Channel 10 ID [1981]

Channel 10 ident from early 1981 with the slogan "Star Station" and stills-promo of Prisoner.
Listen for the popular MacAurther Park sample.
From Wikipedia:
From 1968 through to 1982, Australian Television stations forming the 0-10 network in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide in Australia used the "MacArthur Park" theme, as covered by Hugo Montenegro, at various times as its station ID music. The theme making its debut on ATV-0 in Melbourne in 1968. TEN-10 in Sydney, ATV-0 Melbourne and TVQ-10 (TVQ-0) Brisbane used the theme from 1973-1975 during the transition from black-and-white transmission to colour. All stations adjusting the black-and-white animation used with the theme to a full colour animation from March 1, 1975, when colour broadcasting started in Australia. TEN-10 Sydney was the last to air the theme as its promo music from 1981-1982.

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[MattTheSaiyan]

Someone left the Ten Network out in the rain.

[GrubcoTV3]

@MattTheSaiyan Yeah, great (and unmistakable) riff.

[myronfalwell]

But this time, it was a sample of Donna Summer's 17-minute long MacArthur Park... but the most productive use of that song I've seen.

[GrubcoTV3]

I think in the late 70s there was more of the song sampled, and it was cut back by 80s. But not sure.

I didn't know it was covered by Donna Summer though. 17 minutes eh? Quite the groovy journey, I'm sure.

[myronfalwell]

Yep. This is the Donna Summer version. It was also released as a five-minute top 40 single for radio airplay here in the US, but the original just goes on... and on... and on... and on. It's impossible to find here on YouTube just because of the length alone.

[GrubcoTV3]

Okay, no problem. I'll try to (ahem) download it from a Torrent site.

[LastNetwork2]

@myronfalwell Not anymore, they recently changed the rules where as long as you don't violate any of the copyright laws around here, you can post something for as long as you want it to be. Otherwise if you do, it's the standard 15 minutes.

[ijoujo]

"Prisoner" was such a revolutionary show - it still is some 30 years later. "Star Station Ten" was getting a bit old by then but it had served them well.

[TheLastNetwork]

Got any more from the "Star Station" series?

[mockviewer]

So what was with the idea for calling it Star Station TEN?