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  • Thumbs up if you are here because of Mario's Castle Collab 2

  • Watching this video making my heart fast beating , all the wonderful time of my childhood is marching in front of me, and Mod Squad is part of my childhood favorite TV show when i was a kid in Vietnam...This was the golden time of American TV show globally. Too bad , it only came once .

  • I never understood exactly what this show was about...haha!

  • Julie, Linc and Pete- I loved this show. I barely remember anything but I do remember being horrified to see Linc get shot and fall backward in slow motion one episode.

  • I know I loved this show as a little kid but the only thing I remember about it was that I loved Clarence. Right on.

  • WOW :-)

  • the black dude is cool.lancelot link.

  • @SIGNALSTAT Link was the coolest ever ! ,including all the cool sunglasses cool guy's of today's cop shows.

  • @tjfreak  Right On man.link was bad to the bone.

  • Does anybody, I ever know why they were running from the captain or police Sargent... I never understood that.

  • "Sex Warehouse"!?!

  • I wanna see the episode where Linc cries ! The opression and the injustice imposed on him from "the man" just becomes to great for him to bear. ROFL.

  • @MrCabbage9 LMAO !!!

  • @MrCabbage9 ...I think "Link" Chimped-out and ended up doing 15 years at Negro U ....lol

  • This sounds like the title card music for the SpongeBob episode "Hall Monitor"

  • These 70s TV themes are fantastic.Brings back some good memories.

  • Tige Andrews is staring at us! Run!

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  • My brother and I used to get a kick out of mimicking the dude opening the door at the end...so serious.

  • Yeah, baby. Oh behave!

  • Peggie Lipton is SO HOT !!!!!!!!!!

  • How on earth could running through puddles of water at night be so exciting? It's the music. The fabulous Quincy Jones score and orchestration by (?). As I recall, the show itself wasn't so exciting. But, that incredible theme...

  • Peggy Lipton is Rashida Jones mother believe it or not!

  • I was very young back then but I used to love this opening. :)

  • I have never seen The Mod Squad but it sure seems exciting!!

  • Omg! Takes me back to my teens. This was one of my fave TV programs. :D

  • Maybe they were running away from crazed fans at a Mod Squad Convention?

  • i loved this show

  • I think they might have been practicing for the Boston Marathon.

  • I wonder who they were running from?

  • @Earthman99999

    I used to think they were running from Tige Andrews lol

  • @soulwinnerism

    omg there's a name from the past

  • I remember watching this as a kid. Born in 1967 I must hast have been about four or five. Never picked up on the plot though. What where they hippy cops or somthing?

  • @godsgiftowomen44 The plot was using young kids that were in trouble with the law to work on cases that they could easily be undercover and help solve. Great when it was out originally but very dated and juvenile watching episodes of it now.

  • I don't remember much about this show other than the awesome title music, but i remember watching it. God,I was about 4 then.

  • I feel like I'm 7 yrs old all over again! Mod Squad was Aaron Spelling's first big hit. They sure don't make TV like this anymore!

  • @MidnhtCrzr Aaron Spelling's first hit was when he hit his wife to produce that fucking mutant Tori.

  • Why do so many posters feed these idiot trolls that always make an appearance? An internet TROLL wants to get a reaction by posting something inflammatory, or ridiculous, or counter to what everyone else posts. Yet time & time again, someone chimes in w/: "You're a (fill-in-the-blank), for writing such & such about this video/topic/whateva"! That becomes more annoying than the initial TROLL comment!

    Its easy...STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS! Sheesh

  • Man, I used to LOVE this intro! We'd go to school & talk about each episode & who was our fav character. EVERYBODY loved Link!

  • how is Michael Cole doing

  • Another one of my favorite shows as I was growing up. Makes me happy, seeing people post the theme music of them at least.

  • Wasn't the tag line something like, "One black, one white, one blonde."

  • one of my favorite episodes involved the taking over of a college campus by protesters; in the process, an old lady teacher dies... haven't seen it since, so i'm sketchy, but the scene where julie discovers she's passed has always stayed with me. (btw, i was the only kid on the block who was allowed to watch the show. the other parents had deemed it "too adult." i guess my parents were liberal or apathetic.)

  • @jimmysudar The episode is called "A Short Course in War" and you are right, it is one of the best and most memorable of the series. I do have it on Laserdisc. Unfortunately, it isn't one of the ones that was released on DVD.

  • love that key board--good, cool show with 60's chic style.

  • I remember an episode where Julie is shot in the head by a mentally challanged child. I think the gun was a crime weapon that was hidden, and the child found it and accidentally shot Julie. They used the same story in a Charlies Angels episode, where Kelly is in a park with a mentally challanged child and is also shot. I can bearly remember the episodes. Something about a story that was told to the child, and the child getting into a white swan boat.

  • So this is where the iconic "people running through a warehouse" scene idea came from! hahaha

  • lol, they are the only cops that run AWAY from something

  • "Pete Cochran, Beverly Hills" "Last name?" "Hayes!" "First name?" "Leen-COLN!"

  • @Staszu13 "Three rooms...Thirteen people..."

  • @Staszu13 Yes! and don't forget: "a deal's a deal...not much choice." "yeah, well that's what i hear."

  • OMG!!!! It has been 40 years since I have seen this and it is the best thing in the world!!!

  • Sampson Simpson

  • i just realized that this theme song was used for the movie "The Cable Guy" when Matthew Broderick is having a nightmare of Jim Carrey chasing him down the hallway! cant believe i finally figured that out.

  • Link is the missing link

  • Tis took the place of Combat, I was so mad at first but I loved this show even more

  • The way those two guys were running with little Peggy between them, I'll bet her feet barely touched the ground.

  • They never, ever, ever, ever.... smiled. In the late 60's and early 70's, I was a new immigrant to North America, from a poor but sunny and happy culture; one where youth regularly laughed and smiled. Consequently, I always found their demeanor immensely strange.

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  • The always outstanding Carol Kaye on electric bass.

  • never been a series like this one. It stood out from the rest.

  • ALL black kids in the 70`s wanted to be Link!!!!!

  • Cool theme music for a cool show!

  • one of thee most groovy tv themes ever!!!!!! Loved the Mannix theme too. Cindy

  • Lincoln Hayes!!!

  • netflix has first 2 seasons

  • You do have to wonder what they're running FROM, and you also have to wonder WHERE they're running around in, as well - a long, leaky hallway with water on the floor.

  • @hebneh Theyre running to a starbucks grand opening!

  • @57bigjoe Actually, knowing the times, they were probably running to a pot party.  -:)

  • @57bigjoe Except for Clarence Williams...he's running to a KFC grand opening...Sorry, too easy to pass up.

  • Man, sometimes I just put on the headphone and play theme songs from shows from the late 60's and early 70's

  • @neneshubby

    I can dig it.

  • I am looking for the original pilot, not Teeth of the Baracutta, but the first one that shows how they all came together after being arrested by capt. Greer. Does anyone know where a can find a copy?

  • @geoporge1 The first two seasons of Mod Squad are now on DVD. You get them from either Amazon.com or Borders.com.

  • Oh yeah, I remember the opening for this show. Groovy. :]

  • It's like they're pigs man, but dig this, They're not pigs!

  • CLARENCE WILLIAMS III SET THE STAGE

  • Great intro to a cop show, with three of them all running scared and the girl almost passing out

  • great openning and good song and peggy "lipton" is my cup of tea!

  • They call him Linc man because he is the missing Linc man.

  • They ain't a part of the establishment man, no way no how. They ain't the man, man. They ain't pigs. They are hip, they are groovy, they are the Mod Squad man!

  • @JamesTKirkCobain excellent lol,a dude from the day,what it beez like man?lol be well and much peace,oh remember?

  • The promo in 1968 said: "One white, one black, one blonde!!"

  • Yeah, man! That was a real hip show. Far out and solid! Groovy!

  • Pete, Linc & Julie...SOLID!

  • Linc had him a tight-ass fro!

  • this is the show that inspired scooby doo :) i heard it in a hanna-barbera interview

  • Sure wish someone would post a closing theme clip or two for this show--I used to love that soft guitar under the very last lines of dialogue and then the rockin, percussive music that closed the episode. (Then the original OT would always replay over the end credits)

  • When I was a child, I always wondered what in the hell they were running from? Now that I'm an adult, I'm still wondering what in the hell they were running from? And man, they were running HARD, their feet are barely touching the ground. LOL!!!!!!!

  • Maybe the greatest theme song in TV history. Terrible terrrrrrrible acting, but.....GREAT theme song.

  • THOSE WERE THE GOOD OL DAYS OF TELEVISION

  • great show, can just barely remember it, one episode i think it was julie was trying to go uncover and ended up with a bad psychodelic trip.

  • If I started a classic Tv channel I would include this groundbreaking show, the intro is amongst the top ten of all time!

  • you racist ignorant uneducated sorry pothetic fool go to church and go get a job and not one that you use your hand with night and day!

  • This was kinda funny as an intro!

  • My brothers and I used to run around the house and pretend we were Mod Squad, theme song and all. They always wanted me to be the girl but I wanted to be Link because he was a bad ass.

  • @Downtowncb1, used to do the same thing, only without my brothers-they wouldn't lower themselves to do that. I pretended I was running with the two guys, Linc and can't remember the other guy's name. HAHAHA!! Wonder how many kids pretended to be them and run for their lives? I thought I was the only one-hahaha!!

  • FREE TELEVISION. WE WANT YOU BACK.

  • Love the opening we had this show in my country we had 3 channels so we did not have much to pick from.I think they all alive now Peggy still look good now.

  • my sister & i loved this show, we could'nt wait 'til it came on each week there was no talking 'til the ads~

  • what was that,,,i had just come from india back in 74 or 5 this is what everyone was watching,,,,what an impression that made for someone who had never seen tv

  • Groooovy music!

  • CLARENCE. WILLIAMS. III ! Coolest guy on TV

  • It's tragic how some waste their lives away in Stupid hate..

    please shanquilla 562 stop embarassing yourself , your family and your God before you waste your life away

  • The opening credits were all I ever watched of this show. I liked the theme song and the freeze-frames of the dramatic expressions on the faces of the stars - but even so, I never bothered to actually watch any of the actual program.

  • i love it,classic baby freaking classic.what has happened to t.v. today?

  • A Quinn Martin Barton Parton Fargo Production

  • Ah yes, the token black person.

  • @jengacrock That's a stupid comment. Black actors were grateful to get good quality work (like MS) just like any actor. There was less work for them then--but things changed--tv led society by the nose to more multi cultural shows--not the other way around. Clarence was a bit of trailblazer, its true--see the glass as being half full.

  • Anyone know the composer or name of slow guitar instrumental music they would play during the show...usually during more sad or thoughtful scenes....

  • I am ashamed to say, that, when I was a kid, we white kids would fight over who was Pete and who would be Link. Sorry Clarence, it was a sign of the times. Thank God, we've progressed, at least, a little bit passed that shit. I loved you in "Reindeer Games". - Hickey Burr

  • @ArchStantonSavage Dont worry, black kids did.

  • I remember this show back then. Great chemistry between the actors. Clarence Williams III was a great role model for kids. Sharp witted and often spoke in a philisophical tones while taking out the bad guys. Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer was excellent! That was a good time to be a kid.

  • great TV opening, really pumps you up. Hippie cops. What a concept. Oh yes, the sweet Peggy Lipton, sooooo hot.

  • Wow!..I just took a trip back in time...I had forgot all about this until today while I was driving my dumptruck....thanks for this..

  • Clarence Williams III was Prince's dad in Purple Rain

  • The Boss Must Have Found Out one of His Paper Clips Missing At the Office.

  • what are they running from

  • @brucedavis76 I used to think they were running from the negro, I was afraid he was gonna rape Peggy

  • @shanquilla562 DUMB BITCH. iD LIKE TO RAM A BROOMSTICK UP YOUR MAGGOT ASS

  • @STDgerm550 ..I'm not that way you Sissy-Punk, you're thinking 'bout one of your boyz bending you over so you can take a Load..lol

  • shanquilla562, you are such a fucking pig. If you're saying those things just to get a reaction you're pathetic. If you mean what you wrote you're disgusting. Either way you're a waste of a human being.

  • @Swallowguy STFU bundle of sticks, I'm just telling you what I use to think, that th reason they were running, was they thought the negro was gonna rape Peggy

  • shanquilla562, and I'm just telling you that if a person had a thought like that even way back then then that person was and unless they've changed dramatically, still is a disgusting pig.

  • @Swallowguy What? you're a STUPID Bundle of Sticks..lol EVERYBODY KNOWS the negro men rape more women than ANY other race, look at haiti right now, bundle of sticks, the UN has just NOW added extra security, the negro woman from 3 years old up till 85 years old were geting raped day in and day out, and that's just haiti, LOOK at the statistics, you Large bundle of sticks

  • shanquilla562, you're a sad, angry and pathetic excuse for a human being.

  • @shanquilla562 what is this shit? get off YT--you are a sorry human being. this is a great show with actors who just happen to be of different ethnicities--they are good actors first and formost. We don't need stupid hateful comments like yours posted.

  • I would rank Mod Squad in the top 10 best intros of all time.

  • @JimKF Me too. Those horns are crazy

  • Oh... Peggy Lipton... My first real TV crush... By the time I was in my teens, there was Susan Dey, but Peggy, you were the first.

    I always loved Tige Andrews bursting through that door, in the side of that tunnel, and then... just scowling. Like he going to yell at them for running in the tunnel, or something?

  • @shanquilla562 :

    Yeah, you're just some ugly little bigoted creep.

  • Dang watching all these old TV show intros is making feel real old. in a good way

  • Those cats, and that chick, sure were mod.

  • @fjccommish lol

  • All that trouble to get to Dairy Queen before it closes ...

  • This was a show that really enjoyed as a kid. Great stuff!

  • @kenpalmer1965 I take it you were born in the year 1965. I was born in 1964. This show was one of my earliest memories! What a time! We were born in the midst of Beatlemania!!

  • Yes indeed I was born in 1965. Like you said, it was Beatlemania time back then! Great memories as well for this show. I used to imitate this show in elementary school with a couple of my friends. That's how much I liked it!

  • 0:44 the look on his face.....lol

  • Loved the freeze frame intros of that era.

  • ...was he the black guy off the mod squad?

  • Oh, man, I remember having such a crush on Peggy Lipton.

  • @TomatoeAssassin

    we ALL had a crush on Peggy Lipton!!!!!!

  • @overproductions Yeah but Quincy Jones actually got her! LOVED the Mod Squad.

  • Great theme one of the best,,if not the BEST,,,,Youtube - "feels a long journey"-..a big hit song by australias..MOD SQUAD .

    Yes the remake movie awful-miscast actors.

  • @suzieQfan

    was this theme by Quincy Jones? or...Oliver Nelson???

  • @overproductions

    Yesss Earle Hagen...he was da BOMB

  • I remember the reruns in the mid & late 70's!

  • I loved this show. I agree about the theme song being great. I had forgotten the tune until I ended up on this page. Today it would probably be considered "hokey", but in the 70's everything had that sort of twangy drive in movie sounding theme. If I recall correctly, this show ran for 45 min. as opposed to the usual 30-60 minute shows. I believe it was shown back to back with David Steinberg's "Music Scene". Anyone remember that?

    Also had a serious crush on Michael Cole back then.

  • @VenusGrnys Actually,The Mod Squad had it's own hour-long slot on Tuesday nights. The show you're thinking of is The New People. The Music Scene was on at 7:30 Monday night, followed by The New People at 8:15. Both were terrific shows but, going up against Gunsmoke, and Laugh-in, they were canceled in January 1970.

  • You're right, I stand corrected. I guess my memory isn't as good as I thought it was.

  • Every Tuesday night at 7:30, I was right there glued to my t.v. screen watching Mod Squad. Bring back those days when there were only 3 networks with more on t.v. than there is today with 600 stations!

  • You got that right, 600 stations and nothing but the same movies and dumbass reality shows and ridiculous "paid programming" that take up more timeslots than a regular sitcom. Television today absolutely sucks and the sad part is...... it won't get any better. We can savor the memories though.

  • The Fugitive, Barneby Jones, and The Mod Suad. Everyday after school during my senoir year. (reruns 1996)

  • Henry Mancini = Great music for those shows

  • @sparwood8 Actually, the theme for The Mod Squad was composed by Earle Hagen who also wrote the theme to The Andy Griffith Show among many others.

  • @Scarletspeedster68 Ok. I thought it was Mancini who did the sound

  • Now why do you suppose they were running from their boss? :^)

  • The theme music was written by Earle Hagan, who played in the Big Bands as a young man. He wrote Harlem Nocturne, which became the theme from Mike Hammer. He also wrote the theme for the Andy Griffith Show - and yes, whistled it himself, too. Also the theme for the Dick Van Dyke Show and others

  • I didn't know Mod Squad was an Earle Hagen composition. He was a genius. He wrote the best theme songs but the

    60s and 70s was an era of great TV themes. The mod Squad was considered hip and edgy back then, hahaha.

  • A Quinn Martin Production

  • No, it was a Spelling/Thomas Production as in Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas.

  • @glimmer2158 FYI, Mod Squad was produced by Danny Thomas and Aaron Spelling, not Quinn Martin.

  • This is one excellent intro, the high energy music and the way the Mod Squad is trying escape is outstanding, not to mention the way the graphics zoom out of the tunnel at the beginning.

  • The greatest 5 sec intro in TV history!!

  • The best music theme of all time. Amazing feel. And listen to that time line. Wow, it ain't in 4/4 time now is it?~!!!!!

  • Funny how so little really happens in this opening montage, and yet it looks and feels as if you been on a high-speed freeway chase for 30 miles!

  • Hey, is that last guy who pops out the door Steve Carell?

  • I laughed so hard I nearly pissed my pants.

  • @carnisero43 Tige Andrews, who was actually a Broadway star. He first introduced the song Mack the Knife, the one Bobby Darrin (sigh) made so popular.