I love the commercials advertising the new shows "in color". I wouldn't see any of them in color until 1977 when my parents got their first color TV set.
@@robertscott2210 Excellent. Remember the old A and B cable? Early 70s. Big black buttons on the back of the set. My Pop was the first on our block, as it were.
Lol. As a kid, I used believe that when a show was announced as being "In Color" it would be in color. It took awhile for me to understand that even shows in color were in B&W if you had a B&W TV!
Oh, I remember that. We didn't actually get a color set until 1980! But my grandparents had color. Paternal grandparents had it first, and it never seemed to be balanced right. Everyone was pink and the greens looked like atomic waste. Maternal grandparents got a good Zenith color set about 1974 and it looked much more realistic. That grandpa was more interested in good sound than the picture as he really enjoyed band shows like Lawrence Welk and of course Dean Martin's show and Frank Sinatra specials.
these always makes my day. This is when tv was entertaining and commericals were not big pharma. ahhhh the simple times. Thank you for these Fred. Take care and God bless🙏
The Judy Garland Show with Frank and Dean is a popular item on P.B.S. stations during pledge drives and I think TCM ran it once as part of a Judy Garland tribute.
I get MeTv here and still watch My Three sons here in the early morning when I don't feel like getting out of bed but still watch TV......... Dragnet too....... just the facts ..... Nothing but the facts!
All those awesome cars. Pop worked for Chrysler for 20 years as a wood model maker at the world headquarters in Highland Park, MI. He likely worked on many of those vehicles. Great stuff Fred.
In the early years of My Three Sons, the endless plugs for GM cars was downright sickening. During the closing credits, they would show a succession of GM cars just driving on the road! Hazel did the same thing but with Fords.
@@philiphatfield5666 Chevrolet was the exclusive sponsor of My Three Sons from 1960 to 1963. They showcased each year's new cars and trucks in the closing credits. And so did Hazel, only with Fords. But, in the ABC version of The FBI, the agents showed off Washington landmarks while tooling around in the current models of Ford or, later, Lincoln-Mercury
Super nostalgic, Fred. Variety shows and scripted comedies and dramas have vanished from broadcast television. We have to turn to cable and streaming services for that now. We didn't appreciate how good we had it--great entertainment that we weren't charged to watch.
Variety shows have left TV, it's true. But scripted comedies and dramas are still on network broadcast TV if you're willing to look for it. Plus MeTV and Antenna TV if you have them in your area, and those channels have the older shows.
Watching the commercial of way back then, it hit me, like a Three Stooges cream pie... this was the era that they invented the TV version of snake oil con. And I bought it all, hook line and sinker. I suppose my TV BS detector wasn't all that refined yet. Ignorance was bliss. It's fun to revisit those more innocent times and not worry about it all.
@@JeffDeWitt You're right. TV just added the visual and got a little slicker about the con. I look back at some of those ads now and I think... I can't believe I fell for it. PT Barnum was right. I had many minutes of sucker birth.
Good one, Fred! 2:23 - Maybe Bobby Brady saw this show too to lead to his hero worship. 2:39 - Robert Horton thought he was too good for WAGON TRAIN then eventually moved on to this Western. 2:53 - Seeing that guard tower fall over scared me when I was very young, but I later saw it as an overdone gag in an otherwise good satire. 3:38 - TV Guide critic Cleveland Amory had the original idea for this sitcom, that Abe Burrows & ABC turned into just another slapstick sitcom. 4:04 - I figure that Debbie Watson was under contract to Universal at this time. She moved from KAREN to TAMMY, then she took over the part of Marilyn in the movie "Munster Go Home". 4:40 - ABC had a lot to promote fall 1965 (likely due to a lot of its old shows' cancellations), but I think its biggest hit of the season came the next January in BATMAN. 5:10 - This had to be from 1962, more than a year before her weekly variety show, which was clobbered in the ratings by BONANZA. 6:57 - BUS STOP is from 1961-62, not 1966. It was infamous for an episode called "A Lion Walks Among Us", which had singer Fabian Forte playing an out-and-out evil drifter who robs & murders for no apparent reason. This episode had negative reviews and brought about a Congressional hearing on tv violence. If Wiki is correct, it also got the president of ABC fired. 8:35 - This is the first time I've seen Mr. Welk playing an instrument, as he's usually conducting his orchestra. He had sponsors other than Geritol in earlier years too. 12:16 - Bill Hayes is accompanying Ms. Henderson on the piano. He died this past January at 98(!) and had a recurring role on DAYS OF OUR LIVES up to just last year. 13:18 - The credits are from S6 episode "Ernie and That Woman". I didn't know that Toni sponsored the show. I figure the all-male cast (at the time) didn't do any integrated ads for the product.
Welk played his accordion almost weekly - duets with Myron Floren, polkas for Mouseketeer Bobby and his dance partner, prior to his dancing with the ladies in the audience, etc.
@@luisreyes1963 1) I doubt it, but I've never watched the show to know. 2) Cleveland Amory didn't apparently, once he saw what was done with his original idea. ABC cancelled it the next January.
The gentleman at the piano is future "Days of Our Lives" legend Bill Hayes. In addition to the Oldsmoblle ads & their TV variety show appearances, "Hayes and Henderson" were a nightclub act during the 50s.
"New magic eye automatic headlight dimmer..." - My grandpa had one of those on a '65 Lincoln Continental (with suicide doors) and it didn't work worth a $%*@! 😄
It may have been new to Plymouth for '59, but GM cars offered a similar device called "Autronic Eye" as far back as 1954-55 on Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs. It even appeared, albeit infrequently, on Chevies and Pontiacs
Gidget was great but only one season if they had been smart they would have changed it to Gidget Goes to College that would have kept the show on the air for 4 more seasons it would have been a much better show that way.
Ernest Borgnine as McHale before he did McHale's Navy he played the character in a drama "Seven Against the Sea" this is what Universal based the comedy show on with Borgnine returning as a fun version of McHale -- ruclips.net/video/pPS5Oklm9rw/видео.html
As a young musically gifted boy, I was always bothered that the tapping foot animation in the “My Three Sons” opening was not always in exact sync with the music!
You could drive a Plymouth into outer space? Wow! Admittedly, I never even learned how to drive a car, let alone own one, but I thought that swiveling driver's seat would have been quite popular. Can anyone tell me why it never caught on?
My 3 sons was so gay. A middle aged man with an "uncle" and 3 little boys. First the "uncle" gets replaced by another older man then the children are aged out and replaced with new young boys. There was a house like that in my neighborhood it had pink and white awnings.
I love the commercials advertising the new shows "in color". I wouldn't see any of them in color until 1977 when my parents got their first color TV set.
So you were the remote control too, eh?
@@cainealexander-mccord2805
Yup, until my little sister was big enough to do it, then I was paroled lol
@@robertscott2210 Excellent. Remember the old A and B cable? Early 70s. Big black buttons on the back of the set. My Pop was the first on our block, as it were.
Lol. As a kid, I used believe that when a show was announced as being "In Color" it would be in color. It took awhile for me to understand that even shows in color were in B&W if you had a B&W TV!
Oh, I remember that. We didn't actually get a color set until 1980! But my grandparents had color. Paternal grandparents had it first, and it never seemed to be balanced right. Everyone was pink and the greens looked like atomic waste. Maternal grandparents got a good Zenith color set about 1974 and it looked much more realistic. That grandpa was more interested in good sound than the picture as he really enjoyed band shows like Lawrence Welk and of course Dean Martin's show and Frank Sinatra specials.
these always makes my day. This is when tv was entertaining and commericals were not big pharma. ahhhh the simple times. Thank you for these Fred. Take care and God bless🙏
Much appreciated, Nick.
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh..................
A better time than now, I'd have to say.
The Judy Garland Show with Frank and Dean is a popular item on P.B.S. stations during pledge drives and I think TCM ran it once as part of a Judy Garland tribute.
Thank you so much. I enjoy these videos immensely.😊
You're welcome, l j
Oh, the metamorphosis of the phrase "adult entertainment". Another winner, Fred!
Thanks, CAM.
I get MeTv here and still watch My Three sons here in the early morning when I don't feel like getting out of bed but still watch TV......... Dragnet too....... just the facts ..... Nothing but the facts!
All those awesome cars. Pop worked for Chrysler for 20 years as a wood model maker at the world headquarters in Highland Park, MI. He likely worked on many of those vehicles. Great stuff Fred.
Thanks, Doug.
Very cool!
I'll say it again: cars were like spaceships, the looong version.🚀
And our heads with "Dippity-do... Rollers" the proverbial space helmet. 🤭 💜🤟
If I'm not mistaken, "MY THREE SONS" had three sponsors when the series moved to CBS "Toni from Gillette", "Hunt Wesson Foods", and "Kellogg's"
In the early years of My Three Sons, the endless plugs for GM cars was downright sickening. During the closing credits, they would show a succession of GM cars just driving on the road! Hazel did the same thing but with Fords.
@@philiphatfield5666 Chevrolet was the exclusive sponsor of My Three Sons from 1960 to 1963. They showcased each year's new cars and trucks in the closing credits. And so did Hazel, only with Fords. But, in the ABC version of The FBI, the agents showed off Washington landmarks while tooling around in the current models of Ford or, later, Lincoln-Mercury
Great Times👍❤️
Thanks Fred 👍
Super nostalgic, Fred. Variety shows and scripted comedies and dramas have vanished from broadcast television. We have to turn to cable and streaming services for that now. We didn't appreciate how good we had it--great entertainment that we weren't charged to watch.
Like the saying goes, you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
It was a special time in pop culture, Robert.
Variety shows have left TV, it's true. But scripted comedies and dramas are still on network broadcast TV if you're willing to look for it. Plus MeTV and Antenna TV if you have them in your area, and those channels have the older shows.
That was awesome!! Thank you so much Fred 🙂
You're welcome, gal.
I love to watch your videos. Keep it up! Very entertaining!
Thanks, TT.
That Was Great! My Wife Is A Betty White Fan & We Never Saw Her That Young. Thank You.
My pleasure, Watcher.
Young boomer here - this ws so much fun !
Glad you enjoyed it, Amy. You should check out the other 1,000 videos on my channel.
Watching the commercial of way back then, it hit me, like a Three Stooges cream pie... this was the era that they invented the TV version of snake oil con. And I bought it all, hook line and sinker. I suppose my TV BS detector wasn't all that refined yet. Ignorance was bliss. It's fun to revisit those more innocent times and not worry about it all.
And it wasn't new, radio had been doing it since the late 20's.
@@JeffDeWitt You're right. TV just added the visual and got a little slicker about the con. I look back at some of those ads now and I think... I can't believe I fell for it. PT Barnum was right. I had many minutes of sucker birth.
Thank you!🙂💯💥👍🤍!
I loved my three sons! Had a crush on Chip! LOL! THANK YOU FRED!❤
Chantelle, as you can guess my crush was on Tina.
@@FredFlix but of course! LoL!
10:55 What a fin! That '59 Plymouth sure had a look to it.
It did, but if I was shopping for a car in 1959 I'd head over to the Studebaker dealer and check out a Hawk.
man those cars.....thanks dude.
You're welcome, S&D.
You did it again Fred, I was born in 1958.
I remember watching Lawrence welk with my dad.
Glad you enjoyed it, Gregory.
Another great one Fred. I love the Chrysler and Oldsmobile commercials. So long ago!
Thanks, cynpv.
I would like to have a 59 Chrysler convertible.
I'm a fan of Virgil Exner or the "Exner Excess" as some have called it but the Forward Look took over automobile design.
FANTASTIC!
Glad you enjoyed it, Nunetc.
That was neato Fred! I never saw Pure Prairie League on TV. They were good. Frank looked like he prepped well for show, a V8 juice maybe
First time I saw them too, Fitz-etc.
Geez, Louise Plymouth? Maybe the Valiant but I can't help thinking of moth! Good stuff, Maynard!
The Toni Company was actually the Toni division of The Gillette Company.
Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane) was just 15 when she got that role in “F Troop”.
Hunny West in a bubble bath
good times !!!
TY Fred
OMG Betty White!
Chrysler logo looks like the Star Trek logo.
That Plymouth would make a good low rider.
I can’t wait to see these new shows.
Good one, Fred!
2:23 - Maybe Bobby Brady saw this show too to lead to his hero worship.
2:39 - Robert Horton thought he was too good for WAGON TRAIN then eventually moved on to this Western.
2:53 - Seeing that guard tower fall over scared me when I was very young, but I later saw it as an overdone gag in an otherwise good satire.
3:38 - TV Guide critic Cleveland Amory had the original idea for this sitcom, that Abe Burrows & ABC turned into just another slapstick sitcom.
4:04 - I figure that Debbie Watson was under contract to Universal at this time. She moved from KAREN to TAMMY, then she took over the part of Marilyn in the movie "Munster Go Home".
4:40 - ABC had a lot to promote fall 1965 (likely due to a lot of its old shows' cancellations), but I think its biggest hit of the season came the next January in BATMAN.
5:10 - This had to be from 1962, more than a year before her weekly variety show, which was clobbered in the ratings by BONANZA.
6:57 - BUS STOP is from 1961-62, not 1966. It was infamous for an episode called "A Lion Walks Among Us", which had singer Fabian Forte playing an out-and-out evil drifter who robs & murders for no apparent reason. This episode had negative reviews and brought about a Congressional hearing on tv violence. If Wiki is correct, it also got the president of ABC fired.
8:35 - This is the first time I've seen Mr. Welk playing an instrument, as he's usually conducting his orchestra. He had sponsors other than Geritol in earlier years too.
12:16 - Bill Hayes is accompanying Ms. Henderson on the piano. He died this past January at 98(!) and had a recurring role on DAYS OF OUR LIVES up to just last year.
13:18 - The credits are from S6 episode "Ernie and That Woman". I didn't know that Toni sponsored the show. I figure the all-male cast (at the time) didn't do any integrated ads for the product.
Lots of great info again, Jon. Didn't think about the odd Toni sponsor.
2 questions: Did they ever resolve The Man Called Shenandoah?
Also, Who would thought O.K. Crackerby would be watchable? 🤦♂️
Welk played his accordion almost weekly - duets with Myron Floren, polkas for Mouseketeer Bobby and his dance partner, prior to his dancing with the ladies in the audience, etc.
@@luisreyes1963 1) I doubt it, but I've never watched the show to know.
2) Cleveland Amory didn't apparently, once he saw what was done with his original idea. ABC cancelled it the next January.
Very nice clips, and those cars wow i wanna have a new one sigh.
A younger Florence Henderson literally singing the praises about Oldsmobile! Haha!
The gentleman at the piano is future "Days of Our Lives" legend Bill Hayes. In addition to the Oldsmoblle ads & their TV variety show appearances, "Hayes and Henderson" were a nightclub act during the 50s.
Oh yes, big-ass 1950s cars
How 'bout that De Soto..? 😁
@@luisreyes1963 OH YEAH!!!!
These clips are all kind of dark, thats why we needed a TV lamp on top of the TV
"New magic eye automatic headlight dimmer..." - My grandpa had one of those on a '65 Lincoln Continental (with suicide doors) and it didn't work worth a $%*@! 😄
It may have been new to Plymouth for '59, but GM cars offered a similar device called "Autronic Eye" as far back as 1954-55 on Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs. It even appeared, albeit infrequently, on Chevies and Pontiacs
You don't think that '59 Plymouth Fury happens to be...CHRISTINE!?! 😱
Thanks anyway, FredFlix!
Hmmm....
That new 1959 Plymouth was pretty fancy. It must have cost $2500.
The Plymouth looked like eight people could ride in both the front and back. Four in front and four in back.
Thanks,Fred.
Thx Fredflix 👍📺🇺🇲
Gidget was great but only one season if they had been smart they would have changed it to Gidget Goes to College that would have kept the show on the air for 4 more seasons it would have been a much better show that way.
That was Florence Henderson in the Oldsmobile commercial.
The My Three Sons episode was the one that Ernie was conned iut of his Liberian Triangle stamp.
Ernest Borgnine as McHale before he did McHale's Navy he played the character in a drama "Seven Against the Sea" this is what Universal based the comedy show on with Borgnine returning as a fun version of McHale -- ruclips.net/video/pPS5Oklm9rw/видео.html
"Bus Stop" ran from Oct. 1961-March 1962. Way before 1966.
Oops, a slip of the typing finger.
I was only two years old in 1965 so I don't remember if we had a color television.
As a young musically gifted boy, I was always bothered that the tapping foot animation in the “My Three Sons” opening was not always in exact sync with the music!
Jeez, you are so right! It was really annoying. 🤭
Apparently ABC and CBS were was the only networks that hadn't switched to full color program's.
You could drive a Plymouth into outer space?
Wow!
Admittedly, I never even learned how to drive a car, let alone own one, but I thought that swiveling driver's seat would have been quite popular. Can anyone tell me why it never caught on?
And I read somewhere that Bus Stop was a controversial show. I don't know what it was about. I don't ecen know what year it was on.
Schon vermisst
The reason My Three Sons switched networksxwas because ABC was going to put the 65-66 season in black and white still.
the girl who played Gidget, whatever happened to her?
Somebody liked her.🏆
@@LorenIpsum75 She took off as the Flying Nun in 1967...then, among other things, she ran for a while with Burt Reynolds...😊
Bonanza killed Judy Garlands ratings. Thats why the show was cancelled.
Honey West, what a babe.
My 3 sons was so gay. A middle aged man with an "uncle" and 3 little boys. First the "uncle" gets replaced by another older man then the children are aged out and replaced with new young boys. There was a house like that in my neighborhood it had pink and white awnings.
HUH??????
HUH??????
I replied same.
Does every 60's Sitcom have to center around a nuclear family?
Just wait until that trope gets buried alive by Norman Lear in the 70's. 😥