Season 8 Theme Music

[Sid]

I've been watching KL religiously on UK Gold since they started showing them in September of last year. Man - I miss Sid. He was the KL Bobby charactor. Anyhows - I digress.

The season 8 opening music is awful. Seasons 1-5 had good music with the last three seasons getting progressively worse. In the early seasons I always preferred the closing music to the intro music. The use of funk guitar was utterly awe inspiring. After a hum-dinger of an episode theres nothing like the twang of a bit of wakka-wakka to get your pulse going.

They killed the funk guitar and replaced it with a really bad 80s synth type instrument. Also - cheesy 80s sax is taking over in the non-synch parts. Tell me - the music will get better again - tell me it will. Jerard Immel was a legend - what happened?

Dallas music got worse as the years went by - but never to this degree!

Regards,

Sid.

[mortski]

I personally don't miss Sid at all. I found him really boring but then I didn't think Bobby Ewing was Mr Interesting either.
I like Season 8's opening and end themes. I've liked the theme since Season 5 onwards. I think it needed to get a bit more lively and modern for the 80's.

[lcw]

Karen and Sid are the best characters! Brill! They snog in the garage! Sorry, I'm just wild about that. Didn't you find them kinda hyper?

[mortski]

I quite like Karen but I never really found Sid that interesting. I thought the episodes where he was accused of rape and where he died in hospital were OK but I thought things improved after he left. To me he seemed like the typical kind father character, the type of character I find boring. I thought he was the opposite of hyper. I prefer Karen when she's married to 'The Mack.' I like Mack because he's got an interesting job and I find it funny when he shouts and speeds around in his car with police cars on either side. He has a job that can generate and advance lots of storylines. I also like his scenes with Gregory. I like the way they shared a beer recently. I think Greg wishes him and Mack could of stayed friends.

[Frank Williams]

I though the show was really good in the late 80's and early 90's. The music for 1986-1987 was great. It had that carnival theme to it. I loved it. I also loved the theme opening and closing for 1980-1981 season. Great Job. 1981-1982 was good too. It had that type of "Robin Hood or should I say Knight in shining armor galloping on his horse in the forest type of thing going" in the first few seconds of the song. 1989-1990 I loved. More drama like along with 1990-1991 as well. 1992-1993 had the suspensful cliffhanger theme opening. The block party theme openingwas more of a "calm after the storm" type of theme which was good. I liked how they played the original theme from the first 2 seasons with a 90's touch. 1987-1988 preseneted an art gallery type of theme especially with the are backround. The 1988-1989 presented more of a reminicsing type of theme with the artistic backround.

TJ3

[bobby]

Is there a place where I can a cd of every version of the DALLAS / KNOTS themes uninterrpted by closing theme "commentary" and "next on bbc1"?

D.N.

I agree that the Season 8 theme was rubbish. The other day I was listening to I think it was the Season 4 theme which I had taped and it was brilliant!! You don't really notice the change as time goes on but I really got an eyeopener how good it was. The early-mid 80's, the best years!!

[KnotsFanUK]

Aha, but did you know that the theme for the first 2 or 3 episodes of Season 8 in the USA on the original run of Knots was different to the rest of the season. Whats more, the version for these initial episodes was never used in any re-runs or in the UK at all.

Key difference being? No Sax!

It actually had a flute playing the main melody instead of a sax (albeit a crappy synth type flute just like the crappy synth type sax).

KFU

[Daniel Avery]

I loved that flute version best of any of the theme variations. I actually had it on a tape at one time (taped in the original run of the series, obviously) but it got taped over, and since the sax-y version was inserted into the reruns of those episodes, I fear it has been lost forever. I loved its smoothness, because it was the replacement for the highly synthesized them of the season before, and it was replaced by the "loud" sax version. Some of the flute was still heard, but not as the main melody.

Wish I had not taped over that!

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Laura to Greg over dinner: "I'm sorry. I didn't know self-pity was on the menu."
---episode 144

Ruth: "I often wonder what Gregory sees in you, Laura."
Laura: "What can I say? I'm great in the sack."
--episode 127

[Daniel Avery]

I loved that flute version best of any of the theme variations. I actually had it on a tape at one time (taped in the original run of the series, obviously) but it got taped over, and since the sax-y version was inserted into the reruns of those episodes, I fear it has been lost forever. I loved its smoothness, because it was the replacement for the highly synthesized them of the season before, and it was replaced by the "loud" sax version. Some of the flute was still heard, but not as the main melody.

Wish I had not taped over that!

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Laura to Greg over dinner: "I'm sorry. I didn't know self-pity was on the menu."
---episode 144

[Daniel Avery]

Sorry about the repost.....{slaps hand}