Mary Tyler Moore was my mom’s show. Mom was a single mother raising me, and she worked at a TV station. Don’t think we EVER missed an episode ( maybe one). I liked it too.
I've got you beat -- When the Adventures of Superman was on, I was a small kid whose dad was a tall handsome reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper! with black hair and blue eyes, and a penchant for blue t-shirts beneath his suit.
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was my mom’s show as well. I never really sat through an episode, but I did like to watch the intro and see Mary throw her hat into the air. LOL!
Exactly classic tv not a whole lot of nonsense those days will never come back children today and the younger generation don’t know good tv like we did we didn’t have cable you plugged the set into the wall and had rabbit ears antennas and picked up all these shows three major networks cbs nbc abc
One year away from the best night of TV ever: Starting in 1973, Saturday nights on CBS meant All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, Bob Newhart, and Carol Burnett.
I feel the same way and I think I remember most of these shows except me and the chimp. I'm guessing it was around the same time as BJ and the Bear and Every which way but loose. Cannonball run had a chimp to.
Misson Impossible Came on sunday night canada God this was my life as a 10 year old in Ontario canada this was great seeing the entros to these Old shows i love it Thank you for posting this My childhood in 30 minutes
So many 1sts for me, my parents were still married and good relationship, sitting cross-legged on the floor, my 1st girlfriend, first real stereo, Led Zeppelin records, am radio at night, national lampoon and mad and famous monsters magazine subscriptions. Partying with friends. I look back now, I never wanted it to end.
Lucille Ball, Cher, Tim Conway, Glenn Campbell, James Arness, Jack Lord, Carol Burnette, Fred MacMurray, Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke. Wow just wow.
I was 6 yrs old when these wonderful T.V. series were being aired..I can remember Sonny & Cher,Doris Day,Lucy,Gunsmoke Hawaii Five-O, and one of my all time fav's Medical Center(I had this crush on Chad Everett at only 6 yrs old) I would lay next to the T.V. and just gaze at his "Hotness"..Lol! This is awesome going down memory lane I could keep on going with my list of favorites like My Three Sons and Mary Tyler Moore but then I would end up listing all of them..Lol! Any way thank you for sharing this with us..
CBS must have been king at this point. Look at what's included in that line up. Carol Burnett, MTM, AitF, and Mission Impossible were all great shows, and you still had Gunsmoke and My Three Sons and popular shows like Mannix and Cannon on the roster. Sonny & Cher and Glen Campbell were also pretty strong variety shows. I guess MASH was yet to come. That's packing heat.
It's hard to believe that some executives were sitting around a table and said, "Me and the Chimp, I think it's got a shot." That looked like a dumpster fire.....
Brad Britton yes this show should be placed for Saturday morning. Thursday is a bad time for this show because you got flip Wilson, Ironside, Dean Martin, Paul lynne shows, in concert, laugh in, red skeleton. it has a good theme for only little children will by it. I love the pretty chimp buttons.
The difference between "M:I," the classic espionage-theme TV series, and the "M:I" franchise movies is Tom Cruise. The TV version was an assemble venture among the cast, while the film version is All About Tom Cruise.
Cade’s County....forgot about that one. Love the theme. Was in the studio audience for one of the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hours back in ‘72. Rick Springsteen was the special guest. Also saw an episode of All In The Family being taped. Good old days. Before Rockford there was this guy called Joe Mannix.
It’s kinda crazy that these intros should be the most dated, owing to their age, but there’s a beautiful simplicity and efficiency to 85% of them. There’s a timeless quality that somehow got away from the networks who made them.
Interesting to see Doris Day, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore, all have top shows on CBS, in 1972. Also shows like Mannix, Medical Center and Mission Impossible, along with Gunsmoke, made television back then, so well worth watching. So sad that television today, has lost that magic.
Thank you for posting this. The other day I was trying to remember the name of a show where a guy was promoted to an executive position. I only remember one episode where he accidentally shredded some documents. I think it was Arnie.
I don't care what anyone says- things were better then. People were nicer, music was actually music, people didn't feel the need to complain all the time, tv and movies were actually well-written and entertaining, we weren't raising a generation of sociopaths...
No cable, no satellite, no internet...just three network stations and pbs...and you’d watch all of these shows without a phone in your hand or lap! Man, those were the days!
No magic at all in today's so called TV. Hearing these theme songs takes me back to our living room as a little boy, my grandmother in her chair with her cigarettes and sanka and her hair is in curlers. Amazing what music can do, the feelings that it elicits. All these stars ... some have been gone for decades already. Time FLIES.
I'm wasting many of my senior moments watching these same shows now. I usually watch ME TV or Antenna TV. I remember having Mannix on TV when my kids were getting ready for school in the late 1990s and my then 6 year old son wanting to know why " that guy wearing a suit and tie was always beating someone up."
I used to have to ask to stay up to watch gunsmoke. it came on at 8, even when i didnt get permission, i'd lay flat on the ground in the hallway to watch it. I was six years old in 1972.
How in the hell did something as ridiculous as Me And The Chimp ever make it as a series?! It's almost as ridiculous as The Flying Nun yet that one stayed around for a while. WTF?!
That Here's Lucy intro above is my favorite Here's Lucy musical intro, but it is not the one used from ' 71 to '72, '72 to '73 and '73 to '74 when Here's Lucy ended. The intro above aired for the first three seasons from '68 to '69, '69 to '70 and '70 to '71 when Desi was on the show. Desi Arnaz, Jr. permanently left the series before the 4th season premiered and was not even available for every episode starting in the third season because he wanted try to make it in movies. Not only was his name off the show by the 4th season onward, but the theme music was updated twice.
Don't forget about "The Waltons," "Maude," and "The Bob Newhart Show," @@copndonuts! All four of those programs debuted the same week (in September of '72), if memory serves.
A trip in the Way Back Machine to my freshman year in high school. I remember Cade's County, it was a good show, kinda the Longmire of it's day. 😉 My folks never called Gunsmoke by it's title. They'd say " It's time for Matt and Kitty" or " Turn on Doc and Festus."
Amazing montage of CBS' dominance during the tail end of the 1971-72 television season! Despite the failure of newcomers like "Cade's County," "O'Hara: United States Treasury," "The Don Rickles Show," and the infamous "Me And The Chimp," CBS was still on top of the ratings game. Long-running classics like "Gunsmoke," "Here's Lucy," "Mannix," "Hawaii Five-O," "Medical Center," "The Doris Day Show," "Mission: Impossible," "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour," "My Three Sons," and "The Carol Burnett Show" still attracted viewers, as did more recent successes like "Arnie," "Cannon," "The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and, of course, "All In The Family." Thanks for uploading, RwDt09!
I'm quite amazed that considering I was a young teen in '72, and I would never have watched "Cades County"... that when that theme came on, I remembered it instantly!
I want to give a shout-out to the fantastic theme music many of these shows had. Instantly recognizable and memorable. It's a shame that show introductions have been eliminated in favor of more advertising.
ARNIE was very underrated (I've been seeing a little of it here on RUclips, and I hope it's still there). No one could play a funny authority figure better than Roger Bowen.
Carol was on Mondays at 10 (ET) from 1967 to 1971. She was on Wednesdays at 8 from September 1971-December 1972, at which point she moved to her best-remembered timeslot, Saturdays at 10, until either December 1977 or January 1978. She had been beaten decisively by "The Love Boat" in the fall of '77; also, Harvey Korman had left and Dick Van Dyke had unsuccessfully tried to fill his shoes. Carol ended her run in what was then one of CBS's weakest timeslots, Sundays at 10.
Interesting. At the 11:13 mark, Me and the Chimp music jumps back in! I guess the chimp wasn't quite done yet. I guess I should have read the note above! Sigh!
I loved Sonny and Cher , Book'em Danno as I danced around tge room to the beat of that song , Canon had a car phone in his Lincoln Mark 5 , The Carol Burnett Show was never missed , Medical Center was almost forgotten , Mannix was my mothers favorite along with Barnaby Jones , Archie Bunker was the best exposé of honest bigotry ever , Listening to these theme songs and light hearted sitcoms you can see how dark and edgey things are now ...I hope bright colors , upbeat themes , and light entertainment come back some time soon .
Cade’s County ❗️ I actually managed to find the series on DVD. Just as good as I remembered. Possibly would have continued but really was only meant to fill for summer. Was replaced by MASH ,I think.
Cannon, starring William Conrad, the man with the face just made for radio...And Norman Lear: the man who made a career out of ripping off British sit-coms...
Not long ago Me TV aired late at night, Hawaii Five-o, Mission Impossible, and even Kojak. Also, one of my other favorites was Combat. Even now they show Cannon and Mannix each night.All damn good shows.
I remember the days of free TV 📺! We had CBS, NBC, ABC, Channel 11 & 13 ( for cartoons)-Loved ❤️Lucy!! And they were great 👍! I got to stay up for Sonny and Cher too-very funny 😁 Book em Danno, murder one!
My favorite was the first version with the strings instead of the piano, if you see "Once upon a time in Hollywood", set in 1969, you will hear the original "Mannix" theme.
I forgot about the Chimp show. Ted Bessel was the perfect supportive boyfriend and could have been cast in any professional single woman show. Like a Ken doll. Putting him in a madcap family show with a chimp was bad. Real bad. Bad as it sounds. Kami Cotler would extend her Homecoming role into The Waltons for some actual high quality work. Rare in the 70s.
Paul Cooper. Thus the Ken Doll reference. He was her supportive accessory for the madcap fashion sitcom. In the original outline he was her agent and fiancé at the start Donald Bluesky. The Desilu execs thought that made him more like a pimp and they reworked him to a much better character. Really a perfect straight man on the show. Visually and Acting. The Chimp show was because Gary Marshal couldn't sell "New Family in Town" (Happy Days 1952) the year before. American Graffiti was made by Coppela and Lucas the next year, and reworked 1955 Rock and Roll Happy Days at the Drive-in diner sold.
Gotta love the cheesy graphics/loud colors in some of these intros, like Cannon, Sonny & Cher, and Medical Center. Some weird music for the themes, too. ;)
Television just flat had more imagination and creativity than it does today. Sad that now all you get are shows that stereotype a specific group and 30 minutes of fart jokes.
They have no creativity at all and never take real risks. Could you imagine All In The Family and The Jeffersons how those shows "pushed the envelope" of society. Mary Tyler Moore and That Girl. Not now. No one wants to offend anyone.
I don't remember Carol Burnett being on midweek. Used to love Mannix as a kid (with Gail Fisher as Peggy, of course!). Ted Bessell's post- That Girl effort with the chimp is the only dog in the whole lineup, no wonder CBS was such a powerhouse in those years. Seems theme songs were a lot more interesting back then.
It Ran from 67-78... so I'd imagine it was moved at least once... But if you watch "Carol Burnett & Friends" (half hour re-cut of Carol Burnett Show) on MeTV they have a 'bumper' with a clip of Carol talking about her friendship with Alan Alda and she mentions how at one point CBS had a Powerhouse Saturday (or as it Friday) (Before Network TV all but abandoned it in the late 90s All in the Family; MASH; Mary Tyler Moore Show; Bob Newhart Show; Carol Burnett show
The reason that the first five seasons of "The Carol Burnett Show" were not syndicated is that they were coproduced by another production company (hence, the "lost shows" that were put out on D.V.D.).
What is so different before cable, everybody was on the same page basically. Hey did you see that show? Yeah. Today it's like, did you see that show? What show? I was on channel 200.
It originally aired on Tuesdays at 10 alternating with CBS news specials from fall '68 to June '71. Then from January '72 through to September '75 it normally aired at 6 pm (eastern), shifting to a couple of other different time periods for some summers. After a fall '75 hiatus, it returned to settle into its apparently permanent Sunday 7 pm slot.
Brand New tv shows and return tv shows Of CBS fall in 1972 Are The Bob Newhart show ( Bob Newhart ) - season 1 The Mary Tyler Moore show - season 3 Hawaii five o - Season 5 All in the family - season 4 Mannix - season 6 The Walton's - season 1
I Believe that One of TV's Greatest Travesties Was We Never Got a "Hawaii 5-0"/"Magnum P.I." Crossover ... or, at the Very Least, Jack Lord Guest Starring on."Magnum P.I." as Steve McGarrett
When CBS was the Tiffany Network. I'd have a hard time naming anything from their current lineup. It makes me more productive as I don't waste my time watching TV anymore.
Glitches. I hate glitches. But you're right. It was the theme of Me and the Chimp again but on a separate track under the Thursday Movie clip. It should've been deleted or at least muted on that track in the video editor program I use. But as a consolation prize, you can view the original CBS Thursday Movie clip here: ruclips.net/video/iFmWENyCz5k/видео.html Thanks.
Big Ragu He was indeed the narrator for the Rocky and Bullwinkle segments (and maybe some of the others), but Fractured Fairytales was narrated by Edward Everett Horton.
Mannix and MI were the last artifacts of the grand expansion of Desilu into one hour "location" but really on set at Culver 40 shows. MI was not as cool as it was in the 60s, but MANNIX held up with little change for its complete highly successful run. Only real change for it was Joe quitting Infotech in season two and going private with Gail Fisher as costar instead of Joe Campanela. Star Trek like all space shows was quickly cancelled after Apollo 8 and Apollo 11. Adults watched the real thing, not rubber monsters.
Yes, "M:I" had a lot of changes in cast (including leads with Peter Graves replacing Steven Hill), and though he was brilliant on "Star Trek", Leonard Nimoy just did not fit in on "M:I".
They claimed the Horta was silicon. Tribbles were fur balls or fake fur balls whatever that is made off. Gorn the lizard man was made faster on Star Trek Enterprise. Dancing girl played by Evonne Craig used green makeup whatever that is made of.
that Doris day looks so beautiful with that soft white blonde wig and that bun with those curls! I miss her show. Mondays was family night two women made me too movement looked like a fool! thanks Lucy and Doris.
Sorry, but that clip from "The C.B.S. Thursday Night Movie" is from the '70-71 season and had the original arrangement of the theme composed by Morton Stevens, rearranged for the '71-72 season and the main title sequence was changed.
This is when Television was pure Magic and exciting entertainment! Having three major networks and PBS wasn’t so bad at all...
If you were in a larger city, you also had at least 3 UHF stations.
If you think Me and the Chimp was a good show.......🤣🤣🤣
Amen brother!
Mary Tyler Moore was my mom’s show.
Mom was a single mother raising me, and she worked at a TV station. Don’t think we EVER missed an episode ( maybe one).
I liked it too.
I've got you beat -- When the Adventures of Superman was on, I was a small kid whose dad was a tall handsome reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper! with black hair and blue eyes, and a penchant for blue t-shirts beneath his suit.
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was my mom’s show as well. I never really sat through an episode, but I did like to watch the intro and see Mary throw her hat into the air. LOL!
When Television was truly a great experience!
Exactly classic tv not a whole lot of nonsense those days will never come back children today and the younger generation don’t know good tv like we did we didn’t have cable you plugged the set into the wall and had rabbit ears antennas and picked up all these shows three major networks cbs nbc abc
Yep. Well, maybe not 'Arnie' (and a few others). But not bad, considering the relative lack of competition.
Hawaii 5-0 - might be the best theme to anything, ever.
I agree it is a great theme but Mission Impossible is right up there too.
@@hectorsmommy1717 Man From UNCLE FTW!
Mannix,50,mission impossible the best opening intros.
One year away from the best night of TV ever: Starting in 1973, Saturday nights on CBS meant All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, Bob Newhart, and Carol Burnett.
@Konga 5000 .. THAT show didn't premiere until 1975.
That is the superb lineup I remember watching as a kid with my family. My brother, myself and our very own “Mary “ - Mom!
I feel so mortal right now. Most of these stars are gone now, and they were so much a part of my life back in the day. Our time here is so limited.
I feel the same way and I think I remember most of these shows except me and the chimp.
I'm guessing it was around the same time as BJ and the Bear and Every which way but loose.
Cannonball run had a chimp to.
Misson Impossible
Came on sunday night canada
God this was my life as a 10 year old in Ontario canada this was great seeing the entros to these
Old shows i love it
Thank you for posting this
My childhood in 30 minutes
So many 1sts for me, my parents were still married and good relationship, sitting cross-legged on the floor, my 1st girlfriend, first real stereo, Led Zeppelin records, am radio at night, national lampoon and mad and famous monsters magazine subscriptions. Partying with friends. I look back now, I never wanted it to end.
Lucille Ball, Cher, Tim Conway, Glenn Campbell, James Arness, Jack Lord, Carol Burnette, Fred MacMurray, Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke. Wow just wow.
By my count, that's at least five legitimately classic theme songs. Not too shabby.
I was 6 yrs old when these wonderful T.V. series were being aired..I can remember Sonny & Cher,Doris Day,Lucy,Gunsmoke Hawaii Five-O, and one of my all time fav's Medical Center(I had this crush on Chad Everett at only 6 yrs old) I would lay next to the T.V. and just gaze at his "Hotness"..Lol! This is awesome going down memory lane I could keep on going with my list of favorites like My Three Sons and Mary Tyler Moore but then I would end up listing all of them..Lol! Any way thank you for sharing this with us..
CBS must have been king at this point. Look at what's included in that line up. Carol Burnett, MTM, AitF, and Mission Impossible were all great shows, and you still had Gunsmoke and My Three Sons and popular shows like Mannix and Cannon on the roster. Sonny & Cher and Glen Campbell were also pretty strong variety shows. I guess MASH was yet to come.
That's packing heat.
Fred Silverman must have still ben the head of programming
CBS was in the proverbial catbird seat throughout most of the '70s (until at least 1976 or so), thanks to the late Fred Silverman as head honcho.
Never thought I'd find myself agreeing with Archie Bunker, but...those *were* the days!
Yeah...back when you could expect your wife to stay home and you could be racist without being called out on it. Ahhh...memories....
@@Darbobski Much worse to be found out unable to do any better than thinking in cliches.
When they lamented that "girls were girls and men were men" I don't think they could fathom what we deal with today.
@@Drchainsaw77 yes, it would be worse to be a Trump fan... you're right.
@@Darbobski What a shame you have yet to say anything that _isn't_ childish or stupid.
It's hard to believe that some executives were sitting around a table and said, "Me and the Chimp, I think it's got a shot." That looked like a dumpster fire.....
And created by Gary Marshall, who went on to produce a lot better shows than that.
@@gallery7596 And plenty worse.
It's one thing for a bit of shit to sneak through, it's another to let the S&C Comedy Hour go on year after year. Good Grief.
@@Drchainsaw77 No! The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour was great. 🙂. I liked The Hudson Brothers TV show too. I know... it's all a matter of opinion.
Brad Britton yes this show should be placed for Saturday morning. Thursday is a bad time for this show because you got flip Wilson, Ironside, Dean Martin, Paul lynne shows, in concert, laugh in, red skeleton. it has a good theme for only little children will by it. I love the pretty chimp buttons.
Mission impossible the tv show was awesome. The movies can't touch them.
I so agree
The difference between "M:I," the classic espionage-theme TV series, and the "M:I" franchise movies is Tom Cruise.
The TV version was an assemble venture among the cast, while the film version is All About Tom Cruise.
Cade’s County....forgot about that one. Love the theme.
Was in the studio audience for one of the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hours back in ‘72. Rick Springsteen was the special guest. Also saw an episode of All In The Family being taped. Good old days.
Before Rockford there was this guy called Joe Mannix.
It’s kinda crazy that these intros should be the most dated, owing to their age, but there’s a beautiful simplicity and efficiency to 85% of them. There’s a timeless quality that somehow got away from the networks who made them.
I was 9 in 72 and I remember all these shows, I always loved the Theme Song from Cades County, Thank You for the great Memories 👍 😀
As a kid I loved Lucy's Show animated intro.
Hawaii 5-O, Mission Impossible and Mannix theme songs will always be fantastic!
When hawaii five o was good, not that lousy one on now!
Best opening and theme ever.
Love the intro and loved Jack Lord.
These are the shows that my family watched when I was 10. We must have been a CBS kind of family! Well, not Me and the Chimp, but many of the others.
The ‘Cannon’ intro kills me. Every one they show starring in the program has a look of ‘disgust/distain/constipation’ 🤣
Big Ragu blasphemy!!!!
And Boss Hogg is one of ‘em!
Interesting to see Doris Day, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore, all have top shows on CBS, in 1972. Also shows like Mannix, Medical Center and Mission Impossible, along with Gunsmoke, made television back then, so well worth watching. So sad that television today, has lost that magic.
Sonny & Cher was back before Cher went crazy and Chaz was still cute little Chastity Bono.
you are s right! Before the world went to Hell and became so trashy!!
Cher is whacko now
@@haveanicedave1551
I haven't seen Cher in a long time.
She was wacko years ago.
@@nickhill8612 I wouldn't be surprised. Look at her daughter. I mean, son.
Thank you for posting this. The other day I was trying to remember the name of a show where a guy was promoted to an executive position. I only remember one episode where he accidentally shredded some documents. I think it was Arnie.
I don't care what anyone says- things were better then. People were nicer, music was actually music, people didn't feel the need to complain all the time, tv and movies were actually well-written and entertaining, we weren't raising a generation of sociopaths...
No cable, no satellite, no internet...just three network stations and pbs...and you’d watch all of these shows without a phone in your hand or lap! Man, those were the days!
Indeed! And no social media, either!
No magic at all in today's so called TV. Hearing these theme songs takes me back to our living room as a little boy, my grandmother in her chair with her cigarettes and sanka and her hair is in curlers. Amazing what music can do, the feelings that it elicits. All these stars ... some have been gone for decades already. Time FLIES.
I can't believe I wasted so much of my childhood watching these shows.
I'm wasting many of my senior moments watching these same shows now. I usually watch ME TV or Antenna TV. I remember having Mannix on TV when my kids were getting ready for school in the late 1990s and my then 6 year old son wanting to know why " that guy wearing a suit and tie was always beating someone up."
I used to have to ask to stay up to watch gunsmoke. it came on at 8, even when i didnt get permission, i'd lay flat on the ground in the hallway to watch it. I was six years old in 1972.
I did the same with Hawaii Five-0
How in the hell did something as ridiculous as Me And The Chimp ever make it as a series?! It's almost as ridiculous as The Flying Nun yet that one stayed around for a while. WTF?!
Best opening ever goes to Hawaii Five-O. Hands down. That was exhilarating!
Thanks. Gr8 time capsule of early 70's pop culture. Some of these shows were memorable others forgettable , still good job.
You can see Cher is uncomfortable being with Sunny. She doesn’t want him to touch her. Just going through the motions. He’s gonna get dumped!
He did she divorced him but I think she regretted it. and Her marriage to Greg Altman because she always loved sonny
@@jonimichalski9193 Cher said that Sonny Bono was too controlling and he constantly cheated on her. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
She ended up crying through her eulogy for him.
Moral: stay away from Armenians.
back when tv had good shows
That Here's Lucy intro above is my favorite Here's Lucy musical intro, but it is not the one used from ' 71 to '72, '72 to '73 and '73 to '74 when Here's Lucy ended. The intro above aired for the first three seasons from '68 to '69, '69 to '70 and '70 to '71 when Desi was on the show. Desi Arnaz, Jr. permanently left the series before the 4th season premiered and was not even available for every episode starting in the third season because he wanted try to make it in movies. Not only was his name off the show by the 4th season onward, but the theme music was updated twice.
Boy, CBS was kicking some major ass this season!
and MASH was just months away
Don't forget about "The Waltons," "Maude," and "The Bob Newhart Show," @@copndonuts! All four of those programs debuted the same week (in September of '72), if memory serves.
Detective shows were cool, and my favorite was Mannix!
I miss Mannix. I was in high school when that show was at its peak.
Mannix: best tv drama theme song ever, Lalo Shifrin at his best
I miss Mannix. I was in high school when that show was at its peak.
Agreed!
Lalo also scored Mission Impossible...his masterpiece
A trip in the Way Back Machine to my freshman year in high school. I remember Cade's County, it was a good show, kinda the Longmire of it's day. 😉
My folks never called Gunsmoke by it's title. They'd say " It's time for Matt and Kitty" or " Turn on Doc and Festus."
Amazing montage of CBS' dominance during the tail end of the 1971-72 television season! Despite the failure of newcomers like "Cade's County," "O'Hara: United States Treasury," "The Don Rickles Show," and the infamous "Me And The Chimp," CBS was still on top of the ratings game. Long-running classics like "Gunsmoke," "Here's Lucy," "Mannix," "Hawaii Five-O," "Medical Center," "The Doris Day Show," "Mission: Impossible," "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour," "My Three Sons," and "The Carol Burnett Show" still attracted viewers, as did more recent successes like "Arnie," "Cannon," "The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and, of course, "All In The Family."
Thanks for uploading, RwDt09!
The next year brought shows like Mash and the Waltons which continued their ratings dominance
Don't forget "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Maude"!
I'm quite amazed that considering I was a young teen in '72, and I would never have watched "Cades County"... that when that theme came on, I remembered it instantly!
I had no idea "Cade's County" even existed until it came on TV Land in the late 90s.
I want to give a shout-out to the fantastic theme music many of these shows had. Instantly recognizable and memorable. It's a shame that show introductions have been eliminated in favor of more advertising.
ARNIE was very underrated (I've been seeing a little of it here on RUclips, and I hope it's still there).
No one could play a funny authority figure better than Roger Bowen.
Roger Bowen also played Henry Blake in the movie M*A*S*H
Thank you for the memories.
Particularly because I never remember Carol Burnett being on any other day but Saturday.
Wow
Carol was on Mondays at 10 (ET) from 1967 to 1971. She was on Wednesdays at 8 from September 1971-December 1972, at which point she moved to her best-remembered timeslot, Saturdays at 10, until either December 1977 or January 1978. She had been beaten decisively by "The Love Boat" in the fall of '77; also, Harvey Korman had left and Dick Van Dyke had unsuccessfully tried to fill his shoes. Carol ended her run in what was then one of CBS's weakest timeslots, Sundays at 10.
That's Clare Fischer on Yamaha organ on Henry Mancini's "Cade's County" theme (NOT a synthesizer).
I forgot all about the new Dick Vandyke show and Arnie. I didn't realize My three sons was on still at that time.
My Three Sons was on its "last legs" by then...Rob was married to Tina Cole (on the show)and Ernie and Chip were all grown up.
Interesting. At the 11:13 mark, Me and the Chimp music jumps back in! I guess the chimp wasn't quite done yet. I guess I should have read the note above! Sigh!
I was only 3 but I remember some of these that had longer runs
I loved Sonny and Cher , Book'em Danno as I danced around tge room to the beat of that song , Canon had a car phone in his Lincoln Mark 5 , The Carol Burnett Show was never missed , Medical Center was almost forgotten , Mannix was my mothers favorite along with Barnaby Jones , Archie Bunker was the best exposé of honest bigotry ever , Listening to these theme songs and light hearted sitcoms you can see how dark and edgey things are now ...I hope bright colors , upbeat themes , and light entertainment come back some time soon .
All these CLASSY LADIES. Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball, Barbara Eden.... etc. etc. Just pure class.
@@alanoldham1700 nope!😂😂😂
13:17 - Don Rickles ❤❤❤
Thank you for posting this. I remember these shows and many were quite good but Me and the Chimp was probably the dumbest show in tv history.
Cade’s County ❗️
I actually managed to find the series on DVD.
Just as good as I remembered.
Possibly would have continued but really was only meant to fill for summer. Was replaced by MASH ,I think.
Certainly had a good opening theme tune. I always remember the episode about the "Chicago love bead murders."
Gall ery
Theme song for Cade’s County was by Henry Mancini ❗️
(Peter Gunn/Pink Panther/ Baby Elephant Walk/....).🙂
"M*A*S*H" did indeed replace the short-lived "Cade's County" in September of '72, Jeff Cooper.
Demetrius Dillard
Thanks.
I thought it did.
( Mom was nuts over MASH).
You're very welcome,@@jeffking4176!
I liked the cannon episode where cannon got knocked out with an electric fence I made sure to be very careful around any fence.
Cannon, starring William Conrad, the man with the face just made for radio...And Norman Lear: the man who made a career out of ripping off British sit-coms...
William Conrad was well aware that he wasn’t a handsome tv star. He went on to star in Jake and the Fatman, after all 🤣
Not long ago Me TV aired late at night, Hawaii Five-o, Mission Impossible, and even Kojak. Also, one of my other favorites was Combat. Even now they show Cannon and Mannix each night.All damn good shows.
H&I also called Heroes and Icons airs war shows on Saturday afternoon and again Saturday evenings.
We used to joke how Mannix would back up into danger in the next episode.
Wonder if Ray Harryhausen did the stop-motion for the Lucy intro?
I remember the days of free TV 📺! We had CBS, NBC, ABC, Channel 11 & 13 ( for cartoons)-Loved ❤️Lucy!! And they were great 👍!
I got to stay up for Sonny and Cher too-very funny 😁
Book em Danno, murder one!
The audio for these clips plays at only half-strength until 16:38
Actors and Actresses on Medical Center sure have to remember hard words and know what they mean.
I miss the days of variety shows 😕
TV like everything else ain't what it used to be
I always really liked the "Mannix" theme.
My favorite was the first version with the strings instead of the piano, if you see "Once upon a time in Hollywood", set in 1969, you will hear the original "Mannix" theme.
I forgot about the Chimp show. Ted Bessel was the perfect supportive boyfriend and could have been cast in any professional single woman show. Like a Ken doll. Putting him in a madcap family show with a chimp was bad. Real bad. Bad as it sounds.
Kami Cotler would extend her Homecoming role into The Waltons for some actual high quality work. Rare in the 70s.
Ted Bessel played the boyfriend on That Girl.
Paul Cooper. Thus the Ken Doll reference. He was her supportive accessory for the madcap fashion sitcom. In the original outline he was her agent and fiancé at the start Donald Bluesky. The Desilu execs thought that made him more like a pimp and they reworked him to a much better character. Really a perfect straight man on the show. Visually and Acting.
The Chimp show was because Gary Marshal couldn't sell "New Family in Town" (Happy Days 1952) the year before. American Graffiti was made by Coppela and Lucas the next year, and reworked 1955 Rock and Roll Happy Days at the Drive-in diner sold.
Gotta love the cheesy graphics/loud colors in some of these intros, like Cannon, Sonny & Cher, and Medical Center. Some weird music for the themes, too. ;)
13:51- "From TELEVISION CITY, in Hollywood........"
man you fooled me! I thought H5-O! was Thursdays,that my granny's favorite she digs spy and crime mystery shows especially the old British ones .
I always wondered how the folks who worked on Me And The Chimp felt about having that on their resume.
Yeah, I have to say I don't remember Me and the Chimp. I'm grateful!
Then NBC came out with BJ & the Bear!
They were proud to have presented such a significant creative work to mankind.
@@voodoo49
Haha yes
I remember watching most of these with my parents
Thank you.
I remember and watched all but three or four of these. I guess my parents liked CBS.
I never missed Medical Center, Gunsmoke, Sonny and Cher.
I was 4 in 1972 but I would have loved to see Cade's County....
Television just flat had more imagination and creativity than it does today. Sad that now all you get are shows that stereotype a specific group and 30 minutes of fart jokes.
Not just fat jokes, fat jokes, sexual innuendo, killing, maiming etc. WHAT have we become?
Absolutely!
Sad but true,@@lawrenceeytcheson1317.
I miss the variety shows
They have no creativity at all and never take real risks. Could you imagine All In The Family and The Jeffersons how those shows "pushed the envelope" of society. Mary Tyler Moore and That Girl. Not now. No one wants to offend anyone.
I know that the show Emergency! Was on NBC at 7 or 8:00 PM on a Saturday.
I don't remember Carol Burnett being on midweek. Used to love Mannix as a kid (with Gail Fisher as Peggy, of course!). Ted Bessell's post- That Girl effort with the chimp is the only dog in the whole lineup, no wonder CBS was such a powerhouse in those years. Seems theme songs were a lot more interesting back then.
Kami Cotler fared much better later that year with "The Waltons".
It Ran from 67-78... so I'd imagine it was moved at least once...
But if you watch "Carol Burnett & Friends" (half hour re-cut of Carol Burnett Show) on MeTV they have a 'bumper' with a clip of Carol talking about her friendship with Alan Alda and she mentions how at one point CBS had a Powerhouse Saturday (or as it Friday) (Before Network TV all but abandoned it in the late 90s
All in the Family; MASH; Mary Tyler Moore Show; Bob Newhart Show; Carol Burnett show
The reason that the first five seasons of "The Carol Burnett Show" were not syndicated is that they were coproduced by another production company (hence, the "lost shows" that were put out on D.V.D.).
Tim, all 11 seasons of "The Carol Burnett Show" were taped at C.B.S. Television City (except for a show that was taped at the Sydney opera House).
@@vividwatch47 by "Moved" I meant Night of the Week" (in ref to @Marcel's comment about it being on Wednesday in the video) ... not production site
What is so different before cable, everybody was on the same page basically. Hey did you see that show? Yeah. Today it's like, did you see that show? What show? I was on channel 200.
Haha yes you are absolutely right.
Cher made the Sunny and Cher show!
The only channel we got was wcax out of Burlington VT which was CBS so growing up we had no choice either watch these shows or nothing.
I feel your pain. We couldn't pick up ABC.
No 60 Minutes? That show has owned early Sunday night since September 1968.
It originally aired on Tuesdays at 10 alternating with CBS news specials from fall '68 to June '71. Then from January '72 through to September '75 it normally aired at 6 pm (eastern), shifting to a couple of other different time periods for some summers. After a fall '75 hiatus, it returned to settle into its apparently permanent Sunday 7 pm slot.
Brand New tv shows and return tv shows Of CBS fall in 1972
Are
The Bob Newhart show ( Bob Newhart ) - season 1
The Mary Tyler Moore show - season 3
Hawaii five o - Season 5
All in the family - season 4
Mannix - season 6
The Walton's - season 1
Also
Cannon - season 2
Mash - season 1
I Believe that One of TV's Greatest Travesties Was We Never Got a "Hawaii 5-0"/"Magnum P.I." Crossover ... or, at the Very Least, Jack Lord Guest Starring on."Magnum P.I." as Steve McGarrett
When CBS was the Tiffany Network. I'd have a hard time naming anything from their current lineup. It makes me more productive as I don't waste my time watching TV anymore.
From 11:12 to 12:05, there seems to be another song on the soundtrack, underneath the video...??
Glitches. I hate glitches. But you're right. It was the theme of Me and the Chimp again but on a separate track under the Thursday Movie clip. It should've been deleted or at least muted on that track in the video editor program I use. But as a consolation prize, you can view the original CBS Thursday Movie clip here: ruclips.net/video/iFmWENyCz5k/видео.html
Thanks.
"Me and the Chimp" once is more than enough! ;)
I’ll bet that Lucy caricature is worth a fortune.
I don't really recall Cade's County, but the others I instantly knew.
CBS Saturday night - phenomenal!
Inman. Bhl
William Conrad did more than Cannon. Well known on radio as Matt Dillon before Arness on TV. He was also Nero Wolff and Jake and the Fatman.
Kieran O'Rourke he also was the narrator for the Fractured Fairy Tales and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, if I’m not mistaken.
You're absolutely right,@@The_Great_Darino!
Big Ragu He was indeed the narrator for the Rocky and Bullwinkle segments (and maybe some of the others), but Fractured Fairytales was narrated by Edward Everett Horton.
Tim Conway....Magic
Back in the days when you saw an Armenian-American on TV they were ACTING!
Or SINGING!
Mannix and MI were the last artifacts of the grand expansion of Desilu into one hour "location" but really on set at Culver 40 shows. MI was not as cool as it was in the 60s, but MANNIX held up with little change for its complete highly successful run. Only real change for it was Joe quitting Infotech in season two and going private with Gail Fisher as costar instead of Joe Campanela. Star Trek like all space shows was quickly cancelled after Apollo 8 and Apollo 11. Adults watched the real thing, not rubber monsters.
Yes, "M:I" had a lot of changes in cast (including leads with Peter Graves replacing Steven Hill), and though he was brilliant on "Star Trek", Leonard Nimoy just did not fit in on "M:I".
They claimed the Horta was silicon. Tribbles were fur balls or fake fur balls whatever that is made off. Gorn the lizard man was made faster on Star Trek Enterprise. Dancing girl played by Evonne Craig used green makeup whatever that is made of.
that Doris day looks so beautiful with that soft white blonde wig and that bun with those curls! I miss her show. Mondays was family night two women made me too movement looked like a fool! thanks Lucy and Doris.
Killer bass player in the Medical Center theme...
Sorry, but that clip from "The C.B.S. Thursday Night Movie" is from the '70-71 season and had the original arrangement of the theme composed by Morton Stevens, rearranged for the '71-72 season and the main title sequence was changed.
As a kid, there wasn't much on CBS worth watching for me. Saturday Night was about it. Sonny and Cher were on too late.
Carol Kaye and the Wrecking Crew on most of these theme songs!
Hawaii 5.0 theme ROCKS.
I was just 10 years old....
The concept of this is great. I like seeing the shows to recall memories…. Sadly tho, this particular video is shoddy.
How many of these shows are on DVD? Which shows?