Reboots of classic TV series are all the rage now. Here are the original main titles sequences of eleven popular series…and the opening themes of their re-imagined, re-booted, and sometimes regurgitated reincarnations.
Hawaii Five-O
Mission Impossible
Adam-12
Charlie’s Angels
Bionic Woman
The Munsters
Star Trek
Dragnet
Battlestar Galactica
Knightrider
Kung Fu
There you go leaving out Enterprise again. đ
A note about the Next Generation theme – it was a remix of the spoken word beginning of the Original Series theme and the theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
I donât know how you know all this, but itâs a bit amazing. It reminds me of all the great detail in John Le CarrĂ©âs superstar novel, âSmileyâs People.â Detail is gold: anybody can write generally about a story world but only the real experts can bring it to vibrating life with all their insights. I donât understand why your main character in, say, a mystery series isnât a TV critic, inside the world of TV, trying to document the great shows from the past. Itâs a fit.
I’ve said everything I want to say about the TV biz. Not only that, I think what you are proposing would have a very narrow appeal.
You can’t have said everything you want to say about the TV biz, Lee, you blog about it constantly, coming up with fresh ideas, new takes, criticisms, appreciations and comments on production. You watch almost every series on DVD, studying and thinking and commenting. That’s where you get your energy from. Itâs You at your most authentic. What did you say in âThe Heistâ that you canât say better, deeper, broader and sweeter in a TV story?
As for appeal, you may be putting marketing considerations ahead of creative considerations. It’s a mistake to look at the market and ask, “What do they want?’ and then to try to write it. Some expert in the field will write it better. What they want is insight. Mary Higgins Clark delivered great insights into society in her early career, but they dried up and thatâs why sales have fallen off. They donât want just another mystery story. So what area are you best in? TVland. Youâve got the insights that will lead to the success. Why write fiction about subjects youâre not an expert on, you wonât have the insights.