Like many kids, I was addicted to TV. I can remember watching every one of these shows, which is amazing because some of them must have run against each other in the same time period.
Gene Barry's "Burke's Law", produced by Four Star for ABC, began life as a cop show but eventually finished its network run as a spy show called "Amos Burke, Secret Agent". ABC was no doubt trying to cash in on the success of the Bond films, just as NBC was doing with "Get Smart" and "The Man From UNCLE".
Wow! Memories. My grandma watched every one of the westerns you showed, plus Bonanza & Wagon Train. (Not sure when all these series premiered.) My mom loved mystery/crime stuff - Perry Mason was her favorite. Whole family watched Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton & Dean Martin’s variety shows. I watched anything with a hint of sci-fi, action or horror. Jonny Quest, Outer Limits & Man from UNCLE rocked!
I use to stay up at night with my mom just to watch alfred hitchcock , i wish my mom was still alive i still watch bonanza, high chaparrell and all those old programs , keeping my memories of my mom alive,
I had no idea "Jonny Quest" was that highly-rated. This particular episode was written by Joanna Lee, who played the alien woman Tanna in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.
@@agriperma Saw "Munsters Go Home" at the theater a kid. Go to 'England'(Ya' right, filmed in California with British ex-pat actors), Richard Dawson, one of the villains. Apparently studio 'grooming for stardom' new girl ???as Marilyn. Thought TV 2nd Marilyn Pat Priest stunning, way prettier than (1st) Beverly Owen, quit by her own choice.
It's amazing what precision and effort was put into the music for these shows. I love the Kellogg's commercial woven into the Beverly Hillbilly's. The music for Perry Mason is so well orchestrated...you can't hear it without knowing what is coming on next!
Yes, no one mentions the music, they were great. Also what's missing is opening sequence that kind of gives you an idea of the show. Like Bev Hillbillies having a great tune, with showing how he struck oil, or I dream of jeannie, done as a cartoon showing him crashing on an island and finding a bottle. H You don't see that much these days.
@@FredFlix I concur wholeheartedly. Today's synthesizers are fine, but they're no match for the studio orchestras the networks and TV-production companies used to employ.
I may not have the right time frame being I was 5 and 6 at these times. I remember watching Secret Agent Man and Honey West, along with Combat. My favorite cartoons were Johnny Quest and Top Cat.
OOtar I remember ALL of these shows! And I loved them too! Loved the theme songs for all of them! So memorable ❣️I absolutely LOVED Jonny Quest and Top Cat! I know Jonny Quest was first shown during prime time. Top Cat too, if I’m not mistaken.
Jonny Quest was a fun show. By todays standards it was also violent. The thing was, we were smart enough to know it was fantasy. We didn't need "political correctness" to tell us the difference between reality and make believe.
Who told you by today's standards it would be considered violent? Considering all the violence today, and especially gun violence, I'd say it doesn't seem smart enough to know the difference
Combat was good because,as a kid, it didn't need much explaining: They're trying to kill Germans before Germans kill them. Plus it had Vic Morrow who was born to play Sgt. Saunders.
+FredFlix That show had a very good cast, and good writers. I even learned a couple of words in German, Hurry up, move, move faster, and no. Because they used the same words every week lol! I was about 10 or 11 when they cancelled it and I was furious!! To this day I feel a resentment towards jerry van dyke. My other the Car!? They cancelled COMBAT for this!!!
I have most of these shows on dvds, watching 4 straight hours of any of these programs, commercial free, beats watching ANY of the news channels at night...
When I was little, my late father loved Red Skelton, his favorite skits were the bum and the drunk. My late grandfather sat and watched The Virginian every day when he lived with us. Rawhide too.I love Perry Mason.
FredFlix Today, St. Patrick's Day, I talked to a friend our age about a strange period in television called "time of the weird gun". At least four characters in westerns of the time carried a weird gun. Not an ordinary gun but a heavily modified, sawed off, altered death machine, intended to be absolutely lethal. The king was "The Rifleman" Lucas McCain. This was different in that the gun was actually a co star of the show. Sometimes there were episodes that revolved around the gun. It had been lost, stolen or fallen into the wrong hands. Lucas reacted like Samson with a haircut, he was left powerless. The community reacted as if it were a loose nuke and panicked until the gun was recovered. Walking down the street, Lucas would fan the lever action and the rifle would become a machine gun. Actually, someone cocking a rifle in that fashion would shoot themselves in the head. That didn't matter, we bought into it completely. With more than 200 killings over it's run, it was the most violent show ever aired on Network television. As a kid, I remember wondering the isles of the toy section of any department store and seeing toy versions of all the "weird guns" I think this may be the origins of much of today's gun culture.
Few people knew that The Flintstones weren't the ONLY 'Prime Time' cartoon -The Jetsons, Top Cat, Jonny Quest, 'Wait Till Your Father Gets Home' and Where's Huddles? all aired in Prime Time in the late 60's and early 70's. prime time until the 1980's was considered from 7:00 PM till 10:00 PM but shifted to an hour later after that.
The shows I mentioned were part of 'Prime - Time' television in my area but were usually labeled as 'Local Programming' and YES, I generalized, it was about 1977-78. 'Prime - Time' was over when the 10:00 O'Clock News started
50 years ago I was 8 and watching t.v. But in 65 I was 5 and still watching TV but what ever my parents or grandparents wanted. I remember these shows.
I must've spent a lot of time in front of the TV that year. i remember all of these shows quite well! Interestingly, I think this is the first time that I saw the opening to The Wonderful World of Color...in color.
Thanks for putting this together. Did you get these rankings from 1 particular week, or are these ranked by your own preference? From what I remember BONANZA was #1 for the season, and BEWITCHED had its best seasonal ranking at #2. THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES may have started down at #19 in a new timeslot, but it worked its way back up to #12 by season's end.
+FredFlix...I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this('60 baby but, I developed, mentally, early-surprisingly, from congenital hydrocephalus.) I remember many of these, from first run-the ones my parents watched, anyway. 'Can't wait, to resume watching, later, this morning! Thank-you!
I'm trying with my channel to avoid the stuff that is usually found on RU-vid, the "same old" themes and shows that seasoned RU-vidrs have been watching for 10 years. Not that I don't appreciate The Outer Limits theme. But I usually just use portions or alternate versions or promos in order to give this channel a fresh approach.
I used to futz with the controls just to make sure they were wrong. They might have been controlling somebody's television, but it dang sure wasn't mine.
Jim Klipper Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I was alone in the front room when the first episode came on I can still remember that moment with clarity!
Great shows. I watched The Man From Uncle every week.I was into the early spy craze on tv and in movies big time. and I looked forward every week to friday night to watch Johnny Quest and The Addams Family..I like The Munsters as well,but even as a13 year old kid,I had a bent entertanment apprication..I rounded out my friday night by watching the horror movie on local channel 8 at 11:30 pm or so. Great times.
Our local horror show came on Satudays at 11 p.m. On Fridays in 1966-67, in addition to Green Hornet, Wild Wild West, Man from UNCLE and Time Tunnel, the local station showed The Sons of Hercules. What a night!
They are all Great Shows ,Thank You! I Remember The DISNEY Channel USED to put Classic Shows on ! NOW there is NOTHING! complete! GARBAGE! With all the money and power they have they can't even have a Classic Disney Channel!! QUITE SAD!
yea, I remember when they used to show ZORRO and THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (with it's various titles-WALT DISNEY PRESENTS, DISNEYS WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR etc)
Thanks to the the Gods Of DVD/ Blu Ray, I'm able to snag any of the old Tv Shows I Love and want Off Amazon without Breaking neither my balls or my bank account.
@joe Domjan Different wife 'Phoebe'( Morticia clone, VERY sexy}, different makeup on Herman, 'Happy', weird---just growled, color, just 15 minute pilot. On net check it out.
Wish I'd paid more attention to the Defenders when it was on,though it was probably too ''adult'' for me back then.After all,I was just 11,same age as Jonny Quest!
And I always thought he was 10, my age at the time. Wishful thinking? Maybe. Maybe not. His age was never revealed in the series. But here's a quote from Doug Wildey: "Well, Jonny himself was supposed to be ten. Everybody claims he was eleven. I don't know where that came from. I just figured a ten-year-old kid. Well, eleven's close enough."
Trying to remember where I read he was 11,probably TV Guide's news section back in the day,though most of that stuff came from press releases that were subject to change.I also recall articles which had Jay North cast as Jace on "Space Ghost" and the Banana Splits referred to as the Banana Bunch,which we know didn't happen.
What I remember most about those years was the fact that our small hometown area had finally picked up a fulltime ABC affiliate,after years of having only 2 channels.Try telling that to a kid today,they'd never believe it!As a cartoon fan,I was probably more sensitive to any animation related articles. By the way,great channel,where do you find this stuff?
I have a working time tunnel. Our town, too, had only two channels, CBS and ABC. We finally got NBC in the fall of 1962. Yeah kids today can't believe how primitive it was, but I know you feel as I do: We were so lucky to be alive during that time.
I didn't see the man from UNCLE, I watched other shows. I do remember watching Johnny Quest and some of the other cartoons of that time. I was born in 1962 so some of the shows that you have on the video I can remember and some I can't. It wasn't until the middle 60's and 70's that I can remember a lot more TV shows. But the videos do bring back some good memories of the time.
what about McHale,s Navy ,the Donna Reed show ,My Three sons, Ozzie & Harriet,American bandstand.Also Shindig The Jetsons and Hullabaloo, Danny Kaye Show , Many Happy Returns .How could you forget these TV shows!!!
Laura Petrie abandoned her husband Rob , and son Richie in New Rochelle ,moved to Minneapolis ,changed her name to Mary Richards, and gained employment at a TV station in the Twin Cities.....
I was such a TV addict in my youth. Every one of these themes was completely familiar, and I recalled the words (OK, not Perry Mason, The Defenders, or The Fugitive). Strange that I haven't watched TV since 1988. My family just tuned it out. It certainly freed up lots of time to do other things.
I grew up on these. You know, the unspoken assumption behind all these shows was that life was good and safety and prosperity was a given.. No wonder we look back with such nostalgia.
I remember the first airing on The Outer Limits was The Galaxy Being. Scared the pants off out of me! My dad had a friend that worked at a AM radio station called KTKT Rocknroll. I BEGGED my dad to call the station to make sure the "Being" couldn't get thru the radio signal! Lol! Can't find Outer Limits anymore on syndication. 😕
Although I am a Texan by birth, I lived in Tucson in the 1960's (Dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan). KTKT was THE station I listened to; it also helped that the music store I took lessons from had the weekly "KTKT Top 99" list available. "K-T, KT, Channel 99". Great memories!
Well chosen, Fred. I also liked "12 O'Clock High" with Robert Lansing. And "Slattery's People" with Richard Crenna, from the makers of "Ben Casey". And "For the People" with William Shatner as an Assistant D.A. in New York City, from the makers of "The Defenders". And "Peyton Place" with Ryan O'Neal, Mia Farrow, and many others.
Angelo Santaniello, I too wonder if the details of Chuck’s branded a coward. The details of the reason were later revealed much later in the series. He was protecting his commanding officers foolish mistakes that led to a massacre of his troops.
These are not the top 25 according to Nielsen ratings for 1964-65. Bonanza was no.1 followed by Bewitched and Gomer Pyle. Other top 10 shows included Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, The Lucy Show, Peyton Place II, Ben Casey, and The Fugitive.
Loved Combat! and, in fact, sent off for some b&w glossies of the show; have one of Vic Morrow as Sgt. Chip Saunders and a group shot of the entire crew. Also liked Disney’s, Wonderful World of Color but only saw it in black & white on our tiny Motorola set (we didn’t get a color TV until the summer of ‘71. Loved The Fugitive too and saw the series finale in the summer of ‘68. Thanks for the memories!
I love these time capsules! I notice that Westerns are coming back, at least on some streaming stations. They all but dissapeared for a while. BTW, the voice of Johnny in Johnny Quest was a young Tim Matheson, later in Animal House and Fletch!
Hold on there! Now I worshipped Johnny Quest as a kid, and to this day I believe it's the best cartoon ever created for TV, but there is no way a Saturday morning cartoon ranks higher than a prime time hit like the Beverly Hillbillies in 1964-65. Where do you get your information?
Not a bad year to watch TV...I'd forgotten that Jonny Quest started airing in primetime...and I didn't know that Tim Matheson (Otter from 'Animal House') voiced Jonny - a good excuse to reacquaint myself with the series...I should revisit both Burke's Law and The Virginian too. I was more of a Ben Casey fan, but Dr. Kildare wasn't too hard to watch. Keep up the fine work, Fred!
Thanks, Mark. Jonny Quest, to me, remains the best TV cartoon ever made. And Burke's Law is probably the best show to watch if you like guest stars. The producers went out of their way to cast known actors (and some unknown until later) in almost every speaking role on each show. I like Killdare better than Casey, but they're both pretty close in quality.
Those were the days when Quinn Martin and Irwin Allen ruled Hollywood. At least it seemed like every show was either "A QuinnMartin Production" or "Irwin Allen presents..."
My ranking of 15 : #01 Outer Limits #02 Twillight Zone #03 The Invaders #04 The Time Tunnel #05 Lost in Space #06 Voyager to the Botton of the Sea #07 Have gun - Will travel #08 Cimarron Strep #09 The Patty Duke Show #10 Jonny Quest #11 Thunderbyrds are go #12 Stingray #13 The Beverly Hillbillies #14 Combat #15 Comedy Capers From # 2 to # 15 , I don't care much about the positons,but #1 must be Outer Limits.Here in Brasil those series were amongst those we had at the time.
I didn't know Frontiere did the Branded theme. I suspect he did a great deal, but for the time being all I know is he did the theme for The Invaders, which has to be one of the creepiest themes ever.
This is the Nielsen Top 25 for that season 1. BONANZA 2. BEWITCHED 3. GOMER PYLE, U.S.M.C. 4.THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW 5. THE FUGITIVE 6. THE RED SKELTON HOUR 7. THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW 8. THE LUCY SHOW 9. PEYTON PLACE (Thursday) 10. COMBAT! 11. WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR 12. THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES 13. MY THREE SONS 14. BRANDED 15. PETTICOAT JUNCTION 16. THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW 17. LASSIE 18. THE MUNSTERS 19. GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. 20. PEYTON PLACE (Tuesday) 21.JACKIE GLEASON AND HIS AMERICAN SCENE MAGAZINE 22. THE VIRGINIAN 23. THE ADDAMS FAMILY 24. MY FAVORITE MARTIAN 25. FLIPPER
I was between 7 and 8 and I remember fighting over the T.V. Guide so we could circle our favorite shows like it made any difference since my sister was the eldest. Our parents anyway claimed possession of the only b&w tv after seven. All the kid shows before 7 or Saturday. We were allowed to watch the adult shows until 8 then good night.. What memories, to be a kid again.
For some reason, watching your content always makes me think of other shows! Most Ill-conceived Sequel: Tabitha. (Bewitched is still on the air, in the 70s, with adorable little girl Tabitha. So, of COURSE they attempt a sequel about Tabitha all grown up, as a newscaster. Wearing 70s clothing!!!) Best Sequels: Lou Grant. (Network took a popular supporting character from the comedy Mary Tyler Moore Show & created a drama about Lou Grant as an editor at a major newspaper. The show examined issues of the day -- my favorite episodes were the one with the captured Nazi war criminal proudly defending what he did, the one examining Native American protests demanding their rights; & the one where the owners beloved little dog was stolen & used for bait in a dogfighting ring. The show featured a cast of likeable characters, & I still remember some names: Miss Pynchon, the owner; & Animal, the photographer.) Fernwood Tonight: (The Fox Network rescued the comedy Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman by changing format to a fictional talk show set in the fictional town of Fernwood, home of Mary Hartman.) Does anyone remember the programming misfire-- on NBC, I think-- of a news program comedy about the Vietnam War? I think it lasted maybe 2 episodes because the timing was just horrendous-- emotions from the war were still so heightened & raw! The creators were probably trying to cash in on the success of M*A*S*H without understanding that shows genius: everyone UNDERSTOOD it was really antiwar & about the war in Vietnam, but it was set in an EARLIER conflict precisely to AVOID offending people!
Yeah....." The Fugitive" WAS the BOMB !! ONE of the MOST iconic openings in TV HISTORY !! .....".The name....Dr. Richard Kimball...... destination... death row state prison....the irony..... Richard Kimball is innocent" !!😂😂😂👍👍
Right at the top, you have "The Vulcan Affair," the UNCLE episode with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. However, no one seems to have noticed that the guy firing the gun at the silhouette played the 20th-century Air Force security guard in the Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday." "The Vulcan Affair" is awash with Trekkiness.
as usual GREAT job! But where'd you get that opening of THE MUNSTERS from? Is it an original film that you got from the studio? Because I know that the show was filmed in color but shown in black and white.
