F Troop Season 2 Intro

When It Went To Color

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[ionosphere1]

I think season one opening better.

[ThundaLippz]

looks like it was drawn a MAD magazine artist.

[BronxNYE206St]

Great tv show on of my favorites of all time.

[The7legacy]

Hey@ionosphere1,

I totally agree. Season one opening was MUCH better.

:01 - :17

Very dramatic. Almost brought me to tears.

[decemberschild1217]

I agree with all the season one intro is infinently better especially those great lyrics but one exception: the great Frank DeKova gets a credit in the season 2 opening....

[Matt571]

I saw re-runs of F Troop in 1992 on Sky TV and I hadn't used to like the colour titles as much back then, although I enjoy seeing them now. Although it was quite sad that they scrapped the brilliant theme song, the colour titles are very vivid and I think the change to colour enabled a really good caricatured sequence to be done.

It is a shame F Troop only lasted 2 seasons.

[d777j777l777]

I reckon both of em were cool. Takes a bloke back to afternoon TV in Aus in the 70s.

[Extratexture4]

@jed6271, I agree, except for one thing: no way is that 2nd season opening animated.

I love caricatures, and have always wanted to get a good look at that picture, but it's still such a cheap substitution for the original that it disappoints me.

[Noveltooner]

That was Dick Tufeld, one of Walt Disney's two "flagship" announcers during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. He's best known, of course, as the announcer for Fox's "Lost in Space," and as the voice of the Robot.

[tvpirate05]

And nowadays, the 30 second intro would be considered to take up too much time. It's sad, but most current shows have a title screen accompanied by 5-10 seconds of random music. Sad...

[Noveltooner]

The latter part was the final reason for going to a teaser scene and the "cheap' opening that angered many fans. (Remember, "Gilligan's Island" kept it's classic opening in over the years.) The additional 30 seconds of commercial time was something of a setup for what has happened to broadcast and cable TV since Reagan's notorious deregulation in 1982: Television has become little more than commercials occasionally interrupted by a program.

[Noveltooner]

I can give you another reason from a Warner Bros. TV insider I know from the time. The cavalry footage in the original opening came from the Errol Flynn picture "They Died with Their Boots On." Originally, Warners TV wanted to re-shoot the opening in color using battle scenes from "The Searchers." However, that film was a Warner Bros. release and not a Warners production, and John Ford and C. V. Whitney refused. Then ABC saw the chance for more commercial time.