Yes, so do I. I was 6, and didn't realize it was the program's premiere. I still love to see their little mouths all singing (and taking a breath) together. And it was the beginning of my love affair with Snoopy. We both love to decorate trees.
I was 8 years old when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, and I was not impressed. What with all the girls in the audience - and my little sister - screaming their heads off, I couldn't hear a thing the band was playing! LOL
I didn't know that "Ralph" muppet went back that far! Edit - from Wikipedia: Despite Kermit the Frog often being credited as the iconic Muppet, Rowlf was actually the first known Muppet "star" as a recurring character on The Jimmy Dean Show, first appearing in a telecast on September 26, 1963.
Wow! Thanks so much Fred. I was 7 and my twin brother, older sister, mom and dad all gathered in the den to watch Saturday nights lineup. I remember sitting at my dad's feet propped up against his recliner. All those great comedies would have pop laughing so hard he was crying. Thanks again Fred for all those great memories you helped bring to the front of my mind!
1965, the year I was born. I don't know how you manage to find these, but keep them coming! Your are rapidly becoming my favorite channel on RU-vid! I love the feeling and the sound of old tv shows and commercials.
Sylvester Puddy-Tat I know, I wish I could remember more about my earliest days better too. I think if there’s pictures to be able to look at, it helps remembering. I use to love looking through family photo albums at our grandparents, and ones that my parents had of us growing up. Unfortunately, I don’t know what happened to family photos. I would like to do something special for each of our kids, making them each a book of their growing up. Instead of photo albums, now you can actually have your pictures copied onto pages, adding whatever comments or stories, poems whatever along with pictures, and made into a hard cover bound book! It’s something I really need to get busy doing, this is a great reminder, and now I need to figure out how to get pictures off a couple of my old phones I’ve saved, that didn’t get loaded onto our computer, and so, thanks for bringing this up, I am going to get working on doing something with our pictures. I hope you are able to get a hold of your family pictures too. In the past, helping my husbands mom and my parents move, I tried to salvage some older pictures that I found in their basements, which weren’t in great condition, but fun to see what we could, and I think older pictures can be restored more so now, that is if we manage to get whatever pictures that other family members might have. Here’s to good memories.
I was in kindergarten in 1965, but watched many of these shows.I remember all those ads, too.Our console TV set was b/w, so I never saw color TV shows until around 1973.Up until about 1980, there was only 3 or 4 channels, and roof antennas.We had to leave our chairs to turn the channel knob.All you did was plug the TV in an outlet and attach the antenna wire to the back of the tv, and it was ready.I was age 30 before I used a TV remote.Our TV basic cable operated through a box that had a channel knob on it, and remotes wouldn't work to turn a knob.We never thought anything of any of that, it was simply how it was then.
Stations didn't run Thunderbirds when I was young. Was still looking for Fireball XL 5 and Supercar to come back from Gerry Anderson. And thanks for adding Honey West and Jimmy Dean and the Wild, Wild West.
So much wonderful stuff! Anne Francis...WOW!!! And now I know why the music ebbs off, at the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas, when shown these days. Thanks for including that, since I had never seen that before (It being shown my first Christmas time, born in May of this year).
@@dr.migalitoloveless1651 We were in the Army in Kentucky 1965-66 (my Dad was that is) and with 3 kids couldn't afford a color TV on a Sargent's pay but I had a friend down the street whose Parents had one. The first thing I ever saw in color was Beanie and Cecil.
"Thunderbirds" are the best!!!...and I'd forgotten that Robert Conrad (Jim West in "The Wild Wild West") had some pretty serious hair game goin' on...you could bounce quarters off that head, no problem...
Wow! Where do you find these things?! I was 10 yrs old in "65" and had the biggest crush on Anne Francis! She was gorgeous! Thanks for the sweet memories
I can see why you're asking and there is a reason: My "Channeling" videos are not comprehensive. They're just a sampling. However, if you watch my other videos, such as Top 25 Shows From 1964, Man From UNCLE is all over the place.
wow it's like I just stepped into a time machine all these old memories rushing back thanks so much for this post it really brought warmth to my heart !
Fred this channel has jarred my memory like no other. I'm amazed how many shows and personalities were in the recesses of my mind that would have never seen the light again but for your time trip here . Wow. And thank you !
I was only 8 back in 1965. I became a fan of a new show that year called Green Acres. I didn't become a Green Acres fan until April of 1966 with the Molly Turgis episode.
Barry Gordon, the voice of the Cheerios Kid, was the kid who recorded "I'm Gettin' Nuttin' for Christmas." As an adult he was a cast member of "Fish," the Abe Vigoda spinoff from "Barney Miller." I learned recently that Ross Martin of "The Wild Wild West" was the original voice of Punchy in the Hawaiian Punch commercials. You showed "Days of Our Lives"; now in 2022 you have 4 soaps remaining on the air: "General Hospital" on ABC, "The Young & the Restless" and "The Bold & the Beautiful" on CBS, and NBC is still airing "Days" after 57 years on the air.
It's interesting that despite the greatness of most of these programs, which were broadcast on the abc Television Network, abc was consistently number 3 in the ratings.
One of your best compilations. Flowed nicely. Great Mustang commercial. I think that was child actor Barry Gordon doing the voice of the Cheerios Kid. His movie A Thousand Clowns came out in '65, too. Great year for TV. It was maybe the first full year I was conscious because I remembered much of that even though I probably haven't seen it since. Best year for Lost in Space, even though it was B&W, back when they tried to be somewhat serious. I remember even as a kid thinking it got too goofy later on.
I was 7 years old and remember a lot of these shows. My father loved watching "Combat". I remember all the cigarette commercials. i remember when most of the t.v. channels would go off the air around 3 or 4 a.m. with the station identification and then come back at 6 a.m. with the Star Bangle Banner. My favorite shows were Batman and Lost in Space. Many of these shows are on MeTV now. Lost in Space is on Saturday night on MeTV at 1 a.m. on Spectrum (and maybe Fios) along with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants and The Time Tunnel. They might have ran "It's about Time" in the past too. Antennae and MeTV brings me back to my childhood. I'm still glad they kept these shows alive in the archives.
Wow ..#3 Dick McAuliff, our Tigers 2nd baseman !! Will never forget his "foot in a bucket" swing... miss you Dad ! Thanks for this great trip back, again.
@@fromthesidelines Yeah, I was allowed to stay up a few minutes past bedtime, until 8:15, to see Rowlf. I remember more than once dragging my feet up the stairs because he hadn't been on yet. OTOH, maybe you were young enough to enjoy Muppets on Sesame Street. I was Too Old for such kid stuff by then, don't ya know! ; )
@@fromthesidelines I watched Jimmy Dean's syndicated series in the '70s; I had heard that he had had a show on ABC, but I didn't get to see it until a few years ago, when it re-ran on RFD-TV. It came to me at just the right time; I love classic country music.
I would love to know much a 65 Mustang would have cost. Remember Larue drove on on Gidget. And I still love watching A Charlie Brown Christmas and Lost In Space.
Although it doesn't sound like Anne Francis's heart was really in it. (I'll cut her a little slack though. Probably the 43rd station promo she had to shoot that day.)
FYI-Days Of Our Lives is still on the air, celebrating its 53rd anniversary this last November. While the original title graphic is correct, I believe the original hourglass was squattier and sat on a table. The taller hourglass against the solid background (blue, now CGI brown/gold) debuted for the 71/72 season, IIRC
Thanks for posting this. WFAA-TV, channel 8 in Dallas, still has the same call letters & ABC affiliation. I figure as a larger market station, it carried ABC's color programs in color. A few years earlier many ABC affliates (and CBS & a few NBC affiliates) in smaller markets didn't have the ability to carry color programs, even to pass through network color programs. WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV), channel 5, NBC affiliate out of Ft. Worth, was colorcasting going back to 1954, even before NBC that did very much. If you see the NBC coverage of the JFK Assassination, you can see the local updates from WBAP-TV in color, while all the other NBC coverage was in B&W, at least for the first 2 hours. The man giving some of these updates, Charles Murphy, said on a local program on the 50th anniversary coverage in 2013 that NBC asked WBAP-TV to stop broadcasting its local coverage in color, as it was embarrassing the network, at least for those people who had color tvs in 1963.
I just watched the episode shown in the thumbnail yeaterday ! It is from an episode of Lost in Space. That is Michael Rennie in a guest appearance as The Keeper !
One could argue that Detroit's circa 1955 to 1976 obsession with fluff and emotion, typified by this flimflam Mustang spot- cost them their #1 position in auto making. Like many things, impossible to prove or disprove- you can't replay history with different choices.
Rolf wasn't the first Muppet (Kermit and all the "Sam and friends" crew were), but Rolf was the first one of many built for Henson by Don Sahlin from then to his untimely death in the late 1970s.
Christopher U.S. Smith The first Muppets were for commercials for Wilkins coffee in the Washington D.C. area. Jim Henson went to the same high school as my sister in Maryland. (BTW, you can still see the ad's on youtube.)
I love the video with Dick McAuliffe hitting a home run in the 1965 All Star game. One of my favorite players on the Detroit Tigers, they were my favorite team growing up.
Great job is always. I like that they let off with The Flintstones in color and then showed it in black and white. The gruesomes were the best episodes. I just watched an episode of The Flintstones last night and it was a dino episode Dino really was cool my doberman is almost as cool but not quite
Not really. There were only three network shows on. On CBS, Lost in Space not only survived going up against Batman, but thrived. On NBC, they had the Virginian and it lasted longer than Batman.
*The blonde girl behind 'EP' @**4:55** was one of his 'Girlfriends of the Month'...she went sailing with him and played tennis frequently...he 'liked' her because not only was she 'Hot' she was also quite an athlete* (maybe the novelty of being with a '6-ft. Tomboy' got to be too much for him and he felt threatened by a woman that was his physical equal in sports and likely too 'demanding' in bed for his ego)
It's funny, sometimes I remember the commercials more than I do the show. Probably a result of my Dad having control of the remote, my brother and I being the remote, during prime time hours.
