From 16mm black and white film prints. This is volume 2 of 3. To see the full episodes, go here: / grymreiper My thanks to Grym Reiper for allowing me to use the ads.
And there wasn't 120+ channels you could choose (ignore) from! But, the quality was so much higher than the glop on tv today. Most are just forgettable fill-in time programming. Even the so-called "dregs" in 1966-67 (ex, "Gilligan's Island" only to the critics) was more inspired and entertaining than the junk shown now--especially those insipid "reality" shows that are boring and predictable. As for the commercials in 1966-67, they were funnier, clever, and better entertainment than the so-called regular programming today! With the possible exception of the Internet world-wide connections to information, there isn't anything today I'd want if we returned to 1966! Even the money was superior back then, with the gold standard alive (until Aug. 15, 1971), and 40% silver half-dollars through 1970. Dimes and quarters lost their entire silver content after 1964, with half-dollars changed from 90% to the 40%, and price inflation the predictable result from the new, cheap money created from nothing by the Federal Reserve paper money scheme. How do you think they paid for the Vietnam War then, now there are more wars today (with paper money created more than ever before in: iraq, Afghanistan, threatening Iran, Syria, Russia, and a trade war with China, etc. Bullwinkle: "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" Rocky: "AGAIN?" (1:28) ROTFL!
When it starts out with the Flintstones music and leads into Bullwinkle...you’re a man after my heart, Fred. Incredible video! This is what Fridays are made for!
I concur Fred… With the previous poster with one exception. The Baby Crawlalong ad brought back a bittersweet memory for me. I got her for a present for my sixth birthday and a few weeks later I was sent home sick from school and my mother had me on my parents bed because the portable TV was in there. When my father came home from work that night drunk as usual he said he was going up to the bedroom to rest instead of passing out on the couch. Unfortunately I was there and he ordered me out of the bed so I ran to my own bedroom forgetting my Baby Crawlalong. That was a mistake because he hurled it down the hallway. She never crawled again no matter what we did to try to fix her. My father apologized but the damage was done in more ways than a broken doll.
Michael Coffey Alcoholism as well as all substance abuse and growing up with it is messed up. A lot of kids that grew up in the so-called wonder years dealt with a lot of things that were hidden from the public eye because in those days you didn’t talk about what happens behind the door of your house. Everything stayed in. But to go in the opposite direction like it is now I wonder if that is really the solution… Blaming parents for making bad choices based on their own pain or damage. Although I have the predilection to be an alcoholic because of my genes I’ve chosen not to go in that direction. It’s all about choices and learning to be strong enough to make the right ones.
@@angelapritula9516 I am a recovering alcoholic (15 years sober). My Dad and his brothers were alcoholics. It is sad to see a man go downhill in the last years of his life. He could not keep anything down except warm vodka. He died of cirrhosis, bleeding stomach and cancer of the esophagus. Take care, my friend.
Wow Fred, This was a nice carefree ride into childhood.. Great memories! Quisp & Quake had me LMAO.... such fun! I liked Quisp because he was spacey. My little brother liked Quake because he was earthy. We both loved the commercials showing the rivalry between the two. Warm and fuzzy feeling free of charge! Thanks!
Its amazing how much Batman changed the cartoon land scape in the fall 1966 new cartoons. A lot of sci-fy and super hero type stuff.In My family, we only had black and white TV till 1985. Sony made it cheaper to buy a color TV by then. But I never had any problems with black and white. But I admit that watching color TV with a crisp picture was delightful to watch. No doubt about it.
That's the problem with the world today no sugar cereal with toys inside and Saturday cartoons all are gone IAM glad I was born in 1966 to enjoy some of these things
@Clay Loomis I used to eat frosted flakes and then go to school and never had a problem like that though. Lot of the problem is parents don't teach their children self discipline.
@Eli Foust Yep, they've had to remove a lot of artificial ingredients but don't want to use natural real ingredients to replace so they just leave them out entirely.
@@watershed44 Yup, Frosted Flakes and Frosty O's. I was hyperactive as a kid, and I was bouncing off the walls in grade school. It wasn't a discipline problem, I just couldn't sit still. I'm sure a bowlful of sugar every morning didn't help.
@49jubilee ok. I recognized the tune, but couldn't remember which show it was from. Thanks. I should have known. The Flintstones was one of my favorite growing up. My brother and I even had Flintstone coloring books in the 60's.
I was only 2 years old, but they must have run some of these commercials for years, because I remember them some of them from when I was in kindergarten.
Man, you just can't beat that smell of a freshly opened can of play doh, then as we got older we built model airplanes then the testors glue kicked in. Another winner Fred 👍👍👍 Thank you.
I think Ron has put Clint in every movie he has ever directed. Might just be a bit part, but he's always there somewhere. Can't be easy. The poor guy has a face that would stop a clock.
@Princess Grace - I'm with you, Princess. I always had a soft spot in my heart for the Trix Rabbit, too. I felt so bad for him. Every time I saw one of those TV commercials, I vowed I would give the rabbit Trix - even though I was old enough to know he didn't really exist. Guess it was just one of those heartfelt empathy things. Even as a senior citizen today, I would still give the rabbit Trix. Why not? - I still occasionally eat them now. Okay, so I guess I never grew up. lol ;-)
@@beargunn7820 Yep, exactly the same. Even when watching a commercial I'd seen dozens of times, I kept hoping it would end differently and the Rabbit would *finally* get some Trix. I did the same when watching this video just now. I'm not quite a senior citizen, but I'm close. Maybe we're just empathetic, soft-hearted nice guys, eh? At least when it comes to the Trix Rabbit . . .
Paul Frees as the voice in the Frosty-O's and the nestle crunch commercials. I loved the "Gentle Ben", the Impossibles, Frankenstein Jr and the Herculoids shows as well, Fred!
In 1967, Kenner Toys was acquired by General Mills [that's why their toys were often sold, with "Big G" cereals, in the same blocks of commercial time for years]. They eventually sold it {with Parker Brothers} to Tonka in 1987....which was bought out by Hasbro in 1991, who eliminated the Kenner brand name by 2000.
@Fred Flix Gentle Ben...I loved that show, I was only able to see it in repeats during the mid 70s when I was a child. They used to run Gentle Ben early saturday afternoons in many markets back then in repeats. Thanks Fred!
"The Little Old Chocolate Maker" appeared in Nestle's commercials through the end of the 1960's. Incidentally, the "crispy little flavor nuggets" in the Nestle's Crunch bar are, of course, crisped rice.
I was amused by the Frosty-O's commercial. When I was in college I took fencing for one of my physical education classes. Our fencing teacher was Hungarian. He had a voice like he was from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with a backbone as straight as a yardstick. He would walk around and say things like, "Straighten your rear leg. Straighten your rear leg. STRAIGHTEN YOUR REAR LEG!" And, whap, he would take his foil and hit the offending part. I haven't thought about that in years...
The first spot is the premiere of the then new cereal Lucky Charms from 1964, with Arthur Anderson as the voice of Lucky the Leprechaun. Also, the Every Litter Bit Hurts You PSA for Keep America Beautiful is v/o'ed by Gary Merrill.
Always loved these commercials! Cheerios Kid, the Trix Rabbit and my favorite, Sonny the Cuckoo Bird voiced by Chuck McCann bring the Saturday Morning rememberies flooding back!!! I think we relegated many of these HB shows to 2nd or 3rd tier after watching other shows for the 3rd or so time!! Samson and Goliath looks and sounds like a re-edited Johnny Quest (5 stars) episode.
Just discovered this. Boy oh boy, talk about a way to bring back decades-old nuances and feelings from childhood! I had great memories and thoughts I hadn't remembered since I don't know when. Those banana bike commercials really did the trick. That Jazzy interlude ending the Bullwinkle Show turned on a switch that linked me back to a comment post I just entered on RU-vid just a few weeks ago. Algorithms and maybe AI have their upsides, I suppose I just learned. Soooo doggone Cool, it felt like I went to a therapist for depression with a positive response outcome. If anyone watching these had anything good about childhood and growing up, this will reconnect those brain neurons and receptors in a very o poignant way. THANKS FOR THIS
I was watching these shows in Black and White back in the day. Saturday morning was the only day of the week that my mother considered cold cereal to be a proper breakfast. During the week, I had to have a hot breakfast, or my mother would feel that she had done all that she could to properly take care of her child.
@Guitar Anthony Quisp was pretty heavily advertised all the way though the late 1970s, I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons in the mid 70s and remember seeing quisp ads all the time. 75,76,77.
& for some, Grocers in my area never carried Quake??? So I was de facto Team Quisp. There was another cereal rivalry involving two WWI vintage flying aces!
Amazon has a lot of cereals. My husband loved " alphabets" and the kids and I got him 6 boxes for his 60th birthday, what a shock and surprise. I liked crispy crinkles but assuming that cereal was not PC in the 70s, but Jeeze it was good.
and to think...i still eat cheerios !😉😊 Close and Play, not for Mom or Dad, not for big Sis, I still watch Hogans Heroes on Metv, Thanx Fred, great memories !
@@FredFlix and do you still watch Hogan's Heroes on Metv ? I find some of those older shows even funnier now, i think much of the funny stuff went over my head as a kid.
@Grym Reiper While I was only about two or three when most of this aired I saw some in repeats in the 1970s! Thanks for offering up the material to FredFlix! Life seemed so much more simple, and easier to understand back in the 1960s and 1970s!
The Quake commercial must have been done by Jay Ward Productions, all the famous voices of Rocky & Bullwinkle are there, Paul Frees, June Foray and William Conrad as Quake
Do bears live in the Everglades? I remember getting a close and play when I was in first grade....great memories! You always hit a home run Mr. Fred......thanks again
The ad for Gentle Ben cracked me up. I don't remember the show being quite so action packed.~~ So Dennis Weaver left Gunsmoke for Gentle Ben ...after that show I can't think of what he did next....he didn't work again until Duel? Or was McCloud before Duel?
Wow, I really enjoyed this. It was like seeing old friends (Quisp and especially the Trix Rabbit) and some acquaintances I'd forgotten, such as Samson and Goliath. I was really happy to see the Nestle Crunch Swiss Man. I always liked him and his whiskers, and that commercial. What's not to love about a charming chocolate house you can eat? As someone who has always wanted to see what hasn't been seen, it's puzzling that it feels so comforting to watch these snippets where I can predict everything, where I know exactly what's going to happen. Odd, that. Thank you.
I had forgotten about lightning bug Glow juice! Didn't that turn out to be harmful , or they took it off the market for some reason? Another good one Fred! Thanks Grym.
11:31 Is that Brandon Cruz? I've never seen him outside of The Courtship of Eddie's Father. EDIT: Upon reflection, I've also seen him in one episode each of Kung Fu and The Incredible Hulk.
I had a close and play records player. My mom got it at the thrift shop on base. I accidently fried it when i plugged it into the 220 wall plug instead of the transformer. I gutted it an used it to carry a barbie an clothes in. Boy was my mother mad cause we didnt wait for her to get back up from the laundry room.
I had no idea so many classic cartoon characters had ad campaigns for various products whether it was various cereals for General Mills or various drinks like Kool-Aid.
Did you ever notice that in these 60's cereal commercials they don't say "Part of a/this complete/balanced/nutritious breakfast" like they did in those 80's cereal commercials? I wonder why.
@FredFlix At about 16:08 the German Man in the Nestle Chocolate house sounds VERY familiar, could he be the same voice that was Yukon Cornelius, from Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer? Sure sounds like him!
These cartoons I've seen, except for Young Samson and Goliath. Say, wasn't there already an animated dog named Goliath? Duh well, *that* Goliath doesn't turn into a duh Simba - I mean duh Kimba - I mean duh *lion.* And he was animated by the same guy who did Gumby. The Impossibles and Frankenstein Jr. and The Herculoids I've seen on Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure when it was on WNEW Channel 5 (now Fox 5).
One reason why Hanna-Barbera had to change the title to "YOUNG SAMSON" by 1968 was because the Lutheran Church objected to the "SAMSON AND GOLIATH" title, as it sounded TOO close to their "DAVEY AND GOLIATH" title {Art Clokey produced it for them}.
To make him look like "one of the neighborhood kids" for that Kool-Aid commercial. For the concurrent "Kool Aid a Go-Go" spot, he was "naked" again. ;)
He got these from me. I sent him my original's (Not compressed by youtube) As far as the where from me? Lets say there's a collectors market (small) for such things. Anything else would be telling ;)
You mean when Jack Webb produced the "DRAGNET: 1966" TV movie (which was "shelved" until January 1969, because NBC was SO impressed with the film, they decided Jack should produce a new "DRAGNET" series for January 1967). In any case, Ben was unavailable- due to his commitment to ABC's "THE FELONY SQUAD"- and Harry replaced him as "Officer Bill Gannon".
I prefered Looney Toons better and had probably outgrown those breakfast cereals time but I remember Smokey the bear and the Spirograph. Nice trip, my dear sir. :)
Hello Fred, I haven't commented in a bit. I was wondering if you have a favorite year of all time? In pop culture and everything. 1966 is mine. I was born in 1991. #OldSoul
In pop culture it's probably 1966, Rachel. For me personally, as a kid, it may have been 1967, because of a couple who neighborhood girls who taught me a few things.
