I was 10 years-old in 1959 when 'The Twilight Zone' first aired, and boy was I hooked! It became my favorite t.v. program, and still is today at my ripe old age of 73. I had every episode on dvd, and then purchased the entire collection again on Blu-ray. I can watch them at my leisure with no commercials, and in pristine black and white.
Beautifully chosen list. Some other good shows of 1963-64: "The Lieutenant", "The Breaking Point", "The Eleventh Hour", "The Richard Boone Show", "Mr. Novak", "Channing", "The Gallant Men", and "The Saint".
A couple of errors: Jackie Gleason didn’t move to Miami Beach until the 1964-1965 season. 77 Sunset Strip dropped everyone except Efrem Zimbalist Jr and completely changed it’s theme and format for the 63-64 season.
Have Gun Will Travel was from 1957 - 1963. I am surprised it was not on The 25 TV Shows of the 1963 - 64 Season countdown. That was my all time favorite TV Western.
I was in the 8th grade in Chicago and we had central time and 3 owned-and-operated CBS, NBC and ABC so we got every show early enough so we got a good night of sleep!
77 Sunset Strip - click, click. What a cool theme it was. Combat! - now there was a great use of black and white. And The Outer Limits for an unbeatable opening monologue.
Gosh! More favorites of mine! Alfred Hitchcock, Disney's The Wonderful World of Color, The Flintstones [great with a local pizza shop meal on Fridays], Bonanza, [another corny one] The Beverly Hillbillys, 77 Sunset Strip [what a cool staff of guys], The Virginian [loved the Nelson Riddle theme song], [ my dad's first cousin - really] Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan ["really big shoe"], Rawhide, Andy Griffith [at his prime], [my favorite] Route 66, [there's one of Dad's favorites, again] Combat, Perry Mason, [# 2 favorite of mine] The Twilight Zone, The Defenders [Mom loved those lawyer dramas], Dr. Kildare, Dick Van Dyke [ oh so funny!], [yep...back to] The Fugitive. Nice line up of shows, Fred!
I won my elementary school spelling bee on the word "fugitive." I knew how to spell it because I'd seen the word on the screen every week at the beginning of each episode.
Like always Fred you do great historic time piece documentation. I was born right before 1960, these are some of my first memories of television. Keep up the good work, it has been enjoyable and jogs my first memories.
SUSPENSE THEATRE was the syndicated title for KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATRE. Apparently KRAFT was removed from the title as it was, leaving SUSPENSE THEATRE off-center on the screen. It's funny seeing BONANZA in B&W clips here, as it was always in color on NBC. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., was the only 77 SUNSET STRIP cast member remaining for the 1963-64 season, its 6th & final season. The show had a new theme song, and a 5-part season opener produced & directed by William Conrad, but ABC cancelled it in January 1964. Elizabeth Montgomery appeared in an early season episode after the opening 5-parter. I got to meet Gary Clarke from THE VIRGINIAN some 20 years ago. His real name, under which he wrote GET SMART and other shows, is Clark L'Amoreaux, so when his wife introduced us, the introduction went "Clark, this is Jon; Jon this is Gary". A later time he signed my 1960 TVG Fall Preview, where he was included among that fall's shows in the cast of NBC's MICHAEL SHAYNE. 1963-64 was the 4th & final season for ROUTE 66. In the series finale, Tod (Martin Milner) settles down & marries a woman played by Barbara Eden.
Fred-Great montage you assembled-In the Red Skelton segment,you had a color clip -That would've been the time when Red switched networks from CBS to NBC-He was on Monday nights from 7:30-8:00 right before "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In".
I was born in '62 and have only the vaguest memory of it (probably watched it when I was like 3-5 years old, so around '65-'67--if the show lasted that long). My mother would tell me later that I loved to watch it.
@@FredFlix Fred, I just found this video from 3 years ago... It reminded me, I wanted to ask you... we must be the same age; I was born in 1955, I gather you were too. And I sorta think The Outer Limits was/is one of your favorite TV shows. That is, since you have The Galaxy Being as your TH-cam avatar. And that series premiered the season you showcased here, 1963-64. Ever since its inception, it has been my all-time favorite TV series, albeit ABC euthanized it in its infancy. Too bad! I consider it TV's golden hour in the genre of Science Fiction. Scared the bejeebers outta me when I was 8, stuff like the Galaxy Being, the Ebonite Interrogator and the Zantis. Those Zantis had me peeking between my fingers while peeking out from behind the sofa. LOL. I think my hair was standing up. Probably the first time I ever experienced electrifying fear. Joseph Stefano was a master at poking inside your head and pressing the panic button. People younger than us just don't get it today; they can't understand this was the age of Mr. Ed and The Flintstones and Lassie. This was groundbreaking material, even though The Twilight Zone was already well underway. TZ was a different animal and didn't inspire fear like TOL. I was also frightened by the Galaxy Being; I thought when he busted through Alan Maxwell's 3D TV screen that he was also going to bust through our TV screen and materialize in our living room. I wonder how many other kids of our generation feared that during TOL's premiere episode? We were still innocent and very impressionable in 1963. On the other hand, I found his philosophical discussion with Cliff Robertson very thought provoking. Sorry to bend your ear, Fred, but I wanted to get your take on The Outer Limits and see if it held as high regard with you as it does with me. Thanks!
@@beargunn7820 We share this 100 percent. The Outer Limits is indeed my favorite show of all time (if you don't Monday Night Football). I have books on it, CD soundtracks, magazines, cards. It stunned me as a soon-to-be 9 year old (born in 1954). The BEMs were the best ever; the photography and music appropriately eerie. Yes, it had some clunkers, but overall I felt it was a show made for me. Yes, the philosophical discussion between Maxwell and the Galaxy Being was so heady and it's amazing it got on the air at that time. Among my other favorites: Architects of Fear, Sixth Finger, Zantis, The Mice, The Invisibles, Fun & Games, Nightmare and the two Martin Landau classics, The Bellero Shield and Man Who Was Never Born. Back before VCRs, I bought an audio tape of the latter. I played it often and imagined the scenes. Years later, while visiting NYC I saw it on TV. And yet, after it was over, my IMAGINED scenes were the ones I remembered. I thought that was odd. Of course, I have them all now on DVD and as computer files, seen them over and over but still watch faithfully when they show up on TV. So, yes, I hold it in the highest regard like yourself and many others. I am a huge fan of Dominic Frontiere as well.
@@FredFlix Fred, I just knew it! I could just tell you are a super-fan of TOL like me. That's awesome. Always nice to find a fellow enthusiast. Like you, I also have the DVDs, Soundtrack CDs and collector cards, etc. Indeed, Frontiere was a star-player in Stefano's roster. He's a genius. Yeah, darn, in those days before VCRs, we had a real long dry spell when it was almost impossible to watch TOL and had to carry memories of it around in our heads like you did with The Man Who Was Never Born. Well, you can count me in as one of your online friends who is positively nuts over The Outer Limits. Thanks for letting me know. Lanz trinsini lobo zan a mang lis lanz ob.
@@beargunn7820 GREAT ending to your comment, Bear (which is what the crew called the monsters (as you surely know). Hey, you saw my Hideous Sun Demon TOL adaptation. did you see this one: th-cam.com/video/RTdrbMXEVVk/w-d-xo.html
Back in 1963-64 I was in the fourth grade. When I was 9-10 years old, my favorite shows were The Andy Griffith Show, My Favorite Martian, Lassie, The Flintstones and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Now my favorite show from that season would be The Fugitive, which FredFlix ranked number one. The Fugitive is currently on ME TV at 2:00 am on Mondays. Ouch!! At least ME TV has The Andy Griffith Show on at 8:00 pm and 8:30 pm Mon-Fri.
Recently Me-TV has removed its early Monday morning FUGITIVE & UNTOUCHABLES reruns for 2 weekly episodes of THRILLER, staying with the "Sunday Nightmares" theme established with TWILIGHT ZONE and ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS.
2:33- (on alternate weeks) BILL BALDWIN: "'THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES' has been presented by..........KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKES!"/**banjo picking Kellogg's jingle**/"From KELLOGG'S of BATTLE CREEK!"
I liked just having 3 stations back then. The regularity of the shows airing weekly and on the same day of the week. I think that Monday and Thursday night's had the best shows. Then there was Saturday night the movies... NBC
Fred Flix. Some excellent work on these complications. Where is Gilligans Island ? Ran from 64-67, garnered good ratings but don't see it on any of your videos.
Well, it won't be in any "Top 25" videos (though I liked the show). It's in a couple of my Promo Palooza videos, and I have a Ginger or Mary Ann Pick a Chick on my Pick a Chick channel. Otherwise, you're right, not much Gilligan. I'll try to consider it more.
Growing up in the 60s UK we had many of these shows but not all. I remember another called Hawaian Eye, it was a bit like 77 Sunset strip as I recall. Also I remeber Cannonball and Whirlybirds, we had an Australian one too called Flying Doctors.
This is when ABC-TV began to come around and compete...5 of the top 10 overall, and even better in larger markets! Part of the ACNeilsen and ARBitron changes that benefited ABC were adoption of government data from a new source, effective 1 August 1963...the postal ZIP Code. Also, new AT&T long distance area code information helped the ratings services identify younger, ABC-leaning families.
It seems like only yesterday, and a million years ago at the same time. Back in those days there were 3 t.v. networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC. Three program choices, and every family had them checked off in the "T.V. Guide" for their nightly viewing pleasure. Our family finally got to see the shows in color in 1966 when my dad had a 21" Zenith color console delivered. My brother and I were in heaven! We were so crazy about color t.v. that we would watch the news if it was the only program on in color at any particular time. And we hated watching the news.
I always thought these lyrics of the Rawhide theme were very curious: "don't try to understand 'em"...?! I picture these cowboys sitting around trying to psychoanalyze their cattle. I mean, it had to be a thing, right? Otherwise why the need to warn against doing it in the lyrics, haha...
OK, confess: Like me, you thought the lyrics "don't try to understand 'em, just rope em', throw em', brand 'em" weren't about cattle, they were a euphemism for how men were expected to treat women in 1963. Yes, we live in a different world.
2:37 The closing credits for BH are from episode "Double Naught Jethro", original CBS airdate Mar. 3, 1965. 10:00 Mr. Brady should have his mouth washed out w/ soap! :)
1:38 When Fred started talking at the beginning of the Flintstones clip (with a slight lisp in his speech), I thought he had a cigarette in his mouth at first glance! But...he was just in the middle of changing Pebbles, thus a safety pin. (I wonder where he got the diaper, back in the stone ages...)
The Bevery Hillbillies must have got dropped from Winston Cigarettes? My dad loved Jackie Gleason so I just bet he watched that.And I know he watched Red Skelton. I remember him watching it in the early 70s. He loved the clown and the bum skits.
I guess it was bad not having a color television so you could watch Walt Disney and The Flintstones ,The Virginian, and Bonanza. That was the year I was born so I never had the pleasure of seeing any of these programs when they originally aired.
I don't know where you got your info but this could not be more wrong. According to the Nielsen ratings report for 63-64 the top 5 were. #1 Beverly Hillbillies and it wasn’t close, 2 Bonanza, 3 Dick van Dyke, 4 Lucille Ball, 5 Andy Griffith
Fred! You have bonanza at number 22? How could you? Ed Sullivan at 16? Combat over bonanza?! Really? Well at least twilight zone is in the top 10. But it should be in the top 5, with bonanza!! The outer limits is in the top 5, c'mon Fred!😕 However, the fugitive at number 1 is fine, I guess. Combat over bonanza, boo! That's like saying the ropers show was better than I love Lucy!
The Twilight Zone was the most amazing series of all of these. I read it was canceled to make room for all the sitcoms that were coming out. I HATE SITCOMS! The other programs for those years were great though.
I was born in '62, don't remember that particular title (I think it later was changed to "The Wonderful World of Disney"(?)), but in any case my parents didn't get a color TV till the late 70s, when I was in high school. I really didn't consider it "pathetic and depressing" to watch TV in B&W, but maybe that's just me.
@@Pluggit1953 They may well be. I used clips as I could find them. The point is The Virginian was No. 12 (or whatever number). I thought you meant the series' themselves didn't begin until later.
While i enjoyed shows during my younger years i find there are plenty of good shows today too like Game of Thrones, Walking Dead. The Orville, the new Lost in Space. I am not quite as gripped by nostalgia as some on here. TV has always had crap mixed with quality no matter the decade.
I liked just having 3 stations back then. The regularity of the shows airing weekly and on the same day of the week. I think that Monday and Thursday night's had the best shows. Then there was Saturday night the movies... NBC
I was just 6 years old watching many of these TV shows living in Los Angeles.. Now at 61, I still watch them, They never get old.Thank you.
You're welcome, Jose.
Amigo you had a TV?
So many hours in front of the TV watching these shows with my parents were special times.
Yes. Unlike today with everyone in their own corner with their cell phone or computer.
I was 10 years-old in 1959 when 'The Twilight Zone' first aired, and boy was I hooked! It became my favorite t.v. program, and still is today at my ripe old age of 73. I had every episode on dvd, and then purchased the entire collection again on Blu-ray. I can watch them at my leisure with no commercials, and in pristine black and white.
Beautifully chosen list.
Some other good shows of 1963-64: "The Lieutenant", "The Breaking Point", "The Eleventh Hour", "The Richard Boone Show", "Mr. Novak", "Channing", "The Gallant Men", and "The Saint".
I remember the Saint but that's it on your list. Were those aired in America?
A couple of errors: Jackie Gleason didn’t move to Miami Beach until the 1964-1965 season. 77 Sunset Strip dropped everyone except Efrem Zimbalist Jr and completely changed it’s theme and format for the 63-64 season.
...Can't help recalling the Blues Brothers hearing the theme to Rawhide :-)
What good memories these bring back
Have Gun Will Travel was from 1957 - 1963. I am surprised it was not on The 25 TV Shows of the 1963 - 64 Season countdown. That was my all time favorite TV Western.
That's probably because it was off the network by the time the 1963-64 season started. Fred stuck with shows strictly from the 1963-64 season.
Hello Mr. FredFlix. OK my Buddy. You got me good. And yes I still remember. Thank you for posting this precious video.
I was in the 8th grade in Chicago and we had central time and 3 owned-and-operated CBS, NBC and ABC so we got every show early enough so we got a good night of sleep!
envy~
77 Sunset Strip - click, click. What a cool theme it was. Combat! - now there was a great use of black and white. And The Outer Limits for an unbeatable opening monologue.
A year of hits that became famous for decades.
@5:12 Didn't know Lulu did anything before "To Sir,With Love."Just a baby in her teens!
Co-starred with the voice of the snowman on Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer.
Gosh! More favorites of mine! Alfred Hitchcock, Disney's The Wonderful World of Color, The Flintstones [great with a local pizza shop meal on Fridays], Bonanza, [another corny one] The Beverly Hillbillys, 77 Sunset Strip [what a cool staff of guys], The Virginian [loved the Nelson Riddle theme song], [ my dad's first cousin - really] Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan ["really big shoe"], Rawhide, Andy Griffith [at his prime], [my favorite] Route 66, [there's one of Dad's favorites, again] Combat, Perry Mason, [# 2 favorite of mine] The Twilight Zone, The Defenders [Mom loved those lawyer dramas], Dr. Kildare, Dick Van Dyke [ oh so funny!], [yep...back to] The Fugitive. Nice line up of shows, Fred!
All jokes aside..I was born during this time and I bet my first sentence was "The Fugitive...a QM Production".
I won my elementary school spelling bee on the word "fugitive." I knew how to spell it because I'd seen the word on the screen every week at the beginning of each episode.
I love the fugitive. Been catching it for a month now on Sunday nights on met! ❤️
The Fugitive should've started a Blackman.
Like always Fred you do great historic time piece documentation. I was born right before 1960, these are some of my first memories of television. Keep up the good work, it has been enjoyable and jogs my first memories.
Jackie Gleason was multitalented. He was a great comedian, a fine dramatic actor, and a gifted composer and conductor of easy-listening music.
Lark cigarettes also had granulated charcoal in the filter. Tarreyton had a paper filter infused with charcoal.
Both brands manage to turn one's lungs into charcoal. 🤢
very small but remember watching these with my dad
My dad was abusive toward me...no one cared
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SUSPENSE THEATRE was the syndicated title for KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATRE. Apparently KRAFT was removed from the title as it was, leaving SUSPENSE THEATRE off-center on the screen.
It's funny seeing BONANZA in B&W clips here, as it was always in color on NBC.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., was the only 77 SUNSET STRIP cast member remaining for the 1963-64 season, its 6th & final season. The show had a new theme song, and a 5-part season opener produced & directed by William Conrad, but ABC cancelled it in January 1964. Elizabeth Montgomery appeared in an early season episode after the opening 5-parter.
I got to meet Gary Clarke from THE VIRGINIAN some 20 years ago. His real name, under which he wrote GET SMART and other shows, is Clark L'Amoreaux, so when his wife introduced us, the introduction went "Clark, this is Jon; Jon this is Gary". A later time he signed my 1960 TVG Fall Preview, where he was included among that fall's shows in the cast of NBC's MICHAEL SHAYNE.
1963-64 was the 4th & final season for ROUTE 66. In the series finale, Tod (Martin Milner) settles down & marries a woman played by Barbara Eden.
Fred-Great montage you assembled-In the Red Skelton segment,you had a color clip -That would've been the time when Red switched networks from CBS to NBC-He was on Monday nights from 7:30-8:00 right before "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In".
I'll always think of Red being on Tuesday night.
Thanks Fred for another memorable moments in time .
You're welcome, SR.
The video left out one of the best shows of the season THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW which is still sought after and viewed by millions.
It really used to tick me off watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color on our old black and white RCA television set!
I do remember the Jackie Gleason show.
I was born in '62 and have only the vaguest memory of it (probably watched it when I was like 3-5 years old, so around '65-'67--if the show lasted that long). My mother would tell me later that I loved to watch it.
Roger Smith was quite a handsome guy...I can see why Ann-Margret went for him.
I was in first grade back in 1963-64.
Excellent as always!
Thanks, Scott.
I came out in 1964. :-)
Awesome as always Fred! A wonderful channel.
Thank you, Diligence Integrity.
@@FredFlix Fred, I just found this video from 3 years ago... It reminded me, I wanted to ask you... we must be the same age; I was born in 1955, I gather you were too. And I sorta think The Outer Limits was/is one of your favorite TV shows. That is, since you have The Galaxy Being as your TH-cam avatar. And that series premiered the season you showcased here, 1963-64. Ever since its inception, it has been my all-time favorite TV series, albeit ABC euthanized it in its infancy. Too bad! I consider it TV's golden hour in the genre of Science Fiction. Scared the bejeebers outta me when I was 8, stuff like the Galaxy Being, the Ebonite Interrogator and the Zantis. Those Zantis had me peeking between my fingers while peeking out from behind the sofa. LOL. I think my hair was standing up. Probably the first time I ever experienced electrifying fear. Joseph Stefano was a master at poking inside your head and pressing the panic button. People younger than us just don't get it today; they can't understand this was the age of Mr. Ed and The Flintstones and Lassie. This was groundbreaking material, even though The Twilight Zone was already well underway. TZ was a different animal and didn't inspire fear like TOL. I was also frightened by the Galaxy Being; I thought when he busted through Alan Maxwell's 3D TV screen that he was also going to bust through our TV screen and materialize in our living room. I wonder how many other kids of our generation feared that during TOL's premiere episode? We were still innocent and very impressionable in 1963. On the other hand, I found his philosophical discussion with Cliff Robertson very thought provoking. Sorry to bend your ear, Fred, but I wanted to get your take on The Outer Limits and see if it held as high regard with you as it does with me. Thanks!
@@beargunn7820 We share this 100 percent. The Outer Limits is indeed my favorite show of all time (if you don't Monday Night Football). I have books on it, CD soundtracks, magazines, cards. It stunned me as a soon-to-be 9 year old (born in 1954). The BEMs were the best ever; the photography and music appropriately eerie. Yes, it had some clunkers, but overall I felt it was a show made for me. Yes, the philosophical discussion between Maxwell and the Galaxy Being was so heady and it's amazing it got on the air at that time. Among my other favorites: Architects of Fear, Sixth Finger, Zantis, The Mice, The Invisibles, Fun & Games, Nightmare and the two Martin Landau classics, The Bellero Shield and Man Who Was Never Born. Back before VCRs, I bought an audio tape of the latter. I played it often and imagined the scenes. Years later, while visiting NYC I saw it on TV. And yet, after it was over, my IMAGINED scenes were the ones I remembered. I thought that was odd. Of course, I have them all now on DVD and as computer files, seen them over and over but still watch faithfully when they show up on TV. So, yes, I hold it in the highest regard like yourself and many others. I am a huge fan of Dominic Frontiere as well.
@@FredFlix Fred, I just knew it! I could just tell you are a super-fan of TOL like me. That's awesome. Always nice to find a fellow enthusiast. Like you, I also have the DVDs, Soundtrack CDs and collector cards, etc. Indeed, Frontiere was a star-player in Stefano's roster. He's a genius. Yeah, darn, in those days before VCRs, we had a real long dry spell when it was almost impossible to watch TOL and had to carry memories of it around in our heads like you did with The Man Who Was Never Born. Well, you can count me in as one of your online friends who is positively nuts over The Outer Limits. Thanks for letting me know. Lanz trinsini lobo zan a mang lis lanz ob.
@@beargunn7820 GREAT ending to your comment, Bear (which is what the crew called the monsters (as you surely know). Hey, you saw my Hideous Sun Demon TOL adaptation. did you see this one: th-cam.com/video/RTdrbMXEVVk/w-d-xo.html
Back in 1963-64 I was in the fourth grade. When I was 9-10 years old, my favorite shows were The Andy Griffith Show, My Favorite Martian, Lassie, The Flintstones and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Now my favorite show from that season would be The Fugitive, which FredFlix ranked number one. The Fugitive is currently on ME TV at 2:00 am on Mondays. Ouch!! At least ME TV has The Andy Griffith Show on at 8:00 pm and 8:30 pm Mon-Fri.
and GOMER PYLE at 9 and WKRP IN CINNCINATTI at 9:30.
Recently Me-TV has removed its early Monday morning FUGITIVE & UNTOUCHABLES reruns for 2 weekly episodes of THRILLER, staying with the "Sunday Nightmares" theme established with TWILIGHT ZONE and ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS.
Don't forget The Patty Duke Show.
2:33- (on alternate weeks) BILL BALDWIN: "'THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES' has been presented by..........KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKES!"/**banjo picking Kellogg's jingle**/"From KELLOGG'S of BATTLE CREEK!"
Always loved the Cartwrights at the Ponderosa.
I liked just having 3 stations back then. The regularity of the shows airing weekly and on the same day of the week. I think that Monday and Thursday night's had the best shows. Then there was Saturday night the movies... NBC
Interesting that I watched Walt Disney in B&W! AND I loved the opening theme to Route 66.
Fred Flix. Some excellent work on these complications. Where is Gilligans Island ? Ran from 64-67, garnered good ratings but don't see it on any of your videos.
Well, it won't be in any "Top 25" videos (though I liked the show). It's in a couple of my Promo Palooza videos, and I have a Ginger or Mary Ann Pick a Chick on my Pick a Chick channel. Otherwise, you're right, not much Gilligan. I'll try to consider it more.
+FredFlix "a Ginger or Mary Ann Pick a Chick", LOL I'm sure there was some heated debate there!
Growing up in the 60s UK we had many of these shows but not all. I remember another called Hawaian Eye, it was a bit like 77 Sunset strip as I recall. Also I remeber Cannonball and Whirlybirds, we had an Australian one too called Flying Doctors.
10:08. Mr. Brady says, "Shit."
A REALLY BIG SHEW!
i want to see that whole Elizabeth Montgomery show with gene barry. whoa...
Fred Flix...you rock! Great stuff.
Thanks, Jeff.
Love it
Remember when Ben Casey met Dr. Kildare? That was a paradox.
Dr. Kildare & Ben Casey Now those were REAL medical shows.
This is when ABC-TV began to come around and compete...5 of the top 10 overall, and even better in larger markets! Part of the ACNeilsen and ARBitron changes that benefited ABC were adoption of government data from a new source, effective 1 August 1963...the postal ZIP Code. Also, new AT&T long distance area code information helped the ratings services identify younger, ABC-leaning families.
It seems like only yesterday, and a million years ago at the same time. Back in those days there were 3 t.v. networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC. Three program choices, and every family had them checked off in the "T.V. Guide" for their nightly viewing pleasure. Our family finally got to see the shows in color in 1966 when my dad had a 21" Zenith color console delivered. My brother and I were in heaven! We were so crazy about color t.v. that we would watch the news if it was the only program on in color at any particular time. And we hated watching the news.
I always thought these lyrics of the Rawhide theme were very curious: "don't try to understand 'em"...?! I picture these cowboys sitting around trying to psychoanalyze their cattle. I mean, it had to be a thing, right? Otherwise why the need to warn against doing it in the lyrics, haha...
OK, confess: Like me, you thought the lyrics "don't try to understand 'em, just rope em', throw em', brand 'em" weren't about cattle, they were a euphemism for how men were expected to treat women in 1963. Yes, we live in a different world.
If you lived in cali in the 60s you could always pic up extra money as s cowboy extra, the 60s employed slot of people that's why westerns were big.
Love these vids, but like others I have to question the rankings. Beverly Hillbillies near the bottom?
Forget the rankings, it's irrelevant. The important thing is that a clip from the show was included.
Kind of surprised My Three Sons isn't in there.
2:37 The closing credits for BH are from episode "Double Naught Jethro", original CBS airdate Mar. 3, 1965.
10:00 Mr. Brady should have his mouth washed out w/ soap! :)
It wasn't until the early seventies that my family got colour TV
1:38 When Fred started talking at the beginning of the Flintstones clip (with a slight lisp in his speech), I thought he had a cigarette in his mouth at first glance! But...he was just in the middle of changing Pebbles, thus a safety pin. (I wonder where he got the diaper, back in the stone ages...)
7:10 For the Andy Griffith Show, you just showed an ad (done by Griffith) for Bird's Eye peas and onions??
outer limits, especially in that first season, still great even today.
The Bevery Hillbillies must have got dropped from Winston Cigarettes? My dad loved Jackie Gleason so I just bet he watched that.And I know he watched Red Skelton. I remember him watching it in the early 70s. He loved the clown and the bum skits.
I guess it was bad not having a color television so you could watch Walt Disney and The Flintstones ,The Virginian, and Bonanza. That was the year I was born so I never had the pleasure of seeing any of these programs when they originally aired.
Oh my goodness 👀😂
The outer limits!! Now i wanna watch it, lol!
Twilight Zone still gives me the heebie jeebies!!
Along with the Outer Limits...
Was Little Joe wearing a Band Aid in the Old West?
I don't know where you got your info but this could not be more wrong. According to the Nielsen ratings report for 63-64 the top 5 were. #1 Beverly Hillbillies and it wasn’t close, 2 Bonanza, 3 Dick van Dyke, 4 Lucille Ball, 5 Andy Griffith
Where is Hawaiian Eye Cheyenne
My 3Sons,Donna Reed show, Ozzie and Harriet
Did that guy on the Defenders (7) say "oh shit"?
As another poster pointed out, this was an outtake. It didn't actually make it to the broadcast.
The same season Doctor Who premiered "across the pond."
Bonanza should be numero uno!
Fred! You have bonanza at number 22? How could you? Ed Sullivan at 16? Combat over bonanza?! Really? Well at least twilight zone is in the top 10. But it should be in the top 5, with bonanza!! The outer limits is in the top 5, c'mon Fred!😕 However, the fugitive at number 1 is fine, I guess. Combat over bonanza, boo! That's like saying the ropers show was better than I love Lucy!
The important thing is that they're included in the video, not where they're "ranked" (which is meaningless, really).
Robert Reed saying shit. Hilarious
The 60s were about peace, love, and rock n roll. NO, it wasn't. It was about westerns on TV.
Not the early 60s. Beatles came out early 64. After that, you're right.
The Twilight Zone was the most amazing series of all of these. I read it was canceled to make room for all the sitcoms that were coming out. I HATE SITCOMS! The other programs for those years were great though.
The Twilight Zone is #1, it is timeless.
The red Skelton show.... Starring Jerry Lewis?
This is the season about to come on the air.. at the Journey! galacticjourney.org
The Red Skelton Show starring Jerry Lewis?
Twilight Zone #1
Who knew from watching that Johnson's Baby Powder commercial for "The Twilight Zone" that it would be the cause of ovarian cancer?
Watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color on a black and white TV because you could not afford a color TV was pathetic and depressing.
I was born in '62, don't remember that particular title (I think it later was changed to "The Wonderful World of Disney"(?)), but in any case my parents didn't get a color TV till the late 70s, when I was in high school. I really didn't consider it "pathetic and depressing" to watch TV in B&W, but maybe that's just me.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 ' Disney's Wonderful World Of Color ' . Never heard of the title you gave and I'm 6 years older than you.
I remember that.
10:32. Michael Rape.
Too much silly westerns in 1964, not enough sci-fi. Those poor 1964ians.
To me, sci-fi is just as "silly" as Westerns. I can't resist gently teasing my wife about her love of sci-fi. ;)
Most of these were post 63-64.
Name one.
The Virginian, Red Skelton Show... OK, I’m wrong, but those two episodes looked to me to be from about five years later.
@@Pluggit1953 They may well be. I used clips as I could find them. The point is The Virginian was No. 12 (or whatever number). I thought you meant the series' themselves didn't begin until later.
@@FredFlix Good comeback FredFlix...you're right, none were post 63'-64'. Thanks for this post.
While i enjoyed shows during my younger years i find there are plenty of good shows today too like Game of Thrones, Walking Dead. The Orville, the new Lost in Space. I am not quite as gripped by nostalgia as some on here. TV has always had crap mixed with quality no matter the decade.
I liked just having 3 stations back then. The regularity of the shows airing weekly and on the same day of the week. I think that Monday and Thursday night's had the best shows. Then there was Saturday night the movies... NBC