Whistled or sang through so many of these openings. Loved every one of them, at one time or another (some as a kid, some as a teen, but all as an adult). Brought tears to my eyes. Nothing of today compares.
Being born in 55, i remember 90% of these show. Thats when Saturday morning were the kids time to watch T.V.. Thanks so much for bringing back such fond memories.! Luckily RU-vid has quite a few to rewatch...
Oh my gosh! 50 years ago I was in the first grade, but I so remember many of these shows. I love to watch reruns of shows from the 60's, more than what's on today. Thank you for the look back!!
In my lifetime the 1960's was easily the most memorable for TV shows and music. Just so many and varied types of shows. And to Cricket Blake, Emma Peel, Samantha, Jeannie, Morticia, Lilly Munster, Ginger and Mary Ann, Wilma and Betty, Jane Jetson, Wilber's wife, the Petticoat Junction gals, all of Dobie's prospective girlfriends, Catwoman, the gunmolls of the gangsters on The Untouchables, both Lois Lanes (although Superman didn't get a mention) - and some I've missed. Many thanks.
Love 60s tv. They all had such catchy theme songs. Nowadays they don't even have opening themes, because they have to make room for more ads. The theme song takes you into the land of the show. magic.
Enduring and endearing! Classic TV! 20 years from now when most of today’s popular TV shows have long been cancelled and forgotten about many people will still be watching and/or talking about most of these wonderful classics!
Many shows now don't even HAVE theme songs!! Incredible compilation. In sheer volume & variety, this era was unmatched. A couple I didn't even recognize ("Insight", "The Name Of The Game"). Would've liked to see "My Favorite Martian" & "The Flying Nun", but so much material to put together with what's here. Fun fact: The 2 "Lost In Space" themes were by John Williams (known then as "Johnny"), but you probably knew that. Great job, Fred!
All through the 70s also. 60s shows were always playing in Reruns, as well as Old Movies on TV!. Sometime in the 80s they started to disappear. But now a lot can be seen online! I remember all these.
WAQWBrentwood The studio equipment is better and smaller than it used to be.. The cameras are about the same size as camcorders, jib mounted, remote control. Cameras used to be huge and often took two technicians to operate.
Glenn Lego I'd imagine, The electronics of today are awesome. To bad much of the content isn't as good as the equipment. I'm not really ready for 4K "Reality Shows" 😲. I could say the same thing with music. Too bad they didn't have lossless digital multi track gear when groups like the Beatles were recording, considering what they were able to do with analog magnetic tape 🎸!
I nearly had a ballistic attack because you forgot the Man from Uncle but no it's in the U section. This is a great video. I love sixties television.. That was back in the day when TVs only motive was to entertain and you didn't need to call a helpline because you were effected by a drama you were watching. Thanks for this wonderful piece of nostalgia.
i was born in 1956...seeing this compilation was pure sweet heavily emotional nostalgia. i love TV and this was a great era...they had gotten over the growing pains of the 5Os... there was a lot of radio based material on TV in the 5Os. by the 6Os TV creativity had begun to fully blossom.
Indeed. 'Twas a great decade for idiot boxsen, & I did more than my share. How I loved Underdog, Popeye, Bewitched, The Three Stooges, Dark Shadows, Land of the Giants, the Twilight Zone, Lost in Space, Star Trek, the Banana Splits, HR PufnStuf, Lidsville, the Sixth Sense, the Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, the New Zoo Revue, & SO many more! Looking back, there just HAD to have been more time in a 24 hr day then, because I watched so much tv, I should've irradiated my grey matter, yet I still had plenty of time to go to grade school, clean the trailer while the folks were at work, play outside w/my friends, do my homework, take 6 different dance classes/week, go to the skating rink on Tuesday nites, read all kinds of scary stories, comic books, & music magazines, color untold #'s of coloring books, create entire worlds for my Barbies, baby dolls, Matchbox & Hot Wheels cars, play endless board/card/playground games, ride my bicycle & mini bike, & still get to sleep at nite in time to get up & do it all over again the next day! Ah - what i wouldn't give for just a fraction of that boundless youthful energy I once tapped into daily w/o thinking.
Another grand slam FredFlix! I agree, more enduring programs were shown in the 1960's than at any other time. Does anyone realistically believe that the garbage on TV today will still be available in 50 years? Me neither. WOW, talk about memory overload!
This brought a smile to my face. It brought back a few that used to be my favorites, I had forgotten. Time flies. Some of the greatest! Thank you for taking the time to put this together. Great job!
We sure did have a lot of choice in the 60's..... and isn't that what America is all about/?? My favorites was, Rawhide, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Time Tunnel..... oh the hell with it. There are far too many to name - LOL nice job in putting all of these together.
Impressive as always! Thanks Fred for including Boris Karloff's Thriller. Talk about composers! Jerry Goldsmith, Mort Stevens, Pete Rugolo, etc. Each episode had a musical score unique to it. Can you imagine the networks doing that today? Plus, an impressive list of actors/actresses that rivals Twilight Zone; Elizabeth Montgomery before she was Samantha, Bruce Dern, Ursula Andress, Alejandro Reyes, John Williams, Chloris Leachman, John Carradine, Mary Tyler Moore, etc.
Agreed. 60's TV rocked. TV has gotten worse and worse with each passing decade. And now in 2016 TV is officially in the toilet, zombies, vampires, dramas about crystal meth, reality shows, etc.
Here's my theory, Professor: To get on TV in the '60s, it HAD t be good, because there were only three networks. Today, with over 500 channels, anything CAN get on and WILL get on. Also, back then, a show was pulled if it got ONLY 10 millions viewers a week. Today, shows need only a few million viewers to be called a hit.
Personally speaking, there's no question...... the 60's was the "BEST" in television entertainment. However, in the early 70's, CBS and Television producer Norman Lear had killed it, basically. CBS had decided to cancel all of it's "rural" wholesome family orientated comedies that were still very popular at that time, and had switched to shows such as Norman Lear"s "All In The Family" with it's "controversial" topics of the day, which included the beginning of the use of profanity. Television had lost it's innocents than when shows like "Maude" ( God will get you for that Walter!) talked about abortion, or "Good Times" (Dyno mite!) highlighting racism. Television had lost it's value as entertainment to programs that were to be "thought provoking". In addition, studios were cutting back on their budgets and it showed. Granted there were some great shows back in that time, but ever since Norman Lear got the green light, Television has never been the same since! Thank God for DVD"S!, and to people like FredFlix who want to preserve our "Rich Golden Age Of Television Heritage!"
TimelordR : The Walking Dead. "Just your typical dark, in your face, boring edginess by today's standards!" Typical predictable "flash" before the commercial! ZZZZZZ! However, a great plot, and cast member characterizations, yet so typical of todays Hollywood studio's over hyped visualizations! Consequently, you really do have a point here! I do give you credit considering it's modern day presentation. At least it isn't a stupid dysfunctional competitive reality show like "Cupcake Wars" here on the Food Network Channel! LOL! ;-)
Man when you think about it looking that this The 60s WAS indeed the greatest era of TV in the history of TV for the exception of a very few I remember just about every show on here.
Thanks Fred. As a 60's kid who grew up watching one fantastic show after another, we truly didn't know how good we had it at the time. Like the song says: "Don't it always seem to go...that you don't know what you've got til it's gone?" I'd give anything to go back and 'open channel D' again.
No matter how cheesy some of these productions were, the stars always had to be actors, most of them excellent! Unlike reality television today! There is a certain innocence too! That, must be the generation however! Great memories thanks Fred flicks!
Yes a Golden Era for sure, brought back many many happy memories of tv at home with the family, and how we used to look forward to our favourite shows. I'll watch your 101 More Iconic TV shows and might see Gidget and The Flying Nun. There are no more handcrafted scripts, no themes, no plots, no story lines, because those cost money. Today's tv doesn't have viewers, it has voyeurs.
I was so happy you had several of my favorite shows from back then like The Fugitive, The Wild Wild West, The Invaders, The Twilight Zone, Rawhide, The Outer Limits, The Mod Squad, Get Smart, The Beverly Hillbillies, Have Gun Will Travel, Leave It To Beaver, etc. These are shows I still watch today!!!
60's rich for sure and I am glad I lived it. Loved to have experienced the 20's, maybe I did and came out of a blackout? ST MORNING TUNES MADE ME SMILE! Loved Sat mornings. BRANDED!
I regret not being born a decade (or two!) earlier, but at least i was able to see a lot of these shows in reruns. I wanted to live like the flintstones!
Most of these I remember from reruns. I was alive at the time, but I was pretty little (born in '64) when they originally aired, but it's amazing how so many of these really stood the test of time in terms of still being show. I am surprised "The Brady Bunch" wasn't included, since that did start in '69, though it is more known as a '70s show. And I'll defend Norman Lear shows. I loved "All In the Family" and discovered "Maude" as an adult. And while network shows today aren't all that, I do like where cable and online services have taken a chance on programming, like "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Walking Dead." It's not easy watching, but it's thought provoking (seriously, it could be worse; remember "Growing Pains" and "Family Matters?" Not pretty!) . I'll even defend the likes of "Survivor" and "The Amazing Race" with regard to unscripted programming, though I do agree, so much of the genre, especially cable, is crap (anything Kardashian and Real Housewives...puke!) But yes, they need to stop remaking all these old shows (that means YOU, CBS!)
I recall 71 of them plus a few not mentioned: "The Mighty Hercules" (cartoon) with the theme song by Johnny Nash (RIP); Gomer Pyle, USMC; Night Gallery... The scariest to me as a little kid (DOB 2-4-62) was "The Invaders." ...
Great list. Just a few I'd like to have seen included are, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Laugh-In, and for excellence in documentary t.v., the Canadian version of Man Alive with Roy Bonisteel.
I really am glad for fred flix there was a kids show that showed a pirate and cartoons in Maryland in the 60s and it was on MTV as a clip once.It reminded me of how spongebob pirate looks when it comes on.
VERY REFRESHING swimming under the ocean waves...nothing can even compare to what was on the tv screen back then.... You felt good after watching those shows...
You have the original intro for the Disney Program on Sunday Nights..RCA provided all of the color technology for broadcasting in COLOR vs. B&W, so Disney titled the show as such..The Wonderful World of Disney came a few years later....
fantastic! but i know some teens/young adults who absolutely refuse to watch anything like some of these. they seem to think that it's some type of torture to have it even suggested that they watch anything - t.v. or older movies - in b & w lol.
That's interesting, Alyssa. You're embracing a time when TV shows were simpler and more charming, and geared for the whole family. Too bad MeTV has chosen to limit the number of series they show. They haven't changed their lineup much at all in quite a few years.
Great compilation. You missed one of my favorites -- Wild Kingdom, with John Cameron Swazye. "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom," I guess I should say, with a good steady sponsorship from Timex. "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking!" Even strapped to the shank of an outboard boat motor.
Or tied to the hoof of a horse jumping off the high dive platform? Or how about a Bic pen fired from a rifle through a board still writing? Still, there was Fred and Wilma selling Winstons. I smoked for 50 years, maybe because of it. But hey! I just quit when I turned 60 this year. No need to add to the 50 year record, right?
ladamyre Quitting was the hardest thing to do in my 62 years of life. I quit in December 1999, and when I smell a cigarette, I still jones for one. They say it's harder to kick than heroin. I never got into heroin but I believe it. I knew some junkies when I lived in old town, Portland Oregon in the early 1990s & saw my share of it.
The biggest revelation is something my mother always said that I thought she was saying just so I'd quit, *that I smelled like an ashtray.* Darned if she wasn't right. Now all my smoking friends smell like ashtrays. As of 4 months off the stuff, I have no desire to smoke a cigarette, pipe or cigar, and I used to love a good Cohiba.
I remember all those shows! Today's shows are horrible! I watch these good shows on the kind people ie; Fred Flix and other wonderful people who bring these fantastic shows back on You Tube.
i watched daniel boone every sunday , FBI SUNDAY NIGHT, flipper which i have on dvd as i do green acres ,Gilligans island, hogans heros, i dream of genie, the jetsons, lost in space, omg i have to stop , to many to name , im going to go broke getting these BUT it was an awesome decade of movies, and tv shows,. ty ty
Its interesting how exciting television was then. This was before the destruction of sitcoms by making them social issue showcases. Nowadays I have to admit, television bores me. Too much overall and not nearly the creativeness. Back then it was done to entertain and entertain it did and a movie was something special. Thanks for the memories.
Fred, indeed the 60s was the most creative decade, tv, film, music...so what happened? I remember most of these shows. I also watched the detective shows of the 70s. That list is almost endless too. Colombo, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Kojak, McCloud, Baretta etc etc.
In thinking about 60's sitcoms, you can easily see why folks look back fondly. It was a time when all members of the family could sit and watch the same show. That sense of community was wonderful. They also have much of the warmth, humility, and generosity of spirit that was such a terrific part of the age. I also wonder how much the Rural Purge really contributed to our more divided culture. It was a mistake to prioritize money over a significant part of the country. That's a mistake we've continued unfortunately.... So anyway...
I guess I'm still a spring chicken. I was born in 68, but I remember most of these. TV was goofy, but somehow so much better than today's junk. It was great only having 13 choices!
Back when there was only one screen and all the family watched it together, unlike now where there’s multiple screens and all the family ignore each other.
It was no coincidence that RCA was one of the major ads that ran during that time slot, and that most of the studio equipment in use at NBC was made by RCA....
I never lived back in the 60s but I have heard that the 60s was the best era to grow up in and that it was a lot better back then than what it is nowadays.
That may depend on who you were back then. If you were male, white and at least middle class, you had every advantage, because there was rampant racism and sexism. And even if you were male, you had to deal with the specter of being drafted into the Vietnam War. That said, there were many reasons the 1950s and 1960s were special. It was a time of family values, the best pop culture and technology. In most cases, the father worked and made enough money so that the mother could stay home, keep house and take care of the kids. When I came home, my mom was there (no day care). The family gathered every day for a home-cooked dinner (no fast food, no devices...just talk). We were free to go and play and stay out until the street lights came on. Although there were only three TV networks and no home video, that made each show seem special, and there was the anticipation of watching them and discussing them in school the next day, as every kid seemed to watch the same shows. Shows, movies and songs seems more precious because you couldn't own them, except you could buy the songs on records that tended to scratch and skip the more you played them. Of course, there was no internet or home computing. With no Google, you had to look things up in a dictionary or encyclopedia. No emails, so letters back and forth took at least a week. There was no drive-thru restaurants or banks. It was a time of waiting and patience. But at least gas station attendants were there to pump your gas. It was hot! Many people had no AC in their cars. I didn't get AC in my classroom until the 11th grade. I even lived on a dirt road two different times. But I loved it. There were no home invasions, no school shootings. People didn't even lock their doors. It was perhaps a false sense of security, because their certainly were violent crimes, but we didn't live in fear. Yes, there were the assassinations, violent protesting and the Cold War with Russia, but I was just a kid and didn't worry about all that. The economy was booming and the American Dream seemed like it was attainable.
Would have liked to have seen the 1962-63 season intro of Leave It To Beaver, where their leaving the house to the car instead of the first season 1957-58 intro, since its all the beautiful 1960’s shows... but still a huge thumbs up!....( would have like to have seen The Beatles cartoons intro)...
There's a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn's broken out in fights, there's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights, there's a scout troop short a child, Krushchev's due at Idlewild, Car 54 where are you?
