My favorites were The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Here Come The Brides. I have to point out that the first season of Here Come The Brides only had a musical theme song. The song lyrics came in the second season. I was so disappointed when Brides was canceled after only 2 seasons! Most young girls liked Bobby Sherman whereas I had eyes only for Robert Brown. What a hunk he was!❤I also had a huge crush on Edward Mulhare in The Ghost And Mrs. Muir. I liked older men! 😀
When I was a kid we all would get very excited for the new Fall tv shows. In those days, the TV Guide was in every household and you couldn’t wait to get the issue that previewed all the new shows. With only three channels everyone was usually watching the same popular programs and it brought people together.
It's a master course in how to really make a viewer want to stop and check out the program. I'd say it was worth every dollar they spent on it. I mean -- over fifty years later and we don't need to watch this video to remember the opening to Hawaii Five-O, do we!
Had to mention.. The Ghost and Mrs.Muir was the first time most of us came across Charles Nelson Reilly,and his devious and cowardly Claymore Gregg is a marvel...the kind of comic timing many actors just dream of..
Absolute golden Era of TV. I used to devour the fall issue of TV guide. I loved the sixties. Wish I had a time machine, I would pick 1968 and it would be LA or San Fran....
I was both places in 1968, although quite young. I would say to pick Los Angeles. I remember San Francisco being some nice spots in a lot of sturm und drang, but Los Angeles was some sturm und drang spots in a lot of nice. Through the eyes of a child, anyway -- if you're a counterculturalist, definitely set your Wayback Machine for SF.
Anybody else forget they were watching a RU-vid video and was looking forward to hearing more from Morley Safer and Mike Wallace on that new show, 60 minutes?
Why do people vote "thumbs down" on these? It's not like Rw is getting paid to do this or is the official gatekeeper. He is doing all of us with a nostalgia jones a favor.
Nostalgia is a disease. It is insidious in that it is both self indulgence and self flagellation at the same time. Live for the moment. Don't wallow in the warmth memories long past, make yourself warm with new experiences. Memories should have a self imposed shelf life. Art Buchwald had a great quote about nostalgia..."We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.”
A "Julia" lunch box sounds so cool ! I never saw one but I do recall watching the show sometimes (I was in my early teens when it premiered). I remember widow Julia lived next door to a cop & his wife (the cop always put his service revolver in a box & locked it up when he came home).
Being a child of the 1960's I remember practically all these tv shows! They were all great. they bring back such memories when television was new and upcoming to the public. They may seem outdated to todays crowd, but they were way ahead of its time back then. there were no computers, or smart phones in the 1960's, but we all communicated with each other, as in todays world, people don't talk to each other anymore, they are so pre-occupied with their phones and computers. how pathetic.
Wasn't that the way they were coerced into being snitches for the fuzz? They were juvenile delinquents who committed crimes, and became snitches to keep their charges from being bumped up to adult charges that would send them to prison.
R.I.P. Doris Day and Peggy Lipton. I was only a little boy in '68, but I loved them both. To the best of my knowledge, Here Come the Brides wasn't rerun in my area(if it was, I can't really remember), but thank God for RU-vid; there's plenty of HCtB footage there.😂
10:50 Hawaii 5-0. Still a great show, boasting one of the all-time great TV themes and maybe the most exciting, gorgeously produced opening montage sequences ever. I'd bookend this with another great series and dynamic opening theme, Mission Impossible.
@@suzycreamcheesez4371 you would have to go all the way into the mid 1980s to find a TV theme that was as memorable as Hawaii 5 o That being another cop show in an exotic place Miami vice.!
Hawai-5-0 was probably the best show of that year ran for a decade and still watched and shown decades later. Not to mentioned influenced the creation of Magnum P.I. another great and successful show.
o.k. now I know what show it was with the guy who kept his phone in the refrigerator!! The Outsider. I always thought it was Kolchak, because it was with Darren McGavin.. .I've had the memory for decades... now it's finally solved.
"Don't sit so close to the television!! RADIATION!!!!"...Every so often Dad would pull the back cover off of the TV set and pluck out a few suspect tubes and use the RCA tube tester at the drugstore at Rosehill Village...." Oy Gevalt!! What we had to do back then watch our telly...but we had shows with THEME SONGS!!
People back then didn't have to go out often because there was always something great to watch on TV. Especially Friday evenings and Saturday morning cartoons!
We were definitely glued to the TV as kids back then. In fact I remembered the dog's name @2:41. I can't recall which restaurant we ate at least week, but I remember trivia like this, that was seared into my 10 year old brain 55 years ago.
It sure was on in prime time. NBC scheduled "The New Adventures of Huck Finn" to come on before "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" on Sunday nights. ("Lassie" kicked "Huck Finn's" butt, though...and that's why what was billed as the first prime-time TV show to combine live action and animation lasted just one season.)
Jose Arturo Garza It started out 15 September 1968 at 7:00PM on Sunday and then aired in reruns of the Banana Splits when it went into syndication. The whole series is currently for sale www.amazon.com/Adventures-Huckleberry-Finn-Eddie-Hodges/dp/B01G9CFT4Y
I was born in Hawaii in 1959; we moved to Texas (and later Ohio) when I was 6...I cannot tell you how excited all us kids were every time Hawaii Five O came on!
When I was a kid I chuckled at "Zulu as Kono" and "Kam Fong as Chin Ho". It didn't occur to me that some non-US kid would probably chuckle at "Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett" and "James McArthur as Danny Williams".
My Dad loved the genre that Hawaii-Five-O represented, but as an 11yr old this yr. of 1968, I loved Mannix, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, The FBI, much more than Hawaii-Five-O. The theme was iconic, yes.
I was 10 years old in 1968 and I remember most of these, but a couple of them I have no memory of it all. If I had to say which one I liked the best it would definitely be “Here Come the Brides”. I absolutely loved that show… I mean it had Bobby Sherman for crying out loud!🥰
I remember most of these shows. How the world has changed with the internet, smart phones, fast food. I think most of us still alive that can remember these shows would prefer the old world once again.
Ummm. Actually, "TV" (cable, streaming, etc.) in the last decade or so has never been better. Game of Thrones, Arrested Development, Sopranos, Mad Men, Modern Family, The Office, Parks & Recreation.... the list goes on and on.
I loved that show. A certain dangerous, underground cave/tunnel scene lodged in my brain for decades, that & one other in a dark living room w/a giant, padded armchair, long after I'd forgotten what series they were even from, until just a yr or so ago, when I rediscovered the show via Hulu & YT. I was instantly 5 again, picking up where I'd left off 1/2 a century prior. Funny pt is, even after "coming home" to my LotG, I remain hanging on that cliff, as the series was left, sans conclusion, & their homecoming.
And what made Hawaii 5-O's opening so chic was that it used just about every nouvelle vague trick going - fisheye lens, shotgun zooms, jump cuts, freeze frames, speeded up footage (in reverse), swish pans, stepped zooms...
GoGreen1977 ~ Yes a lot of awful and unfortunate events occurred in '68. Violence, civil unrest, high crime, rioting, war, political upheaval, assassinations... it was the most tumultuous year of the decade, and even into the 70s. At the same time it was also a fabulous year for culture. Music, film, television, art, literature, design were all thriving, and booming with excitement and unprecedented, prolific creativity. What a year!
I came here because I seen the thumbnail and said I know that photo, then watched the video and felt old cause I remember this television season,and caught myself singing along with the thyme songs and was surprised I still knew all the words. One of the best television seasons ever. Some of the greatest shows ever,and some that were so bad I almost forgot them.
My goodness! What an interesting trip in the Way Back Machine. I was seven years old and I recall my first "crush" was Bobby Sherman in Here Come the Brides. But now I wonder why no one ever got married on that show, as that was the premise. Also, in the Mod Squad Opening, I could not figure out where they were supposed to be (a mine of some sort), why they were running, why the boss popped out of nowhere, and why the guys had to drag Peggy Lipton between them. I still can't figure it out. thanks for the upload. 😋😉
M Cervantes people did get married. Swede and that woman with the glasses, Sullivan and the Jewish girl, that anti-Semitic twerp and a passing Mormon, are the ones that come to mind.
Yep, there were a few. Things did slow down a bit, which was actually addressed in Episode #13 -- "The Log Jam" which guest starred Sam Melville and Pamela Dunlap. That ep is a delightful romp, btw, and my favorite of the series!
I LOVED Here Comes The Bride. I too had a crush on Bobby Sherman. I was 5 or 6. My dad would say: "Get that long haired hippie off of the TV." His hair was barely over his ears. LOL.
I loved "Here Come The Bridese e" More importantly I loved Bobby Sherman! I was 12+ ready for that pin-up crush. Saw him a few times in concert, gave him a gift. I got a handwritten note months later, thanking me. I still have that note- 50 yrs.later!(Sigh!)
The Kid's in Mod Squad were ONLY helping the Establishment because The Man wasn't cool enough to get in with the Bad Guys. Otherwise they'd be doing what they supposed to be doing. Protesting the War and Smokin a little Weed.
That's why "Captain Greer" had begged their police chief to let him have the squad. All 3 had been in trouble with the police as juveniles. He had kept track of them and saw how they had straightneed up their lives.
*I grew-up with all of these, but "Adam-12" was my fave!* (usually I hated 'cop shows' but '12' was good because these guys were always helping people and very rarely drew a gun unless a 'baddy' had one) *When I was a kid in Dearborn, no self-respecting cop would 'draw a gun' unless they were being shot-at first!* (in the 'old days' anyone 'trigger-happy' got weeded-out one way or another...anyone who couldn't handle themselves were told to 'get a job with the Post Office because you're just too jumpy')
I swear the Here Comes the Brides theme song: “Seattle” (the bluest skies you ever seen is in Seattle) was sung in school like an anthem back then in Seattle. I especially loved the Perry Como version. I loved the show... and Bobby Sherman! He was so cute! I had pictures of him on my bedroom wall.
I was almost 5 in the fall of '68..so these are my first really indelible memories..and I loved the HCTB theme..it always made me want to move to Seattle!..(although I couldn't now, I'm much too conservative..lol)
I still think of The Critic whenever I hear that song. Jay (Jon Lovitz) sang it at a Bobby Sherman fan club meeting. 😂
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I loved the MoD Squad, my Dad loved Hawaii 50, Adam 12 was on the tube a lot also. The first year of 60 minutes. Still my favorite Sunday program, other than NFL football. Because of ratings, which is bottom line profits for Media corporations, - 60 minutes was the beginning of the end of journalistic integrity
Right. Those shows are WAY better than 95% of the crap on tv now. Most of what's on now isn't worth watching. I watch a lot of true crime on ID Discovery because 95 % of what's on the 3 major networks is garbage.
I must be the only male who liked "Here Come the Brides". I liked the artwork, the theme song, with it's idea of courageous hopeful men and women carving out a new home in the wilderness, and yet loving the "Greenest Greens and the Bluest Skies".
I never realized until seeing this how many shows of that era featured single-parent families, and how popular they were. Just within this bunch there were Julia. The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, The Doris Day Show, and Mayberry RFD. In addition there were The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Nanny and the Professor, Family Affair, Gidget, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, My Three Sons, The Governor and J.J., and Petticoat Junction. Even on The Beverly Hillbillies, Jed Clampett was a widower. A bit later there were Diff'rent Strokes, Alice, and One Day at a Time.
Andy Griffith show before Mayberry RFD was father without mother instead with Aunt Bee and Bonanza also had father that was widower with three sons. Big Valley had mother with 2 sons and a daughter and Heath had same father that died and a different mother.
A few of these shows didn't last more than 2 years but made it into syndication shortly after going of the air. I remember as a kid Here Come the Brides being on ABC--then 2 years later it was on Saturday afternoons on a local independent station
some one better with figures could do the actual math... but watching enough of these I'm noticing a "Movie of the Week' as part of one Network or another's line up (some times both) bout 50-75% of the Seasons... You don't see them much if at all past 2000, if I were to guess
This is cool to watch after having seen Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood"! Really makes me "get" how perfectly he captured the 60s vibe of entertainment and this society in general!
We lost Diahann Carroll recently...pity there's a generation that only knows her for her work on DYNASTY (which was no small thing) but weren't around for JULIA. RIP.
These may not have been the greatest TV shows ever but they certainly had some of the best opening sequences ever--HAWAII FIVE-O was rated the 4th best theme song ever by the writers of TV: THE BOOK. Keeping that music was the *one* thing the remake got right.
God! Where did you get all these intros? Amazing trip down memory lane! I remember most of these! Hope Lang of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was a very beautiful woman back then! Also, I didn't know Edward Mulhare who played on Knightrider was in that series! Thanks for posting these!
Despite the horrible events that occurred across the planet throughout that tumultuous year (namely the Tet Offensive and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy), 1968 was a banner year for television! So many iconic programs debuted that autumn--"The Mod Squad," "Hawaii Five-O," "Julia," "Adam-12," "Mayberry, R.F.D.," "Land Of The Giants," "Here's Lucy," "The Doris Day Show," "Here Come The Brides," "Lancer," "The Name Of The Game," and, of course, the immortal "60 Minutes"! (NBC's hit comedy/variety series "Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In"--which began its sophomore season that September--also premiered that same year, but in late January...ten brownie points to anyone who can name the program "Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In" had replaced. And ABC's successful espionage drama "It Takes A Thief" also debuted in January and was beginning its second season that fall.) It's a shame that "The Outcasts" and "The Outsider" were renewed for a second season; both of them had enormous potential. And "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show," "The Don Rickles Show," and "The Ugliest Girl In Town" proved to be gigantic stinkers. All in all, it was another exciting trip down memory lane! Thanks for uploading, RwDt09!
Outstanding montage. "That's Life" was very innovative, but short lived, as a musical sitcom. Hadn't been done before or since, I think. "The Ugliest Girl in Town" had to be one of the stupidest TV shows ever.
I asimov, right on both counts. " That's Life" might have been just too ambitious for it's own good. Also what were programming heads thinking when they approved of "The Ugliest Girl in Town" (imagine how it would have been received today).
Sufferin' Sucatash ! What a wonderful compilation ! I didn't watch all these shows but I was a preteen in 1968 & recall ALL these programs being on the air! And like most American teens, I watched a LOT of TV back then ! THANKS so much for uploading !! :-)
1968: a great yr to be 5, planted in front of the television, innocent & ignorant of the world chaos bubbling up around me. Oh, snippets slipped in, via media, family & friends, but I'd yet to understand their import, & was, therefore, free to simply enjoy the staged entertainment, intriguing storylines, alternate realities, & grand themesongs. I've my laptop now & all that entails, but I still miss me some good tv.
While 1968 was the most tumultuous year in a tumultuous decade, the good part of the populace remained largely sober, sane and centered. Despite the swings of the radical fringe. Separated by a vast ocean afforded Americans the shelter they enjoyed from the ravages of war in Asia. But Americans have also become innured and accustomed to high levels of crime, civic corruption, moral degeneracy, and a public which resigns itself to complacency, apathy and impotency. The war in Afghanistan lasted for twenty years. A long enough period to give Americans the notion that this was business as usual. People in 1968 only had a handful of TV channels to escape from their worries and concerns. Today the choices are beyond scope. During the downturn of the Roman Empire, the emperors would appease disenfranchised and idle citizenry with promises of "bread and circuses." The co-relation to our period is not undetectable.
Some trivia on Lancer: Wayne Maunder, one of the series' co-stars is being portrayed by Luke Perry in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
This was amazing! Thanks so much for all of your hard work. I was working hard getting through college so I don’t remember most of these shows. I never missed 60 Minutes, Hawaii 5-0, and Mod Squad. Startling how many actors didn’t make it.
Great harmonies on the theme for The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn! Robert Morse of That's Life is still working today. He's the voice of Santa Claus on Teen Titans Go!("Merry Christmas, you terrible children!").😀
Thanks for posting this! My God, that's half a century ago! I don't recall some of these, but others I remember well. The funky theme music from most of the shows is forgettable, except of course for Hawaii 5-0. And so many "stars" that I have no memory of. and most of them are probably gone now, anyway.
Six years old in 1968 and remember many of these, of course must mention my first TV crush, Deanna Lund "Valerie" on Land of the Giants...watched it every Sunday at 7:00....
