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A favorite topic as my avatar will show.
The Laramie peacock is on any number of DVDs as previous posters have mentioned: the 1968 Petula Clark special, "Movin' with Nancy" (Sinatra), Hullabaloo, The Andy Williams Show. The original peacock is tougher. It's on the Howdy Doody DVD of the last episode (Clarabell Speaks) but with Howdy Doody music rather than the fanfare. You can also find it on the DVDs of the Tennessee Ernie Ford show put out by his estate (which also have all the bumpers, etc.--great early color stuff) but also without the fanfare. The Ford shows and Petula Clark have been put out on VHS as well.
Another possibility--when NBC was rerunning the Mary Martin Peter Pan in the 1980s it had the original peacock at the front. I have a VHS of that around here somewhere.
As for the quality of it--I've seen enough of these to agree that the quality was very uneven; no two seem to look alike. But if the point is to re-create the original broadcast experience, isn't that part of it?
On a related note--the Universal HD channel is rerunning Hogan's Heroes (annoyingly remastered to 16:9). Many of the episodes start with the CBS color logo.
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