Does Hawaii Five-O have the greatest intro in television history?
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Aiden Barnes
It’s in the conversation. That was a time of epic intro themes that got you psyched up for the show.
The Ventures took Hawaii Five O to No.4 on the Billboard 100 in 1969, so yeah, it’s badass.
Julian Sanchez
>based Zulu as Kono
Mission impossible is probably my other favorite from the 60s.
Nathaniel Morgan
Dominic White
The actual video intro of Mission Impossible was smartly edited, too. Lalo Schifrin still hanging around. Age 87. Did a good Mannix theme, too.
Chase Taylor
In terms of original sequences used as titles...
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You can't argue with this
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Nothing wrong with a good dirty montage though
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Jeremiah Hall
Man, they edited the shit out of that b-roll. Works great though.
James Flores
Good choices. I remember as a kid hearing that acoustic guitar to MASH start and I knew it was time to get up and walk out of the room. As an adult I've grown to appreciate the show more.
Mason Gray
It doesn't really stand up now but I used to love this an opening even if the show was boring.
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As a more mature kinographer it occurs to me even in those clips nearly every shot is a cheap reference to something else (a lot of For Your Eyes Only and even Lucille Ball in there).
Jace Anderson
Solid choices. HSB is iconic.
The songs are better than the video, but gotta go with:
Gilligan’s island
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Happy Days (we’ll be right back. Awwwwww)
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Friends, and Fresh Prince, unironically.
Also stop your jibberjabber, fool:
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Riiiiing, riiiing:
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And the Adult Swim classic
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Good OC post OP.
Matthew Cruz
There just aren't many contemporary shows that even put the effort in. I will say that Bosch on Amazon has a very well done intro. Mad Men had a memorable intro. Sopranos obviously. It became few and far between in the past 20 +years. The 80s seemed to be the last decade of truly epic intro themes.
Hunter Bailey
the 80s loved their kino cars. Total opposites.
Dukes of Hazzard
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Knight Rider
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Wyatt Roberts
>This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you.
Connor Nelson
BSG had a good intro.
Gotta give credit to the real effort of Game of Thrones, memorable music and they changed up the visuals to the episode.
Stranger Things hit the 80s music and graphics vibe but didn’t do more with it.
But, yeah, generally it is a lost art. Especially in the last decade....
Hunter Powell
>Riiiiing, riiiing:
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They changed the answering machine message each episode which was pretty innovative.
Jayden Nelson
It's pretty obvious that Archer ripped off Mannix alot. The color squares in the intro.
Asher Roberts
Archer for comparison
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Definitely a 60s graphic trope. But it kinda was built on the Bond kino opening as well... iconic in itself....
Logan Baker
Hawaii Five-O is totally worth revisiting and light years better than the remake with James Caan's son.
David Hughes
Jack Lord had the greatest hair of the 20th century....
Wyatt Ward
Cary Grant and Elvis are in the running. They said Jack Lord emptied cans of hairspray on set keeping that thing puffed up.
Owen Howard
The guy who played the DA on the show the first couple of seasons sat in the makeup chair next to Lord's and was often asked if Lord wore a toupee and he replied "No, but he had a comb over that defied physics."
Wyatt Cruz
Batman Beyond has the best opening in tv history, Miami Vice is second
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Jose Scott
Brody Rivera
Miami Vice is pure (fucking 80s cocaine) kino.
My nose bleeds on that intro.
Nathaniel Reed
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It inspired this one:
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Benjamin Taylor
>Kam Fong as Chin Ho!
James Watson
>Mannix
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That and the opening of The Thomas Crown Affair remind me of Cowboy Bebop, which I saw first even though it is the newest one.
Daniel Stewart
>Kam Fong as Chin Ho
>Zulu as Kono
Why bother? Lol
Aiden Barnes
Probably the most comfy intro of TVsitcom history, that really shouldn’t have never worked. Nothing haha funny about it.
But hey: “where everybody knows your name..”
Meta. Brilliant. Iconic.