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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Why Remington Steele went Downhill
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 13:09:49 EDT
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*I* thought one of the biggest symptoms of Remington Steele's demise was
the alteration of the theme music to the jumpy TV detective show opening,
with the original "cool jazz" detective show opening (a la Mike Hammer's
Harlem Nocturne) being relegated to a snippet at the very end of the
opening credits.

What REALLY gets me is the way NBC still (I thought they had stopped it,
but I think I was wrong) "superimposes" their own chimes and NBC theme
music over the closing credits of a show.  It's downright rude to hear
one or two notes of HSB or RS theme music only to be interrupted by the
noise and the announcer saying "This week on "We've Got It Made", Micky
takes off all of her clothes, much to the surprise of everyone!"  Someone
put some sort of effort into writing whatever music closes the show.
The other networks have a voice over of an announcer briefly doing an
advertisement and saying what's on next, as opposed to NBC's axing the
music completely in favor of their drivel.
-- 
Now I've lost my train of thought. I'll have to catch the bus of thought.
			Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr