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KurtfromPitts · 06-14-2006, 01:15 PM

I don't know if this has been addressed before, but, who is the announcer on the syndicated opening title of the "classic 39" episodes? I know he was a longtime CBS staff announcer.

VIDEOWACK · 06-14-2006, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by KurtfromPitts

I don't know if this has been addressed before, but, who is the announcer on the syndicated opening title of the "classic 39" episodes? I know he was a longtime CBS staff announcer.

His name is Gaylord Avery. Here is a pic of him on Channel 2 (WCBS) in 1985.

TV Knowledge Fan · 06-14-2006, 04:13 PM

....since CBS Films was handling the distribution of the "classic 39" episodes beginning in 1957, they wanted one of their staff announcers to rerecord Jack Lescoulie's original voice-over on the opening title {the one used during the second half of that 1955-'56 season}, and chose Avery. I found this bit of info in the mid-'80s, when Avery was STILL a CBS staff announcer- mostly doing duty on the local N.Y. news and occasionally on WCBS-TV's "overnight" 10-15 minute newscasts on Saturday nights [just slides; you never saw him on-screen]. He retired sometime in the early '90s.

06-14-2006, 01:15 PM	#1
KurtfromPitts Member Senior Member Join Date: Feb 10, 2006 Location: Carnegie PA Posts: 1,535	Question about the syndicated opening I don't know if this has been addressed before, but, who is the announcer on the syndicated opening title of the "classic 39" episodes? I know he was a longtime CBS staff announcer.

06-14-2006, 04:13 PM	#3
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	Yes, that's Gaylord Avery.... ....since CBS Films was handling the distribution of the "classic 39" episodes beginning in 1957, they wanted one of their staff announcers to rerecord Jack Lescoulie's original voice-over on the opening title {the one used during the second half of that 1955-'56 season}, and chose Avery. I found this bit of info in the mid-'80s, when Avery was STILL a CBS staff announcer- mostly doing duty on the local N.Y. news and occasionally on WCBS-TV's "overnight" 10-15 minute newscasts on Saturday nights [just slides; you never saw him on-screen]. He retired sometime in the early '90s.