Awesome man. Haven't seen any uploads in a while. Always happy to see your videos. This one kind of tugged on the old heartstrings. I remember being home watching some of these shows with my mom. Damn mom, I miss you.
I WAS 21 AND LOVED "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" ! HATED "FAMILY AFFAIR" TOO SACCRIN SWEET ! I remember "Hawk". Poor BURT REYNOLDS couldn't get arrested ! He was destined to be a MOVIE STAR ! Loved the comedy of "The Monkees". I remember the year they got canceled, then WON THE EMMY FOR BEST COMEDY ! Hollywood NEVER KNEW WHAT IT WAS DOING !😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Star trek and mission impossible 2 underrated great shows from desilu Lucille ball fought for both shows including mannix which was close to getting canceled in 1967 and fans of all 3 know how things turned out.
Notice the Glittering City titles and settings of 1966. That Girl and others showcased the pretty, prosperous and sucessful surroundings of NYC, San Fran, LA and Honolulu. This was a departure of the 1st phase B&W era 1949 to 1964 where the city was usually shown as dark and dangerous film noir....while the suburbs were appealing like The Cleaver's or Donna Reeds country club estates. 1971 was a quick change back. Shows like Kojack, All in the Family, Barney Miller, Good Times, Sanford and Son portrayed NYC, Chicago, LA as dangerous places of crumbling buildings. Funny how that changes un just a year or two.
I haven’t heard the theme from “Pistols and Petticoats” for decades. I believe this was the last thing that Ann Sheridan did in her career, as she passed away in 1967.
Some say the single greatest season in TV history, 1966. Never heard of “The Hero” or “Jericho,” and didn’t know “Shane” was ever a TV show. Was “Batman” midseason? The whole run of “Hawk” is here on CZcams. Burt was the man. Also a good chunk of “Felony Squad” eps are on here too. The premise of “Occasional Wife” was recycled 30 years later with “Ned & Stacey.” My conspiracy theory is the Irwin Allen stuff was largely based on real government Cold War black ops programs i.e. there really was a Time Tunnel in the desert somewhere. Funny to watch how slow and awkward TV was to react to the youth market and counterculture aka boomers. Still pushing Uncle Milty in 1966. “That Girl” was a single girl in the city 5 years before MTM, but MTM gets all the glory. I love nerding out on classic TV shows. Welcome back Rw!
When I saw this, I was like "Wait a minute, didn't s/he upload this ages ago?" Well, kinda, but now: the correct STAR TREK season 1 open; one open I hadn't seen before (THE ROAD WEST); everything (barring Milton Berle) in color; alternate versions of RUN, BUDDY, RUN and TARZAN...so yeah, it IS new. And I'm glad to see it.
Not to mention also that the original upload also got blocked a couple of months back, so I fixed that, and a couple of other intros were originally in black and white while now Pistols 'n' Petticoats and The Hero are in color, as well as It's About Time now being color corrected, too.
Thanks for the post. Fall 1966 was the early stages of a rapid change in the mood of the country and the tone and style of pop culture. Network TV was definitely behind the curve. A few shows seemed to be more or less in sync with the times, but a lot of felt really dated from the outset (too many westerns and Milton Berle, for Pete's sake). Hope you can do 1967 and 1968, as uncertain times make for weird television.
For better or worse I think Berle had a Nostalgia spike around this time so I think they were striking while the iron was hot (ish) half of the westerns almost feel like parodies; and Rounders was an express adaptation of a Movie that had come out the year before...
So many throwaway Sitcoms: Hey Landlord, Tammy Grimes, Jean Arthur, Love On a Rooftop, Occasional Wife. Run, Buddy, Run was the least idiotic of the lot.
Most sitcoms are toss away shows. Most lasted a half season (13 ep pkg) or a year or two. They were cheap to produce and low risk. If you made it 3 seasons producers often pulled the plug to just syndicate them for pure producer profit. Even sitcoms are expensive to launch now so networks keep them around well past their expiration date for what seems like inexplicable reasons.
Well spotted! MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and STAR TREK were both made by Desilu; in season 1 of TREK, Sulu wasn't a regular, so it's not hard to picture Bruce Geller calling Gene Roddenberry and saying "Could I borrow that Asian guy for one episode?"
The monkees, rat patrol, star trek, family affair, mission impossible , the green hornet. Compared to some years this was a very good year of new shows.
These still fascinate me with the notion that, at the time, they'd have no way of knowing which of these shows would be forgotten & which ones would become decades long institutions
Born in 1957, I remember some of these shows and don't remember some of them at all (e.g., Occasional Wife). Many of the names associated with these shows went on to huge successes (or, at least, went on to a significant number of other shows).
There's a handful of Westerns/western adjacent shows at the 14 minute mark; and half of them look like thy were expressly (even if affectionately) designed as Parodies
New westerns worked for color, as they had sweeping panoramic scenes. Some retooled from the saloon and marshal's office radio shows like Gunsmoke did and survived. Some didn't and died. Big Valley and Bonanza had already proved the color appeal.
1st James Bond was a US TV show where he was a vaguely CIA agent. That was late 50s filming the novel Casino Royale. The Albert Brocoli movies came in 1962. Spy Fi was already the rage.
Yes, this is a re-post. I remember the CBS Friday Night Movie and Psycho, only the movie was pulled at the last minute because a few days earlier Senator Charles Percy's daughter was stabbed to death in a gruesome manner similar to Janet Leigh's character. CBS replaced the movie with Kings Go Forth which ironically co-starred Janet Leigh's ex Tony Curtis and his character also died violently..
The last desperate attempt to keep Westerns part of the social fabric. These entries were pretty dull. Even as a kid, I thought variety shows were lame. In a few years "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" would successfully kill off the genre (and male perms as well).
Westerns hit their big budget heyday in the mid 60s to 1975. They mostly left TV by 1971 because they were expensive to film requiring a lot of location scenes. However many of the most famous movies were in the early 70s. TV went super cheap in 1970 as most networks had overbudgeted news and dramas in the late 60s to sell color TVs. Norman Lear, Grant Tinker, Danny Arnold and others returned you to the dreary set one room comedies like the 50s when TV was on a serious budget. Bonanza and Gunsmoke survived the rural purges. Bonanza only died because Hoss died IRL. Alias Smith and Jones and Little House was the last of the new westerns in that group introduced in the 70s. Little House made it to the 80s.
@@STho205 Hoss was on Bonanza, Both it and Gunsmoke were extremely tired shows by the end. Bonanza kept trying to introduce new, younger characters but they never took with the audience. James Arness couldn't get on a horse anymore in Gunsmoke. Alias Smith and Jones was an interesting take-off on "Butch Cassidy...Kid", the first big "anti-Western" movie with modern, complex characters rather than simplistic white hat/black hat good guy/bad guy tropes of the earlier Westerns. Then Pete Duel died and the show lost its edge.
@@carseye1219 you are right. Don't know why I typed that. Distracted??? Centennial and How the West Was Won (Arness, Boxlitner) still did quite well in the late 70s...both partly due to spending money on sweeping camerawork and lush music. Without that a western is flat.
@@carseye1219 Arness still apparently could mount a horse weekly in 1977-80 as Zeb McCahan...and so fight scenes, but he was a fairly old looking 53 when Gunsmoke ended...however he was just 53.
Awesome man. Haven't seen any uploads in a while. Always happy to see your videos. This one kind of tugged on the old heartstrings. I remember being home watching some of these shows with my mom. Damn mom, I miss you.
So glad to see a new post from you! TV history is fascinating.
So happy to see you posting again!
Thanks. I'll try to get around to doing a few more soon.
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Hope you can get that copyrighted BS settled. It’s obvious fair use.
@@archer1949 I think I may've found a way around it. I'll only know if it'll also work on the few other blocked videos I still have.
@@RwDt09 I was wondering if you were still around.
Thank you. I really enjoyed finding that out as I also premiered in the fall of 1966.
To this day, when my hair won't behave and insists on flipping out sideways, I say it's "Marlo-ing".
Oh man, Phyllis Diller. I can still hear that mad cackle to this day. She was absolutely incredible.
Her show wasn't the greatest, but the lyrics to their song was funny. I loved Phyllis Diller, she was hilarious.
I would watch any of these shows over most of what’s broadcast today
I just love these compilations!
I WAS 21 AND LOVED "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" ! HATED "FAMILY AFFAIR" TOO SACCRIN SWEET ! I remember "Hawk". Poor BURT REYNOLDS couldn't get arrested ! He was destined to be a MOVIE STAR ! Loved the comedy of "The Monkees". I remember the year they got canceled, then WON THE EMMY FOR BEST COMEDY ! Hollywood NEVER KNEW WHAT IT WAS DOING !😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Star trek and mission impossible 2 underrated great shows from desilu Lucille ball fought for both shows including mannix which was close to getting canceled in 1967 and fans of all 3 know how things turned out.
I didn't think ANYBODY remembered Hey, Landlord! That opening theme with the animations is so great. Is it true it was written by Quincy Jones?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey,_Landlord says yes!
@@discobear5752 Wow. Not sure why I remembered that.
Occasional Wife would be a great Closet Case period comedy.
Notice the Glittering City titles and settings of 1966. That Girl and others showcased the pretty, prosperous and sucessful surroundings of NYC, San Fran, LA and Honolulu.
This was a departure of the 1st phase B&W era 1949 to 1964 where the city was usually shown as dark and dangerous film noir....while the suburbs were appealing like The Cleaver's or Donna Reeds country club estates.
1971 was a quick change back. Shows like Kojack, All in the Family, Barney Miller, Good Times, Sanford and Son portrayed NYC, Chicago, LA as dangerous places of crumbling buildings.
Funny how that changes un just a year or two.
A lot of good and classic shows plus a lot of forgotten ones.
I haven’t heard the theme from “Pistols and Petticoats” for decades. I believe this was the last thing that Ann Sheridan did in her career, as she passed away in 1967.
Some say the single greatest season in TV history, 1966. Never heard of “The Hero” or “Jericho,” and didn’t know “Shane” was ever a TV show. Was “Batman” midseason?
The whole run of “Hawk” is here on CZcams. Burt was the man. Also a good chunk of “Felony Squad” eps are on here too.
The premise of “Occasional Wife” was recycled 30 years later with “Ned & Stacey.”
My conspiracy theory is the Irwin Allen stuff was largely based on real government Cold War black ops programs i.e. there really was a Time Tunnel in the desert somewhere.
Funny to watch how slow and awkward TV was to react to the youth market and counterculture aka boomers. Still pushing Uncle Milty in 1966.
“That Girl” was a single girl in the city 5 years before MTM, but MTM gets all the glory.
I love nerding out on classic TV shows.
Welcome back Rw!
When I saw this, I was like "Wait a minute, didn't s/he upload this ages ago?" Well, kinda, but now: the correct STAR TREK season 1 open; one open I hadn't seen before (THE ROAD WEST); everything (barring Milton Berle) in color; alternate versions of RUN, BUDDY, RUN and TARZAN...so yeah, it IS new. And I'm glad to see it.
Not to mention also that the original upload also got blocked a couple of months back, so I fixed that, and a couple of other intros were originally in black and white while now Pistols 'n' Petticoats and The Hero are in color, as well as It's About Time now being color corrected, too.
Welcome back RwDt09!
I lost count of how many of these theme songs were played by The Wrecking Crew.
Thanks for the post. Fall 1966 was the early stages of a rapid change in the mood of the country and the tone and style of pop culture. Network TV was definitely behind the curve. A few shows seemed to be more or less in sync with the times, but a lot of felt really dated from the outset (too many westerns and Milton Berle, for Pete's sake). Hope you can do 1967 and 1968, as uncertain times make for weird television.
Milton Berle must have thought if Red Skelton can hack it in the late 60's, why not him? 😕
1967 - czcams.com/video/W0ifoXYUlAw/video.html
1968 - czcams.com/video/VNzpR8dzri4/video.html
@@RwDt09 Thanks for the links.
For better or worse I think Berle had a Nostalgia spike around this time so I think they were striking while the iron was hot (ish)
half of the westerns almost feel like parodies; and Rounders was an express adaptation of a Movie that had come out the year before...
Green Hornet theme. Its all ABOUT THE THEME SONGS.
In 2024 what's theme song?
@@toshiojohnston3732 Hawaii 5.O
Welcome back! I'm not the age of some other commenters, so I enioy watching these to see what I recognize
So many throwaway Sitcoms: Hey Landlord, Tammy Grimes, Jean Arthur, Love On a Rooftop, Occasional Wife.
Run, Buddy, Run was the least idiotic of the lot.
Most sitcoms are toss away shows. Most lasted a half season (13 ep pkg) or a year or two. They were cheap to produce and low risk. If you made it 3 seasons producers often pulled the plug to just syndicate them for pure producer profit.
Even sitcoms are expensive to launch now so networks keep them around well past their expiration date for what seems like inexplicable reasons.
The only interesting TV Guides had the new fall lineups
The RAT PATROL! gets me every time
8:21 IS THAT GEORGE TAKEI??
Why, yes it is. 😁
@@luisreyes1963 Wish they'd given him more screen time!
Well spotted! MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and STAR TREK were both made by Desilu; in season 1 of TREK, Sulu wasn't a regular, so it's not hard to picture Bruce Geller calling Gene Roddenberry and saying "Could I borrow that Asian guy for one episode?"
He was in the episode "The Carriers" aired 11/19/66 playing IMF agent Roger Lee.
@@keithidota Thank you! Wonder if I can find it on YT.
The monkees, rat patrol, star trek, family affair, mission impossible , the green hornet. Compared to some years this was a very good year of new shows.
These still fascinate me with the notion that, at the time, they'd have no way of knowing which of these shows would be forgotten & which ones would become decades long institutions
True so many soso shows become iconic yet very good ones one year wonders.
Welcome back, Rw!
WELCOME BACK!!!!
And 58 years later, two shows are still going on…kinda.
Every time I see Rober Loggia on tv I remember T.H.E. Cat. I think I'm in the minority remembering this show.
You’re not alone. I remember that T.H.E. Cat was one of my mother’s favorite shows. She had a mad crush on Robert Loggia at the time.
I was 6 and I only remember a handful of these. I guess I never watched the ones that were canceled in one season. It seems like a lot of westerns
I don't believe any one of those westerns lasted very long.
Born in 1957, I remember some of these shows and don't remember some of them at all (e.g., Occasional Wife). Many of the names associated with these shows went on to huge successes (or, at least, went on to a significant number of other shows).
James Bond had a CHOKEHOLD on mid 60’s TV. Not as much as westerns, apparently, but those had been popular for decades.
There's a handful of Westerns/western adjacent shows at the 14 minute mark; and half of them look like thy were expressly (even if affectionately) designed as Parodies
New westerns worked for color, as they had sweeping panoramic scenes. Some retooled from the saloon and marshal's office radio shows like Gunsmoke did and survived. Some didn't and died.
Big Valley and Bonanza had already proved the color appeal.
1st James Bond was a US TV show where he was a vaguely CIA agent. That was late 50s filming the novel Casino Royale. The Albert Brocoli movies came in 1962. Spy Fi was already the rage.
Yes, this is a re-post. I remember the CBS Friday Night Movie and Psycho, only the movie was pulled at the last minute because a few days earlier Senator Charles Percy's daughter was stabbed to death in a gruesome manner similar to Janet Leigh's character. CBS replaced the movie with Kings Go Forth which ironically co-starred Janet Leigh's ex Tony Curtis and his character also died violently..
The last desperate attempt to keep Westerns part of the social fabric. These entries were pretty dull. Even as a kid, I thought variety shows were lame. In a few years "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" would successfully kill off the genre (and male perms as well).
Westerns hit their big budget heyday in the mid 60s to 1975. They mostly left TV by 1971 because they were expensive to film requiring a lot of location scenes. However many of the most famous movies were in the early 70s.
TV went super cheap in 1970 as most networks had overbudgeted news and dramas in the late 60s to sell color TVs. Norman Lear, Grant Tinker, Danny Arnold and others returned you to the dreary set one room comedies like the 50s when TV was on a serious budget.
Bonanza and Gunsmoke survived the rural purges. Bonanza only died because Hoss died IRL. Alias Smith and Jones and Little House was the last of the new westerns in that group introduced in the 70s. Little House made it to the 80s.
@@STho205 Hoss was on Bonanza, Both it and Gunsmoke were extremely tired shows by the end. Bonanza kept trying to introduce new, younger characters but they never took with the audience. James Arness couldn't get on a horse anymore in Gunsmoke. Alias Smith and Jones was an interesting take-off on "Butch Cassidy...Kid", the first big "anti-Western" movie with modern, complex characters rather than simplistic white hat/black hat good guy/bad guy tropes of the earlier Westerns. Then Pete Duel died and the show lost its edge.
@@carseye1219 you are right. Don't know why I typed that. Distracted???
Centennial and How the West Was Won (Arness, Boxlitner) still did quite well in the late 70s...both partly due to spending money on sweeping camerawork and lush music. Without that a western is flat.
@@carseye1219 Arness still apparently could mount a horse weekly in 1977-80 as Zeb McCahan...and so fight scenes, but he was a fairly old looking 53 when Gunsmoke ended...however he was just 53.
Interesting shows, some hits, some clunkers.
Occasional Wife aka Donald Trump's relationships.
Liked the green hornet was awful it only lasted one season