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I was always interested in the end credit logos on TV shows. Do you like them and what are your favorites?

Mine would probably be:

The neon blue Proctor and Gamble Productions logo.
The 90s Jeopardy closing where the announcer says, "Jeopardy is a production of Merv Griffin, produced by Columbia-Tristar Television, distributed by King World!" as the logos appear.
The logo where a cartoon version of Oprah Winfrey pulls a cart that says HARPO on it and then it bumps into her and she bows and smiles.
The 1995 Matlock closing logos where it has the Fred Silverman, Dean Hargrove, Viacom, AND the Paramount Productions/Viacom logo.

Also, has anyone noticed the older shows had longer credits than they do today? Now they just flash by at the bottom of the screen while other ads are shown atop, whereas older ones had the credits fill the screen with the theme music playing and maybe a voice over of what would be on tonight. I guess they figured they could get more advertising time by minimizing and shortening them.
 
Mark VII Limited

That one always struck me as weird, but it did have a gladiatorial aspect to it that left an impression on me.

 

The most hokey of all was Quinn Martin productions.  You could spot those right away before they even announced the program as such.

 

REVUE was on the bombastic side with blooming horns and fanfare.

 

Everything by Norman Lear was cheap and cheesy.
 
NBC Peacock

Both those NBC peacocks were the best; announcing programs in color. I remember the half-hour comedy Hazel was one of the first programs to have a real yellow color, which was difficult to reproduce in early color TVs.

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Did "Bewitched" really follow a peacock?  I thought it aired on ABC.

 

Also, I suspect Johnny Carson was solely responsible for the peacock's continued appearance ahead of the "Tonight" show until he retired, even though NBC had dropped the peacock sequence everywhere else many, many years earlier.
 
Yes, Bewitched did appear on the ABC network. Instead of playing the ABC logo as above, they had Elizabeth Montgomery telling to "Stay tuned for Bewitched next in color". ABC had several of these featuring one of the stars from the upcoming color show.

My favorite was the CBS color presentation. I like the strange sounds in it.

I had read somewhere that the reason the networks had these things was to remind viewers that the show was in color, in case you didn't have a color set they hoped you would consider buying one. I think 1964-67 were the biggest color television buying years of all. Remember the Color TV "salons" in the local appliance dealer? They usually were a darkened room with color television demo models playing.
 
I remember we bought our first color TV when I was 10. A Zenith with "Space Command" remote control.

Other Brands our neighborhood appliance dealer sold were Magnavox, Sylvania, Curtis Mathes, Zenith and RCA. I think Sony Trinitron came along in the late 60s early 70s.

But in our town, it was Un-American to buy Japanese in that time.
 

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