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Bobby Sherman turned eighty years old today! We watched the show every week. I was ten in 1969 - Brides and Room 222 were must watch for a lot of families.
@@Bercyable I also had a major crush on Karen! Somebody finally uploaded what looks like every episode of Room 222 to RU-vid. I've been watching, lots of great memories.
Think she was in a few "Love American Style" too. She was just the perfect student teacher. But really 222 touched on lots of issues not dealt with previously.
@@Bercyable Exactly. Since I've been watching it so many years later, 222 was actually groundbreaking for the era. They tackled teen pregnancy, drugs, alcohol, race relations, etc. They did it with straight ahead honesty, didn't pull any punches.
My family and I really enjoyed this show hated to see it canceled. The Bolt brothers were always involved in something going on in Seattle or they were always busy trying to save their mountain where they were harvesting timber to sell to Stemple, who was always trying to get their mountain in any underhanded way.
Loved this show! I was in 8th and 9th grade,and had pics ofBobby, David and the rest of the cast all over my bedroom walls! I still make clothing like that!
Have enjoyed watching the re-runs...Well acted and nicely written show...I'm 74 and was in 'Nam from 1967-70 so I missed out on the original run...Also missed out on the last half of the last year of The Fugitive...BUT thoroughly enjoyed all the original showing of The Outer Limits and the best show ever-The Twilight Zone!..
I was one of those who watched the show in Seattle. I was 5--6, and watched it with my mother and older brother, and we all loved it. For years after the show left the air, local radio stations continued to play Como's rcording of "Seattle" ( I don't know if they still do). It would be the perfect time for a roboot of this wonderful, fact-based show.
I was in eighth grade in a small town in Northern Canada when the show was canceled. Most of the girls in our grade signed a petition to bring the show back which was then sent to KOMO in Seattle. We really thought that our 50 or so signatures and imassioned pleas would be just what the channel needed to see to reverse their decision. We were heartbroken when it didn't work!
I was between seven and nine when this show ran, and its theme-song is (pleasantly) a permanent part of my musical memory. My mind's ear replays this song regularly, even now in my sixth decade. 😊💜 (It has a certain turn-of-melody that makes me feel like I've topped a rollercoaster peak at high speed and I'm suddely weightless for a few moments. There are a few melodies that give me that odd but exhilarating sensation.)
Thank you for talking about here comes the brides my late mother adored this show she was 13 In 1968 when it came on and she said it taught her how to be marriageable just like the brides and how be a good wife she wasn't a Bobby Sherman fan she just love the show but you're right the quality of season 2 is bad she did not like season 2 she always loved the first season she passed away from cervical cancer in April 2018 but if she was alive she would thank you for talking about her number one favorite show ever and I thank you so very much because as long as we talk about the show my mom spirit will live on😇
I was 2 years old when this show came out. I remember watching it. Had a crazy crush on Bobby Sherman. When I was a little older I would beg my mom to buy the cereal the had the cut out record of one of Bobby’s songs. She let me play it on our mid century media center. Good times!
@@FactsVerse I was too little and can’t remember specific episodes, but remember how the show made me feel so happy and of course how cute Bobby Sherman was.
Bobby was on Boxes of POST Raisin Bran ! They also had the Archies on HoneyComb and Sugar Crisp . Sugar Crisp also had The Sugar Bears. On Puffa Puffs Rice - they had The Monkees. (I collect old cereal boxes -- so I know all this !) . Also LOVE Quisp and Quake !
We had it translated in french in Québec and was obsessed with it. Well, mostly obsessed with Bobby Sherman. Even today in my 60's, I might still be in love with him. No, rectify that... I am still in love with him. ❤❤❤
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@@harperstacey9604 oh he appeared in many tv shows. One of my favorites was an episode of "Colombo" "Playback" with Oskar Werner, Jena Rowlands and Martha Scott.
Sadly two of the main cast members - Bridget Hanley and Robert Brown have died not that long ago. Hanley in late 2021 and Brown in September. Some friends and I were watching the pilot episode of the show and we were cracking up at the "1800s eastern women" because it - like Gunsmoke, Bonanza and a few other westerns of the era made it look like Carnaby Street! Hahaha!
Sadly only two of the main stars of HCTB are still alive. Bobby Sherman and David Soul. Robert Brown /96/ and Susan Tolsky /79/ both died 2022 (as mention). Dec 15th, 2021; Bridget Hanley died of Alzheimer’s at 80 years old. Back in 2019; Mitzi Hoag who played Miss Essie /86/ died Feb 26th, 2019. Bo Svenson /81/ who played Big Suede and became Miss Essie husband is still alive as of 2/11/23. We lost Capt Clancy (Henry Beckman) /86/ June 17th , 2008. Mark Lenard -Aaron Stemple- died Nov 22nd, 1996 @ 72. Joan Blondell was by far the oldest on the show (born 8/30/06) died on Christmas Day in 1979, she was 73. While paired with Clancy (Henry Beckman), she actually was 15 years older; she born in 1906 and he 1921. I see by the many tributes to show; many here (like me) probably thought of the show Brides characters as “relatives” or friends. The actors/actresses, the storyline(s) and the music /Hugo Montenegro/ was top notch. I read some on the show and the cast got along very well and enjoyed working together - AND IT SHOWED.
I didn't watch the show, as it came out when I was 8 and couldn't understand it. But I LOVED the theme song in those days! I just started watching them on RU-vid recently. I really enjoy them!
It's a shame that so many people were out of work because of bad decisions by a few bone-head TV executives, who no doubt kept their jobs while their victims got unemployment.
TV is really an advertising medium, ratings decide what stays or goes, ratings make shows profitable due to ad revenues, if you don't get that, the show goes away,
This was my favorite show growing up. My Dad and I used to sit on the couch and watch it together. I had a crush on Bobby Sherman and his posters were on my walls in my room. They don't make good shows like this any more.
Typical network suits doing what they do best: screw up a sure thing. "You know we got a real winner here so let's change the format and move it to Friday's where our core audience is not at home".
My favorite memory from the show was when Jason Bolt gave an educated woman his spiel about Seattle. When he mentioned the low amount of annual rainfall, she pointed out Seattle was a mud hole and gave the average number of days out of the year it has rain.
I can't remember any episodes, but I loved that show when it was on the air over 50 years ago. Bobby Sherman was a pop star at the time and I liked his singing.
@@FactsVerse Around 1972, my family and I went to the wax museum in Seattle, and there was a display of the three main ladies in the show, standing on their front porch. Next to it was a photo of Seattle from the time the real Mercer girls lived in town...and there was the real house they lived in. The show used an EXACT REPLICA of it.
the amazing thing is how many people remember the show even today and it finds a new audience once people see it, so sorry the cast of the show doesn't know this, they would be very pleased I am sure, they are all missed
Loved this show, and still do. In the late 90's, I ran the HCTB Fan Club. I also became friends with most of the cast. Of the cast, only Bobby Sherman and Bo Svenson, and the two kids Eric Chase and Patti Cohoon, are still alive today, ❤❤❤❤
I was one of those prepubescent girls in love with Bobby Sherman who adored the show. Until Donny Osmond came along and stole my 13 year old heart away. But Bobby still has his own claim on a corner of that heart too. I wanted to be Bridget Hanley. I thought she was so lovely. Wonderful memories!
I could never forget this series. I had such a crush on Bridget Hanley. And I briefly followed "singing star" Bobby Sherman"...who was followed by David Soul. In fact, Bobby's first wife-in real life-was Carnell. Back in the '70's, I'd challenge there was a prettier girl in So. California. For whatever reason/s, she and Bobby divorced. Sadly, she ended up married to David...I'll only say she came in to my shop with a blackened eye at least once. I'd become friends were her father during that time period. Anyway, at Columbia Ranch, they used "the pond" at the NE corner or the acreage for filming. Sometime in the late '60's, they had some kind of fair on the property and a fire started and burned out much of that corner. A devlopment company had wanted that corner (facing Verdugo & Hollywood Way) and ended up buying it from Columbia. Ironically, I ended up working at the Alpha Beta that was built on the spot near where my own grandfather had worked as a property manager from the very beginning until 1960. I guess life does ocme with some strange tie ins among family members. But I should note the Three Stooges filmed on that lot and used to come out through the gate on Pass Ave. I don't know if that small gate is even still there. rl
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Hi. I don’t really have a most memorable one,but I especially like the scene where Josh and Jeremy sing the Christmas song. In fact I’m gonna watch it right now.
Yes it ran from the Fall of ‘68 to the Summer ‘70, two seasons. I wrote the Network as did so many others when it was canceled. The change in time slot on a Fri night caused a drop in ratings. I thought some of the second years scripts weren’t as good as the first.
I watched HCTBS all the time and I'm still watching it on my laptop and tablet. They don't show it anymore , too bad. My family also used to watch it even though they never saw it before because they weren't born yet but they did like when they first watched it. I loved Jeremy and Candy together but I kept waiting for them to marry, I think everybody did. My favorite episode was Jeremy stopped stuttering, that's just one of my favorite ones, in reality I loved them all.
That was a very good one, it all came down to having faith in himself. It was the one with the floods and Mervin the Magnificent came to town and stopped the rain, until he didn’t.
10 the show is set shortly after the civil war, as was mentioned in the pilot; 2) the Bolt brothers owned a lumber company and aaron Stempel owned the lumber mill; 3) Mark Lenard played Sarek before being cast in HCTB; 4) the show was canceled by Leonard Goldberg (of Spelling/Goldberg Productions) when he became head of ABC and canceled many of his predecessor''s shows. While the show had gone down in ratings and was on the bubble, pre-production had begun on a third season. The source for most of my information ismy friend the late Joanie Winston, a former executive at ABC at the time. Interestingly enough, Joanie and her friends ran the first Star Trek cons and wrote 2 books about Star Trek - Star Trek Lives and The Making of a Star Trek Convention
I watched HERE COME THE BRIDES re-runs on Los Angeles television as a kid, just when Bobby Sherman's teen idol popularity peaked. Although based on a part of American history HERE COME THE BRIDES, just like the musical SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, was also inspired by the Roman legend of "the capture of the Sabine women"; a situation of too many bachelors and not enough females to go around.
I couldn’t understand the cancellation back then. I don’t remember the shift from comedy to action. I was part of the babysitting crowd on Friday nights. This is what we watched! As teenaged girls we didn’t get sent the little Nielsen ratings books to fill out. However, many of us signed petitions to keep it on the air! I’ve never seen a rerun and don’t really want to do that my idealized memories to be broken. However, I did see Bobby Sherman and David Soul in concert! Still have my 45’s and albums! Those I cherish!
Lived in Seattle when this first aired and I was around 9 years old. I just remember my dad walking through the TV room laughing when he heard the song "the bluest skies..." as we usually saw rain out our windows. But yes, when it wasn't raining, one sure appreciated that blue sky. It was a fun show and great family entertainment.
Thanks to this show, anyone who had never been to Seattle actually believed Seattle was on the coast. No, it is on Puget Sound, not the Pacific Ocean!!! 😖😵💫🥴
Joan Blondell fan. That they would take a powerful winning show, tamper with its basic appeal and then show it at the worst time of the week..... only TV producers could sink into such idiocy.
The "Bobby Sherman, my butt" comment made me laugh out loud (or 'lol' as youngsters would type)! I love honesty and a good reaction and you ladies are wonderful at both, thankyou. The classic example of a handsome man vs a pretty boy (no disrespect intended). Also, as a general comment, it's always great to see women who are great actresses (does that word still exist?) as well as being pretty and HCTB had more than it's fair share of them.
You missed two other Star Trek connection: Robert Brown guest stared in the Star Trek episode, “The Alternative Factor.” and Kathryn Hayes from “A Kiss For Just So” appeared in the Star Trek episode “The Empath”
I guess I watched the first rerun because I saw it when we came back from Okinawa in 1971-1972 & 1972-1973 when we lived in Spokane Washington. I was 12-14. Bobby Sherman was my first crush.
I can't remember if all the characters had theme music but I can still recall the bittersweet tune they played whenever Essie the School teacher was in a scene. Can't find it on RU-vid though. Yeah my sisters had a crush on Bobby and David also.
Was running through some older shows who's theme songs I remembered and happened on to your video. I loved the show, even if I was pretty young. Never knew the situation with it. I remember reading the ST novel Ishmael, and being gobsmacked as I realized the tie in! Now I need to find out where the show is showing nowadays so I can enjoy it again.
I really enjoyed this series, although it's odd to think of this as taking place in the 1890's instead of the late 1860's. The women's clothes and hats seem based on styles of the late 1860's - early 1870's. One episode featured the famed singer Jenny Lynd who died in 1887, before the supposed 1890's time-frame. Anyway, let's suspend our disbelief and enjoy the series lol. Even as a kid I saw Joan Blondell in movies from the 30's, 40's & 50's so I enjoyed seeing her in this series.
Also, in the first episode Lottie says to Jason something like "There's been a war Jason, and lots of decent ladies are looking for husbands". Thanks for spotting that 1867 ad and confirming what I've believed all along.
20 years ago I worked with Jungian therapist (Kris)tina Holland, who played a bride in at least 2 episodes. I was watching an episode on RU-vid and spotted an oddly familiar face. She also had regular role as Bill Bixby's personal assistant on The Courtship of Eddie's Father. I knew none of this until I had been seeing her for months. She seemed a bit shy and embarrassed about telling me about her acting career, I'll leave it up to you to figure out why.
>Clancy to crook>"His Bosphorus is broken! Crook>>Is that bad?>Clancy "There's nothing left but to call for a priest. Go to town and get Father Jason!" Or the episode where the Brides pull a Lysistrata on the boys to stop the brawling with Stemple's men. One of the loggers climbs a ladder outside one of the Dormitory window and calls one of the girls. Biddy opens the shutters and says" If only you'd called the right name...mine!" as she shoves his ladder over.😆
I loved Here Comes the Brides when it initially aired. I loved again when GetTV aired it on the weekends. Was very very disappointed and sad when Get TV took it off their station.
@@FactsVerse The pilot was terrific and was like watching the play “7 brides for 7 brothers” and the orchestration of Hugo Montenegro was excellent and fit the show like a glove! The writing and character development kept the show in the top ten all season!
I watched it faithfully when I was very young. I became a lifelong Joan Blondell fan because of it. My sister's infatuation with Bobby Sherman was insufferable.
I watched it faithfully when it originally aired, and loved it. Surprisingly, I didn't find myself enjoying it as much when I finally got to see it again years later....
I was just a kid, about to experience adolescence, when Here Comes The Brides was broadcast, and I first discovered it in summer reruns in 1969. If memory serves correctly, there was a softening of Mark Lenard's character, Aaron Stemple, but I cannot remember which of the brides became his sweetheart. Can anyone help me with this lapse of memory?
There was an episode in the 2nd season, Another Game in Town, where Aaron Stempel falls for a con woman running a "dance hall emporium", Patricia Vanderhoff. Other than that he was occasionally paired with Biddie, not that she was really his sweetheart, and there was mention of him dating other brides early on.
I just checked Merk Lenard in IMDB... 2 roles in Star Trek TOS: Journey to Babel (1967) ... Sarek Balance of Terror (1966) ... Romulan Commander Aaron Stempel in Here Come the Brides All 52 episodes (1968-70)
I see Joan Blondell was in this series. I did not know she had been a bigger star earlier in the 1930's in the movies. I liked this series but I was really little and rarely stayed up to see it because I think it wasn't on until 10 pm.
So, the "Because of this" was nothing more than network time slot shuffling? They should have left well enough alone. I was 5 or 6 When HCTB started. Naturally, I crushed on Bobby Sherman - he was so cute and about my height. Do you guys remember when he guest-starred on the Partridge Family? Purple shirt, leather choker...I giggled like an 8-year-old.
I'm 69 so Star Trek in the 60s and I was pretty young and Star Trek when it came back as there was a lot of negativity when it was canceled as well wait both my favorite shows. My sister and I and friends loved Bobby Sherman we just thought it was weird that the main girl character wasn't with Jason bolt Bobby Sherman looks too young and boyish for her. We all thought that. But also very interesting about the Star Trek commonalities I think besides myself no one ever knew that in fact I didn't even recognize that stimpel was Spock's father until watching this. This was a great review of the series
Never heard of this show before in my life. Perhaps I’ll check it out sometime. I sincerely hope that thing about the lords and ladies was a joke because it had me cracking up.
Loved it. The bit I remember is the long fist fight which was the "most violent" bit of TV after the debts of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luthor King. I was surprised they didn't mention appearance of Brown on Star Trek.
I own the second season on DVD. The first season is REALLY expensive, so maybe one day someone will gift me one! Love the cast but didn't care much for the changes in the second season.
ACTUALLY Star Trek was filmed in the early 60's and Here come the Brides came out in the late 60's I just looked them both up and their years overlap a little. Star Trek 1966-1969 and Here Come the Bride's 1968-1970
The actors didn’t know the show was being cancelled. They found out by word of mouth through the other actors. How horrible is that? I don’t believe the writers were aware of it either. They just left the series hanging in the end. Terrible way to end.
The series' rating fell not due to timeslot -- the core audience of young females would have followed the show wherever it landed -- but b/c they married off some of the key Brides beginning late in Season 1, effectively taking them out of the potential hookup mix among the cast and limiting possible story lines. The audience weren't there for the history or drama of a conventional Western (which format was all but dead anyway by 1970), but for the romantic plotlines and mystery that could prevail between a large cast of good-looking, unmarried people.
Adding those two kids - as Candy's little brother and sister - ruined so many of the episodes. There was no reason why the second series had to focus mainly on them, and their relationship with Candy, and not concentrate more on any of the Bolt brothers actually getting married. Fans were so hoping to see Jeremy and Candy get married...but it never happened, due to concentrating way too much on those two kids. That probably turned a lot of die-hard fans off of the show. Stupid producers and directors and network execs ruined what was an excellent series.
I wish you had mentioned the name of the actor who played Captain Clancy. I have been trying to remember his name for quite some time, but nobody ever mentions him. I remember watching the series in afterschool reruns.
@@FactsVerse That's a hard one. I think maybe the one where that guy gets killed because the workers were goofing around. It had a good moral and was very emotional.
