CBS Presents This Program In Color

[OpenSkyEntertainment]

I remember first seeing this introduction on the American Hit TV Show "Hogan's Heroes".

[FireRiderD22]

From Television Escapes The Blue Mountain & Mr. P-Head's Split Escapes From Mr. P-Head

[murielsartre]

The 2090s: Implanted In Your Occipital Lobe! (Where available)

[rascal211]

Weak compared to the NBC peacock

[NitroProxio]

The 2010s: In Awful 3D! (Where available)

[PJSkins26]

@NitroProxio 3D TV and 3D Movies are a total joke

[corrupt200]

@NitroProxio 2020s in 4D (where available)

[dknights411]

The 60s: In Color! (Where available)

The 80s: In Stereo! (Where available)

The 2000s: In HD! (Where available)

[ebf1957]

@dknights411

Don't forget 3D.

[DreamNigth1994]

@dknights411 The 2011s: In 3D! (Where available)

[edsigala]

"AAAAHHHHH! IT'S IN COLOR! AAAAAHHHHHH!" That was my reaction when I saw this, when I was -26 yrs. old.

[darrengauthier]

This has been remastered in HD. It aired on Universal HD - an NBC property - before the first Hogan's Heroes. My mouth hit the floor when it came on, it looked incredible!

[SciFiGuy1x]

Actually, this was from the 1966-67 season -- the first season that CBS was all color. If you skeptical, go check the first season of "Lost in Space," which debuted in 1965 and was in black-and-white. I actually remember this animation -- I was 9 years old! As a toy for myself, I made something using a shoebox and strips of cardboard that I slid up and down to duplicate the effects of this animation!

[wmbrown6]

@SciFiGuy1x - Programs aired on CBS in color in 1965-66 included "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Petticoat Junction," "Green Acres," "The Andy Griffith Show," "Hogan's Heroes" (except for the pilot), "My Favorite Martian," "The Ed Sullivan Show," "The Danny Kaye Show," "The Red Skelton Hour," and (mostly) "The CBS Thursday Night Movies." So this bumper DID debut in '65, when roughly half the programs on the CBS schedule were in color. (For the record, the first "Wild Wild West" season was also B&W.)

[SciFiGuy1x]

@wmbrown6 - Oops, you are right. You are quite correct. I was confused (perhaps sleepy) when I wrote that. But you are correct. Please accept my apologies. 1966-67 season was the first season that ALL shows were in color

[phyzzique]

@wmbrown6 Don't forget the last three episodes of Perry Mason on CBS were in color

[wmbrown6]

Actually, only one "Perry Mason" episode was in color: "The Case of the Twice-Told Twist." All other "Masons," including the series finale ("The Case of the Final Fade-Out") were in B&W.

[SenorZorrozzz]

@wmbrown6 You are so right. But many people just don't know that CBS experimented with color like that.

[mrceleb2006]

Hal Simms is the voiceover heard here, used during the 1965-1966 TV season, which was the first time all CBS primetime shows were in colour.

[jed6271]

This intro was a way of life if you grew up in the USA in the Sixties! I love the echo on this version.

[2nicks]

I was 10 years old when they started airing the next in color logo!

[fromthesidelines]

This "color bumper" was used at the start of virtually every CBS series, on a regular basis, from 1965 through 1970, then irregularly until 1972.

[DanIN72]

they should do this now for HD lol

[vfreeck]

I believe they briefly revived these old logos in the late 90s for some anniversary...

[TriforceSD]

They did when they did a special of all the reruns for "Children Do the Dardest Things. I remember them doing this at the beginning of one of the shows! Really neat...i love vintage things like this...

[Navyvet04]

Anybody here feeling a bit old watching these?

[emily32323]

I Think Its from 1972 through 1986

[thirtymphs]

1965 to 1972.

[90stvland]

They showed this before Kids Say The Darndest Things(with Bill Cosby).

[gameshowguy2000]

This logo appeared occasionally on TPIR.

[GarfieldnPyramid]

It did?

[gameshowguy2000]

Yeah, in the late 90's.

[GarfieldnPyramid]

I nerver knew that. thanks

[kargaroc386]

\/|/\CO/\/\ presents this program in color...

[fromthesidelines]

This was the "standard" bumper used during the 1965-'66 season- the first when CBS finally presented about half of its prime-time schedule in color, the result of William Paley {"Mr. CBS"} finally giving in to his executives' suggestion to "go to color" after a bitter rivalry with RCA/NBC's David Sarnoff over color programming...

[wmbrown6]

Of course, it didn't hurt that Philips came out with the Norelco PC-60 camera which used Plumbicon tubes, not to mention Ampex's first high-band quadruplex VTR, the VR-2000. Norelco's PC-60 in particular shattered RCA's dominance of the color TV camera market.

[wmbrown6]

P.S. Then there was the General Electric PE-24 color film chain camera (and its successor from 1966, the PE-240), which gave CBS yet another excuse to bypass RCA and its TK-27's. (Many have opined that the PE-24 and PE-240 provided a better picture for film and slides than did the TK-27.)

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

This CBS color logo was used at the very beginning of "Mighty Mouse Playhouse" which was during the 1965-66 season where they switched over to color, because it was originally in black in white from 1955 until 1965, for the final season, "Mighty Mouse Playhouse" was in color for about a year until 1966 when it was replaced by a short-lived "Mighty Mouse and the Mighty Heroes" from the 1966-67 season. That show lasted one year since it was cancelled in 1967.

[dnm728]

You can hear an echo after the announcer says "CBS..."

[wmbrown6]

Must've been the audio processing on whatever show used this particular example at the start. I've seen instances where this same V/O of Mr. Simms' had no echo whatsoever.

[wmbrown6]

P.S. The echo may well have been courtesy of the future Ed Sullivan Theatre where "The Ed Sullivan Show" was based for most of its 23-year run.

[wmbrown6]

This was the 1965-66 version with Hal Simms V/O'ing the bumper. It wasn't until the following season that Bob Hite (later the voice of the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite") assumed the V/O duties of this bumper. The animation and Eric Siday's music, however, didn't change.