HBO in Space (1980)

I loved that song too, i used to pretend to be an astronaut when that song came on when i was young.

oh my god i remember that!!! I loved that song. Too bad HBO dont use it anymore...

Saw it alot as a kid too. Retro Junk ROCKS!

I remember this when I watch one of my mom's old video tapes, it shwed this following with "Sleepaway Camp 2".

Without question one of the finest examples of non-cgi film introduction, that totally takes me back to Friday nights at 7 pm circa 1986. I can almost smell the Jiffy-Pop.

Now i wanna watch Robocop

I remember this as well.

I thought this was toatally awesome as a kid! We were lucky enough to have cable TV in he 80's, and I saw this often. HBO played it before their new movie featued every friday at 7:00pm.

I miss this one so much, I just wish that they would make a new version

HBO's Best Intro,no question.

Bravo! Bravo!

Thats odd? not sure why I remember this one. Its not like I had the luxury of cable in the 80s. But what a moving theme i must say.

It took a very long time to shoot this. The company who did it had to build the largest miniature city ever created.

I don't know which is the more exciting movie intro- this, or the "star tunnel" for the ABC Sunday Night Movie...

The intro they use on movies now just barely compares to this. Both are state-of-the-art. You see that city bus at the beginning of this one? They have that bus in the current one. Except it gets half the screen time. Still, HBO in Space is COOL!

Best.HBO intro.Ever.

Anyone that had cable in the 80's has to remember this. Absolute classic!! I even remember HBO actually ran a special showing how this whole segment was made.

Wow..That was such a hot intro..Man..Memories.This whole site is amazing.

always thought this was so freaking COOL!

OH GOD...

I just got a little choked up.

Wish HBO still used that. It was the coolest ever!

MEMORIES!MEMORIES! i remember that before the movies and so much better than what they do now. I think they still use like 3 seconds of that song when premiering movies.

Now that is how you make a bumper. These days, most channels just use cheap 10-second CGI clips. A lot of work must have been put into this one.

Looks like mister rogers neighborhood gone intergalactic!!

this promo lasted until 1993, it was around for as long as I could remember! I used to think the modled cities and towns were real

This thing is so cool. They should still use it!

Very cool graphics...and awesome music.

Home Box Office must've been very proud about this!

I remember this used to come on around 8 whenever their featuring a movie. I wish this was still on HBO nowadays.

Cool! I have this bumper on one of my old video cassettes.

Ah yes, when it was movie time on HBO, that appeared.

I thought this was the coolest thing ever, lmao. I used to sit and watch HBO between movies just so I could see it. The whole "flying through the city then being blasted into space" effect amazed me back then.

Hahaha I remember this I always thought it was weird! ^I can tell the animation looked a little off.

Oh yeah. I remember this one. It used to always remind me of Rocky for some reason.

i still got this on vhs . my girlfriend saw for the first time going what the fu#@.