FAN's Favourite: 80's TV show intro (nominations)

[Gecko]

Had this idea for a while, if this one is successful there's a fair chance I'll end up doing a series of these. I played around with a few ideas for this: 80's cartoons, just the theme tunes, but eventually settled on 80's tv intros

A tournament to find out what the favourite 80's TV show intro of FAN is. I've not decided on the details (other than single elimination), that's probably something that'll happen when I get the final numbers.

The rules
- The quality of the show doesn't matter: it's all about the intro, the visuals, the tunes, or a combination of both.
- Any TV show that had a significant portion (or the entirety) of it's run in the 80's is eligible. (having a year or two in the eighties means I'll probably allow it)
- Minor changes between seasons (such as changing clips of actors) we'll count as just being the same, but things like Blackadder where each season intro is new, you would need to specify which season(s) in the nominations.
- Running on from that: if your show had multiple different intros, only ones from the 80s qualify (save the others for another tourney)
- You can nominate up to 10 shows at a time. Feel free to repeat as many times as you like providing that after you nominate you wait either a) 24 hours or b) until at least 2 others have posted some nominations
-Nominations will stay open for a fair while, I'm in no rush to start. I will give a fair amount of notice before closing noms.
- Depending on the numbers, we may have qualifiers if there's shows with multiple entries so that we only get one show from each franchise in the tourney.

Ineligible
The Simpsons (the first stand alone was in December 89, but we got 30 more years, so save it for the 90s version of this)

Nominations (entry count: 89)

227
13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo
21 Jump Street
Airwolf
Blackadder Goes Forth
Blockbusters
Catchphrase (86-94)
Charles in Charge
Charlie's Angels
Cheers
China Beach
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
Count Duckula
Dallas
Dangermouse
Diff'rent Strokes
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Doctor Who (Davidson 82-84)
Ducktales
Dungeons & Dragons
Fame
Family Ties (Seasons 2-7)
Fraggle Rock
Friday the 13th The Series / Friday's Curse
Full House
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Golden Girls
Growing Pains (Season 2)
Happy Days (s8-9)
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Hill Street Blues
Independent Network News (WPIX)
Inspector Gadget
It's a Living
It's Garry Shandling's Show
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Jem
Jeopardy!
Knight Rider
Knightmare
M*A*S*H
M.A.S.K.
Magnum P.I.
Married… with Children
Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Matlock
Miami Vice
Moonlighting
Mr Belvedere
Murder, She Wrote
Night Court
Only Fools and Horses (85-91)
Perfect Strangers
Police Squad
Reading Rainbow
Remote Control
Roseanne
Sale of The Century (US, Second Run)
Scrabble
Silverhawks
Spiral Zone
Square Pegs
St. Elsewhere
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Super Power Team: Galactic Guardians
Tales From The Darkside
Taxi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
The A-Team
The Centurions
The Facts of Life (Seasons 2-6)
The Jeffersons
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
The Price is Right
The Professionals (season 2-5)
The Raccoons
The Real Ghostbusters
The Smurfs
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
The Trap Door
The Wonder Years
The Young Ones (season 1)
Three's Company
Thundercats
Transformers (season 1)
Transformers (season 3)
Ulysses 31
Unsolved Mysteries
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
Voltron
Who's The Boss?
WKRP in Cincinnati
World Championship Wrestling (82-87)
World Class Championship Wrestling (82-84)
WWF Superstars of Wrestling (86-89)
You Can't Do That on Television

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

Magnum P.I.
Matlock
Murder, She Wrote
Hill Street Blues
St. Elsewhere
Tales From The Darkside
Fraggle Rock
Moonlighting
Miami Vice
China Beach

[fw91]

Diff’rent Strokes
21 Jump Street
Taxi
The Facts Of Life

[James Fabiano]

Some more cartoon love, now allow me to add a few game show titles as well as a touch of local and of wrestling!

Transformers (Season 3)
The Raccoons
(I assume end themes don't count, so this is for the opening theme, not Run With Us...please advise...)
Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Independent Network News (WPIX version, the original with the globe)
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (started in 1989, does it count?)
Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Jeopardy!
The Price is Right (Johnny Olson would remain the first half, then came the Rod Roddy years)
WWF Superstars of Wrestling (1986-1989)

(EDIT: Wondering if CnDRR falls under the Simpsons Rule. If so, I'll just pick another. That or if you do allow the Run With Us ending to The Raccoons, I'll include it with the Raccoons opening)

[Gecko]

Jan 5, 2021 9:29:49 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Some more cartoon love, now allow me to add a few game show titles as well as a touch of local and of wrestling!

Transformers (Season 3)
The Raccoons
(I assume end themes don't count, so this is for the opening theme, not Run With Us...please advise...)
Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Independent Network News (WPIX version, the original with the globe)
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (started in 1989, does it count?)
Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Jeopardy!
The Price is Right (Johnny Olson would remain the first half, then came the Rod Roddy years)
WWF Superstars of Wrestling (1986-1989)

(EDIT: Wondering if CnDRR falls under the Simpsons Rule. If so, I'll just pick another. That or if you do allow the Run With Us ending to The Raccoons, I'll include it with the Raccoons opening)

Raccoons: Yep, I'm just sticking to intros here.
Independent News Network: Just a check on my side, the first one on here?: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZNivzDKfkM 
CnDRR: I'll allow it. It was a short run, March 89 - November 90 which puts it about 50% in the 80s timewise and most of the episodes were first shown in the 80s as well.

[James Fabiano]

Jan 5, 2021 12:18:38 GMT -5 Gecko said:

Jan 5, 2021 9:29:49 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Some more cartoon love, now allow me to add a few game show titles as well as a touch of local and of wrestling!

Transformers (Season 3)
The Raccoons
(I assume end themes don't count, so this is for the opening theme, not Run With Us...please advise...)
Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Independent Network News (WPIX version, the original with the globe)
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (started in 1989, does it count?)
Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour
Jeopardy!
The Price is Right (Johnny Olson would remain the first half, then came the Rod Roddy years)
WWF Superstars of Wrestling (1986-1989)

(EDIT: Wondering if CnDRR falls under the Simpsons Rule. If so, I'll just pick another. That or if you do allow the Run With Us ending to The Raccoons, I'll include it with the Raccoons opening)

Raccoons: Yep, I'm just sticking to intros here.
Independent News Network: Just a check on my side, the first one on here?: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZNivzDKfkM 
CnDRR: I'll allow it. It was a short run, March 89 - November 90 which puts it about 50% in the 80s timewise and most of the episodes were first shown in the 80s as well.

Yep, the one from 1982. Remind me to nominate the end theme if we ever do those.

Wow just a bit over a year? I thought RR lasted longer!

[burdette25159]

You Can't Do That On Television
Doctor Who (The Peter Davidson Era (1982-4)
Scrabble
Remote Control
Growing Pains (Season 2 era)
Friday the 13th The Series aka Friday's Curse
World Class Championship Wrestling (1982-4 version)
World Championship Wrestling (1982-87)
Sale Of The Century
Inspector Gadget
13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo

[DSR]

Perfect Strangers

[Gecko]

I'll throw in some more picks to bring us up to 73 entries. A great start, keep 'em coming.

Spiral Zone
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
Knightmare
The Trap Door
Ulysses 31

I'm starting to sense a theme with my picks...

Jan 5, 2021 18:54:31 GMT -5 burdette25159 said:

Sale Of The Century

British version? or US?

I'm finding out just how many variations on things there really are.

[burdette25159]

Jan 6, 2021 4:17:01 GMT -5 Gecko said:

I'll throw in some more picks to bring us up to 73 entries. A great start, keep 'em coming.

Spiral Zone
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
Knightmare
The Trap Door
Ulysses 31

I'm starting to sense a theme with my picks...

Jan 5, 2021 18:54:31 GMT -5 burdette25159 said:

Sale Of The Century

British version? or US?

I'm finding out just how many variations on things there really are.

US Version

[burdette25159]

Jan 5, 2021 8:46:38 GMT -5 fw91 said:

Diff’rent Strokes
21 Jump Street
Taxi
The Facts Of Life

There were multiple variations of the Facts of Life intro during it's run, ya need to be more specific

[fw91]

Jan 6, 2021 21:00:44 GMT -5 burdette25159 said:

Jan 5, 2021 8:46:38 GMT -5 fw91 said:

Diff’rent Strokes
21 Jump Street
Taxi
The Facts Of Life

There were multiple variations of the Facts of Life intro during it's run, ya need to be more specific

Season 2-6

[DSR]

Mr. Belvedere

[Gecko]

I'll throw in a few more:

Only Fools and Horses (85-91)
The Young Ones (season 1)
Blackadder Goes Forth
The Professionals (season 2-5)
The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

I think we might be at the point where nominations are slowing down, but I'll give it a few more days and see.

[Gecko]

Ok, I think I'll call it here.

The plan (unless anybody has a better suggestion):

first, I'll add in:
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Happy Days (s8-9)
Police Squad
Dungeons & Dragons
Blockbusters
The Centurions
Catchphrase (86-94)
Dallas

Which brings us up to 97 entries.

Since the Transformers variations are the only ones where we've got multiple entries from one show, I'll put them in a qualifier, which will bring the total to 96.

First round of the tournament will be three shows per match, with only one going through. This will give us a second round of 32 and just a normal tournament from there.

Look for the Transformers qualifier later today (perhaps).