12 MORE 70s TV THEME INTROS 

Ever notice how many TV shows from the 70s have opening sequences with dramatic shots of people dramatically talking on the phone, dramatically? Now that I pointed it out, you won't be able to stop seeing it.

Thanks for sharing these. I got the Ellery Queen theme a split second before the title ran. I lived in Ireland so we only saw some of these. However the Night Gallery theme used to scare the bejesus out of me long before the show actually started.

When Lee Majors left to do the one hour version of The Six Million Dollar Man, he was replaced on the last season of Owen Marshall by David Soul, later famous for Starsky and Hutch.

I had to watch Night Gallery from my bedroom door which was conveniently placed behind my parents chairs....never got caught and that was a damn good show.

I remember watching Ghost Story on NBC Friday nights at 9:00. The ending of "Requiem for a Vampire" has stuck with me all these years.

EVERYONE got a shot at a series back then. Share the wealth, baby!

Three great, creepy ones in a row! "The Sixth Sense" (this is the 2nd Season opener, 1973); "Ghost Story" by William Castle (which morphed into "Circle of Fear" in the middle of the season, with new theme and credits which were definitely inferior); and finally "Night Gallery".

The Night Gallery theme is haunting still to this day.

Man, Quinn Martin was wrecking shit in the 70's.

"NIGHT GALLERY" I remember sneaking down stairs to watch it at 11:30 at night. The intro music scared me all the time. I was bummed that they only showed the half hour version where i lived. Bigger scare was my mother catching me watching it.

I remember Night Gallery, was on when I was in high school. My dad allowed me to stay up to watch it, as long as my homework was done and I was not doing bad in any subject. No problem, and that show was creepy, and we enjoyed it.

How could you call Baa Baa Black Sheep a less than popular show? That show had a big following as it came out right after Midway and MacArthur with Gregory Peck were in the theaters. Robert Conrad made this show extremely popular for 2 seasons

God does this bring back memories.

Some of these shows I remember being on, most of them are the first time I heard of them. RU-vid is the closest thing we have to a time machine.

Last,but not least...Quinn Martin's 'Tales of the Unexpected'. The theme music kicked @ss!

I watched many of those as a teen.Crime shows then were mild, no blood or gore.A man could be shot 5 times and his shirt would be clean.I liked Ellery Queen, Snoop Sisters, and Bronk.Ghost Story and Night Gallery were good.Dad loved Black Sheep Squadron.I don't recall those that took place in Europe, like 'Asignment Vienna'.

Remember watching Brink as a youngster and would love to see a DVD release. Tales of the Unexpected was unsuccessful, however, it's pilot episode was a brilliant nightmare.

my aunts would gather up every week to watch "Night Gallery" , epic show!

Lee Majors was everywere in the 70's.

The Ellery Queen series is now out on DVD! Yahoo!!

I like the description of these clips. "less than popular" is a kind way of saying flop.

Very interesting collection of TV titles. Night Gallery was a personal favorite of mine, even though my aunt was against me watching it when it first came out because she believed the show would give me nightmares. I would like to see a scarier, modern version of Night Gallery.

Ellery Queen in the Night Gallery two superb shows.

Surely 'Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law' has to be the least inspiring set of opening credits in TV history!!!! It's just three suited middle aged men walking out of an office building!! Hysterical. "Watch them do their tax returns, in REAL TIME"!!!

The Men From Shiloh was a continuation of The Virginian.

Would you believe that Robert Conrad is the host of his own radio show? You can even find it on RU-vid under the Conduit page. And way to go on that "Virginian" opening! I've NEVER seen that version before! You SO rock!!!

Excellent.

Totally forgot about most if these shows until saw this. Ellery Queen the best. The latter other's still freak me out.

I wish I could find the CBS intro to "The Six Wives of Henry VIII". Anthony Quayle introduced the episodes, as I recall.

Ellery Queen was a great show!!!!

0:00 Bronk 1:09 Ellery Queen 1:53 Strange Report 2:51 Assignment: Vienna 3:34 Black Sheep Squadron 4:44 Men from Shiloh 5:38 Owen Marshall 6:06 Spiderman 7:07 Six Sense 8:04 Ghost Story 8:31 Night Gallery 8:57 Tales of the Unexpected

Lee Majors was doing Owen Marshall while doing a pilot for another series that he would later be identified with to this day. The Six Million Dollar Man

When I was a kid, I remember Night Gallery when it was in reruns, Man, did that show creep me out!

Ellery Queen was great. I had such a crush on Jim Hutton. Black Sheep Squadron was originally Baa Baa Black Sheep. My favorite show at the time. RIP Robert Ginty. But come on. How could you ignore Quincy? My other favorite when it was on. I had a crush on the actor who played Sam.

NIGHT GALLERY is curentlly being shown weeknights on ME TV

Night Gallery was awesome

excellent

You have the last THE SIXTH SENSE opening...cool!

Très bonnes séries et très bonnes musiques.

Love it

Best themes, Ennio Morricone's Men From Shiloh, and David Shire's Tales of the Unexpected.

Old is cool.

forgot about a lot of these!

NIGHTLIGHT, YOU FUNKIN’ BRITCH!!!

That Night Gallery opening scared the crap out of me as a kid. And Lee Majors as a lawyer?

I was born in '63, but I really don't remember some of these shows. Probably because I went to bed at 9:00 p.m. on school nights.

@Blackwolff9 The Men From Shiloh was the final 9th season of The Virginian, only James Drury and Doug McClure lasted the entire 9 years. It's coming out on DVD this month, along with Season 5.

Emergency was a good t.v. program and it ran from 1972 to 1978 Station 51 if anyone remember that

I would watch Jack Palance in anything.

get smart should be one if it was on in the 70s :)

wow! I didn't know that Mitt Romney was Spiderman! LOL

Baa Baa Black Sheep (later Black Sheep Squadron) was my favorite of the bunch.

The Fugitive Starting David Jansen the theme Song was tight 11:54pm East coast Raleigh NC 1/1/2019

Two good things about Tales of the Unexpected: the theme which was disco awesome, and Eve Plumb. Mmmmmmm .... Eve Plumb.

Robert Conrad in Assignment: Vienna. Ha. I remember him in aA Man Called Sloan. There should have been an Assignment: Earth

strange report was big in uk

The "Bronk" theme is actually the 2nd version. The first one was a stark piano slowly building to the sequence where the stars are seen in the barrels of the revolver.

Owen Marshall? These are more dramas. I never watched dramas. Well, yea, Spiderman. Nick Hammond always looked bored. David White (Larry Tate) from Bewitched was J Jonah Jameson in the pilot. Never watched the Sixth Sense, only heard about it recently. Never heard of that Ghost Story. NIGHT GALLERY, I REMEMBER! One scary opening. Tales of the Unexpected, I remember. It was hard to find that show. And I don't think Bill Bixby is credited for his episode. TVland aired it recently.

@DurhamGooner I'd say Owen Marshall was better in the first two seasons, when the opening theme was longer and had just Arthur Hill and Lee Majors. There were other scenes included in it. I think you'd like that better than the third season clip included in this set.

The Bronk theme sounds a lot like the Kojak theme, at least IMO

I watched Bronk and Black Sheep Squadron new, in my teens, as well as Ellery Queen.I didn't like Owen Marshall TV show.Many of the late 1960's and 1970's TV shows I liked, but there were some I didn't, so I simply ignored them.

Originally The Silent Force was included but it was lost.

Never heard of "Strange Report", and only heard of "Assignment: Vienna"; never saw it but knew it existed. "Black Sheep Squadron" was originally titled "Baa Baa Black Sheep" - I seem to remember Peter Frampton (!) guesting in one episode. "Bronk" wasn't bad. One you don't have here is "The Men" (had Isaac Hayes doing the theme song).

I only remember some of these. Were some of them British programs?

Like Incorporating Are neighbors Across the Atlantic Or The Pond

No, it was what they called the main character.

@burbledad I know. It sounds like the noise my brother makes when he belches.

I had the biggest crush on Jim Hutton!

@CelesteK its a real show i watched back in school in the 70s

Ellery Queen, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Night Gallery were all good shows that were popular but just had bad luck. I wouldn't call the "less than popular".

Regarding Bronk, it sure wasn't the seasoned actors that skewed it. I remember my dad, who was a NYC Transit cop at the time, relating how ironic it was that many in the police department sided with internal affairs and took a dim view of Bronk's concept of an independent "Mayor's cop" who had free license to dig into the alleged misdoings and corruption of anyone in the force. In a pale way Dan Baker in Eishied (sp?) on NBC coyly tried to ape this concept too.

Don't remember Bronk at all. Vaguely recall Ellery Queen. I think in reruns tho. I think those were like the Mystery shows where McCloud and Columbo came from. Strange Report? Assignment Vienna? Were these made FOR the American audience? Black Sheep Squadron has been aired on History channel in at least the past decade. I remember Baa Baa Black Sheep. Heard of The Virginian. Never watched it.

Black Sheep Squadron was not quite as big a flop as some think. Neither was Owen Marshall. They both stuck around long enough to be remembered. Spider-Man, on the other hand, tried to cash in on the superhero trend of the day, but definitely failed, and is best forgotten.

02:40 Hello, Polly.

nice but now I'm getting old

the music and graphics for "the virginian" seem influenced by the title sequences from spaghetti westerns.

I'll also chime in about 70s Spider Man ... even when I was a kid watching this when it originally aired, I knew it sucked. And it wasn't because of the cheesy webs or obvious wire work when Spidey jumps ... it was because I got the feeling they apparently tried to save as much money as possible by having as little Spider Man as they could get away with. You tuned in for a superhero show. What you got was the same recycled Watergate-inspired plots that you saw on every other hour long crime show. Dull, dull ... dull. At least the Japanese Spider Man show had action, even if it had nothing much to do with Spider Man and was also recycled Japanese kids show dreck.

Spider-Man a TV series? Is that for real?

Bronk... such a great opening... Jack Palance!!! YESS... I think the name must have killed the show... that's not a name, it's a typo!

Bronk?

Who names their kid Bronk?

Rod Serling must have dropped some bad acid!

Tales of the Unexpected ? Try the UK Original. WAY Better!

I don't remember Bronk

Ellery Queen was popular, just up against "6 million dollar man." Bad programming. Strange Report ran its course, The star did not want to continue. Brittans are not use to a 25 episode a season run. Black Sheep had a sizable run. Hardly "less-than anything. I'll you Spiderman & Ghost Story. Sixth Sense was a summer replacement series & Night Gallery? Popular still. "Tales of the Unexpected" was a "Quinn Martin" production? He had great themes, & an announcer talking over them.

The theme from "The Sixth Sense" wasn't the one it started with; I think they changed it when they flipped time slots. The original theme was more melodic and introduced "Dr. Michael Rhodes" to us. Someone truncated several episodes and flipped them into "Night Gallery."

The 70s Spiderman looked like was made by Roger Corman. Horrible, horrible, horrible FX

you watched them.. liar

Awfully bad sound... :-)

Awful, just awful.... man I miss the 70's..

The Spider Man tv series was horrible.

Très séries et très bonnes musiques.