I was 14, Kathy was my Friday night steady date. We would watch TV while she babysat her brother. I would stay until about 11 then go home, next two houses down the block. We still watch TV together on Friday nights.
Oh sweet mother of God, there are days I’m lucky I remember my own name (I’m 73) and they start playing the intro to something like Jim Bowie and I slip right into singing along word for word!! I remember all of them! As a child I was on the Howdy Doody Show and sat in the Peanut Gallery!! That was my claim to fame in the neighborhood! Lol!
I was 8 years old we lived upstairs above Grams and Pops. They had A Tv. Friday Nights we would all watch and Grandma would make Pop Corn for all. God bless and thank you
Me too. I was in kindergarten myself and got to stay up late on Friday nights and watch the fights or other sports stuff with my father while my brother was forced to go to bed at the regular time of eight o'clock. I don't think he's forgiven me yet.
My Friend Flicka? A color show in 1957??? That's the year I was born! A night of TV sponsored by beer and cigarettes, damn, I missed the best of days! 😔
Remember , those " good old days " were before anyone but the very well to do could afford even a window air conditioner. It was really hot and humid in the gulf coast plains of southeast Texas where I grew up . especially if there was a storm brewing up . but we enjoyed the shows anyway when we had a t v . ours I remember was a big steel boxed small screened portable type black and white . it took a while for the tubes to warm up so it would come on .
When I was a kid, I used to record the openings of TV shows in the mid-to-late '60's (audio only), so these come as a reminder of how eventful television programming was back then.
@@tubeblack35 it was more implied instead of being roamed down your throats because the networks knew that the morals of the time wouldn't have allowed it !! There was still such a thing public pressure. Now you're looked upon as a religious fanatic if you even suggest anything of the sort . honestly , I did 10 years in the marines and have to turn it off sometimes .
First, thanks a million for putting these together. I've watched several and they are priceless--you include just enough of the show to get a feel for it. Great job! I barely remember some of these shows and some of the "stars" I never heard of. No wonder they still call it the golden age of television (and much of it was live). The guys who taught me television production in the 1970s were all from NYC and had worked in live TV in the '50s (before it all moved to Burbank). The stories they could tell of what went on behind the scenes of a live program from that era... And the smoking (and cigarette commercials). Wow. Many of the new faces that appeared on TV back then (as opposed to many theater and movie actors) smoked (often on air) and many of them died young from smoking related diseases.
Wow, Being 7 that year I must have been already in bed. I remember Rin Tin Tin and Jim Bowie. Heck, I missed out on these programs. Thanks for your vid. They’re so interesting.
They re made that Treasure Hunt program back in the 1970s, because I remember watching it and wishing I could go on it at the age of ten. The man with the horn would have put me to sleep. My mother had that kind of music playing when I was little at night so I could sleep.
the opening warning should be : REMAIN CALM what you are about to view is purely for entertainment purposes only, anything not right is your problem, just watch the video.
@@matthewcauthorn3948 DuMont's Wash DC flagship station, established 1940, was WTTG, Channel 5, which is still on the air as WTTG. After the demise of DuMont, in APRIL, 1955, the network became METROMEDIA. After Metromedia folded, it became FOX. The original roster of DuMont stations, was virtually unchanged throughout all of those transitions. Our local FOX station is WTTG.
One show all the way through would be more telling. The shows meant for adult audiences like Perry Mason or Alfred Hitchcock Presents are still terrific.
I always used to watch Rin-Tin-Tin on Saturday mornings, with Fury, My Friend Flicka, and Sky King. Of course the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports show was a boxing event. Even though they claimed to cover other events, they were almost all boxing matches.
Corvus, so did I. I'd sit on the floor and eat my cereal while watching these very same shows. My how quickly time has passed. World is so different today.
Yes, I remember those shows as Saturday morning. It’s hard to think of Friday night for My Friend Flicka or Rin-Tin-Tin. And Sky King (with heartthrob Penny) for sure on Saturday morning.
What do think is wrong with people like this Eggbert dude? Do they just have absolutely nothing going for them? I feel kind of sorry for such simpletons. 😒🗿
It is odd, but I do not recall ever having seen "Rin-Tin-Tin" or "My Friend Flicka" on any evening TV shows. They were regular Saturday morning fare where I lived. Other than those two shows plus "Jim Bowie" and the "Zane Grey Theatre" I really do not remember any of the others.
7:34- "Welcome to the 'SCHLITZ PLAYHOUSE'! Tonight- presenting JOHN FORSYTHE in.....'Girl With a Glow'. And presented for your pleasure by the JOSEPH SCHLITZ BREWING COMPANY! Brewers of SCHLITZ-- 'THE BEER THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS'!!"
Sick of repeats especially on Sundays same programmes as Saturday nights pay TV licences I'm 70 my partner is 78 that's over 157 pounds every Yr what are they doing with money it's not on TV programmes disgruntled TV payer
Great logo ABC! They should've kept that one. None of these shows were around even a few years later. Some of them, like Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, were still being made in a 15 minute format in 1957. That wouldn't last much longer.
This particular episode of the "Plymouth News Caravan" definitely was not shown in 1957, since starting at 10:15 the cavalcade of passing Plymouths consists only of 1955 models. These would've been on sale, and advertised, from the fall of 1954 to the summer of 1955.
@@Marcel_Audubon At the time, Schlitz WAS the best-selling beer in America. What happened was a certain brewer in St. Louis kicked up the competition a notch, and Schlitz made a major change in its formula that not only damaged its quality but caused it to go flatter faster than a beer left out all night...
Wasteland Speech - "But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_Speech
John Texas My Dad bought a new RCA television (blonde finish, of course) in 1954, with his meager salary. He paid $399.00. I can't imagine what that would be in today's dollars.
All of this is before my time... I only knew John Cameron Swayze from the Timex adverts, and John Forsyth from Dynasty... And Jan Murray from Celebrity (Hollywood) Squares. However. The opening credits from The Honeymooners were decidedly different from the ones rerun on TV in New York in the 1980’s. I may have seen that opening title perhaps once in my life, when I was 4 years old and it was in syndication in the 1960’s. As my parents were quite cruel, I was not allowed to watch television, and I don’t think I have seen the original opening credits since then-until now. I actually thought I had imagined it!
10:46- "OLD GOLD! Regular, King Size, and Old Gold Filters......the ONLY cigarettes that offer 'A Treat Instead of a Treatment'......presents....'BLONDIE!' Starring ARTHUR LAKE and PAMELA BRITTON!"
In 1957 I was 5 and turned 6 halfway through the year. I remember Rin-Tin-Tin, Jim Bowie, My Friend Flicka, Mr. Adam & Eve, Blondie and the Life of Riley. I don't remember the Cavelcade of Sports, but I do remember the Gillette march.
We had no shame whatsoever. There was a TV store in town and we (10 to 14 of us ) would line up in front of it and watch TV, we really would. We were poor, all of us were and we would just have a blast. But..... that was a long time ago.
Doesn't anyone remember the old Jackie gleson show with the June Taylor dancers and Jackie as the bartender sticking his finger in a glass of beer that was about to overflow . he'd call out the Irish tenor from in the back sallied "crazy googanheim"
@@dflf thanks a bunch !! I couldn't for the life of me remember . I really used tolike his routine when I was a kid . yeah that show was great a the June Taylor girls were' not bad either !!
@@gw5309 yeah ! Us either . there was this old guy that my folks knew that was kind of a drunk /hermit back down in the Brazos river bottoms of southeast Texas , it did 'not matter if he had cows at auction or running banklines for catfish , he had to be home for Jackie gleason . you really didn't mess with this guy either especially if he'd had a few . he was o k if you need help though .
Here I come to save the day,,, Mighty Mouse! Jim Bowie brought a knife to a gun fight. Not tonight dear, my head is like in a vise. Timex, it takes a licking, and keeps on ticking.
They did, but there was no available clip at the time of Huntley & Brinkley's prime-time newscast, so Swayze's Plymouth News was substituted, as explained in the foreword to the video.
9:11 In my growing up, in our Chicago (almost) suburban neighborhood, Person to Person did a show on Kim Novak that started exactly the same way. We watched the trucks etc that set up for the show earlier in the day. I guess it was live. Her house was much smaller but it looked the same way at the start.
9:27 A bit of trivia for those who don't know this already. The three notes are G-E-C for the GE Corporation which originally owned NBC. 11:00 Pamela Britton went on to be the ditzy neighbor, Mrs. Brown on "My Favorite Martian." 12:38 What?! James Dean is dead?! Next, you'll tell me Elvis is dead!
Don't remember watching any of these with any regularity. Guess we weren't much of fans of TV back then. Not all channels came in clear enough too bother with.
People remember shows Rin Tin Tin being on Sat mornings or afternoons and are surprised they were originally for Fri night on ABC stations. There must have been some kind of deals that Rin Tin Tin and other ABC shows would be on primary CBS or NBC stations at odd times. Syracuse had 2 stations. Would like to learn more about this.
THER COULD MAKE UP SO MANY OL’ TV EPISODES.. DIGITAL.. IT JUST TV, PPL ARE GOIN TO WATCH.. EVEN MAKE UP 40’s, 50’s.. NEW STUFF.. PPL LIKE SEE ONES NO LONGER HERE..
Bit hard to believe CBS had a color show (MY FRIEND FLICKA, apparently) as far back as '57. NBC was the pioneer in color (why not: RCA, who owned them, essentially invented the color TV system used until the advent of digital a few years ago); this can be seen in some of the other videos you've put together
The first regular weekly series to air in color was The Marriage, a 1954 NBC short-lived summer sitcom with real-life husband-and-wife Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Prior to that colorcasting was done on an occasional basis, mostly with specials, while a few regular series would air odd episodes in color.
Color television (and later stereo FM radio) ran into the problem of potential audience. Broadcasters: Why should we go to the expense and problem with color when not many people have a color TV? Audience: Why should I go to the expense of buying a color TV (and believe me they were VERY expensive until the mid 60s) when nobody broadcasts in color. The CBS color broadcast system was superior but it was unviewable on a black-and-white TV. NBC developed a system that broadcast a single stream that was receivable on either a color or black-and-white TV so they won out.
ABC's logo looks like something from Man in the High Castle. NBC's is just lame. Glad they found the peacock when introducing color. Nice consistency CBS.
My husband was 2.Does anyone remember a show that the married couple had chimpanzees for a family?He racked his brain trying to figure it out.Probably came out about '60.
The Hathaways. Aired in 1961-62 on ABC Fridays 8 pm. A couple of episodes are on TH-cam, just type in the title and ABC and you should come across them.
Yes. The Coke Time show was formally called "Coke Time with Eddie Fisher" he sang the hits of the day, often with guests. It was a 15 minute show. What they showed here was him singing the show's theme song (and one of his personal signature songs) "May I Sing to You" which had been a hit for Eddie Fisher in 1953. e opened every show with a few bars of that song. There are a lot of Coke Time with Eddie Fisher posted on TH-cam. The man had a great natural voice!!
I think December Bride starred Spring Byington and Verna Felton (Harry Morgan played Pete Porter, whose then-unseen wife Gladys provided some of the humor; they spun off their own show, "Pete and Gladys," in 1961)
I was 14, Kathy was my Friday night steady date. We would watch TV while she babysat her brother. I would stay until about 11 then go home, next two houses down the block. We still watch TV together on Friday nights.
Oh sweet mother of God, there are days I’m lucky I remember my own name (I’m 73) and they start playing the intro to something like Jim Bowie and I slip right into singing along word for word!! I remember all of them! As a child I was on the Howdy Doody Show and sat in the Peanut Gallery!! That was my claim to fame in the neighborhood! Lol!
I grew up as a kid in Texas and when Jim Bowie was on everyone's TV was on that channel .Because he died at the alamo , he was and is a Texas hero.
I was 8 years old we lived upstairs above Grams and Pops. They had A Tv. Friday Nights we would all watch and Grandma would make Pop Corn for all. God bless and thank you
Charles, me too.
Did your grandma smell like an old cedar closet? Mine did.
I remember some of these shows I was 6 years old in 1957 brings back a slew of other great memories thanks for the good feelings
Me too. I was in kindergarten myself and got to stay up late on Friday nights and watch the fights or other sports stuff with my father while my brother was forced to go to bed at the regular time of eight o'clock. I don't think he's forgiven me yet.
I loved that the song Laura was played all the way through.
This is amazing to see and hear. I was only 2 years old. My mother and father likely watched many of those shows. Thank you.
I’m guessing I haven’t hears that Gillette Cavalcade of Sports tune in nearly 60 years. That brings back a lot of fond memories.
Nintendo used this theme for Mike Tyson's punch out.
My Friend Flicka? A color show in 1957??? That's the year I was born!
A night of TV sponsored by beer and cigarettes, damn, I missed the best of days! 😔
Miss this to setting back smoking cigarettes just chilling oh wait I was born in 58.🤔
@Cliff Yablonski Ntsc color, not so much "living color", more like "lousy color".
Remember , those " good old days " were before anyone but the very well to do could afford even a window air conditioner. It was really hot and humid in the gulf coast plains of southeast Texas where I grew up . especially if there was a storm brewing up . but we enjoyed the shows anyway when we had a t v . ours I remember was a big steel boxed small screened portable type black and white . it took a while for the tubes to warm up so it would come on .
MeTV could put a couple of these on instead of all these shows that I’ve seen a million times
When I was a kid, I used to record the openings of TV shows in the mid-to-late '60's (audio only), so these come as a reminder of how eventful television programming was back then.
Awesome. This beamed me back to when I was 6. The West Point Story theme floored me.
just think how those networks have become crap these days.
Most shows today are dirty. There was nothing in 1957 that even hinted of the filth they are jamming down our throats today.
@@tubeblack35 --- There's an off button on your TV.
I dunno, almost all of THESE shows are hokey crap. Good thing bars existed in the 1950s.
Like the Carol Burnett show sign off " I'm so glad we had this time together , just to sing a song or tell a joke or two " .
@@tubeblack35 it was more implied instead of being roamed down your throats because the networks knew that the morals of the time wouldn't have allowed it !! There was still such a thing public pressure. Now you're looked upon as a religious fanatic if you even suggest anything of the sort . honestly , I did 10 years in the marines and have to turn it off sometimes .
Anything you do is very appreciated. I like these, they are historical and entertaining. We all seems to agree.
I don't agree BUTT HEAD
So many great memories! Thank you.
The Gillette Cavalcade of sports was pretty cool.
I was 11 and we could only get NBC so that’s what we watched. Thanks for sharing this!
Winter of 1957 sounds so good. I wasn't born yet but I would have loved it.
Thank you for your efforts in making theses videos for us to enjoy. I was born in 1969 but have a sense of nostalgia for these 50's and 60's shows.
So many good memories. Wish times were simple as they seemed back then
Person to Person the greatest show and forerunner of so many future live programs.
I just love this kind of stuff. Yay for TH-cam.
First, thanks a million for putting these together. I've watched several and they are priceless--you include just enough of the show to get a feel for it. Great job!
I barely remember some of these shows and some of the "stars" I never heard of. No wonder they still call it the golden age of television (and much of it was live).
The guys who taught me television production in the 1970s were all from NYC and had worked in live TV in the '50s (before it all moved to Burbank). The stories they could tell of what went on behind the scenes of a live program from that era...
And the smoking (and cigarette commercials). Wow. Many of the new faces that appeared on TV back then (as opposed to many theater and movie actors) smoked (often on air) and many of them died young from smoking related diseases.
Wow, Being 7 that year I must have been already in bed. I remember Rin Tin Tin and Jim Bowie. Heck, I missed out on these programs. Thanks for your vid. They’re so interesting.
They re made that Treasure Hunt program back in the 1970s, because I remember watching it and wishing I could go on it at the age of ten. The man with the horn would have put me to sleep. My mother had that kind of music playing when I was little at night so I could sleep.
That was fun...Thanks for the memories
the opening warning should be :
REMAIN CALM
what you are about to view is purely for entertainment purposes only, anything not right is your problem, just watch the video.
Lol!
I REMEMBER ALL THESE SHOWS. I WOULD RATHER WATCH THAT, THAN THE CRAP ON TV NOW. THATS WHY I DONT WATCH TV. I STICK WITH MY OWN VIDEOS AND MOVIES.
I remember all these very well. I was 15 at the time.
I'd love to see a compilation of as many surviving DuMONT programs you can locate.
Chicago Museum of Broadcast Communication has them.
I remember DuMont network and television sets.
@@matthewcauthorn3948 DuMont's Wash DC flagship station, established 1940, was WTTG, Channel 5, which is still on the air as WTTG. After the demise of DuMont, in APRIL, 1955, the network became METROMEDIA. After Metromedia folded, it became FOX. The original roster of DuMont stations, was virtually unchanged throughout all of those transitions. Our local FOX station is WTTG.
@ADAM ANTMAN Thanks for the Dumont info. I am also in the WTTG viewing area and a few months post-DuMont.
I turned 11 in June of '57 and I don't remember some of these tv shows 👍😊
One show all the way through would be more telling. The shows meant for adult audiences like Perry Mason or Alfred Hitchcock Presents are still terrific.
I never knew Blondie was on Friday nights. I remember watching Blondie every Sunday morning in the 70s.
I always used to watch Rin-Tin-Tin on Saturday mornings, with Fury, My Friend Flicka, and Sky King.
Of course the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports show was a boxing event. Even though they claimed to cover other events, they were almost all boxing matches.
Corvus 13. Those were our Saturday morning fare as well.
Corvus, so did I. I'd sit on the floor and eat my cereal while watching these very same shows. My how quickly time has passed. World is so different today.
@@eggbertinkabod1121 what the fuck?
Yes, I remember those shows as Saturday morning. It’s hard to think of Friday night for My Friend Flicka or Rin-Tin-Tin. And Sky King (with heartthrob Penny) for sure on Saturday morning.
What do think is wrong with people like this Eggbert dude? Do they just have absolutely nothing going for them? I feel kind of sorry for such simpletons. 😒🗿
Awesome. I was just a youngster then.
I was so young at the time so I don't remember many of these. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
8:26- "Good evening. I'm Ed Murrow- and the name of the program is 'PERSON TO PERSON'. It's all live....no film."
Loved the old-style ABC logo.
Born in October, 1957. Snow on the pumpkins.
I love that you are so fastidious! Thanks for doing these.
I was born on a Friday in November, 1957.
This was very interesting
It is odd, but I do not recall ever having seen "Rin-Tin-Tin" or "My Friend Flicka" on any evening TV shows. They were regular Saturday morning fare where I lived. Other than those two shows plus "Jim Bowie" and the "Zane Grey Theatre" I really do not remember any of the others.
7:34- "Welcome to the 'SCHLITZ PLAYHOUSE'! Tonight- presenting JOHN FORSYTHE in.....'Girl With a Glow'. And presented for your pleasure by the JOSEPH SCHLITZ BREWING COMPANY! Brewers of SCHLITZ-- 'THE BEER THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS'!!"
You think Schlitz gave her the glow?
The good old days....sad they are gone.
Yeah nowadays it's nothing but repeats all the bloody time that's on British TV
Sick of repeats especially on Sundays same programmes as Saturday nights pay TV licences I'm 70 my partner is 78 that's over 157 pounds every Yr what are they doing with money it's not on TV programmes disgruntled TV payer
Yes
What good ole days?this country is in turmoil and has been sense the my ancestors were brought here in chains
@@deniswilson8152 My weren't )
I was out of the country in 1957 but was surprised to watch the Lone Ranger in Japan wth the characters speaking in Japanese.
Ah, memories.
Was a freshman in high school and remember some of these, mostly Rin Tin and John Cameron Swayze doing the news.
At the end of his newscasts, Mr. Swayze said, "Glad we could get together!"
Great logo ABC! They should've kept that one. None of these shows were around even a few years later. Some of them, like Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, were still being made in a 15 minute format in 1957. That wouldn't last much longer.
I remember cigarettes being 26 cents a pack with 2 pennies scotch taped on the side.
Beer & shot 75 cents
regular cigarettes were 23cents a pack, king sized 25 cents.
Great memories
Brilliant thanks
This particular episode of the "Plymouth News Caravan" definitely was not shown in 1957, since starting at 10:15 the cavalcade of passing Plymouths consists only of 1955 models. These would've been on sale, and advertised, from the fall of 1954 to the summer of 1955.
Enjoyed your video! Good job!
Same for the Jim Bowie into, and I remembered tune and words...
Heh. Nothing says "high class" like _Schlitz Playhouse._
Haha! I was thinking the same thing. A Milwaukee brewery trying to act all highbrow.
@@Marcel_Audubon At the time, Schlitz WAS the best-selling beer in America. What happened was a certain brewer in St. Louis kicked up the competition a notch, and Schlitz made a major change in its formula that not only damaged its quality but caused it to go flatter faster than a beer left out all night...
Love dean Martin on person to person
The most talked about
United States stories .
Wasteland Speech - "But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_Speech
Newton W. Minow, May 9, 1961
Larry gu+.
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The Lineup was also called San Francisco Beat
3:12 - The Ray Anthony Show. ... NICE.
I used to drink Schlitz beer until I got to drunk to pronounce the name, then I switched to Iron City Beer.
Iron City will put lead in your pencil.
My dad use to tell me that the reason people had large family's in those days was not because of faith but the fact was very few had TV's.
John Texas My Dad bought a new RCA television (blonde finish, of course) in 1954, with his meager salary. He paid $399.00. I can't imagine what that would be in today's dollars.
@@stanleycostello9610 All you would have to do is compare what people earned back then, with what they earn today...and you'll have some idea.
All U WOPS got BIG FAMILY
@John Texas 🙄
@@stanleycostello9610 we didn't hav no damn tv we had a community sing ( O MY darlin O MY darlin O MY darlin Clementine)
All of this is before my time... I only knew John Cameron Swayze from the Timex adverts, and John Forsyth from Dynasty... And Jan Murray from Celebrity (Hollywood) Squares. However. The opening credits from The Honeymooners were decidedly different from the ones rerun on TV in New York in the 1980’s. I may have seen that opening title perhaps once in my life, when I was 4 years old and it was in syndication in the 1960’s. As my parents were quite cruel, I was not allowed to watch television, and I don’t think I have seen the original opening credits since then-until now. I actually thought I had imagined it!
I was born in 1954, some of these shows I do remember a lot I dont.
Thanks for the memories
10:46- "OLD GOLD! Regular, King Size, and Old Gold Filters......the ONLY cigarettes that offer 'A Treat Instead of a Treatment'......presents....'BLONDIE!' Starring ARTHUR LAKE and PAMELA BRITTON!"
a treat instead of a treatment...dennis james!!
In 1957 I was 5 and turned 6 halfway through the year. I remember Rin-Tin-Tin, Jim Bowie, My Friend Flicka, Mr. Adam & Eve, Blondie and the Life of Riley. I don't remember the Cavelcade of Sports, but I do remember the Gillette march.
jim bowie, there was a man, fought for the right with a powerful hand. that was america!
We had no shame whatsoever. There was a TV store in town and we (10 to 14 of us ) would line up in front of it and watch TV, we really would. We were poor, all of us were and we would just have a blast. But..... that was a long time ago.
Imagine how many people lived and died since this has been on. It's depressing to think about.
Thank you for that uplifting message. 1957 was 63 years ago and much has happened.
Doesn't anyone remember the old Jackie gleson show with the June Taylor dancers and Jackie as the bartender sticking his finger in a glass of beer that was about to overflow . he'd call out the Irish tenor from in the back sallied "crazy googanheim"
Joe the bartender and crazy googanheim was played by Frank Fontaine
@@dflf thanks a bunch !! I couldn't for the life of me remember . I really used tolike his routine when I was a kid . yeah that show was great a the June Taylor girls were' not bad either !!
Every Saturday night. My Dad never missed it. One of his favorites.
@@gw5309 yeah ! Us either . there was this old guy that my folks knew that was kind of a drunk /hermit back down in the Brazos river bottoms of southeast Texas , it did 'not matter if he had cows at auction or running banklines for catfish , he had to be home for Jackie gleason . you really didn't mess with this guy either especially if he'd had a few . he was o k if you need help though .
I wasn't born til a few years later, but I love Jackie Gleason, and I thought the name of the show you're describing is the Jackie Gleason Show.
I see that now; I must have missed it.
Some of these shows were a plot/storyline for I Love Lucy... like Person to Person, Boxing and the Gay 90s Revue. 🤣🤣🤣
Here I come to save the day,,, Mighty Mouse!
Jim Bowie brought a knife to a gun fight.
Not tonight dear, my head is like in a vise.
Timex, it takes a licking, and keeps on ticking.
Didn't Chet Huntley and David Brinkley replace John Cameron Swayze in the fall of 1956?
They did, but there was no available clip at the time of Huntley & Brinkley's prime-time newscast, so Swayze's Plymouth News was substituted, as explained in the foreword to the video.
John Cameron ? Yeah ! Timex. Takes a lickin. And keeps on tickin .
9:11 In my growing up, in our Chicago (almost) suburban neighborhood, Person to Person did a show on Kim Novak that started exactly the same way. We watched the trucks etc that set up for the show earlier in the day. I guess it was live. Her house was much smaller but it looked the same way at the start.
Huntley and Brinkley had actually replaced Swayze by the winter of 1957.
I liked when we only had three channels to choose from. Now there are sooooooo many choices, most of the time I just turn the tv off!
9:27 A bit of trivia for those who don't know this already. The three notes are G-E-C for the GE Corporation which originally owned NBC.
11:00 Pamela Britton went on to be the ditzy neighbor, Mrs. Brown on "My Favorite Martian."
12:38 What?! James Dean is dead?! Next, you'll tell me Elvis is dead!
Jan Murray!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't remember watching any of these with any regularity. Guess we weren't much of fans of TV back then. Not all channels came in clear enough too bother with.
When was “ I Remember Mama” on?
Was released July 1st 1949 and ran until 1957. Good old days.
July 1949-July 1956 in prime time followed by a short winter season, December 1956-March 1957, on Sunday afternoons.
Tv was still pretty new then and I never heard of most of these shows. Definitely not must watch tv lol.
John Cameron Swayze's world map needs some work.
People remember shows Rin Tin Tin being on Sat mornings or afternoons and are surprised they were originally for Fri night on ABC stations. There must have been some kind of deals that Rin Tin Tin and other ABC shows would be on primary CBS or NBC stations at odd times. Syracuse had 2 stations. Would like to learn more about this.
same for My Friend Flicka (and while we're at it… Fury)
Dagwood was no bumstead he was a sandwich
Always get a kick out these Hollywood actors trying to behave like soldiers. No cadet would ever have removed his cover by its highly polished visor.
Great, now, how can I actually watch these?
THER COULD MAKE UP SO
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IT JUST TV, PPL ARE
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I was in 2nd Grade in Hometown IL!
yeah, but what was the name of your hometown?
Jim Bowie, just wanted his country like every other American 🇺🇸 but he had to die in that freakin Alamo against Santa Ana.
My, my, my,...……..how politically incorrect. No wonder I loved it!
was our miss brooks on friday night?
Bit hard to believe CBS had a color show (MY FRIEND FLICKA, apparently) as far back as '57. NBC was the pioneer in color (why not: RCA, who owned them, essentially invented the color TV system used until the advent of digital a few years ago); this can be seen in some of the other videos you've put together
The first regular weekly series to air in color was The Marriage, a 1954 NBC short-lived summer sitcom with real-life husband-and-wife Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Prior to that colorcasting was done on an occasional basis, mostly with specials, while a few regular series would air odd episodes in color.
However, CBS didn't go to color until 1965! My guess is that My Friend Flicka was originally shown in black & white.
IIRC, both NBC and CBS werre experimenting with color broadcasts at that time, but NBC's setup eventually became the industry standard.
Color television (and later stereo FM radio) ran into the problem of potential audience. Broadcasters: Why should we go to the expense and problem with color when not many people have a color TV? Audience: Why should I go to the expense of buying a color TV (and believe me they were VERY expensive until the mid 60s) when nobody broadcasts in color. The CBS color broadcast system was superior but it was unviewable on a black-and-white TV. NBC developed a system that broadcast a single stream that was receivable on either a color or black-and-white TV so they won out.
ABC's logo looks like something from Man in the High Castle. NBC's is just lame. Glad they found the peacock when introducing color. Nice consistency CBS.
My husband was 2.Does anyone remember a show that the married couple had chimpanzees for a family?He racked his brain trying to figure it out.Probably came out about '60.
The Hathaways. Aired in 1961-62 on ABC Fridays 8 pm. A couple of episodes are on TH-cam, just type in the title and ABC and you should come across them.
Was that Eddie Fisher very briefly?
Yes. The Coke Time show was formally called "Coke Time with Eddie Fisher" he sang the hits of the day, often with guests. It was a 15 minute show. What they showed here was him singing the show's theme song (and one of his personal signature songs) "May I Sing to You" which had been a hit for Eddie Fisher in 1953. e opened every show with a few bars of that song. There are a lot of Coke Time with Eddie Fisher posted on TH-cam. The man had a great natural voice!!
These shows are all on www.tvstvnetworks.com
My girlfriend cant wrestle but you should see her box!
December bride with Bea benedette and Henry Morgan was what year?
I think December Bride starred Spring Byington and Verna Felton (Harry Morgan played Pete Porter, whose then-unseen wife Gladys provided some of the humor; they spun off their own show, "Pete and Gladys," in 1961)