Ahhhhhhhhhhh 😫 I feel so old. But they were great times, some sad days, some smiles. One tv in the house (black and white, till your family could afford a color tv and the giant tube radio too). Oh I am so glad some of these shows are posted in full here and on Dailymotion 😃 and I should say also never forget old radio shows, still playing on the radio today....in NY on Sunday nights on WBAI 99.5, they are online too. Thanks dad for that transistor radio with the one white earplug that look like an egg lol...ohhhh I feel old again. Kimba Rules🦁!
Same here , three kids mom amd dad , Magnavox TV BB guns , Mattel Toy Co Viet Nam era war toys. Miss my mom and dad but I know i will see them again someday.
Oh!!! mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Watched at our Grandparents house with the volume turned up until the wood paneling on the walls would vibrate!!! Loved those nights 😍
As soon as I saw the very first frame , I knew "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". The mind is a wonderous thing, I couldn't tell you what I had for dinner last night!
Oh I used to love My world and welcome to I when I was young, I used to be pen pals with Lisa Geritson in fact going back to the time when she acted on Mary Tyler Moore's show, she was the daughter or niece of Cloris leachman's character... 😂 Wow, the second hundred years! Used to love that show with Monte Markham, very funny show indeed! Another fine job Fred, never seen a video where you dropped the ball, you're very meticulous and always entertaining Fred!
Holy crap! That one episode of Tom Jones had Joey Heatherton (super hot ..also did mattress commercials) , The Moody Blues, Richard Pryor and...Peter Sellers! Good god y'all!
Just stopped to write at the Wild Kingdom segment. I absolutely loved that series & fell in love with all the stories. Interesting & informative, an African safari is still on my bucket list because of this show. God bless Marlin Perkins,Steve Irwin,Jack Hanna,etc.
Ah! "Here Come the Brides," a fave of all my family's females, including my 5 yr old self (surprised anyone remembers it). Sigh, David Soul, Bobby Sherman, & Star Trek's Sarek himself, Mark Lenard, all in the same show! Still love Tom Jones to this day: a consummate performer w/the best guests ever! Still watch "One Step Beyond," on DVD. Had a Talking "Julia" Barbie; she's long gone, but her sexy gold & silver jumpsuit survives. Prevalent sci-fi & supernatural themes of the '60's & '70's left a lasting impression, forever influencing my film/literary tastes awa widening my perspective on life's/reality's possibilities. Thanx, FredFlix!
Boy the graphics & costumes have come a long way. You should have seen my grandson, 12, try to wrap his mind around having to wait to see a program & not being able to see it again if you missed it. Kids don't have anticipation today or learn to delay gratification. This was a fun mash up of my young life, many thanks!
Thank you so much for these great memories... I'd forgotten most of these, but this brought them all back! PS: I never realized those girls in that UFO show had purple hair -- we only had B&W TV so I thought their hair was silver! lol
Here Come the Brides was a big deal if you lived in the Seattle TV market. That show, along with the '62 World's Fair that was a setting for an Elvis movie, put Seattle on the map at a time when if you told people you lived there or near there, they were likely to respond, "Seattle? Where's that?"
It depends. I remember the 1960's Super hero stuff as well as the reruns of Popeye the sailor and Loony Tunes. If you are talking about stuff like Sponge Bob Square pants Then I agree with you however nothing beats the Dragon Ball Z, Justice League Unlimited and One Punch Man.
I loved "Here Come the Brides!" It was the sweetest, most charming show. I never missed it! I just adored Joan Blondell. Robert Brown was the handsomest man on TV in those days and Bobby Sherman was the cutest! Be still my eleven-year-old heart! 💕💕💕
That sexy Tom Jones! I wished that I'd seen the first season, that debuted in the US in February '69. I can really dance to the theme for the television series, "UFO".
That damn Bobby Sherman show came on same time as Star Trek, one week my sister got to watch that and the next week I got to see ST! Been close to 50 years since I saw Cade's County, still got the theme song in 2 notes, my brain should have better things to do.
Oh my God..I actually had a dishonest John hand puppet from the Beany and Cecil cartoon show that played his laugh ( ya ha ha !) when you pulled the string. I haven't thought about that puppet in let's say...lol....quite a long time. Thanks for the memories!
I remember most of B&C's theme song, with Cecil opening his big mouth at the end. The character name Dishonest John was one I always remembered, although B&C wasn't one of my favorite cartoons in those days. I loved his laugh, "ya-a-ah!"
that show "The Immortal" looks so FAMILIAR! wow! more walks down memory lane. hee hee love it. Glenn Ford was a great actor! always kinda reminded me of my dad who ironically (or not) was named Glen (one n). :) and back in the "old days" there were GREAT cartoons on Saturday morning..loved Saturdays just for the morning cartoons - boy have things changed!
Yes! My brother had both Beany and Cecil. They were quite big for puppets (more like dolls), and when you pulled their strings, they talked, though I don't remember what they said.
"While we're 500 feet away in the armored car, Jim wrestles with a leopard. And just as a mother leopard protects her cubs, Mutual of Omaha wants to protect you!"
I was just joking about that very type of thing last weekend, making a parallel to The Incredible Dr. Pol! Not too many years ago I had a great set of Wild Kingdom DVDs, and I watched through them several times (running them on a little DVD player while I worked late evenings and on weekends) before deciding to donate them to my nephew and niece for the educatainment value. I suspect their parents just unloaded it at a garage sale -- probably never even watched them -- because that's how they roll. By the way, did you ever hear about how that Stan Brock guy turned out? He was an amazing humanitarian and a true hero! He left this world for the next one only about six months ago.
God bless you Fred! Your work is so soothing to the many BabyBoomer Souls who have lost their family. These Wonderful Memories Of Better Days are so appreciated. Thank you, Sir!
I want to see the whole episode of the Tom Jones with Joey Heatherton. I am one year older than "Fred" and I had the super hots for Joey, what a dancer what great legs. My dream girl back then. Wow!
Another hit out of the park, Fred. So many good shows, cosigned to the recesses of our minds. Man, the intro to The Immortal and U.F.O. plus T.H.E. Cat have me yearning to break out the box sets and make a marathon out of it. Bless you Fred, for all you do and all the good memories you give us. Merry Christmas to you.
The Immortal is one of the earliest shows I remember my parents watching. Fletcher (the guy hired to find Richards) haunted my dreams a whole lot back then. Another wonderful video Fred!
Actually I was kind of obsessed with The Immortal when I was 15 or so. I recorded several episodes on audio tape. Finally saw it again on the Sci Fi Channel in the '90s. It's now out on DVD. Of course, it's not as good as I remembered. But Fletcher was indeed ruthless, if somewhat incompetent. On more than one occasion he caught Ben Richards but then just tossed him in the back seat without handcuffing him. I guess if he did, Ben wouldn't have been able to get away and the show would end. As it is it only lasted 15 episodes. Not exactly long-living.
Oldbmwr100rs: That's for sure! There were SO many shows that I remember where the theme song and opening sequence was really the best part of the show!! It really SUCKS now that networks and producers have pretty much gotten rid of theme songs from shows - they often made the show!
Everytime i think you have touched my heart in a heartwarming way with these wonderful memories, here you go again wow this is so awsome I'm always having tears of joy Flex always, please keep up the awsome work 💯👍💖
@@luisreyes1963 But the characters were mostly middle class: lawyers, bankers, and the shananigans they got into. I remember it from the very early 1960s before I knew it was 'racist" against blacks. They did show a couple of lower-class blacks performing their jobs, but just as white people, many who also had lower-class jobs portrayed on tv. The black elitists in the NAACP had no stomach for having their people portrayed the way it was, with Amos 'n' Andy scheming for money, just as whites do and did. PC started running amok from that time forward to today's most extremist ways not imaginable in 1962/63.
Beany & Cecil was a puppet show before it was a cartoon. On nearly every episode there was something that triggered Cecil to go crazy and lick somebody. Big slobbering wet licks (supposedly wet licks). Kids imitated this and would go nuts, licking teachers, other students, etc. Not a healthy behavior.
The strange memories and associations....I've never been a TV viewer of any great magnitude, but 'Coronet Blue' prompts a vivid memory of sitting in my grandfather's blue-green overly cushioned rocking chair one cold evening and this show came on. That annoyingly catchy theme song stuck in my head forever yet only saw it once. Late Sunday afternoon's 'Wild Kingdom' makes me recall having take a bath for school the next day after the show.
I loved "Saturday Night at the Movies" and eventually the other days of the week. Their movies were newer and better IMO than what was shown on TV in the 50s. But, there's always exceptions. I loved watching King Kong 1933 in the 50s. I had a repeating nightmare trying to run through the jungle on Skull Island. My legs would hardly move and I couldn't make any progress. Kept looking over my shoulder for Kong to grab me!
I remember the vast majority of these shows. Even The Next Hundred Years. Maybe I watched way too much TV when I was a kid. But I don't care. It was a great time for a kid to watch adult shows.
I had the experience of "The Immortal" happened to me when I was 55. For one unbelievable year, I felt like I was 21. A medical accident I was never able to repeat. Laugh if you want, but it happened.
Sitting on the floor at home watching tv -- priceless - except for Amos and Andy, too young for that. --- and my drill team danced to Cade's County one football season
Keep up the great work! I love older TV shows and movies, especially those made in the 50's to 60's! The fifties and sixties were a helluva time to live...god, wish I could have lived then
It WAS special, and no just because I grew up then. Everything seemed to converge, allowing for the best pop culture ever yet also retaining the family unit and a simple life when only one parent worked and the mother took care of the home and kids. Add to that the excitement of the moon race but the feeling of dread that it could all end in a minute with nuclear war.
FredFlix ...Damn. I commend you, I truly do. Perhaps even envy you slightly. I have yet to see something portray the 50's in a way I didn't find interesting or intriguing. My only issue...they were literally putting radioactive materials into a whole plethora of products at the time as the great wonders of nuclear power dawned amongst them. I do wish I could find an old fallout safety preparedness video entitled "Duck And Cover! " from roughly this time
MY MOTHER the CAR?!?!? wtf were they smoking? Why not just go ahead and do, My Brother the Sink Faucet, or My Sister the Vacuum Cleaner... My Cousin the CatLitter Box.
@@theministersal702 Dude, they managed the brilliant "I Love Lucy" and "Phil Silvers Show" back when "TV was in its infancy". That was simply a shitty show.
So many of the shows I'd forgotten. Loved UFO, Cades County.My husband became a s.o.b. after I started taking a stand on what tv shows I wanted to watch. We only had one b&w set, in the living room. I had to negotiate to watch Star Trek. But when the Tom Jones show started, I told him to get his own set, I was watching Tom. Actually, I got a set in the bedroom. What can you expect from a farmer that loved his tractor? ;)
There are shows that are on for decades, then others only a season or two. It is interesting the ones that make such a lasting impression on us. I remember the opening to Guns of Will Sonnet but I was so very young I could not tell you a single story. Thanks for the memories. I'd LOVE to see some of those "21st Centry" shows and see what they got right and wrong.
I think "Guns of Will Sonnett" is the only show in this compilation that is completely unrecognizable to me. Don't know how I missed it, but I think I'll try to find some episodes to check out. After all ... Walter Brennan! And doing white-man's rap as the intro theme! Puts him right up there with Jimmy Dean, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Lorne Greene. Priceless!
Fred, you're killin' me! 25 minutes of this great stuff is a nostalgia overload! I want to comment on so many things, I could go on for paragraphs. For this comment, I'll focus on "The Immortal". I was fascinated by that show when I was a kid because I was afraid of dying in my sleep thanks to that infernal prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep...". When I saw The Immortal, I thought that if I had type O negative blood, I would live forever. It turns out I do have type O neg. but I know now I'm not living forever but at the time, the thought did help me get over that fear I had.
The Immortal was my favorite show at the time, Herb. No, I didn't fear I'd die in my sleep, but I was crushed when it was canceled. They showed reruns the next summer and I recorded every episode on audio cassette. I really enjoyed the music by Dominic (The Outer Limits) Frontiere. The show is now out on DVD but in e final analysis it was just a routine chase show with a hint of sci fi. However, Chris George was very good in the lead role and Fletcher was an interesting antagonist.
Hey Fred, glad to know The Immortal was a fav of yours too. I can't believe it made it to DVD. Not available on Netflix, I just checked. I also liked Christopher George on "Rat Patrol". I think you did at least one other video including a clip from that. Chris George was everywhere on TV and movies for a few years and then, dead at the age of 53.
I know I couldn't wait to find out my blood type and it was O positive. Christopher George was solid and think made the show in my opinion. I was a chase show, but there was always something that made you think, or maybe it was just me being a kid. Good to know it's on DVD.
Herb Bluntman: Christopher George only lived to be 53??!! I didn't know he had died! So ironic that he died so young and proved NOT to be immortal! Yeah, he also starred in "The Rat Patrol", and Dominic Frontiere did the theme music to that show, too. It's funny, I don't remember "The Immortal" at all - what years did it run and what network was it on? I DO remember "The Rat Patrol" though, as that was my older sister's favorite show!
Steve Carras Bob Clampett worked for Leon Schlesinger on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons..he was also a producer on the infamous So White and De Sebben Dwarfs cartoon that was blatantly racist even for the 1940s..He then created the live show Time for Beany which was a hit in the 1950s which was the forerunner of the Beany and Cecil franchise...I was a neighbor of June Foray, so i learned much of cartoon history from her...
Yes, I watched Beany and Cecil in the 1960s, but it wasn't complete like its shown here, and I'm seeing a cartoon version of that crazy Taurus, Bob Clampett, for the first time!
I remember a lot of these great shows and themes and also many that I'm not that familiar with. nice to see what was on back in the day and how many were short lived and others that lasted for a couple of seasons. to me these shows still beat what is on these days! fun to watch this fred, thanks! rob
Agnes Moorhead was one of the orig. Mercury Theatre players as well. Houseman embraced socialist principles and was rousted by NYC cops for producing a blatantly pro-Communist play (name unrecalled) in about 1940.
Chilling fact about "Citizen Kane": The obvious target/subject of the piece, publisher William R. Hearst, did everything he could -- in court and otherwise -- to stop production of the film. His efforts failed, and young Orson Welles attended the opening night at a big theater in Hollywood. Leaving the movie palace, he was buttonholed by a sympathetic LA cop who told him, "Mr. Welles, be careful, they're out to ruin you. Back in your hotel room there's an underage girl on the bed and a private detective on the fire escape with a camera. You get me?" Welles did. He threw his hotel key down a sewer grating and immediately took a taxi for the airport, headed for NY until things cooled down.
The Mattel theme was recycled as Matty's Funnies as the lead in to Beany and Cecil, but when Bob Clampett took over full control over the franchise(ala Jay Ward with Rocky and Bullwinkle), Mattel was just an adjunct sponsor of the show, but ABC held the initial broadcast contract...
Mark Rocovich That makes sense to me now. My dad was a toy designer for Mattel and I remember getting all those Beany and Cecil toys when I never asked for them. Thank you for that puzzle piece in my life !
All the old TV shows that were the our reason for living. We would do extra chores to see some of these shows, like Here Come The Bride's, or some of the weekend NBC movies. I had a Cecil stuffed animal, until l tried to make a swing out of it, and Cecil ripped in half. Mom threw it away before l could hide Cecil!!!! I forgot about the Impossibles, so sixties.💞😘💘💚💛💙💜
I was not alive yet for any of this, but I find it interesting. Seems wholesome and full of culture, wth happened to us? Seems tv has turned to anger and hate to get us to continue watching now.
Anger, hate, and fear all cause a release of adrenaline, which can be addictive (or too stressful). The addicted ones keep watching. It's about the same mind-body reaction that makes horror films so popular.
I remember watching some of Wild Kingdom, and movie and tv series Paper Chase. I had a mild tv crush on James Hart. His morbidly amusing waking-up-screaming nightmare of Professor Kingsfield burying him is something probably more people symlathize with than they may admit at one point or another in life.
When I was a kid, I had a Wild Kingdom board game. One of the questions in the game was "The tapir has a long prehensile nose. (T or F)" I said false because the picture of the tapir on the card didn't have a particularly long nose and I didn't know what prehensile meant. The answer was True. My knowledge of the meaning of "prehensile" dates from that moment but I still don't think a tapir's nose is long.
The main title for "N.B.C. Saturday Night At The Movies" is actually two pieces of music, the first composed by Leon Klatzkin, the second by Skitch Henderson, and I always identify this music for feature films shown on Saturday night.
I had to drag some brain cells out of mothballs to remember some of these, and others I never knew (at least, that's what the mothballs have said). A real treat, Fred, thank you.
Fred, WHERE DO YOU GET THESE?! AMAZING! 1. I have been looking for the NBC Saturday Night at the Movies intro for ages! 2. Never have seen what was obviously the CBS NETWORK intro to Amos and Andy, with the Blatz Beer sponsorship, as opposed to the SYNDICATION intro. 3. My Mom adored Tom Jones, to my Dad's consternation! 4. Remember Beans and Cecil well! 5. Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins! 7 pm Eastern (after AFL football, and before Wonderful World of Disney ) on NBC. 6. The Second Hundred Years! King Leonardo! 7. Watched Bracken's World for the babes! 8. Diahnn Carroll as Julia! You know, Diahnn Carroll and Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek did more for integration than 500 Martin Luther Kings!!!!!!! 9.Matty's Funday Funnies. 10. Peter Potamus! You make my life brighter, sir. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Thanks, Frank. I had recorded NBC Sat Nite at Movies on audio tape in 1968 and looked for the video, like you, for years. Finally stumbled onto it on RUclips itself just a week ago. Ditto re holidays!
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Sadly, I think you're right. 😞 Anyway, Nichelle Nichols DID help influence real life for the good in that Mae Jemison, NASA's first female minority astronaut, got interested in space from watching her on "Star Trek", and Whoopi Goldberg said she got super excited when she saw a black woman on TV who wasn't playing a maid. Also, when Nichols was going to quit the show due to the hate mail she was getting (oh how times haven't changed), MLK himself urged her to stay the course, AND I think she even got moral support from William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
Here Come the Brides... A great cast and premise (yes, it was based on part of Seattle's history, and when it isn't raining the skies are indeed that blue) but a silly show that didn't have staying power. Bobby Sherman was a teen idol at the time.
When I heard the theme for Felony Squad I got goose bumps. Man I loved that show as well as Cades County. Did I see Ricochet Rabbit in with Peter Potamus?. This triggered some nice memories. Thanks Fred. Merry Christmas buddy.
Ditto, Gregg. I'd have to take another look at Peter Potamus, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Ricochet, as he was part of the Magilla Gorilla show and both were sponsored by Ideal Toys.
Fred Flix Another fantastic trip back to a time before I was old enough to watch these shows! The instrumental them for Sam Cade is haunting..was it a good show?
It would have been nice to see the Screen Gems Dancing Stick logo with the Peter Potamus and do you got the old Don Ho show or at least the beginning of the series when they were Hawaiian dancing? But I thank you for the old NBC Saturday Night At the Movies logo though it brings back a lot of memories!
No, you're not ! Totally remember that show! My mom had the hots for him! Also remember The Dean Martin show w/the gold diggers(&Cookie Bear - MY FAV!)!!!
I thought the same! From the first guest (Joey Heatherton- as a boy, I had such a crush on her!) to the last (Richard Pryor), everyone on that show was outstanding.
I don't remember the opening for NBC Saturday Night at the Movies you showed, but I remember the titles that looked like they were running on a marquee. This is also the first time I've seen anything of Bracken's World beyond mentions on Stump the Stars.
OMG, how I wish I could see episodes of that show "The 21st Century"!!! From that intro I'm guessing it was an ABC News production (from videos I've seen, their graphics from ca. 1969 - 1972 were the absolute COOLEST), and I'm guessing it was a speculative series looking into the possibilities of the future. I am super interested in shows such as those, even if they ended up being way off course, because I love seeing what people expected the future to be like and comparing their ideas to what actually ended up transpiring. Like, I just finished watching this GE report of the company from 1948 and two of the innovations they touted as holding potential for the future actually DID live up to the predictions, i.e. the discovery of silicon (a super important material in computer manufacturing) and the relatively new invention of microwave ovens. I also wish i could've seen "The Immortal" because the preview has me gripped and super psyched to see it; if Netflix were to bring the show onto its platform I would SO do a binge watch of it! I guess that shows that interesting show ideas are timeless. :)
Wonderful themes here, including and especially the poignant Walter Brennan intro for "The Guns of Will Sonnet" followed directly by the cool and jazzy theme to "T.H.E. CAT." And oh my what a guest line up for "This Is Tom Jones"!! I'd give a lot to step into a time machine and revisit those times... Thanks so much for these, Fred!
I LOVED Beanie and Cecil when I was little!
Me too!
Me too -- I had the Cecil doll who spoke when you pulled the string "I'm coming Beanie!" (my brother had the Beanie who said "Help Cecil Help!") 💜
My favorite was Dishonest John, "..Nyah Ah Ahh.."
Ahhhhhhhhhhh 😫 I feel so old. But they were great times, some sad days, some smiles. One tv in the house (black and white, till your family could afford a color tv and the giant tube radio too). Oh I am so glad some of these shows are posted in full here and on Dailymotion 😃 and I should say also never forget old radio shows, still playing on the radio today....in NY on Sunday nights on WBAI 99.5, they are online too. Thanks dad for that transistor radio with the one white earplug that look like an egg lol...ohhhh I feel old again. Kimba Rules🦁!
Loved kimba! Feeling ancient myself😂
When all of these TV shows originally aired, back in those days, if you missed something on TV, you missed it!
Summer reruns. They were a thing. :)
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Not if the show got cancelled.
The Last Years Of American Nostalgic. 1960's 1970's. I Would Go Back In A Heartbeat!
Memories of us 3 kids watching TV with Mom and Dad back in the 60s. Miss ya, Mom and Dad.
Same here , three kids mom amd dad , Magnavox TV BB guns , Mattel Toy Co Viet Nam era war toys. Miss my mom and dad but I know i will see them again someday.
Same here rip mom and dad .fuuny looking at these you tubes reminds me of mom and dad.
@@donaldhicks3359 sorry I missed your comment....great memories. I forgot all about "Beany & Cecil" we never missed it as kids. Plus so many more.
@@Fran-tl6bx it was a great time to be a kid in the 60s. So many memories of fun times as a kid.
Laying on the living room floor looking at our big console TV watching Wild Kingdom! This is the good place on you tube.
angry ranger what were you doing in my house?
Oh!!! mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Watched at our Grandparents house with the volume turned up until the wood paneling on the walls would vibrate!!! Loved those nights 😍
I loved beany and cecil
Me too
As soon as I saw the very first frame , I knew "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". The mind is a wonderous thing, I couldn't tell you what I had for dinner last night!
disneydude45 So very true ! 😋
that's ok, disneydude. I don't know what you had for dinner last night either!
I loved wild kingdom as a kid
Yeah, I used too watch Wild Kingdom all the time as a kid when Lorne Green hosted it...
our whole family used to watch it.
"I'll stay in the Jeep while Jim catches the alligator." Marlin Perkins.
Omg!!! Beaney & Cecil the seasick sea serpent!!! That was a long time ago! Lol!! I was so tickled to see that!
Oh I used to love My world and welcome to I when I was young, I used to be pen pals with Lisa Geritson in fact going back to the time when she acted on Mary Tyler Moore's show, she was the daughter or niece of Cloris leachman's character... 😂 Wow, the second hundred years! Used to love that show with Monte Markham, very funny show indeed! Another fine job Fred, never seen a video where you dropped the ball, you're very meticulous and always entertaining Fred!
Holy crap!
That one episode of Tom Jones had Joey Heatherton (super hot ..also did mattress commercials) , The Moody Blues, Richard Pryor and...Peter Sellers!
Good god y'all!
Joey Heatherton doing mattress commercials? and all the guys wanted to "sleep" with her!!
Perfect Sleeper by Serta.
holy moley. beany and cecil. great job preserving, as usual.
Just stopped to write at the Wild Kingdom segment. I absolutely loved that series & fell in love with all the stories. Interesting & informative, an African safari is still on my bucket list because of this show. God bless Marlin Perkins,Steve Irwin,Jack Hanna,etc.
Thank you, Fred. You've brought back so many memories. What a great job you have accomplished.
That's very encouraging to hear, Debra. I appreciate it. Happy Holidays.
FredFlix. Same to you, Fred. Thank you.
Ah! "Here Come the Brides," a fave of all my family's females, including my 5 yr old self (surprised anyone remembers it). Sigh, David Soul, Bobby Sherman, & Star Trek's Sarek himself, Mark Lenard, all in the same show! Still love Tom Jones to this day: a consummate performer w/the best guests ever! Still watch "One Step Beyond," on DVD. Had a Talking "Julia" Barbie; she's long gone, but her sexy gold & silver jumpsuit survives. Prevalent sci-fi & supernatural themes of the '60's & '70's left a lasting impression, forever influencing my film/literary tastes awa widening my perspective on life's/reality's possibilities. Thanx, FredFlix!
Boy the graphics & costumes have come a long way. You should have seen my grandson, 12, try to wrap his mind around having to wait to see a program & not being able to see it again if you missed it. Kids don't have anticipation today or learn to delay gratification. This was a fun mash up of my young life, many thanks!
Thank you so much for these great memories... I'd forgotten most of these, but this brought them all back! PS: I never realized those girls in that UFO show had purple hair -- we only had B&W TV so I thought their hair was silver! lol
My father used to love Cade's County. He was really upset when they cancelled it and replaced with a new show called MASH in '72.
MASH? Never heard of it!
MASH was not a hit at first, a fact few remember. CBS gave MASH far more time to find its audience than the sequel.
Foxonian, same here! I liked Cades County. Wish it had stayed on.
4:30 Bobby Sherman and David Soul did a series with Sarek? Wowsers! :O
Not only that, but Bruce Lee was a semi-regular.
FredFlix Indeed!
Here Come the Brides was a big deal if you lived in the Seattle TV market. That show, along with the '62 World's Fair that was a setting for an Elvis movie, put Seattle on the map at a time when if you told people you lived there or near there, they were likely to respond, "Seattle? Where's that?"
Herb Bluntman No doubt about that, in the pre-Microsoft pre-Sonics pre-Mariners pre-Seahawks pre-Storm pre-Sounders Seattle. :)
Thomas Ritter True. The Brewers should have moved back to the AL. Astros belong in the NL.
Wow! I have not seen that intro to the "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" in about 50 years and I remembered it immediately!
Most old cartoons are better than new ones
It depends. I remember the 1960's Super hero stuff as well as the reruns of Popeye the sailor and Loony Tunes. If you are talking about stuff like Sponge Bob Square pants Then I agree with you however nothing beats the Dragon Ball Z, Justice League Unlimited and One Punch Man.
hand-drawn cels
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Yeah, me too. Brings back some great memories!
Exactly!
I loved "Here Come the Brides!" It was the sweetest, most charming show. I never missed it! I just adored Joan Blondell. Robert Brown was the handsomest man on TV in those days and Bobby Sherman was the cutest! Be still my eleven-year-old heart! 💕💕💕
I loved Beany and Cecil when I was a kid. I still quote it to my kids.
That sexy Tom Jones! I wished that I'd seen the first season, that debuted in the US in February '69. I can really dance to the theme for the television series, "UFO".
It is amazing how I haven't heard so many of these themes in decades but I know them by heart!
One Step beyond, really liked that show, and the musical theme.
agriperma Credit goes to Harry Lubin.
That theme music used to give me the willies.
I love how they called the beer vendors "dealers"
Great Henry Mancini theme on Sam Cade (Cade's County in the US)
Used a Yamaha Combo Organ (NOT a synthesizer) in the main title.
@@vividwatch47 I was just going to ask WHAT instrument that was! Sounded sort of like a keyboard.
That damn Bobby Sherman show came on same time as Star Trek, one week my sister got to watch that and the next week I got to see ST! Been close to 50 years since I saw Cade's County, still got the theme song in 2 notes, my brain should have better things to do.
Bender LOL
Oh my God..I actually had a dishonest John hand puppet from the Beany and Cecil cartoon show that played his laugh ( ya ha ha !) when you pulled the string. I haven't thought about that puppet in let's say...lol....quite a long time. Thanks for the memories!
You're welcome, rick1100.
rickw1100 Ohhhhhhhh !!!!! I had that too and it scared me. I forgot if it was a talking pull string. I remember the mustache.
Nya ha ha! My first words!
I had a hand puppet of "the Monkees"
I remember most of B&C's theme song, with Cecil opening his big mouth at the end. The character name Dishonest John was one I always remembered, although B&C wasn't one of my favorite cartoons in those days. I loved his laugh, "ya-a-ah!"
that show "The Immortal" looks so FAMILIAR! wow! more walks down memory lane. hee hee love it. Glenn Ford was a great actor! always kinda reminded me of my dad who ironically (or not) was named Glen (one n). :) and back in the "old days" there were GREAT cartoons on Saturday morning..loved Saturdays just for the morning cartoons - boy have things changed!
he drove a Shelby ( sometimes dangerously ) was it a 68?
"The Immortal" starred Christopher George, NOT Glenn Ford.
The intro music for so many of these shows was excellent!
I will never forget Western Ho the Wagons! All the Sat night at the movies seemed to be westerns
Not recent either.
I had a Cecil hand puppet of some sort. It was one of those “pull the string” and it talks kind. Lots o memories here, thanks!
Yes! My brother had both Beany and Cecil. They were quite big for puppets (more like dolls), and when you pulled their strings, they talked, though I don't remember what they said.
I had a Cecil puppet too. I played with it for years.
"While Marlin wrestles with that angry Wolf, I'm going to climb up this tree and cower in fear". 😆
I'm literally laughing out loud after reading your comment. It's exactly the way I remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. XD
Man I was hooked on that show when it was on, I'll never forget marlin Perkins.
...And Marlen will dive out of our helicopter onto the cariboo, while we fly over and watch. I LOVED that show...and those jokes!
"While we're 500 feet away in the armored car, Jim wrestles with a leopard. And just as a mother leopard protects her cubs, Mutual of Omaha wants to protect you!"
I was just joking about that very type of thing last weekend, making a parallel to The Incredible Dr. Pol!
Not too many years ago I had a great set of Wild Kingdom DVDs, and I watched through them several times (running them on a little DVD player while I worked late evenings and on weekends) before deciding to donate them to my nephew and niece for the educatainment value. I suspect their parents just unloaded it at a garage sale -- probably never even watched them -- because that's how they roll.
By the way, did you ever hear about how that Stan Brock guy turned out? He was an amazing humanitarian and a true hero! He left this world for the next one only about six months ago.
God bless you Fred! Your work is so soothing to the many BabyBoomer Souls who have lost their family. These Wonderful Memories Of Better Days are so appreciated. Thank you, Sir!
I want to see the whole episode of the Tom Jones with Joey Heatherton. I am one year older than "Fred" and I had the super hots for Joey, what a dancer what great legs. My dream girl back then. Wow!
@Tom Reedy Lol...yep, she did a great job with those Serta commercials.
Another hit out of the park, Fred. So many good shows, cosigned to the recesses of our minds. Man, the intro to The Immortal and U.F.O. plus T.H.E. Cat have me yearning to break out the box sets and make a marathon out of it. Bless you Fred, for all you do and all the good memories you give us. Merry Christmas to you.
Very nice of you to say, stendec. I hope you have a Merry Christmas as well.
Never missed Beany and Cecil --- but was too young for Amos & Andy and Riverboat --- my oldest sister watched Tom Jones....
and UFO ! yea !!!
The Immortal is one of the earliest shows I remember my parents watching. Fletcher (the guy hired to find Richards) haunted my dreams a whole lot back then. Another wonderful video Fred!
Actually I was kind of obsessed with The Immortal when I was 15 or so. I recorded several episodes on audio tape. Finally saw it again on the Sci Fi Channel in the '90s. It's now out on DVD. Of course, it's not as good as I remembered. But Fletcher was indeed ruthless, if somewhat incompetent. On more than one occasion he caught Ben Richards but then just tossed him in the back seat without handcuffing him. I guess if he did, Ben wouldn't have been able to get away and the show would end. As it is it only lasted 15 episodes. Not exactly long-living.
Things are going to be so cool and futuristic in 1980! I can't wait!!
I love learning about new old shows an finding them on youtube. Growing up on base an only having AFN I missed a lot of tv shows.
Taking me back 50 yrs when I was 7.
I'm really digging these compilations of TV themes that was never in my generation!!
Yeah, usually the theme was far better than the show itself.
Oldbmwr100rs: That's for sure! There were SO many shows that I remember where the theme song and opening sequence was really the best part of the show!! It really SUCKS now that networks and producers have pretty much gotten rid of theme songs from shows - they often made the show!
this was a fun trip down memory lane thanks
Everytime i think you have touched my heart in a heartwarming way with these wonderful memories, here you go again wow this is so awsome I'm always having tears of joy Flex always, please keep up the awsome work 💯👍💖
I'm happy to have touched you in a positive way in these hectic holidays, Janice.
Memories buried - some for 50+ years - just came back. I remember every one of these except Amos and Andy.
It was pulled from syndication in the late 60's due to protests from civil rights groups for its racist humor.
I don’t think my parents would have let me watch Amos n’ Andy if I could have-I was born in 1960.
The answer is William Saffire. The question is:
What's Shakespeare's first name,. Kingfish?
@@luisreyes1963 But the characters were mostly middle class: lawyers, bankers, and the shananigans they got into. I remember it from the very early 1960s before I knew it was 'racist" against blacks. They did show a couple of lower-class blacks performing their jobs, but just as white people, many who also had lower-class jobs portrayed on tv. The black elitists in the NAACP had no stomach for having their people portrayed the way it was, with Amos 'n' Andy scheming for money, just as whites do and did. PC started running amok from that time forward to today's most extremist ways not imaginable in 1962/63.
Beany & Cecil was a puppet show before it was a cartoon. On nearly every episode there was something that triggered Cecil to go crazy and lick somebody. Big slobbering wet licks (supposedly wet licks). Kids imitated this and would go nuts, licking teachers, other students, etc.
Not a healthy behavior.
It's weird that I still remember these like yesterday.
ping,ping,ping! Ricochet Rabbit! (my favorite character on Peter Potamus)
Wasn't that Bing, Bing, Bing!?
What great memories of being a kid in the 60s
The strange memories and associations....I've never been a TV viewer of any great magnitude, but 'Coronet Blue' prompts a vivid memory of sitting in my grandfather's blue-green overly cushioned rocking chair one cold evening and this show came on. That annoyingly catchy theme song stuck in my head forever yet only saw it once. Late Sunday afternoon's 'Wild Kingdom' makes me recall having take a bath for school the next day after the show.
I loved "Saturday Night at the Movies" and eventually the other days of the week. Their movies were newer and better IMO than what was shown on TV in the 50s. But, there's always exceptions. I loved watching King Kong 1933 in the 50s. I had a repeating nightmare trying to run through the jungle on Skull Island. My legs would hardly move and I couldn't make any progress. Kept looking over my shoulder for Kong to grab me!
I too had dreams as a child of giant monsters singling me out for destruction. I guess it was out misspent youth.
I remember the vast majority of these shows. Even The Next Hundred Years. Maybe I watched way too much TV when I was a kid. But I don't care. It was a great time for a kid to watch adult shows.
T.H.E. Cat, Holy crow. I loved that show for some really unknown reason. I'm very glad you threw that in. Good memory.
I had the experience of "The Immortal" happened to me when I was 55. For one unbelievable year, I felt like I was 21. A medical accident I was never able to repeat. Laugh if you want, but it happened.
Fascinating. 👽
Sitting on the floor at home watching tv -- priceless - except for Amos and Andy, too young for that. --- and my drill team danced to Cade's County one football season
I remember watching Beanie and Cecil as a wee lad. I wanted one of those helicopter hats.
The NBC Saturday Night at the Movies is uber rare! First time I've seen it since I was a kid... thanks!!!
Keep up the great work! I love older TV shows and movies, especially those made in the 50's to 60's! The fifties and sixties were a helluva time to live...god, wish I could have lived then
It WAS special, and no just because I grew up then. Everything seemed to converge, allowing for the best pop culture ever yet also retaining the family unit and a simple life when only one parent worked and the mother took care of the home and kids. Add to that the excitement of the moon race but the feeling of dread that it could all end in a minute with nuclear war.
FredFlix ...Damn. I commend you, I truly do. Perhaps even envy you slightly. I have yet to see something portray the 50's in a way I didn't find interesting or intriguing. My only issue...they were literally putting radioactive materials into a whole plethora of products at the time as the great wonders of nuclear power dawned amongst them. I do wish I could find an old fallout safety preparedness video entitled "Duck And Cover! " from roughly this time
@@michaelpalmieri7335 I didn't know that, thanks
I never watched any of these shows. All I cared for was the Beany and Cecil cartoons. After all, I was 6 years old at the time.
MY MOTHER the CAR?!?!? wtf were they smoking? Why not just go ahead and do, My Brother the Sink Faucet, or My Sister the Vacuum Cleaner... My Cousin the CatLitter Box.
I have quite a few cousins. Which one would make a good litter box? Funniest YT comment I've read in a long time!
Daren Wilson ...I heard that in California they market cat turds as Organic Dry Erase Markers
no class or imagination . remember t.v.was in its infancy ... im sure now t.v.is easier for you to understand .
@@theministersal702 Dude, they managed the brilliant "I Love Lucy" and "Phil Silvers Show" back when "TV was in its infancy". That was simply a shitty show.
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thanks fred for putting these blast from the past. I sit and watch them and get back to a day of fun and laughs.....
I appreciate that, Mark.
So many of the shows I'd forgotten. Loved UFO, Cades County.My husband became a s.o.b. after I started taking a stand on what tv shows I wanted to watch. We only had one b&w set, in the living room. I had to negotiate to watch Star Trek. But when the Tom Jones show started, I told him to get his own set, I was watching Tom. Actually, I got a set in the bedroom. What can you expect from a farmer that loved his tractor? ;)
There are shows that are on for decades, then others only a season or two. It is interesting the ones that make such a lasting impression on us. I remember the opening to Guns of Will Sonnet but I was so very young I could not tell you a single story. Thanks for the memories.
I'd LOVE to see some of those "21st Centry" shows and see what they got right and wrong.
I think "Guns of Will Sonnett" is the only show in this compilation that is completely unrecognizable to me. Don't know how I missed it, but I think I'll try to find some episodes to check out. After all ... Walter Brennan! And doing white-man's rap as the intro theme! Puts him right up there with Jimmy Dean, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Lorne Greene. Priceless!
Fred, you're killin' me! 25 minutes of this great stuff is a nostalgia overload! I want to comment on so many things, I could go on for paragraphs. For this comment, I'll focus on "The Immortal".
I was fascinated by that show when I was a kid because I was afraid of dying in my sleep thanks to that infernal prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep...". When I saw The Immortal, I thought that if I had type O negative blood, I would live forever. It turns out I do have type O neg. but I know now I'm not living forever but at the time, the thought did help me get over that fear I had.
The Immortal was my favorite show at the time, Herb. No, I didn't fear I'd die in my sleep, but I was crushed when it was canceled. They showed reruns the next summer and I recorded every episode on audio cassette. I really enjoyed the music by Dominic (The Outer Limits) Frontiere. The show is now out on DVD but in e final analysis it was just a routine chase show with a hint of sci fi. However, Chris George was very good in the lead role and Fletcher was an interesting antagonist.
Hey Fred, glad to know The Immortal was a fav of yours too. I can't believe it made it to DVD. Not available on Netflix, I just checked. I also liked Christopher George on "Rat Patrol". I think you did at least one other video including a clip from that. Chris George was everywhere on TV and movies for a few years and then, dead at the age of 53.
I know I couldn't wait to find out my blood type and it was O positive. Christopher George was solid and think made the show in my opinion. I was a chase show, but there was always something that made you think, or maybe it was just me being a kid. Good to know it's on DVD.
Herb Bluntman: Christopher George only lived to be 53??!! I didn't know he had died! So ironic that he died so young and proved NOT to be immortal! Yeah, he also starred in "The Rat Patrol", and Dominic Frontiere did the theme music to that show, too. It's funny, I don't remember "The Immortal" at all - what years did it run and what network was it on? I DO remember "The Rat Patrol" though, as that was my older sister's favorite show!
Michael Palmieri: Exactly the OPPOSITE of MY older sister LOL!! :-)
Many of the intros leaving me wishing that I could watch the whole show. I would imagine that some episodes of some shows have been uploaded.
A Bob Camplet Carto-o-o-on!!
He sure WASN'T unsung LOL.
Steve Carras Bob Clampett worked for Leon Schlesinger on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons..he was also a producer on the infamous So White and De Sebben Dwarfs cartoon that was blatantly racist even for the 1940s..He then created the live show Time for Beany which was a hit in the 1950s which was the forerunner of the Beany and Cecil franchise...I was a neighbor of June Foray, so i learned much of cartoon history from her...
Yes, I watched Beany and Cecil in the 1960s, but it wasn't complete like its shown here, and I'm seeing a cartoon version of that crazy Taurus, Bob Clampett, for the first time!
@@markrocovich2234 I knew alll thst.. except you knew June, that's ionterestin (m,et jher once at an animaiton sow..)
UFO looks like a winner. Can't remember that one at all. Another series to add to the collection of the HDMI hook up. Thanks
Oy!
Why did you cut the King Leonardo theme segment short???
I remember a lot of these great shows and themes and also many that I'm not that familiar with. nice to see what was on back in the day and how many were short lived and others that lasted for a couple of seasons. to me these shows still beat what is on these days! fun to watch this fred, thanks! rob
You're welcome, Rob. At least they thought the themes were important back then.
Loved "The Paper Chase".Canceled by CBS after 1 season.BIG mistake.Picked up by Showtime.Watched every episode.Thanks Fred!
Yeah, Jan, Paper Chase was the most intelligent network show in 1978. I liked the 1973 movie as well.
Yeah...the movie made me want to catch the series.I was not disappointed!
I liked the movie way more than the TV series.
Agnes Moorhead was one of the orig. Mercury Theatre players as well. Houseman embraced socialist principles and was rousted by NYC cops for producing a blatantly pro-Communist play (name unrecalled) in about 1940.
Chilling fact about "Citizen Kane": The obvious target/subject of the piece, publisher William R. Hearst, did everything he could -- in court and otherwise -- to stop production of the film. His efforts failed, and young Orson Welles attended the opening night at a big theater in Hollywood. Leaving the movie palace, he was buttonholed by a sympathetic LA cop who told him, "Mr. Welles, be careful, they're out to ruin you. Back in your hotel room there's an underage girl on the bed and a private detective on the fire escape with a camera. You get me?" Welles did. He threw his hotel key down a sewer grating and immediately took a taxi for the airport, headed for NY until things cooled down.
The Mattel theme was recycled as Matty's Funnies as the lead in to Beany and Cecil, but when Bob Clampett took over full control over the franchise(ala Jay Ward with Rocky and Bullwinkle), Mattel was just an adjunct sponsor of the show, but ABC held the initial broadcast contract...
Thanks for that info, Mark.
Mark Rocovich That makes sense to me now. My dad was a toy designer for Mattel and I remember getting all those Beany and Cecil toys when I never asked for them. Thank you for that puzzle piece in my life !
@@elderlypoodle9181 Which toys did your father design that we might remember?
The New Establishment sang The theme from Here Come the Brides, "Seattle".
All the old TV shows that were the our reason for living. We would do extra chores to see some of these shows, like Here Come The Bride's, or some of the weekend NBC movies. I had a Cecil stuffed animal, until l tried to make a swing out of it, and Cecil ripped in half. Mom threw it away before l could hide Cecil!!!! I forgot about the Impossibles, so sixties.💞😘💘💚💛💙💜
Natasha Semrau, I had a Beany Boy doll with a string. My favorite quote from him was, "Gosh, I'm tired."
Natasha Semrau Oh !!! I had Cecile stuffed toy. It had a pull string. When i would call my oldest son Beanie Boy he would just stare at me
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I was not alive yet for any of this, but I find it interesting. Seems wholesome and full of culture, wth happened to us?
Seems tv has turned to anger and hate to get us to continue watching now.
Anger, hate, and fear all cause a release of adrenaline, which can be addictive (or too stressful). The addicted ones keep watching. It's about the same mind-body reaction that makes horror films so popular.
Loved the Tom Jones show! My mother and I used to watch it together😀
I wish i still had my Cecil the serpent talking doll.
I remember watching some of Wild Kingdom, and movie and tv series Paper Chase. I had a mild tv crush on James Hart. His morbidly amusing waking-up-screaming nightmare of Professor Kingsfield burying him is something probably more people symlathize with than they may admit at one point or another in life.
"You come here with skull full of mush, and, if you survive, you'll leave thinking like a lawyer."
When I was a kid, I had a Wild Kingdom board game. One of the questions in the game was "The tapir has a long prehensile nose. (T or F)" I said false because the picture of the tapir on the card didn't have a particularly long nose and I didn't know what prehensile meant. The answer was True. My knowledge of the meaning of "prehensile" dates from that moment but I still don't think a tapir's nose is long.
NBC Saturday Night at the Movies theme wae from My time the 60's!
The main title for "N.B.C. Saturday Night At The Movies" is actually two pieces of music, the first composed by Leon Klatzkin, the second by Skitch Henderson, and I always identify this music for feature films shown on Saturday night.
Marlin Perkins...
I had to drag some brain cells out of mothballs to remember some of these, and others I never knew (at least, that's what the mothballs have said). A real treat, Fred, thank you.
"Playing with my grandson" 11:21
T.H.E. CAT....starring Robert Loggia......got WHACKED by Tony Montana in "SCARFACE".....LOLOLOL
The opening themes were often the best part of the show.
Fred, WHERE DO YOU GET THESE?! AMAZING!
1. I have been looking for the NBC Saturday Night at the Movies intro for ages!
2. Never have seen what was obviously the CBS NETWORK intro to Amos and Andy, with the Blatz Beer sponsorship, as opposed to the SYNDICATION intro.
3. My Mom adored Tom Jones, to my Dad's consternation!
4. Remember Beans and Cecil well!
5. Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins! 7 pm Eastern (after AFL football, and before Wonderful World of Disney ) on NBC.
6. The Second Hundred Years! King Leonardo!
7. Watched Bracken's World for the babes!
8. Diahnn Carroll as Julia! You know, Diahnn Carroll and Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek did more for integration than 500 Martin Luther Kings!!!!!!!
9.Matty's Funday Funnies.
10. Peter Potamus!
You make my life brighter, sir. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Thanks, Frank. I had recorded NBC Sat Nite at Movies on audio tape in 1968 and looked for the video, like you, for years. Finally stumbled onto it on RUclips itself just a week ago. Ditto re holidays!
Merry Christmas FredFlix hope you have a wonderful holiday season. take care and keep the videos coming. :) see you
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BEANIE, NOT BEANS!
500?!?!... man Star Trek ain't even real!! Lol.
I mean She wasn't no Coretta....
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Sadly, I think you're right. 😞 Anyway, Nichelle Nichols DID help influence real life for the good in that Mae Jemison, NASA's first female minority astronaut, got interested in space from watching her on "Star Trek", and Whoopi Goldberg said she got super excited when she saw a black woman on TV who wasn't playing a maid. Also, when Nichols was going to quit the show due to the hate mail she was getting (oh how times haven't changed), MLK himself urged her to stay the course, AND I think she even got moral support from William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
Here Come the Brides... A great cast and premise (yes, it was based on part of Seattle's history, and when it isn't raining the skies are indeed that blue) but a silly show that didn't have staying power. Bobby Sherman was a teen idol at the time.
I'm from Milwaukee and I KNOW: Blatz is the worst beer we ever stole from our parents' basement fridge or where ever...
When I heard the theme for Felony Squad I got goose bumps. Man I loved that show as well as Cades County. Did I see Ricochet Rabbit in with Peter Potamus?. This triggered some nice memories. Thanks Fred. Merry Christmas buddy.
Ditto, Gregg. I'd have to take another look at Peter Potamus, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Ricochet, as he was part of the Magilla Gorilla show and both were sponsored by Ideal Toys.
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Another fantastic trip back to a time before I was old enough to watch these shows! The instrumental them for Sam Cade is haunting..was it a good show?
Theme by Henry Mancini. Combined like a western with modern cop. It was just average.
It would have been nice to see the Screen Gems Dancing Stick logo with the Peter Potamus and do you got the old Don Ho show or at least the beginning of the series when they were Hawaiian dancing? But I thank you for the old NBC Saturday Night At the Movies logo though it brings back a lot of memories!
Corrections do you have the old Don Ho show or at least the parts when they were Hawaiian dancing?
Am I the only one who wants to see that whole Tom Jones episode?
Yeah the list of guests look great!, and my mother loved the Tom Jones show.
No, you're not ! Totally remember that show! My mom had the hots for him! Also remember The Dean Martin show w/the gold diggers(&Cookie Bear - MY FAV!)!!!
I thought the same! From the first guest (Joey Heatherton- as a boy, I had such a crush on her!) to the last (Richard Pryor), everyone on that show was outstanding.
As someone who's a few months shy of 40 (I can't believe it either), I'd sure as hell would love to see The Moody Blues' performance at least.
Joey Heatherton!
Thumb up if you had a Beany hat when you were a child.
Another top-notch video, a time machine for us Boomers.
I don't remember the opening for NBC Saturday Night at the Movies you showed, but I remember the titles that looked like they were running on a marquee. This is also the first time I've seen anything of Bracken's World beyond mentions on Stump the Stars.
OMG, how I wish I could see episodes of that show "The 21st Century"!!! From that intro I'm guessing it was an ABC News production (from videos I've seen, their graphics from ca. 1969 - 1972 were the absolute COOLEST), and I'm guessing it was a speculative series looking into the possibilities of the future. I am super interested in shows such as those, even if they ended up being way off course, because I love seeing what people expected the future to be like and comparing their ideas to what actually ended up transpiring. Like, I just finished watching this GE report of the company from 1948 and two of the innovations they touted as holding potential for the future actually DID live up to the predictions, i.e. the discovery of silicon (a super important material in computer manufacturing) and the relatively new invention of microwave ovens. I also wish i could've seen "The Immortal" because the preview has me gripped and super psyched to see it; if Netflix were to bring the show onto its platform I would SO do a binge watch of it! I guess that shows that interesting show ideas are timeless. :)
“21st Century " aired on CBS and was hosted by Walter Cronkite.
Great shows! Good memories of childhood days! Thank you for sharing!❤️
Wonderful themes here, including and especially the poignant Walter Brennan intro for "The Guns of Will Sonnet" followed directly by the cool and jazzy theme to "T.H.E. CAT." And oh my what a guest line up for "This Is Tom Jones"!! I'd give a lot to step into a time machine and revisit those times... Thanks so much for these, Fred!