Channel 5,9, 11 (and marginally 13) used to have a real NYC vibe. Current stations don't really have that. NYC itself has changed a lot and is close to half immigrants who see NYC as a fatted calf to plunder. I'm in the burbs now and am always a little sad when I go to NYC and see how old and worn out it looks.
@goofyboy99 I liked Bonanza. My dad told me about The Saint being on at 3:00pm, on Channel 5. My mom said Channel Five used to show One Step Beyond in the afternoons, and Boris Karloff's Thriller. I don't remember seeing those then, but I know there was a variety of programming with just few channels around, unlike today. The crime shows of the '70s kill the modern ones. Those cops didn't need fancy technology to catch criminals. They need to bring those kinds of shows back, and westerns, too.
I also recall the theme from the sixties. It didn't have the Tram to Roosevelt Island, nor the TKTS booth. Pretty much the same though.
I liked Ch 11 best, though. I guess mostly b/c of the great kids' programming. Have any of you seen the Yule Log special PIX had a couple of Christmases ago? That was great and I watched that thing up close & personal. It was all about the history of Ch 11 and the Yule log. .
This brings back warm memories of growing up in Brooklyn in the 60s and 70s. I remeber watching so many fine movies on TV then along with my parents. This is when things were going well for most people. It brings me to the point of tears to think about how things were then and how they are now. Thanks for posting this.
@jdewitt77 I know exactly what you mean...for me, it was the Bronx, but i'll bet our memories are very similar. People always assume that life gets better with technological advances, but i'll take pre-technology 1975 over today anytime. Thinking back on those times now, it's amazing how much I associate them with the "off" channels, WNEW 5, WOR 9 and WPIX 11, especially around the holidays. People might have more "things" today, but you are right that the quality of life was better then.
My husband and I laughed so hard with the "Susan if you are up will you change the channel?" I forgot all about that! It is nice to see that again. Thanks for posting it. Who would have guessed 40 years later, I would want to watch the promo for the channel 9 movie? Great memories!
This is the version I remember. Nice to come across it. I never knew it was the Gone with the Wind theme. i just always knew it was the Million dollar Movie theme.
Every generation had its good and bad entertainment. 2011 is no exception. But I'm 53 and remember most of this stuff and a lot of it was grand. And a lot of stuff sucked.
This all makes me warm and fuzzy. The best was being in on a rainy day and just watching the old films on CH 11 and 9 in NYC.
@adiedo You know, they had some good movies on there, then, and there was always somthing to watch when we had basically 7 channels and a black and white tv. Now you literally have 869 channels and zero worth watching. I threw the tv out of the livingroom window in April of 2001, but those days are like it happened yesterday now. As disconnected from the present that I am, I have no desire to turn tv on as it is nowadays.
@adiedo I'm a little bit older than you, but i know what you are talking about. More than the actual movie (although a lot of them were good), those rainy days in were great. My mom was always making food, especially around the holidays which just added to the lazy day feeling with the family. You are so right, I get warm and fuzzy thinking about those times. Wish I could go back in time for a week just to feel like that once again.
Wow, that takes me back. We were warned time flies as kids, but we never understood. I watch this now at 45, remembering family and friends, my block in Brooklyn. I recall a time which seems to be receeding ever faster. These movie lead ins are like your favorite smells and sounds - they evoke instant memories of happy youth. Now gone. Life is good, but it's the 'successfu;' busy life of now. Thanks so much for the nostalgia!
This must have been a later intro, the one I remember is different but it still brings back warm memories of my childhood growing up in New Milford, NJ. The one movie that sticks in my mind is, "Attack of the Crab Monsters." That was one of the movies I would watch all day. Great post!
I remember watching this opening as a teenager living in the Bronx, never thinking that one day I would be living close to some of the areas shown in this opening!!
asorls, You might have wor ch. 9 confused with abc ch.7.about the 4 30 movie. Sapphire taurus, I remember the mill. $ movie with the Morton Downey show. I thinkk your right. That and the Richard Bay show was the start of that channel going down.
For a brief while the million dolar movie also showed the same film a few nights in a row. [Like HBO does]. I remember see the Fuller Brushman with Red Skelton a few times in the same week. That is a great forgotten film.
The original opening had the Empire State building I believe. I heard that when WOR was taken over in the 80's all the old openings were tossed. I hope it is not true. I remember also channel 9 WOR had a 430 movie for a while. They used to show Kong films, early 60's Euro Edgar Wallace, and Euro horror films[early Jess Franco,itailan and mexican vampire films,, Larry Buchanan films, Jerry Warren films, and old 40's PRC, and Monogram horror.
@asorls1 Yes, I remember those days a little bit. At some point in the late eighties, WOR started to show crime dramas at that time - Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco. All good programming, unlike the garbage they have today/
@sapphiretaurus After the Paramont network took over, The whole station changed. I think the video revolution had a part too. Once people had the videos of their favorite films, they no longer watched them on TV. Also sponsers hated black and white films.
@asorls1 Sponsors are always a pain, but network executives also have a say in making these stupid decisions. Video played a role, no doubt, and with TV stations editing films for time restraints, that also made video more appealing. We stil recorded stuff on video rather than buy them on video. A video of a single film was somtimes more than ten dollars. We still have 24-hour classic film channels, so there is a market for old movies to be shown on TV.
@asorls1 All it takes is for the TV network executives and their marketing teams to wake up and realize that their method of programming isn't appealing to as many people as they thought. We're going to have a long wait.
man o man how I wish someone had the original version of mdm, the early 60s version it was black and white . It had the guy at the paper stand giving change to a guy, and people going down an esculator,I think it was grand central station
It's just amazing how many people are unhappy with the present , and how many wish to return to simpler times . There's alot of all retro tv channels coming on now. I love all the old shows, but an unseen problem comes up. We saw all these shows already , may be 4 or 5 times each , on summer reruns in the 60's and 70's. And they are so predictable, some i find hard to watch . So was it as good as we thought it was ? Or was it just good in its own time.
@1952kid I remember some of the intros were better than the movies but I didn't park in front of the tv for 6-8 hours a day. 1. We were all watching basically 7 channels in NY/NJ in those days...all for free. it was channel 2,4,5,7,9,11 and 13 - not 200-300 channels for $100 a month. I threw my tv and cable out of the livingroom window in 2001 because I was fed up with the revolting, classless media and sincedignity in media doesn't appear to be in place anymore, so I'll continue to keep it off.
If there are still DeLoreans out there that work, maybe we can build one, no? :-)
And Oprah's about to check out, and Channel 7 wants to add another hour of news in her place (4-5 PM); as if 5-6:30 were not enough to repeat the same old stories every half-hour. I'm all set to petition for the return of another legend: THE 4:30 MOVIE!!! The networks are already too infested with reality TV, talk shows and news.
Don't forget Dark Shadows, Three Stooges with Officer Joe Bolton. Ask a kid today who Elmer Fudd or Sylvester or any Loonie Tunes character is. Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel, Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea, The Monkees, The Jetsons!!!I'm so glad I was ten in 1966. Prime time evenings, Yogi, Flinstones, Huckelberry the Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Adams Family, Dean Martin Show. I can't stand it! Stop me!!
@thebeatlesjpgr actually there was a revival of cartoon shows in the 1980's into the 1990's that showed all the 1950's, 60's 70's cartoons , but now thats almost all gone.And saturday morning cartoons are a thing of the past. But most kids do know who,Casper, Popeye, Bugs Bunny, are. And thanks to you tube they can still check out all the cartoons we watched as kids. Man do i miss those days!
When you stayed home sick from school, this is what i watched , we also had doctors that came to your house back then, always got a shot in the butt ! And of course around 3 o'clock , it all started, Soupy Sales , Chuck McCann ,Capt, Jack , Sandy Becker, The Adventures of Superman , and on and on..............
@1952kid My experiences exactly (except the shot in the butt). Don't forget Abbott and Costello, Diver Dan, Hercules, "Iron Man - Hulk - Capt. America", others
@dwill123 FROM NY ? East side comedy , Astroboy , 8thman, chiller theater , gigantor , i can go on and on, i think it was the best time in history to be a kid , Played chinese handball ,skully , punchball ,boxball , and there was a thing called '' saloogie'' .
I remember it well. Nice to see it again. I miss the old "local" channels that I grew up with in the NYC area back in the 1960s and 70s. Broadcast TV today is all loud, tasteless garbage.
The original version was awesome. Anyone remember the payphone off the hook at Penn Station? Music was the same though. I wonder where the original is? It'd be great if someone could post it. Brings back lots of memories.
We only had 3 channels then! Couldn't decide what to watch! Today there are hundreds and I keep the TV off and look at these old clips on You Tube! Thanks for posting this!
i also remember running to the tv so I wouldn't miss this intro...or the movie...no potty runs until the commercials! and rushing back when the commericals were over!...man oh man...those were the days my friends...memories...we've had a good life to recall...this generation just can't get it...
Not only was the first mdm opening from the early 60s better. .... If you remember the gone with the wind song taras theam was played slower it had a more haunting sound to it am i right
@hairyhand Yes, the phone was in a phone booth - at night. The shot was at maybe 3' or so aimed at the receiver hanging full length by the metal shrouded cord. You could see through the glass all the lights of the city.I think the booth was lit too (door open). Imagine that these days LOL !! Better have a flash light with you (and your own phone book). As a kid I was never interested in watching 'Gone With The Wind'. Not until many years later did I know the origins of this theme song.
This was when TV was TV!!! Awesome Tv movie intros with great graphics, cinematic shots, and lush orchestral overture!! Just like everybody else... I took those times for granted and I wish I could go back.
Those were the Golden years of TV in New York. I too have such fond memories of this as kid in the 70's in Westchester. New York TV was just the greatest. back then. I took it all for granted. This makes me wish I could go back......sniff! Thank you all for responding. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
This brings back memories when i was a kid back in the 1970's when it showed good movies on this new york city channel. Where's the original version of the million dollar movies intro? Thanks for the memories
That subway at 0:31 looked like the 59th Street-Columbus Circle Station.(A, AA, B, CC, D, 1). The AA became the K which was later eliminated and the CC became the C. The subways were one thing that was worse back then.
@retroguy1976 Remember Gloria Ocon (sp?) and 'Arnold Brick Oven Bread' / Harry and Burt Peels beer commercials ? She was a local news caster on either WOR, WPIX or WNEW ....hmmmm, forget which now.
My favorite memory was watching 'Robin Hood' (Flynn), The Bowery Boys and/or Abbott & Costello on a Saturday. I've never been a prude but I'm sooo sick of everything being based on 'sex' these days that I don't watch anything but TCM. The commercials are just as bad if not worse. Go away !
@mpersico - I too vividly remember this music with that choir in the background. Actually, it was the opening on the day I saw King Kong on WOR for the first time. I've tried Google-ing everything I can think of and cannot find anyone that has it...
Growing up in the Bronx, I always wanted to know where these pics were taken. Now that I live in Manhattan, I am not far away from all of these shots.
Glad to see i'm not alone in not only remembering this from New York in the late 1970s when I was a kid (I was born in 1969), but also the nostalgic feelings it brings. It seems that I recall this intro more than the movies that followed it!
Yep exactly--sitting on the living room floor watching this begining wondering what movie was going to be shown. Like I really cared? I was allowed to stay up late with my father to watch this and that is what was important.
@mrtrek64 yes, i was with dad and my mom and brother were watching something else downstairs me and my dad, me on the floor and dad on the couch it was something to remember until we had to go to bed my brother and i! it was beautiful!!
I remember the intro was better than some of the movies...
although I absolutely remember seeing "My fair lady" w/Rex Harrison/Audrey Hepburn on one, like somebody else said, one rainy afternoon and being really 'swept away'. Just think, we'll be the only ones who remember this kind of entertainment someday. Should we have a secret handshake?
This isn't the million dollar movie intro I remember. The one I used to watch had people going up an escalator. ALso, the Roosevelt Island tram had not yet been built.
@BThwaithe Huumm. you're right about the escalator part. Most likely macy's 34 street. But now it's going to drive me crazy trying to remember where I saw it.
When I saw this video, it reminded me of the early 80's when my father use to take us to manhattan at night to see the tall buildings, bridge etc. Thanks for bringing us back those good old memories.
Well, with the budget cuts that include the police dept, unforunately we WILL have our old NYC back. Keep in mind, we are all a bit older now and may not be able to run away from the criminals like we use to.
I was about 10 when this promo was on. Never forgot it. My dad was alive then and I remember King Kong coming on. As well as the Mets. What a beautiful memory as music does for us, and with that, this film reel. Thanks sender.
Does anyone here remember the intro and music to the late, late show? I have a memory of seeing cartoon-like apartment buildings with the lights going off in the windows. The music had a sort of "Jeopardy" feel to it. I can find it, and I'd love to hear it again.
We all want our NYC back, but it's gone. It's been replaced with a model replica of what it market forces, and the current new demographic thinks it should be. Change and improvement shouldn't equal character assault, but that's what happened.
@nargilaw "tell those corporate criminals..." Hate to tell ya but it was the same ilk who built all those old buildings. My parents generation miss their NYC too - years before ours of the 50's/60s'. Time marches on and todays NY skyline will be missed in 2050 by the new crop of kids. 'Hey, remember Saturdays playing 'Halo on X Box ? Those were the days huh ?" LOL !! At least we have this to go back and 'visit'.Prior generations only had 'stills'.
The constant proliferation of chain stores, and the persistent loss of small business. The attitude of many of the newer residents towards urban living, which mainly conisists of a huge sense of entitlement, and the belief that NYC should adapt to their ideas about what it should be, without a shred of respect for it's history. The list goes on... it's lost it's soul.
@Andante735 I would not say it's lost it's soul buy Guiliani's jack booted tactics has bleached allot of the color out of N Y City. Bloomberg has for the most part continued down that path. I was born & raised there.
Anyone remember the Daily News vendor on broadway 103rd.street? He had a change holder in front of his buckle. At great speed he would give you the change.
I will say this.....upon watching this clip, I got the "Sunday Horrors". This opening will forever remind me of Sunday afternoons.....and then School on Monday.
Never missed the opening of the MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE - even if the movie wasn't so great. That "Gone With the Wind" theme made you feel like a million!
yes, I miss the way channel 9 tv used to have both "The Million Dollar Movie" and the opening for it.-if u ask me, tv has changed too much and i liked it better the way it used to be.
@ThisIsBilbo no not exactly, but if i would like everything better the "way it used to be", there wouldn't be anything wrong with it. however, tv was nicer in the past in the sense that u had nicer shows, movies and actors to watch and you didn't need to pay for it all like u do today with cable and satellite tv.
@ironman5454 when u say "The Late Show" with tic-toc and violins music, r u refering to Channel 2's late show movies for Saturday nights?-i certainly remember this. the music to these late night movies on Channel 2 after the local 11pm news was very nice and very impressive. Channel 11 had a similar thing in the past for late night movies on Friday nights and the weekends. i miss this too. this too was very nice, impressive with the opening for it and the music for it too.
I really get choked up watching this,brings you back to laying on the floor on a rainy day on a summer afternoon. And being a kid one more time. sniff!
@vivalapsych depends on what era you watched. In the '50s and '60s in the NY area, channel 9 WOR, used to show the same movie all day long, just like the real movie theaters. I was sick with the flu for a week when I was 8 or 9 and saw "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with James Cagney about 112 times!!
I so remember that too! It was wonderful! I must have watched YANKEE DOODLE DANDY around 5 times.
I remember my brothers and my cousins and I while at my grandmother's house in Floral Park watched ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES all day long. We went out to play, then came back in and watched more. It was heaven. Thanks for reminding me.
@swarze You're welcome. We are about the same age that's why we can remember those great times. I still can't believe that back then we only had one television and our parents never really argued with us about what to watch...of course me and my sister watched a lot of stuff that they wanted...like Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, with all those disgusting recipes that had Kraft miniature marshmallows in them...yech!!
Remember the glow and warmth of those vacuum tubes
The main job children had in the family room back then, was to change the channel. My father used to sit in his easy chair, and while I was stretched out on the couch, he would say, "Susan, while you're up...could you change the channel?" Used to drive me CRAZY!
@1952kid We used to drag our pillow and blanket into the living room with us and lie on the carpet all bundled up. My younger brother would cover himself head to toe 'cause he thought Cap't Kangaroo, Officer Joe Bolton etc., could see him - and I never told him different LOL !! Got me thinking about 'Mr Wizard' with a hot cup 'o Ovaltine on a cold, snowy winter morning there snuggled up on the rug. Damn, those were the days !!
"...if you missed any part of Abbott & Costello in Hold That Ghost, or wish to see it again, our next showing will be at 11pm..."
JohnnysCorner 3 days ago
Thank you for this. It brought back so much memory. Good to see the checker taxis from back then.
sgtsanchez1231 1 week ago
@ nycretroguy,
It WAS the late 1970s for sure. I remember it very well.
DAMN, this brings back memories. Thanks for uploading it, I knew it had to be somewhere on YouTube, I just spent 10 minutes trying to find it.
Medvetz63 3 weeks ago
Channel 5,9, 11 (and marginally 13) used to have a real NYC vibe. Current stations don't really have that. NYC itself has changed a lot and is close to half immigrants who see NYC as a fatted calf to plunder. I'm in the burbs now and am always a little sad when I go to NYC and see how old and worn out it looks.
ParisLondonRoma 1 month ago
Gorgeous. Part of the soundtrack of my youth.
oldnytv5911 1 month ago 3
I remember that theme so well, my family would gather in front of our black & white TV , life was so simple than, I miss those days.
antony47100 2 months ago 3
@goofyboy99 I liked Bonanza. My dad told me about The Saint being on at 3:00pm, on Channel 5. My mom said Channel Five used to show One Step Beyond in the afternoons, and Boris Karloff's Thriller. I don't remember seeing those then, but I know there was a variety of programming with just few channels around, unlike today. The crime shows of the '70s kill the modern ones. Those cops didn't need fancy technology to catch criminals. They need to bring those kinds of shows back, and westerns, too.
sapphiretaurus 2 months ago 2
I also recall the theme from the sixties. It didn't have the Tram to Roosevelt Island, nor the TKTS booth. Pretty much the same though.
I liked Ch 11 best, though. I guess mostly b/c of the great kids' programming. Have any of you seen the Yule Log special PIX had a couple of Christmases ago? That was great and I watched that thing up close & personal. It was all about the history of Ch 11 and the Yule log. .
adiedo 2 months ago 2
This brings back warm memories of growing up in Brooklyn in the 60s and 70s. I remeber watching so many fine movies on TV then along with my parents. This is when things were going well for most people. It brings me to the point of tears to think about how things were then and how they are now. Thanks for posting this.
jdewitt77 2 months ago 4
@jdewitt77 I know exactly what you mean...for me, it was the Bronx, but i'll bet our memories are very similar. People always assume that life gets better with technological advances, but i'll take pre-technology 1975 over today anytime. Thinking back on those times now, it's amazing how much I associate them with the "off" channels, WNEW 5, WOR 9 and WPIX 11, especially around the holidays. People might have more "things" today, but you are right that the quality of life was better then.
fscap811 2 months ago 3
I remembered this theme since childhood... thanks.. wow !
Glassblower718 3 months ago
My husband and I laughed so hard with the "Susan if you are up will you change the channel?" I forgot all about that! It is nice to see that again. Thanks for posting it. Who would have guessed 40 years later, I would want to watch the promo for the channel 9 movie? Great memories!
TheClogher 3 months ago
This is the version I remember. Nice to come across it. I never knew it was the Gone with the Wind theme. i just always knew it was the Million dollar Movie theme.
trainfan1221 3 months ago
Every generation had its good and bad entertainment. 2011 is no exception. But I'm 53 and remember most of this stuff and a lot of it was grand. And a lot of stuff sucked.
This all makes me warm and fuzzy. The best was being in on a rainy day and just watching the old films on CH 11 and 9 in NYC.
adiedo 3 months ago 2
@adiedo You know, they had some good movies on there, then, and there was always somthing to watch when we had basically 7 channels and a black and white tv. Now you literally have 869 channels and zero worth watching. I threw the tv out of the livingroom window in April of 2001, but those days are like it happened yesterday now. As disconnected from the present that I am, I have no desire to turn tv on as it is nowadays.
cnmmnc8852 3 months ago
@adiedo I'm a little bit older than you, but i know what you are talking about. More than the actual movie (although a lot of them were good), those rainy days in were great. My mom was always making food, especially around the holidays which just added to the lazy day feeling with the family. You are so right, I get warm and fuzzy thinking about those times. Wish I could go back in time for a week just to feel like that once again.
fscap811 3 months ago 3
Just as I have remembered it all these years, and so comforting that all of you remember it too!
ottobiggs 4 months ago 2
Oh, my God! I haven't heard that in so long..I got chills.
giordhe1 4 months ago
Wow, that takes me back. We were warned time flies as kids, but we never understood. I watch this now at 45, remembering family and friends, my block in Brooklyn. I recall a time which seems to be receeding ever faster. These movie lead ins are like your favorite smells and sounds - they evoke instant memories of happy youth. Now gone. Life is good, but it's the 'successfu;' busy life of now. Thanks so much for the nostalgia!
Soniasguy 4 months ago 2
This must have been a later intro, the one I remember is different but it still brings back warm memories of my childhood growing up in New Milford, NJ. The one movie that sticks in my mind is, "Attack of the Crab Monsters." That was one of the movies I would watch all day. Great post!
smoocherooo 5 months ago
I remember watching this opening as a teenager living in the Bronx, never thinking that one day I would be living close to some of the areas shown in this opening!!
nycdweller 5 months ago
I remember a different version. I think it was a little faster than this one.
manfocused 5 months ago
So beautiful.
thetwentyteens 5 months ago
asorls, You might have wor ch. 9 confused with abc ch.7.about the 4 30 movie. Sapphire taurus, I remember the mill. $ movie with the Morton Downey show. I thinkk your right. That and the Richard Bay show was the start of that channel going down.
0203Patrickb 5 months ago
I remember Million Dollar Movie back in the middle 60's. I watched "The Dam Busters" about a hundred times.
bowbridgezatopek 6 months ago
I was born and raised in NYC but what is that place at 0:21?
51512601 6 months ago
@51512601 I could be wrong but I think it is the inside of what is now the Marriot hotel on BroadWay.
It has over 50 floors to it.
fronio89 5 months ago
@fronio89 Thanks-you might be right. I've passed that hotel many times too!
51512601 5 months ago
For a brief while the million dolar movie also showed the same film a few nights in a row. [Like HBO does]. I remember see the Fuller Brushman with Red Skelton a few times in the same week. That is a great forgotten film.
asorls1 6 months ago
The original opening had the Empire State building I believe. I heard that when WOR was taken over in the 80's all the old openings were tossed. I hope it is not true. I remember also channel 9 WOR had a 430 movie for a while. They used to show Kong films, early 60's Euro Edgar Wallace, and Euro horror films[early Jess Franco,itailan and mexican vampire films,, Larry Buchanan films, Jerry Warren films, and old 40's PRC, and Monogram horror.
asorls1 6 months ago
@asorls1 Yes, I remember those days a little bit. At some point in the late eighties, WOR started to show crime dramas at that time - Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco. All good programming, unlike the garbage they have today/
sapphiretaurus 5 months ago
@sapphiretaurus After the Paramont network took over, The whole station changed. I think the video revolution had a part too. Once people had the videos of their favorite films, they no longer watched them on TV. Also sponsers hated black and white films.
asorls1 5 months ago
@asorls1 Sponsors are always a pain, but network executives also have a say in making these stupid decisions. Video played a role, no doubt, and with TV stations editing films for time restraints, that also made video more appealing. We stil recorded stuff on video rather than buy them on video. A video of a single film was somtimes more than ten dollars. We still have 24-hour classic film channels, so there is a market for old movies to be shown on TV.
sapphiretaurus 5 months ago
@asorls1 All it takes is for the TV network executives and their marketing teams to wake up and realize that their method of programming isn't appealing to as many people as they thought. We're going to have a long wait.
sapphiretaurus 5 months ago
Awesome, long live the old days!
loveunderlaw 6 months ago
So bittersweet..I miss NYC :(
valentineshoney 6 months ago
and the song Tara theam was played at a different pace
mycolortv1 6 months ago
man o man how I wish someone had the original version of mdm, the early 60s version it was black and white . It had the guy at the paper stand giving change to a guy, and people going down an esculator,I think it was grand central station
mycolortv1 6 months ago
It's just amazing how many people are unhappy with the present , and how many wish to return to simpler times . There's alot of all retro tv channels coming on now. I love all the old shows, but an unseen problem comes up. We saw all these shows already , may be 4 or 5 times each , on summer reruns in the 60's and 70's. And they are so predictable, some i find hard to watch . So was it as good as we thought it was ? Or was it just good in its own time.
1952kid 7 months ago 4
@1952kid No it's an accurate observation, the present TV programming is mostly pure shit on ALL levels!
loveunderlaw 6 months ago
@1952kid I remember some of the intros were better than the movies but I didn't park in front of the tv for 6-8 hours a day. 1. We were all watching basically 7 channels in NY/NJ in those days...all for free. it was channel 2,4,5,7,9,11 and 13 - not 200-300 channels for $100 a month. I threw my tv and cable out of the livingroom window in 2001 because I was fed up with the revolting, classless media and sincedignity in media doesn't appear to be in place anymore, so I'll continue to keep it off.
cnmmnc8852 5 months ago
AAHHHH, the good old days when there was great television braodcasting with a LOT less channels!
peacetrain301 7 months ago 3
Brings me back to my 70s bedroom home from school sick.
The 4:30 movie planet of the Apes week was my fave.
Somebody, GET ME A TIME MACHINE!!!
Except for excellent sports coverage (with the sound off) TV today sucks!
XxXQu3EfXxX120 10 months ago 3
@XxXQu3EfXxX120 "Somebody, GET ME A TIME MACHINE!!!"
If there are still DeLoreans out there that work, maybe we can build one, no? :-)
And Oprah's about to check out, and Channel 7 wants to add another hour of news in her place (4-5 PM); as if 5-6:30 were not enough to repeat the same old stories every half-hour. I'm all set to petition for the return of another legend: THE 4:30 MOVIE!!! The networks are already too infested with reality TV, talk shows and news.
CookyMonzta 8 months ago 2
This is when television was GOOD, and it was free...Today television is a bunch of HORSESHIT, and you have to pay for it.
bjroberts65 10 months ago 8
Don't forget Dark Shadows, Three Stooges with Officer Joe Bolton. Ask a kid today who Elmer Fudd or Sylvester or any Loonie Tunes character is. Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel, Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea, The Monkees, The Jetsons!!!I'm so glad I was ten in 1966. Prime time evenings, Yogi, Flinstones, Huckelberry the Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Adams Family, Dean Martin Show. I can't stand it! Stop me!!
thebeatlesjpgr 10 months ago
@thebeatlesjpgr actually there was a revival of cartoon shows in the 1980's into the 1990's that showed all the 1950's, 60's 70's cartoons , but now thats almost all gone.And saturday morning cartoons are a thing of the past. But most kids do know who,Casper, Popeye, Bugs Bunny, are. And thanks to you tube they can still check out all the cartoons we watched as kids. Man do i miss those days!
1952kid 10 months ago
When you stayed home sick from school, this is what i watched , we also had doctors that came to your house back then, always got a shot in the butt ! And of course around 3 o'clock , it all started, Soupy Sales , Chuck McCann ,Capt, Jack , Sandy Becker, The Adventures of Superman , and on and on..............
1952kid 10 months ago 4
@1952kid My experiences exactly (except the shot in the butt). Don't forget Abbott and Costello, Diver Dan, Hercules, "Iron Man - Hulk - Capt. America", others
dwill123 10 months ago
@dwill123 FROM NY ? East side comedy , Astroboy , 8thman, chiller theater , gigantor , i can go on and on, i think it was the best time in history to be a kid , Played chinese handball ,skully , punchball ,boxball , and there was a thing called '' saloogie'' .
1952kid 10 months ago
@1952kid
What great memories. Im glad I grew up then. TV today stinks.
jcort154 10 months ago 3
I saw the Crawling Eye about a million times!
daddyslilkel 11 months ago 2
Love this song, it makes me cry. Reminds me of some things in my childhood that were sad to me. I still love it ! STRANGE
shellystino 11 months ago 2
I remember it well. Nice to see it again. I miss the old "local" channels that I grew up with in the NYC area back in the 1960s and 70s. Broadcast TV today is all loud, tasteless garbage.
68lincoln 1 year ago 27
@68lincoln So true!
hibiscusfreak 1 year ago
@68lincoln -- So true. The memories of local NY channels. Today's loud rubbish...don't even get me started. ((sigh))
sparkle11231 10 months ago
that's the theme song to GONE WITH THE WIND"
ZAPDUNGAA 1 year ago 2
The original version was awesome. Anyone remember the payphone off the hook at Penn Station? Music was the same though. I wonder where the original is? It'd be great if someone could post it. Brings back lots of memories.
wavertree558 1 year ago 2
@wavertree558 Yes, thats the one I'm lookin' for !!
ironman5454 1 year ago
This intro brings me back to those dark days of my childhood. I find myself playing this every now and then.
kundalini1128 1 year ago
my father was the guy on the escalator on the original one...i wish it was on here somewhere!!!
CheesHeadBrownPants 1 year ago
WHEN NY WAS STILL NEW YORK.
KiCreativeStudio 1 year ago
I remember watching this intro back in 78 when was a kid.Man do miss the 70's!
WOLF10307 1 year ago
I remember an earlier version of this also
Yes it does choke me up
Guinnie 1 year ago
it really doesnt get any better then this.
groverbuilt 1 year ago
We only had 3 channels then! Couldn't decide what to watch! Today there are hundreds and I keep the TV off and look at these old clips on You Tube! Thanks for posting this!
le238man 1 year ago
bACK IN THE 80'S i USED TO ENJOY WATCHING THE 430 MOVIE ON CHANNEL 7.. i WISH THE 430 MOVIE CAN BE SEEN Again.
trafficgal1 1 year ago
This intro meant King Kong (1933) or Godzilla was going to come on.Those were the days.
Wg2100s 1 year ago
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Anthony Cumia hates this
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Schizoid2k 1 year ago
LOVED THIS SHOW. DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE MOVIE HOMESWEET HOMICIDE?
joanncipolla 1 year ago
i also remember running to the tv so I wouldn't miss this intro...or the movie...no potty runs until the commercials! and rushing back when the commericals were over!...man oh man...those were the days my friends...memories...we've had a good life to recall...this generation just can't get it...
beebaker116 1 year ago
Reminder of a much better time in America before terrorism and popular culture going into the shi##er.
DontCancelThisAcctYT 1 year ago
Not only was the first mdm opening from the early 60s better. .... If you remember the gone with the wind song taras theam was played slower it had a more haunting sound to it am i right
brickchruch 1 year ago
There was an older version with the same music. I remember a scene where a phone was shown hanging. What memories!
hairyhand 1 year ago
@hairyhand Yes, the phone was in a phone booth - at night. The shot was at maybe 3' or so aimed at the receiver hanging full length by the metal shrouded cord. You could see through the glass all the lights of the city.I think the booth was lit too (door open). Imagine that these days LOL !! Better have a flash light with you (and your own phone book). As a kid I was never interested in watching 'Gone With The Wind'. Not until many years later did I know the origins of this theme song.
ironman5454 1 year ago 2
Wow I have not see this is a minute. Thank you!
DirkNader 1 year ago
This goes back to the 60's when we watched great afternoon movies in Yonkers
What happened to those days, sure miss em. No cable back then and still we enjoyed.Free TV what a concept
TommyGadd 1 year ago
@TommyGadd Except kids in the Bronx couldn't even watch the Bronx Bombers (Yankees) on their own TV's !!
LOL !!
ironman5454 1 year ago
Certainly one of - if not THE - greatest television intro in history!
Does anyone know the water fountain shown at 0:10? Is it the one in front of the Chase Manhattan Building on 6th Ave?
jr19703008 1 year ago
@jr19703008 "water fountain?"
I'm guessing that is Lincoln Center.
dwill123 1 year ago
This was when TV was TV!!! Awesome Tv movie intros with great graphics, cinematic shots, and lush orchestral overture!! Just like everybody else... I took those times for granted and I wish I could go back.
neros5200 1 year ago
Like everyone else has said, the memories oh the memories.
dwill123 1 year ago
Those were the Golden years of TV in New York. I too have such fond memories of this as kid in the 70's in Westchester. New York TV was just the greatest. back then. I took it all for granted. This makes me wish I could go back......sniff! Thank you all for responding. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
lacytim 1 year ago
Wish someone could find the orginal with the phone off the hook at Penn Station!
wavertree558 1 year ago
This brings back memories when i was a kid back in the 1970's when it showed good movies on this new york city channel. Where's the original version of the million dollar movies intro? Thanks for the memories
alijn7 1 year ago
brings back awesome memories, thanks
92abuelo 1 year ago
This intro brings back awesome memories, Thanks
92abuelo 1 year ago
That subway at 0:31 looked like the 59th Street-Columbus Circle Station.(A, AA, B, CC, D, 1). The AA became the K which was later eliminated and the CC became the C. The subways were one thing that was worse back then.
51512601 1 year ago
I so remember this def get one with the announcer ch 9 was awesome back then that channel is terrible now
retroguy1976 1 year ago
@retroguy1976 Remember Gloria Ocon (sp?) and 'Arnold Brick Oven Bread' / Harry and Burt Peels beer commercials ? She was a local news caster on either WOR, WPIX or WNEW ....hmmmm, forget which now.
My favorite memory was watching 'Robin Hood' (Flynn), The Bowery Boys and/or Abbott & Costello on a Saturday. I've never been a prude but I'm sooo sick of everything being based on 'sex' these days that I don't watch anything but TCM. The commercials are just as bad if not worse. Go away !
ironman5454 1 year ago
Such a Great memory, Thanks so much.
ronpag9 1 year ago
AHH, growing up in New York in the 70's. I do consider myself so lucky!
MrJonnyleft 1 year ago
Anyone have the original? It was sung by a choir.
mpersico 1 year ago
@mpersico - I too vividly remember this music with that choir in the background. Actually, it was the opening on the day I saw King Kong on WOR for the first time. I've tried Google-ing everything I can think of and cannot find anyone that has it...
tom4tg 1 year ago
It only sounds funny now "a million for a movie that's chump change nowdays"
PAM2167 1 year ago
Growing up in the Bronx, I always wanted to know where these pics were taken. Now that I live in Manhattan, I am not far away from all of these shots.
nycdweller 1 year ago
@Karen if i find it you will be the first to know
brickchruch 1 year ago
I remember it too, summer afternoons in the humid heat of NYC, thanks for posting.
jtcohen1 1 year ago
Yes its good,but the one from the early 60s was so much better
brickchruch 1 year ago
@brickchruch can you find it karen
vicksbaby4lyfe 1 year ago
i love you guys for being there with me but in seperate places i feel good hearing this music, as for the movies i cant remeber shit
newyorkjamaican 1 year ago
Glad to see i'm not alone in not only remembering this from New York in the late 1970s when I was a kid (I was born in 1969), but also the nostalgic feelings it brings. It seems that I recall this intro more than the movies that followed it!
classicphile 1 year ago
You just have to love this intro. A great view of the New York nightlife back then..
MrMojoRisinII 1 year ago
THE BEST MOVIE INTRO OF ALLTIME.
bjroberts65 1 year ago
Yep exactly--sitting on the living room floor watching this begining wondering what movie was going to be shown. Like I really cared? I was allowed to stay up late with my father to watch this and that is what was important.
mrtrek64 1 year ago
@mrtrek64 yes, i was with dad and my mom and brother were watching something else downstairs me and my dad, me on the floor and dad on the couch it was something to remember until we had to go to bed my brother and i! it was beautiful!!
vicksbaby4lyfe 1 year ago
Yes ! Day of the Triffeds.
fronio89 1 year ago
thnk you i have looking for this brings back so many memories .
MRHolmes28 1 year ago
Great opening..reminds me of the days of being a kid again..nice
jokerbfd 1 year ago
God...out from the mists of time...
I remember the intro was better than some of the movies...
although I absolutely remember seeing "My fair lady" w/Rex Harrison/Audrey Hepburn on one, like somebody else said, one rainy afternoon and being really 'swept away'. Just think, we'll be the only ones who remember this kind of entertainment someday. Should we have a secret handshake?
cnmmnc8852 1 year ago
I remember this from the late 70's. Usually right before a ultra cool godzilla or gamera movie would start. :-)
Fpockets 1 year ago
yep. this aint the one. the 1950s intro had none of this. thanks anyway.
conewells 1 year ago
this used to scare the shit out of me
illuminatioracle 1 year ago
This isn't the million dollar movie intro I remember. The one I used to watch had people going up an escalator. ALso, the Roosevelt Island tram had not yet been built.
BThwaithe 1 year ago
i agree, there was another MDM open similar to this one. Does anyone has that?
jjgato 1 year ago
@BThwaithe Huumm. you're right about the escalator part. Most likely macy's 34 street. But now it's going to drive me crazy trying to remember where I saw it.
mrtrek64 1 year ago
When I saw this video, it reminded me of the early 80's when my father use to take us to manhattan at night to see the tall buildings, bridge etc. Thanks for bringing us back those good old memories.
92abuelo 1 year ago
Well, with the budget cuts that include the police dept, unforunately we WILL have our old NYC back. Keep in mind, we are all a bit older now and may not be able to run away from the criminals like we use to.
dpisceslady 2 years ago
best movie intro of all time!!!!!!!!!!
bjroberts65 2 years ago
thats true
92abuelo 1 year ago
I was about 10 when this promo was on. Never forgot it. My dad was alive then and I remember King Kong coming on. As well as the Mets. What a beautiful memory as music does for us, and with that, this film reel. Thanks sender.
troner1492 2 years ago
The music is taken from the movie "Gone With The Wind" it's called "Tara's Theme", I believe.
DAngelo136 2 years ago
Funny thing is, not much has changed since that was shot. Except maybe the traffic in TImes Square.
shawnperine 2 years ago
Yeah not much except for that big ass building at :09 that doesn't seem to be there any more...
Tamaslammer 2 years ago
Well, quite a few things have changed....
The World Trade Center is gone (9/11/2001) and Times Square has far more neon signs now than it did back then.
Rents are MUCH HIGHER now.
Also N.Y.C. seems "safer" now.
mwhite36 2 years ago
"Rents are MUCH HIGHER now.
Also N.Y.C. seems "safer" now."
Thats because the muggers cant afford to live there anymore.
classicphile 2 years ago
x60hz has a recreation of the late show , the apartment building with lights going on and off and the clock ticking music.
1952kid 2 years ago
Does anyone here remember the intro and music to the late, late show? I have a memory of seeing cartoon-like apartment buildings with the lights going off in the windows. The music had a sort of "Jeopardy" feel to it. I can find it, and I'd love to hear it again.
Andante735 2 years ago
the song you are thinking of is called "sychopated (sp) clock".
madog20 2 years ago
Thank you!
Andante735 2 years ago
man....do i wish i could turn back the clock !!!!!
bigscore 2 years ago
i want my nyc BACK!!!!
nargilaw 2 years ago
We all want our NYC back, but it's gone. It's been replaced with a model replica of what it market forces, and the current new demographic thinks it should be. Change and improvement shouldn't equal character assault, but that's what happened.
Andante735 2 years ago 2
agree 100%
bigscore 2 years ago
where is my nyc. tell those corporate criminals. I WANT IT BACK!. AND, I HERE YA. WE MISS IT, BUT, MAYBE ONE DAY!
nargilaw 2 years ago
@nargilaw "tell those corporate criminals..." Hate to tell ya but it was the same ilk who built all those old buildings. My parents generation miss their NYC too - years before ours of the 50's/60s'. Time marches on and todays NY skyline will be missed in 2050 by the new crop of kids. 'Hey, remember Saturdays playing 'Halo on X Box ? Those were the days huh ?" LOL !! At least we have this to go back and 'visit'.Prior generations only had 'stills'.
ironman5454 1 year ago
What has been changed about NYC that you dislike the most?( Still my favorite city-and I'm proud to say I've been to all five boroughs!)
Capcoor 2 years ago
The constant proliferation of chain stores, and the persistent loss of small business. The attitude of many of the newer residents towards urban living, which mainly conisists of a huge sense of entitlement, and the belief that NYC should adapt to their ideas about what it should be, without a shred of respect for it's history. The list goes on... it's lost it's soul.
Andante735 2 years ago 2
@Andante735 I would not say it's lost it's soul buy Guiliani's jack booted tactics has bleached allot of the color out of N Y City. Bloomberg has for the most part continued down that path. I was born & raised there.
castillianwagon500 1 year ago
The Blob was always playing on MDM.... .CO2..we need CO2......
ZIPPTPH77 2 years ago
Any one remember Mighty Mouse and the two magpies?
pete123pr 2 years ago 3
@pete123pr Yes, 'Heckel and Jekyl' or something like that. And 'Under Dog'/'Sweet Polly Pure Bread' LOL !!
ironman5454 1 year ago
Anyone remember the Daily News vendor on broadway 103rd.street? He had a change holder in front of his buckle. At great speed he would give you the change.
pete123pr 2 years ago
Yes, yes. And the telephone dangling from its hook. Where is it, for god's sake???
yes18325 2 years ago
I also remember the clapboard. Such good memories living in a clean black and white NEW YORK. Miss the old block, sigh...
pete123pr 2 years ago
This almost makes my hart stop !
castillianwagon500 2 years ago
I will say this.....upon watching this clip, I got the "Sunday Horrors". This opening will forever remind me of Sunday afternoons.....and then School on Monday.
Didn't do my homework yet.
trumpetman514 2 years ago
SUPERB.
7855waldo 3 years ago
Of all the television production clips around from those days, this is among the best.
MSTS1 3 years ago 3
Never missed the opening of the MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE - even if the movie wasn't so great. That "Gone With the Wind" theme made you feel like a million!
Thanks a lot - find it by pure accident.
eternallyoung 3 years ago 12
YOU SAID IT !!!!!!!!!
castillianwagon500 3 years ago
As Americana as the Seventh Inning stretch :-)
novapup2001 3 years ago 2
Where can one find the original -- with the guy picking up the evening paper and the telephone hanging off its hook?
yes18325 2 years ago
yes, I miss the way channel 9 tv used to have both "The Million Dollar Movie" and the opening for it.-if u ask me, tv has changed too much and i liked it better the way it used to be.
man975dog 1 year ago
@man975dog you probably liked everything better the "way it used to be"
ThisIsBilbo 1 year ago
@ThisIsBilbo no not exactly, but if i would like everything better the "way it used to be", there wouldn't be anything wrong with it. however, tv was nicer in the past in the sense that u had nicer shows, movies and actors to watch and you didn't need to pay for it all like u do today with cable and satellite tv.
man975dog 1 year ago
@man975dog 'The Late Show' and the 'Late, Late Show' tic-toc and violins (forgot the name of it) is another great old memory.
ironman5454 1 year ago
@ironman5454 when u say "The Late Show" with tic-toc and violins music, r u refering to Channel 2's late show movies for Saturday nights?-i certainly remember this. the music to these late night movies on Channel 2 after the local 11pm news was very nice and very impressive. Channel 11 had a similar thing in the past for late night movies on Friday nights and the weekends. i miss this too. this too was very nice, impressive with the opening for it and the music for it too.
man975dog 1 year ago
Oh man... and I'm in my early 40s now... sheesh... thx for the memories :)
danawadd 3 years ago
I really get choked up watching this,brings you back to laying on the floor on a rainy day on a summer afternoon. And being a kid one more time. sniff!
1952kid 3 years ago 28
@1952kid This has the same effect on me NOW and I am 56.
castillianwagon500 1 year ago
@1952kid
Wow, your post is exactly what we used to do as kids. Life was better.
gooboo1000 1 year ago
@1952kid yes, i was on the floor in my parent room also lol karen
vicksbaby4lyfe 1 year ago
@1952kid Except The Million Dollar Movie was at 8pm! After Star Trek or was that on WPIX11??? Ok..it was after Benny Hill...that was it!!
vivalapsych 1 year ago
@vivalapsych depends on what era you watched. In the '50s and '60s in the NY area, channel 9 WOR, used to show the same movie all day long, just like the real movie theaters. I was sick with the flu for a week when I was 8 or 9 and saw "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with James Cagney about 112 times!!
fscap811 1 year ago 15
@fscap811
I so remember that too! It was wonderful! I must have watched YANKEE DOODLE DANDY around 5 times.
I remember my brothers and my cousins and I while at my grandmother's house in Floral Park watched ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES all day long. We went out to play, then came back in and watched more. It was heaven. Thanks for reminding me.
swarze 5 months ago
@swarze You're welcome. We are about the same age that's why we can remember those great times. I still can't believe that back then we only had one television and our parents never really argued with us about what to watch...of course me and my sister watched a lot of stuff that they wanted...like Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, with all those disgusting recipes that had Kraft miniature marshmallows in them...yech!!
Remember the glow and warmth of those vacuum tubes
fscap811 5 months ago
@fscap811
The main job children had in the family room back then, was to change the channel. My father used to sit in his easy chair, and while I was stretched out on the couch, he would say, "Susan, while you're up...could you change the channel?" Used to drive me CRAZY!
swarze 5 months ago
@fscap811 lol!
NYCKittyGirl 3 months ago
@1952kid We used to drag our pillow and blanket into the living room with us and lie on the carpet all bundled up. My younger brother would cover himself head to toe 'cause he thought Cap't Kangaroo, Officer Joe Bolton etc., could see him - and I never told him different LOL !! Got me thinking about 'Mr Wizard' with a hot cup 'o Ovaltine on a cold, snowy winter morning there snuggled up on the rug. Damn, those were the days !!
ironman5454 1 year ago 3
This is better known as "Tara's Theme", composed by Max Steiner for "Gone With the Wind" (1939)...
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
NOT TO ME !
castillianwagon 3 years ago
i'd forgotten about this......also miss watching the mets on ch 9. they sucked but i'd still watch em.
afgan01 3 years ago
I miss the mets on 9 I hate them on 11 that was the home of the yankees for years
retroguy1976 3 years ago 5