Thoughts inspired by this:
1) Holy crap, that theme music (by Jerry Goldsmith) is cool!
2) Did Barnaby Jones deserve such cool music?
3) That opening goes on for almost a full minute...No way you could do that today. In the seventies, you had more time devoted to program content, less time to commercials, so you could afford such luxuries as opening graphics and kick-ass theme music.
4) Buddy Ebsen as a detective? What the hell were they thinking?
5) Why did my mom watch this every week?
6) My dad would usually kick back a few cans of Grain Belt every evening. Did nasty, watery beer somehow make my mom's TV choices easier to accept? Is there such a thing as TV beer goggles?
7) Sure sign it's the seventies: Conrad Janis!
8) I could use about two more hours of sleep.
