My favourite programme of all time.. The Prisoner.. I've been to Port Merrion where it was filmed.. twice.. I still get as much a. Kick watching it today as I did back in 67
I was a kid during the run of all these shows. It was a fun time. I've always said that the 1960s was the golden era of television. We had just 3 networks, but they offered everything. We had cops, the old west, spies, space travelers, monsters, variety shows, comedy shows, music shows, fantasy, wars, comedies, family shows, family comedies, funny cops, funny spies, funny monsters, witches, genies... all on just 3 channels.
It's strange how many 60s TV shows were of an Occult or Supernatural nature. Bewitched I Dream of Genie The Twilight Zone Outer Limits Star Trek Lost in Space The Invaders One Step Beyond Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Time Tunnel Johnny Quest My Mother the car The Adams Family The Munsters Dr. Who Dark Shadows Scooby Doo The Champions and many Saturday morning cartoons, too numerous to mention all here.
@@sprocketsintime Yes, that's why I don't watch much modern TV. Either that or woke nonsense. I enjoy watching Critical Drinker tear that stuff to pieces.
@sprocketsintime Hoyt Curtain also Composed 2 More Classic Hanna - Barbera Cartoon Theme Songs " Jana of the Jungle " & " Godzilla " and I have 8 Episodes of Jana & 10 Episodes of Godzilla on My Playlist. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I loved Diana Rigg in The Avengers. She was one of the first female characters who could fight and defeat a man. She had a brilliant mind as well. She was James Bond without the promiscuity.
Loved them all but Wild Wild West and I Spy were my favorite Jim West was the coolest, toughest,most well dressed lil white man ever and one of the greatest villains of all time Dr Loveless.
I remember The Baron well I used to watch it every Friday night.. He ran a detective agency through the guise of an antiques shop his secretary was called Cordelia Fitz played by Sue Lloyd
I was Born in 1966 and became a fan of the spy genre at the age of 3, when I started watching Get Smart. At 58 years old it continues to be my favorite Genre. Of the 60's Spy Shows several are among my favorite shows of all time. Get Smart The Wild Wild West The Prisoner The Avengers (Emma Peel Seasons)
It's amazing how many of these lead actors turned up as murderers in the Columbo series: Robert Culp and Patrick McGoohan (3 times each), both Ross Martin and Robert Conrad, both Martin Landau and Leonard Nimoy, and Robert Vaughn.
Even though I was only around from 1981 onwards, I Loved this era's genre of Spy TV. I've watched almost every show mentioned and 9 of those - in their entirety thanks to DVDs.
A couple of honourable mentions ... detective shows that became spy shows thanks to the James Bond inspired spy craze. "77 Sunset Strip" was popular a show featuring detectives Jeff Spencer and Stu Bailey, assisted by "Kookie" the most popular character on the show. For its final season, Jeff Spencer and Kookie were dumped, and Stu Bailey now worked for the Government as a secret agent. "Burke's Law" featured Gene Barry as a wealthy detective who was chauffer driven in a Rolls Royce while he solved crimes. In its final season, the show became "Amos Burke - Secret Agent." Neither show survived the change in format.
both shows were very good. Burke's Law in particular was a 60's touchstone. Both starred my role model Gene Barry, whom I admired best as Glenn Howard in The Name of the Game from 1968-71.
Yeah,Mission Impossiable was another great show to watch!I don’t remember the girl from Uncle as a series.I don’t remember the show;The Barron?My older sister remember’s the prisoner.I’ve seen a few episodes of the prisoner,and have enjoyed it!An actor who was on the prisoner was also in the Ufo 🛸 show.The film 🎥 to catch a thief sounds familiar,too.Maybe,I should see this one,too?I liked the avengers,mission Impossiable,Johnny Quest,and I’m sure,I’ve heard of to catch a thief?Because,it sounds real familiar to me!😊
@@sprocketsintimeOh wow! What an episode to be your first impression of the Series. Far and away, the most curious and intriguing fantasy that borders on insanity. The tavern scene is most memorable. Cheers!
These brought back memories, I watched them originally, and of course my most favorite was the avengers with Emma Peele. I don't remember really watching the Baron but they were all quite good but none none of them topping the avengers. Thank you for going back to memory Lane. 16:09
I think one of the most depressing days was when I saw the final episode where Ella Peele left with her husband who was automatically found and then Linda Thorson took over. Linda Thorson was OK but she was no Emma Peel. So I was pretty disappointed after that. 16:09
Agreed, When Diana Rigg left, the series was at its height...but I remember that once Linda Thorson came, like you said, she was okay but just not the same as before. Even the theme music changed slightly I understand why but still prefer Emma. Diana Rigg leaving left such a huge hole, that's why they also added "Mother" to the series to fill the gap.
Really great round-up of Bond-inspired shows! Thanks for including the relatively obscure "The Baron" and "The Champions." I was born in '63, and only remember watching Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and The Wild Wild West in their original runs. TWWW was my and my brother's favorite show as kids. Mom took us to meet Robert Conrad signing autographs at a furniture store, of all places, in the Sacramento area in 1969. He wore one of his costumes from the show and signed the photos to us little kids "James West" rather than Robert Conrad. I have since seen at least an episode or two of all of the shows highlighted. I count most all of them among my all-time favorites, especially TWWW and Jonny Quest, which is the finest action adventure cartoon ever produced.
Hey!!!! 1963 here too!! Stockton no less!!! And I’m not surprised about the furniture store, when I was a kid, my brother took me on his bike to see Adam West and Burt Ward at a grocery store signing autographs for Batman, which is interesting because many years later I would work with Adam West on a B movie! That’s a great memory! Thanks so much for sharing it!
@@sprocketsintime Small world! And lucky man, working with Adam West! Batman was another favorite show of ours at the time. My brother Zack, who was 8 at the time we met Conrad, was sorely disappointed that he signed "James West," as Zack was old enough to know that he was an actor playing a part. I was 5, and was probably still fuzzy on what was real and what was fiction. :-) But my memory of that day is seared in my brain very clearly. Again, fun video! As another commenter noted in the Comments, the 1960s was an unparalleled time for the variety and quality of shows on TV.
Thanks so much! Adam West was a hoot to be around. The producers were constantly saying things like, "Don't talk to Adam about Batman -meaning the new Michael Keaton version, he's very upset about it." He wasn't. He knew who he was, and was very kind to everyone. And Funny. I have a funny story about him that was embarrassing for me but in a fun way, I will most likely do a video about it and the film we worked on. Which happened to be, "Omega Cop" Which we shot around Stockton, French Camp, and Lodi.
@@sprocketsintime I'd love to see a video about your experience working with Adam West, even if it comes at your expense! LOL It's good to be able to laugh at oneself! When the Keaton movie came out in '89, Adam West was making the rounds, doing public appearances. He came to a mall near where I worked in Falls Church, VA, and I used my lunch hour to go try to see him. I didn't have time to stand in line to meet him, so I just looked at him interacting with fans from a perch on the floor above where he was. I wish I'd told the boss I had a dentist appointment or something and had been able to meet him. Ah well....
Ah man, I wish you could have met him. The circumstances of my working him, put me on a different level than just a fan walking up to him. He was on the set for 3 days, and he was fun and professional 100% of the time, even though we all knew this was a total low budget B picture, Adam treated it like any other job he would be doing in Hollywood. I was lucky because the director really liked me and took time to personally introduce me to the talent when they came to the set. It was a great two weeks for me in October 1988. But I will for sure do the video, and yes while I made myself look silly it was worth it.
I loved Mission Impossible. Spock from Star Trek as a man of many faces and disguises. The Great Paris. Leonard was far my favorite character and I was sad when he quit the series.
you are one of the few people that remember him in that.. he was not very proud of that role and he said that everyone forgot that I was ever on Mission: Impossible, including myself:
10:47 Interesting "hybrid" cast shot of _Mission: Impossible_ showing cast members from separate eras during the first four (to five) seasons: Dan Briggs, leader in season 1; Rollin Hand and Cinnamon Carter, seasons 1-3; Barney Collier and Willy Armitage, the only cast members of the entire series run; Jim Phelps, leader from season 2 onward; and Paris, from seasons 4 and 5. The next shot shows two more of the cast of season 5: Dana Lambert, and Dr. Doug Roberts (who also appeared in one season 6 episode).
Barney was the only cast member to appear in all 9 seasons, as he guested in both seasons of the revival series in the late 80s, side by side with his son who played his son on the show.
all great shows from a very special decade if you were a kid like me. First among equals IMO was Mission: Impossible. I still watch it on Paramount+. And I had a crush on Diana Rigg for many years.
The one hour episodes of Secret Agent Man that aired on CBS in the mid 60s were the best. Every series has an episode or two..or three, that fall short and SA is no exception. However, the episodes written by Ralph Smart, who devised the series, are all like a fine wine that keeps getting better. The entire series was filmed in b/w which added to the Cold War espionage effect. I highly recommend these 1 hour episodes. After the series ended, two additional color feature length films were released, both of which are shown here in various clips for reasons unknown and should be avoided....seriously avoided.
There was also a memorable episode of The Beverly Hillbillies where Jed's dimwitted nephew, Jethro, decided he wants to be a "double nought spy". He develops his own gadgets based on Oddjob's hat and a blade that pops out of his boot like in From Russia With Love. He also adds gadgets to the family truck. In another episode, Mr. Drysdale's father shows up to the bank with two beautiful women. Wanting to talk to his father alone, he excuses the women by saying he want to discuss the new bond picture with his father, referring to financial bonds. One of the girls says "Oh, is there new one out? Goldfinger is my favorite".
I don't recall ever seeing Danger Man, The Baron or The Champions in my market area. However I do recall seeing other Brit shows in the Saturday 6PM time slot on UHF TV. UFO, The Prisoner and Space 1999.
Oh yeah!!! My aunt had the giant rotating antenna. Channel 6 was our PBS channel. Otherwise, ABC was Channel 13, CBS was 10 and NBC was channel 3. Sometimes we could get channel 36 out of San Jose which was further away but couldn't get Channel 2 which was San Francisco...Thanks so much for sharing that!!! Love those old memories!
I didn't remember the Baron either when doing the research. And I'm well old enough to remember. But liked seeing that little nod to Bond with Bernard Lee with Steve Forrest
@@sprocketsintime I didn't remember The Baron either, but I do remember two movie series, Flint (like the movie In Like Flint) with James Colbern in the starring role, and Matt Helm, with Dean Martin starring as Matt Helm. I've got a DVD of the movie spoof named "Casino Royale", which had David Niven as James Bond and Woodie Allen as Bond's nephew, Jimmy Bond. It was a movie "too much for one James Bond", so they had 6 other agents pretending to be "James Bond", including Peter Sellers. I've also got all of the James Bond films with Sean Connery, Roger Moore and George Lazenby. According to Ian Fleming, the closest who had portrayed James Bond was Lazenby. Unfortunately, all of those are on VHS tapes.
So many great shows on tv in the 1960's! Why didn't we have an affordable way to record them back then? Aaargh! I had to do homework on weeknights instead, and wait for Summer reruns.
Oh man I know what you mean! The closest I ever came to recording anything was trying to get Lost in Space recorded on our 8track recorder which was in the next room. Me with the tv turned up loud holding the mic in the next room screaming at my nephew to shut up!!! 😆
The Avengers was a revelation. Style oozed out of it. Mysterious plots. An ambiguous relationship between Emma Peel and Steed. Were they lovers, or just colleagues. Sexy, yes. A female who fought the baddies with judo moves! Steed was so suave. The show was the ultimate in coolness.
Wow...that really brings back a lot of memories. 🙂 One thing that I noticed while watching a rerun of "The Avengers" in the early 70s, is that they had an episode which included a place called "the village", which bore a striking resemblance to the setting of "The Prisoner". Since this preceded the Patrick McGoohan show, I always wondered if that is where the idea of the village came from. A show that I expected to see in that list is "Amos Burke - Secret Agent" which was a "spin-into" of "Burke's Law" which starred Gene Barry as a millionaire police captain. The last season or two of the show saw the name changed and he moved into doing spy work.
I need to check that out! According to McGoohan, he did an episode of Danger Man at the village and really liked the location and that’s the connection to the prisoner.
All of these shows were excellent. The writing was just superior - they knew how to write a quality 30 or 60 minute adventure (or comedy) show. Plus, all of those shows could draw from an endless supply of quality character actors. By way of example, if you watch British movies from that period, you see the same actors you would see in "Danger Man," "The Saint" or "The Avengers."
The funniest episode of Beverly Hillbillies was where Jethro had just seen Goldfinger so he tells Uncle Jed he's going to be a Double Naught Spy it was hilarious you can find it on here Jethro puts an ejector seat in the truck and Granny sits in it and she's ejected up into a tree.
If you didn't grow up in the 60's as I did you really missed out on the spy craze. All the shows mentioned are my favorites, with The Wild Wild West being my all time favorite of the bunch. Robert Conrad really was the American James Bond.😊
Was going through puberty when The Avengers finally hit the American market. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) helped me and my school buddies get through that period of change. 😉
I wasn't born until 1968, so I didn't watch any of these shows when they first aired, but I have at least heard of most of them. The only ones I hadn't heard of before were The Baron and the Champions. I watched Mission Impossible and Get Smart in syndication. My first exposure to The Wild Wild West was the reunion movie in 1979 or 1980. My Dad was a huge fan of that show. I wish it were easier to watch older shows today. Unless older shows were extremely popular, there hasn't been enough potential profit to justify tracking down all the rights holders (producers, actors, and musicians) and negotiating streaming rights. If there wasn't enough interest to warrant that or a DVD release, it can be very hard to watch those shows today. My platform of last resort is usually TH-cam. If a show aired (originally or in syndication) after 1975, there was probably someone who recorded that show on a VCR. A great deal of those recordings have been uploaded to TH-cam. While the uploader may have lacked the legal right to upload it, studios often don't bother to have them taken down, or perhaps they just claim the revenue from those videos.
Yes, sadly most of the VHS uploads are low quality, most likely trying to save tape and recorded on SLP. (guilty of that myself.) But thankfully some of them are on YT.... I loved those old bumpers between programs for "ABC The Movie of the Week"
@@sprocketsintime The irony about those poor-quality VCR recordings is that they aren't much worse than the reception we used to get on some channels with rabbit ears. My Dad was convinced that some of our reception problems were due to radio broadcasts from the Soviet Mission located across Van Cortlandt Park from us in Riverdale. Poor quality or not, at least they are mostly watchable. What I would like to have happen is for the unions representing the actors, writers, and musicians to reach a deal with studios on a standard contract for streaming old TV shows (say prior to 1990 or maybe earlier) that haven't already negotiated deals. That way, all those old shows could be made available to streaming services on a revenue-sharing basis. TH-cam would be a perfect place to host that content, actually. The unions would be responsible for tracking down creatives or their heirs and seeing that they got paid. If they couldn't locate them, the money could be held in escrow. It might not be a lot of money in most cases, but those old shows aren't earning anything locked away in studio vaults.
Yes the days of rabbit ears. And yes you're 100% right, what good are these shows collecting dust in vaults. I was so thankful when Kevin Burns convinced the studio to release the original television scores and cues for all of Irwin Allen's TV shows. Those great John Williams cues for Lost in Space were finally available at long last!!! I drove an hour away to the next town's Tower Records to pay $100 bucks for that CD package!!! And Played it LOUD all the way home!
The Champions is definitely worth watching...episodes up at TH-cam. Kind of Marvel Comics meets hippy philosophy meets spy espionage show. It`s crying out for a film reboot.
The Avengers reappear in the 70s as The New Avengers and i like that one more because of Joanna Lumley...and now a list of the 70's and 80's spy-TV-Shows
They should have done an episode of Gomer Pyle where he gets mixed up in a spy plot they did this on Here's Lucy a couple times where she accidentally gets involved in espionage.
YES! I too love the show and I almost only re-watch the final episode, "Fall Out" McGoohan said he didn't want a cut and dry explanation, and wanted it ambiguous :SPOILER: So, when he discovers that Number 1 is himself, is it meant to say, this has all been in his mind all along? There is a very interesting clue in the beginning of every episode....when he says, "Who is Number 1?" and the reply is....you are number 6.....if you change the emphasis on the words, "You Are" the answer is there all along...food for thought. thanks for watching and commenting! Welcome to the channel!
Crazy enough, THE MAN FROM UNCLE debuted on US TV 5 days after GOLDFINGER hit theatres in England... but the movie did not debut in the US until December 21, by which time, UNCLE had already been on half a season! According to the audio commentaries I've heard, an unknown Hollywood exec came up with the idea, "James Bond in the old west"-- but didn't know what to do with it. Michael Garrison, who'd been an agent, took it, ran with it, put together a proposal, sold it, got the pilot made, and successfully sold the series to CBS! But then CBS has a major re-shuffling of execs, and Garrison was fired. So they had a new show on the schedule but nobody to produce it. After 3 episodes by 1 producer, it clearly wasn't working, and they knew it would die a quick death, so recruited Fred Freberger without any scripts in the can. He wrote a "series bible" and effectively SAVED the show. Meanwhile, Garrison won a lawsuit and was reinstated. When asked who HE wanted to produce HIS show, he said, "Freberger's doing a good job, let's keep him." Garrison became executive producer. Crazy enough, the show went thru 6 different producers in its 1st season. Garrison eventually became producer in its 2nd season, but by the end of it, was killed in an accident in his home. THE WILD WILD WEST was in the TOP 10 all 4 seasons-- still highly-rated when CBS bowed to censor pressure and cancelled it due to complaints about "violence on TV". Considering it's so difficult to create a show, sell it, and build ratings, it's CRIMINAL how many popular, successful shows have been taken off for ridiculous reasons. GET SMART, crazy enough, was and remains my #1 favorite 60s spy show. I came in about 5 weeks into it, was INSTANTLY hooked, and watched all the way to the end. When they did the 2nd reunion movie, GET SMART AGAIN, which had Max & 99 married for 20 years with their 2 kids in college, I saw it as a contrast to all the hopeless cyncism of 80s sitcoms, where nobody's personal life ever gets anywhere. In the 60s, Max & 99 getting involved, then married, then having 2 kids, may have been done to boost ratings, but, in retrospect, it's one of the most optimistic "big stories" ever done on TV, especially when you count that sequel movie. (The earlier sequel "never happened", as far as I'm concerned.)
While researching I was sad to read that Garrison died so young due to that accident, such a shame. Get Smart is exceptionally well written and produced. Much funnier than it gets credit for. Great post thanks for watching!
@@sprocketsintime I'm re-watching right now, and I noticed they started to "dumb down" Max in season 2. I much prefer when he's not stupid, just... accident-prone. I love when they play up the contrast between the fantasy spy world and the real world. Like, KAOS is on the verge of over-throwing the government, but they're more concerned that the deli across the street has run out of pastrami. 🤣 I also think the Max-99 romance may be my favorite in all of 60s TV.
The Avengers and Mission: Impossible were favorites. They tried making spy shows with women agents and they didn't work. Why now?
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A group of my close High school friends and I were devout Man From UNCLE fans. I had a date with one of the most beautiful girls in school ,but I was ready early and stopped by my friend Eddy Lawsons house He and an other friend were watching a re-run of UNCLE, The Never Never Affair I missed the date because I sat down to watch it with them and lost all track of time . Sarah never spoke to me again and Eddy said to me " What do you think Napoleon would say to you"? If he saw a photo of her and you told him you stood her up to watch a re-run of the show He' most likely ask you what is the matter with you, are you crazy? That's my Man From UNCLE memory,
WOW!!! Looking back on that, was the episode at least worth it? Who knows Napoleon Solo might have saved you from a life of misery! Beauty isn't always what it appears! Great story, thanks for sharing...welcome to the channel!!!
Wild, Wild West was the best. It's important to note that its ratings were strong throughout its life and that it was canceled after some busybodies claimed it was "too violent."
@sprocketsintime It was not unlike the year CBS purged all of its "country" shows- Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres - despite the fact that they were both in the Top Ten for their entire run. Those shows are still hilarious today, while the "socially relevant" shows that replaced them are horribly dated and long forgotten.
Yes, I hated it when the networks killed all the classic sitcoms and variety shows for the Norman Lear crap....I hated those low production shows like, One Day at a Time, Jeffersons, All in the Family...while we did watch them because there was nothing else on...I have seen some moments on the Beverly Hillbillies that still make me laugh today!
We were gifted some of the best composers that moved from television to movies in the 1970s. Dave Grusin who did "It Takes A Thief" later did Murder by Death, The Goonies, John Williams Lost In Space to EVERYTHING! lol. Jerry Goldsmith, "The Man From Uncle" and of course Lalo Schrifrin's Mission Impossible music...the best ever!
I grew up with most of these shows, although I mostly watched ABC and CBS. I missed those on NBC because of terrible reception. I finally got to see The Man From U.N.C.L.E. several years ago but prefer the first season only. The following seasons were too campy and cornball and I thought the soundtrack was far inferior to the original.
RIGHT!!! I was thinking the same thing Dale! I strongly believe that the campiness of Batman really negatively reflected on other shows. When TV producers were seeing the popularity of Batman, they all started getting on board. It's one of the reasons why I felt Lost In Space suffered, Irwin giving into campiness and while it was my most favorite show on TV, it truly went down hill when it became, Dr. Smith, Will and the Robot show.
I agree, the first season of The Man From UNCLE was the best. The pilot episode, as I recall, took place in and around a refinery. It was just so well done. A lot of great actors guest starred in that first season. Filmed in b/w added to the Cold War setting.
My favourite programme of all time.. The Prisoner.. I've been to Port Merrion where it was filmed.. twice.. I still get as much a. Kick watching it today as I did back in 67
The 60s was a great decade for superb entertainment. Movies, music, and tv.
Agreed!!! We had the best of the best!
I was a kid during the run of all these shows. It was a fun time. I've always said that the 1960s was the golden era of television. We had just 3 networks, but they offered everything. We had cops, the old west, spies, space travelers, monsters, variety shows, comedy shows, music shows, fantasy, wars, comedies, family shows, family comedies, funny cops, funny spies, funny monsters, witches, genies... all on just 3 channels.
Right! So well said, 3 channels and we had it all! We had the best of television without a doubt!
I really liked the old series. The good guys always won and sometimes even got the girl.👏😄
It's strange how many 60s TV shows were of an Occult or Supernatural nature.
Bewitched
I Dream of Genie
The Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Star Trek
Lost in Space
The Invaders
One Step Beyond
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Time Tunnel
Johnny Quest
My Mother the car
The Adams Family
The Munsters
Dr. Who
Dark Shadows
Scooby Doo
The Champions
and many Saturday morning cartoons, too numerous to mention all here.
Very good point! Now it seems all shows are occult or near satantic
@@sprocketsintime Yes, that's why I don't watch much modern TV. Either that or woke nonsense. I enjoy watching Critical Drinker tear that stuff to pieces.
Jonny Quest was the best animated show ever, and with the best theme EVER!!
YES, Hoyt Curtain's music is amazing!
@sprocketsintime Hoyt Curtain also Composed 2 More Classic Hanna - Barbera Cartoon Theme Songs " Jana of the Jungle " & " Godzilla " and I have 8 Episodes of Jana & 10 Episodes of Godzilla on My Playlist.
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I loved Diana Rigg in The Avengers. She was one of the first female characters who could fight and defeat a man. She had a brilliant mind as well. She was James Bond without the promiscuity.
It was one of my most favorite shows! And Loved Diana Rigg!
Dame Diana Rigg was my fantasy wife. And she went on to marry James Bond himself (very briefly, sadly) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service!
@@MrEab2010 The problem with her as a wife is she'd be able to beat us up.
One would have to be a very well behaved husband.😇
Mrs Peel was Definitely Man Appeal.
She also replaced Honor Blackmon, who played Katy Gayle on the avengers. So all 3 major stars of the Avengers were in Bond Movies
Wild Wild West and Takes A Thief were my two favorites in Bondmania days.
Such great shows with great themes!!! I love Dave Grusin's theme music for It Takes A Thief!
My top 5 favorites shows, with no particular order, were: The Saint, The Avengers, The Wild Wild West, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Mission Impossible
Loved them all but Wild Wild West and I Spy were my favorite Jim West was the coolest, toughest,most well dressed lil white man ever and one of the greatest villains of all time Dr Loveless.
Great video! I loved so many of those shows. Hard to pick a favorite ❤
Hey there!!! Thanks for watching! Back when tv was actually good!
i watched them all, originally and rerun and loving it. thanks
Hey welcome to the channel! Me too, still love watching re-runs. Saw them all during original runs. Best time for TV ever.
Loved these shows. Especially the Avengers
Johnny Quest brilliant I still remember it, me and my school mates used to discuss it at school.
Loved the music! Hoyt Curtain was a great composer!
There is a great yt doc on it if you can find it.
Yes it well worth watching!
Amazing and awsome is the legacy and influence of mr bond, jamesbond!!!!!!
Thanks for remembering The Champions! It wasn't as flashy as some of the others on the list, but it was my favorite.
Hey there! You are so welcome! That makes my day that we included a segment on your favorite show!!!
They have a similar back story as The Fantastic Four.
I remember The Baron well I used to watch it every Friday night.. He ran a detective agency through the guise of an antiques shop his secretary was called Cordelia Fitz played by Sue Lloyd
My favs were Secret Sgent, The Avengers, The Saint, Mission Impossible, and The Man From U. N. C. L. E..
I was Born in 1966 and became a fan of the spy genre at the age of 3, when I started watching Get Smart. At 58 years old it continues to be my favorite Genre. Of the 60's Spy Shows several are among my favorite shows of all time.
Get Smart
The Wild Wild West
The Prisoner
The Avengers (Emma Peel Seasons)
great choices! Especially The Avengers (Emma Peel) years
11 of These Shows I'm Gonna Get on DVDs. Thanks For the Post.
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching
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"Our Man Flint" & "In Like Flint" were two James Bond like films with James Coburn that were fun!
It's amazing how many of these lead actors turned up as murderers in the Columbo series: Robert Culp and Patrick McGoohan (3 times each), both Ross Martin and Robert Conrad, both Martin Landau and Leonard Nimoy, and Robert Vaughn.
Even though I was only around from 1981 onwards, I Loved this era's genre of Spy TV. I've watched almost every show mentioned and 9 of those - in their entirety thanks to DVDs.
It was such a great time for television! Thank you for sharing your memory with us!
I remember Mission Impossible really well. The opening with the lit match. And never coming close to figuring out what was going on.
Such a great show! Loved the opening credits and music!
A couple of honourable mentions ... detective shows that became spy shows thanks to the James Bond inspired spy craze.
"77 Sunset Strip" was popular a show featuring detectives Jeff Spencer and Stu Bailey, assisted by "Kookie" the most popular character on the show. For its final season, Jeff Spencer and Kookie were dumped, and Stu Bailey now worked for the Government as a secret agent.
"Burke's Law" featured Gene Barry as a wealthy detective who was chauffer driven in a Rolls Royce while he solved crimes. In its final season, the show became "Amos Burke - Secret Agent."
Neither show survived the change in format.
both shows were very good. Burke's Law in particular was a 60's touchstone. Both starred my role model Gene Barry, whom I admired best as Glenn Howard in The Name of the Game from 1968-71.
The Prisoner was my introduction to 60's spy media and hands down the best show I've ever seen.
I think my first Prisoner episode I remember seeing on TV as a kid was, "The Girl who was Death"
Yeah,Mission Impossiable was another great show to watch!I don’t remember the girl from Uncle as a series.I don’t remember the show;The Barron?My older sister remember’s the prisoner.I’ve seen a few episodes of the prisoner,and have enjoyed it!An actor who was on the prisoner was also in the Ufo 🛸 show.The film 🎥 to catch a thief sounds familiar,too.Maybe,I should see this one,too?I liked the avengers,mission Impossiable,Johnny Quest,and I’m sure,I’ve heard of to catch a thief?Because,it sounds real familiar to me!😊
@@sprocketsintimeOh wow! What an episode to be your first impression of the Series. Far and away, the most curious and intriguing fantasy that borders on insanity. The tavern scene is most memorable. Cheers!
Honestly, Mission: Impossible and The Wild Wild West were probably my favorites of this list, though I appreciated several of the others too.
Ah, the cold war. Quest and The Prisoner were my favorites. Cold war Bonds were the best.
I found 'The Champions' quite appealing and enjoyed the others, too .. .
These brought back memories, I watched them originally, and of course my most favorite was the avengers with Emma Peele. I don't remember really watching the Baron but they were all quite good but none none of them topping the avengers. Thank you for going back to memory Lane. 16:09
Hey Ken!!! Welcome to the channel and me too, the Avengers my favorite as well!!! Emma Peel was the best years for the show.
I think one of the most depressing days was when I saw the final episode where Ella Peele left with her husband who was automatically found and then Linda Thorson took over. Linda Thorson was OK but she was no Emma Peel. So I was pretty disappointed after that. 16:09
Agreed, When Diana Rigg left, the series was at its height...but I remember that once Linda Thorson came, like you said, she was okay but just not the same as before. Even the theme music changed slightly I understand why but still prefer Emma. Diana Rigg leaving left such a huge hole, that's why they also added "Mother" to the series to fill the gap.
I found adding the character mother was kind of lame. The show didn't feel the same. 0:03
Really great round-up of Bond-inspired shows! Thanks for including the relatively obscure "The Baron" and "The Champions." I was born in '63, and only remember watching Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and The Wild Wild West in their original runs. TWWW was my and my brother's favorite show as kids. Mom took us to meet Robert Conrad signing autographs at a furniture store, of all places, in the Sacramento area in 1969. He wore one of his costumes from the show and signed the photos to us little kids "James West" rather than Robert Conrad. I have since seen at least an episode or two of all of the shows highlighted. I count most all of them among my all-time favorites, especially TWWW and Jonny Quest, which is the finest action adventure cartoon ever produced.
Hey!!!! 1963 here too!! Stockton no less!!! And I’m not surprised about the furniture store, when I was a kid, my brother took me on his bike to see Adam West and Burt Ward at a grocery store signing autographs for Batman, which is interesting because many years later I would work with Adam West on a B movie! That’s a great memory! Thanks so much for sharing it!
@@sprocketsintime Small world! And lucky man, working with Adam West! Batman was another favorite show of ours at the time. My brother Zack, who was 8 at the time we met Conrad, was sorely disappointed that he signed "James West," as Zack was old enough to know that he was an actor playing a part. I was 5, and was probably still fuzzy on what was real and what was fiction. :-) But my memory of that day is seared in my brain very clearly. Again, fun video! As another commenter noted in the Comments, the 1960s was an unparalleled time for the variety and quality of shows on TV.
Thanks so much! Adam West was a hoot to be around. The producers were constantly saying things like, "Don't talk to Adam about Batman -meaning the new Michael Keaton version, he's very upset about it." He wasn't. He knew who he was, and was very kind to everyone. And Funny. I have a funny story about him that was embarrassing for me but in a fun way, I will most likely do a video about it and the film we worked on. Which happened to be, "Omega Cop" Which we shot around Stockton, French Camp, and Lodi.
@@sprocketsintime I'd love to see a video about your experience working with Adam West, even if it comes at your expense! LOL It's good to be able to laugh at oneself! When the Keaton movie came out in '89, Adam West was making the rounds, doing public appearances. He came to a mall near where I worked in Falls Church, VA, and I used my lunch hour to go try to see him. I didn't have time to stand in line to meet him, so I just looked at him interacting with fans from a perch on the floor above where he was. I wish I'd told the boss I had a dentist appointment or something and had been able to meet him. Ah well....
Ah man, I wish you could have met him. The circumstances of my working him, put me on a different level than just a fan walking up to him. He was on the set for 3 days, and he was fun and professional 100% of the time, even though we all knew this was a total low budget B picture, Adam treated it like any other job he would be doing in Hollywood. I was lucky because the director really liked me and took time to personally introduce me to the talent when they came to the set. It was a great two weeks for me in October 1988. But I will for sure do the video, and yes while I made myself look silly it was worth it.
I always wanted to be April Dancer. Loved that name!
I loved Mission Impossible. Spock from Star Trek as a man of many faces and disguises. The Great Paris. Leonard was far my favorite character and I was sad when he quit the series.
you are one of the few people that remember him in that.. he was not very proud of that role and he said that everyone forgot that I was ever on Mission: Impossible, including myself:
Mission Impossible and The Prisoner were my favorites.
I have 4 favorites: It Takes a Thief, The Avengers, The Saint and Get Smart. I have the DVD collection of the Get Smart series.
10:47 Interesting "hybrid" cast shot of _Mission: Impossible_ showing cast members from separate eras during the first four (to five) seasons: Dan Briggs, leader in season 1; Rollin Hand and Cinnamon Carter, seasons 1-3; Barney Collier and Willy Armitage, the only cast members of the entire series run; Jim Phelps, leader from season 2 onward; and Paris, from seasons 4 and 5. The next shot shows two more of the cast of season 5: Dana Lambert, and Dr. Doug Roberts (who also appeared in one season 6 episode).
Barney was the only cast member to appear in all 9 seasons, as he guested in both seasons of the revival series in the late 80s, side by side with his son who played his son on the show.
all great shows from a very special decade if you were a kid like me. First among equals IMO was Mission: Impossible. I still watch it on Paramount+. And I had a crush on Diana Rigg for many years.
What healthy American boy didn't?
I Spy and Mission Impossible are my favorites.
Such great shows with great theme songs!
A cut above the rest: Get Smart, Prisoner, and Mission Impossible (the latter also with a killer theme song)
The one hour episodes of Secret Agent Man that aired on CBS in the mid 60s were the best. Every series has an episode or two..or three, that fall short and SA is no exception. However, the episodes written by Ralph Smart, who devised the series, are all like a fine wine that keeps getting better. The entire series was filmed in b/w which added to the Cold War espionage effect. I highly recommend these 1 hour episodes. After the series ended, two additional color feature length films were released, both of which are shown here in various clips for reasons unknown and should be avoided....seriously avoided.
There was also a memorable episode of The Beverly Hillbillies where Jed's dimwitted nephew, Jethro, decided he wants to be a "double nought spy". He develops his own gadgets based on Oddjob's hat and a blade that pops out of his boot like in From Russia With Love. He also adds gadgets to the family truck.
In another episode, Mr. Drysdale's father shows up to the bank with two beautiful women. Wanting to talk to his father alone, he excuses the women by saying he want to discuss the new bond picture with his father, referring to financial bonds. One of the girls says "Oh, is there new one out? Goldfinger is my favorite".
LOL YES!!! I remember that!! Thanks for that memory.
Jethro also wanted to be a movie spy like his actor friend Dash Riprock.
And there was at least one episode of the Monkees where they became spies, helping out a spy agency.
I don't recall ever seeing Danger Man, The Baron or The Champions in my market area. However I do recall seeing other Brit shows in the Saturday 6PM time slot on UHF TV. UFO, The Prisoner and Space 1999.
WOW, UHF so many today have no idea what that even means. What was your UHF channel? Ours was channel 40 out of Sacramento, California.
@@sprocketsintime UHF in Baltimore was 45 and Ch 67 was PBS if you had a good rotating antenna on the roof you could get Ch 20 from DC
Oh yeah!!! My aunt had the giant rotating antenna. Channel 6 was our PBS channel. Otherwise, ABC was Channel 13, CBS was 10 and NBC was channel 3. Sometimes we could get channel 36 out of San Jose which was further away but couldn't get Channel 2 which was San Francisco...Thanks so much for sharing that!!! Love those old memories!
I remember ALL of them except for The Baron.
I didn't remember the Baron either when doing the research. And I'm well old enough to remember. But liked seeing that little nod to Bond with Bernard Lee with Steve Forrest
@@sprocketsintime I didn't remember The Baron either, but I do remember two movie series, Flint (like the movie In Like Flint) with James Colbern in the starring role, and Matt Helm, with Dean Martin starring as Matt Helm. I've got a DVD of the movie spoof named "Casino Royale", which had David Niven as James Bond and Woodie Allen as Bond's nephew, Jimmy Bond. It was a movie "too much for one James Bond", so they had 6 other agents pretending to be "James Bond", including Peter Sellers. I've also got all of the James Bond films with Sean Connery, Roger Moore and George Lazenby. According to Ian Fleming, the closest who had portrayed James Bond was Lazenby. Unfortunately, all of those are on VHS tapes.
So many great shows on tv in the 1960's! Why didn't we have an affordable way to record them back then? Aaargh! I had to do homework on weeknights instead, and wait for Summer reruns.
Oh man I know what you mean! The closest I ever came to recording anything was trying to get Lost in Space recorded on our 8track recorder which was in the next room. Me with the tv turned up loud holding the mic in the next room screaming at my nephew to shut up!!! 😆
@@sprocketsintime I originally recorded SPIDER-MAN music that way in the early 70s. 😄
The Avengers was a revelation. Style oozed out of it. Mysterious plots. An ambiguous relationship between Emma Peel and Steed. Were they lovers, or just colleagues. Sexy, yes. A female who fought the baddies with judo moves! Steed was so suave. The show was the ultimate in coolness.
On a silly note, but keeping within the animated genre of spy -based show, there was Hanna-Barbera produced "Secret Squirrel. "
You know, I thought about that after the fact. Remembering that his arch rival was based on Goldfinger, “Yellow Pinkie “ thanks so much! 👍
With his side kick, Morocco Mole.
Wow...that really brings back a lot of memories. 🙂 One thing that I noticed while watching a rerun of "The Avengers" in the early 70s, is that they had an episode which included a place called "the village", which bore a striking resemblance to the setting of "The Prisoner". Since this preceded the Patrick McGoohan show, I always wondered if that is where the idea of the village came from.
A show that I expected to see in that list is "Amos Burke - Secret Agent" which was a "spin-into" of "Burke's Law" which starred Gene Barry as a millionaire police captain. The last season or two of the show saw the name changed and he moved into doing spy work.
I need to check that out! According to McGoohan, he did an episode of Danger Man at the village and really liked the location and that’s the connection to the prisoner.
Michael Dunn, as Miguelito (Little Michael) Loveless, was one of the greatest villains ever.
Very cool.
All of these shows were excellent. The writing was just superior - they knew how to write a quality 30 or 60 minute adventure (or comedy) show. Plus, all of those shows could draw from an endless supply of quality character actors. By way of example, if you watch British movies from that period, you see the same actors you would see in "Danger Man," "The Saint" or "The Avengers."
I am a huge Saint fan. Nobody did it better than Sir Roger, The Definitive Saint!
Did you like the Val Kilmer film version?
The funniest episode of Beverly Hillbillies was where Jethro had just seen Goldfinger so he tells Uncle Jed he's going to be a Double Naught Spy it was hilarious you can find it on here Jethro puts an ejector seat in the truck and Granny sits in it and she's ejected up into a tree.
I remember that!!! 😆😆😆
If you didn't grow up in the 60's as I did you really missed out on the spy craze. All the shows mentioned are my favorites, with The Wild Wild West being my all time favorite of the bunch. Robert Conrad really was the American James Bond.😊
I loved ISPY! Wish it had 10:52 continued.😊 Also Mission Impossible.
Me too!
Was going through puberty when The Avengers finally hit the American market. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) helped me and my school buddies get through that period of change. 😉
in the immortal words of Eric Idle of Monty Python....."Say..no...more!"
I wasn't born until 1968, so I didn't watch any of these shows when they first aired, but I have at least heard of most of them. The only ones I hadn't heard of before were The Baron and the Champions. I watched Mission Impossible and Get Smart in syndication. My first exposure to The Wild Wild West was the reunion movie in 1979 or 1980. My Dad was a huge fan of that show. I wish it were easier to watch older shows today. Unless older shows were extremely popular, there hasn't been enough potential profit to justify tracking down all the rights holders (producers, actors, and musicians) and negotiating streaming rights. If there wasn't enough interest to warrant that or a DVD release, it can be very hard to watch those shows today. My platform of last resort is usually TH-cam. If a show aired (originally or in syndication) after 1975, there was probably someone who recorded that show on a VCR. A great deal of those recordings have been uploaded to TH-cam. While the uploader may have lacked the legal right to upload it, studios often don't bother to have them taken down, or perhaps they just claim the revenue from those videos.
Yes, sadly most of the VHS uploads are low quality, most likely trying to save tape and recorded on SLP. (guilty of that myself.) But thankfully some of them are on YT.... I loved those old bumpers between programs for "ABC The Movie of the Week"
@@sprocketsintime The irony about those poor-quality VCR recordings is that they aren't much worse than the reception we used to get on some channels with rabbit ears. My Dad was convinced that some of our reception problems were due to radio broadcasts from the Soviet Mission located across Van Cortlandt Park from us in Riverdale.
Poor quality or not, at least they are mostly watchable. What I would like to have happen is for the unions representing the actors, writers, and musicians to reach a deal with studios on a standard contract for streaming old TV shows (say prior to 1990 or maybe earlier) that haven't already negotiated deals. That way, all those old shows could be made available to streaming services on a revenue-sharing basis. TH-cam would be a perfect place to host that content, actually. The unions would be responsible for tracking down creatives or their heirs and seeing that they got paid. If they couldn't locate them, the money could be held in escrow. It might not be a lot of money in most cases, but those old shows aren't earning anything locked away in studio vaults.
Yes the days of rabbit ears. And yes you're 100% right, what good are these shows collecting dust in vaults. I was so thankful when Kevin Burns convinced the studio to release the original television scores and cues for all of Irwin Allen's TV shows. Those great John Williams cues for Lost in Space were finally available at long last!!! I drove an hour away to the next town's Tower Records to pay $100 bucks for that CD package!!! And Played it LOUD all the way home!
The Champions is definitely worth watching...episodes up at TH-cam. Kind of Marvel Comics meets hippy philosophy meets spy espionage show. It`s crying out for a film reboot.
The Avengers reappear in the 70s as The New Avengers and i like that one more because of Joanna Lumley...and now a list of the 70's and 80's spy-TV-Shows
Long before her days as Patsy Stone 😉
They should have done an episode of Gomer Pyle where he gets mixed up in a spy plot they did this on Here's Lucy a couple times where she accidentally gets involved in espionage.
The Prisoner was the best, simply the best. Although the final episode was confusing.
YES! I too love the show and I almost only re-watch the final episode, "Fall Out" McGoohan said he didn't want a cut and dry explanation, and wanted it ambiguous :SPOILER: So, when he discovers that Number 1 is himself, is it meant to say, this has all been in his mind all along? There is a very interesting clue in the beginning of every episode....when he says, "Who is Number 1?" and the reply is....you are number 6.....if you change the emphasis on the words, "You Are" the answer is there all along...food for thought. thanks for watching and commenting! Welcome to the channel!
I liked The Avengers theme music.
LOVED that music!!!!
The Wild Wild West was a sort of Bond tv show set in the old west.
yes, it was pitched to the network as James Bond on horseback.
Crazy enough, THE MAN FROM UNCLE debuted on US TV 5 days after GOLDFINGER hit theatres in England... but the movie did not debut in the US until December 21, by which time, UNCLE had already been on half a season!
According to the audio commentaries I've heard, an unknown Hollywood exec came up with the idea, "James Bond in the old west"-- but didn't know what to do with it. Michael Garrison, who'd been an agent, took it, ran with it, put together a proposal, sold it, got the pilot made, and successfully sold the series to CBS! But then CBS has a major re-shuffling of execs, and Garrison was fired. So they had a new show on the schedule but nobody to produce it. After 3 episodes by 1 producer, it clearly wasn't working, and they knew it would die a quick death, so recruited Fred Freberger without any scripts in the can. He wrote a "series bible" and effectively SAVED the show. Meanwhile, Garrison won a lawsuit and was reinstated. When asked who HE wanted to produce HIS show, he said, "Freberger's doing a good job, let's keep him." Garrison became executive producer. Crazy enough, the show went thru 6 different producers in its 1st season. Garrison eventually became producer in its 2nd season, but by the end of it, was killed in an accident in his home. THE WILD WILD WEST was in the TOP 10 all 4 seasons-- still highly-rated when CBS bowed to censor pressure and cancelled it due to complaints about "violence on TV". Considering it's so difficult to create a show, sell it, and build ratings, it's CRIMINAL how many popular, successful shows have been taken off for ridiculous reasons.
GET SMART, crazy enough, was and remains my #1 favorite 60s spy show. I came in about 5 weeks into it, was INSTANTLY hooked, and watched all the way to the end. When they did the 2nd reunion movie, GET SMART AGAIN, which had Max & 99 married for 20 years with their 2 kids in college, I saw it as a contrast to all the hopeless cyncism of 80s sitcoms, where nobody's personal life ever gets anywhere. In the 60s, Max & 99 getting involved, then married, then having 2 kids, may have been done to boost ratings, but, in retrospect, it's one of the most optimistic "big stories" ever done on TV, especially when you count that sequel movie. (The earlier sequel "never happened", as far as I'm concerned.)
While researching I was sad to read that Garrison died so young due to that accident, such a shame. Get Smart is exceptionally well written and produced. Much funnier than it gets credit for. Great post thanks for watching!
@@sprocketsintime I'm re-watching right now, and I noticed they started to "dumb down" Max in season 2. I much prefer when he's not stupid, just... accident-prone. I love when they play up the contrast between the fantasy spy world and the real world. Like, KAOS is on the verge of over-throwing the government, but they're more concerned that the deli across the street has run out of pastrami. 🤣
I also think the Max-99 romance may be my favorite in all of 60s TV.
It's that kind of comedy that cracks me up...so is to typical Mel Brooks worried about the pastrami at the deli.
Barbara Feldon was one of those "fantasy" girlfriends of mine, along with Diana Riggs and Stephanie Powers.
Im 66. I never heard of danger man 😮
Hey Clyde! Did you ever hear of it under the title of Secret Agent? That was the American title of the series.
@@sprocketsintime no
Prisoner, Quest the Emma days.
Danger Man with Patrick McGowan
Wasn’t there a spy-spoof show starring Dean Martin?
Dean did 4 Matt Helm movies, "The Silencers" "Murderer's Row" "The Ambushers" and "The Wrecking Crew"
The Avengers and Mission: Impossible were favorites. They tried making spy shows with women agents and they didn't work. Why now?
A group of my close High school friends and I were devout Man From UNCLE fans. I had a date with one of the most beautiful girls in school ,but I was ready early and stopped by my friend Eddy Lawsons house He and an other friend were watching a re-run of UNCLE, The Never Never Affair I missed the date because I sat down to watch it with them and lost all track of time . Sarah never spoke to me again and Eddy said to me " What do you think Napoleon would say to you"? If he saw a photo of her and you told him you stood her up to watch a re-run of the show He' most likely ask you what is the matter with you, are you crazy? That's my Man From UNCLE memory,
WOW!!! Looking back on that, was the episode at least worth it? Who knows Napoleon Solo might have saved you from a life of misery! Beauty isn't always what it appears! Great story, thanks for sharing...welcome to the channel!!!
I was hoping you would mention "Secret Squirrel".
I realized it after the video was edited that yes I totally forgot Secret Squirrel!
With danger man and the prisoner the prisoner makes you think that is what happens when someone quits being a danger man.
That makes total sense!!! Awesome comment!!!
Aren't you forgetting one show and star? Get Smart! and Don Adams as Agent-86!
Nope, Get Smart is at 7:45 in the video.
Wild, Wild West was the best. It's important to note that its ratings were strong throughout its life and that it was canceled after some busybodies claimed it was "too violent."
Love the show!!!! Funny how we grew up on Warner Bros cartoons, Three Stooges and NONE OF US got hurt or killed because of those shows.
@sprocketsintime It was not unlike the year CBS purged all of its "country" shows- Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres - despite the fact that they were both in the Top Ten for their entire run. Those shows are still hilarious today, while the "socially relevant" shows that replaced them are horribly dated and long forgotten.
Yes, I hated it when the networks killed all the classic sitcoms and variety shows for the Norman Lear crap....I hated those low production shows like, One Day at a Time, Jeffersons, All in the Family...while we did watch them because there was nothing else on...I have seen some moments on the Beverly Hillbillies that still make me laugh today!
I have always said that WILD WILD WEST was THE BOND OF THE WEST
That's how they sold it! James Bond on horseback! Welcome to the channel
Loved these shows,watched some of them including Department S during COVID-19,real time capsule retro Auckland New Zealand 2024
It's a shame you couldn't dip a year or two into the 70's - you could have picked up SEARCH.
The Prisoner
Loved Robert Wagner and It takes,a Thief.
Me too! Love the theme music too!
@sprocketsintime yes, very 60s vibe. Some of the 60s series theme musics were great. I think my favourites were Mission impossible and Hawaii Five 0
We were gifted some of the best composers that moved from television to movies in the 1970s. Dave Grusin who did "It Takes A Thief" later did Murder by Death, The Goonies, John Williams Lost In Space to EVERYTHING! lol. Jerry Goldsmith, "The Man From Uncle" and of course Lalo Schrifrin's Mission Impossible music...the best ever!
I grew up with most of these shows, although I mostly watched ABC and CBS. I missed those on NBC because of terrible reception. I finally got to see The Man From U.N.C.L.E. several years ago but prefer the first season only. The following seasons were too campy and cornball and I thought the soundtrack was far inferior to the original.
Campy for sure later on. I remember an episode with Martin Landau as a vampire! Or some kind of Count Dracula type
@@sprocketsintime I think there was another episode that had Solo dancing with a gorilla! They didn't need camp, Batman already had that covered.
RIGHT!!! I was thinking the same thing Dale! I strongly believe that the campiness of Batman really negatively reflected on other shows. When TV producers were seeing the popularity of Batman, they all started getting on board. It's one of the reasons why I felt Lost In Space suffered, Irwin giving into campiness and while it was my most favorite show on TV, it truly went down hill when it became, Dr. Smith, Will and the Robot show.
I agree, the first season of The Man From UNCLE was the best. The pilot episode, as I recall, took place in and around a refinery. It was just so well done. A lot of great actors guest starred in that first season. Filmed in b/w added to the Cold War setting.