opening titles to 77 Sunset Strip

[CherishedTV]

Check out the review on cherishedtelevision.co.uk

[renwest51]

Wes102666 Excellent observation on your part! I guess they thought the Warner Brothers logo would hide that little transitional error.

[Wes102666]

I love how Efrem gets into a '58 Thunderbird Convertible....and drives out in a '58 Ford Fairlane 500 Convertible.

[SirReal1958]

Unfortunately, Kookie got "buried alive" in a 1964 Alfred Hitchcock tv edisode,

[eddiomann]

kookie gimme your comb....

[takemeback70s]

I was in grade school and in LOVE with Ed Byrnes . I named my dog Cookie after him.

[UNDERGROUND2000]

A world apart from today...black and white tv..no special effects...Ed cookie Byrnes ...

[lavernemariebutler]

I was in elementary school!

[keywestjj]

Absolutely love that 1958 Thunderbird! Used to watch the show just to see the car!

[bobobread]

My grandmothers favorite show.

[profcrater]

This really brings back the memories on the old black and white TV. Didn't understand the show much as we were too young but that snappy tune from Warner Bros was so cool (and you did "click, click" with your fingers!)

[206Wheels]

EFREM!!!

[206Wheels]

Edward Zimbalist Senior was a concert violinist I think...

[GONBEIFUKUDA]

いいですね。　アメリカに行って一番先に行ったところ

Sun Set Blvd. 大好きでした。　いい番組です。

[riichkay55]

Not like Tijuana at all (comment below), it's still the same Strip, restaurants/nightclubs etc. Remember there is no part of Sunset Blvd. (not even the Latino area near downtown) that has an address anywhere close to "77". The exterior used here was a restaurant that Dean Martin lent his name to, Dino's Lodge, which was in the 9300 block (approx). The whole Strip is in the 9000's.

[garysaddleback]

Well folks . . . what memories this invokes . . . laying on the living-room floor, staring up at the black & white RCA console . . . powered by glowing electronics as GOD meant electronics to be---VACUUM TUBES!!!

That T-Bird Drop-Top was the Batmobile of its day!!!

Gary in Arizona

[steve7138]

"...Produced by WARNER BROTHERS!!!!"

[64098]

Warner Brothers or whoever owns them now needs to cough up a premium set of this show! I know DVDs are available, but what quality? Never saw it, but knew of it for years.

[drystyx]

the most famous comb the world ever knew

[rw5791]

that neighborhood looks like tijauna now...................77 sunset strip?

[TheBabyboomkidof53]

everyone bombbard warner brothers with demands they release 77 sunset strip,hawaiian eye,adventures in paradise,surfside 6,bourbon street beat,maverick,cheyenne,sugarfo­ot,bonco,colt 45 and the rest on dvd. they have all the rights to them but the cheapos wont issue unless their is peak demand.

[Juliaflo]

@TheBabyboomkidof53 Count me in, for the glory of the whole Warner Brothers Television boilerplate.

[Juliaflo]

@TheBabyboomkidof53 Begging your pardon and excuse the corrigendum, but Adventures in Paradise was from 20th Century Fox.

[rainstormz28]

The voice on the introduction was the secretary Jacqueline Beers...she was fooling around with steroids at the time....lol

[rainstormz28]

Kookie...how could you not like a guy who had the guts to sing lyrics such as "i've got smog in my noggin" on his only hit song..

[revueguy]

The voiceover heard here is that of Jack L. Warner.

[Doublefeature56]

Efrem is an unusual name....Only know of one other.

[midmodgal]

@Doublefeature56 Would that be his old man....Efrem Zimbalist ? Played the violin I hear.

[ALBIONTYKE]

Ah those were the good old days when beef was good for you, only nerds were none smokers and your comb lost its teeth in a mish mash of Brylcream !

[color50]

Wow ... This is great. I haven't seen this in years. It took me back to a time when all I can remember is fun things and glued to the TV admiring all the slick looks and behavior of the time. I used to dream of being able to walk around that driveway using a comb!

I eventually got to see it many years later on a business trip ... all the way from Perth, Australia.

[megjonaslove333]

Yeah Kookie, you're the GINCHIEST! And lend me your comb while you're at.

[Bigfuckinvoodoowar]

This show was the shizzle in 1957. Ed Burns cut a 45 with Connie Stevens regarding, Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb. I was in first grade but bugged my dad till he took me to The Platter record store and bought the darned thing for me. You got the record and an official Kookie's comb.

I rocked in 1st grade,

[diane6135]

last month went to calif. saw 77 sunset strip in west hollywood it was cool

[Bariebel]

I love that show - it was the greatest!

[tbear4pa]

That theme there was the original one used for the first two seasons of that show(1958-59 & 1959-60).

[seriesdetv]

One of the best Tv series all time

[JonFrumTheFirst]

@poussecafe

What a mean-spirited person you are. I suspect bad parenting, so I suppose it isn't your fault.

[44032]

Whose voice does the narration?

[midmodgal]

Yeah, Kookie's the most

[Bigfuckinvoodoowar]

@midmodgal I think the term was "the ginchiest". wasn't it?

[Mikes66442]

@Bigfuckinvoodoowar I was just going to say that!!

[sabinoson]

@midmodgal He was "the ginchiest."

[sirg31]

i dig this post, daddy-o.

[gherinquad]

With a name like "Efrem Zimbalist, Jr." it has to be good!

[tedGEGI]

cool show especially kookie got me a 59 t-bird cause of it

[poussecafe3]

i suppose the reason why the announcer reads the title to the audience even though the title is clearly shown, reflects on the literacy levels of the viewers

[GeneHamm2]

@poussecafe3 I think the narrator read the titles that way for a number of reasons. 1. The picture on those black and white TV's were terrible in those days.

2. TV was still new. People were used to radio and just hearing voices.

3. There was no videotape, or DVD's or DVR's back then. You could only see a show once, or wait for a summer rerun. No way to go back and see something you missed, so hearing it reinforced your memory of it.

[Alexaklr]

The show, along with Hawaiian Eye, introduced me to the private eye genre and have been loving it ever since. Thanks for posting.

[seeolgi]

Thank you...so very...much...it brings back so many memories.

[halbie71]

Thanks for posting this!! I've been looking for the intro for this show on youtube for a over a year. One of my favorite shows back then!!!!!!!!!!

[64098]

Thanks for putting this up, it really needs to go back on the air. I was too young to appreciate it.