What a flashback ! I was a JR. in high school. I remember so many of these shows. It sure was a time of westerns. Loved "Surfside Six". Wouldn't miss "Thriller" !
My husband and I went to Warner Bros back in the early sixties and watched them film Bronco Lane, Surfside Six, Cheyenne, Hawaiian Eye, and I think 77 Sunset Strip. Met Ty Hardin and et me just say he was every bit as good looking as he looked on tv.
I just bumped into this. Amazing to watch. I was a teenager in 1962. I’m surprised that color television wasn’t around yet. I also remember how pixelated tv was back then. Most ads were for laundry detergent and cleaning supplies, much better than the infinite drug ads of today. My generation was at the leading edge of the women’s movement. These shows demonstrate how far we’ve come. Women were just auxiliaries on tv and in life.
@@gordon3186 I watch ME TV...and H & I channels..I haven't watched ANYTHING on any mainstream channel...in well over 15 years.. And Yes, I do watch youtube..!
Geeze... I actually remember these shows, when they were on tv. I was 6 years old, and can remember watching Cheyenne and the Rifleman and Ben Casey. I loved the opening scene from the Rifeman and I still do. Oh my, so many wonderful shows, Pete and Gladys, To Tell The Truth, Price is Right with Bill Cullen, and the rest, were shows we looked forward to every week.
My earliest memories were probably formed about 1974/1975. They showed lots of re-runs on TV but I I don't think I ever remember seeing even half of the shows in this video. Nowadays of course, they show a lot of shows like these on the retro over the air free TV channels, which is cool.
Every time I watch obscure TV programs like this I think of the performers who worked hard to get their big break, and achieved a starring or co-starring role on a series - only for it to go off the air after only one year. And that was the high point of their career.
Wow, thanks so much! I was 11 when these shows were on, and we lived in Arlington Heights, IL. Our tv I think was a Crosley with a "healthful halo of light" around the screen1
Well, it wasn't continuous. The original, as seen here, went off prime time at some point, then it came back in daytime in 1972...and that version is what's still going. Impressive either way, though.
LOLOLOL I remember Thriller...I would go to bed with all the lights on in my bedroom after watching it ...and I would keep the light on in my bedroom closet and the door open..lol
As a kid growing up the 1960s I loved all the great TV westerns like "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza" and "The Rifleman." Did you ever notice (after season 2) that the characters on Bonanza always wore the same outfits? They did that so the stuntmen would always have on the right outfit. It saved a lot of time. I think "Alias Smith and Jones" was the last gasp of the great TV westerns.
great video. here in the uk, i can remember most of those shows. 1962 was the year i left school age 15 to start my first job. here, coronation street was in it's 3rd year. other shows i watched from the usa was wagon train, rawhide, tenderfoot, gunslinger, laramie, and loads more
Cheyenne was my absolute favorite followed very closely by The Andy Griffith Show. We could only watch one show a night so we chose our viewing carefully.
That Ben Casey opening with the dark shadows and bright lights and all the weird camera angles looked like a scary beginning of a Twilight Zone episode.
They were trying to show what going into a hospital looks like from the patient's point of view. 17 or so years later, M*A*S*H did a whole episode that way. Still a bit disconcerting though.
I'm such a huge van of Vintage Television! I wish there was a big book with every TV schedule, Morning, Noon and Night for each network for every year from the 1940s to today!
+groovy " The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows "Covers from 1946 on, schedules, plot summaries, story lines, cast members, etc. Big paperback; probably 700+ pages. Now out of print I think, last edition was 2008. Does not cover daytime programming but enough interesting information to keep you busy for a week.
+groovy You probably won't find any book like that now, but back in the 80s there was one called The TV Schedule Book by Harry Castleman and Walter Podrazik. With luck, you might find a copy of it stored on the shelves of seem decent library in the TV/film/media section. It has all the full daytime, prime time and late night line-up charts from the mid-40s to the early 80s. Not many changes worth noting happened in daytime on the networks after the mid-80s anyway. Or you can buy a copy from Amazon, it'll probably cost you at least double or more the original cover price as a collector's item.
Shows my memory isn't what it used to be. I remembered National Velvet being associated with Sunday evening TV viewing. I do remember regularly watching all those shows you have listed.
Thriller, surely you can't be serious. I am serious and don't call me Shirley. I know it's been a few years, but RIP Leslie, you are definitely missed.
It was a joyous day for network executives when they discovered they could make an even faster buck off low-cost reality programming. The opening introduction to the TV soaper Ben Casey, with the 'man, woman, birth, death, infinity' business performed by Sam Jaffe, is, infinitely better than anything conceptualized since reality programming befell us.
Johnny Carson as a panelist on To Tell The Truth before replacing Jack Paar as host on the The Tonight Show in October of this year. I turned 6 years old in March of this year and remember many of these shows.
Pete & Gladys was a spin off from December Bride with Spring Byington. Pete was a neighbor and always was bad mouthing his wife Gladys, whom no one ever saw! Then they made the TV show, and Gladys took on a form.
You're right! And "police order" obviously means trained to shoot to kill and not shoot to wound upon "perception of threat". So, I guess with the inability to have police forces comprised of neighborly citizens, it's no wonder DHS ordered those millions on millions of hollowpoint rounds. That'll keep the cattle in the pen.
I was 12 in the spring of 1962. I certainly remember them all, but did not watch all on a regular basis. Certainly never missed, Rifleman, Cheyenne, and Andy Griffith. It was great TV. So different from today. I doubt the Ben Casey "Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity" opening would be allowed today using the cross for death though. Or a series called "The Rifleman".
Some of these shows I still remember, which is pretty amazing, given that 52 years has passed. Others I don't remember, probably because I never saw them. Of course, Andy Griffith is easy to remember, given that here in Chicago, his show has been countlessly rerun.
But, as evidenced by NBC here it was not Universal... - there's a couple of other videos from this "channel" that Highlight it as well... I think it was late 70s/Early 80s where all 3 (now 5) settled in to 8/7c as the start of Prime Time any idea if 8/7c vs 730/630c was a 'Gentlemen's Agreement" among the Networks or more a 'water finding it's level' situation also seeing a lot of these that show the current 'Templates' of 3 One Hour shows or 4 Half Hours and a One Hour being late 70s 'invention'/adoption as you see almost never see the 6 Half Hours or a Half Hour show (like Rifleman) sandwiched between two 1 Hour shows
Some shows I remember watching, others I just remember the name, others I never heard of. No VCRs so unless one clicked the dial a lot, well, you didn't. The channel tuner wasn't built for that. And one would have to get up and down a lot if channels were changed. So one watched what the grownups watched. And the extra half hour--now filled with the Wheel of Fortune and such. And character actors who actually had co-starring roles in a series at one time, instead of a part here or there.
I was very young back then , the only one I can remember was Rifle man - Chuck Conners .. He did an ad for a kids shooting game which I got , maybe that's why I remember . He did a show called Branded to , which must have been after this as I remember Branded more .
There's no question in my mind,that TV in 1962 was far,far better,then it is now in 2012! so to even compare these 50 years of Primetime,is like watching a Cancer advancing in its terminal stage,,free TV is gone,,networks today are corporately owned,and TV right now,just stinks! ABC's recent canceling of "LAST RESORT" was the last straw! but 50 years ago on that network,you had "COMBAT!","THE JETSONS","McHALE"S NAVY" and "STONEY BURKE"-now that was Great TV,,better then the crap running now!
The ABC Schedule on Monday nights for the 1961-1962 season consisted of Westerns and dramas. 7:30-The Cheyenne/Bronco Show 8:30-The Rifleman 9:00-Surfside Six 10:00-Ben Casey
Remember previously "Cheyenne Show" also included Will Hutchins as "Sugarfoot" in the alternating lineup. In the 1961 lineup, they even had all 3 in the same episode: which showed Cheyenne knock Bronco to the ground! 😮
what a great time capsule like video. we used to love to watch 'thriller' bought back alot of memories. we used to as mom 'hey mom are all of the black ppl in tvland dead' LOL!!
That opening of THE PRICE IS RIGHT was from an episode aired in the summer of 1963...at this time the show's sponsors were Lorillard Tobacco (Newport cigarettes) and American Home Products, especially their Whitehall Laboratories division (makers of Anacin and Dristan)
I always wanted to watch "The Thriller" and on the rarest of occasions my mother allowed me to. Great and scarey show....at least through the eyes of a ten year old
For you young folks that happened to find this video, observe closely. This is in a way a chronicle of the last days of the great country once known as America.
No, it's nothing of the kind. These were not documentaries. These shows were HOLLYWOOD's version of life at the time, and they had very little to do with what was really going on. Nostalgia is wonderful, but let's not mistake entertainment for facts.
Cliff, like over here in Europe, only worse, as we have to deal with Africans and Arabs. In 20 years Europe is another Shithole. Europe was like the US in the 50s and 60s.
@Cliff Yablonski I can't speak for Mexico,but if y'all didn't want Africa in your neighborhood,ya shoulda left us alone on our own continent,so deal with it! I'm guessing you're Polish,who weren't/aren't welcome in some parts here as well,so don't get TOO comfy with your lot. Have a nice day. Signed, AFRICAN-AMERICAN GAL BORN IN 1962
M Morris, "y'all" Are you kidding? Not all are brainwashed libtards over here. Yes, it is the majority and they are to blame and the desease called "political correctness" that came from the other side of the pond and started with the opportunistic ****** named Kennedy.
I remember all of the shows. Ron Hayes ( Everglades) Robert Lansing, (Twelve O' Clock High,87th Precinct & the old sci-fi movie from the late 50's ( The 4-D Man ) 4th dimension. Both underated as were many others in their acting abilities.
The CBS schedule was the most successful that season, with Danny Thomas and Andy Griffith in the overall "Top Ten" Nielsen ratings (incidentally, General Foods was the primary sponsor of Thomas and Griffith, and co-sponsor of "HENNESEY"- Lorillard's Kent cigarettes was their "alternate sponsor").
The CBS Schedule on Monday Nights for the 1961-1962 season were mostly game shows and situation comedies. 7:30-To Tell The Truth-[game show] 8:00-Pete and Gladys-[produced by Desi Arnaz for Desilu Productions] 8:30-Father Knows Best-[Robert Young] 9:00-The Danny Thomas Show-aka Make Room For Daddy 9:30-The Andy Griffith Show 10:00-Hennessey 10:30- I've Got A Secret-[game show]
Back then there was something worth watching every night. Now most nights I don't even turn on the tv because there are too many stupid reality shows. NO interest in watching zombies ( I watched Romero film Night of the Living Dead ), Breaking Bad or other claptrap. I watch Elementary and NCIS. That and sports and not much else. I watched most of the stuff in this video when it was new and I was a lot younger. sigh.
Lee Patterson went on to soap opera, One Life to Live, married to Vicki. And Russell Johnson was supposed to be Ben Casey, but that grump got the part. Russell would have made a much nicer Ben Casey.
Then it wouldn't haven't been too different than DR. KILDARE, which also premiered that season. Trivia: Richard Chamberlain was the first choice for that role--but he was under contract for something else, so they cast James Franciscus in the part. However, he didn't work out and was let go. And, it turns out, Chamberlain's contract expired 17 days after he was originally offered the part, so he was able to take it then. Plus, the producers of KILDARE made Franciscus the star of MR. NOVAK.
The "Big A" was replaced by the "ABC Circle" later in 1962, while the "NBC snake" was replaced by the "Trapezoid N" on New Year's Day of 1976. The "CBS Eye" is still in use today. Harry went on to "Dragnet" (1967-70) and "M*A*S*H" (1975-83), among other things, and as of October 10, 2011, he is still living, as is Don Pardo.
However, "PETE AND GLADYS", repeats of "FATHER KNOWS BEST" (replacing Robert Young's new series, "WINDOW ON MAIN STREET", which moved to Wednesday nights, after "THE ALVIN SHOW", in mid-season), and "HENNESEY" were cancelled at the end of the season {"FKB" repeats moved to ABC's early Sunday night schedule that fall, as well as daytime}. NBC's prime-time line-up- except for "THE PRICE IS RIGHT"- was "torn down", and "rebuilt" the following season. ABC only dropped "SURFSIDE 6"...
And this is past the peak of the Western...in the 1958 season there were nearly 30 of them on the three networks, and made up seven of the top 10 most popular TV shows.
It's very difficult to reconstruct lineups prior to 1955 as the number of available show intros of that period are far fewer, which would result in too many gaps. Shows that aired on Du Mont especially are even scarcer, as most of what it aired was later destroyed. So far, I've managed to come across less than two dozen Du Mont intros. The best I'd be able to do with that network is compile them all into a single video, but maybe after I come across another half-dozen or more. Things always keep popping up, so you never know.
+inkey2 Really? Why is that? I was in Catholic HS in the late 1960s, an education that saved me from the some of the worst teachers, administrators and students in my region, a low-income junior and senior high where "poor" whites were sent to vegetate.
+joesphx19 "why is that" you say....you would have to ask the nuns at Sacred Heart School in the suburbs of Boston in 1960. Physical punishment & the threat of physical punishment was constant...and for the most minor infractions. I saw students get slapped so hard they fell off their seats and on to the floor. I was told that my protestant mother could never enter the gates of heaven. I remember one girl in the first grade had a cast on her arm. The nun screamed at her.....sit down before I break your other arm. One day a nun found a large fresh, red apple in the trash barrel. Three entire grades, that's 150+ students had to stay after every day until someone confessed....this went on for 2 weeks. I could tell you much more but it would involve writing the equivalent of a 200 page book.
No where near as bad as the public middle school I went to for two years. The high school was just across the street and the thugs would come over to our school to raid the kids not fast enough to make it from the bus to the buildings. Not only would they steal our lunch money, some unlucky kid always got beat up. You would think walking into homeroom first thing in the am with a bloody mouth and torn clothes would be a tipoff..... Then there was the poor retarded kid that they tried to mainstream into our school, he was teased mercilessly. What was a specialty of these rodents was to follow him around the school yard before morning bell. and point him towards a girl, "She loves you Charley, go kiss her!" What followed poor Charley was hundreds of hellions, deciding on what next to do. Then there was the time that Craig M. lit the kid's hair on fire sitting in front of him in the 300 plus TV science class. He was handcuffed and led out of the Dean of Discipline's office by two policemen. We didn't see Craig for the rest of the year. These are just the "fun" stories. The rest I forgot after years of therapy and scotch.
+joesphx19 yes, but "our thugs" in the catholic schools were the ones who were supposed to be protecting us....the nuns. I can understand kids being thugs
Ha! The Price is Right. Whatever happened to THAT show? And the guy who hosted it looked a lot like this comic who used to have his own sitcom named Drew Carey before he changed his image and got cool.
That was back when the quality of the program was more important than the leftist propaganda. Couldn't have a line-up like that today. None of those shows have a single openly gay character.
Armand Rodriguez The really sad aspect of these family-oriented programs was that kids my age (born in 1952) really believed these characters and situations were reality. We couldn't understand why real family life didn't fit the mold. And when we'd attempt to emulate any given show or character, we'd get slammed by the adults. It was often a very confused period if one was too young to grasp the fiction of it all.
I still enjoy watching Thriller.
When I Retire I'm Gonna Get All the Great 1960s Shows and Be a Kid Again.
What a flashback ! I was a JR. in high school. I remember so many of these shows. It sure was a time of westerns. Loved "Surfside Six". Wouldn't miss "Thriller" !
Sweet remeniscence. Those of you who agree, raise your hand.
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Thanks for the look back.
I am so glad I grew up during this era of TV. : )
My husband and I went to Warner Bros back in the early sixties and watched them film Bronco Lane, Surfside Six, Cheyenne, Hawaiian Eye, and I think 77 Sunset Strip. Met Ty Hardin and et me just say he was every bit as good looking as he looked on tv.
There was a certain kind of magic in television between 1955 & 1965
I just bumped into this. Amazing to watch. I was a teenager in 1962. I’m surprised that color television wasn’t around yet. I also remember how pixelated tv was back then. Most ads were for laundry detergent and cleaning supplies, much better than the infinite drug ads of today. My generation was at the leading edge of the women’s movement. These shows demonstrate how far we’ve come. Women were just auxiliaries on tv and in life.
I was a kid in the 60s I was 6 years old in 1962 loved the 60s !! 60s music tv shows movies and it was a fun time !!
If only the retro t.v. stations would show more of these old time retro programs.
That was awesome. My earliest recollection of TV was around 1964. Good job!
Vintage TV...is LIGHT YEARS better than what they have on television today...!
THAT'S BULLXHIT !
@@jahudgens5344 JA...YOU think that because..you're just not smart enough....to understand it.. FACT..
@@Rowlandph -- Then watch RUclips and not today's television.
@@gordon3186 I watch ME TV...and H & I channels..I haven't watched ANYTHING on any mainstream channel...in well over 15 years.. And Yes, I do watch youtube..!
Geeze... I actually remember these shows, when they were on tv. I was 6 years old, and can remember watching Cheyenne and the Rifleman and Ben Casey. I loved the opening scene from the Rifeman and I still do. Oh my, so many wonderful shows, Pete and Gladys, To Tell The Truth, Price is Right with Bill Cullen, and the rest, were shows we looked forward to every week.
I was12years old and laying on the floor in folks front room watch
ing it all good times my folks are long gone now😎✌👍
Awesome shows, could never remake them, nor replace their fabulous actors
I remember all those shows I was going on 16 then. Thanks
My earliest memories were probably formed about 1974/1975. They showed lots of re-runs on TV but I I don't think I ever remember seeing even half of the shows in this video. Nowadays of course, they show a lot of shows like these on the retro over the air free TV channels, which is cool.
Every time I watch obscure TV programs like this I think of the performers who worked hard to get their big break, and achieved a starring or co-starring role on a series - only for it to go off the air after only one year. And that was the high point of their career.
Wow, thanks so much! I was 11 when these shows were on, and we lived in Arlington Heights, IL. Our tv I think was a Crosley with a "healthful halo of light" around the screen1
Good memories from one born in 1952, trust me we had it good in the burbs of Orange County, California.
The writers came out of old Hollywood and knew their craft. The difference between then and now is self evident.
In the Spring of '62 I was in the first grade, but I still remember a lot of those shows. But most of them were past my bedtime.
58 years later and the Price Is Right Is Still On The Air!
Well, it wasn't continuous. The original, as seen here, went off prime time at some point, then it came back in daytime in 1972...and that version is what's still going. Impressive either way, though.
Thank you, wonderful memories!
LOLOLOL I remember Thriller...I would go to bed with all the lights on in my bedroom after watching it ...and I would keep the light on in my bedroom closet and the door open..lol
As a kid growing up the 1960s I loved all the great TV westerns like "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza" and "The Rifleman." Did you ever notice (after season 2) that the characters on Bonanza always wore the same outfits? They did that so the stuntmen would always have on the right outfit. It saved a lot of time. I think "Alias Smith and Jones" was the last gasp of the great TV westerns.
great video. here in the uk, i can remember most of those shows. 1962 was the year i left school age 15 to start my first job. here, coronation street was in it's 3rd year. other shows i watched from the usa was wagon train, rawhide, tenderfoot, gunslinger, laramie, and loads more
Cheyenne was my absolute favorite followed very closely by The Andy Griffith Show. We could only watch one show a night so we chose our viewing carefully.
That Ben Casey opening with the dark shadows and bright lights and all the weird camera angles looked like a scary beginning of a Twilight Zone episode.
And then there was Dr. Zorba!
They were trying to show what going into a hospital looks like from the patient's point of view. 17 or so years later, M*A*S*H did a whole episode that way. Still a bit disconcerting though.
P.S. , remember when the TV's had big cabinets with small screens, rabbit ear antennas & tubes & no remotes.
I'm such a huge van of Vintage Television! I wish there was a big book with every TV schedule, Morning, Noon and Night for each network for every year from the 1940s to today!
+groovy " The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows "Covers from 1946 on, schedules, plot summaries, story lines, cast members, etc. Big paperback; probably 700+ pages. Now out of print I think, last edition was 2008. Does not cover daytime programming but enough interesting information to keep you busy for a week.
curiouscharacter1 But it doesn't have Daytime TV.
+groovy
You probably won't find any book like that now, but back in the 80s there was one called The TV Schedule Book by Harry Castleman and Walter Podrazik. With luck, you might find a copy of it stored on the shelves of seem decent library in the TV/film/media section. It has all the full daytime, prime time and late night line-up charts from the mid-40s to the early 80s. Not many changes worth noting happened in daytime on the networks after the mid-80s anyway. Or you can buy a copy from Amazon, it'll probably cost you at least double or more the original cover price as a collector's item.
Wikipedia has full network schedules as well...
all good shows!
Boy does time go by!
That was great. Love the memories...
Well, the Rifleman and Andy Griffith show, stood the test of time.
Shows my memory isn't what it used to be. I remembered National Velvet being associated with Sunday evening TV viewing. I do remember regularly watching all those shows you have listed.
I remember this lineup like it was yesterday
Thriller, surely you can't be serious. I am serious and don't call me Shirley. I know it's been a few years, but RIP Leslie, you are definitely missed.
It was a joyous day for network executives when they discovered they could make an even faster buck off low-cost reality programming. The opening introduction to the TV soaper Ben Casey, with the 'man, woman, birth, death, infinity' business performed by Sam Jaffe, is, infinitely better than anything conceptualized since reality programming befell us.
It was basically a prime time version of several hospital based daytime soaps.
this is great, thanks!
'The Rifleman' is on MeTV.
Interesting how we were so fascinated with westerns in the 50’s and 60’s...
Johnny Carson as a panelist on To Tell The Truth before replacing Jack Paar as host on the The Tonight Show in October of this year. I turned 6 years old in March of this year and remember many of these shows.
Nothing worse than being on a hospital gurney looking at the ceiling. Dramatic theme music to Ben Casey.
Pete & Gladys was a spin off from December Bride with Spring Byington. Pete was a neighbor and always was bad mouthing his wife Gladys, whom no one ever saw! Then they made the TV show, and Gladys took on a form.
great panel on "to tell the truth"
As soon as I saw those irregular lines on the ''Thriller'' intro, I could hear my Mother's voice, saying ''Don't you have homework to do?''
I looked at the "New Price is Right" at 7:25 with Bill Cullen, and I thought he looks like a modern Drew Carey.
That Rifleman intro is more intense now than it was half a century ago!
You're right! And "police order" obviously means trained to shoot to kill and not shoot to wound upon "perception of threat". So, I guess with the inability to have police forces comprised of neighborly citizens, it's no wonder DHS ordered those millions on millions of hollowpoint rounds. That'll keep the cattle in the pen.
My father disparagingly called Clint Walker "Mushmouth" because of the way he talked on "Cheyenne".
I was 12 in the spring of 1962. I certainly remember them all, but did not watch all on a regular basis. Certainly never missed, Rifleman, Cheyenne, and Andy Griffith. It was great TV. So different from today. I doubt the Ben Casey "Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity" opening would be allowed today using the cross for death though. Or a series called "The Rifleman".
That means you were born in 1949 or 1950--older than I am, but I'm not telling. LOLOLOLOL.
@@Juliaflo 1950. Proud to say. Please feel free to tell anyone.
Ah for the days when no man would ever consider shaving his chest!
Some of these shows I still remember, which is pretty amazing, given that 52 years has passed. Others I don't remember, probably because I never saw them. Of course, Andy Griffith is easy to remember, given that here in Chicago, his show has been countlessly rerun.
Note that Primetime started at 7. 30 back then.
But, as evidenced by NBC here it was not Universal...
- there's a couple of other videos from this "channel" that Highlight it as well... I think it was late 70s/Early 80s where all 3 (now 5) settled in to 8/7c as the start of Prime Time
any idea if 8/7c vs 730/630c was a 'Gentlemen's Agreement" among the Networks or more a 'water finding it's level' situation
also seeing a lot of these that show the current 'Templates' of
3 One Hour shows or
4 Half Hours and a One Hour
being late 70s 'invention'/adoption as you see almost never see the 6 Half Hours or a Half Hour show (like Rifleman) sandwiched between two 1 Hour shows
I would have watched the western shows on ABC, Danny Thomas & Andy Griffith on CBS and then Thriller on NBC.
Some shows I remember watching, others I just remember the name, others I never heard of. No VCRs so unless one clicked the dial a lot, well, you didn't. The channel tuner wasn't built for that. And one would have to get up and down a lot if channels were changed. So one watched what the grownups watched.
And the extra half hour--now filled with the Wheel of Fortune and such. And character actors who actually had co-starring roles in a series at one time, instead of a part here or there.
I was very young back then , the only one I can remember was Rifle man - Chuck Conners .. He did an ad for a kids shooting game which I got , maybe that's why I remember .
He did a show called Branded to , which must have been after this as I remember Branded more .
Ah yes Branded. And the famous line
n the opening"He was in-ocennnnt- not a charge was true"
+Green Man BRANDED was after THE RIFLEMAN; you're right. It was 1965 or 66.
Green Man i
There's no question in my mind,that TV in 1962 was far,far better,then it is now in 2012!
so to even compare these 50 years of Primetime,is like watching a Cancer advancing in
its terminal stage,,free TV is gone,,networks today are corporately owned,and TV right
now,just stinks! ABC's recent canceling of "LAST RESORT" was the last straw! but 50
years ago on that network,you had "COMBAT!","THE JETSONS","McHALE"S NAVY"
and "STONEY BURKE"-now that was Great TV,,better then the crap running now!
Ahh... Another great one Johnnyboy..!
It's interesting to see all the actors whose careers went nowhere, and the occasional one who had a long, active career.
The ABC Schedule on Monday nights for the 1961-1962 season consisted of Westerns and dramas.
7:30-The Cheyenne/Bronco Show
8:30-The Rifleman
9:00-Surfside Six
10:00-Ben Casey
Remember previously "Cheyenne Show" also included Will Hutchins as "Sugarfoot" in the alternating lineup.
In the 1961 lineup, they even had
all 3 in the same episode: which showed Cheyenne knock Bronco to the ground! 😮
Even though I was only four years old back then, I do remember some of these shows. (I had just started kindergarten that fall.)
I remember this. I was 8 years old at the time.
rather have those shows back than reality tv
Yea, me too.
Rohrsy5150 I agree this crap they have today
Even the Food Channel has that garbage reality shows especially with Guy Fierrl.
Agreed...luckily many of these are available on youtube, Amazon Prime or cable/satellite channels...
I don't remember the opening sequence from Ben Casey ever giving me 'vertigo', till now!
Yes THE RIFLEMAN!!!
what a great time capsule like video. we used to love to watch 'thriller' bought back alot of memories. we used to as mom 'hey mom are all of the black ppl in tvland dead' LOL!!
That opening of THE PRICE IS RIGHT was from an episode aired in the summer of 1963...at this time the show's sponsors were Lorillard Tobacco (Newport cigarettes) and American Home Products, especially their Whitehall Laboratories division (makers of Anacin and Dristan)
Your ABC Logo is correct for Spring, 1962. ABC switched to the current "8-Ball" logo in September, 1962.
@tomservo56954 We're going to miss Harry Morgan. We really will. Taken from us at the age of 96. Thank you for the update on Harry Morgan (1915-2011).
I always wanted to watch "The Thriller" and on the rarest of occasions my mother allowed me to. Great and scarey show....at least through the eyes of a ten year old
For you young folks that happened to find this video, observe closely. This is in a way a chronicle of the last days of the great country once known as America.
No, it's nothing of the kind. These were not documentaries. These shows were HOLLYWOOD's version of life at the time, and they had very little to do with what was really going on. Nostalgia is wonderful, but let's not mistake entertainment for facts.
Cliff, like over here in Europe, only worse, as we have to deal with Africans and Arabs. In 20 years Europe is another Shithole. Europe was like the US in the 50s and 60s.
@Cliff Yablonski
I can't speak for Mexico,but if y'all didn't want Africa in your neighborhood,ya shoulda left us alone on our own continent,so deal with it! I'm guessing you're Polish,who weren't/aren't welcome in some parts here as well,so don't get TOO comfy with your lot. Have a nice day.
Signed,
AFRICAN-AMERICAN GAL
BORN IN 1962
@@bigblockjalopy
Yeah,but y'all wanted some color in your lives,so you came over to us. You have only yourselves to blame for that.
M Morris, "y'all" Are you kidding? Not all are brainwashed libtards over here. Yes, it is the majority and they are to blame and the desease called "political correctness" that came from the other side of the pond and started with the opportunistic ****** named Kennedy.
Dig that jazz on Hennesey.
I remember all of the shows. Ron Hayes ( Everglades) Robert Lansing, (Twelve O' Clock High,87th Precinct & the old sci-fi movie from the late 50's ( The 4-D Man ) 4th dimension. Both underated as were many others in their acting abilities.
ABBY DALTON😊
. . .The Price is Right is the only one of these programs to survive after all these years...
Bill Cullen looked like Drew Carey on the Price is Right!
Thanks ,stayed at Eden Roc in the summer of 62 and i kept thinking maybe I'll see them filming
The CBS schedule was the most successful that season, with Danny Thomas and Andy Griffith in the overall "Top Ten" Nielsen ratings (incidentally, General Foods was the primary sponsor of Thomas and Griffith, and co-sponsor of "HENNESEY"- Lorillard's Kent cigarettes was their "alternate sponsor").
I can't believe that these shows were on when I was a baby. And yes I am a baby boomer and will be 62 this year.
The CBS Schedule on Monday Nights for the 1961-1962 season were mostly game shows and situation comedies.
7:30-To Tell The Truth-[game show]
8:00-Pete and Gladys-[produced by Desi Arnaz for Desilu Productions]
8:30-Father Knows Best-[Robert Young]
9:00-The Danny Thomas Show-aka Make Room For Daddy
9:30-The Andy Griffith Show
10:00-Hennessey
10:30- I've Got A Secret-[game show]
Infamous Warner Bros. Shield
Back then there was something worth watching every night. Now most nights I don't even turn on the tv because there are too many stupid reality shows. NO interest in watching zombies ( I watched Romero film Night of the Living Dead ), Breaking Bad or other claptrap. I watch Elementary and NCIS. That and sports and not much else. I watched most of the stuff in this video when it was new and I was a lot younger.
sigh.
Pete & Gladys reruns were shown on the CBS daytime schedule.I watched them when I was off from school
The price is right Monday night now every mornings
It was also on mornings then...
Ooops, on the Ben Casey intro: Better not use that cross in 2013 to symbolize death; you'll offend an atheist.
Lee Patterson went on to soap opera, One Life to Live, married to Vicki. And Russell Johnson was supposed to be Ben Casey, but that grump got the part. Russell would have made a much nicer Ben Casey.
Then it wouldn't haven't been too different than DR. KILDARE, which also premiered that season. Trivia: Richard Chamberlain was the first choice for that role--but he was under contract for something else, so they cast James Franciscus in the part. However, he didn't work out and was let go. And, it turns out, Chamberlain's contract expired 17 days after he was originally offered the part, so he was able to take it then. Plus, the producers of KILDARE made Franciscus the star of MR. NOVAK.
I'm just seeing this my sister had a Dr Kildare notebook .
The announcer had a steady gig.
pete and gladys...damn,i'd fogotten...henessey..the original price is right...wow!
@1985OldSkool As of December 7, 2011--not any more for Harry Morgan.
this is the tv I grew up with a large variety of shows-now days all the same so called reality shows and cop shows.
The "Big A" was replaced by the "ABC Circle" later in 1962, while the "NBC snake" was replaced by the "Trapezoid N" on New Year's Day of 1976. The "CBS Eye" is still in use today. Harry went on to "Dragnet" (1967-70) and "M*A*S*H" (1975-83), among other things, and as of October 10, 2011, he is still living, as is Don Pardo.
However, "PETE AND GLADYS", repeats of "FATHER KNOWS BEST" (replacing Robert Young's new series, "WINDOW ON MAIN STREET", which moved to Wednesday nights, after "THE ALVIN SHOW", in mid-season), and "HENNESEY" were cancelled at the end of the season {"FKB" repeats moved to ABC's early Sunday night schedule that fall, as well as daytime}. NBC's prime-time line-up- except for "THE PRICE IS RIGHT"- was "torn down", and "rebuilt" the following season. ABC only dropped "SURFSIDE 6"...
dang man a lot of freaking Westerns...
And this is past the peak of the Western...in the 1958 season there were nearly 30 of them on the three networks, and made up seven of the top 10 most popular TV shows.
And 90% of them produced by Warner Brothers.
Can you do one from the early 50's the includes the DuMont network?
It's very difficult to reconstruct lineups prior to 1955 as the number of available show intros of that period are far fewer, which would result in too many gaps. Shows that aired on Du Mont especially are even scarcer, as most of what it aired was later destroyed. So far, I've managed to come across less than two dozen Du Mont intros. The best I'd be able to do with that network is compile them all into a single video, but maybe after I come across another half-dozen or more. Things always keep popping up, so you never know.
In 9th grade at a Catholic High School. Always had a lot of homework; Couldn't watch past 9. Only of Fridays. We watched Cheyenne and the Rifleman
+EARL TROMBLEY OMG Catholic School in the early 1960s. A hell nobody could understand unless you personally experienced it.
+inkey2 Really? Why is that? I was in Catholic HS in the late 1960s, an education that saved me from the some of the worst teachers, administrators and students in my region, a low-income junior and senior high where "poor" whites were sent to vegetate.
+joesphx19 "why is that" you say....you would have to ask the nuns at Sacred Heart School in the suburbs of Boston in 1960. Physical punishment & the threat of physical punishment was constant...and for the most minor infractions. I saw students get slapped so hard they fell off their seats and on to the floor. I was told that my protestant mother could never enter the gates of heaven. I remember one girl in the first grade had a cast on her arm. The nun screamed at her.....sit down before I break your other arm. One day a nun found a large fresh, red apple in the trash barrel. Three entire grades, that's 150+ students had to stay after every day until someone confessed....this went on for 2 weeks. I could tell you much more but it would involve writing the equivalent of a 200 page book.
No where near as bad as the public middle school I went to for two years. The high school was just across the street and the thugs would come over to our school to raid the kids not fast enough to make it from the bus to the buildings. Not only would they steal our lunch money, some unlucky kid always got beat up. You would think walking into homeroom first thing in the am with a bloody mouth and torn clothes would be a tipoff..... Then there was the poor retarded kid that they tried to mainstream into our school, he was teased mercilessly. What was a specialty of these rodents was to follow him around the school yard before morning bell. and point him towards a girl, "She loves you Charley, go kiss her!" What followed poor Charley was hundreds of hellions, deciding on what next to do. Then there was the time that Craig M. lit the kid's hair on fire sitting in front of him in the 300 plus TV science class. He was handcuffed and led out of the Dean of Discipline's office by two policemen. We didn't see Craig for the rest of the year. These are just the "fun" stories. The rest I forgot after years of therapy and scotch.
+joesphx19 yes, but "our thugs" in the catholic schools were the ones who were supposed to be protecting us....the nuns. I can understand kids being thugs
Ha! The Price is Right. Whatever happened to THAT show? And the guy who hosted it looked a lot like this comic who used to have his own sitcom named Drew Carey before he changed his image and got cool.
Rick Dalton was pretty big back then in a show called Bounty Law.
Definitely would have needed Tivo or Hulu.
That was back when the quality of the program was more important than the leftist propaganda. Couldn't have a line-up like that today. None of those shows have a single openly gay character.
Armand Rodriguez which is always a good thing
Armand Rodriguez The really sad aspect of these family-oriented programs was that kids my age (born in 1952) really believed these characters and situations were reality. We couldn't understand why real family life didn't fit the mold. And when we'd attempt to emulate any given show or character, we'd get slammed by the adults. It was often a very confused period if one was too young to grasp the fiction of it all.
+Armand Rodriguez not till Uncle Arthur on Bewitched
MerleOberon Man, we all knew Uncle Arthur was gay.
+MerleOberon and lets not forget Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace
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