Family Channel 1990 Special preview. comment by earlady66 was ......maybe Robert Young was doing Marcus Welby at the time so he could not attend this reunion.
Well, Paula King, in some ways yes and in some ways no. If we could put the good of those days with the improvements now , that would be ideal !! I will say that The Andy Griffith Show is a very wonderful show that depicts a bygone era similar to the town where I grew up . It wasn't perfect, though, because women were not given the choice of having careers much beyond being housewives and mothers and it was not an egalitarian society and segregation was practiced . So it wasn't perfect because considering women and African Americans inferior to White males is far from ideal. A fair amount of snobbery did exist as well. It's difficult to get a world with better characteristics I am sorry to say . Today those biases and prejudices are better or at least they were until the present President and the majority Republican Congress in power want to turn the clock back to the 1950's with their extreme conservatism so we won't have that if they have their way .
According to my Mother, a Black woman who was reared and still lives in Charlotte, NC; her upbringing in the 50's and 60's was very much like Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver. She enjoys watching them to this day, as do I.
@@user-mj8nf2vp7q Wow! Only one black woman had this type of life.... Black people are just like everyone else. Some of have money, Some of us do not. Some of us live in nice areas, some do not. People of all races watch a variety of shows. Many black people watch TV shows with all white casts. There is nothing unusual about that. You may also watch a Tv show that has no white people in the cast.
I was born in 1986 years after this show aired but now im 32 and i love to watch Father Knows Best. I believe in a strong man and strong woman holding the household down. My hopes are to have a husband who can be the man not a little boy.
Here it is 2019.I'm still watching it on FETV. I LOVE the Family Values. Hardworking Father who supported his family and his LOVING wife. Always surrounded with patience lessons and so much LOVE!!!!.
I was born it the late 50s...yeh from what I remember a lot better, less crime, cooler cars, never worried about locking doors during the day when out playing. I the summer in 50s and 60s our front and back door would be unlocked all day while we played outside because never even thought about anyone coming in. My father left us in the car with the windows down when he went in the store, only time we rolled the car window up at night was when calling for rain. Neigbor left his brand new 64 Ford Galaxie convertible top down all night with not worrying.
Your right.....and "Leave It To Beaver" ...."Ozzie and Harriet"......where very real....not all that sugar coated.....it was entertainment not documentary
I love the show. I've gotten into watching it weekday morningswith my mom on FETV 2 episodes comes on beginning at 9 a.m. et. Every episode teaches a great little life lesson. I actually put it up there with the Andy Griffith Show.
I love this show I watch it every morning while doing Dyalysis shows back then showed morals and I miss those days and shows dinner on the table family sat together.
I loved this show wish america was still like this I loved my America and all the great things our ancestors invented and did for us all. They deserve the appreciation they deserve. These people made America what it is People are trying to destroy it all now. Repent return to God
The 50s didn't really end until around 65' or 66', that when the 60s began to be the 60s as we know it. The mid to late 60s is when the 60s made its mark. Up until then the 50s were still winding down. How do I know? I was there.
Despite some of the comments about the suicide attempt in 1991, Mr. Young did not die until 1998 at the age of 91. His death was attributed to respiratory failure. (He also had some heart problems and Alzheimer's.)
I don't remember what interview it was, but Robert Young said that in real life he was a very different person than his character that he played on FNB. He said he wasn't that nice guy that his character was. I was shocked when he said that and I always wondered why he thought of himself as not being a nice guy, mysterious.🤔
He didn't like himself. Many people spoke highly of him as a person, but he didn't recognize his own worth. Depression, alcoholism, social anxiety, shyness - probably stemming from childhood trauma. Young said that he credited his wife for "putting up with him" and when he started getting letters asking for advice, he didn't feel qualified, he also said that he didn't know how to love. Sad.
Interesting promo reunion with most of the cast of FKB from 1990. They looked good then. I understand that Robert Young, who was not with the other cast members for this segment, was ill at the time. Elinor D. was 53, Billy G. was 51, Lauren C. was 42, and Lovely Jane W. a glorious 80 when they had the reunion segment on the Family Channel.
Ah, yes!!! I have always liked Elinor. She had the girl-next-door persona on FKB and The Andy Griffith Show, among her TV resume. Now in her late 70's, she has the look of a grandmother, more so than her contemporary, Margaret O'Brien, who is the same age as Elinor.
I've never seen this show but became interested in Jane Wyatt when I found out she is a direct descendant of the Van Renssalaer family who pretty much invented the state of New York. Her family has been in America since before Mayflower. She is quite blueooded on both sides. I'm a history buff.
Mitzi73 That's really funny to learn. When we were young and the show was in syndication, my sister always insisted that she (JW) was "too aristocratic" to be the mother on that show. Now I know why..
True, her family was old money. Aside from their home on Gramercy Park, they had an estate in Duchess County and hobnobbed with the river Society. It was at a dinner party at the Roosevelt's estate that she met her future husband. Her family's branch of the Van Rensselaers was a little unusual though. because they had converted to Catholicism, which was almost unheard of back then. One became a nun who founded schools and her brother became an Archbishop in the church. Jane's mother had a great name,: Euphemia Van Rensselaer Waddington Wyatt. But Jane seemed to find the society thing silly and said some of her family thought being related to the Van Rensselaers was important, but she wasn't impressed by it at all.
Robert Young finished Marcus Welby in 1976, long before this reunion was televised. This special aired in 1990. He was well into his 80s at the time this was broadcast & well into retirement
stevations No, Robert Young's third television series (his second was CBS' "Window on Main Street," which lasted a single season 1961-62) had been long out of production--14 years, in fact--by the time of the Family Channel marathon of "Father Knows Best" (from which the uploaded clip here is taken), ABC having aired the last episode of "Marcus Welby, M.D." July 29, 1976. For future reference, it only tales a perfunctory check of one of two websites (IMDB dotcom or Wikipedia dotcom) to obtain such basic information (as when a series such as "Marcus Welby, M.D." was in production) about a film or television series, which is usually correct for such general facts. And actually, those sites often utilize established reference sources to obtain the information, in the case of TV "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present" by Tim Brooks & Earle F. Marsh; and for film "Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide," "Movies on TV (and Videocassette)" by Steven Scheuer, and "VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever." Additionally, I also recommend "Buyer's Guide to Fifty Years of TV on Video" by the late Sam Frank, fraught though it is with errors (factual and typographical, also pagination), as well corrupted by a left-wing political perspective, for its still-beneficial insight into TV history as well some titles yet to be produced in home video formats..
Charles Hanes I went to a "legalization of Marijuana" rally about 1975 on Fiesta island at San Diego bay. Steppenwolf (no surprise) were there along with others. Billy Grey gave a speech and one of the zingers he threw out was "Father always didn't know best" and asked the crowd to donate.
I remember when this aired. The cast looks great here. Robert Young's final acting project was in the 1988 tv movie Marcus Welby : A Holiday Affair before he retired. It was sad that by 1991 he tried to committ suicide after years of depression and alcoholism. He died in 1998. Billy Gray is quite bitter towards the show.
Maybe Mr Young did not want to travel to the studio or had other commitments and recorded his section at different time. The local cable company that showed this channel in my area only had CBN available from midnight to 8am so when the actual marathon aired I could not view or record it, so the answer is, I don't know why Robert Young was on the couch. I would have recorded the who special if I could.
Elinor has said in other interviews that they (the three kids) were not friends and that there would always be two against one, but the "one" was constantly changing.
@@kirkmoore4515 I saw an interview with Suzanne Pleshette and she said when she guest starred on Young's later series Marcus Welby.....she said he was an interesting sad man. I remember years later around 1991 he tried to commit suicide by inhaling car exhaust. The car would not start and he called a mechanic to his house. The guy saw the hose and figured out what he was up to and called the police. His wife Betty was also an alcoholic.
@@kirkmoore4515 I'm not sure about Billy, but both Elinor and Lauren had only kind things to say about Robert Young; he was a father figure to them: Lauren actually spent weekends with Young and his family. He also battled depression and later, Alzheimer's disease. He was known for his professionalism but he was also shy and private. Jane Wyatt also had only kind things to say about him. I'm sure he had his moments, but most people have said good things about him. It's important to remember that symptoms of Alzheimer's can often start manifesting early.
Aviation Direction Yes. Its way too bad Billy chose to be so negative. It wasn’t JUST his FNB experience he has been sour about, its life in general. Too bad he never took to heart the very excellent lessons about character and integrity that his show taught the rest of us. I hope he came to be grateful for the opportunity he had to play Bud.
FNB was appointment television when I was small. I've heard Billy Gray diss the plotlines. Recently, I had the chance to record and watch 2 dozen episodes. I'm sorry to say I agree with Billy Gray. I've found much of each plot to be cringe-worthy.
I was born in 68 but shows like this and Andy Griffith and I love Lucy show is how I wish life still was. The world was a better place.
Paula King
It was TV. Real life was never like that.
Well, Paula King, in some ways yes and in some ways no. If we could put the good of those days with the improvements now , that would be ideal !! I will say that The Andy Griffith Show is a very wonderful show that depicts a bygone era similar to the town where I grew up . It wasn't perfect, though, because women were not given the choice of having careers much beyond being housewives and mothers and it was not an egalitarian society and segregation was practiced . So it wasn't perfect because considering women and African Americans inferior to White males is far from ideal. A fair amount of snobbery did exist as well. It's difficult to get a world with better characteristics I am sorry to say . Today those biases and prejudices are better or at least they were until the present President and the majority Republican Congress in power want to turn the clock back to the 1950's with their extreme conservatism so we won't have that if they have their way .
Just imagine being a black kid dreaming we as people could live like that but it's only t.v
According to my Mother, a Black woman who was reared and still lives in Charlotte, NC; her upbringing in the 50's and 60's was very much like Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver. She enjoys watching them to this day, as do I.
@@user-mj8nf2vp7q Wow! Only one black woman had this type of life.... Black people are just like everyone else. Some of have money, Some of us do not. Some of us live in nice areas, some do not. People of all races watch a variety of shows. Many black people watch TV shows with all white casts. There is nothing unusual about that. You may also watch a Tv show that has no white people in the cast.
I was born in 1986 years after this show aired but now im 32 and i love to watch Father Knows Best. I believe in a strong man and strong woman holding the household down. My hopes are to have a husband who can be the man not a little boy.
Aman who is not a little boy/? Men are not little boys. If someone is immature, they are still adults.
Here it is 2019.I'm still watching it on FETV. I LOVE the Family Values. Hardworking Father who supported his family and his LOVING wife. Always surrounded with patience lessons and so much LOVE!!!!.
Father knows best is the best still love watching it
Susana Mata yes so true and well said. I’m watching it now.
A real mirror of 1950s life. I was a small kid born in 1950 and this was pretty much what life was like back then. Very different from today.
I was born it the late 50s...yeh from what I remember a lot better, less crime, cooler cars, never worried about locking doors during the day when out playing. I the summer in 50s and 60s our front and back door would be unlocked all day while we played outside because never even thought about anyone coming in. My father left us in the car with the windows down when he went in the store, only time we rolled the car window up at night was when calling for rain. Neigbor left his brand new 64 Ford Galaxie convertible top down all night with not worrying.
Your right.....and "Leave It To Beaver" ...."Ozzie and Harriet"......where very real....not all that sugar coated.....it was entertainment not documentary
That was the best show ever. REAL Talent!!!
Love this show...I still watch every espisode...Love everyone in the cast!
I'm still watching the show, one of the Best ever ......also Andy Griffin love both shows.
I love the show. I've gotten into watching it weekday morningswith my mom on FETV 2 episodes comes on beginning at 9 a.m. et. Every episode teaches a great little life lesson. I actually put it up there with the Andy Griffith Show.
That is so true. TV back then did try to teach moral lessons. Characters on westerns were honest, brave and strong. Some thing to aspire to.
I remember watching this back in 1990 I watched it all day on the family channel. Time really fly's here we are 2019 already.
I love this show I watch it every morning while doing Dyalysis shows back then showed morals and I miss those days and shows dinner on the table family sat together.
I love the TV show and Love all of the Actors in the TV show!
Elinor Donahue looks so pretty here.
this show is one of the All Time Greats
My favorite show.....I loved them all!
elinor donahue still has the most beautiful smile ive ever seen
weather it was in hollywood or in person
+Arlin Adler i always thought her and Andy would get married.
Roger Richards
i agree,
the "ellie comes to town" episode is still my favorite...along with the christmas episode.
+Roger Richards She was better than Helen Crump
WHETHER
No question, she was a beautiful woman with perfect features.
Beatiful picture...I love
Excellent Father Knows Best Reunion Special preview videoclip !
I loved this show wish america was still like this I loved my America and all the great things our ancestors invented and did for us all. They deserve the appreciation they deserve. These people made America what it is People are trying to destroy it all now. Repent return to God
The 50s didn't really end until around 65' or 66', that when the 60s began to be the 60s as we know it. The mid to late 60s is when the 60s made its mark. Up until then the 50s were still winding down. How do I know? I was there.
I remember, you are absolutely correct.
Loved Elinor Donahue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my favorite shows,
Despite some of the comments about the suicide attempt in 1991, Mr. Young did not die until 1998 at the age of 91. His death was attributed to respiratory failure. (He also had some heart problems and Alzheimer's.)
I don't remember what interview it was, but Robert Young said that in real life he was a very different person than his character that he played on FNB. He said he wasn't that nice guy that his character was. I was shocked when he said that and I always wondered why he thought of himself as not being a nice guy, mysterious.🤔
He didn't like himself. Many people spoke highly of him as a person, but he didn't recognize his own worth. Depression, alcoholism, social anxiety, shyness - probably stemming from childhood trauma. Young said that he credited his wife for "putting up with him" and when he started getting letters asking for advice, he didn't feel qualified, he also said that he didn't know how to love. Sad.
Wow! They all looked younger here than when they appeared in a GMA reunion interview some five years earlier.
This is really nice! I love this show! Thanks for posting!
I love this show
Interesting promo reunion with most of the cast of FKB from 1990. They looked good then. I understand that Robert Young, who was not with the other cast members for this segment, was ill at the time. Elinor D. was 53, Billy G. was 51, Lauren C. was 42, and Lovely Jane W. a glorious 80 when they had the reunion segment on the Family Channel.
+Celluloidwatcher Elinor still lovely back then ......(she had 4 kids along the way)
Ah, yes!!! I have always liked Elinor. She had the girl-next-door persona on FKB and The Andy Griffith Show, among her TV resume. Now in her late 70's, she has the look of a grandmother, more so than her contemporary, Margaret O'Brien, who is the same age as Elinor.
Loved those good ole days! Black and white was easier on the eyes! ( I realize tis today) Loved Kathy! One of my favourite shows!🌞
Yes. Thank goodness for the reruns...:-)
Celluloidwatcher hg
Elinor was about 55 in 1990... still attractive
Edward Baggett what are you talking about? This was from 1977 and she was born in 1937.
I've never seen this show but became interested in Jane Wyatt when I found out she is a direct descendant of the Van Renssalaer family who pretty much invented the state of New York. Her family has been in America since before Mayflower. She is quite blueooded on both sides. I'm a history buff.
Mitzi73 That's really funny to learn. When we were young and the show was in syndication, my sister always insisted that she (JW) was "too aristocratic" to be the mother on that show. Now I know why..
I loved listening to Jane talk, though. I thought she had a lovely voice. I wouldn't call it too aristocratic, just classy. And charming.
True, her family was old money. Aside from their home on Gramercy Park, they had an estate in Duchess County and hobnobbed with the river Society. It was at a dinner party at the Roosevelt's estate that she met her future husband. Her family's branch of the Van Rensselaers was a little unusual though. because they had converted to Catholicism, which was almost unheard of back then. One became a nun who founded schools and her brother became an Archbishop in the church. Jane's mother had a great name,: Euphemia Van Rensselaer Waddington Wyatt. But Jane seemed to find the society thing silly and said some of her family thought being related to the Van Rensselaers was important, but she wasn't impressed by it at all.
Darn! I missed it! Maybe The Family Channel will repeat this special from 1990
My mom liked the radio show better than the TV show. I never knew all 3 young stars came from broken homes.
Good Show
Robert Young finished Marcus Welby in 1976, long before this reunion was televised. This special aired in 1990. He was well into his 80s at the time this was broadcast & well into retirement
stevations No, Robert Young's third television series (his second was CBS' "Window on Main Street," which lasted a single season 1961-62) had been long out of production--14 years, in fact--by the time of the Family Channel marathon of "Father Knows Best" (from which the uploaded clip here is taken), ABC having aired the last episode of "Marcus Welby, M.D." July 29, 1976.
For future reference, it only tales a perfunctory check of one of two websites (IMDB dotcom or Wikipedia dotcom) to obtain such basic information (as when a series such as "Marcus Welby, M.D." was in production) about a film or television series, which is usually correct for such general facts. And actually, those sites often utilize established reference sources to obtain the information, in the case of TV "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present" by Tim Brooks & Earle F. Marsh; and for film "Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide," "Movies on TV (and Videocassette)" by Steven Scheuer, and "VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever."
Additionally, I also recommend "Buyer's Guide to Fifty Years of TV on Video" by the late Sam Frank, fraught though it is with errors (factual and typographical, also pagination), as well corrupted by a left-wing political perspective, for its still-beneficial insight into TV history as well some titles yet to be produced in home video formats..
My cable provider did not show CBN until midnight every day, so I could not watch or record the special but did see and record this preview.
I'll always remember Billy grey for his speedway motorcycle racing...
Charles Hanes
I went to a "legalization of Marijuana" rally about 1975 on Fiesta island at San Diego bay. Steppenwolf (no surprise) were there along with others. Billy Grey gave a speech and one of the zingers he threw out was "Father always didn't know best" and asked the crowd to donate.
fathersknowsbestliveson
"Billy! Sit up straight, for Christ sake." This father knows best.
Don’t blaspheme the name of. God
By the late 80s Robert Young's health started to fail, perhaps he wasn't well enough to travel outside of his home anymore.
He had heart problems and Alzheimer's disease. He did make a few TV movies in the late 1980s (the last one aired in 1988).
Jesus loves early American Television
Roger: Right. Before there were Muslims appearing in front of the camera.
Jesus loves people, not television!
I remember when this aired. The cast looks great here. Robert Young's final acting project was in the 1988 tv movie Marcus Welby : A Holiday Affair before he retired. It was sad that by 1991 he tried to committ suicide after years of depression and alcoholism. He died in 1998. Billy Gray is quite bitter towards the show.
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Do you still have it on tape? I would like to see it.
Maybe Mr Young did not want to travel to the studio or had other commitments and recorded his section at different time. The local cable company that showed this channel in my area only had CBN available from midnight to 8am so when the actual marathon aired I could not view or record it, so the answer is, I don't know why Robert Young was on the couch. I would have recorded the who special if I could.
Kitten is a blonde now!
And what did Father do all day? We never knew what his job was.
Sold insurance
I always assumed he was an international assassin.
That was never a secret.
theyve started deleting many father knows best videos. i wonder why
youtube deleting? It could be certain actors in the episodes wanted royalties. I think antenna tv still shows these
I like Gray's comment, almost under his breath, "we didn't really get along very well," talking about Robert Young.
Actually, I believe Gray was talking about director Bill Russel, not Robert Young.
Elinor has said in other interviews that they (the three kids) were not friends and that there would always be two against one, but the "one" was constantly changing.
It Burns
I've read that Robert Young's alcoholism affected him, not so much in a abusive to others way as in "somewhat impervious to others" way
@@kirkmoore4515 I saw an interview with Suzanne Pleshette and she said when she guest starred on Young's later series Marcus Welby.....she said he was an interesting sad man. I remember years later around 1991 he tried to commit suicide by inhaling car exhaust. The car would not start and he called a mechanic to his house. The guy saw the hose and figured out what he was up to and called the police. His wife Betty was also an alcoholic.
@@kirkmoore4515 I'm not sure about Billy, but both Elinor and Lauren had only kind things to say about Robert Young; he was a father figure to them: Lauren actually spent weekends with Young and his family. He also battled depression and later, Alzheimer's disease. He was known for his professionalism but he was also shy and private. Jane Wyatt also had only kind things to say about him. I'm sure he had his moments, but most people have said good things about him. It's important to remember that symptoms of Alzheimer's can often start manifesting early.
Put the fucking year when the reunion came out
This aired in 1989,noy 1990
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Just go back to work!
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Too bad to see Billy Gray in the 1991 interview all shaggy and poorly groomed...not to mention his complete negatively towards the show.
Aviation Direction Yes. Its way too bad Billy chose to be so negative. It wasn’t JUST his FNB experience he has been sour about, its life in general. Too bad he never took to heart the very excellent lessons about character and integrity that his show taught the rest of us. I hope he came to be grateful for the opportunity he had to play Bud.
FNB was appointment television when I was small. I've heard Billy Gray diss the plotlines. Recently, I had the chance to record and watch 2 dozen episodes. I'm sorry to say I agree with Billy Gray. I've found much of each plot to be cringe-worthy.