Just one truly glorious example of what truly batsh*t-crazy M*******r John-Nathan Turner could be when he REALLY put his mind to it —
Today, it’s a very standard LAZY Television Convention to for the opening titles of any television show to be made up of a cobbled together montage of action scene footage from prior and occasionally future episodes yet-to-come — all of The Best Bits, explosions, car crashes, people punching people.... All of The Money Shots (No, not THAT kind of Money Shots.... Usually.)
But more or less the very FIRST TV Show that did this, back in the late 1970s was a VERY Glamorous US TV detective show called Hart to Hart, and about a married, millionaire jettsetting Husband and Wife amateur detective duo, who fly around The World, being glamours, playing tennis and fighting crime and solve mysteries, simply just for the sake of their own fun and recreation. Because they could AFFORD to, and because they were rich, glamours and beautiful, it never would have even occurred to anybody to try to tell them not to.
And suffice it to say, that John Nathan-Turner utterly and absolutely ADORED Hart to Hart.
And it was very much in the spirit of this absolute adoration and admiration for Hart to Hart that inspired John Nathan Turner to personally oversee, instigate and create THIS — a title sequence of a montage of action packed sense of International Glamour and Scene of action *especially filmed* to try to simulate the impression of life of international jet-setting and crime fighting, depicted by a montage of shots clipped from out of future TV series that didn’t EXIST yet..., And moreover, even, one that JN-T clearly would have fully recognised and good, full and well that it never even *would* exist — EVER.
All filmed in the English Cotswolds on a clearly freezing, grey and overcast day in late October.
Barmey. Deranged, Bonkers, and absolutely goddamned Barking MAD....
Well played, JN-T... Well played....
Really, what more else can one says about all of that.....? There is, I feel, just only one thing more to add —
*Merry Christmas.*
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