When I was kid growing up in Oklahoma I used to watch this show. Fran Tarkenton used to do commercials for a Ford dealership in Oklahoma City and at the end of each commercial a group of people would shout "That's Incredible!" and Fran would say "No, that's Southwest Ford!". Thank you for this nice piece of nostalgia.
Happy 40th Birthday of That's Incredible! Cathy Lee Crosby, Fran Tarketon (ex Minnesota Vikings quarterback), and John Davidson. That's just incredible what I thought it was. Thanks for playing this intro❄️🇺🇸😎📺🏈
Yes! Every time I hear these theme music intros and outros it really makes me long for the days of a much simpler world that we lived in back then. That brass sound makes all of the music of these shows unique and very distinctive.
This show was the only reason to watch TV on Monday nights back in the early 80's. The one segment they did about the ghost in the Toys R Us gave me nightmares for weeks.
The one about the near-death experiences of people, who went to HELL scared me at 15! One guy said that he doesn’t drink or even swears anymore because he “DOESN’T want to go back to that place “ from his near-death experience!
@@mrScififan2 Oh, yes, I remember that one only too well. I was 10 at the time and I insisted on sleeping in my parent's room for nearly two weeks! It seems ridiculous now but at the time it scared the absolute poop out of me
This was one of my favorite shows growing up. I saw some amazing and cool things that wasn't on before and I loved It. It's like the television version of You Tube.
We never missed an episode of this show when I was a kid, but I had no memories of what kind of stories they covered or what guests they had. Thanks for posting this. The truly incredible part is that we found this so interesting at the time. But this and "Real People" were highly rated shows. (Btw, I can't say or hear the words "that's incredible" without thinking of that intro!)
I love their incredible video clips at the end, three skydivers linked up, a few cats on someone's stove, a motorcycle driving through some flames! Extreme!
Yes! I’m the same way. I get so nostalgic when I hear old theme music or songs and intro/outro music and songs. They sure bring back a lot of memories. Seeing Fran, Cathy, and John again and them being so young looking is what is incredible now. Fran is 83 years old now. I remember watching him quarterback the Minnesota Vikings back before this show was created and I have always thought he was one of the greatest quarterbacks the NFL ever had. He is a very honorable and humble man. I always really liked John Davidson, too. Cathy was cute and I have no idea what she is doing these days. I’ll have to look her up. It’s just so hard to realize that this is 40 years ago.
Oh, my. Hearing that intro music and seeing those three REALLY triggers memories for me of junior high school and early high school. My mother and late stepdad watched this show without fail every week and we loved it. I don’t remember exactly what night of the week it was on, but I definitely remember being sure that I finished my homework and got to the living room television (Which was one of those big wooden console TV’s) to watch this show. It makes me long for those days of being so young and living in a MUCH simpler world. No smartphones, DVD players, internet, “viral” STUPID Tik Tok challenges, constant breaking news on 24 hour news networks, and so many other things that weren’t even thought of yet that have literally taken over people’s minds now. The world truly was a much simpler and more settled place. The world has always been crazy to at least some degree, but it seems that now it has gone off the deep end and shows like this would never hold people’s attention or satiate their thirst for constant stimulation and sensational entertainment that is both VERY strange and disturbing. I miss the world of the 70’s and 80’s. Oh, and Fran Tarkenton was one of the GREATEST NFL players of all time. He is a very honest and honorable man. It makes me feel so old to know that he is now 83 years old. Anyway, sorry for the long comment, but this intro really brought back a lot of memories for me and I felt the need to say what all I said here. Thank you for posting this intro and it is very good quality for being such old footage. It looks like it came from the original Master Tapes of the show.
As many others have pointed out, the popularity of this show (and "Real People" before it) was the same as the popularity of RU-vid and many forms of social media. We get to see things we've never seen before. And back in the early 80s, we only got it for about 23 minutes (without the commercials) a week! Now, you could watch 24 hours a day!
i remember this show vividly. I watched it religiously every Monday night at I believe it was 8:00. I loved it when I was a kid. It also scared the bejesus out of me when they did the shows on 'real' ghosts!
I remember this show! Used to watch it all the time! The one I remember the most was the fastest Rubic's Cube contest they had and I think those were kids that were doing it at that time! I can't believe how old-looking the film is. It sure beats anything that's on TV these days!
Yes! I remember the fastest Rubik’s Cube solvers that they had on the show. And, of course, this was back when the Rubik’s Cube was a brand new thing. A lot of young people think that they were first made just 20 years ago or something. But Rubik’s Cube is now 40 years old. It just doesn’t seem that long. This was one of my favorite shows, too, when I was in junior high school and early high school.
Every time I think of that's incredible I think of my childhood, Monday night football, and that scary ass episode they did with the haunted toys r us store.
This takes me back when my mom and grandmother were alive and right before the show my mom would cook me a homemade hamburger with my Strawberry Quick.😢
For 25 years I got memories of this show, snippets & images here & there, but could never remember what it was called, then while watching "Poltergeist", Jobeth Williams' character, Diane Freeling mentions the name of the show. They don't make good shows like this anymore.
My favorite episode as a kid was the one where the dude was doing tricks with bubbles. He even made square bubbles. Does anyone else remember that episode?
I'm just watching Inside Edition and they were catching up on John Davidson just now and I was like wasn't he on that show that's incredible cuz I was like maybe 7 8 years old watching that show that I loved with my father and my little brother wow memories
Hah. I totally remember watching this episode back then. At least, I remember the three "talkers" - The first guy could repeat another person's words simultaneously as they were being spoken. The second guy held the world's record as the fastest speaker in the english language and set a world record for reciting a long speech in less than a minute. The third guy could speak backwards (kaeps sdrawkcab). The other segments they mention, I cannot recall.
This famous tv show from the early 1980's that I remember very well, was very similar to later ABC tv show in the '80's of "Ripley's Believe it or Not!". After watching "Believe it or Not", it appears that "Believe it or Not" existed a long time earlier, on either television, the cinemas, or perhaps the radio, since all those incredible and unbelievable acts go as far back as the early 1900's, and the late 19th century.
Hey, did Fran Tarketon used to play for the Minnesota Vikings, and Cathy Lee Crosby from the 1974 movie Wonder Woman? And remember that TV show in the late '70s-early '80s? That's incredibly what I thought. Thanks for the memories 😉🇺🇸🗽🦅🛣️
Yep, I believe it was in a Toys R US somewhere mid-west. I also had a paperback book on That's Incredible and featured a corner of a building seemed to walk away from the main building.
I used to love this show. In seventh grade, one of my teachers gave us an assignment every week to watch "60 Minutes" and it was on against this so I was so mad. It was before VHS machines so I'd try to catch this during the commercials. I'd like to see the MGM Fire one! I remember when that happened (I live in Las Vegas) and we were watching it from our driveway. One of the firefighters was my cousin. I didn't know they put in on That's Incredible. I agree, this seems super-cheesy now!
How is it that something that is so obviously cheesy and practically unwatchable to us now was not so 25 years ago? I was 12 when this show was on and I remember loving it. It's really strange how the perceptions of an entire society can change so much in such a relatively short amount of time.
I love it...at 1:09of all the "incredible" video to show after the intro, the first thing we see is a cat sitting in a pot! LOL. Maybe the cat is the supervising producer, as stated!
