Good one Fred..."The Man Who Never Was, and Twelve O Clock High.....Here's a little trivia....When I was a kid growing up during the late 60's, we lived in a simple neighborhood in Alhambra Calif. and our next door neighbor was Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown lived with his Son, (I forget his name). Anyway, Mr. Brown was Robert Lansing's Dad. Every once in a while when we were playing ball in the street and usually on a Sunday afternoon we would see a big white Cadillac pull up next door and Robert Lansing, his real last name was Brown, would stop in to visit his Dad. One time after he visited his Dad and was leaving we tossed him the football and he threw it around with us kids for a few minutes before leaving....kinda cool.
Lansing was a Gem! Too bad they switched him out on season 2 of 12 O'clock High! That first season was one of my favorites of all television shows bc of Lansing
Good job, Fred! Here’s the ones that I remember: Shane - The Big Picture- A Man Called Sloan - Ripcord- Rescue 8. The last 2 were favorites of a much younger self. 👍🏻
After FURY ended, Graves spent an extended period in Australia...while there he played Captain Von Trapp in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Subsequently he got producer Martin Melcher to film THE BALLAD OF JOSIE there, where he was co-star to Melcher's wife...Doris Day. And of course he did the 80's revival of MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE Down Under
Well, if this is part 1 of 3 I can hardly wait for the next one. These are always good even if we don't remember the clips. In the words of Frank Zappa, "I lay awake nights saying "Thank you Fred!" (Well, maybe not, but we are thankful.)
In Shane the young boy running reminded me of the young Roy Hobbs in the Natural. Roy. My youngest sister and dad were extras in the carnival scene. Dad in strawhat as Redford knocked milk bottles. Enjoy all your clips.
Hi Fred...Enjoying your content !!!Subscribed from Detroit 🇺🇲 I've been hoping to run across "SuperCar ".. I have always remembered this show, but my buddies never seen ?
That was some collection of (non)memories, Fred. The only one I remember was All's Fair, my introduction to Bernadette Peters, yowza!😍 And Dean Martin is the only real Matt Helm!
I am happy to report that I AM familiar with a lot more of these than I thought I would be. However, you got me on about half of them. I had never even heard of them. Keep up the good work.
Great one Fred. As soon as the theme music for Johnny Cypher started, it triggered my memory of the show. It gave me a feeling of good memories. I vaguely remember some of these shows but not many. Jeez Fred, if you can dig up these deep tracks (shows) how come METV can't shuffle up their lineup? They better do something quick or they are going to start losing viewers.
@@FredFlix Here in Rhode Island MeTV is no longer on WJAR-TV 10.2; they've been replaced by Charge!, another nostalgia TV channel. I'll have to look them up online to see where they've gone.
Out of the Inkwell with Koko the clown was the only show in the whole lot that I ever watched on tv. The rest I've never seen. Heck! more than half of these shows I've never even heard of!
Love watching your videos. But this time don't remember any of them and I was born in 60s. Keep making them their enjoyable and bring back alot of memories.
Another great Western TV series from the 60's, " The Monroes", starring Michael Anderson, Jr. and a young Barbara Hershey, was quite good, even though it's run was short-lived.
Out of all those shows, only remember two - Rip Cord and All's Fair. I MAY have watched the others, but, I certainly don't remember them at this point.
3:12 Chris Shea was the original voice of Linus in the earliest Peanuts tv specials. His career was seemingly eclipsed by his younger brother, Eric, who looked & sounded a lot like him. 6:00 THE ROUNDERS looks like a misfired comedy Western for people who liked to see cowboys fall off horses. 7:08 I'm surprised Vivian Vance & Bill Frawley ever worked together outside of I LOVE LUCY, as much as they were said to have hated each other. SHOWER OF STARS was apparently a rare CBS program in color. 11:05 I remember THE ASSOCIATES as the first show where I ever saw Martin Short. 12:05 From what I've read, PROJECT UFO did get a Top 20 ranking its first season and a TV Guide cover (related to UFOs anyway). Jack Webb is very recognizable as the narrator of the opening.
I remember "the Big Picture" just before sign-off National Anthem. I remember "the College Bowl" as a totally different show, a game show betwwen colleges on Sunday mornings. I remember "Rip Cord" and "Rescue 8" (we had channel 8, I thought it was part of that in New Haven, CT.) How well I remember the opening of "The U.S. Steel Hour", the siren and dynamite blast to start the pour, but none of their shows.
WOW! I can't imagine where/how you got these! I am American born in '63, and the only one I am familiar with is Matt Helm. Sure is COOL to see some of the great stars. Fascinated to see David Carradine in Shane. And I loves me some Bernadette Peters!
Wow Fred, you showed a lot of shows I've never of, some going WAY back! Interesting to see that one of them was what looked like a government propaganda effort (The Big Picture). I do remember the Jack Webb UFO show and All's Fair. I found the pilot for The Man Who Never Was on RU-vid!
Yes, I remember fondly watching them both when I was 6 or 7. In one episode of Rescue 8, I remember Jim Davis calling someone an "old timer." It was the first time I had heard the phrase. Then Jim Davis became an old timer himself. Then I became an old timer.
A year or two ago I binge-watched the entire two-season (first-run syndication) run of "Ripcord". Fun to see Festus, Dash Riprock, and the comic relief pilot played by Shug Fisher.
The first episode of "The Associates" ended with what I believe is the single greatest punchline I'd ever heard in a sitcom. (The entire series appears to be on RU-vid.)
I'm sorry, I didn't want to spoil it, as it's the punchline of a three-minute story. Here's the RU-vid link to the episode, and you should start watching at about 20 minutes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kX01O2DAGMw.html
Ooh I spotted the answer beforehand. Actually I missed this series entirely - pity same talent as Taxi and Cheers. I think it was a little ahead of its time
There's so much to unpack with this tremendous video I'll have to do it a piece at a time. Armstrong Circle Theatre ran from 6 June 1950 to 25 June 1957 on NBC and then from 2 October 1957 August 1963 on CBS. The sponsor, Armstrong Cork Company, was a division of Armstrong World Industries which is still around. I had to follow up on this one because I was intrigued by a company making cork products as a major sponsor of a program that was on the air for over 12 years.
That's the thing about the 60's and 70's, no matter what your taste was, you could always find something different to watch on TV, now it's mostly scripted reality shows, Oh well, theres always reruns
That Project U.F.O narrator in the opening sequence sounds like Jack Webb. I vaguely remember Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero. I can't believe I've forgotten about Matt Helm.
Shane used to air on one of those all western channels like Grit TV, although I'm pretty sure that wasn't the one it aired on. And if I'm not mistaken, Chris Shea from that show was also the voice of Linus in the Peanuts cartoons. Mystery Theater starred Tom Conway, the man who played The Falcon in all those B-movies back in the '40s. Wow, I guess The Big Picture couldn't have been too biased, eh? Not like the Army would ever lie to us...always seemed like such upstanding, highly moral folks...
Chris Shea, later known as Christopher Shea, went on to become a semi teen heartthrob in the early 70's, with his inclusion in such illustrious teen mags as Tiger Beat and 16 Magazine..
The only two I remember are Shane and Ripcord. I still enjoy seeing all of the others I may or may not have watched back in the dinosaur days of my youth. I hope you had a nice Labor Day.
David Carradine as Shane? The Big Picture? Shower of Stars, Johnny Cypher, Fresh Soap?? I am submitting this video to the scientific community as proof of the existence of alternate universes! Fred, you have much to answer for! 🤔😄✨✨✨👍🙂
So much I never knew. Dig the 700 James Bond style Sloan credits; really excellent late 60's/early 70's style, also seems to be pulling from the old Playboy magazine art direction everyone was ripping off. Robert Lansing and George Sabders had their own shows?! What about my favorite comedy when I was,a little kid, He & She? There are,a few episodes on the internet and the show is still great... and was also ripped off totally by Mary Tyler Moore. Thank you, Fred. I have a whole world of stuff I now get to dig for!
The College Bowl with Chico Marx co-starred Evelyn Ward, who was the mother of David Cassidy. Loved hearing B.B. King singing the theme from The Associates The voiceover for Rescue 8 was the immortal Paul Frees, and starred Lang Jeffries, who co-starred in the 1962 Chubby Checker twist movie Twist Around the Clock. All's Fair was one of Norman Lear's relatively few flops during the '70s.
Absolute gem of a compilation. We - the UK - used to have many of the *Yankee imperialists'* better series... Mission Impossible... The Fugitive... etc. The only 1 of these I can remember (and I'm 65) being shown here is the *out of the inkwell... * cartoon! What a great combination in *The Associates* Martin Short and Wilfred Hyde - White... in a sitcom... all episodes not shown... even though the series/actors were nominated for 4 prestigious awards in 1980! American TV, eh! 🤔
18:00 - ALL'S FAIR..(and all is forgotten!) Go figure - -a Norman Lear 'developed' show, two big stars, the "Two Bobs" from "l Love Lucy" writers, the "Maude" producer/creator/writer Rod Parker....What could go wrong? Oh, that's 'right'... Ben "Clear Eyes" Stein is a consultant and writer...
I don’t remember “The Associates” - but I knew Alley Mills in the 1970s/80s when she was a prominent leader the Soka Gakkai here in Los Angeles. She was a fun and intelligent young lady.
Before becoming the mom on THE WONDER YEARS, and marrying Orson Bean (in fact, he was struck and killed by a car while crossing the street to a theater where she was performing)
How about the late 60's "The Ugliest Girl in Town", starring the late Peter Kastner? Was a delightful, but short-lived "precursor" to the 80's "Bosom Buddies". Lasted only one season, but still memorable because of Mr. Kastner's performance.
All right now Fred, time to 'fess up: You really have a time machine and went back into the past to get this footage, right? Incredible as always sir, looking forward to parts 2 & 3.
Ok, now. The Big Picture I remember quite clearly (those titles!) I must have been pretty young. Same holds for Koko the clown. Johnny Cypher: why? No idea. Ripcord, probably Dad's choice. Project U.F.O. I liked and my favorite though short lived, The man who never was. Dana Wynter I thought so classy. Thanks, Fred. Next! 💜🤟☺️
Where did you get these clips? You must have spent weeks and weeks. I sort of remember the Armstrong Theater. Tragedy and Comedy faces scared the living daylights out of me.
14:28 Soooo... before Gage and Desoto on "Emergency !" There was "Rescue 8" ? 17:33 theme kinda sounds like the opening theme from the "Cleveland Show"
Speaking of Emergency, today on COZI TV, they had a 50th anniversary show celebrating Emergency. Lots of interesting trivia. Randy Mantooth looks pretty good for his age, however, Kevin Tighe looks like a hundred miles of bad highway.
*"Danger,* brought to you by Nash Automobiles, Hudson Motor Cars, and Kelvinator appliances for the home!" Doesn't inspire much confidence in their products!
See what you can get with just three or four channels? Now, we “super-size” our entertainment and most of it’s forgettable. OK, you just showed that there were a lot of forgettable shows when there were only a few TV channels, as well.
Wow, I remember the Johnny Cypher cartoon from the old WUSN days. That one sucked almost as bad as Clutch Cargo. I lived in Goose Creek in the sixties. With only three channels, you would settle on anything.
@@FredFlix I don’t remember Out of this world. I was a Navy kid who lived in Menriv Park. We were some of the first to move in 1962 when it was brand new. Before that we lived in the housing across from the ship yard off of Sprule avenue. What a dump. My family and I have a lot of fond memories of our time in Goose Creek. We moved to New Jersey from there and went through a big culture shock. I now live in New Hampshire. Looking at Google earth the neighborhood we lived in hasn’t changed all that much, I can still find the house we lived in on Houston Street. Goose Creek on the other hand is almost unrecognizable. It’s amazing how much it has grown.
Ok, remember the movie "Shane" but not the show. I watched "The Associates" once or twice. "Matt Helm" I know of "Racket Squad because someone loaded a bunch of episodes on youtube
How about the early 70's The Young Rebels and The Young Lawyers (starring the late Zalman King) on ABC? The latter was pretty good TV and should have had a longer run.
That intro to "Shane" would cancel it for me. That child screaming his name over and over. It makes me nervine. "The Rounders" --- Old Fooler . Cute. TOO TOO cute. Many of the rest are run of the mill one season losers, you can always tell just by their intros. All that awful 1970's TV rock music and those so called "action shots" of the star running around aimlessly or mugging into the camera, the "fast cars and faster chicks" kinda guy. He had The Dry Look. However, I'd like to see the "George Sanders Mystery Theater". Also, remember The Best Of The Wests" or "The Stockard Channing Show"?
Broadside was produced by the McHale's Navy producer but it was terrible only lasted one season not nearly as funny as McHale was it starred Dick Sargent = ru-vid.com?search_query=broadside+tv+series
