I also remember watching this very same broadcast with my cousin Frank in the living room of my uncles very cold living room on a warm Miami night. That cold A/C sensation along with such a great movie , sitting back into that lazy-boy.... and the excitement and eagerness for the upcoming feature. What a memory! I remember the feeling till this day and it doesn't seem to get much better then that for an evening of television then and now.
I remember watching this very broadcast of Planet of the Apes in 1976. I even took my tape recorder and made an audiotape of this intro, so this is doubly cool for me.
Awsome. This was the first time I saw POTA. A pivotal moment which started me on my career path. I'd love to use this clip in a short I'm doing, anychance you would share the file eyeontv??
Awesome. This was the first time I saw POTA. A pivotal moment which started me on a career path. I'd love to use this clip in a short I'm working on. Any chance you could share the file eyeontv??
Was this movie opener infamous? Did it used 2 scare children (like when the spinning reel is coming @ U). like, did many children actually think that the reels would pop off the screen & get them? (It does not scare me, but I was just wondering, that is all).
How can the movie, Planet of the Apes, was "one of the screen's most terrified dramas" if it receive a G rating by Motion Picture Association of America?
@obsgia kina funny cuz TBS use to air a pg type scary movie on Saturday mornings in the late 80's called SUPER SCARY SATURDAY and the PLANET OF THE APE movies were always on.
Seeing and watching this, I am instantly transported back to 1976 when I was 20 years old and tv was bringing provacative movies like "Planet of the Apes" to my fervid imagination, stimulating a life-long interest in science and sci fi.
These were the days when we had great sitcoms, nighttime dramas and there were only 10 minutes of commercials and promos per hour...by law. If YOU are tired of infomercials disguised as entertainment, sleazy reality shows worth $1.98 in today's money, then "I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!' "
The greatest decade ever. Best clothes, best music, girls with long straight hair, best TV, best cars 1970 'Cuda, Superbird, Challenger, Nova SS, Boss 429, man talk about American Muscle at it finest 1970 was the year!!!
I remember watching this movie at this time in 1976. I was 11 years old and Planet of the Ape became my favorate movie at that time. I have the movies on DVD and love them still.
I also actually saw this when it originally aired!!
What an awesome blast from my past!!
Thank you for posting this!
I was living with my grandmother in Cincinnati,Ohio and always watched The CBS Late movie on WCPO Channel 9 or sometimes I would flip to WHIO Channel 7 in Dayton,Ohio which you can pick up in Cincy!!!! Thanks Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Considering what has happened to Commercial Television these days, with the Infestation of "Reality" Shows and 20-plus minutes of Commercials per hour, the one Phraise of Mr. heston (May he rest in peace) I can think of is:
@Borntocoast And I won't find commercials made since 2000 ever nostalgic; it seems like TV technology has pretty much maximized to the point where almost every commercials feels like "the future is here". Even in 2040 when I'm old I still won't enjoy most stuff made since 2000! RIP Classic TV, Late 1940s-1999
@Borntocoast Right on my friend! Corporate greed has hijacked these once great TV networks and now we're stuck with overblown reality/cop shows and infomercials, bleh. I sorely miss these times.
@cheapcape Actually, the corporate hijacking was going on in the 1970s. The film "Network" was released in 1976, and I doubt very seriously that Paddy Chayefsky set out to write a fantasy. That movie is chilling. Networks were greedy back then; they just hid it better.
@RJSchex During 1965-66, Did The CBS Thursday Night Movies have that same peculiar bulbous composition?, As was done from 1966-71?. Actually the theme was different in 1966-71, As opposed to 1971-78?. The latter one was more updated. The one from 1966-71 was actually scarier than the 1971-78 theme. Like as if it were some musical composition for "A City On Fire".
Can anyone out there help me? I have been looking for some time for a way to purchase or view a movie that I saw in only one place, on this CBS Friday Night at the Movies when I was a teenager and have never seen or even heard of again. It was supposed to be the pilot for a TV series that never got off the ground. The name of it was "Cutter's Trail" and it was about a Marshall who goes into Mexico after outlaws and is helped by a young boy and his mother. Anybody know how I can find it?!!
Rolland Smith was with CBS until 1988 -- mostly at Channel 2, but his last assignment was on the network's short-lived "Morning Program" with Mariette Hartley. He then went on to WWOR (interrupted by a stint at NBC), from which retired in 2006.
Dave Marash was, until this past March, the lead anchor for al-Jazeera's English service. He was also a correspondent for ABC's Nightline and was the first host of "Baseball Tonight" on ESPN. During the '80s, he worked at NBC O&Os, WNBC and WRC.
Mr. Smith's run at WCBS-TV itself ended around August of 1986. After that, Carol Martin became Jim Jensen's co-anchor at 6, and at 11 Michele Marsh was paired with Mike Schneider. As for Mr. Marash's WNBC stint, I remember that well.
I would love to see the original, opening sequences for the "CBS Thursday and Friday Night Movie[s]," from the 1960's, if anyone out there has clips of either or both of them?
It was written by Morton Stevens (of "Hawaii Five-O" theme and "CBS Special Presentation" bumper music fame); it had a few titles, including the "CBS Movies Theme," and there was a vocal version (lyrics by Ervin Drake), called "So Young, So Old." There were at least four different recordings over the years.
I remember the first & only time Herman's Hermits first film, "Hold On!" (sort of their "Help!," directed by Arthur Lubin, who also created the "Francis The Talking Mule" films for Universal & the TV series "Mister ED") was broadcast, on the "CBS Friday Night Movie," but was preempted in Boston by a Red Sox game, then carried by our local CBS affiliate WHDH, the original Channel 5, in those days.
I can't imagine why I wouldn't have just switched to Providence's CBS affiliate, WPRI (Channel 12), except either they too were airing the Sox game or else the reception was bad that night with our roof antenna?
Anyway, "Hold On!" was one of those rare films never released on VHS or DVD, but I was finally able to record it on a Turner Classic Movies cablecast about five years ago--and you may be damn sure at the SP speed of my VCR!
This is a new version of the theme music used for the "CBS Thursday" & "Friday Night Movie[s]," also a definite new visual. It would be nice if someone could track down and upload a clip of the original version (either or both Thursday & Friday).
Of course, NBC had its spectacular "NBC Saturday Night At The Movies," the first network broadcast which aired the most recent films after their theatrical releases--and probably a few years later at that point, so unlike the few months' wait or simultaneous-to-DVD releases of films today.
NBC also aired a "Monday Night At The Movies" shortly thereafter, and other nights as I recall, after the success of Saturday night broadcasts.
The NBC movie voices were almost always from Burbank (mainly Don Stanley, but also Donald Rickles and Peggy Taylor), unlike the New York-based V/O's on the CBS (Allan Berns here, and Norm Stevens on the "Late Movie") and ABC (Joel Crager) movie shows.
As to the WCBS I.D./promo for Smith & Marash, I'm wondering if the announcer could possibly be Bill Martin. (Who, last heard from, was a volunteer for the Xavier Society for the Blind.) He and John Schaeffer are the two CBS V/O's whose voices I'm not too sure about at this time. I've pretty much sorted out everyone else.
go to my "favorites" under my profile, you will see it on the second page, I have 40 vids there, I believe your talking about the 3 giant rotating CBS letters ?
I remember very well seeing this back in'76 when I was 12 at my friend's house. It was the first time I ever seen "Planet Of The Apes". This openening did run from the mid to late '70's What A classic!!
This was great. I used to watch these type of movies at my granpa's from 74 to 78 on Fridays and Saturdays. They would always play two of my favorite movies: 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' and 'Duel.'
I remember it. It was the flat kind that you put over the stove. The microwave popcorn in the bag just doesn't have the same effect as a good ole' jiffy pop popcorn.
Hi. Seemed to definitely last throughout my high school years (76-80). Eventually became 2 unrelated TV series episodes (like Hart To Hart) stretched into absurd lengths. We kids counted on 13 ads each break so we could get across the street to buy a snack before the show continued.
We had a bizarre habit when we were younger, of recording television themes on audio tape. I recall recording this intro for this film in the Summer of '76 (loved repeating that line: "You cut up his BRAIN, YOU BLOODY BABOON!") and also later for "Cage Without a Key" with Susan Dey (e.g. the tough chick: "This is a prison, Baby...you GOTTA choose!").
My brothers and I also recorded audio cassette tapes of these themes/openings and even the closings on the big ABC movie theme (it had a special closing sequence), the graphics that had streaking words passing overhead resulting in a marquee of neon and lighted words. We also recorded Gilligan, Munsters, and Lucy episodes and listened to then when bored.
We did the same thing! We weren't exactly "poor" when I was growing up, but we were middle class. Depending upon what it was that we watched, we developed language and idioms. I remember watching an episode of "The Rifleman" and one of the characters uttered the observation attributed to Archimedes: "Give me a pulley and I shall move the world." Today, of course, young people have computers, but in the 70s, we only had TV and the library.
We were middle class regular Americana types too. We went to a high school that had a fantastic set of buildings and a full-fledged campus, but had lousy teachers. Our mom was impressed with our growing technical vocabulary. But then she realized we were learning everything from Battlestar Galactica (1978-79) instead of school.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't "The CBS ______ Night Movies'" origination from New York, unlike the West Coast emanation of ABC's and NBC's movie shows?
I wishhh this one was still used! Yet one more vestage of "The 70's" that I miss dearly.. Ahh, those were the days.. when Wonder bread was still good for you, directors were creating MOST of the greatest movies ever made! ~THANK you!:)
In the Fall of 1973 I was seven years old and in the second grade. CBS showed the first four "Apes" movies on this Friday Night Movies program. I don't think they were on successive weeks, but I remember them being on during the course of that TV season, and that we watched them all. I always associated this open with those movies, and always loved that theme.
@clubned yes!! I remember those friday evenings-long anticipated those nights all week..they were on consecutively all four on four friday nights that season-truly was the golden age of network television, the
weekly tv guide was my boyhood 'bible' if you will(I was a loner!), and I can still remember sitting in front of
our big sony tv and literally crying at the end of 'beneath..' in my bed later on...golden, thank you for reminding me. The state of network television today is so pathetic!
wow... i luv this...what memories...and check out the movie after the bumper!!...you bloody baboons!....ha ...classic. I wish I had all the bumpers from movies I grew up with. there is one from NJ WWOR (secacus) Channel 9. I can hear some of the theme in my head but have not seen it yet on you tube. I'd pay alot to hear that 1 minute of music. alas.. :(
The opening clip from "The CBS Friday Night Movies" back in 1976 was something special to see clearly. I rated the particular audio and video clips a Fat 6 in my personal dossier. Thanks A Million!! The following movie was "Planet Of The Apes" on that night in 1976 from WCBS Television -- Channel 2 -- in New York City.
It would also seem the other New York network O&O's (WABC and WNBC as well as WCBS) sound quality as of 1976 was better than not only most affiliates', but also network O&O's in many of the other cities, in terms of the network feed.
Unfortunately when I was a kid on Long Island, WCBS would have the worst reception of any of the channels, especially during the summer months when it was hot. Channels from outside NY would sometimes bleed over and that would be that for any CBS viewing for that night.
When someone would use a CB on our block, the channel that would be disrupted? You guessed right.
Prior to 1978, most stations got their network audio through phone lines. The tapes I have from owned-and-operated stations earlier than that have better audio, so they must have had a more direct connection.
I also remember watching this very same broadcast with my cousin Frank in the living room of my uncles very cold living room on a warm Miami night. That cold A/C sensation along with such a great movie , sitting back into that lazy-boy.... and the excitement and eagerness for the upcoming feature. What a memory! I remember the feeling till this day and it doesn't seem to get much better then that for an evening of television then and now.
lawtinker 1 week ago
One of my favorite bumpers. Hummm,.for me this came out as I was between 8th and 9th grade. Great memory thanks so much.
desertdispatch 2 months ago
You manaic you cut it off darn you darn you all to cable
Jdo4031 7 months ago
I remember watching this very broadcast of Planet of the Apes in 1976. I even took my tape recorder and made an audiotape of this intro, so this is doubly cool for me.
mk41794 8 months ago
The WCBS ID / promo V/O preceding the "CBS Friday Night Movies" open, was by Bill Martin.
wmbrown6 8 months ago
Awsome. This was the first time I saw POTA. A pivotal moment which started me on my career path. I'd love to use this clip in a short I'm doing, anychance you would share the file eyeontv??
DBoysen1 8 months ago
Awesome. This was the first time I saw POTA. A pivotal moment which started me on a career path. I'd love to use this clip in a short I'm working on. Any chance you could share the file eyeontv??
DBoysen1 8 months ago
Was this movie opener infamous? Did it used 2 scare children (like when the spinning reel is coming @ U). like, did many children actually think that the reels would pop off the screen & get them? (It does not scare me, but I was just wondering, that is all).
25phillycheesesteak 9 months ago
How can the movie, Planet of the Apes, was "one of the screen's most terrified dramas" if it receive a G rating by Motion Picture Association of America?
obsgia 11 months ago
@obsgia talk about a letdown. lol
tulllguy 11 months ago
@obsgia kina funny cuz TBS use to air a pg type scary movie on Saturday mornings in the late 80's called SUPER SCARY SATURDAY and the PLANET OF THE APE movies were always on.
msmithstud 10 months ago
Seeing and watching this, I am instantly transported back to 1976 when I was 20 years old and tv was bringing provacative movies like "Planet of the Apes" to my fervid imagination, stimulating a life-long interest in science and sci fi.
TV today literally SUCKS!
zooeyhall 11 months ago
@zooeyhall 100% agreed.
cheapcape 11 months ago
Planet of the Apes...CLASSIC!!!....This is when television was GOOD....Today it's a bunch of HORSESHIT!!!
bjroberts65 1 year ago 2
@bjroberts65 Agreed, For the most parts.......
Tmetrvlr 1 year ago
I saw this the night if first aired. Get your stinking paws off of me you damn dirty ape!
patrick9648 1 year ago
These were the days when we had great sitcoms, nighttime dramas and there were only 10 minutes of commercials and promos per hour...by law. If YOU are tired of infomercials disguised as entertainment, sleazy reality shows worth $1.98 in today's money, then "I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!' "
Xs120 1 year ago 3
I was 8yrs old...remember this like yesterday..it will NEVER be like this again. i loved the 70's. my childhood!
elwin38 1 year ago 2
The 70's.
The greatest decade ever. Best clothes, best music, girls with long straight hair, best TV, best cars 1970 'Cuda, Superbird, Challenger, Nova SS, Boss 429, man talk about American Muscle at it finest 1970 was the year!!!
SpaceAceTX 1 year ago
Aaaah, I'm 14 again! Thanks for the slingshot back to the past.
UpnDowney 1 year ago
@UpnDowney i remember this like yesterday..i was 8yrs old:)
elwin38 1 year ago
It's Planet of the Apes. This stupid movie is constantly on AMC.
Sheri451 1 year ago
"A planet where APES evolved from MEN?!!"
mdumas43073 1 year ago
This is when you could get away with calling Apes "Bloody Baboons" now it would be offensive to call Apes Baboons, PETA would be all over you!
JENDALL714 1 year ago
I remember watching this movie at this time in 1976. I was 11 years old and Planet of the Ape became my favorate movie at that time. I have the movies on DVD and love them still.
davidcl40 1 year ago
it was great to see that opening again. I remember crowding around the tv to see the television premier of this movie. Thanx much for posting!
cultureshock29 2 years ago
you did it YOU CUT UP HIS BRAIN YOU BLOODY BABOON!!!
fucking hell LOL!!!
DogbiteOW 2 years ago 3
,,Take your stinking paws off me you DAMN DIRTY APE !
PupuTheClown 2 years ago 2
I also actually saw this when it originally aired!!
What an awesome blast from my past!!
Thank you for posting this!
I was living with my grandmother in Cincinnati,Ohio and always watched The CBS Late movie on WCPO Channel 9 or sometimes I would flip to WHIO Channel 7 in Dayton,Ohio which you can pick up in Cincy!!!! Thanks Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!
diapertom2001 2 years ago 2
Wasn't Dave Marash at Channel 4 in DC at one time?
JaxAunt 2 years ago
Yes he was a anchor at WRC in the mid 80s.
eyeontv 2 years ago
Also anchored and/or reported at our Channel 4 (WNBC in New York) during this same decade.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
@eyeontv Besides working at WCBS Dave Marash also worked for ABC news 20/20 .I believed he passed on years ago R.I.P.
66KIMBLE 1 year ago
scifi classic, saw planet of the apes when i was 14 years old on amc in 1998!
only257 2 years ago
Considering what has happened to Commercial Television these days, with the Infestation of "Reality" Shows and 20-plus minutes of Commercials per hour, the one Phraise of Mr. heston (May he rest in peace) I can think of is:
DAMN YOU!, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!
Borntocoast 2 years ago 18
@Borntocoast And I won't find commercials made since 2000 ever nostalgic; it seems like TV technology has pretty much maximized to the point where almost every commercials feels like "the future is here". Even in 2040 when I'm old I still won't enjoy most stuff made since 2000! RIP Classic TV, Late 1940s-1999
pannoni1 1 year ago
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cheapcape 11 months ago
@Borntocoast Right on my friend! Corporate greed has hijacked these once great TV networks and now we're stuck with overblown reality/cop shows and infomercials, bleh. I sorely miss these times.
cheapcape 11 months ago
@cheapcape Actually, the corporate hijacking was going on in the 1970s. The film "Network" was released in 1976, and I doubt very seriously that Paddy Chayefsky set out to write a fantasy. That movie is chilling. Networks were greedy back then; they just hid it better.
mk41794 8 months ago
You did it! You cut out his brain, you bloody baboon!
SomeCharacters 2 years ago 3
Awesome, thanks. Now if you could only send me back to that time:-)
kevinv1964 2 years ago 25
@kevinv1964 Good One!!! ")
dadadruma 8 months ago
I saw this very clip back in 1976!
ALittleBitPregnant 2 years ago 5
ugh planet of the apes freaked me out as a kid
DanIN72 2 years ago
OMG i used to be scared out of my five year-old mind when this them music came on because it seemed the Friday night movies were always scary.
Actorforhire 2 years ago 2
Friday was the only time I was able to watch the CBS Friday Night Movie and the CBS Late Night Movie when I was little.
obsgia 2 years ago 3
good music！
momoiunder17 2 years ago 3
The theme was composed by Mort Stevens.
kdog122 3 years ago 3
@kdog122 No. I'm certain that the late great Jerry Goldsmith composed the 1968 POTA score!!!!
hobokenplayboy 1 year ago
Now I'm hoping someone can find the two title graphics used before this one.
The first (1965-71) featured the words "CBS-Thursday-Night-Movies" appearing on-screen one at a time, in various colors and textures.
The second (1971-74) had the title emerging from rainbow-colored stripes; the title was in the Pallisade font—the same font used by CBS Late Movie.
Both used the same theme music, except for the first (65-66) season.
RJSchex 3 years ago
@RJSchex During 1965-66, Did The CBS Thursday Night Movies have that same peculiar bulbous composition?, As was done from 1966-71?. Actually the theme was different in 1966-71, As opposed to 1971-78?. The latter one was more updated. The one from 1966-71 was actually scarier than the 1971-78 theme. Like as if it were some musical composition for "A City On Fire".
Tmetrvlr 1 year ago
Can anyone out there help me? I have been looking for some time for a way to purchase or view a movie that I saw in only one place, on this CBS Friday Night at the Movies when I was a teenager and have never seen or even heard of again. It was supposed to be the pilot for a TV series that never got off the ground. The name of it was "Cutter's Trail" and it was about a Marshall who goes into Mexico after outlaws and is helped by a young boy and his mother. Anybody know how I can find it?!!
biggsenator 3 years ago
Man, this brings back sweeeeeet memories! ^__^
LuvvyDuck 3 years ago
Does anybody know what ever became of the "Smith/Merrish" team?
OreckBoy1 3 years ago
Rolland Smith was with CBS until 1988 -- mostly at Channel 2, but his last assignment was on the network's short-lived "Morning Program" with Mariette Hartley. He then went on to WWOR (interrupted by a stint at NBC), from which retired in 2006.
Dave Marash was, until this past March, the lead anchor for al-Jazeera's English service. He was also a correspondent for ABC's Nightline and was the first host of "Baseball Tonight" on ESPN. During the '80s, he worked at NBC O&Os, WNBC and WRC.
tkaye2 3 years ago
Mr. Smith's run at WCBS-TV itself ended around August of 1986. After that, Carol Martin became Jim Jensen's co-anchor at 6, and at 11 Michele Marsh was paired with Mike Schneider. As for Mr. Marash's WNBC stint, I remember that well.
wmbrown6 3 years ago
Yes later, "Smith/Merrish" became "Jazzy Jeff" and the "Fresh Prince."
opossumland5 3 years ago
I remember PRAYING TO UNEARTHLY GODS that the CBS movie would be Planet of the Apes- it happened three times...
Fun0rama 3 years ago 2
I would love to see the original, opening sequences for the "CBS Thursday and Friday Night Movie[s]," from the 1960's, if anyone out there has clips of either or both of them?
gymnastix 3 years ago 2
Actually, though, the music theme here is the same melody as that for the opening sequence used in the '60's, just a modified version.
Does anyone know the music theme's title? Was it from a classical piece or written specially for this CBS film series?
gymnastix 3 years ago
It was written by Morton Stevens (of "Hawaii Five-O" theme and "CBS Special Presentation" bumper music fame); it had a few titles, including the "CBS Movies Theme," and there was a vocal version (lyrics by Ervin Drake), called "So Young, So Old." There were at least four different recordings over the years.
wmbrown6 3 years ago 2
The first season (1965-66) had as its theme an instrumental version of the Frank Sinatra song "Strangers In The Night".
RJSchex 3 years ago
I remember the first & only time Herman's Hermits first film, "Hold On!" (sort of their "Help!," directed by Arthur Lubin, who also created the "Francis The Talking Mule" films for Universal & the TV series "Mister ED") was broadcast, on the "CBS Friday Night Movie," but was preempted in Boston by a Red Sox game, then carried by our local CBS affiliate WHDH, the original Channel 5, in those days.
gymnastix 3 years ago
I can't imagine why I wouldn't have just switched to Providence's CBS affiliate, WPRI (Channel 12), except either they too were airing the Sox game or else the reception was bad that night with our roof antenna?
Anyway, "Hold On!" was one of those rare films never released on VHS or DVD, but I was finally able to record it on a Turner Classic Movies cablecast about five years ago--and you may be damn sure at the SP speed of my VCR!
gymnastix 3 years ago
This is a new version of the theme music used for the "CBS Thursday" & "Friday Night Movie[s]," also a definite new visual. It would be nice if someone could track down and upload a clip of the original version (either or both Thursday & Friday).
gymnastix 3 years ago
Of course, NBC had its spectacular "NBC Saturday Night At The Movies," the first network broadcast which aired the most recent films after their theatrical releases--and probably a few years later at that point, so unlike the few months' wait or simultaneous-to-DVD releases of films today.
NBC also aired a "Monday Night At The Movies" shortly thereafter, and other nights as I recall, after the success of Saturday night broadcasts.
gymnastix 3 years ago
The NBC movie voices were almost always from Burbank (mainly Don Stanley, but also Donald Rickles and Peggy Taylor), unlike the New York-based V/O's on the CBS (Allan Berns here, and Norm Stevens on the "Late Movie") and ABC (Joel Crager) movie shows.
wmbrown6 3 years ago
It's like my parents are letting me stay up late again. Back when being up past 9 seemed like a big deal.
doubleohagent 3 years ago 6
I have to assume this was the last prime-time showing of "Planet of the Apes," since it was on WABC's "4:30 Movie" the following year.
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago 2
As to the WCBS I.D./promo for Smith & Marash, I'm wondering if the announcer could possibly be Bill Martin. (Who, last heard from, was a volunteer for the Xavier Society for the Blind.) He and John Schaeffer are the two CBS V/O's whose voices I'm not too sure about at this time. I've pretty much sorted out everyone else.
wmbrown6 3 years ago
Anybody happen to know how they made this? And how much it costed?
tsntana 3 years ago
I was 12 at this time too. I remember that theme well, and the great movies put on after it.
Hey, does anybody have the Commercial Break theme to post?
abcstardust 4 years ago 2
Re: "Hey, does anybody have the Commercial Break theme to post?"
It's the first Related Video. "CBS Movie Bumper".
tsntana 3 years ago
Thank you. I must've over-looked it.
abcstardust 3 years ago
go to my "favorites" under my profile, you will see it on the second page, I have 40 vids there, I believe your talking about the 3 giant rotating CBS letters ?
CreativeCritisizm 3 years ago 2
I remember very well seeing this back in'76 when I was 12 at my friend's house. It was the first time I ever seen "Planet Of The Apes". This openening did run from the mid to late '70's What A classic!!
peytonplc10 4 years ago 2
This was great. I used to watch these type of movies at my granpa's from 74 to 78 on Fridays and Saturdays. They would always play two of my favorite movies: 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' and 'Duel.'
cvjucla3 4 years ago
Did you eat popcorn from one of those jiffy pop poppers ?,,lol
CreativeCritisizm 4 years ago
No, did you?
cvjucla3 3 years ago
I did plenty of times,, it was so good.
CreativeCritisizm 3 years ago
I remember it. It was the flat kind that you put over the stove. The microwave popcorn in the bag just doesn't have the same effect as a good ole' jiffy pop popcorn.
cvjucla3 3 years ago 2
I remember this actual broadcast.
Being only 5, I was allowed to stay up late to watch it.
My first viewing of planet of the apes.
radarengineer 4 years ago 2
Great theme song!
raiders1967 4 years ago 2
This theme music is the same as CBS used for the long-enduring "CBS Late Movie"!
ruarc2077 4 years ago
Re: "This theme music is the same as CBS used for the long-enduring "CBS Late Movie"!"
How long was that theme used for The CBS Late Movie? Had to have been around at least until 78 or 79 if I remember it.
When I see stuff like this now, man...talk about a time warp.
tsntana 4 years ago
Hi. Seemed to definitely last throughout my high school years (76-80). Eventually became 2 unrelated TV series episodes (like Hart To Hart) stretched into absurd lengths. We kids counted on 13 ads each break so we could get across the street to buy a snack before the show continued.
ruarc2077 4 years ago 2
this was used I think from 74-78
CreativeCritisizm 4 years ago
I was front and center when this aired in 1976. I had no idea then that I shared the same genes with you guys!
dsslave2 4 years ago 3
Wow that really brings back some memories!!!
slagit 4 years ago
Same here, and to think I was only 3 years old.
tennille1998 4 years ago
I wonder if Elvis enjoyed this movie.
CreativeCritisizm 4 years ago
Now if someone can find the Channel 2 Showcase which WCBS featured prominently after Sports Update on Sundays at Midnight
TalkingOrangutan 4 years ago
another shout out of thanks to the poster--I probably even watched that particular movie that night...seeing POTA for the first time!
artfrankmiami 4 years ago
We had a bizarre habit when we were younger, of recording television themes on audio tape. I recall recording this intro for this film in the Summer of '76 (loved repeating that line: "You cut up his BRAIN, YOU BLOODY BABOON!") and also later for "Cage Without a Key" with Susan Dey (e.g. the tough chick: "This is a prison, Baby...you GOTTA choose!").
33Mark221 4 years ago
So did I, wish I still had my tapes! Nice choices you picked there, too.
kennethbear 4 years ago 2
My brothers and I also recorded audio cassette tapes of these themes/openings and even the closings on the big ABC movie theme (it had a special closing sequence), the graphics that had streaking words passing overhead resulting in a marquee of neon and lighted words. We also recorded Gilligan, Munsters, and Lucy episodes and listened to then when bored.
ruarc2077 4 years ago 2
We did the same thing! We weren't exactly "poor" when I was growing up, but we were middle class. Depending upon what it was that we watched, we developed language and idioms. I remember watching an episode of "The Rifleman" and one of the characters uttered the observation attributed to Archimedes: "Give me a pulley and I shall move the world." Today, of course, young people have computers, but in the 70s, we only had TV and the library.
33Mark221 4 years ago
We were middle class regular Americana types too. We went to a high school that had a fantastic set of buildings and a full-fledged campus, but had lousy teachers. Our mom was impressed with our growing technical vocabulary. But then she realized we were learning everything from Battlestar Galactica (1978-79) instead of school.
ruarc2077 4 years ago
ahh --the memories and one of my favorite flix.
tapthat2012 4 years ago
One of the best promos ever. Loved that movie and that promo got my psyched for it as a kid!
nusandman 4 years ago
oh man.. what a flashback... :o
springloadedchicken 4 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't "The CBS ______ Night Movies'" origination from New York, unlike the West Coast emanation of ABC's and NBC's movie shows?
wmbrown6 4 years ago
OK,,, this is one of the best quality CBS videos yet !
CreativeCritisizm 4 years ago 2
I wishhh this one was still used! Yet one more vestage of "The 70's" that I miss dearly.. Ahh, those were the days.. when Wonder bread was still good for you, directors were creating MOST of the greatest movies ever made! ~THANK you!:)
tubeeorrnottubee 4 years ago
In the Fall of 1973 I was seven years old and in the second grade. CBS showed the first four "Apes" movies on this Friday Night Movies program. I don't think they were on successive weeks, but I remember them being on during the course of that TV season, and that we watched them all. I always associated this open with those movies, and always loved that theme.
clubned 4 years ago
@clubned yes!! I remember those friday evenings-long anticipated those nights all week..they were on consecutively all four on four friday nights that season-truly was the golden age of network television, the
weekly tv guide was my boyhood 'bible' if you will(I was a loner!), and I can still remember sitting in front of
our big sony tv and literally crying at the end of 'beneath..' in my bed later on...golden, thank you for reminding me. The state of network television today is so pathetic!
saylololas 9 months ago
wow... i luv this...what memories...and check out the movie after the bumper!!...you bloody baboons!....ha ...classic. I wish I had all the bumpers from movies I grew up with. there is one from NJ WWOR (secacus) Channel 9. I can hear some of the theme in my head but have not seen it yet on you tube. I'd pay alot to hear that 1 minute of music. alas.. :(
keybobrob 4 years ago
The opening clip from "The CBS Friday Night Movies" back in 1976 was something special to see clearly. I rated the particular audio and video clips a Fat 6 in my personal dossier. Thanks A Million!! The following movie was "Planet Of The Apes" on that night in 1976 from WCBS Television -- Channel 2 -- in New York City.
Green18600 4 years ago
Wow, what clear audio!
mobilene 4 years ago
I know that. wCBS has had the greatest audio and sound quality of any US TV station at the 1970s.
Jim856796 4 years ago
Now if we had something comparable from WNBC viz their "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" showings, then we're made . . . ;)
wmbrown6 4 years ago
It would also seem the other New York network O&O's (WABC and WNBC as well as WCBS) sound quality as of 1976 was better than not only most affiliates', but also network O&O's in many of the other cities, in terms of the network feed.
wmbrown6 4 years ago
Sorry, I meant picture and sond quality. There are various other affiliates that had good picture quality at that time.
Jim856796 4 years ago
Unfortunately when I was a kid on Long Island, WCBS would have the worst reception of any of the channels, especially during the summer months when it was hot. Channels from outside NY would sometimes bleed over and that would be that for any CBS viewing for that night.
When someone would use a CB on our block, the channel that would be disrupted? You guessed right.
God, I love cable! :-)
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
Prior to 1978, most stations got their network audio through phone lines. The tapes I have from owned-and-operated stations earlier than that have better audio, so they must have had a more direct connection.
eyeh8cbs 4 years ago