I made several references in the previous entry to St. Elsewhere, a series I remember with a lot of affection but honestly not much detail. It’s been a long time since I posted a TV title sequence, so I thought this might be a good time to revive the category. The sound quality on this clip is a little dodgy; the source appears to be an old VHS tape that’s seen its better days:
I always liked that music. Somewhere I have an old audio cassette containing a bunch of themes from the early ’80s that I recorded by holding a microphone up to the television speaker, and I know the St. Elsewhere theme is one of them. And I’d completely forgotten that Denzel Washington got his start on this show! How unlike me, given my usual command of useless trivia. Would it redeem me in the eyes of my loyal readers if I mention that William Daniels, a.k.a. Dr. Mark Craig, was the voice of KITT in the original Knight Rider series?
The first season of St. Elsewhere is available on DVD or Hulu, if you’re interested. I’m thinking I need to check it out again myself…
I’m sold. I’m going to check it out on hulu, too. And I thought I was the only one to record TV themes onto cassette tape. I have “St. Elsewhere”, “Dallas”, a few RC cola commercials, and the theme to “Thirtysomething” somewhere…
You did that, too? That’s funny…
I haven’t actually heard my TV tape in years, but as I recall, I had St. Elsewhere, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Bring ‘Em Back Alive, and Shogun. I really need to find that…
While you’re looking, you may want to check out http://www.televisiontunes.com. 10,024 TV themes, indexed for your searching pleasure.
St. Elsewhere is here.
Oh, wow… I’m going to kill lots of time over on that site… Thanks, Brian!