I remember my sister and I yelling to my mom in the kitchen, "The peacock is on" and she would come running into the family room to watch it. This was when TV shows were transitioning from black and white to color. It was a big deal back then. Brings back great memories.
Amazing how this video is only 12 seconds long but brings back so many memories of the 1960s, when everyone wanted a color TV because more and more programs were being broadcast in color. Remember those huge console TVs that took up half the living room? It was just as much fun to play with the box it came in!
Well... the flutes are playing pentatonics at the beginning, thus the peaceful, relaxed, "we're not going anywhere just yet" harmony, then there is an augmented, chromatically rich kind of harmony toward the end, just slightly raising the anticipation/tension, and then, the pretty Db major seventh at the end with the flute trill on the C to Db!!! Aaaaaaaah, expertly done NBC logo composer(s).... :)
This classic logo introduced dozens of popular NBC shows such as "Laugh-In", "Bonanza," "Jeopardy!", "The Dean Martin Show" and "Emergency!" I also remember the logo coming before the World Series and Super Bowl. What a great logo - too bad NBC junked it in 1976 for that gosh-awful "N"!
I always say this Peacock fits in perfectly with the times, it was so psychedelic looking. Later in life when I'd see it on certain shows showing history or showing events in the past and was always wondering if NBC expected their audiences to be smoking something illegal before watching their color TV shows? -:)
That's very true, this peacock here was known as the "Psychedelic Peacock" because of it's appearance as well as the time it was out, while the the other one which was the original peacock, that was out before this one was known as the "Atomic Peacock", was more rather "Atomic" looking and was out at the time of that era.
@slaveyMe You are completely right! Me too! There is something about the NBC Peacock that evokes the 1960's, and the thrill one felt when watching a color program when most of the shows were still in black and white. It was sheer ecstasy to watch a color program! The youth of today have no idea what that felt like! In many ways, I pity them!
@ccolorado2010 The show I remember the most with this Peacock logo coming before it was "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" on Monday nights. I didn't get the jokes back then on that show, when I was only 4 or 5 years old, but this was always on before that show and I remember knowing that "Laugh-In" and the party and the sock-it-to-me girl Judy Carne was going to be on right after this.
FYI - the flutes were played by Julius Baker, legendary first flutist of the New York Philharmonic, and my teacher, legendary NY studio musician Harvey Estrin (I asked him about it once during a lesson and played his part for me :) )
Beautiful!! Color programming, of course, eventually became commonplace. Likewise, the bumper for 'High Definition" will soon fade into distant memory.
Their is a version floating around NBC that has the Peacock falling apart at the end. It looks as if it was put together at the same time. It has been used in a lot of retirement going away tapes over the years.
I can still remember a college music professor telling the class how the musicians who did this 10 seconds of music made a very tidy fortune in royalties.
I don't remember this before any programs, and I was about 5-6 years old in 1975. Color TV was still a novelty at that time in the United States? Wow.
murielsarte: They stopped showing this peacock in 1975, because as someone else stated, color TV was standard by then. I remember seeing this a lot, and wished they would have kept showing it anyway.
hssenior: They stopped using this one regularly, in about 1975. However, occasionally someone will revive it for a show, as Conan O' Brien did, when he recorded a show in Finland. He showed this at the beginning, as kind of a joke.
@babygiraffe123 This peacock lasted until 1975, when it was replaced by the letter "N". Also, it's a "Laramie" peacock (for the TV series "Laramie")that debuted in 1962.
@babygiraffe123 I'm a '60s dude! This peacock you're viewing here from the 1960s(I remember this as a little kid)is majestic and the way it spreads its feathers! Check out the 1957 peacock too! Wish NBC would bring back the original "Bird"!
Incredible how a little jingle like that can transport me back to my little house in Los Angeles as a kid viewing our black and white set in the 60's and wishing we had color TV. What a memory pang!
used to be really tripped out by both the music and the announcer....so the announcer's name was Mel Brandt?....never knew that!!....i could just imagine being a musician who had to play that crazy sig theme!!
This NBC peacock gave me nightmares when I was a kid! (I was born in 1968, and that thing aired before each color NBC show until 1974.) These days, however, it's a reminder that TV's not like it used to be.
I've checked it out. I think that would have scared me out of my wits when I was a kid. But I was born years after Laramie replaced it, so that one doesn't stick out in my memory bank.
The peacock logo was better in the 60's then the one they use today. Just leave it the way it was. No sense having to change something that is already great.
Their reasoning was that a real peacock lives for about 30 years. in '76 the "N" came around and about 3 or 4 years later they combined a peacock with the N then the peacock that NBC has now.
I can just remember seeing this when the family sat down to watch Laugh In. I was three when it premiered in 1969. Oh! that Goldie Hawn. The guy on the tricycle in the raincoat always made me laugh.
Yes. I remember this one just before LAUGH-IN on Monday nights. Viewers watched the show every week and didn't mind if some of the jokes didn't work. You were shaking from laughing so hard as the jokes kept coming in rat-a-tat-tat rhythm.........
I remember NBC, yes NBC, did a funny version of this and aired it on "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes" where the promo goes exactly as usual but at the end the peacock sneezes and the feathers fly off, the crowd laughs.
That was from the Disney shot cartoon "It's Tough To Be A Bird"..it got Disney kicked off the "Peacock Network"..they renewed their relationship with ABC then. Michael Boyce
That's NBC staff announcer Mel Brandt (not McDoanld Carey, 'ccie') delivering the "..in Living Color" tag, which was used by the network before every NBC color program until 1971....
I've only seen it upside down and backwards on the "Bloopers" special, followed by "Any way you look at it, we are now having trouble on the cable." (the card was upside down too)
I was born in 1967, and it's strange that this image is burned in my memory. It's good to know where it comes from. I was a very small child when this was en vogue. Strange that I remember it.
I remember many, many moons ago when NBC broadcast the old AFL games right after they went to color, they'd play this before the broadcast went on the air and we'd see the Jets, Raiders, Patriots, Bills, Oilers, Dolphins, Chargers, Bengals,Chiefs, and Broncos in "living color"!
Along with the "Heidi" episode in late 1968 that cut off the last minute of an AFL game and angered football fans because the outcome of the game changed dramatically in that last minute.
Yep, Jets @ Raiders.With the Jets leading 32-29 with only 65 seconds left in the game, the Raiders quickly scored 14 points to win, 43-32. Meanwhile, millions of American television viewers were unable to see Oakland's comeback. The NBC television network cut off the live broadcast in favor of a pre-scheduled airing of Heidi, a new made-for-TV version of the classic children's story.
yes indeedy, i recall clearly watching that game with my father(and how my father expressed his displeasure with NBC's decision)...i also recall Pop running to the kitchen to turn on the radio to catch the end of the game(his beloved Jets lost, boo-hoo!!)
Wow! I haven't seen this in y-e-a-r-s! It used to be shown in the sixties before each color TV episode on NBC, at a time when most shows were still broadcast in black & white. Thank you for posting this bit of nostalgia.
...sheesh...I feel really old now!!!...You guys are all correct...when this came on...it was a big deal for sure...ooooo in living color!!!!...great memories!
ahhh yes, Wild Kingdom..."while Jim is castrating the rhinoceros...i'll go mix another picture of stingers"...used to love how Johnny Carson would make fun of Wild Kingdom on the Tonight Show(Jim Fowler used to make some crazy appearances on that show!!)
Yeah, I remember how old Marlin Perkins had Jim Fowler as his "yardboy" doing all the dirty work and taking all the risk,while the old coot would throw in a pitch for Mutual of Omaha insurance.
With The NBC Peacock of the '60s, this was a precursor to HDTV. I remember it as a young child in the '60s & '70s. Living Color Was Indeed A Precursor of Today's HDTV. NBC should one day bring this retro-bird back.
the advent of color in the '60s was bigger than the rollout of HDTV is today. it's a far bigger jump to go from just B&W TV to color than it is to go from 480 resolution to 1080 ...
NBC was the first of the 3 major networks to have an all-color primetime schedule in the fall of 1966, the season Star Trek premiered. CBS and ABC went all-color the next year.
As I recall the Peacock continued to be used into the 70's once a day before the "Today Show" - to start the NBC Network programming. I think NBC should still use it now and then - it brings back great memories.
This logo was shown before the beginning of virtually EVERY "Living Color" program on NBC from the fall of 1962 through the end of the 1969-'70 season [it was shortened a bit by 1968]. The announcer was Mel Brandt. A classic by any account!
I remember this one, too! Our neighbors across the street had the first color TV of the people I knew (about 1966 or '67) and I remember seeing this on their Admiral console and thinking this logo in color was so exciting and glamorous!
i get the chills when i hear living color.
lpmetsdevils 6 days ago
i remember this wish it would come back
Dolphindream15 1 month ago
guess ABS-CBN revive sarimanok too for digital broadcasting in 2015
news5aksionfan661 4 months ago
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I remember seeing this on our black and white tv.
cyrilmaude 9 months ago
I remember seeing this before an episode of
Heroes.
Chitchatjf2 9 months ago
I guess they'll have to bring the peacock back for 3D pretty soon.
AgujaAzulMD 9 months ago
i actually remember this when i was a toddler, i swear. we had a black and white, though, and not a color tv.
jas22 10 months ago
I remember my sister and I yelling to my mom in the kitchen, "The peacock is on" and she would come running into the family room to watch it. This was when TV shows were transitioning from black and white to color. It was a big deal back then. Brings back great memories.
Digitalman1959 10 months ago
they dont say in coler anymore ;C
SuperVideogamer12 10 months ago
OMG, does this bring back the memories! Unfortunately, it was NOT before my time.
GalenovichPetrov 11 months ago
Loved it. brought back my childhood. thanks.
Saffron333 1 year ago
Amazing how this video is only 12 seconds long but brings back so many memories of the 1960s, when everyone wanted a color TV because more and more programs were being broadcast in color. Remember those huge console TVs that took up half the living room? It was just as much fun to play with the box it came in!
wlhardy 1 year ago
Well... the flutes are playing pentatonics at the beginning, thus the peaceful, relaxed, "we're not going anywhere just yet" harmony, then there is an augmented, chromatically rich kind of harmony toward the end, just slightly raising the anticipation/tension, and then, the pretty Db major seventh at the end with the flute trill on the C to Db!!! Aaaaaaaah, expertly done NBC logo composer(s).... :)
BenjaminGessel 1 year ago
Hey wheres the HD at? :-P
Sportster0306 1 year ago
the flutes used to put me to sleep
zzzz zzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
VTMCompany 1 year ago
This classic logo introduced dozens of popular NBC shows such as "Laugh-In", "Bonanza," "Jeopardy!", "The Dean Martin Show" and "Emergency!" I also remember the logo coming before the World Series and Super Bowl. What a great logo - too bad NBC junked it in 1976 for that gosh-awful "N"!
marylouiseturner21 1 year ago
That always had such a feeling of specialness and excitement to me. Color TV was new and the networks were big on the touches like this back then.
charlotteguy7 1 year ago
I always say this Peacock fits in perfectly with the times, it was so psychedelic looking. Later in life when I'd see it on certain shows showing history or showing events in the past and was always wondering if NBC expected their audiences to be smoking something illegal before watching their color TV shows? -:)
TheWhatsinaname 1 year ago
@TheWhatsinaname
That's very true, this peacock here was known as the "Psychedelic Peacock" because of it's appearance as well as the time it was out, while the the other one which was the original peacock, that was out before this one was known as the "Atomic Peacock", was more rather "Atomic" looking and was out at the time of that era.
tbear4pa 1 year ago
wayy cool . check it out there .was this on a character gen or computer generated deal..
coloradostar50 1 year ago
This reminds me of being in my pajamas, with a snack in my lap, ready to watch some TV Special before being sent to bed for the night. Memories rock.
slaveyMe 1 year ago 4
@slaveyMe You are completely right! Me too! There is something about the NBC Peacock that evokes the 1960's, and the thrill one felt when watching a color program when most of the shows were still in black and white. It was sheer ecstasy to watch a color program! The youth of today have no idea what that felt like! In many ways, I pity them!
TheTweeter53 1 year ago
i and my family watched this bumper when the sunday night wonderfull world of color/disney came on..great!
ccolorado2010 2 years ago
@ccolorado2010 The show I remember the most with this Peacock logo coming before it was "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" on Monday nights. I didn't get the jokes back then on that show, when I was only 4 or 5 years old, but this was always on before that show and I remember knowing that "Laugh-In" and the party and the sock-it-to-me girl Judy Carne was going to be on right after this.
TheWhatsinaname 1 year ago
FYI - the flutes were played by Julius Baker, legendary first flutist of the New York Philharmonic, and my teacher, legendary NY studio musician Harvey Estrin (I asked him about it once during a lesson and played his part for me :) )
luvmyrecords 2 years ago
We got our first color TV in either '68 or '69 and I remember seeing this before a game show on NBC (Jackpot?).
tritonrocks 2 years ago
This was the very first color TV image I ever saw as a kid. . .in San Antonio, TX. . .it was the open to "Meet The Press."
drandall1776 2 years ago
Scary
deathboy126 2 years ago
"Space-The Final Frontier" ;)
tripsadelica 2 years ago
This scared the hell out of me when I was a kid in the late 1960s.
ndebaun 2 years ago
@ndebaun heh!! scared you? why? the music? the image?
slaveyMe 1 year ago
Beautiful!! Color programming, of course, eventually became commonplace. Likewise, the bumper for 'High Definition" will soon fade into distant memory.
libertatus 2 years ago
Brings back memories!
GEMINITREKKER 2 years ago
3 cheers for the creators of the NBC Peacock and the music that goes with it. it is truly a classic piece of artistry.
Joe49er1964 2 years ago
one of the most unique sounds bites of all time
mezansky 2 years ago 2
love this...
Michelep65 2 years ago
still scary to this day!
loveisok 2 years ago
Yeah, color scares me too! Look out! RED!!!
InsertName125 2 years ago 4
Looks so Beautiful!!!! <3
JojoPandacutie1989 2 years ago 4
They played this right before the opening for the premiere of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien!
FrancosTheMan 2 years ago 5
They did that as a reference to
Johny Carson's Tongiht Show
kjsiohzxhgdkug 2 years ago 5
I love me some CoCo
mjwatts1983 2 years ago
yeah, why did they show this the night Conab's premiere
soultrainyungin76 2 years ago
WOW this is a blast from the past!!I I can still see the old Ouasar color TV set in the family room lol
chrisporter61 2 years ago
one of the great sound bytes of all time
mezansky 2 years ago 2
I like NBC.
SuperiorHawke 2 years ago
you wouldn't if u worked there...
wiedep 2 years ago 2
Their is a version floating around NBC that has the Peacock falling apart at the end. It looks as if it was put together at the same time. It has been used in a lot of retirement going away tapes over the years.
monzavideo 2 years ago
I can still remember a college music professor telling the class how the musicians who did this 10 seconds of music made a very tidy fortune in royalties.
freddycupples 2 years ago
I can believe that. Hell, they probably put their kids through grad school with the money they made.
rayjr62 2 years ago
PLEASE - NBC - BRING THIS BACK -
lonestar1 2 years ago
NBC does play this once in a while.
mcclir 2 years ago
I don't remember this before any programs, and I was about 5-6 years old in 1975. Color TV was still a novelty at that time in the United States? Wow.
murielsartre 2 years ago
color tv was certainly 'standard equipment' by 1975
freddycupples 2 years ago
murielsarte: They stopped showing this peacock in 1975, because as someone else stated, color TV was standard by then. I remember seeing this a lot, and wished they would have kept showing it anyway.
Teflon65 2 years ago 2
@Teflon65 That's when NBC brought the letter "N" in!
Chicago10281 1 year ago
NBC Peacock.
Imperatoriusuius 2 years ago
I remember this, never seen it in color
however as we had black and white tv
back then.
JSTONE9352 3 years ago 3
Signal337 is right..Much better Intro...no more Chime In...
lulu06320 3 years ago
BRING BACK THE "NBC PEACOCK".
Signal337 3 years ago 18
@Signal337 We aughtta start a petition... a gang war... A REVOLUTION!!!! Nahhh, forget it, it ain't that important.
moosepie59 1 year ago
i think they used this in the 80s too
hssenior 3 years ago 5
hssenior: They stopped using this one regularly, in about 1975. However, occasionally someone will revive it for a show, as Conan O' Brien did, when he recorded a show in Finland. He showed this at the beginning, as kind of a joke.
Teflon65 2 years ago
i love nbc
daminmancejin 3 years ago 4
This is really cool, despite being WAY before my time. (I'm an 80's baby)
babygiraffe123 3 years ago 15
You really like this '60s peacock? I was a kid when this was out in the '60s! Check out the "Sneezing Peacock"!
Chicago10281 3 years ago
@babygiraffe123 i'm a 90s baby!!!
whattheheck1000 1 year ago
@babygiraffe123 I remember this as a little kid from the 1960s! Since you're an '80s baby, what year were you born in in the '80s?
Chicago10281 1 year ago
@Chicago10281
Born in June 1982. : )
babygiraffe123 1 year ago
@babygiraffe123 How do you like the colors on this peacock? It's not scary to you? Think NBC should bring back "old Mr. 1960s Peacock?"
Chicago10281 1 year ago
@babygiraffe123 This peacock lasted until 1975, when it was replaced by the letter "N". Also, it's a "Laramie" peacock (for the TV series "Laramie")that debuted in 1962.
Chicago10281 1 year ago
@babygiraffe123 me? millenium.
jjovereats 1 year ago
@babygiraffe123 I'm a '60s dude! This peacock you're viewing here from the 1960s(I remember this as a little kid)is majestic and the way it spreads its feathers! Check out the 1957 peacock too! Wish NBC would bring back the original "Bird"!
Chicago10281 1 year ago
I just recorded it on my phone and then assigned it to my ringtone.
Seastorm21 3 years ago 3
Okay I'm not that techno-savvy. I'm impressed. 8-)
jmnck28 3 years ago 2
Hey I have it on my phone too! I remember this as a kid.
scootron2000 3 years ago 3
That is my new ringtone!
Seastorm21 3 years ago 3
How did you get this as your ringtone??
jmnck28 3 years ago
how did u get that one?
loveisok 2 years ago
Boy, does this take me back to when I was a little kid! I remember this like it was yesterday!!!
sterlinged 3 years ago
I definitely remember this one too.
jdewitt77 3 years ago
A true TV classic! Thanks for sharing it with us.
MKIVWWI 3 years ago 2
Incredible how a little jingle like that can transport me back to my little house in Los Angeles as a kid viewing our black and white set in the 60's and wishing we had color TV. What a memory pang!
primeralives 3 years ago 4
Oh Lord, this takes me back. Thanks for putting this up. :)
LuvvyDuck 3 years ago
I like how James and people at Star trek NV use that retro logo in the beginning of the show,gives it a real 60's retro feel.
Dunes 3 years ago
i loved that when i was a kid..back then NBC was good now they really suck!
Italiabeefy 3 years ago 4
used to be really tripped out by both the music and the announcer....so the announcer's name was Mel Brandt?....never knew that!!....i could just imagine being a musician who had to play that crazy sig theme!!
citizenterryk 3 years ago
olha so a mensagem subliminar disso "maconha" reparem
raraelzinho 3 years ago
I have to agree with Rascal. I wish they would bring back the old peacock.
enigma413 3 years ago
This NBC peacock gave me nightmares when I was a kid! (I was born in 1968, and that thing aired before each color NBC show until 1974.) These days, however, it's a reminder that TV's not like it used to be.
markojameow 3 years ago
If you think this one's scary, check out the original, with that gong...
Staszu13 3 years ago
I've checked it out. I think that would have scared me out of my wits when I was a kid. But I was born years after Laramie replaced it, so that one doesn't stick out in my memory bank.
markojameow 3 years ago
The peacock logo was better in the 60's then the one they use today. Just leave it the way it was. No sense having to change something that is already great.
rascal211 4 years ago
Their reasoning was that a real peacock lives for about 30 years. in '76 the "N" came around and about 3 or 4 years later they combined a peacock with the N then the peacock that NBC has now.
kxx46 3 years ago
I can just remember seeing this when the family sat down to watch Laugh In. I was three when it premiered in 1969. Oh! that Goldie Hawn. The guy on the tricycle in the raincoat always made me laugh.
meego1234 4 years ago
Yes. I remember this one just before LAUGH-IN on Monday nights. Viewers watched the show every week and didn't mind if some of the jokes didn't work. You were shaking from laughing so hard as the jokes kept coming in rat-a-tat-tat rhythm.........
The man on the tricycle was Arte Johnson.
hobokenplayboy 3 years ago
By the way, how is Artie doing? I heard he has been battling cancer. I haven't been able to find out anything about him on the net.
rayjr62 2 years ago
Help..NBC Peacock Video Are Quicklist
Hoskins1942 4 years ago
it sounds like it is in a bottle or can lol
Yutzwagon404 4 years ago
Boy does this bring back memories.
jdewitt77 4 years ago
I remember NBC, yes NBC, did a funny version of this and aired it on "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes" where the promo goes exactly as usual but at the end the peacock sneezes and the feathers fly off, the crowd laughs.
monos70 4 years ago
That was from the Disney shot cartoon "It's Tough To Be A Bird"..it got Disney kicked off the "Peacock Network"..they renewed their relationship with ABC then. Michael Boyce
mrmjb1960 4 years ago
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mca1218 4 years ago
Heard Tom Snyder discussing this one time. Would really enjoy seeing it !
kxx46 3 years ago
I like how the crew of Star Trek New Voyages used that NBC logo bump for the beginning of their episodes. Very retro.
Dunes 4 years ago
That's NBC staff announcer Mel Brandt (not McDoanld Carey, 'ccie') delivering the "..in Living Color" tag, which was used by the network before every NBC color program until 1971....
fromthesidelines 4 years ago
I've only seen it upside down and backwards on the "Bloopers" special, followed by "Any way you look at it, we are now having trouble on the cable." (the card was upside down too)
Maestrojosh87 4 years ago
That is McDonald Carey, yes.
ccie12933 4 years ago
was that MacDonaled Carey?
DaysFan65 4 years ago
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babygiraffe123 4 years ago
Thank god for "Brought to You in LIVING COLOR on NBC."
Jantv81 4 years ago
Oh my God! Do I remember this one-This brings me back to doing my homework and then time to watching some TV before bed!
tomtv1 4 years ago
Cool! I remember this.
SimpsonDG 4 years ago
I love the peacock. Especially when he first appeared "In Living Color", classic.
Jantv81 4 years ago
I thought the nbc peacock is good 1960s classic commercial
CTTTSG97 4 years ago
Cool!
dharmamark 4 years ago
Trippy
heart1987 4 years ago
I was born in 1967, and it's strange that this image is burned in my memory. It's good to know where it comes from. I was a very small child when this was en vogue. Strange that I remember it.
btwokyu 4 years ago
I remember many, many moons ago when NBC broadcast the old AFL games right after they went to color, they'd play this before the broadcast went on the air and we'd see the Jets, Raiders, Patriots, Bills, Oilers, Dolphins, Chargers, Bengals,Chiefs, and Broncos in "living color"!
parkman35 4 years ago
Along with the "Heidi" episode in late 1968 that cut off the last minute of an AFL game and angered football fans because the outcome of the game changed dramatically in that last minute.
potter660 4 years ago
Yep, Jets @ Raiders.With the Jets leading 32-29 with only 65 seconds left in the game, the Raiders quickly scored 14 points to win, 43-32. Meanwhile, millions of American television viewers were unable to see Oakland's comeback. The NBC television network cut off the live broadcast in favor of a pre-scheduled airing of Heidi, a new made-for-TV version of the classic children's story.
parkman35 4 years ago
it was the standard then to not go over the alotted time, 7pm i believe in the East, 6 central. Now its the norm to run over til games are finished.
irish89055 4 years ago
yes indeedy, i recall clearly watching that game with my father(and how my father expressed his displeasure with NBC's decision)...i also recall Pop running to the kitchen to turn on the radio to catch the end of the game(his beloved Jets lost, boo-hoo!!)
citizenterryk 3 years ago
Yes!...the Jets...Joe Willy Namath and the boys! The Mad Bomber Darryl Lamonica chucking 'em for the Raiduhs..
parkman35 3 years ago
I think that could have been around November of 1968 and since then, no network has done it since!
Chicago10281 4 years ago
This was used for the very first eposide of Days of our Lives, November 8, 1965... Today they still use this sometimes...
SHAUNERDANIEL 4 years ago
November 17, 1968 to be exact.
dnm728 4 years ago
Yep, the Heidi game of November 17, 1968. Before then entertainment programs commanded the prime-time TV ad dollar. How things have changed.
dnm728 4 years ago
I remember we were the second family on our block to get a color t.v. This brings back alot of great memories,thank you for posting
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russwrench65 4 years ago
Wow! I haven't seen this in y-e-a-r-s! It used to be shown in the sixties before each color TV episode on NBC, at a time when most shows were still broadcast in black & white. Thank you for posting this bit of nostalgia.
LaClairEtoile 4 years ago
...sheesh...I feel really old now!!!...You guys are all correct...when this came on...it was a big deal for sure...ooooo in living color!!!!...great memories!
goglads 4 years ago
Living colour? As opposed to what? Inert colour?
fishhead06 4 years ago
fish....you wouldn't understand if it bit you in the ass....
parkman35 4 years ago
Libing color as opposed to black and white.
kxx46 3 years ago
Living Color, not libing.
waltsa200 3 years ago 3
Just a typo !!
kxx46 3 years ago
The music gives me chills.
chemicalcarlos 4 years ago
That brings back memories. I remember when we got our first color tv - it was a huge event. And a huge tv - as I recall.
carlyle688 4 years ago
Ah yes, "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom", a plate of mom's apple pie and TV set large enough to crush an adult rhino. :-) Good memories, carlyle.
radamail 4 years ago
ahhh yes, Wild Kingdom..."while Jim is castrating the rhinoceros...i'll go mix another picture of stingers"...used to love how Johnny Carson would make fun of Wild Kingdom on the Tonight Show(Jim Fowler used to make some crazy appearances on that show!!)
citizenterryk 3 years ago
Yeah, I remember how old Marlin Perkins had Jim Fowler as his "yardboy" doing all the dirty work and taking all the risk,while the old coot would throw in a pitch for Mutual of Omaha insurance.
primeralives 3 years ago 2
mutual of omaha is people--
bellydancer1970 3 years ago
Like a older cartoon
andresmalagreca 4 years ago
this is soo great!!!!
daminmancejin 4 years ago
With The NBC Peacock of the '60s, this was a precursor to HDTV. I remember it as a young child in the '60s & '70s. Living Color Was Indeed A Precursor of Today's HDTV. NBC should one day bring this retro-bird back.
Chicago10281 4 years ago
the advent of color in the '60s was bigger than the rollout of HDTV is today. it's a far bigger jump to go from just B&W TV to color than it is to go from 480 resolution to 1080 ...
DesiluTrek 5 years ago
Maybe NBC should resurrect this classic billboard..."The following program is brought to you in high definition on NBC." Whaddaythink?
jdizzle61 4 years ago 2
Maybe.
Jnelson09 4 years ago
You have a great idea there, jdizzle. It would be nice to see the original peacock back to usher in the next generation of TV technology.
radamail 4 years ago
This is on my Laugh-In DVDs. Yes, check my age, I'm only twenty-four. I like Laugh-In.
AllisonSNLKid 5 years ago
All you young pups,dont relise that color tv was a big deal ,star trek was part of that ,w/the uniform colors/sets/sf/.
guyfrom1975 5 years ago
NBC was the first of the 3 major networks to have an all-color primetime schedule in the fall of 1966, the season Star Trek premiered. CBS and ABC went all-color the next year.
scotpens 3 years ago
I bet it was seen on the 1962-1963 seasons at the beginning of "King Leonardo"
offcampusstudent1993 5 years ago
The peacock only has 6 rainbow-colored tail feathers today. It's been used since 1987.
gvk9r 5 years ago
As I recall the Peacock continued to be used into the 70's once a day before the "Today Show" - to start the NBC Network programming. I think NBC should still use it now and then - it brings back great memories.
lonestar1 5 years ago
This logo was shown before the beginning of virtually EVERY "Living Color" program on NBC from the fall of 1962 through the end of the 1969-'70 season [it was shortened a bit by 1968]. The announcer was Mel Brandt. A classic by any account!
fromthesidelines 5 years ago
Such an improvement over the first peacock. That one was bonechilling!
thunderstruck665 5 years ago
i love this NBC Peacock the way it comes on with that sound give's you a wonderful feeling!
daminmancejin 5 years ago
I remember this one, too! Our neighbors across the street had the first color TV of the people I knew (about 1966 or '67) and I remember seeing this on their Admiral console and thinking this logo in color was so exciting and glamorous!
libearian 5 years ago
This is the one I remember. As a kid, I thought it was fantastic special effects - lol
fishhead06 5 years ago