Check out his book "Forever Dobie". I was shocked that he was such a player with the ladies. I mean, "Dobie" dating Yvonne Craig, who made "Ginger" and "Mary Ann" look like kid stuff.
I grew up with 3 channels, in b&w, and there was always something to watch. Now I have cable with 1000 options at my fingertips. And I’m watching this instead 😊
That's why I canceled cable. I don't even have broadcast air. I started buying dvds over 20 years ago of the TV shows and movies that I like. WHAT A COLLECTION?
@@richardlawson4317 Sounds like you're really misinformed, then, seeing as how those three networks have spent the last two years telling us hundreds of times that Trump was gonna be removed from office for "colluding with the Russians."
WOW...Watching those clips brought back so many memories of CLASSY TV SHOWS. Don't know what, but something went seriously wrong with some of what is on tv, as time passed....especially now.
I was 6 in 1961 in Canada I only remember 10 or so of these but they are deeply etched in my memory...love hearing the theme songs again. I sure wasn’t a fan of Lawrence Welk but Mom and Dad loved it. 😆
@@jamesstark8316 I recall going to my grandmother's home on Sundays and being forced to watch Laurence Welk and his dancing bubbles. When I couldn't take it anymore, I'd do something naughty just so I would be sent to bed early!
Really? I don't have cable and I don't stream, but what's on now has to be better than this pabulum. Most of these shows were strictly from Squaresville.
That would be such a dream to have these shows come back as the fresh new line up for the network as most have never seen or heard of these except for their grandparents
I was 12 years old in 1961 and remember most of these shows. Mom, Dad and my brother would all sit together and watch TV every night as a family. Now everyone has a TV in their room and hardly watch anything together.
To me, that's a huge difference. TV in the early 60s wasn't exactly fine art, but in its own way it brought people together. There were three networks (four if you count PBS, but that was more like late 60s anyway). People all watched the same shows and talked about them at school and in the neighborhood. Don't get me wrong, a lot of those shows were terrible. But it gave us a shared point of reference.
I was just into elementary school when Surfside Six came on but I still remember the hunks on the show. When my Dad insisted I was too young to remember them I reminded him I was young, not blind!
You can have the hunks, I liked Diane McBain. She is definitely a girl. Check out "Surfside 6" by Michael Gregg Michaud, packed with info and for my money the best book on a TV series I have read to date. Lot's of behind the scenes goodies. McBain helped with it.
Jay O -The problem with 21st century TV is that it's not entertainment but leftist propaganda designed to radicalize the viewer. Every commercial, series, storyline and casting decision tells us "negroes & feminists are good, whites & men are bad." I have been unable to watch TV since about 2006; just too terrible.
@@GLC2013 To put it in perspective, it still is what it has always been about: the money. Back then it was cigarettes, you see the principal actors lighting up in scenes, doing commercials, and magazine endorsements; same shirt, different fabric is all there is to it.
@David Pinegar - Wow, a radicalized libtard who is so terrified of being "unpopular," he will prostitute himself to whatever the groupthinks on CNN tell him just so he can basque in the sanctimonious, pseudo-self righteous bliss of total conformity and unity. Until you abstain from the Kool Aid, open your eyes, use your brain and leave the herd mentality you have no credibility whatsoever.
LOVE WATCHING THESE SHOWS I STILL WATCH SOME OF THEM THAT R STILL ON ----BETTER THEN WHAT'S ON TODAY THAT'S 4 SURE---LOVED VINCE EDWARDS---WISH I COULD GO BACK IN TIME--THE WORLD TODAY IS CRAZY
One year after all this it was October 22, 1962 the day of the Cuban missile crisis, on the last plane to leave that island, At the age of five, I landed in this country. All of the sudden a whole new world for me. I remember many of these great shows. God Bless America.
@The Truth, being from Irish descent, most of my blood came over in the mid 19th century, escaping An Gorta Mor ("The Great Hunger," the Irish Holocaust), the intentional genocide commonly known as the potato famine. We were met with hatred and scorn but soon worked our way into society. Irish-Americans traditionally eat corned beef and cabbage every St. Patrick's Day not because it's a traditional Irish food, because it's not. Corned beef was too expensive for the Irish to afford in Ireland and it was reserved for the English gentry. When the Irish learned they could buy it from their neighborhood Jewish butchers (true story) in the USA, they started the tradition as a big "F You!" to the English. America may not have treated my people very well at the beginning, but we were a DAMNED sight better off than we were under the Brits. America may have its faults, but thank you, Lady Liberty, for welcoming my people.
What amazes me is that after 58 years I remember most of the introductions and I was able to sing the theme songs word for word. I recall being a TV junkie but I just didn't remember to such an extent. I must have watched a lot of ABC because I fondly recall most of the shows very well.
Even though technology was primitive back then, it seems like television shows were more alluring and exciting to watch; vs today's programming. Even the music was more enjoyable to listen to.
Clearly, the technology would have been far more limited back then, but also bear in mind that the film stock/videotapes have seriously degraded in these clips; the sound and images would have been far sharper when these shows were originally broadcast.
Lawrence Welk stepped forward to applause, and said, "Thank you ladies and gentlemen." No one gave a second thought that they were one or the other.....
Yes this was a great time to be young, My mom would give the kids alittle extra time before bed to watch TV. If it were not a school night.. Where did the time go.....
We recently lost two of the actors seen in this collection: Ed Byrnes from 77 SUNSET STRIP and Robert Conrad from HAWAIIAN EYE. RIP, and thank you for the great memories.
All of these people are pretty much gone & in fact I don't believe any of them are still with us. Even Johnny Crawford that played Rifleman's kid passed a coupla years ago. I never watched the show though.
I used to watch the Donna Reed show when I was a little kid. Seeing the opening I found all the episodes on Prime and I am enjoying it again! As others have noted, some of the shows back then are way better than the trash that masquerades for TV these days. More is not necessarily better.
Saturday morning was the only day my brother and I got to watch what what we wanted. We would get up early and look at the test screen until TV came on for the day.
@Randy Welsh If it was the late 50's I very well could have been a Republican. The GOP of that time doesn't even resemble the Republican Party of today.
Believe it or not, that theme song, "On With the Show, This is It" has been a Square Dance "singing call" for at least six years now. My good friend is a square dance caller and he uses it from time to time.
The world was God centered in the early years of television, once the world got away from the family viewing, which did not need curse words to get a point across, now curse words appear in news articles, words are misspelled, people stopped caring for others, look at history, radio left images up to the listener, innocence, now corruption, hatred, and scandalous affairs, getting away from from family, getting away from God
My mother died when I was three. In the fall of 1961 she was very pregnant with me. When I watched this video, I kept picturing her sitting on the couch with her big belly watching these programs. I wonder which was her favorite?
I still find it interesting that a lot of viewers find an association between seeing these videos I create and whatever nostalgia is sparked in their memories from them. There's clearly something about these intros, particularly when assembled as reconstructions of viewing nights as they actually aired, that seem to recapture favorite moments, memorable people or even best forgotten situations in one's life at the time. They're glimpses into a past history that those who lived through that era could directly relate to in some way or other, a connecting link between now and then in the most tangible way possible short of actually traveling back in time to be physically there again. I'm glad to be the conduit to facilitate that.
We were all so innocent then. These tv characters seemed like friends and now we remember them fondly. When I see a program from those days I wonder if my mom saw it. It seems like some connection to her. Thanks for posting.
@DM Sullivan, I meant that people were innocent then as compared to today. Our lives are manipulated by social media and slick news organizations, even psychologically influential advertising never stops. I think all of that has taken away some of our innocence. There was a time when people believed what they saw on TV, now no one believes much of anything.
@susan olsen.these shows are also special to me because my mom came to the states from Europe that year after marrying my dad and had my baby brother that year as well who all have passed on...I talked to my mom about her fav shows....She learned english from them.....she liked Bachelor Father....Hawaiian Eye......Ozzie and Harriet....and of course Donna Reed because she was a stay at home mom.I'm sorry you lost your mom so young.
We watched these programs on a DuMont television with a built-in phonograph and an FM radio tuner. My sister and I were NOT permitted to touch that TV set. We just accepted whatever black and white picture quality was being received while Dad tried to adjust the antenna. Good memories of a simpler time. Thanks for posting this video.
@ Drake Fallentine-- You mentioned that your family had a DuMont tv set. Did you know that DuMont had their own network from about 1946 to 1956? The show called "The Honeymooners" starring Jackie Gleason was originally broadcast on DuMont. It is known as the forgotten network.
Sweet memories will always be with us. Teared me up. Never heard of "Bus Stop"! Brilliant job of acquiring these rare footage and editing them. Thank you.
I like many others remember these shows, I was 17 in 1961. I will never forget all the ads for lucky strike's, hard to believe they showed those ad's ? People sitting in their homes with their family watching TV thru a cloud of smoke. Anybody think of those memory as something you miss ?
Back in the 50's and probably the early 60's the television season ran for 39 weeks of new shows, there was 3 minutes of commercials per half hour, there were no coming attractions shown and station identification was shown every half hour and only briefly. The credits rolled by slowly enough so they were easy to read. So, what happened? Mostly, greed. Although, there were other factors that also drove up the cost of producing a show.
At the end of the "Hawaiian Eye" intro at 12:17, there's a shot of what appears to be the three stars surfing side-by-side. The blonde girl is not really Connie Stevens, though; she was my second cousin. She was scouted at Waikiki when this was being filmed, and because she resembled Connie and could actually surf, that's her. I remember my brothers talking about this at the time it was shot in 1959.
They could only get away with that because of black and white standard definition TV, all you needed was to add the mole, er… beauty mark. Cool story as I'm old enough to remember that show. HAWAIIAN EYE-IE!!!
The Bugs / Daffy & "Top Cat" themes had some pretty sophisticated lyrics for kids, my sis & I used to happily sing along every time they came on -- and hearing it now, must have understood only about 1/4 of it :)
I've noticed that with the old shows, too, like Patty Duke (cousin Cathy had "lived most every where from Zanzibar to Berkeley Square" -she "adores a minuet, the Ballets Russes, and crepe suzette") - they really didn't talk down to kids, did they?
@@districtline Exactly; after 6 decades of being here in NYC, only this year did the topicality, geographic exactitude, and cleverness of the "Car 54 Where Are You ?" theme hit me.
There’s a hold-up in the Bronx Brooklyn’s broken out in fights There’s a traffic jam in Harlem That’s backed up to Jackson Heights There’s a Scout Troop short a child Kruschev’s due at Idlewild Car 54 Where are you?
liberty Ann, that's also when primetime started at 7pm, directly following the six o'clock news (1/2 hour local and 1/2 hour national). It doesn't start until 8pm now.
I was 7 years old in 1961. I remember some of these shows.... I watched Bugs Bunny, Flintstones and Top Cat. I also watched Leave It To Beaver, The Real McCoys, My Three Sons, Ozzie and Harriet, 77 Sunset Strip , Surfside Six and Hawaiian Eye along with my family. In particular I remember watching a 77 Sunset Strip episode with family and being able to follow the story and realizing that it was the first time I watched a drama show intended for grownups and was able to "get" the show and enjoy it. I remember thinking "wow this is really a great story!"
I live across the street from the house where Walter Brennan grew up. My neighbor used to say that Walter was known to come to it in a limousine. Loved the Real McCoys back then.
Brennan grew up here is Massachusetts I believe. He was a heck of a character actor. When I was growing up and watching him in westerns I never dreamed he could be from Boston. LOL!!!
The greatest thing about Luke McCain is no matter how dire the circumstance or how evil the villain, he always resolved the problems in 22 minutes of air time. Every. single. time.
@@goldenlady97 I've seen that gay porno that supposedly involves Conners. You can't even tell it's him; too grainy and far away. Stop spreading unverifiable rumors.
We would watch the Flintstones as a family. My mother and Wilma were both pregnant at the same time. My sister was born just a bit before Pebbles. My sister was born with reddish long hair so my mom fixed it up in a ponytail at the top of her head. Made a little 'fountain'. Our jaws dropped when we got our first glimpse of Pebbles. Pebbles was the cartoon version of my baby sister.
I have a '61 Buick that I bring to car shows in the summer. I would love to rig up a vintage TV set with a video like this for people to check out. Set it all up in the trunk.
That's child's play. Find a vintage TV, and use a laptop or DVD player as the source. A 500 watt power inverter should provide enough juice to run it for several hours. Just run the engine of the car for five minutes every hour to keep the battery pumped up. "So simple, a cave man could do it!" LOL
ABC was the shit show network. At most a Third of those shows were worth watching even then. Most nights there was something better on the other networks - NBC & CBS.
As was "Calvin & the Colonel," but unlike the other two, it was cancelled in 1962, and never got back to network. It was syndicated later, but I am not aware of any station (certainly not in South Florida) who carried it afterward.
True, but the Flintstones were broadcast in color. My parents went grocery shopping on Friday nights and a TV dealership was next door to the grocery. Dad would take my brother and me to the TV store and the owner was kind enough to let us watch it on a color TV. Our family didn't get a color TV until many years later.
I just turned 8 in Fall 1961. i remember watching all the westerns shown, Top Cat, Bugs Bunny, Untouchables, Hawaiian Eye, Ozzie and Harriet, My 3 Sons, Donna Reed, Real Mc Coys, Flintstones, 77 Sunset Strip, Leave it to Beaver, and Lawrence Welk show. Thanks for the memories!
I was born on this year, thank you for uploading this, it's very impressive. Now I know what my parents would be into while I was a tiny tot. I must also state that I just don't know where we would be without USA TV productions, they are simply the BEST! Also may I comment it was so much cleaner and everything or mostly for the family those days, not like a lot of the filth and general nastiness of the shows these days, sad, but true.
Even though it was pure fantasy, I loved the Donna Reed Show and all the actors who portrayed the perfect family. Really nice to pretend that life was that good.
it was that way for many of us in the middle class. We lived a "Donna Reed" life for many years.. til the economy collapsed in the '70s, then not so much.
@@hankaustin7091 I certainly didn't grow up in a Donna Reed household back then, so if you did then you should consider yourself fortunate. And the economy didn't collapse in the 70's. It actually collapsed around 2008. That's when Congress had to bailout the Banks.
@@radar0412 the economy most certainly did collapse in the '70s because I lived through it. We had the collapse during the '73-'74 oil embargo and then again during the Jimmy Carter years.. so, yeah, we sure did have a bad economy.
@@hankaustin7091 I lived through the 70's recessions as well. But there was by no means an economic collapse. EVERYBODY kept their Jobs and their homes. But don't let me take away your creative license.
I remember walking around the house with a long wire and rabbit ears with aluminum foil for better reception so my dad could watch GUNSMOKE. . My grandchildren ask, how could you handle having 1 t.v., 3. Channels, and walking across the room to adjust the volume and change channels. I just tell them we were lucky to have what we had. ( we were quite poor ) but we were all very family oriented. I think that 1. T.v. made a big difference. ...
I was little, but my mother and I would park in front of the TV to watch Gardner McKay in Adventures in Paradise.😀 I loved it and his boat theTIKI. Miss old shows like the untouchables, Maverick, and Cheyenne
I still watch some of these shows on METV! Yay! Love my week day line up of oldies on this great channel! I do wish they offered some like Ben Casey though. I remembered well the intro to that. Also the Real McCoys was a fave I had forgotten about.
1961 was the year we got our first TV set .. it was a small black and white set with a fuzzy picture , but we thought it was the greatest thing ever .. I remember watching almost all of these TV shows back then .. I was 10 years old at the time ..
I think I watched every western of that time period. The Rifleman, Maverick and Have Gun Will Travel were my favorites. I guess you’d call me a tomboy at the time. I loved the horses and dreamed of owning one someday (which I did many years later). Good thing I wasn’t born in this generation, I might have been given puberty blockers. Life was so normal back then.
I loved that show. In 1963 I went downtown to a music store and purchased the sheet music to, "Somewhere in the Night", the theme song. I loved those line drawings of the various vistas around New York City they'd show at the commerical breaks. My fave was the Central Park scene which included the Sherry Netherland Hotel, the Hotel Pierre, and my favorite New York building: the late Hotel Savoy Plaza (wrecking ball in 1964) at the corner of 59th Street and 5th Ave. Loved those twin chimneys topping the mansard roof. No, I'm not a native New Yorker, but NYC has been one of my favorite cities for decades.
I LOVE THIS!!!! I wasn't even born yet (my mother was pregnant with me, though), but oh, what a STONE GAS it is to watch this TV lineup!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, RwDt09, whoever you are!!! 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
We got about 75-80% of those shows here in Australia, and I loved all of them (maybe not 77 Sunset Strip -- I was only 5). I thought that was a later start of The Flintstones you showed -- I remember the original start (before Pebbles & Bam-Bam) had Fred driving through Bedrock in the day time. Anyway, it was the days when the US made wholesome TV shows and even the Arab world loved, admired, and emulated US culture.
Thanks. Growing up in a Canadian border town with no access to an ABC affiliate, some of these I only remember from visits to relatives, or from later re-runs, or from their being picked up by Canadian stations. Some don’t ring a bell at all. Almost all are good-quality clips, which I appreciate. Not always the case with these compilations.
My sister and I were thrilled to each get a coveted Ben Casey shirt. They were white medical shirts of the day, with a difficult neck/shoulder closure.
Thank you so much for doing this. I remember most of these shows as I was 9 years old. I actually have a few of these in complete DVD sets, Donna Reed, The real McCoy's, My Three Sons. Another one is Hazel which was not shown here. Some of these are still shown on ME TV, FETV, AND Antenna TV. This was such a blast from the past. Again Thank You. Do more years.
THIS is a real kick. I was six years old then. But i grew to love the style. I remember Surfside Six and Ben Casey Best was Buggs Bunny and Bachelor Father.
I absolutely loved Ben Casey when I was 5 years old. I just semi-retired after a 44 year career as a Registered Nurse. My family was shocked when I told them as a senior in high school I was going into nursing.
I remember my brother and I sitting on the floor watching these shows and my Dad would tell us to get our heads out of the way so him and Mom could see.
Most of these shows I remember well, a couple were brought back and a few have no memory. Some were favorites and I wish to go back 60 years just to watch them again.
"Top Cat" --------- his voice was that of Arnold Stang (small, short, unusual voiced, with glasses) that also did commercials for "Chunky" chocolate bars --------- "what a chunk-a-chocolate"!
frizzlefrap I will always, always remember Arnold Stang for those 'Chunky' commercials. He did them with panache. (Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL).
This brings back a few memories from when I was nine years old. We couldn't get all these shows though as we had rabbit ears and only received one or two channels.
funny you should say that - we could only get one channel most nights - it was ABC - so sometimes I see a show from that era from CBS or NBC referenced and I've never heard of it!
Adventures In Paradise was a major influence on my life. I bought a schooner and took people sailing in Chicago and Key West in the 70’s & 80’s. I have two Facebook pages, “Seven Years in Key West” and “Adventures in Paradise Remembered.” 😁
Those of you who cannot get enough of the great, catchy theme songs of that time, raise your hand.
How long do I have to keep it raised?
🙋🙋
@@MrMenefrego1 it's been 2 years now, you can let them down 🤗
@@RobertDeloyd Thank God! lol
I like old television shows
Every week I would watch The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Does anyone remember it?
Yes it was a great show !!! with Bob Denver, and Warren Beatty and Tuesday Weld on a few times too
Check out his book "Forever Dobie". I was shocked that he was such a player with the ladies.
I mean, "Dobie" dating Yvonne Craig, who made "Ginger" and "Mary Ann" look like kid stuff.
I grew up with 3 channels, in b&w, and there was always something to watch. Now I have cable with 1000 options at my fingertips. And I’m watching this instead 😊
Yup - ABC, CBS, & NBC. We were also fortunate enough to have PBS for a few hours each day.
@@luckylambdin8269And in New York channels 5, 9, 11…
Don't forget, broadcasting also wasn't a 24 hour, 365 thing either. Would cut off around midnight or so and back on around 6 or 7 in the morning.
@@luckylambdin8269 We had some great local channel in NY. WNEW, WOR, WPIX
That's why I canceled cable. I don't even have broadcast air. I started buying dvds over 20 years ago of the TV shows and movies that I like. WHAT A COLLECTION?
I assume that I'm not the only viewer who would rather watch this lineup than what's on the networks today.
I have no clue what's on the networks nowadays. I watch only PBS, MSNBC and CNN.
@@richardlawson4317 Sounds like you're really misinformed, then, seeing as how those three networks have spent the last two years telling us hundreds of times that Trump was gonna be removed from office for "colluding with the Russians."
@@randyjordan5521 it ain't over yet
good luck there, it will never happen! @@anthonypicco7811
@@jimfowler5930 ...report's coming out tomorrow... we shall see.
WOW...Watching those clips brought back so many memories of CLASSY TV SHOWS. Don't know what, but something went seriously wrong with some of what is on tv, as time passed....especially now.
I hear a lot of people say that and I agree. T V programming has really gone down hill.
Mary Mitchell ûh
This past season was the first time I haven't had ANY regular network shows to see. i see reruns of old shows much more regularly.(Chuckle!)
I agree.
all good things must come to an end and we came to an end a while ago. same with music.
I was 6 in 1961 in Canada I only remember 10 or so of these but they are deeply etched in my memory...love hearing the theme songs again. I sure wasn’t a fan of Lawrence Welk but Mom and Dad loved it. 😆
I hated being forced to watch Lawrence Welk.
@@jamesstark8316 I recall going to my grandmother's home on Sundays and being forced to watch Laurence Welk and his dancing bubbles. When I couldn't take it anymore, I'd do something naughty just so I would be sent to bed early!
I would love for these shows to come back. Not re made but in the original. These are such an improvement over what’s on
Really? I don't have cable and I don't stream, but what's on now has to be better than this pabulum. Most of these shows were strictly from Squaresville.
That would be such a dream to have these shows come back as the fresh new line up for the network as most have never seen or heard of these except for their grandparents
@@steveweinstein3222You're from Squaresville as you're the resident expert on what's from there 😅😅😅
I was 12 years old in 1961 and remember most of these shows. Mom, Dad and my brother would all sit together and watch TV every night as a family. Now everyone has a TV in their room and hardly watch anything together.
Lovely memory: thanks for sharing it.
I was 3 in 1961!
To me, that's a huge difference. TV in the early 60s wasn't exactly fine art, but in its own way it brought people together. There were three networks (four if you count PBS, but that was more like late 60s anyway). People all watched the same shows and talked about them at school and in the neighborhood. Don't get me wrong, a lot of those shows were terrible. But it gave us a shared point of reference.
Ditto I was 12 yrs old also. What ever happened to the time.
@@richardhutchison3123 I was an infant.
I was just into elementary school when Surfside Six came on but I still remember the hunks on the show. When my Dad insisted I was too young to remember them I reminded him I was young, not blind!
😂😂😂 You and me both!
My heart throb was Cheyenne, and Sugar foot. I was ten
You can have the hunks, I liked Diane McBain. She is definitely a girl.
Check out "Surfside 6" by Michael Gregg Michaud, packed with info and for my money
the best book on a TV series I have read to date. Lot's of behind the scenes goodies.
McBain helped with it.
The power of TV. I was 7 in 61 and remember all these shows. Scary considering what masquerades as TV today.
Jay O -The problem with 21st century TV is that it's not entertainment but leftist propaganda designed to radicalize the viewer. Every commercial, series, storyline and casting decision tells us "negroes & feminists are good, whites & men are bad." I have been unable to watch TV since about 2006; just too terrible.
Jay O Sad but Hollywood is trash today
@@GLC2013 To put it in perspective, it still is what it has always been about: the money. Back then it was cigarettes, you see the principal actors lighting up in scenes, doing commercials, and magazine endorsements; same shirt, different fabric is all there is to it.
@David Pinegar - Wow, a radicalized libtard who is so terrified of being "unpopular," he will prostitute himself to whatever the groupthinks on CNN tell him just so he can basque in the sanctimonious, pseudo-self righteous bliss of total conformity and unity. Until you abstain from the Kool Aid, open your eyes, use your brain and leave the herd mentality you have no credibility whatsoever.
I WAS 7 ALSO
LOVE WATCHING THESE SHOWS I STILL WATCH SOME OF THEM THAT R STILL ON ----BETTER THEN WHAT'S ON TODAY THAT'S 4 SURE---LOVED VINCE EDWARDS---WISH I COULD GO BACK IN TIME--THE WORLD TODAY IS CRAZY
One year after all this it was October 22, 1962 the day of the Cuban missile crisis, on the last plane to leave that island, At the age of five, I landed in this country. All of the sudden a whole new world for me. I remember many of these great shows. God Bless America.
I'm glad you made it out. I was 3 at the time. My older siblings told me my dad, who was in the USAF, went on alert for that.
@The Truth, being from Irish descent, most of my blood came over in the mid 19th century, escaping An Gorta Mor ("The Great Hunger," the Irish Holocaust), the intentional genocide commonly known as the potato famine. We were met with hatred and scorn but soon worked our way into society. Irish-Americans traditionally eat corned beef and cabbage every St. Patrick's Day not because it's a traditional Irish food, because it's not. Corned beef was too expensive for the Irish to afford in Ireland and it was reserved for the English gentry. When the Irish learned they could buy it from their neighborhood Jewish butchers (true story) in the USA, they started the tradition as a big "F You!" to the English. America may not have treated my people very well at the beginning, but we were a DAMNED sight better off than we were under the Brits. America may have its faults, but thank you, Lady Liberty, for welcoming my people.
The Truth Would you believe that when the Irish first came over, they weren’t considered white?
@The Truth You are the biggest hater on this site.
@The Truth What truth? Whatever you say doesn't mean shit anyway.
What amazes me is that after 58 years I remember most of the introductions and I was able to sing the theme songs word for word. I recall being a TV junkie but I just didn't remember to such an extent. I must have watched a lot of ABC because I fondly recall most of the shows very well.
Those were such great days!
Topcat
Even though technology was primitive back then, it seems like television shows were more alluring and exciting to watch; vs today's programming. Even the music was more enjoyable to listen to.
Clearly, the technology would have been far more limited back then, but also bear in mind that the film stock/videotapes have seriously degraded in these clips; the sound and images would have been far sharper when these shows were originally broadcast.
... It was not primitive at all, it was pretty advanced ... Are you alzeimer ?
@@catholiccowboy8545 Compared to todays technology, it was primitive. And no, I'm not alzheimers, I'm D Monty.
@@catholiccowboy8545 great name….
You got that right. T. V today is nothing like the 50,60. Even the 70. I miss the good old days of t.v.
I was only 6 at the time but I remember most of these shows and I do remember how much we looked forward to the TV Guide fall new show issue.
Back when the shows all came out in September, ran for 22 episodes and lasted until the next summer. Now seasons are six episodes long.
I was 6 too but I remember alot of this that's crazy wow where did time go. God Bless!
Lawrence Welk stepped forward to applause, and said, "Thank you ladies and gentlemen." No one gave a second thought that they were one or the other.....
Wasn't it more like "Thank you awm, aLadies and ahGentlemen" when Lawrence said it?
Yes this was a great time to be young, My mom would give the kids alittle extra time before bed to watch TV. If it were not a school night.. Where did the time go.....
We recently lost two of the actors seen in this collection: Ed Byrnes from 77 SUNSET STRIP and Robert Conrad from HAWAIIAN EYE. RIP, and thank you for the great memories.
R" Conrad from " The Wild Wild West ".
Yes, James West from "The Wild Wild West" was Robert Conrad and I had a crush on him. He was in Mannix too with Mike Connors.
All of these people are pretty much gone & in fact I don't believe any of them are still with us. Even Johnny Crawford that played Rifleman's kid passed a coupla years ago. I never watched the show though.
This was a trip down memory lane. Never forgot "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb".
A guy could get overwhelmed with nostalgia watching this kind of stuff
you've got that right.
I used to watch the Donna Reed show when I was a little kid. Seeing the opening I found all the episodes on Prime and I am enjoying it again! As others have noted, some of the shows back then are way better than the trash that masquerades for TV these days. More is not necessarily better.
Amazon Prime? Are seasons 6, 7 & 8 on prime. I have the first 5 on DVD, I can't find 6 7 8, I'm guessing they aren't on DVD!
Donna Reed season 6, 7 & 9!
I was 11 in 1961 and I don't recall many of these but with one Motorola TV we watched what my parents liked!
Well, that is how it was then. Children were rarely asked their preferences. I was also 11 in 1961, and understood that. I do not think it wrong.
Over indulged kids are one of the major problems in society today.
I was 11 and remember all but maybe one of the shows. I got to watch whatever I wanted to.
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Yeah; my mom dominated the TV until I left home at 20.
Saturday morning was the only day my brother and I got to watch what what we wanted. We would get up early and look at the test screen until TV came on for the day.
I wish it still was 1961
You and I both Karen!
So do I. I would be eight years old again.
Not me. If it was 1961 I'd be paying 91% federal income tax.
Boy I sure do tooooo
@Randy Welsh If it was the late 50's I very well could have been a Republican. The GOP of that time doesn't even resemble the Republican Party of today.
Never missed the Bugs Bunny Show.
aaaht -- what's up doc ? A☺ 9- 16 -19
He taught me how to talk joisey
@@tomjacobson631 I remember the theme song and it was still on in the 1970's and probably moved to CBS.
Believe it or not, that theme song, "On With the Show, This is It" has been a Square Dance "singing call" for at least six years now. My good friend is a square dance caller and he uses it from time to time.
The good old days👍🏻
yes,before the country was ruined by the liberals
metrogoldwyn JFK and the south were blue states. Yeah. Good days.
thanks I know it took a lot of time and work to make this video, I really enjoyed it
When tv was good with a moral to the story
The world was God centered in the early years of television, once the world got away from the family viewing, which did not need curse words to get a point across, now curse words appear in news articles, words are misspelled, people stopped caring for others, look at history, radio left images up to the listener, innocence, now corruption, hatred, and scandalous affairs, getting away from from family, getting away from God
1961, reads the same when inverted.
We made a big deal of that to our 8th grade teacher and she said yes, but that's not very good penmanship. Of course in type set, it looks perfect.
My birth year
I was 11 years old in 1961. That fall I entered junior high school, now referred to as, "middle school".
Appropriate, since the whole world's turned upside down.
Always wished that I would have a wife like Donna Reed when I grew up. Neither one was. 😢😢😢
🤓ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!👍👍 Thankyou Soooooooooooooo VERY MUCH FOR Baby Boomers Memories AND Times 🤗THAT WAS FUN 🎊🎉✌
My mother died when I was three. In the fall of 1961 she was very pregnant with me. When I watched this video, I kept picturing her sitting on the couch with her big belly watching these programs. I wonder which was her favorite?
I still find it interesting that a lot of viewers find an association between seeing these videos I create and whatever nostalgia is sparked in their memories from them. There's clearly something about these intros, particularly when assembled as reconstructions of viewing nights as they actually aired, that seem to recapture favorite moments, memorable people or even best forgotten situations in one's life at the time. They're glimpses into a past history that those who lived through that era could directly relate to in some way or other, a connecting link between now and then in the most tangible way possible short of actually traveling back in time to be physically there again. I'm glad to be the conduit to facilitate that.
We were all so innocent then. These tv characters seemed like friends and now we remember them fondly. When I see a program from those days I wonder if my mom saw it. It seems like some connection to her. Thanks for posting.
@DM Sullivan, I meant that people were innocent then as compared to today. Our lives are manipulated by social media and slick news organizations, even psychologically influential advertising never stops. I think all of that has taken away some of our innocence. There was a time when people believed what they saw on TV, now no one believes much of anything.
I'd guess that your mom liked "Adventures In Paradise." Women of that time swooned over the handsome Gardner McKay.
@susan olsen.these shows are also special to me because my mom came to the states from Europe that year after marrying my dad and had my baby brother that year as well who all have passed on...I talked to my mom about her fav shows....She learned english from them.....she liked Bachelor Father....Hawaiian Eye......Ozzie and Harriet....and of course Donna Reed because she was a stay at home mom.I'm sorry you lost your mom so young.
This took a lot of work, well done.
We watched these programs on a DuMont television with a built-in phonograph and an FM radio tuner. My sister and I were NOT permitted to touch that TV set. We just accepted whatever black and white picture quality was being received while Dad tried to adjust the antenna. Good memories of a simpler time. Thanks for posting this video.
@ Drake Fallentine-- You mentioned that your family had a DuMont tv set. Did you know that DuMont had their own network from about 1946 to 1956?
The show called "The Honeymooners" starring Jackie Gleason was originally broadcast on DuMont. It is known as the forgotten network.
Sweet memories will always be with us. Teared me up. Never heard of "Bus Stop"! Brilliant job of acquiring these rare footage and editing them. Thank you.
A lot of work and research goes into this. THANK YOU! I enjoyed it immensely, looking forward to more.
This was within the era of the greatest TV to date. Time to Make TV great Again too.
When television was for entertainment, and it was free. Not the soap box for misfits and malcontents it is today. Even cable has very little to offer.
why why why why cant i find 90 percent of these shows! i never knew they existed!
Amen to that
Yeah, 180 cable channels and you burn out the remote trying to find something worth watching.
That's true! But I do remember being very disappointed when I watched Naked City the first time and found out it was just a cop show.
So true.
Thank you for all your efforts in posting! It was a real joy at seeing and hearing snippets of tv shows from my childhood! ❤️
I like many others remember these shows, I was 17 in 1961. I will never forget all the ads for lucky strike's, hard to believe they showed those ad's ? People sitting in their homes with their family watching TV thru a cloud of smoke. Anybody think of those memory as something you miss ?
I was born.
Back in the 50's and probably the early 60's the television season ran for 39 weeks of new shows, there was 3 minutes of commercials per half hour, there were no coming attractions shown and station identification was shown every half hour and only briefly. The credits rolled by slowly enough so they were easy to read. So, what happened? Mostly, greed. Although, there were other factors that also drove up the cost of producing a show.
What good shows we had then.
Topcat, The Flintstones and Bugs Bunny and Friends: those were the only shows I watched in 1961. LOL
No "Beany and Cecil"?
Oooo Beany and Cecil!
At the end of the "Hawaiian Eye" intro at 12:17, there's a shot of what appears to be the three stars surfing side-by-side. The blonde girl is not really Connie Stevens, though; she was my second cousin. She was scouted at Waikiki when this was being filmed, and because she resembled Connie and could actually surf, that's her. I remember my brothers talking about this at the time it was shot in 1959.
They could only get away with that because of black and white standard definition TV, all you needed was to add the mole, er… beauty mark. Cool story as I'm old enough to remember that show. HAWAIIAN EYE-IE!!!
Yes, you can see it's not Connie.
Thank you so much!! I love those kinds of details!👍
Wow......cool factoid. Thanks!
Right, like "God forbid, Connie might get her hair wet, call in the stunt double!"
The Bugs / Daffy & "Top Cat" themes had some pretty sophisticated lyrics for kids, my sis & I used to happily sing along every time they came on -- and hearing it now, must have understood only about 1/4 of it :)
I've noticed that with the old shows, too, like Patty Duke (cousin Cathy had "lived most every where from Zanzibar to Berkeley Square" -she "adores a minuet, the Ballets Russes, and crepe suzette") - they really didn't talk down to kids, did they?
@@Marcel_Audubon Same with "Car 54 Where Are You?" You could use those lyrics as a time capsule of the early 1960's
@David Pinegar Thank you!
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Exactly; after 6 decades of being here in NYC, only this year did the topicality, geographic exactitude, and cleverness of the "Car 54 Where Are You ?" theme hit me.
There’s a hold-up in the Bronx
Brooklyn’s broken out in fights
There’s a traffic jam in Harlem
That’s backed up to Jackson Heights
There’s a Scout Troop short a child
Kruschev’s due at Idlewild
Car 54 Where are you?
I was 4 that year. Some actors are more familiar to me than the shows.
Amazed that all these cartoons were prime time!
the Flintstones and Top Cat were the first ones. 'this is the year we moved back to Australia from Canada. We moved back to Canada 4 years later.
liberty Ann, that's also when primetime started at 7pm, directly following the six o'clock news (1/2 hour local and 1/2 hour national). It doesn't start until 8pm now.
Still watching some of these shows.
I graduated from h. s. in 1962 and recall almost all the shows but some I never heard of before. Sure brought back a ton of memories.
I was 7 years old in 1961. I remember some of these shows.... I watched Bugs Bunny, Flintstones and Top Cat. I also watched Leave It To Beaver, The Real McCoys, My Three Sons, Ozzie and Harriet, 77 Sunset Strip , Surfside Six and Hawaiian Eye along with my family. In particular I remember watching a 77 Sunset Strip episode with family and being able to follow the story and realizing that it was the first time I watched a drama show intended for grownups and was able to "get" the show and enjoy it. I remember thinking "wow this is really a great story!"
I remember top cat and bugs bunny and other top cartoons and shows and miss them
Loved the Real Mccoys
I live across the street from the house where Walter Brennan grew up. My neighbor used to say that Walter was known to come to it in a limousine. Loved the Real McCoys back then.
Brennan grew up here is Massachusetts I believe. He was a heck of a character actor. When I was growing up and watching him in westerns I never dreamed he could be from Boston. LOL!!!
As ancient as this looks, it's obvious that TV was way more important then than it is now.
TV and radio (and record players!) were the only forms of outside entertainment in the house, at the time...no Internet, obviously.
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 The June Taylor Dancers would make housecalls if your living room was large enough
No Internet. Radio and movies had already taken a back seat. TV was *the* mass medium of that era.
@Sue Taft TV was definitely NOT just starting it's transition from radio in 1961! where do you dingalings come up with this stuff?
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there was movies, sports, bowling, pool hall, Vegas and all kinds of entertainment and recreation outside the home..
The Rifleman is still my favorite.
He shoots from the groin!
@@algeborusas1883 he had a special gun made for groin action (really)
Johnny Crawford was a great child actor - their relationship made this Western extra special
Chuck Conners was pretty awesome!
The greatest thing about Luke McCain is no matter how dire the circumstance or how evil the villain, he always resolved the problems in 22 minutes of air time. Every. single. time.
Back when “Voice of God” announcers walked the earth
I like how Chuck Connors handles that lever-action rifle. Now that is a REAL man!
a real GAY man LOL....but I loved the show too.
Acting!
@@goldenlady97 I've seen that gay porno that supposedly involves Conners. You can't even tell it's him; too grainy and far away. Stop spreading unverifiable rumors.
@@donaldsaigh8785 sweetie it's been a known fact for years that he was gay
@@goldenlady97 Oh. O.K.
I was born in the fall of 1961, so my folks would have been watching this stuff.
As a 8-year-old, it was a treat to be able to stay up on Friday night to watch the Flintstones
We would watch the Flintstones as a family. My mother and Wilma were both pregnant at the same time. My sister was born just a bit before Pebbles. My sister was born with reddish long hair so my mom fixed it up in a ponytail at the top of her head. Made a little 'fountain'. Our jaws dropped when we got our first glimpse of Pebbles. Pebbles was the cartoon version of my baby sister.
Yes Yes Yes We did the same
My parents used to love watching the Lawrence Welk Show.
I have a '61 Buick that I bring to car shows in the summer. I would love to rig up a vintage TV set with a video like this for people to check out. Set it all up in the trunk.
That's child's play. Find a vintage TV, and use a laptop or DVD player as the source. A 500 watt power inverter should provide enough juice to run it for several hours. Just run the engine of the car for five minutes every hour to keep the battery pumped up. "So simple, a cave man could do it!" LOL
Live in the past much?
Get over it
At least we can find some old programming on the internet. I rarely watch network television these days.
ABC was the shit show network. At most a Third of those shows were worth watching even then. Most nights there was something better on the other networks - NBC & CBS.
Thank you. I remember all of these shows, even though I didn't get to see all of them. They were all great shows. TV nowadays basically sucks.
i was 4 years old in 61 saw all this in reruns late 60 and 70 great stuff thank you
I can still watch these old shows after all these years!!! The garbage today and one reason I have no cable or satellite TV
"The Bugs Bunny Show" and "Top Cat" were filmed in color, but broadcast in B&W in primetime when they originally aired on A.B.C..
As was "Calvin & the Colonel," but unlike the other two, it was cancelled in 1962, and never got back to network. It was syndicated later, but I am not aware of any station (certainly not in South Florida) who carried it afterward.
True, but the Flintstones were broadcast in color. My parents went grocery shopping on Friday nights and a TV dealership was next door to the grocery. Dad would take my brother and me to the TV store and the owner was kind enough to let us watch it on a color TV. Our family didn't get a color TV until many years later.
Thanks so much, brings back so many good memories watching these wholesome shows as a small child!
Most of what’s on tv today is mind numbing garbage.
I just turned 8 in Fall 1961. i remember watching all the westerns shown, Top Cat, Bugs Bunny, Untouchables, Hawaiian Eye, Ozzie and Harriet, My 3 Sons, Donna Reed, Real Mc Coys, Flintstones, 77 Sunset Strip, Leave it to Beaver, and Lawrence Welk show. Thanks for the memories!
I was born on this year, thank you for uploading this, it's very impressive. Now I know what my parents would be into while I was a tiny tot. I must also state that I just don't know where we would be without USA TV productions, they are simply the BEST! Also may I comment it was so much cleaner and everything or mostly for the family those days, not like a lot of the filth and general nastiness of the shows these days, sad, but true.
Even though it was pure fantasy, I loved the Donna Reed Show and all the actors who portrayed the perfect family. Really nice to pretend that life was that good.
it was that way for many of us in the middle class. We lived a "Donna Reed" life for many years.. til the economy collapsed in the '70s, then not so much.
Love those shows ,
@@hankaustin7091 I certainly didn't grow up in a Donna Reed household back then, so if you did then you should consider yourself fortunate. And the economy didn't collapse in the 70's. It actually collapsed around 2008. That's when Congress had to bailout the Banks.
@@radar0412 the economy most certainly did collapse in the '70s because I lived through it. We had the collapse during the '73-'74 oil embargo and then again during the Jimmy Carter years.. so, yeah, we sure did have a bad economy.
@@hankaustin7091 I lived through the 70's recessions as well. But there was by no means an economic collapse. EVERYBODY kept their Jobs and their homes. But don't let me take away your creative license.
Some of us who were kids back then may not remember all of these shows. Simple reason is that we had bedtimes! Never saw the shows on after 8 or 9 PM.
Ain't that the truth.
I remember walking around the house with a long wire and rabbit ears with aluminum foil for better reception so my dad could watch GUNSMOKE. . My grandchildren ask, how could you handle having 1 t.v., 3. Channels, and walking across the room to adjust the volume and change channels. I just tell them we were lucky to have what we had. ( we were quite poor ) but we were all very family oriented. I think that 1. T.v. made a big difference. ...
I remember about half of the shows .mostly the cartoons and westerns. Did bring back memories.
I was little, but my mother and I would park in front of the TV to watch Gardner McKay in Adventures in Paradise.😀 I loved it and his boat theTIKI. Miss old shows like the untouchables, Maverick, and Cheyenne
Thanks for posting this!
I still watch some of these shows on METV! Yay! Love my week day line up of oldies on this great channel! I do wish they offered some like Ben Casey though. I remembered well the intro to that. Also the Real McCoys was a fave I had forgotten about.
1961 was the year we got our first TV set .. it was a small black and white set with a fuzzy picture , but we thought it was the greatest thing ever .. I remember watching almost all of these TV shows back then .. I was 10 years old at the time ..
I think I watched every western of that time period. The Rifleman, Maverick and Have Gun Will Travel were my favorites. I guess you’d call me a tomboy at the time. I loved the horses and dreamed of owning one someday (which I did many years later). Good thing I wasn’t born in this generation, I might have been given puberty blockers. Life was so normal back then.
That was when shows were the best. Wish they would bring them back. Shows the whole family loved.
Loved Naked City. Still have a lot of them on DVD.
I loved that show. In 1963 I went downtown to a music store and purchased the sheet music to, "Somewhere in the Night", the theme song. I loved those line drawings of the various vistas around New York City they'd show at the commerical breaks. My fave was the Central Park scene which included the Sherry Netherland Hotel, the Hotel Pierre, and my favorite New York building: the late Hotel Savoy Plaza (wrecking ball in 1964) at the corner of 59th Street and 5th Ave. Loved those twin chimneys topping the mansard roof. No, I'm not a native New Yorker, but NYC has been one of my favorite cities for decades.
I LOVE THIS!!!! I wasn't even born yet (my mother was pregnant with me, though), but oh, what a STONE GAS it is to watch this TV lineup!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, RwDt09, whoever you are!!! 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
It took me a while to remember why I didn't remember most of these shows. I was in the navy 1960-63.
We got about 75-80% of those shows here in Australia, and I loved all of them (maybe not 77 Sunset Strip -- I was only 5). I thought that was a later start of The Flintstones you showed -- I remember the original start (before Pebbles & Bam-Bam) had Fred driving through Bedrock in the day time. Anyway, it was the days when the US made wholesome TV shows and even the Arab world loved, admired, and emulated US culture.
We heard Flintstones was President Kennedy's favorite
Arab world? I think not.
I always thought of Quinn Martin as a 70's shows producer. Amazing he kept such a consistent style, at least in the intros, for so long
Really great video I will be back to watch again and again for the memories. Thanks for the hard work and upload.
Thanks. Growing up in a Canadian border town with no access to an ABC affiliate, some of these I only remember from visits to relatives, or from later re-runs, or from their being picked up by Canadian stations. Some don’t ring a bell at all. Almost all are good-quality clips, which I appreciate. Not always the case with these compilations.
Wow--this is my birth year. Lots of escapism, skin, guns and Bugs! Weird. Thanks for the compilation.
They're still showing Rifleman and Leave It To Beaver on MEtv. The Flintstones were huge back in the day.
the Flintstones were a take off of the Honeymooners.
My sister and I were thrilled to each get a coveted Ben Casey shirt. They were white medical shirts of the day, with a difficult neck/shoulder closure.
In the opening of Batchelor Father I loved the way the big old dog jumped in the back of the convertable.
Back when you didn’t need nudity or sex to make a show work.
Those were the great ole days gone by.
True, but imagine how great this stuff would be with Nudity & sex as well!
Just watch Peyton Place...ijs
The only good shows on today is The Rookie and Bull.
+Pete Andrews :D
Thank you so much for doing this. I remember most of these shows as I was 9 years old. I actually have a few of these in complete DVD sets, Donna Reed, The real McCoy's, My Three Sons. Another one is Hazel which was not shown here. Some of these are still shown on ME TV, FETV, AND Antenna TV. This was such a blast from the past. Again Thank You. Do more years.
Hazel was on NBC in 1961. I just found it on CZcams!
Thanks for putting this together.
THIS is a real kick. I was six years old then. But i grew to love the style. I remember Surfside Six and Ben Casey
Best was Buggs Bunny and Bachelor Father.
I absolutely loved Ben Casey when I was 5 years old. I just semi-retired after a 44 year career as a Registered Nurse. My family was shocked when I told them as a senior in high school I was going into nursing.
I remember some of them. Dad had control of the remote and he chose what we watched.
The guys were so handsome. 💜
You had a remote? We didn't get one of those until the '70s!
A remote!. I was the remote.
And somebody had to rotate the aluminum foil covered rabbit ears too.
I remember my brother and I sitting on the floor watching these shows and my Dad would tell us to get our heads out of the way so him and Mom could see.
Most of these shows I remember well, a couple were brought back and a few have no memory. Some were favorites and I wish to go back 60 years just to watch them again.
I was 8 years old in '61. Im amazed how many of these I remember.
"Top Cat" --------- his voice was that of Arnold Stang (small, short, unusual voiced, with glasses) that also did commercials for "Chunky" chocolate bars --------- "what a chunk-a-chocolate"!
he was also one of the gas station owners in its a mad mad mad mad world.
It was? It sure sounded like him.
frizzlefrap Arnold Stang was big in radio especially the Jack Benny Show
frizzlefrap I will always, always remember Arnold Stang for those 'Chunky' commercials. He did them with panache. (Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL).
This brings back a few memories from when I was nine years old. We couldn't get all these shows though as we had rabbit ears and only received one or two channels.
funny you should say that - we could only get one channel most nights - it was ABC - so sometimes I see a show from that era from CBS or NBC referenced and I've never heard of it!
I was two yrs old when these shows came out but how neat it was
Adventures In Paradise was a major influence on my life. I bought a schooner and took people sailing in Chicago and Key West in the 70’s & 80’s. I have two Facebook pages, “Seven Years in Key West” and “Adventures in Paradise Remembered.” 😁
The versatile, multi-talented Steve Allen!
he wrote the song the USC Trojan Marching Band were playing, "This Could be the Start of Something Big"
I'm so glad I got to meet him before he passed. Brilliant, funny--a class act.
wow!! what memories, i remember most of these esp. "adventures in paradise" and all the rest. hiho steverino!!!
Thoroughly enjoyable -- educational and entertaining.
Fantastic, thank you, Remember them all. thank you.