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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