That ’80s Show
Posted on July 31, 2004 @ 12:58 pm
Is VH1’s neverending parade of I Love the [Insert Decade Here] retrospectives not providing you with your recommended daily allotment of nostalgia? Maybe you should check out this archive of television show openings — mostly from the ’80s, with a few from other decades thrown in for good measure. In case that link is Farked, here’s another site that has much of the same content.
Looking back at the archive, I seem to recall spending an inordinate amount of time watching The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Nickelodeon as a child. After all, the series had spiffy Japanese animation, portrayed the Olmecs as an evil race of mutants, and featured three pre-teens flying around 16th-century Central and South America in a condor-shaped airship made out of gold. What more could a kid want out of a cartoon?
Meanwhile, I’ve decided that if you absolutely had to condense the cheesiness of the 1980s into a 45-second video clip set to music, you couldn’t do much better than the opening to the surprisingly non-gay-themed sitcom My Two Dads.
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http://www.yasin.be/ then click on TV Intros. They have some blocking in place to prevent linking to thier framed pages it seems.
I never got to see the end of the Mysterious Cities of Gold series, sadly enough, as a kid. I don’t ever know if they found the city, or capsized on the high seas, or what. The drama really began to pick up and then I missed the last three episodes.
What am I talking about, how old was I then?
I loved The Cities of Gold. I remember they did eventually find the City, and there was this mysterious glowing jar, and they missed their giant flying gold bird, but everything outside of that gets blurry. Probably for the best.