Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, creators of Better Call Saul chat about how they came up with the show’s intentionally awful opening sequence.
But what was more interesting to me was their discussion about great TV title sequences from earlier times.
Do you have favorite opening credit sequences from other shows?
Vince Gilligan: “Dukes of Hazzard” is pretty good for me, because the song kind of tells you everything you’re gonna get. A lot of the old school TV shows would have a song that told you what the show was about. “Beverly Hillbillies,” “Dukes of Hazzard,” even “The Patty Duke Show.” I kind of like these old title sequences that basically give you the franchise every week. Those are fun. We’d never think of doing that ourselves because our running time is so limited and precious to us, that our title sequences on “Breaking Bad” and now on “Better Call Saul” are shorter than we would necessarily have them if running time was unlimited. We’d probably go with longer ones if time was unlimited. The title sequence of any show cuts into its running time, so we make them short and sweet.
Peter Gould: One of my favorites is always the original ’60s “Mission: Impossible.”
Vince Gilligan: Oh, that’s a good one!
