Watching these intros and promos, we know how advanced USA were in television. Here in Brazil, in 1970, even in the wildest dreams we could have these high quality promos in TV Tupi (extinct in 1980), Excelsior (extinct in 1970), GloboTV, RecordTV and Bandeirantes. The transition between two contents, watched at 0:24 , is very cool for 1970.
Goodman Ace did- when Anacin sponsored "EASY ACES" [featuring him and his wife Jane] on radio. In late 1944, they called Ace in for a meeting, to present a little constructive criticism concerning a music cue he used on the program. Goody responded by claiming their packing Anacin in cardboard boxes instead of tin {which was rationed} was "a gyp". They were pissed just enough to end their sponsorship after almost a decade, in January 1945.
12:08 Teri Garr. 11:49 the voice of George Coe for Dristan. He appeared in several skits during the first season of SNL. George Coe also had a long run in the 80s doing voice-overs for Toyota.
"House on Greenapple Road" [originally telecast on January 11, 1970] was the original pilot for "DAN AUGUST"- with Christopher George in the lead role. By the time it was repeated on September 6, 1970, Burt Reynolds had replaced Chris for the series.
There is an almost eerie, odd sensation seeing the CBS Fall promos for the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Nobody knew or thought The Mary Tyler Moore Show was going to make it. CBS had no faith in it at all yet here it is being promoted with happy, shiny visuals and music and great fanfare. I wonder if the general public had any great desire to watch the show or were they just thinking, Oh, it's Laura Petrie. From various accounts, Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker certainly weren't feeling that they had a sure thing, so looking at these ads from the perspective of today lends a certain kind of "Survivor" status to that show. Most of the other shows with Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke and Herschel Bernardi failed to make the cut. Mary, the supposed "loser" according the network emerged as one of that network's greatest assets of all time.
Thanks Selwyn. I had read about the show's rocky beginning and you can't forget that. I had always enjoyed Saturdays at home with my folks and brothers watching that show, so you take it for granted that it was a hit right from the start. Then seeing these promos is just spooky because you can see how CBS was presenting it to the public with fanfare while waiting to give it and all those actors on that show the ax.
There was a great interview with Mary...can’t remember where I saw it, might’ve been one of the Archives of American TV clips here on You Tube...but she talked about how distraught she was after filming the early episodes. From the writing to the audience reactions, she went home to Grant Tinker and told him to fix it. Whatever the “it” was that Tinker fixed, there definitely was a clear difference by the time that first season ended. I’m no acting coach by any means, but it seemed like everyone was trying a bit too hard with shouting their lines like a play...but with much funnier lines and a much more calmer, natural vibe, the chemistry kicked in and they never looked back. But you’re right...Mary’s new show was being promoted alongside some real heavyweights of success for CBS, like Andy Griffith and her old partner Dick Van Dyke, and she ended up topping them all. And the network took a huge risk in those days with the rural purge-getting rid of their country shows which were big hits, and going with projects that were a much greater reflection of the major changes that were happening in the world. To go from “The Beverly Hillbillies” & the Hooterville shows to “All In The Family” & MTM was a gutsy call to say the least!
That’s Clayton Vaughn before his days as news anchor at KOTV in Tulsa. I know of a couple more people who worked at KABC before becoming legendary news anchors in their respective markets. Jim Mitchell worked at KABC years before coming to WHAS in Louisville for a number of years. And, Roy Mitchell would work at that station before coming to KARK-TV in Little Rock for a long run.
You can hear a little clicking sound every time another local spot comes on. I guess things rolled like a slide projector in the control room back then.
They used a machine called a multiplexer. It was made up of mirrors, that would refract the light beam of the film projector into the TV camera. It was later replaced by an optical lens film projector, with the tv camera lens built into the projector, then, of course by 2 inch videotape players.
That click is the sound of a film splice. Stations would often take the original film strips for each commercial and splice them together into a single spot reel for a break so they didn’t have to switch over projectors every 30 seconds. This is also why the first second of most commercials back then was silent. It was deliberately produced that way so the audio wouldn’t get cut off by the splice.
0:01--Even at the beginning of the 1970's, ABC was just starting to use free-agent Ernie Anderson on their promos, but his voice would become more of a presence as that decade went on, and ABC got to where they ended up. 2:28--Continuing on the subject of voices, Joel Crager's was a constant on ABC's Sunday Night Movie from about the mid-1960's to the early 80's.
The CBS promos are actually from 1970. You can tell because it shows the premiere dates for the shows (ex. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, premiering Saturday, September 19th). Also, very rare ABC Sunday Night Movie intro which this version I have never seen before, yet it looks very hip.
"The Young Rebels was a series that ran from 9/20/70 to 1/3/71 (I never thought I would ever see a clip from that show again). This must have been prior to 9/20/70 "The House on Green Apple Road" aired on the ABC Sunday night Movie on 1/11/70 but I couldn't find a repeat of it later that year. My guess would be late summer 1970 because of the fall line up promos.
Rick Cortez No! ABC did not used the opening sequence until the fall of 1970 where it featured a new theme using bits from Burt Bacharach’s composition “Are You There With Another Girl” mixing with “Nikki”. That theme was used from 1970 until 1975.
Actually, that package debuted a few short weeks after this broadcast during the upcoming 1970 Fall season. ABC's "Let's Get Together" and the similarly named "We've Got It All Together" on CBS were both promo campaigns for that year.
"House on Greenapple Road" premiered on January 11, 1970, so this would technically be the 1969-70 season. I do remember this opening; ABC was a staple in our house that season.
One more footnote to make... "House on Greenapple Road" was the feature length pilot of the aforementioned new series "Dan August." Christopher George portrays that character in the movie, but went on to star in "The Immortal" that Fall season. Thus, Burt Reynolds assumed the role when "Dan August" got picked up as well.
I don't know what year did ABC started the "Sunday (or Monday) Night Movie" series. My guess it would be 1965 to be exact. But this came out in around 1967 or 1968 where they used this intro. "Robatsea2009" posted a link to this one which was from 1968. ruclips.net/video/Y8NLNnzMCLg/видео.html
It looks like she is wearing a wig kind of disguising herself. Maybe she didn't want to be recognized for being a cigarette ad since they were getting a bad rep and would be banned in 1971. The guy in the ad with her is actor Steve Carlson. He did a lot of soaps.
And Zalman King, the man who go on to create RED SHOE DIARIES, in THE YOUNG LAWYERS. (trivia: the show was set in Boston because Massachusetts law permitted law school students to try cases in court, under the supervision of a licensed attorney)
In 1970, Liggett & Myers tried redesigning their L&M packs to make them more "contemporary" with smokers. By 1975, they reverted to the pack they originally introduced in 1954.
The American Heart Association made sure that, for just about every cigarette commercial that appeared nationally and locally, one of their "kick the habit" PSA's would also be shown within the same time frame. After the ban on tobacco ads took effect in January 1971, their spots appeared less frequently.
@@fromthesidelines Actually, the FCC decided (almost as an afterthought, according to those involved) that there had to be one anti-smoking PSA for every three paid cigarette ads.
I remember!! Thank you fir this blast from the past!!!!!!
Remember when you looked forward to the new season? When promos like this piqued your interest?
Watching these intros and promos, we know how advanced USA were in television. Here in Brazil, in 1970, even in the wildest dreams we could have these high quality promos in TV Tupi (extinct in 1980), Excelsior (extinct in 1970), GloboTV, RecordTV and Bandeirantes.
The transition between two contents, watched at 0:24 , is very cool for 1970.
@ 6:45 RCA AccuColor, before the XL100.
2:28- Joel Crager is the announcer for the "SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE" opening and bumpers.
Remember when aspirin was packed in tiny metal containers?
Goodman Ace did- when Anacin sponsored "EASY ACES" [featuring him and his wife Jane] on radio. In late 1944, they called Ace in for a meeting, to present a little constructive criticism concerning a music cue he used on the program. Goody responded by claiming their packing Anacin in cardboard boxes instead of tin {which was rationed} was "a gyp". They were pissed just enough to end their sponsorship after almost a decade, in January 1945.
12:08 Teri Garr.
11:49 the voice of George Coe for Dristan. He appeared in several skits during the first season of SNL. George Coe also had a long run in the 80s doing voice-overs for Toyota.
Lorne Michaels had him as an adjunct because he wasn't sure if his cast members could play older characters.
@@tomservo56954 Good SNL knowledge! :)
Groovy, man.
10:32- Roger Carroll, announcer.
"House on Greenapple Road" [originally telecast on January 11, 1970] was the original pilot for "DAN AUGUST"- with Christopher George in the lead role. By the time it was repeated on September 6, 1970, Burt Reynolds had replaced Chris for the series.
Did not know that. Thank you.
I could almost swear the lady in the Toyota commercial was the late Phyllis Elizabeth Davis who appeared on “Love, American Style”.
There is an almost eerie, odd sensation seeing the CBS Fall promos for the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Nobody knew or thought The Mary Tyler Moore Show was going to make it. CBS had no faith in it at all yet here it is being promoted with happy, shiny visuals and music and great fanfare. I wonder if the general public had any great desire to watch the show or were they just thinking, Oh, it's Laura Petrie. From various accounts, Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker certainly weren't feeling that they had a sure thing, so looking at these ads from the perspective of today lends a certain kind of "Survivor" status to that show. Most of the other shows with Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke and Herschel Bernardi failed to make the cut. Mary, the supposed "loser" according the network emerged as one of that network's greatest assets of all time.
This is a very good essay and observation, and a true accurate account, of the early history, of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show!”
Thanks Selwyn. I had read about the show's rocky beginning and you can't forget that. I had always enjoyed Saturdays at home with my folks and brothers watching that show, so you take it for granted that it was a hit right from the start. Then seeing these promos is just spooky because you can see how CBS was presenting it to the public with fanfare while waiting to give it and all those actors on that show the ax.
There was a great interview with Mary...can’t remember where I saw it, might’ve been one of the Archives of American TV clips here on You Tube...but she talked about how distraught she was after filming the early episodes. From the writing to the audience reactions, she went home to Grant Tinker and told him to fix it. Whatever the “it” was that Tinker fixed, there definitely was a clear difference by the time that first season ended.
I’m no acting coach by any means, but it seemed like everyone was trying a bit too hard with shouting their lines like a play...but with much funnier lines and a much more calmer, natural vibe, the chemistry kicked in and they never looked back. But you’re right...Mary’s new show was being promoted alongside some real heavyweights of success for CBS, like Andy Griffith and her old partner Dick Van Dyke, and she ended up topping them all.
And the network took a huge risk in those days with the rural purge-getting rid of their country shows which were big hits, and going with projects that were a much greater reflection of the major changes that were happening in the world. To go from “The Beverly Hillbillies” & the Hooterville shows to “All In The Family” & MTM was a gutsy call to say the least!
@@Bentom86 The efforts of CBS Television president Robert Wood (aided by a rising subordinate named Fred
Silverman)
I've never done LSD however I believe I am experiencing a legit flashback.
There was a lot of togetherness in 1970. ABC-Let's Get Together CBS-We've Got It All Together
also let's not forget the NBC Fall Promos from 1970- "NBC You Next Fall"/"It's Happening on NBC!"
@@JHollowayNetwork The theme for NBC that year was "Put Yourself In the Picture"
That 1970 ABC Sunday Night Movie open has the feel of WPIX New York's Channel 11 Film Festival opening.
NEPatriot The opening to the "ABC Sunday Night Movie" was from about probably 1967? Through 1970 to be exact, but I'm not sure the intro was used.
It was used from '67 to '70, and I consider it the best of "The A.B.C. Sunday Night Movie" openings (along with that music!).
Can somebody post the WPIX New York's Channel 11 Film Festival opening too?
Just got my age handed to me.
That’s Clayton Vaughn before his days as news anchor at KOTV in Tulsa.
I know of a couple more people who worked at KABC before becoming legendary news anchors in their respective markets.
Jim Mitchell worked at KABC years before coming to WHAS in Louisville for a number of years.
And, Roy Mitchell would work at that station before coming to KARK-TV in Little Rock for a long run.
6:02- telecast on September 10, 1970.
GENE: "don't upstage me, kid......"
BARBARA: "how would you like me to blink you into an uncoordinated boob?"
You can hear a little clicking sound every time another local spot comes on. I guess things rolled like a slide projector in the control room back then.
They used a machine called a multiplexer. It was made up of mirrors, that would refract the light beam of the film projector into the TV camera. It was later replaced by an optical lens film projector, with the tv camera lens built into the projector, then, of course by 2 inch videotape players.
That click is the sound of a film splice. Stations would often take the original film strips for each commercial and splice them together into a single spot reel for a break so they didn’t have to switch over projectors every 30 seconds.
This is also why the first second of most commercials back then was silent. It was deliberately produced that way so the audio wouldn’t get cut off by the splice.
Love the Farrah ad 2:11 . I hadn't seen that one before.
0:01--Even at the beginning of the 1970's, ABC was just starting to use free-agent Ernie Anderson on their promos, but his voice would become more of a presence as that decade went on, and ABC got to where they ended up.
2:28--Continuing on the subject of voices, Joel Crager's was a constant on ABC's Sunday Night Movie from about the mid-1960's to the early 80's.
RIP, both Ernie Anderson and Joel Crager.
Anyone else notice at 2:50 that KEENAN Wynn's name is misspelled on the star list?
2:50 The ABC Sunday Night Movie ... they list the cast and spell Keenan Wynn as “Kennan”. How embarrassing. Hope he never saw that.
I'm Farrah - fly me!
That was NATIONAL Airlines. She was pitching for UNITED.
Rick:
Good postings, particularly:
- The ABC-TV Sunday Night Movie!
- Chex Commercial!
- CBS-TV 1970 Fall Campaign!
Keep up the Good postings!
🙂
8:59
Lilo Hibiscus Pelekai
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL!!!
10:12
The CBS promos are actually from 1970. You can tell because it shows the premiere dates for the shows (ex. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, premiering Saturday, September 19th).
Also, very rare ABC Sunday Night Movie intro which this version I have never seen before, yet it looks very hip.
+Mikeman199988 Same goes for the ABC promo which are from Fall 1970 because of the "Let's Get Together" campaign.
Didn't the same ABC Sunday Night Movie carry the 1969-74 version of that theme song with composer Harry Betts?
"The Young Rebels was a series that ran from 9/20/70 to 1/3/71 (I never thought I would ever see a clip from that show again). This must have been prior to 9/20/70 "The House on Green Apple Road" aired on the ABC Sunday night Movie on 1/11/70 but I couldn't find a repeat of it later that year. My guess would be late summer 1970 because of the fall line up promos.
Now that I have seen this clip, I'm beginning to think ABC ended up changing its Sunday Night Movie title sequence in the fall of 1970.
Rick Cortez No! ABC did not used the opening sequence until the fall of 1970 where it featured a new theme using bits from Burt Bacharach’s composition “Are You There With Another Girl” mixing with “Nikki”. That theme was used from 1970 until 1975.
Will somebody please tell me who composed "The A.B.C. Sunday Night Movie" theme? I LOVE that music!!!
vividwatch47 please is not needed or necessary it’s annoying like Trump remember that
This was in 1969 because ABC changed the intro of the Sunday movie with the spinning logo.
Actually, that package debuted a few short weeks after this broadcast during the upcoming 1970 Fall season. ABC's "Let's Get Together" and the similarly named "We've Got It All Together" on CBS were both promo campaigns for that year.
"House on Greenapple Road" premiered on January 11, 1970, so this would technically be the 1969-70 season.
I do remember this opening; ABC was a staple in our house that season.
One more footnote to make... "House on Greenapple Road" was the feature length pilot of the aforementioned new series "Dan August." Christopher George portrays that character in the movie, but went on to star in "The Immortal" that Fall season. Thus, Burt Reynolds assumed the role when "Dan August" got picked up as well.
I don't know what year did ABC started the "Sunday (or Monday) Night Movie" series. My guess it would be 1965 to be exact. But this came out in around 1967 or 1968 where they used this intro. "Robatsea2009" posted a link to this one which was from 1968.
ruclips.net/video/Y8NLNnzMCLg/видео.html
"THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE" began in 1962. It was off the schedule for the 1963-'64 season, and returned in the fall of '64, continuing through 1987.
1:22- William Schallert, announcer.
General Telephone...now known as Verizon
Until Verizon sold some of their GTE franchises to Frontier.
@@byrd56 I did not know that.
Is that Penny Marshall in the L&M ad near the end?
I kept thinking it was Teri Garr - that's not her usual hairstyle, but it sounds like her and the face looks like hers as well.
It looks like she is wearing a wig kind of disguising herself. Maybe she didn't want to be recognized for being a cigarette ad since they were getting a bad rep and would be banned in 1971. The guy in the ad with her is actor Steve Carlson. He did a lot of soaps.
She was before "Laverne & Shirley", and this was one of many of the banned commercials, because smoking is not good for everyone.
That IS Teri. She was appearing in as many commercials as Penny was at the time (without a "New Yawk" accent).
@@fromthesidelines They owned a new Mustang, but didn't have a place with its own laundry facilities?
That's cult movie actor (and producer) Lawrence Dane in the second promo for "The Young Rebels".
And Zalman King, the man who go on to create RED SHOE DIARIES, in THE YOUNG LAWYERS.
(trivia: the show was set in Boston because Massachusetts law permitted law school students to try cases in court, under the supervision of a licensed attorney)
9:30 I was hoping there would be a Mary Tyler Moore promo on this clip.
Yep- hers is the series that lasted seven seasons. Andy Griffith's "HEADMASTER" lasted 14 episodes.
I'm ready for an L&M moment
In 1970, Liggett & Myers tried redesigning their L&M packs to make them more "contemporary" with smokers. By 1975, they reverted to the pack they originally introduced in 1954.
@@fromthesidelines I've seen an ad from a couple of years earlier with a similar design
The 70's where you can see a Cigarette and an American Heart Association Commercial at the same time.
Jesse Lockhart Take your pick.A good smoke or a heart attack.
How about neither?
Neither one's any good.
The American Heart Association made sure that, for just about every cigarette commercial that appeared nationally and locally, one of their "kick the habit" PSA's would also be shown within the same time frame. After the ban on tobacco ads took effect in January 1971, their spots appeared less frequently.
@@fromthesidelines Actually, the FCC decided (almost as an afterthought, according to those involved) that there had to be one anti-smoking PSA for every three paid cigarette ads.
11:49- George Coe, announcer.