WINCHELL-MAHONEY TIME OPEN AND CLOSE PLUS

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• WINCHELL-MAHONEY
• TIME
• OPENING
• 1967
• WNEW
• NEW
• YORK
• TV

[RealAgentOfSHIELD]

Oh man, that was crazy!!! The opening sort of has a Rowan & Martin Laugh-In feel. This aired the year I was born, so this gives me a good idea of the world I was born into.

[tapthatt2012]

@RealAgentOfSHIELD same year my brother was born. you missed a great show ; )

speaking of my bro., he went to the big aplle comic-con yesterday. lee majors charged 60 bucks for an aoutgraph and 70 for a picture with him! talk about inflaton!

[dyinglikeflies]

Second the "wow". Didn't think I'd ever hear that opening and closing ever again.

[tapthatt2012]

@dyinglikeflies neither did i. this is the show i remember as a kid.

[dynagravitomagnetic]

@musicom67 Spite and treachery will defeat virtue and skill every time. This was a magnificent show, and Paul Winchell was a Genius!

He played Count Drink-a-Lot, and all the other guys. Practically a one man show.

He was a graphic artist, ventriloquist, man of a thousand faces, and stage magician and business entrepreneur. Besides Jerry and knucklehead he voiced the characters Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Tigger, and a host of others too numerous to mention.

[musicom67]

Apparently Winchell tried to obtain syndication rights to this Metromedia-taped 1968 series in the '80's. There were 288 surviving videotapes. Metromedia was losing the battle, and in-turn, burned them all.

[jb20092009]

@Cynthialovesmusic100 Thanks. That's it.

And JM ended it with 'All you have left is a stick' and burst into tears.

While PW got pissed off over buying a lemon just because the dealer gave free lollipops. Sounds like he got that from Laurel and Hardy with 'He threw in a bag of nuts.' Ahhhh, those were the good old days of DECENT kids' TV.

[Cynthialovesmusic100]

@jb20092009 "Pop goes your heart!!"

[Cynthialovesmusic100]

I used to look so forward to watching this when I got home from school. In fact the first time I heard Tigger's voice I knew it was Paul Mitchell because I knew his voice so well!!! Great program...wish my kids had this simpler, more innocent programming.

[laaxe]

Was an incredibly "doo doo" time to be named Scott! FYI Thanks , Paul!

[MightyMite76]

Boy I'm old!

[SteveCarras]

@Juliaflo

I third that. These shows are a forgotten oaprt of Winchell--he's only remembered for the largely crappy era of animaiton he was involved with, but he was the voice of TIgger, too and these puppets. Background music wise, they're closer to his studio Hanna Barbera';s pre-Winchell theme (tune, as I referred to, at 1:27--)

[SteveCarras]

I wonder you did the instrumental music - it turned up on the 1970s Los Angeles syndicsated Bugs Bunny series "Bugs and Buddies" and on an Officer Byrd LAPD ad.