^ That's a theme I've always liked, along with Roberta Flack. 😎

On 12/20/2017 at 8:47 AM, All My Shadows said:

The Hollywood Wives theme/opening brings back good memories for me, and I wasn't even alive when it originally aired. The first time I watched the miniseries had to be 2002 or 2003 when WE regularly aired those great 80s miniseries. Imagine a little 12-year-old black boy in south Louisiana watching this alone on a Saturday afternoon, not the most popular kid in school, often picked on for not being manly enough, etc. That escapist fantasy meant so much to me. Everyone else was escaping into Harry Potter and anime, yet here I was living in a world of 70s and 80s glamour and excess. I wouldn't trade a single second of it.

Sins starring Joan Collins, with theme "It's Hard to Be Tender" by Carly Simon. The song is quite sad, honestly, but so beautiful.

 

 

 

 

For the geniuses of that genre of television (Aaron Spelling, Sidney Sheldon, Judith and Steve Krantz and, of course, Jackie Collins) I hope they knew what their shows meant to you and others who share your story - I think it's incredibly touching. I think Aaron Spelling did, which is why he revered his audience so greatly, and Jackie Collins did which is why she kept writing. 

 

Agreed about It's Hard to be Tender - it really is a sad, beautiful song. I think it captured that mini-series really well. It also captured a certain essence of Joan. Joan demonstrated that she could produce a highly successful piece of commercial television with that mini-series - it looked first class with all the location shooting and the Valentino wardrobe. I've wondered how Carly came to write the theme for the mini-series, the only connection she and Joan have is they both dated Warren Beatty. 

Beautiful music from a BBC adaptation of C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" from the 1980s.

 

Does anyone else remember the 1993 sitcom Phenom? All these years later, I still vividly remember the theme song "The Promise and the Prize", written and performed by Carly Simon:

 

 

 

I loved that show, watched every week.  Judith and William had great chemistry and I seem to remember the young female lead being quite good (as was her neurotic balding brother).

So did I. I was so disappointed when it was cancelled after only one season. Same with Steve Harvey's Me & The Boys.

So much nostalgia....

 

^ Yes...I always loved Bruno/Lee Curreri.

 

Loved this show as a 10-year-old. Still do. And loved the theme! (Done by the late, great Henry Mancini.) Young Pierce Brosnan...rowr!

 

 

This theme, called Laura's Theme, was also by Henry Mancini and was the song used in the S1 intro for "Remington Steele":

 

 

Memories..... 

 

 

 

The 90s X-Men cartoon was my favorite X-Men adaptation, not just for its catchy and dramatic theme song.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk

 

And the Japanese version of the same:

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSw4Xl5qfs

I don’t know if anyone watches the Japanese show Terrace House on Netflix, but they have my favorite reality-show opening credits outside of the Real Housewives.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28, 20187 yr by Faulkner

 

This show is a textbook example of a show that ran waaay too long (372 episodes, 1992-2010). The first years were fantastic, but then, after the death of leading lady Kate (Niamh Cusack) the show began a slow but relentless decline. The last few years it had deteriorated into almost a caricature of itself. All the grittiness and realism of the first years were gone.

But I will always treasure those first years as some of the best on television.

1 hour ago, I Am A Swede said:

This show is a textbook example of a show that ran waaay too long (372 episodes, 1992-2010). The first years were fantastic, but then, after the death of leading lady Kate (Niamh Cusack) the show began a slow but relentless decline. The last few years it had deteriorated into almost a caricature of itself. All the grittiness and realism of the first years were gone.

But I will always treasure those first years as some of the best on television.

 

It probably could have run longer but ITV was on a mission to kill off their long-running shows at this time (The Bill, Heartbeat, Wild at Heart, The Royal). I know some stopped watching after Nick Berry left. It was also another of those shows that never left one decade, wasn't it?