One Day At A Time 1980-1981 Opening

[@darrellmfume4020]

growing up doing this time. I never got into the show. but this is ONE hell of a theme song. ONE of the best in T.v history.

[@skingerskanger]

I miss old-timey CBS. something about that network gave me such a warm fuzzy feeling as a child... from the Peanuts specials to The Walton's... where the announcers would tell you during the holidays how "So-and so is brought to you tonight by (insert company name here) who reminds you to have a Merry Christmas/Happy Thanksgiving." the sound of Walter Cronkite's reassuring voice. Captain Kangaroo. Saturday Morning cartoons. The Dukes Of Hazard..... TV will never have this heartwarming feel again... with the exception of The Hallmark Channel.

[@paullarue2010]

skinger skanger CBS has changed. They have new shows.

[@dixiechic75]

Could not agree more. I miss it and it was such a great era to grow up in.

[@geo386]

Sounds as if you grew up the same generation I did. I enjoyed your thoughts about the past.

[@smoothbro9711]

Great show I used to watch it growing up R.I.P Bonnie Franklin

[@crassyfrake]

I remember always being disappointed as a kid when the Special Presentation bumper played and it wasn't Charlie Brown lol

[@JhomasE]

crassyfrake me too! I would expect a cartoon! Ha ha ha!

[@bigwillietheb]

either that or a bugs bunny special

[@GaryPhelpsII]

Same here.

[@nibora4895]

Same here. Or it would bump a show off that I really wanted to watch for something stupid 😂😂

[@KentB3]

@@bigwillietheb Or a Christmas special

[@shortshazu]

OMG I remember when CBS would do that multicolor spiral "Special" across the screen! I'm a graphic designer and love looking at the 'retro' graphics..

[@tylermorrison7051]

I remember it like it was yesterday.

[@gwp5066]

always before the Miss Universe Pageant.

[@atranfanatic]

Yes! Part of my childhood as well! Ah the good 'ol days!

[@bmoreguy72]

The CBS Special Presentation ba-dump, ba-dump - spiral!!! I hadn't seen or heard that in over 30 years - my gosh. Oh man, it really is the little things. .. And I LOVED this show (ODAAT) - Norman Lear gave us some great ones.

[@maccafan1974]

I miss these old announcements of "....Won't be seen tonight, so we can bring you..."

[@rtfe83able]

God Bless you Bonnie Franklin! May you rest in Peace.

[@beatmastersimperium8864]

rtfe83able yeah antenna tv did have this show on for a long while not sure if they still air it now though

[@cynthialyman2636]

I love the 70s themes.

[@cynthialyman2636]

I couldn't agree more. They were performed by true artists as well. I saw this show taped live in LA in '79. It never left my mind entirely.

[@bdjoh011]

This was the 80s though.

[@Brandon-lw1wx]

This was 1980-81

[@ExplorerDS6789]

0:07- "Uh geez, they what-do-ya-call pre-tempted us again."

[@BigSkippy1263]

Good Grief....

[@debfan74]

I grew up in Indiana, lived here all my life, and I was always so happy to hear Indianapolis in a tv show, because I grew up 45 min north of my capital, now I live in my capital, the only disappointing thing is, this show never talked about locations, if it were being made today, garunteed they would speak a little more of Indy! Indy is a great city, this was great show! Wish someone like Antenna TV or ME TV would rerun this great classic!

[@millenniumman75]

I liked the show because they also mentioned other cities in the area - Logansport (where the Coopers were from), South Bend, Fort Wayne, and even Dayton, Ohio!

[@debfan74]

Yes that is true too :-)

[@DakotaCelt1]

Per the Antenna site, they are scheduled to air One DAy at a Time in 2015. Also included are Mork and Mindy, Small Wonder, Dear John, and a few others.

[@davanmani556]

The new Netflix version moved them to LA. I thought they should have stayed in Indy. There is sizable Hispanic population especially in the area where Jane Pauley grew up in.

[@LordChristopherOfMidway]

That box technique shows off the first-generation "slide-squeeze" machines, which only the networks had at first. They worked in only 2-D space, and they tended to pixelize video a little, but they were state of the art at the time.

[@csallen]

My grandmother use to love watching this....theme song was on point.

[@IAmMeMe87]

So early 80s!

[@dennybish67]

Back in the day when TV shows had great theme songs.

[@geraldlewis432]

One of my favorite songs

[@joesimon2029]

I totally stopped watching TV at this time. High School ended and I was starting "art school". I had all new friends and a new life. I did enjoy all these shows when I was an introverted teen in 1975-1977 . Did anyone else totally stop watching TV when high school ended ?

[@robertclark6349]

When I graduated high school and turned 18 I went to work evenings and nights for the next 15 years. So I'm watching shows that were cancelled 10 years or more but they are new shows to me.

[@AlB1974]

RIP Pat Harrington!

[@richardwhite8615]

I was so in love with Valerie Bertinelli

[@BigSkippy1263]

Get in line, Richard. I saw her first.

[@KJTV67]

As we all were!

[@toastietube]

PIP credits! How ahead of their time! I also love the CBS Special bumper. What a crazy night, bumping Archie Bunker's Place for One Day At A Time. Must have been one special episode!

[@barbaraavan3758]

I always wanted to be Barbara Cooper chubby cheeks she was my favorite character cuz we watched her grow up!

[@millenniumman75]

0:32 - Bonnie's right hand MOVES - she is supposed to be FROZEN - SPOOKY LOL!

[@GeraldLewis-gy5vk]

Great Beautiful at ease Song Forever

[@vinniemystery563]

WOW I LIKE THIS OPENING !!!!!

[@geraldlewis8272]

Love This Song

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

this is the way I remember it.

[@Smartboy8877]

@MichaelHansenFUN You seem to be a real fountain of wisdom! I am very happy to have met a You Tube buddy like you!

[@JhomasE]

Great! I'm glad you like it.

[@geo386]

This is odd not showing or bumping a show for a one hour program. I believe they call them bumpers, when it was a commercial break. I miss the old days of television and the programs. Why I remember when there were only three networks and UHF.

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

And PBS

[@geo386]

@@rebeccaquartieri5509 Oh yes and PBS.

[@cschiara]

wow! thanks so much!! i'm a fan of Ron Rifkin!!!! great! 5 stars : )

[@eddieg749]

RIP Bonnie Franklin

[@TheRobobuck]

RIP Schneider aka Pat Harrington

[@epcotman32]

and Bonnie Franklin

[@peterketterer4687]

Oh yes miss Bonnie fraklin

[@jnadle1]

If this show had gone on for another season, the first few seconds of the last opening would've remained the same, but this time, the "O" in "One" would be drawn a la Knots Landing and the rest of the logo would zoom into place. Otherwise, the clips will be from mostly season 9 episodes.

[@jeffreymcclain6439]

Marc-André Charron (born March 1970)

[@millenniumman75]

This was the first season that Valerie was credited "as Barbara Cooper", as Mackenzie had just been fired from the show due to drug abuse issues. They almost had to add new characters because Max, being Julie's husband, would also have to be written off as having "left with Julie". Most of season five was pretty trying on the writers given the instability and having to come up with so many episodes - hence having Nanette Fabray appear in many shows. Having two new characters in season six helped out....only to see Ron Rifkin leave as "Nick had been killed by a drunk driver"...and Alex staying with the show by Fall 1981.

[@ulyssesnorth6843]

+millenniumman75 Then Mackenzie went on to do ProActive ads, smh.

[@millenniumman75]

Ulysses North Yep, at least it's not drugs ruining her face like meth. She did have some acting roles recently. Given her childhood, she's lucky it didn't turn out worse for her!

[@JakeMabe1]

I wish they'd bring the "CBS Special" bumper back.

[@FaytLinegod]

Valerie still going strong after all these years. :)

[@BluetheFortune2006]

I wonder if one of your tapes of One Day At A Time like the 1981 special tape that contains a rare infamous TAT Communications Company "yellow star" logo at the end if you have one of those?

[@JhomasE]

I’m not sure. Hmmm….

[@BluetheFortune2006]

Like, I believe that "TAT" logo existed when I watched a video of it that cuts off abruptly by the CBS ID and it wasn't shown by post-1982 reruns of this program that got plastered by Embassy, Columbia-Tristar or SPT logos. Do you believe that it exists or are you aware of it?

[@BluetheFortune2006]

Maybe you can look through or watch the tapes to see if it does have a TAT logo or not? i'm not one of a person on the logo community begging for it, just wondering.

[@Smartboy8877]

That is very interesting! I just finished reading the autobiography on Meredith Baster. It was a very good read!

[@allanb1743]

Whoa Caroll Oconner comedy genius got bumped off by One Day at A Time. Brutal

[@EasyAttack]

Damn it! How in the hell are you just gonna screw me out of an episode of One Day at a Time tonight!?!?!

[@neilsimon544]

Valerie was one of my first tv crushes. She was hot.

[@seymoreskinner3]

She is one of the most beautiful actresses of all times. She is still smoking hot today!

[@scottsnbatalk3447]

She was my crush too. This show came out the year I was born, but i didn't get to see it until the 80's. I never told my parents back then that I had a crush on Valerie because I didn't want to be teased. If i ever had the chance to meet her I would probably freeze up like an idiot, which i think it happens to many people though.

[@vjmlhds]

CBS just liked any excuse to bust out their epic "Special Presentation" sounder.

[@fbueller]

Especially for "very special episodes"!

[@jeffreymcclain6439]

Thierry Charbonneau January 1, 1981

[@jeffreymcclain6439]

Purple Fish

[@Mochrie99]

"Today on a very special 'One Day At A Time'...." *cue classic CBS special logo*

[@doolindanger2459]

Dang! The Indianapolis downtown has really, really grown since the 1970's!

[@JhomasE]

+bdjoh011 doolin danger has it right as the exterior footage was shot around 1979. It was used in the 1979-1980 season. Doolin danger is accurate.

[@doolindanger2459]

Look, late 70's early 80's... BEFORE AUL/One America Tower was built in 1982... the gist of the comment was the downtown area has grown.

[@mbclev]

I think the interstate 70 sign was filmed on Raymond St., because our family took I-70 many times to see my maternal grandparents in southeast Kansas, driving from the Cleveland, OH area, and I recognized that sign.

[@Brandon-lw1wx]

This was the 1980-81 season though

[@Smartboy8877]

@CommercialTVBuff Thank you for the response!

[@mikeyb2049]

Wish this whole series was on DVD.

[@ItsPawsome]

wow someone discovered the overlay function!

[@zackgoraj834]

2 THIS VERY DAY, VALERIE BERTINELLI IS STILL BEAUTIFUL, SHE TURNS 60 APRIL 23RD, '2020.....

[@davanmani556]

Love that Indianapolis highway sign. 70 East.

[@JhomasE]

@toastietube The two part ep as about Schnieder being in love with a 20 year old young woman. That is what it was about. It didn't work out though.

[@jeremyud]

I remember the joke about him thinking Stevie Knicks was a man. Freaky Friday also did that joke, with the reversed point about age.

[@bretodom]

Produced by Bud Wiser :)

[@wnychevy09]

The name Whitney Blake caught my attention- she played Mrs.B in Hazel in the 1960s and she is Meredith Baxter's mother

[@KJTV67]

Ms. Blake was a real life Ann Romano

[@scootover7]

me too.

[@pressmin]

From season 6

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

@Smartboy8877 accually this is in documentaries, books, wikipedia and elsewhere. I read her book.

[@travisjames3517]

This show had more dif openings than any show!

[@dailynhutchinson340]

One day at a time.

[@Smartboy8877]

@MichaelHansenFUN What year was her book published? Was it a good read?

[@Smartboy8877]

@FilmNMusicBuff77 Do you have any idea why they fired her?

[@robertclark6349]

On this special episode, One Day at a Time jumps the shark.

[@akiraman26]

Rip pat

[@eltravo2112]

Interesting fact: if you watch to the end you’ll see the show was produced by Bud Wiser 😂

[@SaxyLament]

I saw that and wondered if it was a joke. 😂

[@frschoonover1]

Is there a way that you can upload the opening from Season Three? If there is, could you upload it? Thanks.

[@7233145]

I was torn between Bertinelli and Laura Ingalls from Little House in the Prairie. Joe from The Facts of Life was cute too. I had a thing for tomboys.

[@vjmlhds]

@a1cjlock Is that what her dad called it?

[@joelmarksbury4376]

Aww man.... I wanted to see Archie Bunker's Place.

[@FoxTeachTutorials]

Hello! This is ftt. Do you have the tat logo

[@nevanski]

is the tat logo in this?

[@kastroots]

Oh crap!! I thought it was just me....

[@Susan-q6f]

Yellow May 8, 1995

[@UnwantedStudios3]

Snyder vs Archie....thats a tough one

[@ElJefeNLA]

LOL, I know right???

[@tvpirate05]

The random pictures all over the place wouldn't be as bad if they didn't decapitate the actors in the background (see 0:39 and 0:54).

[@jokerz7936]

God Damn it CBS I tuned it for Archie Bunker's Place, well screw this I'm going to watch CHIPS on NBC.

[@MikeLutton]

what is the special episode that was aired

[@mgeek1]

Any idea why this episode was a "Special Presentation?"

[@JhomasE]

Because this ep aired in the time slot of another regularly scheduled program.

[@BobbyDrake2000]

@tvpirate05 It was the only way they could decapitate Glen Scarpelli and legally get away with it.

[@dave23024]

Bud Wiser 🍺

[@SoCalBuck42]

Brothers and Sisters fans check out Uncle Saul 30 years earlier Ron Rifkin

[@pancudowny]

What was so special about the episode in question?

[@capacola262743]

if i recall correctly he realized that he was too old for her when he thought steevie nicks was a guy.

[@abe_froman8360]

Which "special episode" was this?

[@JhomasE]

antonzap hey. It’s the episode when Schneider falls for one of Barbara’s friends around her age, I believe. I may be wrong.

[@videox222ify]

@@JhomasE thanks I had the same question

[@dustinolvey8877]

Bud Wiser?

[@jeffreymcclain6439]

Brown Plaid Sleeved Down Shirt Blue Pants White Socks Gray Shirt Black Underwear

[@jeffreymcclain6439]

Assistant Film Editor MARC-ANDRÉ CHARRON

[@jeffreymcclain6439]

Green Fish

[@elineff3895]

Mackenzie wasn't on by this time cause she got fired from her "History" of abuse and all

[@JonniRaubnechout]

Yellow

[@CelesteK]

This was after Mackenzie got fired from the show because she was having issues with drugs.

[@rockyis72]

Now they don't even give acknowledgement

[@CampaignConsulting]

wait is that ron rifkin from ALIAS? yikes!

[@ulyssesnorth6843]

+Conservative Campaign Consulting Dump Trump

[@robertclark6349]

Wasn't this a short season because of a writer's strike?

[@Asukenick]

yes

[@ChristopherMarzian]

Unfortunately tv is now replete with boring reality shows and game shows that are more dramas than game shows. Ooh the Masked Singer, The Voice, American Idol, Survivor, Big Brother. Who cares?

[@mikevanriel7573]

Great intro but if not for Schneider, that show would have been a bore.

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

@Smartboy8877 drug use and showing up late on the set...

[@BigSkippy1263]

It was a good show until they added the new characters. I hate when show's ratings slip and they add some mystery kid nobody has heard of before, like Cousin Oliver.

[@romanseano]

That's not what happened here. The new characters were integrated because Mackenzie Phillips' exited the show, and Michael Lembeck was (necessarily) written out after her. Glenn Scarpeli was, in essence, a new sibling for Barbara / son for Ann. He was well liked, the ratings were still great. He chose to leave a few years later.

[@Asukenick]

​@@romanseanoValerie helped him get the part too.

[@ExplorerDS6789]

And he was black too. Eedit, gimme a beer, heh?

[@AJTHIND]

Too bad they're doing stupid things now like making Hawaii FO for kids that don't know a 12 year classic is being ruined what a next magnum pi and hes a transsexual with a chimpanzee driving a big rig? Yet they keep the hard rock magnum pi theme song? I bet today's youth will love it. Just like they liked the nonsense knight rider remake and the other 2000s and 2010s bionic woman and the Charlie's angels remakes nonsense (not the movies)

[@chaoticcanyon2081]

The show's title "logo" here is so bad. Season one's title logo was atrocious. Looked like it was written with a broad paintbrush.