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Animagus
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Looking back at the "Jeannie" opening, I now see that the animators understood squash, stretch, anticipations, etc. even with the bottle, which almost has a personality of it's own.
And how many of those "It's About Time" episodes did Richard Donner direct? He must have done those before he did the "Danger Island" episodes for "The Banana Splits". And to think he would go on to make "The Omen", "Superman" and the Lethal Weapons.
It's kind of a stretch to call the "Mr. Terrific" opening "animation", but it does tell a little story through pictures in a sequence. And Paul Frees' voice always takes me back to my childhood, He was almost like an Orson Wells for kids.
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Animagus
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I caught a vintage "Partridge Family" episode on DVD about a week ago. In the episode, the family has a run in with a skunk, and goes to a motel to get cleaned up. The location they used was that "Safari" place on Olive in Burbank, across the street from "House of Secrets", and about halfway between the old location of Charles' school, and where we have classes for now.
The whole area looked amazingly similar to how it still looks. You could see that "St. Finbar's" church in the background, just as you can today.
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EustaceScrubb
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"The location they used was that "Safari" place on Olive in Burbank, across the street from "House of Secrets", and about halfway between the old location of Charles' school, and where we have classes for now.
The whole area looked amazingly similar to how it still looks. You could see that "St. Finbar's" church in the background, just as you can today."
I love seeing Toluca Lake and Burbank locations in 60's and 70's TV shows.
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Charles
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Although it featured some animation during the show, Monty Python's Flying Circus had the most unique animated openings on TV for its day thanks to Terry Gilliam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq37WSg9ESg
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