To clarify, my video is based on the top-rated shows of 1965, so if something has been left off the list, it's just because it wasn't in the top 10 during that specific season. I love Lost in Space, too! I promise it will appear in my other videos! And, yes, The Red Skelton Show premiered in the 1950s, but it was still a top-rated show in 1965, which I think is a pretty cool fact!
As an old guy, I have enjoyed your presentations. The only thing that could probably need clarification is that when you say, "shows of 1965 (for example)," do you mean shows that started in September of any given year, which was usually when either new or returning shows started the "season," or from January to December of any given year. I'm assuming it is the former. And my, how "TV" has changed! Thanks again.
@@patrickf.4440 Yes, you are right! I do need to clarify that. I forgot to put it in the video, so I need to remember to do that. Or I'm going to need all of you to take a mind reading course! Probably easier to just include the info in the video 🙂
I think Get Smart was an excellent show for about 3 seasons ...I think the choices you made were very superb. ..I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, the Andy Griffith show, -- and -- the Dick Van Dyke show! -- my #2 favourite show of all time. (Only beaten by Leave it to Beaver).😊
When CBS allowed Red to tape his show in color again in 1965 (after five years), his Nielsen rating jumped from #6 [1964-'65] to #4 [1965-'66], because more Nielsen families were watching color prorgams.
As a kid, I watched all of these shows. They were great then and I still watch most of them in my current retirement years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I remember as a kid growing up in the 1970s, in the afternoons, I would watch reruns of "The Beverly Hillbillies," "The Munsters," "The Lucy Show," "Bewitched," "I Love Lucy" and "The Andy Griffith Show." The 1950s and 1960s were the golden era for television, and all of those shows hold up even today.
Thank you for this video which brought back so many memories. One program which could have included was The Munsters. This entertaining show featured the bumbling but loveable Herman (Fred Gwynne), street-wise Grandpa (Al Lewis) the beautiful Marilyn (Pat Priest) among others. The opening theme song to The Munsters was a classic!
A time of fun and innocence. Then we would move on to the late 60's and things would never be the same. Thank GOD I got to be a kid in 1965 (8 years old)
Loved The Beverly Hillbillies. Dick van Dyke is still a treasure! The Man from Uncle was a must watch for me....Loved David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin.
You've hit the nail on the head about the top shows of 1965. While Bonanza was a top-class Western, The Man from UNCLE was the rage in my part of the world with Robert Vaughn becoming a household name. "I dream of Jeannie" was fun, but I loved Barbara's show "How to marry a millionaire" even better. Each episode was beautifully fleshed out with the 3 heroines getting equal footage. 'Bewitched' and The Beverly Hillbillies were both fun and enjoyable. The Lucy Show was greatly loved in every nook and corner of the world. Our Lucy girl was simply irreplaceable. "The Wild, wild west" was a nice sophisticated Western with a lot of beauties in guest appearances, especially lovely Lisa Gaye in two episodes: Night of the skulls and Night of the falcon.
I was 10 and 11 yrs old in 1965. I like pretty much all of these shows, but like almost all the other boys I knew, I waited every week for the next episode of "Combat!" A lot of it was sitting with my dad in front of the TV, and asking him repeatedly "was it like that?". So many of those shows' stars have all gone by now, or - like a few - have only one star left: Ron Howard, Max Baer Jr, Buck Taylor, Angela Cartwright, and Thomas Lowell ("Billy" on Combat). To quote another old favorite: "Thanks for the memories...Rabbit"
@@edwardrasmussen3465 *True! Barbara Eden is still kicking! However, although Max Baer Jr and Tina Louise are still alive, neither were the "Stars" of their respective series. Max Baer had 4th billing in the screen credits, and Tina Louise was billed 5th in "Gilligan's Island".*
I watched all of these as a kid, and was in love with Barbara Eden (and Anne Francis from Honey West which also started in 1965!) And I still know all the theme songs (including F Troop which was also that year).
I was 8 years old back in 1965. Although I had just started third grade when Green Acres debuted on CBS, I didn't become a Green Acres fan until the Molly Turgiss episode seven months later. And I have been a Green Acres fan ever since.
Great shows of my childhood! I had an 8 pm bedtime but was allowed to stay up on Wednesday nights to watch the Beverly H illbillies which aired 8 to 8:30 pm
Don't forget about Mr. Ed the talking horse in your next video. Enjoyed this video, it brought back fond memories of my childhood and remember all these shows. I was going to mention Star Trek too but don't think it started till 1966 if I remember right.
CBS had about enough of "MISTER ED" during its final season. Before he was fired in February 1965, James T. Aubrey, the network's ruthless president, renewed the series (one of his personal favorites) for another season, and intended to continue scheduling it on Wednesday nights at 7:30. Once "The Smiling Cobra" was gone, the new president, John Schneider, decided to move it out of prime-time [and cut the number of new episodes ordered from 26 to 13] to Sunday afternoons at 5pm(et), just before "TED MACK AND THE ORIGINAL AMATEUR HOUR {"LOST IN SPACE" occupied Wednesday nights that season}. As for "MISTER ED", it was quietly cancelled at the end of the season, in 1966.
@@fromthesidelines Ok. For some reason I was thinking MR. ED. was on Sunday nights. Maybe during it's first season or two. But I was only 12 years old in 1965. But just remember enjoy watching the show and think it had a catchy opening theme song too if I remember.
It *was* on Sunday nights [at 6:30pm(et)] for most of the five seasons it appeared on CBS. However, Jim Aubrey tried to broaden its appeal- and fill "holes" in the network's schedule- by briefly moving it to Thursdays at 7:30 in rhe 1962-'63 season........and scheduling it on Wednesdays at 7:30pm in the middle of the 1964-'65 season. As noted, it was one of his favorite programs. But most of his fellow executives *DIDN'T* like it- and they decided to hasten its departure by "burying" it on late Sunday afternoons in the fall of '65. They succeeded.
An interesting trend I noted when I saw this vid is that cast members of three of these shows seriously considered or actually ran for political office. Dan Blocher had re-started his residency in his native Texas and said he was planning to run for the U.S. Senate. I've seen an interview where he says this, and discusses foreign policy issues very deftly. So sad that he died shortly. Robert Vaughn, who played Napoleon Solo, had helped Sen. Robert Kennedy's presidential run, and after RFK's assassination, Vaughn considered running for office, though he never did. Vaughn did out-do William F. Buckley in a debate about the Vietnam War, however. Finally, Nancy Kulp, "Miss Jane" from The Beverly Hillbillies, retired back to her hometown of Harrisburg, Pa, volunteering for the Democratic Party, then making a long shot run for Congress in 1984 against popular incumbent Bud Schuster. Buddy Ebsen showed a harsh side by making negative radio ads against Kulp, even though he knew nothing about the district or its needs. Who knew the kindly Uncle Jed had the pettiness of Margaret Drysdale!
I graduated from high school in 65 so I was rarely home to see these shows. Vietnam was under way and I had friends going away. I did see a few of them later when they were in color . But you couldn't go into the living room with my parents and not be subjected to some of the worst but they enjoyed them.
One note (and I got it wrong in a quiz about The Beverly Hillbillies myself) is that Jed and Jethro are actually cousins, once removed but Jethro always called him "Uncle Jed"! I have a hunch that since puffed rice and wheat were sponsors of Bewitched, that may have been why Darrin had said he only had "puff-ed rice" for breakfast the Thanksgiving Aunt Clara pops them back to pilgrim times!
That's why there were so many breakdast scenes- and they did appear in integrated commercials for Quaker's cereals, Aunt Jemima's pancake syrup, et. al.
I remember a scene where Jed explains his complex relationship to Jethro, who of course has trouble following. So Jed says, "What it amounts to is, you're a great nephew." Jethro wells up with feelings of flattery, and respond. "Aw thanks. You're a swell uncle, too."
@@spaceagerabbit It was because Jethro was the son of Jed's _COUSIN_ Pearl. (And the quirky thing about that is that Jethro AND Jed were BOTH "first cousin once removed" to the OTHER!) It also means that it's true that Jethro and Elly May were indeed "cousins", but they were more specifically SECOND cousins.
Thanks Rabbit. I was just a kid, but I remember most of those shows. The commercials are familiar too; we bought corn flakes all of the time. We rarely had dessert, but if we did it would probably be Jello. And my mom only used Tide in that familiar box.
Although it was still getting good ratings, CBS wanted to end the series after this season. Producer Jack Chertok proposed a slight change in format for a projected season four- Uncle Martin's nephew "Andromeda" {Andy} crash lands his ship on Earth, and jons the O'Hara family (as seen in the February 1966 episode "When You Get Back To Mars, Are You Gonna Get it"). The way it would have worked out at the beginning of season four was this: Martin *finally* finds a way to return to Mars....but leaves Andy behind with Tim, so he can learn all about Earth customs, as he did. Ray Walston would have made sporadic appearances during that proposed season. But CBS executives essentially told Chertok, "That's it, good-bye"- and cancelled the series.
I've always considered The Beverly Hillbillies to be my favorite 60s sitcom. It really bugs me that of all the shows mentioned in this video (other than Red Skelton's variety show) it's the only one not completely available on home media with only the 1st 5 of it's 9 seasons on DVD.
Bonanza, liked this show which was on from the '50's. Liked the Andy Griffith Show. Gomer Pyle was good. Too bad Frank Sutton died so young. Robert Vaughn was very good liked Man From U.N.C.L.E. The Beverly Hillbillies was a very good show. Still love to watch it. Like the guy who plays the banker. And of course, Flatt & Scruggs. Always liked Larry Hagman. Bewitched was a funny show. A lot of good people in it. Agnes Moorhead, and Paul Lynde among others. Gilligan's Island was a really good show too. Dick Van Dyck was really good. Morey Amsterdam was really good. Richard Deacon was in Leave it to Beaver. Green Acres is a good show too. Still watch it. Patrick Buttram is really good. Loved My Favorite Martin. Lucille Ball was always good no matter what show or movie she did. Red Skelton was really really good. Hogan's Heroes was a really good show. A lot of good acting in the show. Enjoyed this video more than the last one.
Robert Vaughn was also one of the most educated actors ever. He has a PhD in communications science from USC. The only other actor to have accomplished this was Mayim Bialik with a PhD in neurobiology from UCLA
NBC didn't want creator/producer Sidney Sheldon to film "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in color- and neither did Sidney's distrubutor, Screen Gems/Columbia- despite Sheldon's insistence that HE'D pay the extra $400 per episode for color film {he also owned the show}. But Jerry Hyams, a Screen Gems executive, told him, "Sidney, don't throw your money away". They believed the series wouldn't last a full season to justify the extra cost. But "JEANNIE" equaled the ratings of [and sometimes got higher ones than] its competition, "THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW", on Saturday nights. Of course, NBC renewed the series for a second season......in color. And it became the *LAST* black and white prime-time program on the network's 1965-'66 schedule.
Well, some people would rather see Barbara Eden in a skimpy genie costume than Jackie Gleason bursting a bus driver suit at the seams. No accounting for taste!
Jackie appeared only once as "Ralph Kramden" that season- in a full-hour adaptation of a 1955 sketch, "The Adoption" {January 8, 1966}, because he KNEW Barbara, in her "skimpy costume", was attracting more viewers during the middle of his variety show (who wanted to see his old friend George Jessel introduce another of his "talent finds"?), and decided to give his audience what they REALLY wanted to see. The success of that telecast led to his bringing back "The Honeymooners" as a regular feature of his show in the fall of 1966.
I know! I'm sorry! I'm working on a part 2 and it will be on that one. The mid 60s was such a great era of TV it was too hard to try and get them all into one video 🙂
To clarify, my video is based on the top-rated shows of 1965, so if something has been left off the list, it's just because it wasn't in the top 10 during that specific season. I love Lost in Space, too! I promise it will appear in my other videos! And, yes, The Red Skelton Show premiered in the 1950s, but it was still a top-rated show in 1965, which I think is a pretty cool fact!
As an old guy, I have enjoyed your presentations. The only thing that could probably need clarification is that when you say, "shows of 1965 (for example)," do you mean shows that started in September of any given year, which was usually when either new or returning shows started the "season," or from January to December of any given year. I'm assuming it is the former. And my, how "TV" has changed! Thanks again.
@@patrickf.4440 Yes, you are right! I do need to clarify that. I forgot to put it in the video, so I need to remember to do that. Or I'm going to need all of you to take a mind reading course! Probably easier to just include the info in the video 🙂
I think Get Smart was an excellent show for about 3 seasons ...I think the choices you made were very superb. ..I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, the Andy Griffith show, -- and -- the Dick Van Dyke show! -- my #2 favourite show of all time. (Only beaten by Leave it to Beaver).😊
@@gordsexton6781 Leave it to Beaver is definitely one of my favorites ☺
When CBS allowed Red to tape his show in color again in 1965 (after five years), his Nielsen rating jumped from #6 [1964-'65] to #4 [1965-'66], because more Nielsen families were watching color prorgams.
As a kid, I watched all of these shows. They were great then and I still watch most of them in my current retirement years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
As kids in 65 we watched all these shows it was all that was on back then.
I was 10 years old. I think that 1965 was the best year for TV. I loved and watched most of these shows. Great memories.
I remember as a kid growing up in the 1970s, in the afternoons, I would watch reruns of "The Beverly Hillbillies," "The Munsters," "The Lucy Show," "Bewitched," "I Love Lucy" and "The Andy Griffith Show." The 1950s and 1960s were the golden era for television, and all of those shows hold up even today.
Boy does this bring back great memories of a beautiful time growing up 💕.
Thank you for this video which brought back so many memories. One program which could have included was The Munsters. This entertaining show featured the bumbling but loveable Herman (Fred Gwynne), street-wise Grandpa (Al Lewis) the beautiful Marilyn (Pat Priest) among others. The opening theme song to The Munsters was a classic!
Good list. I watched all those shows. The Lawrence Welk show and The Ed Sullivan show were also favorites of mine back then.
Great shows! I watched all of these as a grade schooler in 1965, and many of them as reruns in high school and college.
The sad part of this time was the American escalation into Vietnam. Apart from that our lives were bursting with fun.
Yup, I found myself in Viet Nam in ‘66.
I'm 68 and watched every one of these shows it was a great time in my life 😊
'65 could be the high-water mark for TV! Little today comes remotely close....
Thanks for the great memories! I turned 10 in 1965 and remember all these shows fondly.
A time of fun and innocence. Then we would move on to the late 60's and things would never be the same. Thank GOD I got to be a kid in 1965 (8 years old)
Given only three networks and the limited number of movie studios it feels like the writing for television shows was far superior to today...
Loved The Beverly Hillbillies. Dick van Dyke is still a treasure! The Man from Uncle was a must watch for me....Loved David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin.
You've hit the nail on the head about the top shows of 1965. While Bonanza was a top-class Western, The Man from UNCLE was the rage in my part of the world with Robert Vaughn becoming a household name. "I dream of Jeannie" was fun, but I loved Barbara's show "How to marry a millionaire" even better. Each episode was beautifully fleshed out with the 3 heroines getting equal footage. 'Bewitched' and The Beverly Hillbillies were both fun and enjoyable. The Lucy Show was greatly loved in every nook and corner of the world. Our Lucy girl was simply irreplaceable. "The Wild, wild west" was a nice sophisticated Western with a lot of beauties in guest appearances, especially lovely Lisa Gaye in two episodes: Night of the skulls and Night of the falcon.
Hell yeah that was the best year I was born!
I was 10 and 11 yrs old in 1965. I like pretty much all of these shows, but like almost all the other boys I knew, I waited every week for the next episode of "Combat!" A lot of it was sitting with my dad in front of the TV, and asking him repeatedly "was it like that?".
So many of those shows' stars have all gone by now, or - like a few - have only one star left: Ron Howard, Max Baer Jr, Buck Taylor, Angela Cartwright, and Thomas Lowell ("Billy" on Combat).
To quote another old favorite: "Thanks for the memories...Rabbit"
*The star of one of these TV shows is still alive, as of November 2024 - Dick Van Dyke himself.*
So are Barbara Eden, Max Baer Jr. and Tina Louise.
@@edwardrasmussen3465 *True! Barbara Eden is still kicking! However, although Max Baer Jr and Tina Louise are still alive, neither were the "Stars" of their respective series. Max Baer had 4th billing in the screen credits, and Tina Louise was billed 5th in "Gilligan's Island".*
Interesting/informative/entertaining🤗.Remember those classic shows in glorious ( B&W ) 🤗.
I watched all of these as a kid, and was in love with Barbara Eden (and Anne Francis from Honey West which also started in 1965!) And I still know all the theme songs (including F Troop which was also that year).
Donna Douglas was so pretty and Barbara Eden is so pretty and Elizabeth Montgomery too!
Really liked Mry Ann, wonder why? Green Acres, it was great. "Arnold". Cool video.
The Beatles Bond and these great shows.65 was a great year
Beatles, Bond and Bonanza
I still love hearing your voice!!! Awesome nararator!!!
I was 8 years old back in 1965. Although I had just started third grade when Green Acres debuted on CBS, I didn't become a Green Acres fan until the Molly Turgiss episode seven months later. And I have been a Green Acres fan ever since.
I was a kid in 65, man I miss how good TV was back in the day🙄
Great shows of my childhood! I had an 8 pm bedtime but was allowed to stay up on Wednesday nights to watch the Beverly H
illbillies which aired 8 to 8:30 pm
Don't forget about Mr. Ed the talking horse in your next video. Enjoyed this video, it brought back fond memories of my childhood and remember all these shows. I was going to mention Star Trek too but don't think it started till 1966 if I remember right.
CBS had about enough of "MISTER ED" during its final season. Before he was fired in February 1965, James T. Aubrey, the network's ruthless president, renewed the series (one of his personal favorites) for another season, and intended to continue scheduling it on Wednesday nights at 7:30. Once "The Smiling Cobra" was gone, the new president, John Schneider, decided to move it out of prime-time [and cut the number of new episodes ordered from 26 to 13] to Sunday afternoons at 5pm(et), just before "TED MACK AND THE ORIGINAL AMATEUR HOUR {"LOST IN SPACE" occupied Wednesday nights that season}. As for "MISTER ED", it was quietly cancelled at the end of the season, in 1966.
@@fromthesidelines Ok. For some reason I was thinking MR. ED. was on Sunday nights. Maybe during it's first season or two. But I was only 12 years old in 1965. But just remember enjoy watching the show and think it had a catchy opening theme song too if I remember.
It *was* on Sunday nights [at 6:30pm(et)] for most of the five seasons it appeared on CBS. However, Jim Aubrey tried to broaden its appeal- and fill "holes" in the network's schedule- by briefly moving it to Thursdays at 7:30 in rhe 1962-'63 season........and scheduling it on Wednesdays at 7:30pm in the middle of the 1964-'65 season. As noted, it was one of his favorite programs. But most of his fellow executives *DIDN'T* like it- and they decided to hasten its departure by "burying" it on late Sunday afternoons in the fall of '65. They succeeded.
I watched all these shows back then, with Green Acres my favorite. No F Troop??
Interesting/informative/entertaining🤗. Remember those shows from years ago. In glorious ( B&W)😉. I dream of Jeannie & green acres are my favorite🤗
Red Skeleton was incredibly talented and full of empathy for the human condition...
I remember watching some of these shows and always wondered what they looked like in color!
I was 7 yrs old in 1965.
Loved these shows. Best of all I was &still am a Trekkie
Used to watch all of these shows!
An interesting trend I noted when I saw this vid is that cast members of three of these shows seriously considered or actually ran for political office.
Dan Blocher had re-started his residency in his native Texas and said he was planning to run for the U.S. Senate. I've seen an interview where he says this, and discusses foreign policy issues very deftly. So sad that he died shortly.
Robert Vaughn, who played Napoleon Solo, had helped Sen. Robert Kennedy's presidential run, and after RFK's assassination, Vaughn considered running for office, though he never did. Vaughn did out-do William F. Buckley in a debate about the Vietnam War, however.
Finally, Nancy Kulp, "Miss Jane" from The Beverly Hillbillies, retired back to her hometown of Harrisburg, Pa, volunteering for the Democratic Party, then making a long shot run for Congress in 1984 against popular incumbent Bud Schuster. Buddy Ebsen showed a harsh side by making negative radio ads against Kulp, even though he knew nothing about the district or its needs. Who knew the kindly Uncle Jed had the pettiness of Margaret Drysdale!
Dawn Wells was so pretty and so was Mary Tyler Moore!
Great shows!
I Dream of Jeanie was the best!
I watched all of them
Was wonderful not seeing any violence.
The thing I loved 😮about the most is no harsh language
I graduated from high school in 65 so I was rarely home to see these shows. Vietnam was under way and I had friends going away. I did see a few of them later when they were in color . But you couldn't go into the living room with my parents and not be subjected to some of the worst but they enjoyed them.
One note (and I got it wrong in a quiz about The Beverly Hillbillies myself) is that Jed and Jethro are actually cousins, once removed but Jethro always called him "Uncle Jed"! I have a hunch that since puffed rice and wheat were sponsors of Bewitched, that may have been why Darrin had said he only had "puff-ed rice" for breakfast the Thanksgiving Aunt Clara pops them back to pilgrim times!
I never knew that about Jethro! That's a great trivia question.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
That's why there were so many breakdast scenes- and they did appear in integrated commercials for Quaker's cereals, Aunt Jemima's pancake syrup, et. al.
I remember a scene where Jed explains his complex relationship to Jethro, who of course has trouble following. So Jed says, "What it amounts to is, you're a great nephew." Jethro wells up with feelings of flattery, and respond. "Aw thanks. You're a swell uncle, too."
@@spaceagerabbit It was because Jethro was the son of Jed's _COUSIN_ Pearl. (And the quirky thing about that is that Jethro AND Jed were BOTH "first cousin once removed" to the OTHER!) It also means that it's true that Jethro and Elly May were indeed "cousins", but they were more specifically SECOND cousins.
@@alanr4447a All the times I've watched that show I never picked up on that! Makes the dynamic even funnier!
That’s the best entertainment.❤❤
i would certainly add " The Twilight Zone " with Rod Searling. If I missed it I would have nothing to say the next day on the playground.
Thanks Rabbit. I was just a kid, but I remember most of those shows. The commercials are familiar too; we bought corn flakes all of the time. We rarely had dessert, but if we did it would probably be Jello. And my mom only used Tide in that familiar box.
Red jello with whipped cream! Always takes me straight back to my childhood 🙂 Thanks so much for watching!
@@spaceagerabbit Now remember...there were two red Jello's: Strawberry and Raspberry.
" My Favorite Martian"
Although it was still getting good ratings, CBS wanted to end the series after this season. Producer Jack Chertok proposed a slight change in format for a projected season four- Uncle Martin's nephew "Andromeda" {Andy} crash lands his ship on Earth, and jons the O'Hara family (as seen in the February 1966 episode "When You Get Back To Mars, Are You Gonna Get it"). The way it would have worked out at the beginning of season four was this: Martin *finally* finds a way to return to Mars....but leaves Andy behind with Tim, so he can learn all about Earth customs, as he did. Ray Walston would have made sporadic appearances during that proposed season. But CBS executives essentially told Chertok, "That's it, good-bye"- and cancelled the series.
You didn't have Lost in Space
I'm working on a part two. Lost in Space is included on that one 🙂
@spaceagerabbit ok thank you
I've always considered The Beverly Hillbillies to be my favorite 60s sitcom. It really bugs me that of all the shows mentioned in this video (other than Red Skelton's variety show) it's the only one not completely available on home media with only the 1st 5 of it's 9 seasons on DVD.
Great comedy writing
Bonanza, liked this show which was on from the '50's. Liked the Andy Griffith Show. Gomer Pyle was good. Too bad Frank Sutton died so young. Robert Vaughn was very good liked Man From U.N.C.L.E. The Beverly Hillbillies was a very good show. Still love to watch it. Like the guy who plays the banker. And of course, Flatt & Scruggs. Always liked Larry Hagman. Bewitched was a funny show. A lot of good people in it. Agnes Moorhead, and Paul Lynde among others. Gilligan's Island was a really good show too. Dick Van Dyck was really good. Morey Amsterdam was really good. Richard Deacon was in Leave it to Beaver. Green Acres is a good show too. Still watch it. Patrick Buttram is really good. Loved My Favorite Martin. Lucille Ball was always good no matter what show or movie she did. Red Skelton was really really good. Hogan's Heroes was a really good show. A lot of good acting in the show. Enjoyed this video more than the last one.
Robert Vaughn was also one of the most educated actors ever. He has a PhD in communications science from USC. The only other actor to have accomplished this was Mayim Bialik with a PhD in neurobiology from UCLA
WHAT HAPPEN TO THE MUNSTERS & THE ADDAMS FAMILY SHOULD BE THAT LIST I WAS ALIVE IN 1965 KENNETH O
The Addams Family and The Munsters both premiered in September 1964, so I will be including them in my favorites of 1964 video.
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On the twilight zone
Eddie Albert in a different character..also "bought a farm" with his reluctant wife, but the tumbleweeds
We're ALIVE☺️
"THE OUTER LIMITS" (1964).
Didn’t hear a word about Agnes Moorehead😢
Bewitched the best
Went to elementary school with Eddie Munster👻
Danger Will Robinson
NBC didn't want creator/producer Sidney Sheldon to film "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in color- and neither did Sidney's distrubutor, Screen Gems/Columbia- despite Sheldon's insistence that HE'D pay the extra $400 per episode for color film {he also owned the show}. But Jerry Hyams, a Screen Gems executive, told him, "Sidney, don't throw your money away". They believed the series wouldn't last a full season to justify the extra cost. But "JEANNIE" equaled the ratings of [and sometimes got higher ones than] its competition, "THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW", on Saturday nights. Of course, NBC renewed the series for a second season......in color. And it became the *LAST* black and white prime-time program on the network's 1965-'66 schedule.
Well, some people would rather see Barbara Eden in a skimpy genie costume than Jackie Gleason bursting a bus driver suit at the seams. No accounting for taste!
Jackie appeared only once as "Ralph Kramden" that season- in a full-hour adaptation of a 1955 sketch, "The Adoption" {January 8, 1966}, because he KNEW Barbara, in her "skimpy costume", was attracting more viewers during the middle of his variety show (who wanted to see his old friend George Jessel introduce another of his "talent finds"?), and decided to give his audience what they REALLY wanted to see. The success of that telecast led to his bringing back "The Honeymooners" as a regular feature of his show in the fall of 1966.
The best thing about these shows is that they don’t come on anymore. I was 10 years old in 1965. I’ve come a long way.
And had a side interest in Eliz Montgomery
And I was I love with Jennie
A shame about those laugh tracks 😢
"The Twilight Zone"
The Wild Wild West was so cool too bad the movie was a dud ...
Shame about the awful canned laughter.
I watched every show featured excpt Bonanza Andy Griffith Show & Green Acres
No Fugitive? WTH
I know! I'm sorry! I'm working on a part 2 and it will be on that one. The mid 60s was such a great era of TV it was too hard to try and get them all into one video 🙂