OETA Classic Sign-Off "High Flight"

[@somejackball]

i'd stay up all night on weekends watching movies, when i was a kid, till they played these little sign off reels, sleep a few hrs, then up early to watch Davy & Goliath 😁

[@ivanavila7708]

I still remember watching this exactly at midnight while I was in college. Hard to forget that voice, the words and the music. Life was not just simpler back then, it was also better. I miss those days in the early 90s.

[@devrongrant2183]

You read my mind completely. I watched this in college too -- from a dorm room wondering what life would be like in 25 years. Oh well.

[@CrossTimberRanches]

awesome

[@leatherneck62]

I would stay up late watching tv n this would be the sign off then the tv would go blank, what memorys,

[@rogeroday9408]

Beautiful

[@duranx2137]

I remember this from a kid in the 70-80s late at night. Love this poem.

[@280StJohnsPl]

Aim High ! USAF F-4 C crew chief 1968-1972

[@godschild4988]

I miss this prayer, I would watch it as a kid.🙏🇺🇸

[@richardward2618]

What a marvelously
talented poet and pilot to have penned High Flight before he died at the tender age of just nineteen.

[@3373-g8z]

I miss you William Conrad!!

[@KJJ782]

Cannon

[@BenCampbell01]

I remember watching the high flight sign-off. I also remember watching the sign-on with the national anthem. #BestViewing

[@gayleash9712]

I've looked for the National Anthem and flight sign off. They did both in Michigan when I was a kid.

[@swwilliams1326]

@@gayleash9712 Ohio too. Go Buckeyes!

[@godschild4988]

Yes, I would see this in Texas too.

[@somejackball]

they also had one with a Indian dude look out over a canyon

[@hf6150]

Some of us can remember when signoff came at 11pm.

[@arronkimdaniels]

Yes, I'd like the one from the 1970's. Every night, for months, it was the last thing I heard as I went to sleep.

[@erikpridemore3174]

This film airs every Sunday Morning right after "Outdoor Oklahoma" and right before "This Old House" on OETA. And we do remember watching this film aired with a different dubbed voice other than William Conrad's narration heard, when OETA used to conclude its broadcast day until April 2006, as it has now converted to a 24-hour-a-day schedule with the now overnight PBS Satellite Service broadcast and programming schedule. Thanks for posting this.

[@spongebob70362]

You gotta see that test pattern after though. "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep...."

[@atomicorang]

The 3 thumbs down have to be MiG drivers.

[@ferociousgumby]

William Conrad?

[@ladyguinevere61]

Yes, William Conrad--the actor who played in the show Cannon--not Robert Conrad who played in The Wild Wild West.

[@jameswinner4256]

Do you have the version from the 1970s/early 1980s? I was a kid then but that video had a powerful impact on me.

[@erickpaolosantos7016]

KWTX TV Was used before sign off and followed by National anthem

[@godschild4988]

Yes, Waco Texas!👏🇺🇸

[@pIungerMan]

Man... I gotta go to bed!

[@samoansuave_45]

#current mood

[@Mattdirk59]

The man reciting this sounds very familiar. Is he William Conrad of TV's Cannon and radio's Gunsmoke fame?

[@ayokay123]

Absolutely positively. Only old farts like ourselves would know that voice...instantly. I'm 63. :)

[@Mattdirk59]

@@ayokay123 , I listen to Gunsmoke Sirius Old time Radio, Conrad was perfect for the radio format....that voice!

[@ayokay123]

@@Mattdirk59 Agreed! I mostly remember him from "Cannon", First Alert commercials, and Rocky/Bullwinkle.

[@RobertRobinson-dy3rj]

One more beer 🍺🍺🍺🍻

[@nonamelegend_vapor]

Search "OETA sign off" on youtube to find multiple videos of the real thing

[@sebastiangrumman8507]

Is that William Conrad?

[@vincentsartain3061]

This is the William Conrad-narrated version, though I never saw it on OETA; THIS is the one I remember from that station, and I like it better (though Conrad was one of the best when it came to radio shows (like Gunsmoke) and narration (The Fugitive; Rocky & Bullwinkle.)
ruclips.net/video/6uGP74qRzSc/видео.html

[@3373-g8z]

He also recites this in an episode of CANNON, as he soars in a glider. He was also a retired WWII fighter pilot, hence the Appropriateness.

[@keithpopko2540]

@@3373-g8z Thanks for that bit of information about William Conrad. I had no idea he was a WWII fighter pilot.

[@KosanChim1982]

Where's the other half of the poem?

[@MrTerraphobia]

There was another version of this that I remember as a kid. The voice was more echoey and I think much better spoken than this version. Do you have the version I'm speaking of?

[@lporter5408]

ruclips.net/video/6mQTPL6pbIk/видео.html

[@jessecoffey4737]

OETA often played the audio of that version, from 1972, over this video during the 1990s.

[@peterharoldjanakjr2078]

To each his own of course. But, the one narrated by William Conrad along with wow and flutter worn into the films soundtrack is vastly superior between the two.

[@jaquen1977]

@@peterharoldjanakjr2078 Agreed.

[@smccarthy2100]

1981. Is that Orson Wells?