TV shows with multiple (completely different) intros

[Gravedigger's Biscuits]

I was just trying to think of some shows that ran for quite a while and ended up having several different themes/opening titles.

I came up with Everybody Loves Raymond, which had four (First was Ray talking as his family floated around, second was Ray hiding from his parents and brother, third was the family playing football in a park and the final one was a clip compilation set to the song 'Jungle Love').

And then there was Sabrina the Teenage Witch with three, which reflected Sabrina growing up/going to college etc.:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL6pCdpNPNI

Any others?

[The Unconquered Sun]

I remember the Drew Carey Show having 3 intros

[Jiren]

Jun 24, 2017 15:53:21 GMT -5 Gravedigger's Biscuits said:

I was just trying to think of some shows that ran for quite a while and ended up having several different themes/opening titles.

I came up with Everybody Loves Raymond, which had four (First was Ray talking as his family floated around, second was Ray hiding from his parents and brother, third was the family playing football in a park and the final one was a clip compilation set to the song 'Jungle Love').

Wasn't another with the family on a Conveyor belt?

Also

Doctor Who

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Sadly I have to acknowledge Nu Who's existence but whatever

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

Boy Meets World had a few didn't it?

[BorneAgain]

Garfield's "Ready to Party" intro was the one used in syndication, and is most well known, but the theme for the first two season's original run was actually this:




That melody was used entirely through the show's run incidentally, most often heard at the beginning of the quickie shorts.

But the show also had a third theme song, even more rare the original, used during the seventh season (and given its quality, it might explain why the seventh was the last):

[montee916]

The Cosby Show had a new one for each season from memory.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Red Dwarf is the first one that springs to mine. Series 1 and 2 had a slow, 2001-esque theme, while every series from then on had a instrumental rock theme.

[facethatrunstheplace]

Jun 24, 2017 16:44:40 GMT -5 BorneAgain said:

Garfield's "Ready to Party" intro was the one used in syndication, and is most well known, but the theme for the first two season's original run was actually this:




That melody was used entirely through the show's run incidentally, most often heard at the beginning of the quickie shorts.

But the show also had a third theme song, even more rare the original, used during the seventh season (and given its quality, it might explain why the seventh was the last):

Since you've posted some intro's for a cartoon I feel to do the same as well. So here are the all of the intros for Pokemon and the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series.

[Citizen Snips]

MST3K would change the lyrics to the song (and the slight premise change of the Netflix reboot) with each new host.

[BrodietheSlayer]

[BlackoutCreature]

Jun 24, 2017 18:46:11 GMT -5 facethatrunstheplace said:

Since you've posted some intro's for a cartoon I feel to do the same as well. So here are the all of the intros for Pokemon and the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series.

Actually all three TMNT cartoons have had massive changes in their theme songs at some point in their runs.

[G✇JI☈A]

The Wire had the same song "Way Down In The Hole" but it was sung by different musicians for each season.

Another HBO series is The Leftovers. First season it had this epic biblical like opening.. and for the second season opens with an annoying folk song. Not seen the third series so I don't know about that one.

[BlackoutCreature]

In Monk's first season its intro music was a fairly generic but quirky little instrumental piece -


From season two on it used a song called "It's a Jungle Out There" with lyrics by Randy Newman -


I'm told the change was pretty divisive among the show's fan base.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

[BlackoutCreature]

I was gonna mention 90's Batman and its three separate intros. But since there were also name changes associated with them (Batman: The Animated Series, The Adventures of Batman and Robin and The New Batman Adventures), you could argue that it's really three separate shows continuing the same story, so it really wouldn't count.

On the other hand there is Teen Titans, which regularly switched up its theme song between an English language version and a Japanese version.

The original theme song for The Batman was a moody and ominous song by U2's The Edge. From season three on they switched to a more vibrant and fast-paced number that sounded like a mash-up of the 60's Batman theme and the original theme from Hawaii 5-O. Personally I preferred the original.

One of the more infamous examples of a changed opening comes from early 90's Saturday morning cartoon ProStars. Why would an obscure Saturday morning cartoon that only went one season with thirteen episodes need multiple openings? Well apparently the original theme (which I have never been able to find on youtube ever) was such a blatant rip-off of Queen's "We Will Rock You" that the surviving members of the band (Freddie Mercury had sadly passed on by then) threatened the show with legal action. The show was taken off the air for a couple of weeks and when it returned it had a new theme song that honestly sounded like they wrote it in ten minutes with no concern with how it sounded other then that lawyers won't complain.

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Jun 24, 2017 15:59:37 GMT -5 The Unconquered Sun said:

I remember the Drew Carey Show having 3 intros

Actually, it was fourteen.

The original three were built around "Moon Over Parma", "Five O'clock World", & "Cleveland Rocks".

After Kate left the series (and they retconned her from existence), they did multiple versions of those three songs in the intro set to clips from the show.

Of course, that was when the series became dogshit, so it's not like anyone noticed.

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Should be noted that Roseanne had 7 different intros; five around the table (the first lasted the longest around 3 seasons), the sixth being morphing pictures of the actors, and for the epically bad final season, morphing picture frames with lyrics added to the theme.

[Bub (BLM)]

Jun 24, 2017 16:34:27 GMT -5 I'm Team Bayley and Indi said:

Boy Meets World had a few didn't it?

It did. The first couple of seasons had a playful theme with typical elementary school visuals, then they switched to the guitar instrumental with the kids riding in Eric's car, then they moved on to the teen dramedy intro with a song featuring lyrics.

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Jun 24, 2017 15:53:21 GMT -5 Gravedigger's Biscuits said:

I was just trying to think of some shows that ran for quite a while and ended up having several different themes/opening titles.

I came up with Everybody Loves Raymond, which had four (First was Ray talking as his family floated around, second was Ray hiding from his parents and brother, third was the family playing football in a park and the final one was a clip compilation set to the song 'Jungle Love').

And then there was Sabrina the Teenage Witch with three, which reflected Sabrina growing up/going to college etc.:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL6pCdpNPNI

Any others?

There was six. You forgot the pilot where Ray gets stuck inside of a playset he was building & the conveyor montage.

[brody]

Jun 24, 2017 16:45:31 GMT -5 montee916 said:

The Cosby Show had a new one for each season from memory.

I have actually been  toying with the idea of a thread about elaborate themes based on Cosby's dance routine in season 5:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVVsP0uins