FALL TV 1965: PART I - THE COMEDIES 

I still love Green Acres☺ Thank you for wonderful memories.

My favorites! Remember I was seven and looked forward to many of these after seeing previews, along with lost in space and wild wild west

What a great time! We never missed Dean Martin. Remember Petula Clark singing Downtown on that show! Green Acres: “Oliver, I made flapjacks!” Jeannie was sweet. I was 10 and still happy then.

Wow!!!!! Being a 7 year old boy in 1965 was awesome. We had..... F- Troop......Hogan's Heroes....Get Smart...Green Acres....Gidget.....My Mother the Car....I Dream Of Jeannie. Of course there were some clunkers too. The John Forsythe Show? Mister Roberts? Camp Runamuk? These must have been on after my bedtime cause i never saw them haha.

This past March, I met the "real" Gidget at a guest ranch in Arizona. Her father wrote the books based on her beach-going, surfing experiences growing up in Southern California. She's 83 now and is doing fine. Her husband is a charming, sharp 92 year old.

"F Troop" was great during its first season. The second season just sputtered out.

Liked hearing the intro to F. Troop.

"Oh, Sarge". "I know nothing, nothing." "Sorry about that Chief." "But Master". "Oliver", and her cooking. Remembered a lot, some I saw in reruns, but some I don't remember at all.

This is when comedy was clean!

Is it me or does Larry Storch remind you of Mickey Dolenz from 'The Monkees'?

Superb television from a time we will never ever see again !!!!!

I love the Hogan's heroes intro

In 1965, not all of these shows were in color, despite how they're shown here. The full switch to all-color primetime network programs happened the following year, in the fall of 1966. I remember when it happened, and "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Gilligan's Island" changed to color.

I had a thing for Larry Stroch of F troop Richard Dawson and Robert Cleary of Hogans heroes

Had to be one of the greatest comedy seasons for staying power: F Troop, Hogans, Gidget, My Mother the Car, Green Acres, Jeannie, Smothers Bros., Dino; today's networks would salivate to get even one comedy show of this caliber today! Amazing and thanks for sharing! - Dr. Bill

Please Dont eat the Daisies was the only show my dysfunctional family watched together.

Green acres is still the funniest show ever

Even as children, we knew "My Mother the Car" was a lemon. After one season, it got junked.

Glad Hogans Heroes is on Me Tv.

Green Acres was by far the most intelligent of these comedies.

A great year in history too.

This was the greatest year for television comedy!!

I was never a fan of GREEN ACRES but I do find myself wondering how it was that Eddie Albert's character never figured out that you don't do farming in a three-piece suit and a tie...oh, that was the point?

Back when the intro segments were funny all by themselves!

I was 9. It was truly an incredible year for comedies. How about that early theme for I Dream of Jeannie? My mother loved Dean Martin and she watched this show religiously. Years ago I bought her the DVDs and made copies for myself--now if I can only find them. Never watched Camp Runamuck or OK Crackerby, but remembered seeing them in the listings. Don't remember Hank o at all, but looks like it was a cool show. Knew the song Tammy by Debbie Reynolds.

F Troop was shown in color in season two (1966-67)

Eddie Albert was such a wonderful actor. I am so glad he continued acting well into his later years. Lived to be 99. My hero

Green Acres was an absurdist masterpiece.

The intros were short stories in song & all unique to their respective shows...TV really took a turn over the orchestrated themes previously

Dean Martin Show was very loosey goosey because Dean never rehearsed and just did the show cold reading off cue cards.

I was born in 65!!! I am old I know but I don't care th is is so cool.

I had just started third grade that fall. But I didn't become a Green Acres fan until the Molly Turgis episode. And I've been a Green Acres fan ever since!

The "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" title is colorized (originally seen in black and white during its first season). Sidney Sheldon, the creator/producer, WANTED to film it in color, but the studio refused to allow HIM to spend the extra money.

20 years after the war Germans were funny.

Oh and lest I forget: Get Smart too!!!!!

even when new some of those programs had terrible color

these were great. I really like the unsold pilots of the 60's. Can you do one for the 50's, 70's & 80's too?

Hogans heros Came on every Friday night 800 pm back in 1965

WHERE'S MY BIG TIME MOVIE? F-TROOP THE MOVIE!

I read on here that Melody from F Troop was just sixteen at the start of the program.

This was a pretty good year for new shows. Many of my childhood favorites started this year. I watched many of the shows in syndication later as I was too young at the time to remember them much. I thought Green Acres began a few years later than this.

It's strange seeing I Dream Of Jeannie in color. They used to show the colorized episodes until Antenna TV network acquired both Jeannie and Bewitched. They said they couldn't get the color episodes because of contract negotiations.

Mona McCluskey - the only show in history filmed entirely during an earthquake.

Camp Runamuck and Hank must have been obscure, never heard of either one.

Larry Storch was the last surviving member of the cast of "F Troop". Rest in peace, Larry.

Interesting that this version of the first theme song (Season 1) for "I Dream of Jeannie" is slightly different then the one actually used in the series.

it must have killed jerry lewis tht dean had a long running, popular variety show and everything jerry tried....failed

In a time with far fewer sources of entertainment, the premieres of new TV shows in the fall was exciting for kids.

Dean Martin ... a good variety show and, during the summers, instead of re-runs, he ran the Gold Diggers (some of the prettiest bare-tummy girls in the late 60s).

I was born in Sept 65 so these would all have been brand new then

For every Hogan's Heroes, there was either a Hank or Camp Runnamuck.

20 years after the war, and there were comedies about it. Amazing.

Hits: Hogan's Heroes, Get Smart!, Green Acres, I Dream of Jeannie, The Smothers Brothers 2 Seasons: F Troop, Please Don't Eat the Daisies?, Gidget?

Question: Is The Dick Kallman of "Hank", Dorothy Killgallen's husband? (same name)

I was born in 1965 lol

Did Sidney Sheldon ever contracted DePatie-Freleng to do the opening for I Dream of Jeannie?

It’s a toss up who’s been in more awful shows…Jerry Van Dyke or Sally Field

I thought Dean Martin was in color the first season

I can sing along with F Troop's song even now ... such riches, thanks for posting! :) Grandad was the only one who'd watch comedies with me, thanks G-dad.

Re "F Troop": I'd heard many years ago that Melody Patterson, aka "Wrangler Jane", was actually only about 16 at the time that show premiered, but I never got anything to confirm that. Thanks for posting this video - another great job! Damn, don't you have anything else to do besides these videos? (Just Kidding.)

I always hated F Troop.But I still love Ken Berry.And Hogans Hero's I loved that as a child in reruns, of course, I was only two-years- old in 1965.I also loved Get Smart. For a long time, I thought that the song 99 by Toto was dedicated to agent 99. The name Tammy became the number 1 baby name for girls about this time. Maybe that song popularised it? And I LOVE Gidget, they should have kept it on longer that one year. But Sally Field said it was too late after they cancelled it. The public loved it and wanted it back. They used to show Please Don't eat The Daisy's in reruns on maybe Nick At Nite? I still love the old I Dream Of Jeannie from 1965. Both in the original black and white and colorized. Barbara Eden says in her book that they wanted to film this season in color, but some idiot from NBC wouldn't hear of it.

All of these shows, if we watched them, were seen in glorious black and white. It would be another 3-and-a-half years before we stepped up to color TV. We could have afforded it, but the set we had was 3 years new and my dad wasn't quite sure of the color technology at the time of these shows, the mid 60's.

9:32 ``Paint it!``

Oh yeah, one more thing: It's interesting to me that in the "Green Acres" intro, that shot of Times Square features a Camel cigarettes sign, and Eva Gabor did TV ads for Camels in the early '50s. Weird co-inky-dink.

Which theme song was catchier, Get Smart or Green Acres?

Put on your thinking caps and name a particular child actress who would be part of a bunch a few years later.

A lot of these sitcoms when they aired were the first I ever watched around age 7. Many of these same shows I would then watch a many more times in syndication. Still love sitcoms to this day.

Tammy?

When you were 7 years old in 1965 like I was, F Troop was freaking hilarious.

The impression you get from these old television intros is the functioning family. You can tell there is a connect they make with the viewer. The message they try to send is, "that's just like us" to help the audience identify. A different world.

When F Troop is shown today,do they beep out redskin?

frank sinatra billed last...are you kidding?

I don't remember Camp Runamuck at all.

Larry Storch was one of my favorites

Wow, I loved every single one of these! Even named our cat Max, after Maxwell Smart! Thanks for the memories!

That's Bob Crane playing the drums in the theme music to Hogan's Heroes.

Did they miss the Kardashian show...

Did they expect adults to like these comedy shows ? Looking back,most of them in the 1960’s were silly then and utterly ridiculous today.

So many of these I never heard of and I was 15 at the time.

Better than this garbage that’s out today when tv was tv and I’m only 57 years old

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TV always boring.

TV 📺 was so cornie in the 1960s.