i am getting so old. i vividly remember watching this show with my sister. our family had a black & white tv. we also watched bewitched, hogan's heroes, gilligan's island, star trek and other shows from that era. great memories! oh... and lost in space too.(among others)
you're freaking me out. i'm also 61, and have a pro post house in hollywood. but your source material is blowing me away. growing up in chicago, wgn, and all this ephemeral stuff that we havent seen in 50 years is not only amazing, but your brain locks this stuff up, and when you see it again, you're transported back to the old black and white in your folks basement. good stuff. good mastering.
I am the same age as Fred, and moved from Alaska to NJ in the mid '60s. We picked up the NYC stations, EST. My uncle got the first color tv we knew of, and on a Sunday night, we marvelled at the gorgeous colors at the beginnings of the Wonderful World of Disney and Bonanza! Still remember that thrill.
Hi FredFlix, thanks so much for your Must-See TV series. I have no idea how much time and effort goes into making one of these compilations, much less keeping up the entire channel, but THANK YOU. Watching them takes me back to my early childhood ... I can depend upon each of your videos to bring a smile to my face and a "Wow, I forgot about that" moment So enjoyable and fun. Just great stuff. Thanks again.
I was eleven years old at the time, and most of these shows were the the ones I watched on Sunday, although Lassie would have been my early evening selection. Thanks!
Fred, I know I already probably said this, but thank you for posting these things. They bring back floods of great memories. My mom really loved The FBI, mostly because she thought E. Zimbalist Jr. was handsome. Anyway, keep it up man, really enjoying it.
Feel free to keep saying it, Gregg! :-) If you'll notice in the FBI opening, the announcer said Efram ZIMBALIST Jr., with heavy emphasis on the Zimbalist. I suspect this was at Efram's request, because after 77 Sunset Strip so many people thought his last name was Junior.
Peter Eckels Loved Davey and Goliath !!!. My little brother would walk by and say " Davey's crying glycerin teers again " 😂 my son got me the box set. I have that ring tone on my phone. I love that hymn.
Cheyenne..................Cheyenne ............CHEYENNE!!!!!!!!!!!. Used to watch that back when. It still comes on certain stations on TV. It is sad that Clint Walker just passed away last year (May 21st 2018) at 90. Perry Mason on most nights on MeTV. Many of these I watched back then. Thanks Fredflix for the memories.
Sunday night favorite was also Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color. I know you couldn't put everything in, but it was great! Thanks! I am 60, so these videos are right on target!
What was even funnier about the later episodes is that when one of the crew members say they saw a monster (after weeks and weeks of werewolves, seaweed men and rock creatures) they would always act surprised and say, "You're crazy. You're seein' things!"
Monday at school recess after lunch , I remember pretending that the flag staff was a periscope . LOL playing Voyage to the bottom of the Sea in third grade .
If you were a Chicago boy...deduct 1 hour, and consider these local options to replace syndicated shows (in local time) 7:30 ASTRO BOY (8 to 9 are religious shows, and local things for kids that look like they aim for younger than 10 year olds) 10:30 PETER POTAMUS (likely THE BEATLES were on local delay--ABC still ran them Saturday) 10:30 DISCOVERY '66 11:00 THE FOREST RANGERS (syndicated from Canada) 11:30 THE LONE RANGER 12:00 Chicago had the Bills-Jets game 3:00 PORKY PIG 3:30 TENNESSEE TUXEDO 4:30 Afternoon snack 5:00 ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS 5:30 MISTER ED Prime time--The SEAVIEW must rescue a trapped diver, the Bureau must find a deadly stolen virus, the Cartwrights must protect a quartet of sisters and their ranch from rustlers, Andy welcomes Bing Crosby,, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Kate Smith and the Young Americans 11:00 Bedtime (movies and news for grownup tastes)
Congrats Fred! You actually caused me pre-natal nostalgia! My grandparents had 'family night' on Sundays... & my dad (with his 8 brothers & sisters!) would watch 'VOYAGE' together! My parents were married in '66 & my mom always talked of what a big deal it was to her to be part of Family-Night!
Hello Fred. Thank you a million times over for these precious Memories, and that includes all your videos. Well I don't mean to sound rude but I'm starting to tear up. Got a go. Thanks again Fred. God Bless.
I haven't commented in a while but this is one of my favorite channels. As a 65 year old who get inspiration from his past, your videos keep me going and bring back so many memories. Thank you.
Thanks for the happy memories. Kids today have hundreds of stations, we had 2,4,5,7,9,11,13, and if you spun the dial like me 47(bloody bullfighting) even in black and white
Brings back memories, especially the reruns of the 50s westerns. Perry Mason's first run episodes ended in the spring of '66, and I don't believe were syndicated as early as the same fall...could be wrong, but usually syndication took a couple of years back then.
What I'd give to go back to that Sunday night just for a few hours, or maybe hang around through Halloween. I was 11 in October 1966 and I think I trick or treated only one more time in 1967.
Ah,those Republic seriels like King of the Rocket Men ,The Crimson Ghost,& The Purple Monster Strikes really take me back.We saw them on Sat.afternoons & Sun.mornings.Couldn't wait for the next chapter,often had to wait until next week!
I've noticed after watching episodes back to back that the cliffhanger endings were sometimes changed. The hero might literally plunge off a cliff at least 30 feet at the end of one chapter and then, mysteriously, by next week's chapter he somehow grabs a branch only 3 feet off the cliff. Back when the chapters were running once a week in the theaters producers assumed people would forget exactly what happened, but I'm sure a lot of viewers said, "Hey! I thought he..." But there was no way to check it.
You're right Fred.Even as an 11 year old back then I noticed that.Today,it's kinda funny to watch that,I've recently subbed & wanna thank you for all of your hard work for these great memories.I watch your vids instead of todays prime time...Yech!.
I love watching Davey and Goliath. They show it on TBN every Saturday afternoon at 12:30.y late father was obsessed with football. If there was a football game on from 1 PM until midnight, he would be sitting on the couch just getting up to go to the toilet.Our family would probably be watching Walt Disney at 7:00.and Bonanza at 8PM eastern time I am guessing.
I grew up in the NYC Metro Area. Back in the 60's we had the flagship stations for the three networks, plus three independent locals (All six were VHF)
I'm discovering lots of your videos lately....these are especially poignant because it's the anniversary of both my mom and brother's passing in this july month.....I know my brother was watching all these kids shows as he was born in 61 and my mom loved everything as she was from Europe and learned English from tv. Thanks.....
Fred, I couldn't even watch some of these shows Sunday in 66, I could only get one channel on my set and that was CBS. Couldn't watch Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, that was ABC. So was the FBI. Perry Mason bored me as an 11 yr old, although I appreciated it more as an adult. If I remember right Mr Ed and My Favorite Martian was on CBS on Sunday nights. However, everybody in my family watched Bonanza.
I hope you've been able to catch up with the reruns, Larry. I was 11 in '66 as well and I can tell you that by that time I realized how silly Voyage had become. Irwin Allen did a great job making his shows, but he didn't respect the intelligence of his viewers.
True. I had always watched Lost In Space and even at that time I was wondering, when are we going to see a Sci Fi show that would make me feel like I was watching the future. Then that Summer in 66 I went to my grandmothers house and she had four channels. Finally got to see Batman, always wanted to see it, my best friend at the time raved about it, and I hate to say it, I was actually disappointed. BAM! POW!. I thought it was going to be more serious. But now, as an adult, I like the humor in it. That same summer I was introduced to The Green Hornet, which I loved, and then a new Sci Fi series, which I didn't even know existed. Hold on to your hats, right in front of my screen I saw this saucer shaped space ship attached with two cigar shaped cylinders and I asked my friend, "WHAT IS THIS?" He said, "This is Star Trek." My reaction.....:Star what????" FINALLY a sci fi show that made me believe I was watching something from the future. My first episode called Charlie X.
My first episode was also Charlie X and I was blown away. I had never seen a ship like hat and wondered how could it land. As for Batman, yeah, I didn't get it either. I didn't understand "camp." I just thought it was stupid. I preferred Lost in Space, but in time that grew quite unwatchable. I remember though the first episode of Lost: We had been watching it for 59 minutes and it looked like there was no way they could wrap up the story in one minute. Then, wow, Continued Next Week, Same Time, Same Channel. I still get chills when I see that.
I remember when Beany and Cecil, The Beatles, and Bullwinkle were on ABC on Sunday morning. Davey & Goliath actually aired earlier on the local CBS affiliate, usually about 8-ish. The pro football games in Nebraska would more than likely be for the NFL, the Packers vs. the Lions, and at 3:00 Central time NBC would likely have Chiefs-Oilers or Chargers-Broncos for the AFL. My family (I was 4 then) usually watched the NFL because we couldn't get the NBC station at that time. We were finally able to get NBC when we moved to a house two blocks east of where we lived in 1966.
I find it amazing, that television programming rarely changed, from the 1960's through the 1970's. I guess cable was the main culprit of change. Before cable, if there was "nothing on" the TV, one would find something else to do (as a kid, it was build models, play with electric trains, read comic books and much more). Cable changed that way of thinking. And the kids of today have no clue what it is like to spend time like that. That is a shame, in my eyes.
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was my favorite show when I was 5. As a teenager I'd catch INSIGHT at 5 am on Sunday mornings after a binge of SNL. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, SCTV (30 minute format) A Marx Brothers or Wheeler & Woolsey film. I wish somebody would release INSIGHT on DVD
Gremlin1960 I was also 6 in 1966. Does anyone remember a show called The Invaders with Roy Thinnes? Not sure what year it started but I loved that show.
This just in . . . Boston 24, Oakland 21. Boston moves to 4-2-1. Any clips that include BOTH Cecil and Bullwinkle is amazing. And I don't think I've seen King Leonardo since I was a kid. Not sure when it was on in San Diego.
OMG, so many memories. For some reason the Perry Mason theme song sort of made me feel sad and melancholy, while the Twilight Zone theme just plain scared me. I would lie in bed at night in my dark room with the shadows of the trees moving across my window. Then I would hear that Twilight Zone theme coming from my parents T.V. set in the other room. Just freaked me out.....
At 3:06 in, we see "The Boston Patriots" vs. The Oakland Raiders for an AFL game. This was, of course, before Super Bowl I. Also, for you young people, that's before The Patriots and Raiders were part of the NFL. This AFL/NFL premerger intro makes for very interesting stuff. Great job, again, Sir FredFlix! No a Raiders fan, but it's so cool they still use the same logo. Patriots still, also, use the Revolutionary War Soldier at times.
You are welcome, Sir FredFlix! And PLEASE keep this incredible stuff coming. And, if there's more MLB and/or NFL stuff from the 60's and 70's keep that coming especially.
Thank you Fred! Boy that Mutual of Omaha's - Marlin Perkins hanging out of the helicopter with his walkie talkie in hand was an image I haven't seen for 30+ years. 3:55 I used to luv to watch it. And of course Jacque Cousteau was another. - 3:05 The old "Boston" Patriots before the rest of us New Englanders had a NFL team. oh! and I see a pattern perhaps? Following a full day each day of the week synchronized with this week? 🍎👈 *my prize*
I'd forgotten about "King Leonardo" (!)...how do you spell "cool"? - P.A.L.A.D.I.N., of course...although "Rocky and Bullwinkle" came pretty close (maybe they were more "hip" than "cool")...
Every time a Bonanza rerun comes on I always end up getting caught up in the plot after the first 2 minutes and watch the whole program even though I didn't intend to.
Not always, but often w/me as well. What was it about that show - the Ponderosa & it's men, that sucked us in like that? The Cartwrights were like the motherless Brady's of the West - u knew they weren't real, but still wished, if just for a day, u could be one of the family.
Did you grow up in Central Time? I noticed "Bullwinkle" was at 11 am-the NBC national feed was at 12 Noon (ET), which both my NBC stations, WAVE and WLWT, carried. Just curious...and GO-GO American Football League...the genesis of modern pro football!!
I was in EST. I used a TV Guide from that week for info and it was listed at 11, and the guide is EST as well. But like a lot of shows, perhaps Bullwinkle was moved from time to time.
I’m surprised at the number of cartoons. When I was a kid (late 60s, early 70s) Sunday mornings and afternoons were a tv wasteland. Almost no cartoons, except for a show from Buffalo called Rocketship 7 on WKBW an ABC affiliate. The Sunday episode was a recap of stuff from the week. Most of the other programming was religious. The only other non-religious show I can remember was WKBW’s Big Show of the Week, a movie at 1:00.
Growing up in Toronto, I remember Dave Thomas and Promo Robot and Mr. Beeper on ABC. Then getting home from school, watching The Comander Tom show staring Canadas own Tom Jolls. Without sounding too much like my dad, I wouldnt have traded my childhood with kids of today. There is too much stuff today. Life was a lot simpler yesteryear. Thanks fer the video.
Ah, Commando Cody, the inspiration for the name of a country-rock band of the '70s: Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen ("Hot Rod Lincoln," "Lost in the Ozone,"'Seeds & Stems"). And of course, we get to hear the theme from Cheyenne, one of the best TV show theme songs ever. Rhetorical question: Why is it so many of the greatest TV theme songs were for westerns (Bonanza, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Rawhide, etc.)? I mean, I love westerns, but I'm just curious.
1966 was the greatest year in entertainment history, nothing came close. In my area we watched Lassie first, then voyage to the bottom of the sea, then Walt Disney. Later, the ABC Sunday night movie had good feature films, like the Bond series which they paid through the nose for. Voyage would have been an iconic show like Star Trek but the lead characters were too forgettable.
Thanks Galaxy Being... umm.. I mean "Fred"! I can't imagine what I would have done with my Sunday evenings if Admiral Harriman Nelson had invested in some gyroscopic stabilizers and a few circuit breakers.
If you're still responding to comments Fred, did your 3 stations include all 3 major networks, CBS, NBC & ABC? If so, I would imagine they also showed reruns & maybe produced a few local shows. We had several children's, sports, music, classic movie & other locally produced shows. TV was magical for us back then. I suppose it still is for kids now days, but I wonder.
Davey and goliath came on at like 6am on Saturday's when I was a little kid. I didn't like it but it was the 1st kids show of the morning so I watched it.
More memories from when I was but a rugrat. Call me crazy, but I think they should have made new movies of Have Gun Will Travel & Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
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i am getting so old. i vividly remember watching this show with my sister. our family had a black & white tv. we also watched bewitched, hogan's heroes, gilligan's island, star trek and other shows from that era. great memories! oh... and lost in space too.(among others)
Check the rest of my channel. I got 'em all, especially the little-seen network promos.
you're freaking me out. i'm also 61, and have a pro post house in hollywood. but your source material is blowing me away. growing up in chicago, wgn, and all this ephemeral stuff that we havent seen in 50 years is not only amazing, but your brain locks this stuff up, and when you see it again, you're transported back to the old black and white in your folks basement. good stuff. good mastering.
Thanks a lot, especially coming from a pro.
Media/West Productions I’m also 61 & always loved Irwin Allen productions.
@@mariedean3043i'm from the Chicago area too lake co. ill though
Me too, same age, loved some of these shows.
I am the same age as Fred, and moved from Alaska to NJ in the mid '60s. We picked up the NYC stations, EST. My uncle got the first color tv we knew of, and on a Sunday night, we marvelled at the gorgeous colors at the beginnings of the Wonderful World of Disney and Bonanza! Still remember that thrill.
Never in my wildest childhood nightmares did I foresee the day when there would be no more Saturday morning cartoons.
I believe you can now watch cartoons on television 24 hours a day, seven days a week, even without a DVR.
I've always liked Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and the theme music is one of the reasons why. Hauntingly beautiful.
Yeah, but that relentless beeping would drive my nuts while my parents watched it.
As a child, I loved Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The FBI.
I grew up in Calif. and I remember "The wonderful World of Color" at 7:30pm on Sundays. Thanks for the memories.
Hi FredFlix, thanks so much for your Must-See TV series. I have no idea how much time and effort goes into making one of these compilations, much less keeping up the entire channel, but THANK YOU.
Watching them takes me back to my early childhood ... I can depend upon each of your videos to bring a smile to my face and a "Wow, I forgot about that" moment So enjoyable and fun. Just great stuff. Thanks again.
I was eleven years old at the time, and most of these shows were the the ones I watched on Sunday, although Lassie would have been my early evening selection. Thanks!
Fred, I know I already probably said this, but thank you for posting these things. They bring back floods of great memories. My mom really loved The FBI, mostly because she thought E. Zimbalist Jr. was handsome. Anyway, keep it up man, really enjoying it.
Feel free to keep saying it, Gregg! :-) If you'll notice in the FBI opening, the announcer said Efram ZIMBALIST Jr., with heavy emphasis on the Zimbalist. I suspect this was at Efram's request, because after 77 Sunset Strip so many people thought his last name was Junior.
FredFlix, In case you didn't know, ME TV is rerunning 77 Sunset Strip late at night.
Davey and Goliath... ?!?! oh man, SMH... I remember them and the subtle messages about GOD that I still use to today !
Great show.
Peter Eckels Loved Davey and Goliath !!!. My little brother would walk by and say " Davey's crying glycerin teers again " 😂 my son got me the box set. I have that ring tone on my phone. I love that hymn.
Don't explore abandoned mineshaft shafts if Goliath expresses misgivings about doing so?
Goliath is still dear to me. "Ohhh, Daaa-vey!"
Cheyenne..................Cheyenne ............CHEYENNE!!!!!!!!!!!. Used to watch that back when. It still comes on certain stations on TV. It is sad that Clint Walker just passed away last year (May 21st 2018) at 90. Perry Mason on most nights on MeTV. Many of these I watched back then. Thanks Fredflix for the memories.
Sunday night favorite was also Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color. I know you couldn't put everything in, but it was great! Thanks! I am 60, so these videos are right on target!
You're welcome. Disney was fine, but we watched Voyage in our house.
Even though it got corny in in the later episodes, Voyage was on in our house also.
What was even funnier about the later episodes is that when one of the crew members say they saw a monster (after weeks and weeks of werewolves, seaweed men and rock creatures) they would always act surprised and say, "You're crazy. You're seein' things!"
They sure would Fred.Had me shaking my head!
Monday at school recess after lunch , I remember pretending that the flag staff was a periscope . LOL playing Voyage to the bottom of the Sea in third grade .
If you were a Chicago boy...deduct 1 hour, and consider these local options to replace syndicated shows (in local time)
7:30 ASTRO BOY
(8 to 9 are religious shows, and local things for kids that look like they aim for younger than 10 year olds)
10:30 PETER POTAMUS (likely THE BEATLES were on local delay--ABC still ran them Saturday)
10:30 DISCOVERY '66
11:00 THE FOREST RANGERS (syndicated from Canada)
11:30 THE LONE RANGER
12:00 Chicago had the Bills-Jets game
3:00 PORKY PIG
3:30 TENNESSEE TUXEDO
4:30 Afternoon snack
5:00 ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS
5:30 MISTER ED
Prime time--The SEAVIEW must rescue a trapped diver, the Bureau must find a deadly stolen virus, the Cartwrights must protect a quartet of sisters and their ranch from rustlers, Andy welcomes Bing Crosby,, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Kate Smith and the Young Americans
11:00 Bedtime (movies and news for grownup tastes)
Congrats Fred! You actually caused me pre-natal nostalgia! My grandparents had 'family night' on Sundays... & my dad (with his 8 brothers & sisters!) would watch 'VOYAGE' together! My parents were married in '66 & my mom always talked of what a big deal it was to her to be part of Family-Night!
Hello Fred. Thank you a million times over for these precious Memories, and that includes all your videos. Well I don't mean to sound rude but I'm starting to tear up. Got a go. Thanks again Fred. God Bless.
I haven't commented in a while but this is one of my favorite channels. As a 65 year old who get inspiration from his past, your videos keep me going and bring back so many memories. Thank you.
You're welcome, Sir!
Thanks for the happy memories. Kids today have hundreds of stations, we had 2,4,5,7,9,11,13, and if you spun the dial like me 47(bloody bullfighting) even in black and white
I enjoy Your videos so much. And it's a great way to show My Granddaughter how I grew up
Fred u did it again entertaining the baby boomers and everyone else with your fun videos to reminiesce to Thank You and keep em coming.
Fred, GREAT and remember I was/am in the Central Time Zone!! ;-)
I remember all these "b" sci-fi films! There was never an actor's name that you recognized in the credits list
"Voyage to see what's on the bottom" --MAD Magazine
I remember a few.. Mostly outside loved sea hunt and flipper
I liked sea hunt because it was one of the few shows still filmed in black and white
TOO COOL....THAT TICKLES THE VERY OUTSKIRTS OF MY MEMORY!
Glad you liked it, Ken.
Thanks for taking the time to put these together. Great work.
Brings back memories, especially the reruns of the 50s westerns. Perry Mason's first run episodes ended in the spring of '66, and I don't believe were syndicated as early as the same fall...could be wrong, but usually syndication took a couple of years back then.
What I'd give to go back to that Sunday night just for a few hours, or maybe hang around through Halloween. I was 11 in October 1966 and I think I trick or treated only one more time in 1967.
Ah,those Republic seriels like King of the Rocket Men ,The Crimson Ghost,& The Purple Monster Strikes really take me back.We saw them on Sat.afternoons & Sun.mornings.Couldn't wait for the next chapter,often had to wait until next week!
I've noticed after watching episodes back to back that the cliffhanger endings were sometimes changed. The hero might literally plunge off a cliff at least 30 feet at the end of one chapter and then, mysteriously, by next week's chapter he somehow grabs a branch only 3 feet off the cliff. Back when the chapters were running once a week in the theaters producers assumed people would forget exactly what happened, but I'm sure a lot of viewers said, "Hey! I thought he..." But there was no way to check it.
You're right Fred.Even as an 11 year old back then I noticed that.Today,it's kinda funny to watch that,I've recently subbed & wanna thank you for all of your hard work for these great memories.I watch your vids instead of todays prime time...Yech!.
I'm happy to hear that, Jan.
Loved those shows 😀👍❤
I love watching Davey and Goliath. They show it on TBN every Saturday afternoon at 12:30.y late father was obsessed with football. If there was a football game on from 1 PM until midnight, he would be sitting on the couch just getting up to go to the toilet.Our family would probably be watching Walt Disney at 7:00.and Bonanza at 8PM eastern time I am guessing.
I grew up in the NYC Metro Area. Back in the 60's we had the flagship stations for the three networks, plus three independent locals (All six were VHF)
I'm discovering lots of your videos lately....these are especially poignant because it's the anniversary of both my mom and brother's passing in this july month.....I know my brother was watching all these kids shows as he was born in 61 and my mom loved everything as she was from Europe and learned English from tv. Thanks.....
You're welcome, Cali.
Lol 60 here too...Great memories!
Yes, by 1 AM, TV stations were signing off the air. There were no infomercials in those days.
Where's "The Wonderful World of Disney"? Every family I knew watched it at 7 pm.
NIcholas Bilski Yes!!! Bath and Wonderful World Of Disney
Yeah I use to watch "Walt Disney Wonderful World of Color " at 7pm.
Sunday was my night. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at 6 (central time), then The FBI, followed by Bonanza, and then my favorite, Mission Impossible.
Finally, someone mentioned Mission Impossible! Sunday, 10pm- THAT was reserved for Jim Phelps and Co.
I was only a 9-year-old fourth grader back then. But my must-see TV night was Wednesday for Green Acres.
Fred, I couldn't even watch some of these shows Sunday in 66, I could only get one channel on my set and that was CBS. Couldn't watch Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, that was ABC. So was the FBI. Perry Mason bored me as an 11 yr old, although I appreciated it more as an adult. If I remember right Mr Ed and My Favorite Martian was on CBS on Sunday nights. However, everybody in my family watched Bonanza.
I hope you've been able to catch up with the reruns, Larry. I was 11 in '66 as well and I can tell you that by that time I realized how silly Voyage had become. Irwin Allen did a great job making his shows, but he didn't respect the intelligence of his viewers.
True. I had always watched Lost In Space and even at that time I was wondering, when are we going to see a Sci Fi show that would make me feel like I was watching the future. Then that Summer in 66 I went to my grandmothers house and she had four channels. Finally got to see Batman, always wanted to see it, my best friend at the time raved about it, and I hate to say it, I was actually disappointed. BAM! POW!. I thought it was going to be more serious. But now, as an adult, I like the humor in it.
That same summer I was introduced to The Green Hornet, which I loved, and then a new Sci Fi series, which I didn't even know existed. Hold on to your hats, right in front of my screen I saw this saucer shaped space ship attached with two cigar shaped cylinders and I asked my friend, "WHAT IS THIS?" He said, "This is Star Trek." My reaction.....:Star what????" FINALLY a sci fi show that made me believe I was watching something from the future. My first episode called Charlie X.
My first episode was also Charlie X and I was blown away. I had never seen a ship like hat and wondered how could it land. As for Batman, yeah, I didn't get it either. I didn't understand "camp." I just thought it was stupid. I preferred Lost in Space, but in time that grew quite unwatchable. I remember though the first episode of Lost: We had been watching it for 59 minutes and it looked like there was no way they could wrap up the story in one minute. Then, wow, Continued Next Week, Same Time, Same Channel. I still get chills when I see that.
I remember when Beany and Cecil, The Beatles, and Bullwinkle were on ABC on Sunday morning. Davey & Goliath actually aired earlier on the local CBS affiliate, usually about 8-ish. The pro football games in Nebraska would more than likely be for the NFL, the Packers vs. the Lions, and at 3:00 Central time NBC would likely have Chiefs-Oilers or Chargers-Broncos for the AFL. My family (I was 4 then) usually watched the NFL because we couldn't get the NBC station at that time. We were finally able to get NBC when we moved to a house two blocks east of where we lived in 1966.
I find it amazing, that television programming rarely changed, from the 1960's through the 1970's. I guess cable was the main culprit of change. Before cable, if there was "nothing on" the TV, one would find something else to do (as a kid, it was build models, play with electric trains, read comic books and much more). Cable changed that way of thinking. And the kids of today have no clue what it is like to spend time like that. That is a shame, in my eyes.
You must have got up late...lol..8 a.m. for me was Jot, then Davey and Goliath...You nailed the rest...Thank you
You're welcome, Mike.
What'cha got that rocket for, Davey?
For to blow up Big Gay Al's Big Gay camp just over that hill!
Clint Walker in Cheyenne...WOW!
Fred...thanks for the memories!
You're welcome, Erik.
One TV, one set of parents. Ed Sullivan for us. Also, the opening of High Sierra is so 1977 Star Wars opening !!
Totally awesome love it wonderful job on this video.. don't make them any more ..thank you so much
Thanks again, Bren.
FredFlix Your welcome
My goodness! Marlin Perkins. Voyage to the bottom of the Sea, the FBI. Bonanza. So many good shows.
Just a note, the 30 October 1966 episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the premiere of ""Deadly Waters""
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was my favorite show when I was 5. As a teenager I'd catch INSIGHT at 5 am on Sunday mornings after a binge of SNL. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, SCTV (30 minute format) A Marx Brothers or Wheeler & Woolsey film. I wish somebody would release INSIGHT on DVD
l just turned six on Oct 11, 1966. One of the best years of my life.
Guess what? My birthday is Oct. 11 also!!!!!!
Gremlin1960 I was also 6 in 1966. Does anyone remember a show called The Invaders with Roy Thinnes? Not sure what year it started but I loved that show.
Gregg Goss Yes, I remember The Invaders.... Good show, kinda creepy! I was 24 at the time, and of course 2 and 4 equal 6! 😛
Gremlin1960 : I turned 6 on November 27, 1966 and yes, those were the wonder years! Everything was a mystery and exciting, fresh and new...
I turned 9 on October 2, 1966. My birthday also fell on a Sunday that year as well.
This just in . . . Boston 24, Oakland 21. Boston moves to 4-2-1. Any clips that include BOTH Cecil and Bullwinkle is amazing. And I don't think I've seen King Leonardo since I was a kid. Not sure when it was on in San Diego.
I also watched The King and Odie when I was a kid as well.
OMG, so many memories. For some reason the Perry Mason theme song sort of made me feel sad and melancholy, while the Twilight Zone theme just plain scared me. I would lie in bed at night in my dark room with the shadows of the trees moving across my window. Then I would hear that Twilight Zone theme coming from my parents T.V. set in the other room. Just freaked me out.....
The intro theme from Boris Karloff's "Thriller", shook me up as a youngster . I still despise it even today.
My husband felt the same way about the Thriller theme, LOL...
Suspense intro freaked me out .
a lot of great memories,so many great tv shows,i was 7 years old in 1966,and now i own a 66 charger lol
Wow, are we old or WHAT?!!!!
At 3:06 in, we see "The Boston Patriots" vs. The Oakland Raiders for an AFL game. This was, of course, before Super Bowl I. Also, for you young people, that's before The Patriots and Raiders were part of the NFL. This AFL/NFL premerger intro makes for very interesting stuff. Great job, again, Sir FredFlix! No a Raiders fan, but it's so cool they still use the same logo. Patriots still, also, use the Revolutionary War Soldier at times.
Thanks, Erich.
You are welcome, Sir FredFlix! And PLEASE keep this incredible stuff coming. And, if there's more MLB and/or NFL stuff from the 60's and 70's keep that coming especially.
OK, Erich, I'll keep that in mind.
Thanks Freddy!
You're welcome, schallrd.
Thank again Mr Fred ,,good stuff mate
I appreciate that, Mick.
“The FBI”…, and Ethel Merman as J. Edger Hoover!
Bah! Ha-ha-ha! (Made me laugh so hard, coffee came out my nose!)
coffee spit
The FBI .......in color
Good one, Kevin!
The MAD magazine satire called it FIB. Quite accurate.
The snowy screen is a perfect touch but it should be preceded by a channel sign off.
Thank you Fred!
Boy that Mutual of Omaha's - Marlin Perkins hanging out of the helicopter with his walkie talkie in hand was an image I haven't seen for 30+ years. 3:55 I used to luv to watch it.
And of course Jacque Cousteau was another.
- 3:05 The old "Boston" Patriots before the rest of us New Englanders had a NFL team.
oh! and I see a pattern perhaps? Following a full day each day of the week synchronized with this week?
🍎👈 *my prize*
It was going to be a pattern, David, but then I switched up a little as you'll see tomorrow.
FredFlix : can't wait !!!
The actual title of Fred Steiner's theme for PERRY MASON is "Park Avenue Beat".
I'd forgotten about "King Leonardo" (!)...how do you spell "cool"? - P.A.L.A.D.I.N., of course...although "Rocky and Bullwinkle" came pretty close (maybe they were more "hip" than "cool")...
1966 back in the day i was 11 yeas old on sunday i was going to church and puting god frist in my life
David Hurley There was an appliance store in our town that according to his ads "Closed on Sunday to worship God!"
Too bad you didn't put proper spelling "frist."
Every time a Bonanza rerun comes on I always end up getting caught up in the plot after the first 2 minutes and watch the whole program even though I didn't intend to.
Not always, but often w/me as well. What was it about that show - the Ponderosa & it's men, that sucked us in like that? The Cartwrights were like the motherless Brady's of the West - u knew they weren't real, but still wished, if just for a day, u could be one of the family.
My family was in church Sunday morning and night.
Now you can watch re-runs that you missed back then. MeTV among others.
Kids today will never know the sound of a TV station going off the air.
John Williams composed music for VOYAGE and most of Irwin Allen's productions
Beany and Cecil.. now you're talkin'! :)
great channel
Sunday Nights ABC was My Father Network and I was the Remote. (smile)
Times seemed better in some ways back then but the low def tv i had was one drawback.
This is my birthday of that year
That's a lot of TV for one day!
Did you grow up in Central Time? I noticed "Bullwinkle" was at 11 am-the NBC national feed was at 12 Noon (ET), which both my NBC stations, WAVE and WLWT, carried. Just curious...and GO-GO American Football League...the genesis of modern pro football!!
I was in EST. I used a TV Guide from that week for info and it was listed at 11, and the guide is EST as well. But like a lot of shows, perhaps Bullwinkle was moved from time to time.
As Elvis would say, "thankyuhverahmuch!"
Sunday the back to school night and end of weekend.
Lassie, Walt Disney, Bonanza, Andy Williams
I’m surprised at the number of cartoons. When I was a kid (late 60s, early 70s) Sunday mornings and afternoons were a tv wasteland. Almost
no cartoons, except for a show from Buffalo called Rocketship 7 on WKBW an ABC affiliate. The Sunday episode was a recap of stuff from the week. Most of the other programming was religious. The only other non-religious show I can remember was WKBW’s Big Show of the Week, a movie at 1:00.
Growing up in Toronto, I remember Dave Thomas and Promo Robot and Mr. Beeper on ABC. Then getting home from school, watching The Comander Tom show staring Canadas own Tom Jolls. Without sounding too much like my dad, I wouldnt have traded my childhood with kids of today. There is too much stuff today. Life was a lot simpler yesteryear. Thanks fer the video.
The FBI over Ed Sullivan Show !! That surprised me!!
Sunday night also meant Ed Sullivan. Was that the night for GE College Bowl?
i was six but there ya go
God I'm old!
Youre not old Tom, just seasoned.😃
Robert Thomas : it beats the alternative
Ah, Commando Cody, the inspiration for the name of a country-rock band of the '70s: Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen ("Hot Rod Lincoln," "Lost in the Ozone,"'Seeds & Stems"). And of course, we get to hear the theme from Cheyenne, one of the best TV show theme songs ever. Rhetorical question: Why is it so many of the greatest TV theme songs were for westerns (Bonanza, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Rawhide, etc.)? I mean, I love westerns, but I'm just curious.
I guess it has to do with the vastness and grandeur of the Old West.
@@FredFlix Yup, inspires the composers to be extra expressive and gets the creative juices flowing.
Does anyone know what music act was on ed sullivan that night?
I think James Brown, Nancy Sinatra, U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Team among other guests. Ed had em all one time or another.
1966 was the greatest year in entertainment history, nothing came close. In my area we watched Lassie first, then voyage to the bottom of the sea, then Walt Disney. Later, the ABC Sunday night movie had good feature films, like the Bond series which they paid through the nose for. Voyage would have been an iconic show like Star Trek but the lead characters were too forgettable.
I became a Green Acres fan that year starting with the Molly Turgiss episode.
Remember the National Anthem just before sign-off !
These weren't all first run programs in 1966.
"Gawsh Davey!"
Thanks Galaxy Being... umm.. I mean "Fred"! I can't imagine what I would have done with my Sunday evenings if Admiral Harriman Nelson had invested in some gyroscopic stabilizers and a few circuit breakers.
Oh Davey!
I don't know, Davey . . .
Sunday mornings were basically a dumping ground for former hits on ABC
GAWSH, DAVEY!
If you're still responding to comments Fred, did your 3 stations include all 3 major networks, CBS, NBC & ABC? If so, I would imagine they also showed reruns & maybe produced a few local shows. We had several children's, sports, music, classic movie & other locally produced shows. TV was magical for us back then. I suppose it still is for kids now days, but I wonder.
That's correct re my local stations, Mr22thou.
I was 6 in 1966 voyage was favorite. Batman was the best.lol
was this CT or CA?
Davey and goliath came on at like 6am on Saturday's when I was a little kid. I didn't like it but it was the 1st kids show of the morning so I watched it.
More memories from when I was but a rugrat.
Call me crazy, but I think they should have made new movies of Have Gun Will Travel & Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
And Pernell Roberts wasn't on Bonanza in 1966.
groovy neat-o far out i guess no halloween themed programming back then?
this is some of what his four year old sister watched allowing for local programming! sheesh
Sunday night TV meant The Ed Sullivan Show period full stop