KOCO Channel 5 - Saturday Night Double Feature (Opening, 1972)

Here's the opening titles for the Saturday Night Double Feature from KOCO Channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK. Dig the early video effects, as well as the synth-heavy theme music (which has been revealed to be "Topless Dancers of Corfu" by Dick Hyman and His Electric Eclectics, released in 1969 on Command single #RS 45-4126 [later switched to the ABC/Probe label under the same catalogue number] as the B-side of his Top 40 hit from that year, "The Minotaur"; both were also on his LP Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman, 938-S). Also features the station's then-current "5" logo, set in a font that resembles Microgramma Bold Extended.

This opening came from a 2" quad tape demo that was owned by Don Shannon, former WFLD-TV director who also worked early in his career at KOCO.

Former KOCO-TV staffer Jim Rankin say, "The opening was made by Don Shannon and News film editor Mike Brown. It was used in 72 or 73. It did not have a long run. In 1973 all new movie opens and bumpers were produced by Advertising Exec. Billy Bob Brown who had been a channel 9 director in the 60s".

This aired on local Oklahoma City TV likely in 1972.

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