"Living Color"... I'm glad NBC figured it out. The world was all black and white before then, except some movies. And then, like Dorothy , we all crash land in Oz... living color. Thank you NBC. You took us from Casablanca to Gidget. Thems were the days.
NBC became the first television network to schedule virtually all of its programs (with a few exceptions) in "Living Color" in the fall of 1965, billing themselves as "The Full Color Network". Because of concerns that NBC might become "#1" in the ratings because more Nielsen families owned color sets by then, CBS {especially CBS} and ABC had to play "catch up", and offered about half of their prime-time programs in color that season. As a result, CBS remained the most watched network in 1965-'66, with NBC a close second.....and ABC in "fourth place". 😏 In September 1966, all three networks offered "100%" color programming in prime-time {several daytime shows continued to be telecast in black and white on ABC and CBS for another season}.
While these episodes first aired the year I was born, I grew up watching several of these shows, and still do on occasion. Gidget is one of my favorites! All I can say is thank God for reruns!! Another great one Fred!! 👍😃🤘
I agree with tigre I was about 5 months old but thank goodness for reruns, I love Gidget and The Dick Van Dyke Show and these specials look great! Thanks for another great set Fred!😃👏👍
Fred... I am going to do something I swore I would never, ever do. Ready? Wait for it: Look! I'm the first to leave a comment! And the crowd jumps for joy and cheers and.... Okay, I'm done now. But what was I doing those 57 years ago? Ah, 09th grade of high school. Life...and television...was good. Thanks Fred for keeping alive these memories. And...Merry Christmas (a bit early).
First time you've been first to leave a comment, eh Jack? That means you broke cherry on me. I hope it was as good for you as it was for me. OK, enough (sick) kidding. Merry Xmas to you as well.
Last month, I saw Sally Field being interviewed by Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. Her hair is greyer and cut short, but she is still attractive at 75! And she's still perky and witty as ever. Field was there to promote her latest film, "Spoiler Alert." It's just so weird seeing her in 2022, and then in this video from 1965 - 57 years ago!
O! That was my alltime favorite. I can't remember if it was on on a Wednesday or a Thursday, but my dad would pick me up from after-school track practice, swing by Burger King for whoppers, and get home just in time to eat and watch Lost in Space when it came on at six o'clock.
Well Fred, you're amazing. Week after week, year after year, you keep hitting your audience where they live. And every last one of us is grateful. In case I don't get the opportunity, have a happy Christmas and may 2023 be a damn sight better for us all than 2022 was.
Awesome video as usual, Fred! Although looking back to my childhood entertainment makes me feel old, the heartwarming effect of my sentimental nostalgia for it outweighs the anxiety of aging... or something like that. Thanks again!!
So, is it wrong that I sang along to multiple theme songs? This was a Wednesday night. Dad had Lodge Meetings on some Weds nights and Mom let me stay up later - 9:30 or even 10:00 😃! I can actually recall our living room and the feeling of a typical Weds night!!! Thank you Fred!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Hello sir! Glad to be the first to leave a howdy to you. As always, strolling down the memory lane again. Really groovy line-up you got today! (As usual.) And I'm still thinking about the agent offer! Take care and have a really awesome day. And if I don't get by before then.... Merry Christmas to you and your family!... Leon
Nice work, Fred. Interesting to see shows in their first season (e.g. “Lost In Space,” “I Spy,” “Green Acres”) juxtaposed with shows in their last (“Ozzie and Harriet,“ “The Patty Duke Show,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show”) Speaking of Patty, gotta love the “rock” version of the theme song they were using by then. 🤓
@@FredFlix The DUKE revamp was part of the show relocating production from New York to Hollywood. The story was that it was Duke's managers trying to stem a budding romance between her and one of the production team. He followed her and because her first husband.
Another big hit, Fred! Who doesn't have fond memories of the Bob Hope Specials? Memories all come flooding back with the thanks for memories intro. The guest stars are all so familiar, like good friends you can see on a rough day. Alas, it also reminds me not to look left or right for parents and siblings. These were the golden years! Thanks Fred!
@@FredFlix You're so close running off memory and all us fans to remember. Litauen. I gotta check my settings, seems I went dark after some maintenance on the computer.
Lost in Space was my most anticipated show of 1965. I could hardly wait for it when I saw the fall previews. My enthusiasm dissipated after the first season. Now it's unwatchable. Love the Fred driven trip down memory lane.
Isn't it interesting how shows we loved as children are now totally unwatchable. Must have something to do with how our brains are wired at different times of our lives.
@@bannedheretic2971 Yes. As kids, we focus on aspects that appeal to us, and ignore "unimportant" things. I thing the true measure of quality is something that can be enjoyed as an adult and as a child.
I remember watching part of an episode of I Dream Of Jeannie recently where there is a bear loose in the airforce headquarters. I watched that show as an eight year old and, of course, you think "That's a bear" but seeing it again as an adult it is so obviously a guy in a suit.😄😂@@bannedheretic2971
Except for a brief period when it was titled "THE ADVENTURES OF THE NELSON FAMILY" during the 1960-'61 season, the show's title *always* featured the word 'adventures" in it........when it began on radio in 1944, through the period when it was on radio AND TV in 1952 {Ozzie ended the radio show in 1954 to concentrate exclusively on television}......and when it ended in 1966.
"I Spy" was preempted in NYC (Ch 4) for a locally produced special hosted by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr called "Hollywood On The Hudson." The show highlighted movies made around The Big Apple. The "I Spy" episode was shown on Saturday at 4PM. Too bad VCRs weren't around then! Also, Gemini 6A had taken off at 8:37AM and rendezvoused with Gemini 7 in the afternoon. Live network coverage of both events. There might have been updates proceeding these shows, but surely a recap after local news. Space Race related: Scott Carpenter was a guest on "The Danny Kaye Show." Thanks for these flixs, fred - much appreciated!
If you're referring to the TV personalities shown in this video, there are quite a number of them still with us: Sally Field, Linda Evans, Lee Majors, Dick Van Dyke, June Lockhart, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Max Baer, Marta Kristen, Mark Goddard and Bill Cosby.
I beg to differ. There are several born in the forties still going strong, possibly a few born in the thirties, you might want to check your math. :) But you are right, the middle-aged of that time would mostly no longer be with us.
Fred: Another great video!! Not only were these some of the best TV shows of all time, but some of the best theme music as well. I would have been 12 years old then.
I was just an 8-year-old third grader back then. I didn't become a Green Acres fan until four months later with the Molly Turgis episode, and I have been a Green Acres fan ever since. The episode that originally aired that was about the Douglases' wedding anniversary. However, I didn't see this episode for the first time until seven months later; which was back on July 20, 1966.
That Christmas I was in 7th grade, what a fun time and good memories. I loved watching Patty Duke and Gidget, plus Big Valley. My older sister would get married in a few months, and she loved all the westerns. As Dad's birthday was on Christmas, we always had a big party for him Christmas night withe friends and family. After opening presents, mom and dad would straighten up the house and send us kids off to the movies or to just have fun. We were all in a celebratory mood.
I hadn't seen that opening since I last saw that programme during the 60s and yet I was able to recall what programme it was before the title came up on the screen.
I was only 6 months old when this played, but watched many of these later in reruns or syndication. The moment the theme from The Dick Van Dyke Show stats I am immediately overwhelmed with pure joy! The intro to Lost in Space changed from season to season, but the one you played in this video was my favorite, with the cartoon/silhouette astronauts. Big Valley and Green Acres were favorite shows when I was growing up. Thanks for another sweet ride down memory lane Fred!
it has always amazed me that Gidget was on for only one season...Sally Field made such an imprint on the character I would have sworn it was on for at least three years.....
Another great job, Fred. I recall all these shows very well. I did think 'The Virginian' was too long at 90 minutes. I think I spent Wednesday nights mostly on CBS in '65.
Well sir we are truly fascinated again as a family! Had to ask my grandparents what that s&h stuff was. They said you fill up the books with stamps and you can turn them in, and get products, and save some money. Beautifully presented once again!
Joey, my mom and most of the moms in the neighborhood were always working on those S&H Greenstamps books, and occasionally us kids were pulled in to help. It usually involved a bowl of water and a sponge, as I recall. Most everything at that time was hands on, nothing "virtual" except TV and radio. Thanks for your interest in the pleasures of the past!
I was 1 year old when these shows originally aired. Thanks to thousands of cable channels I can watch what my parents did back in 65. I do remember my dad complaining about colour tv advertisements. He would look at our black and white tv and ask, how the hell am I supposed to know what the best colour tv is when I’m watching a black and white? You have to admit it’s a good question. Thanks Fred.
Davis' contract for that ABC special had fallout...when NBC signed him for a weekly series beginning the next month--he couldn't appear on the first four episodes, until that contract ran out.
The ABC early Wednesday line up intrigued me . The CBS/NBC competition spelled the death knell for the venerable Nelson program with them and Donna Reed moved to their mid season hospice location on Saturday nights . The next two ABC programs featured past and future AA winners Patty Duke and Sally Field playing high schoolers in their shows . It is a wonder why they were never in the same TV show or movie .
As a 10 year old child I loved the Big Valley theme music and the show itself. Still sounds great today. I agree with another commenter…Thank goodness for reruns. They are all I watch these days. Thanks for this fun video which brings back sweet memories.
I was two years old then. My mother was pregnant with my sister, back then.they didn't tell siblings about a new addition to the family. So four months later in April of 1966, I had to stay with a neighbor and one day I was taken to my Grandmothers house and I got a surprise; a new baby lying in my Grandma's arms. They said I got so upset I had an asthma attack.
When I was 16, my mother was pregnant with her fifth child (I was second, my 10 year old brother fourth). We didn't know until decades later when my brother needed detailed family medical history...much less that she miscarried in the second trimester.
Many of these shows were pretty banal, but Green Acres was extremely innovative. Hilarious scripts and great comic timing and almost a little absurdist at times. Comic gold
@@barryputterman2412 Yeah i did write ´almost’. Didn’t I? I guess I will strike that from the record. Eddie was right. Totally surreal. And there was another actor who could do anything. Prior to Green Acres, he had a successful film career and of course post- Green Acres, his film career continued. The Longest Yard is one of my favorite films and Eddie as Warden Hazen is absolutely amazing. Prior to that, I think he was up for an Oscar for The Heartbreak Kid. If you want to see master class acting, watch the dinner scene between him and Charles Grodin with the latter trying to explain why he loves the daughter, Cybill Shepard. Eddie is mesmerizing
It had the beautiful Eva Gabor. She would later make a fortune with her wig line. And she also did voiceovers in animated movies such as Disney's The Rescuers.
Each one of these flashback assemblies just reminds me that there is simply so much yet to be done on the season DVD front. Some of these are well represented, but there is still SO many more to bring out. Get moving, network holders!
Great nostalgic video again Fred. Remember all these shows from when I was 11 but forgot that prime time began at 7:30 back then. Or maybe they did here on the west coast?
I've read that I SPY knocked Danny Kaye's show off the air 2 years later, but then Carol Burnett's show replaced his & in turn knocked I SPY off the air. Carol hired Harvey Korman, who'd been a regular for Danny Kaye, for her own show, and he made a name for himself there.
I was 5 and loved some of these shows, it's funny seeing the peacock, I haven't seen these images since that time, seems like not that long ago. Time slips by.
This was the last episode of Lost in Space before Christmas. Their actual Christmas episode, Return from Outer Space, aired four days *after* Christmas. What would have been their holiday episode the week in between was pre-empted for a National Geographic special about Jane Goodall.
5:19- That was Bob's first color special. NBC warned him that unless he started taping his monthly specials in color that season (the first two were in black and white), they would sever their relationship with him. Hope was notorious for being cheap in producing his specials....yet he "found" the money to tape them in color, starting with this one.
@@FredFlix It is a very nice place too be, but dear Putin is ffing things up badly here, we are not at war but we sure are on the receiving end for other things.
8:08 I understand that this ABC special is why Sammy was unable to host his own new NBC variety show, which premiered early in 1966, when it started. ABC had a rule in his contract that he couldn't appear on another network for about 60 days, so guest hosts (Johnny Carson was one.) had to host his show for the first few weeks.
ABC for some reason refused to show The Patty Duke Show in color, But then they had Gidget in color. Patty said in her book Call Me Anna the Ross's her managers who were John and Ethel controlled everything she did. That was also when Anna was forced to move from New York where she had lived her entire life to California.
My oldest sister turned 21 on this day. I'm curious to know if she drank alcohol on her 21st birthday, what she did to celebrate. I'm not in communication with her these days, so I don't want to ask her. We grew up in the San Fernando Valley. We had a black and white Zenith television built into the wall of our family room. I remember my dad watching the news, and falling asleep in his favorite easy chair in the family room.
The Bob Hope special was the first one of his to air in Living Color...the notoriously frugal Hope wouldn't pay the extra money to tape his self-produced shows in color until NBC laid down the law (Chrysler paid MCA/Universal to film the THEATER segments in color, which did include a couple with Bob)
I love Gidget saw every episode many times on Antenna TV they only did 26 episodes just one season it could have gone 4 more years if they had been smart and changed it to "Gidget Goes to College" that would have kept it alive and improved it a lot we never would have gotten Sally in Flying Nun which was the dumbest show ever it was so silly.
*'Green Acres' was my 'absolute fave' along with the first season of 'Lost In Space'-(before it turned to crap w/absurd rubber monsters)* *I don't remember the 'Danny Kaye' show...likely I never watched it* ____________ *'The Big Valley' was a joke with all the 'Heath! Jarrett! there's a fire in the barn!' every week* ( *Even at 11 I was not happy w/most shows...I liked movies and trying my best to get some girl, any girl at all to get her pants down!* ) ____________ *'RnR was 'IT!' for me and I listened even in my sleep w/the volume down set-to '1440 WCHB' 'Soul Radio' or 'CKLW' the' Motor City'*
Gerry, remember Heath candy bars? At work I would see them in the vending machine and always say to anyone near, "I wonder if they have any Jarrod bars." Believe it or not, most people would get it.
@@FredFlix *I remember 'Heath' mainly from summer when they were sold frozen from the 'Good Humour" trucks!* ( *They were popular for awhile...but I think a lot of kids got chipped teeth from them!* ) *My older sister liked them...I liked 'Dreamsickles' with the orange coating outside and vanilla ice cream inside* *Sis and me were 'rich kids' and could get the more expensive ones instead of 'Bomb Pops 'and 'Twin Pops' you could gently break apart and share if you wanted to* ( *I felt like sht even then that other kids only had a nickle and a dime despite they lived on the same street...'Economics 101' at a very young age* ) *'We always had at least two-quarters each or more and ALWAYS had pocket-money for movies/candy store/comics/whatever* ____________ *It was 'no big deal' for me to walk about 3-miles to the 'Dearborn Theater' on Michigan Ave. and Telegraph in Dearborn by MYSELF or take my 'bestie' Leon and pay his way because he never had any money and as a kid I never knew what 'Poor' really meant* ( *I never thought until many years later that Leon never had new clothes on even for 'Picture Day' and he and his mom lived in a tiny house no bigger than two big 'sheds' put together...what a little 'a-hole' I was to not realize how little he had and how his Mom mustve struggled just to live day to day* )
Great one Fred Flix. Riddle me this..............did a lot of people have color tv sets in 1968? I've got an old tv guide from that time period and wondering how many people actually got to see the shows in color. When was the first time you saw color tv?
buffysissy, I saw color TV at my grandmother's house in the early to mid-60s. My dad bought our first color set in 1967, and I think we were the second family on the street to have one. So I guess if we had one (we were middle class), many families did, but MOST did not. They were very expensive!
Never mind I found my answer.............According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' CPI Inflation Calculator, that $469.95 20-inch TV set from 1967 would set you back about $3,380 in 2016 dollars!
Maybe you were watching these or you were watching an old movie on an independent channel or you were watching a basketball or hockey game that night. NBA SCORES December 15, 1965 New York Knicks 108 at Baltimore Bullets 111 Cincinnati Royals 117 at Boston Celtics 110 Philadelphia 76'ers 122 at Los Angeles Lakers 108 St. Louis Hawks 113 at San Francisco Warriors 128 NHL SCORES December 15, 1965 Boston Bruins 4 at Chicago Black Hawks 8 Detroit Red Wings 3 at Toronto Maple Leafs 5
Were they really the good old days? I mean, yes, the shows were good, but we only had ONE TV to watch them. And no way to record the good stuff on the other channels! God, I hope my big sister reads this because I am still SO MAD because I wanted to watch the movie 'Mysterious Island' on CBS in 1968 and she had to watch some STUPID Shakespeare play on Public Television for a school assignment. I've hardly spoken to her since I'm so mad. And don't even get me started on Shakespeare.
