Fred Gwynne was a great serious actor as well ,he was in "The Cotton Club " as a gangster and also in a film "Ironweed: alongside Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson
Those were the days when it was special to broadcast a show in color. It was also very special if you could afford to have a color TV to watch those shows in color. We take that for granted today.
In 1962, NBC was virtually the only network colorcasting about 20 programs in prime-time (and daytime). ABC began telecasting THREE prime-time shows in color that fall- "THE JETSONS", "THE FLINTSTONES" and "MATTY'S FUNNIES WITH BEANY AND CECIL" [and two Saturday morning cartoons]. CBS refused to schedule ANY regular color programs at all, because of their rivalry with RCA/NBC. Only an occasional color special- including their yearly telecast of "The Wizard of Oz"- was seen; they wouldn't start regular color telecasts until the fall of 1965.
I understand that back in those days few people had colour tvs because they were very expensive and unreliable, the colour picture was often lousy and prone to drifting requiring constant adjustment, the colour cathode ray picture tubes of the time cut off the corners of the picture, and few programmes were in colour anyway. I stand to be corrected.
Prior to "Bonanza", it was the "Disney's Wonderful World of Color" at 7:30 while CBS ran the second half of Ed Sullivan. When the Beatles came to his show in 1964, a lot of Beatle fans want to see them on TV for the first time, while WWOC was running part 2 or 3 of a 3-part TV movie called "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh".
I still like this show. You Cartwrights are so high and mighty. That was the worst said about them. I could almost smell the horse hide. Or maybe that was the stockyards just south of my home.
S and H Green Stamps sponsored programs, which I didn't know, but I do know it was my job as a kid to paste the stamps into the books, shop the catalog and point out what we needed, such fun! Thanks for posting.
I remember McKeever and the Colonel! This show was short-lived. Just hearing that music that went with the NBC peacock brings back some cozy feelings. My parents had a b/w TV until the 1980's. I remember when I was six years old, a wealthier schoolmate smugly stated that she watched Disney's "Wonderful World of Color", and teased me because I didn't have color TV. I got so jealous, I punched her!
As an adult, I revisited many 60s sitcoms I enjoyed watching as a kid in syndication. Unfortunately, I found a lot of them hard to enjoy as they were plagued with generically awful laugh tracks. An exception was Car 54, Where Are You. That show really holds up especially due to excellent writing from people like Nat Hiken. That show didn't need a phony laugh track because they used a real audience who were actually entertained.
The show had Nipsy Russell In it too. All of the mid to late 70's I did not know what his claim to fame on Match Game was, until I saw a rerun of Car 54, years later, on cable TV! I was way too young for the first airings.
What a calm and unaware backdrop for the near destruction of the world in October 1962. I was four, and that very month we moved into the house that I would grow up in. The very first thing we did was plug in our GE black and white TV and watched whatever happened to be on. It was an episode of Leave it to Beaver.
@@windycityliz7711 I was 5 when we got out 1st color TV but I am told that in 1956, long before my time, that when my uncle was in the army he bought my grandparents a color TV and had it sent home. I am told they were the envy of the neighborhood.
We waited for Bonanza opening to watch our first show on our new color TV. My colorblind dad was in charge of adjusting the color so we didn’t get to enjoy the color until he was at work. Color TV was such a BIG thing in those days.
I love that Disney intro thanks too bad they don't go back to basics and Bonanza many a night we had to watch because we had one tv and dad was in charge of it ha ha.
Cuban Missile crisis and year after JFK assassination and not the same afterwards for sure. As like since 9/11/01 the country has changed yet again. And we keep getting more cynical.
I was 7 in the fall of '62. My grandfather lived with us and pretty much controlled what we watched. He had a strong connection to the West, so we watched a lot of Westerns. My favorite by far was "The Virginian". Loved James Drury. It's odd, though, that so few of these programs seem familiar. And I don't remember anything about the Cuban Missile Crisis as it happened. Yet, I do remember my thoughts and reactions and those of the people around me when only a year later JFK was assassinated. By then, my grandfather had bought us a color TV.
Were any of the news broadcasts of the assassination of President Kennedy broadcast live in color? The only surviving color news footage from that time was for the live broadcast of a report from the NBC affiliate from Fort Worth, Texas. It can be seen here on TH-cam.
Hey Jennifer Palmer, you were lucky to have a color tv in 1963. We didn't get a color tv until Christmas of 1970. I still watch the Virginian, Bonanza, and Hazel. The Virginian was one of the rare tv shows that lasted for an hour and a half. The footage that I remember the most was from Walter Cronkite on CBS that was in black and white from the JFK assassination. There is some color footage from that day when the Kennedy's got off the plane at Love Field airport in Dallas, and the Zapruder film of the actual assassination.
I remember me & my mother were close....I was in my first trimester! Still...I had to have gotten a jolt when she got the jolt!....wondering over to the front door...looking out at all the other housewives...Did I hear that right!?
I missed the peacock since we had a black and white TV. I can tell we mailnly watched CBS and then ABC the most this year, but not as much on NBC for this time when when I was 9. Bonanza was the number one on NBC for us. Also watched the Disney show regularly. Car 54 Where are You, Mitch Miller, and Hazel I also remember watching maybe Dupont theater but mainly remember Dinah Shore having a show at some point. Thanks for the memories!
_Car 54 Where Are You?_ was filmed in black and white on the streets of New York, but reportedly they painted the show's cop cars red so that they wouldn't be mistaken for real cop cars. There's a hold-up in the Bronx! Brooklyn's broken out in fights! There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights! There's a scout troop short a child-- Khrushchev's due at Idlewild-- Car 54, where are you? (Idlewild Airport was later renamed JFK Airport.)
We only had one channel, an NBC affiliate until 1968 when we got cable and a color TV! Sunday nights with Disney and Bonanza were the best. Almost took the sting out of having to go to school the next day.
They had cable TV in 1968 ??? I thought that didn't come along till at least 10 years later. (I was a kid in the 60's/early 70's, I guess my parents hid the truth from me and we just used TV antennas for reception!) I never had cable TV till I was about a year out of college, mid-80's.
There were a few songs I remember first hearing on Mitch Miller's sing-along series...including Tiptoe Through the Tulips, originally sung in 1929 by Nick Lucas.
For all the people laughing at the rock-n-roll is dying clip, it actually was. Not only in the USA, but in England as well. Then in 1963 a guitar band called The Beatles came along and rock was back in business.
At the time the new fall schedules were introduced in the U.S., the Beatles recorded "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You", their first "45" release in England- and it became a hit. That led them to record their "With the Beatles" LP in February 1963...and the "rock revolution" began with it.
I noticed that Walt Disney's signature is very different than the one we see now. They couldn't even leave his signature alone. I stopped watching Disney when the show was switched to "The Wonderful World Of Color" because it turned into one long commercial for his theme park and his movies. I wonder what Disney would think of the studio now.
Johnny replaced Don Pardo as the "Price" announcer, when the show moved to ABC. Don was asked by Bob Stewart to make the move to ABC, and declined. Mark Goodson then asked Don to stay with the show, and offered a sizeable cash incentive. But, Don said, "I'm an NBC man" and stayed with the Peacock. The FOOL! A year later, he picked up "Jeopardy!", and later added, "Three on a Match", "Winning Streak", "Jackpot", and a little show called, "NBC's Saturday Night"--which changed its name after Howard Cosell's LIVE Saturday Night show folded on ABC.
I also had a crush on Dinah Shore. I guess that we couldn't compete with Burt Reynolds, who also had a crush on Dinah. I remember that she would sing the jingle, See the USA in a Chevrolet, as Chevrolet sponsored her show.
Is that the woman they showed from 4:00-5:15? If so, they only showed her name (the name of the show) AFTER all that (5:20)--I would think the name of the show would come first, followed by her introduction. (Was "Dupont Show of the Week" (3:50) referring to the same show?)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 For years it was the Dinah Shore Chevy Show until 1961 when NBC placed Bonanza in the Sunday 9 pm slot. The Shore show was moved to another slot not sponsored by GM and became just the plain old Dinah Shore Show with a different sponsor .
So many 50's/60's bands had animal or insect names (with a letter change here or there)--The Beatles, The Crickets (w/ Buddy Holly), The Byrds, The Monkees, etc.
As a twelve year old, I had my designated spot in front of our new Zenith color t.v. My job? Act as a remote to change channels and fine tune for the correct flesh tones. Oh, and stop the occasional picture “rolling”.
I found myself wondering which of these my parents would have watched on a regular basis...then I remembered that THE VIRGINIAN was around a good deal later than '62, and my mother loved that one...(as for me, this is the time period when I was born)
"The Virginian" aired on NBC from 1962 until 1971. It has not been seen in syndication very much, due to its unusually long running time: 90 minutes every week.
As for Bonanza, Pernell Roberts bitched about the show almost from the beginning in 1959. He did not like the stories and felt there was nothing worth wild to the show. Especially his parts. He was a tough guy to satisfy. He kept threatening to quit for most of the time. So at the end of the 64/65 Season, they ( NBC) fired him all out of the blue. They could not stand him anymore. Unable to find work at first, he finally started appearing as quests on Cowboy TV shows and westerns in the movie.
I had just turned 3 when these shows were on but still remember some of them. I guessed Joey Bishop’s after about 5 seconds before the title came up and was right, now that’s scary.
Why Rock and Roll was dying, because all of the 50s kids were growing up, I was 9 in 1962, the Acts with Frankie Avalon and Fabian and others had become mainstream pop. However, just over the Horizon, came the Beach Boys for all of us beach kids on the west coast, and then the BEATLES!!!!!!!
I remember the first time I saw color television -- it was the Wonderful World of Disney. We were blown away by the amazing new world. I wonder if I dreamed in black & white before that day.
I will always remember 'The Price is 'Right' hosted by Bill Cullen. (Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL). Stay safe, and may God go with you.
I was going on 9 when these shows premiered. I didn't watch any of them but I do remember a couple titles: Bonanza, Car 54, McKeever, and Disney. That's it. What a bunch of schlock....
If society can change so dramatically in just 56 years, it is interesting to speculate what lies ahead for us in the year 2074. How will they feel about the world of 1962? ....
Imagine the 56 year change from 1900 to 1956. Go from horse and buggy to a brand new 57’ Chevy in late 1956. Throw in a Great Depression, a stock market crash, prohibition for 13 years and a couple of world wars, and you’ve got a 56 year period I wouldn’t wanted to live thru like my parents did. We have it great today. So much for the good old days, they were terrible.
2:30 - This theme song was later used in a commercial for an Atari 2600 game "Mario Bros.", and it was loosely takeoff the theme to "Car 54 Where Are You?" You know the words: "Something's gumming up the plumbing, Poor Luigi's in a bind, Killer turtles out to get him, Giant crabs are right behind, Fighter flies , holy gripes! They're all coming out the pipes... MARIO, WHERE ARE YOU?!"
I remember the Green stamps we had a Kitchen Drawer stuffed full of them. I used to help my mom put them in her books. She got wall decorated metal plates to decorate the wall and a electric skillet that she got in the 1960s that just recently quit working last month. It lasted over 30 years and the cord finally shorted out. lol I replaced it with a cheap Walmart electric skillet lol I bet it won't last 30 years. My mother and father are dead and it Breaks my heart to have to throw anything away that belonged to them.
How interesting. One month after this Fall 62 season began, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis. We almost did not make it beyond October. Millions who had not gone to church in years, now packed places of worship. The key date was Oct 22, 1962. What we did not know until after the fall of the Soviet Union, was that their missiles already had nukes in them. Over 100.
First I must say that I thoroughly enjoy your compilations...it's a pleasure to watch as they bring back some wonderful childhood memories. One curiosity though, the clip of The Price is Right is from the ABC run from '63-'65. Was unsure if you were aware of this.
Actually, you just reminded me that I was supposed to switch that clip for one from '62 I found, but it looks like it slipped my mind before I uploaded the video. Sometimes the right intro/clip is unavailable for the season presented so I make do with one from the previous or following season to represent that show. Andy Williams, Mitch Miller and International Showtime could be from another season, and not sure about the David Brinkley and Chet Huntley programs, some of these don't get dated from where I get them. All the others appear to be season appropriate.
In 1965 I lived in Goose Bay Labrador Canada. At the time the Americans had an air force SAC base there. Armed Forces Television supplied most of our T.V. viewing. "The Missile Navy" looks very like some of the American military propaganda films that would occasionally show up.
Why were there so many damn Westerns? That must've been the TV heyday for Westerns. I was never interested in seeing a bunch of guys ride around on horses. (I was born in '62, so fortunately I don't remember any of the ones they showed here.)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 ..why so many damn Westerns ? Like all the crappy shows back then , they were cheap : the sets were already built , just insert actors , bad dialogue , lots of lame action and the return was humongous. Remember this was before the internet , before DVD's , video tapes. The advertisers had a captured audience of millions who had nowhere else to turn for entertainment at home.
I think the only star still alive in 2021 is Richard Chamberlain of Dr. Kildare. My favorite show of that season was the Jack Paar Program. He was not only hilarious but he had guests like Jonathon Winters and Bill Cosby. I was sixteen. I laughed until I fell on the floor and my Dad would say, "Get up, Jackson. Now go to bed." "Which is it, Dad! Get up or lie down." And so on and so forth. That was one funny show. Years later he died. Who? Everyone except Kildare.
It's hard to believe how primitive the set looked then, compared to what I remember from the early-mid 70s (when Bob Barker hosted). I"m guessing those were electronic digital displays for showing the dollar amounts in front of each contestant, though? (with the Lark cigarette ad below them)
As a 10 yr old I remember most of these, the best of the bunch was "Laramie" and the "Virginian". Whitney Blake of "Hazel" was one of my favorite "milfs"!
That "Price" clip was from the ABC version, which was produced at the Ritz Theater, an ABC production facility which had yet to convert to color. Starting in 1957, "Price" was produced in color on NBC (at least the primetime version was) and was produced at the Hudson Theatre, which was color equipped, and was the theater from which, "The Tonight Show", originated during the Steve Allen years.
We all loved BONANZA when I was a kid in Puerto Rico perfectly dubbed in Latino Spanish by local actors/actresses. As a matter of fact most of this series episodes were du bed in Puerto Rico, some redubbed in Mexico and some( the worst dubbing ) done in Spain. Laramie was also dubbed in Puerto Rico along with Empire, the Virginian, Dr. Kildare among others.
Sometimes I realize I'm one of too few who enjoyed that show. It had good writing and actors but lasted just one season. I suspect that the network was a bit scared by the way most of the fan mail came from adolescent boys who thought living on a houseboat was a great idea.
Kind of reminds me of how old farts like my peers and me bust on milennials... as if our generation was history's greatest and anything that came after was humanity's mistake. LOL!
David Brinkley was so funny when he said Rock and Roll was dying. Obviously, the Beatles hadn't yet been on Ed Sullivan. I was 8 in ‘62.
Heh, yeah, that didn't age well at all.
@@slactweak They said Brinkley drank like a fish
S & H green stamps. That really jars the memory. I bought my 1st tape recorder with those. Seemed like magic to me
Yep. I remember helping my mom paste those stamps into the books. Definitely a stroll down memory lane.
My collected Big Bonus stamps
"Car 54, Where Are You?"-classic slapstick comedy with the multi-talented Joe E. Ross; Fred Gwynne; Al Lewis; Nipsey Russell; and many others!
Fred Gwynne was a great serious actor as well ,he was in "The Cotton Club " as a gangster and also in a film "Ironweed: alongside Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson
@@matthewgray469 Fred Gwynne attended Harvard; I'm not sure if he graduated.
Boy those were the days when they said " Bought To You In Living Color" it was a huge deal then.
Yep, it was 5 more years before we got our first color set.
I was envious of the richer kids. Boo hoo, right?
the NBC color peacock, helping my mom put her stamps in the books, Bonanza theme music.... its like time travel...
Bonanza by Chevrolet.
Those were the days when it was special to broadcast a show in color. It was also very special if you could afford to have a color TV to watch those shows in color. We take that for granted today.
I'd also say that most of us back them owned just one TV and watching was a family affair.
In 1962, NBC was virtually the only network colorcasting about 20 programs in prime-time (and daytime). ABC began telecasting THREE prime-time shows in color that fall- "THE JETSONS", "THE FLINTSTONES" and "MATTY'S FUNNIES WITH BEANY AND CECIL" [and two Saturday morning cartoons]. CBS refused to schedule ANY regular color programs at all, because of their rivalry with RCA/NBC. Only an occasional color special- including their yearly telecast of "The Wizard of Oz"- was seen; they wouldn't start regular color telecasts until the fall of 1965.
We had no color set until 1978 (not trying to sound poor, like the Monty Python skit).
I think my family had a color TV by the end of the 70's, but I never had cable TV till the mid-80s when I was a year out of college.
I understand that back in those days few people had colour tvs because they were very expensive and unreliable, the colour picture was often lousy and prone to drifting requiring constant adjustment, the colour cathode ray picture tubes of the time cut off the corners of the picture, and few programmes were in colour anyway. I stand to be corrected.
The Theme from "Laramie" is the most beautiful of all of the Westerns.
The Bonanza theme still chills my spine! Late Sunday night and I forgot to finish my homework!
Prior to "Bonanza", it was the "Disney's Wonderful World of Color" at 7:30 while CBS ran the second half of Ed Sullivan. When the Beatles came to his show in 1964, a lot of Beatle fans want to see them on TV for the first time, while WWOC was running part 2 or 3 of a 3-part TV movie called "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh".
No more doing what you want to do. No more peanut butter sandwiches, right Barney Fife?
Yes, when Disney was over it was time to go to bed except when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show we were allowed to stay up to see them
I still like this show. You Cartwrights are so high and mighty. That was the worst said about them. I could almost smell the horse hide. Or maybe that was the stockyards just south of my home.
@@brianarbenz7206 Yep. When that iron door shuts behind you.....
Ahhh S&H green stamps! I remember licking those pages of stamps and then taking the books to a redemption store for binoculars and other treasures.
Brock White I remember those, too. The book was, like, an inch thick. My mouth was so dry, and I believe, my tongue was green.
Yes and I was the lucky one to get them in the book. Ugh
One of the creators of S and H green stamps ( The H part ) built a mansion in Ypsilanti, Mich. It's an apartment building now. Nice place.
@@naturalobserver6130 People thought they were almost getting free stuff lol. S and H were making money hands over fist.
I bought my first hockey stick with S&H green stamps.
S and H Green Stamps sponsored programs, which I didn't know, but I do know it was my job as a kid to paste the stamps into the books, shop the catalog and point out what we needed, such fun! Thanks for posting.
Do you remember THE BLUE CHIP stamps?
@@kathleenking47 Right, that was the other one we collected. :)There was an actual brick and mortar store that redeemed books.
I remember McKeever and the Colonel! This show was short-lived. Just hearing that music that went with the NBC peacock brings back some cozy feelings. My parents had a b/w TV until the 1980's. I remember when I was six years old, a wealthier schoolmate smugly stated that she watched Disney's "Wonderful World of Color", and teased me because I didn't have color TV. I got so jealous, I punched her!
I remember them filming episodes of Car 54 and The Naked City while living on Bathgate Ave in the Bronx during the early sixties.
Very nicely done! Brings back great memories. Good mixing of vintage videos, fun to watch.
Sing Along with Mitch always made me feel good.
Car 54 Where Are You ? was one of my mom's favorite sitcoms when it originally aired
Of all these US shows, I reckon 'The Virginian' and 'Bonanza' were the most popular here, in England. I loved both of them as a kid. Thanks for this.
As an adult, I revisited many 60s sitcoms I enjoyed watching as a kid in syndication. Unfortunately, I found a lot of them hard to enjoy as they were plagued with generically awful laugh tracks.
An exception was Car 54, Where Are You. That show really holds up especially due to excellent writing from people like Nat Hiken. That show didn't need a phony laugh track because they used a real audience who were actually entertained.
The show had Nipsy Russell In it too. All of the mid to late 70's I did not know what his claim to fame on Match Game was, until I saw a rerun of Car 54, years later, on cable TV! I was way too young for the first airings.
great show!
No laugh track can possibly be worse than The Big Bang Theory..
Car 54 is the BEST Show EVER!! The humor on that show is as relevant today as back then...I laugh every time!! BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
What a calm and unaware backdrop for the near destruction of the world in October 1962. I was four, and that very month we moved into the house that I would grow up in. The very first thing we did was plug in our GE black and white TV and watched whatever happened to be on. It was an episode of Leave it to Beaver.
Before Turner Classic Movies, there was 'Saturday Night at the Movies'.
And if you had a friend with color TV you had it made.
@@windycityliz7711 I was 5 when we got out 1st color TV but I am told that in 1956, long before my time, that when my uncle was in the army he bought my grandparents a color TV and had it sent home. I am told they were the envy of the neighborhood.
We waited for Bonanza opening to watch our first show on our new color TV. My colorblind dad was in charge of adjusting the color so we didn’t get to enjoy the color until he was at work. Color TV was such a BIG thing in those days.
I love that Disney intro thanks too bad they don't go back to basics and Bonanza many a night we had to watch because we had one tv and dad was in charge of it ha ha.
Ahh "The Price is Right" is one of the few that are still on today.
Those long lost, innocent days of 1962. Before the Cuban War started in late October.
Cuban Missile crisis and year after JFK assassination and not the same afterwards for sure. As like since 9/11/01 the country has changed yet again. And we keep getting more cynical.
Sure; that's what they want you to believe.
Oh, wait...my bad.
My mother was pregnant with me during the Cuban Missle Crisis. 🤰
Senior in college and ready to go to the Navy....Chet and David were my favorites....and NBC had color.
Sunday nights were wonderful growing up.. started with Disney, the Bonanza bean n bacon soup and Bolonga n cheese sandwiches
I was 7 in the fall of '62. My grandfather lived with us and pretty much controlled what we watched. He had a strong connection to the West, so we watched a lot of Westerns. My favorite by far was "The Virginian". Loved James Drury.
It's odd, though, that so few of these programs seem familiar. And I don't remember anything about the Cuban Missile Crisis as it happened. Yet, I do remember my thoughts and reactions and those of the people around me when only a year later JFK was assassinated. By then, my grandfather had bought us a color TV.
Were any of the news broadcasts of the assassination of President Kennedy broadcast live in color? The only surviving color news footage from that time was for the live broadcast of a report from the NBC affiliate from Fort Worth, Texas. It can be seen here on TH-cam.
Hey Jennifer Palmer, you were lucky to have a color tv in 1963. We didn't get a color tv until Christmas of 1970. I still watch the Virginian, Bonanza, and Hazel. The Virginian was one of the rare tv shows that lasted for an hour and a half.
The footage that I remember the most was from Walter Cronkite on CBS that was in black and white from the JFK assassination. There is some color footage from that day when the Kennedy's got off the plane at Love Field airport in Dallas, and the Zapruder film of the actual assassination.
I remember me & my mother were close....I was in my first trimester! Still...I had to have gotten a jolt when she got the jolt!....wondering over to the front door...looking out at all the other housewives...Did I hear that right!?
I missed the peacock since we had a black and white TV. I can tell we mailnly watched CBS and then ABC the most this year, but not as much on NBC for this time when when I was 9. Bonanza was the number one on NBC for us. Also watched the Disney show regularly. Car 54 Where are You, Mitch Miller, and Hazel I also remember watching maybe Dupont theater but mainly remember Dinah Shore having a show at some point. Thanks for the memories!
What a time like no one will ever see again ever !!!!!
_Car 54 Where Are You?_ was filmed in black and white on the streets of New York, but reportedly they painted the show's cop cars red so that they wouldn't be mistaken for real cop cars.
There's a hold-up in the Bronx!
Brooklyn's broken out in fights!
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
that's backed up to Jackson Heights!
There's a scout troop short a child--
Khrushchev's due at Idlewild--
Car 54, where are you?
(Idlewild Airport was later renamed JFK Airport.)
We only had one channel, an NBC affiliate until 1968 when we got cable and a color TV! Sunday nights with Disney and Bonanza were the best. Almost took the sting out of having to go to school the next day.
That's why I loved Must-See-TV some 20-25 years later.... Monday nights seemed to be the Best to look forward too!
They had cable TV in 1968 ??? I thought that didn't come along till at least 10 years later. (I was a kid in the 60's/early 70's, I guess my parents hid the truth from me and we just used TV antennas for reception!) I never had cable TV till I was about a year out of college, mid-80's.
Why I like a sing along with Mitch Miller is beyond me. I have an appointment with a physiologist tomorrow!
There were a few songs I remember first hearing on Mitch Miller's sing-along series...including Tiptoe Through the Tulips, originally sung in 1929 by Nick Lucas.
I was impressed then and am now by the way EVERY song was processed so they all came out sounding alike.
Hes like lawrence welk, but he had lyrics
I'm impressed! The episode of Bonanza you pulled the credits from actually aired in fall of '62.
"actually"
For all the people laughing at the rock-n-roll is dying clip, it actually was. Not only in the USA, but in England as well. Then in 1963 a guitar band called The Beatles came along and rock was back in business.
At the time the new fall schedules were introduced in the U.S., the Beatles recorded "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You", their first "45" release in England- and it became a hit. That led them to record their "With the Beatles" LP in February 1963...and the "rock revolution" began with it.
I wouldn't just credit the Beatles...All of the Motown acts of the time fueled Rock-n-Roll to new heights.
Wow Ray Charles, Peter Nero and Liberace on the same stage.
When Dinah Shore appeared about once a month with her program at the time, her guest stars on any given hour could be amazing.
Didja' ever see Ray's piano? Neither did he !
To think,it went from “the Wonderful World of Color “ to “ The Wonderful World of Queering your Children”
International Showtime? I have been looking for a video of that show forever. I LOVED that show as a kid!
Yes - I've asked the same question. I remember laughing at the clowns, even though I didn't understand a word they said.
Car 54 was hilarious!! They ran reruns on TV in the 1980s and I had no idea that Herman Munster and grandpa used to be cops!🙂
Fred Gwynne as Ofc. Muldoon & Al Lewis was Sgt. Schnauzer.
They still show reruns and I watch it sometimes!
..and lily, was older than grandpa
17:40 Suzanne Pleshette (guest-starring on Dr. Kildare), later "Mrs. Bob Newhart" on the Bob Newhart Show in the 70s.
Wish they played the "Doctor Kildare" theme music!🎵🎵
Suzanne Pleshette was gorgeous!!
I noticed that Walt Disney's signature is very different than the one we see now.
They couldn't even leave his signature alone.
I stopped watching Disney when the show was switched to "The Wonderful World Of Color" because it turned into one long commercial for his theme park and his movies.
I wonder what Disney would think of the studio now.
At 6:45, the voice sounded familiar, so I checked and it's Johnny Gilbert, who was young then but is still announcing Jeopardy at age 94.
Johnny replaced Don Pardo as the "Price" announcer, when the show moved to ABC. Don was asked by Bob Stewart to make the move to ABC, and declined. Mark Goodson then asked Don to stay with the show, and offered a sizeable cash incentive. But, Don said, "I'm an NBC man" and stayed with the Peacock. The FOOL! A year later, he picked up "Jeopardy!", and later added, "Three on a Match", "Winning Streak", "Jackpot", and a little show called, "NBC's Saturday Night"--which changed its name after Howard Cosell's LIVE Saturday Night show folded on ABC.
@@TheTVsnob Howie had, "The Bay City Rollers" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always had a crush on Dinah Shore. An underappreciated beauty.
I also had a crush on Dinah Shore. I guess that we couldn't compete with Burt Reynolds, who also had a crush on Dinah. I remember that she would sing the jingle, See the USA in a Chevrolet, as Chevrolet sponsored her show.
Is that the woman they showed from 4:00-5:15? If so, they only showed her name (the name of the show) AFTER all that (5:20)--I would think the name of the show would come first, followed by her introduction. (Was "Dupont Show of the Week" (3:50) referring to the same show?)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 For years it was the Dinah Shore Chevy Show until 1961 when NBC placed Bonanza in the Sunday 9 pm slot. The Shore show was moved to another slot not sponsored by GM and became just the plain old Dinah Shore Show with a different sponsor .
Thanks, I had blanked on her name and it was driving me nuts.
08:02: Hey David, didn't you get the memo? "Hey, hey, my, my, Rock and Roll will never die!" 🎶😋
As a kid, I used to go out at night and peek into the living room windows of neighbors with color TVs just to get a look.
Love the way Brinkley compared rock music to a horde of locusts....the next year the infestation was beetles (beatles)...guess he didn't expect that !
"All the Lonely People" could have a verse: "Newscaster Brinkley, predicting that rock and roll soon will be no longer heard.... That was absurd!"
So many 50's/60's bands had animal or insect names (with a letter change here or there)--The Beatles, The Crickets (w/ Buddy Holly), The Byrds, The Monkees, etc.
Ain't that the Fawkin truth! Lmao
I'll always remember Dinah Shore...
The only one of those shows I remember is Hazel...... So far. You see I wasn't born until 1961.
Hazel was great,,"Mr.B! Mr.B!"
As a twelve year old, I had my designated spot in front of our new Zenith color t.v. My job? Act as a remote to change channels and fine tune for the correct flesh tones. Oh, and stop the occasional picture “rolling”.
I found myself wondering which of these my parents would have watched on a regular basis...then I remembered that THE VIRGINIAN was around a good deal later than '62, and my mother loved that one...(as for me, this is the time period when I was born)
"The Virginian" aired on NBC from 1962 until 1971. It has not been seen in syndication very much, due to its unusually long running time: 90 minutes every week.
@@LaptopLarry330 That's so cool that it was 90 minutes! That show was Good too!
As for Bonanza, Pernell Roberts bitched about the show almost from the beginning in 1959. He did not like the stories and felt there was nothing worth wild to the show. Especially his parts. He was a tough guy to satisfy. He kept threatening to quit for most of the time. So at the end of the 64/65 Season, they ( NBC) fired him all out of the blue. They could not stand him anymore. Unable to find work at first, he finally started appearing as quests on Cowboy TV shows and westerns in the movie.
trapper John M.D.....years later !
I had just turned 3 when these shows were on but still remember some of them. I guessed Joey Bishop’s after about 5 seconds before the title came up and was right, now that’s scary.
That cartoon of Joey on the stool was very well done. I recognized it as him right away too.
Where was I? I was 9 years old, living on Mare Island Navy Base near Vallejo Ca. We had no color TV at the time.
Why Rock and Roll was dying, because all of the 50s kids were growing up, I was 9 in 1962, the Acts with Frankie Avalon and Fabian and others had become mainstream pop. However, just over the Horizon, came the Beach Boys for all of us beach kids on the west coast, and then the BEATLES!!!!!!!
Hazel, Sing Along With Mitch and Andy Williams!!! ❤❤❤
The year I was born, so I saw many of these when they were syndicated in the late sixties and early seventies.
I was born in July of that year, a couple of months before they rolled out the fall '62 TV lineup, I guess.
Rock n Roll is dying???? I'd better get to the record store, and soon! 😆
Disney was in its prime throughout the 50’s and 60’s
I remember the first time I saw color television -- it was the Wonderful World of Disney. We were blown away by the amazing new world. I wonder if I dreamed in black & white before that day.
I will always remember 'The Price is 'Right' hosted by Bill Cullen. (Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL). Stay safe, and may God go with you.
I was going on 9 when these shows premiered. I didn't watch any of them but I do remember a couple titles: Bonanza, Car 54, McKeever, and Disney. That's it. What a bunch of schlock....
If society can change so dramatically in just 56 years, it is interesting to speculate what lies ahead for us in the year 2074. How will they feel about the world of 1962? ....
Imagine the 56 year change from 1900 to 1956. Go from horse and buggy to a brand new 57’ Chevy in late 1956. Throw in a Great Depression, a stock market crash, prohibition for 13 years and a couple of world wars, and you’ve got a 56 year period I wouldn’t wanted to live thru like my parents did. We have it great today. So much for the good old days, they were terrible.
They don't make 56-years like that anymore!!
Do they?
We only got 1/4 of those here in Australia (at the time).
All the great stars who could really act.
Unlike today. Bad actors and horrible scripts.
And some who couldn't.
Hmmmmmm! Rock n' roll is dying, eh. Please stand by.
Reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated.
What show was that from? (The news probably.)
They all probably felt at the time that was Fabian's fault that rock n roll was dying. Lol.
'Daddy-O' Brinkley
'Ol Mitch was probably dreaming of that...he HATED R-n-R.
2:30 - This theme song was later used in a commercial for an Atari 2600 game "Mario Bros.", and it was loosely takeoff the theme to "Car 54 Where Are You?" You know the words:
"Something's gumming up the plumbing,
Poor Luigi's in a bind,
Killer turtles out to get him,
Giant crabs are right behind,
Fighter flies , holy gripes!
They're all coming out the pipes...
MARIO, WHERE ARE YOU?!"
I remember the Green stamps we had a Kitchen Drawer stuffed full of them. I used to help my mom put them in her books. She got wall decorated metal plates to decorate the wall and a electric skillet that she got in the 1960s that just recently quit working last month. It lasted over 30 years and the cord finally shorted out. lol I replaced it with a cheap Walmart electric skillet lol I bet it won't last 30 years. My mother and father are dead and it Breaks my heart to have to throw anything away that belonged to them.
How interesting. One month after this Fall 62 season began, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis. We almost did not make it beyond October. Millions who had not gone to church in years, now packed places of worship. The key date was Oct 22, 1962. What we did not know until after the fall of the Soviet Union, was that their missiles already had nukes in them. Over 100.
mARILYN MONROE..................sigh!
First I must say that I thoroughly enjoy your compilations...it's a pleasure to watch as they bring back some wonderful childhood memories. One curiosity though, the clip of The Price is Right is from the ABC run from '63-'65. Was unsure if you were aware of this.
Actually, you just reminded me that I was supposed to switch that clip for one from '62 I found, but it looks like it slipped my mind before I uploaded the video. Sometimes the right intro/clip is unavailable for the season presented so I make do with one from the previous or following season to represent that show. Andy Williams, Mitch Miller and International Showtime could be from another season, and not sure about the David Brinkley and Chet Huntley programs, some of these don't get dated from where I get them. All the others appear to be season appropriate.
You will never find an accurate Price clip, as the show aired in color, but the surviving kinescope are all monochrome.
Looking at that lineup, if I was a young man in 1962 I would have been going out every night
It's nice to know that when prime time TV was crammed with Westerns, Sitcoms & variety shows, a superb medical drama, Dr. Kildare stands out.
Great...thanks for posting...much thanks
9:30 Ryan O'Neal in Empire--I didn't know O'Neal's acting career stretched all the way back to the early 60s!
Not-so-smart aleck he was on one of the raciest shows on tv( well, for the 60’s anyway) called Payton Place.
'Empire' originally included Anne Seymour and Terry Moore in the cast, but their parts were written out.
Yes, all the good shows did come out in 62.
In 1965 I lived in Goose Bay Labrador Canada. At the time the Americans had an air force SAC base there. Armed Forces Television supplied most of our T.V. viewing. "The Missile Navy" looks very like some of the American military propaganda films that would occasionally show up.
Yup, rock died in 1962. That's why Woodstock was nothing but polka music.
Yeah, that's why Janis Joplin wore a dirndl skirt when she appeared on stage. ;)
@@fromthesidelines Accompanied by Weird Al Yankovic on Accordion.
in 64, four moptops would reinvigorate rock and role
but we can say in 2021 that rock and roll is dead
Today I learned that Dinah Shore invented Zoom.
Brinkley...."rock & roll is dying"...hahahahahahaha......enter "The Beatles"
They don't make shows like these anymore....THANK GOD !!!
Why were there so many damn Westerns? That must've been the TV heyday for Westerns. I was never interested in seeing a bunch of guys ride around on horses. (I was born in '62, so fortunately I don't remember any of the ones they showed here.)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 ..why so many damn Westerns ? Like all the
crappy shows back then , they were cheap : the sets were already
built , just insert actors , bad dialogue , lots of lame action and
the return was humongous. Remember this was before the internet
, before DVD's , video tapes. The advertisers had a captured audience
of millions who had nowhere else to turn for entertainment at home.
"LARAMIE' can be seen weekdays @7am eastern and pacific on "GRIT"
Yeah, along with western movies, that channel reruns that show to death.
I vaguely remember mceever and the colonel .about kids in a military school . car 54 and all the rest , you bet !!
I think the only star still alive in 2021 is Richard Chamberlain of Dr. Kildare. My favorite show of that season was the Jack Paar Program. He was not only hilarious but he had guests like Jonathon Winters and Bill Cosby. I was sixteen. I laughed until I fell on the floor and my Dad would say, "Get up, Jackson. Now go to bed."
"Which is it, Dad! Get up or lie down." And so on and so forth. That was one funny show. Years later he died. Who? Everyone except Kildare.
So Rock and Roll is Dying, at 8:02. News specials were just as inaccurate then as they are now!
David Brinkley saying that rock and roll is dead in 1962 must have received this news from CNN, another Fake News item!!!
If only it had been true. 😔
+frank new CNN doesn't report fake news.
God, Suzanne Pleshette was gorgeous on Dr. Kildare. Almost as gorgeous as Richard Chamberlain.(lol!)
This was when I was in afternoon kindergarten.
I was introduce to Don Amchee..via this NBC TV circus show:"International Showtime".
I'm too young to remember these shows; the only thing I remember Ameche from is the movie Trading Places (Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy) in the early 80s.
McKeever and the Colonel? Never heard of it.
It was a short-lived Sitcom about a cadet at a military academy getting into constant mischief & rasing the ire of the academy's commandant.
Does anyone remember the song by Mitch Miller “yes we have no bananas, we have no bananas today?
RwDt09 You are probably aware of this, but if not, the clip you used for the Price Is Right is actually from 1964 on Prime Time on ABC.
It's hard to believe how primitive the set looked then, compared to what I remember from the early-mid 70s (when Bob Barker hosted). I"m guessing those were electronic digital displays for showing the dollar amounts in front of each contestant, though? (with the Lark cigarette ad below them)
As a 10 yr old I remember most of these, the best of the bunch was "Laramie" and the "Virginian". Whitney Blake of "Hazel" was one of my favorite "milfs"!
Interesting - *ABC* had *_Calvin and the Colonel,_* and *NBC* had *_McKeever and the Colonel._* Did *CBS* have a Colonel?
Nope. Not in a title, that is.
2...Three years later on 'Hogan's Heroes' !
"Oh look, the Price is Right! I can't wait to see who preceded Bob Barker!"
......
"...this man looks just like Drew Carey."
That "Price" clip was from the ABC version, which was produced at the Ritz Theater, an ABC production facility which had yet to convert to color. Starting in 1957, "Price" was produced in color on NBC (at least the primetime version was) and was produced at the Hudson Theatre, which was color equipped, and was the theater from which, "The Tonight Show", originated during the Steve Allen years.
And when I caught a glimpse of Jack Parr....I thought he was Johnny! Well....everything old is new again.
What was the Price is Right host's name they said at 7:18? "Bill" something? (He doesn't really look like Drew Carey, except for the glasses.)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Bill Cullen.
Oh, so you noticed that also?
Some of these shows are familiar, like Disney, some are not, I guess my folks were watching other channels...lol
We all loved BONANZA when I was a kid in Puerto Rico perfectly dubbed in Latino Spanish by local actors/actresses. As a matter of fact most of this series episodes were du bed in Puerto Rico, some redubbed in Mexico and some( the worst dubbing ) done in Spain. Laramie was also dubbed in Puerto Rico along with Empire, the Virginian, Dr. Kildare among others.
Jack Paar had the same theme music as Bugs Bunny - "Everything's Coming Up Roses"
5:50 "IT'S A MAN'S WORLD" Not anymore it isn't! LOL
Sometimes I realize I'm one of too few who enjoyed that show. It had good writing and actors but lasted just one season. I suspect that the network was a bit scared by the way most of the fan mail came from adolescent boys who thought living on a houseboat was a great idea.
Rock' n' roll was dying in 1962. That's news to me.
Not until 2 years later when the Beatles came to the US, the British Invasion had arrived.
Turns out it was just taking a rest.
British Invasion started before the Beatles.
If the Beatles weren't the first British band (or solo artist) to become popular in the US, then who was?
Rock n Roll is dying. Freaking priceless.
Heh-heh! Rock n Roll is dying? Wishful thinking, David.
Kind of reminds me of how old farts like my peers and me bust on milennials... as if our generation was history's greatest and anything that came after was humanity's mistake. LOL!
7:52
I loved car 54 Where are you?
Has any of TH-camrs seen Ray Charles wife? No well, Ray has never seen her. Bummer I too have never seen this wife. 😆