STAY TUNED - THURSDAY NIGHT TV FALL 1959
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- What you would've watched on a typical Thursday night on ABC, CBS and NBC in the fall of 1959. Gale Storm, Donna Reed, Real McCoys, Pat Boone, Untouchables, Take a Good Look, To Tell the Truth, Betty Hutton, Johnny Ringo, Dick Powell Zane Grey Theater, Playhouse 90, Law of the Plainsman, Bat Masterson, Johnny Staccato, Bachelor Father, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Groucho Marx, Lawless Years.
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I was 8 and 9 in 1959--recall these but some more than others
I wish that I could go back in time and live in that era.
I was seven years old in 1959 and was a slave to The Untouchables.That Christmas, I received the Elliot Ness law enforcement kit...a snub nose 38 with shoulder holster, badge and some other stuff I've forgotten. Gee, I must have simply adored that gift for at least a week. My greatest memory is Dad opening the doors to the TV...yeah, TV's had doors back then...and then until bed time, we'd watch all this goofy stuff.
Remember sitting in our living room with my Mom, watching The Gale Storm Show, Donna Reed, The Real McCoys; and the Untouchables with my Dad....great memories!!
Me too. We never missed those shows.
I was 3 years old in 1959 but recall all the shows as they were in reruns or still on as I got older !!
I was only two years old back in 1959, and I can't remember back that far.
I was born 40 years later. Wow!
The Untouchables was a very good show. And Bat Masterson.
Look how young Betty White, Carson, and Kitty Carlisle are on CBS's To Tell the Truth. Kitty is even younger in "A Night at the Opera" with the Marx Bros. I think, for entertaiment, and as kids, we all were "hooked" on TV. With the limited media avenues in the late '50's and '60's, aside from Movies, records, and the radio...it was the only game in town. I do remember spending a lot more time outside playing and doing sports than the kids do today.
She should have been younger in "A Night at the Opera." That film was made in 1935.
Nice to see early "Peanuts" animation before "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
Color on TV??? In 1959???? Who knew!
There were syndicated shows like "The Cisco Kid" that had been filmed in color as far back as 1951. "Bonanza", which premiered in 1959, was the first prime-time show to be aired in color on a major network.
I didn't know "The Ford Show" was also in color that season, though. NBC's parent company, GE, made some of the early color TV sets, so NBC had a vested interest in broadcasting in color early on. "Bonanza", which was directly produced by NBC, was in color from the beginning for the sole purpose of showing what color TV could look like.
@@actionsub RCA, which pioneered the FCC-approved electronic color television system, was the parent company of NBC, not GE. Bonanza was not the first prime time color show on a major network, it was the first color WESTERN shown in prime time by a major network. Prior prime time color shows by a major network included The Dinah Shore Show and The Perry Como Show amongst several others.
I was born in June of 1959 and I remember some of those shows, either in syndication or they just ran a while while I was growing up. Some I do not, like Gail Storm. I remember The Real McCoys and The theme from Bat Masterson. It's great to be able to see all these anytime on the computer. I was afraid they would disappear forever after my childhood. Thanks!
These might as well be transmissions from another galaxy.
Young people today have no idea how big TV was in those days.They were shared national experiences,something that only sports on TV are today.Everyone talked about their shows the next day.There were only 3 stations in most areas of the country.No cable.No real FM radio.No internet.Yet,people still had time for hobbies,friends,etc.
Born in 1950...a great decade. wonderful memories. I wish that I could go back and do it again.
I watched an episode of The Betty Hutton Show, it was painful....poor Betty
At the time, Charles Schulz signed a five-year deal with the Ford Motor Company, allowing them to use his "Peanuts" characters in their advertising {print, radio and TV}, and from 1959 through '61, in special animated introduction sequences for "THE FORD SHOW STARRING TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD".
This is when tv had decent programming. Decent as in no nudity, no profanity, no gory stuff. How the times have changed, for the worst.
And the actresses were really glamorous looking back then.
Remember only wealthier more educated demographic could afford a TV set back in 1959.
@@videosuperhighway7655 meaning only rich white people lol
Oh absolutely! And no dumb reality shows, and unfunny and sex-saturated sitcoms either.
We just lost Michael Ansara not long ago. The man made a career of playing Native Americans. RIP "Cochise".
Mike also guest starred as a Klingon starship commander on the original "Star Trek".😊
A lot of these shows became favorites. The Untouchables and Bat Masterson stand out. And Johnny Ringo was also liked. But what does a six yr old knew in 1959.
More than a five year old, for sure...
many of these shows I remember watching and loving Bat Masterson, Gale Storm, Bachelor Father, You Bet Your Life, anything Ernie Kovacs did, they may have edited out Groucho's phallic remark but not the opening shots of many of the Westerns' stars.
this was great-thanks for posting!
It was fun seeing what my mother possibly was watching when I was a newborn. My mom loved TV, being from Germany, they did not have it there, and she learned how to speak English from watching.
I love at 7:50 how the car on " Bachelor Father"" had no dash, etc. Odd how you never see that when you watched it.
We lived in Hometown,IL (my dad flew for Eastern Air Lines) and I was in the 4th grade in fall 1959. I don't remember some of these but most are old favorites
Michael Ansara, that lucky SOB, was married to Barbara Eden for many years.
4:15 Wilma Rudolph has an amazing backstory. She’s #3, BTW.
I saw the Real McCoys on Cozi TV and fell in love with it. The name of the show sounded to me like a western adventure show or something. Life of Riley sounded like a drama show until I later found out it was a silly comedy show about an idiot dad!
That's Jolene Brand getting the pie in the face on the Ernie Kovacs show at 2:37. You might remember her from the Walt Disney Zorro show. She was pretty much a regular on the later Kovacs shows and was also one of the famous Nairobi Trio.
Also, her husband was George Schlatter, who created "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," a show which owes a great deal to Kovacs' comedy style.
There was also the Dumont Television Company/ Network. It had big name celebrities/shows at one time. I researched it quite a while ago. Maybe you can include THAT network as well?? Thank you!! ;)
Dumont had been gone for years by 1959. Sorry..
+Bill Smith ...True. But I was not referring to the year of 1959, in particular. No... Just that it would be nice to include THAT network as far as for historical value....nothing more. ;) Sorry....
As I remember cigarette companies sponsored a lot of these shows and the actors were shown smoking in them as well
lived in france an germany so did not get too much tv over there ex bonanza in french etc.
No reality garbage like you see today.
Unless I'm mistaken, Bud Collyer was the voice of the mid-'60s Filmation animated Superman.
As he was on radio in the 1940's.
Yoiu're right. The original run of Filmation cartoons featured the main members of the radio cast: Bud Collyer as Superman, Joan Alexander as Lois, and Jackson Beck as the announcer (as well as various character parts, including IIRC Perry White). Bud, Joan and Jackson once did part of a radio script on the Johnny Carson show (with Johnny as Jimmy Olsen), and the clip is out there somewhere.
If it wasn't for syndication, I wouldn't have heard of half of these.
There were 19 shows on Thursday night during the start of the 1959-60 TV season, including seven new shows (although "The Big Party" wasn't featured in the video).
Nine of those shows were cancelled by season's end, including "Playhouse 90" and "The Gale Storm Show" (a.k.a "Oh! Susannah"), and four of the seven shows that debuted on Thursday nights.
Man America was so nice and white back then.
Well, there WAS Sammee Tong on "BACHELOR FATHER".
For those who don't know of "The Cigar Incident" on "You Bet Your Life" (Groucho Marx):
"The show's most infamous remark occurred as Groucho was interviewing Charlotte Story, who had borne 19 children. When Marx asked why she had chosen to raise such a large family, Mrs. Story is said to have replied, "I love my husband"; to which Marx responded, "I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in awhile." The remark was judged too risqué to be aired, according to the anecdote, and was edited out before broadcast." Go Groucho! The ad-lib genius.
That is a urban myth...it was never said on or off air
And to think that now "Bat Masterson" & "Bachelor Father" can be seen on "This" & "ANTENNA TV" networks respectively
wow, I'd like to take a good look, at that lovely lady, and all of these shows.
Excellent job. I was surprised by the Peanuts animation for The Ford Show. I guess I'd always thought that A Charlie Brown Christmas was the first time the gang had shown up on TV. Thanks for the post.
My guess is RwDt09 purloined that Peanuts intro from a much-later-than-1959 intro to The Ford Show. Seems to me that NBC didn't adopt its color peacock until the mid '60s.
Probably, though the character designs seem to reflect the way they were drawn in the late '50s, and the early holiday specials had the characters looking more like the most familiar versions like they did by 1965. Still, the innovations started in the making of the Christmas special, most notably the use of actual children doing the voices, are present in the clip shown, which makes it seem later than 1959.
They DID use the "Peacock"- an earlier version- from 1956 through 1962, when they adapted the "standard" one used through the mid-1970's.
No, it was the Ford commercials that led to "Charlie Brown Christmas"
The Untouchables was great. Best theme music and narrated by Walter Winchell who was a lackey for Senator Joe McCarthy. Winchell was once one of the most powerful men in America.
The info I had about that Real McCoys theme came from the booklet for "Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 4 - Black & White Classics". The show premiered before I was born, and I first saw it in syndication in the mid-'60s. My remark stands about Pat Boone's murder of the El Dorados song, however (LOL). Thanks for responding!
2:56 Elizabeth Montgomery ( pre fame bewitched )
The only downside to TV back in the 50's were a proliferation of cookie-cutter Westerns & mindless sitcom fluff. Sad though that Johnny Staccato never caught on & got cancelled too soon.
Also, i'd rather be watching high quality shows like Playhouse 90 than the "Reality TV" sewage that gets served on a daily basis. Thanks for the video.
Johnny Staccato had the misfortune of premiering when a number of shows were trying to capture the noir/jazz mix pioneered by "Peter Gunn". By then, "Richard Diamond Private Detective" had gone to Pete Rugolo to create a jazz score for the series; "77 Sunset Strip" was starting its second season; there even was a syndicated Western called "Shotgun Slade" that tried to be Peter Gunn in the wild west. Jack Webb had tried and failed the summer previously with "Pete Kelly's Blues" which was basically Johnny Staccato playing a trumpet.
Jack originally produced "PETE KELLY'S BLUES" as a radio series in the summer of 1951 (and as a theatrical movie in 1955). In fact, he merely recycled the 13 radio scripts from the summer of '51 for the TV series. Jack was a big fan of Dixieland music- and several top jazz veterans and sidemen played the soundtracks as "Pete Kelly's Original Big Seven" [including Dick Cathcart, who dubbed Jack's- and William Reynolds'- trumpet solos].
Oh yeah, more obscure TV trivia: the original version of the theme to "The Real McCoys" was by pop singer Jimmie Rodgers (:Honeycomb", "Kisses Sweeter than Wine"). The theme only ran during the first season. The theme here is from the later seasons of the show. And how about Pat Boone butchering "At My Front Door" by the El Dorados? That man was WAY too whitebread to sing black R&B and doo wop.
Pat Boone made a career making "cover" versions of R&B songs; one that comes to mind is "Ain't That A Shame," a big hit for Fats Domino. Domino's version is by far the superior of the two, IMO. As for Jimmie Rodgers' version of "The Real McCoys," that was during its last season (1962-63), when it moved to CBS. Kathy (or Kathleen, as she wanted to be called by then) Nolan had left the show and since sitcom couples didn't get divorces back then, Richard Crenna was made a widower (with a rather forgettable girlfriend as I recall). With only Grandpa, Luke, and Pepino left, the producers came up with a new theme song, which Jimmie Rodgers sang.
2:25 Dick York ( pre Fame Bewitched )
One has to wonder...considering that in real life, Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson worked together and were close friends...were there ever any crossovers between their two tv shows?
No, because they were produced by different studios. Bat Masterson was a regular character on "Wyatt Earp", but he was played by Mason Dinehart, who looked nothing like Gene Barry.
Impossible to describe anyone not living in that period what it was like. When people see movies about the period they assume what they are seeing is fiction or at least fictionalized. But, no. It was innocent by any measure. I had just graduated from high school and was starting college. In my yearbook photos I look so squeaky clean! That's because I was so squeaky clean! I was elected freshman vice president and was a newspaper editor as a freshman. And knew nothing of the world.
Wow! The best part is just seeing Suzy Parker for a second or two.
Good question. I just checked my list of videos. While there seems to be some copyright issue with MGM for "Lady Luck", audiovisual content administered by: mgm" (and I don't even know in what clip it's supposed to be in the video), RUclips tells me that the video is still available world wide. But apparently not for you. It seems to be also the case with a few of my other videos. I might have to create a separate new site just for them so they can be viewed before they're "banned" again.
Not sure either. The only one that had any connection on this particular video with MGM was "The Lawless Years", which was filmed at MGM studios.
Jack Chertok produced it (with NBC's "California National Productions").
That Peanuts bit would have been 6 years betore "A Charley Brown Christmas", often thought to be the first annimaiton of Peanuts characters.
9:12 Kid with the Beenie is Tony Sirico from the Sopranos
At the outset of this season, "Playhouse 90" alternated every few weeks with "The Big Party By Revlon," which was later listed among "The Worst TV Shows Ever" in the 1980 book of the same name.
The pie-in-the-face to the earnest, pretty girl in "Take A Good Look" - which even knocks her wig off - is completely unexpected and hilarious.
The rotating starburst at the start of "Playhouse 90" is just exactly like some plastic ornaments we got for Christmas 1960.
People tend to get all nostalgic when they watch stuff like this, but in truth, TV in the old days was not all "classic". There were a lot of stupid, boring, and lousy shows then too.
@@allenjones3130 Unfortunately, Betty Hutton herself was "one hell of a mess" at that time as well, and sadly it just got worse for her.
The Lawless Years...that kid thug looked awfully dangerous wearing that beanie.
I may be wrong, but he looked like he was threatening Larry Storch -- later to gain fame as Corporal Agarn on "F Troop".
I think that's Paulie Walnuts from Sopranos
"Next week on 'Riverdale', Jughead mugs people in alleys!"
Back so far, TV shows were actually pretty good back then! They didn't need filthy content for ratings.
Shows featuring real guns! Law of the Plainsman, Bat Masterson, Johnny Ringo, Johnny Staccato, The Untouchables, The Lawless Years, and Zane Grey Theatre! All on the same night even!!
Andy Griffith( Pre Fame the Andy Griffith show ) appearance playground 90
DON AMECHE, BETTY WHITE, JOHNNY CARSON AND KITTY CARLISLE----ON A GAME SHOW??? Well, I guess we've all got to start somewhere...
Johnny Carson was hosting a game show at the time: "Who Do You Trust?" weekday afternoons on ABC. The show was similar to "You Bet Your Life" with even more emphasis on the interviews. Obviously it got NBC's attention since he got "The Tonight Show" in 1962.
8:02 this used to scare the living daylights out of me when I was a kid. The music is kind of doom-y.
Where to begin? Well, for starters, that sounds like Arthur Q. Bryan yelling "Oh Susannah" at the start of "The Gale Storm Show". (Bryan was the original voice of Elmer Fudd in the Warner Bros. cartoons.) Kitty Carlisle certainly looks young in that clip, but if you think she looks young here check her out in "A Night at the Opera" with the Marx Bros. - she was stunning. This was from the year before I myself made my debut (elc1960 are my initials and my birth year).
Actually, Jimmie Rodgers' singing the theme was from the last season or two of the show...the theme heard here is the original.
3:12 Cesar Romero ( pre fame the joker )
Gosh, those shows from the 1950s and 1960s seemed far far far closer to the XIXth century than movies of the 1920s and 1930s.
Charlie Brown looks like he put on a few pounds.
Let's see, I would have been 11 to 12 years years old when those shows were on. I liked The Untouchables, Bat Masterson, and, of, course, You Bet Your Life. I learned some of my earliest lewd jokes and wisecracks watching Groucho. No one else could get away with it in 1959. I have no memory of The Law of the Plainsman, The Ford Show, ot take a good look. The worst show was Johnny Staccato. Even an 11 year old could tell the acting and plot was awful. It lasted one season, and that was one season too long.
That's because John Cassavettes only took acting jobs in order to finance the independent films he produced & directed.
P.S. ----This stuff is so old, it's SCARY!!!
Never heard of Bachelor Father before but dude's totally gay and that's OK. Lots of people have kids before they come out of the closet. Can't imagine how tough it was in the 50s though.
The girl was his niece...and the character of Bentley Gregg was quite the ladies' man
The Unwatchables.
Bachelor Father...worst show ever....ok second worst. Patty Duke was even stupider.