General Hospital Closing Credits (1984)

General Hospital closing credits from February 8, 1984, a pre-Friday sequence with dayplayer cast. Look for Demi Moore, John Stamos (in his last months as Blackie Parrish) and Barry Williams - imagine that, Greg Brady as an English con man associating with Holly Scorpio!

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Entertainment

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• General
• Hospital
• GH
• closing
• credits
• 1984
• Autumn
• Breeze

[KMMADEY]

You have some great classic gh videos. I really have enjoyed viewing them. I have desperately for years tried to locate episodes from when the show broadcasted in the 45 minute format from1976 to 1978. Any chance at All you have any footage or maybe point me to anyone who might? Greatly appreciate it! Thanks

[VaultMasterDBT]

As I often tell people, if I had the certain footage they were looking for, I would have posted it by now. :) These 1975-79 GH credit sequences I got specifically from other people; however, if you simply search for "General Hospital" followed by, for example, "1977", you will see plenty of episode clips from the end of the Tom Donovan era and the beginning of the Gloria Monty era, that were probably recorded by one of the only 12 people that owned a VCR during that decade!

[Braenchild82]

I LOVE the closing theme to General Hospital, although I never watched the show. It's the epitome of everything that was great about 80s theme music when I was little.

Too bad noone has the complete theme. All that's available are truncated versions that leave off the little crescendo at the end.

[VaultMasterDBT]

I have personally edited together the complete on-air version of "Autumn Breeze" comprised of two copies of the closing. I plan to use it on a future parody video project of mine, so definately look out for that!

If you search for "GH Feb 1983 Credits", you will see a version of the closing that picks up the theme from the middle, and runs to the very end. It was an affiliate's over-dub to block out network announcements, it seems.

[cherberrie]

This opening makes me cry seriously. It does. It reminds me so much of my gram. I used to watch it with her when I was a kid. She has since passed away and this just reminds me of her.

[Nighthawk5210]

I was a huge fan of the ABC soaps in the 70's and 80's so hearing this closing theme of GH that I always loved is great--the melody was going around in my head for some reason and I knew I might find it on YouTube, it brings back so many memories, thanks for uploading it.

[in2runningks]

@cherberrie Wow I could have written that! I very well remember that the world came to a stand still every weekday from 1-3 pm at my grandmother's house while she watched One Life to Live and General Hospital. I actually remember that she disliked President Carter because he liked to hold televised press conferences during that same time and preempting those shows! Whenever I hear those themes my mind races back to her and those "innocent" days.

[coolwafferman]

I wish I can watch the Afterschool Special that was coming on after this. I like the After School Specials, but it was messed up because I read that ABC wouldn't show "The Edge of Night" wish followed "GH" at 4:00 because of the specials.

[GodCreatesGays2]

@landrykkb, true, the young girls who drooled over Blackie and Frisco had no interest in the integrity of the writing. It's just as shame, because before the hacks took over, Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith wrote intelligent, adult drama that ALSO included plenty of young hunks to keep the audience drooling. If only that combination--erudite writing and attractive romantic leads--had continued.

[noodleann9]

brings me back to my childhood. the closing credits were my cue to start my homework.

[landrykkb]

@msmithstud I'd much rather an all-out game show revival than another overkill of talk and reality shows.

[landrykkb]

@GodCreatesGays2 Although Luke & Laura had returned in 1984 or the year before,it was the likes of John Stamos(Blackie) & Jack Wagner(Frisco) who kept the young females tuned in around this time.I don't think they were mature enough to care about the writing then.LOL

[GodCreatesGays2]

@landrykkb, well, that depends on what you consider its "peak". It was still riding high on a wave of popularity that had been initiated by great writers Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith, who had created and wrote about characters the audience cared about, and the show had also attracted a large teenaged audience who found amusement in the low-brow, campy, adolescent stories the hack writers of the 1980s chose to tell. The show was highly rated, but creatively and intellectually bankrupt.

[msmithstud]

@landrykkb i read today that Y and R are losing ratings among women 18-49 years of age. So it's just a matter of time before theres nothing left but talk shows and reality shows

[landrykkb]

@GodCreatesGays2 Actually,GH was at its peak still in 1984.