One Life to Live OLTL: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

[cassadine1991]

is that the 1989-1990 opening or the 1990-1991 opening??

[Khan]

Great. Now I'm going to catch hell for turning this into the Cosby Show Opening Thread.

[Vee]

This was always my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cm58Y_hhjw&feature=player_embedded

[cassadine1991]

what about this one??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVVsP0uins

[Khan]

Again, I want Erika Slezak to dance JUST. LIKE. RUDY.

[EricMontreal22]

I always wondered if Rashad's sister Debbie Allen choreographed that

[cassadine1991]

now that would be epic

[Khan]

I think it was Geoffrey Holder who was responsible for "The Huxtables Go Caribbean."

[~bl~]

Yes it was compared to the famous dancing Cosby Show openings. That's why I am looking forward to it. Erika would get the Bill treatment that would be really funny.

[Darn]

Hell I'd take a Cosby Show opening...if this show had only 10 cast members that never changed. I just really don't want them to be stuck when they choose to recast or actors leave/get fired. It's just embarrassing to see recasts while the original portrayer is still in the opening or having a new shot of character that looks like it was taken with someone's Macbook.

[cassadine1991]

a different version of the AMC/OLTL commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZze6ahFbhs

[Khan]

Say what you will about DAYS, but they never need to worry about that sort of thing. No matter who comes and goes, a simple shot of the hourglass, rotating or not, always suffices.

[Darn]

Absolutely. It's a classic. And it was doing the simple opening before that was in vogue.

B&B's old theme was also simple and beautiful and incredibly easy to update. Not that 3D Studio Max bull they have going on now.

[Winchester91]

1. Ha. Melissa Archer drunk tweeting.

[Khan]

Actually, if you think about it, openings for the earliest TV soaps -- DAYS, AS THE WORLD TURNS, GUIDING LIGHT, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW, EDGE OF NIGHT, LOVE OF LIFE, SECRET STORM, I could go on -- were pretty darn simple. Even AMC and OLTL's openings were simple before Rauch came up with the "Peabo opening" in the Eighties. It's only when someone (Y&R?) got the idea to include actors' faces that the problems began.