This was the year that as a very little girl I came to the US fleeing communism totally alone. I missed all my family, friends, way of life and all my animals that I absolutely have never gotten over. These shows helped me more than I can ever express. They brought me happiness & joy- Even if it was for a short time- I am so very grateful and still enjoy these shows to this day. It was also these shows and the commercials that taught me to speak English. I hope these shows also brought you all great joy and memories as well.
I was four myself and that’s really a good way of putting it because this life is really about the people in your life . So many changes since then , it’s mind blowing.
You and I were close in age. I was four. I remember almost all of these. But while it was a better time for us as kids, it was not a good time for everyone.
I was 14. During the commercials I thought of how much better it was when companies just advertised and sold their products without all the social engineering garbage.
@David Pinegar I remember Kent State, 4 dead in Ohio. I agree it was an honor to serve our great Nation back in the 70s. I dated a girl when I was in Junior High School and her older sister dated a guy who was killed in Vietnam. It was so sad.
@David Pinegar The end to the relatively peaceful early 1960s was on Nov. 22, 1963. After the corrupt 36th president did his coup d'etat, it led directly to his desired war in Vietnam, opposite to what JFK was in the process of removing the advisers placed there from Ike and himself earlier. If JFK had lived, there would have been no Vietnam War, no Kent State, no mass demonstrations, no 58,000+ yound American boys and men dying in those fetid rice paddies or bombing missions over N. Vietnam. No $ TRILLIONS wasted on armaments and war profiteers getting wealthy from that war, and that includes LBJ with Lady Bird owning stock in war armament production companies.
@TheBrabon1 Our stations ran re-runs of discontinued cartoons as soon as Saturday programming started. Thunderbirds was the first one, and sometime not long after came my other favourite Johnny Quest. Good times! 😁
When I was in my mid thirties in about 1997 I worked with some people who sat near Red Skelton at a restaurant in Omaha and he was there alone. They recognized him and struck up conversation. They said he was just as lovely and kind as he was on TV. What we saw on TV was the real person.
If you watch the series he's no IMHO a jerk, but sometime a child, sometimes wise. It was a family show of its time. Incredibly popular until times began to change in the middle 60's. I very much enjoyed the episode with Clint Eastwood, and many others.
I was a shut-in for a while as a kid, and TV was my world. I, too, couldn't wait for the next edition of TV Guide and especially the yearly Special Preview editions they had! Read all the articles cover-to-cover.
Red Skelton was my Dad's favorite comedian. He'd collapse into his favorite chair in the family room after a long day at work and after dinner. The chair was yellow, with kind of a fake leather/plastic or vinyl covering, with a matching ottoman. Miss you Daddy 👨
Well, among all the channels, you can find a little, but it ain't easy. ALL the news is opinion marketed as news. All the shows appeal to the lowest common denominator; and most all of them have a political message. We watch PBS, Jeopardy, cooking shows, and travel shows, that's about it. Even TCM needs four or five hosts of mixed origin, telling each other how great they are, and shoving a political message in our face.
What's My line showcased lots of up and comers and figures of history. The last known living person who saw Lincoln shot as a child, the first Senator of Hawaii comes to mind.
Boy does this bring back memories…I was also 8 years old and remember vividly standing in our living room in my pajamas at the start of Gunsmoke to outdraw the bad guy. What is amazing to see how much America has changed, mores the pity…
Why is it, that while I watch this upload, I get the weird feeling that I am sick at home from school...really weird. PJ's and everything..........................
@@curbmassa It was simple to explain and understand! That is what Tee meant overall in those halcyon days, when the main opponent to the U.S. population was nuclear war with the USSR, and in this case, over a third-world country as Cuba was then, and still is today with its socialist/communist economy. I lived through that time, and everyone was afraid for almost 2 weeks (Oct. 16-28, 1962) that today might be their last day alive! Actually, the people did not know until Oct. 22, when Pres. Kennedy went on national tv to announce what was going on in Cuba, so it was only 7 days. But the leaders knew by Oct. 16, so it was 13 long days for them.
....Relatively simpler, definitely. The main problem today is television, and other entities, tell you what you're "supposed" to think, and too many are too stupid to not see through it. Gullibility & lack of independent thought. Bad combination.
@@freeguy77 I remember John F Kennedy was live on TV and announcing the crisis. I wanted him to launch a surprise attack on those missile silos despite my having been born there as was my parents. Back in Flushing Queens NYC.
The music, summer, life at its best, a beautiful caring helpful dog, and a kid having simple joy. I even had a book called Lassie and the Secret of the Summer. About as simple joy as you can get.
@@luvs2cover I know Me tv is doing Saturday morings again. That and classic sci fi like Buck Rodgers and Planet of the Apes and Horror fantasy Kolchack the Night Stalker and Night Gallery I just wish I could find the Magician with Bill Bixby.
I think that's maybe because it wasn't on 24/7 and there were only three channels. With hundreds of channels trying to fill up the days, they've officially run out of ideas.
I wasn't born then but thanks to video and streaming services seldom goes by a week that I don't watch at least one of these shows a lot of variety back then personal favorites Have Gun Will Travel Twilight Zone Route 66 and best of all Jack Benny
Yes. We tend to forget the negatives. Sign off at Midnight after the news. Rabbit ears. Snow. Ghosts. LOL. It actually sucked now that you mention it. LOL.
The only 24hr TV station here in Chicago was WGN-TV Channel 9. They showed a lot of old movies and local children's shows like Garfield Goose and Bozo's Circus.
You want the reverse? Check out "Jack Benny On Trial." In that episode, Jack Benny is accused of "murdering a rooster." He hires Perry Mason...and Mason screws up badly. Raymond Burr struggled not to laugh.
I would really shock the kids nowadays to find out that in order to change the channel , you actually had to get up off your butt , go over to the t v get hold of a dial and turn it to change the program .
and that you had to wait for the specific day and time to watch, and wait a whole week for the next episode. No binging an entire season in one night. Patience Grasshopper!
Anyone else remember the HUGE controversy (at least in the Bible Belt) when Red Skelton, dressed as a chicken in one of his skits, laid an egg? I kid you not, there were people who thought that was risque and wouldn't let their kids watch it anymore.
This is exactly why I think people are being simplistic when they say it’s just the people of today that are too sensitive and people weren’t back in the day. That’s a ridiculous controversy that would never happen today. A chicken suit controversy? They were also upset by bare midriffs (Gilligan’s Island) and a married couple being portrayed as sleeping (I Love Lucy) in the same bed. The content on even *daytime* soaps today would get you cancelled back then. I don’t know how to measure what era was “more sensitive” but there’s definitely evidence that both eras had sensitive people that were offended by different things than people are today.
How cool to see all of the intros to the series and to see the actual lineup on the schedule. I was six turning seven in the spring of 1962 and I remember sitting in front of the TV watching many of these black and white series. Thanks for the memories.
Robert Keefer they aren't even close. The Twilight Zone is considered one of the greatest shows of all time, was original and revolutionary. Hell, it even has its own Disney ride. Mr. Ed was just another cheesy 60s sitcom.
Probably not rivaled until the Fall of 1973 when on Saturday night CBS had All in the Family, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart Show, and Carol Burnett Show. That hasn't been topped since.
Candid Camera, the BEST "reality show" ever made. I wish that GE, Armmstrong, and United States Steel or comparable modern companies would start tha theatre series again. Those show combined the best writers of the 50's with stars and soon to be stars in some of the best one hour plays written at the time. Now we have garbage. Also I miss "The Twentieth Century" "Omnibus" and "Air Power" all hosted by Walter Cronkite.
I'm 76 years old. In 1962 I was a senior at St. Charles High School. Back in the "olden" days most families had one TV three channels, ABC,NBC and CBS. We had WOSU channel for Ohio State University. Shows started at 8:00 pm and ended at 11:00 pm EST for us in Columbus Ohio. My point is that we had to settle on which show we, as a family, would watch. And we watched as a family, so there was give and take between the adults and kids. Of course everything was in black and white. Color came later. I remember our first tv, a Dumont television. The day it was delivered, I got "sick" in school and was allowed to come home. The very first show I saw was a 15 minute show called "The Egg and I". I have no memory what it was about. By the way, I watch reruns of Perry Mason to this day. One of my favorite shows then and now. Raymond Burr was wonderful. Those were better, simpler days.
As someone born in 1971, I’m amazed at how deep this lineup is! There had to be at least 10 “Hall of Fame” level shows on here and a whole bunch of others that are still being rerun today. Even most of the obscure ones at least had a huge star or two in them. Quite impressive!
I was seven for the first 7 or so months of '62 but I still recall the power of TV back then. It was all I really had but I was fairly content with it, back when I still believed in Santa Clause.
I was 8 years old in 1962, and my favorite shows from these listed by far was Lassie and Dennis the Menace back then. I still watch many of these shows now thanks to Antenna TV, ME TV, etc. About the only show on this list that don't remember is Ichabod and Me, which was only on for one season with a total of 36 episodes. Too bad they don't make quality shows like the ones shown here anymore.
@@davidlafleche1142 I really liked the World at War Series. As a kid in the late 50s and early 60s also watch with my Father, Victory at Sea, The Silent Service and other shows like it. That was because was a WWII and Korean War vet and was still in the Navy.
Seems like the world of 1962, when compared to the current, was decidedly the more preferable, especially in television entertainment. Of course, most people who were only four years old, would probably agree.
Fun Fact: Ichabod and Me was one of 2 shows created by JaMco(Jack Benny's & Mary Livingstone's production company) in affiliation with Universal TV. The other being a dramatic series, Checkmate.
That was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the violent attacks on civil rights marchers and Freedom Riders. Women couldn't get a credit card in their own name. Eastern Europe was under the control of the Soviet Union. Cars were spewing out poisons into the air, and that's just a quick summary of that "simple, innocent time!"
Great to see this line-up from 1962 CBS. And remember, the other 2 networks also had many fine programs. My kids tell me that there wasn't much on TV then, with only 3 or 4 channels, but, in reality, there was an infinitely greater variety of diverse programming then than now, even with the 400 channels we get on cable/satellite. I have been watching TV since 1954, and always looked forward to each night's programs on the various networks. I wore out 3 TV tuning knobs (remotes were not invented yet) switching between all of the shows. I loved watching TV, especially from 1954 to 1965, when there was so much originality, humor, music, live drama, etc. Now, I hardly watch TV except for some sports. I remember that live boxing used to be on network TV 3 nights a week, prime time! I wish somebody could put out this kind of summary for the other networks, and for all the first decades of TV programming. Much thanks for the memories!
Thank you for posting this. I remember Perry Mason, Candid Camera, I've Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth, Ed Sullivan, Mr. Ed, The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, What's My Line, The Andy Griffith Show, The Danny Thomas Show, Hennessey, The Gary Moore Show, Route 66, The Defenders, Perry Mason, and the Twentieth Century. It's always nice to remember quality television programs for a change.
I was born in 1954. I had forgotten that Twilight Zone was on Friday nights. That explains why I was always able to watch it, although it came on late at night. We had the best reception on the CBS channel, fuzzy reception on the NBC channel, and basically no reception on the ABC channel back in 1962.
My God .Those shows brought back so many memories I was 15 yrs old at that time Iam 72 now Alot of those shows didn't last long And they were all in Black and White. Color TV didn't come out until 1966. Some of my favorite shows were Gunsmoke. Rawhide. The Twilight zone. The Andy Griffith Show. Dennis the Menace and many more I could go back to those times in a heartbeat.
Many shows were in color prior to 1966. Most CBS shows were broadcast in color by the fall of 1965. NBC was the color 'pioneer' with a color show ('Bonanza') coming on as early as the 1959-60 season. The majority of households did not have a color set until the late '60s, but all prime-time shows were in color starting with the 1966-67 season.
@@mga7076 NBC broadcast a lot shows in color during this period. CBS had tried color broadcasting sporadically in the 1950s, but finally decided to quit in '58,. This was due in large part to the fact that CBS and RCA which owned NBC at the time, had been locked in a bitter fight in the early 1950s over which color TV standard would be adopted. Each had developed their own standards and the two systems were completely incompatible with each other. The government finally decided on the RCA standard. CBS lost, and after some off-and-on broadcasting in the RCA standard, CBS quit color broadcasting entirely in1958. They had decided that color programming would only help RCA sell color TV sets. The rivalry was so bitter, that CBS executives ordered the RCA trademark removed from all the RCA TV cameras the network owned,. Starting about 1958,, CBS began to replace all its RCA cameras with British made Marconi cameras. Finally, about 1965, whether or not a show was in color had started to affect its ratings, so CBS had to bite the bullet, and start broadcasting in color.
On one show, there was no mistake, but Red had to speak his lines as he was looking into a mirror, and he turned around, and grabbed the guy holding the cue card, dragged him into view of the camera, and pointed out that the cue card was written backwards, so he, Red could read it the mirror.
@@2nostromo One of my fondest memories was seeing Red in person. He left the audience, which included teens and younger children in such a wonderful mood that we all felt like family.
Yes, the music scores steadily identified the program. The composers put much thought and creativity to produce high quality instrumentation. I agree that the Perry Mason and The Fugitive theme songs were among the best ever. Today? Junk.
I still watch "Perry Mason" and especially "The Fugitive" and love their theme songs. I also liked the theme songs for " Route 66" composed by Nelson Riddle, and " Peter Gunn" composed by Henry Mancini. The theme songs for many tv shows in the 1960's were classic.
I never got any particular thrill watching a bunch of people (mostly guys) riding around a ranch on horses. I was only born in '62, so I guess I missed all of these anyway.
Remember the Christmas show about 1967 with Sen. Everett Dirkson. Red did the Vally Forge skit on that one. Unreal what Red could say without one word!
I remember a retrospective on Candid Camera where they rehashed a stunt where somebody pulled some prank involving somebody's car, and everybody thought the owner was a victim of a crime. One of the bystanders pointed out that a kid today can strip a car down in five seconds.
Man,that Twilight Zone intro still creeps me out as it did when I was 10. Some of the shows were totally new to me,"Father of The Bride"? Big fan of "Rawhide" the young Clint Eastwood. Who knew he would blow up as he did. He really worked at his craft...
Have Gun Will Travel was my all time favorite TV Western when I was just a kid growing up. I remember watching this classic TV Western as far back as 1959 when I was 3 years old with my mom. She also enjoyed watching many of the TV Westerns.
The Twilight Zone should have been put in the Saturday lineup along with the other great shows. It was thrown in Friday's lineup with shows they don't even play reruns for. Now there is a 24 hour Twilight Zone marathon once a year
Twilight Zone was moved to another channel 😅9 and one season used different film speed the type used soap operas but people complained that it was real lookng and was. changed back .
TV was much better in 1962 even though we only had 3 channels to watch, programs were in black and white (mostly), and TV screens were smaller back then.
Didn’t need a remote control back then, you had a 33% chance you were watching the show you want to see. Then around midnight that Indian test pattern came on the screen right after the national anthem, and after that, just static, until the lords pray at 6:00 am. what a life we had back then. Imagine, NO, 24 hour news channels.
Remember when you could take the tubes out of the T.V. and test them at the local drug or hardware store? We had an old Motorola that was about half the size of a refrigerator, and weighed almost as much. The horizontal hold kept flipping, and the Rabbit ears agh the rabbit ears. ... If you had money, you could afford an outdoor antenna on the roof. THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND. .....
Isn't it amazing how the pendulum has swung. TV screens that were once 7-8 inches, then everyone had to thave 19-21 inch sest, the 55-inch flat screens. Now we've gone back to tiny, watching your 5-inch cell phone screen.
Wow...i remember practically 98% of the shows. We only had one TV 📺 and we weren't glued it. Life was different back then. Only 4 stations in NYC back then
4 stations, think yourself lucky, we had only two in the whole of the UK, and one of them was virtually impossible to pick up, depending on where you lived and how good your aerial receiver was ! lol.
Mr. Ed ROCKS!!! I remember that on black and white TV 📺 as a child! Timmy and Lassie and Dennis the Menace I watched with my buddy as children! Great memories 😊😊
I remember most of these shows from thir reruns in later years.I was 3 and 4 in 1972 Many of these shows are still being shown in reruns on many retro channels THANK GOODNESS.
I was 8 and remember watching most of these shows with my mom and dad. We sure watched CBS at the time, but there were some good ones we watched on ABC as well that I just saw similar to this. Thanks for the memories.
@@michaelpdawson Come to think of it, not a clue what the show itself was all about, but that was a mighty long time ago. I may have just tuned in for the intro, or I may have watched the show. Was just a kid (born in 1955), so even if I watched the show I may not have understood what was going on. Hard to believe we grew up on the garbage they fed us on t.v. back then. Prolly no better nowadays either. I haven't had a t.v. antenna or cable in over ten years now.
My sister-in-law is sort of friends with the boy who played Timmy... They were both big in collie rescue and rehoming. That's my claim to fame. Don't worry I'll still talk to you little people.
Does anybody remember when the Big Three stations in the fall have the Saturday morning sneak peek. It was a special that was usually shown on Friday night and it was a program that told you about the new season of cartoons and even told the time so you could set the alarm clock so you wouldn't miss your favorite cartoon.
Sign on at 6:30 am, and sign off at 11:30 pm with the National Anthem. There was a CZcams video that happened to have the sign off with the National Anthem. The audience complained, and razed the CZcamsr for it. I just shook my head.
@@MichaelSHartman Technically here in Oklahoma City it's not really a sign off but at 4:00am every Saturday morning it maybe every morning I just noticed it on Saturday's Kfor plays the National Anthem without fail. The station doesn't sign off but it still plays the National Anthem.
@nimrodian Yes it was, and we laughed like hell, Jackie Gleason hated to memorize his script most of it was improvised. We didn't need shock value to catch/keep our attention.
Living in a small Canadian town back then and with only ONE tv station that showed a mixture of Canadian and American shows I don't remember all of these but still do remember quite a few - Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas,Checkmate, Gunsmoke , Mr. Ed, Route 66,Father Knows Best among the notable. Of course everyone watched the Ed Sullivan Show. It was a big deal among Canadians when Wayne & Shuster appeared on his show. Great memories. Thank you.
I had a Dobie Gillis (branded) shirt. not really show-related, just a short-sleeve button down shirt, blue and white checked. The label said "Like lifted From Dobie," as if it were quoting Maynard. I must have loved it, if I remember it so well almost 60 years later.
I have at least a vague memory of watching most of those shows. I have absolutely no memory of ever seeing or watching Ichabod and Me or Oh! Those Bells. They either weren't carried by our local affiliates in Cleveland or were so awful that the memory of them memory has been erased from my mind.
Oh! Those Bells was a summer replacement that didn't even survive the summer. Ichabod and Me was one of three series produced via Jack Benny that was part of a deal to get him to switch studios from Desilu to Revue. It lasted a full season.
I was a boy at the time, about 5 or 6. I remember some of these programs; others are new to me. What a lineup! And the same with the other networks. Very impressive.
Thanks.... I was wondering about that. I couldn't figure out how Father Knows Best AND Window On Main Street (both w. RY) were running at the same time?? [well, same season].
And Elinor Donohoe was Andy's girlfriend on the first (1960-61) season of 'Andy Griffith', only to be let go after only that first season. Word is that Griffith and she did not get along at all.
I was 8-9 months old, interesting to see what was coming into my brain at that impressionable age. We were living in a brand new house in a suburb of Los Angeles, the black and white Zenith television 📺 was the main focus of our family room, set into the wall, high up so everyone could see. To the left was the fireplace.
This was the year that as a very little girl I came to the US fleeing communism totally alone. I missed all my family, friends, way of life and all my animals that I absolutely have never gotten over. These shows helped me more than I can ever express. They brought me happiness & joy- Even if it was for a short time- I am so very grateful and still enjoy these shows to this day. It was also these shows and the commercials that taught me to speak English. I hope these shows also brought you all great joy and memories as well.
God bless you Marie. ❤️
Welcome to America.
Bless you. Must have been super hard & lonely
I am so very you went through all that. While I don't know you I still hope you are better today.
I am sorry you went through that
I was five. Everyone I knew was still alive. I miss those days.
Same here. Everything was good.
Man....no kidding .
Me too. Happier times.
I was four myself and that’s really a good way of putting it because this life is really about the people in your life . So many changes since then , it’s mind blowing.
You and I were close in age. I was four. I remember almost all of these. But while it was a better time for us as kids, it was not a good time for everyone.
I was 19 in 1962. Remember it like yesterday. Before the world lost it's mind.
I was 14. During the commercials I thought of how much better it was when companies just advertised and sold their products without all the social engineering garbage.
I was 11
I was born in 1962 but I can imagine life was soooooo much better than today.
I was 7.
I was 14 in 62'...I agree w/ you❗ America is a shell of itself in2023...such violence & division 😈 oh we were fortunate☮️
My Mom was 3 and my dad was 5 in 1962, but I still got to watch some of these shows growing up. Yes, I'm a millennial who loves old TV.
You appreciate great actors and talented shows that's awesome! Enjoy!😊
Same. I was always teased for watching/ liking old tv shows and music. Never care tho, I just continued 😅
I remember most of these TV shows. 1962, I was 7 yrs old. Love to go back and stay. Mom & Dad were in the early 30s. Really miss you two.
@David Pinegar I remember Kent State, 4 dead in Ohio. I agree it was an honor to serve our great Nation back in the 70s. I dated a girl when I was in Junior High School and her older sister dated a guy who was killed in Vietnam. It was so sad.
@David Pinegar The end to the relatively peaceful early 1960s was on Nov. 22, 1963. After the corrupt 36th president did his coup d'etat, it led directly to his desired war in Vietnam, opposite to what JFK was in the process of removing the advisers placed there from Ike and himself earlier. If JFK had lived, there would have been no Vietnam War, no Kent State, no mass demonstrations, no 58,000+ yound American boys and men dying in those fetid rice paddies or bombing missions over N. Vietnam. No $ TRILLIONS wasted on armaments and war profiteers getting wealthy from that war, and that includes LBJ with Lady Bird owning stock in war armament production companies.
@Dwight Powell so sorry to hear that Dwight. Don't know what to say Dwight. Semper Fidelis from an old Marine Sergeant.
Dick Van Dyke aka Carl Reiner Show.
@@michaelboyce9373 yes it was.... LOL
We woke up early on Saturdays to watch cartoons great simple times
Woke up early, my eye. Like 6 a.m. is early......
@@stevensmith630 Yeah, I got up at 5 to watch Thunderbirds.
@TheBrabon1 Our stations ran re-runs of discontinued cartoons as soon as Saturday programming started. Thunderbirds was the first one, and sometime not long after came my other favourite Johnny Quest. Good times! 😁
I remember Spiderman and the Fantastic Four came on real early on Saturday..
Yep... Long before they were computer generated.
"Goodnight and God bless", red Skelton i miss him so much. All great shows.
I thought Reagan was gonna say " UHH Whell " .
What A wonderful man Skelton was.
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When I was in my mid thirties in about 1997 I worked with some people who sat near Red Skelton at a restaurant in Omaha and he was there alone. They recognized him and struck up conversation. They said he was just as lovely and kind as he was on TV. What we saw on TV was the real person.
Actually, he always said "May God bless." He explained once that to say "God bless you," would be making a demand of God.
Loved adorable Mr. Ed and beautiful Lassie. 💜
Margie Clevenger Actually, as I recall, Mr. Ed wasn't so adorable; he was kind of a jerk sometimes.
Mr Ed was written for morons
If you watch the series he's no IMHO a jerk, but sometime a child, sometimes wise. It was a family show of its time. Incredibly popular until times began to change in the middle 60's. I very much enjoyed the episode with Clint Eastwood, and many others.
Mr Ed was a fun show as a child but trying to watch it on reruns as an adult is just horrible
I was 7. I looked forward to two publications equally every year: the Sear's Christmas catalog.....and the Fall Preview edition of TV Guide.
I know. I studied that TV Guide, planning my viewing schedule. Oh my gosh, I've wasted my life...
@195511SM @Dennis Smith: I had the same thought, thanks. So was this a guy thing (?) Apparently . . .
I was a shut-in for a while as a kid, and TV was my world. I, too, couldn't wait for the next edition of TV Guide and especially the yearly Special Preview editions they had! Read all the articles cover-to-cover.
Heck, I was 12 and I totally agree!
In 62 we used to get Sears, Frederick & Nelson, Montgomery Ward along with TV Guide and many others. Now they're all dead.
Red Skelton was my Dad's favorite comedian. He'd collapse into his favorite chair in the family room after a long day at work and after dinner. The chair was yellow, with kind of a fake leather/plastic or vinyl covering, with a matching ottoman. Miss you Daddy 👨
BANNED HETETIC did you have any African American friends ?
My dad's too.He also had a yellow plastic chair. It reclined!
I remember this era. We had three channels and there was always something good to watch. Now we have hundreds of channels and it's all crap!
The COMMERCIALS back then were better than the SHOWS are now. And I'm NOT kidding.✌
Well, among all the channels, you can find a little, but it ain't easy. ALL the news is opinion marketed as news. All the shows appeal to the lowest common denominator; and most all of them have a political message. We watch PBS, Jeopardy, cooking shows, and travel shows, that's about it. Even TCM needs four or five hosts of mixed origin, telling each other how great they are, and shoving a political message in our face.
Too much of anything loses value.
There's no escape from "entertainment".
Instablaster
There's a reason why these shows are still showing now. They got it right!
What's My line showcased lots of up and comers and figures of history. The last known living person who saw Lincoln shot as a child, the first Senator of Hawaii comes to mind.
Boy does this bring back memories…I was also 8 years old and remember vividly standing in our living room in my pajamas at the start of Gunsmoke to outdraw the bad guy. What is amazing to see how much America has changed, mores the pity…
This is when tv was for family and we all sat around together watching good times Even though i was only about 5 ♥
@David Pinegar thank you 😊
And we had to get up and change the channels physically on some sets.
Why is it, that while I watch this upload, I get the weird feeling that I am sick at home from school...really weird. PJ's and everything..........................
Everything was sooooo simple in those great days..
Yeah, like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
@@curbmassa It was simple to explain and understand! That is what Tee meant overall in those halcyon days, when the main opponent to the U.S. population was nuclear war with the USSR, and in this case, over a third-world country as Cuba was then, and still is today with its socialist/communist economy. I lived through that time, and everyone was afraid for almost 2 weeks (Oct. 16-28, 1962) that today might be their last day alive! Actually, the people did not know until Oct. 22, when Pres. Kennedy went on national tv to announce what was going on in Cuba, so it was only 7 days. But the leaders knew by Oct. 16, so it was 13 long days for them.
..... if you weren't African American
....Relatively simpler, definitely. The main problem today is television, and other entities, tell you what you're "supposed" to think, and too many are too stupid to not see through it. Gullibility & lack of independent thought. Bad combination.
@@freeguy77 I remember John F Kennedy was live on TV and announcing the crisis. I wanted him to launch a surprise attack on those missile silos despite my having been born there as was my parents. Back in Flushing Queens NYC.
the Lassie intro makes me cry
The ending used to freak me out when Lassie raised the paw.
Used to make me cry too when I watched this as a little girl
I've never liked Collies...they were always mean to me...
The music, summer, life at its best, a beautiful caring helpful dog, and a kid having simple joy. I even had a book called Lassie and the Secret of the Summer. About as simple joy as you can get.
Thank God for Antenna TV
that's right
we can see some good tv
from the old days im 61 i miss all this stuff
And Me -TV , Grit TV , Retro TV , for the programs we boomers enjoy !
You said that right, MeTv is awsome to 💯
@@luvs2cover
I know Me tv is doing Saturday morings again. That and classic sci fi like Buck Rodgers and Planet of the Apes and Horror fantasy Kolchack the Night Stalker and Night Gallery I just wish I could find the Magician with Bill Bixby.
@@elizabethkizzar5489 There are clips of The Magician here on YT and it's available on DVD.
That was back in the days when TV was interesting.
I think that's maybe because it wasn't on 24/7 and there were only three channels. With hundreds of channels trying to fill up the days, they've officially run out of ideas.
LMAO
TV was interesting and uplifting. It was a joy to watch back then.
"Reality" TV has killed a lot of it. :-(
@@1964DB Right! Those Were the days! Lol
I remember my 94 year old grandmother loving these shows. She sometimes watched them doing push-ups and jumping jacks.
Must of watched Jack Lallane exercise guru too
@@connerkirk1043my Mom loved Jack seeing she doing exercises along with him
I wasn't born then but thanks to video and streaming services seldom goes by a week that I don't watch at least one of these shows a lot of variety back then personal favorites Have Gun Will Travel Twilight Zone Route 66 and best of all Jack Benny
Don't forget in those days we didn't have 24 hrs of TV
Or common sense.
Yes. We tend to forget the negatives. Sign off at Midnight after the news. Rabbit ears. Snow. Ghosts. LOL. It actually sucked now that you mention it. LOL.
I don't watch TV in the middle of the night anyway.
The only 24hr TV station here in Chicago was WGN-TV Channel 9. They showed a lot of old movies and local children's shows like Garfield Goose and Bozo's Circus.
These were the shows of our childhoods. Now we have one foot in the grave.
Yeah,but being a child back then is so much better than being one now during this time.
Hahaha hahaha 😆so true
and the other on a banana peel
@@christinagiagni3578 Ha ha!
The Perry Mason theme was one of the most haunting ever used on TV.
Doug E. Stile, it is called Park Avenue Beat
You should listen to Ozzy Osbourne's version, an homage.
Doug E. Stile I downloaded the theme ringtone for my iPhone .
You want the reverse? Check out "Jack Benny On Trial." In that episode, Jack Benny is accused of "murdering a rooster." He hires Perry Mason...and Mason screws up badly. Raymond Burr struggled not to laugh.
It used to scare me to death- I was only 3 or 4. I still get a faint sense of that when I hear it.
Funny, with Satellite TV; We can now see Gunsmoke, Andy Griffith, and Father Knows Best almost 24 hrs a day.
Love them all
NIce thought
True…but I must admit that I'd also like to see some of the shows here that didn’t run long enough to build a following and become classics.
@@JamesDavidWalley I agree. If you search youtube, sometimes you can see pilots or limited runs of obscure TV shows from the past.
What great memories, except for the Perry Masom opening theme, it used to scare me when I was a kid.
mike u me too, I still feel a faint sense of it even now.
Unfortunately we are now always on candid camera.
.........And not too many people are smiling, either.
Like the Truman show
No cop shows.?
Especially if you're driving... Watch out for those speed cameras! (Or in a department store's changing room to try on a shirt.)
USSteel when we had jobs for the people to raise families.
They went on strike and asked for too much. The union killed the jobs!
@@jsivco3sivco785 Yeah. Those unions took all the money you used to make. So who's taking it now?
@Craig G Exactly well said.
@Craig G And McDonald's employees are screaming for 15/hrs. and can't get coffee right and no clue what half and half is, but they have cream.
Route 66 should have had the original Nelson Riddle theme music... still, a ton of memories of my youth... thank you for posting these...
czcams.com/video/1nbRoyJXSfQ/video.html
Yeah, they were lame in not keeping that, was the best part of the program.
I would really shock the kids nowadays to find out that in order to change the channel , you actually had to get up off your butt , go over to the t v get hold of a dial and turn it to change the program .
You mean pliers, don’tcha? 😂
and that you had to wait for the specific day and time to watch, and wait a whole week for the next episode. No binging an entire season in one night. Patience Grasshopper!
Did I ever have get up and hold the antenna for your parents, bad weather or a plane overhead would mess up TV.
That was my older brother was for ,that was his job ,he was the remote
Oh they know. They just shake their heads in disbelief and think everything is so much better today . Wrong .
Even as a kid I watched Mr Ed not for the talking horse but for Wilbur's wife. 😉
No Shit. She was a serious hottie
OK, OK, who was the actress who played Wilbur's wife? (and what was the wife's name?)
Actress Connie Hines played Carol Post, Wilber Post's wife on "Mister Ed." I thought she was a hottie also.
Did you masturbate thinking about Wilbur's wife?
“Marshall Dillon” was the title for typically daytime reruns of “Gunsmoke”.
And Bonanza was called Ponderosa...
David Couch Thanks, did not know that. I thought maybe it was a little different iteration of Gunsmoke.
From 1961 through 1964, the original half-hour episodes were repeated on Tuesdays at 7:30pm(et), under the "MARSHAL DILLON" title, then syndicated.
We referred to the Andy Griffith show as Andy of Mayberry or sometimes just Mayberry.
Ah, I was wondering. I was asking myself "What's this show that Marshall Dillon starred in?" :)
Anyone else remember the HUGE controversy (at least in the Bible Belt) when Red Skelton, dressed as a chicken in one of his skits, laid an egg? I kid you not, there were people who thought that was risque and wouldn't let their kids watch it anymore.
This is exactly why I think people are being simplistic when they say it’s just the people of today that are too sensitive and people weren’t back in the day.
That’s a ridiculous controversy that would never happen today. A chicken suit controversy? They were also upset by bare midriffs (Gilligan’s Island) and a married couple being portrayed as sleeping (I Love Lucy) in the same bed. The content on even *daytime* soaps today would get you cancelled back then.
I don’t know how to measure what era was “more sensitive” but there’s definitely evidence that both eras had sensitive people that were offended by different things than people are today.
It was a brown egg and people thought it was something else.
And they haven’t gone away. In fact they’re larger and crazier!
How cool to see all of the intros to the series and to see the actual lineup on the schedule. I was six turning seven in the spring of 1962 and I remember sitting in front of the TV watching many of these black and white series. Thanks for the memories.
Let's be honest -- mostly white.
I was born in 1999 and i find myself watching this and i find it weird but I like seeing how things were back then.
The Twilight Zone was of course the best of all! 😁
Shiboline.. I agree 100%.. besides being entertaining,Serling raised some very important social issues.
PROPAGANDA SHIT DISS need The last poets
Tied with Mr. Ed!
Robert Keefer they aren't even close. The Twilight Zone is considered one of the greatest shows of all time, was original and revolutionary. Hell, it even has its own Disney ride. Mr. Ed was just another cheesy 60s sitcom.
@@michaelsuder3217 Agreed 100%! The others have only nostalgic value for me; TZ was and is head and shoulders above them all.
That Saturday night line-up was killer. Perry Mason, The Defenders, Have Gun-Will Travel and Gunsmoke. Does not get any better than that.
Tom I remember all those tv shows - not only that I enoyed them & still enjoy them now when I can watch them with reruns 📺 & 📺 June 11, 2019
How about NBC's Thursday night lineup in the 80s: Cosby, Cheers, Night Court...
@Point Dexter NBC's Thursday night in 1984: Cosby, Cheers, Night Court...
Every theme song on Saturday night was so evocative!
Probably not rivaled until the Fall of 1973 when on Saturday night CBS had All in the Family, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart Show, and Carol Burnett Show. That hasn't been topped since.
Candid Camera, the BEST "reality show" ever made. I wish that GE, Armmstrong, and United States Steel or comparable modern companies would start tha theatre series again. Those show combined the best writers of the 50's with stars and soon to be stars in some of the best one hour plays written at the time. Now we have garbage. Also I miss "The Twentieth Century" "Omnibus" and "Air Power" all hosted by Walter Cronkite.
Don't forget 'Playhouse 90'.
I'm 76 years old. In 1962 I was a senior at St. Charles High School. Back in the "olden" days most families had one TV three channels, ABC,NBC and CBS. We had WOSU channel for Ohio State University.
Shows started at 8:00 pm and ended at 11:00 pm EST for us in Columbus Ohio.
My point is that we had to settle on which show we, as a family, would watch. And we watched as a family, so there was give and take between the adults and kids.
Of course everything was in black and white. Color came later.
I remember our first tv, a Dumont television. The day it was delivered, I got "sick" in school and was allowed to come home. The very first show I saw was a 15 minute show called "The Egg and I". I have no memory what it was about.
By the way, I watch reruns of Perry Mason to this day. One of my favorite shows then and now. Raymond Burr was wonderful.
Those were better, simpler days.
I'm from Columbus, as well.. GO BUCKS!!!
As someone born in 1971, I’m amazed at how deep this lineup is! There had to be at least 10 “Hall of Fame” level shows on here and a whole bunch of others that are still being rerun today. Even most of the obscure ones at least had a huge star or two in them. Quite impressive!
And this was just one network, amazing!
When TV was actually entertaining.
I was seven for the first 7 or so months of '62 but I still recall the power of TV back then. It was all I really had but I was fairly content with it, back when I still believed in Santa Clause.
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Yes. If you some of the others in this series, there’s a lot more junk than good stuff. Not CBS in 1962.
This is my childhood! How wonderful to see. Thank you to whomever put it together.
I was 8 years old in 1962, and my favorite shows from these listed by far was Lassie and Dennis the Menace back then. I still watch many of these shows now thanks to Antenna TV, ME TV, etc. About the only show on this list that don't remember is Ichabod and Me, which was only on for one season with a total of 36 episodes. Too bad they don't make quality shows like the ones shown here anymore.
I second that.
I was only 13 in 1962, and I still remember watching "The 20th Century" with my father on Sunday night.
I was 9 years old; and I remember watching most of these shows. Did not like Lassie or Dennis the Menace.
How about "The World at War"?
@@davidlafleche1142 I really liked the World at War Series. As a kid in the late 50s and early 60s also watch with my Father, Victory at Sea, The Silent Service and other shows like it. That was because was a WWII and Korean War vet and was still in the Navy.
I was only 4 in 1962 and I remember most of these shows.
@@efandmk3382 same here ed. Great time to grow up,
Seems like the world of 1962, when compared to the current, was decidedly the more preferable, especially in television entertainment. Of course, most people who were only four years old, would probably agree.
Fun Fact: Ichabod and Me was one of 2 shows created by JaMco(Jack Benny's & Mary Livingstone's production company) in affiliation with Universal TV. The other being a dramatic series, Checkmate.
That was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the violent attacks on civil rights marchers and Freedom Riders. Women couldn't get a credit card in their own name. Eastern Europe was under the control of the Soviet Union. Cars were spewing out poisons into the air, and that's just a quick summary of that "simple, innocent time!"
Great to see this line-up from 1962 CBS. And remember, the other 2 networks also had many fine programs. My kids tell me that there wasn't much on TV then, with only 3 or 4 channels, but, in reality, there was an infinitely greater variety of diverse programming then than now, even with the 400 channels we get on cable/satellite. I have been watching TV since 1954, and always looked forward to each night's programs on the various networks. I wore out 3 TV tuning knobs (remotes were not invented yet) switching between all of the shows. I loved watching TV, especially from 1954 to 1965, when there was so much originality, humor, music, live drama, etc. Now, I hardly watch TV except for some sports. I remember that live boxing used to be on network TV 3 nights a week, prime time!
I wish somebody could put out this kind of summary for the other networks, and for all the first decades of TV programming. Much thanks for the memories!
@nimrodian You have got to be kidding! If you saw those shows then, and saw what is around today, there is absolutely no comparison.
Thank you for posting this. I remember Perry Mason, Candid Camera, I've Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth, Ed Sullivan, Mr. Ed, The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, What's My Line, The Andy Griffith Show, The Danny Thomas Show, Hennessey, The Gary Moore Show, Route 66, The Defenders, Perry Mason, and the Twentieth Century. It's always nice to remember quality television programs for a change.
I guess you are a little older than I am.
@@Juliaflo I credit my memory bank, which works like a camera....;-)
@@Celluloidwatcher Clickety-click-click. LOLOL. Happy Easter.
@@Juliaflohank you!!! And Happy Easter to you too...:-)
I liked Abby Dalton on HENNESSY
I was born in 1954. I had forgotten that Twilight Zone was on Friday nights. That explains why I was always able to watch it, although it came on late at night. We had the best reception on the CBS channel, fuzzy reception on the NBC channel, and basically no reception on the ABC channel back in 1962.
My God .Those shows brought back so many memories I was 15 yrs old at that time Iam 72 now Alot of those shows didn't last long And they were all in Black and White. Color TV didn't come out until 1966. Some of my favorite shows were Gunsmoke. Rawhide. The Twilight zone. The Andy Griffith Show. Dennis the Menace and many more I could go back to those times in a heartbeat.
Many shows were in color prior to 1966. Most CBS shows were broadcast in color by the fall of 1965. NBC was the color 'pioneer' with a color show ('Bonanza') coming on as early as the 1959-60 season. The majority of households did not have a color set until the late '60s, but all prime-time shows were in color starting with the 1966-67 season.
William George Sr. Yes in a Hart beat!
@@mga7076 NBC broadcast a lot shows in color during this period. CBS had tried color broadcasting sporadically in the 1950s, but finally decided to quit in '58,. This was due in large part to the fact that CBS and RCA which owned NBC at the time, had been locked in a bitter fight in the early 1950s over which color TV standard would be adopted. Each had developed their own standards and the two systems were completely incompatible with each other. The government finally decided on the RCA standard. CBS lost, and after some off-and-on broadcasting in the RCA standard, CBS quit color broadcasting entirely in1958. They had decided that color programming would only help RCA sell color TV sets. The rivalry was so bitter, that CBS executives ordered the RCA trademark removed from all the RCA TV cameras the network owned,. Starting about 1958,, CBS began to replace all its RCA cameras with British made Marconi cameras. Finally, about 1965, whether or not a show was in color had started to affect its ratings, so CBS had to bite the bullet, and start broadcasting in color.
Almost over a generation later, half of CBS' Sunday lineup seen here would later be part of _Nickelodeon's_ Sunday lineup.
I have been singing a lot of the theme songs since I remember them so well. What a great walk down memory lane!
Red Skelton. When he screwed up, he would make fun of it and grab the cue cards just out of our sight and show us what it says.
On one show, there was no mistake, but Red had to speak his lines as he was looking into a mirror, and he turned around, and grabbed the guy holding the cue card, dragged him into view of the camera, and pointed out that the cue card was written backwards, so he, Red could read it the mirror.
RcHydrozz, I remember when the cow they brought on during one skit pooped on the stage.
@@2nostromo One of my fondest memories was seeing Red in person. He left the audience, which included teens and younger children in such a wonderful mood that we all felt like family.
My God!!!! I remembered those!!!!! Got me in tears!! Never forgotten!!!!! Wish to go back!!!??
Route 66 features a ‘62 Corvette . Sweet
It was also the all time greatest show. An old English professor of mine authored one of the original teleplays.
Yeah, it was a new one every year. Product placement for the sponsor, Chevrolet.
@@msquaretheoriginal I think Chevrolet had a deal with the producers that they would only show Chevrolets on camera.
I love Mr. Ed!!!! Obviously many of my favorite shows were reruns since I was born in 68. Good memories ❤️
Yes, the music scores steadily identified the program. The composers put much thought and creativity to produce high quality instrumentation. I agree that the Perry Mason and The Fugitive theme songs were among the best ever. Today? Junk.
I still watch "Perry Mason" and especially "The Fugitive" and love their theme songs. I also liked the theme songs for " Route 66" composed by Nelson Riddle, and " Peter Gunn" composed by Henry Mancini.
The theme songs for many tv shows in the 1960's were classic.
There sure were a lot of Westerns back in the day.
Yea.. The Easterns were all used up !!!!! Had to do something.
I never got any particular thrill watching a bunch of people (mostly guys) riding around a ranch on horses. I was only born in '62, so I guess I missed all of these anyway.
that's for sure! that's all my mom and step dad watch!
I was four years old then. I never liked the "cowboy" shows as I called them. I went for Mr. Ed and Lassie.
@@GermanShepherd1983 , don’t forget Dennis the Menace
my father just loved Red Skelton...never missed it on Sunday evenings
If he missed it on Sundays, it was because Red's show was broadcast Tuesdays. At least that's when I watched it.
Same with my dad.that and hee haw, in the 70s
He was on Sunday evenings- on NBC- from 1951 through '53.
@@fromthesidelines Well, I was too busy being an embryo to watch it then.
Remember the Christmas show about 1967 with Sen. Everett Dirkson. Red did the Vally Forge skit on that one. Unreal what Red could say without one word!
I was 13 years young in '62 and CBS had it covered baby!!!
@Frredomfromjunkscience Feb 28th 1962 I was 8
I was twelve. I thank God I was born on Sunday Jan 1950
@@marvymarier8988 I was too!
@@mauritiusdunfagel9473 Two Capricorns ! Wonder how similar we are .
I was 4 ,but remember many of these shows, TV just isn't the same anymore
Oh yes, I was ten and life was perfect. Really good !
Gunsmoke still holds up.
CANDID CAMERA PROVIDED HRS OF LAUGHTER!!
I remember a retrospective on Candid Camera where they rehashed a stunt where somebody pulled some prank involving somebody's car, and everybody thought the owner was a victim of a crime. One of the bystanders pointed out that a kid today can strip a car down in five seconds.
The funniest show in those days was "Bullwinkle." One of the funniest stories ever written was "The Great Box Top Robbery."
2:50 Candid Camera seems a lot like America's Funniest (i.e., Stupidest) Home Videos, except of course they're not "home" videos.
yes it sure did ♥
@@davidlafleche1142 Frostbite Falls...a great name for town in Minnesota..
I was born in august of 62 I love all these old shows should have a channel to show all these shows on!!!!
Very good days about 14 hours a week of westerns we've gotten back to that now I love it
I just looked at your other postings, and you have done it for other years and postings. Great. A valuable archive, for sure.
I honestly believe that I learned more science information from Cronkite than any teacher/instructor/prof throughout my lifetime, thus far....
And thats the say it was
Man,that Twilight Zone intro still creeps me out as it did when I was 10. Some of the shows were totally new to me,"Father of The Bride"? Big fan of "Rawhide" the young Clint Eastwood. Who knew he would blow up as he did. He really worked at his craft...
Have Gun Will Travel was my all time favorite TV Western when I was just a kid growing up. I remember watching this classic TV Western as far back as 1959 when I was 3 years old with my mom. She also enjoyed watching many of the TV Westerns.
My favorite shows to watch are in black and white.
+LoveEverton John Ewww, TMI
Me too. Black and white shows draw me in, in a way color shows do not. I can't explain it.
@@Mimi-jn3fi Black and white shows have a different texture and visual "feel" to them.
I was born June 1962. None of this would have first run for me 😂
I was 6. I remember many of these shows. My goodness the world has changed exponentially since then.
Alan Funt & Kirby...
Getting the show off to a comedic start with their names.
The Twilight Zone should have been put in the Saturday lineup along with the other great shows. It was thrown in Friday's lineup with shows they don't even play reruns for. Now there is a 24 hour Twilight Zone marathon once a year
One of the best TV shows ever! There are so many classic episodes!
Twilight Zone was moved to another channel 😅9 and one season used different film speed the type used soap operas but people complained that it was real lookng and was. changed back .
TV was much better in 1962 even though we only had 3 channels to watch, programs were in black and white (mostly), and TV screens were smaller back then.
I had forgotten about Clyde Crashcup on Alvin
Didn’t need a remote control back then, you had a 33% chance you were watching the show you want to see. Then around midnight that Indian test pattern came on the screen right after the national anthem, and after that, just static, until the lords pray at 6:00 am. what a life we had back then. Imagine, NO, 24 hour news channels.
That is your opinion. There have been many classic, quality series on in later years.
Remember when you could take the tubes out of the T.V. and test them at the local drug or hardware store? We had an old Motorola that was about half the size of a refrigerator, and weighed almost as much. The horizontal hold kept flipping, and the Rabbit ears agh the rabbit ears. ... If you had money, you could afford an outdoor antenna on the roof. THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND. .....
Isn't it amazing how the pendulum has swung. TV screens that were once 7-8 inches, then everyone had to thave 19-21 inch sest, the 55-inch flat screens. Now we've gone back to tiny, watching your 5-inch cell phone screen.
Wow...i remember practically 98% of the shows. We only had one TV 📺 and we weren't glued it. Life was different back then. Only 4 stations in NYC back then
4 stations, think yourself lucky, we had only two in the whole of the UK, and one of them was virtually impossible to pick up, depending on where you lived and how good your aerial receiver was ! lol.
Mr. Ed ROCKS!!! I remember that on black and white TV 📺 as a child! Timmy and Lassie and Dennis the Menace I watched with my buddy as children! Great memories 😊😊
love 20th century
Saturday Mornings getting up to watch cartoons had to put the TV on and let the tubs warm up while o got my cereal
I was 7 in 1962 and I remember all of these shows. Good memories, thanks for the video.
What a lineup of shows. No wonder I was a TV aholic.
Gunsmoke, Twilight zone, Lassie, Father knows best, what's my line, etc. What a season! Just good TV, quality acting.
GE's College Bowl was always on at 5:30 on Sunday.
For its last year on CBS,although with Robert Earle taking over as moderator.
I was 9 Years Old I Remember some of these shows it was a Good Time in my Life
I remember most of these shows from thir reruns in later years.I was 3 and 4 in 1972
Many of these shows are still being shown in reruns on many retro channels
THANK GOODNESS.
I was 8 and remember watching most of these shows with my mom and dad. We sure watched CBS at the time, but there were some good ones we watched on ABC as well that I just saw similar to this. Thanks for the memories.
The music & backdrop of that swirling paint during the intro of "Checkmate" always gave me goosebumps as a kid
I never watched the show itself, but I sure remember that creepy swirling intro.
@@michaelpdawson Come to think of it, not a clue what the show itself was all about, but that was a mighty long time ago. I may have just tuned in for the intro, or I may have watched the show. Was just a kid (born in 1955), so even if I watched the show I may not have understood what was going on. Hard to believe we grew up on the garbage they fed us on t.v. back then. Prolly no better nowadays either. I haven't had a t.v. antenna or cable in over ten years now.
Virginia Graham and Kitty Carlisle were on television for a VERY Long Time. what's my line went on forever.
My sister-in-law is sort of friends with the boy who played Timmy... They were both big in collie rescue and rehoming. That's my claim to fame. Don't worry I'll still talk to you little people.
Does anybody remember when the Big Three stations in the fall have the Saturday morning sneak peek. It was a special that was usually shown on Friday night and it was a program that told you about the new season of cartoons and even told the time so you could set the alarm clock so you wouldn't miss your favorite cartoon.
Sign on at 6:30 am, and sign off at 11:30 pm with the National Anthem. There was a CZcams video that happened to have the sign off with the National Anthem. The audience complained, and razed the CZcamsr for it. I just shook my head.
@@MichaelSHartman
Technically here in Oklahoma City it's not really a sign off but at 4:00am every Saturday morning it maybe every morning I just noticed it on Saturday's Kfor plays the National Anthem without fail. The station doesn't sign off but it still plays the National Anthem.
Today's TV has no imagination ( the millennial generation) they have to keep rehashing old ideas. Movies and TV.
@nimrodian And no really decent porno !!
@nimrodian Beats all the reality crap out there today.
@nimrodian Yes it was, and we laughed like hell, Jackie Gleason hated to memorize his script most of it was improvised. We didn't need shock value to catch/keep our attention.
@@1964DB seriously, we were taken away for a time, we got to relax and laughed like hell.
Living in a small Canadian town back then and with only ONE tv station that showed a mixture of Canadian and American shows I don't remember all of these but still do remember quite a few - Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas,Checkmate, Gunsmoke , Mr. Ed, Route 66,Father Knows Best among the notable. Of course everyone watched the Ed Sullivan Show. It was a big deal among Canadians when Wayne & Shuster appeared on his show. Great memories. Thank you.
I was six at the time. We had a VHF TV. No UHF...one local station...a party phone line
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I adored Dobie Gillis. I was 10.
I was 10 when the entire 4 year-run of Dobie Gillis was reran on a local channel and I wouldn't miss an episode.
I had a Dobie Gillis (branded) shirt. not really show-related, just a short-sleeve button down shirt, blue and white checked. The label said "Like lifted From Dobie," as if it were quoting Maynard. I must have loved it, if I remember it so well almost 60 years later.
I have at least a vague memory of watching most of those shows. I have absolutely no memory of ever seeing or watching Ichabod and Me or Oh! Those Bells. They either weren't carried by our local affiliates in Cleveland or were so awful that the memory of them memory has been erased from my mind.
Oh! Those Bells was a summer replacement that didn't even survive the summer. Ichabod and Me was one of three series produced via Jack Benny that was part of a deal to get him to switch studios from Desilu to Revue. It lasted a full season.
Those two and Checkmate, never heard of...
Only knew the Wiere Bros. from their appearance in the Elvis movie Double Trouble...
Sar Jim
Nor do I remember Window on Main Street.
Same here @@sammyjo2852
I was a boy at the time, about 5 or 6. I remember some of these programs; others are new to me. What a lineup! And the same with the other networks. Very impressive.
My earlier memories of TV, but some shows with major stars I never even heard.
Brings back some memories.
Did you know that Father Knows Best actually ended in the spring of 1960 but CBS aired reruns in prime time for an additional two years until 1962!
Thanks.... I was wondering about that. I couldn't figure out how Father Knows Best AND Window On Main Street (both w. RY) were running at the same time?? [well, same season].
And another prime time year on ABC, plus four more of daytime rebroadcasts
And Elinor Donohoe was Andy's girlfriend on the first (1960-61) season of 'Andy Griffith', only to be let go after only that first season. Word is that Griffith and she did not get along at all.
@@mga7076 She realized the two of them weren't the right fit...she was significantly younger than Griffith.
@@tomservo56954 11 years apart.
I was 7 years old and my family watched everyone of these shows. After all it was CBS👁.
I was 8-9 months old, interesting to see what was coming into my brain at that impressionable age. We were living in a brand new house in a suburb of Los Angeles, the black and white Zenith television 📺 was the main focus of our family room, set into the wall, high up so everyone could see. To the left was the fireplace.