21 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1955
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2014
- There were 34, but 21 was all I could find and also fit into under 15 minutes. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke, Wyatt Earp, Cheyenne alternating with Casablanca under the WB Presents title, Navy Long, Phil Silvers Show, Honeymooners, People's Choice, It's Always Jan, Big Surprise, Perry Como Show, Chevy Show (monthly), Ford Star Jubilee (monthy), Grand Ole Opry (monthly), Adventures of Champion, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Adventures of Robin Hood, Crossroads, Screen Directors Playhouse, MGM Parade.
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My favorite show when I was a kid back in the 50s was a show called "The Millionaire" I'm sure there's lots of people who remember that.
I was 3 years old in 1955, and I remember most of these shows. I watched them on a black and white TV with an 11 inch screen! We didn't know how good we had it!
That dog Cleo on “People’s Choice” cracked me up when I was four. I learned to do his funny trick of walking away on his front paws and dragging the back half of his body, like it was dead. Probably used it 20 times in my life for a laugh. I can still do it now, and I’m 70.
One of my favorite years. I loved these shows. TV was such wonderful entertainment. That era can never be repeated.
I was 9 years old in 1955 & consider that year one of, if not the best year for both television series
& the motion picture industry, itself! I, personally saw at least 35 movies in theaters, that year, as
they 'cranked' out hit after hit! The quality of television shows were so excellent, that many are
still considered 'classics', to this day! We will probably never see the like of 1955, again!
Loved Alfred Hitchcock! Enjoyed Wyat Earp, The Honeymooners, remember many of these, even if not my favorites. I loved the Adventures of Superman. How wonderful that they actually told stories of coergymen, have times sadly changed!
Sgt. Preston was my favorite TV show. Yukon King was such a great dog. Rex was Preston's horse.
FETV shows two episodes at 4 am.
interesting thing is that seargent Preston was shot in color
@@charliedelacruz9091 Good point. For some reason I didn’t think how odd that was for that time.
Perry Como! The Singing Barber of Seville, Mom's co-favorite along with Andy 'The Randy Dandy' Williams!
MIke Wallace doing a game show more than 10 years before being an intensive interviewer on "60 Minutes"!
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, remarcable.
Gunsmoke kicked millions of asses and had millions more lined up waiting to be kicked.
These videos are great. It’s interesting to see the history of television. And very interesting to see the changes through the years.
My God, Hugh O’Brien was so good- looking!
People’s Choice:
Staring Jackie Cooper,
And directed by Jackie Cooper. Ran for 3 seasons, was considered very successful. But they ran out of ideas ( according to Jackie Cooper)- He would next do a show called Hennessy, which was also successful.
I have only 4 episodes of People’s Choice. Wish I could get the whole series.
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Makes me feel so old- was born in 55
Me too. 69 in December.😊😢
Matinee theater came out in October 31 1955 on television for afternoon time
Don't remember watching all of those shows but I never missed The Honeymooners, Navy Log, Phil Silvers, Alfred Hitchcock, and Gunsmoke.
I WAS 1 YEARS OLD AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY : ( GOOD EVENING) 😊 1/22/2023
Love this stuff. So fun to see these original intros.
That was awesome!! I remember many of these shows. My dad used to watch all of those westerns. The whole family could watch those shows back then on the family TV. Most people only had one television in those days. No worrying about embarrassing content or commercials.
Back in the day when you turned on the tv then left the room for 5 minutes while it warmed up. After that it was another minute to set the vertical & horizontal, then mess with the rabbit ears for a bit....
@@whyyeseyec That's what made if so much fun, those electro-rituals!
@And Now I See - That's right! The era of "good and clean wholesome FUN!" (But, unbeknownst to the clueless parents, plenty of that OTHER sort was being seen-to by we rascally youngin's. Best believe it, and tons-o-fun it was!!! If only they had known, it would have been Armageddon sure but, nary a discouraging word was ever to be heard, and so on it went on and on and on, merrily rolling! Ah, the Fifties!)
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My parents didn't watch any of those kiddy shows. They preferred programs that were made for adults, most of which came over from radio.
As ole Hitch used to say, "good EVEning!"
I love the sponsors of Robin Hood by Bandaids and First Aid Cream seen next to his arrow in a tree! I'm sure he could have used them. LOL
Well done. You had to do a lot of digging to find all the clips .📻🙂
I thougth there'd be a mention that the Mary Martin/Noel Coward "Together With Music" was not a series, but a single 90-minute special that garnered millions of viewers. ("The Noel Coward Diaries" has a lot about it as well as working live on early television.) Addenda: The music that accompanied the opening of Sargent Preston is the 'Donna Diana'(!) overture by Emil von Reznicek (!!).
I wish I could watch these shows when the first aired. I wish I born 1940.
If you are now 18, this is understandable. To have not missed them all, getting into the world in '45 as here, would have been good enough.
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I remember the old shows. Better yet, I remember the unbridled excitement of being a child in those days. I remember how my family loved Cheyenne Bodie from Warner Brothers. Most of all, I remember Navy Log. An American aircraft carrier burning with men trapped below decks. The decision was made to scuttle the carrier by torpedoing it. The trapped Americans asked that the torpedos be aimed at their compartment so their end would be quick. They were told, as I recall, that the torpedoes were not accurate enough to ensure that their compartment would be struck.
I may have been 9 or 10 years old at the time I saw that program. I am about to turn 73. That program haunted me all of my life. It still does.
I know what you mean. I saw the first episode of "Medic" when i was a child where husband Lee Marvin had to tell wife Beverly Garland that the disease she had (leukemia) was fatal and broke down in tears trying to do it. I did too. And I still do.
@@barryputterman2412 Significant emotional events, these things that touch us so deeply, become the unseen pillars of life. They never go away.
@@rascal0175 Amen to that.
This version of "THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE" is the original pilot's opening title {Harry Von Zell, narrator}- the "theme" [an "inverted" version of Mahlon Merrick's "J & M Stomp", heard at the end of Jack Benny's programs from 1955 through '64], was also used on "DOLLAR A SECOND", and as the closing theme of the final season of William Bendix's "THE LIFE OF RILEY" (1957-'58).
Thank you!
1955
I was thinking about the country music show, That Nashville Music, was sponsored by Ralston Purina as well
Wow! You had the real original intro to "The Honeymooners". Neat! The announcer on that Perry Como clip was Frank Gallup, who had a novelty hit record in 1966 with "The Ballad of Irving", the saga of "the 142nd fastest gun (BANG) in the West". It was a parody of Lorne Greene's "Ringo" and Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John". You always have the coolest old stuff. Every time I see one of your packages I remember why I subscribed to you. Thank you for bringing them all to us!
Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the Glen Robin Hood Robin Hood with his band of men etc etc etc
In the credits for "Casablanca" the TV version, it lists Marcel Dalio, who was in the 1942 movie version.
Alfred Hitchcock ❤❤❤❤❤
14:44- "The 'MGM PARADE'! Brought to you this week by PALL MALL FAMOUS CIGARETTES! 'Outstanding.....and they are MILD'!"
There was one more tv series that debuted on The CBS TV Network..in the fall of 1955.."Captain Kangaroo".
At 6:00, do I understand this show "The People's Choice" right -- a show about a romance between a man and a dog? In the '50s, an interracial kiss was too controversial. but this was allowed? OMG!
No, the Sock loves Cleo thing was a joke to make you think it was talking about a human female. Sock has a real girlfriend, Mandy Peoples, hence the title of the show, plus it's a play on words since he's a politician.
Cleo offered a lot of snide and sarcastic observations about what went on around her to viewers.
Mike Wallace? That's the *real* Big Surprise
Years before he worked for CBS News, Mike was a genial "emcee" on game and panel shows, appeared in commercials, and was a controversial interviewer on WABD's "NIGHTBEAT" in New York.
In some ways, 60 Minutes, too, was a game show. When they'd confront the official with evidence of corruption, it could have been called The Big Surprise.
He also hosted the pilot of "To Tell the Truth before Bud Collyer took over.
Champion:
Only one season (32 episodes). The “Flying A” ranch -( Gene Autry).
They already had a number of successful tv shows on the air. And apparently were running low on funds.
They had to cu something. Champion ( the horse) was reportedly not the most clever of horses, and knew only a handful of tricks. Also, while the kid, Barry Curtis was a” fine enough actor” his mother had fits every time he got near the horses. So the decision was made to ax this show.
( I was wrong - only 26 episodes were made).
Not only that, CBS was unable to sell the series to advertisers (they couldn't compete against "THE ADVENTURES OF RIN-TIN-TIN" on ABC). They presented it on a "sustaining" basis (network promos and PSA's filled the commercials breaks), through February 1956, when "MY FRIEND FLICKA" replaced it [with Colgate-Palmolive as sponsor].
Navy Log use to watch that on channel 13 in upstate NY...
We sure could use a show like Navy Log these days. ⚓
Guess '55 was your first fall preview.
Shows I'd be interested in seeing: Alfred Hitchcock, Gunsmoke, You'll Never Get Rich, The People's Choice, It's Always Jan, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Grand Ole Opry, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Crossroads
Have: Complete Honeymooners
Fall 1955
Mary Martin's crinolines!
interesting that dean martin was already doing solo jobs by guesting on dinah shore before the official break up months later.
The Alfred Hitchcock show used classical music for its opening theme
Charles Gounod (1872). "Funeral March for a Marionette." Orchestrated 1879.
Think I blew a speaker when "Crossroads" came on.
Divine reception? 😆
Have to add this extra from my first chat, I find it ironic that Robin Hood, a great legendary archer, had his adventures sponsored by band-aid. Did he become a doctor too? Now i hope tubiTV brings his series into their shows for streaming! I was always a fan of Sir Robin of Locksley!
I don't think any of these shows would have gone anywhere if it weren't for cars and cigarettes as sponsors.
The automobile and tobacco companies tended to sponsor "prestige" and "big ticket" shows [for instance, Chevrolet sponsored "CROSSROADS" and "THE DINAH SHORE SHOW" (including her occasional "CHEVY SHOW" specials)]. But there were other sponsors, too: Bristol-Myers {Bufferin, Mum, Vitalis, et. al.} sponsored "ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS"; General Mills and Parker Pen Co. co-sponsored "THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP"; "WARNER BROS. PRESENTS" had Liggett & Myers {yes, a tobacco company}, General Electric and Monsanto as co-sponsors; "NAVY LOG" was sponsored alternately by Maytag and W.A. Sheaffer Pen Co.; "THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE" was sponsored by Borden's family of dairy products; Perry Como had several rotating sponsors, including Noxzema, Kimberly-Clark [Kleenex] and Armour & Co.; "SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON" was sustained by Quaker Oats. Ironically, CBS COULDN'T sell "THE ADVENTURES OF CHAMPION" to ANY advertisers during the season it was on.
So technically like today. If I don’t have advertisements and sponsors u ain’t going nowhere
Mary Martin, Larry Hagman's mom.
And a magnificent entertainer in her own right. A huge musical star who not only performed with Noel Coward as shown here but also did an album of songs where she sang Richard Rodgers-composed songs accompanied by Richard Rodgers himself on piano!
strange you say. i had no idea if that contestant on the big surprise was eleanor parker.
They had celebrity contestants [like Errol Flynn] to pump up the ratings.
@@fromthesidelines Errol probably could have used he 100 grand.
14:00- "EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY presents......"
wow one show in color??!! that had to be one of the first.
Actually, "SERGEANT PRESTON" wasn't telecast in color on CBS at the time, even though it was FILMED in color for future rebroadcasts (it was finally shown in color during NBC's 1963-'64 Saturday repeats). Several TV series were filmed in color back then, but very few were colorcast during their original runs (including Walt Disney's weekly series on ABC).
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There were several tv shows that were filmed in color. Bonanza, My Friend Flicka, And a number of Sir Lancelot episodes. , and a few others.
It’s just that not many people had color TVs back then.
Were any of the unavailable intros to hit series? My picks that I recognize: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke, The Phil Silvers Show, Dinah Shore (the Chevy Show), The Grand Ol' Opry, The Adventures of Robin Hood?
Classic one season wonder: Honeymooners
What was used to depict New City in "The People's Choice?"
What about Mayor Peoples and his daughter?
That was not the original opening for Gunsmoke.
You KNOW your stuff.
I liked Sgt. Preston's dog, King. AND I thought Ida Lupino was an Native American, for some unfathomable reason.
Ida Lupino was English, the daughter of an actor
Is this the earliest fall tv review you made, 1955? I know I Love Lucy (hit, 1953, i think) and Sherlock Holmes (1 season, 1954 i believe) were before these. Are you still making new ones?
I Love Lucy made its debut in 1951 and Sherlock Holmes was a syndicated series that appeared in 1954. And yep, 1955 is the earliest fall TV review I posted. Prior to that there were too few new series intros available at the time to beef up the videos for fall 1950 through fall 1954.
WHERE'S PLAYHOUSE 90 ???????
1956.
IN 1956, THE MANY LOVES OF GABBY HAZE PREMIERED, IT FEATURED THE OPENLY GAY GABBY HAZE, AND, THE WILDLY FLAMBOYANT BOTTOM, WALTER BRENNAN AS A GAY COUPLE LEADING A RAINBOW WAGON TRAIN IN THE OLD WEST ,IT WAS THE FIRST SHOW TO FEATURE FULL FRONTAL NUDITY. THE SERIES LASTED JUST FIVE MINUTES BEFORE IT WAS CANCELLED
Are you serious?!
@@IngefromGraz hell yeah, it was on just after lesbian junction
You're hilarious. 🙃