Re: He / She … I don’t remember the series very well but I, too, loved Paula Prentiss. But she went and married Richard Benjamin in 1961 and THEY ARE STILL MARRIED! A 60 year marriage, both still alive. She’s in her early 80s.
Wow, I had no ideas that they married so long ago and that she was in her early 80s( which also means Richard is considerably older than I thought he was). I, too, always loved Paula Prentiss.
He and She won an Emmy for its writing. The award was collected after the show's cancellation. In retrospect,in the midst of all that asexual rural pablum and silly fantasies a smart urban comedy was just 'too soon'. It may have been a hit if it had been released a few years later. The creative team would introduce 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. The viewers were now ready.
@@luisreyes1963 Thanks! At least we know they are real women. Unlike Dr.Rachel Levine the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Rachel Maddow aka Richard Madcow of MSNBC, the Mindless Senseless Nitwit Broadcasting Company!
It was cancelled because more viewers watched "GOMER PYLE- U.S.M.C." on CBS- and because, according to producer Aaron Spelling, Honey was "too sugar-coated" to continue for another season (Diana Rigg, as "Emma Peel", was everything "Honey" wasn't on "THE AVENGERS", which premiered on ABC in the spring of 1966).
I remember that over 40,000 persons wrote letters to the network asking them not to cancel "He & She", but it was still cancelled! This was a record! Also, the "Time Tunnel" should have been given a second season to increase their audience!
@@brianarbenz1329 not way ahead....about 3 years ahead of it's time....because in 1970 they made the mary tyler moore show he and she wouldve made it had it come after the rural purge
According to Harlan Ellison in his L.A. FREE PRESS TV column, CBS had a choice of renewing "HE & SHE" for the 1968-'69 season......or scheduling "BLONDIE" instead. They went with "the look of a winner".......and it tanked opposite "DANIEL BOONE" and "THE FLYING NUN". The network did schedule repeats of "HE & SHE" during the summer of 1970.
Ann Francis was my first "crush" at the age of 11, when she was a very sexy young woman, prancing around in the movie "Forbidden Planet"....Ten years later (at age 35) Ann was given a shot at her own TV series as Honey West. I was still stunned by her beauty...but I guess Hollywood never really gave her much in the way of leading roles in movies...During the late 50s and beyond, she showed up in many "guest" appearances, my favorite one being that very creepy episode of Twilight Zone, wherein she portrays a pretty model-type, on a vacation of sorts--only to find that, as she gravitates at the end of her vacation, she visits a spooky floor filled with mannequins--They "speak" to her, indicating that she must have forgotten that she was one of them--and welcome back!..The final scene, of Ann being her mannequin self, nearly broke my heart! She made it to age 80, but died from lung cancer--due likely to many years of smoking. There is an old video interview of Ann, where she looks very attractive (in her 50s), but is smoking relentlessly during the interview.
@@kathleenking47 There were two separate attempts at a "Blondie" sitcom, one in the 50s and one in the 60s. The one in the 50s lasted a full season, the 60s version lasted three months.
A pair of superhero sitcoms inspired by the Batmania craze of 1966. From January to August, 1967 despite being on different networks CBS and NBC ran Mondays 8:00 and 8:30, Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice.
I could never accept that they always ended up at Pearl Harbor the day before the bombing, and at the Alamo the day before the attack. Never the other way around. But what the heck, it was interesting, and educational.
Time tunnel was a great show and I didn't notice how cheesy the special effects were when I was a kid. It should have lasted longer. Unlike Star Trek. However, it never had a chance to come back after its premature cancellation.
Time Tunnel is still run on METV and was one of my favorite shows!!! Also liked Honey West. Q: why is Batman on this list? It ran 3 years-not "short-lived"
Holy Underwear, Batman ! This brings back wonderful memories of my 1960's childhood ! I remember watching at least one episode of almost every one of these shows (the exceptions are "Blue Light" and "The Travels of Jamie McPheters"). THANK YOU so much for sharing with us ! CHEERS !! :-)
Those came later. Burl continued to appear on variety shows, recorded albums and made personal appearances. He later appeared on "THE LAWYERS" episodes of "THE BOLD ONES" for three seasons (1969-'72).
I remember a TV show from the 60's - it was a superhero comedy type program called Mr Terrific - I know not too many may be around now who might remember that show If anybody has any info about this I hope they will contact me please Thank you I believe this show may have been on cbs
I watched most of these shows as a kid. The ABC station had the strongest signal in our area, so that was what we watched. I loved Time Tunnel, He and She and Batman, of course.
NBC wanted to cancel Star Trek after its second season (1967/1968). It's rating were below those of Lost in Space. The fans made a letter campaign that convinced the execs to give it one more season. But they plunked Captain Kirk & Crew onto a Friday night 9 PM (Eastern), 8 PM (Central) time slot when all the kids were out dancing, dating, concert-attending and partying. The show's budget was slashed and its ratings were abysmal and the show was cancelled in mid-season.
That was NBC's plan. Appear to be heeding the pleas of the letter writers, while setting the show up to have a ratings plummet, so no one could argue with them for cancelling it.
On the Off To See The Wizard Promo, am I right in thinking the announcer was Gary Owens, in the period between his radio gig at KHJ (he was the DJ replaced by The Real Don Steele when they brought in the Bill Drake "Boss Radio" format) and turning up on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In two years later?
Amazing how these shows had about the same original run but we are more familiar with some than others. Everyone knows Time Tunnel for example, but I have never heard of The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters though it ran for 26 episodes. Good job.
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters ran from 1963-1964. The poor kid never had a chance on ABC's Sunday night schedule competing with Ed Sullivan on CBS and Walt Disney on NBC. It was a shame, too. It put Kurt Russell on the map, along with good performances from Charles Bronson who played a wagonmaster in the latter half of the season. Bronson and Russell had great chemistry together. And then you had the Osmond Brothers, who had a recurring role as another family on the wagon train. From time to time, they'd pop out of the back of the wagon and start singing.
In the 1965-'66 season, NBC was the first network to virtually schedule all of its programs in "Living Color" (billing themselves as "The Full Color Network"). CBS and ABC had to play catch-up with them that fall, because the ratings would have been tipped in favor of NBC, as more homes with color sets woere counted in the Nielsen ratings- and those families tended to watch more color shows. So CBS and ABC scheduled about half of their prime-time programming in color......with CBS retaining its "#1" status because "LASSIE", "THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW", "THE LUCY SHOW" {which was already filmed in color from season two in 1963, but CBS telecast those episodes in black and white}, "THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW", "THE RED SKELTON HOUR", "PETTICOAT JUNCTION", "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES", "MY THREE SONS" (moving from ABC) and "GOMER PYLE- U.S.M.C." were "converted" to color, continuing to attract viewers [and high ratings]- and new color series including "GREEN ACRES" and "HOGAN'S HEROES" were also hits. ABC wasn't quite so lucky, as only "THE FUGITIVE", "PEYTON PLACE" and "F TROOP" continued in color for the fall of 1966, when all three networks scheduled "100% color" programming in prime-time.
@@philiptom2799 And Paula was no Barbie! Between Paula Prentiss and Julie Newmar, I had feelings that a 9-year-old boy didn't quite have a frame of reference to understand!
I remember watching Honey West when I was very young. I remember watching it with dad and my brothers. Come to think of it, I don't think mom watched with us. Hmm. Wonder why. Forbidden Planet is one of my all time favorite movie to this day.
Loved Honey West! The Gilbert Toy Company made a doll of her and extra clothes. Didn't sell well and was rapidly discontinued. She was absolutely a stunner!
Loved the TIME TUNNEL. DOES ANYONE ELSE HERE,,,,,,,,remember a series called ""Coronet Blue""? About a man who has lost his memory and the only thing he remembers is the phrase "Coronet Blue". He is being chased by someone or some group throughout the series.
I am surprised that you have listed certain television shows as short-lived. He & She with top fave Paula Prentiss and her real-life husband Richard Benjamin deserved a longer run. Ms. Prentiss was an ace comedian; remember her in 'Where the boys are' with the lovely throaty voice. He was famous for 'Portnoy's Complaint'. Time Tunnel enjoyed tremendous success and played for quite a few seasons, and it resuscitated the careers of James Darren and Robert Colbert. "The Walls of Jericho: is my fave episode from this iconic series that featured LISA GAYE as guest star. I was under the impression that "Honey West" was quite successful and revived Anne Francis flagging film career. A series that needs to be resurrected is Hank, mid-60's. This was a rib-tickling comedy that the whole family will enjoy. Unfortunately, it played for just one season. My fave episode from this series was/is "The trouble with Tina" that starred LISA GAYE as guest, with promise of a recurring role. Unfortunately, the show was axed after one season.
Now here’s something weird. All these years I thought I could remember Sally Field doing that promo showing that Batman was coming and now I see that it was Patty Duke doing that promo. I was only 5 when that promo was made.
"He & She" was the same production team that later had much more success with Mary Tyler Moore & Bob Newhart shows. You could see the same comedic style & use of an ensemble cast. "He & She" was a few years ahead of its time. No mention of Goldie Hawn in the "Good Morning World" promo
Remember, when some corporate Bigshot named Newton Minnow, declared that TV was nothing but "a vast waste land"? He was basically correct...TV then, and also now, caters to the average intelligence of a 12 year old kid.
@@curbozerboomer1773 You're being kind. More like a 5 year old. I am a Conservative Republican so you will know where I'm coming from. My example is Sean Hanity. Every night for two straight years he told us the walls were closing in on Hilary Clinton. Then he would have a reporter backing him up followed by a lawyer reading from the United States Criminal Code. I fell for it until I realized this was just throwing red meat to stupid people.
Patty and Batman, anyway. Honey West only survived one season. ABC figured out it would be easier and cheaper to simply air reruns of "The Avengers" from England rather than have Anne Francis try to be a knockoff of Emma Peel.
I remember He and She, an episode about arguing over a salt and pepper shaker set, O.K. Crackerby, and Honey West. Also remember Pistols and Petticoats
"Pistols & Petticoats" star Anne Sheridan found out she had cancer shortly after the show began filming & continued to do the show while she was noticeably weak & frail. She passed midway through that first season & the show never recovered
I remember an episode where they were hosting dinner and they thought they had poisoned everyone. "Fat Eddy is on his way to the hospital with a stiff cat!"
1) One season, 26 episodes (1967-'68). 2) One season, 17 episodes (1965-'66). 3) One season, 13 episodes (1968-'69). 4) Two seasons, 42 episodes (1968-'70). 5) One season, 26 episodes (1967-'68). 6) "THE KING FAMILY" was on for two seasons (January 1965- January 1966). They also found time to promote ABC's "Major League Baseball Championship" games that summer. 7) One season (1967-'68). This was a showcase for MGM's library of movies and unsold pilots, with animated bumpers produced by Chuck Jones {their answer to "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR"}. P.S. "ALEXANDER THE GREAT" was an unsold 1964 pilot produced by ABC, featuring William Shatner and Adam West. 8) One season, 26 episodes (1963-'64). 9) One season, 30 episodes (1966-'67). 10) One season, 30 episodes (1965-'66). 11) Patty Duke promotes "BATMAN" [Three seasons, 120 episodes (January 1966-March 1968)] and "BLUE LIGHT" [One season, 17 episodes (1966)], as they surrounded her own series on Wednesday nights in early 1966.
Finding them is the nightmare....but I was pleasantly surprised by getting the 1 season detective series "Coronado 9" with Rod Cameron (after STATE TROOPER ended its long run). Another elusive one is VALENTINE 'S DAY, with Tony Franciosa
Wasn't he an Olympic medalist, acting as a messenger or somthin , with some guys who were always after him, and he'd always get away hurdling cars and fences and such?
@@buckyc.9069As I recall Hank, he was the big brother raising his insufferably cute little sister, his parents having died in a car crash. To get the college education he couldn't afford, he'd illegally audit college courses by finding out which students wouldn't be in attendance that day and taking their place. As described in the show's theme song, "he'll dry-clean your clothes, be a butler or a porter, if it means another quarter in the bank." Wait, how do I still remember that?
The Green Hornet should have gotten a second season and an hour long show. The CAT was another show that was good along with Honey West. I guess it was cheaper for ABC to import a british tv show than make a home grown show. The suits suck.
I remember "The Good Guys". They were probably one of the first to have the gag of going to a nudist camp and thinking they were suposed to go to dinner in the nude. Like they did on The Golden Girls.
Amazing how many of these I remember. I must say, Batman wasn't canceled right away and in fact was so popular for a while it was on twice a week and led to a horrible movie.
very tiny odds of randomly floating thru time and dropping into the middle of a major historic event but in this series it happened every week..go figya!🫨
Re: He / She … I don’t remember the series very well but I, too, loved Paula Prentiss. But she went and married Richard Benjamin in 1961 and THEY ARE STILL MARRIED! A 60 year marriage, both still alive. She’s in her early 80s.
Wow, I had no ideas that they married so long ago and that she was in her early 80s( which also means Richard is considerably older than I thought he was).
I, too, always loved Paula Prentiss.
Thanks for the update. I have heard of the couple and the show. Glad to know that.
Thanks for the information Rob. I still admire Paula Prentiss. She was such a natural actress and had universal appeal.
The best thing on that show was Jack Cassidy, as outrageously hammy Oscar North 😆😆
He and She won an Emmy for its writing.
The award was collected after the show's cancellation.
In retrospect,in the midst of all that asexual rural pablum and silly fantasies a smart urban comedy was just 'too soon'. It may have been a hit if it had been released a few years later.
The creative team would introduce 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970.
The viewers were now ready.
Watched Honey West in reruns. Honey was a hottie in her day. Rest in peace.
I was young too but loved the Time Tunnel. Honey West (named a cat after her). Jammy Mcpheters. Too.
time tunnel was first run seen by me epic series
Honey West should not have been cancelled.
I concur.
@@luisreyes1963 So do I. I would not mind to see an updated today in a movie. But who will play her, I have no idea.
@@luislaplume8261 I'm thinking Scarlett Johansson or Brie Larson.
@@luisreyes1963 Thanks! At least we know they are real women. Unlike Dr.Rachel Levine the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Rachel Maddow aka Richard Madcow of MSNBC, the Mindless Senseless Nitwit Broadcasting Company!
It was cancelled because more viewers watched "GOMER PYLE- U.S.M.C." on CBS- and because, according to producer Aaron Spelling, Honey was "too sugar-coated" to continue for another season (Diana Rigg, as "Emma Peel", was everything "Honey" wasn't on "THE AVENGERS", which premiered on ABC in the spring of 1966).
I remember that over 40,000 persons wrote letters to the network
asking them not to cancel "He & She", but it was still cancelled!
This was a record! Also, the "Time Tunnel" should have been
given a second season to increase their audience!
he and she was two years ahead of it's time
it ended up being the model for most of the mtm shows
the rural purge had to happen first
I liked both shows.
He & She was _way_ ahead of its time. Sort of a sitcom version of the Nichols and May combination. So smart and entertaining.
@@brianarbenz1329 not way ahead....about 3 years ahead of it's time....because in 1970 they made the mary tyler moore show
he and she wouldve made it had it come after the rural purge
According to Harlan Ellison in his L.A. FREE PRESS TV column, CBS had a choice of renewing "HE & SHE" for the 1968-'69 season......or scheduling "BLONDIE" instead. They went with "the look of a winner".......and it tanked opposite "DANIEL BOONE" and "THE FLYING NUN". The network did schedule repeats of "HE & SHE" during the summer of 1970.
Ann Francis was my first "crush" at the age of 11, when she was a very sexy young woman, prancing around in the movie "Forbidden Planet"....Ten years later (at age 35) Ann was given a shot at her own TV series as Honey West. I was still stunned by her beauty...but I guess Hollywood never really gave her much in the way of leading roles in movies...During the late 50s and beyond, she showed up in many "guest" appearances, my favorite one being that very creepy episode of Twilight Zone, wherein she portrays a pretty model-type, on a vacation of sorts--only to find that, as she gravitates at the end of her vacation, she visits a spooky floor filled with mannequins--They "speak" to her, indicating that she must have forgotten that she was one of them--and welcome back!..The final scene, of Ann being her mannequin self, nearly broke my heart! She made it to age 80, but died from lung cancer--due likely to many years of smoking. There is an old video interview of Ann, where she looks very attractive (in her 50s), but is smoking relentlessly during the interview.
That mannequin they made of her was awesome! I regard that TZ episode as the scariest of them all!
What if she was drinking in the interview? Would that bother you as much?
I remember her in the 55 movie Bad day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracy. Gorgeous her not Tracy.😅
The Good Guys had one of my favorite theme songs from that era which was the era of great TV theme songs.
The Good Guys wasn't very funny despite the fact that Bob Denver was the star of the show.
I do remember some of these shows. He & She followed my beloved Green Acres on Wednesday nights.
Blondie was on the 50s..never heard it in the 60s
@@kathleenking47 There were two separate attempts at a "Blondie" sitcom, one in the 50s and one in the 60s. The one in the 50s lasted a full season, the 60s version lasted three months.
A pair of superhero sitcoms inspired by the Batmania craze of 1966. From January to August, 1967 despite being on different networks CBS and NBC ran Mondays 8:00 and 8:30, Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice.
I remember both of them.
I remember both of those too. Wasn't Batman on twice a week? First episode always ended with a cliffhanger.
@@JerryCordelli Yes, Batman was on twice a week, usually two part episodes, part one on Wednesday and part two on Thursday.
@@JerryCordelli The final season only had one episode a week, if I remember correctly.
I remember the theme song for Captain Nice!
The Time Tunnel was awesome.I have it on dvd,I have all 3 seasons of Batman too
I could never accept that they always ended up at Pearl Harbor the day before the bombing, and at the Alamo the day before the attack. Never the other way around. But what the heck, it was interesting, and educational.
I loved The Tome Tunnel as a kid. So sad they made so few episodes
Time tunnel was a great show and I didn't notice how cheesy the special effects were when I was a kid. It should have lasted longer. Unlike Star Trek. However, it never had a chance to come back after its premature cancellation.
@@michaeleasterwood6558 When Batman added Batgirl I subtracted myself; plus they lost me when the cliffhangers ended.
Time Tunnel is still run on METV and was one of my favorite shows!!! Also liked Honey West. Q: why is Batman on this list? It ran 3 years-not "short-lived"
Holy Underwear, Batman ! This brings back wonderful memories of my 1960's childhood ! I remember watching at least one episode of almost every one of these shows (the exceptions are "Blue Light" and "The Travels of Jamie McPheters"). THANK YOU so much for sharing with us ! CHEERS !! :-)
The Time Tunnel seemed like a precursor to Quantum Leap. I love time travel - wouldn’t mind watching an episode
O.K. Crackerby? I had never heard of that, but I can see why it was short-lived. No wonder Burl Ives was soon doing iced tea commercials.
Those came later. Burl continued to appear on variety shows, recorded albums and made personal appearances. He later appeared on "THE LAWYERS" episodes of "THE BOLD ONES" for three seasons (1969-'72).
Don't forget the snowman in Rudolph
Ives looked disturbingly like a pervert uncle of mine! He was a recording artist--but did not have any charisma as a TV star!
Dilly-dilly. career as a folk singer, as well.
I remember a TV show from the 60's - it was a superhero comedy type program called Mr Terrific - I know not too many may be around now who might remember that show
If anybody has any info about this I hope they will contact me please
Thank you
I believe this show may have been on cbs
I remember one character saying "Oh no. Not a purple alert."
Yes, and the same fallNBC,I believe, debuted a very similar super hero sitcom "Captain Nice"... starring William Daniels...both were flops.,
@@michaelmakes1225 And to make matters worse, the two shows were scheduled directly against each other!
@@actionsub exactly, that's what killed them both!
I watched most of these shows as a kid. The ABC station had the strongest signal in our area, so that was what we watched. I loved Time Tunnel, He and She and Batman, of course.
NBC wanted to cancel Star Trek after its second season (1967/1968). It's rating were below those of Lost in Space. The fans made a letter campaign that convinced the execs to give it one more season. But they plunked Captain Kirk & Crew onto a Friday night 9 PM (Eastern), 8 PM (Central) time slot when all the kids were out dancing, dating, concert-attending and partying. The show's budget was slashed and its ratings were abysmal and the show was cancelled in mid-season.
That was NBC's plan. Appear to be heeding the pleas of the letter writers, while setting the show up to have a ratings plummet, so no one could argue with them for cancelling it.
On the Off To See The Wizard Promo, am I right in thinking the announcer was Gary Owens, in the period between his radio gig at KHJ (he was the DJ replaced by The Real Don Steele when they brought in the Bill Drake "Boss Radio" format) and turning up on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In two years later?
It's definitely Owens! He did a lot of TV voice work before hitting it big with "Laugh-In", most noteably as the voice of Roger Ramjet
@@TheREALSofaKing0306 ...nice bit of trivia there, thanks for the info!
Scary I know so many of these…
Amazing how these shows had about the same original run but we are more familiar with some than others. Everyone knows Time Tunnel for example, but I have never heard of The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters though it ran for 26 episodes. Good job.
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters ran from 1963-1964. The poor kid never had a chance on ABC's Sunday night schedule competing with Ed Sullivan on CBS and Walt Disney on NBC.
It was a shame, too. It put Kurt Russell on the map, along with good performances from Charles Bronson who played a wagonmaster in the latter half of the season. Bronson and Russell had great chemistry together.
And then you had the Osmond Brothers, who had a recurring role as another family on the wagon train. From time to time, they'd pop out of the back of the wagon and start singing.
"Batman" and "Blue Light" were among the first ABC shows to be in colour; they were the last of the American networks to go to cooour.
In the 1965-'66 season, NBC was the first network to virtually schedule all of its programs in "Living Color" (billing themselves as "The Full Color Network"). CBS and ABC had to play catch-up with them that fall, because the ratings would have been tipped in favor of NBC, as more homes with color sets woere counted in the Nielsen ratings- and those families tended to watch more color shows. So CBS and ABC scheduled about half of their prime-time programming in color......with CBS retaining its "#1" status because "LASSIE", "THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW", "THE LUCY SHOW" {which was already filmed in color from season two in 1963, but CBS telecast those episodes in black and white}, "THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW", "THE RED SKELTON HOUR", "PETTICOAT JUNCTION", "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES", "MY THREE SONS" (moving from ABC) and "GOMER PYLE- U.S.M.C." were "converted" to color, continuing to attract viewers [and high ratings]- and new color series including "GREEN ACRES" and "HOGAN'S HEROES" were also hits. ABC wasn't quite so lucky, as only "THE FUGITIVE", "PEYTON PLACE" and "F TROOP" continued in color for the fall of 1966, when all three networks scheduled "100% color" programming in prime-time.
I was a young girl, but I loved He and She. I thought Paula Prentiss was beautiful.
My vague memory of that show, was that those two were a sort of Ken and Barbie couple...as a guy, that turned me off!
@@curbozerboomer1773 Richard Benjamin is a lot of things, Ken isn't one of them. I remember him from this tv show and Love at First Bite.
@@philiptom2799 And Paula was no Barbie! Between Paula Prentiss and Julie Newmar, I had feelings that a 9-year-old boy didn't quite have a frame of reference to understand!
"Blondie has the look of a.... WINNER"???
Boy, were they ever off the mark there!
will hutchins was "sugarfoot"
According to the promo, Bob Denver's also got the look of a winner. Maybe they should stop using that line. It seems to jinx the show.
Honey West only worked because Anne Francis was so good in that show.
Fun Fact: Her pet ocelot was named Bruce.
@@luisreyes1963 Thanks for the info.
@@luisreyes1963
.....and don't forget that classic Shelby Cobra that she drove around Los Angeles (or the back lot at Universal Studios).
I remember watching Honey West when I was very young. I remember watching it with dad and my brothers. Come to think of it, I don't think mom watched with us. Hmm. Wonder why.
Forbidden Planet is one of my all time favorite movie to this day.
Loved Honey West! The Gilbert
Toy Company made a doll of her and extra clothes. Didn't sell well and was rapidly discontinued. She was absolutely a stunner!
Wow, short lived for good reason.
Oh my gosh! I remember that Saturday Afternoon song...but not too much else.
Loved the TIME TUNNEL.
DOES ANYONE ELSE HERE,,,,,,,,remember a series called ""Coronet Blue""? About a man who has lost his memory and the only thing he remembers is the phrase "Coronet Blue". He is being chased by someone or some group throughout the series.
Frank Converse and Brian Bedford? Nope, don't remember a thing :)
@@inkey2 Cnxled
Frank Converse was later in the series N.Y.P.D.
Is Coronet blue the name of a paint shade for an automobile or a bike?
@@Motionpictures-op2pi don;t know.......but that was the name of a TV show
Others, My Living Doll, Ugliest Girl in the Town, Turn-On, Second Hundred Years, My Mother The Car, You're in the Picture, Green Hornet, The Prisoner
You're In The Picture was axed after 1 broadcast.
"Turn-On" is probably the most famous example of a weekly series that got cancelled after just one episode.
@@luisreyes1963 1/20/1961
A "You're in the Picture" cast reunion was scheduled just as soon as anyone in the program found the courage to show their faces in public.
Just loved "Second Hundred Years".
I seem to remember Batman
Being 65,I kinda remember some of these shows.😢😮😅😊
Haha haha I remember the show I was still in grammar school when it was on it came and went! 😂
I am surprised that you have listed certain television shows as short-lived. He & She with top fave Paula Prentiss and her real-life husband Richard Benjamin deserved a longer run. Ms. Prentiss was an ace comedian; remember her in 'Where the boys are' with the lovely throaty voice. He was famous for 'Portnoy's Complaint'. Time Tunnel enjoyed tremendous success and played for quite a few seasons, and it resuscitated the careers of James Darren and Robert Colbert. "The Walls of Jericho: is my fave episode from this iconic series that featured LISA GAYE as guest star. I was under the impression that "Honey West" was quite successful and revived Anne Francis flagging film career. A series that needs to be resurrected is Hank, mid-60's. This was a rib-tickling comedy that the whole family will enjoy. Unfortunately, it played for just one season. My fave episode from this series was/is "The trouble with Tina" that starred LISA GAYE as guest, with promise of a recurring role. Unfortunately, the show was axed after one season.
Now here’s something weird. All these years I thought I could remember Sally Field doing that promo showing that Batman was coming and now I see that it was Patty Duke doing that promo. I was only 5 when that promo was made.
Patty Duke:
"I may be schizophrenic but I'll always have each other."
Was that Kurt Russell in the Jamie McPheeters clip?
Yes... his first appereance in a TV show...
"He & She" was the same production team that later had much more success with Mary Tyler Moore & Bob Newhart shows. You could see the same comedic style & use of an ensemble cast. "He & She" was a few years ahead of its time.
No mention of Goldie Hawn in the "Good Morning World" promo
Goldie Hawn!(Chuckle!)This was just one of many cases where the least important cast member in a movie or series wound up a big star.
Jack Cassidy was hilarious as Oscar North. Kenneth Mars was the fireman across the alley. A board connected their buildings
Paula Prentiss and Honey west were so pretty!
I remember a lot of these shows. Some were good but most of them unwatchable.
Remember, when some corporate Bigshot named Newton Minnow, declared that TV was nothing but "a vast waste land"? He was basically correct...TV then, and also now, caters to the average intelligence of a 12 year old kid.
@@curbozerboomer1773
You're being kind. More like a 5 year old. I am a Conservative Republican so you will know where I'm coming from. My example is Sean Hanity. Every night for two straight years he told us the walls were closing in on Hilary Clinton. Then he would have a reporter backing him up followed by a lawyer reading from the United States Criminal Code. I fell for it until I realized this was just throwing red meat to stupid people.
Some of these shows should have been short-lived.
There were some shows that barely lasted half a season, so not sure if Batman and Time Tunnel belonged here?
Time Tunnel only ran for one season. And Batman gets a pass because it was presented as part of a package with Blue Light.
Patty Duke Batman honey west were on a few "3" years and great shows also.
Patty and Batman, anyway. Honey West only survived one season. ABC figured out it would be easier and cheaper to simply air reruns of "The Avengers" from England rather than have Anne Francis try to be a knockoff of Emma Peel.
I remember two shows with Imogene Coca. "Grindle" and "it's About Time".
I remember He and She, an episode about arguing over a salt and pepper shaker set, O.K. Crackerby, and Honey West. Also remember Pistols and Petticoats
"Pistols & Petticoats" star Anne Sheridan found out she had cancer shortly after the show began filming & continued to do the show while she was noticeably weak & frail. She passed midway through that first season & the show never recovered
@@TheREALSofaKing0306 Amazingly, the producers, I read, knew Ann was ill, and proceeded anyway. I don't know, however, if CBS knew.
Anne Francis later appeared on The Golden Girls as Trudy! Dorothy's college friend.
I remember an episode where they were hosting dinner and they thought they had poisoned everyone. "Fat Eddy is on his way to the hospital with a stiff cat!"
Patty Duke was right! Batman was groovy!
1) One season, 26 episodes (1967-'68).
2) One season, 17 episodes (1965-'66).
3) One season, 13 episodes (1968-'69).
4) Two seasons, 42 episodes (1968-'70).
5) One season, 26 episodes (1967-'68).
6) "THE KING FAMILY" was on for two seasons (January 1965- January 1966). They also found time to promote ABC's "Major League Baseball Championship" games that summer.
7) One season (1967-'68). This was a showcase for MGM's library of movies and unsold pilots, with animated bumpers produced by Chuck Jones {their answer to "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR"}. P.S. "ALEXANDER THE GREAT" was an unsold 1964 pilot produced by ABC, featuring William Shatner and Adam West.
8) One season, 26 episodes (1963-'64).
9) One season, 30 episodes (1966-'67).
10) One season, 30 episodes (1965-'66).
11) Patty Duke promotes "BATMAN" [Three seasons, 120 episodes (January 1966-March 1968)] and "BLUE LIGHT" [One season, 17 episodes (1966)], as they surrounded her own series on Wednesday nights in early 1966.
Thank you for this informative post.
You're welcome!
I remember most of these and I love .honey West
I remember the "Good guys" !
When I Retire I Wanna Get Half of These Shows on DVD & Be a 1960s Kid Again.
Finding them is the nightmare....but I was pleasantly surprised by getting the 1 season detective series "Coronado 9" with Rod Cameron (after STATE TROOPER ended its long run). Another elusive one is VALENTINE 'S DAY, with Tony Franciosa
I retired 7 months ago. I'm trying to so many things which I've been waiting to do that I have a logjam. It's hard to get things done.
@@John-r4o9m Many of the pre-color 20th Century Fox shows are next to impossible to find except through traders and/or bootleggers on EBay.
@@maureencora1 not for nothing but EVERYTHING is on UA-cam...🤫
@@bsmith9506 Touche' (smile)
A stunning achievement: every item here was an absolute stinker, best forgotten-except for Honey West, Bruce was the cat’s meow.
I remember and liked He and She and the Good Guys.
Rango Rango Rango !!!
Loved the King Family variety show!
I loved good morning world featuring Goldie Hawn.
Iremember 'Good morning World'. "Time Tunnel' was a hit. "Honey West', and Batman were hits.
One show wasn't even mentioned. Must have only lasted a couple of weeks --
"Hank," a college "drop-in," tangled with the Dean's daughter.
I remember that one ! 👍
That lasted a full season [26 episodes] in the 1965-'66 season.
Wasn't he an Olympic medalist, acting as a messenger or somthin , with some guys who were always after him, and he'd always get away hurdling cars and fences and such?
Don’t forget _Turn-On_ , a _Laugh-In_ knockoff that literally got cancelled midway through the airing of its first episode.
@@buckyc.9069As I recall Hank, he was the big brother raising his insufferably cute little sister, his parents having died in a car crash. To get the college education he couldn't afford, he'd illegally audit college courses by finding out which students wouldn't be in attendance that day and taking their place. As described in the show's theme song, "he'll dry-clean your clothes, be a butler or a porter, if it means another quarter in the bank." Wait, how do I still remember that?
Batman is still shown today. Very popular.
Re Good morning World: try doing a 60s radio show without head phones😂
I remember Clarence the cross-eyed lion. That's about it.
And Time Tunnel. Now that was a show.
Oh and batman in colour, three seasons.
The Green Hornet should have gotten a second season and an hour long show. The CAT was another show that was good along with Honey West. I guess it was cheaper for ABC to import a british tv show than make a home grown show. The suits suck.
How about Love on a Rooftop starring Peter Duell and Judy Carne?
Also Mona McCluskey starring Juliet Prouse.
They could bring it back and get Christina Hendricks as Honey West!!
Low ratings made for low advertising revenue made for merciless cancellation. It's a business folks.
I remember "The Good Guys". They were probably one of the first to have the gag of going to a nudist camp and thinking they were suposed to go to dinner in the nude. Like they did on The Golden Girls.
And on Good Morning World!(Chuckle!)
Blondie was a terrible TV show but the comic version is still a classic
They had one in the 50s B&W
it seemed to last
Thje 1957 version (featuring Arthur Lake- the "Dagwood" of the movies and radio series- and Pamela Britton) lasted 26 episodes.
Never heard of any of them except Time Tunnel, honey west(😳) and Batman
Agree.
Larry Clark, the “busy bachelor.” So interesting to see how they identified LGBT people before it was legal to do so!!
If shows like these had never been created, a lot of money from the studios would've been saved and a lot of actors' reps wouldve been saved
Hello World used to run on USA Network weekdays
OK Crackerby was great!
Omg they sure had some corny “entertainment” then!! But at Least life still made sense!
Goldie Hahn from Good Morning World.
Batman, short lived?
I'm 70 years old! The only 2 shows featured I watched was Time Tunnel & Honey West
WHERE Anne Francis from Honey West [1965-1966] ?
The only ones that never got a chance were The Time Tunnel & Honey West.
The rest were absolute duds, especially O.K. Crackerby. 😑
Burl Ives great actor great singer.
Gunslinger should've got a mention.
Amazing how many of these I remember. I must say, Batman wasn't canceled right away and in fact was so popular for a while it was on twice a week and led to a horrible movie.
He and She was good
Batman, short lived TV Show from the 60's? I don't think so. They filmed 120 episodes for crying out loud.
He & She would be cancelled today for using the wrong pronouns!!!!
Star trek ?
You could never have a television show called HE and SHE in today's world.
Gender pronouns would make the title way too long. 🤐
it sucked 3 tv channels, and they all went off the air at midnight
Then they would play the National Anthem. Great days.
very tiny odds of randomly floating thru time and dropping into the middle of a major historic event but in this series it happened every week..go figya!🫨