Vintage Television Typeface Corner (1 Viewer)

[JohnHopper]

Apart the hand-made logo for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
the title credits are set in Lydian for season 1

The Bionic Woman was set in Lydian too but only for the title credits.

 

[JohnHopper]

As was Mission: Impossible (both the original 1966-73 series and the revived 1988-90 series, though the latter has it modernized).

~Ben

Both Mission: Impossible and Kolchak: The Night Stalker were set in Bulletin Typewriter (1933)
designed by Morris Fuller Benton.

 

[bmasters9]

Yet another Peignot: earlier seasons' end credits of the weekly syndie musical variety show Solid Gold from Operation Prime Time and Paramount (these from a 1982 broadcast)...

 

[JohnHopper]

The espionage series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has a logo set in Decorated 035 and the title credits in Clarendon.

 

[JohnHopper]

Two shows were set in Microgramma/Eurostile:
‘Way Out (1961) (except the pilot)
UFO (1970)

 

[Rick Thompson]

The espionage series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has a logo set in Decorated 035 and the title credits in Clarendon.

The U.N.C.L.E. theme was originally written in 5/4 by Jerry Goldsmith, who was fit to be tied when it was redone as a 4/4 piece for season two by Lalo Schifrin. Fast forward to Mission: Impossible, whose theme was in 5/4, by Schifrin. He was less than happy when the movie version redid it as 4/4. What goes around . . .

 

[B-ROLL]

On my computer the Murder, She Wrote font is called ToulouseLautrec. Calling it Lansbury seems suspiciously phony to me no matter what the site says.

It is also known as "Art Gothic" depending on the foundry ...

 

[JohnHopper]

But Universal Television also used Eurostile:
Ironside
It Takes a Thief
Rod Serling's Night Gallery
The Six Million Dollar Man

Witness if you will how the typeface Eurostile was used on Ironside.

The pilot for Ironside set in Eurostile and displayed in orange.

The first regular episode of Ironside set in Eurostile and displayed in white.

 

[JohnHopper]

Apart from the hand-made logo for The Time Tunnel, the title credits are set in Venus (bold extended).
There's even another sans serif typeface (oblique, condensed, shaded) for the Next Week card seen after the final preview.

The preview card ("Next Week") was set in Franklin Gothic (demi, compressed, italic).

 

[bmasters9]

The preview card ("Next Week") was set in Franklin Gothic (demi, compressed, italic).

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And it looks like the title card and the late Robert Urich's title credit on that 1978-81 ABC detective series called Vega$ were in that same font (at least it looks like it to me [captured from CBS DVD all-in-one]):

 

[JohnHopper]

Apart from the hand-made logo for The Time Tunnel, the title credits are set in Venus (bold extended).
There's even another sans serif typeface (oblique, condensed, shaded) for the Next Week card seen after the final preview.

The opening credits for the pilot set in Venus (bold extended).

 

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

The opening credits for the pilot set in Venus (bold extended).
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Now I know the answer to what some of the early Star Trek season 1 episodes had!

~Ben

 

[bmasters9]

Cast credits on O-R 1978-91 Dallas on CBS: Eurostile (example w/the great, late Larry Hagman, from 1986)...

 

[bmasters9]

Bumping this up: this was a syndie movie package that was on when I was a boy called Columbia Night at the Movies; this particular instance of it was from 1993 (when I was 12 years old), and had a neon 80s Torch Lady.

The parts of it that said "Columbia Night at the" were in Columbia's classic Souvenir font; the other parts ("Movies" and "Presents") were in fonts that I do not recognize (of course, it's been more than 2.5 decades since I saw this for the first time).

Here is the opening therefrom (from YouTube user Pepsi9072):


And here are screenshots of that title from that same clip:

 

[bmasters9]

Bumping this up after a long while: discovered that the title of the NBC daily serial Another World when I was a boy was Kabel Ultra Heavy type.

Another World and Its Spinoffs

 

[Wiseguy]

CANNON's logo is a variation of a typeface called Baby Teeth.

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Never could understand the Cannon rule in the closing credits on what letters are shown as lower-case. Just when I think I figured it out, I see another name which had different lower-case letters. Or was it all just random?

 

[ScottRE]

Examples, from third-season episode "The Wail of the Siren" w/the great Joan Collins (OAD Thursday, Sept. 28, 1967 on ABC; from Warner Bros. 60s Batman all-in-one DVD):

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I remember this being called "socket" when I was looking for it for my home made DVDs of the series many years ago...

 

[JohnHopper]

I just binged on vintage pop music videos and I discovered a live performance of The Who
that recycled the 1963 logo of the BBC series Doctor Who and I can't explain it.

The Who - I Can't Explain