The Colgate Comedy Hour
A live variety hour with a different star each week, made to take the audience off Ed Sullivan.
The Colgate Comedy Hour kept one opening title sequence, 28 seconds long, across season 4.
At 28 seconds, it opens well under the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on NBC in 1950, when Truth or Consequences, Kraft Television Theatre and You Bet Your Life were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 4
28sFan upload dated 21 March 1954, which falls in the fourth season counted from the September 1950 launch.
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