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Old 26-10-2015, 20:20
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My favourite is doctors current opening titles! I think the way they are talking on the shots is very clever and is making you the viewer want to watch the episode and makes you care about the characters IMO!

What is everybody else's favourite soap opening titles ever?
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Old 26-10-2015, 20:22
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Old 26-10-2015, 21:36
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Old 26-10-2015, 21:42
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Knots Landing, the US soaps back in the day had the best opening sequences.
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Old 26-10-2015, 21:44
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Howards' Way, great alternative to those US soaps.
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Old 26-10-2015, 22:45
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Howards' Way, great alternative to those US soaps.
Howard's Way is fabulous. We've just finished watching the DVDS.. The first 2 focus more on the family was just brilliant and the melodrama of the incidental music by Simon May just adds to the drama!
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Old 26-10-2015, 22:47
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I have to say. Even though it isn't still on air. . One of my faves is Eldorado.. its uplifting and at the same has the meloldy of being emotional!
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Old 26-10-2015, 23:07
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The early 90's version of All My Children and any Emmerdale barring the current one.
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Old 27-10-2015, 01:25
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The early 90's version of All My Children and any Emmerdale barring the current one.
Oh the falling pictures opening of AMC was one of my favorites but I think One Life to Live had them beat with this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioVYw67-HhE

I'd say currently Emmerdale and Neighbours have the best openings.
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Old 27-10-2015, 01:33
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Hollyoaks.
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Old 27-10-2015, 01:37
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EE. CS and ED make the dog go berserk and I just don't like the HO one.
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Old 27-10-2015, 02:37
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Hollyoaks aka Silas Blissett throwing the chess piece that never made the main titles.
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Old 27-10-2015, 02:46
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Old 27-10-2015, 02:59
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The mid-nineties Home and Away titles were great fun. In fact all of them up until the horrible blue background were good. My favourite version of the theme tune is the Doug Williams and Erana Clark one.
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Old 27-10-2015, 06:23
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Home & Away, until they got rid of it
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Old 27-10-2015, 09:53
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I'll throw Shortland Street in.
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Old 27-10-2015, 10:38
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Home & Away, until they got rid of it
I know! I miss the theme song so much as well.
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Old 27-10-2015, 11:33
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Brookside for me is everything about my childhood, that and the old Fair City theme from the 90s bring back so many good memories.

Even though ED is my favourite soap I don't like the titles, I think they're cheap looking. Of the current soaps I'd probably say eastenders because it's never really changed, its traditional to the soap and I really like that
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Old 27-10-2015, 11:49
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Eastenders jazzy theme.

I like how hollyoaks' shows the main cast too. I can see why the other soaps don't though with all the comings and goings.

In conclusion:
Music: 1993 eastenders jazzy theme
Visuals: hollyoaks character clips
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Old 27-10-2015, 12:21
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Brookside for me is everything about my childhood, that and the old Fair City theme from the 90s bring back so many good memories.

Even though ED is my favourite soap I don't like the titles, I think they're cheap looking. Of the current soaps I'd probably say eastenders because it's never really changed, its traditional to the soap and I really like that
Really? I love Emmerdale's current opening, its exciting fast paced and really fits with the show's current feel.
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Old 27-10-2015, 12:39
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These are quick, sleek, go well and haven't really aged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXFFAF4TrW0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUkZmu3zrLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ00zOloe3o (lol at the priest)
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Old 27-10-2015, 13:02
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I disagree. They look horribly dated. I loved that version of the theme tune though. I preferred the 1996 titles. Also liked the 2003 ones too.
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Old 27-10-2015, 13:40
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I would say EastEnders, as they don't mess about with it and tamper with it too much and it is the most iconic.

I used to like Emmerdale's up to 2011, until they butchered it with the current titles and music, which is now the worst out of the big 3. The theme tune is awful and it just seems cheap and nasty.
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Old 27-10-2015, 17:53
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I used to love the opening sequences of all the big American family saga soaps in the 1980s -Falcon Crest, Dallas and Dynasty.
Loved the dramatic feel of the music setting the scene for camp high stakes melodrama and the style of the credits themselves giving each major cast member an individual nod. Especially liked it on the early Dallas were they split the screen into 3 with different views of each cast member when in character.
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Old 27-10-2015, 18:13
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Knots Landing moving pictures rolling across the screen which we had from Seasons 3 to 8. The fantastic music helped too.

Dallas' were great too with those above shots of the ranch, oil fields, sky scrapers and Dallas Cowboys stadium. Plus again, great music.

British shows.

The original Casualty credits with the slightly out of focus, point of view of the Patient being taken from the ambulance to the Resus bay.

I do also like Holby City's though would prefer they get rid of the characters on it, and just go back to the shots of surgical equipment being in the foreground.

EastEnders - simple but clever and iconic and i love it when they twist it like having the night shoot in the 30th anniversary week.

I did quite like Howards Way too.
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