On Jan 10, 6:14 pm, Duggy  wrote:   
   > On Jan 11, 8:39 am, "Jay E. Morris"  wrote:   
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   > > On 1/10/2011 4:21 PM, Duggy wrote:   
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   > > > On Jan 11, 4:06 am, "Jay E. Morris"  wrote:   
   > > >> 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?   
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   > > >>>> 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.   
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   > > >>> 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.   
   > > > Something coming up?  The last seconds of the act, isn't it?   
   > > I've never really paid enough attention to it to realize exactly where   
   > > the scene occurs in the next act.  I'll have to try to pay attention   
   > > next time.   
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   > To be fair I don't watch it much, it's just my impression that it's   
   > the end of the act.  Someone else may have better information.   
   The top of each act of NCIS begins with a black-and-white image,   
   normally, but not quite always, taken from the end of that act. And it   
   was Quinn Martin, for Heaven's sake, not "Martin Quinn"!   
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