Those bongo drums made me so excited as a kid. I knew that I had to stop whatever I was doing and watch the show! Thanks for the memories and the great video presentation!
I remember making 100% sure to be back in the house before the holiday programs would start, we had a 19 inch TV with channel knobs and antenna, I sure had fun being a kid in the 70's and 80's
Outstanding video! When I was a kid and when that bumper would appear, it was certain that something was about to go down as excitement filled the room. Thanks for the memories!
Perfection! This bumper was used right in the meat of my childhood and still to this day it brings chills. That and, “Hey, a Charlie Brown Christmas is about to start!”😊
Thanks Ross! I do appreciate your comment. If only there were a way to know how many people feel like you and I do about this bumper. That number would be staggering.
What a professional and thorough explainer you made. The 1969 Metromedia ID - on the remote outer edges of memory but it was there. They had much programming that appealed to an 8 year old (syndicated 5 to 15 year old sitcoms, Wonderama, cartoons).
Thank you! You're very generous with your compliment. I remember the Metromedia one from my youth, as well. We seem to be the same age. Kinda odd what we latch on to from our youth. probably was an early signal, for me anyway, of my future interests.
Call to Danger was originally used as the intro to a couple of failed pilots of the same name, which became TV movies. The plots were on the order of "Mission: Impossible," with the guest star playing a regular civilian with a special talent, rather than an operative of a spy agency. Sort of like the early "Man from UNCLEs."
This was amazing! Thank you! It's rare that I find media history online that I didn't already know about, but this was absolutely news to me. Thanks again!
Fantastic video...the editing on the Hawaii Five-O soundtrack element has always fascinated me. I'm juuuuuust barely old enough to have done physical tape editing in college, and yeah, it's pretty unforgiving! : D I will note, just to toss this in, the bumper was used on special presentations well into the early '90s. In '91 or '92 (or '93!)some of the traditional annual Christmas specials had their last roundup, on CBS anyway...Garfield, "Twas The Night Before Christmas", the Grinch...
Thank you, Jason! I appreciate the kind words. Yes, true, the bumper did see use into the early 90's. But, by then, even as good as it was/is, CBS was going to have to replace it. But they got their mileage out of it, to be sure.
Great job. Well done. I just recently found a clip on RU-vid that was used as a reboot of the graphic for the Grammys on cbs in 2021. It uses the spinning special but uses the five note cbs sting now. I used the old audio clip for my public access tv shows at the beginning from 2011 on.
Outstanding! This brings back so many great memories of when we were kids! Television has sadly lost a sense of the uniqueness of “special” presentations.
Yeah, kids are growing up in a completely different media landscape, one where broadcast or even cable television usually isn't even on the radar at all. So the entire milieu of a "special" is kind of out of their frame of reference. It's not good or bad, really, just different. They'll never know that kind of anticipation that came with specials.
Fun fact: Don’t know if anyone ever knew this or not, but a derivative of this bumper was also used by VH1 Classic (a tentacle of CBS/Viacom) in the 2000s when they would have “special“ concerts etc. So it did sort of come back a little bit.
I know this bumper was finally retired in 1992, but I clearly remember seeing it run before the 1995 airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". My only guess is that my local CBS affiliate was using an older print?
At least two of the clips you've used came from the genius Eric Siday, whose company Identitones provided the Channel 5 logo music and the PBS swoop that ends your video. Siday was also responsible for the Screen Gems S snake music, the WGBH Boston and WNET New York station ID's, as well the Maxwell House coffee percolator jingle on those old tv commercials.
awesome video talking about a #cbsspeciallogo, and cool trivia: if your a fan of #rescue911, believe it or not the 2 "pilots" had the #cbsspecialpresentationbumper.
Thank you very much! I do appreciate the kind words. I wasn't aware it was used for #rescue911, but I'm not surprised. I think once they realized the gold they made/had, they would use it liberally for it's duration.
Nick, GREAT piece on the CBS Special Presentation Bumper! I spent a couple of years on-and-off re-creating this thing in digital, as others have done on RU-vid... For what it's worth, here is my contribution: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4JrCB-m2oXk.html What I'd really like to find out is who all was involved with its creation. Would love to know the names. Who came up with that musical edit? Who came up with that perfect visual acompaniment? I think they deserve recognition. Again, great work, and I look forward to checking out your other videos and seeing more of your stuff as you produce it (am now a subscriber!)!
Thank you very much for the kind words, Joe! And thank you for subscribing! That means a lot. I like your rendition of the bumper. Great video and the stereo separation gives it a dynamic that makes it sound very up-to-date. Sounds like the natural progression of sound if it were being used today. I, too, wish I knew who the people were that created the original bumper. As a kid, I was always fascinated by that bumper and other imaging elements on TV and radio - so this video was just an extension of that younger me. I didn't check to see if you had posted any other work on your channel, but I'll be checking it out! Thank you again!
