I caught The Immortal when the Sci Fi channel reran it years ago (in the days when they used to run the old series). Christopher George was one of those actors taken from us far too soon. I also loved him in The Rat Patrol and grabbed that show when it came out on DVD.
Hey, my old 56 year old self likes cable tv-- I suppose. It is when I watch these great peeks into our collective past that I get sentimental for good old analog TV. Kids, we had, depending what size city you lived in,; ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and one or two "independent" stations on the UHF/VHF-- these were the stations that played the "old" shows of our childhood, like-- "Gilligan's Island, Green Acres, Bewitched, I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and...Here's Lucy, Father Knows Best, Leave It To Beaver (and how many of you fellas almost got arthritis of the wrist because of the "Who loves short shorts?" Nair commercial? And to tune in the VHF channels, you had to finesse a DIAL to coax in the temperamental signal a lot of these little stations had...and they were the home of the Saturday night (or Friday, or both) "Creature Feature" (The inspiration for Joe Flaherty's "Count Floyd's Monster Horror Chiller Theater"... and some of these stations played all night movies on Saturdays AND, depending on who was "working the board" or whatever it was called, you might see a film nearly uncut-- the rules back then were still being shaped and it was a more swashbuckling time. Oh, and if the atmosphere was right, you could tune in channels from hundreds of miles away...SO cool! I would strain my eyes at 1am in Clearwater, FL watching a movie on a station in Fort Lauderdale . So, we basically had 5 or 6 channels and the amazing thing was, there was always something pretty decent to watch...or we just had to make the best of it, I don't know...but looking back at these clips and promos and late show themes and lead-ins...a time when the FALL ISSUE of TV GUIDE was MUST reading and the family still gathered around TOGETHER (not my family, but many other families...we had problems) to watch the end of the golden era of a cousin of Vaudeville-- The Variety Show, I guess my vote is I was there in front of a garishly glowing color TV, watching the Golden Age of the medium.
I well remember visiting my Uncle in Buffalo NY one Summer week in the early 70's on a day when he bought a new color console TV and a big new rooftop antenna. He had to be picking up nearly a dozen channels incl a couple out of Canada! LOL One thing I remember from watching is just before the News, WKBW channel 7 would say, "It's 11 o' clock, do you know where YOUR children are?" Some great memories!
I was born in the late 80s. But my favorite shows were the same as yours. My absolute favorites were Gilligan's Island and the Munsters and I love Lucy always showed reruns. I didn't have cable tv, so I could only watch a few channels like WB, Fox, UPN/channel 13, PBS, and KCET. There was other 90's shows I was able to enjoy on CW/Channel 5. CW channel 5 was the biggest station that showed friends, charmed, Xena, Hercules.
The dawn of the Age of Abundance. A time when we marveled at our own brilliance, when the pursuit of happiness was paramount. After we went to the moon, we turned our gaze inwards and sought happiness in hedonism, narcissism and self-righteousness and all along we consumed and multiplied... until we get to where we are now... the Age of Scarcity. Looking at this video, the distant irony of that is not lost.
That PSA about paying attention on the road when you drive, now replace necking with texting & see how relevant it will be. Also, i remember that very moment that Frank Sinatra brought Dean Martin for an impromptu reunion with Jerry Lewis on his Telethon.
what a time to be alive i remember it all born in 62 southern california it was a great time to be alive and at the 6:20 mark we see how the world worked at that time with those who were pulling the strings
The Bud christmas commercial is sooooo freaky childhood christmas nostalgic for me ..i was probably 7 , 8 and 9 during the yrs those ones aired ..also remember the jingle being featured in Close Encounters of The 3rd Kind ...just the ambience it brings back
i agree 100% on that vincent sartain,,,the partridge family was 1 of my favs back in the day,,and shirley jones did state in an interview that the show did kill her movie career,,but it was all good she also stated,,,i grwe up in ths 70s,,they just dont make shows like the 70s anymore..
Hi there. Love your channel. There was an animated psa that aired in the mid-70's I remember as a kid. Very short, around 15 seconds, and it had two superheroes resembling Batman & Robin? They were maybe promoting savings bonds? Anyways, haven't been able to spot it online anywhere. Would be forever grateful to see it again. 🙂
I noticed the Budweiser commercial wishing us a happy holiday season.No mention of Christmas.I never knew the "war on Christmas" was going on way back in the seventies lol.
Interesting trend: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=season%27s+greetings%2Chappy+holidays&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Happy Holidays only recently surpassed Season's Greetngs in print, yet the latter had surpassed the former a century earlier. Who can account for these fads?
It's funny to think of people watching a commercial about color TV's on a small B&W screen, which was common in those days.. hard to sell a product when you can't fully see it.. :)
Farrah Fawcett and Angela Cartright in the same commercial? WOW! Shirley Jones was so pretty, too!! I remember seeing that particular Jerry Lewis telethon, too. Love Edie Adams. I see the PBS bumper at the end. Did you watch much UHF Fred? When I got my 13 inch B/W for my room, that was pretty much all I watched on it. VHF was almost all that was seen on Pop and Ma's TV downstairs, unless it was a sporting event (most local sports, except for NFL and MLB, was on UHF).
Oh my, the car swerving all over, making out with no seat belts! And we worry about texting and driving today? I remember trying to read written directions while driving before GPS systems. There were always dangers.
8:32 The New Andy Griffith Show sponsored by Pepsodent Toothpaste.and 8:58,Josie and the Pussycats,Before marrying to David Ladd in 1973,Cheryl Ladd was Cheryl Stoppelmoor (Maiden Name)as Melody the singer and not Melody actor played by Jackie Joseph(Married to F-Troop and Mama's Family Actor Ken Berry.)
Yes that's true, what made me so mad was when poor Sonny died, Cher was at his funeral crying about how much she "really loved him." I always liked him better anyway.
FredFlix The one in your video has a copyright of 2001 though (And a VO by George Clooney) Edit: I know there is an earlier one some where. I do love your videos though!
My second favorite drunk.actor foster brook. First is John dunsworth rip Mr Jim Lahey from trailer park boys. Best dam trailer park supervisor in the world
i have to imagine that it was a combination of the lack of remote controls and disinclination toward getting off the couch that prevented the majority of america from turning it off and giving up on television _right here._
9:46 TaB cola did not have a beautiful taste, in the opinions of a lot of people. Diet Coke finally got it right for the Coca-Cola Company. 11:34 Edie Adams for Muriel Cigars.
TAB is still around, my aunt used to drink it all the time. The weird thing is if you could get through a couple of them...a weird thing happened...you like HAD to have one...I'm thinking they used a secret ingredient from the original formula of Coca-Cola...COCAINE...it's the only explanation!
I'm sure he was under contract, everybody in show business was. But I doubt he was unhappy about introducing the Partridge Family. It's not like he was asked to go on tour with them or anything. Cash had his own unique style but was open to many kinds of music. After all, he's a man that would go on to cover of a Nine Inch Nails song.
opensprit Not only that but the lovely and winsome Shirley Jones (an Academy Award winning actress) was a likely draw for guest stars who figured it couldn't hurt their careers to appear in The Partridge Family. And it wasn't such a bad show, really; if it was silly so was almost everything else in the 1970's.
The Johnny Cash Show was produced by Bill Carruthers (Press Your Luck, directed The Newlywed Game early episodes) for Screen Gems, which also produced The Partridge Family
Wasn't the partridge family based on the cowsils? What sickens me is that I drank Tab cola as kid... That was until I got the awful taste of saccarin ! Thank goodness it's s not sold anymore. ..diet Coke replaced it....how ever ,I don't drink any "diet colas" as I have a problem with insulin..( I'm hypoglycemic & diet colas( even the diet uncola) would lower !y glucose into a dangerous range) Also ,I've always wondered how many diabetic contracted cancer by drinking diet colas such as Tab!
4:07 Doug Simpson broke his date w/ Marcia Brady because "Something suddenly came up", so he was bitten by a spider and condemned to spinning webs & fighting crime. :)
for those not old enough to remember,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, from around 10 am to almost the 5 pm news,,,,,,,,,,,,,, all you could watch on tv was those STUPID soap operas. and there were generally no more than 3 stations to watch.(and black and white tv sets sucked)
I just flashbacks to looking at the tiny colors in the screen sitting up close nose touching screen .lol and mom telling me to stop or I'm gonna go blind 🤭🫶💚
