1966 Lucy Show Opening w/ Commercial

[enmaxus]

When America still had it innocence. I miss those days.

[picark]

This was television at it's best.....right at the time I was born into the World.

I still recall the rabbit ears....UHF....VHF...no remote control..Think if there wasn't any remote control kids nowadays their "crack pants" would fall off their legs because they have to get off their tail to do something.

[peteo100]

@picark When I was a kid back in the 70's I was my Dad's remote for the t.v., I'd sit in front of the set and keep flipping the channels, he's say stop, or next if he wanted me to change it. True bonding experience for both of us, lol.

[travis7310]

"CBS presents this program in COLOR!" What will they think of next? LOL.

[keaton1895]

@travis7310 I know you are just being silly but color was not the norm in TV and movies till 1967.

[oooowwwwdddd]

It's good when a moisturizer cream moisturizers against dryness.

[debfan74]

thanks for sharing the opening and the retro commercial

[Fersomling]

I still love Lucy!

[visaman]

KCTS, the Seattle PBS affiliate was still broadcasting in B&W well into the 70's. I remember this, because in 1970 my family and I had moved from Saskatoon with one TV channel to Vancouver with several channels on cable, and KCTS was the only B&W channel.

[discomusic1966]

today CBS and other networks announce this program is presented in HD . THANKS for uploading this

[fabulbabe]

We've CBS. We've given up fighting with NBC.

[DJKhrome]

OK trivia smarts, answer this question: The Toni Company was one of Lucy's sponsors then. What company bought Toni in 1970?

[sexymama1966]

Gillette

[sexymama1966]

@DJKhrome Gillette:)

[vividwatch47]

I always thought that opening title with the montage with Lucy in a mailbag was a straitjacket!

[defundthewar]

I recognized the canvass mail sack because I used to work with them. On all of Lucy's series, the writers would get her caught in something. I remember offhand: handcuffed to Ricky, tied to a microphone cord, head in a trophy cup, trapped in a shower stall, a freezer.

[bombbrown]

I had a brother and two sisters who worked in the postal service (my brother retired in 2007, and now lives in Las Vegas). They all worked as carriers.

[TruWatcher]

"For the woman who prefers the natural look of beauty care at home." Yeah, more like "For the woman who can't afford expensive salon beauty treatments and has to use cheaper do-it-yourself products."

[bombbrown]

I always wondered what happened if Lucy WAS bald!

[defundthewar]

Lucy wasn't bald, and I hate to rock anybody's world, but except for her first series, she wore red wigs. She used a temporary face lift- an old Hollywood trick either using fine netting and/or rubber bands- to pull the neck skin back, giving a tighter look to the chin and face. It was tied in the back, then the wig positioned to cover it. How do I know this? Her TV daughter, Candy Moore, spilled the beans. But anyone a little knowledgeable about such things would be able to tell.

[svrandall]

In color?! What will they think of next?

[svrandall]

Wow...it all makes sense. This would explain MTV's entire lineup

[TIPTON340]

LOL

[AshburnStadium]

My family's first color set was a 1970 RCA 25" console.

Our cat Maggie liked to lay on top of it to keep warm - until she developed cancer from all the radiation emitting from it!

As kids, my sisters & I weren't allowed to sit within six feet of it.

[tripjet999]

It's "lie," dear, not "lay."

[jehobden]

The CBS Color opening was used as an answer to the NBC Peacock in the mid-1960s. I first remember seeing it at the beginning of Carol Burnett's 25th Anniversary show in January 1993. I'm sure it was used weekly when The Carol Burnett Show premiered in 1967.

[defundthewar]

ABC had it's own version. What they did was, say, if the show was "The Partridge Family," they would have a very brief (maybe 8 seconds) shot of the cast, with the announcer saying something- I forget- like "Stay tuned for The Partridge Family... in color!" And then the show would begin. They had this for every color show. Eventually, all 3 networks stopped their color intros when everything was in color. I'm curious- if anybody knows- what was the very last b&w holdout?

[jehobden]

ABC had a version like the NBC Peacock and the CBS opening here, which it started using around 1961 or '62. It had the ABC ball logo going through various colors to an instrumental tune. It did not yet want an announcer mentioning that the show was in color because several ABC affiliates could not yet broadcast in color then, so someone w/ a color tv would be puzzled why a program announced "in color" was not in color on a color tv.

[jehobden]

In 1963 ABC added an announcer to its color opening to let viewers know that the show was in color, maybe to force its B&W affiliates into broadcasting in color ASAP.

[defundthewar]

Interesting! I didn't know because I didn't get a color TV in the house until much later. It was a Sony Trinitron & the picture was very clear, the colors very bright, vibrant. On the down side, some of the stars now really showed their age. Ball, for example. Also Dean Martin, I recall, looked worse for wear in color.

I think aside from nudging the affiliates, the color promos were to encourage the hold-outs at home to give in and get a color set, which were still big and expensive.

[lph10012003]

CBS was the holdout network, mainly because they were still bitter over losing the color standard wars to RCA/NBC. As far as shows are concerned, the live (later videotapes) soaps in the afternoon were still in B&W even in the early 70's. I believe even new soaps (like All My Children) started in black and white, primarily because of the expense of color production. It's the same reason they use for continuing to use SD instead of HD today.

[Supremes59]

The CBS soaps began color videotaping in the late 60's. CBS' As the World Turns began color broadcasts in '67, while the remainder of the CBS daytime soaps were all color before the end of '68. They may have aired in B&W depending on local affiliates or individual TV sets, but they were videotaped in color.

ABC's All My Children has been in color since the first episode in 1970, as was One Life to Live, which began broadcasting in '68.

[mthivier]

The CBS soaps all switched to colour somewhere around 1967, with their top-rated soap "As the World Turns" switching in February of '67, and the rest following by September.

[mthivier]

I believe it was one of the soaps. (It was definitely a daytime show.) CBS' soaps all went colour during 1967, between February and September (I think NBC had switched the year before, not sure about ABC), so it might have been one of CBS' soaps.

[lamccaugh]

X-ray

[sexymama1966]

@svrandall In HI-Def..lol

[laminage]

When I was a kid, I always got scared when I saw the scene with the bottle flowing. It looked more like an explosion.

[TIPTON340]

Color bumper was just the same as In sterio in the eighties as is in high definition now.

[fromthesidelines]

The "CBS Color" bumper appeared before virtually every one of their color series from September 1965 through the summer of 1970. The Toni Company was a "new" sponsor, having succeeded General Foods as Lucy's "alternate sponsor" in the fall of 1967; Lever Brothers continued as the series' "primary sponsor", right into the "HERE'S LUCY" era.

[italianman1992]

Thank you for uploading! But, how come the original airings always have the sound up an octave? I love that! I wish commercials could be like they used to. (even though I was not alive until 1989.)

[wmbrown6]

Actually, it sounds like a transfer from PAL (25 fps), whose pitch is 4% higher than 24 fps, as per "2/3" pulldown used by NTSC.

[sexymama1966]

i've died and gone to heaven..thanks!

[travis7310]

Thank you so much!