NOT SO FAMOUS TV OPENINGS

[jetset2004]

Wow!!!!! I Love It All.

[ftsjr]

"Mr. Terrific" was a good show. I watched one episode of "My World, and Welcome to it," but I didn't think much of it. The other two, I never saw.

[dunkee19]

The Barnstable twins were University of Kentucky cheerleaders when Dan Issel played there.

[vinceman]

i'll bet Dick Gautier drew those cartoons!

[DavelovesRealMusic]

WHo is the VOICE on the Mr Terriffic opening animation? Is is the same announcer from Bullwinkle? (William Conrad ?) Mr Terrific was banned for 40 years because he took "PILLS" LOL. Show was recent;ly aired in Germany and I assume that is where this clip came from. -German TV. Thank God the germans don't care about their kids taking pills.

[theblackhatclub]

@DavelovesRealMusic That is Paul Frees who was the voice of Boris Badenov on Bullwinkle, The Ghost Host in Disney's Haunted Mansion Ride, Ludwick Von Drake, & The Pillsbury Doughboy,

[DavelovesRealMusic]

@theblackhatclub WOW--I didnt recognize his natural voice..I know he was Boris...thanks for the info..it's been a long time since I heard anyone mention his name...I have never seen a photograph of him...

[sborges433]

No sound?

[kurtb8474]

Do I remember Mr. Terrific? You kiddin'? I WAS Mr. Terrific! Well, I was when I was 6, anyway. My mom even made me a reversible shirt with wings. And I would run down the street flapping my arms. For some reason, the neighbors just didn't understand.

[TypicalJAFO]

0:46 Damn, Captain Janeway has great legs!

[kurtb8474]

@TypicalJAFO Yeah, but what's with the hair. As long as I've seen Kate on TV, she's had that disgusting, Victorian doo up until her stint on Voyager. It took a couple of seasons on that for her to change it.

[nitramyar]

Quark was a fun show - got any more of it?

[bartbro]

@nitramyar .quarks 6 episodes are now available on dvd, amazon.com carrys it.

[nitramyar]

@bartbro Cool - I'll look for it - cheers

[Polaris912b]

Who was the artist on the Mr. Terrific opening toons? I'm thinking Rankin-Bass of the Schoolhouse Rock and Time for Timer shows, but not sure. As for Quark, I remember that one well. I taped the first episode...on audio tape, all that existed at the time!

[1560438]

Does anyone have the opening to Blue Light starring Robert Goulet?

[electroplate]

LOL

[labratmusic]

it's amazing how you asocciate space travel with disco.

[thebes56]

I remember My World and Welcome to It! Quak kinda.

[whiskeyify]

William Windom.......did a great job of acting in one Star Trek eposide, I think it's called the doomdays machine.

[Sheri451]

That music for Quark was annoying.

[catcookie]

I remember quark. I think I watched it maybe twice before it got canceled.

[LizabethTucker]

OMG, I loved "My World and Welcome to It". I'm sorry to say that I also watched "Mr. Terrific". Sad, isn't it? Thanks for remembering some of the lost series.

[Blackwolff9]

Kate Mulgrew's hair on the first season of Voyager's got NOTHING on the 'do she sported on "Man of the People"! It's piled so high,it's scary!

[hcvang]

gotta love Kate Mulgrew.

[ftsjr]

As a child, I was a big fan of "Mr. Terrific." I was 12 when "My World and Welcome To It" was on. I saw one episode, and I didn't get the humor. If I saw it now, I'd probably understand.

[Aeolis7]

I was actually a huge fan of Quark!

[TheLSK]

Actually Losangelino1959, Quark was a short lived spoof of Star Trek. For it's time, it was quite silly and tongue-in-cheek and wasn't all that bad.

[oakandwillow]

I so completely agree that MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT deserved a longer run... I thought it was so cool.

[LosAngeleno1959]

Wow! Am I ever glad I was in the marines at the time that "Quark" show came out and never saw a single episode. Just the intro makes me sick

[acdeucee]

To this very day Rockford Files is one a my All time Fav'S!!!!!!! My world and welcome to it was a show I enjoyed as a kid, however im not sure why?

[stevevandien]

Having been born in 1959, I remember "Mr. Terrific" very well. It was a heck of a lotta fun. Also "My World and Welcome To It." It was funny but thoughtful, just the kind of show to appeal to a precocious 10-year-old like the young me:) --

[kurtb8474]

@stevevandien I'm a 59er too. Mr. Terrific was my fave!

[acdeucee]

My world and welcome to it was my favorite show as a kid.

[RoyFive]

I'd been previously exposed to Thurber through my folks and my seventh grade geography instructor, so I knew it would be a good show.

[olddog02]

OMG Kate Mulgrew really looks young!!!

[LNSmithee]

That is one heckuva cast on "Man of the People" - Jim Garner, Kate Mulgrew, George Wyner, Corinne Bohrer (back when she played down how hot she was). Makes me wonder how they screwed it up.

I don't know who Romy Walthall is, but the 1991 version of me would have checked the show out if I saw her in the opening credits.

[ShermansAlley]

NBC put it on Sunday nights, at a time when NBC was weak there. And Corinne Bohrer wasn't just hot, she was unbe(freakin')lievably hot.

[fromthesidelines]

Buck Henry created "QUARK" (an obvious satire of "STAR TREK"), but NBC just didn't know what to do with it in the spring of '77...until the release of "STAR WARS" that summer. Still, the network had such bad schedule and ratings problems, they allowed the series to finally "fall through the cracks" in 1978.

[LNSmithee]

I got one of the greatest shocks of my recent life when I was in a large electronics store and saw that the complete "Quark" series -- all eight episodes -- is now on DVD!

I just Googled the Barnstable twins (which is similar to what I wished I could do with them) and surprise, surprise: They're still hot and doing just fine! They are both Louisville socialites who annually throw one of the biggest Kentucky Derby parties, and Cyb also is a community college instructor in Glendale, CA.

[fromthesidelines]

ALAN YOUNG starred as "Stanley Beamish" in the original 1966 unaired version of the "MR. TERRIFIC" pilot (it came on the heels of "The Great Batman Craze" of early '66); however, he abandoned the series after Universal sold it to CBS [after six years of "MISTER ED", I can understand why Alan changed his mind about doing another "fantasy comedy"]. The pilot was reworked with Stephen Strimpell and a new cast, and it went on the air in January '67 [against NBC's "I DREAM OF JEANNIE"]- 17 episodes.

[fromthesidelines]

I believe "MAN OF THE PEOPLE" would have been a GREAT series for Jim Garner if NBC hadn't yanked it off so fast in late '91...."MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT" (1969-'70), expertly produced by Sheldon Leonard and Danny Arnold, won an Emmy as "Best Comedy Series,1969-'70", but it just didn't have any ratings muscle against "GUNSMOKE" on Monday nights; NBC just wouldn't give it a chance to "mature" for a second season [they replaced it with a half-hour edition of Red Skelton in the fall of 1970]...

[Gnillob802]

The harmonica at the beginning made me think this was going to be Rockford Files.

[varanid9]

I think that was the idea. Tactics like that is why I hated TV from the late 70s to the late 90s, until I discovered the history channel.

[JohnKoroly]

OH, I used to love Stanley Beamish! I was more of a "Captain Nice" man, though. (At the age of four!)

[bagheera70]

Too bad TV Land only airs 3 or 4 oldies. There's a lot of good old series, not only Gunsmoke or Andy Griffith... pleeeeaaaaase!

[SagDec15]

awesome!

[futhermucker0306]

I LOOOOOOOOVED "My World & Welcome To It".

(never noticed that it sounds like the dog farts when William Windom's name comes up in the credits)

[bartbro]

i have the series for sale for 25.00(includes shipping). THANX FOR YOUR COMMENT. i JUST LOVE 60S SHOW OPENINGS. I ALSO HAVE THE OPENING FOR THE IMMORTAL=IF U8 REMEMBER THAT SHOW.

[travis7310]

It does sound like that, but he's just snoring.

[tubelover12]

@futhermucker0306 Me too!!!!

[irondisco123]

Great stuff... taps back to my earliest memories! The memory sure plays tricks.... I did not recall these being so low budget. Thanks for posting!