Isn't it funny how back in those days there were only three channels to watch. There was always something good on to watch. Now, I have about 100 channels and can never find anything decent. 🙄
Because a lot of these channels are run by con artists who make you believe that having more channels will mean more quality programming, but, in effect, will dilute all that programming. On the other hand, it allows more actors to obtain employment, and even create new stars who might never have been known or accepted with only 3 channels
I was 9 and just loved "The Time Tunnel", because of James (Jimmy) Darren, who I had had a crush on from the first time I saw him as Moondoggie in "Gidget" and from his early 60's hit "Her Royal Majesty" (still have the 45). His teen mag pics were plastered on my bedroom wall. My brother, however, was a "Green Hornet" fan and still owns his Green Hornet lunchbox. To grow up in the 60's was certainly magical to all of us who were lucky enough to do so! So many wonderful TV and musical memories...
I developed a crush on him when he was on TJ Hooker. I didn't care he was old enough to be my dad I thought he was smokin'. Other girls my age at the time were drooling over Adrian Zmed.
I will never forget 9/16/1966. We watched The Green Hornet, then halfway through Time Tunnel an eye infection kicked in & I had to go to the hospital. I still remember one of the doctors saying, 'They will rerun the show during the summer'. No way would we believe back then we could actually own the shows on VHS, then DVD.
Sears delivered our 1st color TV early on a Saturday morning. Friday was their target date & they missed it. I prayed (literally) Sears would make it before Spider-Man. They did. Whatta world! 🙂
The only time I got to watch anything in color was at our grandparents. We didn't get our first color TV until around 1974. The first thing I saw was the Lizard man (the Gorn) vs Capt Kirk.
Another great job, Fred! After watching some of your latest videos, I came to realize that there probably wouldn’t be half the TV I watched back then without Quinn Martin. I would have been 13 at the time.
@@leoarevalo6786 Hate to disappoint you, Leo, but that's not the way this works. None of the dates chosen are based on a single iconic program. I simply grab a TV Guide from my small collection, find a suitable lineup of shows, and make the video. As such, I don't have the TV Guide for the week the Elvis '68 special aired.
Four Star and Fred Flix. Fred is the Fifth Star. Today was not a good one. But you perked me up with this video. And seeing the good-looking men in it didn't hurt at all. Thanks.
Not being a school night I remember watching most of those shows. Never missed the Green Hornet or The Wild, Wild West. I watched Time Tunnel and The Man From Uncle but some of those I caught up on during summer reruns. The WWW episode that night was the Second Season premiere episode, _The Night of the Eccentrics._ which was now filmed in color (not that we could tell). I never got into T.H.E. Cat but you can see at 7:57 that it was produced by Boris Sagal, father of Katey Sagal who played Peggy Bundy on _Married with Children,_ Leela on _Futurama_ and Gemma on _Sons of Anarchy_ among other roles.
I didn't know that about Sagal. But, John, you had to miss either the first half of WWW or GH. They both came on 7:30. I chose GH and TT over WWW, which I caught up with in reruns.
@@FredFlix I know. I don't recall missing The Green Hornet (I was 7-8). The WWW was dad's favourite, mine as well. I wanted to be James West. I don't recall missing those, either. Very strange. 🙂
I did watch THE Cat pretty regularly, as much for the music as for the plotting. It was scored by the same composer for another show that was taking me by storm - Lalo Schifrin, who also wrote the theme and most of the cues for Mission: Impossible. I also watched Time Tunnel, and remember particularly one night in January 1967 when the network broke in partway through to announce that a fire had broken out in a spacecraft being readied for flight, killing all 3 crewmen - the Apollo 1 disaster.
I was 8 in 1966 . We had just got a Zenith color tv . Time Tunnel was the first show we watched. Doug and Tony rocked ! Thanks for the post , you're awesome !
I was just thinking… none of these shows would be allowed on TV in this era of…everything is offensive. There are some groups out there bent on somehow being offended. Thanks Fred Flix…for your work on this compilation of great TV.
Ahhhh, my 8th birthday. My favorites from that era were Time Tunnel, Batman, Man From UNCLE - and I got special permission to stay up until 9:30 to watch The Invaders with my dad. Thanks Fred Flix!
Even as an 11 year old I remember that CBS ruled Friday night with WWW & Hogan as Green Hornet & Time Tunnel (which I watched) only lasted 1 season, but I came back to Jim & Hogan in summer reruns & the next season. Great memories Fred!
My mother hated Hogan's Heroes, primarily because she had lived in here in the United States during World War II and didn't think that you could make a joke about the Nazis in the concentration camps and so forth, she's not the only person that feels that way I don't, but I understand why some would!😊
I know it would be pretty much an impossible feat with broadcast rights etc but wouldn't it be awesome to have a streaming service that could reproduce these great nights of TV!
I was there for the premiere of Green Hornet in fall of ‘66 and it’s my favorite show to this day. What an opening and graphics! Years later worked in the comics biz and painted paperback books, I met Van Williams at various Comic Cons and painted him on the cover of Model and Toy Collector magazine and worked on the Green Hornet comics. We became good friends and would see him when he would visit relatives on the east coast. What a long strange trip it’s been!
Overall the best Friday night lineup in TV history and nobody back then had a VCR so you had to decide what to watch we never knew there would be a future with home video and RU-vid and channels that rerun all these episodes over and over again.
Ahh. 14 days before my 5th birthday, I remember it well. Guarantee we watched all of that CBS lineup at least. Because my dad was an old WWII pilot who loved the WWWest, Hogans Heros and also 12 Oclock High and he ran the remote. (Me...I was the remote)
We finally got our first color TV set that Christmas - and still got black-and-white local shows, but at least most of the prime-time shows were in color!
I was 13 years old and remember all of these great shows. We just got our first color TV and a whole new world opened up. The 60's was such a cool time to grow up. Great job, Fred.👍👍
Whit Bissell’s agent pitching Time Tunnel: “Whit, all you do is stand at a console looking worried and suggest using more power. That’s the gig. More power! Have you tried using more power? We’ve got to use more power. I’d take it, Whit.
Oh, there was only one "true" Tarzan for me and that would be Johnny Weissmuller. I grew up watching all those old b&w movies on television. So mine is a question: Am I the only one who hears Mr. Weissmuller's "Tarzan yell" when that Tarzan of '66 was on television?
Man, I would love to see that Green Hornet, Kato and Batman scene from the Milton Berle Show. What has happened to television, these days? So much garbage, especially compared to the 1960's. When someone called it the "Boob Tube" they must have been thinking of today! Thanks Fred.
What a great night of TV back then! My favorites were "Time Tunnel", "Man From U.N.C.L.E." (love that groovy organ music and the wailing saxophone), and of course, "Hogan's Heroes". The obvious problem was, how to watch them all, in the pre-VCR days? Decisions, decisions..... Awesome as always Fred, and my allergies are acting up as usual (sniff, sniff). Many thanks sir for the look back, and keep the time machine warmed up to bring us more.
35 years after that week, the World Trade Towers fell. Where were U.N.C.L.E, the Green Hornet, Tarzan. Jim West and Artemus Gordon when we needed them? Seriously, it's interesting to contrast the mythical heroes keeping us safe from the reality 35 years later that was unfathomable in 1966.
Dang… you got me again. Thank you x a million!! Again it felt like I was lying on my tv room linoleum floor with my pillow and blanket… I was 10.. 5th grade … wow what a glorious time.. which night was Lost In Space?
My line-up for Friday night that season was The Wild, Wild West, Hogan's Heroes and Larado. Best night of television ever! Wild, Wild West was my favorite TV series as a kid. Love that theme song and animated opening! On the night showcased here the episode aired was "The Night of the Eccentrics," the first episode of the second season and the first aired in color (although I wouldn't see it that way for a couple of decades.) This show was something of a reunion; one of the villainous Eccentrics was played by Anthony Eisley, who a few years earlier had co-starred with Robert Conrad on Hawaiian Eye. Also, the leader of the Eccentrics was played by Victor Buono, who had guest starred on a number of episodes of Hawaiian Eye.And the director Robert Sparr had directed several episodes of that earlier series. A fun connection. As always, thanks for the nostalgic interlude, Fred!
Great stuff, Fred. I commented on your last video that I now find Batman unwatchable. Not so with The Green Hornet (also produced by William Dozier) for two reasons: One: Van Williams was adamant that the show NOT be campy like Batman. It was played straight. Two: Bruce Lee! Damn, he was cool. I remember the Ron Ely Tarzan well. I recently watched WWW in its entirety. The first two seasons were the best. Season 3 was missing the fantastic element, and season 4 was missing Ross Martin much of the time. I loved that jazzy version of The Man from Uncle theme. Time Tunnel is another Irwin Allen show that appealed to me then, but not now. I remember two things about Laredo: One, the guy with the funny voice, and two, the funny guitar theme.
@@KCOliver1960 I know. The low point of the season (and the entire show IMO) was when Alan Hale Jr. guest starred as a substitute agent. At the end of the episode, West asks what his plans are, and he says he plans to relax on a desert island, at which point the Gilligan's Island theme is played! That kind of in-joke campiness was just ridiculous.
Great lineup, I remember many!! Wild Wild West was as “campy” as Batman and the only Western I watched! !! Fred, thanks for another “Time Tunnel” journey to my rememberies!!!!
My younger sister and I were obsessed with The Man From U.N.C.L.E. We created a club, complete with badges, handbook and codes. Oh, and ballpoint pen “communicators.” 😂. We thought Illya Kuryakin was cute. The Wild, Wild West was another favorite-I preferred Artemus Gordon to Jim West. Artie just seemed more fun. Wasn’t the theme song cool? I still like it.
Van Williams and Bruce Lee get double exposure in this video (and on this particular night in 1966). First...as the stars of The Green Hornet. Then, as they made guest appearances on The Milton Berle Show. Wow. And, with Adam West (Batman) to boot. There was a big push to promote The Green Hornet show. The Green Hornet and Kato both famously appeared on the Batman TV show. And, Adam West and Burt Ward returned the favor. But, The Green Hornet only lasted one season. It never really caught on. Bruce Lee later went on to become a movie star in Hong Kong and in the U.S. And, after his untimely death in 1973, is now, of course, a martial arts and pop culture icon.
You already know what I'm going to say: Kato, Illya... but also The Cat (Robert Loggia!) and Laredo, a big favorite of my brother and me. Come to think of it, I didn't really like The Time Tunnel but I loved Quantum Leap years later. Oh, my dear hologram Dean Stockwell and what a beautiful theme music. 🎶🎵🎶 All right, stop. Thanks, Fred. 💜🤟
The Green Hornet is really Britt Reid, owher publisher of the Daily Sentinel. His secret identity known only to his secretary and to the District Attourney.....and well,.....Kato.
The Green Hornet, Tarzan, and The Time Tunnel on the same night. I would not have gotten anything done if these shows were on today. Later on, I thought the best TV show ever would be if you combined the Six Million Dollar Man with the Time Tunnel!
I did not get into The Green Hornet as much as I did for Batman earlier that wonderful year (1966), but Van Williams made a memorable appearance as a former serious date (and Rob's one-time competition for) Laura Petrie in his guest star the previous year, on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (5th season; Oct. 13, 1965), in "No Rice At My Wedding", playing 'Clark Rice'. William Dozier (Executive Producer) had hit-after-hit in that era with Batman (Jan. 1966), and then The Green Hornet in the Fall. "The Wild Wild West" (CBS) was my choice of shows instead of TGH. The imaginative, terrific animated James West character, decking the knife-wielding woman (at 3:55) was one of the highlights of that opening theme song. You would never see anything like that again on-screen (especially today) with the wild-eyed feminist anti-men crazies nowadays who would have a fit seeing even a cartoonish portrayal! But it was in self-defense, since she started the violence!
@@FredFlix Sorry, not the TV guide actually but you used to show the lineup for the whole evening, all three networks, in a block at the end of your video. It was a great way to compare what was on when and remember what we did and did not watch.
@@Laceykat66 I think I just did that in a couple of videos. But you're right in that it would be useful. Unfortunately, I've already made all the videos in this series and I would have to go back and redo them. But maybe I will.....
@@FredFlix You do a great job and I love your videos. That is why I watch them and why I notice things like this. No dig at all, you keep doing great work and I will continue to watch and like.
Green Hornet was never as exciting as the theme music each episode was slow and dull never as fun as Batman or as action-packed as it should have been it was a weird one-season wonder with only a few good episodes.
