Gosh, I'm old. Before streaming, binging and such each network would make a half hour show to present their new season of programming which ran the beginning and end of school season. Without a DVD or TVO you had to wait for rerun season to catch a favorite episode you may need to see again or missed. I loved that time. I would have it again.
Some people said Peter was *too* young to be hosting a nightly network newscast [he was 29 at the time]. He relinquished his anchor chair to Bob Young {"ABC EVENING NEWS"} in January 1968, while Jennings became a foreign correspondent (primarily in the Middle East).
ABC-TV's amazing past from the 1960s is many times way more better than the crud that they've turned into in 2019 under Disney ownership. 1967 was indeed, "A Very Special Season"!
Applepitz Oh, by "technical" I was noting some complaints about the perceived quality of the recording. I wanted to defend it by saying it was "OK by me" and that I was VERY pleased with it. Sound came through just fine, for me anyway, and image quality was such that I could guess which show was being featured before the announcer identified it. I get a little grumpy with any mean spirited complaints but I don't want to bring rancor to these great features either.
Applepitz I'm glad that's "cleared up"! I had noticed the complaints piling up and I wanted to give you some moral support on this. I really enjoyed your delivery-- the best ABC 67 promo I've seen so far regarding the new and returning shows. When I was collecting materials from "Video Hounds" I would get good films from one; and a mix of good and BAD (still had to pay for the bad, too) from another. This one is fine by me, wanted you to know that and once more Thanks For Running It.
Gary Owens is the announcer. I believe this was shown at the tail end of an extended edition of "THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE" (or "THE ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE") in August 1967- a few weeks before the new season began on Tuesday, September 5th.
I remember the second hundred years. While Monte is starring in this series, his brother Jesse was flying "special" missions in the Vietnam "area" for the CIA. Jesse would be killed in the war. At 87 Monte is still going strong.
5:21- that "still" is from the promotional reel used to "sell" 'Batgirl' to the network; apparently, she was intended to star on her own series, but ended up on "BATMAN" instead. Her mask was rounded off for the series because Yvonne Craig recalled the edges left welts on her face.
ABC was "third" among all three networks in the 1967-'68 season. Their highest-rated series were 'BEWITCHED", "THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW" and "THE F.B.I.". "THE FLYING NUN", "N.Y.P.D.", "THE GUNS OF WILL SONNETT" and "JUDD FOR THE DEFENSE" were popular enough to be renewed for another season.
One of the shows that ABC promoted for the fall of 1967 was listed as "Judd", but when the courtroom drama starring Carl Betz premiered, three words were added to that title: "...for the Defense". Another of ABC's new shows that season could have used a spellcheck. "The Guns of Will Sonnett", starring Walter Brennan, was missing that second "t". The preview also mentioned the Academy Awards as having "for two years straight, drawn the biggest audiences in television." Oscar Monday (4/18/66 and 4/10/67) must have been the Super Sunday of its day, back when the Super Bowl itself was an idea that had come to fruition with its first game just months before. We've come a long way from when three TV networks were all that mattered.
MANNNN... I WISH... when I got back into selling on ebay like 15 years ago... it was one of the first films I had sold off or $300... and I had regret it ever since... for my love for the format kept growing after I lost the love for like a decade... and then it came back... gradually.... thank God... and luckily... in our film vault of over 20,000 reels of 16mm film that we have... after YEARS of searching... I did manage to find the other half of this 1967 ABC show... and if I can find the time in my life... I will digitize it myself to 4K... plus I found a 1979 NBC fall preview show in the vault... hoping to get the time to digitize that one as well... anyhoo... thank you humbly for the comment... it truly helps our channel here... more coming up soon... so stay tuned and God Bless
Out of curiosity, where did you get this? And may I suggest getting it dubbed onto DVD or something to preserve it? You just don't see promos like this every day, especially for shows that haven't been broadcast in nearly 50 years.
I remember this ABC promo from my days as a kid. We lived in a town with only CBS and NBC affiliates so we installed a large TV antenna to receive ABC (KTVI) in St Louis. Reception was iffy but at times we could watch ABC shows, be it the Big Valley, Judd, The FBI, That Girl, The Invaders, Iron Horse or a few others. I ended up paying for my college by installing big TV antennas on houses. I also bought some ABC common stock as a minor.
Combat and The Fugitive were over and done with. That was a tough time for me to watch TV on school nights. Too many issues got in the way. No big thing now.
NYPD was a good show filmed on location in New York.Al Pacino & his then girlfriend Jill Clayburgh made their first television appearance on Cousteau specials were always a topic of classroom conversations the next day at school. Award shows & the Olympics don't get blockbuster ratings these days I haven't watched either in years.
ABC scheduled five westerns that season (six, if you include "COWBOY IN AFRICA", a latter-day "African western"). Four of them [and "COWBOY IN AFRICA"] were cancelled at the end of the 1967-'68 season.
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it almost sounds like Gary Owens doing the voice over... our id is 16mmkingdom... we always put up great stuff... daily... check it out... thanks for looking...
hey James... glad you liked it... when film ages... some film stocks will start to fade the individual colors that make up the picture as a whole... well in this case... the blues will fade first... then yellows... reds hues are the only that will remain... forever... and it can happen within the first 5 years... especially with Eastman Kodak stock... now if it were Technicolor or Kodachrome stock which retains it's full color scope thru time... thus far... hope this helps... and thank you for watching...*
What a terrible new season. Of all the new shows, "The Flying Nun" might have been the only show that had a second season. ABC stuck to westerns far too long. No wonder ABC was the number 3 network in the 60s
Lots of failed westerns. It's funny that back then, the networks depended on their daytime lineup for much of their revenue to support operations but didn't include the in their fall campaigns (the prime-time editions of The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game were included here but popular soap operas General Hospital and Dark Shadows are nowhere to be found).
Thank you. Fascinating point. With the exception of Will Sonnet (sp.?) all of the new westerns flopped. Not much sagebrush progress on the other networks either.
Film collectors are the great "unofficial" archivists of every form of visual media- from silent films to widescreen movies, educational, promotional and TV material, and beyond. They are NOT as sophisticated as those who get funding for more expensive ways of promoting and demonstrating their "archives" (as, say, the Museum of Modern Art and the Paley Center for Media). "Applepitz" is one of them, so please respect his way of demonstrating his collection. Thank you. :)
@@fromthesidelines I'm so glad you wrote this. I'm one of those unofficial archivists/collectors (my primary focus is on TV programs from the 1960's) and I have purchased plenty of material in the past from the collections of the presidential libraries, Library of Congress, Paley Center, network archives, and other museums and footage houses---for this project or that. But I must say that some of the greatest gems from that era, and some of the greatest efforts for preservation, have come from private individuals. What's posted here is NOT unwatchable---it is a treasure, for which we should all be grateful.
