effects, ink and paint, backlit animation and mattes

  • @DHTSciFiArtist Yes, but many people erroneously list it as being CGI online. Still haven't found the original comment thread here on YouTube, where the artist described his step by step actions.

  • retro gold!

  • TONIGHT ON THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE... CHRISTOPHER REEVES BATTLES THE FORCES OF LEX LUTHER IN THE COMIC BOOK TURNED THRILLER, SUPERMAN.

  • It sucks that none of the major networks have their own original movies anymore, it's all nothing but reality shows and contests.

  • @360whiplash That's because Americans don't have imaginations anymore...........they just like to criticize and see other people make asses of themselves. Takes virtually zero brain power.

  • @360whiplash buy a roku. crackle tv is there. Just have to do some searching. I agree with you.

  • 1982? I remembered ABC having this Intro Fall of 1981.

  • 1982 kicked ass.

  • The ABC sunday night movie..... Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory... Staring Gene Wilder!!!!

  • And now.....Superman!!!

  • Tonight, on the ABC Sunday Night Movie a Network Television Premiere

  • Great intro!! I agree with the comments about 80's tv. T.v. Now a days is horrible it just doesn't match up to the 80's. The commercials, the shows, the movies ... T.V. Is such garbage, things weren't corny back then at all. I wish I would have enjoyed it more but who knew how shitty things would get :-(

  • I remember this.., the audio and the video intro promo was a Pavlov's Dog Salivary Response for all of 'merka in 1982

    I miss those days

  • Loved the announcer! "Toniiight, Roger Moore in...Live...and Let Die!"

  • the highlight of Sundays for me as a kid was the ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE, particularly James Bond, Dirt Harry movies or Superman movies.

  • This was the best ABC movie opener ever! Jesus Christ I miss the 80s!

  • YES!!! Being a trumpet player, I loved hearing that theme. That high F always gives me chills!

  • The only way this intro could have been more awesome would be to have the millenium falcon flying through it... lol... always loved this when I was a kid.

  • This makes me cry. I miss the 80s so bad.

  • Puh-leeze! There was PLENTY of CRAP on TV back then (the "Bionic Dog", for heaven's sake!), just as there has always been! Either some people have forgotten or, more likely, weren't there in the first place!

  • @tripjet999 Hahahaha......Dude, I'll put the absolute crappiest of TV shows of the 80s era up against any piece of shit, ghey ass, two-digit IQ (and below) requirement reality show of today! Point is, other than technical advancements, TV now-a-days sucks INDESCRIBABLY!!!! If there wasn't a 500 character limit, I could practically bring YT's servers down listing how much better TV was back in the days of yore!! I mean, it's not even close!

  • @tripjet999 Yeah, I kind of agree with you. I've tried to go back and watch most of the stuff I grew up on in the 80's and it does not hold up very well. I still get extremely nostalgic over it. I miss being a kid more than I miss the decade I grew up in.

  • Why did we ever leave the 80's [*sigh*]. Ah, the days when TV was quality, shows had theme songs, and TV commercials all came with a catchy jingle (remember Juicy Fruit's "The taste is gonna move ya", Big Red's "Kiss a little longer", Diet Coke's "It's one of kind"...?). The only reason why that stuff seems corny now is because they stopped doing it and no one is used to it any more. At least Folger's is still doing "The best part of waking up..."!

  • Try using THAT scale for practice...uh-huh. Nice music

  • Love!!!

  • Wow, back then before the advent of cable tv, VHS and then DVD, and the internet, the main way to see movies without going to the theater was on the major tv stations. So you get a fantastic opening like that, and it makes it like an epic event. Nowadays movies on "regular" tv are like an afterthought. I yearn for those days again...

  • Wow, that brought back so many good memories. Thank you for that!

  • takes me back when TV was good...I would scream...its time for alf..its time for Knight Rider....those days are gone...

  • THIS is what TV was like back when TV was worth watching!! TV so good, even the intros were cool! ABC had a Saturday, Sunday and (sometimes) a Monday night movie. Great movies! Poltergiest, Airport 77, Ghostbusters, Jaws, etc. Today, it's all idiot sitcoms, Dancing w/ the stars, Home makeover and such! Occasionally, a movie, but for the most part, crap! Back then, TV was good enough we didn't need cable! (And Cable today isn't much better!)

  • @Timbrock1000 LOL Now there were some pretty bad shows back then too, but they at least had decent intros!

  • @TheSameNC I'd take the worst of TV then up against the best of TV today any day of the week.

  • @Timbrock1000 ABC would have films on Monday nights from January to around August. A few weeks in August and pretty much every week from September to December were occupied by Monday Night Football.

  • I loved simpler times like these...just ejoying simple television with the family...

  • I remember i recorded superman the movie and this theme was on it. So everytime i hear it it makes me think of that movie or grease cause we had that on tape too for my mom. When i hear the CBS special theme I think of Charlie Brown. Man tv was so much fun back then!

  • @jerbojones

    OMG! I did too!!!! :) It was like a major event when that movie came on TV, and i remember us all getting exciting when this ABC intro started.

  • @hmghosthost I know right. Now with all the movie channels it's not the same when a blockbuster movie comes on broadcast tv anymore.

  • @directix and @americanjedi77 - the reason we don't have real segues anymore is that they're trying to pack as much fluff and ads into their airtime as possible - that's why you now have shows that start OVER the previous shows credits!

  • This theme is just fantastic! Memories!

  • I always like to throw out this trivia tidbit regarding the ABC Sunday Night Movie '82 theme... it was composed by a man named Ferdinand Jay Smith -- if the name sounds familiar, he also composed the theme to another iconic movie presentation intro -- HBO IN SPACE

  •  You would hear this intro and I tell ya, youd drop everything cuz you KNEW there was some quality entertainment bout to come on the tube.

  • These days of the Sunday Night Movie, as well as movies on network TV, period, are pretty much dead, considering that all of the movies shown on television are readily accessible for home release now.

  • This is what you had to watch on TV on Sunday evenings at 9:00 PM Eastern Time, because Sunday Night Football did not exist in those days.

  • @timtaylor97044

    Agree - it is hard to get into the storyline of a show/movie when a banner runs across the bottom of some show that comes on later in the week. The Simpsons Movie spoofed this, when an ad banner went across the bottom for American idol, and it said, "Yes, we advertise in movies too."

  • I remember seeing this intro when I was 3 years old. I'd be sitting with my dad watching a movie on ABC and this was it.

  • does anyone know the voice of the narrator teasing for dynasty? I loved his voice he always made me excited about watching the Sunday night movie....

  • OK what is the movie ?

  • Gets you so excited for a movie. Even sucky ones, but there were less of those back then.

  • Wow..pull up with a good cup of hot tea, popcorn, maybe a microwave dinner (bad for us all but oh soooo darn good!) and watch a nice film. I miss the good ol days. You know the world has gone to sh*t when you turn on TV and the highlight of the night is what jail sentence Lindsay Lohan received....for the love of God, PLEASE bring back the humanity!

  • @coreystuart Right on! Everyone was so together then and life was so simple, damn I miss it. Oh, and I also miss when Swanson used aluminum trays, TV dinners seemed to be higher quality in aluminum.

  • @cheapcape Of course life was simple, you were a kid.

  • @coreystuart well said!

  • @coreystuart I agree with you. i remember TV back then with exciting shows, Jessica Savitch, Facts of Life, Gimme a Break and all the good sports shows like NBC Sportsworld and Wide World of Sports on ABC. Used to watch Gymnastics a lot too.

  • And best if watched on a classic console television.

  • @cheapcape Yup! I was in high school when this aired. In fact, I had to go to school the next day as this was the "Sunday Night Movie."

  • @wannawatchu66 Yeah, and I always thought I was the only one in the world who felt that way, ha! I remember begging my dad to let me watch the whole movie and then talking about the movie in class on Monday. I guess about every kid wanted to watch ABC on Sunday nights. What memories.

  • ABC was the bomb in this age, now it's crapola!

  • I remember hearing this opening as a kid and literally dropping everything cuz

    I knew some bigtime quality entertainment was about to come on TV.

  • Such a different time, seems like a thousand years ago.

  • old school video brings back to the movies

  • Why did they replace Burt B.;'s beautiful theme with this drivel one? It has no class whatsoever!!

  • Do the big networks even show movies anymore? I guess there's too many easy and cheap ways to watch them now without being sliced-and-diced by commercials, censored into vanilla pudding by the FCC over-the-air and by cable stations afraid of their sponsors. Add the ubiquitous ghost logos in the lower corner and nuisance pop-ups for upcoming shows and trying to watch a movie over basic cable or free-to-air has become trailer-trash cinema.

  • @pbanta62 No, because there's no need to. People can stream or buy the DVD. Hence the old corridor is all but closed.

  • But... What was the movie?

  • When I was a kid (11 in '82), this was a big deal...

  • ! The 90's scare me. : (

  • powerful...

  • Wow, it really set the endorphins flowing. Back in the day, when movies outside the theater were few and far between, that intro meant you were finally going to see a serious movie, and ont TV! Maybe it was Planet of the Apes! Maybe a James Bond movie! Whatever, you made damn sure you finished your homework and didn't have to go to the bathroom because the whole damn family was locked in place when that intro came on.

  • Kinda makes you choke up from the memories... and how it's all turned to crap now. Recently I wrote to FOLGER'S coffee for being cool enough to bring back their old 80's commercial with dancers. I miss the 80's. The world went to hell when the 80's ended and I don't see it ever getting better again.

  • Wow, it's a tie between this and the CBS Saturday Night Movie theme from the late 70s. Both are totally awesome!

  • only on youtube could you find this shit.

  • Makes you wanna get down and boogie

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  • Yes by far the best intro

  • That announcer was always so serious. He needs a blow job.

  • If this doesn't get you excited about watching a movie on TV, nothing will. Thanks for posting this!

  • Everytime I hear this intro I think back to taping Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan off of ABC on a Sunday Night.

  • After seeing all that, who cares about the movie!

  • I remember all of us running for the TV to watch a movie together as a family. And rainy weekend afternoons watching The Million Dollar Movie, after school watching The 4:30 movie. The world DID make sense back then...

  • @NJGardengirl1961 Ditto with all of the above!! I feel so sorry for today's kids--they have all these gadgets but they look sadder. Watching a tv movie together in the old days was simpler, more fun, more close together as a family. Now they text message each other. Glad to be a 70's child.

  • @windstorm1000 Amen to that!

  • @windstorm1000 I agree, we used to gather round the TV set every Saturday and Sunday evening like it was a big event, and it was. Almost like going to the movies at home, and we enjoyed every moment.

  • @cheapcape I have to agree! My most favorite part was not knowing what movie was scheduled! When it was a James Bond movie, oh yes, it was a most excellent evening with the family!

  • I remember this intro... I was very young when I remember my mother commenting on how beautiful it would look if we had a color tv. Until then, we only had one, yes ONE, tv in the house and it was black and white. Didn't know back that how I'd miss those days... ahhhh ; \ BTW, did anyone else ever notice that the center star in the beginning is crooked... back then it was too. It starts correcting itself, but not entirely. Wonder if that was intentional. Would be really something if it weren't.

  • I agree with Sahbomnim...

  • You get a recolor. I have a gimp template up for the actual "Logo" thing featured in this video. Username envios on DeviantART. (Silly Youtube not allowing links anymore.)

  • If there should be a landmark opener 4 ABC movies, this 1 should be the 1. I checked out the ABC intro from the 70's & it was ridiculous! & the 1990 1 was really dumb 2!

  • @25phillycheesesteak What was ridiculous about the 70's "Star Marquee"? And what was dumb about the 1990 "Turntable"?

  • @bmasters1981 Well, come 2 think of it, the 1970s 'star marquee' was not ridiculous @ all, it just gave me the heebeejeebees @ 1st. So there4 it kinda grew on me. & I just think that 90 'turntable' was just plain stupid! I did not like it from day 1.

    BTW, just 2 add a little more excitement, why doesn't the logo zoom @ your face in the end of the opener (this 1982 one)? & the 1970s logo can do it slower?

  • Sweet memories of ABC TV in 1982

  • I miss the legendary announcer of Ernie Anderson, the voice of ABC-TV.

  • Immediately after seeing that intro I would wait to hear the following:

    "Tonight...on the ABC Sunday Night Movie...Marlon Brando, Jackie Cooper, Terrence Stamp, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, and Christopher Reeve in.....SUPERMAN!!!"

    Only happened a couple times a year, if I was lucky. :(

    Ahhh, the high points of a 9-year old's Sunday night when CHiPs was in reruns.

  • It might sound stupid, but it gives me chills hearing this again! All the happy memories of my childhood come flooding back. :)

  • @brhutson Not stupid at all. I'm too young to remember it in 1982 but this same opening was used in 1986, which I do remember, so it brings back memories for me, too.

  • It made TV movies seem so exciting when you saw that come on

  • I remember this one!! Wow, the memories!!

  • These were the days when we had great sitcoms, nighttime dramas and there were only 10 minutes of commercials and promos per hour...by law. If YOU are tired of infomercials disguised as entertainment, sleazy reality shows worth $1.98 in today's money, then "I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!' "

  • @Xs120 HA HA!!!  :)

  • Whole flashback batman

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  • ABC is still the network my family watches most often.

  • That is such a cool intro. If I had to pick a network all time, it would have to be ABC, and I'm 38. I remember all those good shows in the 70s and 80s. Nobody could touch ABC, it was total domination.

  • too funny... i remember loving this intro when i was 7yrs old!

  • The only opening more epic than this is HBO is Space.

  • Gather 'round children and observe. TV used to actually have segways that tried to get you excited about what you were watching. It didn't just play random clips from a bunch of other shows that will be coming up. I don't know why modern TV chose to go all lame and boring.

  • @directrix1 All the segway now is into news @ 10 peeping tom caught looking into window. Man sets self on fire with cell phone. Clouding with rain so be careful and don't forget to wear clothing. News @ 10!

  • @southport97 Yeah, nothing but sensationalism now. Today, "news" is about profits, not truth.

  • @directrix1 The corporate drones have forgotten how to make TV exciting in the 21st century.

  • @directrix1 It's what happens when the kids get put in charge, I think.

  • couldnt care what was on. this intro got me excited everytime

  • @MrRackensack true that.

  • @MrRackensack damn. you are so right. that intro just quickens the pulse! it just says: "get ready! here comes something incredible! hold on!!", doesnt it? the skill in writing a piece like that is just remarkable. the arrangement is just perfect- the strings, the horns, the drums. damn.

  • @ranchump they really put no intensity into anything anymore

  • the ability to share an experience with millions of viewers at the same time was cool (sports events, award shows & news only allow for that now), but come on, you gotta love being able to pause brief nudity :P

  • Wow, I remember this! ABC was awesome back then. Now I don't even watch it.

  • Just as memorable as WABC's "The 4:30 Movie" intro! For me, this intro meant a lot of times, BACK TO SCHOOL MONDAY MORNING, or time to come in after a long day exploring outside in the summer!!!

  • Back when you knew soimething good was coming on tv.

  • MOM!!...DAD!!...HURRYING ITS STARTING. That brings back memories.

  • those were the good days when the family would look forward to sitting down together and watch the movie for that night. now the family has split apart, the children either on the video gaming systems or texting on their phones while the parents are busy on the laptops of desk top computers. there is nothing wrong with those things, its just that we allow them to occupy most of our time when we should try to concentrate on our family time together.

  • @goosblvd right on! kids got tv in their rooms

  • All that fanfare sold the show!

  • This was of course before VCRs were popular and if you did not want to see a movie in the theater, you waited until one of the networks showed it. In those days both independent and network television show far more films. I seem to remember WDCA 20 and WTTG 5 (back when they were still Metromedia) used to show tons of movies on the weekends.

  • @thatmuse76 Exactly. I remember looking forward to theater movies premiering on network channels. Movies like Jaws and Saturday Night Fever. I would invite some friends over, turn down the lights and we'd be in awe for two hours. Wonderful times.

  • Its all about the fast sixteenth notes in the strings going up and up and up and... YEAH!!! Oh, and the E Minor sound too, the high trumpet sound, and that 70's-early 80's big bass sound everyone loved.

  • @BenjaminGessel Yeah, this opening is almost like the HBO in space opening. Both are fantastic.

  • I love this opening so much. When I was a kid in the 80s I got all excited when I saw this as it came on before A LOT of horror films such as Jaws 2, The Shining, Wolfen, Venom, Aliigator and The Fog.

  • Oooh shit!!! I remember this shit from when they use to show those roger moore 007 flicks.

  • Man. I remeber the intro from 1980 to 1987! 

  • Wow I totally remember that intro! I think I watched Superman the movie on ABC affiliate KESQ UHF channel 42 In Palm Springs, CA! Back then we watched ABC and NBC because those were the only channels in the desert unless you had cable.

  • Wow brings back memories

  • I dreamed of having my name pronouced by the cool voice to all the U.S. I was in 3rd grade. But such a cool opener/announcer...

  • This really makes me wanna watch a movie.

  • Such a great movie intro. I remember first you got to see clips of the upcoming movie, to which you were already pumped up. Then this intro played, which just pumped you up even more!

  • WHat happen to such great openings for a movie on tv

  • I LOVED this intro! Thx 4 the memories! :)

  • Man i remember this abc movie jingle yall right back then thats when tv shows were good i'm 32 years old i loved all of these sunday night, friday night,etc. movie jingle intros....

  • If you all think about it, tv today is not what it used to be. that theme song opening rocked. They need to bring it back. I remember Superman intros.

  • I need to set this music as my ringtone, I think.

  • @mdumas43073 It's a different kind of hard work doing that though. I did that with NBC 6 Alive you can count on us.

  • Wow! That's what I'm talking about! Nothing beats that.

  • Whoever composed this hit it on the head.  It got you good and ready to watch that movie!!

  • I remember this when I was a small child, and it always made whatever movie was coming on seem just a little special. The music is epic, and the graphics (for lack of a better term) was outstanding for the time... they could damn near use those today!

  • Holy ass poop on biscuits!! I remember this intro as if it were yesterday!! This is, by FAR, the best TV movie intro ever!! GOAT!!! Jesus, if I could, I would jump into Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine, set it for the early 80's and never ever leave it!! TV is full of sophomoric and inane, gay ass reality shows and infomercials! TV and music is dead! Goddamn it, I miss this shit!!!!!!!

  • @Sahbomnim LOL!!!! I feel the same way.

  • @Sahbomnim Holy ass poop on biscuits??? LOL! Now that's funny!!! But you're right. TV and music are dead! The 80's were the best times to be alive!

  • @Sahbomnim Hear  you on that one.

  • Wow...what an intro! I remember this from years ago!

  • "The best ABC logo without question!"

  • I got excited all over again by that intro! For a kid from a poor familly, without much money for toys, movies and video games, the ABC sunday night movie was about the best part of the week!

  • does anyone know who the announcer is at the end of this clip? He was with ABC for years.

  • @whizbangmusicwerks

    Ernie Anderson long time voice over artist. Before that Ghoulardi a host of late night tv in CLE

  • @majik2hanz Yes! And father to Paul Thomas Anderson. "Boogie Nights" is dedicated to Ernie. For so many years he was THE VOICE of ABC.

  • The world made sense back then.....

  • @jfrockon yea it did