Here's some additional info: Mel Brandt and Fred Collins were the announcers at the beginning and end; Perry Como's "KRAFT MUSIC HALL" specials aired once a month on Mondays this season, in Andy Williams' time period {he was sponsored in 1965-'66 by Kraft Foods, also}; "THE SUNDAY SHOW" returned as "THE FRANK McGEE REPORT" early Sunday evenings [6pm(et)] in October....
I can offer definite proof that this special WAS aired for the public. Here is the text of a TV Guide Ad (Cleveland Edition) for Monday, September 6, 1965: ON SEPTEMBER 13 WKYC-TV 3 BECOMES YOUR "FULL COLOR" STATION Newscasts*Daytime Programs*Feature Films 96% of the NBC Evening Schedule*"Woodrow* In Full Color on TV 3. (continues in next comment)
Well anyway, I last saw the reruns of Please Don't Eat the Daisies on WWOR, Channel 9 in New York, back in 1994. I'm so sorry that it only lasted about two years. It was a very good show, and it should have stayed on the air a little bit longer. I do remember seeing Patricia Crowley more recently on Roseanne and The Weakest Link. And Mark Miller is also actress Penelope Ann Miller's father.
Ironically, "PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES" was scheduled to be cancelled at the end of its first season. But Danny Thomas yanked his commitment to produce a Dean Jones sitcom, "MY 15 BLOCKS" {about a young cop on the beat in Chicago}, because he didn't like NBC's choice of scheduling it on Saturdays at 8pm(et), after "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" moved to Monday nights for the fall of 1966 [Danny said teen audiences wouldn't be home to watch it with their families, as they went out at that hour] - so "DAISIES" was "uncancelled", and placed on Saturday nights instead. However, 'THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" on CBS got better ratings.....and it was finally cancelled after its second season, in 1967.
There wouldn't have been a "Living Color" bumper at the beginning (and a "Color Presentation" tag at the very end) if this had been seen by just the affiliates, 'Zeb'. This was the first of NBC's three consecutive fall preview specials that aired between 1965 and '67; beginning with the 1968-'69 season, "fall preview" specials were produced for affiliates' gatherings only {including the 1969 edition, "NBC'S NEW ONES FOR '69-'70", featuring Hugh Downs and Joe Garagiola}.
For A Preview of "NBC Week" See Comedian Don Adams in "A Secret Agent's Dilemma" (Or A Clear Case of Mind Over Mata Hari) Tonight at 7:30 PM in Color. (NBC snake logo on the side and the peacock pictured on the bottom)
I had just started the third grade that year, and I do remember some of those shows: Camp Runamuck, Mona Mc.Cluskey, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, My Mother the Car, and Hank. In 1997, TV Land had aired the reruns of My Mother the Car, and it had been at 25-30 years since I last saw this show. That house on Please Don't Eat the Daisies way too big for a family of six and a sheepdog. I think the other shows just simply faded into oblivision.
I'm glad I found this. They included it as an extra on the season one Get Smart DVD collection. Only trouble is that they cut out all mention of any other show but Get Smart. Don would activate his micro projector, and it would jump right back to him in the closet! I just finished season one today. I'll start season two tomorrow!
A few weeks ago, I saw a couple of video clips from Hank, which starred Dick Kallman. Although I know now, I never knew that he was murdered back in 1980. Also, the girl who played his sister, Linda Foster, was also married to TV's Ben Casey, Vince Edwards.
Like in a lot of seasons, a lot of these new shows only lasted for one season. What happened at NBC the previous season that it decided to order so many new series?
Most of their new series weren't successful in the ratings {"THE ROGUES", "KAREN", "THE FAMOUS ADVENTURES OF MR. MAGOO", "KENTUCKY JONES"}, or established series finally ended {"THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS", "THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR", "THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM", "THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM", "INTERNATIONAL SHOWTIME"}, or moved {"HAZEL" went to CBS in the fall of '65}, or were altered {"DR. KILDARE" became a half-hour twice-weekly series, focusing on serialized story arcs; "WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES" became "TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES"}.
Great find! Although this says the schedule was in all-color, there were two black & white shows on NBC that season: "I Dream of Jeannie", of course, and "Convoy", a World War II show that bombed out after 13 weeks. And that season was when the AFL really arrived, thanks to its move to NBC and Namath's big contract. ("My Mother, the Car". What were they thinking?)
Yep! It kept NBC from scheduling a "Full Color Network" goal of 100% in prime-time. They had to settle for *99%* before "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" was finally colorcast on September 12, 1966.
Yes, this WAS seen on NBC, 'musicom'- Monday, September 6, 1965 at 7:30pm(et), a week before the new season began. A newspaper ad promoting this special on the TV page of the NEW YORK TIMES the evening it aired confirms it. In 1965, "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR" was on the network's Sunday night schedule (it got a VERY brief mention at the end).
This was from when I was in third grade. Some of these shows haven't been seen in years. It was nothing but good clean fun. No reality shows. No violent crime shows like CSI New York or CSI Miami. You can also say that Don Adams had the first cellphone. And of course back i1965, there was no such thing as cellphones.
George Burns' producion company was responsible for "MONA McCLUSKEY", and it withered against "THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES" and "PEYTON PLACE" on ABC. No one knows where those episodes are these days....
This was actually shown on NBC on September 6, 1965 as their "Fall Preview" special [they presented them for three seasons in a row until 1967]...and the ONLY one credited to the "NBC Advertising Department". The reason "JEANNIE" and "CONVOY" were filmed in black & white were due to (1) Screen Gems/Columbia's refusal to film "JEANNIE"'s initial season in color {too expensive, they claimed}; and (2) Universal only had b/w World War II stock footage for use in "CONVOY".
This is on IMdb as "A Secret Agent's Dilemma, or A Clear Case of Mind Over Mata Hari (1965)" and was the first viewing of the character Agent 86. Deserves some high 7+ IMdb votes that NBC would allow Don Adams to make so much fun of the new line up! Funny!
The Walt Disney shows did begin in 1954 on ABC and it coincided with the opening with Disneyland in the summer of 1955. Walt Disney ran on The Alphabet Network from 1954-61. In the fall of 1961, NBC picked up the Disney shows and it was renamed "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color". In the fall of 1969, the series was renamed "The Wonderful World of Disney" thru 1978. The voice of those shows was none other than the great Dick Wesson.
As I've mentioned before, 'musicom', this fall preview show WAS telecast on September 6, 1965 [7:30-7:56pm(et)], a week before "HULLABALOO"'s season premiere in that time period....but it was the ONLY time the "NBC Advertising Department" was credited with producing this kind of special!
I'm just guessin', but I think CBS must have been such a juggernaut with their new and semi-new 64-65 shows (Petticoat, Munsters, Beverly Hillbillies, etc.) that it blew quite a few NBC shows out of the water that year.
The network decided to go "top heavy" with more situation comedies for the 1965-'66 season, 'Foreman'. Most of NBC's 1964-'65 schedule was a "bust"; of the new shows introduced that season, only "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.", "DANIEL BOONE", "FLIPPER", "HULLABALOO", and "BRANDED" were renewed for the fall of '65....
There was a very brief mention of "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR"- as the series was titled on NBC from 1961 through '69- in the list of returning shows at the end, 'Homeof'. Note that Don Adams is already shilling for "GET SMART"'s primary sponsor, Salem cigarettes, by pulling his pack out and smoking one....
I've discovered the name and origin of the "symphonic" piece used at the beginning: even though a different orchestral piece was used in the "GET SMART" pilot that finally aired, the one heard at :23 is the climax of "American In Hungary", and sounds exactly like a 1958 recording [of European origin, no doubt] released on a "bargain label" called "Acorn" in 1959, credited to "John Johnson and His Orchestra" .
7:11 Inspector Gadget: What Else? OH! Yes practically all the shows are in COLOUR! (Proceeds to snap his fingers to change the picture to color) 7:18 *N B C P E A C O C K I N T E N S I F I E S" "The Following Programing is brought to you in living cooler, on NBC" 7:27 Inspector Gadget: That's one crummy looking peacock! (Laughter ensues)
Surprising how much TV has changed. In this special, you see lots of variety shows and nonsensical comedy shows. Today, variety shows are nonexistent, comedy shows are more PC than comedy, and originality is gone. It makes "My Mother The Car" seem like Shakespeare by comparison.
Compared with the latest NBC "Fall Preview" (with the unfunny Joel McHale as "host"), this is more entertaining than the network's entire 2009 fall schedule! And what does THAT tell you about network television these days?
+DTD110865 Here is a line from a movie I saw a long time ago: A woman is having an argument with a guy and she says, "Shut up when you are talking to me!" I don't remember the name of the movie. Does anyone remember the movie?
Like in a lot of seasons, a lot of these new shows only lasted for one season. What happened at NBC the previous season that it decided to order so many new series?
Here's some additional info: Mel Brandt and Fred Collins were the announcers at the beginning and end;
Perry Como's "KRAFT MUSIC HALL" specials aired once a month on Mondays this season, in Andy Williams' time period {he was sponsored in 1965-'66 by Kraft Foods, also}; "THE SUNDAY SHOW" returned as "THE FRANK McGEE REPORT" early Sunday evenings [6pm(et)] in October....
Thanks for your information. I really like this video.
I can offer definite proof that this special WAS aired for the public. Here is the text of a TV Guide Ad (Cleveland Edition) for Monday, September 6, 1965:
ON SEPTEMBER 13
WKYC-TV 3
BECOMES YOUR "FULL COLOR" STATION
Newscasts*Daytime Programs*Feature Films
96% of the NBC Evening Schedule*"Woodrow*
In Full Color on TV 3.
(continues in next comment)
Well anyway, I last saw the reruns of Please Don't Eat the Daisies on WWOR, Channel 9 in New York, back in 1994. I'm so sorry that it only lasted about two years. It was a very good show, and it should have stayed on the air a little bit longer. I do remember seeing Patricia Crowley more recently on Roseanne and The Weakest Link. And Mark Miller is also actress Penelope Ann Miller's father.
Ironically, "PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES" was scheduled to be cancelled at the end of its first season. But Danny Thomas yanked his commitment to produce a Dean Jones sitcom, "MY 15 BLOCKS" {about a young cop on the beat in Chicago}, because he didn't like NBC's choice of scheduling it on Saturdays at 8pm(et), after "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" moved to Monday nights for the fall of 1966 [Danny said teen audiences wouldn't be home to watch it with their families, as they went out at that hour] - so "DAISIES" was "uncancelled", and placed on Saturday nights instead. However, 'THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" on CBS got better ratings.....and it was finally cancelled after its second season, in 1967.
There wouldn't have been a "Living Color" bumper at the beginning (and a "Color Presentation" tag at the very end) if this had been seen by just the affiliates, 'Zeb'. This was the first of NBC's three consecutive fall preview specials that aired between 1965 and '67; beginning with the 1968-'69 season, "fall preview" specials were produced for affiliates' gatherings only {including the 1969 edition, "NBC'S NEW ONES FOR '69-'70", featuring Hugh Downs and Joe Garagiola}.
For A Preview of "NBC Week" See Comedian Don Adams in "A Secret Agent's Dilemma" (Or A Clear Case of Mind Over Mata Hari) Tonight at 7:30 PM in Color.
(NBC snake logo on the side and the peacock pictured on the bottom)
Don Adams, aka Maxwell Smart, may have had the world's first cellphone.
a few years before Motorolas startec in 73🧐
I had just started the third grade that year, and I do remember some of those shows: Camp Runamuck, Mona Mc.Cluskey, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, My Mother the Car, and Hank.
In 1997, TV Land had aired the reruns of My Mother the Car, and it had been at 25-30 years since I last saw this show. That house on Please Don't Eat the Daisies way too big for a family of six and a sheepdog.
I think the other shows just simply faded into oblivision.
Ben Gazarra in Run for Your Life was superb!
A phone ringing at a concert in the 60's. This was long before cellphones.
I'm glad I found this. They included it as an extra on the season one Get Smart DVD collection. Only trouble is that they cut out all mention of any other show but Get Smart. Don would activate his micro projector, and it would jump right back to him in the closet! I just finished season one today. I'll start season two tomorrow!
With a show created by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks, it's great fun. But like all sitcoms, they get 'weirder' as the seasons go on.
His shoe phone was the forerunner of today's cell phone.
A few weeks ago, I saw a couple of video clips from Hank, which starred Dick Kallman. Although I know now, I never knew that he was murdered back in 1980. Also, the girl who played his sister, Linda Foster, was also married to TV's Ben Casey, Vince Edwards.
Wonderful, fascinating stuff. Any similar material would be welcome. Thanks also to the background info in the comments.
Max's shoephone ringing at the concert sure predicted the future, didn't it?
This just doesn't get any better. Wish shows/promos were like this today. We
think too much today to get this today.
Like in a lot of seasons, a lot of these new shows only lasted for one season. What happened at NBC the previous season that it decided to order so many new series?
Most of their new series weren't successful in the ratings {"THE ROGUES", "KAREN", "THE FAMOUS ADVENTURES OF MR. MAGOO", "KENTUCKY JONES"}, or established series finally ended {"THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS", "THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR", "THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM", "THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM", "INTERNATIONAL SHOWTIME"}, or moved {"HAZEL" went to CBS in the fall of '65}, or were altered {"DR. KILDARE" became a half-hour twice-weekly series, focusing on serialized story arcs; "WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES" became "TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES"}.
Great find! Although this says the schedule was in all-color, there were two black & white shows on NBC that season: "I Dream of Jeannie", of course, and "Convoy", a World War II show that bombed out after 13 weeks. And that season was when the AFL really arrived, thanks to its move to NBC and Namath's big contract. ("My Mother, the Car". What were they thinking?)
In fact I Dream Of Jeannie was the last show to be broadcast in B&W on NBC. before it too went color!
Yep! It kept NBC from scheduling a "Full Color Network" goal of 100% in prime-time. They had to settle for *99%* before "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" was finally colorcast on September 12, 1966.
Yes, this WAS seen on NBC, 'musicom'- Monday, September 6, 1965 at 7:30pm(et), a week before the new season began. A newspaper ad promoting this special on the TV page of the NEW YORK TIMES the evening it aired confirms it. In 1965, "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR" was on the network's Sunday night schedule (it got a VERY brief mention at the end).
An ad for a rebroadcast by Chicago's WMAQ the following Saturday...
archives.chicagotribune.com/1965/09/11/page/96
This was from when I was in third grade. Some of these shows haven't been seen in years. It was nothing but good clean fun. No reality shows. No violent crime shows like CSI New York or CSI Miami.
You can also say that Don Adams had the first cellphone. And of course back i1965, there was no such thing as cellphones.
7:18 NBC Laramie Peacock Instrumental Theme
@musicom67 Wonderful World of Color started on NBC in 1961
My kids didn't get the joke. In 1965, no one could ever imagine a telephone ringing in a theater.
Maxwell Smart had one of the first cell phones, and they were annoying in public places then!
7:18 NBC Peacock theme (FOUND FOOTAGE)
It's a shame the video quality is so poor
George Burns' producion company was responsible for "MONA McCLUSKEY", and it withered against "THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES" and "PEYTON PLACE" on ABC. No one knows where those episodes are these days....
This was actually shown on NBC on September 6, 1965 as their "Fall Preview" special [they presented them for three seasons in a row until 1967]...and the ONLY one credited to the "NBC Advertising Department". The reason "JEANNIE" and "CONVOY" were filmed in black & white were due to (1) Screen Gems/Columbia's refusal to film "JEANNIE"'s initial season in color {too expensive, they claimed}; and (2) Universal only had b/w World War II stock footage for use in "CONVOY".
The most American sounding American accent EVER!
Rest In Peace Don Adams
This is on IMdb as "A Secret Agent's Dilemma, or A Clear Case of Mind Over Mata Hari (1965)" and was the first viewing of the character Agent 86. Deserves some high 7+ IMdb votes that NBC would allow Don Adams to make so much fun of the new line up! Funny!
He also subtly plugs his own program's sponsor, Salem cigarettes, at 4:21.
If I'm not mistaken, that was an ABC Show... It was the "Wonderful World of Disney" which was on NBC in the 70s....
The Walt Disney shows did begin in 1954 on ABC and it coincided with the opening with Disneyland in the summer of 1955. Walt Disney ran on
The Alphabet Network from 1954-61. In the fall of 1961, NBC picked up the Disney shows and it was renamed "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of
Color". In the fall of 1969, the series was renamed "The Wonderful World of Disney" thru 1978. The voice of those shows was none other than the great Dick Wesson.
As I've mentioned before, 'musicom', this fall preview show WAS telecast on September 6, 1965 [7:30-7:56pm(et)], a week before "HULLABALOO"'s season premiere in that time period....but it was the ONLY time the "NBC Advertising Department" was credited with producing this kind of special!
Sorry this reply is so late but the show aired on NBC from 1961-1981.
NBC's run of Disney were these shows: "The Wonderful World of Color" (1961-69) and "The Wonderful World of Disney" (1969-81).
The series was retitled "DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD" during its final two seasons (1979-'81).
I'm just guessin', but I think CBS must have been such a juggernaut with their new and semi-new 64-65 shows (Petticoat, Munsters, Beverly Hillbillies, etc.) that it blew quite a few NBC shows out of the water that year.
I stand corrected. On Hank, Katie Sweet played Dick Kallman's sister. It was Linda Foster who played his girlfriend, Doris Royal.
The network decided to go "top heavy" with more situation comedies for the 1965-'66 season, 'Foreman'. Most of NBC's 1964-'65 schedule was a "bust"; of the new shows introduced that season, only "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.", "DANIEL BOONE", "FLIPPER", "HULLABALOO", and "BRANDED" were renewed for the fall of '65....
There was a very brief mention of "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR"- as the series was titled on NBC from 1961 through '69- in the list of returning shows at the end, 'Homeof'. Note that Don Adams is already shilling for "GET SMART"'s primary sponsor, Salem cigarettes, by pulling his pack out and smoking one....
Affirmative.
Ah Please Don't Eat The Daisies!" Lad a Dog that big English Sheep Dog1
I've discovered the name and origin of the "symphonic" piece used at the beginning: even though a different orchestral piece was used in the "GET SMART" pilot that finally aired, the one heard at :23 is the climax of "American In Hungary", and sounds exactly like a 1958 recording [of European origin, no doubt] released on a "bargain label" called "Acorn" in 1959, credited to "John Johnson and His Orchestra" .
Forget what I said. It's "Romeo and Juliet".
agreed
Walt Disney was the coolest show ever. I love Walt Disney.
7:11 Inspector Gadget: What Else? OH! Yes practically all the shows are in COLOUR!
(Proceeds to snap his fingers to change the picture to color)
7:18 *N B C P E A C O C K I N T E N S I F I E S"
"The Following Programing is brought to you in living cooler, on NBC"
7:27 Inspector Gadget: That's one crummy looking peacock! (Laughter ensues)
Surprising how much TV has changed. In this special, you see lots of variety shows and nonsensical comedy shows. Today, variety shows are nonexistent, comedy shows are more PC than comedy, and originality is gone. It makes "My Mother The Car" seem like Shakespeare by comparison.
Compared with the latest NBC "Fall Preview" (with the unfunny Joel McHale as "host"), this is more entertaining than the network's entire 2009 fall schedule! And what does THAT tell you about network television these days?
wow, television was so much better ,so much hipper back then!
must be a long fuse lol hehehe cool
the first cell phone seems to been a shoe.
"You're practically undressing me with your eyes."
--Where's that from?
'CAMP RUNAMUCK" (Nina Wayne as "Caprice Yeudelman").
Barry I. Grauman
Thanks. I've heard of that show, so I'll look it up now.
+DTD110865 Here is a line from a movie I saw a long time ago:
A woman is having an argument with a guy and she says, "Shut up when you are talking to me!"
I don't remember the name of the movie. Does anyone remember the movie?
In WEDDING CRASHERS Mrs. Kroeger says "You shut your mouth when you're talking to me! " That's as close as I could find.
Gene Nash - The quote I was talking about was in an old B&W screwball comedy. It sounds like several movies used different versions of this quote.
did u know when they where doing this max found out his wife had a baby
lol hehehehe lol cool
Like in a lot of seasons, a lot of these new shows only lasted for one season. What happened at NBC the previous season that it decided to order so many new series?