Let's go back to 1955 for the original opening of an episode of Make Room For Daddy as was sponsored by the American Tobacco Company and televised on ABC. This clip includes a commercial for Pall Mall cigarettes. The series was also sponsored (on an alternating basis) by the Dodge division of Chrysler.
Danny Thomas' sitcom moved to CBS in 1957 and I think it wound up being sponsored by General Foods.
Showing posts with label Peanuts Television Specials and Motion Pictures. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Rats!
Longtime animation veteran Bill Melendez, best remembered for his work directing and animating numerous television specials with Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters (A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, et al), as well as a number of theatrical animated feature films with Charlie Brown, Snoopy and company, passed away on Tuesday at Santa Monica, California at age 91. Mr. Melendez, who in earliers times worked for Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, and UPA, also did the voices of Snoopy and Woodstock in the Peanuts specials.
Bill earned eight Emmy Awards and 17 Emmy nominations. For many years, he sported a handlebar mustache.
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