It's About Time TV Series Opening and Closing Theme Song

[@Twinklebeast]

I was walking around my kitchen today and suddenly this song popped into my head - just the beginning “it’s about time, it’s about space“ and I couldn’t remember where it came from so I googled it. Now it’s all coming back to me - this show that was on when I was nine years old. It’s amazing how a song can get in your head like that and then pop up 50 years later

[@arundel75]

the same thing happened to me. I was 11, and today started singing this song. Had no memory of it!

[@trish5556]

Same here! I started singing those 2 lines and didn't remember where I heard it. I really don't remember the show. I would have been 14. Funny the things you remember when you get old!

[@lisak9205]

The same thing just happened to me tonight, and I was 9 too. The strangest thing is that I remember the song but not the show at all.

[@backdraft57]

I was 8. We used to sing it and make up our own words like "Its about time it's about space it's about time I slapped your face" LOL. such simple times then

[@Observer285]

The very same thing happened to me today! I'm 62. Don't remember the show at all but that theme song popped into my head. Spooky that so many others have replied about this.

[@GEKay-xt2cq]

As kids, we'd sing "It's about time; it's about space; it's about time I slapped your face." Then, smack! Ah, the '60s.

[@listenandbelieve]

And I thought that was just my mom being goofy... but no, that was a real playground thing.

[@ettoolet]

Yup. I remember that too. 😂

[@barndancer6149]

Ya we did that in my school too.

[@OIII-IOOO]

same here lol

[@gerryvalliere3243]

As kids we must have been very naughty. We would sing, ‘ it’s about time, it’s about space , it’s about hair in the strangest place ‘….then we’d laugh and laugh

[@michellebabicz2143]

For some strange reason, this theme song has stayed in my head for over 50 years! Can't believe I found it here. What a goofy show!

[@CoCotheTurtle]

From the team that brought you Gilligan's Island!

[@michaelisaacson9735]

WOW! I haven't thought about this show for 50+ years!

[@NatValCas]

Yesssss! Finally someone else remembers! THANK YOU

[@LabbyLover]

It’s about time! Lol!

[@martymccarty7624]

The tune pops into my mind occasionallylol!

[@conniehurst5179]

One of the best theme songs ever written!

[@markboudreau1410]

Same here! You are not alone!👩‍🚀

[@SuperCartiel]

From the same guy who gave us 'Gilligan's Island' and 'The Brady Bunch'. God bless you, Sherwood Schwartz.

[@carolynking1625]

@SuperCartiel He was fantastic! I wish we had theme song creators as talented as he was now days.

[@travisfriedland9346]

One problem Gilligan's Island has been rated as the worst show in the history of television I admit he did a lot other than that but still check out a book called the worst worst TV shows ever it's up there with Hogan's Heroes Hee Haw the gun show Three's Company Beacon Hill Etc

[@humphreygruntwhistle3946]

@@travisfriedland9346 Hogan's Heroes is high art compared to the others you mentioned. That show is actually funny and should not be on any "worst" list. Gilligan's Island is embarrassing. Three's Company is awful.

[@rosebudrezzer743]

" It's about time , it's about space ." . .. It's about time to slap your face .

[@maxpinson5002]

Yeah, that's how I remember it too

[@nelsonhernandez7123]

Same here.

[@stillayl9943]

I thought I was the only one who remembered THAT one!:)

[@freakindawgen]

Yes!

[@donowens7872]

Wow! Growing up in Chicago, I thought my cousins and I made up the "It's about time to slap your face" substitute lyrics during this show's run. Funny how people across the nation can come up with the same idea!

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

I loved this show. I also have fond memories of two other short lived 1967 comedies. Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice.

[@billybussell1908]

Mr. Terrific was my favorite show when I was about 6!!

[@brentgardner5103]

I credit this show for my love of time travel stories. I have always tried to read and watch everything about the subject.

[@lisamccue1730]

I thought I was hallucinating that I remembered this show. I've never seen it on any of the classics channels. But I remembered it from early childhood.

[@dmr8914]

ditto. My sisters knew nothing of it but that them and the ooh, ooh, kept me alive until this internet thing allowed us all to relive what our childhood gave us. SO much better than the 'reality'sh!t of today :)

[@supersleuth3527]

I'm watching a talk from Michael Salla about black holes, event horizons and traversable worm holes. Someone posted that Netflix is to Release a Documentary That Proves Aliens Exist - One comment was "it's about time" - And I had an instantaneous flashback to this song and TV show from 1966. We were shown this was all possible way back then....

[@bandotasif]

I could remember “It’s about time, it’s about space” but since I have not see the show for 55 years I am have trouble remembering a single episode. 😂

[@briancurran3622]

oh the wonderful memories, i was 10 years old when this premiered

[@tanyalarose8907]

I actually remember watching this show. I was really young but I remember it.

[@wlarrry]

me also , would have been 5 or 6

[@chetsacharko4147]

Same here.born in 61 this was on in 66.would love to have this on dvd.inro song memorable.

[@wkeena]

Haven’t heard this in decades, used to sing this song!

[@DillWont]

This was on the playground Spotify list in the Sixties.

[@moonraker30]

My mother used to LOVE this show as a kid

[@QueenBeadable]

This song popped up in my head today..I couldnt remember the lyrics..🤔 Thanks for posting 😎👽✌🏾❗❗❗

[@rclaughlin]

Thanks for putting these intros and outros in one convenient place, ClassicFlix.

[@Rick_King]

For being 57 years ago, I remember this very well! Did anyone notice that Imogene Coca's character's name changed from Shag to Shad?

[@bunpeishiratori5849]

There was some legal issue they ran into with Shag. I read that once but I don’t recall the specifics.

[@Rick_King]

@@bunpeishiratori5849 Interesting!

[@johnlorenzen4633]

Very catchy theme song

[@riffdigger2133]

In elementary school we used to sing, or I heard some one say, “ it’s about space it’s about your ugly face.” We would repeat it and even recently I was remembering it -not quite identifying what TV show it came from until I saw this so thank you.

[@raindrops21_9]

the only thing I remember about this show is that bloody theme song! There's a film called About Time (made recently). I was peacefully watching it when this tune popped into my head. Now it won't leave me alone.

[@vivalaleta]

We're sitting on the couch and the cat wants to be fed. My husband stands up and says "It's about time. It's about space. It's about two men in the strangest place." Well, I'm much younger and didn't recognize it so here we are.

[@LloydGM]

Remember this show? Heck, I used to have an It's About Time lunchbox in 2nd grade. :)

[@michellebabicz2143]

That's hilarious !

[@bradknopp6502]

You can find them sometimes on eBay 😁👍

[@arielfan51]

I Remember This TV Show. WOW!

[@PiperAndMe]

my adoptive dad used to sing, "it's about time, it's about space, it's about time to slap you in the face" and I always wondered where he got that from. I would send him this if he didn't hate me.

[@marycollins1024]

I loved this show as a kid.

[@IcanBePsycho]

This show needs a reboot in 2023.

[@luisreyes1963]

The closest you'll get is the NBC series, La Brea. 🦖

[@Marcel_Audubon]

I loved this show as an 8 year old ... also singing the slightly modified theme on the playground if you could find someone unsuspecting enough ... 🎶 "It's about time, It's about space, It's about time to slap your face" 🎶 followed by a quick hand to their cheek✋️

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

LOL, like that made it ok somehow!? COuldn't people just slap back without the jingle?

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@RaptorFromWeegee you were that one sad kid on the playground who no one wanted to play with, weren'tcha?

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@Marcel_Audubon Hahaha, hardly. I was that big dumb kid who got left back twice that everyone was scared to death of.

[@StevenPine-s8t]

MAN!!! I was 9 or 10 years old and I dont remember this show at all!!!

[@americantoycoon9206]

Great theme song and opening title sequence for an abysmal show!

[@pamelaphillips8626]

Yes I remember this tv show

[@Rtkat3]

I've heard of this show. This was one of Sherwood Schwartz's short-lived TV series. The second intro was for the second half of the series.

[@brucepappas6298]

I remember back in the early 70's one of the astronauts was on an episode of MASH. He Played a major who Hawkeye and Trapper John requested that he investigate a friendly fire incident.

[@jamesmurray8558]

It was good.When they come back to the future. A lot of the props were used on Gilligan Island..

[@miamissecret]

I was so fascinated about astronauts when I was a girl . From 6 - 10 I think thats when I said I wanted to be an astronaut . There were plenty of space shows back then. I had the song just pop into my \head and had to come here and reminisce.

[@sandrin0]

shoutouts to venetian snares

[@GF93725]

Yes thank you I really thought this theme song was only in my imagination. Thank you.

[@Laceykat66]

Great quality. I have seen this here before but it was always a 16mm print or something. Thank you.

[@bobmalack481]

Oh gawd, havent heard or thought about this theme song or show in 52 years as a 12 year old. Now I realize what a silly dud this was , as also Gilligans Island, Grindle, Car 54 where are you, Mr. Terrific, Captain Nice, and a few other short lived/dated fluff series. E-gads...thank God for better fair during the mid 60's in T.V. shows as Combat, The outer limits, Wild-wild west, The man from Uncle, Green acres, and a few others.

[@jimbo97]

Bite your toungue! Car 54 and Green Acres were the funniest sitcoms EVER! Yes, the others were lemons.

[@iveslewis108]

Watching Green Acres is a swan dive into surrealism, where the characters hear the piccolo during Oliver’s speeches, Lisa sees the credits while she also fits into the bizarre Hooterville life she resisted better than Oliver does, and where Hooterville puts on a play based on the Beverly Hillbillies show, which occurred in the same universe as Green Acres in addition to sharing characters.

[@ihateallandme]

I agree with you (except for Green Acres, which I thought was a very mean show). I especially loved The Outer Limits. I enjoyed the variety of action, character interplay, cleverness, costumes, etc., of The Wild West. I really like the intrigue and cool 😎 factor of The Man from Uncle.

[@bobmalack481]

@@ihateallandme Green acres was worth watching just for the Mr. Kimble segments..a real hoot.

[@donaldwells4236]

Arnold the pig made Green Acres much more watchable! So funny...

[@JeffSanor]

I could just remember" it"s about time its about space about cave people in the strangest place" I was 6-7 years old at the time.

[@JosephKlink-j3t]

Yes I loved it ❤

[@spectrum10]

part's of the closing theme sound like the theme song for Gilligan's Island

[@xenclair]

I still know the tune..I was 9 years old. Singing it today at work . LOL

[@tony0000]

"As through the bar-ri-er of time they flew"

[@luisreyes1963]

Can you imagine a movie version of It's About Time? At least for Netflix. 🦖

[@michaelhegyan7464]

Cool..I was eight when this was tv..!!

[@tomwilkins3865]

Listen to Jimi Hendrix Third Stone From the Sun on the first Hendrix LP. Noel Redding plays this theme on the bass.

[@lindanicholson950]

I often sing it's about time it's about space about 2 men in the strangest place. It just occurred to me that I had no memory of what show it was. So I googled that. I vaguely recall that it was from a show, but no memory of it at all.

[@maxshea4762]

No matter if they like it or not!

[@sergeiparajanov]

In about 3rd grade kids sang on the playground, "it's about time, it's about space, it's about time to slap your face." Followed by an attempted slap of course. I never heard of the show or knew where the song came from. I had only heard the playground version.

[@shelleydwyer-murphy2281]

Thank you so much, I could not remember what show this song belonged to. 😛🖖

[@elkabong6429]

I was 9 in 1966. I remember this theme song, but I have zero recollection of the show (unlike McHale’s Navy and F-Troop, for instance).

[@thomaskluz727]

It could happen.....IT COULD HAPPEN. Ask Albert E.

[@CrybabyArtist]

I want to know who did the animations, I love that 60's groovy animation style, reminds me of the original Rocky and Bullwinkle or more precisely, Fractured Fairy Tales that were always on in the same time slot.

[@stillayl9943]

I don't think it was credited.:(

[@CrybabyArtist]

@@Camop-iz9kt Thanks, Ill follow that lead. the style was a definite moment in art history!

[@CrybabyArtist]

@@Camop-iz9kt now that I've had a look I respectfully but totally disagree. I believe the style predates the feel by maybe a decade... maybe not the actual timeline but the feel.. to me is more..1840ish vibe while pink panther is 1968ish... just feeling the lines and motifs (while I do know that it is obviously late 60's)

[@CrybabyArtist]

@@Camop-iz9kt yeah watching it again, this is definitely the work for the rocky and bullwinkle and fractured fairytale people... no doubt. I'm going to say Jay Ward Productions is likely started in 1948... it has a feel of pre 50's even though it depicts the 60's..

[@RingoandCarlin]

I want to say it's one of the people who worked on Sesame Street cartoon segments

[@mikelisacarb]

Me too! I had five sisters. I used to sing, "It's about time, It's about Space, It's about ********* and her ugly face"

[@Bram25]

Venetian Snares brought me here.

[@Jacksonrox13]

A man of culture.

[@TheGregoryGardner]

Does anyone have any verifiable info on the animated titles sequences? They look like they could have been done by Gamma Productions, the Mexican animation studio that did several series for Jay Ward Productions, including Rocky and Bullwinkle, Tennessee Tuxedo, etc. It went defunct in 1967, the same year It's About Time was originally broadcast. Anybody?

[@spideraxis]

Not sure, think it was on Sunday nights.

[@blondeguy56]

Yes, I seem to remember it on Sunday nights too…possibly at 7:00 or 7:30 before Ed Sullivan at 8 on CBS.

[@darylkelly8731]

That exact thing happened to me just now , Laurie.

[@Ms.HistoryBuff433]

Sunday nights!

[@dopplerdog6817]

"When the earth was new". Homo Sapiens appeared 300,000 years ago, whereas the earth goes back 4.6 BILLION years ago. The earth wasn't new when humans first appeared.

[@GGoAwayy]

Oh come on... everyone knows the Earth was only made a few days before Adam and Eve...

[@sammytheface8821]

Back in ancient times of 1966...humans did not know that....And thought that a Gemini Space Capsule could reach the speed of light....Then humans got smart, and realized they would need a Star Ship Enterprise to do that.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

And punctuation marks go inside quotation marks.

[@roberthaworth8991]

Another series with a kick-a** theme song, "The Good Guys", also radically changed format halfway through its single season. The two leads went from diner owner (a miscast Herb Edelman) and his taxi driver friend (Bob Denver) in the city, to the co-owners of a bar-restaurant on a tropical beach. It didn't help, and was cancelled after about 10 more episodes.

[@seeburgm100a]

hmm, in the first clip Imogene Coco is listed as "Shag" in the second clip as "Shad"..

[@roberthaworth8991]

In the meantime -- and I am not making this up -- Schwartz discovered that "shag" is a slang word with a naughty meaning in the UK. He wanted to preserve the chance for syndication there, and so had to change it.

[@kamundy6394]

Awesomeness

[@VonWenk]

It ssems odd that the head writer of a high-concept sit-com was Joel Kane, who was a writer on Anthony Mann's The Tin Star.

[@BIGLOVE4TRUTH]

When I was a kid we used to sing “it’s about time. It’s about space. It’s about your ugly face.”

[@kali3665]

There are times that I think Sherwood Schwartz would have made a better songwriter than a TV producer. And he never trained as one!

[@michaela.mccracken4461]

IT'S ABOUT TIME by Gerald Fried, George Wylie and Sherwood Schwartz 🎵 It's about time, it's about space, 🎵 🎵 about two men in the strangest place. 🎵 🎵 It's about time, it's about flight, 🎵 🎵 traveling faster than a speed of light. 🎵 🎵 Here is their tale of a brave crew. 🎵 🎵 as through the barrier of time they flew. 🎵 🎵 Passed the fighting minuteman. Passed an armoured knight. 🎵 🎵 Passed the Roman warrior, to this ancient site. 🎵 🎵 It's about spacemen landed to, 🎵 🎵 the dawn of time when the earth was new. 🎵 🎵 Wait 'till they see, what is in sight, 🎵 🎵 is it good luck or it's goodnight? 🎵 🎵 It's about two astronauts, it's about their fate. 🎵 🎵 It's about a woman and her prehistoric mate. 🎵 🎵 And now it's about time, it's about time, it's about time. 🎵 🎵 It's about time! 🎵

[@sergeiparajanov]

Oh wow I see the it's about time to slap your face version was sung by kids all over the country!

[@virginia7890]

WoooHooo ❤

[@tadimaggio]

I'm 65 years old; and whenever I catch glimpses of some recycled '60s TV series (like this one) on MeTv or the other wax museum channels, I STILL can't believe that their writers got paychecks, that real banks actually cashed, for working on them. (I'd have to say that "The Love Boat" takes the stale cake in this regard. As I channel-surfed one day, I caught the end of an episode where a passenger who just found out that he had a terminal illness was assured by the crew that staying cheerful and upbeat, in the company of his cruise pickup, would make everything just fine. Charming.)

[@roberthaworth8991]

That advice was to distract the victim of the terminal illness from the COVID that was, even then, running rampant on the lower decks.

[@AcrylicFox]

who here came from Einstein Rosen Bridge (Venetian Snares)

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Larry Bornover Mick Snuzzy Calcita Jeffercyn Kimberly Clark Missy Tuffnuggets Balcram Forcops Timothy "Tim-Tim" Grant Ladypants Stepsunn Omarion Kissik Rendezvoo

[@tadimaggio]

It's a good thing that "It's About Time" wasn't produced in Great Britain, or I VERY much doubt that the Imogene Coca character could have been called "Shag", Also, I love the fact that Joe E. Ross' character is "Gronk". OUR Gronk would have been right in his element as a caveman.

[@fjccommish]

The name was changed to Shad after the pilot.

[@tadimaggio]

@@fjccommish Not unlike the way that William Katt's leading character on "The Greatest American Hero" -- who was a high school teacher in his non-superhero life -- went from being "Mr. Hinckley" to "Mr. H" after John Hinckley's attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan.

[@fjccommish]

@@tadimaggio Yes. They should have kept the name, given him a short hair cut and glasses.

[@teenagerinsac]

Gronk as in Rob Gronkowski... Ooooh Ooooh..End Zone..... Run! Run! :)

[@smittykins]

@@tadimaggioI think they did eventually revert to “Hinkley” later.

[@Mikado8848]

"It's about time TO SMACK YOUR FACE."

[@phillyflash43]

55 years and still no remake/reboot...

[@nataliep.9047]

phillyflash43; It was a flop, so don't hold your breath for a reboot/remake.

[@michellebabicz2143]

Thank God!

[@pamnamisniak3158]

never saw ir but i remember the song

[@Bargoth60]

I was 6 years old when this show premiered---even then, I thought it was a new low for Sherwood Schwartz.. And retooling the premise in mid-season only confirmed my suspicions.

[@anglobostonian]

Sherwood Schwartz would later claim the problem was he did it two/three too soon. He thought it would be successful if it had been done after Apollo 11 occurred. Yes I know, eye roll.

[@briancunningham3155]

Only my wife and I remember this show as well as "The Ugliest Girl In Town!"

[@lorib360]

Clochmerle anyone?

[@Marcel_Audubon]

I remember The Ugliest Girl in Town, too, but in my memory it starred Robert Morse ... come to find out it starred a completely different, but equally gap toothed actor ... also a memorable theme song since I can remember it over 50 years later

[@georgeevangel3233]

Yeah wow How did they ever sell this show to the network?This is what us 8 year olds were influenced by

[@davehartin9584]

Of course I remember it but do you remember a show about a grandfather who goes into the mountains and is Frozen and comes back younger than his grandsons it was a TV show I think it was called the second life

[@roberthaworth8991]

"The Second Hundred Years", with Monty Markham.

[@fratzogmopars]

Now we know what Gunther Toody did before he got on the N.Y.P.D.

[@gordon-1]

Why do I remember it as: :"It's about time, it's about space, it's about the start of the human race"?

[@Youtuber-xi6qo]

Crash is back and

[@carminedawg9506]

whats its about?

[@mikawashin990]

Japanese title …『マックとヘックの原始旅行』

[@surferbri5346]

GRONK

[@jayleslie5081]

o remeber that show it only lasted one season but it was way better than giligans island1

[@roberthaworth8991]

Even as a 5-y.o., I never bought the two guys as astronauts -- too dumb. Looking back now, neither did they have any chemistry as actors. The two longtime pros Coca and Joe E. were the draw.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

​@@roberthaworth8991 It is where "Ross: Dress for Less" got their idea.

[@wambutu7679]

The same plot as Beforiegners.

[@kayjohnston1132]

Astronauts go back in time to hang out with the cave people.

[@GGoAwayy]

They should have traveled near the speed of light and traveled to the future. Not sure about this whole faster than light going to the past nonsense.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Guess you never watched the second half of the series, where they did just that.

[@ps2os2]

Does not ring a bell at all.

[@bobmalack481]

In a sense you missed nothing, and everything, the time period that is. It could never be explained to anyone in words, you had to been there during those years to 'get it'. Bob at 64.

[@ps2os2]

@@bobmalack481 I am 71 (almost 72) and have never heard of specialists in an ambulance. I will ask around to my Dr to see if ever has heard about this.

[@bobmalack481]

'Its about time' was a 1year/short lived comedy series that was silly fluff and dissapeared quickly and forgetably like 'Captain Nice', 'Grindle', 'Mr. Terrific', 'My mother the car', and a few others. Dont feel left out, with those shows you didnt miss much.

[@robertpatrick5188]

The show was on CBS Sundays at 7:30 PM, between Lassie and Ed Sullivan. ABC had "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and NBC, Walt Disney, at that time, so I guess a lot of people saw how ridiculous this show was and tuned out; "Gentle Ben" replaced it in 1967. I might add that, despite having some of the lowest-common-denominator shows in television history, Sherwood Schwartz did turn out some memorable theme songs, notably "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch."

[@jtothepmoreno1010]

1:03 hey what’s the name of the 4th Crash Bandicoot game?