We have so many great episodes of You Bet Your Life by an amazing accident. Groucho's show was always filmed because nobody could be sure Groucho would keep his comments PG. Years later, NBC called Marx's home to ask what they should do with all the cans of film from the shows they still had in the vaults. Groucho's nephew happened to answer the phone so he asked Groucho what should be done. Marx was livid. "Burn them! I don't care!". The nephew said to go ahead and send them to Groucho's home in Hollywood. There were so many cans of film, they had to be delivered by parcel truck. When Groucho saw he had been disobeyed, he flew into another tirade. So, the nephew agreed to painstakingly chronicle every can and what was on them then donated them to UCLA. Groucho fully intended to have them all destroyed.
I just turned 7. We mainly watched shows on CBS this year with ABC the next most likely. Bonanza was however one of the top favorites. Years later in reruns I now realize Thriller and Alfred Hitchcock were welll done. Also remember watching Wagon Train, Bachelor Father, Dinah Shore, and Bat Masterson.
I barely remember most of these...but a few are so 'locked-in' in memory that just a little musical intro is enough to bring it all back, like "Groucho'. (I don't remember Tab Hunter having a TV show at all! That was surprising) I was six in 1960...but I remember more of 'then' than I do of last year! It's odd how memories work of 'what to keep' and 'what to let go'.
Barbara Stanwyck was one of those fabulous women who reach the height of beauty in their 50s and 60s. I always thought she was gorgeous when I was a little girl.
Amidst all those violent westerns, detective shows & inane sitcoms, it was good to know that there was a show like The Bell Telephone Hour. A pity such a show cannot exist on today's "RealityTV" polluted airwaves. I became a fan of Thriller when i first saw it on Chicago TV a couple of years ago.
"Bachelor Father" was the only TV show to air on the Big Three Networks at the time. Meanwhile, "The Westerner" was created by Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch", "Straw Dogs"). It only lasted 13 episodes since it was up against "The Flintstones" on ABC and "Route 66" on CBS. "The Deputy" was co-created by Norman Lear ("All In The Family") Of all of those shows, "Meet The Press" lasted the longest and is still on the air.
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13:01 William Shatner, PRE-Star Trek! (followed by Natalie Schafer, pre-Gilligan's Island!) Man, these shows are OLD!! Almost 60 years old, now (Dec. 2019).
It was certainly not a time when a presidential candidate could brag about grabbing women by the p-- and see his support go up among white evangelical christians, that’s for sure!
Well, he still had many years left, but you can tell he didn't really want to be there. And I was reading up about the show and it only ran for about 6 months after he became host (he was the 3rd or 4th host the show had since 1959) and then it was cancelled. When probably didn't improve Milty's mood any. But he did go on to make some big movies in the 60s, though it's true he was no longer really "Mr. Television" by this point.
Well, to be fair Burt was involved with Dinah in the 1970s, long after the clip in this video was recorded. By that time he had already been on Dan August and was just about to begin his ascension to the top tier of movie box office attractions. They were involved when she had her 1970s daytime talk show.
Rather odd for me to be sitting here watching these, only days before my 55th birthday. Unless this schedule started in August, (and my guess is that a Fall Schedule for that year wouldn't have started until early September), that means that I wasn't even 'in the world' yet, when many of these shows were on. It also means that the ones I DID see in my early years were probably the most successful, (LARAMIE and BONANZA, for example), while the others I was only able to watch when they hit syndication. Thanks for putting these retrospectives together!
Interesting that Bell Telephone had its own orchestra. With so many symphonies going belly up, maybe that's the answer. Have corporations start their own orchestras: The Amazon Philharmonic, the Starbucks Symphony, the Koch Brothers Pops.....
bowtie3 I believe that. After all, with the southern California climate, the lots in the studios needed no maintenance. Also, filming on location probably meant no more than a couple of hours' drive from the TV studios.
Couldn't help but notice during the Loretta Young episode preview,she was playing a stereotypical female teacher .Glasses,conservatively dressed,hair up
Fun Fact: Nearly a year after The Loretta Young Show went off the air, she insisted that the shows must never be rerun due to the fact that she feels her wardrobe would be seen as dated.
So many legends creating these show Most of the shows were too girly for me. I could never get involved Bonanza because of the weird hat that Dan Blocker wore. I liked the 1/2 hour cowboy shows and just adored Dinah Shore. Also, Ann (?) who did Private Secretary and Loretta Young. Guess you can tell from that how I became 60 years later? I subscribe to Randy Rainbow, if that helps. 🌺👍🏽
Giving women lobotomies for some reason was a standard medical diagnosis in the 1950's . it was estimated that over 80,000 American women had their wires clipped in that decade .
Was the woman at 3:35 anyone famous? There was a Chevrolet ad, and then they just showed her on stage. I didn't see either her name, or the name of the show she was presumably hosting. (This is a little before my time--I wasn't born till '62, so I can't simply recognize a lot of these stars.)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show. Normally when rare intros come without a title, as sometimes happens, I'd insert it at the bottom. It was an oversight that I didn't with this one. The woman, of course, was Dinah Shore herself.
Does the Saturday Night At The Movies film exist somewhere? I really want to see the opening as it was with the theater marquees and the flashing lights.
The first 3 episodes aired on various nights in the spring of 1960. The subsequent 4 episodes aired on Tuesdays, Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 18 and Nov. 15, so the fall airing I consider as a regular series of specials due to its regular time slot, much in the vein that Perry Como specials aired on Thursdays one season, 1964-65, and Mondays the next, along with other regular specials that rotated with regular weekly series in the same time slot that was common practice in the 50s and 60s especially. All depends on how particular one wants to be.
it seems that there's some junk TV back in the days just like now. Except that I would say that the reality TV is the big difference, and the many TV channels today.
It was, If I recall, a 100,000 dollar a year deal for him not to work on other networks, is that right? However he eventually did make appearances on the other webs and by 1966 had his own variety show on ABC. Did he wiggle out of the contract or did it end? It wasn't a very good deal for him, after all, was it?
If you had a very good tax attorney. The rate up until Kennedy took office was in the 90 percent range. I would hope that Berle's deal was structured, maybe like Jack Benny's, which was a capital gain (CBS bought his "Amusement Enterprises" which owned the show outright...Jack still owned himself) for which he paid a much lower rate (20% I think) which put lots of keeping money into his pocket. If Jack, after taxes and business expenses could take home 1 1/2 million in 1949, that was stratospheric for the day. I may be wrong about the numbers; willing to be corrected!
Wow,,,,,, TV has improved tremendously since the good old days.......I understand the technology wasn't there then but the story lines are all the same. Just wait a decade and you can sell the some old stories over again.
+Joe Postove It ended its Friday 7:30 pm run that month, moved to Wednesday 10:30 for the spring and summer, and finally landed in the 6:30 Sunday slot for 1960-61, ending in April 1961.
Thanks for the memories keep showing them too bad we don't have that many good shows today today's comedians are not funny at all by the way you forgot the great Untouchables Elliot Ness
In the 80s and 90s it was all about reconizable theme songs. I have the feeling that actually, during the last decade or so, they have become short again. I would think it is because people like to binge-watch now and intros get in the way.
@@Madbandit77 - The 1960s had quite a few memorable theme songs as well. The original 1968 "Hawaii Five-O" theme went a full minute. The 2010 reboot cut that in half to add a commercial.
Saturday nights for its first two seasons. Switched to Sunday nights in the fall of 1961, where it aired till 1972. A final half-season followed in Fall 1972 on Tuesdays at 8 pm..
No - Public workers should not have the right to strike - Nor should I be forced to pay their pensions - If they want money in their old age - Let them save a portion of their over-blown salary. It's got nothing to do with me. And no one leeching off my wallet should be making six figures - Nowhere near that.
