15 mostly rare TV intros

16 September 2010 Rob Buckley Classic TV, US TV Post a comment

Following on from last week’s ‘immensely’ successful look at some rare 1960s TV title sequences, I thought I’d have a look at another batch, this time of 15 rarer intros from both the 50s and 60s.

For your delight, here are:

  • Richard Diamond, Private Detective with David Janssen (The Fugitive)
  • The Thin Man with Peter Lawford (of the Rat Pack) and Phyllis Kirk
  • The D.A.’s Man with John Compton
  • Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner)
  • Philip Marlowe with Philip Carey (One Life to Live)
  • The Roaring 20’s with Rex Reason (This Island Earth)
  • Jack Gower with Jack Warden (Crazy Like A Fox)
  • The New Breed (a QM Production) with Leslie Nielsen (Police Squad)
  • Court Martial with Bradford Billman and Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible)
  • The Rogues with Gig Young, Charles Boyer and David Niven (yes, David Niven!)
  • The Loner with Lloyd Bridges (Airplane). Created by Rod Serling
  • Cowboy in Africa with Chuck Connors (The Rifleman)
  • Run For Your Life with Ben Gazzara
  • Blue Light with Robert Goulet (Toy Story 2)
  • Garrisons’ Gorillas with Ron Harper (Planet of the Apes)

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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