{"id":7603,"date":"2015-08-12T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T05:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2015-08-12T23:34:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T05:34:11","slug":"tv-title-sequences-high-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/12\/tv-title-sequences-high-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Title Sequences: High Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

My childhood guitar hero Rick Springfield (a.k.a. “my main man”) has been a busy guy lately. His memoir Late, Late at Night<\/em> and his debut novel Magnificent Vibrations<\/em> were both well reviewed and commercially successful; his collection of acoustic recordings, Stripped Down<\/em>, was released in February and was pretty awesome; he’s also got an album of new material due later this year; and he’s currently on tour with two other classic acts of the 1980s, Loverboy and The Romantics, which I imagine would be an absolute blast<\/em> of a concert. (Sadly, they’re not coming anywhere near Salt Lake City; well, they’re playing Vegas, which isn’t that<\/em> far away, but the stars aren’t going to line up for me to go to this one.) And, oh yeah, if you haven’t heard, he’s co-starring alongside somebody named Meryl Streep in a new movie<\/a> that opened last weekend. I saw it Saturday night and thought it was great; hopefully, I’ll find some time in the next couple days to write a review.<\/p>\n

Ricki and the Flash<\/em> is Rick’s first feature-film appearance since his somewhat, ahem, notorious<\/em> 1984 big-screen debut, Hard to Hold<\/em>, a movie I personally maintain doesn’t suck nearly as much as you’ve probably heard, but certainly isn’t anybody’s idea of a career highlight. (If nothing else, the film had a great soundtrack, which gave Rick two more hit singles for his discography. And of course there was that brief nude scene that’s provided him with years of between-song banter for his live concert appearances…) But while three decades have passed since we last saw him in a cinema, you can’t accuse him of being camera-shy during that time. During the ’90s, he starred in a string of TV movies, including the pilot for what became (with a different actor in the lead) the cult favorite vampire-cop series Forever Knight<\/em>;\u00a0he’s reprised his signature role of Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital<\/em> several times; he’s taken a cue from William Shatner and appeared as a warped version of himself in the David Duchovny vehicle Californication<\/em>; he did a funny and nicely self-deprecating episode of the sitcom Hot in Cleveland<\/em>; and just recently he earned good reviews for his work on season two of True Detective<\/em> (evidently, Rick’s work was the best thing about this season).<\/p>\n

And then there was the series High Tide <\/em><\/p>\n

What’s that? You’ve never heard of High Tide<\/em>? Well, to be honest, neither had I until I ran across a mention of it a few days ago in a pre-Ricki and the Flash<\/em> interview<\/a> focusing on Rick’s acting work. I haven’t been able to find out too much about it, either, only that it ran for three seasons between 1994 and 1997; it was filmed on location in New Zealand; and it was about two surf-bum brothers who pay the bills with occasional private-investigator gigs. I’m assuming the series was syndicated, since this opening credit sequence from the first season looks like a blend of Baywatch<\/em> and Lorenzo Lamas’ Renegade<\/em>, with all the bikini babes, bright colors, awkward fight choreography, and eyepoppingly tacky clothes that entails:<\/p>\n