That was awesome! the 1960s has been and always will be my favorite era for television. A combination of ground breaking material, parodies with tongue in cheek dry humor, and good wholesome family entertainment. It truly was the golden age of tv.
oh my goodness! Beany & Cecil! I lived for that show. As a little girl, I always thought the serpent was actually Puff, the magic dragon. My parents never told me otherwise...Thanks for this, Fred. You are something special.
My brother actually had the large Beany and Cecil doll/puppet, as he was obsessed with the show. I had talking Casper. Pulled the string attached to him and he pronounced, "Hi, My name's Casper, what's yours"? Don't know where the years went. It certainly was a magical time for us kids back then. It didn't take much to entertain or impress us, and we were just fine (and happy and well-adjusted).
Some of these TV shows are from the 50's but I was 7 in 64 and I remember the cartoons. American Bandstand was on at 11 AM Saturdays so I had to relinquish the TV to my teenaged Sister. Thanks for the memories. JD
I had just turned 1 year old on the 27th of August. Now my cousin Robbie was 10 so he probably watched these programs. My late father would tell me my Grandma would cook his breakfast and dress him and he would just sit, his eyes glued to the television watching cartoons. I am 58 and still love cartoons. Tune In With Me and Popeye and The Pink Panther and Bugs Bunny and friends on MeTV. Along with The Simpsons, Family Guy and Southpark.
@@FredFlix, what was the deal with the "Indian Chief" in the test pattern?! Remember the color bars when color TV was initiated? It was never possible to adjust our sets to the tints they used! But I have a fond memory of the video & audio turning to the static snow. I either fell asleep to it and/or awoke to it! Please stay well & safe! Pax
Man do I remember when...I had a great childhood and am so thankful I was able to grow up back then. I remember when my Mom bought me the Beany and Cecil hat that would shot those little propellers off of your head.
@@jacquelineroque7594 i remember when tv went off the air too in the early 80s. I was lucky enough to be born in the final days of classic americana. Im pretty sure all the channels went off air? Except cable if you had it. I was in heaven when we got cable, because Disney channel would play cartoons most of the night, but that was the early days of cable, when it was actually good, unlike now with disgusting infomercials
@@icemike1 Well, even in the greater Los Angeles area, and that means no other city had more channels, in the 1960's, only two channels went past midnight; CBS and NBC. But once Carson went off the air, it was only the Late Show on CBS. Horrible movies, but at least it wasn't snow.
I would have been around 2 1/2 at the time, but my brothers and sisters were old enough to watch 🙂 I remember Friday nights when Chiller Theater came on at 11:30pm. My dad would be in bed, but my mom would stay up and watch them with us, and make snacks like popcorn and home fries made with real lard for us all to eat 🙂 Those were the days!
Stanley Klijanowicz Do you remember the Schwinn bicycle series called the pea picker and the orange crate? They were high end bikes that had shock absorbers and colors pertaining to their name. Mine was the green pea picker. What a trip remembering this!
Lucky you to have a real Schwinn banana-seat bike! I had a cheap knock-off (Royce Union) that rattled when I rode it, even when relatively new. I bought my first quality bike at eighteen-a Peugeot ten-speed! The poor old thing remains in my attic. I couldn’t give it up.
I loved the original JQ, and still do! I caught it in Saturday morning syndication in 1968/69, along with my other favourite, The Thunderbirds. Our local station ran them at broadcast begin and I bounced out of bed at 5 a.m. to see them! Ah, Saturday mornings! In my head I divided up the morning into "Triassic", "Jurassic" and "Cretacious". The "Triassic" was the very early morning when my top favourite cartoons came on. The "Jurassic" was the somewhat later ones that were still fun, but not quite as interesting. The "Cretacious" was the late morning, which when the live-action kid's shows came on, most of which I hated. Instead I switched to a show that ran old horror and kaiju films, which were infinitely cooler to 6-year-old me!
Loved Beanie & Cecil. Our weekly Saturday night horror movie was called Creature Features (Chicago) and on Friday we watched Jerry G Bishop on the Screaming Yellow Theater. Miss those days😂
Oh Casper😊I would go to my great grandmothers house she had a remote control tv and sit on her leather "Davenport " eat her delicious oatmeal cookies and watch Casper😊I loved her she was wonderful the shiniest copper pans I've ever seen
The Sixties were a start, but the Seventies ruled. I was born in the Summer of Love (1967), meaning I got the best of both worlds. The Old School, plus the new. At one time, I thought My Three Sons was state of the art, but The Brady Bunch blew it out of the water. Yes, I know you're laughing at me for giving props to TBB but it was just one example of how the new entertainment made the rest seemed old fashioned. The Banana Splits, Cattanooga Cats, Secret Squirrel, Top Cat, Scooby Doo & many others kept up the pace. What a decade! (I know there was some crossover in dates, but yeah, for me the Seventies was the Golden Age.
9/19/64 was the date for the final Saturday episode of Captain Kangaroo...for one year. Mister Mayor first aired on 9/26/64, for logistical reasons, and the Captain returned on 9/25/65.
@@robertburke1486 Yep! It was "must see" TV EVERY Saturday night back then. I can still remember when a VERY young Wayne Newton made his very first TV appearance on the show. Mr. Gleason was always credited with "discovering" him, and Mr. Newton made several more appearances on the show as his career began to accelerate. Both The Jackie Gleason Show and The Hollywood Palace made for some memorable Saturday night entertainment back then.
I was born Feb 11, 1967 and I remember watching most but not all of these. Like Mighty Mouse, Casper the friendly Ghost, Heckel and Jeckle, Bugs Bunny or Looney Toons, I don't remember Fury or Gigantis The Fire Monster
@@MrNoturaveragerednek Hmm..what u said...they had Howard Haweks, pre60, and the 50s the THING (also a Phil Harris hit and I just remember, by the time 1964 DID roll around, there was a THING..in the ADDAMSN family! We have a similair witches hand!-havent mention it anywhere online!)
I was 3 years old at this time. I do recall our TV being a black and white that used only vacuum tubes. One day it crapped out while I was watching Johnny Ginger and I was pissed. This was a great video and thanks for putting it together. Greetings from Arizona.
Wow! Now that was poking my memory with a sharp stick! I remembered all of the shows, I have not even thought of most of them since they were originally on! I felt a few dormant brain cells kick back on with that video! (Thanks!) As a pre-teen I loved Rin Tin Tin and Sky King, I can still remember Nellybelle the Jeep on Roy Rogers! These shows have not even been thought of, by me, in 4-5 decades!
We had Chiller Theatre on at 11:30 with Chilly Billy Cardille. He was a Pittsburgh newsman back in the day. He eventually had a cast of characters in his haunted castle,Terminal Stare,Georgette the fudgemaker(don't ask,lol)Stephen the castle prankster and a few others would drop in occasionally. A double horror feature was shown and in between was trivia,strange but true,ghost stories and stories from around the city. It was so well loved that when Saturday night live came out in "75",they had to play it on a uhf channel wpgh tv 53 because Chiller Theatre was on an NBC affliliate in Pittsburgh WIIC TV. People wrote in and were very angry when they announced that due to SNL, Chiller would be no more! Well,they were wrong! It was the other way around,there was such an outcry that Chiller stayed on its NBC station until "83" when it was finally canceled. It was the only NBC channel in the nation that didn't play SNL in that time slot. It shows how much people in the Burgh loved Chilly Billy. If you want a glimpse of him,he was the reporter in the original Night Of The Living Dead towards the end,the one interviewing the police chief. Chiller ran from "63"-"83" and will be missed by all who grew up with it,it was a Pittsburgh institution and to us old farts,it was a tradition that lives forever in our minds.
Our local Saturday late night horror show was called 'Chiller.' I remember watching the original Little Shop of Horrors and Earth vs the Spider. But usually I fell asleep.
Ah yes, "Chiller". I'm guessing by your name you lived in Arizona in the 1960's, as did I - in Tucson to be exact, and KGUN Channel 9 had "Chiller" on every Saturday night. Those were the days.....sigh.
WOW! Hoppity Hooper. I had totally forgotten about that one. I think I got it on reruns but I think I used to really like that show. And, of course, Cecil! Still remember them traveling over the Gina Lo-lo-brigita to get to the No Bikini Atoll.
Perhaps on the networks. But local stations could air whatever syndicated shows they wanted in the afternoon, including cartoons. I have old TV guides from around the country and I've seen them listed.
Ahh - my 6th birthday... I definitely remember some of those, not so much some of the others. I would have only watched the ones on earlier - by mid morning I would be outside playing. Thanks for the memories!
In the 1950s, some women wore long white skirts in the summer, and the "Beep Beep" song (around 1958?) was BRAND NEW. That's about all I remember from them (and maybe Kovacs Take A Good Look quiz show a little?)
Part of the Tennessee Tuxedo Show was a 2-3 minute short called Commander McBragg. He cracked me up. I love Wendy on Casper the Ghost. My name is Wendi. Spelling difference.
As a child of 9 then we would gather around the tuba at 11:30(after the parents watched the news & went to bed) to watch " Shock Theater" with Dr.Paul Bearer(not the one from the WWE}!
Denise: In the Boston area it was " Fantasmic Features" with a small alien spaceman host named "Feep". They showed all the typical monster movies of the time anything from real decent Universal Pictures Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein , The Mummy to the cheap drive-in style movies made by AIP (American International Pictures)....."I was a teenage Frankenstein", "I was a teenage Werewolf", Ghost of Drag strip Hollow, .....one I really liked was a monster movie called " THEM " about giant ants. There was a reference in the movie that atomic testing might have caused them to grow so big.
OH YEAH the Bowery Boys. In fact I have a commercial DVD collection of a few of their movies. It always amused me that my late father, who was a college professor (PHD) liked the Bowery Boys. He loved the way they comically butchered the English language.
As soon as the music began, I knew it was The Thing from Another World!! My favorite classic sci-fi/horror movie!! Another great day in front of the TV.
Great to see the Saturday show clips. I was 15 in 1964...well after my Aug birthday, so I remember the CBS lineup vividly...I spent the week hoping for Sat morning. But was ruined for me after that day as CBS didn't go on with Rin Tin Tin and it didn't go for syndication till fall of 65. Couldn't see my favorite dog and horses show.
It was 1959 and I was four. As my parents both worked, I spent the day at Grandma's house. She used to make me some scrambled eggs. There was a lady and her name was Mae Shucker who used to come by the house every morning with fresh-laid eggs in her basket. She'd say, "How many eggs would you like today, Mary?" And then I would watch TV. Mighty Mouse was one of my favorites (Here I come to save the day.) I had a t-shirt with Mighty Mouse on it, and it had a cape in the back. I used to sit on the arm of her sofa, and pretend I was on a space ship, just like my hero...
Ah yes! When Saturday mornings belonged to the kids! Nowadays, on Saturday mornings, there's nothing but news shows and the educational shows that the local stations are now required by the FCC to air.
Living in DC we had DC channels and Baltimore Channels That was so cool back then Baltimore Saturday afternoons I'd be over my Grands house watching Black & White Westerns and Three Stooges or Little Rascals Loved those days
Absolutely! There was a kid with a monkey named "Mitch". And a girl.....believe her name was Marina. Watched it religiously! When the show started out it said "Filmed in Super Marrionation" ". 66 now......why the hell could I remember all that and don't remember what I had for breakfast......
In Omaha, Nebraska, we watched Dr. Sanguinary on Saturday nights. Complete with an offscreen Igor. It's where I first saw "The Little Shop of Horrors", and the one movie that really scared me, "The Day of the Triffids".
You and I led almost identical lives, but mine was Oklahoma and Alabama. Had the Marvel collection, the monster models, the 45s, moved at the end of 4th grade (and the middle of freshman year to New Jersey, of all places). Good times. Space Ghost, don't forget Space Ghost.
I liked Astro Boy, but for a time I liked Kimba, The White Lion better. Even though he was only in one episode, I'll always say Caesar (Kimba's father ) is the best drawn lion I ever saw.
me then in 1st grade...... my loving caring father signed me up for special gym classes on saturday mornings.... they even had trampoline... but me complain.... saturday mornings were special on tv... cartoons cartoons and cartoons that was me before 24 hour cartoon channels ..... alas thank you for saving these precious broadcasts
My town's first UHF station was a public broadcaster on 30 (1960) with a commercial one that came on 24 in 1966, soon to be an ABC affiliate by the end of the decade. We lived pretty close to Detroit though so there was that option for those with decent outdoor antennas.
@@FredFlix Columbia, SC had 2 stations on UHF back then, but they were network affiliates, since there was only 1 VHF station there. Channels 2, 4, & 5 travel better than higher channel numbers over longer distances. I think Charleston, Nashville & St. Louis & Salt Lake City were the only tv markets to have their network affiliates on 2, 4, & 5, and ABC was on channel 8 in Nashville before it moved to channel 2. In exchange for getting PBS to move from 2 down to 8, the ABC affiliate gave the PBS station equipment & perhaps $.
Back when there was always something good on TV and it was FREE. No cable and no crap. Most of my memories consist of watching comedy and music on FREE TV. Now you have to pay for everything and it is pure crap. I cut the cord 5 years ago and went back to Antenna TV. I do not miss cable.. I stream everything now and save $100 bucks a month.
It helped to have a color set in 1964 to see these shows at their best. Our family didn't switch to a color sewt until 1966 - the year NBC, CBS and ABC all began colorcasting full time.
Excellent Video . Saturdays on TV were indeed special back in those days . Lots of Live Action and Great Cartoons such as you show here . Then at noon , it was off to the Movies for 10 cents . All in all . I would say that those times were much better for both Children and Adults . Thank You for all of the Wonderful Memories .
Thanks for posting this. Here in Pittsburgh, Saturday nights would always end with Chiller Theater. And then, as you showed, TV would actually sign till the next morning.
We had a noontime horror movie show in Boston too. It was "Creature Double Feature," on Channel 56 (WKGB-TV), and they showed 2 back-to-back movies, usually of the Toho variety or some low-budget drive-in type fare from the late '40s to the mid-'60s. The show ran from 2 to 4 pm, and then we had another one that aired late at night.
The theme I used here was for the second season. It's the first-season music by Dominic Frontiere that you're probably referring to. One of the best scores ever. I give it its proper due in this video: ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=XUfJSY2NH54
Fred you always get me in the feels. My entire week was planned around Saturday at noon, Sky King. ❤️. We would have been great friends as kids. Thanks.
I was 4 years old in 1964 and I'm glad to see all these clips. I don't remember the adult shows (I was in bed around 7:30 every night) but I sure remember Rin Tin-Tin, Alvin, Mighty Mouse, Casper, Beany & Cecil, Heckle & Jekyll, and Magilla Gorilla (I liked him a lot). I lived in Levittown, Long Island, New York, where there were these other shows for kids that I remember fondlly: Jungle Jim, Diver Dan, Soupy Sales, and the Sandy Becker show. Does anyone else out there remember those?
I may be biased but as a kid growing up in the 60s and 70s, I feel we had the best music and the best TV shows. Unforgettable - not like the crap today.
Saturday mornings had "Gumby and Pokey", Clutch Cargo (With his pal Spinner and Paddlefoot) and some space cartoon I can't remember the name of. Cartoons werew done by noon at the latest. Then there were westerns like The Cisco Kid and The Lone Ranger. Then the afternoon spagetti westerns or the creepiest scary shows I ever saw, still gives me nightmares. then by 7:30 it was bedtime anyway. Circa 1964.
That was awesome! the 1960s has been and always will be my favorite era for television. A combination of ground breaking material, parodies with tongue in cheek dry humor, and good wholesome family entertainment. It truly was the golden age of tv.
Four channels and better quality TV than 100 cable channels!
oh my goodness! Beany & Cecil! I lived for that show. As a little girl, I always thought the serpent was actually Puff, the magic dragon. My parents never told me otherwise...Thanks for this, Fred. You are something special.
My brother actually had the large Beany and Cecil doll/puppet, as he was obsessed with the show. I had talking Casper. Pulled the string attached to him and he pronounced, "Hi, My name's Casper, what's yours"? Don't know where the years went. It certainly was a magical time for us kids back then. It didn't take much to entertain or impress us, and we were just fine (and happy and well-adjusted).
When I Retire I'm Gonna Find These Shows on DVDs and Be a Boy Again.
"Don't turn the channel so fast, you're going to break the knob!"
(Oops. I broke the knob.)
"Go get the pliers!"
yeah, the tuners would go in those old sets
reminds me of my dad yelling at me :) guilty as charged.
LOL
Some of these TV shows are from the 50's but I was 7 in 64 and I remember the cartoons.
American Bandstand was on at 11 AM Saturdays so I had to relinquish the TV to my teenaged Sister. Thanks for the memories. JD
I was only 2 in 64.
I had just turned 1 year old on the 27th of August. Now my cousin Robbie was 10 so he probably watched these programs. My late father would tell me my Grandma would cook his breakfast and dress him and he would just sit, his eyes glued to the television watching cartoons. I am 58 and still love cartoons. Tune In With Me and Popeye and The Pink Panther and Bugs Bunny and friends on MeTV. Along with The Simpsons, Family Guy and Southpark.
Popeye (the ones from the '30s) are my favorites. Can't stand the live-action sketches on Toon in With Me, though. Just show me the damn cartoons!
You forgot sign off. The American flag would be shown, the station would identify and a moment of prayer.
Didn't forget. Prefer to use the quicker test pattern.
Yea they did that up Until 95
@@FredFlix, what was the deal with the "Indian Chief" in the test pattern?! Remember the color bars when color TV was initiated? It was never possible to adjust our sets to the tints they used! But I have a fond memory of the video & audio turning to the static snow. I either fell asleep to it and/or awoke to it! Please stay well & safe! Pax
Boy do I miss those days
Here I am...8:30 on Saturday ,19 2020 morning watching and reminiscing of a time that I wish was I still living in.....
Man do I remember when...I had a great childhood and am so thankful I was able to grow up back then. I remember when my Mom bought me the Beany and Cecil hat that would shot those little propellers off of your head.
It's sad about Lee Aker passing away 😭. I watched reruns of Rin Tin Tin when I was growing up.I hate that all these people are dying now.
Ah yes, back when all TV stations actually went off the air each night, and there were only 7 channels on VHF, even in L.A.
Aw, yes I remember it well!!
@@jacquelineroque7594 i remember when tv went off the air too in the early 80s.
I was lucky enough to be born in the final days of classic americana.
Im pretty sure all the channels went off air? Except cable if you had it.
I was in heaven when we got cable, because Disney channel would play cartoons most of the night, but that was the early days of cable, when it was actually good, unlike now with disgusting infomercials
Depends on where you lived
@@JoeSmith-bg7no we had 2 sometimes 3
@@icemike1 Well, even in the greater Los Angeles area, and that means no other city had more channels, in the 1960's, only two channels went past midnight; CBS and NBC. But once Carson went off the air, it was only the Late Show on CBS. Horrible movies, but at least it wasn't snow.
you are the best . keep doing what you are doing .
I intend to, Virginia Cream, and thanks.
Virginia Cream I was born in 1947 and grew up in 50&60&70&80&90&2000&2010&2017 but the 60s were top of the stack...lol.
the 70s were mighty good times as well !
I would have been around 2 1/2 at the time, but my brothers and sisters were old enough
to watch 🙂 I remember Friday nights when Chiller Theater came on at 11:30pm. My dad would be in bed,
but my mom would stay up and watch them with us, and make snacks like popcorn and home fries made
with real lard for us all to eat 🙂 Those were the days!
My dad really loved anything Don Adams was in. Tennessee Tuxedo in Saturday morning and Get Smart on Saturday night.
A wonderfiul time to be a kid. Loved every minute of it. Still miss my Schwinn Banana seat bike. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Stanley Klijanowicz Do you remember the Schwinn bicycle series called the pea picker and the orange crate? They were high end bikes that had shock absorbers and colors pertaining to their name. Mine was the green pea picker. What a trip remembering this!
Lucky you to have a real Schwinn banana-seat bike! I had a cheap knock-off (Royce Union) that rattled when I rode it, even when relatively new.
I bought my first quality bike at eighteen-a Peugeot ten-speed! The poor old thing remains in my attic. I couldn’t give it up.
I could only dream of a sting way. Wanted 1 so bad....
@@hughhaefner5486 I had so many concussions from my bike antics...lol, good times, living helmet free!
I loved the original JQ, and still do! I caught it in Saturday morning syndication in 1968/69, along with my other favourite, The Thunderbirds. Our local station ran them at broadcast begin and I bounced out of bed at 5 a.m. to see them! Ah, Saturday mornings!
In my head I divided up the morning into "Triassic", "Jurassic" and "Cretacious". The "Triassic" was the very early morning when my top favourite cartoons came on. The "Jurassic" was the somewhat later ones that were still fun, but not quite as interesting. The "Cretacious" was the late morning, which when the live-action kid's shows came on, most of which I hated. Instead I switched to a show that ran old horror and kaiju films, which were infinitely cooler to 6-year-old me!
Loved Beanie & Cecil. Our weekly Saturday night horror movie was called Creature Features (Chicago) and on Friday we watched Jerry G Bishop on the Screaming Yellow Theater. Miss those days😂
At least when your parents took over the TV they didn't put on Dairyland Jubilee and The Lawrence Welk Show. Pure torture.
Oh Casper😊I would go to my great grandmothers house she had a remote control tv and sit on her leather "Davenport " eat her delicious oatmeal cookies and watch Casper😊I loved her she was wonderful the shiniest copper pans I've ever seen
The Sixties were a start, but the Seventies ruled. I was born in the Summer of Love (1967), meaning I got the best of both worlds. The Old School, plus the new. At one time, I thought My Three Sons was state of the art, but The Brady Bunch blew it out of the water. Yes, I know you're laughing at me for giving props to TBB but it was just one example of how the new entertainment made the rest seemed old fashioned. The Banana Splits, Cattanooga Cats, Secret Squirrel, Top Cat, Scooby Doo & many others kept up the pace. What a decade! (I know there was some crossover in dates, but yeah, for me the Seventies was the Golden Age.
Thanks . . . I just relived my childhood and watched most of these TV shows!
My mother worked nights so i had to keep the sound turned down very low. Thats what these made me remember.
Everything before noon, I watched all of that.
Chiller Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. Honestly Fred, we were watching the same tv shows 1500 miles apart! Great times. All the best bud.
I have great memories watching the Thing(from another world) with my father every time it came on tv. That was our movie!
The Blob and It Came From Outer Space.
Those movies always sent me under my blankets!!
9/19/64 was the date for the final Saturday episode of Captain Kangaroo...for one year. Mister Mayor first aired on 9/26/64, for logistical reasons, and the Captain returned on 9/25/65.
Great memories back then. I loved the cartoons. Thanks for sharing!❤️
I remember The Jackie Gleason Show, from Miami Beach, was a Saturday night ritual in our house.
@@robertburke1486 Yep! It was "must see" TV EVERY Saturday night back then. I can still remember when a VERY young Wayne Newton made his very first TV appearance on the show. Mr. Gleason was always credited with "discovering" him, and Mr. Newton made several more appearances on the show as his career began to accelerate. Both The Jackie Gleason Show and The Hollywood Palace made for some memorable Saturday night entertainment back then.
I remember being a child at that time-Saturday Morning was the only day of the week that mothers felt that cold cereal was good nutrition.
OMG...Hippity Hopper!!! That was the coolest opening for a cartoon EVER.
Awesome! I remember many of these as I was born in the late 50's.
me, too - 195- (Oops, I almost gave it away.)
Me three!
Pirate Labs You are fortunate, i was born in 1975.
I was born Feb 11, 1967 and I remember watching most but not all of these. Like Mighty Mouse, Casper the friendly Ghost, Heckel and Jeckle, Bugs Bunny or Looney Toons, I don't remember Fury or Gigantis The Fire Monster
@@MrNoturaveragerednek Hmm..what u said...they had Howard Haweks, pre60, and the 50s the THING (also a Phil Harris hit and I just remember, by the time 1964 DID roll around, there was a THING..in the ADDAMSN family! We have a similair witches hand!-havent mention it anywhere online!)
I was 3 years old at this time. I do recall our TV being a black and white that used only vacuum tubes. One day it crapped out while I was watching Johnny Ginger and I was pissed. This was a great video and thanks for putting it together. Greetings from Arizona.
Johnny Ginger!!
A great time to be a kid. You had to get through the early morning farm report at 7am(one hour) if you got up too early.
Wow!
Now that was poking my memory with a sharp stick!
I remembered all of the shows, I have not even thought of most of them since they were originally on!
I felt a few dormant brain cells kick back on with that video! (Thanks!)
As a pre-teen I loved Rin Tin Tin and Sky King, I can still remember Nellybelle the Jeep on Roy Rogers!
These shows have not even been thought of, by me, in 4-5 decades!
That's probably a good thing. I think of 'em all the time.
Being a kid in the 60's was great. Proud to be a baby boomer!
Great memories.
I was 15 days old on Sept 19, 1964.
Damn I loved Saturday morning cartoons in the early seventies!
We had Chiller Theatre on at 11:30 with Chilly Billy Cardille. He was a Pittsburgh newsman back in the day. He eventually had a cast of characters in his haunted castle,Terminal Stare,Georgette the fudgemaker(don't ask,lol)Stephen the castle prankster and a few others would drop in occasionally. A double horror feature was shown and in between was trivia,strange but true,ghost stories and stories from around the city. It was so well loved that when Saturday night live came out in "75",they had to play it on a uhf channel wpgh tv 53 because Chiller Theatre was on an NBC affliliate in Pittsburgh WIIC TV. People wrote in and were very angry when they announced that due to SNL, Chiller would be no more! Well,they were wrong! It was the other way around,there was such an outcry that Chiller stayed on its NBC station until "83" when it was finally canceled. It was the only NBC channel in the nation that didn't play SNL in that time slot. It shows how much people in the Burgh loved Chilly Billy. If you want a glimpse of him,he was the reporter in the original Night Of The Living Dead towards the end,the one interviewing the police chief. Chiller ran from "63"-"83" and will be missed by all who grew up with it,it was a Pittsburgh institution and to us old farts,it was a tradition that lives forever in our minds.
Holy cow, cartoons in the afternoon decades before cable?! I must be dreaming!
Wow...I haven't seen the Casper Show in almost 50 years...thanks!
I was 10 then also.
Remember them all and the endless westerns. MeTV shows alot of these old programs. Always enjoy.
Our local Saturday late night horror show was called 'Chiller.' I remember watching the original Little Shop of Horrors and Earth vs the Spider. But usually I fell asleep.
We had Creature Feature, and Weird Tales.
Ah yes, "Chiller". I'm guessing by your name you lived in Arizona in the 1960's, as did I - in Tucson to be exact, and KGUN Channel 9 had "Chiller" on every Saturday night. Those were the days.....sigh.
I remember that! How cool it was, right?
We had a show out of Detroit called *Sir Graves Ghastly* that ran from 1967 to 1983 on Saturday afternoons. The host of the show was hilarious.
@@yohannbiimu We had Sir Graves Ghastly with Creature Feature on our UHF channel 20 (DC) and he was also Captain Twenty for the afternoon kids' show.
Omg! Forgot about The Hollywood Palace! 😊🤩
WOW! Hoppity Hooper. I had totally forgotten about that one. I think I got it on reruns but I think I used to really like that show. And, of course, Cecil! Still remember them traveling over the Gina Lo-lo-brigita to get to the No Bikini Atoll.
I wasn't around in 1964 but when I was young Friday and Saturday nights were the best time for old horror movies.
What great memories. Thank you for sharing this
You're welcome, Patricia.
In 1964 "Saturday morning" ended around noon. No cartoons.
Perhaps on the networks. But local stations could air whatever syndicated shows they wanted in the afternoon, including cartoons. I have old TV guides from around the country and I've seen them listed.
Ahh - my 6th birthday... I definitely remember some of those, not so much some of the others. I would have only watched the ones on earlier - by mid morning I would be outside playing. Thanks for the memories!
You're welcome.
Sept 19 1964..my sixth birthday!!! loved saturday morning cartoons then!!!
manluvsthe60s i wish i was born in the 1950's.
In the 1950s, some women wore long white skirts in the summer, and the "Beep Beep" song (around 1958?) was BRAND NEW. That's about all I remember from them (and maybe Kovacs Take A Good Look quiz show a little?)
Part of the Tennessee Tuxedo Show was a 2-3 minute short called Commander McBragg. He cracked me up. I love Wendy on Casper the Ghost. My name is Wendi. Spelling difference.
Back when television was worth watching
How in the WORLD did I EVER miss THIS masterpiece??? This is awesome stuff!
As a child of 9 then we would gather around the tuba at 11:30(after the parents watched the news & went to bed) to watch "
Shock Theater" with Dr.Paul Bearer(not the one from the WWE}!
Great stuff! I was about three months old by September 19, 1964, so what I saw of this schedule came in reruns in the early to mid 1970s.
Our late night tv show was called "Weird" -- old horror movie heaven !
Denise: In the Boston area it was " Fantasmic Features" with a small alien spaceman host named "Feep". They showed all the typical monster movies of the time anything from real decent Universal Pictures Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein , The Mummy to the cheap drive-in style movies made by AIP (American International Pictures)....."I was a teenage Frankenstein", "I was a teenage Werewolf", Ghost of Drag strip Hollow, .....one I really liked was a monster movie called " THEM " about giant ants. There was a reference in the movie that atomic testing might have caused them to grow so big.
Anybody remember the Bowery Boys.
Yeah, they were originally the Dead End Kids, weren't they? Don't know for sure....
deliveryguyrx The Dead End Kids, the Eastside Kids, The Little Tough Guys ( for a Saturday matinee serial) and finally the Bowery Boys.
I Did Not Watch Them, But I Do Remember Them.
Sunday.
OH YEAH the Bowery Boys. In fact I have a commercial DVD collection of a few of their movies. It always amused me that my late father, who was a college professor (PHD) liked the Bowery Boys. He loved the way they comically butchered the English language.
As soon as the music began, I knew it was The Thing from Another World!! My favorite classic sci-fi/horror movie!! Another great day in front of the TV.
Great to see the Saturday show clips. I was 15 in 1964...well after my Aug birthday, so I remember the CBS lineup vividly...I spent the week hoping for Sat morning. But was ruined for me after that day as CBS didn't go on with Rin Tin Tin and it didn't go for syndication till fall of 65. Couldn't see my favorite dog and horses show.
It was 1959 and I was four. As my parents both worked, I spent the day at Grandma's house. She used to make me some scrambled eggs. There was a lady and her name was Mae Shucker who used to come by the house every morning with fresh-laid eggs in her basket. She'd say, "How many eggs would you like today, Mary?" And then I would watch TV. Mighty Mouse was one of my favorites (Here I come to save the day.) I had a t-shirt with Mighty Mouse on it, and it had a cape in the back. I used to sit on the arm of her sofa, and pretend I was on a space ship, just like my hero...
Ah yes! When Saturday mornings belonged to the kids! Nowadays, on Saturday mornings, there's nothing but news shows and the educational shows that the local stations are now required by the FCC to air.
Living in DC we had DC channels and Baltimore Channels That was so cool back then Baltimore Saturday afternoons I'd be over my Grands house watching Black & White Westerns and Three Stooges or Little Rascals Loved those days
Does anyone remember the puppets, Fireball XL 5, puppets on a string. Clever really.
Absolutely! There was a kid with a monkey named "Mitch". And a girl.....believe her name was Marina. Watched it religiously! When the show started out it said "Filmed in Super Marrionation"
". 66 now......why the hell could I remember all that and don't remember what I had for breakfast......
Annnnnnnnd: SUPERCAR!
I can only remember a Saturday night show hosted by the late Dr. Shock and little Bubbles.
In Omaha, Nebraska, we watched Dr. Sanguinary on Saturday nights. Complete with an offscreen Igor. It's where I first saw "The Little Shop of Horrors", and the one movie that really scared me, "The Day of the Triffids".
Sitting In Front Of The Philco B/W TV With A Bowl Of Quisp Cereal.
You and I led almost identical lives, but mine was Oklahoma and Alabama. Had the Marvel collection, the monster models, the 45s, moved at the end of 4th grade (and the middle of freshman year to New Jersey, of all places). Good times. Space Ghost, don't forget Space Ghost.
Did you know that Alison Arngrims mother did the voice of. Casper, Wendy, Sweet Polly Purebred and Davey and Sally from Davey and Goliath?
Thanks Fred. Have a great day
In NYC, Saturday night from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm, we had the choice of Chiller Theater on channel 11 or Creature Feature on channel 5 !
Completely forgot about Astro Boy. Another of my childhood favorites.
I was surprised by that as I think I had seen it among the anime titles.
One of the first series they played on KBHK T.V. Channel 44 in San Francisco.
Wasn't Astro Boy syndicated? Also the Alvin Show.
I liked Astro Boy, but for a time I liked Kimba, The White
Lion better. Even though he was only in one episode, I'll
always say Caesar (Kimba's father ) is the best drawn lion
I ever saw.
me then in 1st grade......
my loving caring father
signed me up for special gym classes on saturday mornings....
they even had trampoline...
but me complain....
saturday mornings were special on tv...
cartoons cartoons and cartoons
that was me before 24 hour cartoon channels
..... alas
thank you for saving these precious broadcasts
You're welcome, Stream Tree3.
Thanks, I really miss the days of local TV. I loved channel 20 on UHF out of Oakland.
You're lucky to have had a UHF channel as a kid. We never did.
My town's first UHF station was a public broadcaster on 30 (1960) with a commercial one that came on 24 in 1966, soon to be an ABC affiliate by the end of the decade. We lived pretty close to Detroit though so there was that option for those with decent outdoor antennas.
@@FredFlix Columbia, SC had 2 stations on UHF back then, but they were network affiliates, since there was only 1 VHF station there. Channels 2, 4, & 5 travel better than higher channel numbers over longer distances. I think Charleston, Nashville & St. Louis & Salt Lake City were the only tv markets to have their network affiliates on 2, 4, & 5, and ABC was on channel 8 in Nashville before it moved to channel 2. In exchange for getting PBS to move from 2 down to 8, the ABC affiliate gave the PBS station equipment & perhaps $.
Back when there was always something good on TV and it was FREE. No cable and no crap. Most of my memories consist of watching comedy and music on FREE TV. Now you have to pay for everything and it is pure crap. I cut the cord 5 years ago and went back to Antenna TV. I do not miss cable.. I stream everything now and save $100 bucks a month.
I was all of 20 days old on this date. My saturday morning cartoon memories didnt start till about 1968-69. I can still relate though.
It helped to have a color set in 1964 to see these shows at their best. Our family didn't switch to a color sewt until 1966 - the year NBC, CBS and ABC all began colorcasting full time.
Excellent Video . Saturdays on TV were indeed special back in those days . Lots of Live Action and Great Cartoons such as you show here . Then at noon , it was off to the Movies for 10 cents . All in all . I would say that those times were much better for both Children and Adults . Thank You for all of the Wonderful Memories .
You're welcome, Dave.
Priceless. How good we had it then.
Thanks for posting this. Here in Pittsburgh, Saturday nights would always end with Chiller Theater. And then, as you showed, TV would actually sign till the next morning.
Glad you liked it, lennysmom.
The good ol days that's when cartoons were good
Heckel and Jeckle were the best...
political correctness hadn't been dreamed up yet
Looney tunes, was the best for cartoons. Also mr. magoo was another great show.
i love your postings . thank you so much . look forward to watching your channel . you rock.
Love these memories
Hey Kayode ! Love your name . Dont you just love Fred Flix ? Such good memories of better times ...right?
So Good !
We had a noontime horror movie show in Boston too. It was "Creature Double Feature," on Channel 56 (WKGB-TV), and they showed 2 back-to-back movies, usually of the Toho variety or some low-budget drive-in type fare from the late '40s to the mid-'60s. The show ran from 2 to 4 pm, and then we had another one that aired late at night.
That theme song to The Outer Limits used to haunt my childhood dreams. Wonderful piece of scary music.
The theme I used here was for the second season. It's the first-season music by Dominic Frontiere that you're probably referring to. One of the best scores ever. I give it its proper due in this video:
ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=XUfJSY2NH54
I was an 8 year old in 1964. Watching this is as close as I'll ever get to stepping into a time machine.
More such time travels are possible. Let me be your guide. (Paraphrasing the time machine in the Star Trek episode "City on the Edge of Forever.")
I’m surprised we got out of the house on Saturday. I remember all of these.
I was 9 days old on September 19,1964!! I love your videos it's a slice of Nostalgia
Fred you always get me in the feels. My entire week was planned around Saturday at noon, Sky King. ❤️. We would have been great friends as kids. Thanks.
You're welcome, Snow Diddley.
We had Mighty Mouse instead of Astro Boy. I love Tennessee Tuxedo!
Born I'm 1960 I was 4 when I remembered watching this, I honestly haven't seen these since 1964, how many decades ago?
Such great production on this. Before my time, but I know many of those shows in re-runs. Great video, thanks for uploading.
Thanks, Mynerd.
I was 4 years old in 1964 and I'm glad to see all these clips. I don't remember the adult shows (I was in bed around 7:30 every night) but I sure remember Rin Tin-Tin, Alvin, Mighty Mouse, Casper, Beany & Cecil, Heckle & Jekyll, and Magilla Gorilla (I liked him a lot). I lived in Levittown, Long Island, New York, where there were these other shows for kids that I remember fondlly: Jungle Jim, Diver Dan, Soupy Sales, and the Sandy Becker show. Does anyone else out there remember those?
Loved it, can see it all so well....great video
Loved how Tennessee Tuxedo sounded just like the Senator from Tennessee in the '70's Jim Sasser.
The intro to the Outer Limits always scared the daylights out of me!
my dad had control of the tv, so at 7:30 on Saturday nights, we watched Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine.
Great video Mr. Fred!! Thank you!!
I may be biased but as a kid growing up in the 60s and 70s, I feel we had the best music and the best TV shows. Unforgettable - not like the crap today.
I recall that Astro Boy was my sister's favorite show. We had the Ghoul when I was a kid in Detroit for late night horror fun.
I liked hearing the characters walk on Astro Boy. (Pop, pop...)
Beany and Cecil, Mighty Mouse, Casper were enjoyable, too. I feel sorry for kids today. Saturdays were special just for the cartoons and after school.
Saturday mornings had "Gumby and Pokey", Clutch Cargo (With his pal Spinner and Paddlefoot) and some space cartoon I can't remember the name of. Cartoons werew done by noon at the latest. Then there were westerns like The Cisco Kid and The Lone Ranger. Then the afternoon spagetti westerns or the creepiest scary shows I ever saw, still gives me nightmares. then by 7:30 it was bedtime anyway. Circa 1964.
You had to go to bed at 7:30 on a Saturday? THAT'S scary!
Yeah, I often wondered about that. Soon after we had a baby brother.
In Cleveland OH we had Ghoulardi. He blew up model cars with firecrackers during commercial breaks.
I was 8 years old in 1964 . These are exactly the shows I watched.