NBC Peacock questions

[cd637299]

Through an r-i post started about 3 weeks ago, I was looking at YouTube and saw some very interesting openings of color NBC shows from the late fifties through 1960 or so.

Been wondering....

I know that the first "animated" NBC Peacock began to start a 1957 "Your Hit Parade" show. I also know that before that, for a year, was the "still" Peacock.

So....why did some shows in 1958-60 still use the still Peacock? Seems kinda....meh.

Also, as I was born in 1959 and just not old enough to remember how it went.....did any NBC shows from 1962 or maybe 1963 still use the first animated peacock, whilst the "Laramie" one was already being shown?

(BTW it's interesting to hear "different" openings while the first animated Peacock was used, like "...in living color by Plymouth!" or "Everyone in Doodyville is shouting 'hooray' 'cause we're in living color....today!")

Oh...edit....any any YT inks to any unique *real* Peacock openings would be appreciated, although maybe I have seen them all....

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[gregg75]

I believe there was no standard, they just used both of them.

I must say though that NBC's Peacock was tops when compared to the CBS
eye and ABC logos. They have several on YouTube.

 

[hubcity]

Here's a "real" NBC opening for a movie (The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night") preceding its presentation in "lively black-and-white" - the only appearance of the NBC Penguin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XQ9KZcU294

 

[cd637299]

Here's a "real" NBC opening for a movie (The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night") preceding its presentation in "lively black-and-white" - the only appearance of the NBC Penguin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XQ9KZcU294

 

[azumanga]

I must say though that NBC's Peacock was tops when compared to the CBS
eye and ABC logos.

But for a great opening that sells color TV, you can't beat West Germany:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11XMda-7pMA&feature=channel_video_title

 

[Kurt Toy]

I remember seeing some tribute to Clark Gable circa 1968 and hearing a much different arrangement of the 1962-68 peacock music and the announcer's voice saying something about black-and-white, maybe some portions. I was five or six when the special aired.

 

[ajc_trw]

Does anyone know when "The Tonight Show" (with Johnny of course) stopped running the peacock? I seem to remember them using it into the 70s though I could be wrong. :-[

 

[Ultimajock]

Here's a "real" NBC opening for a movie (The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night") preceding its presentation in "lively black-and-white" - the only appearance of the NBC Penguin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XQ9KZcU294

...when The Jack Paar Program went to London (where colour TV had yet to be introduced), Paar dispensed with the Peacock and used a static shot of a zebra instead ;-) ...

 

[azumanga]

Does anyone know when "The Tonight Show" (with Johnny of course) stopped running the peacock? I seem to remember them using it into the 70s though I could be wrong. :-[

I would imagine the end of 1975, when NBC adopted the "N" logo. Same for "Hollywood Squares".

 

[MHB]

Does anyone know when "The Tonight Show" (with Johnny of course) stopped running the peacock? I seem to remember them using it into the 70s though I could be wrong. :-[

I would imagine the end of 1975, when NBC adopted the "N" logo. Same for "Hollywood Squares".

But, even after they adopted the "N," didn't they use it on a minimal basis to maintain the trademark rights? Seems to me I read something about that.

 

[stdjsb25]

NBC officially switched to the red and blue "N" on January 1, 1976

NBC dusted off the old peacock on a number of occasions afterwards.....among them in the early 1990s when NBC rebroadcast the early 1960's version of "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin, Johnny Carson's final "Tonight" show, the two "Laugh-In" reunion specials, and most notably on Conan O'Brien's first "Tonight" show.

 

[Stanislav]

NBC officially switched to the red and blue "N" on January 1, 1976

NBC dusted off the old peacock on a number of occasions afterwards.....

Given the quality of their programs in the several years after "the switch," I always felt that a buzzard would have been more appropriate. :

 

[cd637299]

NBC officially switched to the red and blue "N" on January 1, 1976

NBC dusted off the old peacock on a number of occasions afterwards.....among them in the early 1990s when NBC rebroadcast the early 1960's version of "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin, Johnny Carson's final "Tonight" show, the two "Laugh-In" reunion specials, and most notably on Conan O'Brien's first "Tonight" show.

I wish I had seen the NBC re-broadcast of Peter Pan. Being 1960, I'm sure they had the 1st animated Peacock. The prints I have seen removed it. (Anyone have this, via videotape?)

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[KyDXIn]

NBC officially switched to the red and blue "N" on January 1, 1976

NBC dusted off the old peacock on a number of occasions afterwards.....

Given the quality of their programs in the several years after "the switch," I always felt that a buzzard would have been more appropriate. :

You mean something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dXHX-ea25k&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL8FjcznFvk&NR=1

 

[The King Bee]

I believe the seven feathers of one of the NBC peacock's versions each stood for one of the network's divisions...news, sports, O&O stations, radio, studios/NBC Productions, operations/management and RCA.