A very interesting collection of syndicated shows from that era. And to think i actually remember The Saint being on Chicago TV decades ago. Thanks for sharing.
As a kid in Australia, I watched World of Giants, Cannonball, Everglades and the Saint. I even remembered the words to the Everglades song and I hadn't heard it since the sixties.
I don't think most people realize the work that goes into making a pleasing compilation like this from so many different old clips of varying origins. Wanted to add that to all other compliments & time warp experiences of your happy commenters here and on all the other things I'm watching thanx to your channel. TV intros are like moving picture haikus; montages for watchers to get hooked via intruiging images, snappy music, lyrics with story, iconic stars, supporting faces, famous guest stars
I hear ya! Broaderick Crawford on "Highway Patrol" used to scare me to death watching him when I was a kid! After that, I never wanted to get in trouble with the law! Just the sound of his voice put chills in me! That was all good programming as you know. Taught young people a lot. Good, clean stuff. Take care!
The last one was in color? Wow! For a syndicated program in the late 50's that's advanced! But again we're talking ITC, so it makes sense. Thanks for uploading.
Fun Fact: World Of Giants was a Sci-Fi adventure series that lasted only 13 episodes. The main protagonist was a secret agent who was only 6" tall & traveled around in a special case with his "handler".
I grew up on a black & white as I'm sure you did. We had two channels that came in when they felt like it and one that rarely made an appearance. Grew up on a farm and TV was my escape! Loved the old shows, especially the westerns like Range Rider & Cheyenne (Clint Walker: he's 86 now). Nice "talking" to you. I like your hat!
Genius! Usually these compilations are composed of the same old 'standards'... classic, yes, but hardly unknown. But this is full of real gems... minor masterpieces that are all-but forgotten. Nice one, Rw!
Darren Mc Gavin as Mike Hammer? Whoa such a great idea. Always liked Mc Gavin, a fine character actor...who just about worked till they carried him. out, feet first!!!
Thank you so much the theme towards the end The Sentimental Agent has plaqued me since I was a child I'm always humming it and never new where I got it from. I'm now 60yrs it's been torture not knowing again thank you.
Remember watching these shows except for a couple of them. Maigret and Sentimental Agent I don't recall at all. Loved Cannonball, Everglades and the Third Man which were my favorites. Funny thing, to this day when I'm out and see a big rig, I start singing the song for Cannonball. Have viewed a couple of these on TH-cam already and will check out a few of the others that this post has brought to mind. Thanks so much for the upload.
DC-Tiki I was born in '58 and some of them escape my remembrance! I'm guessing quite a few were made in the 50's and didn't make syndication/reruns. (?)
Amazing. I thought I was pretty familiar with TV history but I'd never heard of most of those. I decided to read about them on the IMDB and found the "International Detective" was Art Fleming- the original jeopardy host. The great Vittorio De Sica is one of the "Four Just Men". Larry King played a murder victim in "Miami Undercover". And there is a rumor that a young Ted Bundy had a small role in an episode of "That Man Dawson".
I got paid a compliment by Mr Flemming, decades ago. He hosted a late-night Sunday night radio show for the CBS station KMOX, St Louis. He would leisurely call in prior to the airing start time from LA into the studio. I did consultation work for a reputable sensitive (or psychic, in pop parlance) with a national following. She made monthly appearances on the show, but during the station breaks, Art would hear me give speaking points to my client and him on so many points, he actually recommended me to go on JEOPARDY!
Thanks. Ditto on the TV stations. I lived in the city and we could only get two network channels and the local channel. I was into cop and private detective shows mostly but, they had some good westerns too.
I looked up the premeire dates: 1957: African Patrol, 1958: Cannonball, Mike Hammer, 1959: WOG, Police Station, That Man Dawson, International Detective, Four Just Men, The Third Man, 1960: Assignment Underwater, Dangerous Robin, Johnny Midnight, Brothers Brannigan, Coronado 9, The Cheaters, Maigret, Edgar Wallace, 1961: Everglades, Ripcord, King of Diamonds, Miami Undercover, Shannon, , 1962: the Saint, Man of the World, 1963: Sentimental Agent
Your right I didn't realize I had misspelled it. Thanks for pointing that out. Anyway I found a video on TH-cam with the opening of the series 'Johnny Staccato. Great show.
From 09:00 these were British TV shows sold to U.S. syndication. Only the pilot of "Man of the World" was made in colour, but it did birth a spin-off, "The Sentimental Agent", also here. "The Saint" here are the 71 B&W episodes, so popular they often beat what the Networks were showing in some areas. NBC eventually bought them for summer reruns and ordered new colour episodes. Oddly, "Maigret" was a BBC production, who rarely sold shows to the U.S. in the 50s & 60s.
The only one of these I ever saw was The Saint ,a very good show.Everglades was carried by a TV Station in Lafayette,LA when my uncle lived there,but I only saw a promo for it.There were some school age kids at a nursery school I went to who mentioned Ripcord,they were like 4 or 5 years older than I.Man of the World was shown on a station in Houston,I remember seeing it listed in the paper once.
OMG....some of these had me laughing my ass off! "The Sentimental Agent"?! Hagahaha!! "Rock Chase stars in, "Boy..Did I Just Leave a LOG in your Toilet!, tonight at 8!"
I was born in 1960, I happened to be up late one night and The Everglades came on. Of course I'd never heard of it, but I watched it and liked it! I wish these shows came on now, also "Car 54, Where Are You?"
Really great film clips! I sure wish there were some new TV shows that use b;ack & white, it works so well for crime & drama series. I'm a 16mm film collectors, hoping to find episodes of Highway Patrol, Surfside 6, and other shows.
Great clips! I have to say the only one I recognized or knew was "The Saint". Never knew they did a "Mike Hammer" series before the 1980's Stacy Keach version.
In your next one of these I hope you include The Littlest Hobo, the one that started in 1963 (not the Canadian version, which was started years later).
Some more winners: John Ireland, Broderick Crawford, Edmond O'Brien, the unmistakeable voice of William Conrad, Jack Hawkins (for whom I was named), Richard Conte, Vittorio de Sica, Michael Rennie, and an already dapper (pre-Bond) Roger Moore..
Thanks. It was really nice to see some of my favorite actors from my childhood. Do you have 'Tight Rope' starring Craig Stevens? 'Johnny Succato' with John Cassevettes? 'Richard Diamond' ?
Here is the list of tv series intros and starting timestamps: 00:00:00 WOG World of Giants 00:00:39 Cannonball 00:01:25 Everglades! 00:02:05 Assignment: Underwater 00:02:30 Ripcord 00:03:01 African Patrol 00:03:29 Police Station 00:04:32 Mike Hammer 00:04:52 The Case of the Dangerous Robin 00:05:17 This Man Dawson 00:05:59 Johnny Midnight 00:06:26 The Brothers Brannagan 00:06:49 King of Diamonds 00:07:24 Miami Undercover 00:08:02 Shannon 00:08:24 Coronado 9 00:09:03 International Detective 00:09:21 The Cheaters 00:10:23 The Four Just Men 00:11:11 The Third Man 00:11:35 Maigret 00:12:24 Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre 00:13:02 The Sentimental Agent 00:13:42 The Saint 00:14:04 Man of the World 00:14:47
Even though I grew up in the era, I don't get the "Syndicated" meaning. If there were only 3 networks, would these shows have aired only on local tv stations around the country?
Unlike today, prime time started at 7 PM and network programs didn't start until 8. So stations needed to fill time, hence "Syndicated Programming". Nowadays local stations "own" that time, so they fill it with game shows that are cheap to use.
most of these actors never did much after this...but a few did.....BUT the shows themselves were remade in later yrs as different shows that we know now....& of course the saint....bond before bond!!!......early Mike Hammer(liked Keach) better....good listings anyways!!!
And later there came "Land of the Giants" (1970) which still airs on MeTV. I suppose that the same props were used in both shows? But why do they abbreviate it WOG. They didn't abbreviate Land of the Giants to LOG.
A very interesting collection of syndicated shows from that era. And to think i actually remember The Saint being on Chicago TV decades ago.
Thanks for sharing.
As a kid in Australia, I watched World of Giants, Cannonball, Everglades and the Saint. I even remembered the words to the Everglades song and I hadn't heard it since the sixties.
I don't think most people realize the work that goes into making a pleasing compilation like this from so many different old clips of varying origins. Wanted to add that to all other compliments & time warp experiences of your happy commenters here and on all the other things I'm watching thanx to your channel. TV intros are like moving picture haikus; montages for watchers to get hooked via intruiging images, snappy music, lyrics with story, iconic stars, supporting faces, famous guest stars
I hear ya! Broaderick Crawford on "Highway Patrol" used to scare me to death watching him when I was a kid! After that, I never wanted to get in trouble with the law! Just the sound of his voice put chills in me! That was all good programming as you know. Taught young people a lot. Good, clean stuff. Take care!
The last one was in color? Wow! For a syndicated program in the late 50's that's advanced! But again we're talking ITC, so it makes sense. Thanks for uploading.
I was a child when I saw a series titled "T.H.E. Cat", starring Robert Loggia. Good theme and illustrated introduction.
Funny. These clips are more interesting than most shows! thanks for sharing this treasure trove with us!
Fun Fact: World Of Giants was a Sci-Fi adventure series that lasted only 13 episodes. The main protagonist was a secret agent who was only 6" tall & traveled around in a special case with his "handler".
I grew up on a black & white as I'm sure you did. We had two channels that came in when they felt like it and one that rarely made an appearance. Grew up on a farm and TV was my escape! Loved the old shows, especially the westerns like Range Rider & Cheyenne (Clint Walker: he's 86 now). Nice "talking" to you. I like your hat!
Genius!
Usually these compilations are composed of the same old 'standards'... classic, yes, but hardly unknown.
But this is full of real gems... minor masterpieces that are all-but forgotten.
Nice one, Rw!
Yes! 90% of these pgms I've never seen. I'll start researching them. Thanks!
@@nealbradleigh5069 Yeah Ripcord and The Saint are the only two that I was familiar with and I watched a lot of TV in the 60's and 70's
Yeah, I remember seeing it on one of the Seattle stations when I was a kid.
Just fantastic, love this.
Loved the old music.
Obscure TV trivia for youse: Ultra-prolific Country songwriter Harlan Howard ("Busted") wrote the theme for "Everglades".
Darren Mc Gavin as Mike Hammer? Whoa such a great idea. Always liked Mc Gavin, a fine character actor...who just about worked till they carried him. out, feet first!!!
Don't forget 'Riverboat'.
Thank you so much the theme towards the end The Sentimental Agent has plaqued me since I was a child I'm always humming it and never new where I got it from. I'm now 60yrs it's been torture not knowing again thank you.
Glad to have helped - unexpectedly so.
The unmistakable voice of William (Cannon) Conrad narrating the opening of "This Man Dawson".
Remember watching these shows except for a couple of them. Maigret and Sentimental Agent I don't recall at all. Loved Cannonball, Everglades and the Third Man which were my favorites. Funny thing, to this day when I'm out and see a big rig, I start singing the song for Cannonball. Have viewed a couple of these on TH-cam already and will check out a few of the others that this post has brought to mind. Thanks so much for the upload.
Windy Moore Not being familiar with "Cannonball', It doe's seem that a 1970s revival would have worked, given the trucker/CB scene!
Nice job on this video. keep up the good work.
"African Patrol"? That will never fly by today's TV standards.
Aww man, I was definitely born in the wrong era. I would absolutely watch these tv shows, they all look great!
DC-Tiki I was born in '58 and some of them escape my remembrance! I'm guessing quite a few were made in the 50's and didn't make syndication/reruns. (?)
Amazing. I thought I was pretty familiar with TV history but I'd never heard of most of those. I decided to read about them on the IMDB and found the "International Detective" was Art Fleming- the original jeopardy host. The great Vittorio De Sica is one of the "Four Just Men". Larry King played a murder victim in "Miami Undercover". And there is a rumor that a young Ted Bundy had a small role in an episode of "That Man Dawson".
I got paid a compliment by Mr Flemming, decades ago.
He hosted a late-night Sunday night radio show for the CBS station KMOX, St Louis.
He would leisurely call in prior to the airing start time from LA into the studio. I did consultation work for a reputable sensitive (or psychic, in pop parlance) with a national following.
She made monthly appearances on the show, but during the station breaks, Art would hear me give speaking points to my client and him on so many points, he actually recommended me to go on JEOPARDY!
Thanks. Ditto on the TV stations. I lived in the city and we could only get two network channels and the local channel. I was into cop and private detective shows mostly but, they had some good westerns too.
i have to smile, the intro of The Sentimental Agent has a narrow street with a lot of bridges going over it, i have been on that street in my time :)
Marshal Thompson! He may have starred in more series(es) than anyone else!
I looked up the premeire dates: 1957: African Patrol, 1958: Cannonball, Mike Hammer, 1959: WOG, Police Station, That Man Dawson, International Detective, Four Just Men, The Third Man, 1960: Assignment Underwater, Dangerous Robin, Johnny Midnight, Brothers Brannigan, Coronado 9, The Cheaters, Maigret, Edgar Wallace, 1961: Everglades, Ripcord, King of Diamonds, Miami Undercover, Shannon, , 1962: the Saint, Man of the World, 1963: Sentimental Agent
Your right I didn't realize I had misspelled it. Thanks for pointing that out. Anyway I found a video on TH-cam with the opening of the series 'Johnny Staccato. Great show.
Interesting, "Miami Undercover" co-starred ex-champion boxer Rocky Graziano, who was played by Paul Newman in "Somebody Up There Likes Me."
From 09:00 these were British TV shows sold to U.S. syndication. Only the pilot of "Man of the World" was made in colour, but it did birth a spin-off, "The Sentimental Agent", also here. "The Saint" here are the 71 B&W episodes, so popular they often beat what the Networks were showing in some areas. NBC eventually bought them for summer reruns and ordered new colour episodes. Oddly, "Maigret" was a BBC production, who rarely sold shows to the U.S. in the 50s & 60s.
"Coronado 9" - not to be confused with "Rescue 8" or "Surfside 6".
You don't say! One of my favorite themes, and don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOL.
Mr. Blowhard, Craig Stevens starred in Peter Gunn with Lola Albright and Herschel Bernardi.
The only one of these I ever saw was The Saint ,a very good show.Everglades was carried by a TV Station in Lafayette,LA when my uncle lived there,but I only saw a promo for it.There were some school age kids at a nursery school I went to who mentioned Ripcord,they were like 4 or 5 years older than I.Man of the World was shown on a station in Houston,I remember seeing it listed in the paper once.
I remember watching Rip cord when I was a kid. Mid 1960's.
I can remember Cannonball, Maigret and the infamous Simon Templar. #thesaint
some good old tv shows
I remember four of these, Ripcord, Everglades, The Third Man and the most famous syndicated show ever, The Saint. You missed Secret Agent.
Secret Agent aired on a network, CBS. The Saint as well, on NBC, but it began as a syndicated series.
I think that was Johnny Staccato Mr. Blowhard. Baby of '49 here & your memory may be better than mine.
OMG....some of these had me laughing my ass off! "The Sentimental Agent"?! Hagahaha!! "Rock Chase stars in, "Boy..Did I Just Leave a LOG in your Toilet!, tonight at 8!"
I was born in 1960, I happened to be up late one night and The Everglades came on. Of course I'd never heard of it, but I watched it and liked it! I wish these shows came on now, also "Car 54, Where Are You?"
Thanks for the upload. I been wanting to know the name of a tune from my early childhood. It is the theme from "The Sentimental Agent'.
Except for The Saint I've never heard of these shows before -- and I'm not that young!
Me too. And I’m 68 years old.
Really great film clips! I sure wish there were some new TV shows that use b;ack & white, it works so well for crime & drama series.
I'm a 16mm film collectors, hoping to find episodes of Highway Patrol, Surfside 6, and other shows.
Some of these shows are available on DVD at Oldies.com like The Everglades, Miami Undercover, The Saint and Coronado 9!
I remember quite a lot of the old shows. Great memories!!! A lot of shows from ITC like The Saint!!
Man, people sure smoked a lot on tv in the fifties.
I only recalled 5!
6:49 - 7:24 My favorite one on the list!
Great clips! I have to say the only one I recognized or knew was "The Saint". Never knew they did a "Mike Hammer" series before the 1980's Stacy Keach version.
Darren McGavin's 1957-'59 version was considered the most violent- and suggestive- syndicated series of its day.
DomenicDee Mike Hammer was also a radio detective, "That Hammer Guy".
During 1953, on the Mutual network.
me too...
@@fromthesidelines okay okay pimp
In your next one of these I hope you include The Littlest Hobo, the one that started in 1963 (not the Canadian version, which was started years later).
Some more winners: John Ireland, Broderick Crawford, Edmond O'Brien, the unmistakeable voice of William Conrad, Jack Hawkins (for whom I was named), Richard Conte, Vittorio de Sica, Michael Rennie, and an already dapper (pre-Bond) Roger Moore..
bad audio from a basement
Family Guy brought me here
Wow!
Mr.Blowhard, Tight rope had Mike Connors from Mannix in the show.
Thanks. It was really nice to see some of my favorite actors from my childhood. Do you have 'Tight Rope' starring Craig Stevens? 'Johnny Succato' with John Cassevettes? 'Richard Diamond' ?
I think you meant "Johnny Staccato".
The star of Tightrope was Mike Connors.
seriously awesome. lol.
I guess the Skipper wasn't the first to wear a skipper hat.
Henry Mancini did the series theme. Ivor Slaney worked on the rest of the scoring, according to IMDB.
There's no mention in the end credits of what recording system was used, so it's unknown.
Checking out any of my several dozen other videos will come up with those shows and others.
@IwshIcldstrtover
Yes. The original season was 1958-59. Being syndicated, it wouldn't have necessarily aired everywhere in the US.
I didn't know that 'The Saint' was syndicated!
At first, between 1962-66 in black and white. NBC picked it up for a network run between 1967-69 in color.
It appears only the pilot episode was in color. The rest of the series was filmed in black and white.
Here is the list of tv series intros and starting timestamps:
00:00:00 WOG World of Giants
00:00:39 Cannonball
00:01:25 Everglades!
00:02:05 Assignment: Underwater
00:02:30 Ripcord
00:03:01 African Patrol
00:03:29 Police Station
00:04:32 Mike Hammer
00:04:52 The Case of the Dangerous Robin
00:05:17 This Man Dawson
00:05:59 Johnny Midnight
00:06:26 The Brothers Brannagan
00:06:49 King of Diamonds
00:07:24 Miami Undercover
00:08:02 Shannon
00:08:24 Coronado 9
00:09:03 International Detective
00:09:21 The Cheaters
00:10:23 The Four Just Men
00:11:11 The Third Man
00:11:35 Maigret
00:12:24 Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
00:13:02 The Sentimental Agent
00:13:42 The Saint
00:14:04 Man of the World
00:14:47
Was "Cannonball" shown here in America when it originally aired?
It was originally broadcast on Canadian TV back in 1959 before being syndicated to the US.
Even though I grew up in the era, I don't get the "Syndicated" meaning. If there were only 3 networks, would these shows have aired only on local tv stations around the country?
Unlike today, prime time started at 7 PM and network programs didn't start until 8. So stations needed to fill time, hence "Syndicated Programming". Nowadays local stations "own" that time, so they fill it with game shows that are cheap to use.
How was it there was so many shows with only 3-4 channels?
Sad that the sound has deteriorated so badly.
Is there any way to restore it?
This man or that man Dawson?
most of these actors never did much after this...but a few did.....BUT the shows themselves were remade in later yrs as different shows that we know now....& of course the saint....bond before bond!!!......early Mike Hammer(liked Keach) better....good listings anyways!!!
or Johnny 7.
You left out Ripcord.
@Ricky Roma Actually the Ripcord theme starts at 2:30.
That was included. The intro was slightly trimmed at intro and close, but yes, it's in there (to borrow a phrase from an old PREGO sauce commercial)
Wog???
And later there came "Land of the Giants" (1970) which still airs on MeTV. I suppose that the same props were used in both shows?
But why do they abbreviate it WOG. They didn't abbreviate Land of the Giants to LOG.