Look at little Brenda Lee. She sure grew up to have a great singing career. Jackie Gleason's theme music was called Melancholy Serenade and and he wrote it. I always liked it. Larry Storch of who very few of you would recognize was best friends with Tony Curtis. Any movie or TV show that Tony was in, Larry Storch always had a role. Tony never forgot his friends. You might know him as Corporal Agar in F Troop.
From 1956 I remember the swarming mice cartoons with no dialog, Crusader Rabbit, The Today show with the chimp and the Bob Crosby show.. And Howdy Doody. And the Micky Mouse Club.
Thank you for uploading memories from Spring, 1956. Whether one was around at that time or came afterwards, it's always fun to learn or remember programs that were prevalent on the airwaves. Nostalgia is such joy.
Thank you for this wonderful compilation. One thing I noticed is that there were no "Saturday night at movies" type of programming on any of the networks. Only original programming like variety shows, game shows, etc. Of course there is Sunday and weekday when movies shown at night I guess.
There were so many Westerns in those days because they were cheap and easy to produce. They didn't require huge casts, the sets were cheap and there were lots of nearby sites for "location" footage.
Does anyone remember the afternoon program Queen For A Day? Where they would take some random woman and make all her dreams come true and we all sat and cried!
I do! I think the host's name was Jack Bailey. One time my mother's coworker called in sick that day, but mother later saw that same coworker in the audience of Queen For A Day, haha! She was busted! The women were so grateful to get a prize of something that we just take for granted nowadays.
Herb Shriner was a kind of early version of Conan O'Brien. Some of his stuff (like his bizarre "home" movies) are still hilarious. Surreal and very off-beat, understated humor. Too bad there are not clips here of his actual performance. ;-)
WRCV, under NBC ownership. Swapped with Westinghouse's KYW for nine years, courts ordered them to swap back. KYW came back from Cleveland, NBC went back to Cleveland as WKYC. KYW/WRCV affiliated with NBC until 1995, then CBS bought KYW and sold WCAU to NBC.
It had begun to shut down most of its operations a year earlier but continued to air just a handful of shows on stations that would carry them till the end of summer 1955. Then, only Monday Night Boxing continued into the 1955-56 season.
At 17:27, The Jimmy Durante Show mentions Eddie Jackson, because Jimmy was part of a vaudeville act called Clayton, Jackson, and Durante, but Lou Clayton died some time ago ...
Mike Wallace moonlighting, eh? The "Ozarks Jubilee" was produced for ABC by then-dual ABC/NBC affiliate KYTV in Springfield, Mo, in association with Radiozark Enterprises and ABC radio affiliate KWTO. It grew out of the "Korn's-a-Krackin" radio show from Springfield, which used to run on KWTO and Mutual. ABC television wouldn't get it's own affiliate there until 1968. And this was the first season without the defunct DuMont Network; "The Honeymooners" was picked up by CBS, starting a deal with Jackie Gleason which ran for more than a decade.
6:28- "THE NESTLE COMPANY! Makers of Nestle's Quik, Nestle's Crunch, and Instant Nescafe! 'Nestle's makes the VERY BEST chocolate', and who now bring you-------------"
Good Lord, thanks for pointing it out. Believe or not I've watching this compilation as a ritual for 3 years now every Saturday afternoon at 5 PM and for some reason I didn't notice it.
@@chrisn7259 I was eleven at the time and I was with . . . Sar Jim and Chris N!!! That said, way-earlier I did dig Guy Madison & Andy Devine in "Wild Bill Hickok." (Madison handled being 'in the closet' very well. Very few knew.) . : .
Television signals travel at the speed of light. Somewhere, seventy-five lights years from here, an advanced civilization is monitoring our broadcasts. They are thinking "People of Earth sure smoke a lot of cigarettes."
DuMont pretty much faded out as a network before the fall of 1955, airing only Monday Night Boxing in prime-time after that and till summer's end 1956 for stations that would still carry it. The intros are from series aired on ABC, CBS and NBC. There are few surviving prints of DuMont shows.
@@RwDt09 "The intros are from series aired on ABC, CBS and NBC." Did you record these yourself or did they come from some archive? My interest is to see the station IDs. Is that even possible as far as you know?
@@DavidSmith-uw2cs Most of the intros are from other uploaders on RU-vid. If you're looking for just station ID videos, typing 'TV station ID' into the RU-vid search window would turn up a number of videos with station ID collections.
