These were the best shows ever. Remember watching them with my folks and of course, in much later years the reruns when they were shown. Still see some of the westerns on the Western Channel and the other shows on RUclips. Thank you for being there RUclips.
I neglected to mention that a couple of these shows I had forgotten about and want to thank you RwDt09 for creating this list and the other uploads as well. Your great for doing this.
EARL TROMBLEY - The Moth Eaten Mink was shown this morning on METV. Not the first episode but apparently a very popular one. Noir in many respects. I watch a lot of these shows currently.
1957-58 was a great first year for some classic shows..."Perry Mason," "Leave It To Beaver," "Bachelor Father," "The Real McCoys" and others. And talk about Western-crazy...!
Yeah. There was a great resurgence of popularity of westerns after WW2 that led into TV in the 50’s and even the. 60’s. I think after WW2 people wanted to return to the simpler times of the Old West after seeing how technology developed that could kill millions with the atomic bomb. That was the Atomic Age. The word “nuclear “ had not become widely used except in the “nuclear family” which meant something completely different. At the time people were living under the threat of the Cold War and wanted to escape to simpler times when people rode horses, there were no cars and had simple well defined values. This of course was an abstraction invented by Hollywood in the movies. It was a fantasy which was whyit was so appealing. It never was true only an idealized interpretation of the past.
takes me back. I remember being very young...probably 4 years old watching Zorro. For my birthday I got the Disney Zorro hat, sword (the sword had a piece of chalk fitted at the tip so you could make the ""Z" for Zorro all over the sidewalks) and the zorro flintlock pistol
Thank you for posting the 26 new TV shows of 1957. It's always good to learn about how certain shows that are shown in reruns got their start. Unfortunately, other shows have been lost in the network vaults, with kinescope/ regular film negatives destroyed. I would like to see Joan Caulfield's Sally series to see what that show was like.
I was only one year old so I didn't watch these until many were either in reruns or well later into their production runs. And many that I never heard of were long gone by the time I was 8yrs old . I did enjoy a lot of them in reruns. Dennis the Menace, Leave it to Beaver, The Untouchables, Wagon Train., Gunsmoke..... Those were the days.....for everything there is a season. ✌🏻💙🇺🇸
Edward R. Murrow would have disagreed with you. During his address at the Radio and Television News Directors Association convention on October 15, 1958, he stated: *"Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or perhaps in color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. I invite your attention to the television schedules of all networks between the hours of 8 and 11 p.m., Eastern Time. Here you will find only fleeting and spasmodic reference to the fact that this nation is in mortal danger. There are, it is true, occasional informative programs presented in that intellectual ghetto on Sunday afternoons. But during the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: LOOK NOW, AND PAY LATER."*
I was about a month and a half old when these shows aired, but I still wanted to be a cowboy. I remember watching Have Gun Will Travel, Wagon Train, and Maverick. Also, shows that continued afterwards but started earlier, like Roy Rogers, Bonanza, and The Virginian.
I was just born but had a older brother who grew up during all this but watched all theee as my elders did and others watched in reruns . Tombstone Territory was a very good show and Combat, Untouchables Peter Gunn and Perry Mason , Alfred Hitchcock , Thriller . 50s television was an experiment in entertainment and many shows were shot Live and were done in one take as the mistakes were fixed by a good cast who improvised and kept going with the show. Also the Live commercials were on 3 products rather than the hundreds nowadays .
Me Too. We didn’t have a TV and at the time I wasn’t much aware of it. A year or so later we must have as I can remember waiting until 5:30 PM when TV broadcasting started for the day.
One thing that really surprised me was that some of these shows were in color .I don't remember anyone I knew having a color T.V. until the late 60's.I was seven in '57, brings back memories.
NBC was the network that was really "pushing" color that season (about a dozen of their prime-time shows- most of them variety shows- were in color). CBS had only ONE weekly show in color: "THE RED SKELTON SHOW". ABC had neither the money or the resources to transmit ANY color programming at the time.
I took the time to read through the past comments, and it seems to me that many young people watching this video find the shows profiled here "boring." You see kids, many of these shows were programs that told "stories" to entertain their audience, who were not afflicted with attention spans quicker than a jackrabbit on speed. You also had musical variety shows that catered to an audience that didn't expect their performers to do outrageous things for shock value or act like fools in public. The musical programs back then weren't "reality/competitions" where the performers have no discernible style of their own and merely sound and look like carbon copies of each other. Oh yeah, another thing: Westerns back then were what people wanted to see, so maybe the networks did go a little bit overboard with them, but a number of the shows are considered among the greatest TV shows ever created (e.g.: Perry Mason, Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel). So maybe you should look at this as a historic account and not so much as nostalgia. And if you DO find this boring, please feel free to look for a video that is more to your liking. I yield the floor to the next commenter.
The original (and best) "Perry Mason", shown over here in UK on the BBC. Fascinating to recall that its two leads (Raymond Burr and William Thalman) had usually played villains in many of the classic "Films Noir" of the late 40s/early 50s. Truly a golden age of TV..
Burr had actually auditioned for the role of Hamilton Burger, as the show had been developed with Fred MacMurray in mind for Mason. He, of course, turned it down (remember, he only agreed to do MY THREE SONS on the condition all his scenes would be filmed in a two-month window). They did like Burr as a replacement, but felt he was too hefty to play the part--he dieted off 120 pounds
@@tomservo56954 raymond burr played a lawyer in a movie with Angela lansbury Craig Carlson was the role..practicing for mason The movie was called PLEASE MURDER ME..
This was the greatest year for TV westerns. I once totaled the number of new western shows and their episodes by year and came up with this: 1955: 8 new shows, 1199 episodes, 150 episodes per show. 1956: 5 new shows, 468 episodes, 94 per show. 1957: 16 new shows, 1514 episodes, 95 per show. 1958: 14 new shows, 902 episodes, 64 per show. 1959: 14 new shows, 1202 episodes, 86 per show. 1960: 7 new shows, 212 episodes, 30 per show. 1961: 2 new shows, 37 episodes, 19 per show. 1962: 3 new shows, 289 episodes, 96 per show. 1963: 1 new show, 19 episodes. 1964: 1 new show, 165 episodes. 1965: 8 new shows, 471 episodes, 59 per show. 1966: 4 new shows, 107 episodes, 27 per show. 1967: 5 new shows, 206 episodes, 41 per show 1968: 2 new shows, 77 episodes, 39 per show.
@@653j521 1955 would have to win that title, based on the number of episodes per show. But 1957 had some quality, too: Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Tales of Wells Fargo, the Restless Gun, etc.
These shows debuted a little over a month after I was born. Any wonder I wanted to grow up to be a cowboy. Some, I was only aware of by name, like Sugarfoot, and only because I remember older sibs mentioning it. Others, I remember watching first run, Like Maverick, Wagon Train, and Have Gun Will Travel. The variety show? Don't remember a single one of them, while sit-coms like Leave It To Beaver I watched first run. Bachelor Father, I recall the references, but never saw it until the 1980s, when I was a married father. Don't recognize it? Uncle raises his sibling's child after her parents die. Some old memories here Westerns were the life blood of TV at the time, but their days were numbered, as just a few weeks later, the Space Age ramped up with the launch of Sputnik. (Oct 4, 1957, exact 2 months after I was launched in this world)
I grew up watching tv westerns. I loved TV back then. I always thought tv would be around but 5 yrs ago I cancelled my cable because there was nothing decent to watch. Why should I pay $80 a month for garbage? Modern tv is nothing but mind control, fake news and PC. Do yourself a favor and cancel your cable.
Maverick, Zorro, Leave it to Beaver, and Perry Mason will last forever. It most be easy to do country all the time in the 1957 especially from the MGM backlots. "The Big Record" should have been called the 45s. At least with most of the actress there was no Photoshop to fix them up.
Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Wagon Train, Zorro?, The Real McCoys, Leave it to Beaver, Perry Mason Missing: The Price is Right, Tic Tac Dough, American Bandstand
Looking at the IMDB, the final clip is not from a weekly program but proably from "The Edsel Show", which was the most popular special of the year, (even if the car wasn't), and which is renowned for one of the first uses of videotape. They kinescoped the show anyway in case the tape didn't work and this looks like it's from the kinescope. There was a "Frank Sinatra Show" but that was from 1950-52.
Frank was on ABC's prime-time schedule in the 1957-'58 season (on Fridays), alternately sponsored by Bulova Watch Co. and Liggett & Myers [Chesterfield].
Interesting to see how creative the opening was on ZORRO, certainly compared to the generic sameness of all the openings of the other western shows at the time. I'm not a big Disney fan, but have to hand it to them: They were definitely a cut-above. The era of the so-called "adult western" (as opposed to the Saturday morning/matinee shows like THE LONE RANGER, HOPPALONG CASSIDY, etc.
Can we keep this sort of thing out of a nice program ? Please ? That comment is the same sort of garbage we rail against in the comments section. We don't watch the stuff on today because of the lowbrow smirking type of humor that is prevelant on today's shows but yet under the guise of " freedom of speech " the same thing is printed here .
I only remember one episode of Court of Last resort. A wife was trying to save her husband from electric chair because she believed he was innocent but he was guilty all the time.
BTW....great job in using actual 1957-58 opens footage, not generic. For instance, that "Have Gun-Will Travel" footage IS from Season 1, Show 1, September 1957.
Well, I do try to be season specific to recapture the exact look and tone of the period. Sometimes it's not possible to find the right intro, either because it doesn't exist for use or due to the rare copyright issue, so an intro from the most recent preceding or whichever following season that's available would be used instead, or a clip of a show.
It's a watchable show. The leads aren't equal to William Powell and Myrna Loy but they are good enough to carry the show. Phyllis Kirk is from my home town so I enjoy her work.
If you didn't like Westerns, and I didn't, and you were a kid who had to watch what his family liked, you were out of luck. Thank goodness for Perry Mason, Hawaiian Eye and a few comedies that interrupted the never-ending flow of guns, horses and dust.
The big ratings heavyweight of all these turned out to be "Wagon Train," but it just doesn't have the following today some of these others still enjoy.
WESTERNS ruled for sure ! Soon after came the Doctors, Cops and the Lawyers shows but westerns for about 10 to 15 years in the 50's into the 60's they were king !
Beautiful ❤️ so many western s and today unfortunately not one on the Major Network s come on ABC NBC and CBS Get back on track with family programming now particularly at least give it a try and some good comedies too we need family faith program s on the Major Network now and clean Drama we need the good clean old fashioned days back again now
I think my first year of watching regular TV shows were in 1955. Two that I remember were Topper and Noah. But I did not really watch Noah. It was just on, while my mother watched it. It looked boring to me. Topper was interesting though. I guess both series were gone by 1957.
Leo G. Carroll was great as Topper. My favorite bit was when one of the ghosts carries a towel across the room and Ms. Topper sees it: "Cosmo, that towel--it just shot cross the room!" "Well of course, dear--it's a Cannon towel."
This version co-starred future JEOPARDY host Art Fleming....and speaking on the subject, Bret Maverick's brother Bart--Jack Kelly--hosted the original version of SALE OF THE CENTURY from 1969-71
What took you so long ?, I was born in August, and looking at the choice of television, I think we had it pretty good. Like my dad before me, I loved the western shows.
I had no idea The Real McCoys was this old. When I saw the reruns as a kid I just assmed it was a knock-off of The Beverly Hillbillys. Turns out the Hillbillys were the rip-off.
loved, "have gun will travel" and I didn't like cowboy shows ....... I was 4 years old in "57" and I liked Richard boone, a lot. excellent series ..... none better! (i'm sure I watched the reruns is basically why I remember, but, I do remember, easy, when I was 4). I wonder why this clip is so clear? most of the other stuff is so fuzzy! ...... oh, liked "maverick" too ..... and "sugarfoot" .... and "real mccoys" ..... and "zorro" ...... and "leave it to beaver"
I love old Westerns and especially the TV Shows from 50’s & 60’s .
Thanks for compiling this -
only thing on tv worth watching now
These were the best shows ever. Remember watching them with my folks and of course, in much later years the reruns when they were shown. Still see some of the westerns on the Western Channel and the other shows on RUclips. Thank you for being there RUclips.
Have Gun Will Travel was one of my childhood favorites along with The Whirlybirds.
I thought Palidin was cool when I was a kid because he could quote Shakespeare
I had the "Have Gun-Will Travel" board game. Great show!
You're old. Lol
These were the real television shows of the 50s/ 60's.still watch these today, thanks to this medium,
Absolutely loved the westerns! But of all of them none will ever take the place of The Rifleman in my heart!
Aquascape okooooooooooooooooo"
Aquascape - I agree. I think it’s aged better than Gun Smoke in most respects.
Westerns were only 50 years ago
(From that time)
Or before 1907...and the last 3 states on mainland
Very few cars..so westerns went over big
wow awesome commercials and tv's clips wonderful job thank you
I neglected to mention that a couple of these shows I had forgotten about and want to thank you RwDt09 for creating this list and the other uploads as well. Your great for doing this.
Thank you for posting these great memories
Oh I wish I could go back
I was age 8--soaked it all up and loved it all, esp. Zorro!
I was much younger but I watched the Zorro reruns. Especially those episodes with Annette. And who can forget Perry Mason.
As far as I'm concerned; this is when the "Golden Age Of Television" started. I was 10 and liked most of these shows. Still watch Perry Mason.
EARL TROMBLEY - The Moth Eaten Mink was shown this morning on METV. Not the first episode but apparently a very popular one. Noir in many respects.
I watch a lot of these shows currently.
@@ipsurvivor It was not the first episode aired but it was the first one shot. It was the pilot.
Isn't it true.
You can run but you cannot avoid Perry Mason reruns.
Agree totally. The shows of today are awful. They reflect the world we live in.
1957-58 was a great first year for some classic shows..."Perry Mason," "Leave It To Beaver," "Bachelor Father," "The Real McCoys" and others. And talk about Western-crazy...!
Yeah. There was a great resurgence of popularity of westerns after WW2 that led into TV in the 50’s and even the. 60’s. I think after WW2 people wanted to return to the simpler times of the Old West after seeing how technology developed that could kill millions with the atomic bomb. That was the Atomic Age. The word “nuclear “ had not become widely used except in the “nuclear family” which meant something completely different. At the time people were living under the threat of the Cold War and wanted to escape to simpler times when people rode horses, there were no cars and had simple well defined values. This of course was an abstraction invented by Hollywood in the movies. It was a fantasy which was whyit was so appealing. It never was true only an idealized interpretation of the past.
takes me back. I remember being very young...probably 4 years old watching Zorro. For my birthday I got the Disney Zorro hat, sword (the sword had a piece of chalk fitted at the tip so you could make the ""Z" for Zorro all over the sidewalks) and the zorro flintlock pistol
I had a suit like that but I got mine at Christmas '58.
Sorrow was not 1957 more like65 0r maybe as late as 67.
Thank you for posting the 26 new TV shows of 1957. It's always good to learn about how certain shows that are shown in reruns got their start. Unfortunately, other shows have been lost in the network vaults, with kinescope/ regular film negatives destroyed. I would like to see Joan Caulfield's Sally series to see what that show was like.
awesome tv shows and great to watch these are the best old shows in reruns thank you
"Suspicion" intro is quite fantastic!
My husband and I sometimes are able to catch old time radio shows Eve Arden is one of my favorite shows!
The best. The genius and high standards of material was way more advanced than the crap on TV today .
I still have my 55 Chevy and I still like these shows. Old Kenny
I was only one year old so I didn't watch these until many were either in reruns or well later into their production runs. And many that I never heard of were long gone by the time I was 8yrs old . I did enjoy a lot of them in reruns. Dennis the Menace, Leave it to Beaver, The Untouchables, Wagon Train., Gunsmoke..... Those were the days.....for everything there is a season. ✌🏻💙🇺🇸
Hard to believe those days were so Amazing!
I was 5 at the time. I loved all the Westerns but Zorro with Guy Williams was my favorite.
Sugarfoot ...He lives out in Long Island NY now...
Wow, it was a totally different world back then.
Mark G. Heckel a much better world
Edward R. Murrow would have disagreed with you. During his address at the Radio and Television News Directors Association convention on October 15, 1958, he stated:
*"Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or perhaps in color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. I invite your attention to the television schedules of all networks between the hours of 8 and 11 p.m., Eastern Time. Here you will find only fleeting and spasmodic reference to the fact that this nation is in mortal danger. There are, it is true, occasional informative programs presented in that intellectual ghetto on Sunday afternoons. But during the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: LOOK NOW, AND PAY LATER."*
@@fromthesidelines can you imagine what he might think about social media and AI,pay now & pay later❗😈
@@dondressel4802Not if you were black or female.
Nice. Thanks for posting these. If not for RUclips I would not know these shows existed or be able to see any of them.
A classic tv network metv shows westerns weekday afternoons and all day saturday
Tv was so much more worth watching !Thats why I watch Cable as the classic channels always plays the old Tv Shows !!
I was 6 in 1957. Now I know why I always wanted to be a cowboy gunslinger.
I was about a month and a half old when these shows aired, but I still wanted to be a cowboy. I remember watching Have Gun Will Travel, Wagon Train, and Maverick. Also, shows that continued afterwards but started earlier, like Roy Rogers, Bonanza, and The Virginian.
I was just born but had a older brother who grew up during all this but watched all theee as my elders did and others watched in reruns . Tombstone Territory was a very good show and Combat, Untouchables Peter Gunn and Perry Mason , Alfred Hitchcock , Thriller . 50s television was an experiment in entertainment and many shows were shot Live and were done in one take as the mistakes were fixed by a good cast who improvised and kept going with the show. Also the Live commercials were on 3 products rather than the hundreds nowadays .
Me too. Same age.
Me Too. We didn’t have a TV and at the time I wasn’t much aware of it. A year or so later we must have as I can remember waiting until 5:30 PM when TV broadcasting started for the day.
I was one year old
One thing that really surprised me was that some of these shows were in color .I don't remember anyone I knew having a color T.V. until the late 60's.I was seven in '57, brings back memories.
NBC was the network that was really "pushing" color that season (about a dozen of their prime-time shows- most of them variety shows- were in color). CBS had only ONE weekly show in color: "THE RED SKELTON SHOW". ABC had neither the money or the resources to transmit ANY color programming at the time.
I only remember Disney and Flipper being in color ,and color tv's were few and far between anyway
..................................................someone's doing their homework..........thx kindly for this post................................!!!
A great many Westerns, a genre that's all but gone the way of all flesh.
Simple times and great years of my life. How I would love to re-live it.
I took the time to read through the past comments, and it seems to me that many young people watching this video find the shows profiled here "boring." You see kids, many of these shows were programs that told "stories" to entertain their audience, who were not afflicted with attention spans quicker than a jackrabbit on speed. You also had musical variety shows that catered to an audience that didn't expect their performers to do outrageous things for shock value or act like fools in public. The musical programs back then weren't "reality/competitions" where the performers have no discernible style of their own and merely sound and look like carbon copies of each other. Oh yeah, another thing: Westerns back then were what people wanted to see, so maybe the networks did go a little bit overboard with them, but a number of the shows are considered among the greatest TV shows ever created (e.g.: Perry Mason, Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel). So maybe you should look at this as a historic account and not so much as nostalgia. And if you DO find this boring, please feel free to look for a video that is more to your liking. I yield the floor to the next commenter.
The original (and best) "Perry Mason", shown over here in UK on the BBC. Fascinating to recall that its two leads (Raymond Burr and William Thalman) had usually played villains in many of the classic "Films Noir" of the late 40s/early 50s. Truly a golden age of TV..
Burr had actually auditioned for the role of Hamilton Burger, as the show had been developed with Fred MacMurray in mind for Mason. He, of course, turned it down (remember, he only agreed to do MY THREE SONS on the condition all his scenes would be filmed in a two-month window). They did like Burr as a replacement, but felt he was too hefty to play the part--he dieted off 120 pounds
Perry mason, gunsmoke, and dragnet, were very noir in the 50s..but softened in the 60s
@@tomservo56954 raymond burr played a lawyer in a movie with Angela lansbury
Craig Carlson was the role..practicing for mason
The movie was called
PLEASE MURDER ME..
If you didn't like westerns you were out of luck. There were something like 35 of them on every week at one point .
Wow, you started off with a winner, Have Gun, Will Travel was a great show.
This was the greatest year for TV westerns. I once totaled the number of new western shows and their episodes by year and came up with this:
1955: 8 new shows, 1199 episodes, 150 episodes per show.
1956: 5 new shows, 468 episodes, 94 per show.
1957: 16 new shows, 1514 episodes, 95 per show.
1958: 14 new shows, 902 episodes, 64 per show.
1959: 14 new shows, 1202 episodes, 86 per show.
1960: 7 new shows, 212 episodes, 30 per show.
1961: 2 new shows, 37 episodes, 19 per show.
1962: 3 new shows, 289 episodes, 96 per show.
1963: 1 new show, 19 episodes.
1964: 1 new show, 165 episodes.
1965: 8 new shows, 471 episodes, 59 per show.
1966: 4 new shows, 107 episodes, 27 per show.
1967: 5 new shows, 206 episodes, 41 per show
1968: 2 new shows, 77 episodes, 39 per show.
By greatest you mean quantity not quality.
@@653j521 1955 would have to win that title, based on the number of episodes per show. But 1957 had some quality, too: Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Tales of Wells Fargo, the Restless Gun, etc.
These shows debuted a little over a month after I was born. Any wonder I wanted to grow up to be a cowboy. Some, I was only aware of by name, like Sugarfoot, and only because I remember older sibs mentioning it. Others, I remember watching first run, Like Maverick, Wagon Train, and Have Gun Will Travel. The variety show? Don't remember a single one of them, while sit-coms like Leave It To Beaver I watched first run. Bachelor Father, I recall the references, but never saw it until the 1980s, when I was a married father. Don't recognize it? Uncle raises his sibling's child after her parents die. Some old memories here
Westerns were the life blood of TV at the time, but their days were numbered, as just a few weeks later, the Space Age ramped up with the launch of Sputnik. (Oct 4, 1957, exact 2 months after I was launched in this world)
In 1957 i was 3 years old
I grew up watching tv westerns. I loved TV back then. I always thought tv would be around but 5 yrs ago I cancelled my cable because there was nothing decent to watch. Why should I pay $80 a month for garbage? Modern tv is nothing but mind control, fake news and PC. Do yourself a favor and cancel your cable.
I cancelled cable long ago!
Lol, I remember most of those shows as I was ten. Ouch, where has time gone?
@MrAlsfan5: It seems that the only really god answer might be: "Back where it came from . . ."
TV Westerns and western movies were a big thing in the 50's. When I was a youngster there was always a western on.
Back in the 50s, either you had a horse, of your friends did. Unless you were in the cities
Zorro, Maverick, Wagon Train, Leave it to Beaver, Perry Mason, Have Gun Will Travel, man those were the days!!!! Nothing like it today!
Maverick, Zorro, Leave it to Beaver, and Perry Mason will last forever. It most be easy to do country all the time in the 1957 especially from the MGM backlots.
"The Big Record" should have been called the 45s.
At least with most of the actress there was no Photoshop to fix them up.
Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Wagon Train, Zorro?, The Real McCoys, Leave it to Beaver, Perry Mason Missing: The Price is Right, Tic Tac Dough, American Bandstand
Most of these shows were either still being produced or were in syndication when tv was my baby sitter in the 1960's.
Arguably, the best if certainly one of the best ever written, produced, and acted shows of all time debuted this year, "Perry Mason".
True, but it created millions of armchair law "experts" who thought every trial was like a Perry Mason trial!
@49jubilee The final episode of "Perry Mason", broadcast 5/22/66, recently aired on MeTV.
I still watch it every night on MeTV.
@@ShaggyDawg Preliminary trials, did want to pay for jury extras.
I remember most of those shows, but we lived in Eastern Iowa and until late 1963 we could only get two channels, CBS and NBC -- no ABC.
Looking at the IMDB, the final clip is not from a weekly program but proably from "The Edsel Show", which was the most popular special of the year, (even if the car wasn't), and which is renowned for one of the first uses of videotape. They kinescoped the show anyway in case the tape didn't work and this looks like it's from the kinescope. There was a "Frank Sinatra Show" but that was from 1950-52.
Frank was on ABC's prime-time schedule in the 1957-'58 season (on Fridays), alternately sponsored by Bulova Watch Co. and Liggett & Myers [Chesterfield].
TRACKDOWN Starring Robert Culp...one of the BEST WESTERNS EVER !!!
Robert culp made everything he was in better
RIP to Ken Osmond a.k.a Eddie Haskel in the show
Interesting to see how creative the opening was on ZORRO, certainly compared to the generic sameness of all the openings of the other western shows at the time. I'm not a big Disney fan, but have to hand it to them: They were definitely a cut-above. The era of the so-called "adult western" (as opposed to the Saturday morning/matinee shows like THE LONE RANGER, HOPPALONG CASSIDY, etc.
The rise of Warner Brothers TV, then Revue and soon Four Star.
Good viewing. Thx!
Had NO idea there were so many "musical" shows on TV in 1957!!
You know Ward you were a little hard on the Beaver last night
Oh stop it that was worn out 50 YEARS AGO!!.
@@packingten The Beaver was worn out.
I love it!
Can we keep this sort of thing out of a nice program ? Please ? That comment is the same sort of garbage we rail against in the comments section. We don't watch the stuff on today because of the lowbrow smirking type of humor that is prevelant on today's shows but yet under the guise of " freedom of speech " the same thing is printed here .
@@howardwayne3974 RAP MUSIC IS A LOT BETTER MOVIES ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT I SAID. DO YOU LIVE IN MOMMY'S BASEMENT?
I only remember one episode of Court of Last resort. A wife was trying to save her husband from electric chair because she believed he was innocent but he was guilty all the time.
BTW....great job in using actual 1957-58 opens footage, not generic. For instance, that "Have Gun-Will Travel" footage IS from Season 1, Show 1, September 1957.
Well, I do try to be season specific to recapture the exact look and tone of the period. Sometimes it's not possible to find the right intro, either because it doesn't exist for use or due to the rare copyright issue, so an intro from the most recent preceding or whichever following season that's available would be used instead, or a clip of a show.
@@RwDt09 Great. I probably was in the room when some of these shows debuted, but I don't remember. I was barely over a month old.
I hope you put full episodes of these on RUclips
Good Luck with that.
Amazing how many of the shows were westerns..... Do they even make westerns (as TV shows) anymore?
sadly, no! :(
All of the best westerns came out in 57. They sure picked the worst actors to play Nick & Nora in the Thin Man series.
Yet, "THE THIN MAN" lasted two seasons (78 episodes).
It's a watchable show. The leads aren't equal to William Powell and Myrna Loy but they are good enough to carry the show. Phyllis Kirk is from my home town so I enjoy her work.
If you didn't like Westerns, and I didn't, and you were a kid who had to watch what his family liked, you were out of luck. Thank goodness for Perry Mason, Hawaiian Eye and a few comedies that interrupted the never-ending flow of guns, horses and dust.
Chris N now we have endless reality shows, lol
Never knew Eve Arden had her own show. Only ever knew her from The Mothers-in-Law.
You never heard of "Our Miss Brooks"?
@@luisreyes1963 Only recently. It was before my time.
These premiered the year I went into 2nd grade and I don't remember so many westerns!
Now I know I chose 'Cowboy'(retired) as the right profession. 'Zorro' was already taken.
That must have been the best year for television!
TV was my babysitter then. All the shows were morality plays, unlike today.
The weird thing is that I remember most of these but I was only five in 1957. Real McCoys was a favorite.
The big ratings heavyweight of all these turned out to be "Wagon Train," but it just doesn't have the following today some of these others still enjoy.
D. M. Bell It’s on Mon thru Friday/Sat on METV... It’s good but Bonanza and The Rifleman are much better in my opinion.
1957 what a great year ! Not saying it because i was born that year but..... wtf i'm lying!😀😀😀😀
"Golly gee wally, I found this hidden atomic bomb, honestly, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to bring it home"-- the beaver
Gee beave now you got to tell Dad he might just haul off and hit ya
The first 6 minutes were all horse operas. That alone tells you how big Westerns were in that era!
and America's Gun culture
Born in this year, & I would not change a darn thing, but if you asked me today, I would change everything,
I have Perry Mason themesong as my phone ringtone
The opening of "The Big Record" presented by Oldsmobile shows a Mercury record label!
Mercury records had nothing to do with the Ford brand.
Mercury was Patti's label at the time.
Warner Brothers was a major producer of TV westerns in the 50s.
this is why all my 93 father watches now are westerns
use to be scared of those faces .... on the intro to "suspicion"
NYC really took it on the chin in the late 50's- giants, dodgers and tv production all
moving west.
when you could watcn tv and the commercials without getting sick
These were REAL TV SHOWS, we will NEVER see their likes again!
When studios had money and people watched regular tv.
WESTERNS ruled for sure ! Soon after came the Doctors, Cops and the Lawyers shows but westerns for about 10 to 15 years in the 50's into the 60's they were king !
I was born in 1958 I almost watched this on tv but........
Was Colt 45 named after the beer? Or was the beer named after the show?
Right! I knew that! I knew that!
It was named after the Colt 45 revolver. I carried a 45 Cal. Auto. 1911 my days in the Marines. Loved it.
Lots of Western themed shows. Some must have been filmed at legendary Iverson Ranch.
Beautiful ❤️ so many western s and today unfortunately not one on the Major Network s come on ABC NBC and CBS Get back on track with family programming now particularly at least give it a try and some good comedies too we need family faith program s on the Major Network now and clean Drama we need the good clean old fashioned days back again now
Dove....it's like creaming on your face.....lol
14:46 .. my new ringtone.
The trigger pull on Paladin's revolver was ONE OUNCE?
I think my first year of watching regular TV shows were in 1955. Two that I remember were Topper and Noah. But I did not really watch Noah. It was just on, while my mother watched it. It looked boring to me. Topper was interesting though. I guess both series were gone by 1957.
Leo G. Carroll was great as Topper. My favorite bit was when one of the ghosts carries a towel across the room and Ms. Topper sees it:
"Cosmo, that towel--it just shot cross the room!"
"Well of course, dear--it's a Cannon towel."
9:20 Cute puppy, Nick and Nora! Can I "kiss your ASTA?" ( Lol!)
We had a dog of that breed at that time, named Butch.
I didn't like all the westerns but loved wagon train, please watch them.
4:25 - SNL has brought back "The Californians," but's it's a bit different than this original.
This version co-starred future JEOPARDY host Art Fleming....and speaking on the subject, Bret Maverick's brother Bart--Jack Kelly--hosted the original version of SALE OF THE CENTURY from 1969-71
how come some of them have a copyright date of 1958?
I'm assuming those episodes were filmed in the 1958 half of the season.
Zorro starred Guy Williams who later went into space with June Lockhart on the Jupiter II, Lost in Space.
The shows that leave an impression on a 4 yr old - Perry Mason, Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel. And of course, Disney's classic-Zorro.
3:47 I wonder why the director’s name is written as “george waGGner”?
Heyday of the western on TV 🤠
I've seen M Squad on TV about 4 years ago on Chicago TV. Darn shame they took that & Highway Patrol off from the channel's lineup.
I own the entire "M Squad" series on DVD. Only TV series Lee Marvin ever did. Very gritty crime drama.
so many westerns.
3 networks are better than the hundreds we have now. Some of these are in reruns in 2020. The Robert Culp one is on Me tv on Saturdays now.
Several of them are on MeTV Saturday
@@TJ52359 Loving Have Gun Will Travel. That is my favorite western.
@@johnnyplunkett8532 FWIW Walmart had Seasons 1 & 2 (maybe more) in store for $5 a piece recently...
@@TJ52359 I'll check mine.
Who came here to see what their grandmothers watched
I watched them with my Grandma.
This was when I was born; the fall of '57.
Me too! :-) Well, May '57.
January representing here
October 1957
What took you so long ?, I was born in August, and looking at the choice of television, I think we had it pretty good. Like my dad before me, I loved the western shows.
I had no idea The Real McCoys was this old. When I saw the reruns as a kid I just assmed it was a knock-off of The Beverly Hillbillys. Turns out the Hillbillys were the rip-off.
loved, "have gun will travel" and I didn't like cowboy shows ....... I was 4 years old in "57" and I liked Richard boone, a lot. excellent series ..... none better! (i'm sure I watched the reruns is basically why I remember, but, I do remember, easy, when I was 4). I wonder why this clip is so clear? most of the other stuff is so fuzzy! ...... oh, liked "maverick" too ..... and "sugarfoot" .... and "real mccoys" ..... and "zorro" ...... and "leave it to beaver"