@@DouglasGreenough-dc2sdAside from starring as Shirley Partridge in “The Partridge Family,” she starred in the musical films “Oklahoma,” “Carousel,” and “The Music Man.” Non-musical films include “The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father,” “The Cheyenne Social Club,” and “Elmer Gantry,” for which she won an Academy Award.
@@harrisgoodman1564 Harris, would you also look up when did Hitler invade Poland, stock market crash, why did newspaper say Dewey won election, and why were there 2 Darrins on Bewitched, and get back to me? Like Douglas, I don't feel like looking things up.
Well it was a different world as far as we thought but even back then the elite cabal were working on their devious plan to unhinge humanity. Televisions were made for brainwashing the public. TELL A LIE VISION. That is why we are in the mess we are in now. People don't want to wake up and realise they have been conned with the plandemic and everything. I have neighbours who refuse to listen to me about the demonic secret societies that run the world like the freemasons and what evil was found in the vatican and that the pope and cardinals were arrested trialled and executed years ago and that clones are in place of people of prominence that have been dealt with through military tribunals. So much more is going on in the background. But everyone will know soon because the play is coming to an end and there will be an EBS globally explaining everything. We have been in the world's biggest war EVER but it has been mainly galactic and underground so people have not woken up. Say goodbye to your fave movie stars and musicians - all worked for the cabal CIA and practised some sickening crimes against humanity.
she was lovely.. as many an engenue.. they start out and the good ones take hold.. l think barbara eden was the most lovely.. then raquel welch (but was mostly movies..) but wowza.. then daryll hannah (splash, clan of the cave bear) and kim basinger (nadine, marrying man, 9½ weeks).. those were some stunning women.. nd yes l know lm dating myself.. hah
This pilot was made around the same time as Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie started. I’m sure they were trying to capitalize on the successful plot of the beautiful woman whose supernatural powers sometimes help her man and sometimes get him into trouble; but it all works out in the end. That being said I really enjoyed this pilot and wish it would have gotten picked up. I love 1960s television shows. As luck would have it, about six years later Shirley Jones landed the role of Shirley Partridge on “The Partridge Family” and the rest is television history.
@@Cg41418 Keeping the husband clueless would have worn out the audience in four episodes. Dr. Bellows and Mrs. Kravitz at least had enough brains to be suspicious, which made it an interesting little game. What's odd about this show is that everyone in it, including Shirley, is actually a jerk.
Then again, if this had been a hit in 1965, who's to tell whether she would have starred in the Partridge Family with David Cassidy in 5 years from then. If she wasn't cast (and I do believe she was the first one the producers wanted), then the whole series may not have gone ahead and if that was the case, think of the different timeline David would have been on. He was so huge in the 1970s, more popular than the Beatles. I also find it interesting to contrast the making of this and the Partridge Family - how different they both were. For one thing, this one seems more like a 1950s sitcom and when you see the colour and the slightly more modern feel of the Partridge Family, it is hard to fathom when only 5 years separated the two.
Shirley is one of those "special" people who were destined to share her talent with the human race. Everything she did was executed with beauty, poise and grace. She just carried it around with her without having to try.
Jack was no slouch himself. Even as a child, I thought he was incredibly debonair. Who would have guessed, in just a few years, I - along with millions of other girls - would be in love with his son. Ahhh, that face, that voice, that hair - what a perfect storm - I still love him! 💞
Shirley Jones, Miss Pittsburgh, is a class act!. I loved her in Rodger and Hammerstein's Oaklahoma, as well as her roll in The Partridge Family. I think she did a superb job in this pilot as well, and the show itself was well done. I'm surprised that no studio picked it up.
I guess the short hair made her look older and more maternal, a better fit for the mom role on Partridge Family -- she's really beautiful with longer hair....
@@SashazurTruth! Being Suzy Homemaker was overrated. Take a job as a domestic, babysitter, gardener, chauffeur, counselor, and intimate partner, just to start & you'd get the idea. With no pay. You were a wife, not a person. Known as "Mrs" John Doe. This is fantasy which is why guys love it. Now we have a choice which path we choose . Much better.
I had a crush on her when I was about 15 watching reruns of The Partridge Family. I told my friends I liked Susan Dey because I was afraid they would think Shirley was an old lady! 😆 I never knew about this pilot.
Shirley Jones rocked this pilot!! I wish it would have been picked up by a network. My family would have watched! ❤ Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸 05/28/2024
I forgot all about that show! Seems like it wasn't on very long, I only remember seeing it a couple of times. Wasn't John Davidson her love interest in that?
@@SOLE2SOUL Yes, John Davidson co-starred on the show with Sally. They played recently married couple John & Sally Burton. Series ran for 22 episodes from 193 to 1974.
I always had a special place in my heart for Shirley Jones. I grew up with her as Shirley Partridge of the Partridge Family. She was like a dream mother to me. Perfect smile, deep soulful eyes. She had and has such a stylistic personality that is so appealing..... I think she must have been the perfect wife as well. Watching her on tv gave me a sense that the world had potential to be a safe understanding place for us all. God bless her!
Thanks for posting, great quality, enjoyed it a lot. The actor playing the son, Kelly Corcoran, was in a family full of acting siblings. Kevin “Moochie” was in several Disney films. Noreen was on “Bachelor Father.” Donna was with Marilyn Monroe in “Don’t Bother to Knock.” Brian was in “Babes in Toyland.”
Speaking as a former sack of groceries the view from the back of a station wagon was great! Particularly the view of a somewhat older blue Ford that ran a light and clipped the drivers rear quarter. Oddly though my memory doesn't include the moment of impact. Just before and after.
Hi Jeffsabu, thank you for the memories - thank you for bringing us back to a time of innocence, values, and freedom (before the war, that is). We were not perfect but we did have boundaries and guidance - May God help us all, Ciao, L (Veteran, Baby Boomer)
Yes, I thought she had a similar Montgomery look here. She really is gorgeous. That mom haircut in the Partridge Family was choppy and didn’t do her justice.
Rosemary DeCamp became "Ann Marie's" mother in "That Girl!" two years later and "Shirley Partridge's" mother, "Mrs. Renfrew," three years after that. Small world!
And Ted Bessel, who plays the awful law partner and sexual harasser in this, thankfully played the much better human being Don, Anne Marie’s boyfriend in That Girl.
100th comment. My parents would have watched this show! Shirley Jones is adorable, and the cast was great. I saw many of them in past and future TV shows. It was sort of a hybrid of Jeannie and Bewitched with a little more "normal" approach! Like it!
This is really "Bewitched" even down to the husband looking like Dick York. Shirley Jones is very pretty and Samantha-esque. And good ol' Hank Kimball as the parking attendant. Even a healthy amount of Black folk in here. The Black mom with the Supremes hair at the school meeting was a treat haha. Keep the rarities coming, love your channel.
I recognized Alvy Moore from his many memorable character roles in the movies over the years, including: The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) The War of the Worlds (1953) The Glory Brigade (1953) The Wild One (1953) Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) Susan Slept Here (1954) 5 Against The House (1955) Screaming Eagles (1956) Designing Woman (1956) The Persuader (1957 - William Talman as twin "good guys" right before he struck it rich on "Perry Mason"!) The Perfect Furlough (1958) For Love or Money (1963) Believe it or not, Alvy Moore was 43 years old when he played the parking attendant in this unsold pilot.
Nice to see John Abbot (Sesmar in Lost in Space), and Barton MacLane (General Peterson in I Dream of Jeannie). Shirley was an extreme outlier. If this was ever released as a full TV series, I would definitely buy it. 1963-1966 are my favourite years for new U.S. TV series.
Yes, in those 4 years we got: *Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, Green Acres, The Munsters, That Girl, The Addams Family, Batman, Gilligan's Island, McHale's Navy, Get Smart, Lost In Space, Family Affair, The Monkees, The Green Hornet, The Patty Duke Show, F Troop,* and, *Star Trek.* Amazing to think how much enjoyment those 18 programs have given us over the last half century. The only one that wasn't my cup of tea was, The Patty Duke Show. But my big sisters loved it! And I know it was a quality show. I just didn't relate to it. My Top 3 among these are: *1) Hogan's Heroes 2) Star Trek 3) Bewitched!*
I think this could have worked. The writing always gets better as the actors and writers get to know the characters better. But none of the shows following would have been the same. Maybe Donald would have been played by someone else in That Girl. And maybe the partridge family might have had another mother. But she is so beautiful in this show. I'm glad i got to see it.😊 Thanks uploader.
That show was adorable. It is a shame they didn't go with it. Certainly a lot better than some shows. No wonder I didn't see her on TV until Partridge Family.
Never heard of this since it was unsold. Interesting~ I think Shirley reminds me of blonde Naomi Watts when she smiles a bit! Thanks for posting this! Hard to believe that she's gone from her early 30s here to her late 80s now, how time flies!
They greenlighted, "My Mother the Car" because that was more believable to the viewing public. I wish I had what the executives were smoking that day. Cute pilot, with a little tweeting this could have been fun. I would have allowed the husband to know and have her help. But I'm not a TV executive with extensive knowledge of what the viewing public would like to watch.
the show talks about a rec center with olympic pool , bowling alley & 4 baseball diamonds . they tore down an old school in my hood and build a huge factory type building on the big football field where there was a diamond on the side too , now they'll be lucky to get a small field in . they talk about kids sitting at games and phones and being obese at 8 years old but this is what school boards are doing today
This show had potential the only problem is the lack of explanation of how Eliza can hear the thoughts on certain individuals sight unseen and so far away.....
I think she reads minds from a distance through her husband…he was at the party and last year at Christmas time when she was at her mother’s home in San Fran.
My mother looked very much like a young Shirley Jones, I really liked her hair long....too bad this series didn't get picked up, it looked really fun!!
Not born yet till ‘69, but sometimes I wished I had been a housewife. I think I would have been great at it. Especially the life of Samantha on “Bewitched ”, my favorite show.
I met Shirley Jones once...on the set of the Partridge Family. She said, "hi." It was a riveting conversation. But later that afternoon, I played Frisbee with Bobby Sherman, who was a guest on the show that day. He was a brave guy.... the Frisbee went on the roof of a studio and he climbed up the ladder on the side of the building to fetch it. Sounds like I've led a boring life, huh?
Yes, that's what I was thinking of when I saw it. And Slade must have liked Shirley Jones too, as she starred in THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY. Of course, what's not to love?
@@fivemile13 Partridge Family was really a family business. Jack Cassidy was trying to get a job for his son to break into the business...they didn't tell him his step mother was already cast as Mom. Screen Gems wanted to replace The Monkeys which the producers had destroyed on purpose with the psychodelic Monkeys movie that was written with Jack Nicholson over a drugged up weekend. Hollywood is weird. Jones is about 31 here. She around was 36 when cast as the Mom of 18 and 16 year old teens.
Laugh tracks were an essential part of sitcoms {and several Saturday morning cartoons during the 1960's and '70s, thanks to Fred Silverman at CBS} from the 1950's until a few years ago. Very few of those chose not to use them.
Fantastic - ESP was a hot news item around that time, also referenced in the second 1966 Star Trek pilot. Great to see Shirley Jones before The Partridge Family as well as others including John Abbott also later in Star Trek.
Thank you for Dream Wife, starring Shirley Jones before The Partridge Family and the short-lived series, Shirley. By this time, Jones took a break from doing movies and concentrated on television. Ted Cassell was a year away from playing Don Hollinger opposite Marlo Thomas' Ann Marie on That Girl. I guess a normal housewife with telepathy didn't sell with CBS executives in 1965 when this was shot. However, I always thought of how beautiful Shirley Jones was in her prime. She's now 90, if you can believe that.
At first I thought this was going to be a unsold Screen Gems pilot (particularly since Shirley Jones would later star on "The Partridge Family" for Screen Gems), and was expecting that familiar "S From Hell" logo at the end, but I stuck around for the closing credits and was surprised to discover it was an MGM production! Too bad they couldn't have sold this, Shirley would have rivaled Elizabeth Montgomery and Barbara Eden real well, Instead, she became a mother of a rock & roll band based on The Cowsills, which The Cowsills didn't get because they wanted their own mother, Barbara Cowsill to play Shirley Partridge. Screen Gems said no, and they hired Shirley to do the part.
Have you noticed that the parking lot attendant was Alvy Moore before he became Mr. Kimball on Green Acres? Also, this was probably the first ever Sitcom to feature someone with psychic powers.
Thank you for posting this, it was so beautiful. It reminded me of my childhood. Even the bit where she's at home and gets the orange juice for her son is so sweet. What a pity they didn't make more of them. 'Not for broadcast' it says, but I was so pleased to watch this now. In our day and age, we need things like this more than ever.
Awesome! And how interesting to see Rosemary DeCamp as Ted Bessell's mother when she would later become his mother-in-law on THAT GIRL! The show is a bit sexist, but of its time. Love the way she dumps her kid in the back of the station wagon, just like we all went back in the day.
A Bewitched clone, but so was IDOJ. Shirley’s talent, charm, and charisma could have carried this show through the rest of the 60s. Just in time for the Partridge Family. 🎉
Imagine having a middle upper class life back then. Having a dishwasher when 90% of ppl don’t. And a dish washer when most don’t. And marriages lasted. Ppl actually stayed married .
He doesn't know she has that power. It's only a nightmare for him if he knows it, or if she abuses it. Obviously in a light-hearted sitcom like this, had it gotten picked up, Lisa would not have abused her ability. And he never would've found out. The show had a cool premise, I wish it had been bought.
This was produced for consideration for CBS' 1965-'66 schedule. They passed on it, and was never telecast. The one "fantasy" sitcom the network *did* schedule that season (after "BEWITCHED" became the #1 new sitcom on ABC the previous season) was "THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS SHOW" {Dick's a publishing executive; brother Tommy's a fledgling angel}, which lasted one season. By the way, Bob Kaufman submitted a script for "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in late 1965, "Oh, Them Golden Slippers". Creator/producer Sidney Sheldon liked the idea, but NOT the script. He offered to buy it from Kaufman- provided he rewrote it, and share screen credit with him. Bob agreed- and the final version became "My Master, the Thief".
Did you know that Screen Gems asked Sidney Sheldon to be the producer of "BEWITCHED" before the series began production? They showed him the pilot- and he thought about it before he decided to produce his own programs [under his Screen Gems contract]. Besides, in the case of "twins", Sidney created the format (and wrote the majority of episodes) for "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW"- identical cousins- which Bill Asher originally produced and directed in its first season. Later, Asher helped introduce "Cousin Serena" in a season two "BEWITCHED" episode. Then, in the fall of 1967, Sheldon introduced Jeannie's devious twin sister....which Asher accused Sidney of stealing the idea from him.
