Like several others I'll also add The Prisoner, with Patrick McGoohan. It was a 16-episode limited series, like they do nowadays. It's a surreal show about what happens after a spy leaves the agency, that dealt a lot with who we are as individuals. The last episode really stands out as bizarre and puzzling, but I like it. I think you could do a video about it since you cover the 60s.
There was a show that lasted only two seasons (1966-67) but was really imaginative called The Time Tunnel produced by Irwin Allen. It concerned scientists Doug & Tony being transported to different time epochs via a time tunnel. They were trapped out of time trying to get back to the present. I watched it in syndication in the late 1970's on WFLD -Chicago.
@@hankbauer9277Yes! Invaders was a great show too. I read that Irwin Allen was disgusted with ABC being cheap with budgeting, so he pulled both those series and went to feature films.
Yes, the time tunnel! I was in fourth grade… I still remember the episode of Pearl Harbor where Tony runs into his boyhood self. And for sure, I remember the Krakatoa volcano episode because I had to do a report on that for school. I got a lot of my information from that episode.
You know it’s funny, when I was living through the 60s I couldn’t wait for the 70s. Now that I have lived through both I regard them as great eras of my life that can never be replaced or happen again, especially the 60’s. In spite of all the turmoil I think it was a golden time full of good living. Maybe it was because it was my childhood and teenage years. Golden years, for sure, there was SO much good happening. I wished I had known that, I would have lived better and happier knowing what I know now. Such is life. BTW, although there were many good shows back then with plenty of mindless silliness, my absolute, all time favorites were, Star Trek and Jonny Quest.
Besides many you mentioned, I loved: Drama: Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker! Drama: Flipper (the dolphin) Variety: Ed Sullivan Show Variety: Hollywood Palace (always had a musical group) Variety: Lawrence Welk (grudgingly, at my Grandparents' house) Mixed: Wonderful World of Disney Outdoor: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Western: Branded (Chuck Conners) Cartoon: Yogi Bear Cartoon: Huckleberry Hound Comedy: Dennis the Menace Music: American Bandstand Game: I've Got a Secret Game: What's My Line?
Thanks Matt… Nice trip down memory lane. You covered it all! I am a boomer (born 1957). It was a great time to be a kid. When people ask me what my childhood was like, I’d tell them to watch leave it to Beaver. Idyllic childhood in the San Francisco Bay area. When I was eight years old and my cousin was 10, we go to Giants baseball games by ourselves. No worries about getting lost or being harmed. So glad you mentioned “THEN CAME BRONSON”. I was 13 just getting into motorcycles I was so upset when they took that off the air. Because of your video, I’m going to go listen to “ Long Lonesome Highway” I believe Michael Parks hit the charts with that song Hey Matt, there’s an idea for you,do a video on TV theme songs that actually hit the charts. Unless you’ve already done that and I missed it. Thanks again for the memory trigger.
I dedicated my weekly 1960s rock radio show after The Monkees❤ I'm 24, and I grew up watching the 60s TV shows my folks introduced me to as a kid and I have a nostalgic place for I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, and the Brady Bunch.. but my huge passion is the Monkees. My roommates don't really understand my admiration, but i host a radio show on my free time all about how much i appreciate the 60s culture and music❤ Huge fan of your channel btw, thanks for all your wonderful content! The Raiders video is my favorite!🥰
The 50 Avengers episodes with Dianna Rigg as Emma Peel are must watch. They are great! The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is fantastic in season one, season two is still really good, season three got to silly going "camp" to cash in on Batmans popularity, season four got serious again with good episodes but the ratings had dropped to much and it got cancelled.
As a kid who grew up in the 1960s, and graduated high school in 1972, there were so many TV series that ran virtually throughout the decade, and thus during my childhood, that ended about the time I left school 1971/1972) -- including Bonanza, the Ed Sullivan Show, Andy Griffith/Mayberry RFD, My Three Sons, the Beverly Hillbillies, and probably a couple of others I forget at the moment. Gunsmoke , a staple of my youth since I was born, ended in 1974. What a time, television-wise (and music-wise) for us kids!
I loved The Monkees and still do! I came to appreciate them during the MTV revival in the mid-80’s. I was fortunate to see them at Poplar Creek in Hoffman Estates, Illinois in 1987. I was 12 and it still is my favorite concert to this day. I had a huge crush on Mickey! I have quite a few of their records still. I was born in’75, but often feel like I was born in the wrong era. I love, love, love anything 60’s & 70’s…music, movies, tv shows, decor, style etc…Thank you for all the great videos on your channel! I have really enjoyed all of the ones I have watched so far❤
It's almost impossible to watch something like this and resist the urge to share your own experience. I was born in 1966 so almost all of my television memories are from the 70s. And as you point out, the 70s probably had more shows from the 60s to watch than the 70s with reruns and such. Star Trek was enormous for me. As a child you're trying desperately to understand and operate in the world. The real world is just as fantastical and scary as space, the final frontier. They call it childhood "power fantasy". Imagining being Captain Kirk and triumphing with a mixture of wisdom and power was absolutely irresistible. And of course I watched almost all the shows you mentioned.
Great video, Matt! My number one is the same as yours. I'm doing my favorite 60s shows today and I'll be sure to mention this video in the pinned comment for inspiration.
Thanks for sharing these TV memories, Matt. I was a big Hogan's Heroes fan, but also, (contrary to your favorites), I was a huge Star Trek fan, even to this day. I loved most of the programs you mentioned. I was born at the end of '64 (a "Boomer-X" gen) and grew up with many of these programs. That was fun hearing your favorites. 😃
Matt, so funny how I had many of the same reactions to those shows. The Rifleman shooting the gun, the Ironsides/Fugitive sad intros, Batman after school, etc. Ginger, of course. I have a feeling we would have the same opinions regarding Charlie's Angels as well. Lol, keep up the great work
@@markymark903 Ever see her as Sacagawea in "The Lewis and Clarke Story," with Charlton Heston?? LUCIOUS! Donna Reed was still beautiful when she was in her 70s.
Hi. Born in ‘66 and was fortunate to 1) live halfway between NYC and Philly and 2) pull in four UHF channels thanks to our gargantuan rotating roof-mounted TV antenna. As I result I spent an insane amount of the 70’s in the smorgasbord of 60’s reruns across those four channels. Personal faves: 1. Lost in Space (Angela Cartwright in season 3 with the short hair - good gawd almighty) 2. Bewitched - Liz Montgomery….. the gift that keeps on giving 3. That Girl - Marlo’s scratchy delivery gave me the tingles… 4. All those ScreenGems series that shared the Columbia Ranch - Gidget, The Flying Nun (clearly a Sally Field fan), The Monkees… 5. The Flintstones 6. Rocky & Bullwinkle (loved the Fractured Fairy Tales, and any time Boris and Natasha appeared). 7. Laugh-In (I couldn’t see it but I would crack open my bedroom door and listen from afar) 8. The Mothers-in-Law - I secretly wished my mother was Eve Arden Too many more (and even more humiliating) to list here lol
Great reviews Matt. Early 60s birth here so I remember a lot of these. Glad you showed respect for Leave It To Beaver. We watched a lot of the episodes recently on Roku and it was tremendously enjoyable. I know it gets made fun of, but it was a series through the eyes of a young person (Beaver) and the situations he gets in... such as falling into the coffee cup on the billboard. Just read Ken Osmond's book and loved it. He of course played Eddie Haskell. In real life he was almost killed twice while working as a police officer in L.A. Could never get into Gomer Pyle. That playing stupid act just got on my nerves. Sort of like Festus on Gunsmoke although that character was not trowled on so thickly. Twelve O'clock High was a good mid 60s series I watched in the early 80s.
A couple of my favorites Mr Ed It’s about time Land of the lost ( I tend to like the 90s version better) The ghost and Mrs Muir Clutch cargo (absolutely absurd cartoon) And for a soap opera Dark Shadows ! Matt, you gotta watch Green Acres again the show was well written. Poor Mr Douglas was the only sane one in that asylum. The reason everyone was so happy on the Andy Griffith show is no one was married, except Otis and he was drunk !
I remember liking The Avengers, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, which I could probably still enjoy to some extent even today. I watched The Man from Uncle but doubt I would like now. The Smothers Brothers had some memorable segments I might enjoy seeing again. I had hazier recollections of Route 66 which I must have seen in reruns. A few years ago I sought out the show on TH-cam and watched the first 3 seasons which would have originally run 1960 to 1963 or so. Two young men driving across America in a sports car encountering various people and situations every week more or less in the spirit of Jack Kerouac. Fascinating to see what America looked and felt like back then. My sense is it’s better than ‘Then Came Bronson’ which my dad made a point of watching.
Adding a few more to your list: 77 Sunset Strip, Sea Hunt, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Denis the Menace, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Bat Masterson, Daniel Boone, The Persuaders, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Boris Karloff Presents, The Partridge Family, Mr. Magoo, Doctor Who (British), National Kid (Japanese), Topo Gigio (Italian).
Great segment, Matt. I believe I have about 10 years on you, so I do remember many of these shows being prime time growing up. Chicago actually had 3 syndication channels by the very early 70's, so there was literally a smorgasborg of great early television shows to get to know. My first television memory was of a very gritty, violent cop show called Naked City which ran from 1958 to 1963 on ABC. It was shot on location in New York City which added to the early 60's atmosphere which I really dig.
I wholeheartedly agree with The Twilight Zone pick; that is one series - the original which ran from 1959 to 1964 - I will never tire of. I also think the episodes are best viewed on cold, dark winter nights. Great video!
Two big '60s sci-fi's that deserve mentioning are Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and The Invaders. VTTBOTS was another Irwin Allen series, like Lost In Space, but maybe his best. Nevertheless, they both started out in black and white and had good, more adult orientated scripts in the beginning, but after they went to colour and time went by the stories became more and more childish and silly, with Lost In Space actually playing for laughs. The Invaders was always serious and had good guest stars and was actually a Quinn Martin production so it had a prestige and styling relating to The Fugitive. Roy Thinnes was kind of like a fugitive both running from and pursuing the aliens at the same time. I enjoyed it.
Marlo Thomas was one of my first crushes too, along with Jeannie (Barbara Eden) and Agent 99 (Barbara Felton). In more recent years, my favorite ‘60s actress is absolutely Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) on The Avengers. Growing up in the ‘60s early ‘70s, I really enjoyed Hogans Heroes, The Jetsons, Adam 12, I Dream of Jeannie and Mannix.
Matt, you and I are about the same age and I live in the 60s every day. I really enjoy your videos. I too grew up watching those reruns and miss the days of independent tv channels. Just a shout out to some of my life-long pet shows: Star Trek, The Wild Wild West, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Munsters and Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in. What an era!
Mission impossible was really quite ingenious because you had to figure out how the IMF team would outsmart their adversaries because very little was revealed to you at the beginning of each episode. I’m a child of the 1960s, so among my favourite TV shows from the early 1960s are: The Naked City (a very gritty-looking show because it was shot on location in New York City), Have Gun Will Travel, Checkmate, Adventures In Paradise, Ben Casey, Gunsmoke, Mr. Novak; and going into the mid to late 1960s, of course Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Batman, Mannix, and Hawaii Five-O.
I like these surprises. You have a knowledge of 60s TV that is as good as anyone (like myself) who grew up in the 50s and became a teen in the 60s. I watched most of these shows when the episodes were new, but since most of them were not topical, they were just as fresh as reruns. A few others that I watched were 77 Sunset Strip, Dobie Gillis, Flipper and The Avengers (Diana Rigg). And on the lesser known side Ensign O'Toole (Dean Jones) Fair, Exchange (Judy Carne) and The Great Adventure (an American history dramatization). I' m taking that survey right away. Definitely Ginger.
I used to watch everything in your top 10 as a kid (born in 66 here). In the Detroit area, I had the added bonus of PBS showing Monty Python's Flying Circus, which remains a favorite.
A great compendium of memories Matt -- I saw them a bit earlier than you did but had much the same appreciations (I had a Munsters lunchbox :) -- one I missed hearing was Mister Ed but you couldn't cover them all.
The Banana Splits!!!....I really wanted one of those 8 wheel buggies they got around in the intro. It's also a paradox Matt...You're wearing shorts and a tee shirt but you have a fire going!!!
I would highly recommend Kraft Suspense Theatre. There are some flawed episodes but some are really good. It's also worth checking out Burkes Law if you like quirky stuff and of course, The Prisoner.
Hey Matt, If you ever get a chance, take a look at "COMBAT!". Works on different levels. I thoroughly enjoyed it as a kid growing up in the 60's, but also a an adult on a totally different level. Great writing and great cast.
I graduated high school in '66, and that fall both the Monkees and Star trek started. Yep. Felt like I had graduated and moved on. I have never been a fan of sitcoms, I even loathed the Three Stooges by age 6. You failed to mention two eartly 60s sitcoms: Car 54 Where Are You (Fred Gwynne moved to the Minsters) and I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (John Astin moved on to the Addams Family). I never successfully through a whole episode of any of those four. Instead I was hooked on the Bullwinkle Show (Boris Godunov was my father's favorite opera - so I knew the humor was aimed at an 'older' audience). In junior high, we used to dream up fractured phrases a la Fractured Fairytales (don't hatchet your count before he chickens for example). The world of TV went from b & w to color from '60 to '70, but I still like Maverick and Have Gun - Will Travel (I was impressed by Richard Boone - and Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive. My parents severely limited my intake of TV, so I would walk down to a friend's house for RC Cola and a moon pie - and Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide. Even though it started in the 50s, I'd rate Peter Gunn extremely highly for Henry Mancini's rocking guitar riff alone. (A major problem for me in viewing old TV shows is the quality - or lack of it - in the sets.) I never liked Gilligan, but I loved Bob Denver as Maynard G Krebs in Dobie Gillis - which also had, briefly, Tuesday Weld as Thalia and Warren Beatty as Milton Armitage. I also regularly watched I, Spy which gathered a lot of press as Bill Cosby played the first Negro (that's the correct term back then in Hollywood) to play a lead in a TV show not of the Amos n Andy ilk. Route 66 was acknowledged as having very good scripts as Stirling Silliphant was the writer. He won an Oscar for writing In the Heat of the Night later. But enough nostalgic psychobabble.
The Outer Limits was waaayyy creepier than The Twilight Zone which tended towards fables, morality plays and camouflaged social criticism. The Outer Limits went for the jugular. The extremely creative use of expresionistic lighting, crisp black and white cinematography and unusual sound effects to create tension and unease in the viewer was brilliant; supremely effective in the episode "It Crawlwd out of the Woodwork".which still creeps me out today. As far as sitcoms go, well Matt, go stand in the corner for missing perhaps the greatest: The Dick Van Dyke Show. Great writing, brilliant comic timing, it still holds up today. Five stars out of five! Cheers.
F-Troop..... just have to mention it because it tends to get lost. Larry Storch was hilarious as well as Ken Berry and Forrest Tucker. I remember seeing reruns on Nickelodeon.
I really liked Mannix (3 seasons in the 60s). Fond memories watching it with my Dad. Also, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Very cool! Too campy in the 3rd season. Finally, My 3 Sons. Just within the last 7/8 years I didn't know the 1st five black and white seasons existed. With the oldest son, Mike (Tim Considine), and Grandfather, Bub (William Frawley), they were by far the best! The greatest part of the later seasons was Tina Cole! So many more great shows. Best decade of TV!
Fun post Matt. I pretty much watched everything growing up the 60s, favorites were Batman, The Man from Uncle, Star Trek, The invaders, and the Avengers (with Diana Rigg). You should check out the two seasons of the Avengers with Diana Rigg, for me it was just fantastic. The pundits say the 70s was when TV grew up and reflected real life more, the 60s shows did seem to represent a more idealized, sanitized version of life, sorry I'm just going on like Cleveland Amory (haha). Cheers!
One thing about Hogan’s heroes is that Bob Crane’s death and later revelations about his extra curriculum activities has completely overshadowed the show.
Yes, the cast especially Werner Klemperer and John Banner were great, but for me Bob Crane's life and sad end are hard to ignore while watching the show.
That was a very thorough review, and a lot of fun! I was born in 1953, so I watched nearly ALL of these shows growing up. Looking back as an adult, many of the shows are awfully silly (Batman, Gilligan's island, The Monkees, etc.) However, there are quite a few shows that still hold up very well today -- Perry Mason, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Star Trek, among others. There were a few shows that I don't think you mentioned -- The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, The Donna Reed Show, It Takes a Thief, The Many Loves of Doby Gillis -- that I rather liked. Also, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was very popular and was the forerunner of all of the many late-night TV shows over the years. Also, worth mentioning is the Beatles cartoon series (1965-67). It wasn't a particularly good cartoon, but it had the music of the Beatles, and I enjoyed hearing the Liverpool accents. Finally, I liked Addam's Family better than the Munsters. Slightly more sophisticated humor, I think. (We'll have to agree to disagree on that one!)
"Spaten Oktoberfest" made me think of the song "Diesel Oktoberfest" about truck drivers in class-struggle, where ist ~ says: "These fine people here/ drink wine instead of Spaten beer" . Ah well, just a silly association ;) Cheers Matt!
Just a quick note, nothing important: It's interesting that the photo of Sesame Street had the original color of Oscar the Grouch - orange. Those are a lot of TV shows! My sister and I stayed up late until the wee wee hours to watch Monty Python, Twilight Zone and Perry Mason during the summer months. You hit on a lot of excellent nuggets! In the survey what about Eartha Kitt as Catwoman? Enjoy the rest of your summer Matt!
I'm 59 years old i was a kid in 70's watching television reruns from the the 50's and 60's as well as what was on in the 70's onward but most of the tv series from those years were my favorites from so many different genres weeterns, sitcoms, adventures, sci fi and many others but some of my favorites include the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Gilligan's Island, Bonanza, the Virginian, Daniel Boone, the High Chaparral, Hogan's Heroes, Batman, Tarzan, Laredo, Night Gallery, Star Trek, Get Smart, the Munsters, the Addams Family, the Andy Griffith Show,Gomer Pyle USMC and the list goes on and on have a wonderful weekend and thank you.🇺🇲📺📺🇺🇲
@@popgoesthe60s52All of tv shows that you showed were my favorite shows to watch living here in rural Oklahoma at the time All of these tv shows were on and I watched them over and over and the Saturday morning cartoons from the 60's,70's onward was awesome thanks for the classic tv series memories.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
All good choices. I probably watched them all in their first runs. My all-time fave "cartoon" show was Fireball XL5, the puppet show I just could not miss as an 8 year old. Later, Star Trek and The Monkees were not carried by my local NBC affiliate when they were first on. I remember being quite frustrated at that. Loved Lost In Space on Wednesday evenings.
Ha! You are right Outer Limits had a lot scarier vibe than Twilight Zone…I remember foreboding even hearing the intro, they went more into horror than Twilight…a couple episodes probably were pretty disturbing. I am a little older than you, 71 , but the only one you didn’t mention I really liked , which I think still stands up is COMBAT…WW2 was fought every week on network TV…it starred Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Leighs dad. It portrayed a US army platoon fighting in Europe week by week. It was a drama of course.
I'm a generation older & in the UK, but half of those shows you name were prominent here in the '60s. Adam West's *BATMAN* was a phenomenon even on my neighborhood's b&w 2-channel TV sets, & merchandising caught onto it. I'd say '60s UK TV for us kids was 50-50 UK/USA series. Gerry Anderson's puppet shows grew progressively more sophisticated every year throughout the '60s, & we grew up with them, all the way to Anderson's transition to live action in 1971, *UFO* . UK produced a lot of espionage/fantasy shows then, moreso than any other genre. USA did export *Get Smart* & the big one, *Man from UNCLE* , but mostly USA was sending us Western series like *Bonanza* & offbeat comedies like, as you say *Beverley Hillbillies* . It was easy for us to get the joke of a culture clash between 2 different American demographics though we had no direct experience of either one, just as the names & lore of the Wild West were familiar to us even though the UK never had a wild west. Everybody loved *The Addams Family* . There used to be a centuries-old tradition in Britain, harking back at least as far as Dickens, of valuing *eccentrics* as part of the national landscape - - & so the family Addams was adopted. *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea* - - I remember the whole cast had to throw themselves against the hull port & starboard while the camera tilted likewise every week. I was allowed to stay up for late night reruns of *The Untouchables* till I dozed off - - & so I have the bizarre formative association of gangsterland as cozy. Same goes for *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* - - around 1964. *Star Trek* didn't arrive here on BBC till 1969 after the show was cancelled, so 1st runs were still premiering here in 1972, a show so sophisticated for its time that it still looked cutting edge years after cancellation, still waiting for the networks to catch up. Then the '70s made every show about TV detectives - - more domestic than the international espionage shows of the '60s.
Hello Matt. I live just north of you on the other side of Lake Huron. These programs are very familiar to me on the Canadian side but I grew up in the sixties so there was a lot more cowboy stuff. Janis Joplin sang some Roy Rogers stuff and look at CSNY. All those early folk guys were on the cowboy theme. And don't forget about Midnight Special and Dick Clark and the late night music programs and Funk Meisters (from Buffalo)
Speaking of mission impossible I’m gonna be meeting one of the last surviving cast members, Barbara Bane in a couple of months. I know, technically from the later cast members there’s Lesley Ann Warren, but I’m talking about the original core.
Great episode Matt, you must have very cool weather in Wisconsin to be comfortable enough with the fire going. My main three shows I remember seeing in the early seventies was Family Affair, Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s island. Also, Speed Racer cartoon was real popular at that time.
Good to know I wasn't the only 70s kid spooked by those 'Ironside' titles and that blood-curdling siren at the beginning, Matt! We seemed to have a bit more variety in the UK when I was growing up - not only good home-grown TV, but numerous US imports as well as many European shows that were dubbed into English; they tended to be shown in the school holidays.
Matt… I grew up in the 70’s also but last year a cable station in south FLA showed episodes of Route 66 at 6 am in the morning…great show!!! Hopefully you can get a chance to view some episodes… really interesting characters👍
Yup, in England - The Fugitive, The Saint, The Prisoner, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Boots and Saddles, Have Gun Will Travel, The Cisco Kid, Laramie, Bonanza, Maverick, Perry Mason, The Defenders, Cheyenne, The Range Rider. Hawaii Five O, Danger Man, The Naked City. Champion the Wonder Horse. To mention just a few - what great times for TV and growing up, and those theme tunes!
THE 700 CLUB started locally in 1962 and went nationwide in 1966, it's the longest running tv variety show ever. I watch it almost everyday today , JOHN LENNON watched the 700 club through out the week when John was a house husband
Great program Matt.I am more a sci-fi fan.I like to watch "Star Trek" "The Time Tunnel"and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"very popular by the time of my childhood.
OMG, I loved The Beverly Hillbillies, that great music for the intro and the outro. So hilarious and enjoyable. While I'm at it, im going to throw in 2 of my after school favorites, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. That was must see TV. And, of course Andy Griffith was so great and, to me, does not get old. Ashow I didn't get into at all, but one of my friends would run home every day so as not to miss Dark Shadows, kind of a vampire themed Soap Opera. And, in the variety show, category, I watched them all. Of course, when The Beatles came on Sullivan, that was big. My grandma was not appreciative of it, however😅.
Ha ha, I'm team Mary Ann but I've got no issues with Ginger. I watched reruns of Gilligan's Island early mornings before high school on TBS, it was such dopey fun escapism. One of my local malls had a clear out book store for a while and for pocket change I found a Gilligan's Island guide book by Russell "The Professor" Johnson which was very helpful. Tina Louise evidently was a model for men's magazines and bachelor pad albums pre Gilligan's Island which ties in neatly with your other recent video.
The survey results should prove interesting. Matt touches on most of the prominent shows. I recently binged "12 O'Clock High." I also recently came across some cartoon superhero shows I completely forgot about: The Might Heroes, The Super Six, and Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles. I do remember The Beatles cartoons. I never actually got to watch much of them, because my mom and dad would go shopping on Saturdays. However, they were on in department stores and I was able to watch it a few times there on the displat TVs - a free babysitter I guess. Other notable shows: The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, American Bandstand, Red Skelton, Land of the Giants, Ed Sullivan, The Mothers In-Law, The Prisoner and Dangerman, Flipper, Gentle Ben, Daktari, Lassie, and so many more.
In the survey, the Catwoman question should include Eartha Kitt, who played the character in the third season (Batman ran for three seasons, not two). I completed the survey, but it was hard to choose between how I would have voted as a kid versus how I might vote now. For example, as a I kid I would no doubt have voted for The Munsters. Now, after having watched both shows as an adult, I prefer to subtle weirdness of The Addams Family. Still, The Munsters won out in this go-around. Star Trek would probably be better paired with Lost In Space than Dr. Who. I don't know how many US viewers would have been aware of Dr. Who in the '60s or ''70s; I wasn't aware of it until much later. At the time they aired and in reruns, ST and LiS would have been seen as rivals in much the same way as you allude to Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies,. The rivalry, of curse, was purely a kid thing. In fact, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction took place in the same "universe," and characters from one show frequently crossed over to the others, most notably Frank Cady as store owner Sam Drucker. Fun video and survey, Matt.
Living in Finland and grew up in the 80's I watched Battlestar Galactica, Dallas, Dynasty. Murder She Wrote and Columbo had lots of air time. Love boat was broadcasted saturday evening and after the sauna it was a show to watch. (though it has always seem so dull of show. ) Knight Rider was huge in Finland too. Hasselhof made trips to Finland also. Updated remakes of classic stories from Alfred Hitchcock were suspensive. Also The Twighlight Zone eighties version. Those come to mind right away. Thank You matt for your reminiscing 🤗
Hey Bonanza was huge of course too in Finland in the 80's still and Little House on the Prairie. But I did not watch them so much. I believe it was the earlier generation that talked about those shows.
...and may I add Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea... and The Prisoner... and the NBC Mystery Movie w/ *Columbo,* Quincy ME, McMillan and Wife, McCloud, and others... The Mod Squad... T.H.E. Cat... Disney's Wonderful World of Color... and all the great CARTOONS!!! (excuse me if I listed something you mentioned)... ☮💟🌍
I can totally relate to this ! I was born in '68 and here in Oz we also only had four station. We'd come home from kindergarten and school and watch reruns of Hogans Heroes, the best 60s show by far, Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, all of them. I love those screwball, whacky 60s comedies, compare and contrast to the rubbish they feed us on tv nowadays. But you left out one show that possibly kicked off the whole genre: F Troop.
Hey Matt, I watched a lot of the same shows you did. Admittedly, were some I tuned in just to hear the theme songs (hey, there’s an idea for another video)! There were so many great ones.👏
A show that no one ever mentions is Run For Your Life. It starred Ben Gazarra, who I found out later was sort of a big deal on Broadway in the '50's; and his character went all over the world "trying to squeeze thirty years on living into one, or two." I was a teenager living in a suburb outside Chattanooga, and the show offered the thrill of exotic places that one got in the Bond movies, with only some of the constant danger. That's for me, I ate it up.
I love just about all these shows! I'm not trying to start a debate, but for me, those shows were better than what we get offered nowadays. I'm not saying all new stuff is bad; there has been some great newer stuff too. For me though, it's more a question of the overall quality, which I think was better back then. This "OK Boomer" moment brought to you by the good folks at Kelloggs. :D
Grew up 70s 80s retro tv was great. My faves would be my mission impossible, outer limits, bonanza, mod squad, batman, the Munsters, Addams family, Gumby, leave it to beaver, Monkees, get smart, twi light zone.
Nice list, Matt. Two you didn't mention that are favorites of mine are "The Alvin Show", and "Car 54, Where Are You?" "Green Acres" is the coolest show of the decade because you can sing the theme song to the tune of both "A Day in th Life", and "Purple Haze".
I watched every one those shows mentioned (including Family Affair and Rat Patrol!). I liked both Addams Family and The Munsters. I didn't watch The Fugitive, Dragnet and The Saint that much. Honey West was really good. The Outer Limits intro was really frightening.
Andy Griffith Show was a spin off of the Danny Thomas show. I remember watching the pilot. . The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction were all created by the genius Paul Henning. IMO The Fugitive was the best drama ever produced for TV, and I'm happy to say I met Quinn Martin and told him so. Of possible interest is that Tommy Tedesco played the guitar part on the Bonanza theme. There was a particularly good Outer Limits that starred Robert Culp, titled: The Demon With the Glass Hand. I believe the screenplay was written by Harlan Ellison. The Mod Squad: "Solid, man." Finally, Matt: It's going to be a landslide for Mary Ann. What a contrarian you are! edit: One more very important thing: F Troop!
A fun video Matt. With the exception of a few of the shows, I watched all the ones that you watched, only I watched them during their original first run as I was born in 1956. I even watched the first run of The Alfred Hitchcock show, though I was only 3 years old or so and it didn't make much sense. A fun trivia point with regards to Hogans Heroes: Bob Crane (Hogan) was a jazz drummer before he got into acting and he played the drums in the opening theme song. I always loved that military snare cadence. I filled out the survey, and a couple of choices were hard to make because I enjoyed them both. For instance The Munsters and The Addams Family. Barbara Eden or Elizabeth Montgomery, they were both attractive to me. The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. At the time I would have said The Twilight Zone, because like you, The Outer Limits was just too creepy, though I did watch it on occasion with my hands covering my eyes for much of the episode. However, I've since discovered The Outer Limits on TH-cam, and I think I enjoy that show more. Could be the fact that I've seen every episode of The Twilight Zone dozens and dozens of times. I thoroughly enjoy your channel and your take on the pop culture of the '60s. Keep up the good work Matt.
Many of those shows are still shown on broadcast TV. I didn't see them during their first run, but now I watch Leave it to Beaver and Perry Mason most mornings. They just play all of the episodes in order and then repeat from the beginning. Leave it to Beaver got better as the kids got older and became better actors. A bit of trivia: Only one episode of Perry Mason was filmed in color.
Matt, here’s some of my favorites, but I’m a bit older, being born in mid 50’s. Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , Mission Impossible, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Wild, Wild West, Green Acres, The Ed Sullivan Show, Batman, The Fugitive, Laugh In, The Twilight Zone, Combat, 12 O’Clock High, Hogan’s Heroes, The Avengers, The Saint, Leave It To Beaver, The Bugs Bunny Show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, My Three Sons, American Bandstand & Shindig.
The Avengers (IN COLOR... well, both the B/W and color seasons with Diana Rigg) - no idea if it was syndicated in the US in the 70s but it's just the best.
@@wyliesmith4244 I’ve read that the money to move the production from video tape to 35 mm film came from the US, but I don’t know if Matt had a chance to see it later on. I only saw it properly once it came out on DVD. Fantastic.
Like several others I'll also add The Prisoner, with Patrick McGoohan. It was a 16-episode limited series, like they do nowadays. It's a surreal show about what happens after a spy leaves the agency, that dealt a lot with who we are as individuals. The last episode really stands out as bizarre and puzzling, but I like it. I think you could do a video about it since you cover the 60s.
The Courtship of Eddie's Father starring Bill Bixby was another one of my favorite growing up in the late 60s
The Prisoner was a good show from Britain which was shown on PBS/NET. I watched it a few years ago and it still holds up
The 60's and 70's were a great time to be alive
1966 - 1976 was the GREATEST 10 years in human history.
Hi Matt, it is great we can watch old music TV shows like Shindig. Hullabaloo, Shivere, American Bandstand, and Where The Action is on you tube.
The Avengers was so much fun, and the black and white episodes with Diana Rigg were wilder than the color ones.
Hawaii Five-O (the original, began 1968) was a huge police drama, my favorite show of that type when I was growing up.
I LOVED Rocky and Bullwinkle as a kid.
Anybody remember Super Chicken??? It was by the same people who did Rocky & Bullwinkle
There was a show that lasted only two seasons (1966-67) but was really imaginative called The Time Tunnel produced by Irwin Allen. It concerned scientists Doug & Tony being transported to different time epochs via a time tunnel. They were trapped out of time trying to get back to the present. I watched it in syndication in the late 1970's on WFLD -Chicago.
That’s a neat show. I’m fan of The Invaders, also produced by Irwin Allen
@@hankbauer9277Yes! Invaders was a great show too. I read that Irwin Allen was disgusted with ABC being cheap with budgeting, so he pulled both those series and went to feature films.
Time Tunnel -Fantastic graphics, set design and superb theme music.
Yes, the time tunnel! I was in fourth grade… I still remember the episode of Pearl Harbor where Tony runs into his boyhood self.
And for sure, I remember the Krakatoa volcano episode because I had to do a report on that for school.
I got a lot of my information from that episode.
@@bobbest8627 That is a great episode. Didn't Tony speak with his deceased dad?
You know it’s funny, when I was living through the 60s I couldn’t wait for the 70s. Now that I have lived through both I regard them as great eras of my life that can never be replaced or happen again, especially the 60’s. In spite of all the turmoil I think it was a golden time full of good living. Maybe it was because it was my childhood and teenage years. Golden years, for sure, there was SO much good happening. I wished I had known that, I would have lived better and happier knowing what I know now. Such is life.
BTW, although there were many good shows back then with plenty of mindless silliness, my absolute, all time favorites were, Star Trek and Jonny Quest.
I was born in '78 but grew up on reruns of 60's television shows. "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." was definitely one of my favorites.
Besides many you mentioned, I loved:
Drama: Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker!
Drama: Flipper (the dolphin)
Variety: Ed Sullivan Show
Variety: Hollywood Palace (always had a musical group)
Variety: Lawrence Welk (grudgingly, at my Grandparents' house)
Mixed: Wonderful World of Disney
Outdoor: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Western: Branded (Chuck Conners)
Cartoon: Yogi Bear
Cartoon: Huckleberry Hound
Comedy: Dennis the Menace
Music: American Bandstand
Game: I've Got a Secret
Game: What's My Line?
Thanks Matt… Nice trip down memory lane. You covered it all!
I am a boomer (born 1957). It was a great time to be a kid.
When people ask me what my childhood was like, I’d tell them to watch leave it to Beaver. Idyllic childhood in the San Francisco Bay area. When I was eight years old and my cousin was 10, we go to Giants baseball games by ourselves. No worries about getting lost or being harmed.
So glad you mentioned “THEN CAME BRONSON”.
I was 13 just getting into motorcycles I was so upset when they took that off the air.
Because of your video, I’m going to go listen to “ Long Lonesome Highway” I believe Michael Parks hit the charts with that song
Hey Matt, there’s an idea for you,do a video on TV theme songs that actually hit the charts. Unless you’ve already done that and I missed it.
Thanks again for the memory trigger.
I dedicated my weekly 1960s rock radio show after The Monkees❤ I'm 24, and I grew up watching the 60s TV shows my folks introduced me to as a kid and I have a nostalgic place for I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, and the Brady Bunch.. but my huge passion is the Monkees. My roommates don't really understand my admiration, but i host a radio show on my free time all about how much i appreciate the 60s culture and music❤
Huge fan of your channel btw, thanks for all your wonderful content! The Raiders video is my favorite!🥰
I love the 60's - the music, the movies - therfore thank You for this list of Your's about TV shows.
The Outer Limits episode with David McCallum as the man who became a futuristic humanoid was a great one.
Just as good was The Zanti Misfits with Bruce Dern. Those little ant men were creepy as hell!
Your ignorance makes me ill and angry!
@@robgronotte1 I'm assuming that's a quote from the former coal miner turned megalomaniac..
Loved "F Troop" as a kid..
The 50 Avengers episodes with Dianna Rigg as Emma Peel are must watch. They are great! The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is fantastic in season one, season two is still really good, season three got to silly going "camp" to cash in on Batmans popularity, season four got serious again with good episodes but the ratings had dropped to much and it got cancelled.
As a kid who grew up in the 1960s, and graduated high school in 1972, there were so many TV series that ran virtually throughout the decade, and thus during my childhood, that ended about the time I left school 1971/1972) -- including Bonanza, the Ed Sullivan Show, Andy Griffith/Mayberry RFD, My Three Sons, the Beverly Hillbillies, and probably a couple of others I forget at the moment. Gunsmoke , a staple of my youth since I was born, ended in 1974. What a time, television-wise (and music-wise) for us kids!
And who could forget Lucy, the Queen of Television during all that time!
The sixties was a golden age for tv.
Munsters rock!(I enjoyed Lily swishing around in that death shroud❤)
Just watched the episode today where Grandpa accidentally turns Herman into a woman... classic
I loved The Monkees and still do! I came to appreciate them during the MTV revival in the mid-80’s. I was fortunate to see them at Poplar Creek in Hoffman Estates, Illinois in 1987. I was 12 and it still is my favorite concert to this day. I had a huge crush on Mickey! I have quite a few of their records still. I was born in’75, but often feel like I was born in the wrong era. I love, love, love anything 60’s & 70’s…music, movies, tv shows, decor, style etc…Thank you for all the great videos on your channel! I have really enjoyed all of the ones I have watched so far❤
The Wild Wild West was my favorite 60s era show by a mile ...it was supposed to mix western with star trek(sci-fi)..it was so wierd and captivating
I loved Wild Wild West, but it started in '65 and Star Trek debuted in the fall of '66 as did the Monkees.
There were touches of 1966 Batman in there....
Oh yes still watch it
It's almost impossible to watch something like this and resist the urge to share your own experience. I was born in 1966 so almost all of my television memories are from the 70s. And as you point out, the 70s probably had more shows from the 60s to watch than the 70s with reruns and such. Star Trek was enormous for me. As a child you're trying desperately to understand and operate in the world. The real world is just as fantastical and scary as space, the final frontier. They call it childhood "power fantasy". Imagining being Captain Kirk and triumphing with a mixture of wisdom and power was absolutely irresistible. And of course I watched almost all the shows you mentioned.
Great Video! I was SO LUCKY growing up with these shows! Nothing comes close to it today!!! Thanks!! Hope your episode finds some new viewers!
Great video, Matt! My number one is the same as yours. I'm doing my favorite 60s shows today and I'll be sure to mention this video in the pinned comment for inspiration.
Just watched your vid - we have lots of the same tastes!
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks Matt!
Thanks for sharing these TV memories, Matt. I was a big Hogan's Heroes fan, but also, (contrary to your favorites), I was a huge Star Trek fan, even to this day. I loved most of the programs you mentioned. I was born at the end of '64 (a "Boomer-X" gen) and grew up with many of these programs. That was fun hearing your favorites. 😃
Matt, so funny how I had many of the same reactions to those shows. The Rifleman shooting the gun, the Ironsides/Fugitive sad intros, Batman after school, etc. Ginger, of course. I have a feeling we would have the same opinions regarding Charlie's Angels as well. Lol, keep up the great work
Let's not forget The Donna Reed Show... a classic family sitcom that is still really funny today!
@tlooneytoon Donna Reed was one of the most beautiful women to ever be on tv or the movies.
Gorgeous
@@markymark903 Ever see her as Sacagawea in "The Lewis and Clarke Story," with Charlton Heston?? LUCIOUS! Donna Reed was still beautiful when she was in her 70s.
Hi. Born in ‘66 and was fortunate to 1) live halfway between NYC and Philly and 2) pull in four UHF channels thanks to our gargantuan rotating roof-mounted TV antenna. As I result I spent an insane amount of the 70’s in the smorgasbord of 60’s reruns across those four channels. Personal faves:
1. Lost in Space (Angela Cartwright in season 3 with the short hair - good gawd almighty)
2. Bewitched - Liz Montgomery….. the gift that keeps on giving
3. That Girl - Marlo’s scratchy delivery gave me the tingles…
4. All those ScreenGems series that shared the Columbia Ranch - Gidget, The Flying Nun (clearly a Sally Field fan), The Monkees…
5. The Flintstones
6. Rocky & Bullwinkle (loved the Fractured Fairy Tales, and any time Boris and Natasha appeared).
7. Laugh-In (I couldn’t see it but I would crack open my bedroom door and listen from afar)
8. The Mothers-in-Law - I secretly wished my mother was Eve Arden
Too many more (and even more humiliating) to list here lol
Great reviews Matt. Early 60s birth here so I remember a lot of these.
Glad you showed respect for Leave It To Beaver. We watched a lot of the episodes recently on Roku and it was tremendously enjoyable. I know it gets made fun of, but it was a series through the eyes of a young person (Beaver) and the situations he gets in... such as falling into the coffee cup on the billboard.
Just read Ken Osmond's book and loved it. He of course played Eddie Haskell. In real life he was almost killed twice while working as a police officer in L.A.
Could never get into Gomer Pyle. That playing stupid act just got on my nerves. Sort of like Festus on Gunsmoke although that character was not trowled on so thickly.
Twelve O'clock High was a good mid 60s series I watched in the early 80s.
Thanks for the feedback, Neal! I appreciate it.
I can enjoy Leave It To Beaver as an adult, unlike, say, Gilligan's Island, which I absolutely loved as a kid.
Loved all of these-it was a great time to grow up 📺 ❤
Matt you should do your top ten favourite beers 🍻
A couple of my favorites
Mr Ed
It’s about time
Land of the lost ( I tend to like the 90s version better)
The ghost and Mrs Muir
Clutch cargo (absolutely absurd cartoon)
And for a soap opera Dark Shadows !
Matt, you gotta watch Green Acres again the show was well written. Poor Mr Douglas was the only sane one in that asylum.
The reason everyone was so happy on the Andy Griffith show is no one was married, except Otis and he was drunk !
Nice List! I was born in 1958 so I saw some 1950’s shows but mostly 1960’s and beyond. I would add Captain Kangaroo and My Three Sons and Laugh In.
My Three Sons was excellent. Surprisingly realistic for a 60s sitcom.
I remember liking The Avengers, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, which I could probably still enjoy to some extent even today. I watched The Man from Uncle but doubt I would like now. The Smothers Brothers had some memorable segments I might enjoy seeing again. I had hazier recollections of Route 66 which I must have seen in reruns. A few years ago I sought out the show on TH-cam and watched the first 3 seasons which would have originally run 1960 to 1963 or so. Two young men driving across America in a sports car encountering various people and situations every week more or less in the spirit of Jack Kerouac. Fascinating to see what America looked and felt like back then. My sense is it’s better than ‘Then Came Bronson’ which my dad made a point of watching.
I’m older than you. Grew up watching all those you mentioned. By far our favorite was WILD WILD WEST
Great show. Dr. Loveless is one of the best recurring villains of TV history!
Adding a few more to your list: 77 Sunset Strip, Sea Hunt, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Denis the Menace, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Bat Masterson, Daniel Boone, The Persuaders, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Boris Karloff Presents, The Partridge Family, Mr. Magoo, Doctor Who (British), National Kid (Japanese), Topo Gigio (Italian).
Great segment, Matt. I believe I have about 10 years on you, so I do remember many of these shows being prime time growing up. Chicago actually had 3 syndication channels by the very early 70's, so there was literally a smorgasborg of great early television shows to get to know. My first television memory was of a very gritty, violent cop show called Naked City which ran from 1958 to 1963 on ABC. It was shot on location in New York City which added to the early 60's atmosphere which I really dig.
I wholeheartedly agree with The Twilight Zone pick; that is one series - the original which ran from 1959 to 1964 - I will never tire of. I also think the episodes are best viewed on cold, dark winter nights.
Great video!
This is must have series on DVD👍
Two big '60s sci-fi's that deserve mentioning are Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and The Invaders. VTTBOTS was another Irwin Allen series, like Lost In Space, but maybe his best. Nevertheless, they both started out in black and white and had good, more adult orientated scripts in the beginning, but after they went to colour and time went by the stories became more and more childish and silly, with Lost In Space actually playing for laughs. The Invaders was always serious and had good guest stars and was actually a Quinn Martin production so it had a prestige and styling relating to The Fugitive. Roy Thinnes was kind of like a fugitive both running from and pursuing the aliens at the same time. I enjoyed it.
Marlo Thomas was one of my first crushes too, along with Jeannie (Barbara Eden) and Agent 99 (Barbara Felton). In more recent years, my favorite ‘60s actress is absolutely Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) on The Avengers. Growing up in the ‘60s early ‘70s, I really enjoyed Hogans Heroes, The Jetsons, Adam 12, I Dream of Jeannie and Mannix.
Matt, you and I are about the same age and I live in the 60s every day. I really enjoy your videos. I too grew up watching those reruns and miss the days of independent tv channels. Just a shout out to some of my life-long pet shows: Star Trek, The Wild Wild West, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Munsters and Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in. What an era!
Mission impossible was really quite ingenious because you had to figure out how the IMF team would outsmart their adversaries because very little was revealed to you at the beginning of each episode. I’m a child of the 1960s, so among my favourite TV shows from the early 1960s are: The Naked City (a very gritty-looking show because it was shot on location in New York City), Have Gun Will Travel, Checkmate, Adventures In Paradise, Ben Casey, Gunsmoke, Mr. Novak; and going into the mid to late 1960s, of course Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Batman, Mannix, and Hawaii Five-O.
Hawaii Five-O was sooo good.
I like these surprises. You have a knowledge of 60s TV that is as good as anyone (like myself) who grew up in the 50s and became a teen in the 60s. I watched most of these shows when the episodes were new, but since most of them were not topical, they were just as fresh as reruns. A few others that I watched were 77 Sunset Strip, Dobie Gillis, Flipper and The Avengers (Diana Rigg). And on the lesser known side Ensign O'Toole (Dean Jones) Fair, Exchange (Judy Carne) and The Great Adventure (an American history dramatization). I' m taking that survey right away. Definitely Ginger.
Thank you for reminding me of Fair Exchange. And Judy Carne.
I used to watch everything in your top 10 as a kid (born in 66 here). In the Detroit area, I had the added bonus of PBS showing Monty Python's Flying Circus, which remains a favorite.
A great compendium of memories Matt -- I saw them a bit earlier than you did but had much the same appreciations (I had a Munsters lunchbox :) -- one I missed hearing was Mister Ed but you couldn't cover them all.
The Banana Splits!!!....I really wanted one of those 8 wheel buggies they got around in the intro. It's also a paradox Matt...You're wearing shorts and a tee shirt but you have a fire going!!!
My Grandpa loved John Wanye shows, couple years before he passed in the early 2000s we lived together, we watched sports and John Wayne shows.
I would highly recommend Kraft Suspense Theatre. There are some flawed episodes but some are really good. It's also worth checking out Burkes Law if you like quirky stuff and of course, The Prisoner.
Hey Matt, If you ever get a chance, take a look at "COMBAT!". Works on different levels. I thoroughly enjoyed it as a kid growing up in the 60's, but also a an adult on a totally different level. Great writing and great cast.
I graduated high school in '66, and that fall both the Monkees and Star trek started. Yep. Felt like I had graduated and moved on. I have never been a fan of sitcoms, I even loathed the Three Stooges by age 6. You failed to mention two eartly 60s sitcoms: Car 54 Where Are You (Fred Gwynne moved to the Minsters) and I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (John Astin moved on to the Addams Family). I never successfully through a whole episode of any of those four. Instead I was hooked on the Bullwinkle Show (Boris Godunov was my father's favorite opera - so I knew the humor was aimed at an 'older' audience). In junior high, we used to dream up fractured phrases a la Fractured Fairytales (don't hatchet your count before he chickens for example). The world of TV went from b & w to color from '60 to '70, but I still like Maverick and Have Gun - Will Travel (I was impressed by Richard Boone - and Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive. My parents severely limited my intake of TV, so I would walk down to a friend's house for RC Cola and a moon pie - and Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide.
Even though it started in the 50s, I'd rate Peter Gunn extremely highly for Henry Mancini's rocking guitar riff alone. (A major problem for me in viewing old TV shows is the quality - or lack of it - in the sets.) I never liked Gilligan, but I loved Bob Denver as Maynard G Krebs in Dobie Gillis - which also had, briefly, Tuesday Weld as Thalia and Warren Beatty as Milton Armitage.
I also regularly watched I, Spy which gathered a lot of press as Bill Cosby played the first Negro (that's the correct term back then in Hollywood) to play a lead in a TV show not of the Amos n Andy ilk. Route 66 was acknowledged as having very good scripts as Stirling Silliphant was the writer. He won an Oscar for writing In the Heat of the Night later. But enough nostalgic psychobabble.
The Outer Limits was waaayyy creepier than The Twilight Zone which tended towards fables, morality plays and camouflaged social criticism.
The Outer Limits went for the jugular. The extremely creative use of expresionistic lighting, crisp black and white cinematography and unusual sound effects to create tension and unease in the viewer was brilliant; supremely effective in the episode "It Crawlwd out of the Woodwork".which still creeps me out today.
As far as sitcoms go, well Matt, go stand in the corner for missing perhaps the greatest: The Dick Van Dyke Show. Great writing, brilliant comic timing, it still holds up today. Five stars out of five!
Cheers.
Oh yes so many cool shows . I was born in 72 so i got to see heaps on re-run here in Australia .
@@Nazz1967 Same here.
F-Troop..... just have to mention it because it tends to get lost. Larry Storch was hilarious as well as Ken Berry and Forrest Tucker. I remember seeing reruns on Nickelodeon.
I really liked Mannix (3 seasons in the 60s). Fond memories watching it with my Dad. Also, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Very cool! Too campy in the 3rd season. Finally, My 3 Sons. Just within the last 7/8 years I didn't know the 1st five black and white seasons existed. With the oldest son, Mike (Tim Considine), and Grandfather, Bub (William Frawley), they were by far the best! The greatest part of the later seasons was Tina Cole! So many more great shows. Best decade of TV!
Mannix had one of the best themes around! And then there was that appearance by the Buffalo Springfield that you mentioned
Nearly all these shows made it down here to Australia too. We always wondered what your strange words like "sidewalk" and "elevator" meant?
Fun post Matt. I pretty much watched everything growing up the 60s, favorites were Batman, The Man from Uncle, Star Trek, The invaders, and the Avengers (with Diana Rigg). You should check out the two seasons of the Avengers with Diana Rigg, for me it was just fantastic. The pundits say the 70s was when TV grew up and reflected real life more, the 60s shows did seem to represent a more idealized, sanitized version of life, sorry I'm just going on like Cleveland Amory (haha). Cheers!
One thing about Hogan’s heroes is that Bob Crane’s death and later revelations about his extra curriculum activities has completely overshadowed the show.
He married the girl who played Klink's secretary.
Yes, the cast especially Werner Klemperer and John Banner were great, but for me Bob Crane's life and sad end are hard to ignore while watching the show.
Yeah its Cringe, I saw that movie Auto Focus which is about Bob Crane's secret little hobby.
“Ho-Ganh!!
@@deirdremccarthy7366 😆👍
That was a very thorough review, and a lot of fun! I was born in 1953, so I watched nearly ALL of these shows growing up. Looking back as an adult, many of the shows are awfully silly (Batman, Gilligan's island, The Monkees, etc.) However, there are quite a few shows that still hold up very well today -- Perry Mason, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Star Trek, among others. There were a few shows that I don't think you mentioned -- The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, The Donna Reed Show, It Takes a Thief, The Many Loves of Doby Gillis -- that I rather liked. Also, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was very popular and was the forerunner of all of the many late-night TV shows over the years. Also, worth mentioning is the Beatles cartoon series (1965-67). It wasn't a particularly good cartoon, but it had the music of the Beatles, and I enjoyed hearing the Liverpool accents. Finally, I liked Addam's Family better than the Munsters. Slightly more sophisticated humor, I think. (We'll have to agree to disagree on that one!)
The Beatles cartoon didn't contain any Liverpool accents.🤣 But it was surprisingly enjoyable.
"Spaten Oktoberfest" made me think of the song "Diesel Oktoberfest" about truck drivers in class-struggle, where ist ~ says: "These fine people here/ drink wine instead of Spaten beer" . Ah well, just a silly association ;) Cheers Matt!
Reruns of “Have Gun Will Travel” and “Bounty Hunter” on Pluto are bad ass
The one I loved was Nick Adams as The Rebel.
TONS of westerns in the 50's and 60's.
Just a quick note, nothing important: It's interesting that the photo of Sesame Street had the original color of Oscar the Grouch - orange.
Those are a lot of TV shows! My sister and I stayed up late until the wee wee hours to watch Monty Python, Twilight Zone and Perry Mason during the summer months. You hit on a lot of excellent nuggets! In the survey what about Eartha Kitt as Catwoman? Enjoy the rest of your summer Matt!
I'm 59 years old i was a kid in 70's watching television reruns from the
the 50's and 60's as well as what was on in the 70's onward but most
of the tv series from those years were my favorites from so many different genres weeterns, sitcoms, adventures, sci fi and many others
but some of my favorites include the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres,
Petticoat Junction, Gilligan's Island, Bonanza, the Virginian, Daniel Boone, the High Chaparral, Hogan's Heroes, Batman, Tarzan, Laredo,
Night Gallery, Star Trek, Get Smart, the Munsters, the Addams Family,
the Andy Griffith Show,Gomer Pyle USMC and the list goes on and on
have a wonderful weekend and thank you.🇺🇲📺📺🇺🇲
Thank you, Roger!
@@popgoesthe60s52All of tv shows that you showed were my favorite shows to watch
living here in rural Oklahoma at the time All of these tv shows were on and I watched them
over and over and the Saturday morning cartoons from the 60's,70's onward was awesome
thanks for the classic tv series memories.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
All good choices. I probably watched them all in their first runs. My all-time fave "cartoon" show was Fireball XL5, the puppet show I just could not miss as an 8 year old. Later, Star Trek and The Monkees were not carried by my local NBC affiliate when they were first on. I remember being quite frustrated at that. Loved Lost In Space on Wednesday evenings.
Ha! You are right Outer Limits had a lot scarier vibe than Twilight Zone…I remember foreboding even hearing the intro, they went more into horror than Twilight…a couple episodes probably were pretty disturbing. I am a little older than you, 71 , but the only one you didn’t mention I really liked , which I think still stands up is COMBAT…WW2 was fought every week on network TV…it starred Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Leighs dad. It portrayed a US army platoon fighting in Europe week by week. It was a drama of course.
I'm a generation older & in the UK, but half of those shows you name were prominent here in the '60s. Adam West's *BATMAN* was a phenomenon even on my neighborhood's b&w 2-channel TV sets, & merchandising caught onto it. I'd say '60s UK TV for us kids was 50-50 UK/USA series.
Gerry Anderson's puppet shows grew progressively more sophisticated every year throughout the '60s, & we grew up with them, all the way to Anderson's transition to live action in 1971, *UFO* .
UK produced a lot of espionage/fantasy shows then, moreso than any other genre. USA did export *Get Smart* & the big one, *Man from UNCLE* , but mostly USA was sending us Western series like *Bonanza* & offbeat comedies like, as you say *Beverley Hillbillies* . It was easy for us to get the joke of a culture clash between 2 different American demographics though we had no direct experience of either one, just as the names & lore of the Wild West were familiar to us even though the UK never had a wild west.
Everybody loved *The Addams Family* . There used to be a centuries-old tradition in Britain, harking back at least as far as Dickens, of valuing *eccentrics* as part of the national landscape - - & so the family Addams was adopted.
*Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea* - - I remember the whole cast had to throw themselves against the hull port & starboard while the camera tilted likewise every week.
I was allowed to stay up for late night reruns of *The Untouchables* till I dozed off - - & so I have the bizarre formative association of gangsterland as cozy. Same goes for *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* - - around 1964.
*Star Trek* didn't arrive here on BBC till 1969 after the show was cancelled, so 1st runs were still premiering here in 1972, a show so sophisticated for its time that it still looked cutting edge years after cancellation, still waiting for the networks to catch up.
Then the '70s made every show about TV detectives - - more domestic than the international espionage shows of the '60s.
Hello Matt. I live just north of you on the other side of Lake Huron. These programs are very familiar to me on the Canadian side but I grew up in the sixties so there was a lot more cowboy stuff. Janis Joplin sang some Roy Rogers stuff and look at CSNY. All those early folk guys were on the cowboy theme. And don't forget about Midnight Special and Dick Clark and the late night music programs and Funk Meisters (from Buffalo)
Speaking of mission impossible I’m gonna be meeting one of the last surviving cast members, Barbara Bane in a couple of months. I know, technically from the later cast members there’s Lesley Ann Warren, but I’m talking about the original core.
Great episode Matt, you must have very cool weather in Wisconsin to be comfortable enough with the fire going.
My main three shows I remember seeing in the early seventies was Family Affair, Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s island. Also, Speed Racer cartoon was real popular at that time.
Good to know I wasn't the only 70s kid spooked by those 'Ironside' titles and that blood-curdling siren at the beginning, Matt! We seemed to have a bit more variety in the UK when I was growing up - not only good home-grown TV, but numerous US imports as well as many European shows that were dubbed into English; they tended to be shown in the school holidays.
Matt… I grew up in the 70’s also but last year a cable station in south FLA showed episodes of Route 66 at 6 am in the morning…great show!!! Hopefully you can get a chance to view some episodes… really interesting characters👍
Yup, in England - The Fugitive, The Saint, The Prisoner, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Boots and Saddles, Have Gun Will Travel, The Cisco Kid, Laramie, Bonanza, Maverick, Perry Mason, The Defenders, Cheyenne, The Range Rider. Hawaii Five O, Danger Man, The Naked City. Champion the Wonder Horse. To mention just a few - what great times for TV and growing up, and those theme tunes!
The only thing I remember from *Rat Patrol* : Jeeps in the desert!
THE 700 CLUB started locally in 1962 and went nationwide in 1966, it's the longest running tv variety show ever. I watch it almost everyday today , JOHN LENNON watched the 700 club through out the week when John was a house husband
Great program Matt.I am more a sci-fi fan.I like to watch "Star Trek" "The Time Tunnel"and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"very popular by the time of my childhood.
OMG, I loved The Beverly Hillbillies, that great music for the intro and the outro. So hilarious and enjoyable. While I'm at it, im going to throw in 2 of my after school favorites, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. That was must see TV. And, of course Andy Griffith was so great and, to me, does not get old. Ashow I didn't get into at all, but one of my friends would run home every day so as not to miss Dark Shadows, kind of a vampire themed Soap Opera. And, in the variety show, category, I watched them all. Of course, when The Beatles came on Sullivan, that was big. My grandma was not appreciative of it, however😅.
Ha ha, I'm team Mary Ann but I've got no issues with Ginger. I watched reruns of Gilligan's Island early mornings before high school on TBS, it was such dopey fun escapism. One of my local malls had a clear out book store for a while and for pocket change I found a Gilligan's Island guide book by Russell "The Professor" Johnson which was very helpful. Tina Louise evidently was a model for men's magazines and bachelor pad albums pre Gilligan's Island which ties in neatly with your other recent video.
The survey results should prove interesting. Matt touches on most of the prominent shows. I recently binged "12 O'Clock High." I also recently came across some cartoon superhero shows I completely forgot about: The Might Heroes, The Super Six, and Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles. I do remember The Beatles cartoons. I never actually got to watch much of them, because my mom and dad would go shopping on Saturdays. However, they were on in department stores and I was able to watch it a few times there on the displat TVs - a free babysitter I guess. Other notable shows: The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, American Bandstand, Red Skelton, Land of the Giants, Ed Sullivan, The Mothers In-Law, The Prisoner and Dangerman, Flipper, Gentle Ben, Daktari, Lassie, and so many more.
In the survey, the Catwoman question should include Eartha Kitt, who played the character in the third season (Batman ran for three seasons, not two).
I completed the survey, but it was hard to choose between how I would have voted as a kid versus how I might vote now. For example, as a I kid I would no doubt have voted for The Munsters. Now, after having watched both shows as an adult, I prefer to subtle weirdness of The Addams Family. Still, The Munsters won out in this go-around.
Star Trek would probably be better paired with Lost In Space than Dr. Who. I don't know how many US viewers would have been aware of Dr. Who in the '60s or ''70s; I wasn't aware of it until much later. At the time they aired and in reruns, ST and LiS would have been seen as rivals in much the same way as you allude to Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies,. The rivalry, of curse, was purely a kid thing. In fact, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction took place in the same "universe," and characters from one show frequently crossed over to the others, most notably Frank Cady as store owner Sam Drucker.
Fun video and survey, Matt.
I appreciate you filling out the survey, Greg.
Living in Finland and grew up in the 80's I watched Battlestar Galactica, Dallas, Dynasty. Murder She Wrote and Columbo had lots of air time. Love boat was broadcasted saturday evening and after the sauna it was a show to watch. (though it has always seem so dull of show. ) Knight Rider was huge in Finland too. Hasselhof made trips to Finland also. Updated remakes of classic stories from Alfred Hitchcock were suspensive. Also The Twighlight Zone eighties version. Those come to mind right away. Thank You matt for your reminiscing 🤗
Hey Bonanza was huge of course too in Finland in the 80's still and Little House on the Prairie. But I did not watch them so much. I believe it was the earlier generation that talked about those shows.
...and may I add Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea... and The Prisoner... and the NBC Mystery Movie w/ *Columbo,* Quincy ME, McMillan and Wife, McCloud, and others... The Mod Squad... T.H.E. Cat... Disney's Wonderful World of Color... and all the great CARTOONS!!! (excuse me if I listed something you mentioned)... ☮💟🌍
I can totally relate to this ! I was born in '68 and here in Oz we also only had four station. We'd come home from kindergarten and school and watch reruns of Hogans Heroes, the best 60s show by far, Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, all of them. I love those screwball, whacky 60s comedies, compare and contrast to the rubbish they feed us on tv nowadays. But you left out one show that possibly kicked off the whole genre: F Troop.
If you ever saw Double Indemnity, you know why Fred MacMurray was a widower on My Three Sons 😅
Great film noiŕ; great pairing with Stanwyck.
Hey Matt, I watched a lot of the same shows you did. Admittedly, were some I tuned in just to hear the theme songs (hey, there’s an idea for another video)! There were so many great ones.👏
A show that no one ever mentions is Run For Your Life. It starred Ben Gazarra, who I found out later was sort of a big deal on Broadway in the '50's; and his character went all over the world "trying to squeeze thirty years on living into one, or two." I was a teenager living in a suburb outside Chattanooga, and the show offered the thrill of exotic places that one got in the Bond movies, with only some of the constant danger. That's for me, I ate it up.
I love just about all these shows! I'm not trying to start a debate, but for me, those shows were better than what we get offered nowadays. I'm not saying all new stuff is bad; there has been some great newer stuff too. For me though, it's more a question of the overall quality, which I think was better back then. This "OK Boomer" moment brought to you by the good folks at Kelloggs. :D
Grew up 70s 80s retro tv was great. My faves would be my mission impossible, outer limits, bonanza, mod squad, batman, the Munsters, Addams family, Gumby, leave it to beaver, Monkees, get smart, twi light zone.
Nice list, Matt. Two you didn't mention that are favorites of mine are "The Alvin Show", and "Car 54, Where Are You?" "Green Acres" is the coolest show of the decade because you can sing the theme song to the tune of both "A Day in th Life", and "Purple Haze".
Smothers Bros. was very controversial at the time, but a great show with great musical guests.
The first episode of THE TIME TUNNEL ( "Rendezvous With Yesterday") is one of the best TV episodes of the 1960s.
I watched every one those shows mentioned (including Family Affair and Rat Patrol!). I liked both Addams Family and The Munsters. I didn't watch The Fugitive, Dragnet and The Saint that much. Honey West was really good. The Outer Limits intro was really frightening.
Andy Griffith Show was a spin off of the Danny Thomas show. I remember watching the pilot.
. The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction were all created by the genius Paul Henning.
IMO The Fugitive was the best drama ever produced for TV, and I'm happy to say I met Quinn Martin and told him so.
Of possible interest is that Tommy Tedesco played the guitar part on the Bonanza theme.
There was a particularly good Outer Limits that starred Robert Culp, titled: The Demon With the Glass Hand. I believe the screenplay was written by Harlan Ellison.
The Mod Squad: "Solid, man."
Finally, Matt: It's going to be a landslide for Mary Ann. What a contrarian you are!
edit: One more very important thing: F Troop!
A fun video Matt. With the exception of a few of the shows, I watched all the ones that you watched, only I watched them during their original first run as I was born in 1956. I even watched the first run of The Alfred Hitchcock show, though I was only 3 years old or so and it didn't make much sense. A fun trivia point with regards to Hogans Heroes: Bob Crane (Hogan) was a jazz drummer before he got into acting and he played the drums in the opening theme song. I always loved that military snare cadence.
I filled out the survey, and a couple of choices were hard to make because I enjoyed them both. For instance The Munsters and The Addams Family. Barbara Eden or Elizabeth Montgomery, they were both attractive to me. The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. At the time I would have said The Twilight Zone, because like you, The Outer Limits was just too creepy, though I did watch it on occasion with my hands covering my eyes for much of the episode. However, I've since discovered The Outer Limits on TH-cam, and I think I enjoy that show more. Could be the fact that I've seen every episode of The Twilight Zone dozens and dozens of times.
I thoroughly enjoy your channel and your take on the pop culture of the '60s. Keep up the good work Matt.
The Beatles cartoon. Dumb plots but loved the music as a kid. It’s how I figured out which songs were actually Beatles songs.
Many of those shows are still shown on broadcast TV. I didn't see them during their first run, but now I watch Leave it to Beaver and Perry Mason most mornings. They just play all of the episodes in order and then repeat from the beginning. Leave it to Beaver got better as the kids got older and became better actors. A bit of trivia: Only one episode of Perry Mason was filmed in color.
Matt, here’s some of my favorites, but I’m a bit older, being born in mid 50’s. Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , Mission Impossible, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Wild, Wild West, Green Acres, The Ed Sullivan Show, Batman, The Fugitive, Laugh In, The Twilight Zone, Combat, 12 O’Clock High, Hogan’s Heroes, The Avengers, The Saint, Leave It To Beaver, The Bugs Bunny Show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, My Three Sons, American Bandstand & Shindig.
The survey was tough, no wrong answers.
The Avengers (IN COLOR... well, both the B/W and color seasons with Diana Rigg) - no idea if it was syndicated in the US in the 70s but it's just the best.
Emma Peel was shown in the States. I was ready to move to England. Donald Sutherland was a villain in one episode if I remember correctly.
@@wyliesmith4244 I’ve read that the money to move the production from video tape to 35 mm film came from the US, but I don’t know if Matt had a chance to see it later on. I only saw it properly once it came out on DVD. Fantastic.