On 1/10/2011 4:52 AM, Bruce Goatly wrote:   
   > Duggy wrote:   
   >> On Jan 10, 2:38 am, Blair Leatherwood   
   >> wrote:   
   >>> Remember when hour-long shows actually had title cards at the beginning   
   >>> of each act--sometime just as simple as Act I, etc?   
   >>   
   >> I remember it for british shows, even half hour ones.  Some were doing   
   >> it into the eighties, IIRC.  In the US... I only recall it in parody.   
   >   
   > In the sixties there was The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which had title cards   
   > *and* individual act titles; each title was a quote from the next act. Mind   
   > you, that show was part parody in itself. The extreme defocusing at the end   
   > of each act looked cool, too.   
   >   
   NCIS reminds me of this.  After the break, a few seconds, in black and    
   white*, of something coming up.   
      
   *Hmm.  Actually grayscale I guess.   
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