Re: Chess is the theme of an episode of the TV show Numb3rs

ttk5079@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Apr 13, 7:58 pm, Rick Jones <r.t.jo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Rich Hutnik wrote:
>>> http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/12/numb3rs-checkmate-video/
>>> Episode name is "Checkmate".
>>     Which was also the title of an old '60s era TV show which showed a
>> chess board during the title sequence. It was a detective show if
memory
>> serves me.
>>     Yep. IMDB to the rescue:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053491/
> 
>   Used to watch that show regularly in my early teens. I don't recall
> any chessboard in the opening titles. Instead they showed a bunch of
> swirling liquids, like different colors of paint mixing. It's seen
> very briefly at the begining of this clip from 1962:
> 
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg8asTWuLz4

    Hmmm, that is not the opening sequence that I remember for the show. 
Perhaps they changed it from one season to another. Then again, it's 
been 40+ years since I've seen it so who knows what sort of tricks my 
memory is playing.

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