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Like several others I'll also add The Prisoner, with Patrick McGoohan. It was a 16-episode limited series, like they do nowadays. It's a surreal show about what happens after a spy leaves the agency, that dealt a lot with who we are as individuals. The last episode really stands out as bizarre and puzzling, but I like it. I think you could do a video about it since you cover the 60s.
You know it’s funny, when I was living through the 60s I couldn’t wait for the 70s. Now that I have lived through both I regard them as great eras of my life that can never be replaced or happen again, especially the 60’s. In spite of all the turmoil I think it was a golden time full of good living. Maybe it was because it was my childhood and teenage years. Golden years, for sure, there was SO much good happening. I wished I had known that, I would have lived better and happier knowing what I know now. Such is life. BTW, although there were many good shows back then with plenty of mindless silliness, my absolute, all time favorites were, Star Trek and Jonny Quest.
There was a show that lasted only two seasons (1966-67) but was really imaginative called The Time Tunnel produced by Irwin Allen. It concerned scientists Doug & Tony being transported to different time epochs via a time tunnel. They were trapped out of time trying to get back to the present. I watched it in syndication in the late 1970's on WFLD -Chicago.
@@hankbauer9277Yes! Invaders was a great show too. I read that Irwin Allen was disgusted with ABC being cheap with budgeting, so he pulled both those series and went to feature films.
Yes, the time tunnel! I was in fourth grade… I still remember the episode of Pearl Harbor where Tony runs into his boyhood self. And for sure, I remember the Krakatoa volcano episode because I had to do a report on that for school. I got a lot of my information from that episode.
It's almost impossible to watch something like this and resist the urge to share your own experience. I was born in 1966 so almost all of my television memories are from the 70s. And as you point out, the 70s probably had more shows from the 60s to watch than the 70s with reruns and such. Star Trek was enormous for me. As a child you're trying desperately to understand and operate in the world. The real world is just as fantastical and scary as space, the final frontier. They call it childhood "power fantasy". Imagining being Captain Kirk and triumphing with a mixture of wisdom and power was absolutely irresistible. And of course I watched almost all the shows you mentioned.
Thanks Matt… Nice trip down memory lane. You covered it all! I am a boomer (born 1957). It was a great time to be a kid. When people ask me what my childhood was like, I’d tell them to watch leave it to Beaver. Idyllic childhood in the San Francisco Bay area. When I was eight years old and my cousin was 10, we go to Giants baseball games by ourselves. No worries about getting lost or being harmed. So glad you mentioned “THEN CAME BRONSON”. I was 13 just getting into motorcycles I was so upset when they took that off the air. Because of your video, I’m going to go listen to “ Long Lonesome Highway” I believe Michael Parks hit the charts with that song Hey Matt, there’s an idea for you,do a video on TV theme songs that actually hit the charts. Unless you’ve already done that and I missed it. Thanks again for the memory trigger.
Besides many you mentioned, I loved: Drama: Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker! Drama: Flipper (the dolphin) Variety: Ed Sullivan Show Variety: Hollywood Palace (always had a musical group) Variety: Lawrence Welk (grudgingly, at my Grandparents' house) Mixed: Wonderful World of Disney Outdoor: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Western: Branded (Chuck Conners) Cartoon: Yogi Bear Cartoon: Huckleberry Hound Comedy: Dennis the Menace Music: American Bandstand Game: I've Got a Secret Game: What's My Line?
I dedicated my weekly 1960s rock radio show after The Monkees❤ I'm 24, and I grew up watching the 60s TV shows my folks introduced me to as a kid and I have a nostalgic place for I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, and the Brady Bunch.. but my huge passion is the Monkees. My roommates don't really understand my admiration, but i host a radio show on my free time all about how much i appreciate the 60s culture and music❤ Huge fan of your channel btw, thanks for all your wonderful content! The Raiders video is my favorite!🥰
As a kid who grew up in the 1960s, and graduated high school in 1972, there were so many TV series that ran virtually throughout the decade, and thus during my childhood, that ended about the time I left school 1971/1972) -- including Bonanza, the Ed Sullivan Show, Andy Griffith/Mayberry RFD, My Three Sons, the Beverly Hillbillies, and probably a couple of others I forget at the moment. Gunsmoke , a staple of my youth since I was born, ended in 1974. What a time, television-wise (and music-wise) for us kids!
@@markymark903 Ever see her as Sacagawea in "The Lewis and Clarke Story," with Charlton Heston?? LUCIOUS! Donna Reed was still beautiful when she was in her 70s.
Hi. Born in ‘66 and was fortunate to 1) live halfway between NYC and Philly and 2) pull in four UHF channels thanks to our gargantuan rotating roof-mounted TV antenna. As I result I spent an insane amount of the 70’s in the smorgasbord of 60’s reruns across those four channels. Personal faves: 1. Lost in Space (Angela Cartwright in season 3 with the short hair - good gawd almighty) 2. Bewitched - Liz Montgomery….. the gift that keeps on giving 3. That Girl - Marlo’s scratchy delivery gave me the tingles… 4. All those ScreenGems series that shared the Columbia Ranch - Gidget, The Flying Nun (clearly a Sally Field fan), The Monkees… 5. The Flintstones 6. Rocky & Bullwinkle (loved the Fractured Fairy Tales, and any time Boris and Natasha appeared). 7. Laugh-In (I couldn’t see it but I would crack open my bedroom door and listen from afar) 8. The Mothers-in-Law - I secretly wished my mother was Eve Arden Too many more (and even more humiliating) to list here lol
One thing about Hogan’s heroes is that Bob Crane’s death and later revelations about his extra curriculum activities has completely overshadowed the show.
Yes, the cast especially Werner Klemperer and John Banner were great, but for me Bob Crane's life and sad end are hard to ignore while watching the show.
The Outer Limits was waaayyy creepier than The Twilight Zone which tended towards fables, morality plays and camouflaged social criticism. The Outer Limits went for the jugular. The extremely creative use of expresionistic lighting, crisp black and white cinematography and unusual sound effects to create tension and unease in the viewer was brilliant; supremely effective in the episode "It Crawlwd out of the Woodwork".which still creeps me out today. As far as sitcoms go, well Matt, go stand in the corner for missing perhaps the greatest: The Dick Van Dyke Show. Great writing, brilliant comic timing, it still holds up today. Five stars out of five! Cheers.
Like you, I got into The Monkees in 1986. Such a great concept, so much fun. Wish there were more seasons. And it gave you a bit of a surreal insight into the 60s. It introduced me to the concept on an answering service. That was an eye-opener. We didn't have an answering machine ourselves, but I knew what one was, because of the Rockford Files. But an answering service was completely novel to me. Hogan's Heroes never gets old. Still holds up. Great show.
Adding a few more to your list: 77 Sunset Strip, Sea Hunt, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Denis the Menace, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Bat Masterson, Daniel Boone, The Persuaders, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Boris Karloff Presents, The Partridge Family, Mr. Magoo, Doctor Who (British), National Kid (Japanese), Topo Gigio (Italian).
Marlo Thomas was one of my first crushes too, along with Jeannie (Barbara Eden) and Agent 99 (Barbara Felton). In more recent years, my favorite ‘60s actress is absolutely Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) on The Avengers. Growing up in the ‘60s early ‘70s, I really enjoyed Hogans Heroes, The Jetsons, Adam 12, I Dream of Jeannie and Mannix.
A couple of my favorites Mr Ed It’s about time Land of the lost ( I tend to like the 90s version better) The ghost and Mrs Muir Clutch cargo (absolutely absurd cartoon) And for a soap opera Dark Shadows ! Matt, you gotta watch Green Acres again the show was well written. Poor Mr Douglas was the only sane one in that asylum. The reason everyone was so happy on the Andy Griffith show is no one was married, except Otis and he was drunk !
Matt, you and I are about the same age and I live in the 60s every day. I really enjoy your videos. I too grew up watching those reruns and miss the days of independent tv channels. Just a shout out to some of my life-long pet shows: Star Trek, The Wild Wild West, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Munsters and Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in. What an era!
Great reviews Matt. Early 60s birth here so I remember a lot of these. Glad you showed respect for Leave It To Beaver. We watched a lot of the episodes recently on Roku and it was tremendously enjoyable. I know it gets made fun of, but it was a series through the eyes of a young person (Beaver) and the situations he gets in... such as falling into the coffee cup on the billboard. Just read Ken Osmond's book and loved it. He of course played Eddie Haskell. In real life he was almost killed twice while working as a police officer in L.A. Could never get into Gomer Pyle. That playing stupid act just got on my nerves. Sort of like Festus on Gunsmoke although that character was not trowled on so thickly. Twelve O'clock High was a good mid 60s series I watched in the early 80s.
I used to watch everything in your top 10 as a kid (born in 66 here). In the Detroit area, I had the added bonus of PBS showing Monty Python's Flying Circus, which remains a favorite.
Great segment, Matt. I believe I have about 10 years on you, so I do remember many of these shows being prime time growing up. Chicago actually had 3 syndication channels by the very early 70's, so there was literally a smorgasborg of great early television shows to get to know. My first television memory was of a very gritty, violent cop show called Naked City which ran from 1958 to 1963 on ABC. It was shot on location in New York City which added to the early 60's atmosphere which I really dig.
Matt, so funny how I had many of the same reactions to those shows. The Rifleman shooting the gun, the Ironsides/Fugitive sad intros, Batman after school, etc. Ginger, of course. I have a feeling we would have the same opinions regarding Charlie's Angels as well. Lol, keep up the great work
Two big '60s sci-fi's that deserve mentioning are Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and The Invaders. VTTBOTS was another Irwin Allen series, like Lost In Space, but maybe his best. Nevertheless, they both started out in black and white and had good, more adult orientated scripts in the beginning, but after they went to colour and time went by the stories became more and more childish and silly, with Lost In Space actually playing for laughs. The Invaders was always serious and had good guest stars and was actually a Quinn Martin production so it had a prestige and styling relating to The Fugitive. Roy Thinnes was kind of like a fugitive both running from and pursuing the aliens at the same time. I enjoyed it.
Mission impossible was really quite ingenious because you had to figure out how the IMF team would outsmart their adversaries because very little was revealed to you at the beginning of each episode. I’m a child of the 1960s, so among my favourite TV shows from the early 1960s are: The Naked City (a very gritty-looking show because it was shot on location in New York City), Have Gun Will Travel, Checkmate, Adventures In Paradise, Ben Casey, Gunsmoke, Mr. Novak; and going into the mid to late 1960s, of course Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Batman, Mannix, and Hawaii Five-O.
The Banana Splits!!!....I really wanted one of those 8 wheel buggies they got around in the intro. It's also a paradox Matt...You're wearing shorts and a tee shirt but you have a fire going!!!
I like these surprises. You have a knowledge of 60s TV that is as good as anyone (like myself) who grew up in the 50s and became a teen in the 60s. I watched most of these shows when the episodes were new, but since most of them were not topical, they were just as fresh as reruns. A few others that I watched were 77 Sunset Strip, Dobie Gillis, Flipper and The Avengers (Diana Rigg). And on the lesser known side Ensign O'Toole (Dean Jones) Fair, Exchange (Judy Carne) and The Great Adventure (an American history dramatization). I' m taking that survey right away. Definitely Ginger.
I graduated high school in '66, and that fall both the Monkees and Star trek started. Yep. Felt like I had graduated and moved on. I have never been a fan of sitcoms, I even loathed the Three Stooges by age 6. You failed to mention two eartly 60s sitcoms: Car 54 Where Are You (Fred Gwynne moved to the Minsters) and I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (John Astin moved on to the Addams Family). I never successfully through a whole episode of any of those four. Instead I was hooked on the Bullwinkle Show (Boris Godunov was my father's favorite opera - so I knew the humor was aimed at an 'older' audience). In junior high, we used to dream up fractured phrases a la Fractured Fairytales (don't hatchet your count before he chickens for example). The world of TV went from b & w to color from '60 to '70, but I still like Maverick and Have Gun - Will Travel (I was impressed by Richard Boone - and Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive. My parents severely limited my intake of TV, so I would walk down to a friend's house for RC Cola and a moon pie - and Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide. Even though it started in the 50s, I'd rate Peter Gunn extremely highly for Henry Mancini's rocking guitar riff alone. (A major problem for me in viewing old TV shows is the quality - or lack of it - in the sets.) I never liked Gilligan, but I loved Bob Denver as Maynard G Krebs in Dobie Gillis - which also had, briefly, Tuesday Weld as Thalia and Warren Beatty as Milton Armitage. I also regularly watched I, Spy which gathered a lot of press as Bill Cosby played the first Negro (that's the correct term back then in Hollywood) to play a lead in a TV show not of the Amos n Andy ilk. Route 66 was acknowledged as having very good scripts as Stirling Silliphant was the writer. He won an Oscar for writing In the Heat of the Night later. But enough nostalgic psychobabble.
Good to know I wasn't the only 70s kid spooked by those 'Ironside' titles and that blood-curdling siren at the beginning, Matt! We seemed to have a bit more variety in the UK when I was growing up - not only good home-grown TV, but numerous US imports as well as many European shows that were dubbed into English; they tended to be shown in the school holidays.
Ha! You are right Outer Limits had a lot scarier vibe than Twilight Zone…I remember foreboding even hearing the intro, they went more into horror than Twilight…a couple episodes probably were pretty disturbing. I am a little older than you, 71 , but the only one you didn’t mention I really liked , which I think still stands up is COMBAT…WW2 was fought every week on network TV…it starred Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Leighs dad. It portrayed a US army platoon fighting in Europe week by week. It was a drama of course.
Thanks for sharing these TV memories, Matt. I was a big Hogan's Heroes fan, but also, (contrary to your favorites), I was a huge Star Trek fan, even to this day. I loved most of the programs you mentioned. I was born at the end of '64 (a "Boomer-X" gen) and grew up with many of these programs. That was fun hearing your favorites. 😃
Fun post Matt. I pretty much watched everything growing up the 60s, favorites were Batman, The Man from Uncle, Star Trek, The invaders, and the Avengers (with Diana Rigg). You should check out the two seasons of the Avengers with Diana Rigg, for me it was just fantastic. The pundits say the 70s was when TV grew up and reflected real life more, the 60s shows did seem to represent a more idealized, sanitized version of life, sorry I'm just going on like Cleveland Amory (haha). Cheers!
I remember liking The Avengers, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, which I could probably still enjoy to some extent even today. I watched The Man from Uncle but doubt I would like now. The Smothers Brothers had some memorable segments I might enjoy seeing again. I had hazier recollections of Route 66 which I must have seen in reruns. A few years ago I sought out the show on RU-vid and watched the first 3 seasons which would have originally run 1960 to 1963 or so. Two young men driving across America in a sports car encountering various people and situations every week more or less in the spirit of Jack Kerouac. Fascinating to see what America looked and felt like back then. My sense is it’s better than ‘Then Came Bronson’ which my dad made a point of watching.
The 50 Avengers episodes with Dianna Rigg as Emma Peel are must watch. They are great! The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is fantastic in season one, season two is still really good, season three got to silly going "camp" to cash in on Batmans popularity, season four got serious again with good episodes but the ratings had dropped to much and it got cancelled.
I wholeheartedly agree with The Twilight Zone pick; that is one series - the original which ran from 1959 to 1964 - I will never tire of. I also think the episodes are best viewed on cold, dark winter nights. Great video!
I'm 59 years old i was a kid in 70's watching television reruns from the the 50's and 60's as well as what was on in the 70's onward but most of the tv series from those years were my favorites from so many different genres weeterns, sitcoms, adventures, sci fi and many others but some of my favorites include the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Gilligan's Island, Bonanza, the Virginian, Daniel Boone, the High Chaparral, Hogan's Heroes, Batman, Tarzan, Laredo, Night Gallery, Star Trek, Get Smart, the Munsters, the Addams Family, the Andy Griffith Show,Gomer Pyle USMC and the list goes on and on have a wonderful weekend and thank you.🇺🇲📺📺🇺🇲
@@popgoesthe60s52All of tv shows that you showed were my favorite shows to watch living here in rural Oklahoma at the time All of these tv shows were on and I watched them over and over and the Saturday morning cartoons from the 60's,70's onward was awesome thanks for the classic tv series memories.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
I would highly recommend Kraft Suspense Theatre. There are some flawed episodes but some are really good. It's also worth checking out Burkes Law if you like quirky stuff and of course, The Prisoner.
A great compendium of memories Matt -- I saw them a bit earlier than you did but had much the same appreciations (I had a Munsters lunchbox :) -- one I missed hearing was Mister Ed but you couldn't cover them all.
"Spaten Oktoberfest" made me think of the song "Diesel Oktoberfest" about truck drivers in class-struggle, where ist ~ says: "These fine people here/ drink wine instead of Spaten beer" . Ah well, just a silly association ;) Cheers Matt!
I really liked Mannix (3 seasons in the 60s). Fond memories watching it with my Dad. Also, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Very cool! Too campy in the 3rd season. Finally, My 3 Sons. Just within the last 7/8 years I didn't know the 1st five black and white seasons existed. With the oldest son, Mike (Tim Considine), and Grandfather, Bub (William Frawley), they were by far the best! The greatest part of the later seasons was Tina Cole! So many more great shows. Best decade of TV!
THE 700 CLUB started locally in 1962 and went nationwide in 1966, it's the longest running tv variety show ever. I watch it almost everyday today , JOHN LENNON watched the 700 club through out the week when John was a house husband
Yup, in England - The Fugitive, The Saint, The Prisoner, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Boots and Saddles, Have Gun Will Travel, The Cisco Kid, Laramie, Bonanza, Maverick, Perry Mason, The Defenders, Cheyenne, The Range Rider. Hawaii Five O, Danger Man, The Naked City. Champion the Wonder Horse. To mention just a few - what great times for TV and growing up, and those theme tunes!
Just a quick note, nothing important: It's interesting that the photo of Sesame Street had the original color of Oscar the Grouch - orange. Those are a lot of TV shows! My sister and I stayed up late until the wee wee hours to watch Monty Python, Twilight Zone and Perry Mason during the summer months. You hit on a lot of excellent nuggets! In the survey what about Eartha Kitt as Catwoman? Enjoy the rest of your summer Matt!
That was a very thorough review, and a lot of fun! I was born in 1953, so I watched nearly ALL of these shows growing up. Looking back as an adult, many of the shows are awfully silly (Batman, Gilligan's island, The Monkees, etc.) However, there are quite a few shows that still hold up very well today -- Perry Mason, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Star Trek, among others. There were a few shows that I don't think you mentioned -- The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, The Donna Reed Show, It Takes a Thief, The Many Loves of Doby Gillis -- that I rather liked. Also, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was very popular and was the forerunner of all of the many late-night TV shows over the years. Also, worth mentioning is the Beatles cartoon series (1965-67). It wasn't a particularly good cartoon, but it had the music of the Beatles, and I enjoyed hearing the Liverpool accents. Finally, I liked Addam's Family better than the Munsters. Slightly more sophisticated humor, I think. (We'll have to agree to disagree on that one!)
A show that no one ever mentions is Run For Your Life. It starred Ben Gazarra, who I found out later was sort of a big deal on Broadway in the '50's; and his character went all over the world "trying to squeeze thirty years on living into one, or two." I was a teenager living in a suburb outside Chattanooga, and the show offered the thrill of exotic places that one got in the Bond movies, with only some of the constant danger. That's for me, I ate it up.
Speaking of mission impossible I’m gonna be meeting one of the last surviving cast members, Barbara Bane in a couple of months. I know, technically from the later cast members there’s Lesley Ann Warren, but I’m talking about the original core.
All good choices. I probably watched them all in their first runs. My all-time fave "cartoon" show was Fireball XL5, the puppet show I just could not miss as an 8 year old. Later, Star Trek and The Monkees were not carried by my local NBC affiliate when they were first on. I remember being quite frustrated at that. Loved Lost In Space on Wednesday evenings.
Great episode Matt, you must have very cool weather in Wisconsin to be comfortable enough with the fire going. My main three shows I remember seeing in the early seventies was Family Affair, Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s island. Also, Speed Racer cartoon was real popular at that time.
Living in Finland and grew up in the 80's I watched Battlestar Galactica, Dallas, Dynasty. Murder She Wrote and Columbo had lots of air time. Love boat was broadcasted saturday evening and after the sauna it was a show to watch. (though it has always seem so dull of show. ) Knight Rider was huge in Finland too. Hasselhof made trips to Finland also. Updated remakes of classic stories from Alfred Hitchcock were suspensive. Also The Twighlight Zone eighties version. Those come to mind right away. Thank You matt for your reminiscing 🤗
Hey Bonanza was huge of course too in Finland in the 80's still and Little House on the Prairie. But I did not watch them so much. I believe it was the earlier generation that talked about those shows.
Hey Matt, If you ever get a chance, take a look at "COMBAT!". Works on different levels. I thoroughly enjoyed it as a kid growing up in the 60's, but also a an adult on a totally different level. Great writing and great cast.
I can totally relate to this ! I was born in '68 and here in Oz we also only had four station. We'd come home from kindergarten and school and watch reruns of Hogans Heroes, the best 60s show by far, Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, all of them. I love those screwball, whacky 60s comedies, compare and contrast to the rubbish they feed us on tv nowadays. But you left out one show that possibly kicked off the whole genre: F Troop.
Funny. Marlo Thomas was my first celebrity crush too and her look set the template of my idea of feminine beauty throughout life. And your TV selections continue the idea that we could be brothers of another mother. Love the channel and your content. ADD: What made The Munsters great was the comedic interplay between Herman and Grandpa and of course that Herman thought he was Hugh Beaumont.
Lost in Space was my favorite childhood TV show . I missed the original 1965-1968 run but was old enough to catch and comprehend the first wave of the show on reruns in that very important "after school / before dinner" TV viewing time . 1970-1973 . My favorite teenage years show was The Mary Tyler Moore Show . This was a VERY important "grown up comedy" for introverted teens who did not go out and "party" on Saturday nights in the 1970s . And then in 1975 - the show that wiped all other shows off the map : Saturday Night Live. If you are too young - and do not remember - at the time it was the absolute FUNNIEST , insane , Unique , wild sketch comedy show ever made (well, aside from Monty Python ). Funny that most of it is IMPOSSIBLE to watch now -- it has not aged well.
I loved The Avengers as a kid. It was on Saturday or Sunday night on a local L.A. station when I was a kid. It was the only time we ate in the living room. Being a British show, it didn't run the same number of minutes as an American show, I guess. On some evenings it was followed by a Marvel cartoon from the 50's. They rotated three, Captain America, Thor, and The Hulk. I still remember Cap's theme song. I loved Get Smart. I had the lunch box. Favorite cartoons, Beanie & Cecil, The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show as well as all Jay Ward creations, and The Beatles of course! Don't you all wish your parents hadn't tossed out your old toys back then? I wish I still had my John Lennon doll from the 60's.
...and may I add Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea... and The Prisoner... and the NBC Mystery Movie w/ *Columbo,* Quincy ME, McMillan and Wife, McCloud, and others... The Mod Squad... T.H.E. Cat... Disney's Wonderful World of Color... and all the great CARTOONS!!! (excuse me if I listed something you mentioned)... ☮💟🌍
Nice list, Matt. Two you didn't mention that are favorites of mine are "The Alvin Show", and "Car 54, Where Are You?" "Green Acres" is the coolest show of the decade because you can sing the theme song to the tune of both "A Day in th Life", and "Purple Haze".
In the survey, the Catwoman question should include Eartha Kitt, who played the character in the third season (Batman ran for three seasons, not two). I completed the survey, but it was hard to choose between how I would have voted as a kid versus how I might vote now. For example, as a I kid I would no doubt have voted for The Munsters. Now, after having watched both shows as an adult, I prefer to subtle weirdness of The Addams Family. Still, The Munsters won out in this go-around. Star Trek would probably be better paired with Lost In Space than Dr. Who. I don't know how many US viewers would have been aware of Dr. Who in the '60s or ''70s; I wasn't aware of it until much later. At the time they aired and in reruns, ST and LiS would have been seen as rivals in much the same way as you allude to Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies,. The rivalry, of curse, was purely a kid thing. In fact, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction took place in the same "universe," and characters from one show frequently crossed over to the others, most notably Frank Cady as store owner Sam Drucker. Fun video and survey, Matt.
You’re like me! When I lived in Tosa on the edge of Milwaukee, I always drank beers that used to or still have breweries in Milwaukee… even Blatz! (Which became a condominium site when I was there)… I also frequented the Brown Bottle… I loved to tour Pabst before it shutdown
Ha ha, I'm team Mary Ann but I've got no issues with Ginger. I watched reruns of Gilligan's Island early mornings before high school on TBS, it was such dopey fun escapism. One of my local malls had a clear out book store for a while and for pocket change I found a Gilligan's Island guide book by Russell "The Professor" Johnson which was very helpful. Tina Louise evidently was a model for men's magazines and bachelor pad albums pre Gilligan's Island which ties in neatly with your other recent video.
OMG, I loved The Beverly Hillbillies, that great music for the intro and the outro. So hilarious and enjoyable. While I'm at it, im going to throw in 2 of my after school favorites, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. That was must see TV. And, of course Andy Griffith was so great and, to me, does not get old. Ashow I didn't get into at all, but one of my friends would run home every day so as not to miss Dark Shadows, kind of a vampire themed Soap Opera. And, in the variety show, category, I watched them all. Of course, when The Beatles came on Sullivan, that was big. My grandma was not appreciative of it, however😅.
Hello Matt. I live just north of you on the other side of Lake Huron. These programs are very familiar to me on the Canadian side but I grew up in the sixties so there was a lot more cowboy stuff. Janis Joplin sang some Roy Rogers stuff and look at CSNY. All those early folk guys were on the cowboy theme. And don't forget about Midnight Special and Dick Clark and the late night music programs and Funk Meisters (from Buffalo)
Matt… I grew up in the 70’s also but last year a cable station in south FLA showed episodes of Route 66 at 6 am in the morning…great show!!! Hopefully you can get a chance to view some episodes… really interesting characters👍
Hogan’s Heroes is one of the funniest shows ever. To this day it’s just tearfully funny and it had some nail-biting thrills at the same time. It seems so prototypical for a lot of the binge tv shows we see today.
Hey Matt, I watched a lot of the same shows you did. Admittedly, were some I tuned in just to hear the theme songs (hey, there’s an idea for another video)! There were so many great ones.👏
Many of those shows are still shown on broadcast TV. I didn't see them during their first run, but now I watch Leave it to Beaver and Perry Mason most mornings. They just play all of the episodes in order and then repeat from the beginning. Leave it to Beaver got better as the kids got older and became better actors. A bit of trivia: Only one episode of Perry Mason was filmed in color.
My Fave 60s Shows: 1 (TIE) Batman / The Monkees 2. (TIE) Star Trek / Twilight Zone 3. (TIE) Bewitched / I Dream of Jeannie 4. Lost In Space 5. GIlligan I barely remember watching Batman and the Monkees in their first run. When I was a kid, my mother would punish me by not letting me watch the Monkees or Batman-- those two shows were like addictions to me LOL.
Andy Griffith Show was a spin off of the Danny Thomas show. I remember watching the pilot. . The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction were all created by the genius Paul Henning. IMO The Fugitive was the best drama ever produced for TV, and I'm happy to say I met Quinn Martin and told him so. Of possible interest is that Tommy Tedesco played the guitar part on the Bonanza theme. There was a particularly good Outer Limits that starred Robert Culp, titled: The Demon With the Glass Hand. I believe the screenplay was written by Harlan Ellison. The Mod Squad: "Solid, man." Finally, Matt: It's going to be a landslide for Mary Ann. What a contrarian you are! edit: One more very important thing: F Troop!
The Avengers (IN COLOR... well, both the B/W and color seasons with Diana Rigg) - no idea if it was syndicated in the US in the 70s but it's just the best.
@@wyliesmith4244 I’ve read that the money to move the production from video tape to 35 mm film came from the US, but I don’t know if Matt had a chance to see it later on. I only saw it properly once it came out on DVD. Fantastic.
