These new episodes begin with the NBC Peacock coming into focus while the above phrase is said and flute music is played. I don't think I've seen that intro since the early Seventies! It definitely takes me back to my childhood when I used to watch "Bonanza" with my father (RIP ).
"There will be blood. Oh, yes, there WILL be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"
Or, as we used to say back then, "in livid color".
This particular "living color" intro first appeared on the Laramie series, and is therefore known as the "Laramie peacock".
Before the lost episodes began on ME TV, there were a couple of episodes that showed the peacock presentation. I think it was one or two episodes. I always heard in Living Color on all of their colored shows before all programming went color.
shareThis all comes from the DVD versions. I'm guessing they've redone the set of later seasons for syndication, which is why it's now even available to outlets like MeTV. I'm hoping it's a positive sign that all the seasons will come out on DVD.
I remember seeing that peacock living color intro back in the 60s on various shows.
It would be really cool if they showed the old Chevrolet ads with the actors that used to run before each episode.
shareIt would be really cool if they showed the old Chevrolet ads ...I'm a fan of Old-time Radio and have a large collection. Most of the full programs are complete with ads, which were often live back in those days. Gunsmoke with William Conrad is my favorite western. Some of those scripts were used in the early days of the TV series without much revision.
When ME-TV first started playing the lost episodes, they were clearly new, pristine prints (as another poster mentioned, probably redone for DVD). But the ones they've been running lately look like the same old prints that Hallmark, Encore and other have run.
shareThis is particularly noticeable in the opening titles. which look rather beaten up.
shareI think I remember seeing it in 1992 when I stayed up late and watched the final episode of Johnny Carson.
shareWe didn't get a color TV set until the fall of '67, so before that, whenever we saw the peacock intro ("brought to you in living color"), we'd yell back: "Not in THIS house it ain't!"
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