Solid Gold

Name: Solid Gold
Genre: Documentary

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The weekly chart countdown as a dance routine, with its own troupe named after it.

Solid Gold opens with a main title sequence of 60 seconds.

At 60 seconds, it opens well above the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Syndication in 1980, when Romper Room, Truth or Consequences and Soul Train were also on the network.

The opening titles

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