Quick Question about an 80s tv show...
 

What TV show opened with a hangliding sequence in the opening credits?

Anyone? My buddy seems to think it was a detective-type of show like Simon and Simon, Hardcastle and McCormick, etc... I am not sure on that part... but I do remember there being a show that had hangliding in the opening credits... anyone?

Simon and Simon sounds right.

Edit: nope, hot air balloon instead.

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riptide

Airy Mason?

FAX

McCloud?

FAX

Fall In The Family?

FAX

fax bringing it like a hendrix blues riff

Ha nice, but no. Nor was it Jake and the Fatman (another classic from Joe Penny!)

sanford and son??

Not Hardcastle & McCormick, Riptide, or The Fall Guy.

I went to you tube and searched 'Riptide'; no hang glider.

BUT, there's a cornucopia of utter shit TV intros to enjoy! LMAO

Murder She Float?

FAX

Extra Sugarfree Gum
Extra sugarfree gum In these comercials they had people doing a whole bunch of different things and jingle to match: Extra flavor for that extra long ride (people were in a farris wheel), extra flavor for that extra long glide (people were hang gliding), when your chewing Extra, the extra fresh flavor lasts an extra extra extra long time!

Like Manimal and Automan... I had forgotton about those gems.

Just Chute Me?

FAX

And Max Headroom and StreetHawk....

Who the hell greenlighted these things.....

****in' Manimal!LMAO

What was this ****in' trip in the 80's where every network had like 8 detective and cop shows?!

My GOD! It's like Jim Rockford had 100 illegitimate children!LMAO

This is Jesse Mach, an ex motorcycle cop injured in the line of duty. Now a police troubleshooter. He's been recruited for a top secret goverment mission... to riiiiide STREETHAWK!

AN all-terain attack motorcycle, designed to fight urban crime, capable of incredible speeds up to 300 miles per hour! And immense firepower...

Only one man, Federal Agent Norman Tuttle, knows Jesse Mach's true identity... the man.... the machine.... STREETHAWK!



wow... just wow.

was it 21 jump street?

Kinda like the 38 CSI's and 42 Law and Order's we have now.

csi and law and order are the illegitimate children of all of those shows.

shit. I've got it......


who's the boss!

I haven't watched network TV since NYPD Blue hit the shit can.

Alyissa Milano is still the boss of my rod.

ROFL

my wife came across an article where, supposedly, alyssa milano is one kinky bitch.

SCHWING.

Did I just see Fax?

I told a buddy of mine once, that I'd lusted after her since "Who's the Boss?"

He's like, "Dude! That's sick! She was a kid!"

I had to point out that I was too.

Here is one fantabulous turd burger:


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THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!!!!!!:drool::rockon:

It was probably one of these.

* 21 Jump Street
* 227 TV Show
* A-Team
* AfterMASH
* Airwolf
* ALF
* Alien Nation
* Amazing Stories
* Amen
* Automan
* B.L. Stryker
* Bare Essence
* Baywatch
* Baywatch Hawaii
* Beauty and the Beast
* Best of the West
* Beverly Hills Buntz
* Black Adder
* Blue Thunder
* Booker
* Bosom Buddies
* Brady Brides, The
* Brand New Life
* Bret Maverick
* Brideshead Revisited
* Bring 'Em Back Alive
* Buck James
* Cagney & Lacey
* Charles In Charge
* Checking In
* Cheers
* China Beach
* Coach
* Colbys, The
* Cosby Show, The
* Cosmos Mini-Series
* Cover Up
* Crazy Like A Fox
* Crime Story
* Dear John
* Designing Women
* Different World
* Doogie Howser
* Double Trouble
* Duck Factory
* Dynasty
* Empty Nest
* Enos
* Equalizer
* E/R (1984)
* Falcon Crest
* Fall Guy
* Fame TV Show
* Family Matters
* Family Ties



* Father Murphy
* Flo
* French and Saunders
* Friday The 13th
* Full House
* Galactica 1980
* Gimme A Break
* Gloria
* Golden Girls
* Good Morning, Miss Bliss
* Greatest American Hero
* Growing Pains
* Hard Time on Planet Earth
* Hardcastle & McCormick
* Harper Valley PTA
* Highway to Heaven
* Highwayman, The
* Hill Street Blues
* Hogan Family
* Hooperman
* Hotel
* Hunter
* In The Heat Of The Night
* It's A Living
* Jake And The Fatman
* Jennifer Slept Here
* Joanie Loves Chachi
* Just the Ten of Us
* Kate and Allie
* Knight Rider
* L.A. Law
* Lonesome Dove Miniseries
* Lottery!
* MacGyver
* Magnum P.I.
* Major Dad
* Mama's Family
* Manimal
* Married With Children
* Master, The
* Matlock
* Matt Houston
* Max Headroom
* McClain's Law
* Miami Vice
* Misfits Of Science
* Mission Impossible (1988)
* Moonlighting
* Mr. Belvedere
* Mr. Merlin
* Murder She Wrote
* Murphy Brown
* My Sister Sam
* My Two Dads
* Mystery Science Theater



* Nero Wolfe (1981)
* Newhart
* Night Court
* Otherworld
* Out of This World
* Perfect Strangers
* Poirot
* Police Squad
* Powers Of Matthew Star
* Private Benjamin
* Punky Brewster
* Quantum Leap
* Ray Bradbury Theater
* Red Dwarf
* Remington Steele
* Riptide
* Roseanne
* Saved By The Bell: Original
* Scarecrow And Mrs. King
* Silver Spoons
* Simon and Simon
* Simpsons, The
* Small Wonder
* Spenser For Hire
* Square Pegs
* St. Elsewhere
* Star Cops
* Star Trek Next Generation
* Starman
* Stone
* Superboy
* T.J. Hooker
* Tales From the Crypt
* Tales From the Darkside
* Tales of the Gold Monkey
* Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
* thirtysomething
* Three's A Crowd
* Too Close for Comfort
* Tour Of Duty
* Twilight Zone, The (1985)
* Voyagers
* W*A*L*T*E*R
* War Of The Worlds
* Webster
* Werewolf
* Whiz Kids
* Who's The Boss?
* Wiseguy
* Wizards and Warriors
* Wonder Years
* Yellow Rose
* The Young Ones
* The Young Riders

And the sHits just keep on coming!

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You can rule that one out.

Table cloth bomb shelters with pizza 4-ever!

I know SOMEBODY liked this piece of shit, but it wasn't me...


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Three guys have been worth reading here. One of them just came back.

I hope the beautiful and witty Mrs. FAX is well.

i hope mrs fax is doing well. Fax is a good poster

Was it The Fall Guy? I seem to remember something like that...

FAX... I've missed you.

This thread needs a hero

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Belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve it or not I'mmmmmmmmmmmmmm .........

WINNER!

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Curse you. :grr:

(And I didn't even play the video.)

Man I'm glad we solved THAT crisis!

I actually went to see the movie with John Ritter when I was but a youngster.

Nope, sorry... this was one of those really gay hangliders not a cool black one that Colt uses.

and the angle was from above (I think) and there were cliffs in the background... and no sheep...

I think...

I was almost sure it was Magnum PI, but no dice. I know what you're talking about. It was a multi-colored, rainbowish hang glider going over a large cliff from a top view.

This going to drive me nuts.

Mork and Windy?

FAX

YES EXACTLY!

You are the THIRD person to independently verify that....


It is KILLING ME!

It's not Miami Vice, and it's not Fantasy Island either.

Nor is it Hart to Hart...

I vaguely recall the scenario you're presenting... but can't recall the show. balls.

Yup, The Fall Guy. Little known fact: Howie used to work on a farm just down the road from my childhood home in Kansas (still my parents' home). Evidently, he was originally from Cedar Rapids.

The truck was the real star of the show, though.

I was thinking Greatest American Hero, but that is wrong. Mork was quite rainbow-y.

Simon and Simon had a handgliding sequence in the first season. rick was tied to a handglider and unconscious.

Interesting little known fact there, Mr. Pitt Gorilla.

Here's an even littler known fact: Ants sometimes get a virus in their brains that cause them to leave their colony and climb up all by themselves to the very, very top of a blade of grass for no reason at all except that their brains have a virus in them. So, instead of being able to hide from predators in the dirt where they're safe except from anteaters, they get eaten by birds and other ant-eating wildlife and stuff while they're up on the top of the blade of grass. All because they got a virus in their brain, dude.

FAX

No, the Fall Guy has one blip of Colt landing in a field of sheep on a black hanglider... that definitely is not it.

Multicolored hanglider with cliffside in background...

Hero at Large? That was a pretty good flick.

It wasnt Magnum PI was it?

nope... nor Hawaii 5-0

Sounds like some weird type of ant alzheimer's.

Yeah, I think that was it.

Dammit, somebody figure this out.

Can you provide video confirmation of this?

Man, this gonna' **** with me until I figure it out.

NO!!!!! It was "Amish Aeronaut?" Don't you remember the episode where the guy pulled the villain out of the compost pile by the hair of his chinny-chin-chin!!!!!!

Oh, wait. That was the Hong Kong version: "The Buddhist Badlands." Sorry.

I looked for it, but didn't see shit.

Every one I found was exactly the same thing. I seem to remember it a bit too vividly for it to be an obscure one season only thing.

Ive got it.

It was "V" In the 2nd season episode # 12. Where the aliens swooped down on innocent Los Angeleans from the clifftops.

Stephanie Kramer was hot. Still not worth watching the show.

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Nothing in these.

Funny. The same thought crossed my mind, Mr. KcMizzou.

You have to feel sorry for the little ant kids. Constantly looking for grandpa who's wandered off to climb the grass again. That's no way to live.

FAX

Yeah, that extra-crispy spritzer hair-do was just jammin.:doh!:

It was the 80s. Didn't make her less hot. You must be young.

Police Soary?

FAX

ROFL Great to have ya back FAX!!!

Flapper John M.D.?

FAX

Well, it wasnt Misfits of Science....

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Graduated in 89. Point still stands.