{"id":1052,"date":"2007-06-28T11:11:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T11:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2007-06-28T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T11:11:46","slug":"tv_title_sequences_riptide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/28\/tv_title_sequences_riptide\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Title Sequences: Riptide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s title sequence is actually a suggestion sent along by Chenopup; it&#8217;s the opening from another of those early &#8217;80s detective shows we all loved so much, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_J._Cannell\">Stephen J. Cannell<\/a> series called <i>Riptide<\/i>. I&#8217;ve got to be honest, I don&#8217;t remember this one very well. I know I watched it, and I seem to recall that the three leads had all served together in Vietnam (not that there&#8217;s anything unique about that; all the early-80s TV detectives were &#8216;Nam vets). I believe at least one of them lived on the boat that gave the show its name, too, but I&#8217;m not sure and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riptide_%28TV_series%29\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> for the show is unclear on this point. In any event, it&#8217;s an enjoyable title sequence and another good Mike Post\/Pete Carpenter theme song (although it loses a couple of points in my book for sounding so much like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/06\/tv_title_sequences_i_like_simo.html\"><i>Simon &amp; Simon<\/i> theme<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OMq59GCaIfw\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OMq59GCaIfw\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s title sequence is actually a suggestion sent along by Chenopup; it&#8217;s the opening from another of those early &#8217;80s detective shows we all loved so much, a Stephen J. Cannell series called Riptide. I&#8217;ve got to be honest, I don&#8217;t remember this one very well. I know I watched it, and I seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-title-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}