all great shows nice to see Danny Thomas on here what an awesome human being and think what this show brought about the amazing St Jude's Children's Hospital which has helped millions of sick kids from around the world free of charge for so many years all because he kept the promise he made if he made it big So many great westerns on here
I am 70, now a 'junior-senior'..and my heart warms to revisit these great shows I enjoyed as a youngster. Yes, indeed....time marches on!!! Good Lord, wow...I even remember Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena, and The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports....my Italian granny LOVED boxing shows!!! She'd let me stay up late and watch with her.
Indeed ! In fact, "Have Gun Will Travel" was so popular that CBS ran a radio version (on radio, Palladin was played by John Dehner) which ran from '58 to '60.
good heavens i was born out here in australia in 1949, but i can remember seeing most of these shows before i was even a teenager. some great memories.
Holy crap! Are you telling me there was TPiR before Bob Barker?! Also, this collection is missing The Untouchables. That show guest-starred a load of great actors and quite a few who would later become greats.
That’s the way it was. I know, I was there. Those were better days. I miss them. Back then we wondered what the future would bring. Now I know. And I prefer then to now.
Westerns were popular at this time because Westerns had always been popular fiction in the US mythology of their history. They had been very popular during Saturday matinees in the 30s and 40s and then on radio so the transition to TV was a natural. The majority of these were considered to be 'adult westerns'. I was 9 years old at this time and my Dad's favourite show was Maverick which came on, I think, on Sunday night. James Garner the star was very popular and likeable. He played the part as a loveable rogue and the show became enormously popular. At one time in the first season of 1958 there were 30 westerns across the three main networks all of which were renewed for the coming year. And this was at a time when TV lasted for 48 weeks out of 52. None of this taking a break in the summer time. At the same time there were 30 shows running there was 14 more coming down the pike. The scary thing for me is that I can remember all of these shows and can still sing the theme music!! Sugarfoot, Sugarfoot, easily loping, cattle roping Sugarfoot. don't get me started!
Dick Van Dyke (who is seen in this video as a guest on NBC's "The Perry Como Show") would have his own TV sitcom on CBS a few years later, alongside Mary Tyler Moore.
He actually warmly shook hands with wonderful Nat Cole on national television..man I bet they got hate mail!! This was...what...1958. Brave, hip Perry....
Cynthia Hawkins "man I bet they got hate mail!!" Why? The problems were only if a white woman embraced a black man, e.g., Rosie Clooney on the Nat King Cole show. White folks had this crazy idea about preserving the white race, unlike today's race to erase it.
No, in fact they received far more fan mail than hate mail. Nat Cole was incredibly respected by folks of all shades and ages then. Much of the racial disharmony we created and/or suffered is hyped by media. I had a grandmother who had very little kindness for people who weren't Irish and white...and she adored Nat King Cole...
Considering the controversy and hatred that erupted when Petula Clark held Harry Belafonte's hand briefly at the end of a duet on a national American TV show 10 years later, yes, it was a major gesture for Perry to shake hands with Nat as an equal in 1958. Comments claiming otherwise here are wrong.
Petticoat junction, the macoys,Clint whipped there ass ,wanted dead or alive,rifleman, wagon train,ma and pa kettle,honeymooners Jackie Gleason,then came Bronson
Still watch Rawhide, Alfred Hitchcock,Perry Mason, Cheyenne, Wanted Dead or Alive, Father knows best, The Price is Right, Watt Earth, Tales of Wells Fargo, Maverick, The Rifleman, Have gun will travel, Wagon train, and Gunsmoke. In other words, I keep my channel on Metv.
They recently added In The Heat of The Night to our line up in my opinion still one of the best cops shows ever along with the movie They have a great Saturday western line up
One I was really surprised to NOT see on here unless I missed it was Death Valley Days that ran for 23 years. I wasn't that "hot" on all westerns but I loved Death Valley Days on the assumption that many of the stories were based on real life.
Subtitled "The era in which television executives propagated airwaves with programming aimed towards instilling in viewers a million misconceptions about the Old West."
Im a 62 year old senior person was 2 and 3 when these shows first were aired !! Dont recall any of them but do a bit as they are were in reruns after awhile !
@@JESUSISLORDforever888 I am 65 not 62 . That was two years ago so not 62 anymore and was almost 63 when I wrote that now I just turned 65 ! Born 1956 not 1958 .
@@JESUSISLORDforever888 I was almost 63 so i am no longer 62 . I know what year I was born 1956 ! So what if I did not reca;; The REal Mccoys ! Big deal !
@@JESUSISLORDforever888 Thank you for understanding . Sometimes videos can even be 3 years ago but say its 2 years ago so that s how I got to be 65 now .Its not always acurate to date or year ! Dont know why !
My theory is the reason cowboys became very popular in movies then TV right after WW2 was that people yearned for a simpler time after seeing the technological horrors of the war especially the atomic bomb. They wanted to go back to a relatively modern time without modern 20th Century technology that had all been martialed to the service of war. They saw the Wild West of the 19th Century as a time of a simple life with simple moral values when the majority of people still adhered to traditional religious faith. This carried on onto television in the 1950’s but even those shows towards the end of the 50’s started to invent imaginary gun technology to try to appeal the audience’s interest in technological novelty no one in the 19th Century could have imagined. Also the characters became more psychologically complex beyond being simply all good and all bad. What finally killed off the popularity of rge cowboy genre was James Bond and the spy genre of the 60’s. The audience enbraced imaginary modern technology and the political rivalry of the Cold War super powers because, like me, were growing up with no direct memory of WW2 because the were too young to remember it or born after it. A person 25 years old in 1965 was 5 years old in 1945 when WW2 ended. Even someone 30 years old would not have remembered much if anything of WW2. They wanted to leave the past behind and embrace the future represented by the Space Race. They expected by now we would be living like the Jetsons with whole cities on the moon. That may have happened in a parallel dimension but not this one. We live more in a hellscape like you would see in the Twilight Zone. We now look back at the 50’s as a simpler more wholesome time like people in the 1950’s looked back at the 1880’s. It’s about the same time interval of 70 years from now to the 1950’s and 70 years from the 1950’s to the 1880’s. That’s enough time for most of the previous generation to have died out. Only children of the 1880’s would be alive in the 1950’s and not remember much of the decade of their birth as I barely remember the 1950’s and people are living longer now. There is a cycle of poltical and sociological change that has a periodicity of 70 years. We are seeing that now as the Cold War ended 30 years ago and veterans of WW2, like my father, are all mostly gone. But human nature stays the same so we continue to repeat the patterns of the past though our interpretation of the past is never accurate as we see it through the filter of the present. “This time it’s going to be different.” And it never is.
Sorry, but I have to sound off loud and clear about "This Is Your Life." It was a great show, and folks in my area loved it. The impact of ordinary people on their communities and the good they did for those around them. But, then, it was no longer good enough. Ordinary people's lives were too mundane. So the show became "CELEBRITY This Is Your Life." Only celebs were worthy of TV air time. The show crashed, and deservedly so!!! "Corporate decisions are made by corporate executives." - "Rollerball." Who in 1958/59 could predict that "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Gunsmoke" would become multi generational classics? The scripts were great. I enjoy the reruns even more than I did the originals because I can now see how good the writing really was. But, of all of them, "Cheyenne" was my favorite!
Dear America... I grew up with in the Toronto area.. the big 3 from Buffalo. It is my childhood too. How many shows of this era feature rifles. pistols.. a freaking Derringer,, as KEY components of the heroes character and nature? My country watched.. and your NRA bought congress.
No wife or girlfriend, but he had a son, played by Johnny Crawford who had a brief singing career in the early 1960s. Actually I don't remember if this was his actual biological son, or if he'd been informally adopted.
StephenNu9 , he probably won lots of cases, just not when the defendant had Perry Mason as a lawyer. Lots of lawyers in Los Angeles would have lost to Hamilton Burger. Perry Mason was expensive and the best.
Butter was the "70c spread", later referred to as the "higher-priced spread". These absurd terms were used in Imperial margarine commercials because some kind of national dairy association copyrighted the word "butter" and claimed it could not be used by competing companies, or something like that.
@@hebneh there is a huge difference between the two I found that out 20 years ago I made the mistake of buying cheap margarine for my then girlfriend a southern cook who was cooking lobster tails It is 20 years later still get reminded to get butter not margarine as a given lesson here is never mess around in a southern woman's kitchen Hey she at least cooks her own at home She buys the rock lobster tails on sale ,stores them in the freezer she can buy 3 or 4 nice tails for what one small one costs at Red Lobster They are not that hard to cook but Red Lobster sure doesn't know how to cook them She sent one back and at 32.50 I didn't blame her she asked them did I order prawns or jumbo shrimp ? It was burnt and hard on the outside and frozen on the inside and very small She did pay for we had eaten and tipped the waitress before we left We have not been back nor plan to Butter is made from cream from milk margarine is a cheap vegetable oil product
It premiered as a mid-season replacement (for "TRACKDOWN", which moved to Thursdays, and a short-lived revival of "THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW") on January 9, 1959.
Yes, Charlotte, but it took a while to get there. In fact, the only thing that saved it from cancellation by NBC after its first season was that it was filmed in color.
AND the fact that RCA, NBC's parent company, was its primary sponsor during those first two seasons They used the program to promote the sale of RCA Victor color sets in dealers' showrooms; when it was scheduled on Saturdays at 7:30pm(et) [opposite CBS' "PERRY MASON"], RCA insisted that all of its dealers tune it in on their showroom sets, so that potential customers could see just HOW great the show looked on RCA color sets......
No, it was the host of Death Valley Days, and frequently playing bad guys. :) Before he TRIPLED the National Debt with his insane OFFENSE spending that started the path to the U.S. bankrupting itself. $ TRILLIONS spent although not needed, except to burnish the Military Industrial Complex and those who invested in their stocks.
Aw give it a freakin' rest, man, go to a political site if you wanna rant, the rest of us would like to just share pleasant memories of growing up and the shows we watched..
Reagan was the host of "GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER" (and occasionally starred in the episodes) from 1954 through 1962. Later, he became host of "DEATH VALLEY DAYS" in the mid-1960's, until he became California's governor.
One person of color in this whole compilation. White men ruling the land and ladies who were either sexy, elegant entertainers or housewives. Good lord...
Many of these show's were western's (during this time), why were they western's ? Seriously, why were they western's ? Seem's kind of odd. There were other topic's to produce during this time.
It was just a fad, and this TV season was the high point of popularity. After that they tapered off, over the years. And yes, there were other shows on TV then too.
1958-'59 was "The Year of the Western". There were 25 of them scheduled that season on the three networks- and about half of the episodes of "WALT DISNEY PRESENTS" featured Westerns (in the recurring episodes of "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" and "Texas John Slaughter")- which Walt Disney eventually became disgusted with, because he wanted to produce more of what HE wanted, but ABC kept insisting, "More Westerns!".
Gale Storm had two shows. My Little Margie and the Gale Storm Show where she the entertainment director on a ship costarring Zasu Pitts Who had been a silent star.
We sure have a lot better media these days! I cringe almost every time I watch episodes of these old shows. The audiences were a lot less sophisticated in those days.
There were some gems and some real classics, but a whole lot of shows-that-look-like-other-shows.....kind of like modern TV. One day 50 years in the future you'll be explaining Real Housewives to your grandkids. I know I'm already trying to explain to the 13yo next door that the classic Beavis and Butt-head is like a Tiktok "reaction" video ...but with more plot, and that it's an old-people thing.
