2:26-So cool to see Jack Sheldon in a live action TV show! And to all you Schoolhouse Rock fans like me, yes, it's THAT Jack Sheldon! The same Jack Sheldon who sang "Conjunction Junction", "I'm Just A Bill" and a dozen other Schoolhouse Rock segments! I looked it up!
Your comment caused me to look him up, because I remembered that babe from somewhere in my childhood...I remembered him from watching Merv Griffin with my grandma! I always liked that guy, he had a type of happy charm that was kinda infectious!
On the famous "Andy Griffith" theme, master TV composer Earle Hagen actually did the whistling himself. It cost him $10 to record...and it's still heard today!
Dick Gautier was also Hymie the robot in "Get Smart". Leonard Stern and Buck Henry were behind "Get Smart". Richard Long, from "The Big Valley", would be a star in, "Nanny and the Professor" in mid 1970. Sebastian Cabot, Mr. French, from "Family Affair" did voiceovers in Winnie the Pooh.
I was 10 in 1965. We had one TV in the living room, my dad choose what we all watched, usually cowboy shows. In the summer we would go next door and watch tv at their house. We got our first color TV in 1969, this Remember because I had appendicitis and my parents borrowed money from my grandma to but a color tv. They would pay her back10.00 a week,I found a payment book when we cleaned out the house after they psssed. No remote then. When we got married in late 77, yes graduated hs in December and got married New Year's Eve 1977. Our first tv was a Sony with a remote on a long wire. Theses are all such cool clips. Can you find any from " queen for a day" ? My late moms favorite, I think she sent I cards weekly together picked but alas, it never happened. In fact I forgot about that show until I started watching your you tubes
Did you know what your mom's wish was for her day as a queen if she happened to be selected? People in that era got married at a younger age. I graduated high school in '71 and was a maid of honor in my friend's wedding at the end of that week. I went on to collect about 10 bridesmaids dresses during my college years years. And at 22 I was the oldest bride in my circle of friends.
Man, I love these! You really did a great job, first of all, finding the hard to find material, then editing it all together, fantastic job! I loved the Vintage Celebrity Commercials series you did. I appreciated that you edited the actors name over the commercial that they were in, a few of them I didn't even know. I look forward to more of your excellent work.
Ironically, Run For Your Life was on NBC for three years from 1965-68, despite the fact that the main character played by Ben Gazzara had ONLY two years to live. Also of note, RFYL was created by Roy Huggins, who also created that other man-on-the-run show for ABC, The Fugitive (1963-67) and Perry Como co-produced RFYL through his production company, Roncom Films, named for his son Ronnie Como.
Always amazed by these at the shows I remember, the ones I remember only on another day and shows that I never saw at a time I watched a LOT of television. And with only three networks I knew what was on even if I did not watch it, but I never remember Iron Horse, for example. It also surprises me that Rat Patrol was only a half-hour. By the mid to later 1960s there were few half-hour drams on any longer.
Wow, just when I didn't think it could get any better. Fred, I don't know where you keep digging this stuff up but I'll chip in for a shovel as long as you keep digging. Loved the Rat Patrol and Felony Squad. There was another show back then called NYPD with I think Frank Converse and I'm having a brain cramp with the main star. Help me out someone!
That Andy Griffith Show closing came from the episode "Barney Comes to Mayberry", originally aired on CBS Jan. 23, 1967. I like the original ending w/ Andy & Opie coming back from their successful fishing trip. I'm surprised the sponsor products aren't appearing in the empty corners of the credits, which often happened on shows of that era.
@@sheila174 In the storyline, the US government developed a unique pill designed to give the person who took it superpowers. Through their research, they discovered that Stanley Beamish was the only one it would work on as intended; it made everyone who took it sick. Stanley didn't become an addict or anything, to the best of my knowledge.
@@sheila174 You're most welcome!🌞 I should mention that it made everyone else who took it sick, but not Stanley. I thought I had typed "else" the last time, but I guess not(lol).
CBS started the season out with THE JEAN ARTHUR SHOW in the 10 PM slot, where she played a lawyer in practice with her son. When it was dropped after 13 weeks, TO TELL THE TRUTH was brought back from the wilderness of a Sunday at 5 PM time.
We got our first color T.V. in 1966 (Motorola, 25" screen, French Provincial. My Mom was into French Provincial). My brother and I used to turn the color control all the way up, to get the jewels really bright on "Family Affair." My brother got me a DVD some years ago for Christmas, and some of the things on "Family Affair" had serious content. Did you know that Brian Keith was the son of Peg Entwhisle, a minor theater star in the early '30's? They both committed suicide. Maureen O'Hara said that Keith did not. He had lung cancer and emphysema and his daughter committed suicide two months before.
Was Peg Entwistle any relation to The Who bassist John Entwistle? Also, there's a tribute song to Anissa Jones from after her death: "Buffy, Buffy, Come Back To Me" by Angel & The Reruns.
Entwhistle was Brian's stepmother...that she didn't know about until marrying his father. And she famously took her own life leaping from the HOLLYWOOD sign.
7:27- Because Liggett & Myers {Lark, L&M, Chesterfield 101} was the series primary sponsor, they didn't like the original "MEN AGAINST EVIL" title, and insisted it be changed before the series' premiere.
Somewhere in the basement I have the Monkees cards that on the back of them was a puzzle piece. Buy enough cards and it would make an entire picture. But which box, is any ones guess.
1:03- See, in promoting their 1966-'67 schedule, NBC's advertising department couldn't decide if Jeannie had a bottle or a lamp. So they had an artist create a drawing- which they also used in some of their newspaper and TV GUIDE ads- that looked like a little of BOTH. And it just wasn't so.
Considering the fact that NBC- *and* Screen Gems/Columbia- didn't think "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" would last a full season, and refused to allow Sidney Sheldon to film it in color during its first season (despite his offer to spend the extra $400 per episode for color film, out of his own pocket).........well, viewers thought otherwise. And it turned out to be the LAST prime-time black and white series on NBC's 1965-'66 schedule.
There was an old action drama in the '60s or '70s called the immortal. He had blood that could cure anything and he kept having to run away from people who wanted to kill him.Neat show
I remember the opening credits from Run For Your Life as a little kid, but I was always afraid that Rover(from The Prisoner) would suddenly show up and head right for us. One of those things, I guess...(lol).
Yes, and she made a bundle of bucks with that invention! I wonder if anyone is still using it on their computer screen to correct their typing mistakes? (Yes, people actually did that.)
There are days when the score for a TV show intro, from this time period, pops into my head for no apparent reason. And yes, 'Family Affair' is one of them. 😕 ...Mrs. Beasley was evil...
And the sugar always wound up on the bottom of the bowl with the milk. I used to try to sweeten my Rice Krispies when I was a kid. I started putting sliced bananas into it. But I like it plain most of the time now.
I know now why my elder sister named her eldest son, Jarrod..the spelling is not common..I don't really remember 'The Big Valley', but she did, and always loved the men on the show!..mystery solved!
Anyone else see the Fox ranch and Bronson Canyon in some of the promos? Also, sounds like it might be Tommy Tedesco and other Wrecking Crew members providing music. Cool stuff.
CORONET BLUE was supposed to air on CBS in the fall of 1965, but was pulled as part of the fallout from James Aubrey's dismissal as president of the television division. The show did get good critical and audience reaction when it aired in the summer of 1967, but there was no chance for a revival, as Frank Converse was already committed to N.Y.P.D. for ABC.
From Wikipedia: Felony Squad is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966, to January 31, 1969, a span encompassing seventy-three episodes.
The series was to have been produced as a twice-weekly half-hour "continuing drama" focusing on the public and personal life of cops (a la "PEYTON PLACE"), and titled "MEN AGAINST EVIL". When the show's executive producer decided that wouldn't work, and proposed a basic "cops vs. crime" drama- with NO romantic entanglements, whatsoever- 20th Century-Fox and ABC agreed. But Liggett & Myers, the show's primary sponsor, objected to the word "EVIL" in the title, and it became "THE FELONY SQUAD" by the time it first aired in September 1966.
i saw the entire rat patrol in the late 70's...they did not have a single decent accurate german vehicle in the lot..and i rooted for the germans because....how could anybody in open jeeps not get shot!!!!
2:26-So cool to see Jack Sheldon in a live action TV show! And to all you Schoolhouse Rock fans like me, yes, it's THAT Jack Sheldon! The same Jack Sheldon who sang "Conjunction Junction", "I'm Just A Bill" and a dozen other Schoolhouse Rock segments! I looked it up!
spy4863 Thanks for that bit of info. (That's what I get for not scrolling down. LOL) Jack Sheldon actually plays trumpet on his own theme song. :D
He was also a cast member on the short-lived "The Girl With Something Extra" with Sally Field and John Davidson.
Your comment caused me to look him up, because I remembered that babe from somewhere in my childhood...I remembered him from watching Merv Griffin with my grandma! I always liked that guy, he had a type of happy charm that was kinda infectious!
*I meant to say guy, not babe. Darn auto correct!
On the famous "Andy Griffith" theme, master TV composer Earle Hagen actually did the whistling himself. It cost him $10 to record...and it's still heard today!
TheJonaco $10? Why so much?
Would love to be back, when Life was easy, 1966-1967, yes to be 11/12 yrs old.
I had a Rat Patrol lunch box and thermos in 1967 for kindergarten.
I had a Cowboy in Africa lunchbox in 1968.
Sometimes I watch Rat Patrol on TH-cam, but I really like The Invaders. I wish it was still on...
I had a Hee Haw lunchbox. I hated country music too. Lol
On the Rat Patrol, Hans Gudegast went on to fame as Victor Newman on "The Young and the Restless" as Eric Braeden
And his sister was Colonel Klink's second secretary on HOGAN'S HEROES...also becoming the second Mrs. Bob Crane.
Paul Duca ,
Is that true? Biological sister? Didn't know that..........
Dick Gautier was also Hymie the robot in "Get Smart". Leonard Stern and Buck Henry were behind "Get Smart". Richard Long, from "The Big Valley", would be a star in, "Nanny and the Professor" in mid 1970. Sebastian Cabot, Mr. French, from "Family Affair" did voiceovers in Winnie the Pooh.
Amazing obscure stuff, fun to see, and brings back memories of my childhood, thanx!
Love these. Thanks for sharing! A lovely walk down memory lane when TV was sweeter, gentler, CLEANER!
You're welcome, MrsSam.
R.I.P. Peter Tork.
I was 10 in 1965. We had one TV in the living room, my dad choose what we all watched, usually cowboy shows. In the summer we would go next door and watch tv at their house. We got our first color TV in 1969, this
Remember because I had appendicitis and my parents borrowed money from my grandma to but a color tv. They would pay her back10.00 a week,I found a payment book when we cleaned out the house after they psssed. No remote then. When we got married in late 77, yes graduated hs in December and got married New Year's Eve 1977. Our first tv was a Sony with a remote on a long wire. Theses are all such cool clips. Can you find any from " queen for a day" ? My late moms favorite, I think she sent I cards weekly together picked but alas, it never happened. In fact I forgot about that show until I started watching your you tubes
Did you know what your mom's wish was for her day as a queen if she happened to be selected?
People in that era got married at a younger age. I graduated high school in '71 and was a maid of honor in my friend's wedding at the end of that week. I went on to collect about 10 bridesmaids dresses during my college years years. And at 22 I was the oldest bride in my circle of friends.
Man, I love these! You really did a great job, first of all, finding the hard to find material, then editing it all together, fantastic job! I loved the Vintage Celebrity Commercials series you did. I appreciated that you edited the actors name over the commercial that they were in, a few of them I didn't even know.
I look forward to more of your excellent work.
Sorry, Jeff, but I just saw this. I appreciate your comment.
You have a gift for grabbing us with these FRED. I still have a MONKEEMOBILE by CORGI
Ironically, Run For Your Life was on NBC for three years from 1965-68, despite the fact that the main character played by Ben Gazzara had ONLY two years to live. Also of note, RFYL was created by Roy Huggins, who also created that other man-on-the-run show for ABC, The Fugitive (1963-67) and Perry Como co-produced RFYL through his production company, Roncom Films, named for his son Ronnie Como.
Always amazed by these at the shows I remember, the ones I remember only on another day and shows that I never saw at a time I watched a LOT of television. And with only three networks I knew what was on even if I did not watch it, but I never remember Iron Horse, for example. It also surprises me that Rat Patrol was only a half-hour. By the mid to later 1960s there were few half-hour drams on any longer.
NYPD featured veteran actors Jack Warden and Robert Hooks alongside Frank Converse.
Wow, just when I didn't think it could get any better. Fred, I don't know where you keep digging this stuff up but I'll chip in for a shovel as long as you keep digging. Loved the Rat Patrol and Felony Squad. There was another show back then called NYPD with I think Frank Converse and I'm having a brain cramp with the main star. Help me out someone!
Gregg Goss I remember the reruns of NYPD and I believe that Robert Hooks was in the show, too.
Darlene Goodwin , Just remembered his name. Jack Warden. Thanks for the help. Just needed something to jar the brain cells a little.
I was 2 in '66...and love these commercials!...I live in the Central Time Zone, and never knew 'prime time' started before 7pm!...thanks!
I always wondered when I used to watch The Lucy Show if she was eating a Lipton tea bag.
I think it was tobacco. She was rolling a cigarette.
@@terencediamond356 Yes I can see that now. I didn't think Lucy smoked on television by then?
Really love your vids, it is so fun going back in time!
I appreciate it, Krista.
That Andy Griffith Show closing came from the episode "Barney Comes to Mayberry", originally aired on CBS Jan. 23, 1967. I like the original ending w/ Andy & Opie coming back from their successful fishing trip. I'm surprised the sponsor products aren't appearing in the empty corners of the credits, which often happened on shows of that era.
My brother and I were great fans of Mr Terrific! Something about John McGiver's voice that made us laugh every time he spoke.
A Pill Popper? Could you please tell me what that meant.
@@sheila174 In the storyline, the US government developed a unique pill designed to give the person who took it superpowers. Through their research, they discovered that Stanley Beamish was the only one it would work on as intended; it made everyone who took it sick. Stanley didn't become an addict or anything, to the best of my knowledge.
@@DavidBDavis-lz7bt Oh, thanks for the info.
@@sheila174 You're most welcome!🌞 I should mention that
it made everyone else who took it sick, but not Stanley. I thought I had typed "else" the last time, but I guess not(lol).
I believe the Monkee's cartoon sequence was by Jack Davis (worked for MAD magazine).
CBS started the season out with THE JEAN ARTHUR SHOW in the 10 PM slot, where she played a lawyer in practice with her son. When it was dropped after 13 weeks, TO TELL THE TRUTH was brought back from the wilderness of a Sunday at 5 PM time.
Thanks for the info, Paul.
I'm a piker compared to what Barry Grauman knows...
But you probably know some things he doesn't.
I like to think so...but he's a great guy. I actually met him in person last summer.
The meeting of the minds.
We got our first color T.V. in 1966 (Motorola, 25" screen, French Provincial. My Mom was into French Provincial). My brother and I used to turn the color control all the way up, to get the jewels really bright on "Family Affair." My brother got me a DVD some years ago for Christmas, and some of the things on "Family Affair" had serious content. Did you know that Brian Keith was the son of Peg Entwhisle, a minor theater star in the early '30's? They both committed suicide. Maureen O'Hara said that Keith did not. He had lung cancer and emphysema and his daughter committed suicide two months before.
Was Peg Entwistle any relation
to The Who bassist John Entwistle?
Also, there's a tribute song
to Anissa Jones from after her death:
"Buffy, Buffy, Come Back To Me"
by Angel & The Reruns.
Entwhistle was Brian's stepmother...that she didn't know about until marrying his father. And she famously took her own life leaping from the HOLLYWOOD sign.
Awesome compilation! I love your videos so much. Keep up the great work! These really being me back.
Glad you like them, Speedo6677.
7:27- Because Liggett & Myers {Lark, L&M, Chesterfield 101} was the series primary sponsor, they didn't like the original "MEN AGAINST EVIL" title, and insisted it be changed before the series' premiere.
Always liked Frank Converse, he was one of my first crushes along with Doug McClure.
As always, really nice stuff. Thank you !
You're welcome, Randall.
Somewhere in the basement I have the Monkees cards that on the back of them was a puzzle piece. Buy enough cards and it would make an entire picture. But which box, is any ones guess.
1:03- See, in promoting their 1966-'67 schedule, NBC's advertising department couldn't decide if Jeannie had a bottle or a lamp. So they had an artist create a drawing- which they also used in some of their newspaper and TV GUIDE ads- that looked like a little of BOTH. And it just wasn't so.
Heaven forbid they would actually know the damn show they're promoting.
Considering the fact that NBC- *and* Screen Gems/Columbia- didn't think "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" would last a full season, and refused to allow Sidney Sheldon to film it in color during its first season (despite his offer to spend the extra $400 per episode for color film, out of his own pocket).........well, viewers thought otherwise. And it turned out to be the LAST prime-time black and white series on NBC's 1965-'66 schedule.
The Felony Squad opening looks very much like the opening of Police Squad!
Lots of great shows back then. I was 16 in 1966 and having grown up watching Combat! I thought Rat Patrol was just too silly.
Great post. Thanks!
You're welcome. More to come.
You're welcome. A labor of love, I assure you.
7:06- "'THE FELONY SQUAD'! Brought to you by------------ *LARK!* America's most popular new cigarette!
'There is NOTHING like a Lark'!"
There was an old action drama in the '60s or '70s called the immortal. He had blood that could cure anything and he kept having to run away from people who wanted to kill him.Neat show
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_(1970_TV_series)
I remember the opening credits from Run For Your Life as a little kid, but I was always afraid that Rover(from The Prisoner) would suddenly show up and head right for us. One of those things, I guess...(lol).
Monday nights...dinner at my friend's house, then in front of her color console TV set promptly at 7:30 to watch The Monkees...
"Don't cry Buffy. I'll take care of you". Lol
My father in law went to Thomas Jefferson high school in Dallas with Micheal Nesmith . Did you know that Micheal's mother invented white out ?
Yes, and she made a bundle of bucks with that invention!
I wonder if anyone is still using it on their computer screen to correct their typing mistakes? (Yes, people actually did that.)
8:27 The Flashbacks of Four way Windowpane Just Came Back.
...In Color! (except, of course for all of us with BW TV’s)
My pop used to watch Combat and Rat Patrol almost every Saturday afternoon. Unless boxing was on.
There are days when the score for a TV show intro, from this time period, pops into my head for no apparent reason.
And yes, 'Family Affair' is one of them. 😕
...Mrs. Beasley was evil...
Mr. Terrific art work was by those zany people over at Roger Ramjet!
And the sugar always wound up on the bottom of the bowl with the milk. I used to try to sweeten my Rice Krispies when I was a kid. I started putting sliced bananas into it. But I like it plain most of the time now.
2:14 "Run, Buddy, Run" starring the same Jack Sheldon from Merv Griffin and Schoolhouse Rock! fame. :)
did buddy just.....y'know...run? ,,,,=^..^=,,,,
anotherkat4u The network sure ran away from it. LOL :)
He performed the trumpet on Johnny Mandel's score for "The Sandpiper".
Run Buddy Run and Coronet Blue seem to have the same basic premise, except that one's a comedy and the other a drama.
"Big Valley" was dominated by Barbara Stanwyck's hard-hitting portrayal of Victoria Barkley. RIP Barbara.
Thx fred !
You're welcome, Clutch.
the male cast members of "The Big Valley" are the FINEST!:)
I agree and I'm a guy. From a screen presence standpoint that show did have the best, if you throw in Linda Evans!
I know now why my elder sister named her eldest son, Jarrod..the spelling is not common..I don't really remember 'The Big Valley', but she did, and always loved the men on the show!..mystery solved!
I love that look Barbara Stanwyck gives the camera in the opening. Still makes my heart beat faster!😍
Anyone else see the Fox ranch and Bronson Canyon in some of the promos? Also, sounds like it might be Tommy Tedesco and other Wrecking Crew members providing music. Cool stuff.
Monkeess was a great TV show!
Half of these shows I don't remember, and I grew up from 1965 (year I was adopted) til 1975 when I moved to CA from MA
50 years ago I was 11 years old in Lancaster Pennsylvania.
Yay! The untouchable s guy.. He was a,real nice guy. Bruce Gorden..
Pleased to see my favorite series "The Felony Squad" as part of the collage which I'm still waiting for a D.V.D. release.
By ten my three year old self had been in bed for probably three hours. I still love watching Family Affair.
That Mr. Terrific drawing looked like Alfred E. Neuman!
A pity the viewers never gave Coronet Blue a chance. Maybe it was something along the Jason Bourne stories.
CORONET BLUE was supposed to air on CBS in the fall of 1965, but was pulled as part of the fallout from James Aubrey's dismissal as president of the television division. The show did get good critical and audience reaction when it aired in the summer of 1967, but there was no chance for a revival, as Frank Converse was already committed to N.Y.P.D. for ABC.
Paul Duca ,
I loved that show!
I had a crush on Frank Converse and I loved the car. Was it a Jag?
I better do a search on that!
@@bethelle9099 ...Me too, along with my Mom! He was GORGEOUS!!
I've certainly heard of Coronet Blue but this is actually the first time I've seen it. Very nice.😌
Ben Alexander also starred as Joe Fridays partner!
The Monkees...IN COLOR!
At 2:13, was that Joe Sirola doing voice-over? He was a prominent voice-over as well as an actor.
Yes...
OK, thanks.
I was hoping you would show the intro of the Jean Arthur Show, when she's riding a carousel...
3:10, just like Shoeshine Boy and Roger Ramjet.
Did you see how much sugar he put on that cereal!!!!!
I loved Run Buddy Run, Captain Nice, and Me and the Chimp. I had really bad taste.
Roger Miller was a better variety show GUEST than a host.
And not a bad Broadway composer, either...
And a fine shock absorber sales person.
A few years ago I got to see reruns of The Jimmy Dean Show on RFD-TV. Roger Miller was one of his guests and he was terrific.
Wow the naked gun intro.
Monkey mobile, Batmobile, or Munster hearse?💖
All designed by the late George Barris.
@@terencediamond356 The Monkeemobile was the product of Dean Jeffries
Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice didn't seem all that long ago.
50 years ago. That's a long tme
Sooooooo second grade! 😊 Miss Kemp, by the way.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. you forgot about that.
I didn't. In the closing, I said bring it back in the summer.
It was on Friday that season
Coronet Blue rocks 💙
Frank Converse was the reason...
How long did the Felony Squad last? It looked kinda good!
From Wikipedia: Felony Squad is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966, to January 31, 1969, a span encompassing seventy-three episodes.
HANK SIMMS: "'THE FELONY SQUAD'! Brought to you by.......L&M cigarettes! 'Come on over to the L&M side.....just for the taste of it!"".
The series was to have been produced as a twice-weekly half-hour "continuing drama" focusing on the public and personal life of cops (a la "PEYTON PLACE"), and titled "MEN AGAINST EVIL". When the show's executive producer decided that wouldn't work, and proposed a basic "cops vs. crime" drama- with NO romantic entanglements, whatsoever- 20th Century-Fox and ABC agreed. But Liggett & Myers, the show's primary sponsor, objected to the word "EVIL" in the title, and it became "THE FELONY SQUAD" by the time it first aired in September 1966.
7:14 : That flashing police light was copied for POLICE SQUAD, which I've read was a satire of FELONY SQUAD.
I understood it was spoofing N.Y.P.D.
@3:44... FEE-NAY!
7:35 "The Andy Griffith Show": How is regular cast member Don Knotts a "Special Guest Star"? :?
By that time, he was no longer a regular.
Jonathan Harris, who played
Dr. Smith on "Lost In Space",
was credited this way
in every single episode.
@@laustcawz2089 Contractual issues
'Coronet Blue' - one of the all-time crappiest theme songs in the history of television.
Yes, but Frank Converse was one of the finest men to ever sport a raincoat! Had the hugest crush on him!
50 years ago I am 11 years old. FredFlix so what?
i saw the entire rat patrol in the late 70's...they did not have a single decent accurate german vehicle in the lot..and i rooted for the germans because....how could anybody in open jeeps not get shot!!!!
The usual portrayal of Germans as hopelessly bad shots.
There was an actual North Africa battle involving 10,000 vehicles...which got stuck in a traffic jam.
That sounded like Roy Orbison singing the ''Coroner Blue'' song.
I thought it sounded more like Johnny Rivers.
I checked with google and it turns out were both wrong. It was Lenny Welch.
I wonder how many millennials even know who Rommel was or what he did.
Or how many even care. Lol