Favorite end titles of a TV series

[Snarky Oracle!]

Flying High, short-lived 1978-79 CBS dramedy w/Pat Klous, Kathryn Witt, Connie Sellecca and Howard Platt (open and close)

A sort of Charlie's Angels/Love Boat hybrid as I recall. Oddly, the movie Airplane! was released as Flying High! in Australia at about the same time.

Reportedly (as my sources always phrase it), that's why ABC didn't want to call DYNASTY by the title "MILE HIGH" (the title which won a 50-title contest, in which "DYNASTY" came in 5th, and the original title, "Oil," came in dead last).

The network thought "MILE HIGH" might be misinterpreted to be a highschool show, a CHEECH & CHONG druggy show, or one of those CHARLIE'S ANGELS-in-the-air type of show (like FLYING HIGH) which had bombed. So ABC went with "DYNASTY".

I think that was the correct choice, but I'd still call the pilot episode "Mile High" because it does not feel like an "Oil."

 

[Daniel Avery]

The closing theme for NBC's Another World from 1987-1995 differed from its opening theme quite a lot, but it was actually just a rock/synth rearrangement of the opening credits song ("You Take Me Away to Another World") that was written for the show. This extended version (pieced together to accommodate an unusually long closing credit) played over clips from the "Snowflake Ball" that was held in 1988. No soap today would even attempt such a lavish event, but these types of parties were held on all the soaps back in the 1980s.

 

[bmasters9]

Bumping this up: recently discovered the end titles of a short-lived 1984 ABC comedy called Shaping Up, w/Leslie Nielsen as Buddy Fox, owner of a Southern California health club bearing his character's name (which was from Ken Estin and Sam Simon, who worked originally on Taxi for Paramount Television). What I liked about this one is that the end titles are presented like were on Taxi, w/the main cast reiterated first, and then guest stars and other closing credits; the end logos were for Estin-Simon Productions (Robin Hood-themed, with a short Scottish lilt), and the tall-peaked Blue Mtn. of Paramount Television.

The show, BTW, was found on Internet Archive, and these end titles came from the fourth episode.