24-12-2022, 11:22 PM
(24-12-2022, 09:06 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Have they used the same intro each time given it's aired every Saturday for four weeks? Would actually not have been a bad idea to have a new intro to mark the 40th anniversary.
Well the whole point of having David Bowie on the introduction to The Snowman was to make the show more appealing to the US market, as he's more "attractive" to sponsorship and advertisers and generally that's how American TV worked (and probably sill does to an extent). We don't do that over here (or we didn't in the 80s anyway) so Raymond Briggs wandering around a field worked as an intro.
Of course there was a new introduction made, which was done for the 2002 20th anniversary edition, which was basically an excuse for crop the crap out of it, which used the Father Christmas character. This wasn't too bad on its own if the main feature hadn't been "converted" to widescreen in the process, but that died with Mel Smith it would appear and its never been seen since.
It does beg the question though, if they did make a new introduction for The Snowman who would be ideal for it? As above Bowie's no longer available, having died in 2016.