We have so many great episodes of You Bet Your Life by an amazing accident. Groucho's show was always filmed because nobody could be sure Groucho would keep his comments PG. Years later, NBC called Marx's home to ask what they should do with all the cans of film from the shows they still had in the vaults. Groucho's nephew happened to answer the phone so he asked Groucho what should be done. Marx was livid. "Burn them! I don't care!". The nephew said to go ahead and send them to Groucho's home in Hollywood. There were so many cans of film, they had to be delivered by parcel truck. When Groucho saw he had been disobeyed, he flew into another tirade. So, the nephew agreed to painstakingly chronicle every can and what was on them then donated them to UCLA. Groucho fully intended to have them all destroyed.
Barbara Stanwyck was one of those fabulous women who reach the height of beauty in their 50s and 60s. I always thought she was gorgeous when I was a little girl.
I just turned 7. We mainly watched shows on CBS this year with ABC the next most likely. Bonanza was however one of the top favorites. Years later in reruns I now realize Thriller and Alfred Hitchcock were welll done. Also remember watching Wagon Train, Bachelor Father, Dinah Shore, and Bat Masterson.
Amidst all those violent westerns, detective shows & inane sitcoms, it was good to know that there was a show like The Bell Telephone Hour. A pity such a show cannot exist on today's "RealityTV" polluted airwaves. I became a fan of Thriller when i first saw it on Chicago TV a couple of years ago.
I barely remember most of these...but a few are so 'locked-in' in memory that just a little musical intro is enough to bring it all back, like "Groucho'. (I don't remember Tab Hunter having a TV show at all! That was surprising) I was six in 1960...but I remember more of 'then' than I do of last year! It's odd how memories work of 'what to keep' and 'what to let go'.
"Bachelor Father" was the only TV show to air on the Big Three Networks at the time. Meanwhile, "The Westerner" was created by Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch", "Straw Dogs"). It only lasted 13 episodes since it was up against "The Flintstones" on ABC and "Route 66" on CBS. "The Deputy" was co-created by Norman Lear ("All In The Family") Of all of those shows, "Meet The Press" lasted the longest and is still on the air.
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13:01 William Shatner, PRE-Star Trek! (followed by Natalie Schafer, pre-Gilligan's Island!) Man, these shows are OLD!! Almost 60 years old, now (Dec. 2019).
It was certainly not a time when a presidential candidate could brag about grabbing women by the p-- and see his support go up among white evangelical christians, that’s for sure!
Well, he still had many years left, but you can tell he didn't really want to be there. And I was reading up about the show and it only ran for about 6 months after he became host (he was the 3rd or 4th host the show had since 1959) and then it was cancelled. When probably didn't improve Milty's mood any. But he did go on to make some big movies in the 60s, though it's true he was no longer really "Mr. Television" by this point.
Well, to be fair Burt was involved with Dinah in the 1970s, long after the clip in this video was recorded. By that time he had already been on Dan August and was just about to begin his ascension to the top tier of movie box office attractions. They were involved when she had her 1970s daytime talk show.
Rather odd for me to be sitting here watching these, only days before my 55th birthday. Unless this schedule started in August, (and my guess is that a Fall Schedule for that year wouldn't have started until early September), that means that I wasn't even 'in the world' yet, when many of these shows were on. It also means that the ones I DID see in my early years were probably the most successful, (LARAMIE and BONANZA, for example), while the others I was only able to watch when they hit syndication. Thanks for putting these retrospectives together!
bowtie3 I believe that. After all, with the southern California climate, the lots in the studios needed no maintenance. Also, filming on location probably meant no more than a couple of hours' drive from the TV studios.
Interesting that Bell Telephone had its own orchestra. With so many symphonies going belly up, maybe that's the answer. Have corporations start their own orchestras: The Amazon Philharmonic, the Starbucks Symphony, the Koch Brothers Pops.....
So many legends creating these show Most of the shows were too girly for me. I could never get involved Bonanza because of the weird hat that Dan Blocker wore. I liked the 1/2 hour cowboy shows and just adored Dinah Shore. Also, Ann (?) who did Private Secretary and Loretta Young. Guess you can tell from that how I became 60 years later? I subscribe to Randy Rainbow, if that helps. 🌺👍🏽
Couldn't help but notice during the Loretta Young episode preview,she was playing a stereotypical female teacher .Glasses,conservatively dressed,hair up
Fun Fact: Nearly a year after The Loretta Young Show went off the air, she insisted that the shows must never be rerun due to the fact that she feels her wardrobe would be seen as dated.
Giving women lobotomies for some reason was a standard medical diagnosis in the 1950's . it was estimated that over 80,000 American women had their wires clipped in that decade .
Was the woman at 3:35 anyone famous? There was a Chevrolet ad, and then they just showed her on stage. I didn't see either her name, or the name of the show she was presumably hosting. (This is a little before my time--I wasn't born till '62, so I can't simply recognize a lot of these stars.)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show. Normally when rare intros come without a title, as sometimes happens, I'd insert it at the bottom. It was an oversight that I didn't with this one. The woman, of course, was Dinah Shore herself.
The first 3 episodes aired on various nights in the spring of 1960. The subsequent 4 episodes aired on Tuesdays, Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 18 and Nov. 15, so the fall airing I consider as a regular series of specials due to its regular time slot, much in the vein that Perry Como specials aired on Thursdays one season, 1964-65, and Mondays the next, along with other regular specials that rotated with regular weekly series in the same time slot that was common practice in the 50s and 60s especially. All depends on how particular one wants to be.
It was, If I recall, a 100,000 dollar a year deal for him not to work on other networks, is that right? However he eventually did make appearances on the other webs and by 1966 had his own variety show on ABC. Did he wiggle out of the contract or did it end? It wasn't a very good deal for him, after all, was it?
If you had a very good tax attorney. The rate up until Kennedy took office was in the 90 percent range. I would hope that Berle's deal was structured, maybe like Jack Benny's, which was a capital gain (CBS bought his "Amusement Enterprises" which owned the show outright...Jack still owned himself) for which he paid a much lower rate (20% I think) which put lots of keeping money into his pocket. If Jack, after taxes and business expenses could take home 1 1/2 million in 1949, that was stratospheric for the day. I may be wrong about the numbers; willing to be corrected!
it seems that there's some junk TV back in the days just like now. Except that I would say that the reality TV is the big difference, and the many TV channels today.
Does the Saturday Night At The Movies film exist somewhere? I really want to see the opening as it was with the theater marquees and the flashing lights.
+Joe Postove It ended its Friday 7:30 pm run that month, moved to Wednesday 10:30 for the spring and summer, and finally landed in the 6:30 Sunday slot for 1960-61, ending in April 1961.
Wow,,,,,, TV has improved tremendously since the good old days.......I understand the technology wasn't there then but the story lines are all the same. Just wait a decade and you can sell the some old stories over again.
Thanks for the memories keep showing them too bad we don't have that many good shows today today's comedians are not funny at all by the way you forgot the great Untouchables Elliot Ness
In the 80s and 90s it was all about reconizable theme songs. I have the feeling that actually, during the last decade or so, they have become short again. I would think it is because people like to binge-watch now and intros get in the way.
@@Madbandit77 - The 1960s had quite a few memorable theme songs as well. The original 1968 "Hawaii Five-O" theme went a full minute. The 2010 reboot cut that in half to add a commercial.
Saturday nights for its first two seasons. Switched to Sunday nights in the fall of 1961, where it aired till 1972. A final half-season followed in Fall 1972 on Tuesdays at 8 pm..
No - Public workers should not have the right to strike - Nor should I be forced to pay their pensions - If they want money in their old age - Let them save a portion of their over-blown salary. It's got nothing to do with me. And no one leeching off my wallet should be making six figures - Nowhere near that.
Grown ups back then were so grown up, mature, and glamorous.
Good Lordy Mercy, there were sure a lot of westerns.
We have so many great episodes of You Bet Your Life by an amazing accident. Groucho's show was always filmed because nobody could be sure Groucho would keep his comments PG. Years later, NBC called Marx's home to ask what they should do with all the cans of film from the shows they still had in the vaults. Groucho's nephew happened to answer the phone so he asked Groucho what should be done. Marx was livid. "Burn them! I don't care!". The nephew said to go ahead and send them to Groucho's home in Hollywood. There were so many cans of film, they had to be delivered by parcel truck. When Groucho saw he had been disobeyed, he flew into another tirade. So, the nephew agreed to painstakingly chronicle every can and what was on them then donated them to UCLA. Groucho fully intended to have them all destroyed.
Seeing ‘Senator’ John Fitzgerald Kennedy on Meet The Press during the time he was running for president was a thrill.
I must have watched way too much tv. I was 9 years old but I remember almost all of these shows.
Love these. I didn’t get here until ‘71, but so cool to see TV from yesteryear
Barbara Stanwyck was one of those fabulous women who reach the height of beauty in their 50s and 60s. I always thought she was gorgeous when I was a little girl.
Yeah so did Robert Wagnerwho had a brief affair with her in ‘59.she was 22 years or so his senior.
MISS Barbara Stanwyck
I just turned 7. We mainly watched shows on CBS this year with ABC the next most likely. Bonanza was however one of the top favorites. Years later in reruns I now realize Thriller and Alfred Hitchcock were welll done. Also remember watching Wagon Train, Bachelor Father, Dinah Shore, and Bat Masterson.
Amidst all those violent westerns, detective shows & inane sitcoms, it was good to know that there was a show like The Bell Telephone Hour. A pity such a show cannot exist on today's "RealityTV" polluted airwaves. I became a fan of Thriller when i first saw it on Chicago TV a couple of years ago.
I barely remember most of these...but a few are so 'locked-in' in memory that just a little musical intro is enough to bring it all back, like "Groucho'. (I don't remember Tab Hunter having a TV show at all! That was surprising) I was six in 1960...but I remember more of 'then' than I do of last year! It's odd how memories work of 'what to keep' and 'what to let go'.
tv from the year I was born. Thanks for the memories.
"Bachelor Father" was the only TV show to air on the Big Three Networks at the time. Meanwhile, "The Westerner" was created by Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch", "Straw Dogs"). It only lasted 13 episodes since it was up against "The Flintstones" on ABC and "Route 66" on CBS. "The Deputy" was co-created by Norman Lear ("All In The Family") Of all of those shows, "Meet The Press" lasted the longest and is still on the air.
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13:01 William Shatner, PRE-Star Trek! (followed by Natalie Schafer, pre-Gilligan's Island!) Man, these shows are OLD!! Almost 60 years old, now (Dec. 2019).
1960, the year I was.born.
Captain Kirk, Mrs.Howell on Boris Karlof's Thriller!. 1960. It is now 2020.
The era when men were men, morals mattered and the future was ours to make the best of for human progress. How far we have fallen.
EricLehner, well put my freind!
It was certainly not a time when a presidential candidate could brag about grabbing women by the p-- and see his support go up among white evangelical christians, that’s for sure!
i fully enjoyed this is some cases it brought back such pleasant memories of when a preson could actually watch tv thanks for the posting🙂
Shirley Temple?? Knock out gorgeous! Who knew?
Barbara Stanwyck, easily in her 50s, as tiny and lithe as ever, rocking that strapless evening gown. 👍😎
The sad ending of Uncle Milt's great career. Bowling for Dollars emcee? Sad.
Well, he still had many years left, but you can tell he didn't really want to be there. And I was reading up about the show and it only ran for about 6 months after he became host (he was the 3rd or 4th host the show had since 1959) and then it was cancelled. When probably didn't improve Milty's mood any. But he did go on to make some big movies in the 60s, though it's true he was no longer really "Mr. Television" by this point.
This is interesting and nostalgic. Brings back memories, I was 6 / 7 at this time, and I remember some of these shows.
Dinah Shore used to sing the add: " See the USA in your Chevrolet " Hard to believe she was romantically involved with a young Burt Reynolds
Well, to be fair Burt was involved with Dinah in the 1970s, long after the clip in this video was recorded. By that time he had already been on Dan August and was just about to begin his ascension to the top tier of movie box office attractions. They were involved when she had her 1970s daytime talk show.
thanks so much for the memories of TV just as I entered 5th grade!
I was born that September 13th.
Rather odd for me to be sitting here watching these, only days before my 55th birthday. Unless this schedule started in August, (and my guess is that a Fall Schedule for that year wouldn't have started until early September), that means that I wasn't even 'in the world' yet, when many of these shows were on. It also means that the ones I DID see in my early years were probably the most successful, (LARAMIE and BONANZA, for example), while the others I was only able to watch when they hit syndication. Thanks for putting these retrospectives together!
He was let go by NBC in 59-60, but they had to pay him millions until 1967 per his contract with them. LOL.
wowwww......shirley temple....dinah shore....loretta young...bobby darin died wayyyy too young....barb stanwyk
I wish could see these shows when they first aired.
Not a single night without at least one western. Unreal.
arkady714 yeah only a few of the westerns were good most were crap. They were cheap to make.
bowtie3 I believe that. After all, with the southern California climate, the lots in the studios needed no maintenance. Also, filming on location probably meant no more than a couple of hours' drive from the TV studios.
@@arkady714 It couldn't be done so easily now. It would be hard to find open spaces with no roads or freeways in the background.
Westerns were huge on TV from the mid-1950s into the early 1960s. Only "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" made it to the 1970s.
Such a simpler time. Everything seemed so immaculate and innocent.
Shows were simple earnest straight forwards
The music used for the Shirley Temple show is actually classical music composed by Rachmaninov for his 2nd Symphony, the slow movement.
I had nightmares watching Boris Karloff's Thriller, especially this episode "The Grim Reaper"!
I loved Alfred Hitchcock and Thriller. Great entertainment.
Interesting that Bell Telephone had its own orchestra. With so many symphonies going belly up, maybe that's the answer. Have corporations start their own orchestras: The Amazon Philharmonic, the Starbucks Symphony, the Koch Brothers Pops.....
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company had it's own orchestra as well. Very fine ensemble.
The openning of this Thiller is still terrifying.
Thriller was the only show that successfully gave us both horror & crime stories.
So many legends creating these show Most of the shows were too girly for me. I could never get involved Bonanza because of the weird hat that Dan Blocker wore. I liked the 1/2 hour cowboy shows and just adored Dinah Shore. Also, Ann (?) who did Private Secretary and Loretta Young. Guess you can tell from that how I became 60 years later? I subscribe to Randy Rainbow, if that helps. 🌺👍🏽
$30K in 1960 is like $180,000K in 2020!
Lawrence Spivak could get a seat on the MTP panel--he owned the show.
The intro to “The Shirley Temple Show” reminded me of Family Affair’s intro.
Composed by Vic Mizzy.
Yes. The sparkling jewels. And "Imitation of Life" (1959) , with Lana Turner. Theme song by Nat "King" Cole.
It's actually classical music composed by Rachmaninov. The slow movement from his 2nd Symphony
I grew up At Hollywood Legion Lanes..pinball wizard addict, lol
Couldn't help but notice during the Loretta Young episode preview,she was playing a stereotypical female teacher .Glasses,conservatively dressed,hair up
Classy and carried herself very well. Teachers today tend to dress sloppier than the their students do.
Fun Fact: Nearly a year after The Loretta Young Show went off the air, she insisted that the shows must never be rerun due to the fact that she feels her wardrobe would be seen as dated.
The crew of Meet the Press all look like each one just found out their dog died.
LARAMIE IS THE MOST UNDERRATED SHOW EVER
One of my all time favorites
AS LONG AS THEY DON'T SHOW MITCH MILLER , I'M SAFE
Back when we had real entertainment ❤
Interesting to see actors I know in earlier efforts. BTW Just how many series did Shatner appear?
Several years ago, I saw Frances Farmer on "This is Your Life," after her lobotomy. I think her mother was on, too. It was SO creepy...
Giving women lobotomies for some reason was a standard medical diagnosis in the 1950's . it was estimated that over 80,000 American women had their wires clipped in that decade .
Our family must have been watching another network because I don't recall a bunch of these.
Seein' that first intro for Bonanza caused a bit of wetness in the 'ol eye sockets. Ain't love grand?
Was the woman at 3:35 anyone famous? There was a Chevrolet ad, and then they just showed her on stage. I didn't see either her name, or the name of the show she was presumably hosting. (This is a little before my time--I wasn't born till '62, so I can't simply recognize a lot of these stars.)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show. Normally when rare intros come without a title, as sometimes happens, I'd insert it at the bottom. It was an oversight that I didn't with this one. The woman, of course, was Dinah Shore herself.
TV Guide -The First 25 Years lists local for Sat night at 10:30.I guess that Interpol was on then.I was 10,but I seem to remember it on Sat.nights.
Although I've heard of the term, I never knew what Interpol meant, or stood for. (25:55)
11:40 MeTv still plays 6 hours of this a week
Tales of Welles Fargo, I guess if you lost money back then , it was out laws, accidents., or Indians.
HOW MANY OUT THERE THINK THAT RICHARD DENNING LOOKS LIKE ROBERT YOUNG AND GARY CLARKE LOOKED LIKE GENE BARRY
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries & Dan Raven: the only one 2 never heard of. I was 11 at the time
The "DOW" program was actually an occasional series of specials.
Thank you for the information. Maybe I saw some of these specials...I just don't remember them.
The first 3 episodes aired on various nights in the spring of 1960. The subsequent 4 episodes aired on Tuesdays, Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 18 and Nov. 15, so the fall airing I consider as a regular series of specials due to its regular time slot, much in the vein that Perry Como specials aired on Thursdays one season, 1964-65, and Mondays the next, along with other regular specials that rotated with regular weekly series in the same time slot that was common practice in the 50s and 60s especially. All depends on how particular one wants to be.
Dan Raven only lasted 13, like The Westerner. Friday night was pretty much a disaster for NBC.
I remember Loretta young but mostly on old reruns
"Jackpot Bowling With Milton Berle". Uncle Miltie never did really make a comeback, did he?
He was "required" to do this program, as part of his multi-year NBC contract. He co-produced it as well.
It was, If I recall, a 100,000 dollar a year deal for him not to work on other networks, is that right? However he eventually did make appearances on the other webs and by 1966 had his own variety show on ABC. Did he wiggle out of the contract or did it end? It wasn't a very good deal for him, after all, was it?
I would say, 100k in 1960 was a good deal, though.
If you had a very good tax attorney. The rate up until Kennedy took office was in the 90 percent range. I would hope that Berle's deal was structured, maybe like Jack Benny's, which was a capital gain (CBS bought his "Amusement Enterprises" which owned the show outright...Jack still owned himself) for which he paid a much lower rate (20% I think) which put lots of keeping money into his pocket. If Jack, after taxes and business expenses could take home 1 1/2 million in 1949, that was stratospheric for the day. I may be wrong about the numbers; willing to be corrected!
Nah, I believe you. You seem to know what you're talking about.
it seems that there's some junk TV back in the days just like now. Except that I would say that the reality TV is the big difference, and the many TV channels today.
The shows were WATCHABLE back then; the stuff that is on today should all be trashed 🗑
Does the Saturday Night At The Movies film exist somewhere? I really want to see the opening as it was with the theater marquees and the flashing lights.
+William Re The earliest intro I found was for 1972. It's in the 'Stay Tuned - Saturday Night TV Fall 1972' video.
I thought "Bonanza" moved to Sundays in the Fall of '60. It was on Saturdays only in its first season.
It aired on Saturday for its first two seasons. The Dinah Shore Show was still airing on Sundays at 9 in 1960-61.
CHRYSLER THEATRE ,back in the days when they could spell the language !
People Are Funny ended in April of 1960.
+Joe Postove It ended its Friday 7:30 pm run that month, moved to Wednesday 10:30 for the spring and summer, and finally landed in the 6:30 Sunday slot for 1960-61, ending in April 1961.
Thanks, I was looking at Wikipedia, but failed to notice that it did indeed go into 1961. But Wiki says they were repeats. Thanks for the correction!
The Sunday night show featured REPEATS of previous episodes.
At least it ended.
Hitchcock and Karloff on the same night? Yow...
Wow,,,,,, TV has improved tremendously since the good old days.......I understand the technology wasn't there then but the story lines are all the same. Just wait a decade and you can sell the some old stories over again.
Not the he e technology but it’s wholesomeness.
WATCHING THIS IS GOING TO TRIGGER SOME DEEP SEATED CHILDHOOD TRAUMA. I MAY DO HARM TO SOMEONE lol
Thanks for the memories keep showing them too bad we don't have that many good shows today today's comedians are not funny at all by the way you forgot the great Untouchables Elliot Ness
This was NBC's fall season. The Untouchables were on ABC at that time.
K so seeing Milton Berle host a bowling show was the odd one out for me.
You up you go down
Meet the Press is the longest program like Today.
People Are Funny ended its first run on April 1, 1960
Its original run, yes. NBC began airing repeats of it in the fall.
@@RwDt09 Oh. Thanks!
Intros were very very short, when do you think this changed?
In the 80s and 90s it was all about reconizable theme songs. I have the feeling that actually, during the last decade or so, they have become short again. I would think it is because people like to binge-watch now and intros get in the way.
@@tomknoll5546 Don't forget the 70s.
@@Madbandit77 - The 1960s had quite a few memorable theme songs as well. The original 1968 "Hawaii Five-O" theme went a full minute. The 2010 reboot cut that in half to add a commercial.
18:50 I guess at that time, Charlie Brown and Linus would do anything to make a buck! I'm surprised Snoopy wasn't involved.
I thought bonanza was on Sunday night.
I think it switched to Sunday nights several seasons later.
what the hell happened here? Take me back...
Sungodv My crazy uncle got hooked on acid and built a time machine... wish it worked
People Are Funny an Alternate Candid Camera?
I thought Bonanza was on Sunday nights
It was in my house.
Saturday nights for its first two seasons. Switched to Sunday nights in the fall of 1961, where it aired till 1972. A final half-season followed in Fall 1972 on Tuesdays at 8 pm..
@@RwDt09 Thank you. I remember it airing on Sunday because I had to go to bed. The last thing I heard was that great theme music.
Remember Saran Wrap on toilets?
For what?
Press-'da-Meat
wiedep My uncle used to call it Eat the Mess
Beat the Press
Bowling For Dollars another Game Show Bomb?
I can’t describe how confusing it was for seven year old me to see this grown up mommy come out when “Shirley Temple” was announced.
No - Public workers should not have the right to strike -
Nor should I be forced to pay their pensions -
If they want money in their old age - Let them save a portion of their over-blown salary. It's got nothing to do with me.
And no one leeching off my wallet should be making six figures - Nowhere near that.
Sss