AMC Question

[Dr Neil Curtis]

Anyone know where I can find the Martin Housewarming from 1995? I looked all over Youtube, but I couldn't find it!!

[LeClerc]

I've been able to find some scenes from before the guests all arrive (Joe showing Ruth around their new house and her feeling like something is missing; Dixie worried that "the others" won't be able to get to the surprise part because of a snowstorm; as well as some Janet/Palmer/Daisy and Erica/Dimitri/Mark stuff) and the closing credits over a scene of Ruth making a speech to all the guests, but none of the material in-between. And I've been looking for several months now.

Here's the link for the credits: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=V14qlKj0DxQ

[R Sinclair]

That reminds me of how much I simply DID NOT like that theme song... and the opening back then with wild horses running free through the meadows, and the weird lifeless cast images, and all of that.

[Cheap21]

yeah but at least they updated it a few times to include moving shots and they remixed the song with a more upbeat version. Still nothing beats the Yellow Album opening from 2002 with the early 90s theme. I hate that it only lasted for a short time

[SFK]

I remember praying that that white linen opening and melancholy theme were only for anniversary week. I mean, how could they!? I also liked the 2002 opening, it didn't last nearly long enough and I think the cast's character's names in their own handwriting was the best part of that ABC names in the credits trend. Also liked how Erica had two versions of beauty shots in the credits.

[rsmith2k2]

That's one of my fave openings too.

[Dr Neil Curtis]

I liked that version also, but thats when AMC created those weird useless characters: Juan Pablo, Carlos, and Boyd. there was more if I am not mistaken.

[Cheap21]

Laurie, Henry, the blonde girl that Reggie liked

[Jonathan]

I don't want to hijack this thread and make it about openings, but I still like the one that Felicia Minei Behr introduced at the 20 year mark with the photos and the album, the one that followed the original opening . And how could you not love the theme music, the way it built tension in the first act and then led into the opening. That's a great way to create drama. They need to get back to doing that.

[All My Shadows]

[small voice]I *looooooove* the late 90s/early 00s theme song.[/small voice] I love the full version.

[detroitpiston]

I loved the "White Opening". Mainly cause it was during the time the opening was used that I first started watching the show regularly.

[SFK]

Nothing will ever beat the 90-95 opening, and Jonathan's right, the way they'd start the thumping "uh oh" music the last few seconds of the teaserwas awesome, very missed.

[Adam]

AGREED! Classic. AMC's 1990-1995 I think rivals Nadia's theme as the best soap theme in existence. Oh it was so good. The visuals too were so groundbreaking for its time. It makes today's incarnation look cheap.... and we are supposedly way ahead in technology

[alwaysAMC]

The music playing during the teaser was AWESOME - my favorite thing ever - made things so much more dramatic.

[Jonathan]

I have no scientific proof of this, but I feel that when this opening was abandoned, the ratings started to slowly erode. Where's our resident statistician, MarkH? Can you do an analysis for us? I'd like to see how these two variables are correlated.