Like many kids, I was addicted to TV. I can remember watching every one of these shows, which is amazing because some of them must have run against each other in the same time period.
Gene Barry's "Burke's Law", produced by Four Star for ABC, began life as a cop show but eventually finished its network run as a spy show called "Amos Burke, Secret Agent". ABC was no doubt trying to cash in on the success of the Bond films, just as NBC was doing with "Get Smart" and "The Man From UNCLE".
Wow! Memories. My grandma watched every one of the westerns you showed, plus Bonanza & Wagon Train. (Not sure when all these series premiered.) My mom loved mystery/crime stuff - Perry Mason was her favorite. Whole family watched Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton & Dean Martin’s variety shows. I watched anything with a hint of sci-fi, action or horror. Jonny Quest, Outer Limits & Man from UNCLE rocked!
I use to stay up at night with my mom just to watch alfred hitchcock , i wish my mom was still alive i still watch bonanza, high chaparrell and all those old programs , keeping my memories of my mom alive,
I have most of these shows on dvds, watching 4 straight hours of any of these programs, commercial free, beats watching ANY of the news channels at night...
It's amazing what precision and effort was put into the music for these shows. I love the Kellogg's commercial woven into the Beverly Hillbilly's. The music for Perry Mason is so well orchestrated...you can't hear it without knowing what is coming on next!
Yes, no one mentions the music, they were great. Also what's missing is opening sequence that kind of gives you an idea of the show. Like Bev Hillbillies having a great tune, with showing how he struck oil, or I dream of jeannie, done as a cartoon showing him crashing on an island and finding a bottle. H You don't see that much these days.
@@FredFlix I concur wholeheartedly. Today's synthesizers are fine, but they're no match for the studio orchestras the networks and TV-production companies used to employ.
Jonny Quest was a fun show. By todays standards it was also violent. The thing was, we were smart enough to know it was fantasy. We didn't need "political correctness" to tell us the difference between reality and make believe.
Who told you by today's standards it would be considered violent? Considering all the violence today, and especially gun violence, I'd say it doesn't seem smart enough to know the difference
I may not have the right time frame being I was 5 and 6 at these times. I remember watching Secret Agent Man and Honey West, along with Combat. My favorite cartoons were Johnny Quest and Top Cat.
OOtar I remember ALL of these shows! And I loved them too! Loved the theme songs for all of them! So memorable ❣️I absolutely LOVED Jonny Quest and Top Cat! I know Jonny Quest was first shown during prime time. Top Cat too, if I’m not mistaken.
I had no idea "Jonny Quest" was that highly-rated. This particular episode was written by Joanna Lee, who played the alien woman Tanna in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.
@@agriperma Saw "Munsters Go Home" at the theater a kid. Go to 'England'(Ya' right, filmed in California with British ex-pat actors), Richard Dawson, one of the villains. Apparently studio 'grooming for stardom' new girl ???as Marilyn. Thought TV 2nd Marilyn Pat Priest stunning, way prettier than (1st) Beverly Owen, quit by her own choice.
Combat was good because,as a kid, it didn't need much explaining: They're trying to kill Germans before Germans kill them. Plus it had Vic Morrow who was born to play Sgt. Saunders.
+FredFlix That show had a very good cast, and good writers. I even learned a couple of words in German, Hurry up, move, move faster, and no. Because they used the same words every week lol! I was about 10 or 11 when they cancelled it and I was furious!! To this day I feel a resentment towards jerry van dyke. My other the Car!? They cancelled COMBAT for this!!!
They are all Great Shows ,Thank You! I Remember The DISNEY Channel USED to put Classic Shows on ! NOW there is NOTHING! complete! GARBAGE! With all the money and power they have they can't even have a Classic Disney Channel!! QUITE SAD!
yea, I remember when they used to show ZORRO and THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (with it's various titles-WALT DISNEY PRESENTS, DISNEYS WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR etc)
Thanks to the the Gods Of DVD/ Blu Ray, I'm able to snag any of the old Tv Shows I Love and want Off Amazon without Breaking neither my balls or my bank account.
When I was little, my late father loved Red Skelton, his favorite skits were the bum and the drunk. My late grandfather sat and watched The Virginian every day when he lived with us. Rawhide too.I love Perry Mason.
I must've spent a lot of time in front of the TV that year. i remember all of these shows quite well! Interestingly, I think this is the first time that I saw the opening to The Wonderful World of Color...in color.
+FredFlix...I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this('60 baby but, I developed, mentally, early-surprisingly, from congenital hydrocephalus.) I remember many of these, from first run-the ones my parents watched, anyway. 'Can't wait, to resume watching, later, this morning! Thank-you!
Few people knew that The Flintstones weren't the ONLY 'Prime Time' cartoon -The Jetsons, Top Cat, Jonny Quest, 'Wait Till Your Father Gets Home' and Where's Huddles? all aired in Prime Time in the late 60's and early 70's. prime time until the 1980's was considered from 7:00 PM till 10:00 PM but shifted to an hour later after that.
The shows I mentioned were part of 'Prime - Time' television in my area but were usually labeled as 'Local Programming' and YES, I generalized, it was about 1977-78. 'Prime - Time' was over when the 10:00 O'Clock News started
50 years ago I was 8 and watching t.v. But in 65 I was 5 and still watching TV but what ever my parents or grandparents wanted. I remember these shows.
Thanks for putting this together. Did you get these rankings from 1 particular week, or are these ranked by your own preference? From what I remember BONANZA was #1 for the season, and BEWITCHED had its best seasonal ranking at #2. THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES may have started down at #19 in a new timeslot, but it worked its way back up to #12 by season's end.
FredFlix Today, St. Patrick's Day, I talked to a friend our age about a strange period in television called "time of the weird gun". At least four characters in westerns of the time carried a weird gun. Not an ordinary gun but a heavily modified, sawed off, altered death machine, intended to be absolutely lethal. The king was "The Rifleman" Lucas McCain. This was different in that the gun was actually a co star of the show. Sometimes there were episodes that revolved around the gun. It had been lost, stolen or fallen into the wrong hands. Lucas reacted like Samson with a haircut, he was left powerless. The community reacted as if it were a loose nuke and panicked until the gun was recovered. Walking down the street, Lucas would fan the lever action and the rifle would become a machine gun. Actually, someone cocking a rifle in that fashion would shoot themselves in the head. That didn't matter, we bought into it completely. With more than 200 killings over it's run, it was the most violent show ever aired on Network television. As a kid, I remember wondering the isles of the toy section of any department store and seeing toy versions of all the "weird guns" I think this may be the origins of much of today's gun culture.
I'm trying with my channel to avoid the stuff that is usually found on RUclips, the "same old" themes and shows that seasoned RUclipsrs have been watching for 10 years. Not that I don't appreciate The Outer Limits theme. But I usually just use portions or alternate versions or promos in order to give this channel a fresh approach.
I used to futz with the controls just to make sure they were wrong. They might have been controlling somebody's television, but it dang sure wasn't mine.
Jim Klipper Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I was alone in the front room when the first episode came on I can still remember that moment with clarity!
@joe Domjan Different wife 'Phoebe'( Morticia clone, VERY sexy}, different makeup on Herman, 'Happy', weird---just growled, color, just 15 minute pilot. On net check it out.
I didn't see the man from UNCLE, I watched other shows. I do remember watching Johnny Quest and some of the other cartoons of that time. I was born in 1962 so some of the shows that you have on the video I can remember and some I can't. It wasn't until the middle 60's and 70's that I can remember a lot more TV shows. But the videos do bring back some good memories of the time.
Great shows. I watched The Man From Uncle every week.I was into the early spy craze on tv and in movies big time. and I looked forward every week to friday night to watch Johnny Quest and The Addams Family..I like The Munsters as well,but even as a13 year old kid,I had a bent entertanment apprication..I rounded out my friday night by watching the horror movie on local channel 8 at 11:30 pm or so. Great times.
Our local horror show came on Satudays at 11 p.m. On Fridays in 1966-67, in addition to Green Hornet, Wild Wild West, Man from UNCLE and Time Tunnel, the local station showed The Sons of Hercules. What a night!
what about McHale,s Navy ,the Donna Reed show ,My Three sons, Ozzie & Harriet,American bandstand.Also Shindig The Jetsons and Hullabaloo, Danny Kaye Show , Many Happy Returns .How could you forget these TV shows!!!
Loved Combat! and, in fact, sent off for some b&w glossies of the show; have one of Vic Morrow as Sgt. Chip Saunders and a group shot of the entire crew. Also liked Disney’s, Wonderful World of Color but only saw it in black & white on our tiny Motorola set (we didn’t get a color TV until the summer of ‘71. Loved The Fugitive too and saw the series finale in the summer of ‘68. Thanks for the memories!
Wish I'd paid more attention to the Defenders when it was on,though it was probably too ''adult'' for me back then.After all,I was just 11,same age as Jonny Quest!
And I always thought he was 10, my age at the time. Wishful thinking? Maybe. Maybe not. His age was never revealed in the series. But here's a quote from Doug Wildey: "Well, Jonny himself was supposed to be ten. Everybody claims he was eleven. I don't know where that came from. I just figured a ten-year-old kid. Well, eleven's close enough."
Trying to remember where I read he was 11,probably TV Guide's news section back in the day,though most of that stuff came from press releases that were subject to change.I also recall articles which had Jay North cast as Jace on "Space Ghost" and the Banana Splits referred to as the Banana Bunch,which we know didn't happen.
What I remember most about those years was the fact that our small hometown area had finally picked up a fulltime ABC affiliate,after years of having only 2 channels.Try telling that to a kid today,they'd never believe it!As a cartoon fan,I was probably more sensitive to any animation related articles. By the way,great channel,where do you find this stuff?
I have a working time tunnel. Our town, too, had only two channels, CBS and ABC. We finally got NBC in the fall of 1962. Yeah kids today can't believe how primitive it was, but I know you feel as I do: We were so lucky to be alive during that time.
I was such a TV addict in my youth. Every one of these themes was completely familiar, and I recalled the words (OK, not Perry Mason, The Defenders, or The Fugitive). Strange that I haven't watched TV since 1988. My family just tuned it out. It certainly freed up lots of time to do other things.
These are not the top 25 according to Nielsen ratings for 1964-65. Bonanza was no.1 followed by Bewitched and Gomer Pyle. Other top 10 shows included Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, The Lucy Show, Peyton Place II, Ben Casey, and The Fugitive.
Well chosen, Fred. I also liked "12 O'Clock High" with Robert Lansing. And "Slattery's People" with Richard Crenna, from the makers of "Ben Casey". And "For the People" with William Shatner as an Assistant D.A. in New York City, from the makers of "The Defenders". And "Peyton Place" with Ryan O'Neal, Mia Farrow, and many others.
Hold on there! Now I worshipped Johnny Quest as a kid, and to this day I believe it's the best cartoon ever created for TV, but there is no way a Saturday morning cartoon ranks higher than a prime time hit like the Beverly Hillbillies in 1964-65. Where do you get your information?
Angelo Santaniello, I too wonder if the details of Chuck’s branded a coward. The details of the reason were later revealed much later in the series. He was protecting his commanding officers foolish mistakes that led to a massacre of his troops.
I remember the first airing on The Outer Limits was The Galaxy Being. Scared the pants off out of me! My dad had a friend that worked at a AM radio station called KTKT Rocknroll. I BEGGED my dad to call the station to make sure the "Being" couldn't get thru the radio signal! Lol! Can't find Outer Limits anymore on syndication. 😕
Although I am a Texan by birth, I lived in Tucson in the 1960's (Dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan). KTKT was THE station I listened to; it also helped that the music store I took lessons from had the weekly "KTKT Top 99" list available. "K-T, KT, Channel 99". Great memories!
I was between 7 and 8 and I remember fighting over the T.V. Guide so we could circle our favorite shows like it made any difference since my sister was the eldest. Our parents anyway claimed possession of the only b&w tv after seven. All the kid shows before 7 or Saturday. We were allowed to watch the adult shows until 8 then good night.. What memories, to be a kid again.
I love these time capsules! I notice that Westerns are coming back, at least on some streaming stations. They all but dissapeared for a while. BTW, the voice of Johnny in Johnny Quest was a young Tim Matheson, later in Animal House and Fletch!
I grew up on these. You know, the unspoken assumption behind all these shows was that life was good and safety and prosperity was a given.. No wonder we look back with such nostalgia.
Not a bad year to watch TV...I'd forgotten that Jonny Quest started airing in primetime...and I didn't know that Tim Matheson (Otter from 'Animal House') voiced Jonny - a good excuse to reacquaint myself with the series...I should revisit both Burke's Law and The Virginian too. I was more of a Ben Casey fan, but Dr. Kildare wasn't too hard to watch. Keep up the fine work, Fred!
Thanks, Mark. Jonny Quest, to me, remains the best TV cartoon ever made. And Burke's Law is probably the best show to watch if you like guest stars. The producers went out of their way to cast known actors (and some unknown until later) in almost every speaking role on each show. I like Killdare better than Casey, but they're both pretty close in quality.
This is the Nielsen Top 25 for that season 1. BONANZA 2. BEWITCHED 3. GOMER PYLE, U.S.M.C. 4.THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW 5. THE FUGITIVE 6. THE RED SKELTON HOUR 7. THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW 8. THE LUCY SHOW 9. PEYTON PLACE (Thursday) 10. COMBAT! 11. WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR 12. THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES 13. MY THREE SONS 14. BRANDED 15. PETTICOAT JUNCTION 16. THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW 17. LASSIE 18. THE MUNSTERS 19. GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. 20. PEYTON PLACE (Tuesday) 21.JACKIE GLEASON AND HIS AMERICAN SCENE MAGAZINE 22. THE VIRGINIAN 23. THE ADDAMS FAMILY 24. MY FAVORITE MARTIAN 25. FLIPPER
as usual GREAT job! But where'd you get that opening of THE MUNSTERS from? Is it an original film that you got from the studio? Because I know that the show was filmed in color but shown in black and white.
My ranking of 15 : #01 Outer Limits #02 Twillight Zone #03 The Invaders #04 The Time Tunnel #05 Lost in Space #06 Voyager to the Botton of the Sea #07 Have gun - Will travel #08 Cimarron Strep #09 The Patty Duke Show #10 Jonny Quest #11 Thunderbyrds are go #12 Stingray #13 The Beverly Hillbillies #14 Combat #15 Comedy Capers From # 2 to # 15 , I don't care much about the positons,but #1 must be Outer Limits.Here in Brasil those series were amongst those we had at the time.
Laura Petrie abandoned her husband Rob , and son Richie in New Rochelle ,moved to Minneapolis ,changed her name to Mary Richards, and gained employment at a TV station in the Twin Cities.....
For some reason, watching your content always makes me think of other shows! Most Ill-conceived Sequel: Tabitha. (Bewitched is still on the air, in the 70s, with adorable little girl Tabitha. So, of COURSE they attempt a sequel about Tabitha all grown up, as a newscaster. Wearing 70s clothing!!!) Best Sequels: Lou Grant. (Network took a popular supporting character from the comedy Mary Tyler Moore Show & created a drama about Lou Grant as an editor at a major newspaper. The show examined issues of the day -- my favorite episodes were the one with the captured Nazi war criminal proudly defending what he did, the one examining Native American protests demanding their rights; & the one where the owners beloved little dog was stolen & used for bait in a dogfighting ring. The show featured a cast of likeable characters, & I still remember some names: Miss Pynchon, the owner; & Animal, the photographer.) Fernwood Tonight: (The Fox Network rescued the comedy Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman by changing format to a fictional talk show set in the fictional town of Fernwood, home of Mary Hartman.) Does anyone remember the programming misfire-- on NBC, I think-- of a news program comedy about the Vietnam War? I think it lasted maybe 2 episodes because the timing was just horrendous-- emotions from the war were still so heightened & raw! The creators were probably trying to cash in on the success of M*A*S*H without understanding that shows genius: everyone UNDERSTOOD it was really antiwar & about the war in Vietnam, but it was set in an EARLIER conflict precisely to AVOID offending people!
Uncle !! 60's classic spy show. Loved the 60's. so much innovative imagination, Hate the new century, too many smart gadgets, not enough conversation, or book reading, way too much I phone obsession,
Right at the top, you have "The Vulcan Affair," the UNCLE episode with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. However, no one seems to have noticed that the guy firing the gun at the silhouette played the 20th-century Air Force security guard in the Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday." "The Vulcan Affair" is awash with Trekkiness.
Those were the days when Quinn Martin and Irwin Allen ruled Hollywood. At least it seemed like every show was either "A QuinnMartin Production" or "Irwin Allen presents..."
I've been wracking my brain trying to think of the name of a heartwarming family drama from the 1980s: it was about a suburban family with a son named Corky or Corey who had Downs Syndrome; & the boy playing him actually had Downs! There was an article in I think TV Guide which talked about the uniqueness of the show, & how he learned his lines! What was the name of that show?
Fred, I don't know how old you are but before The Man From U.N.C.L.E. came out the there was a commercial that described him as indestructible. Have you ever seem that?
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Like many kids, I was addicted to TV. I can remember watching every one of these shows, which is amazing because some of them must have run against each other in the same time period.
Loved the Beverly hillbillies, green acres, and petticoat junction.
My, what memories! I remember most of these shows as part of my childhood.
Gene Barry's "Burke's Law", produced by Four Star for ABC, began life as a cop show but eventually finished its network run as a spy show called "Amos Burke, Secret Agent". ABC was no doubt trying to cash in on the success of the Bond films, just as NBC was doing with "Get Smart" and "The Man From UNCLE".
Wow! Memories. My grandma watched every one of the westerns you showed, plus Bonanza & Wagon Train. (Not sure when all these series premiered.)
My mom loved mystery/crime stuff - Perry Mason was her favorite. Whole family watched Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton & Dean Martin’s variety shows.
I watched anything with a hint of sci-fi, action or horror. Jonny Quest, Outer Limits & Man from UNCLE rocked!
My Mother grew up with Pernell Roberts (Adam on Bonanza) in Waycross Georgia. She would get a kick out of watching him on TV. ;-)
I use to hate perry mason when i was growing up but my mom and aunts couldnt wait to watch every show, now i love to watch his old series,
I use to stay up at night with my mom just to watch alfred hitchcock , i wish my mom was still alive i still watch bonanza, high chaparrell and all those old programs , keeping my memories of my mom alive,
" Keeping Up with the Kardashians " will be retro 50 years from now..
I have most of these shows on dvds, watching 4 straight hours of any of these programs, commercial free, beats watching ANY of the news channels at night...
It's amazing what precision and effort was put into the music for these shows. I love the Kellogg's commercial woven into the Beverly Hillbilly's. The music for Perry Mason is so well orchestrated...you can't hear it without knowing what is coming on next!
Too bad the networks stopped hiring orchestras when they found them too costly.
Kay Broughton yes it seems the music from TV shows of this time frame were iconic. twilight zone, mission impossible,and Hawaii 50 come to mind.
Yes, no one mentions the music, they were great.
Also what's missing is opening sequence that kind of gives you an idea of the show. Like Bev Hillbillies having a great tune, with showing how he struck oil, or I dream of jeannie, done as a cartoon showing him crashing on an island and finding a bottle. H
You don't see that much these days.
How do you know they stopped it because it was too costly?
@@FredFlix I concur wholeheartedly. Today's synthesizers are fine, but they're no match for the studio orchestras the networks and TV-production companies used to employ.
My favorite cartoon when i was growing up, couldnt wait for Saturday's just to sleep in and watch johney quest, 😍🙄
Jonny Quest was the best!
Jonny Quest was a fun show. By todays standards it was also violent. The thing was, we were smart enough to know it was fantasy. We didn't need "political correctness" to tell us the difference between reality and make believe.
senorkaboom Johnny Quest rocks!
Who told you by today's standards it would be considered violent?
Considering all the violence today, and especially gun violence, I'd say it doesn't seem smart enough to know the difference
Jonny Quest was a great cartoon
Jonny Quest made this gay kid very happy.
I was 5 yrs old watching Jonny Quest and wanted so much to grow up like him. his adventures were amazing, traveling with his scientist father
I may not have the right time frame being I was 5 and 6 at these times. I remember watching Secret Agent Man and Honey West, along with Combat. My favorite cartoons were Johnny Quest and Top Cat.
OOtar I remember ALL of these shows! And I loved them too! Loved the theme songs for all of them! So memorable ❣️I absolutely LOVED Jonny Quest and Top Cat! I know Jonny Quest was first shown during prime time. Top Cat too, if I’m not mistaken.
I had no idea "Jonny Quest" was that highly-rated. This particular episode was written by Joanna Lee, who played the alien woman Tanna in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.
This video is not about ratings. They are my personal favorites. But that's nice info about Quest.
Loved the westerns still do
I think the Munsters production values were first class. Quality sets throughout.
Agreed. And network shows in general had a quality look.
There was a Munsters Movie 1966 that was in color. but Marilyn was not played by the same actress from the series.
@@agriperma Saw "Munsters Go Home" at the theater a kid. Go to 'England'(Ya' right, filmed in California with British ex-pat actors), Richard Dawson, one of the villains. Apparently studio 'grooming for stardom' new girl ???as Marilyn. Thought TV 2nd Marilyn Pat Priest stunning, way prettier than (1st) Beverly Owen, quit by her own choice.
Yes, I remember all of these shows. And I even watched some of them! As a kid Combat was my favorite show.
Combat was good because,as a kid, it didn't need much explaining: They're trying to kill Germans before Germans kill them. Plus it had Vic Morrow who was born to play Sgt. Saunders.
+FredFlix That show had a very good cast, and good writers. I even learned a couple of words in German, Hurry up, move, move faster, and no. Because they used the same words every week lol! I was about 10 or 11 when they cancelled it and I was furious!! To this day I feel a resentment towards jerry van dyke. My other the Car!? They cancelled COMBAT for this!!!
+FredFlix Another one of my favorite shows was T.H.E. Cat. GREAT show! But only lasted just over one season.
Great memory. 66-67 season staring the late, great Robert Loggia as Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat.
barry morris That's Cat, Thomas H. Cat. T.H.E. Cat was one of my favorite shows, along with Combat.
Jonny quest theme music is CLASSIC!!!!!
Ya know , we really did have the best then!!
Quinn Martin also made "The invaders". I liked his shows.
Brought back some good memories. Thank for sharing.
Most of us 50-somethings probably know Johnny Quest from Saturday mornings in the early 1970's, but it was originally a prime-time TV series.
Loved The Man From UNCLE!! The first season’s theme song was one of the best!
Another tv show based on the same premise was in the works but never made it into production.TITLE: The Woman from Aunt
They are all Great Shows ,Thank You! I Remember The DISNEY Channel USED to put Classic Shows on ! NOW there is NOTHING! complete! GARBAGE! With all the money and power they have they can't even have a Classic Disney Channel!! QUITE SAD!
Now they all go for what's "in" with the youth market. If they don't, profits slip, then the corporation wants those in charge held accountable.
yea, I remember when they used to show ZORRO and THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (with it's various titles-WALT DISNEY PRESENTS, DISNEYS WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR etc)
yea, it's a god damn shame people are so greedy and money-hungry!!
Thanks to the the Gods Of DVD/ Blu Ray, I'm able to snag any of the old Tv Shows I Love and want Off Amazon without Breaking neither my balls or my bank account.
Lots of good shows! I wish I knew where I could see Episodes of Ben Casey and Dr. Kildaire Season Two or higher!
Took me back 45 years.Thanks FredFlix !
You're welcome, AnnaAnnaYes.
When I was little, my late father loved Red Skelton, his favorite skits were the bum and the drunk. My late grandfather sat and watched The Virginian every day when he lived with us. Rawhide too.I love Perry Mason.
I must've spent a lot of time in front of the TV that year. i remember all of these shows quite well!
Interestingly, I think this is the first time that I saw the opening to The Wonderful World of Color...in color.
Even that short promo of The Outer Limits gave me chills. Still the best science fiction series yet.
+FredFlix...I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this('60 baby but, I developed, mentally, early-surprisingly, from congenital hydrocephalus.) I remember many of these, from first run-the ones my parents watched, anyway. 'Can't wait, to resume watching, later, this morning! Thank-you!
Thanks, Don. You obviously have a well-developed brain if you're watching FredFlix!
Few people knew that The Flintstones weren't the ONLY 'Prime Time' cartoon -The Jetsons, Top Cat, Jonny Quest, 'Wait Till Your Father Gets Home' and Where's Huddles? all aired in Prime Time in the late 60's and early 70's. prime time until the 1980's was considered from 7:00 PM till 10:00 PM but shifted to an hour later after that.
no, it changed to 8:00 in the early-to-mid 70s not 80s
The shows I mentioned were part of 'Prime - Time' television in my area but were usually labeled as 'Local Programming' and YES, I generalized, it was about 1977-78. 'Prime - Time' was over when the 10:00 O'Clock News started
You.forgot about the Jetsons.
The Huckleberry Hound Show was also a primetime cartoon.
50 years ago I was 8 and watching t.v. But in 65 I was 5 and still watching TV but what ever my parents or grandparents wanted. I remember these shows.
Thanks for putting this together. Did you get these rankings from 1 particular week, or are these ranked by your own preference? From what I remember BONANZA was #1 for the season, and BEWITCHED had its best seasonal ranking at #2. THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES may have started down at #19 in a new timeslot, but it worked its way back up to #12 by season's end.
When Jonny Quest premiered in 1964, I was 9 years old and this was a primetime show. Strangely, it was an event in a boy's life at the time.
Not so strangely. It had everything a boy wanted to see. I was also 9 when it premiered and it's still the best TV cartoon I've ever seen.
FredFlix Today, St. Patrick's Day, I talked to a friend our age about a strange period in television called "time of the weird gun". At least four characters in westerns of the time carried a weird gun. Not an ordinary gun but a heavily modified, sawed off, altered death machine, intended to be absolutely lethal. The king was "The Rifleman" Lucas McCain. This was different in that the gun was actually a co star of the show. Sometimes there were episodes that revolved around the gun. It had been lost, stolen or fallen into the wrong hands. Lucas reacted like Samson with a haircut, he was left powerless. The community reacted as if it were a loose nuke and panicked until the gun was recovered. Walking down the street, Lucas would fan the lever action and the rifle would become a machine gun. Actually, someone cocking a rifle in that fashion would shoot themselves in the head. That didn't matter, we bought into it completely. With more than 200 killings over it's run, it was the most violent show ever aired on Network television. As a kid, I remember wondering the isles of the toy section of any department store and seeing toy versions of all the "weird guns" I think this may be the origins of much of today's gun culture.
1965 I was freshman in high school. I remember all of these shows.
Loved Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
That was the first show I saw in color
This is awesome! Thank you for posting this! :):)
SO GOOD THEY HAD TO SHOW THE MAN FROM UNCLE TWICE
At 7 yrs. old I Love Jonny Quest. Outer Limits Used To Scare Me. (Smile)
The Outer Limits should have showed the actual opening. Scary as heck for an 11 year old which I was.
I'm trying with my channel to avoid the stuff that is usually found on RUclips, the "same old" themes and shows that seasoned RUclipsrs have been watching for 10 years. Not that I don't appreciate The Outer Limits theme. But I usually just use portions or alternate versions or promos in order to give this channel a fresh approach.
Absolutely! I was 8 years old and it scared the hair off the top of my head. I actually believed that they WERE controlling our TV back then! LOL!
i love the them song. perfect to play when it is 🌃 time
I used to futz with the controls just to make sure they were wrong. They might have been controlling somebody's television, but it dang sure wasn't mine.
Jim Klipper
Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I was alone in the front room when the first episode came on I can still remember that moment with clarity!
I remember when all these shows were on. Some of the actors are still with us. 👍❤🇺🇸
Strange how some of these shows were only on a season or two, but had great ratings.
I never missed Johnny Quest!
The Original Unaired Munster Pilot was actually Shot In Color. But I Prefer the B/W Episodes anyhow. B/W sorta gives it a warm, fuzzy Feel.
Actually the second season of the Munsters was in color
Yes, the credits at the end give Technicolor a credit, why I wondered if the show was shot in but just didn't air in color.
@joe Domjan Different wife 'Phoebe'( Morticia clone, VERY sexy}, different makeup on Herman, 'Happy', weird---just growled, color, just 15 minute pilot. On net check it out.
@@dennisbaker1002 A lot of shows , except NBC, (color infancy, most homes B/W) switched when it was thought to have prolonged future.
So sad how Vic Morrow got killed while filming the Twilight Zone movie.
Pretty slick of you using the Fantastic Four logo for number 4.
I came out in 1964. :-)
Once again Fred thx for the great memories !
You're welcome, Clutch.
I didn't see the man from UNCLE, I watched other shows. I do remember watching Johnny Quest and some of the other cartoons of that time. I was born in 1962 so some of the shows that you have on the video I can remember and some I can't. It wasn't until the middle 60's and 70's that I can remember a lot more TV shows. But the videos do bring back some good memories of the time.
I was 13 when the 1964 season began. Damn I am old.
I was just turning 10 and I thought I was old. But it's you!
Great shows. I watched The Man From Uncle every week.I was into the early spy craze on tv and in movies big time. and I looked forward every week to friday night to watch Johnny Quest and The Addams Family..I like The Munsters as well,but even as a13 year old kid,I had a bent entertanment apprication..I rounded out my friday night by watching the horror movie on local channel 8 at 11:30 pm or so. Great times.
Our local horror show came on Satudays at 11 p.m. On Fridays in 1966-67, in addition to Green Hornet, Wild Wild West, Man from UNCLE and Time Tunnel, the local station showed The Sons of Hercules. What a night!
Bruce flashback You and me both!
You are old, turn off the tv and go to bed.
When TV was TV.
what about McHale,s Navy ,the Donna Reed show ,My Three sons, Ozzie & Harriet,American bandstand.Also Shindig The Jetsons and Hullabaloo, Danny Kaye Show , Many Happy Returns .How could you forget these TV shows!!!
at 09:03, that animated intro to Perry Mason looks almost like simple CGI, then blends with live action in another very modern way.
Loved Combat! and, in fact, sent off for some b&w glossies of the show; have one of Vic Morrow as Sgt. Chip Saunders and a group shot of the entire crew. Also liked Disney’s, Wonderful World of Color but only saw it in black & white on our tiny Motorola set (we didn’t get a color TV until the summer of ‘71. Loved The Fugitive too and saw the series finale in the summer of ‘68. Thanks for the memories!
Wish I'd paid more attention to the Defenders when it was on,though it was probably too ''adult'' for me back then.After all,I was just 11,same age as Jonny Quest!
And I always thought he was 10, my age at the time. Wishful thinking? Maybe. Maybe not. His age was never revealed in the series. But here's a quote from Doug Wildey: "Well, Jonny himself was supposed to be ten. Everybody claims he was eleven. I don't know where that came from. I just figured a ten-year-old kid. Well, eleven's close enough."
Trying to remember where I read he was 11,probably TV Guide's news section back in the day,though most of that stuff came from press releases that were subject to change.I also recall articles which had Jay North cast as Jace on "Space Ghost" and the Banana Splits referred to as the Banana Bunch,which we know didn't happen.
I you can remember ANYTHING you read in 1964 (without having re-read it since), I'm putting my money on you!
What I remember most about those years was the fact that our small hometown area had finally picked up a fulltime ABC affiliate,after years of having only 2 channels.Try telling that to a kid today,they'd never believe it!As a cartoon fan,I was probably more sensitive to any animation related articles. By the way,great channel,where do you find this stuff?
I have a working time tunnel. Our town, too, had only two channels, CBS and ABC. We finally got NBC in the fall of 1962. Yeah kids today can't believe how primitive it was, but I know you feel as I do: We were so lucky to be alive during that time.
TV 1964 -65 I was 7 & 8 yrs old was Great and Christmas was Heaven, Too.
Love these videos, some I remember and others I don't.
YESSSSSS!!!!!! I was wondering if THE FUGITIVE would make the list and it did!!!!In my book it was #1!!!!
If Ben Casey intro was made today: "man, woman, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans...."
Good point!
I was such a TV addict in my youth. Every one of these themes was completely familiar, and I recalled the words (OK, not Perry Mason, The Defenders, or The Fugitive). Strange that I haven't watched TV since 1988. My family just tuned it out. It certainly freed up lots of time to do other things.
You didn't miss anything except Seinfeld (seasons 3-7 actually surpassed Dick Van Dyke).
These are not the top 25 according to Nielsen ratings for 1964-65. Bonanza was no.1 followed by Bewitched and Gomer Pyle. Other top 10 shows included Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, The Lucy Show, Peyton Place II, Ben Casey, and The Fugitive.
yeah bonanza was always up there..best theme music too
I remember these programs back in the day... was just seven years old!!
I watched this and was all "Oh man, I watched all these shows !"
Then I was all "fuck, I'm old""
Well chosen, Fred. I also liked "12 O'Clock High" with Robert Lansing. And "Slattery's People" with Richard Crenna, from the makers of "Ben Casey". And "For the People" with William Shatner as an Assistant D.A. in New York City, from the makers of "The Defenders". And "Peyton Place" with Ryan O'Neal, Mia Farrow, and many others.
So many good shows it was hard to cut it to 25.
Wasn't the man from UNCLE on twice here?
yep
Hold on there! Now I worshipped Johnny Quest as a kid, and to this day I believe it's the best cartoon ever created for TV, but there is no way a Saturday morning cartoon ranks higher than a prime time hit like the Beverly Hillbillies in 1964-65. Where do you get your information?
Who gives anything of Fred’s channel thumbs down ?
Geesh!
Thumbs up!
Thumbs up!
Loved branded, although I never knew why chuck was branded? Loved the Munsters also, still on TV, who would've known about Opie? Good job Fred
Angelo Santaniello, I too wonder if the details of Chuck’s branded a coward. The details of the reason were later revealed much later in the series. He was protecting his commanding officers foolish mistakes that led to a massacre of his troops.
The Virginians. The man from uncle. Etc .etc. Perry Masons theme song always scared me.
"The Munsters" was the first show I remember seeing on TV. I was about 4.
Andy Griffith, Perry Mason, the Fugitive and of course Johnny Quest my favorites
And tonight we're going to have
A really great shoo!
The fugitive was my favorite
And johnnys quest
I remember the first airing on The Outer Limits was The Galaxy Being. Scared the pants off out of me! My dad had a friend that worked at a AM radio station called KTKT Rocknroll. I BEGGED my dad to call the station to make sure the "Being" couldn't get thru the radio signal! Lol! Can't find Outer Limits anymore on syndication. 😕
Hulu has it now I think
Although I am a Texan by birth, I lived in Tucson in the 1960's (Dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan). KTKT was THE station I listened to; it also helped that the music store I took lessons from had the weekly "KTKT Top 99" list available. "K-T, KT, Channel 99". Great memories!
I was between 7 and 8 and I remember fighting over the T.V. Guide so we could circle our favorite shows like it made any difference since my sister was the eldest. Our parents anyway claimed possession of the only b&w tv after seven. All the kid shows before 7 or Saturday. We were allowed to watch the adult shows until 8 then good night.. What memories, to be a kid again.
I love these time capsules! I notice that Westerns are coming back, at least on some streaming stations. They all but dissapeared for a while. BTW, the voice of Johnny in Johnny Quest was a young Tim Matheson, later in Animal House and Fletch!
There was from my chilhood when I had 5 year olds...! I saw all the series...! Thanks, me.
Fred-You've done it again!
Thanks, Scott.
Love combat
Combat was a great show, I also liked The Gallant Men.
ALL THESE SHOWS WERE AWESOME!!!!!!I MISS THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION!!!!!!
I grew up on these. You know, the unspoken assumption behind all these shows was that life was good and safety and prosperity was a given.. No wonder we look back with such nostalgia.
Stranded...Stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded, and you don't have a roll?...🎶🎵. I completely forgot about that show.
Branded and johnny quest thank you.
Not a bad year to watch TV...I'd forgotten that Jonny Quest started airing in primetime...and I didn't know that Tim Matheson (Otter from 'Animal House') voiced Jonny - a good excuse to reacquaint myself with the series...I should revisit both Burke's Law and The Virginian too. I was more of a Ben Casey fan, but Dr. Kildare wasn't too hard to watch. Keep up the fine work, Fred!
Thanks, Mark. Jonny Quest, to me, remains the best TV cartoon ever made. And Burke's Law is probably the best show to watch if you like guest stars. The producers went out of their way to cast known actors (and some unknown until later) in almost every speaking role on each show. I like Killdare better than Casey, but they're both pretty close in quality.
This is the Nielsen Top 25 for that season
1. BONANZA
2. BEWITCHED
3. GOMER PYLE, U.S.M.C.
4.THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
5. THE FUGITIVE
6. THE RED SKELTON HOUR
7. THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
8. THE LUCY SHOW
9. PEYTON PLACE (Thursday)
10. COMBAT!
11. WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR
12. THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
13. MY THREE SONS
14. BRANDED
15. PETTICOAT JUNCTION
16. THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW
17. LASSIE
18. THE MUNSTERS
19. GILLIGAN'S ISLAND.
20. PEYTON PLACE (Tuesday)
21.JACKIE GLEASON AND HIS AMERICAN SCENE MAGAZINE
22. THE VIRGINIAN
23. THE ADDAMS FAMILY
24. MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
25. FLIPPER
Yes, but I trust you're aware this video is my opinion.
as usual GREAT job! But where'd you get that opening of THE MUNSTERS from? Is it an original film that you got from the studio? Because I know that the show was filmed in color but shown in black and white.
That was a computer colorized version of the opening. I found it on RUclips.
I'm surprised, at how true, that color looks.
My ranking of 15 :
#01 Outer Limits
#02 Twillight Zone
#03 The Invaders
#04 The Time Tunnel
#05 Lost in Space
#06 Voyager to the Botton of the Sea
#07 Have gun - Will travel
#08 Cimarron Strep
#09 The Patty Duke Show
#10 Jonny Quest
#11 Thunderbyrds are go
#12 Stingray
#13 The Beverly Hillbillies
#14 Combat
#15 Comedy Capers
From # 2 to # 15 , I don't care much about the positons,but #1 must be Outer Limits.Here in Brasil those series were amongst those we had at the time.
Laura Petrie abandoned her husband Rob , and son Richie in New Rochelle ,moved to Minneapolis ,changed her name to Mary Richards, and gained employment at a TV station in the Twin Cities.....
I figured that clip from "The Munsters" had to have been colorized. The "Perry Mason" and "Jonny Quest" themes are outstanding.
AAAAHHH JONNY QUEST ( still waiting for the movie version ) WHERE DEATH ON A CARTOON WAS NORMAL
For some reason, watching your content always makes me think of other shows!
Most Ill-conceived Sequel: Tabitha. (Bewitched is still on the air, in the 70s, with adorable little girl Tabitha. So, of COURSE they attempt a sequel about Tabitha all grown up, as a newscaster. Wearing 70s clothing!!!)
Best Sequels: Lou Grant. (Network took a popular supporting character from the comedy Mary Tyler Moore Show & created a drama about Lou Grant as an editor at a major newspaper. The show examined issues of the day -- my favorite episodes were the one with the captured Nazi war criminal proudly defending what he did, the one examining Native American protests demanding their rights; & the one where the owners beloved little dog was stolen & used for bait in a dogfighting ring. The show featured a cast of likeable characters, & I still remember some names: Miss Pynchon, the owner; & Animal, the photographer.)
Fernwood Tonight: (The Fox Network rescued the comedy Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman by changing format to a fictional talk show set in the fictional town of Fernwood, home of Mary Hartman.)
Does anyone remember the programming misfire-- on NBC, I think-- of a news program comedy about the Vietnam War? I think it lasted maybe 2 episodes because the timing was just horrendous-- emotions from the war were still so heightened & raw! The creators were probably trying to cash in on the success of M*A*S*H without understanding that shows genius: everyone UNDERSTOOD it was really antiwar & about the war in Vietnam, but it was set in an EARLIER conflict precisely to AVOID offending people!
逃亡者、アウターリミッツ、シービュー号、ナポレオンソロ、ローハイド、ベンケーシーは良く観てましたね！
Uncle !! 60's classic spy show. Loved the 60's. so much innovative imagination, Hate the new century, too many smart gadgets, not enough conversation, or book reading, way too much I phone obsession,
Right at the top, you have "The Vulcan Affair," the UNCLE episode with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. However, no one seems to have noticed that the guy firing the gun at the silhouette played the 20th-century Air Force security guard in the Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday." "The Vulcan Affair" is awash with Trekkiness.
Great job pointing that out, caatcher.
Those were the days when Quinn Martin and Irwin Allen ruled Hollywood. At least it seemed like every show was either "A QuinnMartin Production" or "Irwin Allen presents..."
Anyone remember the girl from uncle?
A bunch of good shows !
my favorite tv show was the man from uncle and johnny quest and the munsters they made me laugh
Now we have the most fascinating TV show ever..
" Keeping Up with the Kardashians ". 😭
which is way more terrifying than the outer limits LOL
Have nightmares every time Kim mentions her husband's " Yeezy ".. 😲
I've been wracking my brain trying to think of the name of a heartwarming family drama from the 1980s: it was about a suburban family with a son named Corky or Corey who had Downs Syndrome; & the boy playing him actually had Downs! There was an article in I think TV Guide which talked about the uniqueness of the show, & how he learned his lines! What was the name of that show?
Cathy Vickers “Life Goes On”?
Fred, I don't know how old you are but before The Man From U.N.C.L.E. came out the there was a commercial that described him as indestructible. Have you ever seem that?
I'm 62. If I saw that I forgot about it.
FredFlix I'm 63 and I could swear I heard them say that in the promo
They probably did.
Quinn Martin..... wow. How old are we ? , nice video
6:12 "No, it wasn't really in color". And this was the _Munsters_ 1965 season opening. (Great music, though!)