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Two long versions and a short version of the titles for the late night rock show; and a first attempt at animation for Avalon graphic designer Mike Peebles who was just out of art school. Sensibility is horror meets underground comics with a touch of Monty Python - but Peebles was anxious to avoid existing imagery (excepting the Rolling Stones mouth for the "wah-wah" voice). The first features a voice somewhere between Vincent Price and Isaac Hayes, ending with the invocation "and buckets of blood, baby". The end of the second is more matter of fact.
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Awesome ! I loved this show, the graphics, and the theme tune taken from 'Dreams' on the Uriah Heep album 'Wonderworld'. I didn' realise until today that Paul Holmes hosted it though. Far out !
Designer Ron Highfield came up with the name when he walked into a production meeting in the Avalon office and said "it sounds like a grunt machine in here" Producer Brian Lennane said ..thats it!
Great to see this after more than 30 years! I remember the opening sequence with the guy with the clock in his head and the "wah ah wah" sound. The other pix used to give me the creeps, I can I see why, as I was just a kid at the time. Thanks for posting this wonderfully trippy piece of Kiwi music nostalgia!
out of it! I remember this from when i was a kid...GREAT
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Television, 1975 (Excerpts)
An excerpt from Grunt Machine
Television, 1987 (Full Length)
More eye-catching music video show titles
Television, 1976 (Excerpts)
1970s animated titles for a younger audience
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Steve Reekie
Posted at 05.54PM - 05.11.2011
.... oh, I think Uriah Heep 'Dreams' was the music for the closing sequence, if I remember rightly :)