You could do an entire seires on the shows the BBC have dumped over the years, even up till the mid '90s it was policy to just scrap material after one single airing.
That Bullwinkle TV knob incident sounds strangely similar to when Soupy Sales told his kid viewers to send him "green pieces of paper" from their parent's wallets.
@@morrisonAV Now that one I never knew of. But THAT sounds like an old show called Winky Dink and You which had kids put a plastic overlay on the TV which was held up by static electricity, similar to what the original Odyssey console did about 15 years later.
As a 90s kid, I grew up watching most of the PBS shows from 1993 to 1997-ish. So I have a soft spot for Lamb Chop's Play-Along. Seeing that old clip of Shari Lewis's old show is cool.
NBC was terrible about wiping video tapes, including most daytime TV and sports, but they also destroyed most of the early years of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, until Carson took ownership of the show in 1972.
Lost TV: I've been making my way through a box of Trivial Pursuit: Boomer Edition. (Made back when Boomer wasn't a dirty word). Practically every third card has a question about TV from the 50s-70s, and about half of those are shows that was never shown on Nick at Nite. Even with people posting TV openings on RUclips, I've not heard of most of these shows.
@@AlexSpalex1 Honestly though, I think that's kind of the fun of the wiki to me. Just seeing these crazy cool things that might still exist *somewhere* and that they're just not readily available on the internet. At least with those ones there can be a chance of them getting found one day instead of these ones which are mostly just gone forever at this point.
Great episode...incidentally, that circulating Magnificent Marble Machine is actually the 4th show of the series, as the program later switched to an all-celebrity format, with a randomly-selected audience member joining the winning team on stage to play the machine. Also, several years later, a clip from MMM was used in the 1979 film The China Syndrome, featuring Joan Rivers playing the machine. Oh, and the theme was composed by synth pioneer Mort Garson, who also wrote the 1962 Ruby and the Romantics hit "Our Day Will Come". As for R&B, had no idea about the live-action segments with the Bullwinkle puppet, or that he asked kids to rip the knobs off their TVs...the closing Ponsonby Britt mention was a nice touch, as well!
I've been wondering about the MMM format switch. The material I was able to find on it was about as clear as mud. I was under the impression it was initially all-civilians, then went to civilian/celeb partners. And, Mort Garson will factor back into OA sooner than you think.
@@OddityArchive - You might also be interested to know that I had the privilege of speaking via phone to MMM host Art James in 1998, during a conference call he placed to myself and several other GS fans...after first being asked about the show, he joked "Who wants to buy a used 50-ft. pinball machine?", and shared a couple of amusing anecdotes involving guest star David Brenner: - During one of the main game rounds, the answer contained 3 letters, and the clue was "Athletic supporter"...David buzzed in and incorrectly answered "jock", then when the opposing team came up with the correct answer (fan), he joked "When I was in high school, no one ever wore a fan!" - Not sure if this actually aired, or if they stopped tape after it happened, but during a machine round, David's female contestant partner actually managed to split one of the giant pinballs in half(!) while in play...afterwards, he joked to her "You're not the first woman to do that to a guy!"
LOOSE TRACY ENDS: I wound up cutting down "The Trouble With Tracy" segment quite a bit because it would've been disproportionately long compared to the other segments. In a nutshell, here's what I cut out: 1. While it's never been confirmed, it's believed that the tapes to "...Tracy" were erased or thrown out in the early '90's. The only potentially supporting evidence of this I've found is when a prank article was released by the CTV Comedy Network in 2003, claiming that a reboot of the series was in the works. Despite the involvement of original star Diane Nyland, the press releases had zero footage or other ephemera from the original series. 2. The series ran in reruns on CTV and/or YTV as late as the mid-1980's. As it stands, the only "surviving" episodes of "...Tracy" are by way of amateur off-air recordings. 3. As of this episode, to the best of my knowledge, CTV has remained publicly silent on the existence of the original tapes since the early '90's.
How about "the odyssey" it was a canadian show about a kid in a coma who in his mind was stuck in a world where all the adults were gone and oly kids were left. It was aired in the 90's on scifi here in the us. I wish I could find it on dvd, but sadly it was a very limited release.
It reminds me of all the ‘70s TVOntario productions PBS ran up until 1990 or so. Low budget, very Canadian, very ‘70s, shows shot on quad tape. They do have that endearing quality.
@@5roundsrapid263 Speaking of TVO, I think there was a game show they aired in the 1980's or early 1990's that was shown on PBS here in Nashville Any idea what that might have been?
@@5roundsrapid263 TVOntario was and still is funded by the province of Ontario which unfortunately for them doesn't have endless funds to produce very high quality programming. In its early years TVO had to produce programs for their entire broadcast day as their mandate limited their ability to purchase outside programming. Nowadays they're able to buy programming from other countries (mostly from the UK) to fill their schedule but they do still comission a bunch of content (some of which is very good, mainly their documentatires). The actual production side of TVO was mostly eliminated in the 1990s to save money, they really only produce current affaris programmes in house now. As for those shows from the 70s and 80s, I agreee they are very endeering. The damn Telefrancais show with its talking pineapple has been the source of trama for Canadian school children for decades. Fun fact TVOntario would reuse their puppets accross multiple programmes.
@@sinformant Not available on video or in the Internet for free, doesn't mean lost. The show was a success and was distributed and dubbed to other countriesm so it must still be in the hands of the distributor, I believe they also handle the rights to ReBoot. The examples Benny had today are of shows that are confirmed or rumored to be effectively lost, not locked in some vault.
My goodness I would've eaten up that Marble Machine game show with a spoon as a kid. I was quite a little game show addict growing up too. Not only were those USA reruns on my radar, but all the Nick ones, all the ones they ran on Lifetime, especially Debt and Supermarket Sweep, and I was a hardcore Price is Right junkie. To that effect, anyone else remember Masters of the Maze from the old Family Channel? That one always got me hyped.
OMG, I loved The Magnificent Marble Machine! I was 13-14 when that show aired, and back then I was a pinball fanatic. I was lucky enough to catch episodes on the rare day off from school, and I so wanted to be on that show just to play the big machine. It's a shame my family didn't have a VCR back then. That "lost' show might not have been lost. As for the Bullwinkle segment, the following week after the TV-knob incident, the Bullwinkle puppet told kids to reattach the knobs, all right--with glue.
It's so cool that you covered Trouble with Tracy. Even at the time the show was considered to be absolutely awful, however CTV pushed ahead with its production as the company needed to hit the government content requirements and starting a new show would have been too costly. CTV was at the time not doing very well, coming close to near bankruptcy, and eventually was re-organized from a corporation to a co-operative where each of the affiliates in the network would produce programmes for the rest of the network instead of CTV themselves doing so. All of this gave us this delightful programme which is used to this day to argue why CANCON is a bad idea.
Alexander Falarski it was similar but unlike ITV which was regulated to have such a makeup CTV just happened to be structured that way. Ironically CTV suffered a similar fate as that of ITV with all of the affiliates purchased by Baton Broadcasting in the 1990s to form CTV Inc.
+Oddity Archive; when I saw 'Shari Lewis NBC show', I said to myself; aw, Ben, please - be nice to Shari'. I want to commend you for the very kind touching words you DID say. Like you, I am 'of that age', and like you, I didn't watch her much, but I knew who she - and Lambchop were - and I knew she was a special talent. Kids today are hired by anything not based on tech, but some of my best remembered time was playing with my Legos, and other things like that (even just paper and pencils)...and my imagination. People don't understand that a child doesn't perceive things as adults, which is why making everything so 'non -(fill-in-the-blank in -the-blank)' ridiculous. Ms Lewis could captivate the minds of here audience just using her voice and her talents. That, to me, is head over heels something to be appreciated than assume schmuck who makes some 'great videogame', or other garbage. Ms Lewis - and others like her - were our surrogate parents, and it's much more important to grow up spending time with humans - even if there on a screen - than it is to play a 'game'in which the 'objective' is to kill. A really good episode. So, thanks for the effort it takes to make asks in the words of Ms Lewis (11:56). !A fan.
Holy crap that's it! I was thinking about a late 70's game show based on a giant pinball machine. And I couldn't figure out how to approach Google search for it. And lo and behold oddity archive save the day! Thanks Ben! The magnificent marble machine. Or Pinball machine.
Wow, I was expected Bullwinkle to just make a throwaway comment about pulling off those knobs, but no he straight up tells those kids to pull them off. How did they not realize that was going to cause problems?
@@JayDee284 You really think they didn't know what they were doing? Far from stupid, it was brilliant. It was Jay Ward being Jay Ward. Incredibly counter-culture for it's time.
@@the-NightStar And then, Total TV, a production company that did “King Leonardo and His Short Subjects” did “Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales” in 1963 when it was on Saturday mornings on CBS while Bullwinkle was on NBC the following night. When Bullwinkle ended its run in 1964, it ended up in syndication with “Uncle Waldo’s Cartoon Show”, another Jay Ward production, and on “Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales” where that “Bullwinkle’s Corner” segments were shown, and “Tennessee Tuxedo” was also a Total TV production, the same company that brought you “Underdog”.
It's really sad how people didn't think to save them. They were thinking that the tape could be reused because who was going to rewatch a game show or kid show anyway? They never knew about VHS/DVD shows and cable stations and streaming. For me the greatest tragedy of these lost shows are two that had an impact on tv. The first is the Mary Kay and Johnny Show, which was the first sitcom and has many parallels to I Love Lucy (pregnant star, stars married to each other in real life). The second was the Chicago Bozo's Circus. This was the most successful locally produced kids show ever and longest running. It would be cool to see it on cable or online. I know Rick at Fuzzy Memories found a few but most were wiped. With Mary Kay and Johnny, I believe they just dumped the tapes in the Hudson.
And speaking of Shari Lewis, there was another TV kids show called “The Shari Show” from 1975, It was first ran in syndication until 1976, and then later picked up by Nickelodeon in 1987 for reruns until 1988. Thanks to an episode of “Nick Knacks”, “The Shari Show” was the show that Benny Boy did not covered on this episode, but he’ll get into that soon. ruclips.net/video/GIYjOjLdopA/видео.html
Another honorable mention is the very first attempt at adapting The Railway Series books back in the '50s, long before the technology was possible with Thomas & Friends. It was done live, of course, and one of the models infamously got derailed leading to a stagehand putting it back on the track, which creator Rev. Awdry witnessed while watching it on TV! I would love to see for myself just how bad a train wreck it really was. A damn shame about "The Shari Lewis Show" getting all but wiped from history, but at least Shari herself remade just about every skit on later home video specials and Lamb Chop's Play-Along for new generations to enjoy.
It looks like somebody very impressionable ripped the knob off our computer last night after watching your show. I was planning on leaving that computer to my son one day. Now I'm not even sure if I *want* kids.
Sam and Friends would be one of mine that has been largely lost to time. I’m surprised you didn’t mention it back on the Local TV Shows Vol.1, as its Arguably the most famous. Am if I’m stretching anything, a couple of Thomas episodes early on the shows run, including the test pilot of Down the Mine made in 1983, and The Missing Coach, planned to be aired during the second season. Footage from both of these episodes are used in other episodes.
Speaking of short lived gameshows, another good one is Second Chance, which aired on ABC for 4 months in 1977 and was a precursor to Press Your Luck. Only 4 episodes out of 95 still exist (they are a few videos of the episodes out there on RUclips) and one of those is audio only. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chance_(game_show)
The Shari Lewis bit reminds me a lot of the situation with Jim Henson's TV debut, Sam & Friends. It's loss is perhaps not quite as tragic as many of the segments were simply the characters lip syncing to preexisting music, but it's still an important piece of Muppet history.
I always wondered about those puppet Bullwinkle segments on the DVD. I need to go back and check them out in their knob-pulling goodness. Australia has some similar rules to Canada re local content. I can imagine we'd have our share of Trouble With Tracey type shows
Bucky And Pepito is Citizen Kane compared to Paddy The Pelican. There's 5 episodes sourced from 16mm prints on RUclips. It looks like they were animated at gunpoint.
Barenaked Ladies had a great song in their early days called “The Trouble With Tracy” but it seemingly wasn’t about the show. (It was based on a poem the singer wrote called “The Trouble With Robon”): ruclips.net/video/xGcnmGYuVaE/видео.html
From one Ponsonby Britt to another, thanks for the Bullwinkle segment. Grew up on that show. Now, I'm off to bake some bread using some U-235......and a pinch of salt.
I'm shocked that anyone a) outside Canada, b) outside the Metro Toronto area, or c) younger than their mid-50s would have ever even heard of The Trouble With Tracy. This always seemed to be on TV on one of 4 channels we could get with the rabbit ears around 11AM on a weekday (if you were too young for school, or home with the flu), or later in the early 70s, on after school. Even then we all knew it was a crappy show, but many of us still didn't have cable, so what are you gonna do?
Great episode Ben. Watching this episode did make me wonder, have you ever seen or even heard of a TV series called orient express? (Not to be confused with murder on the orient express.) It was a TV anthology series that was supposedly broadcasted on ABC from 1952 till 1954 In Chicago and New York. Film copies then got sent out to the BBC In 1956. Last year I found a 16mm film (it was huge) at a car boot sale (Flea market or Swap meet for you Americans reading.) I found the title of the show and the title of the episode which was called the blue camellia, what is interesting about this episode is that one of the actresses in the episode Is Lois Maxwell, she would later play Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond series starting with Dr No. While there is an IMDb page about the episode in question I couldn’t find any video or even images of the episode, could it be I have a missing episode from the early 50s? I’ve tried contacting kaleidoscope TV A British non-profit organisation that is dedicated to finding missing pieces of television but they didn’t prove to be much help. Oh well, keep up the great content as always. :)
I remember watching Shari Lewis on TV when I was very little and it was one of my favorite shows. Whether or not it was the NBC show, I don't know for sure. I was born in 1960, so it would have aired when I was VERY little (between birth and age 3). I am one of those people who has very early memories, though, so it wouldn't be outside the range of possibility, and the footage you showed looked at least a little bit familiar to me. But I don't know if she had other shows later in the 60s that I might be remembering instead.
Goodman Ace was convinced to "lease" his vast archive of "EASY ACES" {and "mr. ace and JANE"} radio scripts to CTV in 1970 for a daily series that was eventually syndicated in the United States. Something was lost in the translation when they were adapted [by someone else] for television.
For those looking for resources on those 97 missing Doctor Who episodes, There's hundreds of documentaries on the subject. Also, Bucky and Pepito is considered to be one of the worst cartoons ever...which i can name at least 5 cartoons that are worse, mostly from Filmation and especially DiC. (You know, the Hulk Hogan Cartoon and Hammerman? What about the various Scooby Doo rehashes from Hanna-Barbera? Paddy the Pelican is also deserving of the title, as well as Clutch Cargo.) Also, hey, Bucky and Pepito seems to have influenced Quick Draw McGraw... Also the Magnificent Marble Machine is considered to be one of the worst Game Shows of 1975, but there are worse ones, namely Give-n-Take, Blank Check, The Neighbors, and The Diamond Head game, which is more known now for Bob Eubanks' behind-the-scenes look, which was very dark, as he saw a guy get shot! But, 1975 was full of Game Shows on the Main 3 networks and Syndication, so hey.
The Bullwinkle puppet did show up later on the Jay Ward-produced series "Fractured Flickers." In Episode 16, he's being interviewed by host Hans Conreid (a regular segment on all of the show's episodes). It's been theorized that the segment was hastily produced to fill in for an interview with screen Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller that, for some reason, was considered unusable. In spite of its rushed nature, it's actually one of the funniest interviews from that series.
So glad you managed to get a snippet or 2 of The Magnificent Marble Machine. I actually saw a couple of episodes on TV back when I was a kid back in Summer of '75.
I just loved The Trouble With Tracy, when it first ran. Of course, I was only 6 at the time. Well, I didn't exactly "love" it, I used to watch it when I was home sick from school. It was the only thing on TV at the time.
When it came to game shows, I used to do the UK equivalent back in the 90s when not at college by watching the ITV weekday morning game shows. Chain Letters, Win Lose or Draw (Danny Baker version) and Keynotes rocked!
If the Canadian government gets rid of the CANCON requirement, there will never be another Canadian movie, TV show or song on the air again. Having been a college radio DJ I know first hand that it is a pain to work under that percentage rule, but it's effective at keeping our culture on our airwaves!
Another great episode and those programmes lord. Tracy - ham acting, the cartoon a very bad rip off of Wile coyote and the colours on that marble game could give me a headache and they are burning my retinas already.
Trouble with Tracy is fascinating example because it really is some of the bizarre anti-funny comedy I've ever seen. Not in way that the humor is hackneyed, juvenile, or predictable like a lot of bad sitcoms are, but in the sense that I'm genuinely baffled as to what the jokes are even supposed to be. The mix of outdated 40s comedy scripts with the most sterile late 60s/early 70s aesthetics possible ends up creating a weirdly engaging show that I honestly wish we had more footage of.
My father had me searching for a show he vaguely remembered from the late '70s, "Carter Country". I was never able to locate any episodes before he died. Perhaps that's one you could locate for a future episode, Ben?
WOW... Let's sink this teeny budget into making a sitcom based on a 1940's-50's (?) radio show? Man... Still, it's terribly ambitious and must've been grueling to create with that schedule. Good for them, at least they tried.
I'm.a millennial with an interest in older animation. I spent most of my Saturday Morning cartoon days looking at anime imports and leftovers from the 80s. I tried to watch some of those 50s era TV cartoons and they are nigh unwatchable. I'll take my janky Hanna- Barbera any day.
Another Canadian Kid Series and.... oddly, one that is well-remember because it was one of the few that was actually GOOD.... is Putnam's Prairie Emporium. About 15 years ago, someone thought up the idea of giving the whole series a DVD release until, upon requesting the master tapes found out..... there are none. The explanation I've heard was that the TV station where the show was filmed either closed down or changed owners. Whatever the reason, the master tapes were dumped, sold or simply disposed of. Nothing exists.
Oh man, it is time for Magnificent Marble Machine to be revamped! I was actually getting into it. With modern technology it could be pretty cool. Another great archive, Ben!
If I didn't know it was a game show, and I only saw pictures of the machine in question, I could swear that "The Magnificent Marble Machine" would have been one of those grungy looking, low budget, probably local, early to mid-70's kid's edutainment shows that's all but forgotten by everyone other than a handful of Gen-Xers. The ones they somehow rebroadcast at like 5 AM Saturday Morning in the early 80's. The ones were like 90% of the backdrops are just a big black, empty set that gets more unnerving with aging tape stock. I'm surprised one of them didn't make it on this list, but then again, how many were there anyway? Also, freaking Bullwinkle, man! All the lost media that Jay Ward left behind. It's amazing how much stuff they produced that either was never seen again or never finished. I just found the Rah Rah Woozy pilot like a couple weeks ago. I thought that was lost forever.
It's a true shame they never got to get another series up after George of the Jungle. I've read Keith Scott's book cover to cover, and all the false starts are heartbreaking. Did you know that the NFL quashed a Super Bowl special because they didn't like their team owners caricatured as corrupt? I mean, having them be corrupt in real life is no problem, but they wouldn't want someone satirizing that. Hell, they even lost a crapload of animation cels of the original series because their cleaning lady threw them out for being clutter. I'm so glad that some fans have found some of the rarer bits and can share them.
Prior to the days of RUclips the only other time I saw The Magnificent Marble Machine was a clip of it in The China Syndrome towards the end of the movie.
There's some Irish lost tv series I can't remember the name of which had an entire series filmed but was scrapped after like two episodes because it was too "obscene" for the time or something
In the early 60s a group of us went to a friends house, who was very popular, to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle "in living colour" since his parents had a colour tv. Once we had seen all the shows the guys popularity seemed to drop for some reason. :)
I almost assumed the great marble machine was going to be more Rube Goldberg like, that would've been cool rather than just playing pinball. Or they could've incorporated the pinball into the rube goldberg contraption somehow
He didn't censor the D----- name at the very end. The Magnificent Marble Machine should have been a kids game show. The theme song, the cheesy set, and the pinball gimmick make the show more childish. *
If you aren't active in the Lost Media Wiki community, you should consider writing some articles because we could use your insight. I'm saddened to hear that The Sheri Lewis Show is lost to the degree that it is since I remember how they reused clips for Lamp Chop's Play-Along in the 80s and 90s.
“The Shari Lewis Show” replaces the long running “Howdy Doody” in 1960. “Lamb Chop’s Play Along” with Shari Lewis was on WNET-TV (channel 13), a PBS station in NYC.
13:30 what is that chime during this quiz show? i guess i accidently noticed where the following part of Gesaffelstein's "Modern Walk" derives from: ruclips.net/video/D7a3BKS6JEo/видео.html
OfficialDJUnikittyYT I have season one of it on dvd I’ll find the rest soon The series is so satire heavy and so anti Saturday morning cartoon that it was made to age well even if some elements were products of their time
Yep! Except the “Bullwinkle’s Corner” segments were shown on “Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales” when it was in syndication in the late 1960’s, along with “Fractured Fairy Tales” and “Aesop & Son” that were part of the “Bullwinkle Show”. Both Jay Ward and Total TV Productions are two different companies competing each other.
Lots of TV shows were filmed in color since the late 50s all the way to the 70s, some stations started color broadcast before the 50s ended. When Star Trek was premiered, a lot of TV stations still transmited in B/W, not NTSC.
In watching this, this made me think of a forgotten children’s TV show that I used to watch. In fact here’s one of my fav segments from the show. ruclips.net/video/TnHhXxCOc7A/видео.html It’s called “Gigglesnort Hotel” I wonder what info you can find on him because I was a kid in Killeen Texas when I was watching this.
It reminded me more of cartoons like Beany and Cecil, the kind of early American, British and Canadian TV cartoons from the 50s and 60s. I don't know, since I live in Mexico, maybe I was exposed to more kinds of animation and I can pretty much tell a Polish or Czech cartoon from a soviet one. Trust me, these are nothing like those.
@@mix3k818 A lot are really good (or at least interesting). What I like about them is that they have a very distinctive style, you can tell they pretty much started from zero, with too little influence from the outside, unlike a lot from Central Europe (especially from Gene Deitch's work, who had his studio in Prague). It's a shame that the tradition was lost, Russian cartoons now look like anything from France or Italy (like Masha and the Bear or Fantasy Patrol).
It's a real shame that broadcasters back then just didn't think that the people of the future would want to see the stuff they produced in the future. I bet video tape was also expensive, and they didn't necessarily have the storage anyway. It's just sad. The throw away culture started in the '50s.
Ah yes, I remember watching some pretty bad Canadian sitcoms when I was a kid, such as Snow Job and Check it Out! The latter show had Don Adams. Yes, *the* Don Adams, in a sitcom that took place in a supermarket. I guess they were hoping Americans would watch the show if it had an American actor, but I just thought it was weird having Inspector Gadget playing a supermarket manager. :)
I’ve seen Check It Out! on RUclips. It’s everything bad about television, cheap, terrible acting, and horrid writing. It made The Secret Diaries of Desmond Pfeiffer look like Cheers. Just absolutely brutal with no redeeming value of any kind. Don Adams deserved better. If I’m not mistaken, it’s a Canadian/U.S. rehash of a British sitcom with a similar concept starring Bruce Forsythe. That wasn’t that much better.
I actually remember watching (vaguely I was 2-5 years old at the time) Sherrie Lewis NBC show during its NBC run. I was a big Lambchop (and Red Skelton) fan at the time. My two fav lost shows are Sanchez of Bel Air (had the same plot setup as The Fresh Prince of BelAir, but was the flop precursor), and 1975's Sirrota's Court (virtually the same setup in tone and comedy as the 1980's "Night Court")
You could do an entire seires on the shows the BBC have dumped over the years, even up till the mid '90s it was policy to just scrap material after one single airing.
Why...hello you...
The BBC junkings are the stuff of legend. If not for “piracy”, they wouldn’t have much of a back catalogue!
Well well well, look who’s dropped in again.
And that's just on their comedy output. They released some right clunkers over the years.
Larry you glorious bastard, it figures you'd be a watcher of this great channel.
That Bullwinkle TV knob incident sounds strangely similar to when Soupy Sales told his kid viewers to send him "green pieces of paper" from their parent's wallets.
He also had kids writing on their TV screens with crayons or whatever they had on hand.
@@morrisonAV Now that one I never knew of. But THAT sounds like an old show called Winky Dink and You which had kids put a plastic overlay on the TV which was held up by static electricity, similar to what the original Odyssey console did about 15 years later.
I came into the comment section expecting someone to mention that. XD
Just when I thought Bullwinkle was on some psycho shit, now I'm hearing about this. Absolutely wild.
As a 90s kid, I grew up watching most of the PBS shows from 1993 to 1997-ish. So I have a soft spot for Lamb Chop's Play-Along. Seeing that old clip of Shari Lewis's old show is cool.
I read the title of Bucky & Pepito as “Bucky & Pepto” and thought it was going to be one long commercial for Pepto-Bismol.
I thought it was “Bucky and Pepino” (cucumber). I was expecting a proto-Veggie Tales.
NBC was terrible about wiping video tapes, including most daytime TV and sports, but they also destroyed most of the early years of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, until Carson took ownership of the show in 1972.
Lost TV:
I've been making my way through a box of Trivial Pursuit: Boomer Edition. (Made back when Boomer wasn't a dirty word).
Practically every third card has a question about TV from the 50s-70s, and about half of those are shows that was never shown on Nick at Nite.
Even with people posting TV openings on RUclips, I've not heard of most of these shows.
I'm glad to see that you do understand that "lost" means lost, not "not uploaded to YT yet".
Unfortunately, that's the major downside of The Lost Media Wiki.
@@AlexSpalex1 Honestly though, I think that's kind of the fun of the wiki to me. Just seeing these crazy cool things that might still exist *somewhere* and that they're just not readily available on the internet. At least with those ones there can be a chance of them getting found one day instead of these ones which are mostly just gone forever at this point.
Great episode...incidentally, that circulating Magnificent Marble Machine is actually the 4th show of the series, as the program later switched to an all-celebrity format, with a randomly-selected audience member joining the winning team on stage to play the machine. Also, several years later, a clip from MMM was used in the 1979 film The China Syndrome, featuring Joan Rivers playing the machine. Oh, and the theme was composed by synth pioneer Mort Garson, who also wrote the 1962 Ruby and the Romantics hit "Our Day Will Come".
As for R&B, had no idea about the live-action segments with the Bullwinkle puppet, or that he asked kids to rip the knobs off their TVs...the closing Ponsonby Britt mention was a nice touch, as well!
I've been wondering about the MMM format switch. The material I was able to find on it was about as clear as mud. I was under the impression it was initially all-civilians, then went to civilian/celeb partners.
And, Mort Garson will factor back into OA sooner than you think.
@@OddityArchive - It started with celeb/civilian teams, then after a two-week hiatus in January 1976, returned as an all-celeb affair.
@@OddityArchive - You might also be interested to know that I had the privilege of speaking via phone to MMM host Art James in 1998, during a conference call he placed to myself and several other GS fans...after first being asked about the show, he joked "Who wants to buy a used 50-ft. pinball machine?", and shared a couple of amusing anecdotes involving guest star David Brenner:
- During one of the main game rounds, the answer contained 3 letters, and the clue was "Athletic supporter"...David buzzed in and incorrectly answered "jock", then when the opposing team came up with the correct answer (fan), he joked "When I was in high school, no one ever wore a fan!"
- Not sure if this actually aired, or if they stopped tape after it happened, but during a machine round, David's female contestant partner actually managed to split one of the giant pinballs in half(!) while in play...afterwards, he joked to her "You're not the first woman to do that to a guy!"
LOOSE TRACY ENDS: I wound up cutting down "The Trouble With Tracy" segment quite a bit because it would've been disproportionately long compared to the other segments. In a nutshell, here's what I cut out:
1. While it's never been confirmed, it's believed that the tapes to "...Tracy" were erased or thrown out in the early '90's. The only potentially supporting evidence of this I've found is when a prank article was released by the CTV Comedy Network in 2003, claiming that a reboot of the series was in the works. Despite the involvement of original star Diane Nyland, the press releases had zero footage or other ephemera from the original series.
2. The series ran in reruns on CTV and/or YTV as late as the mid-1980's. As it stands, the only "surviving" episodes of "...Tracy" are by way of amateur off-air recordings.
3. As of this episode, to the best of my knowledge, CTV has remained publicly silent on the existence of the original tapes since the early '90's.
How about "the odyssey" it was a canadian show about a kid in a coma who in his mind was stuck in a world where all the adults were gone and oly kids were left. It was aired in the 90's on scifi here in the us. I wish I could find it on dvd, but sadly it was a very limited release.
It reminds me of all the ‘70s TVOntario productions PBS ran up until 1990 or so. Low budget, very Canadian, very ‘70s, shows shot on quad tape. They do have that endearing quality.
@@5roundsrapid263 Speaking of TVO, I think there was a game show they aired in the 1980's or early 1990's that was shown on PBS here in Nashville Any idea what that might have been?
@@5roundsrapid263 TVOntario was and still is funded by the province of Ontario which unfortunately for them doesn't have endless funds to produce very high quality programming. In its early years TVO had to produce programs for their entire broadcast day as their mandate limited their ability to purchase outside programming. Nowadays they're able to buy programming from other countries (mostly from the UK) to fill their schedule but they do still comission a bunch of content (some of which is very good, mainly their documentatires). The actual production side of TVO was mostly eliminated in the 1990s to save money, they really only produce current affaris programmes in house now.
As for those shows from the 70s and 80s, I agreee they are very endeering. The damn Telefrancais show with its talking pineapple has been the source of trama for Canadian school children for decades. Fun fact TVOntario would reuse their puppets accross multiple programmes.
@@sinformant Not available on video or in the Internet for free, doesn't mean lost. The show was a success and was distributed and dubbed to other countriesm so it must still be in the hands of the distributor, I believe they also handle the rights to ReBoot.
The examples Benny had today are of shows that are confirmed or rumored to be effectively lost, not locked in some vault.
I used to work for a museum that has a mess of Sheri Lewis’s actual puppets. Her daughter was very gracious when visiting.
Ben...
I did what you suggested and ripped off the knob in readiness for your next episode...
Unfortunately I'm now a eunuch!
Help! :)
My goodness I would've eaten up that Marble Machine game show with a spoon as a kid. I was quite a little game show addict growing up too. Not only were those USA reruns on my radar, but all the Nick ones, all the ones they ran on Lifetime, especially Debt and Supermarket Sweep, and I was a hardcore Price is Right junkie. To that effect, anyone else remember Masters of the Maze from the old Family Channel? That one always got me hyped.
Me too. My family didn’t watch soaps or talk shows, because they considered them trashy. They loved game shows, though.
OMG, I loved The Magnificent Marble Machine! I was 13-14 when that show aired, and back then I was a pinball fanatic. I was lucky enough to catch episodes on the rare day off from school, and I so wanted to be on that show just to play the big machine. It's a shame my family didn't have a VCR back then. That "lost' show might not have been lost.
As for the Bullwinkle segment, the following week after the TV-knob incident, the Bullwinkle puppet told kids to reattach the knobs, all right--with glue.
Sheri Lewis also co-wrote the Star Trek episode The Lights of Zetar.
It's so cool that you covered Trouble with Tracy. Even at the time the show was considered to be absolutely awful, however CTV pushed ahead with its production as the company needed to hit the government content requirements and starting a new show would have been too costly. CTV was at the time not doing very well, coming close to near bankruptcy, and eventually was re-organized from a corporation to a co-operative where each of the affiliates in the network would produce programmes for the rest of the network instead of CTV themselves doing so. All of this gave us this delightful programme which is used to this day to argue why CANCON is a bad idea.
the co-operative thing reminds me of how Britain's ITV network worked, until Carlton and Granada homogenized it into ITV PLC.
Alexander Falarski it was similar but unlike ITV which was regulated to have such a makeup CTV just happened to be structured that way. Ironically CTV suffered a similar fate as that of ITV with all of the affiliates purchased by Baton Broadcasting in the 1990s to form CTV Inc.
Least CanCon gave us SCTV.
@@imrustyokay plus Kids in the Hall, Shits Creek, and more. Although most good CanCon is created by the CBC nowadays.
Benny Boy is finally doing lost media!
I dare anyone to watch the sped up version of Bucky and Pepito on mushrooms!
+Oddity Archive; when I saw 'Shari Lewis NBC show', I said to myself; aw, Ben, please - be nice to Shari'.
I want to commend you for the very kind touching words you DID say.
Like you, I am 'of that age', and like you, I didn't watch her much, but I knew who she - and Lambchop were - and I knew she was a special talent.
Kids today are hired by anything not based on tech, but some of my best remembered time was playing with my Legos, and other things like that (even just paper and pencils)...and my imagination.
People don't understand that a child doesn't perceive things as adults, which is why making everything so 'non -(fill-in-the-blank in -the-blank)' ridiculous.
Ms Lewis could captivate the minds of here audience just using her voice and her talents.
That, to me, is head over heels something to be appreciated than assume schmuck who makes some 'great videogame', or other garbage.
Ms Lewis - and others like her - were our surrogate parents, and it's much more important to grow up spending time with humans - even if there on a screen - than it is to play a 'game'in which the 'objective' is to kill.
A really good episode.
So, thanks for the effort it takes to make asks in the words of Ms Lewis (11:56).
!A fan.
Holy crap that's it!
I was thinking about a late 70's game show based on a giant pinball machine.
And I couldn't figure out how to approach Google search for it.
And lo and behold oddity archive save the day!
Thanks Ben!
The magnificent marble machine.
Or Pinball machine.
I loved it when I was a kid too! So cool to see if again!
I remembered it vaguely too, but thought maybe I had dreamt it because nobody seemed to remember it
Wow, I was expected Bullwinkle to just make a throwaway comment about pulling off those knobs, but no he straight up tells those kids to pull them off. How did they not realize that was going to cause problems?
They where Too stupid to realize Kids can be that Stupid lol
That was edgy, especially back then. It sounds like an urban legend, but it’s there on video!
@@JayDee284 You really think they didn't know what they were doing? Far from stupid, it was brilliant. It was Jay Ward being Jay Ward. Incredibly counter-culture for it's time.
@@the-NightStar And then, Total TV, a production company that did “King Leonardo and His Short Subjects” did “Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales” in 1963 when it was on Saturday mornings on CBS while Bullwinkle was on NBC the following night. When Bullwinkle ended its run in 1964, it ended up in syndication with “Uncle Waldo’s Cartoon Show”, another Jay Ward production, and on “Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales” where that “Bullwinkle’s Corner” segments were shown, and “Tennessee Tuxedo” was also a Total TV production, the same company that brought you “Underdog”.
You are 100% not alone as "kid who watched the USA Network game show re-run block when not at school."
Me too! I was a huge game show nerd.
Same here...was appointment TV for this 80s kid, and remember being disappointed when they finally ended it in late 1995.
It's really sad how people didn't think to save them. They were thinking that the tape could be reused because who was going to rewatch a game show or kid show anyway? They never knew about VHS/DVD shows and cable stations and streaming. For me the greatest tragedy of these lost shows are two that had an impact on tv. The first is the Mary Kay and Johnny Show, which was the first sitcom and has many parallels to I Love Lucy (pregnant star, stars married to each other in real life). The second was the Chicago Bozo's Circus. This was the most successful locally produced kids show ever and longest running. It would be cool to see it on cable or online. I know Rick at Fuzzy Memories found a few but most were wiped. With Mary Kay and Johnny, I believe they just dumped the tapes in the Hudson.
Shari Lewis was a once-in-a-generation talent. God bless
And speaking of Shari Lewis, there was another TV kids show called “The Shari Show” from 1975, It was first ran in syndication until 1976, and then later picked up by Nickelodeon in 1987 for reruns until 1988. Thanks to an episode of “Nick Knacks”, “The Shari Show” was the show that Benny Boy did not covered on this episode, but he’ll get into that soon.
ruclips.net/video/GIYjOjLdopA/видео.html
Another honorable mention is the very first attempt at adapting The Railway Series books back in the '50s, long before the technology was possible with Thomas & Friends. It was done live, of course, and one of the models infamously got derailed leading to a stagehand putting it back on the track, which creator Rev. Awdry witnessed while watching it on TV! I would love to see for myself just how bad a train wreck it really was.
A damn shame about "The Shari Lewis Show" getting all but wiped from history, but at least Shari herself remade just about every skit on later home video specials and Lamb Chop's Play-Along for new generations to enjoy.
It looks like somebody very impressionable ripped the knob off our computer last night after watching your show.
I was planning on leaving that computer to my son one day.
Now I'm not even sure if I *want* kids.
*Ben:* "I'm not a Whovian. Every time I've tried watching Doctor Who, I get interrupted by a guy in a Max Headroom mask"
Sam and Friends would be one of mine that has been largely lost to time. I’m surprised you didn’t mention it back on the Local TV Shows Vol.1, as its Arguably the most famous.
Am if I’m stretching anything, a couple of Thomas episodes early on the shows run, including the test pilot of Down the Mine made in 1983, and The Missing Coach, planned to be aired during the second season. Footage from both of these episodes are used in other episodes.
Interestingly enough, the Henson archives managed to pull up more than 400 audio recordings of Sam & Friends episodes produced between 1958 and 1961.
The origins of Kermit the Frog
Speaking of short lived gameshows, another good one is Second Chance, which aired on ABC for 4 months in 1977 and was a precursor to Press Your Luck. Only 4 episodes out of 95 still exist (they are a few videos of the episodes out there on RUclips) and one of those is audio only.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chance_(game_show)
Supposedly, the Master Tapes for another Canadian show: Putnam's Prairie Emporium also no longer exist. That show was from the early 90's or so.
The Shari Lewis bit reminds me a lot of the situation with Jim Henson's TV debut, Sam & Friends. It's loss is perhaps not quite as tragic as many of the segments were simply the characters lip syncing to preexisting music, but it's still an important piece of Muppet history.
The one song that I don’t like was “The Song That Never Ends”.
I always wondered about those puppet Bullwinkle segments on the DVD. I need to go back and check them out in their knob-pulling goodness.
Australia has some similar rules to Canada re local content. I can imagine we'd have our share of Trouble With Tracey type shows
Bucky And Pepito is Citizen Kane compared to Paddy The Pelican. There's 5 episodes sourced from 16mm prints on RUclips. It looks like they were animated at gunpoint.
Barenaked Ladies had a great song in their early days called “The Trouble With Tracy” but it seemingly wasn’t about the show. (It was based on a poem the singer wrote called “The Trouble With Robon”): ruclips.net/video/xGcnmGYuVaE/видео.html
From one Ponsonby Britt to another, thanks for the Bullwinkle segment. Grew up on that show. Now, I'm off to bake some bread using some U-235......and a pinch of salt.
I'm shocked that anyone a) outside Canada, b) outside the Metro Toronto area, or c) younger than their mid-50s would have ever even heard of The Trouble With Tracy. This always seemed to be on TV on one of 4 channels we could get with the rabbit ears around 11AM on a weekday (if you were too young for school, or home with the flu), or later in the early 70s, on after school. Even then we all knew it was a crappy show, but many of us still didn't have cable, so what are you gonna do?
Great episode Ben.
Watching this episode did make me wonder, have you ever seen or even heard of a TV series called orient express? (Not to be confused with murder on the orient express.)
It was a TV anthology series that was supposedly broadcasted on ABC from 1952 till 1954 In Chicago and New York.
Film copies then got sent out to the BBC In 1956.
Last year I found a 16mm film (it was huge) at a car boot sale (Flea market or Swap meet for you Americans reading.)
I found the title of the show and the title of the episode which was called the blue camellia, what is interesting about this episode is that one of the actresses in the episode Is Lois Maxwell, she would later play Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond series starting with Dr No.
While there is an IMDb page about the episode in question I couldn’t find any video or even images of the episode, could it be I have a missing episode from the early 50s?
I’ve tried contacting kaleidoscope TV A British non-profit organisation that is dedicated to finding missing pieces of television but they didn’t prove to be much help.
Oh well, keep up the great content as always. :)
I remember watching Shari Lewis on TV when I was very little and it was one of my favorite shows. Whether or not it was the NBC show, I don't know for sure. I was born in 1960, so it would have aired when I was VERY little (between birth and age 3). I am one of those people who has very early memories, though, so it wouldn't be outside the range of possibility, and the footage you showed looked at least a little bit familiar to me. But I don't know if she had other shows later in the 60s that I might be remembering instead.
Goodman Ace was convinced to "lease" his vast archive of "EASY ACES" {and "mr. ace and JANE"} radio scripts to CTV in 1970 for a daily series that was eventually syndicated in the United States. Something was lost in the translation when they were adapted [by someone else] for television.
For those looking for resources on those 97 missing Doctor Who episodes, There's hundreds of documentaries on the subject.
Also, Bucky and Pepito is considered to be one of the worst cartoons ever...which i can name at least 5 cartoons that are worse, mostly from Filmation and especially DiC. (You know, the Hulk Hogan Cartoon and Hammerman? What about the various Scooby Doo rehashes from Hanna-Barbera? Paddy the Pelican is also deserving of the title, as well as Clutch Cargo.) Also, hey, Bucky and Pepito seems to have influenced Quick Draw McGraw...
Also the Magnificent Marble Machine is considered to be one of the worst Game Shows of 1975, but there are worse ones, namely Give-n-Take, Blank Check, The Neighbors, and The Diamond Head game, which is more known now for Bob Eubanks' behind-the-scenes look, which was very dark, as he saw a guy get shot! But, 1975 was full of Game Shows on the Main 3 networks and Syndication, so hey.
Okay on the diamond head game...Bob Eubanks on an episode of Card Sharks let it be known that he really hated the show.
There's lots of cartoons being made today that are giving Bucky and Pepito a run for their money. (E.g., Thundercats Roar)
newstarcadefan I remember Bob Eubanks was never one to hide his feelings! One off-air channel, Buzzr, still runs Card Sharks.
@@KasumiKenshirou Oh, please. Watch Hammerman sometime. Thundercats Roar is fucking Tame.
The Bullwinkle puppet did show up later on the Jay Ward-produced series "Fractured Flickers." In Episode 16, he's being interviewed by host Hans Conreid (a regular segment on all of the show's episodes). It's been theorized that the segment was hastily produced to fill in for an interview with screen Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller that, for some reason, was considered unusable.
In spite of its rushed nature, it's actually one of the funniest interviews from that series.
So glad you managed to get a snippet or 2 of The Magnificent Marble Machine. I actually saw a couple of episodes on TV back when I was a kid back in Summer of '75.
I just loved The Trouble With Tracy, when it first ran. Of course, I was only 6 at the time. Well, I didn't exactly "love" it, I used to watch it when I was home sick from school. It was the only thing on TV at the time.
Ok never mind marble machine make the Atari Hercules seem small.
When it came to game shows, I used to do the UK equivalent back in the 90s when not at college by watching the ITV weekday morning game shows. Chain Letters, Win Lose or Draw (Danny Baker version) and Keynotes rocked!
As a puppeteer I really admire that Shari could do two puppets at one time
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If the Canadian government gets rid of the CANCON requirement, there will never be another Canadian movie, TV show or song on the air again. Having been a college radio DJ I know first hand that it is a pain to work under that percentage rule, but it's effective at keeping our culture on our airwaves!
I remember "The Magnificent Marble Machine"! It aired at 12 noon, and 10-year-old me would watch it when I came home for lunch!
Ben did Dr.Who Ep 1 of the show.
I loved that. It was my favorite Doctor, too, Tom Baker. 😊
@@Sabrina79 sorry neve see Dr who.
Another great episode and those programmes lord. Tracy - ham acting, the cartoon a very bad rip off of Wile coyote and the colours on that marble game could give me a headache and they are burning my retinas already.
This channel makes me happy.
Trouble with Tracy is fascinating example because it really is some of the bizarre anti-funny comedy I've ever seen. Not in way that the humor is hackneyed, juvenile, or predictable like a lot of bad sitcoms are, but in the sense that I'm genuinely baffled as to what the jokes are even supposed to be. The mix of outdated 40s comedy scripts with the most sterile late 60s/early 70s aesthetics possible ends up creating a weirdly engaging show that I honestly wish we had more footage of.
Hey Ben. You just have to do an entire segment on Rocket Robin Hood. LOL!
My father had me searching for a show he vaguely remembered from the late '70s, "Carter Country". I was never able to locate any episodes before he died. Perhaps that's one you could locate for a future episode, Ben?
I used to watch that show regularly. The Mayor was played by the actor who played Jerry Falwell in the Larry Flynt movie.
WOW... Let's sink this teeny budget into making a sitcom based on a 1940's-50's (?) radio show? Man... Still, it's terribly ambitious and must've been grueling to create with that schedule. Good for them, at least they tried.
The sets were so flimsy that when the front door closed, the whole wall would wobble, as if there had been an Earthquake.
I'm.a millennial with an interest in older animation. I spent most of my Saturday Morning cartoon days looking at anime imports and leftovers from the 80s.
I tried to watch some of those 50s era TV cartoons and they are nigh unwatchable. I'll take my janky Hanna- Barbera any day.
"Janky Hanna-Barbera" some of which are just hilariously bad lol.
Another Canadian Kid Series and.... oddly, one that is well-remember because it was one of the few that was actually GOOD.... is Putnam's Prairie Emporium. About 15 years ago, someone thought up the idea of giving the whole series a DVD release until, upon requesting the master tapes found out..... there are none. The explanation I've heard was that the TV station where the show was filmed either closed down or changed owners. Whatever the reason, the master tapes were dumped, sold or simply disposed of. Nothing exists.
I actually loved Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse as a kid but I didn't realize how cute Shari Lewis was in the 60s.
Sweet dreams, sweetheart 🙂
Oh man, it is time for Magnificent Marble Machine to be revamped! I was actually getting into it. With modern technology it could be pretty cool.
Another great archive, Ben!
Someday, perhaps. 😕
You're the man, Ben. Keep up the great work.
If I didn't know it was a game show, and I only saw pictures of the machine in question, I could swear that "The Magnificent Marble Machine" would have been one of those grungy looking, low budget, probably local, early to mid-70's kid's edutainment shows that's all but forgotten by everyone other than a handful of Gen-Xers. The ones they somehow rebroadcast at like 5 AM Saturday Morning in the early 80's. The ones were like 90% of the backdrops are just a big black, empty set that gets more unnerving with aging tape stock. I'm surprised one of them didn't make it on this list, but then again, how many were there anyway?
Also, freaking Bullwinkle, man! All the lost media that Jay Ward left behind. It's amazing how much stuff they produced that either was never seen again or never finished. I just found the Rah Rah Woozy pilot like a couple weeks ago. I thought that was lost forever.
mightyfilm jay ward is the master of subtle satire
The fact that some of his cartoons are extremely rare adds to the fun of the hunt
It's a true shame they never got to get another series up after George of the Jungle. I've read Keith Scott's book cover to cover, and all the false starts are heartbreaking. Did you know that the NFL quashed a Super Bowl special because they didn't like their team owners caricatured as corrupt? I mean, having them be corrupt in real life is no problem, but they wouldn't want someone satirizing that. Hell, they even lost a crapload of animation cels of the original series because their cleaning lady threw them out for being clutter. I'm so glad that some fans have found some of the rarer bits and can share them.
Prior to the days of RUclips the only other time I saw The Magnificent Marble Machine was a clip of it in The China Syndrome towards the end of the movie.
When I saw the pinball machine I instantly thought of that brief appearance in the movie!
There's some Irish lost tv series I can't remember the name of which had an entire series filmed but was scrapped after like two episodes because it was too "obscene" for the time or something
In the early 60s a group of us went to a friends house, who was very popular, to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle "in living colour" since his parents had a colour tv. Once we had seen all the shows the guys popularity seemed to drop for some reason. :)
I almost assumed the great marble machine was going to be more Rube Goldberg like, that would've been cool rather than just playing pinball. Or they could've incorporated the pinball into the rube goldberg contraption somehow
I remember watching The Magnificent Marble Machine during its original run on NBC. As a kid who played pinball back then it hit all the right notes.
It (Trouble With Tracy) reads (and feels) like a high school video production.
He didn't censor the D----- name at the very end.
The Magnificent Marble Machine should have been a kids game show. The theme song, the cheesy set, and the pinball gimmick make the show more childish. *
Bullwinkle's a badass. I couldn't censor him.
If you aren't active in the Lost Media Wiki community, you should consider writing some articles because we could use your insight. I'm saddened to hear that The Sheri Lewis Show is lost to the degree that it is since I remember how they reused clips for Lamp Chop's Play-Along in the 80s and 90s.
“The Shari Lewis Show” replaces the long running “Howdy Doody” in 1960.
“Lamb Chop’s Play Along” with Shari Lewis was on WNET-TV (channel 13), a PBS station in NYC.
I never knew there was ever a Bullwinkle puppet! That was something to see 🙂 who knew Bulwinkle Puppett was so subversive!
9:13 - you damn coyote!
13:30 what is that chime during this quiz show? i guess i accidently noticed where the following part of Gesaffelstein's "Modern Walk" derives from:
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I remember Rocky & Bullwinkle! I have a series DVD of it :)
OfficialDJUnikittyYT I have season one of it on dvd I’ll find the rest soon
The series is so satire heavy and so anti Saturday morning cartoon that it was made to age well even if some elements were products of their time
Yep! Except the “Bullwinkle’s Corner” segments were shown on “Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales” when it was in syndication in the late 1960’s, along with “Fractured Fairy Tales” and “Aesop & Son” that were part of the “Bullwinkle Show”. Both Jay Ward and Total TV Productions are two different companies competing each other.
why the 59-60 Bucky & Pepito were produced in color?
Anybody had a color set in 1959?
Lots of TV shows were filmed in color since the late 50s all the way to the 70s, some stations started color broadcast before the 50s ended. When Star Trek was premiered, a lot of TV stations still transmited in B/W, not NTSC.
Great stuff! Quality episode, as usual.
I still have a tv whit the knobs on it 1985 RCA TV a BOX
Did Shari learn from Henson or vice versa? Shari’s hand dialogue enunciation is like how the early Kermit the frog was.
In watching this, this made me think of a forgotten children’s TV show that I used to watch. In fact here’s one of my fav segments from the show.
ruclips.net/video/TnHhXxCOc7A/видео.html
It’s called “Gigglesnort Hotel” I wonder what info you can find on him because I was a kid in Killeen Texas when I was watching this.
One of the biggest genre of lost media, along with children's shows, are game shows.
"Mr Disney just came in the studio with a baseball bat."
I've spent my whole time watching this hoping for a Can Con version of Blake's 7.
In that case, the "Liberator" would have been shaped like huge moose antlers or a giant doughnut.
Some of the TVOntario shows were eerily similar to BBC sci-fi. Very low budget, so lots of green screen and cheap costumes. It was fantastic!
These old cartoons remind me of the Soviet era cartoons my dad used to show me
It reminded me more of cartoons like Beany and Cecil, the kind of early American, British and Canadian TV cartoons from the 50s and 60s. I don't know, since I live in Mexico, maybe I was exposed to more kinds of animation and I can pretty much tell a Polish or Czech cartoon from a soviet one. Trust me, these are nothing like those.
OM19 MO79 I've seen Polish and Check animations (I mean, what do you expect from a Pole?), but I haven't seen animations straight from the USSR yet.
@@mix3k818 A lot are really good (or at least interesting). What I like about them is that they have a very distinctive style, you can tell they pretty much started from zero, with too little influence from the outside, unlike a lot from Central Europe (especially from Gene Deitch's work, who had his studio in Prague). It's a shame that the tradition was lost, Russian cartoons now look like anything from France or Italy (like Masha and the Bear or Fantasy Patrol).
Shari Lewis is so young in those clips!
She was SMOKING.
Absolutely, she was super cute.
This was good Ben.
I ripped the knobs off my phone
Trouble with Tracy looks like a college production.. :-)
More like High School.
If you have any video part 2 idea in mind but had too little material to work with, what would it be?
i loved shari lewis so much. when it got cancelled, dad said i didn't wat it enough
It's a real shame that broadcasters back then just didn't think that the people of the future would want to see the stuff they produced in the future. I bet video tape was also expensive, and they didn't necessarily have the storage anyway. It's just sad. The throw away culture started in the '50s.
All of the loss TV shows should be found. 😀👍📺
Ah yes, I remember watching some pretty bad Canadian sitcoms when I was a kid, such as Snow Job and Check it Out! The latter show had Don Adams. Yes, *the* Don Adams, in a sitcom that took place in a supermarket. I guess they were hoping Americans would watch the show if it had an American actor, but I just thought it was weird having Inspector Gadget playing a supermarket manager. :)
I’ve seen Check It Out! on RUclips. It’s everything bad about television, cheap, terrible acting, and horrid writing. It made The Secret Diaries of Desmond Pfeiffer look like Cheers. Just absolutely brutal with no redeeming value of any kind. Don Adams deserved better. If I’m not mistaken, it’s a Canadian/U.S. rehash of a British sitcom with a similar concept starring Bruce Forsythe. That wasn’t that much better.
I actually remember watching (vaguely I was 2-5 years old at the time) Sherrie Lewis NBC show during its NBC run. I was a big Lambchop (and Red Skelton) fan at the time. My two fav lost shows are Sanchez of Bel Air (had the same plot setup as The Fresh Prince of BelAir, but was the flop precursor), and 1975's Sirrota's Court (virtually the same setup in tone and comedy as the 1980's "Night Court")
I'd rather watch a reboot of that pinball show than 'Hollywood Game Night' and the other silly shows on these days!
5:02 should have made a show around her!
5:41 how did they get away with such a script?
I love you B.
But now which is bigger atari's Hercules pinball machine or this one.
Mmmm?
What’s that footage clip in the intro with the cowboy grabbing the woman’s hair? A film or show?
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Last time I was this early, there were still 110 missing Doctor Who episodes!
Diane Nyland was the teenaged crush of every Canadian male Baby-Boomer.