I was lucky enough to be in a TV GUIDE FROM 1965 with stars of "Man From Uncle" on the cover. I guested as a teen talent winner on a "DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL" in April of 1965. I was 19 ! It's still a treasured item in my home !
I understand why you value that TV Guide. But the real treasure, of course, is your memory of that exciting event and the fact that you had the talent to be there.
I miss TV Guide so much. 👍👍👍 Have a good Memorial Day weekend, Fred. And to all the veterans out there, thank you for all you've done for our country! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲👍👍👍
1966 was a rare year for TV GUIDE, with 53 covers instead of the usual 52, because 1966 had 53 Saturdays, and all TV GUIDEs then had Saturday publication dates.
That was when 1966 was a blockbuster of television, Batman, F-Troop, it's one of my favorites, Family Affair and Get Smart, it's one of my favorites,1966 was a great year for television. Happy Memorial Day.
Great video, Fred! Thank you! Back in the sixties, my family enjoyed quite a few magazine subscriptions. TV Guide was the most essential. We also had LIFE, LOOK, whatever women's magazines my sister and mom liked, Southern Living, and various other things, plus two daily newspapers. I remember all six of our family sitting in the den and a very common phrase was, "Pass the TV Guide." It was important for planning your week, because if you missed something, your only hope was to catch it in reruns.
I'm right there with you!! As soon as mother would get back from her usual Saturday morning grocery shopping, and we helped put away the groceries, I grab that TV Guide before any else could get it, and I'd circle what I wanted to watch each evening - yeah, that caused a lot of fights, til we got a 2nd tv.. then it wasn't too bad. LOL!
Great! TV Guide was always present in my childhood. My father had collected the Fall Preview issues of TV Guide dating back to the very early 60s. Remember them well as a kid in the late 60s throughout the 70s as we had a subscription. Always particularly enjoyed them for “Close Ups” on college and pro football, Christmas specials, and afternoon reruns of Lost in Space and Star Trek. Recall also searching for late night showings of old Universal horror films - knowing full well I wouldn’t be allowed to sit up late to watch them - lol.
All of the covers were amazing but, if I went into an antique shop and could only afford to pick 3 of them, they would be the Rat Patrol, the Dean Martin, and the Ron Searle caricature of Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Thanks for the fantastic trip down memory lane Fred!
some people, where did I go wrong? My mom gave my small collection of Matchbox cars to my sister's kids and they destroyed every one! I may still have my 2 GI Joes, somehow!
I used to look at the pictures in TV Guide before I could actually read it. By 1968 I was reading it every week, and by the time I was 11 I was doing the crossword puzzles. Like most people, my favorite editions were always the Fall Preview issues. One of my very favorite covers is the one where John Astin and Carolyn Jones are in costume as Gomez and Morticia Addams and they're dancing with their Charles Addams-drawn counterparts. Thanks Fred!
Judging by it's covers , I think it was great creative work done extremely well, in what looks like one fascinating and exciting year for television, thankfully features so many shows I was able to see in reruns years later and still enjoy!
I'm another who read TV Guide cover to cover, carefully dog-earring the upper corner of each page that had a show I couldn't miss. Big events were the Christmas cover, the Fall Preview and most importantly, the Friday night preview of Cartoons coming to Saturday Morning. As I grew older, I loved the interviews and stories and even did the crossword. Man, TV Guide was so necessary back then. Thanks Fred!
@@roberthevern6169 The days before VCR's. If we missed it, we missed it. So sorry, but (and I may be a sap for saying this), it was for a better cause.
My earliest memory of The Beatles was seeing them on the cover of TV Guide before I had ever heard their music. I was really young and I'm thinking this may have been when they made their famous appearance on Ed Sullivan.
Hello Fred. I’ve only recently discovered your videos a few weeks back and am now pleased to watch pretty much everything you share with the YT community. This is my first comment, however, as your TV Guide episode really struck a chord with me. I still have a fair number of TV Guides from my younger days (mostly mid-1970’s), not for any “collectible” value but because each magazine represents a snapshot of time from my youth and a miniature time capsule of our cultural past. It’s a fun and fascinating pastime to go back through these issues to see how we have changed over the decades. Your FredFlix video series gives us that same wonderful feeling of nostalgia that we all need from time to time… and for that I am thankful.
Ok.. so..... not only were these TV Guide covers fantastic, but let's give Fred a gigantic round of applause for that fabulous music! Hard to go wrong with '60s music (yes, i was alive back then with an older brother and older sister who played all the really GOOD STUFF constantly!) !
Couldn't live without TV Guide as I grew up. I had to know what was coming up for the week. Then cable TV showed up and pretty much made TV Guide obsolete. The youth doesn't know what they are missing, but probably doesn't care, their attention spans are so very short. Joey Heatherton looks like she is holding a couple of portable radios. At first, I thought they were Geiger Counters (Joey being so very Hot, as in radioactive), lol. EDIT: just thought of something. Could they be early portable TV's (being TV Guide and all)??? Thanks for another fine video Fred.
So how do you have it planned if I may ask: a different mag in a given year or only TV Guide throughout the years? Whichever way, I'm down with it. Great music, as usual. 💜🤟
@@FredFlix Actually no, I have recordings of the originals with Barry vocals. Unfortunately for him, the rest is history, although being a straight up dude, he recognized this himself
@@roberthevern6169 Yeah that guy, apparently from what I remember he was quite the sponsor of new talent when he ran across it. Very different from what the industry & business in general has morphed into
I remember that three show promo of Bewitched, That Girl and Love on a Rooftop with its three female stars being heavily promoted in the 60s. Too bad Judy Carne's didn't work out as well as the other two!
@@FredFlixJudy and Burt's marriage only lasted from 1963 to 1965. It ended, according to both Judy and Burt, in a very bitter divorce with Burt citing her drug use and numerous adulteries with both genders. Judy tried matrimony one more time with a producer and that marriage lasted from 1970 to 1971. Judy had two seasons on Laugh-In (68-69). She then declared that it had become a "bloody bore" and quit. I recently watched an interview with George Schlatter, the main talent and money man of Laugh In and several other TV shows. George quickly and easily praised the talents of the people who became stars on Laugh-In, but he had to be reminded to mention Judy, of whom his praise was more faint. Unfortunately, Judy was a heroin addict for many years. But there was good news when she was able to quit and feel better in the 1980's when she moved back to England. She passed away at the age of 76.
I was lucky enough to be in a TV GUIDE FROM 1965 with stars of "Man From Uncle" on the cover. I guested as a teen talent winner on a "DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL" in April of 1965. I was 19 ! It's still a treasured item in my home !
COOL! 👍
Neat-o!
I understand why you value that TV Guide. But the real treasure, of course, is your memory of that exciting event and the fact that you had the talent to be there.
That is so awesome!
I was 9 years old from a dysfunction home, all I had was the music and a direction! in 1966! GOOD GUYS were Good, the bad guys would come up
short!
I miss TV Guide so much. 👍👍👍
Have a good Memorial Day weekend, Fred. And to all the veterans out there, thank you for all you've done for our country! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲👍👍👍
Thanks, Robert.
1966 was a rare year for TV GUIDE, with 53 covers instead of the usual 52, because 1966 had 53 Saturdays, and all TV GUIDEs then had Saturday publication dates.
Yeah, John, when I saw there were 53 I thought maybe I goofed, but I noticed the final date was Dec. 31, so I figured an extra one got squeezed in.
When television shows were GREAT!
TV Guide was an excellent publication and always exciting to get the new one each week.
I loved the TV Guide!! The covers were always interesting, thank you Fred for this fun video
You're welcome, Bridget. More to come.
Not only were the covers great, but, after a while, I was able to master the crossword puzzles in 5 minutes LOL!!
There was a huge variety of TV shows in the 60's and 70's
Back when 15 cents could buy a whole magazine. I remember 50 cents in the late 70s I think. What a nice look back at when TV and magazines rocked.
Glad you enjoyed it, Helane.
That was when 1966 was a blockbuster of television, Batman, F-Troop, it's one of my favorites, Family Affair and Get Smart, it's one of my favorites,1966 was a great year for television. Happy Memorial Day.
1966 what a year for tv!!
Great video, Fred! Thank you! Back in the sixties, my family enjoyed quite a few magazine subscriptions. TV Guide was the most essential. We also had LIFE, LOOK, whatever women's magazines my sister and mom liked, Southern Living, and various other things, plus two daily newspapers. I remember all six of our family sitting in the den and a very common phrase was, "Pass the TV Guide." It was important for planning your week, because if you missed something, your only hope was to catch it in reruns.
That is so true, CG. It was such a remarkable time. I'm forever grateful to have seen it through a child's eyes.
So are you multiverser or continentalgin?
@@FredFlix multiverser
I'm right there with you!! As soon as mother would get back from her usual Saturday morning grocery shopping, and we helped put away the groceries, I grab that TV Guide before any else could get it, and I'd circle what I wanted to watch each evening - yeah, that caused a lot of fights, til we got a 2nd tv.. then it wasn't too bad. LOL!
@@Nunofurdambiznez Yes, I can relate!
1966. I was 13 and just realized how nice girls were. Thank you Fred for bringing back great memories. ✨💫
You're quite welcome. It took me another year (at 12) to find that out about girls.
@@FredFlix Fred those were the best of days. Thank you my friend for bringing a smile to an old man. 👍🏻😆
@@FredFlixit took me until19!! As a gearhead, girls were 2nd in line! Thanks for all these! 69yr OG in Idaho!
Great! TV Guide was always present in my childhood. My father had collected the Fall Preview issues of TV Guide dating back to the very early 60s. Remember them well as a kid in the late 60s throughout the 70s as we had a subscription. Always particularly enjoyed them for “Close Ups” on college and pro football, Christmas specials, and afternoon reruns of Lost in Space and Star Trek. Recall also searching for late night showings of old Universal horror films - knowing full well I wouldn’t be allowed to sit up late to watch them - lol.
Wow awesome have a wonderful Memorial Day thank you so much Fred
Well, that did it. Put it on my tombstone: 1960 -2024 Died of Nostalgia
Then, I guess I'm ...
over-dead??!! Born in 55!
So those were the covers of TV Guide back in the year of my birth, 1966.
Thanks for the memories, FredFlix. 🙂
You're welcome, Luis.
All of the covers were amazing but, if I went into an antique shop and could only afford to pick 3 of them, they would be the Rat Patrol, the Dean Martin, and the Ron Searle caricature of Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Thanks for the fantastic trip down memory lane Fred!
You're welcome, Rangerly. btw, I have replicas of the Batman and Green Hornet editions.
some people, where did I go wrong? My mom gave my small collection of Matchbox cars to my sister's kids and they destroyed every one! I may still have my 2 GI Joes, somehow!
I recognized every cover and/or show and/or title.
i can't name a single name of a new tv show now running on tv.
I was born on a Saturday afternoon on March the 19th in 1966. TV Guide was the Bible of television.
Fred, this was all kinds of awesome! Geez I just loved it, it just feels so now! Thank you! ❤😊😊😊
You're welcome, Doug. I'll be doing more.
@@FredFlix HOORRRAAAYYYYYY!!
My folks just used the TV listings from the newspaper, so I never saw most of these. The Ronald Searle caricatures are great.
I remember we had the TV guide right there by the nightstand that was next to the recliner, good quality TV before cable ruined it all 🙄
Thx Fredflix 👍
I used to look at the pictures in TV Guide before I could actually read it. By 1968 I was reading it every week, and by the time I was 11 I was doing the crossword puzzles. Like most people, my favorite editions were always the Fall Preview issues. One of my very favorite covers is the one where John Astin and Carolyn Jones are in costume as Gomez and Morticia Addams and they're dancing with their Charles Addams-drawn counterparts. Thanks Fred!
A new video! A great surprise for Saturday morning. Thank you.
You're welcome, Jan. I'm on a roll now. I have dozens of videos in the pipeline.
@@FredFlix Can't wait!
Judging by it's covers , I think it was great creative work done extremely well, in what looks like one fascinating and exciting year for television, thankfully features so many shows I was able to see in reruns years later and still enjoy!
I'm another who read TV Guide cover to cover, carefully dog-earring the upper corner of each page that had a show I couldn't miss. Big events were the Christmas cover, the Fall Preview and most importantly, the Friday night preview of Cartoons coming to Saturday Morning. As I grew older, I loved the interviews and stories and even did the crossword. Man, TV Guide was so necessary back then. Thanks Fred!
You're welcome, Daniel. Yes, it was a necessity.
Saturday mornings were awful, as I had to go to Catechism!!
@@roberthevern6169 The days before VCR's. If we missed it, we missed it. So sorry, but (and I may be a sap for saying this), it was for a better cause.
This is Great! Thank you!
You're welcome, 1LC.
My earliest memory of The Beatles was seeing them on the cover of TV Guide before I had ever heard their music. I was really young and I'm thinking this may have been when they made their famous appearance on Ed Sullivan.
Hello Fred. I’ve only recently discovered your videos a few weeks back and am now pleased to watch pretty much everything you share with the YT community. This is my first comment, however, as your TV Guide episode really struck a chord with me. I still have a fair number of TV Guides from my younger days (mostly mid-1970’s), not for any “collectible” value but because each magazine represents a snapshot of time from my youth and a miniature time capsule of our cultural past. It’s a fun and fascinating pastime to go back through these issues to see how we have changed over the decades. Your FredFlix video series gives us that same wonderful feeling of nostalgia that we all need from time to time… and for that I am thankful.
I did the crossword puzzle in TV Guide every single week for years. Couldn't wait for new issue each week.
Amazing
The artwork was incredible!!
I wish I had that
Warhol one
Such a different time
Oh that Gilligan's Island cover is fantastic I wish I had that one.
Only you could make TV Guide covers interesting Fred. Thanks buddy 👍
Nice one Fred! Being from Michigan i appreciate 96 Tears by ? And the Mysterians.
Thanks again, Fred.
Thay took tv as a art from back then a Definite vision
Ok.. so..... not only were these TV Guide covers fantastic, but let's give Fred a gigantic round of applause for that fabulous music! Hard to go wrong with '60s music (yes, i was alive back then with an older brother and older sister who played all the really GOOD STUFF constantly!) !
Nunetc., I'm just grateful YT is allowing me (for now) to use these songs in full.
@@FredFlixyou and me both!!
My situation exactly!
Another fine job Fred.
2:57 Charles Briles, who played the youngest (legitimate) son on THE BIG VALLEY, was written out of the show after he was drafted.
That 'Please Don't Eat the Daisies ' cover is awesome.
Couldn't live without TV Guide as I grew up. I had to know what was coming up for the week. Then cable TV showed up and pretty much made TV Guide obsolete. The youth doesn't know what they are missing, but probably doesn't care, their attention spans are so very short. Joey Heatherton looks like she is holding a couple of portable radios. At first, I thought they were Geiger Counters (Joey being so very Hot, as in radioactive), lol. EDIT: just thought of something. Could they be early portable TV's (being TV Guide and all)??? Thanks for another fine video Fred.
brilliant
The Golden age...
Nice covers
familiar with about half of those in reruns and most times I thought they were from the 1970s
So how do you have it planned if I may ask: a different mag in a given year or only TV Guide throughout the years? Whichever way, I'm down with it. Great music, as usual. 💜🤟
Hard to believe that California Dreamin' was recorded by Barry McGuire with the Mamas & the Papas as backing vocals first
Apparently you can hear a split second of Barry's voice as the vocals begin.
@@FredFlix Actually no, I have recordings of the originals with Barry vocals. Unfortunately for him, the rest is history, although being a straight up dude, he recognized this himself
@@eringo-bragh4243The 'We're on the Eve of Destruction' guy?? Wow!
@@roberthevern6169 Yeah that guy, apparently from what I remember he was quite the sponsor of new talent when he ran across it. Very different from what the industry & business in general has morphed into
I remember that three show promo of Bewitched, That Girl and Love on a Rooftop with its three female stars being heavily promoted in the 60s. Too bad Judy Carne's didn't work out as well as the other two!
No, but she did marry Burt Reynolds and was one of main Laugh-In cast members. Not too shabby.
@@FredFlixJudy and Burt's marriage only lasted from 1963 to 1965. It ended, according to both Judy and Burt, in a very bitter divorce with Burt citing her drug use and numerous adulteries with both genders. Judy tried matrimony one more time with a producer and that marriage lasted from 1970 to 1971.
Judy had two seasons on Laugh-In (68-69). She then declared that it had become a "bloody bore" and quit.
I recently watched an interview with George Schlatter, the main talent and money man of Laugh In and several other TV shows. George quickly and easily praised the talents of the people who became stars on Laugh-In, but he had to be reminded to mention Judy, of whom his praise was more faint.
Unfortunately, Judy was a heroin addict for many years. But there was good news when she was able to quit and feel better in the 1980's when she moved back to England. She passed away at the age of 76.
@@marthawelch4289 Thanks, Martha.
No Star Trek or Lost in Space.
Lost in Space had a cover in '65 and Trek, which began in Sept. '66, didn't get a cover until '67 (it got two that year, I think).
@@FredFlix Double F has the answers!