MLT Club Member David Herrick
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I loved Battlestar Galactica, Juergen! It was marketed as TV’s answer to Star Wars, and that’s the lens I viewed it through. It was like watching Star Wars on TV every week! Never mind that they only had about four different special effects that they recycled over and over in every episode. (When the Cylon ship suddenly curves sharply to the right, you know it’s about to get hit by a Viper and explode.)
The music on Galactica was composed by Stu Phillips, who did similar work for many other shows including Knight Rider (your favorite!) and the Monkees (the little bits of incidental music). He’s still going at age 94.
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Correct, Jung. There is currently no such thread in this forum, and that’s the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) I like it (uh-huh, uh-huh).
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Another great Malcolm McDowell movie is Time After Time. He plays H.G. Wells, who invents a working time machine and ends up having to use it to — without giving too much away — save the world. Great supporting cast (Mary Steenburgen, David Warner), and directed by Nicholas Meyer, who went on to direct two of the even-numbered (i.e. good) Star Trek movies.
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Hey, Jung. The statue was commissioned by the TV Land cable channel about 20 years ago.
By the way, Phyllis got her own spinoff series also.
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I was in that same boat, Chris. It’s annoying to sing along with a song you like and have to resort to gibberish at some point: “G. R. ola sell red great”?
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Back when Norm MacDonald hosted Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live he had a running bit about Germans and David Hasselhoff:
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Yes, all of those were Happy Days spinoffs!
The genesis of Happy Days is really unusual. Garry Marshall filmed a pilot episode (with Ron Howard, Anson Williams, and Marion Ross) in 1972, but no network would buy it, so it ended up airing as an episode of Love, American Style. George Lucas saw it and thus decided to cast Ron Howard in American Graffiti. Then the success of that movie convinced ABC to put Happy Days into production.
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I was going to ask for a translation of Möpse, but I just looked it up. You’re right: pretty stupid, given the context.
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I love WKRP now, but I didn’t watch it when it originally aired. I had read that KRP was intended to stand for “crap”, and I didn’t want to subject myself to filthy language like that. (I’ve mellowed a bit since then.)
I grew up 90 minutes south of Cincinnati, and every summer we took a family trip to a major theme park just north of the city, travelling through downtown on the interstate. So my mind always goes back to those days whenever I see those establishing shots in the theme sequence.
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I hold a grudge against Miami Vice because in 1986 Don Johnson released a song (!) timed so as to prevent Paul McCartney’s latest single from cracking the U.S. top 20. (And I’m sure it was intentional…)
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Ausgezeichnet! I’d love to hear Kirk yell “Khaaaaan!” in German.
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That’s so cool, Juergen! I actually have a German-language photonovel of one of the episodes: “Invasion der Tribbles”.
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Jung, this is one of my very favorite shows of all time! I’m actually in the middle of a long binge-watch of the entire series on YouTube, one episode per night.
I’m glad you posted the first-season version of the theme, whose lyrics are more poignant than those of the later version.
Fun fact: Sonny Curtis, the composer and singer of this theme, was a member of Buddy Holly’s group, the Crickets.
A few years ago I drove from North Carolina to Montana and back just to “collect” a few more states, and I paid a visit to the Mary Tyler Moore statue in Minneapolis, located at the corner where she famously threw her hat in the air. People were stopping by every few minutes to take selfies with it.
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Unfortunately I was too young for “Mission: Impossible” when it aired, but I do remember watching and enjoying the theme song.
I was a fan of the later Martin Landau / Barbara Bain show “Space: 1999”, which had a nice stirring instrumental theme:
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I had no idea that this song was a TV theme, Chris! I assume a very abbreviated version was used for the show?
