Spelling-Goldberg's "Family" - Season 1 Opening Credits
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Probably the most touching intro ever made, just beautiful stuff!
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This theme is too depressing. It was good in the pilot and great as a background piece in dramatic scenes, but as the main theme...idk. The second episode, Monday is Forever, ends with a great, positive, uplifting scene then fades into this downbeat theme. It really clashed.
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I was just in Pasadena and drove by the house. It looks almost exactly the same as in the opening credits. Beautiful home.
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I've been looking for season 2 theme but can't locate it. I thought they were different and the comments seem to back that.
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Rest in Peace Sada Thompson.
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I think Elayne Heilveil was the more believable of the two Nancy's. I was 15-19 during the run and Meredith Baxter seemed too contrite. Heilveil reminded me of so many girls in my high school so I felt a connection there. This was such a great show and I remember watching it with my mom waiting for my dad to get home. Thanks for posting, gonna go cry now... :)
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I love the original theme, and I also prefer the way Sada Thompson walks far more normally in the opener. In the later openers, she walks much too stiffly and in such a rehearsed fashion. (Funny how they changed only her picture, but kept the others).
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OMG the theme, compared to how they re-vampted it, was really awful in Season one.
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Great cast of a show that has not aged well with time. The character of Nancy seemed miscast twice: the first by a Jewish actress [yeah, she'd be the logical daughter of two WASPy parents] and the second by Meredith Baxter Birney who seemed too pretty and blonde. A distraction. Prob Fred Silverman said 'get someone pretty to give the show a lift!'
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@MelanieNLee I remember that episode as well. That was when the first nancy was on.
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The great thing about Season One was the theme
Written by John Rubinstein. The son of perhaps
the greatest Pianist of all time
Artur Rubenstein. He also played Nancy's Ex
Cattwo12 4 years ago 4
i have to say that i think this theme song is by far the better of the two. it has a sort of haunting yet poignant quality...and given the fact that family was such a huge departure from other dramas at the time, this version seems to capture something unique that you wouldn't have heard normally. the other theme song could have been written for any show. this one has that certain jenesaisquoi.
merela8 3 years ago 3