OFF: sci-fi nostalgia

John H. McCartney scorch at TE-CATS.COM
Thu Oct 11 14:10:45 EDT 2001


> my next comment is about the "Trumpets" (and accompanying music) that was
> at the VERY START of all those Gerry Anderson shows-? (didn't they all have
> that little leader?  here in USA at least) that music always got my
> attention and made my "ears perk up" like nothing else ever-  I really miss
> that stuff-  it used to put me in such a strange mood-  and I liked being
> put in that mood-   my childhood- the "actual childhood"


The fanfare always accompanied the ITN logo spinning, so you were
just seeing producer/network flash. It did always provide a call
that something good was going to be on. Kind of the way the PTEN
fanfare did back in the first run of Babylon 5.



scorch



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