"Curiosity Shop" (created and produced by Charles M. "Chuck" Jones), was videotaped at a broadcast studio located at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood. That building is now part of AMPAS, the organization that fobs off Oscars each year. The program seen was an hour long prime time special that aired on September 10th, 1971 to kick off ABC's Saturday morning lineup for the 1971-72 season. And yes, that was the pilot for what later became "Schoolhouse Rock" , and created on behalf of General Foods. The song was composed and sung by Bob Dorough. Animation was designed by Tom Yohe, and done at Focus Design, Inc.
1313 Vine Street was home to an ABC-owned theater in the sixties and seventies. Chuck Barris had his production company offices at that address and taped "The Dating Game" there during its ABC run--32:16. Joey Bishop did his ABC late-night talk show there as well.
What a treat! I haven't seen The Curiosity Shop since I was 7 years old back in 1972! I can't believe how much of it I still remembered, including the "3 is a magic number" segment(which helped with my math skills in 2nd grade!) . Thanks so much for finding and restoring this piece of history.
I don’t know why they stopped showing Schoolhouse Rock. I think it was highly effective. I was born in 1962 so I was 9 when this aired. All the way up through high school I would hear other students singing the ‘preamble to the constitution’ or ‘I am just a bill’ or ‘conjunction junction’. Yea, we would all laugh, but we all knew it.
Not to mention the bit from 27:49-28:05, which has NEVER been seen since this episode was first broadcast! Someone should send this video to Disney so they can restore it for Disney+, and I mean NOW!
I'm very grateful for that part. Before today, I never knew about that "missing" part of the song that was here but never aired again. Really cool to see it here.
@@MultiAnimationdude They would probably have to restore the original master and according to Wikipedia, the original masters of this show were destroyed in 1973. This is someone's recording of the broadcast.
Best thing from this is the "Curiosity Shop" footage starting at 11:51. It might actually be the pilot and the first time Schoolhouse Rock appeared. Please post full episode w/o logo, so we can enjoy it.
There is a "Curiosity Shop" special in this video, starring Shirley Jones from "The Partridge Family". One of the children visiting is Pamelyn Ferdin. "Curiosity Shop" ran on ABC for two seasons (1971-73) on Saturday mornings.
A very rare recording. Apparently no intact episodes exist as ABC wiped them after 1973. Also, it's the only time the two girls in the cast. "Pam" and "Cindy" appear together, as they appeared alternately in the series.
Here here for preservation of the curiosity shop! Thank you!. And I so hope you may find more. I recall seeing an animated recording of the song Tennessee Birdwalk made famous by Blanchard and Morgan. I have a FB friend who claims he has that segment on 16mm film. 🤨 Thank you again for posting this video and for doing what you do.
Thanks for this great upload! 7:12 UCLA's Fight Song! 23:14 a classic Pepsi jingle featuring the voices of Ron Dante, Kenny Karen and Jerry Keller, three of the all-time best session singers. Spencer Michlin wrote the words and Joe Brooks composed the music. It's also very possible that Lesley Miller, Melissa Manchester and Linda November are part of the chorus, although it's not easy in this mix to pick out their voices.
4:08 the famous "crying Indian" PSA for Keep America Beautiful. 7:12 UCLA fight song in the "Curiosity Shop" special promo. 6:19 promo for Rod Serling's "Night Gallery," and 7:37 Rod Serling for Smokey Bear. 8:24 did "Lassie" move from CBS to NBC, or was KNBC showing syndicated reruns?
@@obsoletevideo6048 U-matic ly right !!!!! 70's and 80' decades was perfection in Television Innovations and quality was simple but always ""PAIR-FECT ""match Thanx a lot to bring to us lot of never forget gr8 gr8 americain tv memorie God bless and protect you obsolete "" treasures"" videos Patrick (:
@@patrickrancourt4782 patrick Thanks so much we have 3 more large collections to buy. Help out the cause make a donation www.paypal.com under my account laslo452000@cox.net Keep watching Obsolete video service
27:48 So this is what the original animation of the "Now the multiples of 3" is like. It shows ducks in a shooting gallery. I wonder if there's a similar thing for My Hero Zero with the line after "But let me tell you about my favorite hero." where it goes "Did you ever stop to think about zero? Zero is fantastic. Why, without the concept of zero, we'd never be able to multiply, divide, add, subtract or even to count very high." before he starts singing. And I wonder why they didn't restore those two moments for later airings and home video releases of the two songs. I suppose they wanted to keep them at exactly 3 minutes. But I think it would be nice to see those two extra animations and the Weather Show song with the "Greatest Show On Earth" mentioning in a blu-ray release of Schoolhouse Rock. Don't you?
In the case of the cut material in Three... it wasn't quite accurate: because zero is divisible by three, and if you expanded it, there are four numbers divisible by three in 30-39, 60-69, 90-99. It would've been misleading. So I don't blame them for cutting something that would be a potential problem.
The same animated logo as on about 3:56 was also used up to this point in New York by WCBS-2, only with 'CBS/NEW YORK/WCBS-TV' below - and the V/O as "Channel 2, New York."
Ahhhhh, Who believes Schoolhouse Rock was and still is the best kids program presented on Saturday Mornings back in the day? Man, that was GREAT Television. The early 70's was cheesy, but in a good way. Awesome memories.
You don't happen to have a source for Episode 11 of Curiosity Shop, do you? Chuck Jones' Curiosity Shop (1971) Episode 11 "But What's Leonardo da Vinci Flown Lately?" aired the short "Certain Prophecies", A.K.A., "Bizonyos jóslatok" (1967) (1968 in some sources) by Hungarian stop animator Ottó Foky. It's a combination of stop motion and live action where little aliens or alien robots land their tiny UFO on a table in a restaurant right after a dining party has left the table but before the dirty dishes have been cleared away. They explore the table like it's the surface of an alien planet. I've been trying to find this short again since.. well... about 1971!
5:28. "Terror In The Sky" was the second "straight" adaptation of Arthur Hailey's book "Runway Zero-Eight", the same property that was then done again as "Airplane" in 1980.
@@rstyeast73 "Zero Hour" is the first film based on Hailey's "Runway Zero-Eight" novel. The book came first, *Then* the two straight movies and then "Airplane."
Boy did CBS want to pound into your head their network was “where the good times are” (and literally by 1974) . I can image someone who lived 50 years ago still humming that to themselves to this day.
I got the schoolhouse rock DVD 📀. I knew something was up when they cut a missing part of 3 is a magic number song. I wonder why they did it 🤔? How come they didn't leave the song well enough alone? Were they afraid that some child was watching and might imitate what they saw? It's just a memorable and catchy song 🎵. Anyone who feels that the song was violent, don't have any common sense.
26:12 This is the only known appearance with Three is a Magic Number with the extra verse before the first time they multiply backwards. I think they should restore this moment for a new Blu-Ray release of Schoolhouse Rock and add a new bit of animation for My Hero Zero by Kimmelman Studios with Tom Yohe's designs before they arrive at the phone booth to go along with the extra bit of dialog before Bob started singing, which goes "Did you ever stop to think about zero? Zero is fantastic. Why, without the concept of zero, we'd never be able to multiply, divide, add, subtract or even to count very high." along with the other Multiplication Rock songs, Grammer Rock (including the two new songs after the original seven), America Rock featuring I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College and (as a bonus feature) Presidential Minute with both endings, Science Rock with the Weather Show song (with the Greatest Show on Earth mentioning included) restored and (as a bonus feature) the four songs of Scooter and Mr. Chips, Money Rock and Earth Rock (after The Three R's, I would add one more music video of Taylor Momsen and her band The Pretty Reckless singing the Goodness version of Electricity Electricity their way as sort of a live concert music video) all remastered and restored in high definition on 6 Blu-Ray discs. So what do you think? Should we ask those who still survive from Schoolhouse Rock to do all I said? Oh, and I think we should make them sing-along discs.
@@nathangitz2674 One ending in Presidential Minute shows a man with a "ME" button, while the other shows a woman coming out. On the DVD for Earn Your Diploma, the man ending is when the Master Jumble Word is Rocky, while the woman ending is when the word is Learn. You just have to play the game twice in a row.
Barbour's People looks like it may have been the forerunner to John Barbour's later show Real People. Bernie Kopell plays the husband in the KFC ad. First appearances can be deceiving, but the woman the bachelor picked on that episode of The Dating Game seemed to be extremely vain, a total narcissist. I bet he had a rotten time on their date and wished he'd picked one of the other two women; they seemed like a hell of a lot more fun.
Wonder if that is Pamelyn Ferdin singing and they processed the voice. (She is one of the pre-teen girls in the series and was also on many sitcoms of that era; for example, she was the younger daughter on the Paul Lynde Show)
Considering the formats Obsolete was dealing with, the clarity here is incredible.
"Curiosity Shop" (created and produced by Charles M. "Chuck" Jones), was videotaped at a broadcast studio located at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood. That building is now part of AMPAS, the organization that fobs off Oscars each year. The program seen was an hour long prime time special that aired on September 10th, 1971 to kick off ABC's Saturday morning lineup for the 1971-72 season. And yes, that was the pilot for what later became "Schoolhouse Rock" , and created on behalf of General Foods. The song was composed and sung by Bob Dorough. Animation was designed by Tom Yohe, and done at Focus Design, Inc.
1313 Vine Street was home to an ABC-owned theater in the sixties and seventies. Chuck Barris had his production company offices at that address and taped "The Dating Game" there during its ABC run--32:16. Joey Bishop did his ABC late-night talk show there as well.
26:12 The lost version of Three is a Magic Number finally restored!
Thank for all your efforts to preserve the American television history
What a treat! I haven't seen The Curiosity Shop since I was 7 years old back in 1972! I can't believe how much of it I still remembered, including the "3 is a magic number" segment(which helped with my math skills in 2nd grade!) . Thanks so much for finding and restoring this piece of history.
This is literally the FIRST time that a segment of Schoolhouse Rock appeared on television.
I don’t know why they stopped showing Schoolhouse Rock.
I think it was highly effective.
I was born in 1962 so I was 9 when this aired.
All the way up through high school I would hear other students singing the ‘preamble to the constitution’ or ‘I am just a bill’ or ‘conjunction junction’.
Yea, we would all laugh, but we all knew it.
@@michaelterry1000 I agree. Schoolhouse Rock educated us by entertaining us, and that is the greatest method of all.
Not to mention the bit from 27:49-28:05, which has NEVER been seen since this episode was first broadcast! Someone should send this video to Disney so they can restore it for Disney+, and I mean NOW!
I'm very grateful for that part. Before today, I never knew about that "missing" part of the song that was here but never aired again. Really cool to see it here.
@@MultiAnimationdude They would probably have to restore the original master and according to Wikipedia, the original masters of this show were destroyed in 1973. This is someone's recording of the broadcast.
Best thing from this is the "Curiosity Shop" footage starting at 11:51. It might actually be the pilot and the first time Schoolhouse Rock appeared. Please post full episode w/o logo, so we can enjoy it.
Doctor In The House (1969-1970) a UK import on KNXT 2 (now KCBS). Great show!
And PAUL BERNARD, PSYCHIATRIST was from Canada
At 26:10 you can see the very first segment of Schoolhouse Rock ever shown on TV, "Three Is a Magic Number". Thank you for putting this up.
In it's full original format never put on DVD!*
This has got to be the most significant instance of channel surfing ever, for obvious reasons.
Nice to see a partial ending tail of the closing of Love of Life, a partial opening of Where The Heart Is and a closing to The Secret Storm!
There is a "Curiosity Shop" special in this video, starring Shirley Jones from "The Partridge Family". One of the children visiting is Pamelyn Ferdin. "Curiosity Shop" ran on ABC for two seasons (1971-73) on Saturday mornings.
The special aired on KABC-7 Thurs. 9/2/71.
@@jamieschmidt939 i was 6 months old back then
A very rare recording. Apparently no intact episodes exist as ABC wiped them after 1973. Also, it's the only time the two girls in the cast. "Pam" and "Cindy" appear together, as they appeared alternately in the series.
Here here for preservation of the curiosity shop! Thank you!. And I so hope you may find more.
I recall seeing an animated recording of the song Tennessee Birdwalk made famous by Blanchard and Morgan. I have a FB friend who claims he has that segment on 16mm film. 🤨 Thank you again for posting this video and for doing what you do.
I'm sure Mr. Jones is kicking himself for not being around when Miss Jones was there...he might have found out what a FREAK she is.
I would like to see more of classic CBS productions from late 1972
Thanks for this great upload!
7:12 UCLA's Fight Song!
23:14 a classic Pepsi jingle featuring the voices of Ron Dante, Kenny Karen and Jerry Keller, three of the all-time best session singers. Spencer Michlin wrote the words and Joe Brooks composed the music. It's also very possible that Lesley Miller, Melissa Manchester and Linda November are part of the chorus, although it's not easy in this mix to pick out their voices.
Hal Linden (Barney Miller) did voiceovers on many of the Pepsi commercials from that era (although there's no voiceover on this one).
@@StudioZ7 Good call on Hal Linden's VOs on the Pepsi spots!
This is great. Thanks for the upload!
4:08 the famous "crying Indian" PSA for Keep America Beautiful. 7:12 UCLA fight song in the "Curiosity Shop" special promo. 6:19 promo for Rod Serling's "Night Gallery," and 7:37 Rod Serling for Smokey Bear. 8:24 did "Lassie" move from CBS to NBC, or was KNBC showing syndicated reruns?
After 17 seasons, CBS dropped LASSIE, but Jack Wrather continued to make new episodes for syndication, which the NBC O&O stations picked up.
All those great shows back then. Now we have 200+ channels (if you have cable) and nothing good on any of them.
Nothing But Tv Crap.. Today
@@obsoletevideo6048 U-matic ly right !!!!!
70's and 80' decades was perfection in Television
Innovations and quality was simple but always ""PAIR-FECT ""match
Thanx a lot to bring to us lot of never forget gr8 gr8 americain tv memorie
God bless and protect you obsolete "" treasures"" videos
Patrick (:
@@patrickrancourt4782 patrick Thanks so much we have 3 more large collections to buy. Help out the cause make a donation www.paypal.com under my account laslo452000@cox.net
Keep watching Obsolete video service
27:48 So this is what the original animation of the "Now the multiples of 3" is like. It shows ducks in a shooting gallery. I wonder if there's a similar thing for My Hero Zero with the line after "But let me tell you about my favorite hero." where it goes "Did you ever stop to think about zero? Zero is fantastic. Why, without the concept of zero, we'd never be able to multiply, divide, add, subtract or even to count very high." before he starts singing. And I wonder why they didn't restore those two moments for later airings and home video releases of the two songs. I suppose they wanted to keep them at exactly 3 minutes. But I think it would be nice to see those two extra animations and the Weather Show song with the "Greatest Show On Earth" mentioning in a blu-ray release of Schoolhouse Rock. Don't you?
In the case of the cut material in Three... it wasn't quite accurate: because zero is divisible by three, and if you expanded it, there are four numbers divisible by three in 30-39, 60-69, 90-99. It would've been misleading. So I don't blame them for cutting something that would be a potential problem.
I don't think there was an additional scene in My Hero Zero. There's no apparent cuts or space in the animation where the dialogue is supposed to be.
The same animated logo as on about 3:56 was also used up to this point in New York by WCBS-2, only with 'CBS/NEW YORK/WCBS-TV' below - and the V/O as "Channel 2, New York."
3:32-3:35 Isn't that the late Wendell Craig doing the "This is CBS" voiceover?
I am suprissed how good was tv back then, even ads were much better than modern ads, tv nowadays is garbage!
Fantastic recording! Thank you for uploading this!😀
Shirley Jones, mmm. What a dish!
Ahhhhh, Who believes Schoolhouse Rock was and still is the best kids program presented on Saturday Mornings back in the day? Man, that was GREAT Television.
The early 70's was cheesy, but in a good way. Awesome memories.
Oh my gosh that Levitz in Huntington Beach was on Beach and Edinger near Huntington Center (now Terra Bella or something like that)
great show !
YAY! The original version of the Schoolhouse Rock pilot!
You don't happen to have a source for Episode 11 of Curiosity Shop, do you?
Chuck Jones' Curiosity Shop (1971) Episode 11 "But What's Leonardo da Vinci Flown Lately?" aired the short "Certain Prophecies", A.K.A.,
"Bizonyos jóslatok" (1967) (1968 in some sources) by Hungarian stop animator Ottó Foky. It's a combination of stop motion and live action where little aliens or alien robots land their tiny UFO on a table in a restaurant right after a dining party has left the table but before the dirty dishes have been cleared away. They explore the table like it's the surface of an alien planet. I've been trying to find this short again since.. well... about 1971!
5:28. "Terror In The Sky" was the second "straight" adaptation of Arthur Hailey's book "Runway Zero-Eight", the same property that was then done again as "Airplane" in 1980.
Actually Airplane! was a parody of a film entitled Zero Hour.
@@rstyeast73 ZERO HOUR was the first one...
@@rstyeast73 "Zero Hour" is the first film based on Hailey's "Runway Zero-Eight" novel. The book came first, *Then* the two straight movies and then "Airplane."
The intro theme to the “Curiosity Shop” at 12:05 sounds just like a Stereolab song.
33:35 Barbour's People KNXT-2 Fri. 9/3/71
How dare TH-cam and Lume deodorant interrupt this video! I don't wanna watch their commercial, I wanna watch THESE commercials!!!
I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that somehow someday, some footage of Fright Night with Seymour will pop up. 😊
im working on it,
@@obsoletevideo6048 Thanks! 😊
6:35- Herschel Bernardi and Henry Corden.
Kettle drums seem to be a big thing back then.
11:25 Bernie Koppel after That Girl and before Love Boat.
Boy did CBS want to pound into your head their network was “where the good times are” (and literally by 1974) . I can image someone who lived 50 years ago still humming that to themselves to this day.
2:01 The Smith Family opening ABC/KABC-7 Wed. 9/1/71 at 8:30pm
You must own every TV Guide from the 60s and 70s...😉 👍
Never even heard of this show before! Featuring Ron (then still Ronny) Howard not long before he was in American Graffiti.
33:44 "Yeah, that's me!"
Nice to see old stuff. Video is washed out and overdriven though. Must be from eiaj-1?
Just goes to show how much garbage and filth we have on TV today.
Curiosity Shop was rather weird, even for a kid's show. 🤪
The 70s were on LSD, and so were the kids shows lol.
At 11:00, "Come this September, this is the place to be", with a nice shot of the twin towers. Creepy.
I got the schoolhouse rock DVD 📀. I knew something was up when they cut a missing part of 3 is a magic number song. I wonder why they did it 🤔? How come they didn't leave the song well enough alone? Were they afraid that some child was watching and might imitate what they saw? It's just a memorable and catchy song 🎵. Anyone who feels that the song was violent, don't have any common sense.
What was edited?
You've got any news coverage from the 1971 Attica Riots?
8:07 Funny phantom or funky phantom?
The voiceover person messed up. It was indeed Funky.
26:12 This is the only known appearance with Three is a Magic Number with the extra verse before the first time they multiply backwards. I think they should restore this moment for a new Blu-Ray release of Schoolhouse Rock and add a new bit of animation for My Hero Zero by Kimmelman Studios with Tom Yohe's designs before they arrive at the phone booth to go along with the extra bit of dialog before Bob started singing, which goes "Did you ever stop to think about zero? Zero is fantastic. Why, without the concept of zero, we'd never be able to multiply, divide, add, subtract or even to count very high." along with the other Multiplication Rock songs, Grammer Rock (including the two new songs after the original seven), America Rock featuring I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College and (as a bonus feature) Presidential Minute with both endings, Science Rock with the Weather Show song (with the Greatest Show on Earth mentioning included) restored and (as a bonus feature) the four songs of Scooter and Mr. Chips, Money Rock and Earth Rock (after The Three R's, I would add one more music video of Taylor Momsen and her band The Pretty Reckless singing the Goodness version of Electricity Electricity their way as sort of a live concert music video) all remastered and restored in high definition on 6 Blu-Ray discs. So what do you think? Should we ask those who still survive from Schoolhouse Rock to do all I said? Oh, and I think we should make them sing-along discs.
How's the second ending of "Presidential Minute" differ from the one on DVD?
@@nathangitz2674 One ending in Presidential Minute shows a man with a "ME" button, while the other shows a woman coming out. On the DVD for Earn Your Diploma, the man ending is when the Master Jumble Word is Rocky, while the woman ending is when the word is Learn. You just have to play the game twice in a row.
@@jacktayl I see. Now that's a DVD easter egg if I've ever seen one.
Barbour's People looks like it may have been the forerunner to John Barbour's later show Real People. Bernie Kopell plays the husband in the KFC ad. First appearances can be deceiving, but the woman the bachelor picked on that episode of The Dating Game seemed to be extremely vain, a total narcissist. I bet he had a rotten time on their date and wished he'd picked one of the other two women; they seemed like a hell of a lot more fun.
12:09-12:45 almost sounds like a vocaloid program sang it!
Wonder if that is Pamelyn Ferdin singing and they processed the voice. (She is one of the pre-teen girls in the series and was also on many sitcoms of that era; for example, she was the younger daughter on the Paul Lynde Show)
@@micmac99 She's on FB
Nothing But Commercials
33:24 Amazing that happened during the Vietnam war
A pretindian i mean Italian Amercian crying
too bad curiosity shop only lasted a season
It's The FUNKY Phantom, not Funny!