Fred Gwynne was a great serious actor as well ,he was in "The Cotton Club " as a gangster and also in a film "Ironweed: alongside Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson
I remember McKeever and the Colonel! This show was short-lived. Just hearing that music that went with the NBC peacock brings back some cozy feelings. My parents had a b/w TV until the 1980's. I remember when I was six years old, a wealthier schoolmate smugly stated that she watched Disney's "Wonderful World of Color", and teased me because I didn't have color TV. I got so jealous, I punched her!
Those were the days when it was special to broadcast a show in color. It was also very special if you could afford to have a color TV to watch those shows in color. We take that for granted today.
In 1962, NBC was virtually the only network colorcasting about 20 programs in prime-time (and daytime). ABC began telecasting THREE prime-time shows in color that fall- "THE JETSONS", "THE FLINTSTONES" and "MATTY'S FUNNIES WITH BEANY AND CECIL" [and two Saturday morning cartoons]. CBS refused to schedule ANY regular color programs at all, because of their rivalry with RCA/NBC. Only an occasional color special- including their yearly telecast of "The Wizard of Oz"- was seen; they wouldn't start regular color telecasts until the fall of 1965.
I understand that back in those days few people had colour tvs because they were very expensive and unreliable, the colour picture was often lousy and prone to drifting requiring constant adjustment, the colour cathode ray picture tubes of the time cut off the corners of the picture, and few programmes were in colour anyway. I stand to be corrected.
S and H Green Stamps sponsored programs, which I didn't know, but I do know it was my job as a kid to paste the stamps into the books, shop the catalog and point out what we needed, such fun! Thanks for posting.
@@windycityliz7711 I was 5 when we got out 1st color TV but I am told that in 1956, long before my time, that when my uncle was in the army he bought my grandparents a color TV and had it sent home. I am told they were the envy of the neighborhood.
Prior to "Bonanza", it was the "Disney's Wonderful World of Color" at 7:30 while CBS ran the second half of Ed Sullivan. When the Beatles came to his show in 1964, a lot of Beatle fans want to see them on TV for the first time, while WWOC was running part 2 or 3 of a 3-part TV movie called "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh".
I still like this show. You Cartwrights are so high and mighty. That was the worst said about them. I could almost smell the horse hide. Or maybe that was the stockyards just south of my home.
What a calm and unaware backdrop for the near destruction of the world in October 1962. I was four, and that very month we moved into the house that I would grow up in. The very first thing we did was plug in our GE black and white TV and watched whatever happened to be on. It was an episode of Leave it to Beaver.
We waited for Bonanza opening to watch our first show on our new color TV. My colorblind dad was in charge of adjusting the color so we didn’t get to enjoy the color until he was at work. Color TV was such a BIG thing in those days.
I love that Disney intro thanks too bad they don't go back to basics and Bonanza many a night we had to watch because we had one tv and dad was in charge of it ha ha.
We only had one channel, an NBC affiliate until 1968 when we got cable and a color TV! Sunday nights with Disney and Bonanza were the best. Almost took the sting out of having to go to school the next day.
They had cable TV in 1968 ??? I thought that didn't come along till at least 10 years later. (I was a kid in the 60's/early 70's, I guess my parents hid the truth from me and we just used TV antennas for reception!) I never had cable TV till I was about a year out of college, mid-80's.
I missed the peacock since we had a black and white TV. I can tell we mailnly watched CBS and then ABC the most this year, but not as much on NBC for this time when when I was 9. Bonanza was the number one on NBC for us. Also watched the Disney show regularly. Car 54 Where are You, Mitch Miller, and Hazel I also remember watching maybe Dupont theater but mainly remember Dinah Shore having a show at some point. Thanks for the memories!
There were a few songs I remember first hearing on Mitch Miller's sing-along series...including Tiptoe Through the Tulips, originally sung in 1929 by Nick Lucas.
I noticed that Walt Disney's signature is very different than the one we see now. They couldn't even leave his signature alone. I stopped watching Disney when the show was switched to "The Wonderful World Of Color" because it turned into one long commercial for his theme park and his movies. I wonder what Disney would think of the studio now.
I was 7 in the fall of '62. My grandfather lived with us and pretty much controlled what we watched. He had a strong connection to the West, so we watched a lot of Westerns. My favorite by far was "The Virginian". Loved James Drury. It's odd, though, that so few of these programs seem familiar. And I don't remember anything about the Cuban Missile Crisis as it happened. Yet, I do remember my thoughts and reactions and those of the people around me when only a year later JFK was assassinated. By then, my grandfather had bought us a color TV.
Were any of the news broadcasts of the assassination of President Kennedy broadcast live in color? The only surviving color news footage from that time was for the live broadcast of a report from the NBC affiliate from Fort Worth, Texas. It can be seen here on RU-vid.
Hey Jennifer Palmer, you were lucky to have a color tv in 1963. We didn't get a color tv until Christmas of 1970. I still watch the Virginian, Bonanza, and Hazel. The Virginian was one of the rare tv shows that lasted for an hour and a half. The footage that I remember the most was from Walter Cronkite on CBS that was in black and white from the JFK assassination. There is some color footage from that day when the Kennedy's got off the plane at Love Field airport in Dallas, and the Zapruder film of the actual assassination.
I remember me & my mother were close....I was in my first trimester! Still...I had to have gotten a jolt when she got the jolt!....wondering over to the front door...looking out at all the other housewives...Did I hear that right!?
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1060">17:40</a> Suzanne Pleshette (guest-starring on Dr. Kildare), later "Mrs. Bob Newhart" on the Bob Newhart Show in the 70s.
As an adult, I revisited many 60s sitcoms I enjoyed watching as a kid in syndication. Unfortunately, I found a lot of them hard to enjoy as they were plagued with generically awful laugh tracks. An exception was Car 54, Where Are You. That show really holds up especially due to excellent writing from people like Nat Hiken. That show didn't need a phony laugh track because they used a real audience who were actually entertained.
The show had Nipsy Russell In it too. All of the mid to late 70's I did not know what his claim to fame on Match Game was, until I saw a rerun of Car 54, years later, on cable TV! I was way too young for the first airings.
Cuban Missile crisis and year after JFK assassination and not the same afterwards for sure. As like since 9/11/01 the country has changed yet again. And we keep getting more cynical.
I also had a crush on Dinah Shore. I guess that we couldn't compete with Burt Reynolds, who also had a crush on Dinah. I remember that she would sing the jingle, See the USA in a Chevrolet, as Chevrolet sponsored her show.
Is that the woman they showed from 4:00-5:15? If so, they only showed her name (the name of the show) AFTER all that (5:20)--I would think the name of the show would come first, followed by her introduction. (Was "Dupont Show of the Week" (3:50) referring to the same show?)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 For years it was the Dinah Shore Chevy Show until 1961 when NBC placed Bonanza in the Sunday 9 pm slot. The Shore show was moved to another slot not sponsored by GM and became just the plain old Dinah Shore Show with a different sponsor .
I had just turned 3 when these shows were on but still remember some of them. I guessed Joey Bishop’s after about 5 seconds before the title came up and was right, now that’s scary.
Why Rock and Roll was dying, because all of the 50s kids were growing up, I was 9 in 1962, the Acts with Frankie Avalon and Fabian and others had become mainstream pop. However, just over the Horizon, came the Beach Boys for all of us beach kids on the west coast, and then the BEATLES!!!!!!!
At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="405">6:45</a>, the voice sounded familiar, so I checked and it's Johnny Gilbert, who was young then but is still announcing Jeopardy at age 94.
Johnny replaced Don Pardo as the "Price" announcer, when the show moved to ABC. Don was asked by Bob Stewart to make the move to ABC, and declined. Mark Goodson then asked Don to stay with the show, and offered a sizeable cash incentive. But, Don said, "I'm an NBC man" and stayed with the Peacock. The FOOL! A year later, he picked up "Jeopardy!", and later added, "Three on a Match", "Winning Streak", "Jackpot", and a little show called, "NBC's Saturday Night"--which changed its name after Howard Cosell's LIVE Saturday Night show folded on ABC.
I remember the Green stamps we had a Kitchen Drawer stuffed full of them. I used to help my mom put them in her books. She got wall decorated metal plates to decorate the wall and a electric skillet that she got in the 1960s that just recently quit working last month. It lasted over 30 years and the cord finally shorted out. lol I replaced it with a cheap Walmart electric skillet lol I bet it won't last 30 years. My mother and father are dead and it Breaks my heart to have to throw anything away that belonged to them.
I found myself wondering which of these my parents would have watched on a regular basis...then I remembered that THE VIRGINIAN was around a good deal later than '62, and my mother loved that one...(as for me, this is the time period when I was born)
"The Virginian" aired on NBC from 1962 until 1971. It has not been seen in syndication very much, due to its unusually long running time: 90 minutes every week.
So many 50's/60's bands had animal or insect names (with a letter change here or there)--The Beatles, The Crickets (w/ Buddy Holly), The Byrds, The Monkees, etc.
I will always remember 'The Price is 'Right' hosted by Bill Cullen. (Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL). Stay safe, and may God go with you.
I was going on 9 when these shows premiered. I didn't watch any of them but I do remember a couple titles: Bonanza, Car 54, McKeever, and Disney. That's it. What a bunch of schlock....
For all the people laughing at the rock-n-roll is dying clip, it actually was. Not only in the USA, but in England as well. Then in 1963 a guitar band called The Beatles came along and rock was back in business.
At the time the new fall schedules were introduced in the U.S., the Beatles recorded "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You", their first "45" release in England- and it became a hit. That led them to record their "With the Beatles" LP in February 1963...and the "rock revolution" began with it.
I remember the first time I saw color television -- it was the Wonderful World of Disney. We were blown away by the amazing new world. I wonder if I dreamed in black & white before that day.
If society can change so dramatically in just 56 years, it is interesting to speculate what lies ahead for us in the year 2074. How will they feel about the world of 1962? ....
Imagine the 56 year change from 1900 to 1956. Go from horse and buggy to a brand new 57’ Chevy in late 1956. Throw in a Great Depression, a stock market crash, prohibition for 13 years and a couple of world wars, and you’ve got a 56 year period I wouldn’t wanted to live thru like my parents did. We have it great today. So much for the good old days, they were terrible.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="570">9:30</a> Ryan O'Neal in Empire--I didn't know O'Neal's acting career stretched all the way back to the early 60s!
How interesting. One month after this Fall 62 season began, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis. We almost did not make it beyond October. Millions who had not gone to church in years, now packed places of worship. The key date was Oct 22, 1962. What we did not know until after the fall of the Soviet Union, was that their missiles already had nukes in them. Over 100.
As for Bonanza, Pernell Roberts bitched about the show almost from the beginning in 1959. He did not like the stories and felt there was nothing worth wild to the show. Especially his parts. He was a tough guy to satisfy. He kept threatening to quit for most of the time. So at the end of the 64/65 Season, they ( NBC) fired him all out of the blue. They could not stand him anymore. Unable to find work at first, he finally started appearing as quests on Cowboy TV shows and westerns in the movie.
First I must say that I thoroughly enjoy your compilations...it's a pleasure to watch as they bring back some wonderful childhood memories. One curiosity though, the clip of The Price is Right is from the ABC run from '63-'65. Was unsure if you were aware of this.
Actually, you just reminded me that I was supposed to switch that clip for one from '62 I found, but it looks like it slipped my mind before I uploaded the video. Sometimes the right intro/clip is unavailable for the season presented so I make do with one from the previous or following season to represent that show. Andy Williams, Mitch Miller and International Showtime could be from another season, and not sure about the David Brinkley and Chet Huntley programs, some of these don't get dated from where I get them. All the others appear to be season appropriate.
As a twelve year old, I had my designated spot in front of our new Zenith color t.v. My job? Act as a remote to change channels and fine tune for the correct flesh tones. Oh, and stop the occasional picture “rolling”.
In 1965 I lived in Goose Bay Labrador Canada. At the time the Americans had an air force SAC base there. Armed Forces Television supplied most of our T.V. viewing. "The Missile Navy" looks very like some of the American military propaganda films that would occasionally show up.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="150">2:30</a> - This theme song was later used in a commercial for an Atari 2600 game "Mario Bros.", and it was loosely takeoff the theme to "Car 54 Where Are You?" You know the words: "Something's gumming up the plumbing, Poor Luigi's in a bind, Killer turtles out to get him, Giant crabs are right behind, Fighter flies , holy gripes! They're all coming out the pipes... MARIO, WHERE ARE YOU?!"
As a 10 yr old I remember most of these, the best of the bunch was "Laramie" and the "Virginian". Whitney Blake of "Hazel" was one of my favorite "milfs"!
It's hard to believe how primitive the set looked then, compared to what I remember from the early-mid 70s (when Bob Barker hosted). I"m guessing those were electronic digital displays for showing the dollar amounts in front of each contestant, though? (with the Lark cigarette ad below them)
I think the only star still alive in 2021 is Richard Chamberlain of Dr. Kildare. My favorite show of that season was the Jack Paar Program. He was not only hilarious but he had guests like Jonathon Winters and Bill Cosby. I was sixteen. I laughed until I fell on the floor and my Dad would say, "Get up, Jackson. Now go to bed." "Which is it, Dad! Get up or lie down." And so on and so forth. That was one funny show. Years later he died. Who? Everyone except Kildare.
Why were there so many damn Westerns? That must've been the TV heyday for Westerns. I was never interested in seeing a bunch of guys ride around on horses. (I was born in '62, so fortunately I don't remember any of the ones they showed here.)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 ..why so many damn Westerns ? Like all the crappy shows back then , they were cheap : the sets were already built , just insert actors , bad dialogue , lots of lame action and the return was humongous. Remember this was before the internet , before DVD's , video tapes. The advertisers had a captured audience of millions who had nowhere else to turn for entertainment at home.
_Car 54 Where Are You?_ was filmed in black and white on the streets of New York, but reportedly they painted the show's cop cars red so that they wouldn't be mistaken for real cop cars. There's a hold-up 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-- Khrushchev's due at Idlewild-- Car 54, where are you? (Idlewild Airport was later renamed JFK Airport.)
Kind of reminds me of how old farts like my peers and me bust on milennials... as if our generation was history's greatest and anything that came after was humanity's mistake. LOL!
That "Price" clip was from the ABC version, which was produced at the Ritz Theater, an ABC production facility which had yet to convert to color. Starting in 1957, "Price" was produced in color on NBC (at least the primetime version was) and was produced at the Hudson Theatre, which was color equipped, and was the theater from which, "The Tonight Show", originated during the Steve Allen years.
@@jamesstark8316 LA had 4 independents in addition to the networks. On the other hand, many smaller markets had only two stations, or even one. Austin was a one-station town until 1965, and got its third network in 1971. Waco and the Rio Grande Valley didn't get their third affiliates until the 1980s.
David Brinkley's sour grapes remarks about rock 'n' roll music are similar to those old newspaper ads in NYC: "We asked William B. Williams of WNEW radio what he thought of rock 'n' roll," and right below that was a picture of him holding his nose. in the early '60s there was a period of pop homogenization with Bobby Rydell cutting covers of Sinatra and Dean Martin records and Eydie Gorme having a hit with "Blame It on the Bossa Nova," but that period didn't last long with Motown and Stax Records and surf music coming along, and then the British Invasion two years later, so Brinkley's rather snotty diatribe was extremely short-sighted, to say the least. (Funny, he and his NBC News co-anchor Chet Huntley didn't have anything smart to say in February 1964 when they reported on The Beatles arriving at JFK Airport...)
I wish I could remember the jokes we made about the Ponderosa map catching fire every week. And now I understand why Jack Paar complained so much about the lead-ins to his Friday night show.
We all loved BONANZA when I was a kid in Puerto Rico perfectly dubbed in Latino Spanish by local actors/actresses. As a matter of fact most of this series episodes were du bed in Puerto Rico, some redubbed in Mexico and some( the worst dubbing ) done in Spain. Laramie was also dubbed in Puerto Rico along with Empire, the Virginian, Dr. Kildare among others.
That year we got our first color t.v. I now remember where i saw that color broad cast anthology episode about a man going to murder his wife,DuPont show.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="420">7:00</a> The Price is Right, pre-Bob Barker (or pre-pre-Drew Carey)...I was born in '62, so I don't remember seeing this game show--or most other TV shows, for that matter--till the early-mid 70s.
