Family Affair Original Voiceover Opening Credits Intro

[AkiroXKE]

Maybe they decided to drop the announcer so they wouldn't have to pay any royalties when the show was released on DVD. The other Don Fedderson-produced show, My Three Sons, also had the same announcer who is also mostly absent from the show opening except for a few episodes they didn't catch!

[victoriaindigo]

Thanks for uploading this!

the announcer sounds familiar btw

[gymnastix]

Another horrible-sounding audio track in this video. This overwhelming high pitch is prevalent throughout. Seriously, fix these or remove them. They are a mess!

[Glinkaism1]

Thanks a lot for posting these versions! I especially like the voiceover. That's Frank De Vol's music. In his bio he said he never turned down a job. :) Amazing here that it's just 10 notes that identify the program. So sad when a composer/actor leave this world. Up until he passed away he was performing no cruise ships! :)

[raymondclark32]

RichHartley1967 1 I can tell you why they dub it and rerecorded the music.Back then,you got sponsors who sponsored FAMILY AFFAIR doing it's CBS in 1966-71 season.if you see any syndicated FAMILY AFFAIR shows,look on the left bottom corner,like something blurred out.it been an sponsored sponsor their product during the original CBS run.i know it was cigarette as well as procter and gamble(tide,joy,gleem etc) also show sponsor their product been blurred out for syndicated run,why they dub it.

[sexymama1966]

@raymondclark32 and Philip Morris(Marlboro cigarettes)

[RichHartley19671]

Why in the world did they change this? When Family Affair was being run on CBS during the afternoon (for a short while before Match Game '73 debuted) they had the voiceover. When this was run in L.A. during the late 70s, they kept the voiceover. In the late 80s when KDOC re-ran this, it had the voiceover. Suddenly, when FX channel debuted in 1993, they removed the voiceover to dub the close credits music over the beginning. Why? The opening music was NOT the same as the close, you can hear it.

[tjfreak]

There's Me - Metoo & This, television in Chicago.. is it any where else ? I know there growing wildly in popularity.. 2 channels play only 50'60'70'80's Television, too many shows to list now.. I saw the Fam Aff. pilot the other day, 1st time as an adult,it was all pilots that day.. DOB 1964 for me so I was 2 when it aired.. I do remember the late 60's early 70's .. what struck me was Brian Keith was pissed when the kids were brought to his bachelor pad..French goes "What is a Buffy ? "

[morgan8757]

this way they should of had it on tv land and on dvd 

[gymnastix]

@morgan8757 The correct English phrase is "should have had it on TV Land," not "should of."

[jazzbuff630]

What a trip! I'm 50 years old right now, yet I remember wanting to be Buffy and Jodie's new friend "from Harlem" on the TV show. I still drool over the apartment. Same basic formula as "Bachelor Father" and "The Courtship of Eddie's Father".

[IntelProperty]

THANK YOU for posting this. I agree wholeheartedly with the other commenters: This is the way the opening played during Family Affair's original prime-time broadcasts on CBS, this is the way I fondly remember them, and this is unquestionably the way they should appear on DVD. We consumers need to DEMAND -- loudly and clearly -- that home video suppliers stop messing with OUR nostalgia!

[jed6271]

@IntelProperty AGREED!! I am sure the response would be "well, that was the only intro that was available"....I want to relive my CBS 60's memories, not my TVLAND 2000 memories!

[gymnastix]

@jed6271 I agree. And even in the reruns on CBS weekday mornings, in the early 1970s, I recall this voice-over intro on the first season episodes.

Also, well put that we who watched this series originally are nostalgic for the CBS prime time broadcasts, not the TV Land re-airings.

[bobszvetics1]

@IntelProperty I COULDNT AGEE MORE WITH I HAVE ALL THE DVDS AND WHEN I FIRST BOUGHT THEM I SAID TO MYSELF WASNT THERE A VOICE OVER IN THE MAIN TITLES THERE AGAIN VIDEO COMPANIES SCEWED US AND ITS NOT EVEN CBS PARAMOUNT

[zaynzaynzayn]

@IntelProperty Right. It's rewriting out history!

[Juliaflo]

@IntelProperty I second that, even though I own Seasons One and Three and enjoy both.

Merry Christmas.

[majaman1978]

This is how I remember the intro to Family Affair, and is the best one by far along with the narrarion and the brightest music by deVol.

Big thx for posting this!

[geor67]

This is pretty cool! The Family Affair theme used in syndication is cool, but this one is pretty sweet!

[bixbyglaser]

I recall this from my earliest memories as a child. I still love it, and always will.

[txquis]

I haven't seen these 'voiceover' opens since the reruns I enjoyed in the 70's. I never understood why they redid them when they brought them back in the 90's and on the dvds. What was the purpose of not using the original?

[jed6271]

We may never know!!! It makes no sense to me why syndication seems to remove the originality out of openings (and sometimes closings).......

[east215]

same thing with "The Lucy Show". different opeings were pasted for syndication.

[RichHartley1966]

Thanks for restoring the original announcer reading the titles. I always used to like the way he said: FAM-uh-lee UH-fair. Very proper sounding. Not many people give 3 syllables to the word "family" and I always thought it sounded cool.

[tracyterry]

uncle bill was porking mr. french up the ass

[MCWEDS]

The Announcer sounds like the announcer from the "Jack Benny Program" , Don something?? The radio show.

[vinylrecord68]

@MCWEDS You mean Don Wilson? Possibly...

[cmulwee001]

Why is it black and white, when it was 'never' really in black and white.

Is it a kinescope?

[jed6271]

It's from a 16mm film on an old VHS tape, so the color was probably washed out. Yes, all Family Affair episodes were produced in color from 1966-71.

[45sGuy]

It's a shame that the DVD versions released by MPI Video used the syndicated openings on all 5 seasons of Family Affair. I'd much rather have had the original as posted here.

[jed6271]

Check out the Season 3 Family Affair episode (#85, "The Flip Side") that I have Favorited from Retroteevee. It features a different opening that seems to use the closing instrumental from that year. I am not sure if it's original, but it seems to be one of the few, or only, DVD openings like this.

[fromthesidelines]

The opening on the network was basically the same, 'jed', with a sponsor I.D. following it ["'Brought to you by..."]. I know that Philip Morris [Marlboro, Parliament, etc.] was one of its primary sponsors, and possibly Procter & Gamble was an "alternate sponsor' [so, it probably went like this: "...Marlboro cigarettes. 'Come To Where the Flavor Is- You're In MARLBORO COUNTRY'"]. General Motors' Pontiac division supplied the cars used on the show, in exchange for screen credit at the end.

[sexymama1966]

thank u....i knew u would come thru..if anyone knows, its u..i thought P&G were sponsors and now, thanks to you, i know its true

[fromthesidelines]

In the initial CBS daytime repeats (and in the first syndication run), this opening title, WITH announcer, was seen. In the '80s, a "reissue title" was used.

[jed6271]

Thanks for clarifying the origin of this version of the opening. I am interested in what the CBS first run prime time opening looked like, and who the sponsor was. I know Pontiac provided cars to the show ('67 thru '70 full-sized wagons).