KABC-7 1973 In Search Of Mysteries Rod Serling 

A year after this was released, Rod Serling passed. He was possibly the most hard working and humble man in television.

Serling had one of the best narrator's voice ever.

Thank you for uploading. These old TV documentaries are so well made and interesting. Much better than the ones made today.

I watched this one debut, got to stay up late, w/o parents and everything! Rod Serling hosted the first one, maybe the 2nd, and suddenly passed away. And then Leonard Nimoy took over hosting the program.

It's insane how different the 70's were.

Even the Timex © ads were cool. Rest in paradise, Rod. You were the best. 💫✨🛸🎇✨

Mr. Serling left us far too soon.

I couldn't find the I really, really like this button. Thank you OVS.

I like these older type documentaries. Fascinating, don't you know! 🥳

Great honestly. The commercials OMG lol love it.

Another great video,,takes me back to my childhood,and started me on my own quest to find truth,,thank you rod sterling,for all you have done,and the legacy you have left behind,you might be gone,but your not forgotten..thankyou again for your great work

A great voice, a better time.....gone forever. We miss you Rod.

Timex did a live commercial with the watch strapped to a propeller blade of an outboard engine with prop lowered into a clear tank of water . The spokesman pulled the rope and it started up at high speed , He then stopped it and said , Let's see if it is still ticking . When the camera zoomed in the watch was gone and all they could find was a few small pieces in the bottom of the barrel . :O)

This is a time travel back to 1973,with commercials included, Timex

I am suddenly really hungry for a Timex watch

I remember the commercials from those days. The shows too. I always had an interest into the unknown that's guided my life. Question EVERYTHING!

The timex commercials are worth the watch alone

I love anything by Rod Serling. I used love programmes like this. Today I am more interested in Graham Hancock and the idea of an antediluvian civilization of ancient humans rather than aliens.

Originally telecast on January 31, 1974 at 8pm(et/pt).

Filmed and Copywrite 1973, it aired on NBC Thursday, January 31st, 1974, at 8pm pre-empting The Flip Wilson Show (and the tape is KNBC 4)

26:00 All you need is a system of measurement and a plan to scale. You wouldn’t necessarily need “an observer high in the sky”. I think ‘why’ is a more interesting question than ‘how’.

Thanks for posting. Please keep posting great content like this. I love stuff like this.

Ed Lauter ("The Longest Yard") in that final commercial.

I remember seeing these when I was a kid 👍👍👍

I bought a Timex watch ⌚

This looks exactly like a documentary called "The Outter Space Connection'.

I love night gallery

This is the same doc you've got posted as coming from KNBC-TV4 (1974)... that one is much better quality though!

I must’ve been to young, I remember Lenard Nimoy Spock

Great program; interesting artefact from the prehistoric days of television, when shows like this could still get legitimate airtime. My only gripe - and it is a serious one - is the stretching to "fake widescreen" during the up-convert to HD. For some reason people seem to equate "widescreen" with HD, which is not necessarily so.

Stay tuned for Ironside next on NBC

Right after "Ironside!"

Don't come after me they look like they come from outer space. Have watched numerous videos on this flight event and none have that quote.

I was 9 days old when this was telecast. I remember every episode too 😂. I mustve watched reruns with my Dad a few years later. If you like Rod Serling watch his interviews and Aldus Huxley interviews. They are incredible.

This series (along with the doco "Chariots of the Gods) is basically what turned me into the cynical creature I am today. I remember watching it when I was 10 & asking my Dad why they went to such lengths to twist things to suit their story. His answer was simple & factual - MONEY! Thanks for sharing it. I got a good laugh...

This was not part of the television series "In Search of, with Leonard Nimoy" That show began in 1977 a few years after these one off documentaries were produced. The In Search of series was produced by Alan Landsburg after the success of these documentaries that he also produced. Im tired of hearing people talk about Leonard Nimoy like he just took over the narration after the 3rd episode. That was a series that came after. These were one-off TV specials.

We are now living in the 5th dimension. Hey Rod !!!!!!!!!

Finally I see commercial s!!!

Maureen Arthur is the actress featured in the phone commercial at the end.

"It's After The End Of The World.Don't You Know That Yet?" (Sun Ra)

Hi Obsolete Video thanks for this classic very interesting documentary with one of my favorite writers & voices Rod Serling and for keeping the commercials IN! :) that was a nice touch! - I still like the analog magnetic tape formats like you, such as VHS can you please tell me what is the reason for "baking" the tape, what does it do or help? and if so do you know the time & temp for an oven tape batch?

This should be titled 'KNBC-4 1973 In Search Of Mysteries Rod Serling', given the NBC promo with Eddy King voiceover after the show's end, and the very brief shot of a KNBC ID at the very end of this clip. Meanwhile . . . this seems to be a de facto pilot for the syndicated 1976-81 "In Search Of" series hosted by the late Leonard Nimoy. Especially given that Alan Landsburg produced this one as well.

I kinda feel like I meed a new watch... any recommended brands?

...actually we are really close in Knowing. We are sitting in the degree of Knowing, and the answers are literally emerging. *You will Know, if you don't already.*

How do you spell sidly? Any information on it? I think I know where it came from.

Visitors from another planet built only in stone?

Read Macchu Pichu Was a refuge after the moon fell The oceans rose And that mountain was where the virrochocas lead people to safety

KNBC 4 Los Angeles 1974

Here’s what Some of the commercials should’ve sounded like. ‘ ladies and gentlemen here we are at the top of the great pyramid and we now throw the Timex watch. It goes careening down bouncing from block to block as it makes its way down bouncing and bouncing all the way to the ground striking the sandstone rocks all the way. Now here we are in ladies and gentlemen at the bottom of the pyramid now we see the watch let’s pick it up and examine it. Would you believe it ladies and gentlemen this timex watch is still ticking!! Now here we are at the Incan site where our crane is now lifting the upper stone block off and we now place the timex watch down on the lower block. Now we let our crane lower the other block again crushing the timex between these two massive blocks. Now let’s have the crane lift up the upper block and let’s remove this watch and examine. Just look at that ladies and gentlemen!! The Timex watch is still ticking!! Look at that Cave drawing Mr Serling was describing before the commercial ladies and gentlemen I think that was a drawing of a timex !! Now if we could just find a Timex watch in the ruins of these ancient sites instead of a Rolex it would be proof that the spacemen knew timex to be the best!!

I have a great suggestion: You can keep your ancient astronauts. And I keep my timex watch, which I love much much more than the ancient astronauts. Because timex watches beat everything.

At 53:53 mannequins commercial for ‘timex watches’. Early 70s perverted weirdness

Aliens still don't have computers. So what?

@0:24 a flat top of a mountain...any idea what's involved clearing and leveling a mountain top THAT size? Not to mention there NO evidence of removal of all the millions of tons of dirt that would have left trails all over the place like at mining sites, and where did they drop off the dirt and debris?

It all goes to show that back in the long past ancient 70's everyone was on LSD. Nixon was president and everyone had a timex.

I wear a Timex 😂

A mystery is a dead god Disponia🌹🌑👍 rest in the good news 🌹 okay bye

Maybe they were so sneaky They left idols to mislead their subjects

did that tv special aired on ABC or NBC tv in either 1973 or 74?

Manhattan Project

Incas no wheel concept.

titikaka

Is this a copie of chariots of the gods or vice versa?

Wall of faces like games of thrones Many face killer Cairn

The guy sounds like he's bored out of his mind 😴😆

Incas no alphabets.

I remember Rod Sterling not Serling .... Anyone else????

44:32 oxen, eagle, man etc. = 4 standards of the 4 houses of the 12 tribes of Israel

2:05 Nazi

My favorite show in the 70s aside from Sanford and Son.🛸👽🌍

🙄Any documentary that starts by citing the bible loses all appeal! 🥱