ABC promos 1969

[trivialtony]

Interesting Dick York appears on this network promo but Dick Sargent took over as Darren halfway through this season. And didn't the Brady Bunch (one of ABC's signature shows) debut in 69 too?

[glasscitadel12]

VERY NICE! NOW 'SOCK IT TO ME!"

[JohnnyFoster]

I miss these days... Sigh... Such a simpler, happier time. Or so it seems.

[DrCruel]

Why was TV so much better when it was free?

[coolbear64]

I miss the movies's of the week

[demikede1]

Must been on ABC-TV around the time man first landed on the moon (July 1969). What would it been like if an ABC bumper announced "watch Man finally set foot on the moon". The promo bumpers, the logo artistry and music were a product (or one can say ahead) of their time. +

[demikede1]

This is pretty neat, considering the promos are from 40 yrs. ago. The local ABC station in my area (Palm Springs, Cal.) premiered that year and it was KPLM-TV, which became KESQ in the early 80s. ABC was the top network in the 1970s, in part of how great the artistic graphics are for its' bumpers. +

[rjherie]

How many passes on the optical printer do you think it took to assemble all of these effects into the composite film you see here?

[mfbinc]

anyone remember a tv movie in the 70's called "REVENGE OF THE COMUTERS" about a school taken over by computers that attacks the students? i can't find this movie anywhere.....

[49jubilee]

the show HAPPY DAYS was an episode on LOVE AMERICAN STYLE first. They did an expose on the fifties with Ron Howard, Marion Ross, etc.

[vidform]

Who sings the "meet us in september" lyrics? I like their vocals. Sounds like the Beach Boys or some other surf-rock band.

[vardiss22]

ABC,NBC, and CBS ...all retained a basically late 60's style and approach in programming from 70 to roughly 75....76 to 79 had a somewhat diferent vibe but no less nostalgic.

[vardiss22]

wow..this was almost a whole yr before i was born in nov 70....however i remember much of this style and look from re runs during the whole 70's decade..especially "the movie of week stuff which was moved to mid afternoons (mostly) by the mid to late 70's....unforgettable era in t.v.

[vardiss22]

@harley1450000 lol...yeah i guess ....but at least most of my generation has a love or at least a respect for alot of stuff that came before us...unlike the current "young" generation which just makes fun of anything older then them and acts like everything thats happening today (especially in music, t.v. and movies) is happening for the first time lol

[vardiss22]

@harley1450000 .....i wish i had been born in 60 or 61 .....cause i think would been awesome to have been a teenager in the 70's

[harley1450000]

@vardiss22 I'll trade you birthdays lol

[vardiss22]

@harley1450000 LOL

[ProudKansan08]

@vardiss22, it was.I wouldn't want to be a teenager in any other time, but then, I'm biased.

[vardiss22]

@ProudKansan08 .....probably a fair bias i'd say considering each passing decade.

[000266617]

"I went to a segregated school" she says.

Reminds us that it was not long ago that it was illegal to marry a person of a different race in the south, lynchings, segregation and many horrible things.

[vardiss22]

@000266617 ......good point not everything about the "good ole days" was good for everybody.

[000266617]

@vardiss22 Yes, there are some things in the past that would be good to have now and we miss, and other things that we don't wan't to see again.

[vardiss22]

@vardiss22 ....would love see this style and quality of this era of t.v .come back ..i think everyone born from 78 or so back misses it.

[italianman1992]

wow I love how trippy and psychedelic the "Meet Us In September" bumper is.

[bikebeerrun1960]

1969 TV morals;till then married couples slept in separate beds?-"Love American Style";all of A sudden everyones foolin around !?!

[ProgMetalLover]

The stuff that was debuting during the month I was born :)

[mego73]

They sure were taking advantage of the slit-scan style effects first done for 2001

[blacjazzz]

@mego73

For you editors, that was supposedly the first time special effects were done on a computer, an early version of the Avid actually for that opening sequence. Man i remember that like it was yesterday!

Who was the guy who did all that voice over in the first segments? He had the coolest style!

[FrumiousBander]

@blacjazzz Nope, not yet. The ABC logos and Movie of the Week flying openings were shot on film by Douglas Trumbull on the slit-scan rig invented for 2001: A Space Odyssey. As for video editing, 1969 was just a year into the precursors of CMX editing. In 1967 they were shooting shows like Laugh In on 2 inch tape, and literally cutting it with a razor blade.

[stonerbudkap]

It seems music from TV shows back in 1969 had a hippie element to them. I like being high!

[glasscitadel12]

you make me wish i had a time machine.

[JoshuaTaylor]

"Meet the new people"'

Oy.

[NP4Mayans]

Psychedelic man! Just look at all those ABC logos flying at you, just like the animation in, 2001: a Space Odyssey.

[Nikes62]

"I went to a segregated school". "Oh, that's okay, so did I." HA HA.

[efrem1]

This must have been Dick York's last year on Bewitched.

[giles422]

I LOVE THIS such memories THANKS

[1963TNT]

1969 was a great year too bad Manson ruined it.

[Nikes62]

Yah, too bad. Of course, a little thing like the Vietnam War had nothing to do with it.

[pannoni1]

@1963TNT Actually Altmont ruined it. It's amazing how much TV changed from 1964 to 1969, even greater than the change between SDTV 2002 and HDTV 2007.

[flashfast2000]

@1963TNT And that Vietnam thing wasn't so pleasant either.

[1963TNT]

@flashfast2000 AMEN to that brother.I was only 7 in 69 but Vietnam was a difficult war and I respect all those who served and may those who never came home may they R.I.P forever...

[recoverfromhydro]

@1963TNT What about the Apolo 11,and Woodstock;don't let one phyco leader define the whole year.

[gymer15]

I remember this stuff like it was yesterday

[phlogiston08]

Answer: What is A.D.T?

[haileysmom728]

I was 3! Wow

[wannawatchu66]

@haileysmom728 So was I.

[phlogiston08]

Wow, Man...Like Wow, totally psychedelic station ID for 1969. I can feel the Aquarian influence

[deepseadirt]

just curious, are you phlogiston that used to be a member of ADT?

[wallexus]

Gosh...I remember this like it was yesterday! Those were the days...man!

[RockinEd]

No Brady Bunch??? That was also a 1969 debut show on ABC

[Scarletspeedster68]

They just don't make promos like this anymore, but boy was it fun!

[mattman747]

brings back great memories of a time when television was really entertaining. although i was just being born in 1969 i remember most of these shows they were pitching.

[vardiss22]

@mattman747 ..definitely i was born in nov 70....but like most us born before 75 caught most of this stuff in re runs or syndication through most of the 70's decade.

[drryles]

Brought back some memories...I was 4 when this was on.

Best wishes,

Dr. Ryles

[deepseadirt]

so was I. I remember Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In(Ruth Buzzi scared me to death),  Smothers Brothers and a lot of the Krofft Saturday morning classics ie Bugaloos, Pufnstuff/

[1ncearoundtheblock]

Do you think the religious right would have protested Bewitched if they were organized back then?

[holmeed]

Oh the nuts were organized......

the theocracy was alive and well even then..

[vividwatch47]

Hmm...I wonder if the producers of "Lost" ever saw this with the promo for "The New People"?

[Scarletspeedster68]

Good question. :-?

[SolarisBreeze57]

Back then as a 12 year old I liked hearing "Meet Us In September", because my birthday is the same month.

[classictv12]

I remember these pre-fall promos put out by the big three networks. They signaled an end to summer vacation.

[mgrella63]

the voice over was dick tufeld the voice for the lost in space robot

[mikemoair]

man with exciting entertainment like that how in the world did we pull out of vietnam!!! who was stoned to come up with this promo? and 41600 people have watched it jezzzz? good ole days, before anderson cooper was tea baggin coked up outta his mf..ing mind in the quarter!!!!

[JTPolo101]

The ABC Movies of the week were great . I believe there was one on Tuesday and Wednesday nights between 8:30 and 10. On Tuesday nights Marcus Welby came on after it. My Mom loved Dr. Kiley. Every week was great movie a horror film, a comedy, and mushy melodrama , and police drama everything. Most of the cast were well known TV stars of the day and many times there would be a cameo or guest role by a Hollywood legend , Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, B ehard to do today. So many legends are gone

[leniebabe44]

Although I was only 2 when this promo came out, I can still remember a lot of those shows especially Room 222, Love American Style, Bewitched and Movie of the Week. That was television at its best.

[aftershock71]

Truly a bygone era......back when all of these shows were filmed in So. Cal.......now everything seems to be moving either to the midwest or back east, because Cali has become so difficult to do ANY kind of business in. We will become a wasteland before you know it

[bravodeverdad1984]

Fantástico. Jamás pensé que hicieran tan buenas promos y tan buena televisión hace 40 años xd. Bacano ver una promo de Bewitched con la hermosa Elizabeth Montgomery. Saludos desde Barranquilla, Colombia.

[MightySaturn5]

the guy singing at the beginning sounds just like the guy that sang the theme to Nanny and the professor

[tdivad]

I noticed the same thing when I heard "Meet Us In September". It is the same person, I just don't know who it is.

[BatoNY65]

A bygone era. Change has never happenned so fast as is happenning today. It's scary, actually.

[prayfertrey]

I don't know how different things are. Most of tv is so lame it breaks the awkward barrier. Bad pop music is used to make a sale. The appeal is to the lowest common denominator. The only thing that's changed is that the pop. culture itself is uglier today than back then. Standards have actually dropped and race relations have actually worsened since the 70s. But, we do have wonderful computer gadgets!

[tomloft2000]

it seems as if the word class has been removed from the dictionary.but,as you say,we have great electronics.

[gittahfiend]

thank you for this post.you gave me back

a piece of my child hood.love to you.

[bigtool66]

Me too. I remember watching these shows at my Grandparents house when I was little.

Johnny Cash ROCKS!!!!

[cowboybear40]

That's right, '69 was when the Brady Bunch was unleashed on the world...

[jaworskij]

0:40 "ABC Movie of the Week" .... Yeah, ABC, how about it?

I got tired of paying over $60/month for "cable-tv" which is mostly crap now....

How about entertaining us again, and shoving Communist propaganda like Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Wife Swap, Grey's Anatomy, Homeland Security.

Replacing this awful programs with worthwhile stuff we WANT TO WATCH would do wonders for your ratings.

I may have misjudged 'Lost'. Thought is referred to the reality show, but it looks promising.

[invincibleironman3]

you can kind of tell the psychedelia of 2001 (1969) left an impression on ABC.....

[DogbiteOW]

I cannot believe Mick Jagger appears on an ABC promo!

[beanut520]

I was born in 1985. I just wish I could travel back in time and live in the 1960s.

[farodyoung]

really great!!

[Signal337]

It brings back so many memories. I still remember the music theme to "ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS". "The Thrill Of Victory", "The Agony Of Defeat", and "ABC Monday Night Football".

[Idjitz]

Wow, never seen any footage from "The New People" before. I guess the chances of anyone trying to put together a series DVD are nil as long as "Lost" is still on the air, though.

[Jumbos51]

Mad Magazine parodied "Room 222" as

"Room 222zzzzzzz".

[visor109]

The group that sings the "Meet us in September" clips sounds like The Cowsills.

[britfrenir]

I remember Movie of the week. I was 5 then, but I still remember Love American Stye. I only saw inbetween stories when my parents were out of the room. I remember later season moslty. I remember the pilot for "The Brady Bunch". My parents saw the first seasons of "The Odd Couple".

[buffguy31264]

i saw those shows

[frankd1965]

Room 222, The Brady Bunch and Movie Of The Week was my fovorites.

[ftsjr]

The Music Scene and The New People were terrific shows, for those of us in Jr. High. The

Survivors was past my bed time. I think it was ten years before it's time though, considering that late nite soaps (Dallas, Dynasty, etc.) became popular beginning around 1980.

[daleroes]

the whole world was comin' apart but at least there was stupid stuff to watch on TV all the waking hours

[Retrodrome200X]

Was the ABC 1969 fall promo really the first to use slit-scan technology, famously exemplified in 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)? Because a Mod Squad promo from 1968 suggests otherwise.

[retrojoet]

You know, you got me thinking about that slit-scan fad back then. I never missed an episode of Mod Squad and it used that slit-scan technique - it left a lasting impression for me because I thought it was so cool and no one else was doing it at the time. TCM just showed the Thomas Crown Affair (1968) last nite and it too used the slit-scan technique (although I think it was overdone to the point of becoming distracting and annoying). Check out the 1971 Chrysler 300 ad on YouTube - it's neat!

[Lesli2]

oh my god takes me back i was only 8 years old then dam. and i so remember the movie of the week themee song till this day wow.

[retrojoet]

I was just a little kid back then, but oh, the happy memories of how nice it was back then. Seemed like people had their differences, but respected each other and worked things out. I would like to revisit my favorite ABC friday night lineup (began at 8pm EST) and comprised of The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222, The Odd Couple, and Love - American Style (mom sent me off to bed - said L-AS was too racy for a child - LOL!). Everything was just soo much simpler and laid-back then!

[60sThru80s]

"Family, Room 222, The Odd Couple, and Love - American Style (mom sent me off to bed - said L-AS was too racy for a child - LOL!)"

Same here! That "Love American Style" theme music was the bed-time trumpet.

[cowboybear40]

I can dig(where in tha hell did that come from???), when Soap and SNL came in it was change the channel time...I retaliated as an adult and bought the whole series run of SOAP on DVD, then turned around ans sold it....

[Rhenoism]

Should be a great September coming up. Can't wait. I wonder what 'the survivors' will be like?

[vampyros1]

The "Meet Us In September" theme sounds like the Cowsills...

[IDLERACER]

There are alot of old clips from "The Music Scene" on YouTube. It lasted one season, and the host was David Steinberg (on the right at 3:20). It was a wildly freewheeling hour that would have guests like Tony Bennet, C.S.N.Y, Bobby Sherman, Joni Mitchell, James Brown, Buffie Saint Marie and Jerry Butler...often in rapid succession! Although Mick Jagger is plugging it (at 3:22), I don't recall the Stones ever appearing on the program.

[lookingbill1]

In september 1969 it was my first year ib school at 6years of age first grade. Definitely remember room 222.

[BeeGees78]

I guess they didn't know that Dick York had left Bewitched in the Spring of '69.

[Attmay]

Most of the time they use last season's clips for returning shows. In this case it just backfired.

[WhiteCamry]

Why two plugs for "Love, American Style"?

[frankd1965]

This was also the first season of The ABC Movie Of The Week. The font used was peignot on the MOTW.

[cowboybear40]

That's one thing I miss, the network's movies of the week, thank Godfor Lifetime and their movie premieres. I miss seeing those Nancy Disease movies of yesteryear

[WhiteCamry]

I'd be surprised if "The Music Scene" ran 13 weeks. With that 7-sec. plug in the back half of the clip, it looks like it didn't have much backing to begin with. And I barely noticed that was Mick J. muttering before it ends.

Still, it'd be great if there are a few videotapes of that show lying around somewhere, waiting for a digital clean-up.

[PaiSLEE777]

Wow! I missed out. I would have loved to have been a child back then, but I was only a year old. And I thought the 70's had a lot of unification for the world.

[joewiseguywillis]

I was seven in 69. Remember most of these shows in first run.

We didnt get our first color TV until around 1973.

[kikoun86]

amazing graphics for 1969 !!

[crowtservo]

Looks like they just sorta copied the effects from the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[dexterville]

WOW Johnny Cash!!!!!!!

[pegbars]

Such great voice talent in those spots: Dick Tufeld, Ernie Anderson, and Gary Owens!

Thanks for posting!

[elvis45687]

Gosh, I remember when the networks had a "movie of the week" that was produced just the the little screen....that is long gone.

[mrtrashcan]

Remember how they always announced programs like Room 222...IN COLOR! Color TV was a big deal and not that many people had it. I watched black and white well into the 80s. Remember the show "The Second Hundred Years" where the father is frozen for a hundred years, thaws out and comes to live with his son, who is actually old enough to be his father? I believe that was also an ABC show.

[mvp822]

Yes, it was on ABC. And the grandson (also played by Monte Markham) was the spitting image of his grandfather!

[cynthiacher]

I remember tv in those days fondly. Oh sure, there was a lot of bad tv then, but it was nothing like the bad tv we have now! Tv shows today are so, well, NASTY. Mean-spirited, lots of four letter words, lots of explicit sex and violence. Even the cartoons are like that! Back then sex and violence was IMPLIED, not shoved right in your face. TV shows back then seem much more benign in comparison.

[nathanmark2001]

It was such a different time. What's interesting about those days is that the schoolyard, the magazines, TELEVISION shows, the TV commercials, my teachers, relatives, friends and family showed class as to not intrude on my childhood and letting me be a kid.

[jjann09]

THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!

[jjann09]

THOSE WERE THE SAYS!!

[ZIPPTPH77]

I remember when we got "Color T.V." Geez, it was the rage then to get a color T.V. LOL. I remember the old man putting colored sheets of transparent plastic over the screen before we got the real thing.....

[damron13]

BTW, The Johnny Cash Show is now available on DVD !

[WhiteCamry]

Very cool!

[zenarcade64]

Yes, there is a certain "sixties sensibility"...you either see the greatness of sixties culture or you don't. Most don't...but look what most people like nowadays.

[daisyduck0285]

I miss the 60's I was 9.

[ChristianEconCom]

"I miss the 60's I was 9."

You were 9 for a whole decade?

[daisyduck0285]

yeah in 1969 that is what the you tube video says ABC Promo's 1969 and I was nine and I miss the 60's.

[dompy1]

LMAO. I thought the same thing. I was 7 in the 60's.

[carlynutt]

We had only three major networks then yet TV was much better than it is now. It was so exciting to see these fall promos during the summer.I think they started running them in July each year. And remember when all the networks new seasons started the same week in September? Now it is so staggerd. Some even start before Labor Day, and some not until mid October. As a kid, I actually looked forward to Septembers because of the new TV season even though it also meant going back to school.

[ZIPPTPH77]

The "new people" look like trouble.....

[MightySaturn5]

The vocalist at the beginning of this video sounds exactly like the guy that sand the theme song to Nanny and the professer

[MightySaturn5]

sang*

[ZIPPTPH77]

Karen Valentine was a hottie from room 222! Who didn't have a crush on her? What the hell I was 13!

[DINKERS39]

Born in 1960; In the late 60's life still seemed to have hope. Back then TV had me deceived into believing that people and the world are much better and much more noble than they really are. Was I in for a long series of rude awakenings. Which still happen daily.

[tubeie07]

At the 40-52 second mark the music is Bacharach's 'Nikki' (slightly sped-up) from his 1971 self titled album: in case anyone is searching for that piece of music...

[zekepig]

Wasn't there a popular song "See You in September" released a couple of years earlier? If so, couldn't ABC have used that as its fall season theme? It would have made a great ratings booster.

[sexymama1966]

see you in september by the happenings..1966

[Wellveryinteresting]

It was probably copyrighted. I notice that a lot of popular music of the 1960's couldn't yet be used in promos for various things as late as the mid-1970's, and I don't think the TV-networks had the expense accounts yet to buy the copyrights of the songs (to songs they didn't already own) as late as 1975.

[murielsartre]

I love watching this old stuff, although it's sort of strange to look at from the standpoint of time passing and seeing what's changed in society and what hasn't.

It's not as weird as watching Roundhay Garden Scene or Dickson's films, though. Those little clips are just plain eerie.

[shyphyre]

These spots really do bring up memories.

I am a 1964 arrival, who is barely old enough to remember what was on the tube in the late 60's

I remember that both Room 222 and the Brady Bunch premiered in the 69/70 season on ABC. Also the Johnny Cash show was very popular. I recall him doing promos a year later when the Partride Family first aired.

[case139]

This is excellent! I'm getting to see stuff I missed when I was just 3. Keep these clips coming!

[JIMMASTERSTV]

Really cool to see these legendary and vintage promos. These types of gems are one of my favorite reasons why I enjoy You Tube. Hope these goodies remain untouched right here. JimMastersTV

[USAGiant]

Hard to believe that before 1970, ABC was a considered a 'laughing stock' as was Fox was prior to the mid-1990's when they got NFL and baseball coverage.

As someone born in 1972, this is first time i seen this. It was smart by ABC to attract shows for the 'baby boomer' generation something NBC & CBS did not do till the early 70's. And thus, ABC became the '3rd American Network.'

[patmix]

haaaaa the beatles and jagger between 3:17 & 3:23

awsomme footage

[DA90027]

Gary Owens didn't have any exclusive deal with Rowan & Martin's Laugh in, he was a freelance announcer and could all the promos he wanted. Dick Sargent was a late replacement which is why they used the York footage. I had forgetten the music to the movie of the week, those were great TV Movies.

[strivingx67]

I was born in 67.. What the hell was "the new people" about?? Looks weird.

[jupitr2]

Similar to 'Lost', 'The New People' was about 40 college students who, on their way home from a cultural exchange trip to SE Asia, crashed on a deserted island. The island was previously used by the Atomic Energy Commission as a test site, and so was complete with buildings, cars and supplies. The only surviving adult, died at the end of the pilot episode, leaving the "new people" alone to create their own world, sans authority figures. Written by Rod Serling of 'The Twilight Zone' fame.

[debfan74]

this is neat to see...i wasn't born until 74 and this is way too cool

[jupitr2]

This is some of the best stuff on Youtube. To think that lost treasures such as this can be seen and heard again after all these years is rather amazing to me. The ABC promos were always top notch with catchy tunes and wizardly graphics. This one takes me right back the 1969 to a time when life was simple, affordable and just plain cool. Love this! Thnx for the post!

[fromthesidelines]

The "BEWITCHED" promo was probably a mid-season one {'68-'69}, because scenes from the beginning of the fifth season were shown..."MUSIC SCENE", "THE NEW PEOPLE" (two 45 minute shows), "HAROLD ROBBINS' 'THE SURVIVORS'" and "LOVE, AMERICAN SYTLE" made up the Monday night lineup in the fall of '69 [Dick Tufeld announcing].

[fromthesidelines]

These were one minute spots seen in the late summer of '69, just before the 1969-'70 season premiered. The "JOHNNY CASH" promo WAS seen during that period- "A swingin' new way to spend the summer!", said Ernie Anderson- Cash's series premiered on ABC that very summer, and was held over for the fall.

[DCMemories]

Wait a minute... That's Gary Owens doing the voice over for Bewitched... and by 1969, Owens was the announcer for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In on NBC. My guess: The Bewitched promo is actually OLDER than 1969, and does NOT belong among these other promos, judging by the use of both Dick Sargent and Gary Owens.

[DCMemories]

Oops... I meant to agree with "arfies". That's Dick YORK appearing in the Bewitched promo when Dick SARGENT (as the second Darren) should appear in promos for the new season beginning September 1969. This promo simply doesn't belong with the "Meet Us In September" promos, nor does the Johnny Cash summer promo, voiced by Ernie Anderson.

[drummerbraves]

Guess on the Bewitched promos that they didn't have time for any promo with Dick Sargent because they probably didn't have any episodes at that time featuring him as the new Darrin, the first episode of which was where Tabitha magically brought Jack from Jack In The Beanstalk to her house because she overheard Samantha and Darrin talking about the new baby on the way and climbed the beanstalk premiring in September 1969.

[Wellveryinteresting]

Yeah, but you would have thought that they had already filmed the first episode with Sargeant by the summer of 1969 to air in September? (And perhaps a couple of other episodes for the 6th season). Or was it not that way yet in the late 1960's to film in advance for the fall season?

[DA90027]

The singers sound just like the singer on the Nanny & The Professor intro! Summer of 69 was fun fo rme as a kid, except when Sharon Tate was murdered, that kind of ruined it!

[newstruck]

They are the singers from Nanny and the Professor -- It's the Addrissi Brothers. Incredible Harry Marks graphics. And with NO computers, people!

[arfies]

Whoa! Despite it being 1969, that looks kinda like Scanimation! (Also, side note: It's interesting that for the "Bewitched" segment, Dick York-as-Darrin footage was used rather than Dick Sargent, who replaced him before this season).

[TServo2049]

That was some of the pioneering slit-scan effects that Harry Marks introduced at ABC in the late 60s, inspired by Douglas Trumbull's effects for the "stargate" sequence in "2001: A Space Odyssey."

[Wellveryinteresting]

I was about to write the same thing about "Bewitched". I wonder why in the summer promos for ABC in 1969 they didn't have any Dick Sargeant scenes ready to air? I'm starting to wonder if the shows' production staff were still expecting York to come back for the 6th season as late as the summer of 1969? Surely they must have already known about York's back problems?

[austinfeet]

love this.. thanks for posting !