Diana Sands..that was a gorgeous woman. Too bad many people don't know of her. A pioneer on the Broadway circuit, childhood friends with Diahann Carroll. RIP
And my auntie Madilyn . shes actually my fathers first cousin but she was over 20yrs older then himself so we called her auntie . They all grew up and played together as children til teenage . my auntie told me stories about their friendship My auntie was the real dancer the mambo QUEEN she was known as . they was smart young and beautiful young women though my auntie never went to acting as they did she was just as talented she choose education (masters in sociology education social services . she loved to help people)and family( got married had 4 children) over childhood passions shared amongst young friends in poverty though never really felt because of the community they was from . She remembered fondly of their going to the picture shows when they could and wanting to be like Lena Horne ( they was pretty close complextion wise. She passed away a few years back. Now, I look at her pictures as a young girl and see Diahann Carroll I think, BOY! I could only Imagine them almost being like lynn Whitfield Vanessa Williams and Vanessa Bell Callaway in stompin at the savoy( must see) just 3 fine young lady's living and chasing their dreams. I miss her much.
This TV series was very important to me during sophomore year in high school and was one of the reasons I became a lawyer. I grew up in a very provincial community, in the Chicago metropolitan area that included redlining and discrimination against people of different religions, races, and nationalities. This TV series opened my eyes to how other people lived. Each week I watched a different social issue being addressed by caring, empathetic people. The stories were compelling. The series was also an opportunity to see great acting performances by people from different ethnicities and races. The series may have only lasted one season ... but it impressed me deeply and it became a “watershed” series for many fine TV shows that followed. This episode is one of the best. And so many of the actors went on to brilliant careers and honors. Thank you for letting me see it again.
East Side/West Side inspired me to become a social worker, too! I was only a kid when our local WCVB-TV channel 5 in Boston aired episodes of the series on it's "5 All Night" show in the early 70s, but the episodes I saw effected me so much that I knew from then on that's what I wanted to do. My mother, my two aunts and my uncle were all social workers, but it was George C. Scott's portrayal of Neil Brock that inspired me the most.
Awesome that you were compelled to live the type of life you have. Defending people who are marginalized. I’m white however I’ve had my own early watershed moments.
I so second that. I was devastated when I learned that she not only had cancer, but that the cancer was terminal. It was a dark day when Miss Sands passed away. One might have never known what this lovely and talented actress brought to the table.
@@Juliaflo ...The movie CLAUDINE was supposed to star Diana Sands. Unfortunately, the latter was stricken with pancreatic cancer. Diana asked her best friend, Diahann Carroll, to take her place. The latter accepted the part. The movie CLAUDINE, was a hit. Diahann was nominated for Best Actress. We loss Diana Sands at the age of thirty-nine. However, she left us her immeasurable talent on the small and big screen to enjoy again and again, Ciao!
Very good drama...I wasnt born then, but I never heard of this drama or seen a rerun. I love anything with Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones in it. The waitress was Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun.
Diana Sands has been gone forever and I still miss her. This series aired when I was in 8th grade and I loved it!! Cicely looked like a girl, and she was nearing middle age even then! Black genes keep on growing!
Age 39 here. But in the Gayle King tv interview days before her passing, Cecily Tyson at 96 was still wrinkleless ... unlike her face as masked up in 1974 to look deeply cottonfield weathered and wrinkled as her fictitious character Miss Jane Pittman, an ex slave born 1852, appeared in 1962 at age 110. Rest in peace in caelum (Heaven Side), Miss Cecily.
I was 16 when this show was on TV. It influenced me to choose Medical Social Work as a profession. Haven't seen this since 1963. Thank you for uploading.
Cicely Tyson was the first and only person I had ever seen that wore an afro on tv. Back then we didn't know about an 'afro'. It was hair that wasn't straightened with a hot comb!!!! I was in shock and particularly intrigued. Next thing you knew it was the style to have and I made sure I had mine!!
gayle2020 there was Odetta. Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone and Abby Lincoln, too! Now look at us. Weaves down to the ground, stinky wigs and no hairlines at all. Progress? From Black power to ... what?
Cicely was 38 looking 20! Her eyes are so beautiful & expressive. Even then James had a commanding presence. Diana reminds me a lot of Diahann Carroll. Cicely & James were icons in the making!!!
Reading the comments, so many people credit it with influencing their choice in profession. It’s amazing to see how many people’s lives this series affected in only one season.
I was just born in March of '63. I never heard of Diana Sands before or have I ever seen this series. ONE THING I KNOW, THESE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES ARE THE EPITOME' OF EXCELLENCE IN EVERY WAY
Diana Sands was to Play the Role of "Claudjne" in CLAUDINE. She was stricken with cancer and Referred & Recommended her Friend, "Diahann Carroll" for the Leading Role.
Diana Sands died of cancer back on September 21, 1973; the same day that Eva Gabor married her fifth and final husband, aerospace executive Frank Jameson.
Trust God an not every man Trump is misleading the people no man live above sin Trust God Law not Trump LAW vote Democrats this fall an God will heal this land not Trump who without sin cast the first stone no man live above sin Trust God.....
This show was so far ahead of its time. The performances were iconic. I wonder if the doctors really did all they could or they just let the little girl die bc they didn't care. #RIPCicelyTyson
This TV series only lasted one season. Why?? It was too intelligent, and too real!! The network suits don't usually let something this good last for very long, sad to say.
@nyterpfan you answered your own question. It was too intelligent and real for the masses at that time and even today! Another excellent show that was on around that time and filmed in NYC was "Naked City". Television is mostly used to dumb down the masses.......
@@DetroitLives313 Very true. TV shows that depict reality prompt people to ask questions. Questioning oftentimes leads to struggle against the status quo.
@KSmall109CAB You are right on the money with your comment! Consider the fact that this particular program aired in 1963 during the Civil Rights Movement/Struggle in America.
This show was ahead of it's time... especially with the USA still being racially segregated at the time.. Many actors had to wait until 1968-1979 for movies and shows that were labeled #Blackexploitation which was crap projects based upon..Drugs,Poverty,Violence,Organized crime and depicting people of color as victims...
I remember it like it was yesterday, I watched it every week Ms Cicely Tyson(Black ensembles) were rare to find on TV back in the 50's and 60's that's why I was eating this show up Cicely played Secretary to (George C Scott's) character who was a Social worker she was a trailblazer. RIP always and forever in our hearts.
I came here from watching how to get away with murder. Im on season 4 lol.Was just looking at Cicely Tyson on Google and didnt realize shes 95. I like her character on the show.
That's the movie I kept thinking about when I saw me saying she's such a beautiful lady I also thought about the movie she was in Raisin in the Sun and another movie call Willie Dynamite pretty good movie to me
Yes all black women are beautiful but they convince us white is right or close to light..i know i was brainwashed on white or very light myself. God help us they(colonizer) did a number on us.
Bette drama than what is airing today. Top level acting. I remember this show. Not many details, but just that it existed. R,I,P, Cicely Tyson, who recently passed.
Loved this show back in the day. It was truly a ground breaking realistic look at race relations. Was really pissed, it was only one season, probably because it was too realistic.
It was too realistic, showing the strife in Black America was something suburban Whites couldnt handle . Imagine the progress we couldve had if we were giben the truth and reality .
I was 12 when I saw this show. I was riveted and I knew then I wanted to be a social worker. Bravo East side West side for portraying real social issues and the pain of racial Injustice. It defined for me what my young mind observed. First TV drama to feature Black actors portraying multi-dimentional characters with dignity and beauty.
I remember this show as a 12 year old , I’ve never forgotten it because of the realistic and serious topics . The following is from Wikipedia Despite the high quality of both the writing and acting, the show's penchant for taking on touchy topics forced many potential advertisers to avoid sponsorship of the show, while a number of local stations across the country also chose not to present the program to their viewers. It is said that CBS programming head James Aubrey clashed with Scott regarding the direction of the show, which also was a factor in the cancellation.[3] Oh and thanks for the upload . They don’t make them like that anymore.
hrtly afterwards both Ciciely Tyson and James Earl Jones would become pioneers in the world of Soaps when Cicely Tyson played the First African American Character on A Soap Opera as Martha Frazier a Nurse on Guiding Light (1965). James Earl Jones would later replace Billy Dee Williams as Dr. Jim Frazier as well. James& Cicely would each play in Roots & Roots The Next Generations.
Thanx for the upload. I'm a woman and I can say that Diana Sands sure was a good looking woman. Never heard of this t.v. series; interesting and sad. Hard to fathom the poverty that our people endured. Could feel the pain and sadness and care that the actors possess. The music score was fantastic too!
I remember watching this show with my mother when I was around 11 years old. I am so happy to see a lot of these coming back on CZcams. Even at that young age I knew that this was a great show. Too bad a lot of people have never seen it, but you are giving them the opportunity here on CZcams. Thanks!
@@Still-Learning Because the blackman was / is not willing to pay the price of freedom but this is quickly changing -because now he / she is willing to pay the price of freedom!
@@BrotherX What up BroX? Thanx for the comeback. Got it...was not willing, but is now willing. Questions: What is freedom? What is the price for freedom? -Later
Remember this show, I remember how good it was. I maybe saw 3 episodes. I think it came on too late and I was only 7 or 8. Never forgot it I think mainly because of Ms. Tyson's hair and her demeanor. I tried to get my mother to stop hot combing my hair. Didn't get my wish for 6 years.
This is GREAT! I've loved Cecily Tyson for years and first saw her in SOUNDER, not having heard of this series. And James Earl Jones is always terrific but I never saw him do young and brash and angry. Thank you for sharing.
wow was not born yet when this series aired it was amazing to see what my parents and grand parents was watching back in the 60's came about the next year I really enjoyed this east side series seeing James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson with her short hair Linden Chiles George C Scott, Elizabeth Wilson love the history of black and white movies , series amazing .
Amazing talented cast Sands, Jones Tyson Scott such gifted actors. Story was deeply touching and realistic of conditions faced by poor struggling survivors. Thank you for bringing all episodes
This was indeed the reality of many urban communities during that time. In many cities it was conditions like those depicted in this TV drama that led to the creation of public housing complexes.
I remember a show in Britain that was similar called empire road about varied episodes of people living in East London urban community,starring Cecil beaton from Cosby show and Jeffery bell from fresh Prince of bell air. same old situation dealing with buildings with Indians, trinidaians, Jamaicans dwellers doing interacial marriage and rats and roaches, loud Rasta music and having love with the family from upstairs and downstairs it only aired with twenty six episodes on BBC 2 in 1978-79, it was one hell.of a show.
Tailor-Made Media - I was 10yrs old in 63, and you should have seen and heard the things black women were saying about Cicely Tyson, In Jet magazine, one black woman said that she was setting black women back a 1000 yrs because of her NATURAL HAIR! let that sink in, and look at the black women of today!!!!
Darryl, aside from wearing "convenient" hair-styles, sadly it has been unconsciously ingrained in many black women to reject our hair. From magazines to television, the larger society has always promoted this and too many black women buy into it.
Diana Sands embraced her blackness. She died way too soon. She was the first pick for the role in Claudine but she was diagnosed with cancer and knew she was dying. She passed the role onto her friend the other Diann - Diann Carroll.
I was 12 years old when this show was on. I remember it being a big deal when Cicely Tyson was hired for it. I was a little too young to get into the story lines, though. What a cast! So, it would have been a reunion had she lived to do Claudine.
This was very touching to watch especially when the child died unexpectedly. Life was hard but they managed to keep it pushing. This is probably the first time for me to see Queen Cicely and King James Earl in their early years. Rest in love 🙏🏿.
Irony of ironies, both guests would have interesting futures. A year after this episode aired, James Earl Jones would be featured in the Stanley Kubrick classic DR. STRANGELOVE! Diane Sands actually made Broadway history not long after this series when she shared the 1st interracial kiss in a Broadway show with future M.A.S.H. alumni Alan Alda! The degrees of Hollywood separation are incredible...😎🇵🇷🇺🇸📽🗽🦂
She was cast as the female lead in the originally Broadway production of "The Owl and the Pussycat," too. I don't know who played the male lead, though.
He would play a general a year later in the movie "Dr. Strangelove." James Earl Jones would portray a member of a B-52 crew that carried nuclear bombs, one of which was dropped over a fictional Soviet doomsday bomb site. Slim Pickens rides the bomb as if it were rodeo bronco.
Wow, beautifully shot, the editing seems ahead of its time and the characters are rich and multidimensional. Strong Black Folks, a man and a woman with their child doing normal shit like, “Window Shopping”!!! The writing is honest and the story line grabs your attention and keeps it. James Earl Jones has always been a BEAST WITH THE WORDS. He knows how to take a sentence and make it mean something. Brilliant man. Thank you very much for sharing this gem. Be well.
Thanks reelblack and yt for putting this episode on my home page after Cicely's passing. This series was on when I was only 6 so I never saw it but my mom and dad used to tell me about it as being a great series. Back then if anybody black was on TV you had to watch it. My parents were both social workers. Diana Sands I do remember as a kid. She was so talented, charming and beautiful. Like her dear friend Lorraine Hansberry, Diana died way too soon.
BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL actresses!! Cicily, Diana, Ruby Dee, Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge (my special all-time favorite), Eartha Kitt. How members of the white general public devalued these actresses for something as assholish as their race makes me puke, makes me ashamed to be a member of the Caucasian race. Christ, I wonder if we'll EVER get to the point where race, gender and ethnicity will be disregarded and people will be acknowledged as individuals instead of grouped "according to" like crayons in a box.
This series, and this episode in particular is what made me decide to become a mental health practitioner, a career that I maintained for 30 years. NOTE: I am BRUTALLY pissed off that the rat bite scene was cut from this episode as well as the following scene where Joe is holding his crying baby in the middle of the street trying desperately to flag down a car to take him to the hospital and no one will stop because he was a person of color. These scenes are what drove the message of this episode home. That these scenes were cut from this groundbreaking episode was an insult to the story, to the plight of the African American, and to the series as a whole. SHAME!! 😡😡😡😠😠😠
@@gailgreen1595People couldn't cope with the reality of things. From what I understand, even people living under those conditions in real life were put off by the scene in this particular episode. When people turn on the TV, they do so to escape their ugly reality. I can understand that. But I still feel the scene should not have been deleted from the episode. People who didn't want to see it could have just changed the channel and watched something else.
@@neecywatson8250 Yes, the scene that was cut was very devastating. James Earl Jones' character heard his baby screaming and ran to her crib. The camera did a sweep, first down into the baby's crib where a big rat was crawling on the baby, then back up to Jones who was hitting the rat with a broom. The rat squealed. Then Jones picked up the baby, ran down the tenement stairs and into the street to unsuccessfully flag down a car. The baby died from blood poisoning.
The customer flirting with Diana Sands looks a lot like a young Douglas Turner Ward. He founded The Negro Ensemble Company- where actors like Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks, Esther Rolle and Rosalind Cash- got their starts
Thanks for posting this. I wasn't that aware of the social work profession or had any social work role models growing up but I saw this episode in a History of Broadcasting class in college and I like to think it planted the seed in my brain about social work. I've been a social worker for about 20 years now and I work in hospice in Chicago. So grateful it was on the syllabus. Happy Social Workers Month!
Since I have added your reel black to my channel, I have watched so many old movies that a lot of young people will never look at. I’m 31 young and I’m well appreciated this because I have so much understanding and wisdom. I’m learning what is was like back in those times. I love James earl jones and Ms Tyson’s they have played a lot of movies and still to this day in 2019❤️❤️❤️
I’ve never heard of this series before. I really enjoyed watching it - seeing Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones so young. It makes me appreciate them even more!
The whole series is on here on CZcams. I started bingeing after this episode. I'm a social worker, I read online they used real story ideas from real SW'ers.
Diana Sands..that was a gorgeous woman. Too bad many people don't know of her. A pioneer on the Broadway circuit, childhood friends with Diahann Carroll. RIP
And my auntie Madilyn . shes actually my fathers first cousin but she was over 20yrs older then himself so we called her auntie . They all grew up and played together as children til teenage . my auntie told me stories about their friendship My auntie was the real dancer the mambo QUEEN she was known as . they was smart young and beautiful young women though my auntie never went to acting as they did she was just as talented she choose education (masters in sociology education social services . she loved to help people)and family( got married had 4 children) over childhood passions shared amongst young friends in poverty though never really felt because of the community they was from . She remembered fondly of their going to the picture shows when they could and wanting to be like Lena Horne ( they was pretty close complextion wise. She passed away a few years back. Now, I look at her pictures as a young girl and see Diahann Carroll I think, BOY! I could only Imagine them almost being like lynn Whitfield Vanessa Williams and Vanessa Bell Callaway in stompin at the savoy( must see) just 3 fine young lady's living and chasing their dreams. I miss her much.
Garwin Wayne And one hell of an actress! She was about to film "Claudine" when she got sick & was replaced by Diahann Carroll.
She died young also...
I was thrilled to see her, what a pleasant surprise! I clicked for JEJ & CT but Diana Sands was the star of this episode!
@@meritofapproval no doubt
This TV series was very important to me during sophomore year in high school and was one of the reasons I became a lawyer. I grew up in a very provincial community, in the Chicago metropolitan area that included redlining and discrimination against people of different religions, races, and nationalities. This TV series opened my eyes to how other people lived. Each week I watched a different social issue being addressed by caring, empathetic people. The stories were compelling. The series was also an opportunity to see great acting performances by people from different ethnicities and races. The series may have only lasted one season ... but it impressed me deeply and it became a “watershed” series for many fine TV shows that followed. This episode is one of the best. And so many of the actors went on to brilliant careers and honors. Thank you for letting me see it again.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
East Side/West Side inspired me to become a social worker, too! I was only a kid when our local WCVB-TV channel 5 in Boston aired episodes of the series on it's "5 All Night" show in the early 70s, but the episodes I saw effected me so much that I knew from then on that's what I wanted to do. My mother, my two aunts and my uncle were all social workers, but it was George C. Scott's portrayal of Neil Brock that inspired me the most.
@Jermaine Williams Oh, p-l-e-a-s-e.
@@valencia4215 you're right. I knew a fanatic would stop by telling me what to refer to my people as. He's so rude 😂
Awesome that you were compelled to live the type of life you have. Defending people who are marginalized. I’m white however I’ve had my own early watershed moments.
We lost someone real special when we lost Diana Sands.
Thank god we have her films that live on.
Rip sweet angel 😘
I so second that. I was devastated when I learned that she not only had cancer, but that the cancer was terminal. It was a dark day when Miss Sands passed away. One might have never known what this lovely and talented actress brought to the table.
@@Juliaflo ...The movie CLAUDINE was supposed to star Diana Sands. Unfortunately, the latter was stricken with pancreatic cancer. Diana asked her best friend, Diahann Carroll, to take her place. The latter accepted the part. The movie CLAUDINE, was a hit. Diahann was nominated for Best Actress. We loss Diana Sands at the age of thirty-nine. However, she left us her immeasurable talent on the small and big screen to enjoy again and again, Ciao!
@@brucescott4261 I love the movie Claudine it's one of my favorite movies thank God I have that movie in my collection
Now we fun lost Cicley! R.I.P.
To our Black Queens!
Very good drama...I wasnt born then, but I never heard of this drama or seen a rerun. I love anything with Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones in it. The waitress was Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun.
Damn. *Diana Sands* played "Beneatha Younger".
Didn't know that was HER until you pointed it out. ✊
The great Diana Sands!
Yes she was in rasin in the sun
Is the Bartender the father from 227?
@@KB32000 No. The father was someone else. Hal Williams I think. He was in Private Benjamin, the movie.
Diana Sands has been gone forever and I still miss her. This series aired when I was in 8th grade and I loved it!! Cicely looked like a girl, and she was nearing middle age even then! Black genes keep on growing!
Age 39 here. But in the Gayle King tv interview days before her passing, Cecily Tyson at 96 was still wrinkleless ... unlike her face as masked up in 1974 to look deeply cottonfield weathered and wrinkled as her fictitious character Miss Jane Pittman, an ex slave born 1852, appeared in 1962 at age 110. Rest in peace in caelum (Heaven Side), Miss Cecily.
@Julius Caesar wow you sound salty, she just said that black people age good and you have to involve another race to start a petty war lol sad.
@@koelael2660 Thank you! They just HAVE to reveal such hate and envy on something that has nothing to do with them.
@Ken Jones Thank you.
@Julius Caesar Growing wrinkles
😂😂😂😂 no offense just a bit of humor✌🏾
I was 16 when this show was on TV. It influenced me to choose Medical Social Work as a profession. Haven't seen this since 1963. Thank you for uploading.
I missed this show by a few years.
This show was WAYYYYYYYYY ahead of its time; but had two of some of the most OUTSTANDING actors on the program--George C. Scott and Cicely Tyson.
Cicely Tyson was the first and only person I had ever seen that wore an afro on tv. Back then we didn't know about an 'afro'. It was hair that wasn't straightened with a hot comb!!!! I was in shock and particularly intrigued. Next thing you knew it was the style to have and I made sure I had mine!!
gayle2020 there was Odetta. Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone and Abby Lincoln, too! Now look at us. Weaves down to the ground, stinky wigs and no hairlines at all. Progress? From Black power to ... what?
@@jeanettesdaughter to no edges!!
Gail also later Mannix
Yes I'd seen Odetta, Nina, my sister's division Teacher in 1958 and a few more but Cicely's natural cropped her head so beautifully. 😂
Me too !!!
Cicely was 38 looking 20! Her eyes are so beautiful & expressive. Even then James had a commanding presence. Diana reminds me a lot of Diahann Carroll. Cicely & James were icons in the making!!!
This channel is truly a treasure. Thanks for all the work you do, it's greatly appreciated.
Connects me to my roots on a daily.
Reading the comments, so many people credit it with influencing their choice in profession. It’s amazing to see how many people’s lives this series affected in only one season.
Happy 90th Birthday James Earl Jones January 17, 1931 🎉🎊🎈🎁🎂
I was just born in March of '63. I never heard of Diana Sands before or have I ever seen this series. ONE THING I KNOW, THESE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES ARE THE EPITOME' OF EXCELLENCE IN EVERY WAY
Diana Sands was to Play the Role of "Claudjne" in CLAUDINE. She was stricken with cancer and Referred & Recommended her Friend, "Diahann Carroll" for the Leading Role.
Diana Sands died of cancer back on September 21, 1973; the same day that Eva Gabor married her fifth and final husband, aerospace executive Frank Jameson.
The story is sad. But what great performances from James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson and Diana Sands!
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Thanks for posting this. I love these incredible actors! Such a sad hard story, with flawless interpretation of the times.
I had to Google Diana Sands. I don't know who she is. She was really young when she died.
Classic black actors!
@@ladennayoung2939 , she was suppose to play in the movie Claudine with James Earl Jones before she got sick.
This show was so far ahead of its time. The performances were iconic. I wonder if the doctors really did all they could or they just let the little girl die bc they didn't care. #RIPCicelyTyson
That is a valid question that remains today, 01-14-24.
Diana Sands was such great actress... So sad she only lived about 10 /years after this film, died in her thirties.
Wow
This TV series only lasted one season. Why?? It was too intelligent, and too real!! The network suits don't usually let something this good last for very long, sad to say.
@nyterpfan you answered your own question. It was too intelligent and real for the masses at that time and even today! Another excellent show that was on around that time and filmed in NYC was "Naked City". Television is mostly used to dumb down the masses.......
@@DetroitLives313 Very true. TV shows that depict reality prompt people to ask questions. Questioning oftentimes leads to struggle against the status quo.
@KSmall109CAB You are right on the money with your comment! Consider the fact that this particular program aired in 1963 during the Civil Rights Movement/Struggle in America.
@@DetroitLives313 ...n the struggle continues
This show was ahead of it's time... especially with the USA still being racially segregated at the time.. Many actors had to wait until 1968-1979 for movies and shows that were labeled #Blackexploitation which was crap projects based upon..Drugs,Poverty,Violence,Organized crime and depicting people of color as victims...
It's such a shame we lost Diana Sands so early -- she would've been a big star.
My God James Earl Jones was young once. And George C Scott in his Hustler days, what a powerhouse actor.
I remember it like it was yesterday, I watched it every week Ms Cicely Tyson(Black ensembles) were rare to find on TV back in the 50's and 60's that's why I was eating this show up Cicely played Secretary to (George C Scott's) character who was a Social worker she was a trailblazer. RIP always and forever in our hearts.
Cicily passed yesterday...I remember her on this TV show., I remember that 'afro'.
She was always out front; we'll remember that won't we...
Nice
Thank you for showing this to me my brother's went to Diana Sands school in the bronx my mother always told us she was a great lady that died to soon
HOW MARVELOUS!!!!
I LOVE MY RACE AND I LOVE OUR PEOPLE
Cicely was so pretty and I love her hair!! I never saw or heard of this show before. Love the realness of it. Sadly, too real for it's time I guess.😞
I agree Cisely looks pretty .
I came here from watching how to get away with murder. Im on season 4 lol.Was just looking at Cicely Tyson on Google and didnt realize shes 95. I like her character on the show.
So is cicley the waitress?
Sorry me again lol James earl so young here never seen him this young lol
@@eddieisgreat5150 I never saw him that young either
The acting was damn good.
WOW. What a cast . MOM took me to see LANDLORD with MISS SANDS, PEARL BAILEY, LOU GOSSET & many OTHERS. GREAT MEMORIES.😊😊😊
Mine too...I remember that movie!
That's the movie I kept thinking about when I saw me saying she's such a beautiful lady I also thought about the movie she was in Raisin in the Sun and another movie call Willie Dynamite pretty good movie to me
Great movie.
👍🏽💯🤔
“How many in maintenance “ 🤦🏾♀️ “We don’t discriminate “ 🤣😂. I love James Earl Jones performance. Cicely Tyson’s beauty is timeless.
I never realized how beautiful the late Diana Sands truly was😊
Yes all black women are beautiful but they convince us white is right or close to light..i know i was brainwashed on white or very light myself. God help us they(colonizer) did a number on us.
Cicley's afro was Together!
🤣Period!! 👌🏽💕R.I..P. Cicely Tyson!❤️
Marvellous actors James, Cicely and Diana and beautiful too. RIP Cicely xxx
Bette drama than what is airing today. Top level acting. I remember this show. Not many details, but just that it existed. R,I,P, Cicely Tyson, who recently passed.
Loved this show back in the day. It was truly a ground breaking realistic look at race relations. Was really pissed, it was only one season, probably because it was too realistic.
I was fourteen when I see this show teally amazes me. I want to be like Ms Tyson and Ms sands.R I P .🥰🥰🥰🥰😁😁😁😁
It was too realistic, showing the strife in Black America was something suburban Whites couldnt handle . Imagine the progress we couldve had if we were giben the truth and reality .
I was 12 when I saw this show. I was riveted and I knew then I wanted to be a social worker. Bravo East side West side for portraying real social issues and the pain of racial Injustice. It defined for me what my young mind observed. First TV drama to feature Black actors portraying multi-dimentional characters with dignity and beauty.
Do you remember how the baby got hurt?
I remember this show as a 12 year old , I’ve never forgotten it because of the realistic and serious topics . The following is from Wikipedia
Despite the high quality of both the writing and acting, the show's penchant for taking on touchy topics forced many potential advertisers to avoid sponsorship of the show, while a number of local stations across the country also chose not to present the program to their viewers. It is said that CBS programming head James Aubrey clashed with Scott regarding the direction of the show, which also was a factor in the cancellation.[3]
Oh and thanks for the upload . They don’t make them like that anymore.
Rest In Power Cicely Tyson
hi, how are you doing out th err e in tv land.
I have always been in love with Diana Sands. RIP, gone too soon.
hrtly afterwards both Ciciely Tyson and James Earl Jones would become pioneers in the world of Soaps when Cicely Tyson played the First African American Character on A Soap Opera as Martha Frazier a Nurse on Guiding Light (1965). James Earl Jones would later replace Billy Dee Williams as Dr. Jim Frazier as well. James& Cicely would each play in Roots & Roots The Next Generations.
Thanx for the upload. I'm a woman and I can say that Diana Sands sure was a good looking woman. Never heard of this t.v. series; interesting and sad. Hard to fathom the poverty that our people endured. Could feel the pain and sadness and care that the actors possess. The music score was fantastic too!
I can why it only lasted 1 season but it was enough to pass the torch light. Thanks for digging it out.
I’ve never seen any of these movies what a treasure
I know and I'm 60.. Hooked on Reelblack now..
I remember watching this show with my mother when I was around 11 years old. I am so happy to see a lot of these coming back on CZcams. Even at that young age I knew that this was a great show. Too bad a lot of people have never seen it, but you are giving them the opportunity here on CZcams. Thanks!
"No Changes! The Blackman is in the same condition today as he was 50 years ago to today!" Mauricelm X
Brother X Black Coffee Party USA: Wow!
Brother X...can you offer may insight into why the Blackman is in the same condition today?
I'm not asking to challenge, but to seek clarity.
😕😢😭🤧
@@Still-Learning Because the blackman was / is not willing to pay the price of freedom but this is quickly changing -because now he / she is willing to pay the price of freedom!
@@BrotherX What up BroX?
Thanx for the comeback.
Got it...was not willing, but is now willing.
Questions:
What is freedom?
What is the price for freedom?
-Later
This actually happened to my mom's cousin in the 60s....child bitten by rat and died. smh
Remember this show, I remember how good it was. I maybe saw 3 episodes. I think it came on too late and I was only 7 or 8. Never forgot it I think mainly because of Ms. Tyson's hair and her demeanor. I tried to get my mother to stop hot combing my hair. Didn't get my wish for 6 years.
Do you remember how the baby got hurt?
This is GREAT! I've loved Cecily Tyson for years and first saw her in SOUNDER, not having heard of this series. And James Earl Jones is always terrific but I never saw him do young and brash and angry. Thank you for sharing.
Gah! That was heartbreaking! I'm on a Diana Sands bender right now. I love her so much.
I used to watch this series when I was a child.
wow was not born yet when this series aired it was amazing to see what my parents and grand parents was watching back in the 60's came about the next year I really enjoyed this east side series seeing James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson with her short hair Linden Chiles George C Scott, Elizabeth Wilson love the history of black and white movies , series amazing .
Amazing talented cast Sands, Jones Tyson Scott such gifted actors. Story was deeply touching and realistic of conditions faced by poor struggling survivors. Thank you for bringing all episodes
Tyson comes later
This was indeed the reality of many urban communities during that time. In many cities it was conditions like those depicted in this TV drama that led to the creation of public housing complexes.
I remember a show in Britain that was similar called empire road about varied episodes of people living in East London urban community,starring Cecil beaton from Cosby show and Jeffery bell from fresh Prince of bell air. same old situation dealing with buildings with Indians, trinidaians, Jamaicans dwellers doing interacial marriage and rats and roaches, loud Rasta music and having love with the family from upstairs and downstairs it only aired with twenty six episodes on BBC 2 in 1978-79, it was one hell.of a show.
This has got to be a ground-breaking scene, Mike.
It's '63. And, the great *Cicely Tyson* has a short 'fro. On-screen. 🎬
Tailor-Made Media - I was 10yrs old in 63, and you should have seen and heard the things black women were saying about Cicely Tyson, In Jet magazine, one black woman said that she was setting black women back a 1000 yrs because of her NATURAL HAIR! let that sink in, and look at the black women of today!!!!
I think the late great Abbey Lincoln was the first notable performer to wear it in 1960.
Making the cover of the aforementioned JET magazine.
Darryl, aside from wearing "convenient" hair-styles, sadly it has been unconsciously ingrained in many black women to reject our hair. From magazines to television, the larger society has always promoted this and too many black women buy into it.
@jerry wayne What if you thought of THOT as meaning Therapy Heals Our Trauma?
And very becoming to her beautiful face.✌❤🙏
Diana Sands embraced her blackness. She died way too soon. She was the first pick for the role in Claudine but she was diagnosed with cancer and knew she was dying. She passed the role onto her friend the other Diann - Diann Carroll.
they both were good actreese.es.and black and white still looks good but 60s was before time.
I don't remember this story. First time seeing this show.
I was 12 years old when this show was on. I remember it being a big deal when Cicely Tyson was hired for it. I was a little too young to get into the story lines, though. What a cast! So, it would have been a reunion had she lived to do Claudine.
Cicely Tyson is a powerful actor. (I've never seen her this young!)
37:10-40:38 is Oscar-worthy on all levels--performance, direction and cinematography. #Sands #Jones
GREAT EPISODE WITH MR JONES & MS SANDS WELL PERFORMED BRAVO TO THEM BOTH...
MY CONDOLENCES TO HER FAMILY MAY GOD COMFORT THEM AT THIS TIME PRAYING FOR THEM GOD BLESS THEM AND GIVE THEM STRENGTH 🙏🙏🙏❤
Cicely Tyson with her beautiful Egyptian eyes, Diana Sands..gone too soon in her era, James Earl Jones still around
Diana Sands. What a beauty!
This was very touching to watch especially when the child died unexpectedly. Life was hard but they managed to keep it pushing. This is probably the first time for me to see Queen Cicely and King James Earl in their early years. Rest in love 🙏🏿.
My parents use to watch this show when I was a kid. James Earl Jones is my brother in law's cousin.
DetroitLives313: WOW!!!! That's impressive!! Did you yourself know James Earl Jones well?
I loved how James stood strong and showed leadership and how both stayed together through the challenging times.
Irony of ironies, both guests would have interesting futures. A year after this episode aired, James Earl Jones would be featured in the Stanley Kubrick classic DR. STRANGELOVE! Diane Sands actually made Broadway history not long after this series when she shared the 1st interracial kiss in a Broadway show with future M.A.S.H. alumni Alan Alda! The degrees of Hollywood separation are incredible...😎🇵🇷🇺🇸📽🗽🦂
She was cast as the female lead in the originally Broadway production of "The Owl and the Pussycat," too. I don't know who played the male lead, though.
Rest in eternal peace, Queen Cicely Tyson.
I see a young George C. Scott. I love looking at older movies including newer than this film to see if I recognize faces.
He would play a general a year later in the movie "Dr. Strangelove." James Earl Jones would portray a member of a B-52 crew that carried nuclear bombs, one of which was dropped over a fictional Soviet doomsday bomb site. Slim Pickens rides the bomb as if it were rodeo bronco.
One of the greatest actors to ever speak a line.
I appreciated the facts about Harriet Tubman. These older programs made me sad.
Rest in love, Ms. Tyson.
Say It Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud❤🔥💪🏾
with tears in my eyes, I'm watching this movie, remembering losing my only child. IT STILL HURTS LIKE HELL!!!
I am sorry for your loss. I cannot imagine the pain. 🙏🏽
2021 Rip the great Cicely Tyson
So personally moving VERY GRATEFUL to have been afforded an opportunity to see this one
Thank you for preserving and sharing this work. Look at all of these future leading/working actors.
James Earl Jones playing a Taurus man role! Love this movie wish we could have seen more of sweet baby girl 😥👌👊👏🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 ADOS
Wow, beautifully shot, the editing seems ahead of its time and the characters are rich and multidimensional. Strong Black Folks, a man and a woman with their child doing normal shit like, “Window Shopping”!!! The writing is honest and the story line grabs your attention and keeps it. James Earl Jones has always been a BEAST WITH THE WORDS. He knows how to take a sentence and make it mean something. Brilliant man. Thank you very much for sharing this gem. Be well.
This here is awesome!!!!!!! Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones two spectacular actor and actress together great combination in the acting world.
Man my a black people look good!! Very talent, smart, knew how to act!!🖤🖤🖤
It was like watching a play, with some real talented players. Things have changed but not so much, I realize, once again.
Cicely Tyson was heartbreaking gorgeous back in the day 😚
Edward Lucas Miles Davis thought so, too😜
She was, but sadly at the time, a lot people both black and white, were conditioned to not appreciate her kind of beauty.
@@Greyareas27 ehhh ig not the blacks but whites yea..
This show probably came on after my bedtime, so thanks reelblack for putting on when I can view it now.
I used to watch this every week as a child.
I always thought Cecil Tyson was a very beautiful and classy lady !! And very talented !!💖
Thanks reelblack and yt for putting this episode on my home page after Cicely's passing. This series was on when I was only 6 so I never saw it but my mom and dad used to tell me about it as being a great series. Back then if anybody black was on TV you had to watch it. My parents were both social workers. Diana Sands I do remember as a kid. She was so talented, charming and beautiful. Like her dear friend Lorraine Hansberry, Diana died way too soon.
Cicely Tyson and Diana Sands together, wow, very cool. And that's the brother from Come Back Charleston Blue playing the Rev at the protest meeting.
BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL actresses!! Cicily, Diana, Ruby Dee, Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge (my special all-time favorite), Eartha Kitt. How members of the white general public devalued these actresses for something as assholish as their race makes me puke, makes me ashamed to be a member of the Caucasian race. Christ, I wonder if we'll EVER get to the point where race, gender and ethnicity will be disregarded and people will be acknowledged as individuals instead of grouped "according to" like crayons in a box.
This series, and this episode in particular is what made me decide to become a mental health practitioner, a career that I maintained for 30 years. NOTE: I am BRUTALLY pissed off that the rat bite scene was cut from this episode as well as the following scene where Joe is holding his crying baby in the middle of the street trying desperately to flag down a car to take him to the hospital and no one will stop because he was a person of color. These scenes are what drove the message of this episode home. That these scenes were cut from this groundbreaking episode was an insult to the story, to the plight of the African American, and to the series as a whole. SHAME!! 😡😡😡😠😠😠
I believe they did not show a lot of things the world 🌎🌎🌎 was different in the 1960s some what 1970s and little 80s
@@gailgreen1595People couldn't cope with the reality of things. From what I understand, even people living under those conditions in real life were put off by the scene in this particular episode. When people turn on the TV, they do so to escape their ugly reality. I can understand that. But I still feel the scene should not have been deleted from the episode. People who didn't want to see it could have just changed the channel and watched something else.
@@PJBovio I was wondering why it cut off. Tell me what happened to the child. Did she get bit by rats?
@@PJBovio true but there was not many channels to turn I can't explain.it enough but things were different like another world 🌎🌎🌎
@@neecywatson8250 Yes, the scene that was cut was very devastating. James Earl Jones' character heard his baby screaming and ran to her crib. The camera did a sweep, first down into the baby's crib where a big rat was crawling on the baby, then back up to Jones who was hitting the rat with a broom. The rat squealed. Then Jones picked up the baby, ran down the tenement stairs and into the street to unsuccessfully flag down a car. The baby died from blood poisoning.
The customer flirting with Diana Sands looks a lot like a young Douglas Turner Ward. He founded The Negro Ensemble Company- where actors like Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks, Esther Rolle and Rosalind Cash- got their starts
I think it is him!
I looked it up. It is Douglas Turner Ward. He was uncredited.
@@KSmall109CAB its Him
Thanks ReelBlack for loading up these good black movies.
I remember watching the show I think I was about eight years old when it came on television
James Earl Jones
Cicely Tyson and George C. Scott in there prime is amazing
Was looking for this... this is a rare find thank you.
Thanks for posting this. I wasn't that aware of the social work profession or had any social work role models growing up but I saw this episode in a History of Broadcasting class in college and I like to think it planted the seed in my brain about social work. I've been a social worker for about 20 years now and I work in hospice in Chicago. So grateful it was on the syllabus. Happy Social Workers Month!
Since I have added your reel black to my channel, I have watched so many old movies that a lot of young people will never look at. I’m 31 young and I’m well appreciated this because I have so much understanding and wisdom. I’m learning what is was like back in those times. I love James earl jones and Ms Tyson’s they have played a lot of movies and still to this day in 2019❤️❤️❤️
The passing of Ms. Tyson makes this show more meaningful. She was wonderful .
Diana Sands reminds me of Diahann Carroll! She took over for her In the movie Claudeine after Sands got sick. Both great actresses.
ms.dianna sands reminds me of dianne Carol who I always lived watching on screen.
From the folks that brought us "Get Smart"..the show was very much ahead of its time..i'll have to look up some episodes.
I’ve never heard of this series before. I really enjoyed watching it - seeing Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones so young. It makes me appreciate them even more!
Cecile Tyson - cutest overbite in all Hollywood!
Truth
R.I.P. Cicely Tyson . Always be remembered .
Excellent show-gone too soon. All extremely talented actors. Very realistic and way ahead of it's time. Thank you for posting.
Theyre all so young. Wow. James Earl Jones. This is cool.
I would love to see the entire season and see what other urban issues they explored. Interesting to see how far we have and how far we have not come.
The whole series is on here on CZcams. I started bingeing after this episode. I'm a social worker, I read online they used real story ideas from real SW'ers.
REELBLACK..GLAD I FOUND YOU A YEAR AGO..LOVE FROM THE DMV!!!
JEJ was the man back then. All top drawer Actors here. ❤