Ah!, seven years old, coming off my third full summer living on Alta Dr. in Las Vegas, with the desert as my backyard (literally). How content we were, without electronic devices at our fingertips like today. Ran all summer in the desert (hunting lizards), playing baseball behind the shopping center- using the oversized walls of the backside of the Charleston Heights Sopping Center as our 'Big Green Monster'. No shirt, and many times no shoes, tan as the dickens, and happy as hell.
Healthier life than being attached to the Internet/Computer like so many children/teenagers these days; I grew up in our back garden with nature and fresh air and/or went on our bikes to visit the ponies in a field, Chris and I, and didn't come in until 8pm in the Summertime (in Lancashire).
To be alive during this era was to witness this great historic TV shows / cartoons then look here on U tube an you may find part of a series . Thanks Fred .
I hear you just like you, I smile every time, I watch nostalgic videos. The short happiness, is worth it. Then the true, reality sets in. Peace and love brothers 🤗☺😁😀👍.
I was 9 at this time with my mom and dad watching shows. Interesting seeing so many tv shows I never saw. Favorites from these shows for us were Jetsons, Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy show, and Mc Hales Navy. I do not remember watching Combat but years later seeing it in reruns now realize it was really well done.
I remember the Jackie Gleason show - first in NYC and then in Miami Beach. Came on every Sunday evening, and we kids raced home from sandlot baseball or whatever to catch his show. Frank Fontaine had a mellow baritone, (I remember a cozy rendition of "Easter Parade" on an episode that aired the Sunday before Easter) and he played "Crazy Guggenheim" with a different voice - sort of like the slow-witted Pete the Puma on a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Hisanori Tsukada When In Japan in 1989 I couldn't sleep because if jet lag so I turned the tv on in the early morning and you know what the first thing I watched was I Love Lucy (the funny candy assembly line one) and a great Superman episode (gangsters hire a scientist try to kill Superman by intense electricity).
I was a little tyke of 6 in 62 and I clearly remember The Jetsons, the Hillbillies, and The Jackie Gleason Show. I also remember McHale's Navy and Combat because my dad watched those. After watching several of these videos, I see that lots of the same actors appeared in many different shows. Also, I did not know Gene Kelly had a series.
LOVE THIS ONE! Sometimes I wonder if certain shows were just part of my imagination, but you have: Ensign O'Toole. McKeever and the Colonel. I'm Dickens, He's Fenster. Going My Way. Stump the Stars. And of course, the Beverly Hillbillies, the Jetsons and Mchale's Navy! I had mumps early that school year, and a persistent case of tonsillitis that was too bad for school and a tonsillectomy, but not too bad for TV. Most of Kindergarten was spent on the sofa.
McHale's Navy, that was one of my favorite shows. and remember about 45 years later Tim Conway and Ernest borgnine became mermaid Man and barnacle boy on The SpongeBob SquarePants show. Instant classic.
I watched Combat, McHale, Ensign O’Toole, McKeever & the Colonel because we were in military school, The BeverlyHillbillies, Fair Exchange, I’m Dickens & He’s Fenster, The Lucy Show, Going My Way, The Jetsons, Stump The Stars, The Andy Williams Show ( with my parents ), Jackie Gleason,Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, The Virginian, Sam Benedict ( I met Jake Ehlich once we moved to San Francisco ), when I was home I had my own tv with a built in record player & am/fm radio.
A lot of westerns, variety shows, military themed shows back then. My parents both died this past year, my mom just a few months ago. I watch these and wonder which ones they watched and liked. I imagine my father liked quite a few!
When I was a young kid (age 8-9, 1962 or so) I used to tease my younger cousins by saying "Auntie ---- didn't have you-she and Uncle ---- bought you with S&H Green Stamps!" (13:00)
Yes they were a way of brainwashing the public and especially children (me) into volunteering for garbage like Vietnam. And supporting the crimes of our government that continue today.
Somebody lost their childhood innocence a long time ago but I hear yah that the beauty of growing up with pop culture you grow up together sometimes hard ( vietnam,watergate) sometimes easy where you literally are back there in the past not the good or bad days just a little thing called life what choice did we have we lived it now we remember it.
I happen to know that the Beverly Hillbillies opening presented here is NOT from 1962. It's from a much later season as it has Irene Ryan's credit in as big a font as Buddy Ebson's AND Raymond Bailey and Nancy Kulp are in it. Neither of those things happened until later seasons, in color. This whole court is out of order!
U R Correct Eric, the original opening had Irene Ryan in her first season Granny makeup sans her glasses....and as the truck pulled away from the cabin,you would see a little fawn left in front........Good Eyes!!!
Sure was the heyday of broadcast TV. Unfortunately I was 10 yrs old at the time so I was in the prime demographic and I got hooked on a lot of these shows "in color".
Combat was one of my favorite shows. I only saw them in repeats later in the 70's and beyond, but I love that show. I have watched, or heard of, about half of these shows.
Another repeat viewing of one of your episodes Fred. Even though this is my second time watching, I still mistook the scene from "Girl from the Golden West" for a clip from the "Carol Burnett Show."
Hearing Franz Waxman's score from "Objective: Burma!" in the scene starting at 01:04 reminds me of the "good old days" of how studios would re-use music from their film archives in subsequent films and TV shows.
Really outstanding compilation of shows I can remember to this day. The Beverly Hillbillies were standouts - but I’m not as impressed with the other entries. 😢
Yes itscfrom the bridge at chiron but still nice to see combat open the memories.yah and a silly yet valid question did it all really happen yes it did no it didn't not until it was over sometimes you can live life on the installment plan.
We only got CBS in our town, so I literally never saw more than half these shows. It was a big deal to visit our grandparents, because they got TV stations we never saw.
Purina is just part of Ralston, who made cereals into the 80s. They did a bunch of cereals based on cartoon and videogame characters. They made the Nintendo Cereal System.
Ralston - Purina was a merger of two companies with one thing in common: Grains and Cereals that were processed for food. Purina made grain based 'Chow' (Cat Chow / Dog Chow / Rabbit Chow / Horse Chow / Etc.) for animals and Ralston made Grain and Cereal products for people (CHEX and other Cereals), the merger was good for both companies as it gave them greater buying power and helped them stay competitive in the market.
"Our Man Higgins" had a different theme song when it was on the air...one of the few TV series of that time that was sponsored by "PONTIAC...and your Pontiac dealer, who proudly sells and services America's two Wide-Track cars...the '63 Pontiac and the '63 Tempest!"
Can't wait for some of these NEW shows!! Ahaha!! Funny that today you can watch the entire SERIES for any of these titles right here online...heck, might even have them on TH-cam!
makhails navey! i remember dad allways talking a bout the pt boats he was on during WW2 SO WHEN THE theme song sounded i piictured mac hales` boat looking just like the head of my dad skooting throo the water
Yeah, it’s amazing that such sophisticated content was commercially viable back then. Even Ed Sullivan often had Broadway stars recreate a scene from their current hit shows, or have Itzhak Perlman on to play a serious violin piece. Shows you just how dumbed-down this great nation has become.
What wasn't widely known then was the television had to be precisely calibrated to get a consistent color picture. Most stores at the time either didn't know or didn't care, as a result the set for sale would have a ghastly image. So many shoppers came back from a store thinking color hadn't been perfected yet. By the seventies sets were pretty much self calibrating.
Jack Paar was fired for saying, WC, because he couldn't say .. BATHROOM! Oh, the shock... Think of the children! I know this sounds lunatic, but that was the way it was.
Richard Lawson the Hayes code once insisted a prison drama remove a toilet prop from a cell. I guess prisoners never had a need for one even if locked in a cell for the majority of 24 hours a day. My parents loved the Jack Paar show. He was their favorite.
Paar wasn't fired- he left NBC in protest for their censoring his "water closet" joke in February 1960. He returned in triumph a month later {"As I was saying before I was interrupted.......'There must be a better way to make a living than this.' Well, I've looked-- and there isn't."}.
I did, but after being visible for years it suddenly got blocked for some lame supposed copyright infringement reason,. It would've been a waste of time to fight it in this case, although usually a blocked view can become unblocked. But the full ABC prime-time lineup in fall '61 is still viewable - th-cam.com/video/e7vib3qFxhU/w-d-xo.html
The FCC permits more commercial time per hour of programming. Why run a 45 second intro when you can sell that time to a sponsor? As of 2019, they’re allowed to run 8 minutes of spots per “half hour” of program content. Your typical 30 minute show is now just 22 minutes. Yeah, *the FCC is definitely looking out for the consumer.*
Oh My, (clutch pearls) the New Loretta Young Show is certainly a 180 from her previous show. instead of a nun in a hospital, she's a single mom dating younger men???? Oh get my salts I'm feeling...
9:20- "STUMP THE STARS" was a new version of Mike Stokey's "PANTOMIME QUIZ". CBS wanted a new host, so Pat Harrington Jr. was chosen. But he was gone by December, and Stokey resumed hosting the show himself for the rest of the season.
Five out of the first six shows were about the military. World War Two had been over for 17 years, but there were millions of veterans and the networks gave them what they wanted.
I imagine that those Veterans hitting Middle Age getting hit with Nostalgia, as well as their first Wave Baby Boomers sneaking up on the end of High School, made it a two fold target (3? of those 5 being Comedies likely wasn't a mistake either)
The world envisioned by the Jetsons seemed possible at the time.Then,the government kept growing,diverting precious resources away from productive enterprises to unproductive people and their causes.
Right - like limitless funds for the military, subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, bought-and-paid-for legislation benefitting corporations and financial institutions, and tax breaks for the shiftless, mooching wealthy.
The only shows I've seen are The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, The Jetsons (heard of not seen) and The Virginian although I recognise many of the actors in the other shows but not the shows themselves; I'm from the UK👍
Weren't most of these around at least 3 seasons? Was The Jack Paar Program the precursor to The Tonight Show? Known hits: Combat!, The Gallant Men? McHale's Navy, Ensign O'Toole? The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, The New Loretta Young Show, The Jetsons (2. Though second season wasn't til the late? 80s), The Jack Paar Program? Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, The Virginian, Stoney Burke? The Nurses
About 3 months old when these came out, but remember a few of them from later on, went to silver dollar city about the time they did the Beverly hillbillies there
Critically raised, short lived, show starring Nick Adams as an intrepid investigative reporter in New York City. There were a a number of famous guest stars, including Paul Muni and Irene Dunne.
I was born during the timeframe of the shows in this video...some of them were still on their original runs when I became aware of TV around '65 or '66. The only one I really remember was THE VIRGINIAN--my mother was really into Westerns (then again, so were a lot of other people in that era. But at least we'd gotten past the point where every other show on TV was a Western, as was the case in the mid-to-late 50s)
@@clifftaylor6864 I beg to differ, the first consumer color sets were offered to the public for christmas purchase in 1953. Daily field tests by CBS were started in 1941. My family didn't get one until the early 1970's I was already in the military by then. I remember my mother in the early 60's watching the reflection of our set in the window glass coated with her cigarette smoke, it created sort of a rainbow effect and she commented "it's just like having a color set" LOL
@@TruAnRksT We had our first Magnavox color TV in 1965. It was downstairs in a basement room. Our regular black and white TV in a console along with a radio and record player was a Zenith 1948 model with a round picture tube. That Zenith I was very fond of and remember replacing the tubes with dear old dad taking us to the grocery store to check them out on the tube tester machine.
Why doesn't some station put these shows on? I'll bet a lot of people would watch them. There are so many cable stations, surely some station could make money rerunning these shows! Is it just getting the rights or are they not available?
gawd, i've never heard of most of these shows, lol. when i think of this era, i think of jazz, playboy magazine, the *style* of everything like furniture, and the kind of suburban lifestyle where the man comes home from the office and his wife has a hot meal and some scotch waiting for him, then he later puts on some kind of sweater and has a few friends over, entertaining them around a small wet bar in the corner. that jack webb would be on a show even remotely associated with gene roddenberry strikes me as somehow funny.... :)
Rod McGlarney played Slarney on the original Broncoteers, but the series wasn't picked up. The Studio decided to try to make Slabby Stairswell a star instead , but rumors of heterosexuality killed his career later that week. Ditto I Married A Red. In 1955 Joan Armicladge played a version of Veronica Topweed, but in 1962, the retooled Red Mommie starred Sally Jo Wishfish, a known. Ah, telebision.
So many war themed shows in 1962! No doubt trying to drum up patriotic support for the conflict in Viet Nam which was showing signs of dragging on for quite some time, which it does!
Forcemaster2000 When you right that I think of shows like Hogan''s Heroes where several of the actors actually fought in WW II and a few even were in prison camps during the war.
Quite right Andrew. The war shows of 1962 had ZERO to do with Vietnam and EVERYTHING to do with World War II. Vietnam was barely a part of American awareness in the autumn of '62. Only in '64-65 did a lot of Americans start thinking about Vietnam, and only in '66-'67 did people start worrying about it.
I have to agree with Andrew and B.Frost. I was about to turn 13 in the fall of 1962. Vietnam was not on the radar as far as TV and conversation. Only later did TV series attempt to bring VN into their scripts. I think the first I really remember was Julia, starring Diahann Carroll. She played a widow whose husband was killed in VN. That premiered in 1968. Then of course the Smothers Brothers and shows like Laugh In started talking about the war. In 1962, when people talked about "the war" it was almost certainly WWII they were talking about.
SHOWS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT: THE GALLANT MEN ENSIGN O'TOOLE MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON OUR MAN HIGGINS I'M DICKENS, HE'S FENSTER THE NEW LORETTA YOUNG SHOW GOING MY WAY IT'S A MAN'S WORLD STUMP THE STARS ROY ROGERS AND DALE EVANS TV SHOW EMPIRE WIDE COUNTRY THE LLOYD BRIDGES SHOW SAM BENEDICT
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I love McHales Navy Tim Conway,and Joe Flynn were so hilarious together.
Ah!, seven years old, coming off my third full summer living on Alta Dr. in Las Vegas, with the desert as my backyard (literally). How content we were, without electronic devices at our fingertips like today. Ran all summer in the desert (hunting lizards), playing baseball behind the shopping center- using the oversized walls of the backside of the Charleston Heights Sopping Center as our 'Big Green Monster'. No shirt, and many times no shoes, tan as the dickens, and happy as hell.
I live in Vegas! That area was the edge of town back then!!
Healthier life than being attached to the Internet/Computer like so many children/teenagers these days; I grew up in our back garden with nature and fresh air and/or went on our bikes to visit the ponies in a field, Chris and I, and didn't come in until 8pm in the Summertime (in Lancashire).
Love ❤️ the Jetson.thanks for the kool video my friend.😊
I love The Jetsons, too. It is sweet, very funny, and NON-VIOLENT.
I remember watching combat with my father who was a WW2 vet. It really held up over time. We also played combat.
Colleen Urban every kid wanted to be Sgt Saunders we all had a Mattel Tommy Gun.
Beautiful collection
To be alive during this era was to witness this great historic TV shows / cartoons then look here on U tube an you may find part of a series . Thanks Fred .
Love the Jetsons. Great TH-cam channel
Keep it up! These videos are a wonderful way to relieve a little stress. Thank you.
I hear you just like you, I smile every time, I watch nostalgic videos. The short happiness, is worth it. Then the true, reality sets in. Peace and love brothers 🤗☺😁😀👍.
Never realized that ‘62 had so many good shows. A number of them were great.
I was 9 at this time with my mom and dad watching shows. Interesting seeing so many tv shows I never saw. Favorites from these shows for us were Jetsons, Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy show, and Mc Hales Navy. I do not remember watching Combat but years later seeing it in reruns now realize it was really well done.
I remember the Jackie Gleason show - first in NYC and then in Miami Beach. Came on every Sunday evening, and we kids raced home from sandlot baseball or whatever to catch his show. Frank Fontaine had a mellow baritone, (I remember a cozy rendition of "Easter Parade" on an episode that aired the Sunday before Easter) and he played "Crazy Guggenheim" with a different voice - sort of like the slow-witted Pete the Puma on a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
I absolutely loved the Jetsons! I could hardly wait for Saturday mornings! I was ready to buckle up and head into space with them!
👍🏻😉
Jane was hot!!!
The series was originally aired on Sunday nights, which is when I watched it with my parents.
Great Shows! We Japanese enjoyed many of them.
Hisanori Tsukada When In Japan in 1989 I couldn't sleep because if jet lag so I turned the tv on in the early morning and you know what the first thing I watched was I Love Lucy (the funny candy assembly line one) and a great Superman episode (gangsters hire a scientist try to kill Superman by intense electricity).
I’m a zoomer
Dick York was in a lot of shows before Bewitched.
I was a little tyke of 6 in 62 and I clearly remember The Jetsons, the Hillbillies, and The Jackie Gleason Show. I also remember McHale's Navy and Combat because my dad watched those. After watching several of these videos, I see that lots of the same actors appeared in many different shows. Also, I did not know Gene Kelly had a series.
David Pinegar of course I remember Jack Elam!
@@QueenVelveeta Jack...a face made for...
I was 8 in 1962 I remember the Jetsons and the Beverley Hillbilles and the Lucy show
LOVE THIS ONE! Sometimes I wonder if certain shows were just part of my imagination, but you have:
Ensign O'Toole.
McKeever and the Colonel.
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster.
Going My Way.
Stump the Stars.
And of course, the Beverly Hillbillies, the Jetsons and Mchale's Navy! I had mumps early that school year, and a persistent case of tonsillitis that was too bad for school and a tonsillectomy, but not too bad for TV. Most of Kindergarten was spent on the sofa.
McHale's Navy, that was one of my favorite shows. and remember about 45 years later Tim Conway and Ernest borgnine became mermaid Man and barnacle boy on The SpongeBob SquarePants show. Instant classic.
If people back then could see what TV looks like today, they’d throw a wobbler.
I watched Combat, McHale, Ensign O’Toole, McKeever & the Colonel because we were in military school, The BeverlyHillbillies, Fair Exchange, I’m Dickens & He’s Fenster, The Lucy Show, Going My Way, The Jetsons, Stump The Stars, The Andy Williams Show ( with my parents ), Jackie Gleason,Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, The Virginian, Sam Benedict ( I met Jake Ehlich once we moved to San Francisco ), when I was home I had my own tv with a built in record player & am/fm radio.
A lot of westerns, variety shows, military themed shows back then. My parents both died this past year, my mom just a few months ago. I watch these and wonder which ones they watched and liked. I imagine my father liked quite a few!
When I was born, the fall of '62! Thanks for showing what I probably saw but don't remember :)
I loved the shows in 1962 I do remember a good many of the tv shows but was only 6 years old at the time !!
When I was a young kid (age 8-9, 1962 or so) I used to tease my younger cousins by saying "Auntie ---- didn't have you-she and Uncle ---- bought you with S&H Green Stamps!" (13:00)
Blue Chip stamps were more valuable.
Man there sure were some awesome military shows back then!!! Back when we were proud of our nation and our military!!!!
Yes they were a way of brainwashing the public and especially children (me) into volunteering for garbage like Vietnam. And supporting the crimes of our government that continue today.
@@TruAnRksT not many men volunteered for Vietnam because we still had the draft.
Somebody lost their childhood innocence a long time ago but I hear yah that the beauty of growing up with pop culture you grow up together sometimes hard ( vietnam,watergate) sometimes easy where you literally are back there in the past not the good or bad days just a little thing called life what choice did we have we lived it now we remember it.
I happen to know that the Beverly Hillbillies opening presented here is NOT from 1962. It's from a much later season as it has Irene Ryan's credit in as big a font as Buddy Ebson's AND Raymond Bailey and Nancy Kulp are in it. Neither of those things happened until later seasons, in color. This whole court is out of order!
U R Correct Eric, the original opening had Irene Ryan in her first season Granny makeup sans her glasses....and as the truck pulled away from the cabin,you would see a little fawn left in front........Good Eyes!!!
Eh... good yes... sad, pathetic eyes. It's all how you look at it.
Plus combat is from season 2 with Lee Marvin still nice to hear then see combat to open the video.
Sure was the heyday of broadcast TV. Unfortunately I was 10 yrs old at the time so I was in the prime demographic and I got hooked on a lot of these shows "in color".
In 1962, there were war editions of westerns. Combat is a WWII version of Gunsmoke and The Gallant Men is a WWII version of Cheyenne.
Interestingly, "The Gallant Men" was produced by Warner Bros. Television, which also produced "Cheyenne".
Combat was one of my favorite shows. I only saw them in repeats later in the 70's and beyond, but I love that show.
I have watched, or heard of, about half of these shows.
Another repeat viewing of one of your episodes Fred. Even though this is my second time watching, I still mistook the scene from "Girl from the Golden West" for a clip from the "Carol Burnett Show."
What my parents and siblings were watching while I was in my crib. I was all of 8 months old in Sept 1962.
Combat was the best show on WW2. Tuesdays at 8:00 PM on ABC.
I wasn't born yet but I did obsess over the show when it was in syndication.
network programming, back in those days, began at 7:30, with 'Combat' leading off Tuesday Nights at 7:30 through 1967......
Those were great thanks for posting.
Love Jetson
Audrey moghdam .. still entertaining. .
Hearing Franz Waxman's score from "Objective: Burma!" in the scene starting at 01:04 reminds me of the "good old days" of how studios would re-use music from their film archives in subsequent films and TV shows.
Really outstanding compilation of shows I can remember to this day. The Beverly Hillbillies were standouts - but I’m not as impressed with the other entries. 😢
That main title sequence from "Combat!" is actually from the series' second season.
They title sequenced alternate Morrow or Jason(who was more featured that episode)
Yes itscfrom the bridge at chiron but still nice to see combat open the memories.yah and a silly yet valid question did it all really happen yes it did no it didn't not until it was over sometimes you can live life on the installment plan.
Don't figure out my age, but I remember ALL of these.
We only got CBS in our town, so I literally never saw more than half these shows. It was a big deal to visit our grandparents, because they got TV stations we never saw.
Me and grandma used to watch the Andy Williams Show together on her console color TV.
Did you save Green Stamps, as well?
I was surprised that Purina use to make human cereal!!
Jannz ... it was great because you could be sharing it with your pets.
It was my favorite hot cereal. It kind of looked like it had dead ants in it.
Purina is also the company that brought us "Jack in the Box"
Purina is just part of Ralston, who made cereals into the 80s. They did a bunch of cereals based on cartoon and videogame characters. They made the Nintendo Cereal System.
Ralston - Purina was a merger of two companies with one thing in common: Grains and Cereals that were processed for food. Purina made grain based 'Chow' (Cat Chow / Dog Chow / Rabbit Chow / Horse Chow / Etc.) for animals and Ralston made Grain and Cereal products for people (CHEX and other Cereals), the merger was good for both companies as it gave them greater buying power and helped them stay competitive in the market.
Great seeing all these intros to the old TV shows I remember a9giving up my age, here, haha!)
"Our Man Higgins" had a different theme song when it was on the air...one of the few TV series of that time that was sponsored by "PONTIAC...and your Pontiac dealer, who proudly sells and services America's two Wide-Track cars...the '63 Pontiac and the '63 Tempest!"
We had many a Coca Cola float while watching these shows.
Also, thanks for the intros of these "forgotten" shows!
Can't wait for some of these NEW shows!! Ahaha!! Funny that today you can watch the entire SERIES for any of these titles right here online...heck, might even have them on TH-cam!
Ah yes...S&H Green stamps. how about Blue Chips? I had to be in bed by 9 PM then. I got to watch McHale's Navy.
Loretta Young still had it. Ouch!
Jeffrey Jones ... that smile of hers is contagious. .💞
makhails navey! i remember dad allways talking a bout the pt boats he was on during WW2 SO WHEN THE theme song sounded i piictured mac hales` boat looking just like the head of my dad skooting throo the water
The year of my birth.
Same here, April
Same here June
@@joeford860 Same here. August
@10:08 - Cowboy Opera on US TV? I'd never have believed it had I not seen it!
That shower curtain rocks!
Yeah, it’s amazing that such sophisticated content was commercially viable back then. Even Ed Sullivan often had Broadway stars recreate a scene from their current hit shows, or have Itzhak Perlman on to play a serious violin piece.
Shows you just how dumbed-down this great nation has become.
Mom.. please get Dad to buy a color TV..
'Combat' only had one color season: its last - 1966-67......
I think this was the Baby Boomer kid mantra. Or when are going to get a color television?
What wasn't widely known then was the television had to be precisely calibrated to get a consistent color picture. Most stores at the time either didn't know or didn't care, as a result the set for sale would have a ghastly image. So many shoppers came back from a store thinking color hadn't been perfected yet. By the seventies sets were pretty much self calibrating.
Who could afford it?
Jack Paar was fired for saying, WC, because he couldn't say .. BATHROOM! Oh, the shock... Think of the children! I know this sounds lunatic, but that was the way it was.
Richard Lawson the Hayes code once insisted a prison drama remove a toilet prop from a cell. I guess prisoners never had a need for one even if locked in a cell for the majority of 24 hours a day.
My parents loved the Jack Paar show. He was their favorite.
They couldn't say pregnant and even married thry slept in twin beds,LOL
Paar wasn't fired- he left NBC in protest for their censoring his "water closet" joke in February 1960. He returned in triumph a month later {"As I was saying before I was interrupted.......'There must be a better way to make a living than this.' Well, I've looked-- and there isn't."}.
Did you make a compilation of new fall shows of 1961? I couldn't find it...
I did, but after being visible for years it suddenly got blocked for some lame supposed copyright infringement reason,. It would've been a waste of time to fight it in this case, although usually a blocked view can become unblocked. But the full ABC prime-time lineup in fall '61 is still viewable - th-cam.com/video/e7vib3qFxhU/w-d-xo.html
Every kid I knew back the watched Combat & a lot of us had a Remco bazooka.
Also; what a l-o-n-g intro! Wouldn't sit still long enough for it today!!
The FCC permits more commercial time per hour of programming. Why run a 45 second intro when you can sell that time to a sponsor? As of 2019, they’re allowed to run 8 minutes of spots per “half hour” of program content. Your typical 30 minute show is now just 22 minutes. Yeah, *the FCC is definitely looking out for the consumer.*
Lucy continued using animation for her new show just like for I Love Lucy and later went to stop motion credits.
I love the Virginian Theme music.
John Astin. Aka Gomez Addams.
I had a major kid crush on Paula Prentiss!
Beauty
I had a huge crush on The Virginian
Some of the people who remember this time have lost their hearing. Please provide the option of closed captioning.
Oh My, (clutch pearls) the New Loretta Young Show is certainly a 180 from her previous show. instead of a nun in a hospital, she's a single mom dating younger men???? Oh get my salts I'm feeling...
These are great! I was eight.
9:20- "STUMP THE STARS" was a new version of Mike Stokey's "PANTOMIME QUIZ". CBS wanted a new host, so Pat Harrington Jr. was chosen. But he was gone by December, and Stokey resumed hosting the show himself for the rest of the season.
Some good ones that season !
Five out of the first six shows were about the military. World War Two had been over for 17 years, but there were millions of veterans and the networks gave them what they wanted.
I imagine that those Veterans hitting Middle Age getting hit with Nostalgia, as well as their first Wave Baby Boomers sneaking up on the end of High School, made it a two fold target (3? of those 5 being Comedies likely wasn't a mistake either)
Don't forget the Korean war.
The Longest Day had just been a huge hit in movie theaters. TV always followed the trend.
I was, like, eight, and I remember a lot of these.
The world envisioned by the Jetsons seemed possible at the time.Then,the government kept growing,diverting precious resources away from productive enterprises to unproductive people and their causes.
Right - like limitless funds for the military, subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, bought-and-paid-for legislation benefitting corporations and financial institutions, and tax breaks for the shiftless, mooching wealthy.
The world of the Jetsons probably came about as a result of environmental destruction.
You have something against fossil fuels with the way these electric cars are behaving?@@TheRealLaughingGravy
Plus some glorious Puccini!
The announcer for Jackie Gleason sounds just like the announcer on the 80s Price is right....
One and the same! Jackie chose Johnny Olson to be his announcer in New York- and later, in Miami Beach- during his 1962-'70 variety series.
The world seems kinder and gentler in black and white.
Meant ro say - I'm giving up my age here, remembering all these shows!!
I didn't watch any of these shows, being that I wasn't *born'ed* yet. 😄
That's no excuse. You should have found a way.
The only shows I've seen are The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, The Jetsons (heard of not seen) and The Virginian although I recognise many of the actors in the other shows but not the shows themselves; I'm from the UK👍
Weren't most of these around at least 3 seasons? Was The Jack Paar Program the precursor to The Tonight Show?
Known hits: Combat!, The Gallant Men? McHale's Navy, Ensign O'Toole? The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, The New Loretta Young Show, The Jetsons (2. Though second season wasn't til the late? 80s), The Jack Paar Program? Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, The Virginian, Stoney Burke? The Nurses
It was after Jack's run on Tonight.
Ten years later most TV shows were PC and amazingly boring.
The sixties classic scripts are fun and watchable.
About 3 months old when these came out, but remember a few of them from later on, went to silver dollar city about the time they did the Beverly hillbillies there
"Saints and Sinners". I'm drawing a complete blank.
Critically raised, short lived, show starring Nick Adams as an intrepid investigative reporter in New York City. There were a a number of famous guest stars, including Paul Muni and Irene Dunne.
I was born during the timeframe of the shows in this video...some of them were still on their original runs when I became aware of TV around '65 or '66. The only one I really remember was THE VIRGINIAN--my mother was really into Westerns (then again, so were a lot of other people in that era. But at least we'd gotten past the point where every other show on TV was a Western, as was the case in the mid-to-late 50s)
The Jetson's were in color? I don't remember many of these!
57Banjoman - Not in our house 😉. Actually, I think I heard that The Jetsons was the first show broadcast in color, in limited areas, on ABC.
Only rich people had color sets back then.
There was no colour TV in 1962. A later presentation.
@@clifftaylor6864 I beg to differ, the first consumer color sets were offered to the public for christmas purchase in 1953. Daily field tests by CBS were started in 1941.
My family didn't get one until the early 1970's I was already in the military by then. I remember my mother in the early 60's watching the reflection of our set in the window glass coated with her cigarette smoke, it created sort of a rainbow effect and she commented "it's just like having a color set" LOL
@@TruAnRksT We had our first Magnavox color TV in 1965.
It was downstairs in a basement room.
Our regular black and white TV in a console along with a radio and record player was a Zenith 1948 model with a round picture tube.
That Zenith I was very fond of and remember replacing the tubes with dear old dad taking us to the grocery store to check them out on the tube tester machine.
Why doesn't some station put these shows on? I'll bet a lot of people would watch them. There are so many cable stations, surely some station could make money rerunning these shows! Is it just getting the rights or are they not available?
Me TV shows a few of them.
wow these go way back, you guy's weren't even knee-high to a caterpillar then.
Thank you
What NY church is that in opening of Going My Way?
back in the day 1960s i seen them when i was a kid
Okay so happy to see this , I still have the lunchbox
Where's Daniel Boone ,Davy Crocket, Swamp Rats , Wanted Dead or Alive or Dragnet ?
a horse is a horse
of course of course
gawd, i've never heard of most of these shows, lol.
when i think of this era, i think of jazz, playboy magazine, the *style* of everything like furniture, and the kind of suburban lifestyle where the man comes home from the office and his wife has a hot meal and some scotch waiting for him, then he later puts on some kind of sweater and has a few friends over, entertaining them around a small wet bar in the corner.
that jack webb would be on a show even remotely associated with gene roddenberry strikes me as somehow funny.... :)
ryan barker Replace the Scotch with Bourbon, And I'd go back right now.
You mean the phony _Mad Men_ version of the early sixties.
I think several of these shows were cancelled pretty fast ..
LOL Longest group note held ever on TV at 3:00! Hahaha.
Rod McGlarney played Slarney on the original Broncoteers, but the series wasn't picked up. The Studio decided to try to make Slabby Stairswell a star instead , but rumors of heterosexuality killed his career later that week. Ditto I Married A Red. In 1955 Joan Armicladge played a version of Veronica Topweed, but in 1962, the retooled Red Mommie starred Sally Jo Wishfish, a known. Ah, telebision.
So many war themed shows in 1962! No doubt trying to drum up patriotic support for the conflict in Viet Nam which was showing signs of dragging on for quite some time, which it does!
So true. Propaganda can be comedy or anything you want it to be.
WW2 had only been over 17 years, and many in the audience still had it fresh on their minds. Vietnam was still just a French colonial issue.
Forcemaster2000 When you right that I think of shows like Hogan''s Heroes where several of the actors actually fought in WW II and a few even were in prison camps during the war.
Quite right Andrew. The war shows of 1962 had ZERO to do with Vietnam and EVERYTHING to do with World War II. Vietnam was barely a part of American awareness in the autumn of '62. Only in '64-65 did a lot of Americans start thinking about Vietnam, and only in '66-'67 did people start worrying about it.
I have to agree with Andrew and B.Frost. I was about to turn 13 in the fall of 1962. Vietnam was not on the radar as far as TV and conversation. Only later did TV series attempt to bring VN into their scripts. I think the first I really remember was Julia, starring Diahann Carroll. She played a widow whose husband was killed in VN. That premiered in 1968. Then of course the Smothers Brothers and shows like Laugh In started talking about the war. In 1962, when people talked about "the war" it was almost certainly WWII they were talking about.
in 1962 World War Two on TV was either fodder for unrealistic drama, or ridiculous comedy.
A quick question...... Did Beverly Hill's come out in 1961 or 1962 ?
Randall Sage 1962, and it was the smash hit of the season, even beating The Lucy Show in the ratings.
Anybody remember the Cookie Bear?
National Archives building @3:26...
cool
15:32 I´m sure the Virginian-theme i didnt hear for 40 years
wow the jetsons are that old??
How can the future be old?
SHOWS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT:
THE GALLANT MEN
ENSIGN O'TOOLE
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
OUR MAN HIGGINS
I'M DICKENS, HE'S FENSTER
THE NEW LORETTA YOUNG SHOW
GOING MY WAY
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD
STUMP THE STARS
ROY ROGERS AND DALE EVANS TV SHOW
EMPIRE
WIDE COUNTRY
THE LLOYD BRIDGES SHOW
SAM BENEDICT