I always remember my dad discussing the credits to my sister's and brothers growing up watching programs, who wrote it, who produced it, who what when etc
And in the late Season 1 thru earliest filmed Season 3 episodes (the S3 episodes without the copyright date in the closing credits) have the Mannix title logo with a generic copyright for CBS Studios before the CBSTVD logo.
Mannix was spoofed in Mad Magazine. There's a sight gag with shocked people eating hamburgers as a bad guy with a car and Mannix smash into a restaurant!
This is the first time I saw this even when it is as far back as 2010 and not an old print . I saw one from earlier from this season with the yellow split box which I first saw on the Mission Impossible episode "The Controllers" and was an old print. Someone commented about what station it came from and what I was searching for. I saw another video of it from this show that came from Me TV .
Paramount Closet Killer Jingle from Lalo Schifrin This jingle was used on The Brady Bunch, The Original Odd Couple, The Original Love American Style, The Original Mission: Impossible and Mannix This was also gonna be used on The Original Star Trek, but NBC screwed up by cancelling it
Actually it was Dominic Frontiere that composed the “Closet Killer” jingle (heard from the Fall of 1969 thru late 1970). Lalo Schifrin did the remainder jingles (one in 1970, a slowed one in 1972 and a drastically slower one for 1974) under this logo thru 1975 when Paramount unleashed the Television version of the Blue Mountain in the Fall of 1975 for the 1st time. The 1972 slower jingle would serve as the genesis for the 1975 jingle but with more trumpets for the latter. That Blue Mountain logo would once again feature Lalo Schifrin’s own jingle and own variations (save for 1976-78 when it used Jerry Goldsmith’s jingles) from Fall 1975 thru 1987 (One in 1975, one in 1978 after 2 year absence, one in 1979, another one in 1980, another one for 1981, another for 1982 and one last hurrah in 1986).
Other shows that used this were: - The Young Lawyers (1970-71), the 1969 pilot originally used the Yellow/Blue Split Box with the Closet Killer jingle but got plastered instead on the DVD’s. The regular series used the Closet Killer for the earliest filmed episodes while the 1970 Schifrin jingle was used in subsequent episodes. - The Immortal
That was also gonna be used on The Original Star Trek, but it was on the animated version, however, NBC was foolish enough to cancel Star Trek in the 1st place, IMO
There was actually a slower, longer Paramount closet killer that they ran before tv-movies in 1969. I first heard it a few nights ago and thought it sounded even worse than this.
