That is the cutest 1970s PBS logo variant I've ever seen.

@joelharris1335

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, seeing the 1970's P-head meeting a female P-head would be a nice touch for valentines day! Why couldn't they bring the pink P-head back - but updated?

@damondiogostine2925

Жыл бұрын

Why were there only 4 PBS kids shows in the 1970s

@WillCWilson

8 ай бұрын

​@@damondiogostine2925Because PBS Kids wasn't really a thing until 1993

@damondiogostine2925

8 ай бұрын

I wish PBS made adult animated shows like the ones we see on Fox and Adult swim. Maybe we might get that one day

@damondiogostine2925

8 ай бұрын

If PBS made an adult animated sitcom, we can learn about drugs, murdering, violence, sex, etc

Wish PBS could bring this back in an updated way.

Now that is what I call a true PBS classic

I love the song so much. This is so cute! I wish to hear the full song without the announcements.

A true PBS classic. From original tapes. And we want coming soon many episodes of NOVA!!! We want classic science!!!

These are really cool! I wasn't alive to see them, so thanks for uploading!

Tonight is what you make it... so make it good!

I love these classic pbs promos

Guys, I finally found the May promo! It's on the 1972 PBS promo of the series The More you Know.

Monday, May 8, 1972...I turned 2 that day. Love this.

@thetoolbox112394

10 жыл бұрын

Wow! Not to make you feel old, but this was 22 years before my time. My mom was 13 1/2 and my dad was 28! I just think this is nice to watch.

@LogoMan7777

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, "Antigone" debuted on PBS on October 7, 1972. This must have been from September.

@ZakWolf

Ай бұрын

My mom turned 14 years old that day! She was just finishing up middle school then.

I wish I could remember when these promos aired. They were from a time when TV stations, especially public television, aspired to do something more than just appeal to the lowest common denominator. Television seemed to be so much more "adult" and sophisticated then. Greek dramas; Shakespearean plays; Fine arts; Public affairs; Educational shows; Adaptations of classic novels ... this stuff just doesn't sell now and we're all the poorer for it.

@josephconciatori9824

7 жыл бұрын

Stirling, you have definitely made your point. However, the novel Vanity Fair was first published in 1848, making it over 100 years old (and hardly "new") when these promos were made.

@huntonpeck

7 жыл бұрын

You are correct; thank you. Fixed it.

@brycelandon6387

6 жыл бұрын

I still get the impression that PBS appeals to a higher class of viewer - at least with their adult programming - what with all the British shows they air like Downton Abbey.

@ChristopherSobieniak

6 жыл бұрын

PBS used to be this way. There was always something snooty on at night and if you were a kid, you simply tune to something else since it wasn't really for you.

@4611mathman

4 жыл бұрын

I like some of the show's on PBS Nova cosmos etc but. I knew some PBS members they were very entitled and sad suto intellectuals that played fallow the leader more then any independent thought they are no smarter the anybody else though they like to tell them selfs that. There eletist attude and their ego trips were big turn offs if you questioned anything you were a an ignoramous not worry of their time. People who watch PBS are no smarter or better then anybody else

This was also the same year that the popular Marlo Thomas LP Record album "Free To Be You And Me" was first released!

Wow these were uploaded in the best quality available.

i love this pbs heart song cause it's beautiful.

22 years and about 6 months before my time. Sounds like some great public TV!

The promos sound old, but I love them!!!

“Vanity Fair + Another Part Of The Forest” is the only one missing.

My mother was 9 at the time these were broadcasted.

Honestly I'm not here to go all "PBS promos/bumpers were so good back then they suck now" but the one thing I wish they would do more often is mess around with the P-Head. PBS Kids had the P-Pals which IMO I prefer way more to Dot and Dash. Those two are perhaps more appropriate for the shows they precede but the P-Pals was still really fucking cool. If these are anything to go by even main-line PBS could make the P-Head be more expressive and whatnot. I'm guessing these were dealt away with because of professionalism or whatever but still I really liked these.

These promos were shown on WHRO (A PBS Station in Norfolk, VA) in 1972

Thank you. Incredible. What a find. I was not yet 3 years old when these were aired.

Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird" - International Performance(he was from Russia) Antigone - Playhouse NY Vanity Fair(Susan Hampshire) - Masterpiece Theatre "Another Part of the Forest" - Lillian Hellman Election '72(at the time this bumper was broadcasted) - A Public Affair

Major retro-ness FTW! Great find, Aspergian!

cool! this is classic public television! i wish i had seen this but i wasn't even a thought in 1972. (My mom was only 14!)

I wonder if these ads were intende to air on commercial TV? In the eraly years of PBS, it wasn't unheard of to see PBS promos on other channels.

Excellent vintage PBS promos from 1972!! But still can't figure it out which date my local PBS station KPBS San Diego conducted pledge nights throughout 1972!!

2:38 this mentioned my birthday!

@WolfKing-dv6xd

5 жыл бұрын

Cool!

There are two PBS stations that might have the christmas variant WHYY in Philadelphia/Wilmington/Atlantic City might have it or WETA in Washington DC may have it with their founding mother the late Elizabeth Campbell

No scary Moog synthesizer here, dang!

This was back when PBS stations had fundraisers like twice a year now they're on like 5 times a year

@kascnef

5 жыл бұрын

Phil Smith which is annoying

@6-leggedhedgehogproduction519

2 жыл бұрын

@@kascnef How else are they gonna make money?

I thought reality TV didn't exist until the 1990s. Thanks for telling me!

@misterhot9163

2 ай бұрын

Oh no, it’s been around for years before Ozzy and the Kardashians!

This very nostalgic.

I first saw that back then on Thanksgiving or somewhat in 2011. Good memories...

Ah, the good days of TV

FTW stands for For The Win. Always happen to help a fellow Aspergian!

*L00K FOR SOMETHING SPECIAL*

The person who did the voiceover for the last commercial sounded like Frenchy from "Grease".

So that's what P was doing when he wasn't scaring the hell out of me with B and S!

I always had a thing for Erin Esurance, but then Allstate had her killed. Why, Allstate, why? You knew I was going to marry her!!

Thanks for posting these, these are pretty interesting to see!!! I too would like to see more early public tv-related promos and interstitials as well here on YT, they seem to be quite a rarity... How did you come across these, if I may ask?

@RyanSchweitzer77

8 жыл бұрын

+David Merrill Gill (Bonzai) Yes, the MBC--I've viewed a portion of their collection online on their website (some of it they have up for video streaming), a great archive for broadcasting. Thanks for the info!

🎶 Look for something special on your Public TV Station! Tune in Tonight! Tune in Tonight! 🎶

PBS - Tonight is What You Make It 5-7, 10 (Partly Found PBS Promos) (1972)

This was like somewhere in May of 1972.

How long did these "Look for something special" -style promos last for? They appear to have been animated by whoever did the 1971-1984 PBS closing logo, but with a more mellow stereotypically-1970s soundtrack instead of Moog synthesizers.

@Pdasilva0324

10 жыл бұрын

I heard someone say through the late 70s but not sure to be honest. This is very 1972.

@professeurgeopaul

9 жыл бұрын

P

@EricEbac22

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul DaSilva The PBS "P Head" logo was used from the fall of 1971 until fall 1984; prior to that, after PBS succeeded the old NET (National Educational Television) in October of 1970, they only used a barebones graphic with Macdonald Carey announcing "This is PBS: the Public Broadcasting Service".

@Pdasilva0324

8 жыл бұрын

EricEbac22 Yes, The P-Head was 1971-84, but these specific "Look for Something special" promos. I don't remember them growing up. I was born in 1977 and have watched PBS since infancy.

@EricEbac22

8 жыл бұрын

Paul DaSilva This was from late winter-early spring of 1972; the first five or six were narrated by "Boy Meets World" and "Knight Rider" star William Daniels, while the last one for May of '72 was narrated by Didi Conn, best known for her role as Frenchy in "Grease" and "Grease 2".

Now if somebody can unearth some NET promos from until 1970...

2:59- So, it looks like Reality TV existed earlier than we thought.

@ChristopherSobieniak

6 жыл бұрын

Although in the context of that "Reality" was promoting, I'm thinking it's a documentary on the Hopi Indians' plight to save their land from being taken over by a mining organization, so I don't see it the same as a reality show today. This was a documentary on a real event.

@ChristopherSobieniak

6 жыл бұрын

Just looked up the entry for the film itself. www.worldcat.org/title/black-coal-red-power/oclc/20267058?referer=di&ht=edition trove.nla.gov.au/work/21628423?q&versionId=25953504

@sterlingiverson5017

6 жыл бұрын

you mean 2:59?

@LogoMan7777

2 жыл бұрын

@@sterlingiverson5017 Yes

3:13 P-Head Is Sneezing! ACHOOO! XO

@denisejordan7648

7 жыл бұрын

Stephen Fisher

@dolphn842

2 жыл бұрын

3:13 Gesundheit!

@marissawolff8491

4 ай бұрын

Yeah. Poor little guy!

And I'm gonna venture a guess that the voiceover on these "look for something special" promos is Burgess Meredith...

@LogoMan7777

2 жыл бұрын

William Daniels.

3:05 The forerunners to the P-Pals

Look for something special on your public tv station tune in tonight tune in tonight! I love you!

weird how choppy the audio editing is in the may promo

@ChristopherSobieniak

6 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say choppy as it's typical of the soundtrack on film to sound that way anyway, it's not entirely clear like if it was done on tape. You often have the problems associated with age, wear and usage.

P heads fall in LOVE!!!! yay @52Hacker cool dude

Yeah play Stravinsky's "Firebird"!! Wooooo!

Who sings Look for Something Special?

@vioreldroj9760

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Russell

Published on Feb 5, 2016

2:29 P-Head Is Happy! :)

Great find- I adore these! So simple, sweet & mellow, as opposed to the annoying in-your-face-loud-loud-loud-do-i-have-your-attention-yet commercials they hurl at us these days. The animation of the flowers blooming for May is gorgeus. The whole thing is gorgeus, actually. Very Schoolhouse Rock. It just irks me that the P-headette is scowling at the begining, like she can't be happy untill the MAN shows up. Couldn't her face just have been passive & normal? (I know, my feminisim is showing.)

This is trippy.

1972 PBS Promos

50 years ago now

PBS Heart ❤️ 1972 0:14 PBS MAY 1972 2:20 PBS 1977 Promo 3:19

Can you do a video remake out of this?

I know there is to much love from P-Head

Does anyone remember the bumper or sponsor promo on PBS WNET in the early 70's that had exterior footage from the Cloisters? Can't find anywhere

R.I.P Fred rogers 1968-2001

@damondiogostine2925

Жыл бұрын

Fred rogers died in 2003, it was just his show that ended in 2001. Even after Fred roger's death in 2003, PBS kids reran mister rogers neighborhood episodes

Bye Bye! Gonna Go Into 2020 And Revive These ID's

It means "for the win", just so you know.

Tonight is what you make it,so make it good! Look for something special on your public TV station? (x2) Tune it tonight! Tune it tonight!

3:13 P Head's First Sneeze

are there any promos of NET from the mid-to-late 1960s and early 1970?

Skip to 0:14 for all the promos.

I don't know, but I think that be Didi Conn (Frenchy from Grease) narrating the last one

@LogoMan7777

9 жыл бұрын

looneytoon76 And William Daniels narrating the rest?

The p - head is in love

Cute

19... / Creative Video - Colourful!

Zoom! 1970-1999 1999-2005 love that show

@x1224

8 жыл бұрын

I already knew that.

@EricEbac22

8 жыл бұрын

+Seth Cardona That was the second incarnation; the original aired from 1970 until 1986.

@x1224

8 жыл бұрын

cool!

Were these William Daniels (voice of "KITT from Knight Rider" and much more)..? Thanks for sharing them!

@EricEbac22

8 жыл бұрын

+GameTipsAndMoreBlog As far as the first voice, I couldn't tell you if it was William Daniels, AKA Mr. Feeney from "Boy Meets World", but the second one sounded like Didi Conn, AKA Frenchy from "Grease".

@michaelglickman1300

7 жыл бұрын

Amusingly, Didi Conn would later work for PBS full time, when she was cast as Stacy Jones on "Shining Time Station."

PBS 70s May Promo at 2:19!

Where is the Christmas variant this and the Christmastime variant are in my novel memories of the 1970s PBS logo

@kadenvanciel9335

6 жыл бұрын

The PBS page on the CLG Wiki might need some context on the Christmas variant. How do you remember seeing them?

@vioreldroj9760

5 жыл бұрын

Here

You downloaded the file but how this footage comr from??

No Angry P-Head!

KLRN PBS 9 San Antonio TX

"Antigane", LOLZ!

we have lost so many of the fundamentals

I 1st saw it in the 2010s

i used to be scared of the PBS P-Head lulz

I'm just astonished watching this stuff. (1972 was ten years before I joined the human race). You know, back then people already said television was bad for you, and it probably was, but JEEZ. It has to be a thousand times worse for you now, because today it's constant sensory overload----sensory assault, really. I watcth these old PBS promos and I can't believe how quiet and peaceful they are. Now compare that to, say....ABC Family promos today, which to me are the worst of the worst.

Was it William Daniels doing the voiceover?

@LogoMan7777

2 жыл бұрын

I believe so, yes.

the PBS head getting some!! lol

3:14: Gesundheit!

@dolphn842

2 жыл бұрын

3:14

May.

Only 4 shows on PBS kids in 1971? That's sucks

2:20 It's gonna be May

Taken of a LaserDisc?

@twcoursolle

8 жыл бұрын

+Gabriel Brito DVD-R,it seems

if someone find the Xmas logo of the 1971 logo

2:28 ok

2020s.

(Sing-song) P-Head's got a girlfriend!

Awwwww 0:29 :3

William Daniels?