It's so easy to forget that 'prime time' back then began at 7:00 instead of 8, and that the Tonight show at 11:30 was considered "Late Night" programming, when most folks had already gone to bed. Remember when the networks actually went 'off the air' and then began the day with the Star Spangled Banner?
IIRC it was late 80s/ Early 90s when they stopped 'signing off' and switched to "infomercial filler" .. I recall once I was about Junior High age and a storm woke me up a couple of hours early and I was half way into my Cheerios before I realized what time it was (the clocks on the VCR flashed 12:00 from a power outage sometime over night) so with the power back I turned on the TV and saw the 'Sign on' right before the Farm Report
@@Zoomer30 it was the sequel to Secret Agent Man ..."they've given you a number (No. 6) and taken away your name (identity)"..it was the deep state keeping an individual prisoner until they gave of their identity and were absorbed into the collective... "I am not a number, I am a free man!" or so we would all like to think... As an 8th grader, I seemed to be able to really relate to the show... I still have my scrap book with all the clippings about the show.. I believe they repeated it the next summer of '69 at the same night and time.
Yes, I've had this intro music memorized since the 1960s, but the 1st 30 years of my life I saw black and white TV ONLY. I didn't know Patrick's eyes were SO blue!
I believe the star was also a producer and spent quite some time picking out various musical scores. One of the shows was actually banned in the United States. It was a western based on the pen is mightier than the sword and this is one at a time when the Vietnam War was going on. According to the star he just wanted to do a western
I just turned 13 that summer, and flinched every time regular programs were interrupted by a "special report" or breaking news. We'd already gone through two assassinations, the Tet offensive in Vietnam, Vietnam protests, riots in many cities, and were about to watch the chaos in Chicago during the Democratic Convention. A lot for a 12/13 y.o. to go through and there were no psychologists to help us deal with all of it at school.
What a great lineup - on every channel! In the days before vcr's and dvr's, we only had one tv, and 'arguments' would ensue over who wanted to watch what!
I never watched Prisoner early on Saturday night even during summer. I remember it late on Sunday night. Early Saturday night was sad to say Dating and Newlyweds. At 8PM Get Smart. And Hollywood Palace at 10PM.
I remember all those shows at age 9 growing up in Los Angeles. CBS KNXT was channel 2, NBC was KNBC channel 4 and ABC was KABC channel 7. We also had reruns on channel 5, KHJ channel 9, KTTV channel 11, KCOP channel 13 and the UHF channels were just starting. Being in Orange County, we could rotate the antenna and pick up all the San Diego stations. They had very few commercials then. Those were the days.
I've always been interested in broadcasting. KNXT became KCBS-TV in April 1984. I believe there's a station in Visalia, CA with the KNXT calls and it's Channel 58. Also, in 1968, channels 5, 9, 11, and 13 were independent. That was back when there were only 3 commercial networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC).
Sadly, Bea Benaderet (Petticoat Junction) passed away just a few months later at the age of 62, and as of October 2015, Bob Eubanks (The Newlywed Game) and Roger Moore (The Saint) were still living.
In an age of all these stupid "reality" competition show, there was "The Hollywood Palace", a show I really enjoyed. A great musical variety show that could never be repeated, unless we have three celebrity judges involved.
Thank you for putting this together. Took some effort, I bet!!! Also, if it wasn't for Neil Levang and Buddy Merrill I don't know if I would have ever picked up a guitar. They made it look so easy!!! I still watch the Saint and Mannix. Back then, me and two buds never missed The Prisoner and would discus it Monday at school! (Actually the drummer and guitarist. Sometimes we'd rehearse Saturdays late enough to watch it together.)
I remember watching Mannix with my parents, Adam 12 too, I was just a tot back then. Even as a little girl I had the biggest crush on Martin Milner, I watched Adam 12 just to see him.😁 Can't remember what day either show was on though.
The opening to NBC Saturday Night at the Movies, with the flashing marqee lights, is apparently lost except for some bad audio recordings. I would love to see it again, but I hear and see it in my mind. Yes, lost. Not even a kinescope exists.
The second version of the original ran between the mid-60s and early 70s and can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-grbjwNByoL0.html
For anyone who may be curious about the 'TV RATINGS' icon in the upper left corner of some of the programs here. There was a lot of discussion about establishing such a system, but it was not yet in place in 1968 and wouldn't be for some time. What is seen here with the icon are reruns from VHS off-the-air taping.
Well, what about the particular intro for "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" with the Marquee lights flashing and the Camera Zooming revealing "Saturday Night at the Movies".
You're assuming people know who Jackie Gleson was ;)l However, it is very obvious that everything about The Prisoner we different from everything else on TV at that time down to the music. I remember watching the very first episode in 1968 in a state of almost shock, saying to myself this is unreal.
My television would never hit ABC, that summer. My Grandfather loved Lawrence Welk. CBS would have had a virtual monopoly with me. Maybe would have turned on Get Smart, over My Three Sons. The Prisoner just over The Saint. Unless the NBC movie was something awesome (like Guns of Navarone).
I certainty thought Hogan's heroes and petticoat both on monday nights in between Beverly hillbillies at least they had to move to Saturday to make way for the new fall shows.
So used to Primetime being 8/7c to 11/10c... the extra half hour always throws me... Mannix @ 1c paired with other Detective shows... downright odd to think of it having Petticoat as it's lead in... and then there's CBS with 3 sitcoms sandwiched between 2 Dramas If I were to guess it looks like ABC was 'counter programming' offering a clear choice between their Game shows and the other two having dueling Imports ... and then the wholly 'inoffensive' (some might say Boring) Lawrence Welk opposite the sitcoms and then hoping you finish the night or fall asleep in your chair rather than getting up and changing channels mid-episode
+Langevin Lovebird Presumably the same way that "The Avengers" was shown on ABC and "Secret Agent" and "The Prisoner" were shown on CBS. Back then, the networks purchased broadcast rights for a number of shows from the UK which saved them a lot of money in production costs. When I saw Anne "Honey West" Francis at a fantasy convention, she told the audience that this is why "Honey West" wasn't renewed for another season! ABC "outsourced" Emma Peel instead!
Everyone was so obsessed With getting married back in 1968 I hated those shows like the dating game and the newly wed game I knew even as a kid i hated the thought of getting married I knew it wasn't in the stars for me Im single till the end. I hated the way married people acted and then after my father's Death i found out he secretly Played around on my mother My mom looked like Marilyn Monroe and was a saint to him She doated on him for years put him first then this ugly red haired Woman came to the house Telling my mom she had a fling with my dad My mom stayed with him till the end he died in Oct 2 2016 My mom swears he still played Around on her.till this day My father's mother was a dragonlady from hell Im glad i never got married After the lies surfaced I never had the desire I hated it.
That was an old joke back then: couple meets on THE DATING GAME, next thing you know, they're on THE NEWLYWED GAME, pretty soon after that they're on DIVORCE COURT.
I love how nobody ever thought about how the three sisters on Petticoat Junction bathing in the town's water supply were contaminating everyone's drinking water with urine and fecal matter.
