This isn't the best video but it's a piece of TV history. You're probably a fan (as am I) of the great situation comedy known variously as You'll Never Get Rich, The Phil Silvers Show and Sgt. Bilko. I'm a little fuzzy on when each title was used but the names were at times interchangeable. I believe for a long period, TV Guide called it Sgt. Bilko or Phil Silvers, regardless of what name was on the screen. (They also referred to The Tonight Show by its host's name. It would say "Jack Paar" or "Johnny Carson" as if that was the name of the program.)
If you were a fan of the show on which Silvers played Bilko, you probably think that it's opening looked like the above image. That was a title created, I believe, when the series went into afternoon syndication. The original show had main titles that plugged the hell out of its sponsor, Camel Cigarettes. When it went into syndication, Camel was no longer its sponsor so the opening had to be changed.
Here's a look at the way the show began if you were watching it during its original prime-time incarnation. It's followed by a very brief Camel commercial with Brian Keith…
