I remember in grade school kids singing the Branded theme song. Of course, with their own lyrics referring to being caught on the toilet without a roll. 👍
@@christocc oh I guess the autocorrect added those and I didn't notice before hitting send. Good catch. But the point was there was nothing worldly about it it was only American, they were not all TV pilots , they were not really strange , and some of them had been seen by millions of people in their original release. And yes it is all about click bait.
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That's because OG batgirl.... and I say that? has something that the new one don't have and that is fucking Talent back when women were real women and you didn't have to worry about checking under the hood the one that we got now you kind of got to wonder?.. You like Crocodile Dundee check under the hood the new Batgirl is just another social justice Warrior and I say that Loosely if she's a woman. If you seen her in Orange is bet she's butt naked look like a man got a boy's butt I couldn't even flap to it not that you want to know
I remember it too. But I didn't get into it because I was in college with limited access to television; and besides, it was a blatant ripoff of "The Fugitive."
For a while, prime time was wall-to-wall westerns. Toward the end of that era, the only thing that distinguished them were strange weapons. That broken saber was pretty much the bottom of the barrel. And Connors only picked it up after his rifle had turned to rusted junk.
I think he should find a rifle that shoots a beam of light at sensors that eject a fake drinks can from a platform. Best part of my child hood ever. I'm 42 now and still looking for a replacement for my long list 'tin can alley'. I can still remember the commercial from the late 70s with him on, and I was about 5 when I finally got what I had wanted since I was about 2. I remember it costing about £7 at the time (roughly $14 in those days, about 1981/82) can't even get a working one for under £100 now!
It was a ceremony that was meant to literally strip an officer of his rank, commission, and status as a military man. To make it a bit more showy, and perhaps to insinuate that they had never deserved his rank in the first place, his badges, insignia, buttons, etc were taken off beforehand and replaced with a single stitch. The sword was also prepared in advance by filing it or re-tempering it to be brittle in one place. It was not a deceit, as everyone knew how it was done, but it was still a show. See: *cashiering*.
Thanks for these. I recall that Branded went past just being a pilot, a series shown on Aussie TV in ca 1966. For Test Pilot I was interested to see the Ryan X-13, a real aircraft. I recognised it still under its tarpaulin, a very squat delta with huge tail as it was meant to be a VTOL tailsitter. From the tail number, this is prototype No2 which surprisingly still exists as of 2019 as a museum exhibit.
I recall seeing "Branded" in the U.S back in the day so I think it got picked up here also... But I think it didn't last long... I always remembered that intro though... And as for "BatGirl" she was blended into "BatMan" instead of her own show...
I always wondered why the guys who fought Mike Nelson underwater didn't simply buy wire-reinforced SCUBA hoses, so that they couldn't be easily cut with a diving knife. If they had, his #1, #2, and #3 modes of attacking them would have been eliminated.
Initially, William Dozier wanted to produce a "Batgirl" spin-off, and created a "demo film" to try to interest ABC in the idea. However, "BATMAN" began faltering in the ratings towards the end of the 1966-'67 season........and Dozier instead decided to add her to "BATMAN" in the fall of 1967, in a futile attempt to "resuscitate" the series [and round off the corners of Batgirl's mask, because Yvonne Craig said it left welts on her face after wearing it for long periods].
Another effort by William Dozier to produce a "campy" superhero TV show. It never got past its brief "demo reel"; ABC gave it thumbs down. Just as well; THAT "Wonder Woman" would have been a total klutz- and an embarrassment to everyone {viewers included}.
For a real-life librarian, Batgirl certainly trashed her place of work and damaged or destroyed quantities of books - not something that librarians can do in such a callous and unthinking manner.
Batgirl - librarian by day, library destroyer by night! She totally totalled that library, she'd have been better off just letting the bad guys get away with it!
The actual 'plot' of Branded was a good one. At the time it aired, I was a kid, and because so many westerns were on TV--and my dad watched them ALL--I resented Branded, but now, as an adult--and not having been drowning in westerns--I really like the show. Poor McCord, he was so honorable and his reason for keeping silent and suffering the label of COWARD is really noble.
As I recall, McCord became a spy for the president in the second season when the show was reworked to fit in with the other spy shows on the era. Everyone in the country still knew him by name to be a legendary coward although it was proven he didn't run away. This made it possible for him to root out criminal corruption without being suspected of working as a secret service agent.
I remember when there were so many westerns I grew sick of them too. I wanted to watch Hammer films and Scifi movies. It took me yrs before I could watch a western and enjoy it.
"Stranded! Stranded on the toilet bowl! What do you do when you're stranded, and you cant reach the roll!" Amazing what you can remember from half a century ago.
@@fredeinsel7983 Who says so? Married three times and had four sons. Played in MLB AND NBA. No hint of being gay except on websites for actual gays who have mancrushes on him. Like you, maybe? He was in The Rifleman, not Chrisley Knows Best.
As kids, we sang “Stranded! Stuck on the toilet bowl....what do you do when you’re stranded - and you can’t reach the roll!” To the tune of “Branded” LOL
Ok. I remember Bat Girl, which lasted a few episodes, Yvonne Craig was so hot at the time, they couldn't let her outstrip the campy Batman series. She brought a certain seriousness to the character that outstripped the the original series.
Don't know what you were remembering, but there was never a "Batgirl" series. The thing on here is just a demo they did for studio execs to introduce the Batgirl episode. Batgirl was in every episode of the third season of "Batman."
For years my best friend had a BS story about Branded (this was before the Internet and easily-accessible information): he said Chuck Conners' character had an actual, physical brand on his forehead. While he was meant to receive COWARD an accident at the fort meant half the brand had to be melted down so he got only COW...The story started falling apart when he told me two different "accident" stories, then finally ended when I pressed him for more information about the show. Thank you for the Batgirl pilot footage. I have immense respect for Yvonne Craig and very much like the equal pay PSA she later did in character.
TommygunNG You are correct, sir. "Branded" was indeed a television classic -- although not quite as classic as the first TV series starring Chuck Connors, "The Rifleman." And in-between "The Rifleman" ans "Branded" was the excellent one-season contemporary drama "Arrest & Trial," wherein Connors portrayed a criminal defense attorney in the legal part of that police and courtroom series. Anyway, another thing I remember about "Branded" was its memorable main theme music. And I can still recall an elementary school classmate's parody of the "Branded" theme song, the lyrics to which went something like this-- "Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded And you need another roll? To prove you're a man, You must wipe it with your hand. You must prove . . . you're a man. Strand-ed!" That TV theme parody from the playground set was in the same vein as this old Christmas chestnut-- "Jingle Bells, Batman smells. Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel. And The Joker got away - hey!"
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Yeah . . . "Branded" was a good show--not strange. But does anybody remember the take-off from the show's theme song? Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded, and you don't have a roll?
2FYIs: 1) The Batgirl clip wasn't a pilot for a new series. It was made to pitch the new character for Adam West's series Batman to ABC executives who wanted to cancel the show. They liked her, and renewed the series for one more season. 2) I believe that Air Force clip is from the TV series Flight (1958), episode "Vertijet," starring John Agar. That's legendary character actor Dub Taylor as the sergeant.
I think that's so cool that "Branded' was shown on British TV ! We had some British shows that played on American TV in the 60s, such as "The Avengers", "Secret Agent Man", "The Prisoner", "Man in a Suitcase" & "The Baron" !! The longest running one was "The Avengers" and when I was a kid in the 60s, my brothers & I loved watching it !!
She was also the primary candidate for abduction bu Martians in the film Mars Needs Women. She wore glasses in that production as well. Quite attractive
Yvonne Craig! Hell, they should've just made the series of her changing in2her Batgirl outfit, then the groovy 'Bat girl, bat girl' theme. Would've had millions of - male - viewers. Hell, I'm not straight, and I LOVE Yvonne Craig, I would've watched (had I been alive and living somewhere I could've seen it).
#1 Batgirl was never a spin off, just the character added to the Batman series, and the video shown here is the very same one that introduced her as Batgirl on the Batman Series. Most of the others I watched as a child, so none of these are even remotely the 'world's strangest". Most of these actually aired only for a few episodes, but were canned early, so they were very short lived. Some made it for two to three months before being canned by the network associated with that particular series. They were canned because they were usually up against a more popular, long running series that folks watched, so some of these never got the ratings needed to stay running.
My Dad always pointed out that if you broke a sword over your leg like that guy does in the Branded segment, you'd have a broken leg. I guess bending the sword a bit and yelling "ouch" wasn't as dramatic.
Batman was my favorite comic book. I'll never forget how heartbroken I was the first time I saw that show, and how silly it was. I just couldn't believe they did that! I still have the emotional scars. LOL
runner6500 Its a little different for me because the original Batman show was my first viewing of Batman, so it always remains a classic to me. lol Though wasn't the Batman series similar to the comics of the time?
Zauchi No not at all. The only thing similar was the "Pow!", "Zapp!" kind of stuff. The corny dialogue was too much for me. I was just a 12 yr. old kid. You have no idea the anticipation I had that entire summer. I don't want to talk about it anymore.
Same here; I didn't know 'bout the comic till I saw one in a display at the checkout counter of the local grocery store and asked my mom to get if for me (a giant-size 3D issue with a Batman story featuring the Penguin, backed by a Tommy Tomorrow); I remember thinking that it wasn't a very good rendition of the TV show!
I only liked Superheroes in comic books when they had their own powers. Batman had no powers at all. Not even ESP. But, l saw the 1st episode and thought, "Isn't that nice of the Joker? From the vending machines he was giving school students piles of silver dollars!" I was starting the 6th grade, in 1966.
+Millard Farqhuar I don't watch Star Trek and did not know she was on there. I Googled Marta and oh my!!!!! Thanks for the info Millard! markosun.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/abatx.jpg
Yes it was. Branded aired on NBC from January 24, 1965 until April 24, 1966, with reruns continuing through September 4, 1966. The seires consisted of 48 episodes (the first 16 were in black-and-white), and was sponsored by Procter & Gamble.
I see nothing "strange" let alone "strangest" about any of these pilots and "Branded" was a successful show which opened with the scene shown here every episode. The rest were pretty much normal TV fare in the 1950's.
@@ciecie1959 I guess I should have excluded her from the list, but I'm not completely sure this was ever a pilot but merely her introduction episode on "Batman". Has anyone ever seen a full pilot with titles, etc? I never have and I'm usually up on that sort of thing.
I was a kid when Branded was aired and we had different lyrics for the opening song, sung to the same music: "Stranded, stranded on a toilet bowl, what do you do when you're stranded and you don't have a roll. You must prove you're a man cause you wipe it with your hand". Yes, we were very witty and somewhat disturbed children back then.
For the pilot for "Branded", I understand them wanting to tear off his stripes, but why would they break a perfectly good sword in half (and quite easily I might add) rather than just keep it and give it to another soldier?
Anxiety Entertainment Cavalry sword musta sucked back in the day if you could just break 'em over your knee . . . I'd hate to have to count on that in battle
I believe that they were inscribed with the officers' name . A sword is rarely if ever used sideways as compared with edge on so its' strength would be weak enough to break thusly.
Reminds me of the various lists type videos we find on RU-vid " Amazing things we never knew existed" mostly about well known things most of us no about, and " 1 Hit wonders" containing many singers and groups who'd had multiple hit record's" Now we have, " Unseen unaired pilot TV shows" containing well known TV series's. Might as well throw in Bonanza and Happy Day's as well lol
The hell is Branded doing mixed in with these shows? It's a classic. Really Crossroads Avenger is about the only one I'd even remotely call "strange" here, due to it being a failed Tom Keene vehicle, and the fact that Ed Wood directed it.
I remember Branded staring Chuck Conner's he alway carried the broken sabre as a reminder and a close in weapon, it came before he stared in the rifleman and the Batgirl character was added to the regular Batman series. As for the other two I have no clue.
As noted, a Ryan X-13. It was interesting because it was designed to test vertical take-off and landing. The trailer could raise it to vertical, and it could take off and then land on the trailer again (or another flat surface).
During its first season, yes. In season two, it was against not only 'THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW" on CBS, it was also opposite "THE FBI" on ABC. There were plans for a third season {McCord would have settled down as a surveyor in a small town with his grandfather, his girlfriend (a reporter for the local paper), and an orphan girl}, but sponsor Procter & Gamble decided to replace the series with "HEY LANDLORD!" for the fall of 1966.
+gforce4all My brother (rest his soull) used to sing that. I thought he made it up. LoL What do you do when your're stranded without a roll. To prove your a man you must wipe with your hand, to prove your a man.....
Would you believe the person behind "Crossroad Avenger" was Ed "Plan 9 from Outer Space" Wood? That was his attempt to break into television production.
