STAY TUNED - FRIDAY NIGHT TV WINTER-SPRING 1967 

These intros bring back memories of a great time to be a kid; can't believe there were so many choices with just 3 networks!!

I was only six years old, but I remember most of these. thanks for the memories.

I am so glad I grew up during this era of TV. : )

1967 was a very good year for TV.

wow i remember all of these shows well, now this is TV young people take notes.

I remember most of these; I remember my brothers and me used to LOVE "THE TIME TUNNEL" and were so mad when it was cancelled.

Boy, flipping channels would have been somewhat tough for me, this night of the week. Gotta start with The Wild Wild West, then The Man from UNCLE, check the movie on CBS till time to tune in for The Avengers. Shame I would miss Hogan's Heroes and the Green Hornet, but thank goodness for reruns :-)

OK, I have no idea what I could have been watching that year... I know for a fact I was regularly watching Green Hornet & Time Tunnel, but I also seem to remember watching Wild Wild West & Hogan's Heroes, as well as Tarzan & maybe UNCLE. For sure I never saw Laredo... Avengers owned 10pm. I was 13 that year.

I remember most of these because TV was a big thing to a 4th grader in 1967. But now these openings are IN COLOR. We didn't have a color TV until the 70s.

Al Hirt on trumpet on the Green Hornet theme.

The best of times then...really fun tv, nothing like it today.

at lest fridays nite wasn't as boring as it is now

Ah- TV as I remember and will always be great!

I love it, I really love it, even just before my 4th birthday on April 28th, 1967!! WOW!!

This is great. It shows me what my parents were watching when I was born February 25,1967. Thanks.

Who could forget Steed & Mrs Peel on the Avengers?

This is great! It shows me what my parents were watching when I was a baby,. I was born Februrary 25, 1967. Thanks for this. It is greatly apprecieated.

Fridays used to be a great night for TV. Not so much anymore. I was a little kid what these shows came out. If I left my door open I could see the TV a little from bed. That's how I watched some of these with my binoculars.

"Mrs. Peel..? We're needed." *chuckles*

This is great! It shows me what my parents were watching when I was a babybaby. I was born Februrary 25, 1967. Thanks for this. It is greatly apprecieated.

I was 14 yrs old and making decisions of what to watch knowing my dad had last say. Fortunately, the Wild, Wild West, the Man from U.N.C.L.E and the Avengers were 1 he each

grade school memories.....great ones

Was nine at this time...with out DVR or any type of recording...I manage to watch most these shows...Escapism was king with The Wild, Wild West, Tarzan, Man From Uncle, Time Tunnel, Green Hornet, T.H.E Cat and the Avengers

So nostalgic. I was a year old, but I've grown up n reruns of most of these shows. The '60s were the REAL Golden Age of TV for me, and maybe the '80s.

I remember that it was a great year for TV.

i remember Land Of The Giants, Here Come the Brides, Rat Patrol, F Troop. . . good times, good times.

I hope you'll do more of these, nice job!

I grew up during this time too and what I find interesting is that the only people of color in this Friday night line-up were Bruce Lee (Green Hornet) and Ivan Dickson (Hogan Heroes). The networks were very slow in making progress in including minorities on primetime programs...

As a 5th-grader my favorite show was The Time Tunnel, the first time I ever heard of the Titanic was from that show's first episode. It broke my heart when that show did not go beyond the first season, besides the crappy packaging of several episodes into a pair of movies for TV syndication it would be decades later when I would catch that show on SyFy TV.

As a kid, I enjoyed ABC's primetime schedule from mid-January to mid-July of 1967.

Awesome package!! I remember as a young kid in the 70's watching reruns of some of these shows with my mom! Watching these on You Tube is alot more enjoyable then what's on TV today! TV has gone so downhill that pretty soon all you're gonna see is talk shows and reality shows.

the Fall 66-67 season was the Golden Year for TV, after that it began to go downhill.

i loved the wild,wild west!

Thanks for this! Great video and audio quality, too.

The Friday Movie is a re-edit of what appeared on a CBS fall season promo of all its new shows for 1966-67.

Of all the re-hashes they have done, I am surprised nobody has resurrected Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat. This show deserved more than it got.

The "Green Hornet" theme song is "The Flight of the Bumblebee", written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and adapted and performed by iconic jazz trumpeter Al Hirt.

The good old days of TV

Friday night in 1967 meant a bowl of popcorn, 7-up and Wild Wild West...I was nearly 7.

I remember "Rango" (probably not many out there who do). Actually, I remember all of these shows. Very good idea, showing the lineup of all three networks for a given night and season.

I couldn't stand the The Wild Wild West, but loved Hogan's Heroes! My Mom and I loved "The Man From Uncle" and "Laredo".

Emma Peel, the last word in "Cool" 🌹

I love that Classic Strobeing ABC logo Intro..

I was all of two years old in '67, and so have no recollection of many of these programs. But after seeing this I come away realizing those I do recall are the ones that stood the test of time or ran for more than a season - and lived on in reruns through the 1970s (e,g. Hogan's Heroes, The Wild Wild West, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.). And most of those seem to have been CBS stuff. Hmm, I wonder if that's why my family usually kept the dial tuned to the local CBS "affiliate" when I was growing up?

a full night of entertainment!

Cool. At almost 66 years of age, it is my right & privilege to declare this.

8:14 THE best animated intro - very '60s

ABC series had individual "custom" color bumpers before each of those shows (note "THE PHYLLIS DILLER SHOW" opening).

The first winter our house had color TV.

Watching this one makes me miss not only this kind of programming (well, some of it) but the great movie advertising of the fifties and sixties as well. The poster art for "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Bye Bye Birdie," "The Pleasure of His Company," and "Behold A Pale Horse" all appear to have been done by the same artist, but the clips move so quickly I can't be sure.

True, but back then you had more British programming on then you do today on BBS America. The Saint, The Avengers, Secret Agent Man, The Prisoner, etc.

It amazes me that there was so many choices on just 3 networks now there is 200 channels of nothing.

You sure don't have classic tv shows like this now people just don't have imaginations any more

My favorite - definitely "The Avengers". Diana Rigg quit after this season when she found out one of the cameramen on the show was being paid more than she was, even though she was one of the stars. I liked "The Time Tunnel" although it often was pretty cheap, using outtakes from older Universal Studios movies. I also watched and liked "The Wild, Wild West" (a combination of a spy story and a western that probably shouldn't have worked, but did) and "Hogan's Heroes" (kooky, comical Nazis!)

I feel like I’m a kid again

Will Milton Berle and 12 O'Clock High ever cancelled before the official shows started airing (Rango, Phyllis Diller and the first half of the fifth season of the UK series The Avengers (this second half aired as a midseason replacement for the western Custer))?

That shot at 1:55 is the exterior shot of Desilu's Gower studios, which one of the set pieces will be later used for The Guns of Will Sonnett the next season.

if you look closely inside they eyes of the animated green hornet, it kind of looks like the beginning of pac-man :D

At 8:09, is this the same Joan Collins who better known for appearing on the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" and Dynasty?

Wild Wild West is the best.

Holy crap! The Avengers! Green Hornet! Wild Wild West! Hogan! UNCLE! I watched ALL this stuff! All the action-adventure stuff that is, no sitcoms or "Time Tunnel." (Where's "The Prisoner"?) I'd go to my buddy's house, they had the first color set on the block. No DVR or VCR, you watched it or you missed it. I'd give a kidney to see eps of "UNCLE" again. As a footnote, poor Phyllis Diller, TV never figured out what to do with her.

Guess THE PRUITTS OF SOUTHHAMPTON (Diller's Fall '66 show) didn't last too long in that form

this is when it first started showing shows in color.🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐

Im almost ashamed of todays musical scores, compared to these gems from 1967. Has creativity all but vanished from the networks ?

Interestingly and coincidentally, the Avengers was an ABC product, but not our ABC. It was produced by Associated British Corporation, which went on to become Thames Television. Yes, from the UK, but not a BBC production.

What I can't understand is how I was able to watch both "The Wild Wild West" and "Tarzan"--since they were on at the same time and on different networks! (Plus we hardly ever watched anything but CBS!) ??????????

Boy, why don't they have themes like T.H.E. Cat today?

I don't believe that there was ever a "Jane" to Ron Ely's "Tarzan", but he had Cheetah and had a "Boy" named Jai. Jai was played by Manuel Padilla Jr. (There's some obscure TV trivia for ya. How exactly Tarzan ended up with a Mexican boy in Africa is beyond even my realm of imagination, though.)

Rest in peace Frankie lane

Yes, but int he 1960s a lot of American programming came from across the"pond." Secret Agent Man, The Saint, The Avengers, Tales of the Unknown, etc. Gad I miss those days. You had more British programming on then then you do on BBC America now.

Oh, OK. Because as I remember it. The composition WAS bulbous & Highlighted the title in all 5 separate words in moving or dancing bulbs. And it showed the famous CBS eye logo. Also with some folding or flipping visual effect. The theme was scary enough for a fire scene, Especially at night.

@progrockable It was an ATV production. ABC imported it from Britain and began airing it in the spring of 1966.

Richard Dawson just recently died(Hogan's Heroes)

Which one are you specifically referring to? They're all original as far as I know.

Seems that CBS slammed the competition on Friday nights!

Was Avengers ever a midseason 1967 replacement for 12 O'Clock High?

watch WWW reruns love it!!

BEST BEST BEST YEAR OF TELEVISION EVER, 12 YEARS OLD AND WAS GLUED TO THAT TV . SHAME ABOUT ROBERT COLBERT , CAREER NEVER EXTENDED AFTER " TIME TUNNEL " WOUND UP DECADES LATER DOING " TRUE VALUE HARDWARE " COMMERCIALS

I somehow don't remember THAT theme being used for the CBS Movies 1966-71,,,,,,,Or was it?. I also wonder if the strange moving bulb composition was used in the 1965-66 CBS Movie introduction?.

Unless I'm mistaken, Dawson was the last remaining member of the original "Hogan's Heroes" cast.

Barbara Eden. Mary Tyler Moore. To name only two whom she couldn't touch.

Blast From My Past

That intro for the CBS Friday Night Movie was from Part 2 of the MusicMan (Part 1 was the Thursday Night Movie) 1966-09-16: The Music Man, Part 2 1966-09-23: Kings Go Forth (1958) 1966-09-30: The Geisha Boy (1958) 1966-10-07: Branded (1950) 1966-10-14: Bye Bye Birdie (1963) 1966-10-21: One-Eyed Jacks (1961) 1966-10-28: Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) 1966-11-04: First Men in the Moon (1964) 1966-11-11: Major Dundee (1964) 1966-11-18: Because They're Young (1960) 1966-11-25: Barabbas (1961) 1966-12-02: The Man from the Diner's Club (1963) 1966-12-09: Genghis Khan (1965) 1966-12-16: Sail a Crooked Ship (1961) 1966-12-23: Gay Purr-ee (1963) 1966-12-30: Damn the Defiant! (1962) 1967-01-06: Five Branded Women (1960) 1967-01-13: PT 109 (1963) 1967-01-20: The Delicate Delinquent (1957) 1967-01-27: Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) 1967-02-03: Island of Love (1963) 1967-02-10: Good Neighbor Sam (1964) (Rerun) 1967-02-17: Pepe (1960) 1967-02-24: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1962) (Rerun) 1967-03-03: The Pigeon That Took Rome (1961) 1967-03-10: The Geisha Boy (1958) (Rerun) 1967-03-17: Escape from Zahrain (1962) 1967-03-24: Lilies of the Field (1963) 1967-03-31: The Victors (1963) (Rerun)[18] 1967-04-07: The Long Ships (1963) 1967-04-14: All in a Night's Work (1961) (Rerun) 1967-04-21: Gay Purr-ee (1963) (Rerun) 1967-04-28: Advise & Consent (1962) (Rerun)

The Time Tunnel theme is not from the original show. It is a re-recording of the theme done years later. FYI

I remember Friday night television was certainly an embarrassment of riches for this 12 year old boy in 1967 . . .

I watched a rerun of "Tarzan" on H&I but the Banner Productions tag was missing.

Yet IMO, The 1966-71 Morton Stevens composition was a lot scarier. Sounding like a theme for a raging fire. Not to mention the strange bulbous compsition which made it creepier.

if you have ME TV you can see The Wild Wild West

Shows that didn't make it: Green Hornet Time Tunnel Rango The Phyllis Diller Show T.H.E. Cat

the wild wild comes on metv at 4pm hogas heros come on saturday at 6pm on metv the avgeners ms peel gave me a hardon everytime its came on and i was akid had to hide it. most of these shows you can find on dvd classic cable channels

WOW!, It even has the strange, high scare factor theme of The CBS Friday Night Movie, Yet somehow I don't remember it being like that, Except for the creepy bulbous composition.

I didn't know T.H.E.CAT was created by the late Dirty Harry Co-creator Harry Julian Fink along with his wife Rita M.Fink & produced by Katey Sagal's late dad Boris.

I wonder if anyone has that scary CBS Thursday or Friday Night Movies composition??????.

The new shows of midseason 1967 were mostly flops. The flops: Rango (ABC) Coliseum (CBS) Captain Nice (NBC) Mr. Terrific (CBS) The survivors: Dragnet 1967 (NBC) The Newlywed Game (ABC) The Invaders (ABC) The Smothers Bros. Comedy Hour (CBS)

Reboot of Green Hornet was an absolute disaster!!! The new Kato was cute, thats about it.

THE BEST OF CBS Composition was EVEN WEIRDER..........

NO ONE IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION WILL EVER EVER TOP DIANA RIGG . AS A KID I WAS IN LOVE WITH HER, SEXIEST WOMAN TO EVER EXIST

and hogans heroes

Was Rango the first ever show produced by Aaron Spelling as an independent producer after leaving Four Star Television?

Sadly, despite the best efforts of both Van Williams and especially Bruce Lee, ABC's "The Green Hornet" was simply no match for CBS' "The Wild, Wild West" and NBC's "Tarzan" in the highly competitive 7:30 pm timeslot.