During the mid 60s to late 70s I lived in Belleville NJ, about 20 miles outside NYC. We had great TV reception out of NYC, getting channels, 2 CBS, 4 NBC, 5 WNEW, 7 ABC, 9 WOR, 11 WPIX and 13 which was PBS. There were also some UHS channels we got also. For some reason I remember the TV being better back then, far less channels but there was always something to watch. But Saturdays were my favorite. That's when all the Sci Fi movies were on, which I loved! Creature Feature, Chiller Theater. Great memories. Thanks for uploading.....
Yes, so much good programing. Not watered down shows to fill the time slot. Just watch cable news channels now, they have to "make up" the news to fit into 24/7 of news programing. There really isn't enough quality to fill all of the channels they have now with good programs. Back in the 70s it was cutting edge, strategic plots to keep you tuned in.
It is apparent to me that Johnnyboy792 grew up in front of the TV EXACTLY as I did. I grew up in Warwick, NY. Born in 57. This vid was great. Thanks Johnnyboy792!!!!
So glad I saw this. So many memories coming flooding in. My dad worked for WNEW in the 50's, 60's and very early 70's in many capacities. Master Control (broadcasting of shows), Wonderama, Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox and Soupy Sales Show as a stage manager among many other roles. After moving out west to Hollywood, my dads fondest memories are still of the earlier years of television, especially New York where he got his start and left so many friends. Thanks!
I started at WNEW TV in 1972 and am still there and I assure you that is is not a dream job any longer since direct over the air tv broadcasting is no longer king for many years now. The golden years of the business have come and are now gone.
Hi kdegru - My dad is Russ Segel. I commented on the video on February 16th and he passed away on February 17th from cancer. He was at WNEW until August of 72 until we moved to San Diego and then ultimately Los Angeles where he went to work for CBS in Television City. Once he found television at the television workshop in New York he knew he had found his passion.
My mother's parents lived in northern NJ in the 1960s & got all the NYC channels. My siblings & I loved going there so we could watch local shows such as Birthday House (with Paul Tripp), Soupy Sales, Chuck McCann, Sandy Becker, Wonderama, Gigantor, Astroboy. Such happy memories and good times!
If you were an NYC market kid, you knew WNEW (Channel 5)...Great memories. I actually had tickets to be in the audience for Sandy Becker but could find no way to get to the studio...Parents were working and it was just 'Sorry...'. Harlan - Sandy Becker had a daily kids show - skits, puppets and old cartoons. Hambone, Norton Nork, the Old Professor were all his. He did a really good job of comforting and explaining the Kennedy assassination to us young ones.
I could get channel 5 New York in my parents attic mid afternoon or late at night. Crosswits was my favorite. Thanks for bringing a tear to my eye. So nostalgic
I was born in 1959 in New Jersey and grew up with WNEW Metromedia Channel 5. That was the best local station ever! Fox destroyed it on March 7, 1986 when they took over. I have to say how much I enjoyed Sandy Becker when I was a kid and I find that he still makes me laugh when I see a clip of his show today. Thanks also for showing I Love Lucy, HAZEL, The Andy Griffith Show and The Bowery Boys...those are four of my favorites that I still watch on DVD these days.
Thank You for posting this! When I was a kid, I loved watching WNEW Channel 5. My happiest childhood memories were watching I Love Lucy, Bewitched, The Mother's In-Law , Hazel, My Three Sons, Lost In Space, The Flintstones, Bugs Bunny and Wonderama with Bob McAllister. Kids today in 2016 don't know anything about good TV!
I was a big WNEW fan growing up in the 60's and the 70's. I even met Soupy Sales in the 60's when I was a kid walking in Manhattan with my mom and my brother. He stopped and spoke with us for 5 minutes. What a great experience. My first time meeting a celebrity!
One memory I have of channel 5 in the 70's, is that they would have a screen that would say "We are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by".
prausch65 ahhh that is not true. That was changed in rhe late 60s to say "we are experiencing OPERATING difficulties" to say technical difficulties implied it was the technicians fault. I know I worked there in the 60s and 70s
Johnnyboy792 the test pattern was to align the equipment all the way to the transmitters. Maintenance on equipment was performed during those hours. I would get there before sign on, clean and align all the video tape machine. Did you k ow that channel-5 has been on the air the longest out of all the networks?
I grew up, born 1955, watching WNEW and WPIX. Talk about a walk down memory lane! Thank you so much for posting this. And for the record WNEW 1130AM was the greatest radio station of all time and William B. Williams the greates voice ever the play the airwaves.
When I was a kid we lived just across the border in NJ from 1967 to 1972 and got WNEW radio and TV. I remember those shows, and hearing Willam B. Williams on the radio. Thanks so much for the memories!
I thank you for these posts of great memories from our past I can still see myself in the 70s when I was very young sitting in front of the TV I did switch back and fourth from 5 to 11 and sometimes channel 9 to, specially if I was home from school I was only 7 in 72 and I remember all these shows, I remember a show called Room 222 even though I did not like it to much because it reminded me of school even though I was only in the 1st or 2nd grade, what memories thanks again, and I have to say this brought a tear to my eye, I truly miss those days, I would do all again if I could.
I grew up watching WNEW TV Channel Five here in New York City. WNEW was one of my all time favorite television stations. I really enjoyed watching this video posting of yours here "Johnnyboy" as well as your WPIX TV posting. Another one of my all time favorite's. Ah yes those were the days as the saying goes. Those days are gone but the memories remain.
I can remember when WNEW played reruns of "Wonder Woman", "Starsky & Hutch", "Sonny & Cher", "Mission Impossible" and (if I'm not mistaken) The Six Million Dollar Man along with Bionic Woman. Very vivid memories of watching "Three's Company" weeknights!! I also remember watching the news on Ch. 5 the night I found out Andy Gibb had died--March 1988. Of course, "Merv Griffin Show" as well at night!! Another show that rings a bell was the "David Susskind Show".
Thank YOU for the memories. It was great fun recalling all of the old shows that kept us glued to the screen when we were kids. It was all good clean fun too. Always a lesson to learn at the end. An era when good prevailed and bad always failed. These shows inspired us to be better people. I feel sorry for kids today. They can keep their computers, game boys, and cell phones, I'll take my childhood of wholesome TV shows and outdoor playing with "actual real-life" friends anytime!
Lucy....funniest woman in the world. Thanks Johnnyboy. This took me to a warm happy time. I want to get rid of my cell, my 900 channels, my remotes, and return there.
I love you dude .. I wish I had a time machine cause I would be outta here. I tell the kids all the time I grew up with 6 channels and tv was beautiful. If there was a way to go back I would leave in a heart beat. Just think of all the people who was Alive back then Who Made sitting in front a tv worth living. Damn thanks for the memories and a well put together video. Your the man!
Johnnyboy792 Great work putting this all together! I loved hearing the clicking of the tv dial... a sound that I thought I would never hear again... Thanks for bringing back the memories for all of us.
I remember coming home from school for lunch and I would watch jeopardy with, anybody remember....... Art Fleming. Then at 12:30 it was bewitched with the first Darrin. Saturday mournings with the bowrey boys (slip, Sach and Whitey. Oh yea and Louie.). Sundays, you had the Sonny fox show. Then Sunday afternoons there was the Million Dollar Movie on channel 9 WOR. My favorite show was The Wild Wild West. All of that on a 23 inch black & white tv set. Great times, great times indeed.
I recall the Eastside Comedy films appearing Saturday afternoons on WNEW. I still recall the theme music and the painting of the Lower East Side at night at the introduction. I would love to know the name of the introductory music. It was a jaunty orchestral piece.
I just finished watching this video and I must say that it brought back so many wonderful memories. Especially the Sandy Becker clip and just watching it brought me back to my days of grade school. I can actually remember the smell of the inside of my lunchbox like it was yesterday just by watching this clip. Amazing.
Thanks so very much Steve ! Im happy it brought a smile... BTW I if you haven't seen it I did one for WPIX too :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-074rBy2hgo8.html
I remember in the late 1970's and early 1980's, WNEW would show Little Rascals, Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, and I Love Lucy starting at 4:30 PM weekdays. I would watch everyday after school.
Very cool, thanks for putting this together. I grew up by New Paltz and all we got on the TV were channels 2, 3 and 5 and for me channel 5 was the best. I had forgotten about the "Mothers-In-Law" show, that theme music brought it all back. thanks again.
Thank you for posting this video, Johnnyboy! You brought back a lot of wonderful memories of me growing up in Brooklyn watching these shows as reruns on Channel 5! I kept remembering what times each show came on; the Flintstones, for example, would run two episodes at 5pm and at 5:30pm during the early 1970s. I grew up with black & white tv and we didn't get a color set until 1973. I loved watching Lost In Space, but your video clip at 8:15 is the first time I saw it in color!
Johnnyboy thank you soooooo much for the memories! I've searched high and low for stuff you've posted. When I try to tell my kids about Officer Joe Bolton or Bob Mcallister or about the Thanksgiving Day tradition of watching March of the Wooden Soldiers they look at me like I'm crazy! Your channel has put a big smile on my face and has warmed my heart. I could just go on and on. Can't wait for more videos. Take care and God Bless!
It would be hard to compare WNEW TV to today because now it is a network fully owned station that has certainly lost it's original identity coupled with the fact that they now have competition from the internet and new media.I must admit that the only positive thing to come out of ATSC are the new ancillary services like Movies TV on channel 5-2 which does a nice job of presenting the old movies.
Absolutely wonderful. I most loved the originals like Wonderama and Soupy Sales and Sandy Becker, but also forgot how many shows I watched on Channel 5 in reruns. Thanks for posting. Great job!
I remember Wonderama when I was three years old and the Flinstones and Bewitch and I was living in New York and I Love Lucy as well. Thanks for sharing the memories. Those were the good old days of television.
wow... I think I saw everyone of those episodes... I can't beleive how many times I said...oh I loved that show...and this show...thanks. I just shared on FB
The Choice is Channel 5! Metromedia New York, 5! Oh wow, cartoons after school. Sitcoms in the evening before homework, Wonderama on Sundays! I was on Wonderama w/ Bob McAllister when I was 8 years old. I also miss some of those commercials, like the Golden Circle Ferry, Great Bear Auto repair, Milford Jai-Alai, The Disney Summer Hit Parade (I need to find that one!), Pathmark "Can-Can", Megos...those were really good times!
how about "This is Phil Rizzuto for the Money Store. Need money? the Money store will lend you up to $15,000, call 241-500, thats 241-5000" it played EVERY commercial break!!
Thank you for another great walk down memory lane! Also enjoyed your WPIX video!! We had great shows to watch on those two channels when we were kids!!! :)
Johnnyboy, there has got to be a place in heaven reserved for you for bringing so much happiness to others with your work. I love all the "Memories...." postings, especially because they remind me of my parents, who are both gone now. Thanks again JoeyM
thanks for these uploads! My grandparents lived in northern NJ while we lived in southern NJ. We got the channels of Philly while they got the NYC channels, my siblings and I used to love the children's programming on WNEW: Soupy Sales, Winchell/Mahoney Time, Wonderama, Sandy Becker, such great memories of my childhood!
Hello Wendy Woo... ( Love that Name ).Thanks for your kind comments... I hope it brought a smile to your day, especially since we're quarantined these days. All the best to you !!!
So many great memories...life was so simple. Good TV never gets old. I watched all of these shows on Channel 5 when I was a kid and I’d gladly watch them today.
Thank you for these great memories. I grew up on LI and totally remember this. On show I remember on channel 5 that you didn't have was MASH at 1100pm . I used to stay up just to watch it.
What great memories Of Wonderama, The Mickey Mouse Club, Soupy Sales to name a few. Thanks for posting back to good memories of my childhood. If I remember on Friday nights I used to watch Top Cat on channel 5 as well. Thanks again for the great memories
Well this is going to date me - I remember a lot of these shows from their original network time slots - Bewitched - Thurs night, channel 7, Petticoat Junction - Tues night - 9:30, Channel 2. Merv on at 8:30 5 nights a week. And let's not forget the original Wonderama host, Sonny Fox, whom I abandoned for Chuck McCann over on 11. I t sucks to grow up; give me back my Channel 5 & 11 in the 60s.
Not to worry Jeff... like a fine wine, we Boomers get better with age. I remember the original network shows too. Thanks so much for your kind comments. All the best - JB
I was asking what happened to Sonny Fox. HE was Wonderama. NOT McCallister or the rest. There was a kid up the street in NJ where I grew up who got on the show and won a bunch of toys like they used to give away. Oh how I dreamed of one day...lol. I loved Chuck McCann! I would see him in different things where he was trying to make it big time. I just didn't like Little Orphan Annie even though those dots on his eyes cracked me up every time! lol
"Darn! That's the end!" is right! That's what I think, every time one of your videos ends! It's like you just have this knack, for hitting on the exact tv shows that I loved back then, and miss now...thank you so much for clearing the cobwebs and stirring up so many wonderful memories for me. ~Gina
I remember watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" every Sunday night on NBC in the 70s...I loved that entire wholesome great show but I knew reality was going to hit Monday morning when back in school after I did none of my homework or studying over the weekend....
Oh how i wish we could go back to them wonderful days..I miss how tv use to b and i don't watch alot of tv anymore it mostly junk on now..Thx for posting this awesome video.
Thanks for posting. This is great! I miss the days WPIX, WWOR, and WNEW. Channel 11 was really something back in the 70's and 80's. Fantastic movies every night of the week at 8pm. Awesome blocks of monsters movies like GODZILLA and GAMERA after school and of course the Yule Log. Now it's all overwhelming amounts of channels filled with reality garbage.
I miss it too. I mean most of the content of what they aired I can easily find and watch if I want to, but there was a certain charm and local flavor to local independent stations. They had to be find creative ways to merge old movies, TV reruns, and limited original material on barely any money. It wasn't too slick or polished. I miss the choices in local news stations as much as anything.
Growing up in The Bronx not only was I exposed to all these great shows, I also found out how great Humphrey Bogart was from watching Key Largo, High Sierra and other great films on WNEW. What an education! And every morning Thunderbirds and Spiderman!
Where's Truth or Consequences? Soul Train? Mission Impossible? The Saint? Secret Agent? The Champions? Battle of the Planets? What? No Beatles? No Thunderbirds? No Marine Boy? You've broken this 57 year old's heart. 💔
Two you forgot, personal favorites that re-ran on 5...........Outer Limits & Secret Agent Man aka Danger Man. But other then that fantastic job Johnnyboy, brought back a flood of good memories!!!!! Thank You!
Like many of us gen-Xers, who really cared about TV even into the 1980's, most of us were introduced to those old channel 5 clips during the wonderful special "40 Years of Fine Tuning" in 1984 for 5's 40th birthday. And yep, I watched The Flintstones, Bugs Bunny, Lucy, etc. on 5 even in the 80's before the blunder from down under Murdoch LOUSED EVERYTHING UP!
Great Job. I very much appreciated this as I have worked at WNEW, now WNYW TV since 1972 and I was often working in either the tape room or Telecine playing back many of the the very shows you have included clips from. One of my great memories of being around the station were the live announcers that were such great fun guys to work with which included, Tom Gregory, Fred Scott, Lou Steele, Ed Ladd. Ed would often drive me home from the station to NJ if our work schedules coincided.
kdegru1 hmmmm I dont ever remember tape people working any other place than the tape room on the 2nd floor. We always were exclusive to that room. I worked there from the 60s, 70's and early 80s. You remember how many quads were in the tape room?
I miss independent stations. They had the best shows on from sign on at 7 am (in a lot of cases) and on the weekends they had movies till dawn ( which I could watch in the summer). Now we have 900 channels and 854 of them have Impractical Jokers marathons. Thank you for the memories.
Your opening line....How true! We only had, what, 8 channels including PBS? And there was always something on fro everyone in the house! I can't tell you the last time I watched 5, 9 or 11.... I'll bet if they returned to this format more people would watch than are watching now. They are running some of these shows on the digital versions of these stations so all is not lost!
Great video. Born in 1969, I remember a lot of these shows. Only three that I can remember that you missed- LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE, THE NEW ZOO REVUE, and THE DC SUPER HEROES cartoons they used to show on Sunday mornings for no readily apparent reason. LOL Keep up the good work. I loved WPIX, and looking forward to WOR next!
