Stars Who's Names Appear BEFORE The Title Of The TV Show

[Markxxx]

I saw an old rerun of Father Knows Best and the announcer starts with Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin in Father Knows Best.

I thought, wow all the principals get billing BEFORE the title of the show.

Any other shows where the star (or more than one star) get billing before the title of the show?

 

[bpatrick]

How about "Stockard Channing In Just Friends" (CBS, 1979),
or these: "Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room" (DuMont, late '40s-
early '50s), "Joe Garagiola's Memory Game" (NBC, 1971), "Merv
Griffin's Crosswords" (syndicated, 2007), and the granddaddy
of them all: "Ted Mack And The Original Amateur Hour" (DuMont/
NBC/ABC/CBS, 1948-70)?

 

[Ultimajock]

...Art Linkletter's House Party, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, and Your Kaiser Dealer Presents Kaiser-Frazer "Adventures In Mystery" Starring Betty Furness In "Byline"...

 

[bpatrick]

In the last months of his short-lived 1971-72 series the
title of James Garner's show was changed from "Nichols"
to "James Garner As Nichols."

And how can I forget "The Dick Clark Saturday Night
Beechnut Show" and "Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes And
New Talent" on ABC in the late '50s?

 

[Markxxx]

I found it was also

Gabriel Kaplan starring in

"Welcome Back Kotter"

So he gets credit over the show's title

I also found on YouTube it was

Carroll O'Connor in "Archie Bunker's Place." If Jean Stapleton was in the episode she too got credit before the show's title.

On "All In The Family" both came AFTER the title of that.

 

[cd637299]

"Paul Sand in 'Friends and Lovers' "

And who was Paul Sand anyway?!?!? Maybe it was an in-joke....

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[radiophiler]

In the Dick Sargent years, the opening to Bewitched started with "Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched."

 

[Toledo Eleven]

Jackie Gleason, "The Honeymooners" ...

 

[cd637299]

Wasn't Ernest Borgnine's name onscreen first?....."Ernest Borgnine in.......McHale's Navy"

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[Toledo Eleven]

Another one is Richard Boone in "Have Gun - Will Travel," and cd, you're right about McHale's Navy.

 

[71dude]

Judd Hirsch - Taxi
The entire cast of All in the Family (seasons 5-8, and Carroll and Jean in Season 9)

 

[azumanga]

Your Kaiser Dealer Presents Kaiser-Frazer "Adventures In Mystery" Starring Betty Furness In "Byline"...

This one's iffy -- Betty Furness appears before "Byline", but after "Adventures in Mystery".

Carroll O'Connor in "Archie Bunker's Place." If Jean Stapleton was in the episode she too got credit before the show's title.

On "All In The Family" both came AFTER the title of that.

From around 1975 onward, Carroll and Jean were credited before "All In The Family". When Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers were still on the show, they too were credited before the title.

 

[Ultimajock]

...Rod Serling's Night Gallery (even though Serling was so frustrated with his lack of cooperation with Universal producer Jack Laird that he eventually regretted getting proprietary credit there)...

...David Cassidy - Man Undercover...

 

[bpatrick]

"Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs" (CBS, 1984)

Although I think the show was called simply "Thriller," some
retros show it listed as "Boris Karloff Presents Thriller."

 

[bpatrick]

"Paul Sand in 'Friends and Lovers' "

And who was Paul Sand anyway?!?!? Maybe it was an in-joke....

cd

Actually, IIRC, CBS was grooming him as a find in 1973-74; I know he made
several appearances on "The Carol Burnett Show" before landing his own sitcom,
which aired between "All In The Family" and Mary Tyler Moore on Saturday nights
in the fall of '74. I seem to recall he played a member of the Boston Symphony on
this MTM show. It was replaced in January 1975 by "The Jeffersons," and I haven't
heard anything about him since.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

"Paul Sand in 'Friends and Lovers' "

And who was Paul Sand anyway?!?!? Maybe it was an in-joke....

cd

Actually, IIRC, CBS was grooming him as a find in 1973-74; I know he made
several appearances on "The Carol Burnett Show" before landing his own sitcom,
which aired between "All In The Family" and Mary Tyler Moore on Saturday nights
in the fall of '74. I seem to recall he played a member of the Boston Symphony on
this MTM show. It was replaced in January 1975 by "The Jeffersons," and I haven't
heard anything about him since.

Paul Sand was the boxing coach in "Teen Wolf II" (1987), which starred Jason Bateman. (It was the sequel to the 1985 original which featured Michael J. Fox).

 

[bpatrick]

Looks like he's been quite busy; Wikipedia shows him
appearing on "Joan of Arcadia" (2003-2005), although
not necessarily as a regular; and in the 2005 movie
"Sweet Land." He has a long list of credits going back
to the 1950s and has appeared either on television or
in the movies in every decade up through the 2000s.

 

[radiophiler]

During the Dick Sargent years, the Bewitched opening started wth "Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewtiched." Not so for the show's first five years.

 

[Markxxx]

"Paul Sand in 'Friends and Lovers' "

And who was Paul Sand anyway?!?!? Maybe it was an in-joke....

cd

Actually, IIRC, CBS was grooming him as a find in 1973-74; I know he made
several appearances on "The Carol Burnett Show" before landing his own sitcom,
which aired between "All In The Family" and Mary Tyler Moore on Saturday nights
in the fall of '74. I seem to recall he played a member of the Boston Symphony on
this MTM show. It was replaced in January 1975 by "The Jeffersons," and I haven't
heard anything about him since.

He played an IRS auditor on an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show and the MTM people liked him enough to start thinking about giving him his own show.

The MTM people tended to do this a lot. I mean recycle people between their shows. Like Valarie Harper's ex-husband Richard Schaal, who seemed to constantly be on some MTM show. He played various roles on MTM, Bob Newhart, Phyllis, Rhoda, etc, but he never cut it.

 

[KeithE4]

After being called The CBS-TV News for its first three years, the name for CBS's nightly newscast became Douglas Edwards with the News starting in 1951. IIRC, it didn't become The CBS Evening News until Walter Cronkite took over.