RCA TK-41 ON WGN AMERICA and THE VIRGINIAN

[W.B.]

Originally Posted by John Hafer

It is interesting the Virginian has the original NBC color ending. I don't get Encore but was wondering if this ending is the same one that is available here:

http://www.ev1.pair.com/colorTV/NBCp...ionlogo_1.html

The music, film footage of a cameraman pushing a TK-41 and NBC snake animation (and, for that matter, the announcer - Fred Collins) were the same . . . but the script would have been as mentioned by 'bozey45'. Which I actually saw at the end of the very last episode of "That Was the Week That Was," from 1965, as at New York's Paley Center for Media.

This closing bumper, alas, would have only been used on The Virginian up to 1965; afterwards, a shorter ending bumper was used, through 1970 (which coincidentally, was the year The Virginian became The Men from Shiloh), as shown exactly here (well, maybe if you don't notice the color fading on the blue and green):
http://www.ev1.pair.com/colorTV/NBC_color_chimes.html