The good old days were better than we realized during the time we were experiencing them. At least RU-vid let's us relive some of them. Thank you very much 💖📺
"Laugh-In" may be dated now, but I thought it was the coolest show around back then. Never missed it. And the game shows! Haven't thought of "Treasure Isle" in many, many years. We came home for lunch in those days and watched that before heading back to school. "JBT on ABC is on a treasure-giving spree!" Thanks again- love these clips!
Man, I was 9 yrs old then! I watched all those shows, those were the good old days! I had a Rat Patrol lunchbox, one of the square metal kind. It was badass! I wish I still had it....🤔
- Wow! House of Wax! A horror movie in the morning?!? Weird! - Rat Patrol was just the coolest tv concept when I was a kid! - I thought I knew every old tv shows there was in prime time, but I have to admit that I have never even heard of The Felony Squad. Love this channel so much! Thank you for the awesome work and great memories
yeah its funny that they would show shows that were made for kids when kids are at school. I guess you were lucky to have a sick day from school then. All i remember is sesame street, game shows and dope(soap) operas during the day
Well, I have to admit House of Wax was not the movie listed in the TV Guide I used to make this video. It was some sappy forgettable flick (and therefore I forgot what it was) so I put on something more dramatic.
Exactly what I remember as well. Boring morning shows that were aimed at the house wife public. Game shows like "The Price is Right" was kinda fun to watch. They were some local kiddie shows for pre-schoolers. Here in Canada, we had "Mister Dressup" and "Gentle Giant", then "Sesame Street" (the pre-Elmo show was entertaining even for a grade schooler, back when Jim Henson and Frank Oz could still do crazy stuff). At lunch time, we had the traditionnal "Flintstones" and a half-hour cartoon show (which featured a bunch of different cartoons like Hanna Barbera shorts such as Wally Gator or Lippy the Lion, maybe an old Fleisher Popeye or Koko The Clown, vintage Looney Tunes, etc. ). The afternoon was the worst to a young boy... Soaps and an afternoon movie, again, aimed at the house wife public.
I remember my mom watching Bewitched at noon when I was little because I remember eating lunch and watching it with her and my little sister.This was when I was about four and my sister was still being fed with a spoon.she didn't turn two until a month later.Then we napped after lunch. Then mom watched all of the soaps on CBS. WE were probably up about 2:30.I loved The Flintstones. I remember being scared of the end of The Monkees, mainly because four headless men came bounding in closeup and one of them was screaming silently. Then that creepy S from Hell Logo with that creepy music.
I was 8 years old and didn't watch a ton of tv because back then parents allowed kids to play outside until the street lights came on.. those were the days :)
Eght years old, sitting on the sofa watching TV with my much older brother, and an ad for reruns of the old Rat Patrol series comes on. I asked him what it was about, and apparently he decided to have a little fun with me. fast forward a week or two, this time I'm watching TV with Dad & big brother when the same ad comes on. Quoth I: but how did they teach the giant rats to fly the planes? Cue big brother dissolving in helpless laughter as Dad watches us both, mystified. 😂😂😂 #goodtimes #gullibleisntinthedictionary
Fantastic Popeye selection; one of the great song story fights of all time. If you watched it, you know what I mean. Thank you, again, to the internationally famous American authority on the good stuff and the small things that made the past so much fun- the one, the only, Fred Flix.
Kids my age loved "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and we weren't happy when it got replaced midseason by "Laugh In." We became "Rat Patrol" fans for awhile but, eventually, we started watching "Laugh In." (My two older brothers watched "Laugh In" on the basement TV, and I followed their lead when it came to pop culture. 😎)
I was two months away from being five years old it's always good to look back at the time in my life when I really didn't comprehend what was going on in the world
As an 8 year old I watched all this stuff up until 9. After 9, I was only aware of that stuff because my older sister watched them. Me and my older brother had pretty much complete control of the set up to 8, and then my mother made sure my sisters got to watch their mushy stuff.
Loved the series ( 2 years ) As a 7 year old kid there is nothing better than two Jeeps with mounted machine guns flying over the desert dunes ✌😎 Pretty basic story lines and always fighting the same group of German bad guys got old fast ( Watching it now I mean ) Now back as that 7yr old kid who cares.... I want more flying Jeep action ! 😆 I knew all their names.... think I even had a Rat Patrol lunch box 😉
Was talking to a buddy one time about old TV shows, when the Rat Patrol came up and he replied, if you saw one episode of the Rat Patrol, you saw them all, and I immediately knew that he had watched the series when it came out.
Fred. Thanks so much! I used to walk home from school in 1st grade - just on time to watch Trasure Isle. That and Land of the Giants were my first TV addictions. I had completely forgotten Treasure Isle til this vid.
We tried to build a Rat Patrol Jeep out of wood produce crates and red wagon wheels. Complete with roll bar mounted wrapping paper tube machine guns. We sure didn't need smartphones or apps for entertainment!
Wow, watching this again brought back memories of wishing the night could go on and on because it was Monday night and a whole week, almost, of school lay before me. Im your age...65 as I enter this observation. Thanks Fred for bringing back those feelings.
I was only 10 back then. It was also my first year at this special education school as well. Because I had to take the bus to school, I didn't get home until around 4 o'clock or so.
I was home sick from school in 1972 for a few days. I recall the bombardment of Mills Brothers and Teresa Brewer record 8 track commercials running over and over. They are still stuck in my head ! I do like the Mills Bros. and Teresa though but geez this was brainwashing.
Awesome as usual Fred, I use to run home to watch Dark Shadows loved it and the Felony Squad was one of my favorite's, thanks so much Fred you did it again 👍👍👍
Plus, even though I wasn't born until September of that year, I believe they showed reruns of "The Mickey Mouse Club ", there was also "Mr Rogers Neighborhood " which was a new show on Public TV, then just called "NET".
Each season after his TV show wrapped, Jackie Gleason used to hire a private train to take a couple of dozen network executives, technical men, and sponsors connected with the production on a slow ride from NYC down to some glitzy FL resort city -- usually Miami -- for a week in a spectacular hotel and all-expenses-paid fun in the sun. Also aboard the train (on Gleason's dime) for the round-trip and in Miami were about an equal number of models, Broadway showgirls, and wannabe starlets. The bar was open for several days and nights each way. Hilarity ensued, and everything was kept out of the media -- what happended on the trip stayed on the trip.
I was 6 for most of 1968, and I'd discovered Laugh-In during the summer on vacation. By the fall of '68 I really wanted to stay up to see it, but my bedtime was 8 PM at the time. My parents compromised with me and I got to stay up for half the show until 8:30. I did get to see the whole show by the early '70s.
@@captainjohn7833 Yes it was, but it was also a lot of fun. Only part of it I didn't watch was the music guests (my loss), when I would switch to see what else was on.
I love the trip down memory lane with all these nostalgic posts, and I just wanted to point out that "I Spy" didn't come on Monday nights, it premiered on Wednesday, September 15, 1965 and remained on Wednesday for all three seasons. That aside, I love these and thank you so much!
Eddie, according to Wikipedia, I Spy moved to Monday night for its final season. Though Wiki is not the most accurate source in the world, I had a backup source: It was listed for Monday in the original TV Guide I used. Here is the Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_United_States_network_television_schedule#Monday
I remember the Rat Patrol. As kids we collected trading cards from the show. If you got a complete set of one series, the backs of the cards went together and made a poster sized picture of a scene like the Jeep jumping the sand dunes. Also, decades later when I was visiting my mother she would be watching a soap opera and there was the German Officer from the Rat Patrol show. He has been with this particular soap opera for about 25 years, plays a character named Victor and still has the German accent (I believe he's Austrian) but goes by a different stage name than in Rat Patrol.
And Eric Braeden went by Hans Gudegast at the time. He was on one of the last MTM episodes as a snobby tv critic who got a pie in the face from none other than Ted Baxter.
Remember, you had to get up and change the channel, if you didn't like what was on the channel you were on. Douglas, Cronkite and MG were likely on when he was watching these shows (remember, he did change the channel while watching Laugh-In, to see The Rat Patrol).
The "Fugitive" narrated by William "Frank Cannon" Conrad. Never understood Superman taking bullets to the chest. And when the bad guy ran out of bullets he'd THROW the gun at him.............. and Superman would then DUCK.
Dark Shadows should have aired at 4:30 more kids would have been able to watch it an hour later instead of 3:30 when many kids were not yet home from school so they missed it.
I don't know what city you grew up in but in NY City the newlywed game, dating game, and Hollywood squares were prime time shows that began at 7:30pm and 8:00pm
@@JP-ur9zp I had to go to bed at 9. I certainly didn't want to stop there with the video. The whole thing is less about what could actually occur and more about what was on TV back then. It doesn't need to be taken so literally. Give me some artistic license in order to cover the night's shows.
I very doubt that IN 1968 they had "The Rifle Man" at 7pm in the evening.....I remember watching re-runs maybe in the morning.....I also remember when I said good night to my dad it was late (he was watching I SPY)
In 1968 prime time programming started at 7:30 p.m. EST on weekdays. At 7, local stations could show any syndicated reruns they wanted to, including The Rifleman, which had ended its network run years earlier and was sold to local stations for airings during the 4-7:30 p.m. block typically.
that's back when CBS used to show the reruns of "THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW" on weekdays with the title "ANDY OF MAYBERRY" (which my brother thought was actually the name of the show until I told him otherwise) LOL
This was a true classic! Rat Patrol, I mean. What's his name, a great actor, was the antagonist in The Bad News Bears. Who was the actor that was tragically killed by a helicopter during the filming of a movie?
Unfortunately, if Wiki is correct, Christopher George died in 1981 barely in his 50s, because of a lingering medical problem that began when he was filming RAT PATROL.
Yeah, I'm still getting around to your older videos Fred. Your parents let the 12 year old you stay up at 11:30 to watch Carson? Tsk tsk...Seriously though, my 8th birthday was 8 days after the date of this video, so my sister and I went to bed right after watching The Monkees and Laugh-in, with that being a school night (I was in 2nd grade and she hadn't started school yet). Ah, for the days of syndicated TV shows, three networks, NET/PBS and independent stations.
mikeyh0 all markets had different shows on at different times. A lot of kids grew up watching Sky King, but I never even heard of it until I read about it in a book when I was in my fifties.
@@FredFlix Very good! Maybe you could someday do a video on that day in 1967 when your family got its first color tv and what you might have watched that day.
This is a mess. It's mixed color and b/w incorrectly; you have Andy Griffith and Beaver coming on in daytime when they were prime time shows...there is nothing correct here.
Actually if you are doing '68 it IS sort of correct. By '68 way past the 'Golden Age' when Beaver and such were Prime Time - they were doing re-runs all over the place. They never had those in the 50's.
Networks and local stations showed reruns of those shows in the daytime. Those episodes are listed in a TV Guide I used as a reference. As for the color, I used the best sources I had. You're obviously too young to have watched TV back then. It's ALL correct. But you're a mess. No further comments from you will be read or responded to by me. Grow up!
