The greatest time of all in television and every show I see here I get tears in my eyes! This world has changed so drastically since the 1980s its just horrible !!!!!
I was 10. My dad was the remote, we did not have a color television and weren't allowed to watch much tv. Especially " hippie" shows, I think parents meant dancing and singing. Ed Sullivan was the exception. I went next door in the summer to watch reruns. RIP mom and dad. You did the best you could.✌🏻💜💐
My dad controlled the tv when he was home (and there was only one). There was no consensus ever taken about what anyone else wanted to watch. He had three type shows he'd watch and nothing else. Westerns, war and cop shows. A few of those shows were okay but I liked comedy a lot. I'd only ever get to see those type of shows if he wasn't home or if I went to a friends house. I love looking back at TV from this era and am glad that a lot of it is becoming public domain now so they're easy to find.
I had no idea the original ratings for I Dream of Jeannie were so low. My mum and I loved it, and we often had dinner in the family room to watch it when it re-ran on our local station Tuesday evenings. We also loved Bewitched, My Three Sons, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Nanny and the Professor, and so many more from that time or shortly after. I miss those shows that were fun for the whole family!
On the contrary- as previously noted, "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" gave Jackie Gleason serious ratings competition....and forced "THE KING FAMILY SHOW" off the air in January 1966.
I love watching The King Family on here. I have no memories whatsoever of this but I seen it a few years ago on Get TV and had no idea that Tina Cole from My Three Sons was one of the daughters of these talented women.
One thing that is amazing with these old commercials is: This was in the days when America made televisions!!...if you can believe that...and cars too! We don't have the ability to make things like that anymore.
I'm addicted to these. I'm thinking Gunsmoke, The Lucy Show, WERE on Mondays. I remember watching TV with my mom, and sisters. Dad was usually on the road trucking.
I really appreciate you presenting this. I was 11 years old in 1965. I can remember all of them with the exception of The Loner. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
February 1965...it's Saturday night and I'm watching the Hollywood Palace. At 14 years old, I wasn't a big fan of this show...but this Saturday night, the guest host was Groucho Marx. My dad loved the Marx Brothers and, as a result, I grew up loving them too. On this particular night, Groucho's extra special guest was Margaret Dumont...the famous comedic foil in most Marx Brother's movies. Over many years, she had proven herself a good sport while enduring countless insults and pranks from Groucho and his brothers. She and Groucho had a wonderful time running through some bits from the old movies...I enjoyed it greatly. It wasn't until 40+ years later, that I learned Ms. Dumont passed away less than a week after that show. I further learned (via the internet) that Groucho was heartbroken upon learning the news. Summer 1977 saw Elvis and Groucho pass within days of each other...a difficult week for most. Several years ago, my daughter gave me a boxed set of all 13 Marx Brothers movies...needles to say, I've rediscovered my childhood love for Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and Margaret as well.
According to The Lennon Sisters, The Lawrence Welk Show moved to another studio that year, which was also they were in color. In one of the shows on PBS, they interviewed Diane, known as Dee Dee Lennon and she said that both she and Peggy were pregnant at the same time and they had to climb a lot of stairs. In their dressing room, they had a sign that read "The Stork Room, with pictures of storks on the walls. Peggy had a son and Diane had a daughter. Diane's first daughter Mary was adopted because she thought she couldn't have any children. She had left Lawrence Welk earlier, but right after she and her husband got Mary, she got pregnant with the baby,and Mary's adoption was supposed to be final, that he lost his job and they thought that Mary would be taken away. So she went to Lawrence and told him what happened and Lawrence weclomed her back.
"The Loner" was a short-lived western starring Lloyd Bridges which preceded Gunsmoke. I liked the show, but like many others that I liked during this era, it had a very short lifespan.
You must add The Manitou to your list of children of The Stone Tapes. We at Labor are very pleased that you posted this Kneale ghost story. I think John Carpenter ego may have gotten in the way of what, I’m sure, was an innovation to his Halloween series. I say this because this author was a visionary. Cheers to the Management for another creepy entry.
When I was little, my late dad used to love Jackie Gleason. I remember seeing him watch this show. Remember the episode of The Flintstones when their version of Shindig was on? And the man Jimmy ONeal too.I think I watched Flipper. The newspaper article was wrong. The first year of I Dream Of Jeannie was in Black & White. Because NBC thought it wouldn't last. I read in Barbara Eden's book that Sidney Sheldon himself was going to use his own money to put the show in Color, but NBC said no.
Love to watch many of these shows and great stars like Jackie Gleason and presented by Geritol is Lawrence Welk and Get Smart was cool but the promos were nice to watch again when products were made in the USA. Gunsmoke ended its longtime producer and writer and went to color . To me the old B/W episodes were the best since after the show was like any other Western on TV except The Wild wild West .Thanks Fred .🥂
Oh Man. Flipper was another one this boy's favorite if there ever was one out of a ton of others. Great show! And that Singer commercial? Our house had one and mom would spend so much spare time on that sewing machine. She like other mom's were really good with it. Can't shake that weird question she would ask me often times. "Would you come in here a minute and help me with this bobbin?" Oh my goodness what a time of this and that's. Another super effort very much appreciated FredFlix. And talking about being cooped up, I bet that's exactly how most of us )baby boomers) feel these days with all the junk produced with plastic (Yuck) and so much acceptance from the "other" generation who hasn't a clue what and the way life really was meant to be or any of the freedoms that period made possible.
Yes back when TV was Good. But just think of all the people who were killed because of smoking.. Smoking is totally gross and should be banned everywhere!
"THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" continued to be produced and telecast in black and white during the 1965-'66 season. It was finally taped in color, beginning in the fall of 1966.
1966 was the greatest year for TV in the history of the medium.......Tina Louise AND Barbara Eden..... Star Trek and Batman..... Gleason and Sullivan...... Wow.
Unusual to see Gleason playing Ralph Kramden in COLOR! Donna Loren, one of my favorite singers, was a regular on "Shindig". The reason ABC brought back the "King Family Show" was because the network needed a replacement for the ill-fated comedy/variety series "Turn-On", which had gotten cancelled after just one episode.
I remember when the TV guide that came in the Sunday (Rocky Mountain news) paper used to tell you when the show was in color. Then over time it would say the show was b&w.
Of note I Dream of Jeannie was "buried " on Saturday because NBC had no faith in the series. It was NBC'S last scripted series to air in B&W. Ironically the combination of Flipper and Jeannie proved very difficult for The Jackie Gleason Show(American Scene Magazine). It was a tight race all season. Flipper. Jeannie and Get Smart were 3 of the biggest surprises that season. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies also had a very strong season
nother winner, Fred. I eager The Loner is one of the series Rod Sterling is LEAST remembered for. Think Twilight Zone pretty well typed him from there on out, though he did good work in other genres.
I liked Flipper,and Lost in Space. I always wondered what it would be like to grow up with a dolphin,and live in space one or two of my dreams,back then
I've collected TV stuff since VCRs came out in the '70s. I also have ordered stuff from video sellers for decades. And if I don't have what I need, I pull it from TH-cam if available.
Remember The Flintstones episode where they watched Shinrock with Jimmy O Nealrock. Fred got to go on it because he hurt his foot and screamed and jumped up and down and started a dance craze, The Frantic?
3 channels packed with quality. Hard to chose between the shows. I never heard of The Loner by Rod Serling. Interesting. I notice at the end credits it's Interlaken Productions. That's a place in the Finger Lakes < NY. Serling was from Binghamton and ultimately lived in Ithaca NY. Many references to upstate NY in his work.
Also Bewitched ended its long run on ABC in the same timeslot where IDoJ began, but by this time All in the Family was wiping out whatever ABC put on then. NBC succeeded a bit here by counterprogramming Emergency in this same timeslot. Ozzie & Harriet, on Saturday nights in its 14th & last season, was actually in color (on ABC even!) that season. I was watching a small station on a trip to Waco, TX a few years back and remember seeing a color O&H episode, though it was a really bad, probably public domain, print.
Probably the biggest indignity here was the untimely demise of ABC's "THE OUTER LIMITS",that was killed-off (ratings' wise) by "THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" on CBS,and replaced by "THE KING FAMILY" variety series,that ran on ABC likely until 1969,but i could be wrong and subject to correction,but in either case,ABC's inept canceling of "THE OUTER LIMITS" was unforgivable! ABC ironically even entertained the bizarre idea of picking-up CBS's "TWILIGHT ZONE" for a sixth season,but thankfully that idea never happed!
It's interesting to note that photo with Barbara Eden with Groucho Marx for "I Dream Of Jeannie" that Barton MacLane (General Martin Peterson) was a lifeguard in the Marx Brothers' first feature film ("The Coconuts").
If Larry Hagman had encountered an actual "Ginn", just think how much fun he would have had in the few seconds before he died in some supremely horrific way !!!
My first experience with TV must have been when I was about 2 1/2 . All I remember about it was I wandered into my parents bedroom and some scruffy cowboy pointed a gun at me. I ran out of the room, and forgot to ask for my Cheerios.
I have TV guides from the 1965-66 season. It was not in color yet that season, though it would be the following year, along with all other prime time shows.
That shaky Gunsmoke opening that you have here was from the 1965-66 season. Season 11 was the show's last in B&W and its first to show any cast members other than James Arness in the opening credits. Gunsmoke would from then after show 2 openings, first the famous opening where Matt Dillon wins a showdown (or rides by on his horse) before the opening scene, and then the opening with the full regular cast after the opening scene.
Jackie Gleason's show wasn't in color until 1966, but it would be hard to find any 1965 Jackie Gleason Show footage. I do remember briefly in the 1980s a Boston Indy station was carrying 1/2 hour reruns of his show, similar to Carol Burnett's 1/2 hour edited version of her show, but I don't think it lasted long. I still remember hearing a reference on that show to "American Scene Magazine", which is what it was called around 1962.
How about looking at it this way... TV back then was building the vocabulary of narrative and visual gestures and devices which is the basis for how we watch stories now. Some of it was naively charming, some of it bland and empty, some of it shockingly tone deaf, and some small part of it was brilliant for any era. Personally, I don't see how that proportion has changed much. Some TV is brilliant, most of it ranges from derivative to appalling. The form has become more complex over time, but the percentages are about the same.
TimelordR, I barely remember that show (I guess it didn't make that big of an impression on this 5 year old kid - or, more likely, her parents!). However, I did get to see a couple of episodes on TH-cam and it was quite a good show! I just wish a second season was ordered - by the time I turned 6 I realized who Lloyd Bridges was - and really liked him!
Remember the episode of The Flintstones when they watched Shinrock and Fred invented the dance when he hit his leg and screamed "Yabba Dabba die yi yi yi!"
@@tomservo56954 Rod was a partner in the series with producer William Dozier. By early 1966, Serling was fed up with the network's insistence his stories feature more "action" {gunplay, fights, riunaway horses and stagecoaches}, and decided to withdraw from the production. Ratings competition from ABC's "THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE" and NBC's "SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES" [especially when a "name" movie was scheduled, including "Sunset Blvd.", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" and "Vertigo"] ended the series after 26 episodes.
@@FredFlix But it was that season Gleason brought back THE HONEYMOONERS for a one-shot appearance that was so well-received, he revamped the show the following season to feature them again regularly (and got a huge ratings boost)
5:54- "Lackluster"? On the contrary, "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" had equal the ratings--- or *better* - then Jackie Gleason at 8pm(et). NBC was shocked, to say the least......they believed the series was never going to be a ratings success, so they insisted it NOT be filmed in color, despite Sidney Sheldon's objections [he offered to pay for the extra cost for color film out of his own pocket, but was overruled by the network and Screen Gems executive Jerry Hyams, who said, "Sidney, don't throw your money away"]. "JEANNIE" became the LAST black and white prime-time series on NBC's 1965-'66 schedule.
5:46- Incidentally, NBC objected to Barbara Eden's "cleavage" in the pilot episode, and insisted she wear a less conspicuous form-fitting top for the remainder of the season....and by the way, the series DID have a regular sponsor that season: Liggett & Myers {L&M, Lark, Chesterfield King cigarettes}. It was "participating" advertisers on the alternate weeks Liggett wasn't sustaining the show. And it was filmed in BLACK AND WHITE during season one.
@@FredFlix The beginning of the Jackie Gleason Show always seemed to have the June Taylor dancers, and my Uncle Richard (he died before 1980) always liked it when they had overhead shots, and the dancers would do "kaleidoscopes". Yes, I watched the later Honeymooners episodes (even though Kramden and Norton were lousy singers), but they were showing the 39, 1950s episodes as well. For over 2 months I compared Audrey's Alice to Sheila's Alice, and decided then, that Sheila will always be the REAL Alice.
Yes, and many times there was only one TV in the house. That's why we feel today that those programs were precious They were fleeting. They came and went away so you had to be there assuming you were allowed to watch them at all.
Raise your hands if you would rather watch tv shows from 50+ years ago than what's out there today....
Raising.my hand. My mom says I am an old soul. I know it's true because I love old time television shows. Either black and white or color.
LOL My hand is most definitely raised!
@@hankaustin7091 Raising my hand, many times over. Today's shows don't even give me the heebie-jeebies.
Yes I like the old shows.
With all due respect this is what every older generation says about following generations.
The greatest time of all in television and every show I see here I get tears in my eyes! This world has changed so drastically since the 1980s its just horrible !!!!!
TV quality def. decline since mid-late 80's. Part of problem, I think, decision to revoke Hays Code.
@@johnerwin9024 no doubt of it.
Flipper, Lassie and Gentle Ben were some of my favourite shows of all time.
Brings back fond memories of watching TV with my Mom and Dad when was I was young.
I was 10. My dad was the remote, we did not have a color television and weren't allowed to watch much tv. Especially " hippie" shows, I think parents meant dancing and singing. Ed Sullivan was the exception. I went next door in the summer to watch reruns. RIP mom and dad. You did the best you could.✌🏻💜💐
My dad controlled the tv when he was home (and there was only one). There was no consensus ever taken about what anyone else wanted to watch. He had three type shows he'd watch and nothing else. Westerns, war and cop shows. A few of those shows were okay but I liked comedy a lot. I'd only ever get to see those type of shows if he wasn't home or if I went to a friends house. I love looking back at TV from this era and am glad that a lot of it is becoming public domain now so they're easy to find.
I had no idea the original ratings for I Dream of Jeannie were so low. My mum and I loved it, and we often had dinner in the family room to watch it when it re-ran on our local station Tuesday evenings. We also loved Bewitched, My Three Sons, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Nanny and the Professor, and so many more from that time or shortly after. I miss those shows that were fun for the whole family!
On the contrary- as previously noted, "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" gave Jackie Gleason serious ratings competition....and forced "THE KING FAMILY SHOW" off the air in January 1966.
I love watching The King Family on here. I have no memories whatsoever of this but I seen it a few years ago on Get TV and had no idea that Tina Cole from My Three Sons was one of the daughters of these talented women.
I'm not sure whether he's a daughter or a cousin.
One thing that is amazing with these old commercials is: This was in the days when America made televisions!!...if you can believe that...and cars too! We don't have the ability to make things like that anymore.
We have the ability, the government and the unions drove industry overseas.
@@pretorious700 Crazy thinking-
I’m obsessed now with your channel@FredFlix!!!! Thank you so much for putting these together !!! I’m hooked !!! 👌💥💥💥💥😉
Look for a FredFlix rehab center near you, Stevvie69.
Much better TV on in those days
That's why I watch the reruns mostly all the time 😃
Thanks Fred good memories here
😃👍
I have forgotten about Netflix now with all these good memories. Almost too much to bare, though, because we can't go back!
A true blast from the past!-Thanks for posting.
Just saw this. You're welcome, Scott.
Flipper was crap gentile ben also
I was 6 in 1966, I loved Batman, get smart, dark shadows, voyage to the bottom of the sea, so many great shows then and in the coming years.
I'm addicted to these. I'm thinking Gunsmoke, The Lucy Show, WERE on Mondays. I remember watching TV with my mom, and sisters. Dad was usually on the road trucking.
I really appreciate you presenting this. I was 11 years old in 1965. I can remember all of them with the exception of The Loner. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Thanks for posting this Fred I remember every one of these shows
You're welcome, runta69able.
February 1965...it's Saturday night and I'm watching the Hollywood Palace. At 14 years old, I wasn't
a big fan of this show...but this Saturday night, the guest host was Groucho Marx. My dad loved the Marx
Brothers and, as a result, I grew up loving them too. On this particular night, Groucho's extra special guest
was Margaret Dumont...the famous comedic foil in most Marx Brother's movies. Over many years, she had
proven herself a good sport while enduring countless insults and pranks from Groucho and his brothers. She
and Groucho had a wonderful time running through some bits from the old movies...I enjoyed it greatly. It wasn't
until 40+ years later, that I learned Ms. Dumont passed away less than a week after that show. I further learned
(via the internet) that Groucho was heartbroken upon learning the news. Summer 1977 saw Elvis and Groucho
pass within days of each other...a difficult week for most. Several years ago, my daughter gave me a boxed set
of all 13 Marx Brothers movies...needles to say, I've rediscovered my childhood love for Groucho, Harpo, Chico,
Zeppo and Margaret as well.
According to The Lennon Sisters, The Lawrence Welk Show moved to another studio that year, which was also they were in color. In one of the shows on PBS, they interviewed Diane, known as Dee Dee Lennon and she said that both she and Peggy were pregnant at the same time and they had to climb a lot of stairs. In their dressing room, they had a sign that read "The Stork Room, with pictures of storks on the walls. Peggy had a son and Diane had a daughter. Diane's first daughter Mary was adopted because she thought she couldn't have any children. She had left Lawrence Welk earlier, but right after she and her husband got Mary, she got pregnant with the baby,and Mary's adoption was supposed to be final, that he lost his job and they thought that Mary would be taken away. So she went to Lawrence and told him what happened and Lawrence weclomed her back.
Incredible amount of research in this comment! Quite informative! Kudos on a job well done. Thank you.
@@LuvBugnMaMa1 Sorry for the delay but you're welcome.
the only show I don't remember is The Loner, and now I have the Flipper theme song stuck in my head
"The Loner" was a short-lived western starring Lloyd Bridges which preceded Gunsmoke. I liked the show, but like many others that I liked during this era, it had a very short lifespan.
OK...I loved that Gleason show clip. The rest of this is so cool to see. I was a wee tyke at this time. But man, this stuff makes me smile. Thank you.
Found myself chuckling thru the whole video!! Your sense of humor combined with vast knowledge of everything ever aired on TV made my night!!!
Thanks, Jeff. I'll accept the humor part of your compliment, but vast knowledge of everything aired? Oh, well...OK! (Ha!)
You must add The Manitou to your list of children of The Stone Tapes. We at Labor are very pleased that you posted this Kneale ghost story. I think John Carpenter ego may have gotten in the way of what, I’m sure, was an innovation to his Halloween series. I say this because this author was a visionary. Cheers to the Management for another creepy entry.
Fantastic job as usual Fred!
We expect more greatness of course.
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it Fred.)
I used to have maybe 2,000 people to please, Gary. Now I have to please 80,000.
Lots of work gone into these posts, thanks I really enjoy them.Time travel is possible ( kinda )
It's a labor of love, I assure you. I'm glad you like 'em.
When I was little, my late dad used to love Jackie Gleason. I remember seeing him watch this show. Remember the episode of The Flintstones when their version of Shindig was on? And the man Jimmy ONeal too.I think I watched Flipper. The newspaper article was wrong. The first year of I Dream Of Jeannie was in Black & White. Because NBC thought it wouldn't last. I read in Barbara Eden's book that Sidney Sheldon himself was going to use his own money to put the show in Color, but NBC said no.
Sheri451 , The episode in which Fred does the "Frantic" is still hilarious 50 + years later , lol!
I don't smoke but it IS great to see these old cigar and cigarette spots!
I love this!!!! Thank you for posting this! We hope you post more.
Thanks. I have many videos like this among the 935 videos on this channel, with more to come.
That was excellent. It brought back many good memories!
Thank You For The Great Nostalgia! 👏👍 And May All Those Actors and Actresses Who Have Since Passed, ❤ 😓, R I P. 😇
You're welcome.
Love to watch many of these shows and great stars like Jackie Gleason and presented by Geritol is Lawrence Welk and Get Smart was cool but the promos were nice to watch again when products were made in the USA. Gunsmoke ended its longtime producer and writer and went to color . To me the old B/W episodes were the best since after the show was like any other Western on TV except The Wild wild West .Thanks Fred .🥂
Oh Man. Flipper was another one this boy's favorite if there ever was one out of a ton of others. Great show! And that Singer commercial? Our house had one and mom would spend so much spare time on that sewing machine. She like other mom's were really good with it. Can't shake that weird question she would ask me often times. "Would you come in here a minute and help me with this bobbin?" Oh my goodness what a time of this and that's. Another super effort very much appreciated FredFlix. And talking about being cooped up, I bet that's exactly how most of us )baby boomers) feel these days with all the junk produced with plastic (Yuck) and so much acceptance from the "other" generation who hasn't a clue what and the way life really was meant to be or any of the freedoms that period made possible.
Ah yes! When TV was worth watching! Nowadays. It's nothing but junk@
Yes back when TV was Good. But just think of all the people who were killed because of smoking.. Smoking is totally gross and should be banned everywhere!
Today the liberal lunatics want everybody to be potheads.
@@507dannyfe I vividly remember people smoking in hospitals, grocery stores and even in court houses.
@@maudemathildeh335 Even doctors, on commercials anyway, endorsed it-
"THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" continued to be produced and telecast in black and white during the 1965-'66 season. It was finally taped in color, beginning in the fall of 1966.
1966 was the year Network Television went to color . Combat never looked good in color , the b/w format fit a WW-2 show .
Lot of stuff still b/w 1965-
1966 was the greatest year for TV in the history of the medium.......Tina Louise AND Barbara Eden..... Star Trek and Batman..... Gleason and Sullivan...... Wow.
Cigar boxes .
Needed them for school.
Pencil boxes.
My father always found me one.
Thanks buddy, I love this stuff!
I would only have one wish for Jeannie.
Heh heh heh heh!
Having Jeannie simply come out of that bottle would be my only wish.
Valuable collection
Memories
We got cable and color TV in 1968. Until then we only had an NBC station locally. I remember wishing I could watch some of these shows. I was 8.
The Hollywood Palace had replaced the ill- fated Jerry Lewis Show in January of 1964. The show ran for 7 seasons mostly Saturdays at 9:30 Eastern.
I miss being able to smoke. Just another part of what is gone .
My goodness FredFlix, do you work at the UCLA Film Library or something? This clips you come up with are extraordinary.
Unusual to see Gleason playing Ralph Kramden in COLOR! Donna Loren, one of my favorite singers, was a regular on "Shindig". The reason ABC brought back the "King Family Show" was because the network needed a replacement for the ill-fated comedy/variety series "Turn-On", which had gotten cancelled after just one episode.
Thank you!
Oh damn, I got find that old Peter Falk show, never heard of or saw any of those cause Columbo was my favorite
I remember when the TV guide that came in the Sunday (Rocky Mountain news) paper used to tell you when the show was in color. Then over time it would say the show was b&w.
That would have been a great episode to watch of The Hollywood palace!
There's an entire TH-cam page of episodes...many in color, most of them with original commercials
Noticing a rise of couples and family sitcoms on this era of american tv. Variety shows reinventing themselves too
5 Dutch Master cigars for only 45 cents. A dollar went a long way back in 1965.
Man you never disappoint us.
Thanks, Eduardo.
Great job as always !!!
Thanks Kristine.
What an amazing voice Ted Cassidy had.
JUST GREATTTTTTTTTTT
Of note I Dream of Jeannie was "buried " on Saturday because NBC had no faith in the series. It was NBC'S last scripted series to air in B&W. Ironically the combination of Flipper and Jeannie proved very difficult for The Jackie Gleason Show(American Scene Magazine). It was a tight race all season. Flipper. Jeannie and Get Smart were 3 of the biggest surprises that season. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies also had a very strong season
The World War II drama CONVOY also ran in black & white on NBC that season (filmed that way because of its use of newsreel footage)
FLIPPER was an out of the box hit when it debuted the season before...
I Dream of Jeannie was the original jiggly boobs show. In 1965 Barbara Eden wore a felt vest that outlined her nipples.
nother winner, Fred. I eager The Loner is one of the series Rod Sterling is LEAST remembered for. Think Twilight Zone pretty well typed him from there on out, though he did good work in other genres.
He was always trying to prove something, as if he was somehow inadequate. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
I liked Flipper,and Lost in Space. I always wondered what it would be like to grow up with a dolphin,and live in space one or two of my dreams,back then
How about in space with a dolphin?
That would work I guess
5:12 The voice of the great Paul Frees.
Where do you get these from? Amazing!
I've collected TV stuff since VCRs came out in the '70s. I also have ordered stuff from video sellers for decades. And if I don't have what I need, I pull it from TH-cam if available.
@@FredFlix Excellent, Fred. Providing a Great service √+
VCRS WERE NOT AROUND
IN 1964. OR BEFORE
WHERE DO THESE COME FROM?
I forgot all about shindig!!
Remember The Flintstones episode where they watched Shinrock with Jimmy O Nealrock. Fred got to go on it because he hurt his foot and screamed and jumped up and down and started a dance craze, The Frantic?
Gosh I wish they had theme songs again
3 channels packed with quality. Hard to chose between the shows. I never heard of The Loner by Rod Serling. Interesting. I notice at the end credits it's Interlaken Productions. That's a place in the Finger Lakes < NY. Serling was from Binghamton and ultimately lived in Ithaca NY. Many references to upstate NY in his work.
That's true. If I'm not mistaken, Rod Serling is buried in Interlaken Cemetery.
On The Face Is Familiar June Lockhart is lovely & beautiful, she was one of the prettiest women on TV.
U would made my mum Happy..
How many people remember "The Hollywood Palace"? (8:58) Very few I'll bet, but I do as a regular viewer of that variety show!
At 5:27 notice that Tony Nelson lives down the street from Sam & Darrin Stephens. ;)
Also Bewitched ended its long run on ABC in the same timeslot where IDoJ began, but by this time All in the Family was wiping out whatever ABC put on then. NBC succeeded a bit here by counterprogramming Emergency in this same timeslot. Ozzie & Harriet, on Saturday nights in its 14th & last season, was actually in color (on ABC even!) that season. I was watching a small station on a trip to Waco, TX a few years back and remember seeing a color O&H episode, though it was a really bad, probably public domain, print.
@@jehobden Ozzie demanded that...
Yeah, I noticed that too. You have a good eye!
They both lived in Florida?
Probably the biggest indignity here was the untimely demise of ABC's "THE OUTER LIMITS",that was killed-off (ratings' wise) by "THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" on CBS,and replaced by "THE KING FAMILY" variety series,that ran on ABC likely until 1969,but i could be wrong and subject to correction,but in either case,ABC's inept canceling of "THE OUTER LIMITS" was unforgivable! ABC ironically even entertained the bizarre idea of picking-up CBS's "TWILIGHT ZONE" for a sixth season,but thankfully that idea never happed!
The King Family did replace Outer Limits (which was the REAL horror), but it too left the air after that summer, but it returned in 1969.
I was mad when they took off The Outer Limits, & put on The King Family!
Remember The Flintstones episode when they called it Shinrock?
It's interesting to note that photo with Barbara Eden with Groucho Marx for "I Dream Of Jeannie" that Barton MacLane (General Martin Peterson) was a lifeguard in the Marx Brothers' first feature film ("The Coconuts").
"THE DONNA REED SHOW" moved to 8pm(et) on Saturdays in January 1966 {"THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET" were seen at 7:30}.
You got me. But they were headed out...
But with good runs under their belt...eight and fourteen years, respectively.
More great ones!
The best show on TV 65 66 Flipper by far!
It is ok but at least 30 better shows that season!
If Larry Hagman had encountered an actual "Ginn", just think how much fun he would have had in the few seconds before he died in some supremely horrific way !!!
My first experience with TV must have been when I was about 2 1/2 . All I remember about it was I wandered into my parents bedroom and some scruffy cowboy pointed a gun at me. I ran out of the room, and forgot to ask for my Cheerios.
I have TV guides from the 1965-66 season. It was not in color yet that season, though it would be the following year, along with all other prime time shows.
Those Dutch Masters guys remind of the Month Python crew.
I loved Lawrence welk back then
Whoa, they forgot to credit the best thing about Flipper in the '65-'66 season: Ulla Stromstedt.
My sisters would've been watching Shindig, I would be watching I dream of Jeannie. My mom the Lawrence Welk show.
That shaky Gunsmoke opening that you have here was from the 1965-66 season. Season 11 was the show's last in B&W and its first to show any cast members other than James Arness in the opening credits. Gunsmoke would from then after show 2 openings, first the famous opening where Matt Dillon wins a showdown (or rides by on his horse) before the opening scene, and then the opening with the full regular cast after the opening scene.
Jackie Gleason's show wasn't in color until 1966, but it would be hard to find any 1965 Jackie Gleason Show footage. I do remember briefly in the 1980s a Boston Indy station was carrying 1/2 hour reruns of his show, similar to Carol Burnett's 1/2 hour edited version of her show, but I don't think it lasted long. I still remember hearing a reference on that show to "American Scene Magazine", which is what it was called around 1962.
I watched that as well
How about looking at it this way... TV back then was building the vocabulary of narrative and visual gestures and devices which is the basis for how we watch stories now. Some of it was naively charming, some of it bland and empty, some of it shockingly tone deaf, and some small part of it was brilliant for any era. Personally, I don't see how that proportion has changed much. Some TV is brilliant, most of it ranges from derivative to appalling. The form has become more complex over time, but the percentages are about the same.
What a shame CBS' prestige Western, The Loner got crushed by ABC'S Hollywood Palace.
TimelordR, I barely remember that show (I guess it didn't make that big of an impression on this 5 year old kid - or, more likely, her parents!). However, I did get to see a couple of episodes on TH-cam and it was quite a good show! I just wish a second season was ordered - by the time I turned 6 I realized who Lloyd Bridges was - and really liked him!
Remember the episode of The Flintstones when they watched Shinrock and Fred invented the dance when he hit his leg and screamed "Yabba Dabba die yi yi yi!"
13:55- "'Come to where the flavor is......come to MARLBORO COUNTRY!' MARLBORO cigaretttes........"/"...has brought you 'THE LONER'!"
I knew Serling's hand in it, but not that it was from the same folks that gave you BATMAN and THE GREEN HORNET.
He carried a bedroll, a gun but no Marlboros ?
@@tomservo56954 Rod was a partner in the series with producer William Dozier. By early 1966, Serling was fed up with the network's insistence his stories feature more "action" {gunplay, fights, riunaway horses and stagecoaches}, and decided to withdraw from the production. Ratings competition from ABC's "THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE" and NBC's "SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES" [especially when a "name" movie was scheduled, including "Sunset Blvd.", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" and "Vertigo"] ended the series after 26 episodes.
Gleason wasn't in color in the 1965-'66 season (which was still "publishing" its 'AMERICAN SCENE MAGAZINE'). Thanks for the introduction, anyway.
I figured it wasn't. We had BW set anyway.
no, you're right because TV Land (back when they were a good channel) showed an episode of it once from that season.
@@FredFlix But it was that season Gleason brought back THE HONEYMOONERS for a one-shot appearance that was so well-received, he revamped the show the following season to feature them again regularly (and got a huge ratings boost)
You forgot Secret Agent at mid-season!
Completely forgot about The King Family and The Trials of O'Brien and The Loner and The Face is Familiar.
5:54- "Lackluster"? On the contrary, "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" had equal the ratings--- or *better* - then Jackie Gleason at 8pm(et). NBC was shocked, to say the least......they believed the series was never going to be a ratings success, so they insisted it NOT be filmed in color, despite Sidney Sheldon's objections [he offered to pay for the extra cost for color film out of his own pocket, but was overruled by the network and Screen Gems executive Jerry Hyams, who said, "Sidney, don't throw your money away"]. "JEANNIE" became the LAST black and white prime-time series on NBC's 1965-'66 schedule.
No messing around when Gunsmoke came on in granddad's house.
What about Saturday late night...One Step Beyond or an old Italian movie?!
No network programming scheduled then...
Ive watched One Step Beyond here on YT It was an excellent show.
Yea, buddy. They sometimes showed offbeat stuff on 'All Night Movies'. Local channel used to thru 1970s-
The Lurch Dance. My life is now complete.
Boris Karloff Canadian born and bread
Bred, lol
5:46- Incidentally, NBC objected to Barbara Eden's "cleavage" in the pilot episode, and insisted she wear a less conspicuous form-fitting top for the remainder of the season....and by the way, the series DID have a regular sponsor that season: Liggett & Myers {L&M, Lark, Chesterfield King cigarettes}. It was "participating" advertisers on the alternate weeks Liggett wasn't sustaining the show. And it was filmed in BLACK AND WHITE during season one.
Nice info, thanks.
Barry I. Grauman She had to wear less form-fitting clothes in the early episodes, since she was pregnant.
No Navel. Cleavage No Problem!
@@FredFlix The beginning of the Jackie Gleason Show always seemed to have the June Taylor dancers, and my Uncle Richard (he died before 1980) always liked it when they had overhead shots, and the dancers would do "kaleidoscopes".
Yes, I watched the later Honeymooners episodes (even though Kramden and Norton were lousy singers), but they were showing the 39, 1950s episodes as well. For over 2 months I compared Audrey's Alice to Sheila's Alice, and decided then, that Sheila will always be the REAL Alice.
I smoked Lark cigarettes when I was 16.
I'm not so sure our TV reception back then was much better than some of these clips. "We need more tin foil on the wire hanger antenna!"
I wouldn't know if any show was in color since we owned a black and white television.
The clip of Lurch sort of "singing" was actually from Shivaree, not Shindig.
Without vcr's or dvr's how on earth did you guys decide what to watch? There must've been fights aplenty!
Yes, and many times there was only one TV in the house. That's why we feel today that those programs were precious They were fleeting. They came and went away so you had to be there assuming you were allowed to watch them at all.
back then we had 3 channels and there was plenty to watch. I have almost over 600 channels and I don't know what to watch anymore
1965... Spy-Fi heaven!
i wasnt even born yet :D