I'd almost forgotten what a task it was back then just to operate a television set. You had to turn in on, then wait 30 or 40 seconds for anything at all to appear on the screen. After selecting the channel, you then had to use the fine tuning dial to tune closer to the correct frequency, then manipulate contrast and brightness knobs. Then you had to worry about the vertical and horizontal control knobs till ya got the picture to stay in one place. Then you had to manipulate dials on the antenna rotor box in the direction of the station you wanted to receive, and then, as often as not begin the whole process all over again cause one adjustment screwed up all the others. And that was black and white. Once color came along, there were a half dozen more knobs to fiddle with.
I hadn't been born when this version of the show was on: in the early 70s, though, it was on Saturday mornings as "The Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Show".
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Thanks for sharing these new shows of Fall, 1960. I remember Pete and Gladys from that period since I first saw Harry Morgan do that program (he would do other shows, of course). The Flintstones and Bugs Bunny Shows debuted in prime time. The theme song for the bowling program, Make That Spare, would also be used a couple of years later when ABC premiered the Pro Bowlers Tour with Chris Schenkel. Memories from the start of TV's second full decade.
Ah, yes. Who can forget Bowling for Dollars? You roll, knock the pins down, and vallah, you win cash. I liked that show back then. Brings back memories.
I was in junior high school. I didnt watch or know of many. Emjoyed Harrigan & Son, Candid Camera & many shows that werent new like 77 Sunset Strip, Ozzie & Harriet, Flintstones, Ed Sullivan, etc. remember Casper, Bugs,
That Candid Camera intro with the familiar theme song and co-host Durward Kirby actually premiered in the fall of '61. The fall of '60 had co-host Arthur Godfrey and no familiar music, I remember watching it in syndication years later. A clip of the 1960 show can be found on YT courtesy of Gilmore Box.
Yep- and Godfrey clashed with Allen Funt, who kept whining he didn't have much to do on camera because Godfrey was "hogging" it most of the time as the program's host. By the end of the season, Godfrey left, and Durward Kirby- who did NOT have any problems working with Funt- was chosen as the nominal "host". They got along famously for the next five seasons...................
Always loved shows that were named after their leading star ... just once it would have been nice to hear: "The Troy Donahue Show! ..... staaaarrrrring .... Pat O'Brian!"
I think I saw all of these shows plus many more not shown. Howdy Doody? I can remember when the TV "woke up" at 6AM with test pattern and a 1KC tone blaring. All night there was just snow and a hissing sound. Then the Star Spangled Banner, The Morning Sermonette and the crop reports and weather for the farmers in New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut.It would go off the air at 10PM after playing the National Anthem Where was this? New York City. These were the flagship stations, ABC(7) NBC(4) CBS(2) The Dumont Network(5, WNEW) WPIX(11)The Public Channel (13) and WOR(9) WOR came on at noon and mostly showed old movies. At night it showed the baseball games(Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers and signed off. No Basketball or Football on any channel. At 7PM it had The Million Dollar Movie. It showed the same movie all week. Friday nights a movie in Italian(Ronzoni Sono Buoni) Dumont manufactured televisions and it created its own content to induce people to buy a television. I probably started watching around 1957.
Yes, Huck was seen on local stations in early evening time periods (depending on the station and city: in New York, it was WPIX-TV on Thursdays at 6:30pm).
This season was the tail end of that "obsession". The following fall, there were other kinds of programming that began to eclipse them {"PETER GUNN", the most influential, was cancelled at the end of the 1960-'61 season, as well as most of the new westerns}.
A thousand thanks for sharing this! I've already known about Andy, The Flintstones and My Three Sons (and of course The Aquanauts, me being a huge Ivan Tors fan - just wish you had the opening to that show), but I was extremely curious about what else premiered the year I was born. Thanks to you, now I know! Thanks again!
Hers was an anthology series (sponsored by the American Gas Association {"Your Gas Company"}), in which she also made several appearances as the character "Josephine Little" [which never became a series of its own].
@@TruAnRksT Interesting comments...I was a teen and young adult when the Big Valley was broadcast...I loved westerns:Gunsmoke and Paladin, and many others...I hated Big Valley...Didn't like the actors OR the writing and really thought Barbara Stanwyck was an ugly old broad...As I grew older, I watched a lot of old movies and TCM has been my fav for 20 years or so...I've seen dozens of B Stanwyck movies, from her beginning thru film noire to the older lady roles...As a young woman, she was gorgeous and a great actress...I still refuse to watch rhe Big Valley, and I see her as ugly and nasty at that stage, also, but She made some great films with Fred MacMurray and Edward G Robinson and comedy with Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, she only won 1 academy award, but lots of real good movies...Baby Face was one from pre code era that made her a sex symbol from earliest days...Dog face, maybe, but hot body when young...
I’d gladly go back to these days in a heartbeat……I guess I just miss my parents. They were pretty cool people and good parents. Dad was pretty strict, but I really didn’t mind. I turned out just fine
NBC cancelled "Klondike" and the studio, ZIV-United Artists recast Ralph Taeger and James Coburn in "Acapulco". That series didn't stand a chance, either and it was also cancelled, too by NBC!
We are just about 2 and a half weeks from living the 20s again. This time around it is the 2020s. Who knows how roaring the decade will be. Luckily there is no Prohibition like there were in the 1920s.
as far as I can recall, only four of those shows made it across the Atlantic to UK: Bugs Bunny, The Flintstones (with a different sig nature tune), Roaring 20s and Route 66. All would have had the sponsor and spot ads edited out.........and we had no colour TV yet!
yeah.., cranking out duds.. LOL! sure, they had a few winners like Star Trek.. but, that's eventually why they sold out to Gulf and Western because they were losing more money than they were taking in...
Unfortunately, I can't see the opening of SURFSIDE 6 these days without being reminded of the recent collapse of an apartment building in that town (contrary to what the words of the song might have you think, Surfside is a separate town near Miami Beach, not a neighborhood in Miami Beach).
DYK...in some localities (and a couple of entire states), the "Gardol" flouridated version of Colgate Dental Creme (and other brands) couldn't be sold until about 1970. Gardol was simply Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's trademark for stannous flouride, dental grade. Unilever (Lever Brothers), C-P-P's main competitor, had another trade name for flouride...which escapes me (LOL)! C-P dropped the reference to Peet Brothers Soap in 1953, long after their cleanser products were re-branded as "Ajax."
"Gardol" was actually Colgate's trademark for "sodium n-lauroyl sarcosinate", a foaming and cleansing agent. The formula is currently used- without the "Gardol" identification- in one of Arm & Hammer's toothpastes.
60-61 was the beginning of the end of the total domination of TV by westerns: none of the new ones survived the season, and after this year, the number of new ones each season went down. Most of the dramas which premiered this year failed, also, with the exceptions of Naked City and Route 66..
I prefer the earlier seasons with Paul Burke who also starred in later episodes of 12 O'Clock high and was a 1/2 hour format. Later seasons starred James Franciscus and switched to one hour format.
@@fromthesidelines Thanks, I did have that reversed, I will correct nyself by saying I prefer the earlier 1/2 hour segments with James Franciscus. My favorite episode is the one played out at the " Execution Rocks Lighthouse " on Long Island Sound. I grew up in New Rochelle. Ny and that lighthouse is not far from our shoreline. I had a friend who had a small Sunfish sailboat and she sailed to the Lighthouse and went up and knocked on the door . The keeper was very nice and asked her in for a visit. No keepers now, it is an automated facility now I believe.
Thanks for this extensive and enjoyable compilation! I was 5 at the time these shows had their debut and have only the foggiest memory of some of them. BTW the opening of "Bringing Up Buddy" could have influenced the producers of "Bear in the Big Blue House".....
7:09- There were TWO weekly editions of "MATTY'S FUNDAY FUNNIES" that fall- in its original Sunday at 5pm(et) time period....AND an early evening Friday night edition [7:30pm(et)].
Bill23799 - "Durward", actually. Did you know that he considered filing a lawsuit against the producers of "Rocky and Bullwinkle"? The story goes that Jay Ward, when he heard about this, offered to pay Kirby to sue because a lawsuit would have been a publicity bonanza. Kirby ended up backing down.
Originally, Arthur Godfrey was the host during the 1960-'61 season. But his ego clashed with Allen Funt's, who whined off-camera he wasn't given enough to do ON camera. Finally, at the end of the season, Godfrey left- and Durward Kirby took his place in the fall of 1961. THIS time, he and Allen acted more like CO-hosts.....and it was a happy on-screen partnership for five seasons.
First of all, Durwood had a pleasant and sincere personality. He was a great announcer and pitchman. And he established himself as a pretty good comedic actor on Garry's daytime and evening shows. And most important, he and Allen didn't clash with each other.
I saw the Beatles in 1964 when I was 8; what was all the screaming for? There's nothing to scream at,just an ordinary rock group ( need haircuts, though).
@@bobbyfrancis8957 "An ordinary rock group?" You were obviously NOT a music fan from 64 to 70...The Beatles used that time frame to affect Amerikkka and the world with Peace Love Dove and if you didn't get any....Sorry for you.
It's interesting to see how many shows of the period featured boys & men but not a single woman had her own show except for Barbara Stanwyk, who was already an established film star who worked during the 1940s when women were so visible in regular daily life because of their new roles as workers outside of the home while 16 million American men went to fight in World War Two. When the men came home in 1945, women were fired from their good-paying jobs; writers for movies & t.v. (the latter a brand new form of home entertainment beginning around 1949). In the 1950s & 1960s, producers of t.v. & movies gave the parts to men that emphasized being outside of the home as more valued, being the decision-makers, holding importance in their positions of male authority & decision making. By the 1960s, women were viewed (through male writers' eyes) as sexual objects for male desire, or as the one who kept the entire household running as a wife & was looked to for raising the children (her "proper" work--without pay, authority or value). Just replace or reverse the roles between men & women in these t.v. shows to see how women were cast into lesser, diminished importance or as adjunct to what was really important. The late 1960s would bring the American women's movement & efforts to change who defined who women were & what she wanted.
tubeblack35 I can understand. I spent much time at my Grandmothers, and she always watched Perry Mason. The theme song, (and visuals of the big “ desk” (as I thought), really creeped me out.
So far: unofficial new Candid Camera? The gimme: Eyewitness (did say that was 2nd season. I do guess if it had 2 or more) New for 60: The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, Pete and Gladys? The Bugs Bunny Show, The Flintstones, Surfside 6? Thriller? Route 66. Other gimme: Face the Nation continued as a day program, since you stated this was it's only year in primetime.
I remember sitting on the floor of my grandmothers house ( we lived with her then ) me , mom , dad , and grand an ( my little brother was asleep ) they were leaning forward intheur chairs watching the Kennedy Nixon debate . I remember they looked so serious and I was wondering who was in trouble . I didn't realize it was a political debate but I remember how Nixon looked like someone i didn't like and had a bad feeling everytime the camera showed him .
Either one? Nixon was a lot like Trump...You must be a Trumpist...Kennedy (John AND Bobby) would have made America and the world a better place...We all know that Nixon was a cheating Lying coward but we know that Trump had those same characteristics...Most of us don't want to see that in the White House.
It aired on NBC, which experimented more with color specials and series. ABC and CBS didn't get much into the color game till the mid-60s and by the fall of '66 all three networks went full-color with their prime-time lineups.
gentillyguy1 There were a very small handful of shows- even in the 1950’s that were color, but it was still very expensive, and most people only had B/W tv’s.
