Wow-Za! "The Outer Limits" was on at an earlier hour than "The Lucy Show", "Make Room for daddy" and "The Andy Griffith Show"?...At an hour that kids could watch it even??😲...Well...count me in then!👍 (Even though I have to say that the show terrified me as a youngster when it was in syndication 🤣)...Thanks for showing some highly memorable TV Series, along with a couple I'm not too terribly familiar with FredFlix! ("East Side, West Side", "Breaking Point" and "Hollywood And The Stars")...Let the good TV Shows play on, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📺📼📀📺📼📀
Outer Limits were on saturdays here in Detroit during the 70s, sometimes different hours have to check my TV Guides that I have from that decade and months for time and station, different months of the years, but mostly 5pm after Creature Feature was done on Channel 50 WKBD
This brings back memories. Until I was older I didn't realize the them to The Danny Thomas Show was the Irish song, Danny Boy, which is fitting since Thomas was Lebanese.
1964 - it was a pretty good year. At 10 years old, I had gotten my dad to give up his 40 year (from 10 years old to 50 years old), 3 to 4 packs a day of Lucky Strike cigs habit. Also my Grannie bought me a wonderful piano and my parents bought me a dog for which I had been asking since I was about one second old. I was the arbiter of the TV shows we watched. I was also in charge of the channel changer (no remote, must run to the TV) in case something "wrong" (you get the idea, right?) was going on. Of this grouping in the video my family and I watched To Tell the Truth, Andy, Lucy, Outer Limits, and Mitch Miller & His Whistlin' Fools who ALWAYS played in 4/4 Time. My favorite show was The Outer Limits - music, mood, human society, wrapped up in a morality play. My favorite episode of this show is the story of a young Welch miner (David McCallum) in love with a young lady of higher position. Thinking that he has no chance with her as he is, he visits a mad scientist to ask him to make him smarter/better in order to win her affection. But, the young man is never satisfied with the increasing progress of the "bettering treatment". Finally, ... no I'm not gonna reveal the ending. My most favorite Outer Limits episode is the story of a man of the future who finds himself thrown through time for some unknown purpose. He possesses one "normal" hand and one attached glass hand with missing digits. In pursuit of those glass fingers in order to know what his mission is, he meets a beautiful lady who helps him. Finally, ... nope, I won't reveal the ending. At this time I wish to thank: (1) the person or persons who designed the white chino pants that Robert Culp wears in this episode and (2) God who designed Robert Culp. Hey, Fred, I've heard through the grapevine (both Gladys and some Pips as well as Marvin) that there's a new author on the scene who has written a great book entitled "The Occidental Husband". Since you are an author yourself, would you happen to know where to purchase it? Thanks!
Ha! I really enjoyed your comment, Martha! As for the book, if it's not on Amazon you might find it at EveningPost Books. Of course, I'm not exactly a "new" author...the book is almost 10 years old now.
Wow, I clearly remember watching the Outer Limits when I was 3 years old at my Grandmas spooky old house with all the lights turned off. As if the show wasn’t scary enough lol! Thanks for the memories, Fred.
Fred, nice touch using The Control Voice for the Intro and outro. Yeah, 3-year old me would have missed most of those although I do remember watching Mitch Miller (this was the last year of the show but it ran in repeats until 1966). Mitch worked at Columbia Records starting in 1950 where he famously passed on signing Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and the Beatles because he despised rock n' roll. Speaking of _The Outer Limits_ I still vividly remember running out of the room and hiding when The Control Voice "took control" of the TV set.
I really felt cozy hearing the Wagon Train opening music on my parents' floor model RCA. And my favorite character on Make Room for Daddy was Uncle Tonoose!
Guess Monday nights weren’t a big TV night at our house. The only show I watched as a 7 year old was Andy Griffith. Hardly ever watched Wagon Train as a kid but for some reason, I still hum that theme song to this day
Another great look back, Fred... 0:15 - I wonder if THE OUTER LIMITS would've been a bigger success as a 1/2 hour show or on CBS (which had just cancelled TWILIGHT ZONE). Geoffrey Horne starred in a TZ episode ("The Gift"), while Vaughn Taylor (given great billing here) appeared in a record 5 TZ episodes in supporting roles. This episode also has "Violet Bick" herself, Gloria Grahame, who was still working on tv at least into the late 1970s. 1:37 - This was Garry Moore's last year hosting I'VE GOT A SECRET, which he left as CBS cancelled his variety show the same season. 5 years later he ended up hosting the syndicated version of...TO TELL THE TRUTH. 2:05 - WAGON TRAIN was part of ABC's experimentation w/ color tv shows, expanding the show to 90 mins. at the same time. This apparently didn't get good enough ratings for ABC to justify the extra cost (I'm sure some of ABC's smaller affliates couldn't broadcast in color yet either), so WAGON TRAIN went back to an hour-long B&W series for its last season starting in fall 1964. 2:48 - This is the Season 3 opening for THE LUCY SHOW (which was still in Season 2). You do accurately show it broadcast in B&W, which is what CBS was doing then, even though Desilu filmed it in color. 3:17 - This must be the syndicated opening for THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW, which hadn't been called MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY since Jean Hagen left the show in 1956 when it was still on ABC. The kids do look the right ages for this time period though. 3:35 - I was half-expecting to see THE RICHARD BOONE SHOW here, but his show was on Tuesday nights. According to Wiki, tonight's episode of HOL;LYWOOD AND THE STARS was titled "Natalie Wood: Hollywood's Child". 5:07 - Thanks for including the end credits for SING ALONG WITH MITCH and for finding a color videotape clip from the episode. NBC cancelled Mitch's show at the end of this season.
Thanks once again, Jon, for your wealth of information. While i try to accurately show the proper themes, sometimes I just have to go with what's available. And frankly, sometimes I'm just not sure what exact theme went with what year.
Have the Outer Limits Board Game and the Wagon Train Play Set by Marx, one of the rare Play Sets on there on the market, two versions I have the earlier one
Outer Limits, Wagon Train (good theme song) were favs at home and even now I marvel that Mom let me watch Breaking Point and East Side West Side. Open minded lady she was. But what really got me today was Hollywood and the Stars, a show I watched with Dad, a man of really good taste in movies. The beautiful theme song by Elmer Bernstein still gets me teary eyed. 🤷🏽♀️ Off topic PS: "Please please me" by The Beatles turned 60 yesterday. Already?!! 🤦🏽♀️🎶🎵🎶
3:18- This is the syndicated/NBC daytime title for "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW" (because first-run episodes were seen in prime-time, the "MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY" title was used).
JOSEPH COTTEN: "What happened to Arabella Floop was typical of what happened to the great screen stars of the 1920's, who just couldn't make the transition from silents to 'talkies'. This is *her* story- 'The Rise and Fall of a Silent Star'.......on 'HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS'."
I tell you, one thing LBJ did right was putting three tv screens in the Oval Office. Of course he did it so he could watch all evening news programs at the same time. We would have done it so we didn't miss a thing all night.
Smart to have THE LUCY SHOW in black & white...while the second and third season episodes were filmed in color, CBS wouldn't air them that way. They resisted color because it was a benefit to NBC--or more accurately, RCA and its color set sales (especially in the wake of CBS' failure in promoting a different system to broadcast in color, followed by a disastrous but little-remembered effort to develop their own line of television sets)
CBS did telecast a few specials in color during that period- including "The Wizard of Oz" and the second version of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Cinderella'"- but they were the exceptions. It was only after NBC announced plans in the spring of 1965 to telecast virtually all of their programming in "Living Color" in the fall {promoting themselves as "The Full Color Network"}, did CBS realize that if they didn't start scheduling most of their prime-time schedule in color at the same time, NBC would overtake them in the ratings, as more homes with color sets were becoming "Nielsen families"- and watched more color shows. So CBS [and ABC, who managed to scrape together enough cash to enable themselves to colorcast more nighttime programming as well] did present about half of their series in color {especially the ones in the "Top Ten", including Lucy}--- and retained their #1 position in the ratings, with NBC a close second.
Wonderful stuff, Fred. Love how you close the segment with the OL credits. But I want to know: Was it the Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone, or the Twilight Zone within the Outer Limits?
ABC could only afford one season of expanded color episodes of "WAGON TRAIN". MCA/Universal hoped the 90 minute format would be as successful as "THE VIRGINIAN" was on NBC, but CBS' successful comedy line-up from 8:30-10pm(et) was too powerful to compete- and the fact that not all of ABC's affiliates were colorcasting the program. The experiment yielded no more than 32 episodes (which MCA later syndicated as a separate "movie package"). They convinced the network to renew 'WAGON TRAIN" in its original hour-long black and white edition for the following season {as part of their deal to produce "BROADSIDE", which aired back-to-back on Sundays in the 1964-'65 season}.
I never saw East Side West Side back in the day but episodes of it are available on RU-vid. I watched a couple but the idea of George C. Scott, as a social worker was too much of a stretch for me after seeing him in things like Patton. I wonder what someone who's only known flat-screen TVs would make of the Outer Limits thing about controlling the vertical and horizontal?
The infamous president of CBS' television division, James Aubtrey canceled the show despite it holding its own in the ratings, because it wasn't escapist enough for what he felt the audience wanted. (Interestingly, the other two shows didn't return that fall, either)
It didn't help that George C. Scott loathed Aubrey, and told him in no uncertain terms he didn't want to move the series' locale to Park Avenue {"They have just as many problems there! Get it out of that fucking ghetto!!!", he insisted} when he met "The Smirky Snake", who assured fellow executives he could talk Scott into seeing things HIS way. George listened to what Aubrey had to say....while munching on an apple, slicing it with a switchblade.....and then he leaped towards his desk, holding the blade near his throat, growling, "The show *stays* where it is! Good bye, Mr. Aubrey. We shall not meet again." Eventually, Aubrey did have his way somewhat, as Scott's social worker character went to work for a congressman in the "better" part of town......but Aubrey didn't forget his confrontation with him, and cancelled the series at the end of the season. David Susskind was livid about the whole affair- especially when Aubrey reneged on a promise to buy a series from Talent Associates the following season. David intended to sue the network for stiffing him, but a friend advised him, "You don't want to make Aubrey mad." Nevertheless, after Jim's departure in February 1965, Susskind was given a cash settlement from CBS in the matter.
2:48- Wrong opening title for "THE LUCY SHOW" (the one shown was used the following season). Season two's title sequence in the 1963-'64 season- filmed in color, but originally telecast in black and white on the network {and there were two variations} looked like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-unr0PoArMIM.html
Can you believe the often brilliantly-written, usually outstandingly cast, as cinematic at times as a Hollywood classic movie, was fighting against THAT competition? Some will say that the ametican audiences were dumb. I disagree. ABC was dumb : to try to se it as a kid's monster show. Put it on an hour later, stop demanding a monster every SINGLE week, and push the big name stars like they did Planet of the Apes so instead of a mobster show for kids it became a prestige show for adults and the teenagers would have been there just the same. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
