Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives. For those of us who remember watching these promos when they aired for the 1st time, there is not much sand left in that hour glass
These old 60s TV compilations are great for finding out which neurons in my skull have managed to survive beer, quantum field theory, thousands of hours driving to work and back, and shocking news from Washington D.C.
Nice clip of Tiny Tim. I met him and hung out with him for about 20 minutes at a show he did about six months before he died in late 1996. He talked about music of the early 20th century and about three or four times pulled out his ukulele and started playing some old song. Tiny was an absolute authority on old music from the early years of the 20th century. Also, of all the celebrities I have ever met, he was far and away the kindest and most polite one I ever met. He was a really weird guy, but also very nice.
Nice comment, Ysmigra. I first saw Tiny Tim on Laugh-In, like a lot of people. I've always liked the old songs and his album God Bless Tiny Tim was the first album I ever bought. I still listen to some of those ditties today. I'm glad to hear he was a nice guy.
SO NICE to take a break from watching videos (& TV news) about Coronavirus and police brutality, and watch something that stirs up fond memories. WHEW!
@@kennysherrill6542 I'm almost that old. Born in '63. I grew up with late 60s, early 70s Star Trek reruns. I may have seen the original run, but was too young to remember it. Anyway, what I meant were that the promos seemed like they were advertising something other than a sci-fi/adventure series. It was like, "Yeah, we've got this show with this Spock guy. You can watch it if you want, but you probably don't want to."
Amazing how everything was so nice back then. I really wish I could live in the past, things just suck in America anymore in today's world. I was around then and I'm around now and then was better a lot better.
Proximity Symbol I'm a moron for pointing out dumb shit from 50 years ago? No wonder you got so upset and started name calling now come back with an answer that doesn't make you look like a complete dipshit
Zoggy What's weird though - the "liberals" are bringing segregation back! "Colored Only" is consequently making a comeback in academia - are you cool with that?
No one - and I mean NO ONE - thought that Star Trek would be alive and well 50 years after the series went on the air. Well, maybe Gene Roddenberry did.
I expected we'd have bases on Mars and holidays on space stations long before we had hand held communication devices that could access all human knowledge.
Not only that, they said the premiere would be September 15. It was actually September 8, and my 13-year-old ass was plopped down in front of the TV, watching the salt vampire. (Adult adventures in space. Heh.)
Maybe he didn't. In 1970, Paramount offered to sell Gene Roddenberry all the rights to Star Trek for $150k. He declined. The story went around that he couldn't afford it. I don't believe that, though. I think Gene felt that Trek had played out and, in 1970, it sure looked that way.
OK, I'll admit it, that damn "Buckle Up For Safety" song still pops into my head 50+ years later!! I can finally get all the words to the song and compare them to the version I've been brain singing forever! Now it's gonna really be stuck in my head!!!
In NY we had a whopping SIX channels! The 3 majors (7ABC, 4NBC, 2CBS) & 3 local NY stations - WNEW ch5 (which down the road became FOX), WOR ch9 & WPIX ch11. AND if you could get the rabbit ears just right you could get 2 UHF stations! PBS on ch13 & WLIW ch21. You needed a tv with a UHF channel knob for 21.
tv back in the early 1960's in western north carolina where i grew up----- the mountains screwed with tv reception unreal. some places you could get 1 tv station only(no surfing there) the local station ch 13 ,abc in asheville,nc on others greenville,sc ch 4 nbc, spartanburg, sc ch7,cbs. sometimes ch5 nbc bristol,tn and ch 3, cbs in charlotte,nc. some places you get all networks, others 1 or 2. in some of the coves and valleys, you could get the distant stations i mentioned but not the local in asheville,nc. i remember cruddy pictures, rotating the antennas trying to improve same. in 1964 the stations ch 4,7,13 set up translators on high mountain tops to amplify and rebroadcast the shows so everyone could see them. i remember watching the olympics and other shows beamed by satelite first time ever in the us in 1964. people then thought that was amazing. still only 3--5 channels counting the ones out of state. i thought it was neat with my baby sister and baby brother to surf thru 3 channels of saturday morning cartoons and eat our cereal while we watched. we didn't squabble over the channels, our likes were similar. underdog,bullwinkle,mighty mouse,the local kiddy show with mr. bill on ch 13( anybody that grew in that area remembers mr. bill,his cartoons and other features on his show)and others( bullwinkle, a" fubar "moose always screwing up pulling a rabbit out of his hat). no uhf stations in the area then. they had major problems broadcasting in the wnc mountains. only one that tried wise-tv ch 62,asheville was on the air from 1953 to 1963 and shut down in that year because of the problems and negative cash flow. first pbs station in that area went online in 1970 on uhf channel 33 with translators thru the mountains. technology improved the statons ability to to send out a better picture then. my daddy was a part time tv repairman who would get frustrated about the reception before the translators and the local channel. a lot of people bought expensive tv's, disapointed in the reception and called him to help. other than tweaking the antenna, not much else he could do.he worked a job in the local paper mill on rotating shifts and squeezed tv repair in when he could. i remember my dad working on a tv on saturday's and laughing about bullwinkle like us kids. the rabbit out of the hat made him laugh hard and cuss bullwinkle for being fubar. we had a self rotating tv antenna. you went out and rotated it yourself for some channels at marked intervals.now we have cable,satelite,u-verse,etc. 200 channels to surf thru by remote and still can't find anything. the remote control back in the '50's and '60's was me and my siblings.i have made a long post here but it sums up tv back when in the '50's and '60's.our devices,satelite communications for our devices,etc was dick tracy science fiction or ray bradbury's devices in some of his books were science fiction then but reality now.still love the old cartoons. pull them up on you tube now. they are still funny.watching them now at my desk pc with a bowl of cereal like back when. cherrios and bullwinkle the fubar moose. perfect combo. age 63 now going on 8. lol. i guess part of getting old is rambling about the past, comparing then to now.
Wonderful stuff-promos, sponsor breaks, bumpers and such-you thought they were lost forever! FredFlix is THAT MAN....I had forgotten all about Peter Potamus, BTW (LOL)!!!!
I'm 40 and I miss these old types of broadcasts...even tho I grew up in the 80s my parents were 8 years old and grandparents just graduated in 1960...I have my grandmother's high school yearbook when she was a senior and the schools were still segregated...the book still smells like an old library...life is precious man these videos are like time capsules....we might not have had phones but we had our families on one accord..waiting for a good show or watching scary movies together on the t.v....
That animated bit with Elizabeth Montgomery (no relation, so far as I know) came near the end of the program. My younger brother was a toddler then, and seeing her twitch her nose always scared him. He has grandchildren now.
Cigarettes containing asbestos? I hadn't heard that one before! Brilliant invention, no doubt patented, no doubt made plenty of money for makers of "double death cancer sticks" :D
Cigarettes were a lot more dangerous than the Corvair. By the standards of the time they were about as safe as anything and safer than some. Yep, they would do "trailing throttle over steer" if you did something really stupid, but that wasn't NEARLY as common as Ralph Nader would have us believe.
would be funnier if it wasn't true! so TRUE.. don't forget the Bud in hand too.. wow but ya know we really haven't come very far in all these years. same people ..different addictions. something like that.
BTW my husbands family traveled back and forth from CA to Indiana and the car blew up. bye bye Corvair! they had all their stuff in it too even lost documents.. wow .. see and my dad smoked Kent in the late 60's.. yeah won't say what happened to him.. RIP daddy
Channel surfing was a little different back then. You had to sit right in front of the big wooden piece of furniture with the tube TV in it and turn the dial, ka-chunk, from one channel to the next.
2:12 Apparently, before there was a federal law mandating the use of seat belts in a vehicle, they had public-service ads like this one just "encouraging" people to do it (National Safety Council, etc., 2:42). Also, the seat belts in this ad were just the "belts", no shoulder strap.
Underdog totally destroyed that building's face and potentially killed a few neighbors. And we don't even know if he actually succeeded in saving the o's of Cheerios. Feh!
Love the comments here; if only people could understand why life became "messed up" and by whom. Knowing things are worse today is a positive first step...I hope it's not too late.
Your collections are always so excellent, for content and editing. It's amazing that I remembered Peter Potamus saying "Brought to you byyyyy..." I'm sure I hadn't thought of that even once in over 55 years! Amazing that our brains can hold a little, trivial memory like that for so long without calling on it.
Proximity Symbol ++agree with you. tobacco is the boy getting whipped today unfairly. whether you smoke or not is your business. as you say most smokers DO NOT develop lung cancer from smoking.most of the info is a lie. i never heard of anybody buying a pack of camels, smoking 2-3 and going home to beat the hell out of his wife or kids under the influence of nicotine. the nut and berry people will keep at it until a smoker gets busted "under the influence of nicotine". but when we mention alcohol,OMG we have committed a crime. drunk drivers maim and kill, go home and beat the hell out of their spouse's and kids,kill and murder. can't smoke but ok to get blitzed to abuse,maim and kill their families or have a crash maiming and killing innocent people.alcohol ought to be taxed like cigarettes and other tobacco products in proportion. i still remember in 2000 when a master agreement on tobacco was made. the price of cigarettes tripled overnite. that was b.s.tax alcohol including beer the same way and see what kind of hell breaks loose.i've smoked unfiltered camels since i started smoking 49 yrs ago at 14 yrs old and it hasn't killed me yet.
@@roadmaster720 I smoked far less than my folks, but caught stage 4 tongue cancer (nonviral) anyway. It isn't fun! Lost 3/4 of my tongue and soon the rest of my teeth! Cancer not common in my family, and the very LAST thing I expected!
"Cool Daddy-O" my friend's dad was a cartoon artist back then....true talent drawing Bugs Bunny and others. He made enough to raise a good family in a nice house and all of the kids went to private schools in Los Angeles.......Without a college degree or even a high school diploma.
"Here's an old sea chantey my mother used to sing me: Smoke BelAir/Smoke twice as refreshed/Because the filter's recessed/In new BelAir..." (sniff) Sorry, Freddie old man...that one always brings a tear to my eye...
The Mighty Mouse clip brought back memories and oh those magpies! Joe the bartender and Crazy Guggenheim, too! A great mid-60s platter of goodness.The Gorn, Horta and Uncle Walter, too. Was a sophomore for his tragic announcement. Marlin Perkins, June Lockhart, and Chuck Conners; you're too nice to us Fred.
OUTSTANDING Fred! I'm so glad (& lucky!) that I grew up in the 60s & 70s. I have no recollection of The Rebel. Don't know how that can be. And isn't it a shame they don't make women like June Lockhart anymore?
My impression is that so-called TV "westerns" had their heyday in the 60s (probably going back to the 50s). As far as I know they don't have shows like that anymore.
Ah; Simon bar-sinister (2:50)! For those who may not know. Underdog was created by Total Television, which, was - for all intents and purposes run by General Mills, the cereal company, an not the general ). They also gave the world Tennessee Tuxedo (with Chumley), King Leonardo, and a who gaggle of others. Just looking at how NBC was pushing Star Trek showed they really didn't understand it (5:19). It looks like it's nothing more serious than any of the movie serials, or the b-films which took place in space.
All tobacco ads were banned ...there weren't any seat belts in the cars of the 60s..my mother owned a 1965 Oldsmobile Delta 88,and that car didn't have have seat belts !
Tobacco ads weren't banned until the 70s, I think. In the ad at 2:12, the seat belts were merely the "lap" belts, no shoulder harnesses (those probably started in the 70s(?)).
The first clip is part of the intro to "Mighty Mouse Playhouse" with a rare introduction that you don't see in the 1965-66 color version at 0:18. I don't know why this intro exists, the color version that has this rare introduction at 0:18 is tough to find.
Norma McMillan was the voice of Polly Purebred in the Underdog cartoons and Casper, and Wendy and Davey in Davey and Goliath cartoons, she was also the mother of Alison Arngrim from Little House On The Prairie.
Didn't know that was Nellie's Mother who did those voices.I remember when I was in the 4th 5th and 6th grades I would walk home at noontime everyday for lunch, usually a bowl of soup and a bologna sandwich.On TV was always either Underdog, Popeye or Tennessee Tuxedo I must have seen every episode of all of them dozens of times.
She was a very talented actress. She passed away a while back. Alison wrote an autobiography called Tales Of A Prairie Bitch. I bought it and it's a very good book about her. Her parents were originally from Canada. Alison and Melissa Gilbert were best friends in real life.
Sounds like it would be an interesting read.My brother bought the whole Little House series on DVD a while back,I recently borrowed and watched the 2 hour pilot episode,I don't think I had seen that before,it was really good.
They didn't say "it's the law" in the ad, though. The federal law mandating seat belt use didn't come till later (70s?), I think. The seat belts in the ad you mention just had the "belts", no shoulder strap.
