27 INTROS TO VARIOUS TV SERIES OF THE 50s

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  • Saturday Color Carnival, Blondie, Bachelor Father, Mr. Adams and Eve, Topper, My Favorite Husband, Dear Phoebe, Our Miss Brooks, Where's Raymond, Ray Bolger Show, Sir Lancelot, 77th Bengal Lancers, Broken Arrow, Tombstone Territory, Wells Fargo, Colt 45, Lawman, Crossroads, Medic, Biff Baker, Mr. And Mrs. North, Mr. District Attorney, Racquet Squad, Treasury Men in Action, Meet McGraw, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
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  • @eijonasson
    @eijonasson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a treat.
    Being 70+ I thought these where lost and gone forever.
    Thank you...
    thank you,
    thank you.

  • @DarientLambert
    @DarientLambert 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love to see these boomers happy with nostalgia, it makes my heart warm ❤️

  • @sebastianriadigos4933
    @sebastianriadigos4933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing !!! The Silver TV never ending !!!

  • @randywiggins1248
    @randywiggins1248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice. I am going to try and find each one on TH-cam to check them out. Thanks for posting as many I did not know existed.

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Much of early tv was simply 'radio with pictures'..broadcasters were still finding their way. Some real surprises. The dotty wife of Richard Denning, was a former Ziegfeld girl, Lucille Ball.Nobody imagined what a phenomenon she and her 'new' tv husband, Desi Arnaz would become in television. And, in television HISTORY..

  • @MrCarp2
    @MrCarp2 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Man, these shows are my childhood.

    • @adankmeme651
      @adankmeme651 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You must be quite old sir!

  • @jeffmissinne3866
    @jeffmissinne3866 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The word-for-word voice-over reading of titles and credits in those days was clearly a "carry-over" from radio; while the front-mounted presentation of production credits came from movies. (Some early TV shows even had a "THE END" title on each episode.) TV was new; no one knew what might work so almost everything was tried; and the result was shows that linger to this day in the memories of those who watched them.

  • @billsmith5985
    @billsmith5985 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Eve Arden was show biz's most underrated/underused actress.

    • @barrythomas615
      @barrythomas615 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Used to LOVE watching "Our Miss Brooks" when I was a boy. Very funny show! And Connie Brooks reminded me of my mother, who was also an English teacher with a good sense of humor!

    • @adamantman3200
      @adamantman3200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ......and the one with the sharpest tongue! I LOVE her!

    • @mattwalker5129
      @mattwalker5129 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Eve swallowed.

    • @QueenBee-gx4rp
      @QueenBee-gx4rp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bill Smith And cared for a very ill husband for a long time.

    • @kayekaye251
      @kayekaye251 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adamantman3200 Not whiney like Lucy. Definitely preferred her.

  • @ianblakesley3349
    @ianblakesley3349 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The only one I recall on British TV was "Tales of Wells Fargo" (which I think was retitled "Wells Fargo" for export), which I watched as a schoolboy on our 8-inch screen HMV television. Happy days.

  • @ggaboveaveragegamer
    @ggaboveaveragegamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Came after seeing the Wanda vision intro, yup here before it blows up

  • @barrythomas615
    @barrythomas615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    At 10:07: Alan Hale, Jr. - recognize him ten years later? The Skipper on "Gilligan's Island"!

  • @barrythomas615
    @barrythomas615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At 3:08: "My Favorite Husband" started on radio starring Lucille Ball. When CBS wanted to put it on TV, Lucy insisted that her husband Desi Arnaz play her TV husband. So her show became "I Love Lucy" and became a classic. CBS still put "My Favorite Husband on TV. . .and. . .it went. . .somewhere unknown. . .

    • @richellebrittain2127
      @richellebrittain2127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They even borrowed the heart from the I Love Lucy credits, though it looks more like the later-created syndication credits for I Love Lucy than the original animated opening.

  • @kimamoore9499
    @kimamoore9499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't remember...but
    We always had TV on in
    Those days.. & Who doesn't
    Wish they had a Uncle Bentley..

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The "BACHELOR FATHER" opening is from the first season (1957-'58). "MR. ADAMS AND EVE" is from 1957 (sponsored on alternate weeks by Colgate-Palmolive [Lustre-Creme], and R.J. Reynolds {Camel]). The "TOPPER" opening is from a 1956 summer repeat, sponsored by General Foods {Jell-O}. The 'MY FAVORITE HUSBAND" opening is from the first season (1953-'54), when it was produced "live". "DEAR PHOEBE" was a 1954-'55 series...

  • @wholeNwon
    @wholeNwon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Richard Boone's start.

    • @rongendron8705
      @rongendron8705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe he played the Capt. of police on the earlier episodes of "Dragnet", as did Dennis Weaver also, (way too young for the part) in 1951-1953 shows, before "Medic"!

  • @TimelordR
    @TimelordR 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A look at some rarities from the 50's, when TV shows actually were worth watching.

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wished they still made shows like The Adventures Of Sir Lancelot or The 77th Bengal Lancers. Anything's better than today's Reality TV garbage.

  • @dannyboyy8465
    @dannyboyy8465 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    10:26 Ridiculous how husbands and wives were portrayed on TV sleeping in different beds! lol

    • @bobbyfrancis8957
      @bobbyfrancis8957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Chester A. Riley and Babs were ALWAYS in separate beds, in the same room (isn't that close enough?)

  • @leonardlarrisey1040
    @leonardlarrisey1040 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hahaha. John Forsythe was looking up that girl's dress 😁

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY" (adapted from the long-running radio show), 1954-'55 syndicated title [Jimmy Wallington, announcer]; "RACKET SQUAD" (1951-'53)- syndicated version of opening title, minus original sponsor I.D.; "TREASURY MEN IN ACTION" (1954-'55 filmed edition, sponsored by Chevrolet on ABC- syndicated as "FEDERAL MEN"); "MEET McGRAW" (NBC/1957-'58, sponsored by Procter & Gamble {Lilt})....

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "OUR MISS BROOKS" was produced from 1952 through '56 (concurrent with the original radio version); this is the 1956 reissue title- for daytime and syndicated repeats- without sponsor I.D.'s. "WHERE'S RAYMOND?" was the title of Ray Bolger's somewhat brief sitcom during its first season (1953-'54); second season title (1954-'55) follows. "SIR LANCELOT" was a 1956-'57 series [on NBC[, imported from England...

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The good old days of when TV was wall-to-wall with Westerns.

  • @WSenator1
    @WSenator1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @3:26: "My Favorite Husband" was a very popular radio show at the time TV became standard. CBS wanted to move it to TV, but with its original star. That didn't happen, so they got a new female lead - Joan Caufield. Meanwhile, the original star - Lucille Ball - turned her version of "MFH" into "I Love Lucy." Loved "Our Miss Brooks" because like the lead character, my mother was an English teacher. Lucille Ball wanted Gale Gordon to appear on "I Love Lucy" but he was busy playing the principal on "Brooks." She caught up with him later, though, for all her other TV shows. "The Ray Bolger Show" starring the Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz." Is Betty Lynn "Thelma Lou on the later "Andy Griffith Show"?

    • @kayekaye251
      @kayekaye251 ปีที่แล้ว

      I liked Our Miss Brooks. She seemed like a strong personality, not whiney like Lucy.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A handful of these titles are familiar, but the only program that I actually watched was "Topper", as a rerun in the early '60s on an independent station.

  • @wdd3141
    @wdd3141 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Look at how prominently the sponsors were presented -- often the shows were named for the sponsors, and the performers would present the products. That persisted into the 1960s with shows like "Chrysler Theater," hosted by Bob Hope. But when shows went into reruns in later years, the old sponsors' names were lifted from the series. A show I knew as a little kid as "Alcoa Theater" became known in reruns as "One Step Beyond."

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Schlitz Playhouse: when the show was just as mediocre as the beer they plugged. 🤣

  • @Lexathornberry
    @Lexathornberry 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow...

  • @OaktownABQ
    @OaktownABQ 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hey, I think I just spotted The Skipper at 10:08!

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Phil Carey - a Bengal Lancer..who'd imagine Asa Buchanan...well, well!!

    • @bennyd53
      @bennyd53 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't remember Bengal Lancers, but Phil Carey from OLTL ! My friend Ilene Kristen starred on that show! And Warren Stevens from Forbidden Planet!!!

  • @ChrisK42
    @ChrisK42 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Seems to me that the intro to Mr District Attorney was pretty much lifted from the radio version, from the music to the speech he gives during the intro.

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Broken Arrow is the name of a city in Oklahoma.

  • @barrythomas615
    @barrythomas615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At 4:17: I think Jan Clayton was both the first actress to portray Julie in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" and was the first one to portray the mom on the TV show "Lassie." Also, I think Betty Lynn went on to play Thelma Lou, Barney Fyfe's girlfriend, on "The Andy Griffith Show." And also, Ray Bolger, of course, was the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz"

    • @allenjones3130
      @allenjones3130 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're right about Jan Clayton.

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "SCHLITZ PLAYHOUSE OF STARS" (1951-''59); two different titles- 1953-'54, and a May 1958 episode (doubling as an unsold pilot for an Edmond O'Brien series), when it was shown as "SCHLITZ PLAYHOUSE".

  • @PlasmaCoolantLeak
    @PlasmaCoolantLeak ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That episode of "Medic" was about a nuclear attack on the U.S..

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "[TALES OF] THE 77TH BENGAL LANCERS" (from the producer of 'THE ADVENTURES OF RIN-TIN-TIN" and "CIRCUS BOY") was on NBC's 1956-'57 Sunday night schedule {opposite CBS' "LASSIE", which is WHY it lasted just one season}. "BROKEN ARROW" (ABC/1956-'58); "TOMBSTONE TERRITORY" (ABC, 1957-'58). "TALES OF WELLS FARGO" (1960 opening title); "CROSSROADS" (ABC, 1955-'57, sponsored by Chevrolet); "MEDIC" (NBC, 1954-'56); "BIFF BAKER, U.S.A." (CBS, 1952-'53); "MR. AND MRS. NORTH" (1952-'54)...

  • @ferociousgumby
    @ferociousgumby 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Radio with pictures

  • @TheBrendaji
    @TheBrendaji 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The fifties were way too serious-lol

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What did you expect with shows like Crossroads?

  • @cr3861
    @cr3861 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:30-"Ajax presents..."

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    After Martin and Lewis split, Jerry headlined several "SATURDAY COLOR CARNIVAL" specials for NBC [9-10pm(et)] from 1956 through '58 (only the black and white kinescope films survive). The "BLONDIE" opening title is from the 1957 edition of the series- there's space from 1:19-1:29 for a sponsor I.D. {i.e. "OLD GOLD cigarettes- Regular and King Size, and Old Gold Filters- 'The Best Taste Yet In A Filter Cigarette', presents.....'BLONDIE'! Starring Arthur Lake and Pamela Britton..."}....

    • @rongendron8705
      @rongendron8705 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm 74 & my family has had a T.V. since 1950, but I don't understand why television stations would spend the money to broadcast shows in color when almost no one had a color T.V.
      Even some series were entirely shot in color in the early to mid 50's, i.e. Superman, Cisco Kid, Walt Disney, Howdy Doody, etc. even though few could see them, why?

  • @elc1960
    @elc1960 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Imagine that - a show called "Saturday Color Carnival", and it's in black and white. You can't make this stuff up, folks...

    • @jeffmissinne3866
      @jeffmissinne3866 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The shows were broadcast "live" in color, but the only practical way to record them at the time was as a black and white "kinescope recording," photographed on 16mm film. Color video tape was still experimental then.

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do you have any clips of The Millionaire? When I was little I thought it was real and hoped that the man would deliver a million dollars to my folks. He never showed up though.😪

    • @RwDt09
      @RwDt09  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some full episodes are available here on TH-cam.

    • @WSenator1
      @WSenator1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know the feeling!

    • @davidbaise5137
      @davidbaise5137 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      John Beresford Tipton, I believe.

    • @kayekaye251
      @kayekaye251 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was an interesting show.

  • @fritzschumacher6047
    @fritzschumacher6047 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Everything was a lot "whiter" then. I remember this. I was just a little kid.

    • @rsdno
      @rsdno 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fritz the network was forced to take off Amos and Andy ,pure genius and no Fritz it was not shoe polish they were the real thing

    • @retrorex
      @retrorex 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mar Brock Because blacks were complaining about it. You can't win!

    • @chefo.g7191
      @chefo.g7191 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Rusty Shackleford awww that's so sad😆

  • @Go1US1Marines
    @Go1US1Marines 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dude! Where did you get all these?

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lawman is now shown on MeTV+

  • @AGM84K
    @AGM84K 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's odd, My Favorite Husband was Lucy & Desi on the radio. It's their show.
    So I guess they hired actors to play them before I Love Lucy, huh?

    • @barrythomas615
      @barrythomas615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not exactly. A guy named Richard Denning played Lucy's husband on "Husband." In fact it took a lot of effort to get the network to allow Desi to play Lucy's husband on "Lucy" - because the network felt no one would believe that this Cuban dude, speaking all this Spanish, was married to all-American Lucille Ball. So he wasn't even in the picture for "Husband." Guess Desi did enough "splainin' " to get the role on TV!

    • @karenford9797
      @karenford9797 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Richard Denning would go on to be the governor of the state for the entire run of Hawaii Five-0 from 1968 to 1980, essentially the boss of Steve McGarrett.

    • @thescott7539
      @thescott7539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Actually, I Love Lucy came first. Both shows were based on the radio show, and in fact several Lucy episodes were reworked radio scripts. But with Lucy using a new name, CBS decided to try and get mileage out of Husband and made this show. It only lasted 2 seasons. Still, kinda cool to have the same radio show spawn 2 separate TV versions that aired on the same network.

    • @johnruschmeyer5769
      @johnruschmeyer5769 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@karenford9797 Denning shows up later in this video as Mr. North in "Mr. & Mrs. North".

  • @johnkubica3003
    @johnkubica3003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    don't call it rca whirlpool it's now just plain whirlpool.

  • @georgegriffin4071
    @georgegriffin4071 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I rem topper iwas born 1957

  • @kayekaye251
    @kayekaye251 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wasn't Maverick started back in the 1950's?

  • @trythinkingforachange4201
    @trythinkingforachange4201 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Jerry Lewis makes me want to puke.

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You won't have him to kick around anymore. He died last year.

  • @billsmith5985
    @billsmith5985 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Eve Arden was show biz's most underrated/underused actress.