she was lovely.. as many an engenue.. they start out and the good ones take hold.. l think barbara eden was the most lovely.. then raquel welch (but was mostly movies..) but wowza.. then daryll hannah (splash, clan of the cave bear) and kim basinger (nadine, marrying man, 9½ weeks).. those were some stunning women.. nd yes l know lm dating myself.. hah
@@DouglasGreenough-dc2sdAside from starring as Shirley Partridge in “The Partridge Family,” she starred in the musical films “Oklahoma,” “Carousel,” and “The Music Man.” Non-musical films include “The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father,” “The Cheyenne Social Club,” and “Elmer Gantry,” for which she won an Academy Award.
@@harrisgoodman1564 Harris, would you also look up when did Hitler invade Poland, stock market crash, why did newspaper say Dewey won election, and why were there 2 Darrins on Bewitched, and get back to me? Like Douglas, I don't feel like looking things up.
Well it was a different world as far as we thought but even back then the elite cabal were working on their devious plan to unhinge humanity. Televisions were made for brainwashing the public. TELL A LIE VISION. That is why we are in the mess we are in now. People don't want to wake up and realise they have been conned with the plandemic and everything. I have neighbours who refuse to listen to me about the demonic secret societies that run the world like the freemasons and what evil was found in the vatican and that the pope and cardinals were arrested trialled and executed years ago and that clones are in place of people of prominence that have been dealt with through military tribunals. So much more is going on in the background. But everyone will know soon because the play is coming to an end and there will be an EBS globally explaining everything. We have been in the world's biggest war EVER but it has been mainly galactic and underground so people have not woken up. Say goodbye to your fave movie stars and musicians - all worked for the cabal CIA and practised some sickening crimes against humanity.
Shirley is one of those "special" people who were destined to share her talent with the human race. Everything she did was executed with beauty, poise and grace. She just carried it around with her without having to try.
Then again, if this had been a hit in 1965, who's to tell whether she would have starred in the Partridge Family with David Cassidy in 5 years from then. If she wasn't cast (and I do believe she was the first one the producers wanted), then the whole series may not have gone ahead and if that was the case, think of the different timeline David would have been on. He was so huge in the 1970s, more popular than the Beatles. I also find it interesting to contrast the making of this and the Partridge Family - how different they both were. For one thing, this one seems more like a 1950s sitcom and when you see the colour and the slightly more modern feel of the Partridge Family, it is hard to fathom when only 5 years separated the two.
I had a crush on her when I was about 15 watching reruns of The Partridge Family. I told my friends I liked Susan Dey because I was afraid they would think Shirley was an old lady! 😆 I never knew about this pilot.
This pilot was made around the same time as Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie started. I’m sure they were trying to capitalize on the successful plot of the beautiful woman whose supernatural powers sometimes help her man and sometimes get him into trouble; but it all works out in the end. That being said I really enjoyed this pilot and wish it would have gotten picked up. I love 1960s television shows. As luck would have it, about six years later Shirley Jones landed the role of Shirley Partridge on “The Partridge Family” and the rest is television history.
@@Cg41418 Keeping the husband clueless would have worn out the audience in four episodes. Dr. Bellows and Mrs. Kravitz at least had enough brains to be suspicious, which made it an interesting little game. What's odd about this show is that everyone in it, including Shirley, is actually a jerk.
I guess the short hair made her look older and more maternal, a better fit for the mom role on Partridge Family -- she's really beautiful with longer hair....
Never heard of this since it was unsold. Interesting~ I think Shirley reminds me of blonde Naomi Watts when she smiles a bit! Thanks for posting this! Hard to believe that she's gone from her early 30s here to her late 80s now, how time flies!
Rosemary DeCamp became "Ann Marie's" mother in "That Girl!" two years later and "Shirley Partridge's" mother, "Mrs. Renfrew," three years after that. Small world!
And Ted Bessel, who plays the awful law partner and sexual harasser in this, thankfully played the much better human being Don, Anne Marie’s boyfriend in That Girl.
Jack was no slouch himself. Even as a child, I thought he was incredibly debonair. Who would have guessed, in just a few years, I - along with millions of other girls - would be in love with his son. Ahhh, that face, that voice, that hair - what a perfect storm - I still love him! 💞
Shirley Jones, Miss Pittsburgh, is a class act!. I loved her in Rodger and Hammerstein's Oaklahoma, as well as her roll in The Partridge Family. I think she did a superb job in this pilot as well, and the show itself was well done. I'm surprised that no studio picked it up.
@@SashazurTruth! Being Suzy Homemaker was overrated. Take a job as a domestic, babysitter, gardener, chauffeur, counselor, and intimate partner, just to start & you'd get the idea. With no pay. You were a wife, not a person. Known as "Mrs" John Doe. This is fantasy which is why guys love it. Now we have a choice which path we choose . Much better.
Hi Jeffsabu, thank you for the memories - thank you for bringing us back to a time of innocence, values, and freedom (before the war, that is). We were not perfect but we did have boundaries and guidance - May God help us all, Ciao, L (Veteran, Baby Boomer)
Thanks for posting, great quality, enjoyed it a lot. The actor playing the son, Kelly Corcoran, was in a family full of acting siblings. Kevin “Moochie” was in several Disney films. Noreen was on “Bachelor Father.” Donna was with Marilyn Monroe in “Don’t Bother to Knock.” Brian was in “Babes in Toyland.”
Nice to see John Abbot (Sesmar in Lost in Space), and Barton MacLane (General Peterson in I Dream of Jeannie). Shirley was an extreme outlier. If this was ever released as a full TV series, I would definitely buy it. 1963-1966 are my favourite years for new U.S. TV series.
Yes, in those 4 years we got: *Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, Green Acres, The Munsters, That Girl, The Addams Family, Batman, Gilligan's Island, McHale's Navy, Get Smart, Lost In Space, Family Affair, The Monkees, The Green Hornet, The Patty Duke Show, F Troop,* and, *Star Trek.* Amazing to think how much enjoyment those 18 programs have given us over the last half century. The only one that wasn't my cup of tea was, The Patty Duke Show. But my big sisters loved it! And I know it was a quality show. I just didn't relate to it. My Top 3 among these are: *1) Hogan's Heroes 2) Star Trek 3) Bewitched!*
I recognized Alvy Moore from his many memorable character roles in the movies over the years, including: The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) The War of the Worlds (1953) The Glory Brigade (1953) The Wild One (1953) Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) Susan Slept Here (1954) 5 Against The House (1955) Screaming Eagles (1956) Designing Woman (1956) The Persuader (1957 - William Talman as twin "good guys" right before he struck it rich on "Perry Mason"!) The Perfect Furlough (1958) For Love or Money (1963) Believe it or not, Alvy Moore was 43 years old when he played the parking attendant in this unsold pilot.
They greenlighted, "My Mother the Car" because that was more believable to the viewing public. I wish I had what the executives were smoking that day. Cute pilot, with a little tweeting this could have been fun. I would have allowed the husband to know and have her help. But I'm not a TV executive with extensive knowledge of what the viewing public would like to watch.
I always had a special place in my heart for Shirley Jones. I grew up with her as Shirley Partridge of the Partridge Family. She was like a dream mother to me. Perfect smile, deep soulful eyes. She had and has such a stylistic personality that is so appealing..... I think she must have been the perfect wife as well. Watching her on tv gave me a sense that the world had potential to be a safe understanding place for us all. God bless her!
Speaking as a former sack of groceries the view from the back of a station wagon was great! Particularly the view of a somewhat older blue Ford that ran a light and clipped the drivers rear quarter. Oddly though my memory doesn't include the moment of impact. Just before and after.
Shirley Jones rocked this pilot!! I wish it would have been picked up by a network. My family would have watched! ❤ Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸 05/28/2024
This is really "Bewitched" even down to the husband looking like Dick York. Shirley Jones is very pretty and Samantha-esque. And good ol' Hank Kimball as the parking attendant. Even a healthy amount of Black folk in here. The Black mom with the Supremes hair at the school meeting was a treat haha. Keep the rarities coming, love your channel.
That show was adorable. It is a shame they didn't go with it. Certainly a lot better than some shows. No wonder I didn't see her on TV until Partridge Family.
I forgot all about that show! Seems like it wasn't on very long, I only remember seeing it a couple of times. Wasn't John Davidson her love interest in that?
@@SOLE2SOUL Yes, John Davidson co-starred on the show with Sally. They played recently married couple John & Sally Burton. Series ran for 22 episodes from 193 to 1974.
This show had potential the only problem is the lack of explanation of how Eliza can hear the thoughts on certain individuals sight unseen and so far away.....
I think she reads minds from a distance through her husband…he was at the party and last year at Christmas time when she was at her mother’s home in San Fran.
Yes, I thought she had a similar Montgomery look here. She really is gorgeous. That mom haircut in the Partridge Family was choppy and didn’t do her justice.
Yes, that's what I was thinking of when I saw it. And Slade must have liked Shirley Jones too, as she starred in THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY. Of course, what's not to love?
@@fivemile13 Partridge Family was really a family business. Jack Cassidy was trying to get a job for his son to break into the business...they didn't tell him his step mother was already cast as Mom. Screen Gems wanted to replace The Monkeys which the producers had destroyed on purpose with the psychodelic Monkeys movie that was written with Jack Nicholson over a drugged up weekend. Hollywood is weird. Jones is about 31 here. She around was 36 when cast as the Mom of 18 and 16 year old teens.
Laugh tracks were an essential part of sitcoms {and several Saturday morning cartoons during the 1960's and '70s, thanks to Fred Silverman at CBS} from the 1950's until a few years ago. Very few of those chose not to use them.
the show talks about a rec center with olympic pool , bowling alley & 4 baseball diamonds . they tore down an old school in my hood and build a huge factory type building on the big football field where there was a diamond on the side too , now they'll be lucky to get a small field in . they talk about kids sitting at games and phones and being obese at 8 years old but this is what school boards are doing today
I think this could have worked. The writing always gets better as the actors and writers get to know the characters better. But none of the shows following would have been the same. Maybe Donald would have been played by someone else in That Girl. And maybe the partridge family might have had another mother. But she is so beautiful in this show. I'm glad i got to see it.😊 Thanks uploader.
That means we have cast members from these future TV shows in this episode: I Dream of Jeannie, Green Acres, That Girl, and The Partridge Family right there.
Thank you for posting this, it was so beautiful. It reminded me of my childhood. Even the bit where she's at home and gets the orange juice for her son is so sweet. What a pity they didn't make more of them. 'Not for broadcast' it says, but I was so pleased to watch this now. In our day and age, we need things like this more than ever.
I met Shirley Jones once...on the set of the Partridge Family. She said, "hi." It was a riveting conversation. But later that afternoon, I played Frisbee with Bobby Sherman, who was a guest on the show that day. He was a brave guy.... the Frisbee went on the roof of a studio and he climbed up the ladder on the side of the building to fetch it. Sounds like I've led a boring life, huh?
Fantastic - ESP was a hot news item around that time, also referenced in the second 1966 Star Trek pilot. Great to see Shirley Jones before The Partridge Family as well as others including John Abbott also later in Star Trek.
Have you noticed that the parking lot attendant was Alvy Moore before he became Mr. Kimball on Green Acres? Also, this was probably the first ever Sitcom to feature someone with psychic powers.
Thank you for Dream Wife, starring Shirley Jones before The Partridge Family and the short-lived series, Shirley. By this time, Jones took a break from doing movies and concentrated on television. Ted Cassell was a year away from playing Don Hollinger opposite Marlo Thomas' Ann Marie on That Girl. I guess a normal housewife with telepathy didn't sell with CBS executives in 1965 when this was shot. However, I always thought of how beautiful Shirley Jones was in her prime. She's now 90, if you can believe that.
My mother looked very much like a young Shirley Jones, I really liked her hair long....too bad this series didn't get picked up, it looked really fun!!
Not born yet till ‘69, but sometimes I wished I had been a housewife. I think I would have been great at it. Especially the life of Samantha on “Bewitched ”, my favorite show.
Awesome! And how interesting to see Rosemary DeCamp as Ted Bessell's mother when she would later become his mother-in-law on THAT GIRL! The show is a bit sexist, but of its time. Love the way she dumps her kid in the back of the station wagon, just like we all went back in the day.
This was produced for consideration for CBS' 1965-'66 schedule. They passed on it, and was never telecast. The one "fantasy" sitcom the network *did* schedule that season (after "BEWITCHED" became the #1 new sitcom on ABC the previous season) was "THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS SHOW" {Dick's a publishing executive; brother Tommy's a fledgling angel}, which lasted one season. By the way, Bob Kaufman submitted a script for "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in late 1965, "Oh, Them Golden Slippers". Creator/producer Sidney Sheldon liked the idea, but NOT the script. He offered to buy it from Kaufman- provided he rewrote it, and share screen credit with him. Bob agreed- and the final version became "My Master, the Thief".
Did you know that Screen Gems asked Sidney Sheldon to be the producer of "BEWITCHED" before the series began production? They showed him the pilot- and he thought about it before he decided to produce his own programs [under his Screen Gems contract]. Besides, in the case of "twins", Sidney created the format (and wrote the majority of episodes) for "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW"- identical cousins- which Bill Asher originally produced and directed in its first season. Later, Asher helped introduce "Cousin Serena" in a season two "BEWITCHED" episode. Then, in the fall of 1967, Sheldon introduced Jeannie's devious twin sister....which Asher accused Sidney of stealing the idea from him.
He doesn't know she has that power. It's only a nightmare for him if he knows it, or if she abuses it. Obviously in a light-hearted sitcom like this, had it gotten picked up, Lisa would not have abused her ability. And he never would've found out. The show had a cool premise, I wish it had been bought.
A Bewitched clone, but so was IDOJ. Shirley’s talent, charm, and charisma could have carried this show through the rest of the 60s. Just in time for the Partridge Family. 🎉
At first I thought this was going to be a unsold Screen Gems pilot (particularly since Shirley Jones would later star on "The Partridge Family" for Screen Gems), and was expecting that familiar "S From Hell" logo at the end, but I stuck around for the closing credits and was surprised to discover it was an MGM production! Too bad they couldn't have sold this, Shirley would have rivaled Elizabeth Montgomery and Barbara Eden real well, Instead, she became a mother of a rock & roll band based on The Cowsills, which The Cowsills didn't get because they wanted their own mother, Barbara Cowsill to play Shirley Partridge. Screen Gems said no, and they hired Shirley to do the part.
Imagine having a middle upper class life back then. Having a dishwasher when 90% of ppl don’t. And a dish washer when most don’t. And marriages lasted. Ppl actually stayed married .
I love Shirley Jones... I've met her three times in my life but I never knew about this pilot. She's absolutely stunning in this.
Well, the industry normally doesn't talk about pilots that didn't sell.
Jackie Gleeson can attest. :-)
How?
She obviously was hoping no one ever found out about it.
she was lovely.. as many an engenue.. they start out and the good ones take hold.. l think barbara eden was the most lovely.. then raquel welch (but was mostly movies..) but wowza.. then daryll hannah (splash, clan of the cave bear) and kim basinger (nadine, marrying man, 9½ weeks).. those were some stunning women.. nd yes l know lm dating myself.. hah
Shirley was and still is, incredibly beautiful!
1965 was a great year for her.
What other shows is she a actress on TV or movie's
@@DouglasGreenough-dc2sdAsk Google
@@DouglasGreenough-dc2sdAside from starring as Shirley Partridge in “The Partridge Family,” she starred in the musical films “Oklahoma,” “Carousel,” and “The Music Man.” Non-musical films include “The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father,” “The Cheyenne Social Club,” and “Elmer Gantry,” for which she won an Academy Award.
@@harrisgoodman1564 Harris, would you also look up when did Hitler invade Poland, stock market crash, why did newspaper say Dewey won election, and why were there 2 Darrins on Bewitched, and get back to me? Like Douglas, I don't feel like looking things up.
It's hard to believe that only 5 years later she will be Mrs. Partridge. Shirley Jones is an amazingly talented woman.
She was WAY better than this horrible script
the same year alvy moore became hank kimball on green acres; the next year ted bessell would play don hollinger on that girl.
@@docadams7099 Hank Kimball was in The Wild One with Marlon Brando. lol
And my mom had as many children by then. Thanks for the memory
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It was a different world back then, and sometimes I can't believe that I was even alive back then.
Well it was a different world as far as we thought but even back then the elite cabal were working on their devious plan to unhinge humanity. Televisions were made for brainwashing the public. TELL A LIE VISION. That is why we are in the mess we are in now. People don't want to wake up and realise they have been conned with the plandemic and everything. I have neighbours who refuse to listen to me about the demonic secret societies that run the world like the freemasons and what evil was found in the vatican and that the pope and cardinals were arrested trialled and executed years ago and that clones are in place of people of prominence that have been dealt with through military tribunals. So much more is going on in the background. But everyone will know soon because the play is coming to an end and there will be an EBS globally explaining everything. We have been in the world's biggest war EVER but it has been mainly galactic and underground so people have not woken up. Say goodbye to your fave movie stars and musicians - all worked for the cabal CIA and practised some sickening crimes against humanity.
Genau! Heute ist ganz Abfall!
You’re so right! It was a lifetime ago! It’s hard to believe we ever existed,,,,,I grew up in the 60s
@@francesfarmer736 Me too, born in 1960.
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Have never before heard of this! Thank you, so much, for sharing! Wow!!!
It never aired.
Shirley is one of those "special" people who were destined to share her talent with the human race. Everything she did was executed with beauty, poise and grace. She just carried it around with her without having to try.
She has a lovely kind gentle way about her. Seemed a wonderful mother to her boys. Even David seemed to like her
Great points!!
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I would have loved this show! It was what we needed humor fantasy and romance. I miss the innocence of those times
Then again, if this had been a hit in 1965, who's to tell whether she would have starred in the Partridge Family with David Cassidy in 5 years from then. If she wasn't cast (and I do believe she was the first one the producers wanted), then the whole series may not have gone ahead and if that was the case, think of the different timeline David would have been on. He was so huge in the 1970s, more popular than the Beatles. I also find it interesting to contrast the making of this and the Partridge Family - how different they both were. For one thing, this one seems more like a 1950s sitcom and when you see the colour and the slightly more modern feel of the Partridge Family, it is hard to fathom when only 5 years separated the two.
She is quite beautiful in this
They did a similar theme withe Nanny And The Professor.
me too.
Needs. Color
So happy to see Ted Bessell! Two years before "That Girl!"
What. Girl??
But Ted plays a complete creep in this.
@@gerry-p9x Marlo Thomas as "Ann Marie" in "That Girl!," co-starring Ted Bessell.
Ted Bessell died in 1996 at age 61. I loved him in That Girl.
@@melaniekolomyja7335 I did as well. I wanted to be like Don Hollinger and have a girlfriend like Ann Marie.
Shirley Jones looks so adorable! 🥰
She is pretty with longer hair. She was great in this
She's beautiful no matter what. 🥰
Adorable indeed!
Shirley Jones was so beautiful
NGL, she was fire hot right there...
Yes Sir she was! She was about 31 here right? Beautiful, and a GREAT actress! :)
@@SoapinTrucker She was quite good in the role
Absolutely and a beautiful singing voice.
I had a crush on her when I was about 15 watching reruns of The Partridge Family. I told my friends I liked Susan Dey because I was afraid they would think Shirley was an old lady! 😆
I never knew about this pilot.
This is a fabulous 1965 Dream Wife unsold pilot classic!!
I liked the 1962 Lincoln Contintental that was revealed when she pulled away from the parking lot. Love those lines almost as much as Shirley's.
Shirley Jones is 90 her birthday was in March. Thanks for sharing this.
Miss Jones is literally a living legend! ❤
@@rangerannie5636 yep.
31 March 1934
I'm pleasantly surprised she's still ticking. I honestly thought she kicked the bucket years ago.
This pilot was made around the same time as Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie started. I’m sure they were trying to capitalize on the successful plot of the beautiful woman whose supernatural powers sometimes help her man and sometimes get him into trouble; but it all works out in the end. That being said I really enjoyed this pilot and wish it would have gotten picked up. I love 1960s television shows. As luck would have it, about six years later Shirley Jones landed the role of Shirley Partridge on “The Partridge Family” and the rest is television history.
I agree with you Beth.
I watched the entire show. Because of her, it could have worked. Don’t know why they didn’t go for it. Her husbands character though….terrible.
@@Cg41418 Keeping the husband clueless would have worn out the audience in four episodes. Dr. Bellows and Mrs. Kravitz at least had enough brains to be suspicious, which made it an interesting little game. What's odd about this show is that everyone in it, including Shirley, is actually a jerk.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 I do agree with that….they would have had to question it somehow. He couldn’t remain clueless forever.
Those shows with more meat. I liked this much better than I had thought I was going to.
It's nice to see Shirley not constantly upstaged by Danny B. and David C. What a great role for her! Should have been a series.
I said cheekily maybe this was when Keith was a little kid before the other 4.
@@lilacicecreamI wondered the same.
I enjoyed watching this pilot. Shirley Jones is such a great actress. Thank you “jeffsabu” for sharing this with us. Much appreciated. 👍
I remember as little kids we all used to pile in the back of the station wagon for road trips. Oh, how I miss the good o’l days. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅
It was great, wasn’t it?
Miss the 60s n 70s groovy time to grow up ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
My family had the same station wagon that Shirley drives in the pilot - 1964 Dodge Polara.
@@matthewgardner2144 -We had the 1959 Chevy station wagon, tail wings and all.
My wife had no childhood!
She's beautiful
Man she was so beautiful !
1964. Polara wagon
Looks like Dawn Wells sister.
What a great show! Too bad they didn't buy it. And Shirley Jones looks so much better in that hair do.
Seconded.
I will never understand why she chopped off her hair.
I guess the short hair made her look older and more maternal, a better fit for the mom role on Partridge Family -- she's really beautiful with longer hair....
She was also much slimmer.
Shirley Jones is pretty like a princes.
In this world there are so many beautiful women! Including this gorgeous person.
Such a charming show. Wished they had given it the "green light".
At least for one season. I liked this because of Shirley
Never heard of this since it was unsold. Interesting~ I think Shirley reminds me of blonde Naomi Watts when she smiles a bit! Thanks for posting this! Hard to believe that she's gone from her early 30s here to her late 80s now, how time flies!
Shirley Jones, with all her class, makes Naomi Watts look like Burt Lancaster....
Rosemary DeCamp became "Ann Marie's" mother in "That Girl!" two years later and "Shirley Partridge's" mother, "Mrs. Renfrew," three years after that. Small world!
And Ted Bessel, who plays the awful law partner and sexual harasser in this, thankfully played the much better human being Don, Anne Marie’s boyfriend in That Girl.
@@brianarbenz1329 "That Girl!" got him, but every girl needed a "Don Hollinger" in her life! Even "Lew Marie" had to agree!
Jack Cassidy sure had good taste in women! Shirley Jones is a living doll and she also has a beautiful singing voice.
and in men
@@joejones9520😂
Jack was no slouch himself. Even as a child, I thought he was incredibly debonair.
Who would have guessed, in just a few years, I - along with millions of other girls - would be in love with his son. Ahhh, that face, that voice, that hair - what a perfect storm - I still love him! 💞
Shirley Jones, Miss Pittsburgh, is a class act!. I loved her in Rodger and Hammerstein's Oaklahoma, as well as her roll in The Partridge Family. I think she did a superb job in this pilot as well, and the show itself was well done. I'm surprised that no studio picked it up.
I wish I could go back and live in this time again.
Frankly, so do I. I *wanted* to be a housewife.
But this is pretend fantasy, a TV show. Even back then life was not really like this. It’s fine to wish for it - but it was never real.
@@SashazurTruth! Being Suzy Homemaker was overrated. Take a job as a domestic, babysitter, gardener, chauffeur, counselor, and intimate partner, just to start & you'd get the idea. With no pay. You were a wife, not a person. Known as "Mrs" John Doe. This is fantasy which is why guys love it. Now we have a choice which path we choose . Much better.
We had a ball!
Hi Jeffsabu, thank you for the memories - thank you for bringing us back to a time of innocence, values, and freedom (before the war, that is). We were not perfect but we did have boundaries and guidance - May God help us all, Ciao, L (Veteran, Baby Boomer)
Thanks for posting, great quality, enjoyed it a lot. The actor playing the son, Kelly Corcoran, was in a family full of acting siblings. Kevin “Moochie” was in several Disney films. Noreen was on “Bachelor Father.” Donna was with Marilyn Monroe in “Don’t Bother to Knock.” Brian was in “Babes in Toyland.”
Rosemary DeCamp would go on to play Shirley's mother on "The Partridge Family" (1970 - 1974)
Nice to see John Abbot (Sesmar in Lost in Space), and Barton MacLane (General Peterson in I Dream of Jeannie). Shirley was an extreme outlier. If this was ever released as a full TV series, I would definitely buy it. 1963-1966 are my favourite years for new U.S. TV series.
Yes, in those 4 years we got: *Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, Green Acres, The Munsters, That Girl, The Addams Family, Batman, Gilligan's Island, McHale's Navy, Get Smart, Lost In Space, Family Affair, The Monkees, The Green Hornet, The Patty Duke Show, F Troop,* and, *Star Trek.* Amazing to think how much enjoyment those 18 programs have given us over the last half century. The only one that wasn't my cup of tea was, The Patty Duke Show. But my big sisters loved it! And I know it was a quality show. I just didn't relate to it. My Top 3 among these are: *1) Hogan's Heroes 2) Star Trek 3) Bewitched!*
Every man's dream wife! Shirley is Absolutely gorgeous.
Nah. She’s gorgeous of course but some of us prefer brunettes 😂
@@KansaiTeacher have no problem with that.
You're right! She's Stunningly gorgeous here!
Alvy Moore also appears in this pre- his role as "County Agent Hank Kimball" in "Green Acres."
Loved the Hank Kimball cameo. Green Acres was Dali on TV.
I recognized Alvy Moore, just before he became famous in GREEN ACRES.
I recognized Alvy Moore from his many memorable character roles in the movies over the years, including:
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Glory Brigade (1953)
The Wild One (1953)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Susan Slept Here (1954)
5 Against The House (1955)
Screaming Eagles (1956)
Designing Woman (1956)
The Persuader (1957 - William Talman as twin "good guys" right before he struck it rich on "Perry Mason"!)
The Perfect Furlough (1958)
For Love or Money (1963)
Believe it or not, Alvy Moore was 43 years old when he played the parking attendant in this unsold pilot.
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They greenlighted, "My Mother the Car" because that was more believable to the viewing public. I wish I had what the executives were smoking that day. Cute pilot, with a little tweeting this could have been fun. I would have allowed the husband to know and have her help. But I'm not a TV executive with extensive knowledge of what the viewing public would like to watch.
Wow that was good great acting
I always had a special place in my heart for Shirley Jones. I grew up with her as Shirley Partridge of the Partridge Family. She was like a dream mother to me. Perfect smile, deep soulful eyes. She had and has such a stylistic personality that is so appealing..... I think she must have been the perfect wife as well. Watching her on tv gave me a sense that the world had potential to be a safe understanding place for us all. God bless her!
This looked like a good idea for a show. I would've watched. Hank Kimball mentions Plymouth Rock. That's a real insurance company today! Lol
Tosses the kid in the back window of the station wagon like a sack of groceries 😂
lol yeah that made me laugh as well. I was like woohoo!
As it should be!
Speaking as a former sack of groceries the view from the back of a station wagon was great! Particularly the view of a somewhat older blue Ford that ran a light and clipped the drivers rear quarter. Oddly though my memory doesn't include the moment of impact. Just before and after.
Not reallly.
That's how we rolled.
Shirley Jones rocked this pilot!! I wish it would have been picked up by a network. My family would have watched! ❤ Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸 05/28/2024
obviously, 20th Fox stole the idea -- and it became Nanny and the Professor
The Girl With Something Extra was what really used this. Sally Field played the wife of a lawyer who used her ESP in his cases, which annoyed him.
Any remember The Girl With Something Extra. Sally Field and John Davidson. Exact same premise
Beat me to it. Good call
This is really "Bewitched" even down to the husband looking like Dick York. Shirley Jones is very pretty and Samantha-esque. And good ol' Hank Kimball as the parking attendant. Even a healthy amount of Black folk in here. The Black mom with the Supremes hair at the school meeting was a treat haha. Keep the rarities coming, love your channel.
@alanoldham1700 It’s nice to see integrated cast.
For the mid-60s, there was a fair amount of representation of black people in this, but still very limited.
This actually got reworked as The Girl With Something Extra with Sally Fields and John Davidson in the early 70’s
That show was adorable. It is a shame they didn't go with it. Certainly a lot better than some shows. No wonder I didn't see her on TV until Partridge Family.
In 1973, Sally Field would star on the sitcom The Girl With Something Extra in which she could read people's minds.
I forgot all about that show! Seems like it wasn't on very long, I only remember seeing it a couple of times. Wasn't John Davidson her love interest in that?
@@SOLE2SOUL Yes, John Davidson co-starred on the show with Sally. They played recently married couple John & Sally Burton. Series ran for 22 episodes from 193 to 1974.
Interesting
Shirley Jones is absolutely gorgeous in this pilot. That grandma haircut all throughout the Partridge Family series didn’t do her any justice.
I always thought that. She is so beautiful here.
That grandma do was hip in the early 70s. The flip was out.
@@RJS1974 - Yes, I get that. Bell bottoms were in too. But looking back, I don’t know what we were thinking. She looks much better with longer hair.
@@finster1968 Yes I agree!
I don't like her bald headed like on the Partridge Family.
This show had potential the only problem is the lack of explanation of how Eliza can hear the thoughts on certain individuals sight unseen and so far away.....
@ten reyes the explanation was that Eliza had ESP. Any oddities could be considered creative license, I guess. Just my opinion
Wouldn't she be hearing a cacophony of thoughts from thousands of people?
@@389383 Yes! Not realistic.
I think she reads minds from a distance through her husband…he was at the party and last year at Christmas time when she was at her mother’s home in San Fran.
It’s a sitcom not a documentary lol
Shirley was one of my first crushes, as was Elizabeth Montgomery!!🎉❤
Yes, I thought she had a similar Montgomery look here. She really is gorgeous. That mom haircut in the Partridge Family was choppy and didn’t do her justice.
Mine were Shirley and MTM from the DVD Show.
Not taking anything away from her Partridge Family era up 'til now but Shirley was strikingly cute and adorable in this taping.
My uncle had a date with Shirley Jones, and he blew it off. What a shame.
Which year?
She really was gorgeous back then.
Bernard Slade later created a similar sitcom for Sally Field, which became "THE GIRL WITH SOMTHING EXTRA" on NBC (1973-'74).
Reminds me of Tucker's Witch, too.
Yes, that's what I was thinking of when I saw it. And Slade must have liked Shirley Jones too, as she starred in THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY. Of course, what's not to love?
@@fivemile13 Partridge Family was really a family business. Jack Cassidy was trying to get a job for his son to break into the business...they didn't tell him his step mother was already cast as Mom. Screen Gems wanted to replace The Monkeys which the producers had destroyed on purpose with the psychodelic Monkeys movie that was written with Jack Nicholson over a drugged up weekend.
Hollywood is weird.
Jones is about 31 here. She around was 36 when cast as the Mom of 18 and 16 year old teens.
That canned laughter.
Laugh tracks were an essential part of sitcoms {and several Saturday morning cartoons during the 1960's and '70s, thanks to Fred Silverman at CBS} from the 1950's until a few years ago. Very few of those chose not to use them.
The title suited Shirley Jones perfectly, she was indeed the dream wife. They don't make women like her anymore, and neither men for that matter.
the show talks about a rec center with olympic pool , bowling alley & 4 baseball diamonds . they tore down an old school in my hood and build a huge factory type building on the big football field where there was a diamond on the side too , now they'll be lucky to get a small field in . they talk about kids sitting at games and phones and being obese at 8 years old but this is what school boards are doing today
Very good plot and good drama and comedy. Good writing. Too bad it wasn’t picked up.
I think this could have worked. The writing always gets better as the actors and writers get to know the characters better.
But none of the shows following would have been the same.
Maybe Donald would have been played by someone else in That Girl. And maybe the partridge family might have had another mother.
But she is so beautiful in this show. I'm glad i got to see it.😊
Thanks uploader.
This was fun. Thanks for finding and sharing. 👍
I have always loved her! Classy lovely woman.
So wish they'd made this pilot into a series! Enjoyed this anyway. Shirley Jones is such a dream, beauty, talent & grace.
That means we have cast members from these future TV shows in this episode: I Dream of Jeannie, Green Acres, That Girl, and The Partridge Family right there.
Thank you for posting this, it was so beautiful. It reminded me of my childhood. Even the bit where she's at home and gets the orange juice for her son is so sweet. What a pity they didn't make more of them. 'Not for broadcast' it says, but I was so pleased to watch this now. In our day and age, we need things like this more than ever.
I met Shirley Jones once...on the set of the Partridge Family. She said, "hi." It was a riveting conversation. But later that afternoon, I played Frisbee with Bobby Sherman, who was a guest on the show that day. He was a brave guy.... the Frisbee went on the roof of a studio and he climbed up the ladder on the side of the building to fetch it. Sounds like I've led a boring life, huh?
How? My 8-year-old self needs to know!!!
he became a paramedic, then a cop, then trained cops
Curious why you were on set
Fantastic - ESP was a hot news item around that time, also referenced in the second 1966 Star Trek pilot. Great to see Shirley Jones before The Partridge Family as well as others including John Abbott also later in Star Trek.
Have you noticed that the parking lot attendant was Alvy Moore before he became Mr. Kimball on Green Acres?
Also, this was probably the first ever Sitcom to feature someone with psychic powers.
Shirley was wonderful, great to see Ted Bessel, too. It's like a cross between On A Clear Day with Streisand and Bewitched.
That and Rosemary DeCamp, speaking of future "That Girl" cast members.
And Bessel seems like a villain on this show.
This is like “the girl with something extra.”
Shirley Jones was such a beauty!
A naturally gorgeous woman, a stand out in the partridge family as well. Glad she’s still with us.
I would love to be watching reruns of this show now.
I know, I'm so bummed there aren't more!
I'm not sure how I ended up here but this was great! I wish there were more episodes. I think this would've easily been a hit!
This is the same basic premise as the 1973 sitcom "The Girl With Something Extra" with Sally Field and John Davidson.
This is the best thank you!!!!!❤❤❤
Shirley Jones was simply smoking hot back in the day!
Thank you for Dream Wife, starring Shirley Jones before The Partridge Family and the short-lived series, Shirley. By this time, Jones took a break from doing movies and concentrated on television. Ted Cassell was a year away from playing Don Hollinger opposite Marlo Thomas' Ann Marie on That Girl. I guess a normal housewife with telepathy didn't sell with CBS executives in 1965 when this was shot. However, I always thought of how beautiful Shirley Jones was in her prime. She's now 90, if you can believe that.
*Bessell
@@Cosmo-Kramer Gotta love how the "narcissistic know it alls" mess everything up with their "knowledge".....
My mother looked very much like a young Shirley Jones, I really liked her hair long....too bad this series didn't get picked up, it looked really fun!!
I would have loved to have watched this show. How beautiful and talented is Shirley Jones!
Great show.!!!!
Always believed she was so beautiful!!
*Shirley Jones was what we used to call "a stone Fox."*
Too bad it was not sold. I would have loved it. (VLS)
This was great!
I love her in everything but I really wish she never cut her hair... Her long hair just made her so much more incredible
Role called for short hair in Partridge Family most like. She had to for the part.
@@happy777abc Oh got it...I just loved her long hair I don't think she let it grow back right?
I was 9 years old BUT it feels like a world in a different galaxy.
Not born yet till ‘69, but sometimes I wished I had been a housewife. I think I would have been great at it. Especially the life of Samantha on “Bewitched ”, my favorite show.
Awesome! And how interesting to see Rosemary DeCamp as Ted Bessell's mother when she would later become his mother-in-law on THAT GIRL! The show is a bit sexist, but of its time. Love the way she dumps her kid in the back of the station wagon, just like we all went back in the day.
Rosemary DeCamp also played Shirley Jones' mother on The Partridge Family.
"Ann Marie" & "Donald Hollinger" never married. Rosemary DeCamp was "Don's" prospective mother-in-law, instead.
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ROGER THAT! 👍
beautiful, classy, talented,
Great show!
This was produced for consideration for CBS' 1965-'66 schedule. They passed on it, and was never telecast. The one "fantasy" sitcom the network *did* schedule that season (after "BEWITCHED" became the #1 new sitcom on ABC the previous season) was "THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS SHOW" {Dick's a publishing executive; brother Tommy's a fledgling angel}, which lasted one season.
By the way, Bob Kaufman submitted a script for "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in late 1965, "Oh, Them Golden Slippers". Creator/producer Sidney Sheldon liked the idea, but NOT the script. He offered to buy it from Kaufman- provided he rewrote it, and share screen credit with him. Bob agreed- and the final version became "My Master, the Thief".
Sidney Sheldon was notorious for stealing ideas from "Bewitched," he was hardly a "class act."
I disagree. He sent me several nice letters in the mid-1980's.
Did you know that Screen Gems asked Sidney Sheldon to be the producer of "BEWITCHED" before the series began production? They showed him the pilot- and he thought about it before he decided to produce his own programs [under his Screen Gems contract]. Besides, in the case of "twins", Sidney created the format (and wrote the majority of episodes) for "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW"- identical cousins- which Bill Asher originally produced and directed in its first season. Later, Asher helped introduce "Cousin Serena" in a season two "BEWITCHED" episode. Then, in the fall of 1967, Sheldon introduced Jeannie's devious twin sister....which Asher accused Sidney of stealing the idea from him.
remarkable !
@@fromthesidelines Pandora Spocks
I guess an esp concept wouldn't work until Nanny and the Professor! By then Mrs Partridge was busy with another family of her own! Haha!
Those were the good old days.
This was ahead of its time...she had ESP, etc
This reminds me of an episode of Medium, where Alison starts remembering a woman in a series called "I Married a Physic>'
Too bad it didn't get picked up. It had the potential to be a great show. I enjoyed this pilot.
WTF? It was frikking awful.....no, horrid....
@@CowboyPants-h5pno, Sienfeld is horrid
The problem with this fantasy is that a wife who could read her husband's mind would be every husband's nightmare. :)
He doesn't know she has that power. It's only a nightmare for him if he knows it, or if she abuses it. Obviously in a light-hearted sitcom like this, had it gotten picked up, Lisa would not have abused her ability. And he never would've found out. The show had a cool premise, I wish it had been bought.
A Bewitched clone, but so was IDOJ. Shirley’s talent, charm, and charisma could have carried this show through the rest of the 60s. Just in time for the Partridge Family. 🎉
At first I thought this was going to be a unsold Screen Gems pilot (particularly since Shirley Jones would later star on "The Partridge Family" for Screen Gems), and was expecting that familiar "S From Hell" logo at the end, but I stuck around for the closing credits and was surprised to discover it was an MGM production! Too bad they couldn't have sold this, Shirley would have rivaled Elizabeth Montgomery and Barbara Eden real well, Instead, she became a mother of a rock & roll band based on The Cowsills, which The Cowsills didn't get because they wanted their own mother, Barbara Cowsill to play Shirley Partridge. Screen Gems said no, and they hired Shirley to do the part.
$39,000 a year is $388,000 today! He (or she?) hit the jackpot!
Nice Mercedes 190SL! It's worth almost $150,000 now !!!
Imagine having a middle upper class life back then. Having a dishwasher when 90% of ppl don’t. And a dish washer when most don’t. And marriages lasted. Ppl actually stayed married .
Many of those marriages ended in divorce just a few years later. In part because people got tired of that way of life.
Reminds me of Mr Ed. … keeping a secret from the spouse. This was a fantastic show-sad they didn’t make it into a successful series.
A wife that can read minds? That's not a dream wife...that's a NIGHTMARE!! 😬
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right 😮😅
A network needs to pick this up now, it's much better than anything currently on TV.