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CBS Saturday Night Movies Intro (Late 1970s - Early 1980s) [Nostalgia - just for fun]
CBS at YouTube ^ | 1979

Posted on 11/09/2022 11:24:19 AM PST by grundle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5J7MeOu8ls

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I got so excited at this when I was a kid. It was like a special event, no matter what the actual movie was.
1 posted on 11/09/2022 11:24:19 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

It certainly has that 70s look to it. I vaguely remember this.


2 posted on 11/09/2022 11:28:54 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: grundle

I remember the Sunday World of Disney opening, and would be ticked if the Sunday Night Football was overtime.. lol
(Nothing else to watch.. we were lucky when we got 2 channels, sometimes a very snowy 3rd channel, so there was usually nothing else to watch))


3 posted on 11/09/2022 11:30:56 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: grundle
For us about a decade older, in the early 70's it was the NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie:


4 posted on 11/09/2022 11:31:54 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Dennis weaver always struck me as a wimp 😏


5 posted on 11/09/2022 11:43:18 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: V_TWIN

Me too...

He could never get away from “Chester”...


6 posted on 11/09/2022 11:51:21 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: grundle

Tuesday Movie Of The Week The Night Stalker 1972.

Intro included

https://youtu.be/ynyktxkRSTg

Excellent Print here if you actually want to watch it...

https://youtu.be/V7vyOvDpBvk


7 posted on 11/09/2022 11:55:30 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: JBW1949

He was in a movie in ‘71 called Duel.....an entertaining movie but I think he played himself.......a puss. LoL


8 posted on 11/09/2022 11:55:58 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: rdl6989
It certainly has that 70s look to it. I vaguely remember this.

Strongly influenced by Douglas Trumbull's slit-scan technique, developed for Kubrick's 2001.

Similarly used by the contemporaneous intro for the ABC Movie of the Week:

ABC Movie of the Week opening sequence, created in 1969.

The theme song is Burt Bacharach's song for his daughter, Nikki.

9 posted on 11/09/2022 12:02:21 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: grundle

You know you were about to watch something awesome when you saw this logo spin across your screen....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JrCB-m2oXk


10 posted on 11/09/2022 12:13:36 PM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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Is that the one where he was stalked by the truck driver??


11 posted on 11/09/2022 12:25:55 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

Yep. Through the desert.


12 posted on 11/09/2022 12:41:23 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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I remember that movie...He WAS a wuss!!!!


13 posted on 11/09/2022 12:51:57 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Steely Tom

Too close to “As Time Goes By.”


14 posted on 11/09/2022 1:00:54 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: grundle
My favorite was the CBS Sunday Afternoon movie intro. It had a definite "Rite of Spring" feeling to it.

Unfortunately I can't seem to find it on YouTube, and years ago when I sent a letter to CBS they told me that they just don't keep track of those things, and it was most likely some spur of the moment composition by one of the house musicians.

15 posted on 11/09/2022 2:15:05 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: grundle

Don’t remember it, because I never watched CBS on Saturday night or any night.


16 posted on 11/09/2022 2:28:44 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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**I remember that movie...He WAS a wuss!!!!**

What was ridiculous was that a car couldn’t outrun a loaded semi on mountainous roads. They showed the truck lugging uphill. Weaver could have been long gone. Going down hill they show the truck in the rear view mirror, closing the gap really fast, thanks to the driver of the car applying the brakes (speeding up the camera would have caused the scenery to go by too quickly).

At the end the loaded fuel tanker goes over a cliff pushing a car that’s on fire, tumbles down, and doesn’t spring a leak anywhere.

I saw how stupid that show was decades before I became a truck driver.


17 posted on 11/09/2022 3:25:38 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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It was Steven Spielberg’s first full length film.


18 posted on 11/09/2022 3:29:25 PM PST by Publius
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To: Zuriel; JBW1949

“What was ridiculous was that a car couldn’t outrun a loaded semi”

To be fair it was a Mopar product. 😁


19 posted on 11/09/2022 3:34:42 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Publius

Interesting....I did not know that.


20 posted on 11/09/2022 3:36:19 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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