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Well then, that narrowed the date of that "Queen for a Day" I saw. Had to be from their final 12 months, then.

I was only 3 when ABC's 62-63 season occurred, but they had some interesting stuff, like "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster", "The Jetsons," the birth of Pebbles, and maybe my favorite, which I have on kinescope, "Make That Spare." :D (yes I know MTS went 1 more year.)

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wbhist said:
The newer ABC and Circle 7 logos were first introduced in the 1962-63 season, but the 1963-64 season was branded "The New ABC" (and "The New Channel ___"). This seemed to be a promo push to wipe away any memories of their disastrous 1962-63 season.

On WABC-TV in New York (speaking of that matchbook), it meant that Sept. 15, 1963 marked the debut of a late night movie series, The Best of Broadway, which replaced their previous late-night movie skeins The Night Show and The Goodnight Show. On Sept. 16 they debuted a weekday afternoon movie series called The Big Show which, at the outset, had "theme days" (i.e. Wednesdays were "Chillers from Science Fiction") - this program is now regarded as an ancestor to their subsequent 4:30 Movie.
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That same book published by TV Guide has a 1963 listing for a movie called "Night Of The Quarter Moon," airing at "11:20 PM on the new 7." (ABC had a network newscast at 11 PM, followed by local news at 11:10, something many ABC affiliates deplored, since the CBS and NBC affiliates were ten minutes into their local news when the ABC one's began.) It mentions that it's airing on "Best Of Broadway."
 
YouTube has an episode of Naked City guest starring David Janssen as an
ad exec, from 1963. The most surprising thing is it's from the original 35mm
master, and it has commercial bumpers and network logos in it. (It looks a
lot better than the episodes being run by RTV.) No audio over credits or
network announcer promo tag however. I'd really like to know how this was
saved all these years, since so many of the "complete shows" on YouTube are
generally from 16mm reduction prints. It sounds "local" so it wasn't recorded
somewhere down the 5 kHz Telco line.

http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...6.49644.0.51875.26.26.1.0.0.0.78.1596.25.25.0.

(Note it is broken into five parts.)
 
timmyb said:
BRNout said:
To bring this back OT, there's an ABC "eight-ball" logo with musical tone featured at the beginning of a promo at the 7:00 mark. Really cool - especially considering it was 1963.
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Oh yeah, the ba-doop-doop-doop-doooooooooooooooo! tone. ABC had that "jingle" right until the mid-70's when promoting upcoming ABC shows.
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I found an example on You Tube - it's from a set of clips of Peter Jennings in the 1960s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5oEltCMt3w
 
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