i loved this show when i was a kid in the 70's, and still a great bit of theme music!!
@ricitizen
11 жыл бұрын
I had such a crush on Kate Jackson from this series. I believe it was because, I was in elementary school then, and she reminded me of my teachers. They were young, pretty, but mostly because they were so kind and spoke so softly. Not at all like my mom. It would be great to go back to those innocent days again.
@Green18600
16 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Opening!! Entertainer Kate Jackson was a fox at the start of "The Rookies" on ABC Television. She still is a fox to this date; breast cancer will never take away her accomplishments to this date. Fabulous 7!! Tons of balance and precision were noticed in the opening montage to the show. Enjoy!!
@crow672008
9 жыл бұрын
This was one of my favorites shows growing up. Better shows with less channels.
@likeawhispr
8 жыл бұрын
+Allen Woodall More like horribly crappy television with cheese ball shows, the only thing that made all that crap television was that we didn't know any better. I'd MUCH rather have today's television and movies. There were a few good ones, but most of the shows back then were just crap.
@MrPandaeye
17 жыл бұрын
Love that gritty 70's cop show music. Cool show.
@Aerick2281
15 жыл бұрын
what a sizzler. This is prob the hottest 70s theme around. LOVE IT
@FireitupBedford
14 жыл бұрын
Me to. The Rookies ran from Sept 11, 1972 to Mar 30, 1976 IMO one of the best cop shows in tv history...
@Beautifulmusiclistnr
14 жыл бұрын
It has been over 35 years since I've seen an episode of the Rookies let alone the intro for it. It was a real winning combination with Georg Sanford Brown, Sam Melville, Michael Ontkean and Kate Jackson. This show put Aaron Spelling on the map in my opinion. I remember watching it on Monday nights as a child. Please post some episodes. Thanks!
@RX552VBK
15 жыл бұрын
Boy, I loved this show. When we were kids we would play the Rookies. I was Brown (aka Webster--if i remember correctly), my other two friends would be the other rooks. We'd run up and down along Southern Blvd in the Bx. What days, man!
@jond1965
8 жыл бұрын
i loved this show as a kid. man TV was so much better in some ways back then.
@rtususian
16 жыл бұрын
Never watched this show originally (1972-76), I discovered Kate Jackson while watching the 1st season of Charlie's Angels in 76, and one of my local stations played ROOKIES reruns on Sat nites in the late 70s.
@TariusShinobi
16 жыл бұрын
I bought Season One of the DVD set. It's great ! Brings back lots of memories.
@mkl62
13 жыл бұрын
1-24-2011. Sake's alive, sake's alive, Officer Willie Gillis is 65. Happy Birthday, Michael. Where has the time gone? This was one of my favorite shows from childhood to early teens.
@FireitupBedford
16 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite Police show ever.
@FireitupBedford
14 жыл бұрын
@goatboyful some of the best tv theme music was back in the 70's and 80's...
@snowrocket
13 жыл бұрын
Good show and theme. Sometimes I got to watch this when I was a kid. I remember an episode where a guy got killed by a mollotov cocktail thrown into a police car. Scary stuff to see when you're eight.
@snowrocket
13 жыл бұрын
Good show and theme. Sometimes I got to watch this when I was a kid. I remember an episode where a guy got killed by a mollotov cocktail thrown into a police car. scary stuff to see when you're eight.
@MrDavkoz
13 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting, that last time I saw this it was on the air!
@RX552VBK
15 жыл бұрын
T'was Mr. B. He was great. Another great score was the 'extended' opening theme to Police Story. Great stuff.
@TheMick26
13 жыл бұрын
I loved this show as a kid. Georg Stanford Brown was my favorite, but I just noticed his shooting style. Who shoots a gun with their middle finger all the way through the hole? LOL! Thanks for posting this opener bfelten... you're the greatest!
@ClassicTVMan1981X
13 жыл бұрын
@1simaddict1 Robert Wagner (who, fittingly, is getting the titular role in the new version of the 1976 series) also had a hand in that series, despite having no official on-screen role. His late two-time wife, Natalie Wood (1938-81), was also involved; the couple's production company was called "RONA II," which is meant to represent "Robert and Natalie, Second Time Around." Their association with Spelling and Goldberg goes back to the time of the 1973 TV movie "The Affair."
@frankd1965
17 жыл бұрын
A great "classic" from the late Aaron Spelling. Aired on ABC(Aaron Broadcasting Company).
@RX552VBK
15 жыл бұрын
Great opening theme. Elmer Bernstein I believe. I wish TV LAND would put this on instead of constant reruns of the Jefferson and M.A.S.H. Oh yeah, one other thing...R.I.P. Sam Meville.
@TheBraveIntrovert
13 жыл бұрын
This show where Kate Jackson first started working with Aaron Spelling. When it was over, he called her to do Charlies Angels. They was gonna name it Alley Cats, but she didn't like that name so she came up with Charlies Angels. They also wanted her to play Kelly Garret and had the choice of any of the characters, but she wanted to play Sabrina.
@godadameve
17 жыл бұрын
thehungryveg: Are you kidding me??! This was possibly the most over-hyped (and watched!) show of the seventies! It was on right BEFORE Monday night football! Good Grief!It was consistently in the TOP TEN for almost FIVE YEARS!
@drummerbraves
17 жыл бұрын
That is the police academy where Sabrina, Kelly, and Jill met each other in Charlie's Angels. Matter of fact, Kate Jackson played Sam Melville's husband on The Rookies, she was a nurse on the show.
@worldoftone
15 жыл бұрын
Watched this as a kid. I guess it was pretty short-lived, but I do remember it.
@Gnillob802
16 жыл бұрын
The spin off of this show was S.W.A.T. Kate Jackson later starred in Charlie's Angels which also opened with a shot of the same Police Academy sign. All were Aaron Spelling shows as was The Mod Squad.
@rockintetster
17 жыл бұрын
The rookies went to the same police academy as Charlie's Angels- what a coincidence!
@jaredjlinden
16 жыл бұрын
If you read the "Charlie's Angels Casebook" that was published a few years ago, you know that Kate appeared pretty much as she wanted to, by all accounts. The wardrobe people were frustrated because Farrah and Jackie were all into nice clothes, and Kate just wanted turtlenecks and jeans. When a new producer came in, he wanted the makeup and wardrobe people fired because Kate looked so much better in person. Then he found out that that was her choice, not theirs.
@dar76sh59
2 жыл бұрын
Kate was no dull Barbie Doll. And she looked sexy without trying. She was a talented and charismatic actress. Gorgeous, too.
@TheVermont420
14 жыл бұрын
yea i love this one too man,,,,,
@Shakeshack78
13 жыл бұрын
The exterior of the police academy looks a lot like the one used in Charlie's Angels!
@sc813
17 жыл бұрын
My parents named my sister "Jill" after K Jackson's character on the show.
@DRUMTOY2002
17 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately he passed away on 3/9/1989 of heart failure. Great actor and very hawt!!!
@Goatboysminion
14 жыл бұрын
mate you'll get no arguement from me on that score. this one, SWAT, The Streets of San Francisco and Police Story. and that's only three more off the top of my head!
@36index
16 жыл бұрын
NOW THAT WAS FUNNY AS HELL (laughing, about to bust my gut,.... gotta catch my breath.......HA HA HA HA HA......DAMN!) THAT REALLY MADE MY DAY!
@StukInBuf
15 жыл бұрын
I saw "The Ten Commandments," and never knew that the same Mr. Bernstein wrote the music for that film.
@rtususian
16 жыл бұрын
I loved Kate's nurse character, and in several episodes she would act very "Sabrina Duncan"-like [her Angels character] by helping solve the cops' cases for them. For some reason she didn't appear in a lot of the later episodes, but in the last season she was doing stuff that her Angels character would do, like pretending to be a prostitute.
@bfelten
17 жыл бұрын
This is from The Greatest 70's Cop Shows DVD
@FireitupBedford
16 жыл бұрын
How true. Then I would have to say the third or fourth season of Starsky and Hutch music.
@crispycritterz
17 жыл бұрын
That had the rockinest theme ever....
@Beautifulmusiclistnr
14 жыл бұрын
@Gonnabeatthis Thanks for letting me know that the show The Rookies is out on DVD. I'll have to do a search for it. Welcome to YT. I see you just joined. Take care.
@RingtailStudios
14 жыл бұрын
And this was before her Charlie's Angels years, too!
@theylou
16 жыл бұрын
WOW!!! There will never be a tv line up like this again. They should take a channel and put all the shows from ABC & NBC from the 70's on. What the Hell happened to TVLand!!! Why don't they pic up some of these shows? I enjoyed your post.
@RX552VBK
14 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Sam Melville.
@nozcr
15 жыл бұрын
Boy, talk about recycling! I guess Aaron Spelling was really into ecology 40 years ago, he reused all that footage and photos in the intros to Charlie's Angels and S.W.A.T.! He even reused Kate Jackson! I've had that theme in my head for 38 years! It's great to hear it again! And I love the Cherries on the Police Cars! The following year they started using flashing light bars.
@sluggoII
13 жыл бұрын
Kate Jackson! Pre-Charlie's Angels!
@hanoc101
14 жыл бұрын
@tryithere You're right LOL. They were rookies forever.
@FireitupBedford
14 жыл бұрын
Oh don't forget sexy Angie Dickinson in Police Woman. Man it's so hard to believe that she's now 78 years old...
@Critique808
12 жыл бұрын
Kate Jackson looks so pretty here.
@wormsquish
17 жыл бұрын
so cool! thanks for posting.
@pookeeeee
15 жыл бұрын
This so bad ass!
@leftforever
12 жыл бұрын
@worldoftone The Rookies had four seasons, 1972-1976.
@Doug4422
13 жыл бұрын
@TheMick26 It definitely looks that way, doesn't it? But, if you notice the size of his hands, you realize that his fingers are very long, making everything he handles look small in comparison.
@RX552VBK
15 жыл бұрын
You're right, TS. Man, I had big crush on Lindsey Wagner. She's still a very lovely woman; you can catch her the bed commercials.
@Airsoftcleaner
13 жыл бұрын
@ClassicTVMan1981X S.W.A.T. was a spinoff of The Rookies
@StukInBuf
15 жыл бұрын
Especially given the recent "Bachelor" brouhaha, those kind of "reality" shows ought to be axed in favor of something like "The Rookies." Who are the dim-bulbs that dream up such "Bachelor"-esque garbage anyway? Aren't there any old-timers who can show these young execs a thing or three about putting together QUALITY TV? Man... the 70s/80s/early 90s(and throw a bone to ER and NYPD Blue, too)... GREAT TV era!
@Airsoftcleaner
13 жыл бұрын
@drshagstein This would be a good cast if they did a Rookies Movie,Tae Diggs as Webster,Justin Timberlake as Danko,and Ashton Kutcher as Gillis and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Jill Danko.
@RX552VBK
14 жыл бұрын
@tonywallacess45 Unfortunately, tony, Sam died in back 1989 of heart failure in L.A.
@whiskeyify
14 жыл бұрын
it was fun to watch this stuff...I remember reading real cops would say it was not real life..but who cares ? it was just fun to watch and I didn't care.
@shandirocks
15 жыл бұрын
Tvland has gone down the tubes. Seems like its the same 3 shows on all the time so i never watch it anymore. There needs to be a tvland II with all of them great cop shows from the 70's-early 80's.
@godadameve
17 жыл бұрын
Nice posting. Thanks. But...if my memory serves me right this is NOT season one opening. More like season three. THis reeks of 1974. Season one = 1972.
@tryithere
14 жыл бұрын
And they were rookies for like 7 years.
@klisher
13 жыл бұрын
this looks exciting
@hanoc101
14 жыл бұрын
@drshagstein I agree. I mean how many "reality shows" can they put on?
@michaelbauers8800
4 жыл бұрын
Wow this was a show? Totes don't recall it.
@iamnewfie1
16 жыл бұрын
under the watchfull eye and u know it....
@dariusdynamite
13 жыл бұрын
CHARLIES ANGELS with DUDES!
@walterschivo9123
9 жыл бұрын
Sam Melville died in 1989.
@Goatboysminion
15 жыл бұрын
yes, i'm in my fourties now.
@monsta64
14 жыл бұрын
@cjs33139 So then you must have gotten all hot n' bothered when Michael Ontkean, Harry Hamlin and Kate Jackson starred in a film from '82 titled: ''Making Love". Kate and Michael played a married couple when out of the blue he starts getting feelings for Harry Hamlin's character and the next thing you know her leaves his wife for him.
@dereka79
16 жыл бұрын
speaking from experience, huh?
@tonywallacess45
14 жыл бұрын
@RX552VBK When did Sam Melville die? BTW having a Black guy as the lead was ahead of its time. Usually the Black guy is bit part and he dies.
@ClassicTVMan1981X
13 жыл бұрын
@mrceleb2006 Similar to "S.W.A.T." but on a red background.
@455Transam
17 жыл бұрын
Whatever happened to "Mike" Sam Melville??
@joker3092
16 жыл бұрын
Ha..ha.. I don't think the main reason they did those shows was for "extra money"(as if they're regular joes who need a second job?) I'm sure they got paid,but the opportunity for more exposure on tv is probably why.
@emilwaukeh
13 жыл бұрын
And then theres the other guys
@Declan50
17 жыл бұрын
Anybody know why Michale Onkeat left the show?
@AstralPixie
15 жыл бұрын
I remember thinking that this show was cool.
@Jiltedin2007
15 жыл бұрын
Where's Kate Jackson now?
@SuperChrisThor
13 жыл бұрын
Two words. Michael Ontkean. sigh.
@TariusShinobi
16 жыл бұрын
TV of today is fucked up ! They don't make action shows like they use to. All we have are "Sex & The Shitty" type shows ! TV for Alpha Males is GONE !!!!!!!!
@vampyros1
16 жыл бұрын
Kate Jackson looked exactly how she wanted to look in Charley's Angels, and most of us think it was pretty damned good...but on the other hand, there's conspiracy theorists like you...
@StukInBuf
15 жыл бұрын
And then you have "The Bachelor," another piece-of-sh** show! Heard of the recent installment? The guy ends up choosing Melissa, and then decides he wants Holly in the post-show interview. Except for House, ER, NYPD Blue, and maybe even CSI and Law And Order... TV today is in the sh**pile!
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