1953 TV show intros Part 2 of 2

[RosWode]

I remember the Topper show. Came on here to find it to recall what it was about again. I was only 7 or 8 then. TV has come a long way but lost a lot.



[2agray]

Loretta Young was under rated! That was some pretty good sketch drama. I remember the one about the iron lung. Danny Thomas was so funny. That was a good show full of great smart ass lines. I didn't know there was a topper TV show. I remember the movie. I remember the color peacock but that was the mid 60's.

[lotsandlotsofbubbles]

I LOVE the way Loretta young enters the room, with a twirl and a swish of her skirts! fun!

[44032]

The Danny Thomas clip is actually from fairly late in the series, around 1960, when Sherry Jackson was gorwing up and ASngela CXartwright was brought in to be cute.

[KURISUCHRIS99]

i like the opening to the barbara stanwyck show

its simple but the music is nice

[alleycat62021]

Me too, signcrash. I think they have the movies but not the series.

[gymnastix]

Regarding availability of "Topper" TV series, please see my comment below.

[gymnastix]

I first saw this series on a local, Boston syndicated run in the early 1970s. It utilized the opening sequence (with the "ghostess with the mostest" and "host to said ghosts" attributions) seen here in your video.

I think that is far more clever and funny than another opening sequence used, and which appears on the public domain episodes I have on DVD. I'm still not clear which was used for the original, broadcast run (on CBS) and which for the syndicated?

[gymnastix]

By the way, I'm not sure why you include the sequence for "G.E. College Bowl" in this montage of 1953 TV show opening sequences?

"College Bowl" didn't debut until January 4, 1959 (on CBS, with original host & one-time teacher Allen Ludden, who later and more famously hosted "Password"), then switched to NBC in 1963, Ludden replaced by Robert Earle, the host seen here.

I actually recall watching the Ludden-hosted version of the program, although I was quite a young boy at the time.

[RJSchex]

@gymnastix

The "GE College Bowl" episode shown here is from March 6, 1966; it is shown in its entirety (divided into 3 parts) here on YT.

[gymnastix]

The format of "College Bowl" was also utilized for several, local college & high school quiz shows in the ensuing years, usually as "It's Academic"; is still airing on a New Hampshire PBS station as "Granite State Challenge."

And, at least "back in the day," the show and its contestants exhibited more intelligence than even the original, Art Fleming-hosted "Jeopardy!"

[gymnastix]

Of course the current "Jeopardy!" is still the smartest of all the game shows still airing, though it's dumbed-down compared to the original, and certainly compared to "College Bowl."

[signcrash]

I wish someone would release the entire series of Topper on DVD,

[gymnastix]

There are several DVDs (released by multiple public domain video companies) containing various configurations of the nine episodes of "Topper" widely available in public domain.

Additionally, I have read the series is available through Amazon dot-com and from Netflix.

I also happen to know there is one episode of "Topper" on the RetroVision dot-tv website (and two of the three theatrical features), as well all or nearly all the episodes of the series for sale from skaryguyvideo dot-com.

[alleycat62021]

It was the 50's and I loved Topper, slinky.

[slinky460]

I always thought Topper was kind of odd for a TV show. But it was the 50s