you're freaking me out. i'm also 61, and have a pro post house in hollywood. but your source material is blowing me away. growing up in chicago, wgn, and all this ephemeral stuff that we havent seen in 50 years is not only amazing, but your brain locks this stuff up, and when you see it again, you're transported back to the old black and white in your folks basement. good stuff. good mastering.
i am getting so old. i vividly remember watching this show with my sister. our family had a black & white tv. we also watched bewitched, hogan's heroes, gilligan's island, star trek and other shows from that era. great memories! oh... and lost in space too.(among others)
I am the same age as Fred, and moved from Alaska to NJ in the mid '60s. We picked up the NYC stations, EST. My uncle got the first color tv we knew of, and on a Sunday night, we marvelled at the gorgeous colors at the beginnings of the Wonderful World of Disney and Bonanza! Still remember that thrill.
Fred, I know I already probably said this, but thank you for posting these things. They bring back floods of great memories. My mom really loved The FBI, mostly because she thought E. Zimbalist Jr. was handsome. Anyway, keep it up man, really enjoying it.
Feel free to keep saying it, Gregg! :-) If you'll notice in the FBI opening, the announcer said Efram ZIMBALIST Jr., with heavy emphasis on the Zimbalist. I suspect this was at Efram's request, because after 77 Sunset Strip so many people thought his last name was Junior.
Peter Eckels Loved Davey and Goliath !!!. My little brother would walk by and say " Davey's crying glycerin teers again " 😂 my son got me the box set. I have that ring tone on my phone. I love that hymn.
Hi FredFlix, thanks so much for your Must-See TV series. I have no idea how much time and effort goes into making one of these compilations, much less keeping up the entire channel, but THANK YOU. Watching them takes me back to my early childhood ... I can depend upon each of your videos to bring a smile to my face and a "Wow, I forgot about that" moment So enjoyable and fun. Just great stuff. Thanks again.
Cheyenne..................Cheyenne ............CHEYENNE!!!!!!!!!!!. Used to watch that back when. It still comes on certain stations on TV. It is sad that Clint Walker just passed away last year (May 21st 2018) at 90. Perry Mason on most nights on MeTV. Many of these I watched back then. Thanks Fredflix for the memories.
I was eleven years old at the time, and most of these shows were the the ones I watched on Sunday, although Lassie would have been my early evening selection. Thanks!
Sunday night favorite was also Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color. I know you couldn't put everything in, but it was great! Thanks! I am 60, so these videos are right on target!
What was even funnier about the later episodes is that when one of the crew members say they saw a monster (after weeks and weeks of werewolves, seaweed men and rock creatures) they would always act surprised and say, "You're crazy. You're seein' things!"
Monday at school recess after lunch , I remember pretending that the flag staff was a periscope . LOL playing Voyage to the bottom of the Sea in third grade .
Thanks for the happy memories. Kids today have hundreds of stations, we had 2,4,5,7,9,11,13, and if you spun the dial like me 47(bloody bullfighting) even in black and white
If you were a Chicago boy...deduct 1 hour, and consider these local options to replace syndicated shows (in local time) 7:30 ASTRO BOY (8 to 9 are religious shows, and local things for kids that look like they aim for younger than 10 year olds) 10:30 PETER POTAMUS (likely THE BEATLES were on local delay--ABC still ran them Saturday) 10:30 DISCOVERY '66 11:00 THE FOREST RANGERS (syndicated from Canada) 11:30 THE LONE RANGER 12:00 Chicago had the Bills-Jets game 3:00 PORKY PIG 3:30 TENNESSEE TUXEDO 4:30 Afternoon snack 5:00 ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS 5:30 MISTER ED Prime time--The SEAVIEW must rescue a trapped diver, the Bureau must find a deadly stolen virus, the Cartwrights must protect a quartet of sisters and their ranch from rustlers, Andy welcomes Bing Crosby,, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Kate Smith and the Young Americans 11:00 Bedtime (movies and news for grownup tastes)
I haven't commented in a while but this is one of my favorite channels. As a 65 year old who get inspiration from his past, your videos keep me going and bring back so many memories. Thank you.
Congrats Fred! You actually caused me pre-natal nostalgia! My grandparents had 'family night' on Sundays... & my dad (with his 8 brothers & sisters!) would watch 'VOYAGE' together! My parents were married in '66 & my mom always talked of what a big deal it was to her to be part of Family-Night!
Hello Fred. Thank you a million times over for these precious Memories, and that includes all your videos. Well I don't mean to sound rude but I'm starting to tear up. Got a go. Thanks again Fred. God Bless.
What I'd give to go back to that Sunday night just for a few hours, or maybe hang around through Halloween. I was 11 in October 1966 and I think I trick or treated only one more time in 1967.
Brings back memories, especially the reruns of the 50s westerns. Perry Mason's first run episodes ended in the spring of '66, and I don't believe were syndicated as early as the same fall...could be wrong, but usually syndication took a couple of years back then.
I find it amazing, that television programming rarely changed, from the 1960's through the 1970's. I guess cable was the main culprit of change. Before cable, if there was "nothing on" the TV, one would find something else to do (as a kid, it was build models, play with electric trains, read comic books and much more). Cable changed that way of thinking. And the kids of today have no clue what it is like to spend time like that. That is a shame, in my eyes.
Ah,those Republic seriels like King of the Rocket Men ,The Crimson Ghost,& The Purple Monster Strikes really take me back.We saw them on Sat.afternoons & Sun.mornings.Couldn't wait for the next chapter,often had to wait until next week!
I've noticed after watching episodes back to back that the cliffhanger endings were sometimes changed. The hero might literally plunge off a cliff at least 30 feet at the end of one chapter and then, mysteriously, by next week's chapter he somehow grabs a branch only 3 feet off the cliff. Back when the chapters were running once a week in the theaters producers assumed people would forget exactly what happened, but I'm sure a lot of viewers said, "Hey! I thought he..." But there was no way to check it.
You're right Fred.Even as an 11 year old back then I noticed that.Today,it's kinda funny to watch that,I've recently subbed & wanna thank you for all of your hard work for these great memories.I watch your vids instead of todays prime time...Yech!.
I grew up in the NYC Metro Area. Back in the 60's we had the flagship stations for the three networks, plus three independent locals (All six were VHF)
OMG, so many memories. For some reason the Perry Mason theme song sort of made me feel sad and melancholy, while the Twilight Zone theme just plain scared me. I would lie in bed at night in my dark room with the shadows of the trees moving across my window. Then I would hear that Twilight Zone theme coming from my parents T.V. set in the other room. Just freaked me out.....
I'm discovering lots of your videos lately....these are especially poignant because it's the anniversary of both my mom and brother's passing in this july month.....I know my brother was watching all these kids shows as he was born in 61 and my mom loved everything as she was from Europe and learned English from tv. Thanks.....
Fred, I couldn't even watch some of these shows Sunday in 66, I could only get one channel on my set and that was CBS. Couldn't watch Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, that was ABC. So was the FBI. Perry Mason bored me as an 11 yr old, although I appreciated it more as an adult. If I remember right Mr Ed and My Favorite Martian was on CBS on Sunday nights. However, everybody in my family watched Bonanza.
I hope you've been able to catch up with the reruns, Larry. I was 11 in '66 as well and I can tell you that by that time I realized how silly Voyage had become. Irwin Allen did a great job making his shows, but he didn't respect the intelligence of his viewers.
True. I had always watched Lost In Space and even at that time I was wondering, when are we going to see a Sci Fi show that would make me feel like I was watching the future. Then that Summer in 66 I went to my grandmothers house and she had four channels. Finally got to see Batman, always wanted to see it, my best friend at the time raved about it, and I hate to say it, I was actually disappointed. BAM! POW!. I thought it was going to be more serious. But now, as an adult, I like the humor in it. That same summer I was introduced to The Green Hornet, which I loved, and then a new Sci Fi series, which I didn't even know existed. Hold on to your hats, right in front of my screen I saw this saucer shaped space ship attached with two cigar shaped cylinders and I asked my friend, "WHAT IS THIS?" He said, "This is Star Trek." My reaction.....:Star what????" FINALLY a sci fi show that made me believe I was watching something from the future. My first episode called Charlie X.
My first episode was also Charlie X and I was blown away. I had never seen a ship like hat and wondered how could it land. As for Batman, yeah, I didn't get it either. I didn't understand "camp." I just thought it was stupid. I preferred Lost in Space, but in time that grew quite unwatchable. I remember though the first episode of Lost: We had been watching it for 59 minutes and it looked like there was no way they could wrap up the story in one minute. Then, wow, Continued Next Week, Same Time, Same Channel. I still get chills when I see that.
Thank you Fred! Boy that Mutual of Omaha's - Marlin Perkins hanging out of the helicopter with his walkie talkie in hand was an image I haven't seen for 30+ years. 3:55 I used to luv to watch it. And of course Jacque Cousteau was another. - 3:05 The old "Boston" Patriots before the rest of us New Englanders had a NFL team. oh! and I see a pattern perhaps? Following a full day each day of the week synchronized with this week? 🍎👈 *my prize*
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was my favorite show when I was 5. As a teenager I'd catch INSIGHT at 5 am on Sunday mornings after a binge of SNL. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, SCTV (30 minute format) A Marx Brothers or Wheeler & Woolsey film. I wish somebody would release INSIGHT on DVD
I love watching Davey and Goliath. They show it on TBN every Saturday afternoon at 12:30.y late father was obsessed with football. If there was a football game on from 1 PM until midnight, he would be sitting on the couch just getting up to go to the toilet.Our family would probably be watching Walt Disney at 7:00.and Bonanza at 8PM eastern time I am guessing.
Gremlin1960 I was also 6 in 1966. Does anyone remember a show called The Invaders with Roy Thinnes? Not sure what year it started but I loved that show.
I remember when Beany and Cecil, The Beatles, and Bullwinkle were on ABC on Sunday morning. Davey & Goliath actually aired earlier on the local CBS affiliate, usually about 8-ish. The pro football games in Nebraska would more than likely be for the NFL, the Packers vs. the Lions, and at 3:00 Central time NBC would likely have Chiefs-Oilers or Chargers-Broncos for the AFL. My family (I was 4 then) usually watched the NFL because we couldn't get the NBC station at that time. We were finally able to get NBC when we moved to a house two blocks east of where we lived in 1966.
At 3:06 in, we see "The Boston Patriots" vs. The Oakland Raiders for an AFL game. This was, of course, before Super Bowl I. Also, for you young people, that's before The Patriots and Raiders were part of the NFL. This AFL/NFL premerger intro makes for very interesting stuff. Great job, again, Sir FredFlix! No a Raiders fan, but it's so cool they still use the same logo. Patriots still, also, use the Revolutionary War Soldier at times.
You are welcome, Sir FredFlix! And PLEASE keep this incredible stuff coming. And, if there's more MLB and/or NFL stuff from the 60's and 70's keep that coming especially.
I'd forgotten about "King Leonardo" (!)...how do you spell "cool"? - P.A.L.A.D.I.N., of course...although "Rocky and Bullwinkle" came pretty close (maybe they were more "hip" than "cool")...
1966 was the greatest year in entertainment history, nothing came close. In my area we watched Lassie first, then voyage to the bottom of the sea, then Walt Disney. Later, the ABC Sunday night movie had good feature films, like the Bond series which they paid through the nose for. Voyage would have been an iconic show like Star Trek but the lead characters were too forgettable.
Every time a Bonanza rerun comes on I always end up getting caught up in the plot after the first 2 minutes and watch the whole program even though I didn't intend to.
Not always, but often w/me as well. What was it about that show - the Ponderosa & it's men, that sucked us in like that? The Cartwrights were like the motherless Brady's of the West - u knew they weren't real, but still wished, if just for a day, u could be one of the family.
This just in . . . Boston 24, Oakland 21. Boston moves to 4-2-1. Any clips that include BOTH Cecil and Bullwinkle is amazing. And I don't think I've seen King Leonardo since I was a kid. Not sure when it was on in San Diego.
I’m surprised at the number of cartoons. When I was a kid (late 60s, early 70s) Sunday mornings and afternoons were a tv wasteland. Almost no cartoons, except for a show from Buffalo called Rocketship 7 on WKBW an ABC affiliate. The Sunday episode was a recap of stuff from the week. Most of the other programming was religious. The only other non-religious show I can remember was WKBW’s Big Show of the Week, a movie at 1:00.
Growing up in Toronto, I remember Dave Thomas and Promo Robot and Mr. Beeper on ABC. Then getting home from school, watching The Comander Tom show staring Canadas own Tom Jolls. Without sounding too much like my dad, I wouldnt have traded my childhood with kids of today. There is too much stuff today. Life was a lot simpler yesteryear. Thanks fer the video.
Thanks Galaxy Being... umm.. I mean "Fred"! I can't imagine what I would have done with my Sunday evenings if Admiral Harriman Nelson had invested in some gyroscopic stabilizers and a few circuit breakers.
Did you grow up in Central Time? I noticed "Bullwinkle" was at 11 am-the NBC national feed was at 12 Noon (ET), which both my NBC stations, WAVE and WLWT, carried. Just curious...and GO-GO American Football League...the genesis of modern pro football!!
I was in EST. I used a TV Guide from that week for info and it was listed at 11, and the guide is EST as well. But like a lot of shows, perhaps Bullwinkle was moved from time to time.
Ah, Commando Cody, the inspiration for the name of a country-rock band of the '70s: Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen ("Hot Rod Lincoln," "Lost in the Ozone,"'Seeds & Stems"). And of course, we get to hear the theme from Cheyenne, one of the best TV show theme songs ever. Rhetorical question: Why is it so many of the greatest TV theme songs were for westerns (Bonanza, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Rawhide, etc.)? I mean, I love westerns, but I'm just curious.
Davey and goliath came on at like 6am on Saturday's when I was a little kid. I didn't like it but it was the 1st kids show of the morning so I watched it.
These cartoons wouldn't have been shown on Sunday morning. Back then, there was religious programming, stuff like "Light unto my Feet." Maybe Davey and Goliath, since it was "religious," but not The Beatles.
More memories from when I was but a rugrat. Call me crazy, but I think they should have made new movies of Have Gun Will Travel & Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
I saw the then-Boston Patriots live at three stadiums (Fenway, Boston College, Harvard) when I was a kid. They were the ugly stepsisters of New England sports back then. Look where they are now! (Patriots haters, keep out.)
I can do one better. I was at the AFL 1963 Championship game between The San Diego Chargers and Boston Patriots which the Chargers won that game 51-10. My parents bought me a ticket to it on my birthday Jan 5th 1964. It was wild. Both Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe ran wild. I was only 14 at the time. It was in old Balboa Stadium which only held just over 30,000. They used tall cranes to hang the cameras. Back then it was something. Two players from that Chargers team made the HOF. Lance Alworth and Ron Mix. I played cards with Mix 25 or so years after in a card room.
If you're still responding to comments Fred, did your 3 stations include all 3 major networks, CBS, NBC & ABC? If so, I would imagine they also showed reruns & maybe produced a few local shows. We had several children's, sports, music, classic movie & other locally produced shows. TV was magical for us back then. I suppose it still is for kids now days, but I wonder.
