Hi Fred! I was just about to turn 7 in Akron Ohio....back when Akron was considered the rubber capital of the world. Mom stayed home and dad was a stamper for BFG. This truly was prime time for me! We always got Flavor Crisp chicken dinners and you got that special treat...your very own bottle of pop. When Dysney came on mom always made pop corn for all of us to go with our pop, and if it was a special night of some sort she would have bought a container of Jiffy-Pop pop corn at the Sparkle Mart grocery store and kept it hid all week so it was truly a real surprise! I think about those days often and want to go back to them....if only for a little while. God bless you Fred and please stay safe my friend!
as an 8 year old in suburban Long Island a Sunday night in August would be very special for me. It meant no school tomorrow so I could stay up past 10 to watch my favorite show, Mission: Impossible.
I was 10 years old living in Abilene Texas. Sunday night at 6 pm we gathered around the Magnavox Entertainment Center to watch Walt Disney in color! Thanks for these memories. ❤️
Another fine presentation Fred! Many thanks. I was 8 years old , and very familiar with Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. It was standard scheduled viewing for my younger siblings and me. That, and Gentle Ben...
Thank you Fred for providing these windows back into childhood days that were carefree and happy. I love the chance to escape the surreal world we live in now. Great videos all - thank you!
Like it was yesterday, all my favorite shows!!!👍 How did we get from 1968 to 2022 so fast, where has the time gone? To all those AMAZING days we thought would last forever! Thank you Fred!
Where did the days and years go, indeed. Let's hope we get to live in this amazing world awhile longer, God willing and I guess, climate change willing? I'm thankful for each day.
I was a month shy of 4 years of age on this night. I remember a lot of these intros, though, and these characters. We'd gather as a family in front of the black-n-white TV and sometimes roast marshmallows, or roast chestnuts, or pop some popcorn, or have a tray of cut-up fruit, and just hang out together. Happy times, those. Thanks for this.
It's lovely to see in the comments the memories you stir with your vids. I'll drop my two cents: a High School sophomore, I felt so grown up. New residential area and neighbors. New house brought our first color TV. ☺️ Planning anything on commercials, Fred? JS. 💜🤟
I was a month from turning 8 and remember this lineup like it was 10 years ago! Fred you made me laugh out loud here with the first show's episode, but what a great lineup of shows! I loved Glenn Campbells variety hour, thanks Fred! 🙂♥️♥️♥️♥️👍
What great memories of some really awesome shows. I was 12 at the time and can remember coming home and settling in for the night in front of the television.
Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen I'm Glenn Campbell !!!! I was 8 and I remember his voice saying his name like that !!!! Wow!. 1968, My Detroit Tigers and #6 Al Kaline won the World Series !!
Great line-up, Fred! I remember them really pushing color TVs. When my family got our first color TV, a Zenith I think, we were incredibly excited. Of course, we still had to get the antennae in the right direction, twist the fine tuning ring a bit, dial in that signal, and then there was the color saturation knob and the tint for skin tone. I think we got our first color TV in 1967 with a 'clicker.' Dialing it all in was a skill we all learned. A little heavy on the color saturation was especially satisfying for the more colorful shows like Disney. Going from black and white to color helped make a working class family feel 'rich.'
@@stanleycostello9610 Yes! The days when the TV repairman made house calls. Usually, he got into the back and put a new vacuum tube in. We got wise to that and started testing the tubes ourselves at the Western Auto store. But there were some issues only the repairman could fix!
Thank you, Fred Flix. Sunday night was Ice Cream night at our house. We would all sit and watch Bonanza and eat our special treat. However, we didn’t know what the wonderful world of color was all about. Our TV was B/W. We couldn’t afford a color TV set until 1972. 👍
You're welcome, TLR. I cut it a bit short this time because I ran it full in another volume of this series, and I don't like to repeat too much if I can help it.
Wow, voyage, I last saw that in 1968 when I was 8, I loved this show, kinda hokey, but that sub shape, the whole idea of the unknown, more imagination than actual props. Thank you
WOW!!! Was this a trip down memory lane!!! The date was 19 days from my 12th birthday (Aug. 30th). Must have been a lot of work to put this compilation together!!! Thanks for posting!!!
So I am late to the party in thanking you, Fred, but this is wonderful. Back when TV was WORTH WATCHING. Fun and positive. Smart and clever. Now. Pfft. Thank you, Fred.
@@FredFlix something to really look forward to. Stupid. Oppressive suggestion; if you have them, and can put them somewhere not on the video, pages of the old TV Guide listing to complete the experience. It's an amazing experience to put the different shows up because it takes you back to earliest childhood flipping through the TV and all the associated sights. Sounds and moments tumble back out of time along with them. Fantastic, Fred. In a way, a no-fooling service to humanity. We all need a little major feel-good right now. And you are providing it. THANK YOU.
@@davidrosler5413 Your suggestion is a good one, David. Unfortunately, I have already completed all the videos in this series. However, I do show TV Guide listings in several other videos on this channel. Just search FredFlix TV Guide listings, if you're interested.
@@FredFlix what I meant was to have a free, simple website somewhere were images of the TV Guide postings are posted and nothing else, and there is a corresponding page of images for each video with the link to the appropriate page in the description of each video. That way, if people, wanted, like I would and I bet a lot of others, they could check out the listings first and "flip through the channels" afterward by watching your video for the fullest possible experience. There are free website which are really easy to make, dead dumb simple, like the most popular the name of which escapes me but it's just a beauty. WIX, that's the name. If you were insanely dedicated to re-creating an experience millions would love, you could get an image of a big old plastic TV dial and rotate it to two channels for each network, 2 and 3 for example, and have 4 continuous hours with commercials on each so people could turn the channel (by clicking a different know button, the one set for 4 for example) in the middle of the show and see what was "broadcasting" on another channel. Just Google old TV know and I bet they have a million, choose one that fits the decade. I'm sure you know how to rotate an image in photoshop. If not post tge link here abd I'll do it for all the channels in an hour. Happy to do it. Joyous even. What you're doing here us great stuff; a real time machine with all the feelings that get reawakening. Terrific experiences. Thank you, again.
Fred...I was 13 then.Remember all of these,especially Mothers-In-Law.I thought Eve & Kaye were a great comedy team.Always loved Eve! And I never missed Mission:Impossible! Thanks!
At some point, Roger left The Mothers-in-Law. He was replaced by the bald fellow from The Dick Van Dyke Show. They called him Roger, tho. Like they expected us not to notice.
"Hi, this is Marlin Perkins. Welcome to Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, where this week Jim will be wrestling a rabid 900 lb Kodiak bear, while I'm back at the lodge with a Dewar's and the latest issue of Playboy! We'll be right back after this message from Mutual of Omaha!"
We used to go to grandma's house for Sunday lunch. We used to watch Tarzan theater Wide World of sports and then we would head home for Animal Kingdome Lassie and Walt Disney.
@@continentalgin Yep , and he always would let his crew handle the wild animals and he would go into his tent and do the paper work, were it was nice and safe
I was almost five and my little brother was six months old. We would be at my grandparents house watching color TV . My parents, grandparents and my brothers and sister and myself. I wish I had a time machine. Anybody want to go with me?
Another great job, Fred! 1:52 I was a bit too young to remember WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (It was WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY when I was old enough to remember it.), but I remember seeing a full version of this theme song by the Sherman Bros. on Disney's 40th anniversary show in Jan. 1995. Tom Hanks sang a bit of it, showing why he isn't known for musicals. ;) I suspect, though, that the full theme song was rarely used, cut down to what you share here. 2:27 The airboat used on GENTLE BEN (and earlier on FLIPPER) looked scary, especially when those riding in it didn't use seatbelts. I'd hate to be riding in one when it hit an underwater obstruction. 3:47 THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW was an unevenly funny show but funny enough for me to buy the full DVD set & watch every episode. In 2019, Kaye Ballard & Jerry Fogel, the last living cast members, who played mother & son, both passed away. Roger C. Carmel was really funny in S1 but left the show over a salary dispute, leaving Richard Deacon to take over a role where he wasn't as well-suited. This show was one of many in this prime NBC time slot between Disney & BONANZA, but none of these shows lasted past 2 seasons. 5:58 THE HIGH CHAPARRAL had a great theme song, composed by David Rose, who a couple years later wrote a new BONANZA theme song (used in Seasons 12 & 13) which I like more than the original, better-known, theme song.
Great stuff, Fred. VTTBOTS hasn't held up for me, except for the theme music. I love it. LOVE that classic Disney opening!!! The Lassie Whistler's Theme makes me feel HUGELY nostalgic.
Fred, Robert I've got to tip the hat to you for any and all nods to Voyage and Irwins other shows as I love them as much as any other "Right Stuff" era TV show, perhaps more so than latter day SF fare which is somnambulent by comparison. If not this summer 68 night but maybe another--June or July maybe?-- I noticed some chuckling sarcasm from 3 characters in the forum aimed at Voyage after some poor trusting soul in his enthusiasm linked his enjoyment of Voyage with Star Trek (viewer may have been an innocent observer from overseas, not certain, but unaware of the hostile barbs aimed at a lot of older non Trek shows.) I thought about a response to these 3 "wise a----" but did not want to bring rancor to Flix here because the Vibe is gracious and generous. But after seeing a sassy hostile comment somewhere else again I figured it was time for a civil response: What to say about the Camp of the 60s and 70s, what so many mockingly call "cheese"? FOR better or worse, they'll never make shows like these again, shows this wild and lively and so freely imaginative . Here the "thrilling" Saturday Serials met the Space Age in a dynamic that will never be repeated. (Example -- what's got more "life" to it? George Reeves lil' half hour SUPERMAN, or the more recent tries?) A similar comment could be made about other Retro shows like Mothers In Law. Thank you for this. Did you notice the sheer amount of ENERGY, Enthusiasm and Physicality that went into just the opening credits? Again, we'll never see anything like that made again. And so many people today call this Progress!
@@AdmiralNelson1000 In some cases, my response to someone saying something is cheese is “and your point is…?” Context is very important. Fred’s wonderful efforts are a kind of time machine, taking us back to that time in our lives when we didn’t see these shows as cheese, but as exciting adventure. Sure, as adults we can see flaws in the production values that we didn’t perceive back then. Even Trek is not immune, since I can now view it in a high definition format on a big screen that lets me see the wooden construction, paint strokes, etc. that I couldn’t see back then, but again the response is “so what?” Two of my favorite examples of shows with high energy opening credits are Jonny Quest and Stingray: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7gNBFmlNUfM.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-45NtEXv7DZs.html These made preteen me gleefully anticipate futuristic, SF oriented thrills.
I have a lot of DVDs of 60's and 70's shows so 1 night i created a retro tv night ex Nov 13 1967 and watched the shows and episodes that aired on that night it was great by the way i was 12 in 1968
2 days after my 13th birthday! We had a big orange tomcat named CB who used to come into the living room and sit smack dab in front of the TV from 7:00 to 7:30 every Sunday night to watch Lassie. It was the only show that he had any interest in...
We had 5 stations back then. Everyone was happier. Men were men...women were women. Families had meals together every night, Sunday dinners & Sunday night TV was a special time. I miss them days. The US was a better place to live. We had problems, but nothing even close to the trash nowadays.
@The Traveler So true! We usually had a Sunday roast after church and then Sunday evening, Mom would give us a plate with a piece of bread smothered in roast and gravy, which we would eat on the TV trays in front of the TV. We couldn't sit at the kitchen table when great shows were on TV. On weekdays, we sat around the table for dinner, but Sunday was special.
@@continentalgin NIce...Mom's roast beef and gravy....we had ours with parker house rolls (warm), side of asparagus. In Illinois at 3pm we had Family Classics with Frazier Thomas (local Channel) then at 6pm The Wonderful World of Disney Channel 7 if I remember. 😀
Lovely one Fred however that exact date Is the birthday of my ex husband! Lol! Same year too! Feel free to do a Feb 24 1969 sometime so I can feel special! Lol! Thank u as always!
I was nine then. It was still summer so we no doubt would have had supper at around 5PM and after that taken off outside barefoot till almost dark, when Mom would yell out the back door for us to get home.
No crash helmets when you were riding your bike. Hose water when you were thirsty. Soda bottles by the side of the road which you could get two cents for them and spend it on penny candy. I suppose that the kids today are going to say in 60 years, "Why can't things be the way they in the 2020's?"
I remember David Canary replacing Pernell Roberts on Bonanza, also on a side note, Canary was one of just a handful of actors who were considered for the role of Spock on "Star Trek" (TOS).
7th Grade started a few weeks after this. Moving up to Junior High School - new school, new faces. I remember this TV line up. We’ll do e Fred!! Thank You!!!
Thanks Fred. If my memory is correct, this was the week and the year that I was first subjected to a death of a close relative. Although I didn't know him well, it was the only grandfather I did meet. I don't think it really affected me much at the time, but in my later years I regretted not knowing him more. Anyway, some of my favorite shows from that period.
I was just a mere child at 2, but somehow I remember my parents enjoying The Ed Sullivan Show. My father simply watched The FBI & Mission: Impossible afterwards. Thanks, FredFlix. 📺
Good morning Fred Flix- here are some sponsors for some these shows- Lassie- Campbell Soup,Disney- Gulf - the Travel Agency with Pumps ,FBI - Ford Motor Co.,Bonanza - Chevrolet,and Glen Campbell Good Time Hour- Chevrolet. Glen did TV and radio commercials for Chevrolet back then.
I guess pre-1968, it was Lassie. ;-) 1968 Hadda be done with homework for Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea! Mission Impossible 10pm on a Sunday. No wonder I never saw it.
The TV schedules of the 20th century were so much better than all the reality stuff that's invaded the TV landscape since practically the start of this century.
omg.......... i just remembered, I wanted to watch Journey to the Bottom of the Sea, but Dad made us watch Wild Kingdom - which was good... but, I felt like I was missing something!
I can understand this. Hopefully you got syndicated rerun action in the seasons ahead. Our local stations were reasonably generous with Voyage reruns for a time.
the new bonanza theme would debut in september. the goodtime hour would get its start as The Summer Brothers Smothers Show. i love the mutual of omaha opening titles. i love that lassie theme
If you take this show and flip flop it from a Submarine exploring the unknown meeting aliens and stange creatures to a Spaceship in deep space doing the same you have Star Treck.
So many great shows....left out. but .... we 'get it'. 68 for Television....what a year. actually...they would be good for about another 20 or so....then it would all start to go to shit. 'The Invaders!'....a Quinn Martin Production!... Streets of SF; the List of Iconic Drama and Comedy Shows goes on for ever it seems.... Oh!.... Ghost and Mrs. Muir...that was a great one from '68...
My mother controlled the TV and she always watched Wild Kingdom. It meant that WE always watched it, too. Jim Fowler was a cousin of hers and she told us every week. How could we forget it? I don't remember The Mothers-in-Law. We probably never watched it. Mission Impossible was a favorite. I adored Martin Landau. Still do, even though he's on the other side.
