This is back when TV was actually entertaining. Fury was a great show. Mr. Ed was also funny. Now we have hundreds of channels with nothing but bad news on.
@@senojah That is true but at least the morality shown in those old TV shows was far closer to the standards taught in the Bible than the evil, satanic garbage into which TV today has degenerated.
When I grew up I always defined an intellectual as someone who could listen to the William Tell Overture, and not think of the Lone Ranger :-) Thanks for this
I loved Friday night and Saturday mornings. Friday night shows and Saturdays cartoons. Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger came on on Saturday at noon. Love that time period of my innocence. Best life ever. A better way and a happier time. I didn't know it yet! But it shaped me to be the person that I am today. I loved all those shows. Good clean memories
I can still remember Saturday mornings watching the Lone Ranger on our 12" B&W console TV. Those were the good old days. The shows in those days were great entertainment, and all TV was free, no cable fees.
49jubilee - No cable then. Just electricity and antenna. Cable came much later and became popular because, for a fee, you no longer had to watch commercials! Dang, where did THAT go wrong?
Cambridge UK 1950s: We had a little Pye 8” wooden TV with a Perspex magnifier precariously hanging in front of the screen. Continual rolling of frames made it frustrating to watch. The Lone Ranger was my favourite series and Whirly Birds rescue helicopter.
I made a good living repairing TV and installing roof top antennas. I have FIOs now but get better quality video of my simple dipole. Yeah the number of stations are limited, but free. America likes FREE dom. My cell phone has a crank on it.
When I was a kid, Friday night was my favorite with Route 66 followed by the Twilight Zone. Back then 3 channels in black and white kept me more entertained than 200 channels in high definition do today.
True. 200 channels now days consist of 75 usless sports, another 50 or so of usless shopping channels with the remaining devoted to the ''trending'' usless crap.
I was born in Manhattan NYC in May 1954. My parents moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1957. We also had 3 channels in black and white, the channels were 3, 5 and 8. I do remember seeing some of the shows shown here. Sky King was a good show to watch. I also watched reruns of the 1950's Highway Patrol series, and also Combat, Around 1965, some UHF channels came into use and my parents bought a receiver that let our TV receive those channels.
Lenny Anders. Ciao from Sicily. Do you remember the Littlest Hobo? Now how about, Calling all Cars, Police Station, US Marshal, The Detectives, Ozzy and Harriet, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Red Skelton Show, Behind Closed Doors, Code -- 3, Dragnet? And God only knows how many more. God Bless. PS. Don't forget, The Mickey Mouse Club and Walt Disney Presents.
Sky King and Penny. One of my favorites! these should all be put on videos for our grandkids and great grandkids! I miss it so much? Hopalong Cassidy! gene Autry, Dale and Roy Rogers!
@@thg2123 I thought all this electronic bullshit was supposed to help us?.There are some things about yesteryear that were better. Btw how many guys had a crush on Diana Rigg as emma peel in the popular British television show the Avengers!. I know I did.
Gloria: You bet. I had a favorite cartoon show that I loved watching on Saturday mornings when I was a small kid back in the late '50s. The name long forgotten.
Huntz Hall's son, Gary Hall, became an Episcopal priest and was dean of Washington (D.C.) Cathedral for a while. And the reason I happened to know that was because someone made a derisive comment in the local paper and he wrote in to defend his father. Gary Hall was born in 1949.
Our TV signed on at 6 am on Saturday. I saw the Big Picture (a US Army show) followed by Highway Patrol followed by Tarzan (Johnny Weismuller), next was Circus Boy, RinTinTin and finally Big Time Wrestling.
For some bizarre reason I was always up early on Saturday morning turning on the t.v. waiting seemingly forever for it to "warm up" and then watching a test pattern. After the National Anthem and being told that the station subscribed to the Seal of Good Practice on would come The Big Picture.
@@brucematheson404 Blond wood with a big dial for turning channels. Ours was used so much the numbers wore off and mom used my model paints to put the channels back on the dial.
@@georgewatson6622 - I loved/hated Joanie Weston. Charlie O'Connell's family lived around the corner from me when I was a little kid in Queens, NY. I eventually developed a love for my home team, the NY Chiefs.
i remember these shows and we had the navy frogman from the cereal box. the frogman you would put baking soda in the bottom holder and it would make them move up and down in the bath tub.
I also remember the baking soda submarine, the Whirly-Rang, and the cardboards with camping tips from the Indian "Straight Arrow" in the Shredded Wheat boxes.
Dad "What the Hell are you doing up at this hour? Hey, that's the test pattern you are watching, Get your butt back to bed before you wake up the rest of the house, I don't give a damn if it's Saturday. BED! NOW!"
An innocent time. And we were the children of the Greatest Generation... They endured the great depression, often lied about their age to fight in WWII. Defeated the enemy on two fronts, came home and got straight to work. You would be hard pressed to get any one of them to talk about the war. They brought our nation into the strongest economy the world has ever seen. Then they grew old and turned it all over to us. And what did we do with it?
Yes, and now we have this covid-19 scam, & they have alot of ppl cowering, sheltering in place what a FARCE. The greatest Generation wouldn't have put with the Scamdemic, Lawd have mercy !
@@berzerker1100 I agree. And with the November elections coming up it's not going away anytime soon, I'm afraid. It's now turning into a political agenda to do battle with in Washington.
Yes, my father endured the great depression, entered the Army during WWII, only to return home and have to drink from the "coloreds only" water fountain. No respect...but we respected my dad and his service as a vet.
I was heartbroken when, after Gramps died, Jeff and his mother moved to the city and left Lassie with Timmy. I couldn't stop crying. In my mind, Lassie will always be Jeff's dog.
I remember that at Midnight alot of T.V. programming would sign off for the night Showing the Indian Test Pattern & playing the star spangled banner and that was in Los angeles calif. Where I live, Now we have a Zillion channels w/ cable & satellite dish Lord have mercy !
All products of the creative team at GAMMA PRODUCTIONS. In pre-FLINTSTONE days, GAMMA had a runaway hit on ABC with ROCKY and his friends. Not actually designed with kiddies in mind, the show was nine parts Cold War socio-political satire, with a sharper edge than the fare from WB. SADLY, the siren song of SATURDAY MORNING merchandising was too much for cartoon companies to ignore. Yes we loved KING LEONARDO, but it was far over the kiddies' heads. KENNY DELMAR's HUNTER was a variation of a character created by comedian ALAN YOUNG, for radio. Delmar perfected the character for FRED ALLEN's radio show. Loooong before MEL BLANC "borrowed" the , I say, the distinctive DIXIECRAT demeanor and drawl, (youall), Delmar presented SENATOR FOGBOUND to radio audiences. Cartoons and early TV gave Blanc the edge, and generations know only of FOGHORN LEGHORN. HEY,, that's showbiz!
My faves were Annie Oakley, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry. I would have liked to watch Twilight Zone in its earliest seasons but I had to wait until I was old enough to stay up until 10:00 PM. In the 1950s parents put you to bed by 8 or 9 o’clock unlike today’s kids who live as adults when the aren’t.
@@LarryMossey I vaguely remember possibly coming out to the livingroom after hearing some of the opening music to Bonanza. they must have shooed me back to bed right after as I think I was only 3 lol.
Get up a 6 am Saturday, crank up the Raytheon and watch the old test pattern that had a Native American on it until the Three Stooges started. I got to meet Clayton Moore when I was 5. Got to meet Duncan Renaldo (Cisco Kid) when I was 7. Would have liked to have met Guy Williams (Zorro).
I envy you meeting Clayton Moore. In the late 1970s he came to Rockford, IL. I made plans to go see him but got called to jury duty. In the early 1980s I moved to Dallas and Clayton made an appearance at a Texas Rangers baseball game. Again I made plans to go see him but AGAIN I got called to jury duty. It just goes to show you: when the Lone Ranger is in town, justice must be served! This is a true story.
Gerald, I, too, got to meet Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carillo when they appeared at a White Sox baseball game in Comiskey Park in Chicago. Renaldo was a very gracious, charming man who spoke with everyone who wanted to meet him and get his autographed photo, but Leo Carillo was a jerk, would not look at anyone, would not speak with anyone, and from a stack of his photos, would just fling the photos in the air with his fingertips--if you wanted his photo, you had to catch one before it hit the ground. ...About Guy Williams, I agree with you that he was the best Zorro in Hollywood history.
Did not get a TV till about 1956-7. Prior to this did "things" out at night, or listened to the radio. During the summer for a while at night. I would listen to baseball games on radio. We got a shortwave set and I could hear Voice of America, BBC, Canada, Radio Moscow, Deutsche Welle, and Radio Japan. I still listen to shortwave. Today's TV is a wasteland.
Does anyone remember My Living Doll with Julie Newmar & Bob Cummings It was a short lived tv show in the early 60s. She was a life sized robot human like.
I kinda remember the 1st two weeks? Rhoda was taken out of a crate - I kept thinking when will he get her some clothes? Instead of being wrapped in sheets? And Bob and his assistant next door, I liked it when she kept using judo on them - but they had to hide her from his sister, so Bob would press a certain button and Rhoda got very stiff - later when the sister found out and got clothes for Rhoda, I think she stopped doing judo and I missed that ...
@TheBajemo I remember that show! Schultzy was Alice on the Brady Bunch. Was so glad to see her back. I also remember Ann Sothern. Her n Cummings were fairly decent role models. Years later my kids n I were watching George and Gracie Allen, the one who played God in movies? My daughter would call him "My tv grandpa". So funny!
@@dennisseuling4789 I watched the "Beaver" programs when they were new , sometimes. So I couldn't understand, at first he's a little kid, a couple of years later? - he's suddenly taller and his voice changed! We have a little, scratched 78 rpm record from that time, playing the theme song from the end of the program, a chorus is singing the lyrics to it ," Here we go, with a rum-te- tum, we're having a big parade ... later they're saying, fee-fi- fiddle dee- dee. ...and later cookies and everything, then home sweet home ..." and that's all I remember, I misplaced the record.
Vividly remember The Lone Ranger, Sky King and The Cisco Kid. The others not so much. I definitely recognized the RCA Victor TV the kids were watching because we had one very similar. The only difference was that ours had doors on the cabinet. It's definitely a 1954 model. Good memories!
frdjr252 I think the company was located in NJ, which is where we lived, so they must have had good distribution there. I recall that it was frequently in the shop for repairs. Once it started smoking, which scared my Mom. There were DIY vacuum tube testers in candy stores, where my dad would attempt to diagnose problems. I know at one point the repair shop installed what was probably a magnet on the CRT to improve the image. Our second was an RCA color set, from the 1960’s. Far more reliable! We also had a portable b&w TV, but I don’t recall the make.
Definitely. The old Flash Gordon serials starring Buster Crabbe were great. When you watch them today, the bad acting and bargain basement special effects are pure camp. But back then, those serials were terrific!
Yes, I loved Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon. The other outstanding character in that series was Charles Middleton as Ming, The Merciless! And of course, the great classical theme music, Les Preludes, by Franz Liszt!! Even as a little boy, that music had a lot to do with my developing love for classical music.
Cisco Kid trivia: Duncan Renaldo's real name was Renaldo Duncan and was of Rumanian heritage. There is a road in Californis named the "Leo Carillo Way."
Now Saturday mornings are any good no great cartoons or westerns or Sky King. Roy Rodgers, all the rest of the Saturday shows. On a black and white small screen TV 😂
I was fortunate to be able to watch the reruns of some of those 50's Saturday morning shows. I enjoyed them along with the new 60's cartoons that played along with them. Saturday mornings were the best with a bowl of cereal and cold milk while watching Minute Mouse, Felix the Cat, Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck, Sweet memories 😊☺🤗
I'm from the era of the Jetsons, the Pink Panther and Johnny Quest on Saturday mornings, so these are either unknown to me or vaguely familiar. But I DO remember the Songbird airplane, though the show's name "Sky King" is a revelation. It is cool to see these.
That was my time too as a kid remember it all, heres a few more memories of the time,, mighty mouse, heckle and jeckle, hopalong cassidy, roy rogers, gene autry, the original mickey mouse club, superman, huckleberry hound Lassie , rin tin tin. There were many more and it was such a good time ,, todays world is crap.
We had a 14" diagonal screen with two dozen people watching it, today, a 70 inch with only two people watching it. If you want to watch anything decent, need to get streaming to watch the good old stuff.
Nick, So many programs are written by, acted by, paid for by such poorly educated morons they don’t last another season. Thank heavens for that. If you watch any of the recent performers of the new wave called ‘ Concerts’ I bet you very noticed art of singing has deteriorated into just yelling and screaming, many times with a wad of bubble gum in their mouth. Not a pretty sight! Remember Roseanne’s vulgar scratching when she was in the spotlight! Gag! When we were young I always eagerly awaited the playing of The National Anthem before ball games it was a reminder of the courageous men and women who settled the wilderness from sea to shining sea, and lived in America, and answered the call to help destroy tyranny around the earth.
Brian, surely you remember "The Lone Ranger" on BBC Television? We had our first TV in 1957: an HMV 8" BBC only model. I think "The Cisco Kid" was on ITV in those days.
@@ianblakesley3349 In those days only the posh folks had ITV as well :-( (tv's either could or couldn't pick up the signal, depending on the model). This is true: My elder brother was humiliated in School because he said Popeye used Olive Oil on his car during class questions ... his friends told me what happened and I didn't have a clue as to what they were on about. You mention The Lone Ranger ? well that was what Saturday Cinema was all about ..ummm and Rocket Man, and Hopalong Cassidy and already mentioned Cisco Kid :-)
@@alphalunamare You're right; ITV was expensive in the 1950s (set-top adapters or a new TV with the new channels (TVs then were nearly all made in UK)). Saturday morning children's cinema : 9-penny tickets, Norman Wisdom films. Happy days for us baby-boomers.
Are you kidding, I was born early 60s in the UK and remember watching kids tv in the Summer holidays BBC always started off with Champion the Wonder Horse, then Herges Adventures of Tin Tin, then the Flashing Blade and White Horses. My Parent's got married in 56 and had a tv and their parents got theirs for the coronation in 53, Our local ITV station Tyne Tees, always started their transmission with the very Geordie " Bobby Shaftoe " folk sing.
@@alisonsmith4801 You had ITV ... like was said above, not everyone did. But I did eventually get to see most of those you mention ..I don't recall 'flashing blade'.
I'm 74 and was glued to the TV as a kid. I remember Sky King came on at noon Saturdays in New Jersey. The silent cartoons like Koko the clown and Farmer Gray I still remember barely!😂😂
Yes I can remember the folks telling me "Turn the t.v. set on so it can warm up." and it seemingly took forever. For a minute or two an unspoken horror swept the house - Is it on the fritz or will a picture appear?
... I was born in '51, my home town in NJ was 10 miles from NYC, so I watched NYTV. *Ramar* always cracked me up. How many times did that exact same tiger leap out from behind that exact same scrub palm???
What I remember most about watching these early TV shows on Saturday morning, was my father telling me, my brother and 2 sisters to stay downstairs and watch TV while he spent some "quality" time with my mother behind a locked bedroom door.
I remember the night when Batman premiered..... That show started with the Comic Book art of a Superhero, and we were disappointed, until the actual show started.
The Lone Ranger still screens at 8 p.m. on weeknights in Darwin Australia - on Channel 41 Darwin Community TV. Along with Dragnet at 4.30, The Andy Griffiths Show at 5, McHales Navy at 5.30, Bonanza at 6, and Rawhide at 7. Plus The Twilight Zone at 8.30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
In the fifties we did not have a T V (last folks in our city to have one LOL! ), however, our next door neighbor, Miss Essie, had a little tiny screen TV ( screen not much bigger than my iPad) who would lift up her window and would put the console up against the window sill and turned up the volume . We sat on the fence between our homes and we would watch the Cisco Kid and other programs for a couple of hours then it would be time for her to slide the window down and she would give us a big smile and a wave bye-bye , and draw - close the drapes. It was “ thrilling” beyond words and the memories are still as fresh as yesterday. Happy Holidays to all- be safe -take care. May 2022 be a “ very good year” .
I’m so glad I grew up in America when NOBODY was WOKE, TV and Movie Stars taught that Truth , Justice, Honor and GOD were what you should try fulfill in your life to be an adult !! They even taught gun safety. Kids played outside for hours and were only expected to show up before Dinner Time !
Yep. We kids stayed out until dusk. My mom would step out on the porch and had a really loud whistle that we could hear 2 blocks away. That was amazing. We would then jump on our stingray bikes and head home.
All you had in America c1950s was the TV. Impersonal motorways..Buildings everywhere. All our natural resources etc. turned into factories and housing etc. All you had was TV. I used to love the cowboy films ie Gabby Hayes.
@@lookingforonetruechristian7396 AGree most were having affairs, doing drugs but most were churchgoing Catholics or Baptists, Methodiists or Christ Science.
TV shows of the 1950s didn't promote religion, certainly not fundamentalist religion with a patriarchal god. Most writers in early television promoted liberal values like social justice, tolerance, and had hidden messages about labor unions, the right to be different, to fight bigotry and racism. These writers had been through the McCarthy Red scare witchhunts and saw it as their moral duty to confront the hypocrisy and prejudice of their time. Shows of the 1980s often featured right wing themes with macho characters fighting two- dimensional villains who threatened social order.
I was born in 1950. Most of those shows I never saw except for the Cisco Kid Sky King and The Lone Ranger. Those were the good old days. Life was much simpler back then.
@@jett7499 In the 1960s, I always watched Felix the Cat in the afternoon, never on Saturday mornings. Do you remember that Bill guy hosting their programs? He said the same thing everyday, when he was about to go to the bulletin board; "I dream of Jeannie in the polka-dot bikini." I mean, really, he's hosting a kids show, for crimmeny sakes!
@@bobbyfrancis8957 That's funny Bobby. I vaguely remember that. Those days were so wholesome and pure. Opportunities were ahead, (as they still are without the liberals), but people feared God and loved one another. This liberal party has only created hate, fear, jealousy, and destruction. I pray to God about it and know God will have his will. Take care, Jeff
How many men now in their 60s remember directing the orchestra playing the William Tell Overture at the end of The Lone Ranger when they were little boys?
Got the first telly in 1960 and i was a small punk when my mother screamed to a movie where someone was shopping up another guy while i didnt understand anything of what was going on more than it was fun with a screaming mother. 😊👍
Of course, two guys named William Hanna and Joseph Barbera would forever change all that when in 1957, after MGM closed its animation studio, they decided to branch out on their own and produce animation specifically for television starting with Ruff and Reddy which aired Saturday mornings on NBC. Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound soon followed daily, Hanna-Barbera would later hit primetime with The Flintstones and The Jetsons, and they were off to the races.
I could never forget Hanna-Barbara. Yogis Bear, Snagglepuss, Tom & Jerry, Huckleberry Hound, soooooooo many to name. They were worthy products of their time & can never be replaced😭.
@@noahpartic7586 What were their names? The cat and mouse in trenchcoats, Snooper and Blabbermouse? I thought then, those cartoons were unusual, that crime DOES pay. I'll never forget - part of one cartoon, this one crook, in a store, he suddenly grabs this grand piano, and hides it under his coat!
That sums up my growing up. Every one of those shows I remember watching...along with Crusader Rabbit, Johnny Jupiter, Range Rider, Rootie Kazootie, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (😛), Pinky Lee, and Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Colonel Bleep, Kit Carson, and Annie Oakley. Those were the dsys, lol
I don't know anyone who has even heard of Crusader Rabbit, and I have never seen it. It's a shame none of the other networks picked up Captain Video. It would have been interesting to see how it would have fared with a bigger budget.
Hey, M-L-V, thanks a bunch for creatinging these and putting them up. Much of it I viewed regularly as a young TV loyalist. Try, if you will, to find some China Smith items. There is information to be had about this Dan Duryea treasure but, so-far I've not seen anything moving. The episodes were from around 1951/52 I think. 'Will check-out all of your items. . : .
There was also Crusader Rabbit, and his pal Rags the tiger. Also King Leonardo. I used to watch Roy Rodgers after school along with the Mouseketeers. Then Highway Patrol.
Bugs Bunny, the Flintstones, the Jetson's, Scooby Doo, the Archie's, Fat Albert, Shazam and Isis. Wonderful childhood memories during a much more innocent time. Sadly it's long gone, never to return. Cannot even watch cartoons on network television Saturday mornings anymore. Infomercials and news programs now.
My youngest brother was a smart-ass artist (and still is). He used to watch Fat Albert just to get ideas to use with his sandpaper tongue. Nobody could out smart-ass him. And he was great with the comeback.
