Peggy Fleming skates to Olympic glory, the Great Vegetable Rebellion is previewed on "Lost in Space" and Walter Cronkite makes a statement about the Vietnam War. Look for another 1968 video today!
When LBJ watched that special report by Walter Cronkite, that was the moment that he decided not to run for reelection: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the American people." RIP Willie Mays, the "Say Hey" kid. He was not only one of my favorite baseball players, he was one of my dad's too. Thanks Fred.
it was the Worst episode of the series it was terrible the cast hated it even Irwin Allen hated it but he didn't have any other scripts to film that week you are the only person who likes it
@@moviesgalore9947 The cast and Irwin Allen may well have hated it, but I remember laughing hysterically during this episode, and I am not the only one who likes it, so far 8 other people agree with me. 😁
Lost in space had the most laughable aliens going along with voyage to the bottom of the sea. You watch these shows now and think how could I have found that scary.
I was 8 years old. I remember most of the music, especially “Green Tambourine” I had a little Sony Transistor Radio I took everywhere. My father, a Korean War vet, glued to the tv watching the Vietnam war so I could steal his playboy mags. Outside all day. Good times 🎉
Although I was very young, I have wonderful memories of this era because I lived it vicariously through my older siblings. I know there were a lot of really bad things going on in our country; there's no denying that. But on the positive side the music was magnificent and for a good number of baby boomers the 60s music was arguably THE BEST. I remember a kind of palpable electricity of excitement and youth in the air. Every neighborhood had a plethora of teenage rock bands inspired by so many great acts. I know many musicians (including my brother who plays guitar to this very day) who were inspired by the Beatles appearance on Ed Sullivan in '64. The 60s had everything from the Beatles to Janis Joplin to Peter, Paul & Mary. Our country was dominated by the old guard Greatest Generation and the up-and-coming Boomers. The diversity of music reflected these two generations. On any given day you could listen to Sinatra, Dean Martin or Henry Mancini and then tune your radio to the latest Rolling Stones or Beach boys hits! It was a truly wondrous and magnificent musical era in our country. Having all of this musical talent at the same time was a true blessing! Thanks again for the memories of '68! 😃
I always thought 1968 was the worst year for America in my life because of political turmoil and cultural strife. At least the music was awesome. We also got the news from the always reliable Walter Cronkite. I think we will challenge that notion with this fall's election. Fingers crossed that we don't suffer any assassinations.
Lost In Space. The strange vegetable planet looked mysteriously liked Gilligan's Island. Wow, 1968. Everyone in my family was still alive, including my grandfather. If I could just get that time machine to work....and by the way, we sure could use Walter Cronkite now.
I was 12 and remember a page in LOOK magazine introducing a new color for kitchen appliances, 'Harvest Gold'. We had a tambourine painted day glow green and a room with a 48 inch black light. Similar to some pizza parlors of the time, we painted the piano multi-colored day glow colored (each key different). And I played the tambourine while the girls danced to Incense and Peppermints.
Sane??? JFK was assasinated 3 years prior and the Cuban Missle Crisis 5 Years before that! The wold may have been sane but they were also mostly oblivious.
@@kurt2022 Many people didn't think so at the time. You may want to look into it. Maybe in Mayberry, but the real world was way different... Do I need to make you a list?
@@Laceykat66 that was my first time seeing it i'm pretty sure. i wasn't born till nov of 68 so i know for a fact that i didn't see it as a new release lol.
Fred, thank you for another great video of 1968. I don't recall too much back then at 5 years old, but I do remember the show Lost In Space. I watched that show a lot. Looking back to 1968 compared to today is like 2 different worlds. I know T.V. was the big thing and T.V. sets were quite expensive. I believe we still had a Black & White T.V. set in 1968. I even had a small B&W T.V. as late as 1987. Thanks again, Fred!!!
OMG, Love is Blue really hit the nostalgia button. The execution of that prisoner was one of the searing images of the war. The war was really raging then, and the division in the country was palpable. I loved Peggy Fleming. So beautiful and talented. Mark Goddard complained about having gone to acting school, only to wind up talking to a talking carrot.
Mark Goddard was always my favorite actor on LIS, and THE handsomest man ever. Poor guy never got the accolades he was due, and yeah, that 🥕 bit was pretty damn beneath him. Now he's @ peace, amongst the stars. Have a great summer, Robert! 🎇
FREDFLIX - This episode was outstanding! Amazing balance of the serious, the fun and the trivial - seriously well thought out presentation - and what about the music from those days!!!!! If Doc Brown lands his Delorean in my drive way, this is where I'm heading to! Take care all! Terry, Australia.
Loved the trip back, thanks Fred! You always pick the best music! Had to laugh at Blackbeards Ghost, my God I haven't seen that since I was 7-8 years old! 😅
Doug, speaking of music I would like to use The Beatles, but YT won't have it. However, may be able to get away with some live stuff earlier in the decade.
Great job again, Fred! 0:01 - 1968 had the same calendar as 2024. Because of leap years every 4 years and 7 different days of the week, our calendars repeat their cycle every 28 years, and 1968 was 56 years ago now. This will continue until 2100, which will not be a leap year, at least under our current Gregorian calendar. 1:58 - Great to hear Don Pardo here. I thought THE MONKEES had alternate sponsors of Kellogg's & Yardley's, but maybe that was just in S1. 3:58 - I wonder who won Sajid Khan & Jay North's clothes and what those clothes were. 5:38 - I have "Blackbeard's Ghost" on DVD but haven't gotten around to watching it yet. This was the 3rd Disney film where Dean Jones & Suzanne Pleshette played love interests. They were married in the other 2. I've exchanged correspondence with Hank Jones, who played the young man and wrote about his experience being picked up by the wires lifting him off the ground. 7:40 - "Prescription Murder" was the pilot movie for COLUMBO, and the idea originated from a play called "Enough Rope" several years before. 9:12 - Stanley Adams as a giant carrot! June Lockhart mentioned that she & Guy Williams were suspended for the next episode (probably the last one made) because they laughed so hard filming this episode & wasted time in take after take.
And that was one month from 1968 a most tumultuous year. I turned 7 years old in December and was too young to remember the news events from back then. The music on the other hand left an impression on me I still have as a 62 year old guy in Canada 🇨🇦. Thanks again for another awesome segment Fred! Hope things are going well for you in South Carolina.
Another great clip Fred! My sister was 10 years older so I grew up listening to the Monkees and the Bee-Gees, But it was Dads music that I remember the most! Paul Muriate, Herb Albert, Martin Denny and the Mystic Moods Orchestra, the Baja Marimba band... I could go on. You pick great music for the times! Kudos
I remember that HiC commercial with the boy washing the car! Fast forward, I pull up to a high school fundraising car wash, and the kids started scraping my my hood with a dry, soapy cloth. I guess you have to teach em young.😅
8 in 1968 I'd never seen a house key, the house was Always unlocked, the cars unlocked, leaving my bike somewhere I would never think twice about it, different era.
I was 10...my dad's baby brother was in Vietnam. I was aware that it was such a cluster fuck at 10 that I would look at the adults and see it in their eyes.
"Love is Blue" was covered in wonderful English, French and other languages! Oh my gosh, The Anniversary was such an unintentional comedy masterpiece in Bette Davis' movie career! Haha! A must see! I saw in an interview that June Lockhart said Irwin Allen was so angry with she and Guy Williams for laughing so much during the filming of The Great Vegetable Rebellion that he suspended them from the next show!
More great stuff, Fred. This about when I was really becoming aware of my surroundings - rapidly absorbing everything. Being born in ‘65 - I picked a very turbulent time to arrive on Earth. The Vietnam reports are so scary - those and the hippy riots used to scare me to death. I remember “Five Million Years To Earth” and actually own the blu ray now. One of Hammer’s weirdest and best.
Born in january 1st that year, clarkston, washington on 5th street. any memories of the earliest times are sooooo faded and infrequent, maybe just brief flashbacks at best, mainly. i do recall walter cronkite, etc in b&w but that sure didnt last long I dont remember apollo13 or watergate, etc but its a real head trip at what i remember from videos of then just like it was yesterday, but NOT at the same time I remember dad playing inna gada davida, i was into beatles from day 1, remember wide world of sports, somehow hawaiian eye, and several programs that id suddenly recalled after seeing on youtube, dad was always into the general run too Back then it was like both the old & the new were converging I recall when gpa frosty would have fits about nuclear tests Many men wore hats, and etc i remember I remember the mingling of both older and newer music and programming practically at a 1:1 ratio In walla walla almost all of both sides of our family were in that town dads side on the west and moms side on the eastern part of town Those spinning fast food signs At our collective family picnics wed often have kentucky fried chicken, lol Very remarkable times. Even colonel sanders around with his own funny ads 🤣 its good we can all now though share and celebrate our respective memories with one another 'Merica! ❤ I swear they gotta restore some of the old ways of things from former times whether thats the 60s, 70s or ...whatever, BASICALLY, for us all to enjoy for that from here The carhops still then also fun going to the drive in movies and those mosquito traps youd place on the dashboard Love the old CBS and other network intros
Another great one, Mr. Fred, and opened with the perfect tune, “Love Is Blue”. Thank you for another incredible, and much appreciated nostalgia trip!👌🏻
I was in Mrs Langley "s second grade class at Fortune Grammar School oh what a memory that's the class I had my first girl friend woo we the trouble began 😅😅😅
Missed seeing this when first released. It was spring semester of 6th grade. Hard to believe only a couple months later we would see King & Kennedy assisinated.
Thanks, RR. I'm working on April 1966 right now and I have one from 1967 coming up. Plus I've finished months in 1962-65. They'll all be posted as specials, with more to come.
I was 8 and living in Cape Cod MA then that same year moved w/family to Florida. 4:08 the TEEN cover with the 3 women - the bottom one looks like a very young Diane Keaton.
How many ppl remember taking the pull-tabs and sliding them back into the soda can before drinking it? Germs, microscopic bug feces and cut lips? Meh. 🤷🏼♀️
I remember the opening of 'Run For Your Life' with POV of a vehicle going along the Bonneville Salt Flats, but being that my age was in the single digits, it was boring. I might try watching it now that I'm in my 60s to see if it would hold my interest.
Wow, this really illustrates how far Disney has come with their pirate movies - 1968's Blackbeard's Ghost compared to the 2003 release of Pirates of Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. The difference is like night and day.
Blackbeard's Ghost is one of the best Disney movies along with The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Son of Flubber in the 60s they made fantastic movies.
This is a fascinating window into the time. Thank you very much. I felt like I was there for a while. You really get the sense of gender conventions and the creeping in of eastern religions and the importance of the Winter Olympics. and the shadow of the war in Asia. I had no idea it was like that.
Dean Jones… Disney's go to! Fabulous music! Orchestration, strings, no synth! Plenty of echoplex though! Great production values here! Fred for the win!❤
2:40 Does anybody know the name of the actor in the Hi-C commercial? I've been looking for his identity for years. He appeared in a lot of commercials from the late '60s thru the early '80s. His real first name may be John.
And how many people remember stepping on the pull tabs and cutting them selfs? I did and I had to have stitches. I don't know how many people went to the hospital to get those pull tabs taken out of their throats, after they foolishly swallowed the pull tabs. No, I like the way the cans are now a days.
Awesome, Fred! I remember it all. Yeah, Jane Fonda sure had a 'heavenly body' in Barbarella. Unfortunately, she went to Hanoi and became their propaganda tool. I remember the Vietnam War on the evening news every freakin' day. I liked Cronkite best when he was covering the NASA missions.
Oh, sure. This is what I could find that was dated Feb. '68. There are 11 more months in the year and a lot more from Feb. that wasn't put on the Internet.
That's the late winter of '68 that I remember. I was a boy scout -- didn't get molested, though. Griped a lot about the heavy backpacking equipment we had to lug around in those days. Never made it past tenderfoot. When I wasn't scouting, I was reading comic books (Not Brand Echh), still six months away from science fiction. Music was KHJ, Los Angeles with The Real Don Steele, and 9-volt batteries were expensive. I was a total Monkees head, but Laugh-In was beginning to introduce real weirdness with Tiny Tim. That *is* Don Pardo doing the announcing. It's weird seeing Disney promote Satanism by calling up the Ghost Of Blackbeard (wouldn't that cause a stink now), and the 50 Bazillion Miles To Earth movie ad sounds like Fox News now.
