The Forgotten TV Shows of 1959 - A look back at 1950s Television Nostalgia - Part One
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Step back in time to 1959, a year when television was still finding its footing, and dozens of shows graced the airwaves, many of which have since faded into obscurity.
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Youre stirring up memories here. My sister, brother, & i used to watch American Bandstand, along with Lloyd Thaxton, Hootenanny,& The Happening. There were others but fog gets in the way. Great channel. 🙏❤😊
You've done great work to unearth all these. I learned much. I turned 1 during 1959, so my memories of TV then are limited to fiddling with the dials for kicks. Richard Long and Russell Johnson are two people I came across later, both as professors, interestingly. One on an island, and one with a nanny.
This is fantastic stuff!! Only knew of just a handful of these shows - can't wait for part 2 !!
I was born in 1959. Interesting to see what was going then. What my family might have been watching at the time.
I was 8 years old in 1959. I don't remember any of those shows. Probably because dad was the ruler of the TV and he only liked the popular shows. Or maybe I'm just too old to remember them. Thanks for these videos. I'm sure they involve lots of research.
This is the year I was born.😂🤣
B T W Russel Johnson also did The Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Those episodes were Western theme.
I still love hearing your voice. And you make me smile whenever I visit your channel for these great videos.
Keep up the good work. Also I was 1 years old, but I saw those reruns in the 70's on Chanel 50 Detroit.😀😀😀
Just saw the one with Russell Johnson the other day on Twilight Zone.
Your comments are always so kind! Thank you for watching 🙂
Nice to hear a non AI voice
I worry that I stumble over words, or breathe too much 😆, so I appreciate your comment! 🙂
I remember my sister (then 13 & 14) & her friends watching Bourbon Street Beat & The Alaskans, & often playing the characters on the latter - NO ONE wanted to be Reno! They were fans of most of the Warner Bros. shows, especially the Westerns. At the time, I was 4 years of age & very much aware, noticing fads.
Russel Johnson did a lot of T.V western shows like Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, The Virginan, Rawhide, The Rifleman
Gunsmoke just to name a few.😀😀
Andrew Duggan...one fine actor of the times this episode year of TV: 1959.
Charlie Weaver...a funny guy.
Roger Moore...one handsome lookin' guy!
"Black Saddle" TV theme...one of my favorites in Western TV themes.
Betty Hutton...one talented gal of beauty, I think.
Some of these 1959 TV shows, I don't remember, even though I was 9 that year in August.
Loved Rex Randolph's very cool 1959 Oldsmobile 2-dr hardtop in Bourbon Street Beat. Don't recall him taking it to 77 Sunset Strip. Seems they all drove Fords.
I’ve been in the absinthe house on Bourbon st in New Orleans. It looks almost the same…dark and foreboding. I didn’t drink the absinthe.
Ever notice that there were TV shows set in Alaska and Hawaii right when they entered the union? I guess they figured the public was curious about the new states?
Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, The alaskans, (but the show was great), Red Skelton show, were my favorites from that year
@imkreider9997 - 'Kooky, Kooky lend me your comb'.
@@patriciakeith6755 bABY, YOU'RE THE GINCHIEST!" Didn't make it into the teeny bopper talk.
Post Grape-Nuts. Like chewing gravel. No matter how long you let it sit in a bowl of milk it NEVER got soft. Don't know if it's still made today, or if so, WHY.
Luv the post
HOBBY LOBBY was a Show? Before itcwas a store?
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Cigarettes, cereal, soap & carbs paid for early TV
6:11- In the fall of 1960, Dorothy Provine moved on to "THE ROARING '20s" {"77 CHARLESTON STRIP"}, as nightclub/speakeasy thrush "Pinky" Pinkham (she released at least two Warner Bros. albums of songs she sang on the show}.
only heard of one: Bourbon St Beat
11:45- And the reason *WHY* "MAN FROM BLACKHAWK" lasted one season was because parents wrote to ABC, protesting some of the more violent scenes depicted in various episodes {their kids had just finished watching "WALT DISNEY PRESENTS"}. The show's sponsors, R,J. Reynolds [Winston] and Miles Laboratories {Alka-Seltzer, One-a-Day}, decided to replace it with a more "family-friendly" program the following season. And that series was......."THE FLINTSTONES".
2:13- Van Williams {"Kenny Madison"} moved on to his own series, "SURFSIDE 6", in the fall of 1960 {which wasn't TOO different from "BOURBON STREET BEAT"- or "77 SUNSET STRIP", either}. That lasted two seaons.
You can probably add Hawaiian Eye to that list as well Barry. The only real difference between those four shows was locale: Hollywood CA, Miami FL, Honolulu HI or New Orleans LA. All from the same TV studio, all four had theme songs written by the same guys...Two of the shows were popular (Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye) and the other two were not.
7:25- "DICK CLARK'S WORLD OF TALENT" (sponsored by Kent cigarettes) was a revival of producer Irving Mansfield's "THIS IS SHOW BUSINESS" (1949-'56), in which a celebrity panel would hear a newcomer's talent, then talk with them and make suggestions as to how they could be better performers, et. al., with some witty asides. ABC wanted to capitalize on Dick's popularity with teens [he was already hosting another prime-time series, "THE DICK CLARK BEECH-NUT SHOW" on Saturdays and "AMERICAN BANDSTAND" on weekday afternoons]- and that's why he was chosen to fill the "Clifton Fadiman" role of emcee. 'WHAT'S MY LINE?" on CBS was Clark's competition......and was always more popular than anything else the other networks scheduled at that hour. So Lorillard Tobacco replaced "WORLD OF TALENT" with repeats of "21 BEACON STREET" and "JOHNNY STACCATO" for the rest of the season.
DENNIS THE MENACE CAME ON THE AIR SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 1959 THE MANY LOVES OF DOBBIE CAME ON THE AIR SEPT 1959 ALSO THE TWILLIGHT ZONE OCTOBER 1959 KENNETHO
4:40- "77 TUNDRA STRIP". 😉
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