ABC 20/20 THEME - Robert Israel (no VO)

[@ezaye1991]

The sound that lets you know that TGIF is done for tonight.

[@2013venjix]

I feel old.

[@slsteam6912]

Imagine how old you would feel if you were watching when it actually started airing on Thursday nights in the 1980s.

[@IWantToMature85]

Sadly

[@eternalnut]

Or that 20/20 is on

[@eternalnut]

@@slsteam6912 very old

[@wheelzofoz]

ABC News: Around the world and Into your home. The stories that touch your life. This is 2020

[@higgy04]

With Hugh Downs, and Baba Wawa.

[@gameshowguy2000]

@@higgy04 Both of whom are reunited at the pearly gates.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@higgy04 That would be Barbara Walters, who just passed on at age 93.

[@philipdefibaugh5683]

20/20's ending sucked after they quit using this theme at the end. This song is such a classic, that I AM getting chills right now listening to it.

[@jamesthing6963]

Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters will always be the best duo 20/20 hosts.

[@scottbrown7497]

Tim Russert always Meet The Press

[@TheSkete]

... Back when this show, and it's theme were both hard hitting...

[@amightysailingman]

Yes, newsmagazines aren't what they used to be. I haven't been able to stomach 48 Hours for many years. Of all the newsmagazines, only 60 Minutes is still any good.

[@princepond1633]

@@amightysailingman 20/20 isn’t even a newsmagazine anymore, it now just focuses on crime

[@TSquared2001]

Accurate

[@philipmclaughlin9636]

Yep after John Stossel left so did 20/20.

[@charliegeraldjr5926]

RIP Hugh downs 😢🙏

[@lrobinson3412]

Good Evening! I'm Hugh Downs......and I'm Barbara Walters and THIS IS 20/20!!!! RIP Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, and Real Journalism

[@wcwbulldog1701]

RIP Barbara Walters, Thank You For Keeping The World Informed For Many Years.

[@Ian16545]

Thanks for the memories, Hugh...

[@bmasters1981]

That 20/20 title is the way I grew up around that ABC newsmagazine!

[@mixon270]

Me too

[@tnawcwvictoria]

God Bless You Hugh Downs Thank You for all the years you've informed us on The TODAY Show and 20/20 and most of all, Thank You for makin' Concentration an American Game Show Classic May You R.I.P. and please say hello to Peter Jennings, David Brinkley, Bob Clayton, Art James and Cokie Roberts for me Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters will ALWAYS be 20/20

[@alanemocab3465]

ABC should use this for their next 20/20 special to pay tribute.

[@carmensandiego3691]

Everyone should play this at the stroke of midnight on January 1st 20/20

[@TheSkete]

You can, but it's 20/20, as in perfect vision.

[@spacemanmonster23]

Done!

[@bmasters1981]

@@TheSkete Something that was quite skillfully illustrated in the title sequence when I was a boy-- there was a blurry ECU (extreme close-up) of ABC News' trademark globe logo of the time, and then a magnifying glass came up from the bottom left to clear it up; this glass then stamped the axis on the globe, and went in between the 20s of the title. Here is a 1985 edition that illustrates that opening: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioG6ppRtgrWjd9E

[@kristopherversteegt2939]

In the year 2020, I challenged myself to watch an episode of 20/20 at least once a month for the entire year. And I did just that! Even though I'm a Dateline and 48 Hours viewer, I scheduled it on nights when those two are not on.

[@mesocorny4366]

This exemplifies arledge’s revamping of abc news, a new era that brought out programs like world news tonight, nightline, this week, and certainly 2020.

[@zymaymyn]

Happy New Year! 2020!

[@zyber9]

RIP Hugh Downs!

[@AntMan201490]

One of my favorite theme song on Friday nights😀👍🏿🎶

[@andrewvandervort300]

Rest In Peace Hugh downs

[@craigfoye6674]

Did you know that Hugh Downs, veteran news anchorman for ABC’s “20/20”, passed away in 2020?!?! RIP Hugh Downs 😢😢😢

[@2013venjix]

He got to see 2020. him and Barbara

[@rwboa22]

Would have loved to see Hugh hit 100, which would have been this past February 14th. (He was born on February 14, 1921.)

[@smill1985]

I don't believe it was until within the last month or so that I realized he passed.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@2013venjix Barbara is 93, but reportedly not in the best of shape. An update is that Barbsra Walters passed on at age 93 in late December 2022.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@rwboa22 Yes, Hugh Downs was a true phenomenon and logged more on-air television time than anyone else, so it has been said.

[@TheRobobuck]

RIP Hugh Downs

[@StarFleet_Tech1701]

Well it is 2020 now! This is the theme for this year.

[@HowardSalwasser]

From ABC, this is 20/20.

[@rogercervantes6582]

Happy 2020 to the former and the current members of ABC News' 20/20! Two Thousand Twenty=Twenty/Twenty!

[@mixon270]

Rest In Peace Hugh Downs

[@JCEurovisionFan1996]

RIP Barbara Walters, one of the legends of American broadcasting

[@MJBYouTubeNetwork]

*sigh* Oh, Score Productions, there was an era in ABC News where you DOMINATED with an iron hand. HA, not only you Score Productions, but also Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters. And this theme song is a perfect example of how Score Productions came up with some awesome theme songs.

[@mysteriouzcat4207]

Hugh Downs.

[@rwboa22]

Not only Score Productions did the music for ABC News and 20/20 (Robert Israel), but also did the score for ABC Monday Night Football in the 1970's as well as The Price Is Right (Edd Kalehoff) and several other game shows produced by Mark Goodson.

[@gravityissues5210]

I dunno, did Score screw all of their staff composers out of royalties and publishing rights? Or did they just do that to Edd Kalehoff and his _Price is Right_ theme?

[@ScoopNemeth]

When Roone Arledge ran both ABC News and Sports, Where did he go to for awesome themes from Monday Night Football to World News Tonight? Score Productions, who else? That was his go-to theme music company.

[@trainman1971]

We keep in touch, so you'll be in touch!

[@smill1985]

Barbara Walters! 😉

[@tyrondavis6727]

RIP Barbara Walters (1929-2022)..... The original host of ABC's 20/20.... what an amazing accomplished life Also RIP Hugh Downs....(1921-2020)... Thank you Barbara Walters and tell your Co Anchor Partner Hugh Downs I said hello for me ❤️👍💙💎.... And while I am on the subject, Happy 44th Anniversary to the 1978 ABC's Prime Time Show 20/20...... THANK YOU VERY MUCH 👍🤍❤️💙🎆 Barbara Walters....til we meet again..(on prime time television).....💝😢😂

[@brooksangela2]

Man Rest Well Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs

[@andreaelizabeth5494]

Hugh and Barbara are reunited agan

[@jasonburger3533]

The best "20/20" theme ever is this theme, which is not the original, but the best. Modifications with swooshes occurred in the early 1990s that gave it a more modern version, which continued in use until the late 1990s and early 2000s.

[@jasonburger3533]

They used to end with a close before the end credits by saying, "We are in touch, so you be in touch." The show began in 1978, so is older than some in these comments write. This theme aired from 1979 to 1991, with bolstered variations beginning in 1992 and through the late 1990s and into the early 2000s as well.

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

From ABC News... Around the World and Into your Home... The Stories that Touch your Life... This is 20/20... with Hugh Downs... and Barbara Walters

[@2013venjix]

So much memories. Thanks again.

[@kascnef]

@@2013venjix is hugh alive

[@2013venjix]

@@kascnef yes .

[@bmasters1981]

@@2013venjix Not anymore-- dead at 99.

[@2013venjix]

@@bmasters1981 Yeah, I heard. Sad. But, the good thing is Hugh (along with Barbara Walters) has lived through the year 2020.

[@25FADIII]

In memory of NBC News, Today, ABC News, and 20/20 Journalist, Barbara Walters. 1929-2022

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

RIP, Hugh Downs.

[@Amar7605]

I feel like purchasing a transcript of tonight’s episode 😂

[@makishepard]

RIP, Barbara

[@jamespaluch3481]

From ABC News around the World & into your home. This is 20/20

[@jaylamb1097]

Theme still slaps today 🔥

[@mysteriouzcat4207]

Now, 20/20 is now an investigative Newsmagazine show but they retrained the special interests and special editions of 20/20. And sometimes, notoriously catchphrase before the breaks, "Stay with us." (That makes it laugh!) I wish I wanted to see this 20/20 on an original format but David Muir and Amy Robach will still anchors of 20/20. If they do!

[@GameShowMike]

From ABC NEWS, around the world and into your home. The stories that touch your life. This is 20/20… with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters.

[@jasonburger3533]

We are in touch, so you be in touch was the famous sign-off for each episode of the show.

[@Ian_A84]

Now that's how ABC News 20/20 started the show at 10:00pm on Friday Nights after the TGIF comedy block.

[@bmasters1981]

And how it started on Thursdays before that (after what it came, I don't remember).

[@wcwbulldog1701]

The Day that this Pandemic is Over, it will be truly 2020!!!! This should be the Music that blares All Over The World!!!

[@Ian_A84]

Hugh Downs: Good evening, I'm Hugh Downs. Barbara Walters: And I'm Barbara Walters, and this is 20/20!

[@slsteam6912]

The music and the theme definitely matches this year. Scary. I wonder what Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters are up to?

[@bmasters1981]

Hugh just passed on peacefully at his home in AZ at 99. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hugh-downs-dead-20-20-875939

[@slsteam6912]

@@bmasters1981 Wow! Ben, maybe that was the reason Hugh and Barbara came across my mind.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@slsteam6912 Hugh Downs died in 2020 at age 99. Barbara Walters died at age 93 in late December 2022.

[@John2271]

Back when there was no fake news

[@Ian_A84]

RIP to the 20/20 hosts Hugh Downs (1921-2020) and Barbara Walters (1929-2022).

[@AntMan201490]

20/20 debut on Tuesday June 6,1978😀👍🏿 R.I.P Hugh Downs who died in 2020😞🙏🏿

[@burnbabylonburn78]

Iconic.

[@AntMan201490]

20/20 Friday night at 10:00pm after TGIF god rest Hugh Downs and this is 20/20😀👍🏿😞🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@jackdee9365]

Omg I love this classical music theme the best the horns the strings just listen to that bass at 37-48 omg wow don’t know who wrote or composed this wonderful music but it’s a number 1 in my book just stunningly beautiful for the beautiful late Barbara Walters and the Late Talented Hugh Downes when News was News and the folks reporting it were not opinionated they were real first class journalism to the max and just told you facts and made sure it was fact before airing this music this epitome of Great wholesomeness is gone forever

[@hozonkai9967]

Hugh Downs is 98

[@TSquared2001]

He and Barbara Walters have do the 20/20 into for the year 2020.

[@bmasters1981]

And will be 99 on 2/14/20, provided he gets that far.

[@gameshowguy2000]

@@bmasters1981 And he hopes to see February... 20/20.

[@bmasters1981]

@edraythecrazy Would love to see him become a centenarian!

[@gameshowguy2000]

@Bourg Productions Unfortunately, he will NOT live to see it. Passed away at the start of July.

[@tommyz2000]

In a time when Geraldo Rivera was one their best correspondents.

[@Ian_A84]

On December 30, 2022, Barbara Walters will be reunited with Hugh Downs in heaven.

[@HoustonDancePosse]

R.I.P. Barbara Walters (1929-2022)

[@thenewageriseth]

Omg they played this in the 90's! 😃 I so remember this shit lmao

[@mastertyper1571]

A more energetic version of the 1978 ABC news theme.

[@daviddavenport1485]

From ABC News world headquarters in New York, this is 20/20 with David Muir and Elizabeth Vargas.

[@mysteriouzcat4207]

Sorry, It's Amy Robach. Elizabeth Vargas is already moved from ABC News to the other network but is on cable channel, since 2018.

I like KABC-TV & KATU 2.

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

Good Evening, I'm Aaron Ladner, and This is 20/20

[@garrysaint-vil725]

Rip Hugh Downs

[@kascnef]

2020

[@NES8440]

R.I.P. Barbara Walters😢🙏🏾

[@jefferygreening4015]

Good evening I’m Hugh Downs. Good evening I’m Barbara Walters and this is 20/20

[@DeAngeloStevens]

This how TGIF in 1989 with Family Matters, and ended in the Year 2000 with the Series Finale of Boy Meets World because of Sabrina the Teenage Witch is moving to the WB in the FALL of that Year before the Opening Ceremony in the Olympics in Sydney

[@genewilson5827]

When did this theme start? The airdate.

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

0:01 On The ABC Newsmagazine... 20/20

[@bmasters1981]

....with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters. Tonight...

[@lsmftymf]

Theme's ending always reminds me of that of Sam Spence's "The Over the Hill Gang."

[@Amar7605]

John Stossel FTW

[@jamespaluch3481]

RIP Hugh Downs & Barbara Walters

[@MrMSpike]

Ah always remember gd ol hugh n barb givin the latest scoop on current events..

[@djcrhyem187]

RIP BARBRA

[@TheRenard10]

Question: R both numbers 20 good numbers???

[@MattDaugherty-jd7my]

Rip hugh and Barbara

[@DeAngeloStevens]

Stephen A. Smith: Make No Mistake, This is 2020.

[@fool3333]

R.I.P. BARBARA WALTERS

[@kascnef]

2020 is the best happy ny

[@georgewilliams8357]

Hotdamn!!! This theme song for 20/20 is the 💣💣💣!!! In a since this theme music does have the kind of beat & rhythm that you actually can dance to.

[@mysteriouzcat4207]

And you know folks, this original 20/20 theme should be stay as an opening and closing as well, not the current ones used up to this day, that is a rude for the viewers especially at the end of broadcast each episode of 20/20. It hurts to everyone's ears! And I hope that Barbara Walters is a-OK!

[@markfroman738]

RIP Barbara Walters

[@gameshowguy2000]

Ironically, Concentration requires 20/20 vision.

[@JasonA.Routhier-vw1wd]

RIP!! HUGH DOWNS & BARBARA WALTERS!!

[@TheVampirePredator]

2021's top 3 shows more hated than 20/20 3) 19/39 2) That nazi number KZbin doesn't like. 1) Fox News

[@irish89055]

I never liked the way Barbara Wawa came in and took the show away from Hugh... or the disgrace that the network news magazines have begun focusing on murders... part of the decline of the country that they had to do this for ratings..

[@bmasters1981]

"I never liked the way Barbara Wawa came in and took the show away from Hugh" How did she do that (upstage Hugh Downs)?

[@irish89055]

@@bmasters1981 I feel she did, though I've read something about Hugh Downs recently where someone said he was sort of lazy.. she certainly wasn't..

[@JoseTwitterFan]

THIS IS 2020

[@gmwilkiegeorge8685]

#NostalgiaJunkie

[@starsfan23]

RIP Hugh Downs

[@kevinhannah1785]

Rip Barbara walters

[@qwert9876]

RIP Hugh Downs