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In Reply to: RE: Favorite TV Show Theme Song posted by RGA on January 28, 2016 at 03:22:37
has to be the first season version only, as originally written by Jerry Goldsmith, played by an orchestra in 5/4 time. The tympanies in the intro still give me goose bumps 50 years later.
The tune was re-written in 4/4 time for the later seasons. Not nearly as good.There was a western that ran, as far as I know, for only one season called "Cimarron Strip" had a great theme song. That would probably be my No. 2.
Sorry no links...I'm at work and YouTube is blocked here (bandwidth issues), but you can easily find both theme songs, including UNCLE's original long and short intros.
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Episode 1, season 1. Not much Kuryakin in this one.
In fact, not much Illya until later in the first season.
One of our local channels was showing UNCLE in syndication last year and I was thrilled, but try as I might, I couldn't get Mrs. Olddude to understand time signatures.
Was really sad to see the old theme song go when I was a kid and tuned in for the first episode of Season 2.
I heard an interview with Jerry Goldsmith years ago and he talked about the UNCLE theme. Back in the day, the series production company (in this case Arena Productions) had to pay every season to have the theme song recorded. Arena didn't want to pony up for the full orchestra for Season 2, so they had a rock n roll combo record it. If I'm remembering correctly, Goldsmith said that Lalo Schifrin of "Mission Impossible" fame did the later arrangement. Ironic of course since the MI theme was in odd time signature.
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