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As the credits roll to an end at the conclusion of your favorite television sitcom or drama series, it's time for the appearance of the vanity card - usually a two-second glimpse at a logo or film clip that toots the horn of the show's creative talent.
One of the first people to put the vanity card to comedic use was Mary Tyler Moore, whose MTM Enterprises borrowed MGM's roaring lion symbol and turned it into a meowing kitten. When MTM branched into drama, the firm's vanity card showed the kitten wearing a police hat at the end of "Hill Street Blues," bouncing a basketball at the end of "The White Shadow," and appearing in surgical scrubs at the conclusion of "St. Elsewhere."See the full content of this document
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