Author Topic: Very temporary themes (Read 6228 times)

MikeK · « **on:** January 30, 2011, 11:12:26 AM »

How many shows used a theme different from the one most associated with that show? Some stipulations: The different theme couldn't have been used on a pilot or nor could the theme be used on a very rare basis, like when MG 7x closed with Auld Lang Syne to finish a year.

I came up with two:
* Now You See It--for a few weeks early in its original run, the main theme was the halftime cue.
* The Joker's Wild--for the 3rd and/or 4th weeks, a vastly different tune was used before reverting back to The Savers.

Any others?

irismason42 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2011, 12:19:15 PM »

* Child's Play -- For the first 3 weeks of episodes when they went to their first commercial break, the opening theme we initially heard on the '80s TV Theme Supersite, was used, the actual main theme that was heard on the one TPIR episode from October 1982 is used throughout its entire run.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2011, 12:37:57 PM »

Didn't WML change its closing theme for a few months around 1959 or 1960?

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'255963\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 11:12 AM\']* Now You See It--for a few weeks early in its original run, the main theme was the halftime cue.[/quote]
Anyone have a clip of that? I was watching pretty much every show back when GSN was airing it, and I don't remember that at all.

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'255963\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 11:12 AM\']* The Joker's Wild--for the 3rd and/or 4th weeks, a vastly different tune was used before reverting back to The Savers.[/quote]
I didn't think it was so much "vastly different" as an odd remix...but hell, what do I know? I haven't heard it in over a decade.

MikeK · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2011, 12:51:15 PM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'255967\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 12:37 PM\']Anyone have a clip of that? I was watching pretty much every show back when GSN was airing it, and I don't remember that at all.[/quote]
Check the TVPMM's free NYSI page. The halftime cue, in short and long form, are there. If you're talking about a video clip, I might have one on a portable hard drive, but I wouldn't put money on it...

Eric Paddon · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2011, 01:19:05 PM »

When I saw those NYSI episodes on GSN, they actually kept using "Chump Change" for the open of the show but then used the halftime music everywhere else.

WhammyPower · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2011, 01:27:54 PM »

[quote name=\'Eric Paddon\' post=\'255974\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 12:19 PM\']When I saw those NYSI episodes on GSN, they actually kept using "Chump Change" for the open of the show but then used the halftime music everywhere else.[/quote]
Here is one of those

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #6 on:** January 30, 2011, 02:50:07 PM »

[quote name=\'Eric Paddon\' post=\'255974\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 01:19 PM\']When I saw those NYSI episodes on GSN, they actually kept using "Chump Change" for the open of the show but then used the halftime music everywhere else.[/quote]
That I remember. Hated it, too.

chrisholland03 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 30, 2011, 05:12:29 PM »

There was one episode where they used the halftime cue (aka Cat in the Blender theme) as the intro theme.

MikeK · « **Reply #8 on:** January 30, 2011, 05:38:32 PM »

[quote name=\'chrisholland03\' post=\'255983\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:12 PM\']There was one episode where they used the halftime cue (aka Cat in the Blender theme) as the intro theme.[/quote]
Take great offense to your parenthesized description.

Joe Mello · « **Reply #9 on:** January 30, 2011, 06:11:56 PM »

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'255986\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:38 PM\'][quote name=\'chrisholland03\' post=\'255983\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:12 PM\']There was one episode where they used the halftime cue (aka Cat in the Blender theme) as the intro theme.[/quote]Take great offense to your parenthesized description.[/quote]There goes any intelligent debate

JasonA1 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2011, 06:17:30 PM »

Here's one of the alternate theme Joker's Wild opens (Tiller warning). Try not to snicker too much as Jack ad-libs.

-Jason

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #11 on:** January 30, 2011, 06:34:39 PM »

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'255986\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:38 PM\'][quote name=\'chrisholland03\' post=\'255983\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:12 PM\']There was one episode where they used the halftime cue (aka Cat in the Blender theme) as the intro theme.[/quote]
Take great offense to your parenthesized description.[/quote]
Likewise.

Clay Zambo · « **Reply #12 on:** January 30, 2011, 07:03:00 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'255992\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 06:34 PM\'][quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'255986\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:38 PM\'][quote name=\'chrisholland03\' post=\'255983\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:12 PM\']There was one episode where they used the halftime cue (aka Cat in the Blender theme) as the intro theme.[/quote]
Take great offense to your parenthesized description.[/quote]
Likewise.
[/quote]

Where's the "disgusted" button?

chrisholland03 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 30, 2011, 09:58:33 PM »

No cats were harmed in the production of said theme...just an old joke from the atgs days.

The backstory -- very few people, if any remembered the alternate NYSI theme until about 4-6 weeks into GSN's premiere when the theme appeared. The non-GSNers wanted to know what said theme sounded like, and it was described as 'a cat in a blender'

I'm guessing we were less PETA aware back then too

CarbonCpy · « **Reply #14 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:04:48 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'255992\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 06:34 PM\'][quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'255986\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:38 PM\'][quote name=\'chrisholland03\' post=\'255983\' date=\'Jan 30 2011, 05:12 PM\']There was one episode where they used the halftime cue (aka Cat in the Blender theme) as the intro theme.[/quote]
Take great offense to your parenthesized description.[/quote]
Likewise.
[/quote]
Doing it wrong.