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Date Posted: 23:58:25 04/28/03 Mon
Author: Kenny (via Geoff)
Author Host/IP: launceston-atm.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au / 61.9.128.173
Subject: Announcers

Kenny from Alabama emailed me with the following question that I am afraid *I* don't even know the answer to: Who were the announcers on the show's opening theme song?

This question was answered once before on our old messageboard but I checked the archives and can't find it. Certainly, the first season had a short theme only and no announcer, (although one book emphatically states that the pilot episode had the familiar "My Three Sons... Starring Fred MacMurray.. and as Bub, William Frawley... brought to you by..") My print does not have this. It should be pointed out that in syndication, gone are the original theme music openings plastered with sponsors logos etc. Here in Australia, Season 1 & 2 have no announcer, Season 3 and 4 do, but I have some Season 2 episodes with an alternate arrangement of the theme and an announcer! Season 6 (in Color) had the most remembered announcer and this version was used randomly to the end of the series. Season 7 had a different arrangement again and the same announcer. Season 8 episodes mostly employed the Season 6 version, but the first California episode has a different announcer who can actually be heard to say "Starring Fred McMurray" (not Mac!) Perhaps this was then pulled and substituted. Season 10 brought the updated version of cast credits and a newer arrangement of the music *without* the announcer. Most syndication prints for Season 11 utilise the Season 7 opening but there is a Season 11 version with a different announcer yet again (the updated arrangement is similar to the fast end credit theme) Season 12 yet again brought an alternate arrangement with extended credits and a variation on the Season 10 theme! However it should be still made clear that even in reruns now, Viacom releases new prints of the color episodes that open with the familiar Season 6 theme but NO announcer (and the variation in the music is in omission of the second last of the last two beats). Similarly, they are sending out new prints with an abridged version of the closing credits (which are in reality sped up to save a few seconds of time - to place more advertising no doubt). This sounds quite jarring when you hear them as you think they are starting half-way through the theme music!! But getting back to announcers, I am fairly certain that on the oldest episodes the announcers are not John Stephenson or Roy A. Rowan who did the "I Love Lucy" openings for CBS. Did CBS have its own pool of program announcers, and could someone elaborate on this query?

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