God bless you Fred! Your work is so soothing to the many BabyBoomer Souls who have lost their family. These Wonderful Memories Of Better Days are so appreciated. Thank you, Sir!
Same here , three kids mom amd dad , Magnavox TV BB guns , Mattel Toy Co Viet Nam era war toys. Miss my mom and dad but I know i will see them again someday.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh 😫 I feel so old. But they were great times, some sad days, some smiles. One tv in the house (black and white, till your family could afford a color tv and the giant tube radio too). Oh I am so glad some of these shows are posted in full here and on Dailymotion 😃 and I should say also never forget old radio shows, still playing on the radio today....in NY on Sunday nights on WBAI 99.5, they are online too. Thanks dad for that transistor radio with the one white earplug that look like an egg lol...ohhhh I feel old again. Kimba Rules🦁!
Oh!!! mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Watched at our Grandparents house with the volume turned up until the wood paneling on the walls would vibrate!!! Loved those nights 😍
Oh I used to love My world and welcome to I when I was young, I used to be pen pals with Lisa Geritson in fact going back to the time when she acted on Mary Tyler Moore's show, she was the daughter or niece of Cloris leachman's character... 😂 Wow, the second hundred years! Used to love that show with Monte Markham, very funny show indeed! Another fine job Fred, never seen a video where you dropped the ball, you're very meticulous and always entertaining Fred!
Thank you so much for these great memories... I'd forgotten most of these, but this brought them all back! PS: I never realized those girls in that UFO show had purple hair -- we only had B&W TV so I thought their hair was silver! lol
Boy the graphics & costumes have come a long way. You should have seen my grandson, 12, try to wrap his mind around having to wait to see a program & not being able to see it again if you missed it. Kids don't have anticipation today or learn to delay gratification. This was a fun mash up of my young life, many thanks!
As soon as I saw the very first frame , I knew "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". The mind is a wonderous thing, I couldn't tell you what I had for dinner last night!
Ah! "Here Come the Brides," a fave of all my family's females, including my 5 yr old self (surprised anyone remembers it). Sigh, David Soul, Bobby Sherman, & Star Trek's Sarek himself, Mark Lenard, all in the same show! Still love Tom Jones to this day: a consummate performer w/the best guests ever! Still watch "One Step Beyond," on DVD. Had a Talking "Julia" Barbie; she's long gone, but her sexy gold & silver jumpsuit survives. Prevalent sci-fi & supernatural themes of the '60's & '70's left a lasting impression, forever influencing my film/literary tastes awa widening my perspective on life's/reality's possibilities. Thanx, FredFlix!
Just stopped to write at the Wild Kingdom segment. I absolutely loved that series & fell in love with all the stories. Interesting & informative, an African safari is still on my bucket list because of this show. God bless Marlin Perkins,Steve Irwin,Jack Hanna,etc.
I remember the vast majority of these shows. Even The Next Hundred Years. Maybe I watched way too much TV when I was a kid. But I don't care. It was a great time for a kid to watch adult shows.
I remember most of these shows. Some i liked the theMe songs or the show. These are true classics ie my Mother The Car. The kids these days dont have shows which compare. Thanx
Another hit out of the park, Fred. So many good shows, cosigned to the recesses of our minds. Man, the intro to The Immortal and U.F.O. plus T.H.E. Cat have me yearning to break out the box sets and make a marathon out of it. Bless you Fred, for all you do and all the good memories you give us. Merry Christmas to you.
The main title for "N.B.C. Saturday Night At The Movies" is actually two pieces of music, the first composed by Leon Klatzkin, the second by Skitch Henderson, and I always identify this music for feature films shown on Saturday night.
Everytime i think you have touched my heart in a heartwarming way with these wonderful memories, here you go again wow this is so awsome I'm always having tears of joy Flex always, please keep up the awsome work 💯👍💖
Keep up the great work! I love older TV shows and movies, especially those made in the 50's to 60's! The fifties and sixties were a helluva time to live...god, wish I could have lived then
It WAS special, and no just because I grew up then. Everything seemed to converge, allowing for the best pop culture ever yet also retaining the family unit and a simple life when only one parent worked and the mother took care of the home and kids. Add to that the excitement of the moon race but the feeling of dread that it could all end in a minute with nuclear war.
FredFlix ...Damn. I commend you, I truly do. Perhaps even envy you slightly. I have yet to see something portray the 50's in a way I didn't find interesting or intriguing. My only issue...they were literally putting radioactive materials into a whole plethora of products at the time as the great wonders of nuclear power dawned amongst them. I do wish I could find an old fallout safety preparedness video entitled "Duck And Cover! " from roughly this time
The Immortal is one of the earliest shows I remember my parents watching. Fletcher (the guy hired to find Richards) haunted my dreams a whole lot back then. Another wonderful video Fred!
Actually I was kind of obsessed with The Immortal when I was 15 or so. I recorded several episodes on audio tape. Finally saw it again on the Sci Fi Channel in the '90s. It's now out on DVD. Of course, it's not as good as I remembered. But Fletcher was indeed ruthless, if somewhat incompetent. On more than one occasion he caught Ben Richards but then just tossed him in the back seat without handcuffing him. I guess if he did, Ben wouldn't have been able to get away and the show would end. As it is it only lasted 15 episodes. Not exactly long-living.
Oldbmwr100rs: That's for sure! There were SO many shows that I remember where the theme song and opening sequence was really the best part of the show!! It really SUCKS now that networks and producers have pretty much gotten rid of theme songs from shows - they often made the show!
It depends. I remember the 1960's Super hero stuff as well as the reruns of Popeye the sailor and Loony Tunes. If you are talking about stuff like Sponge Bob Square pants Then I agree with you however nothing beats the Dragon Ball Z, Justice League Unlimited and One Punch Man.
Fred, you're killin' me! 25 minutes of this great stuff is a nostalgia overload! I want to comment on so many things, I could go on for paragraphs. For this comment, I'll focus on "The Immortal". I was fascinated by that show when I was a kid because I was afraid of dying in my sleep thanks to that infernal prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep...". When I saw The Immortal, I thought that if I had type O negative blood, I would live forever. It turns out I do have type O neg. but I know now I'm not living forever but at the time, the thought did help me get over that fear I had.
The Immortal was my favorite show at the time, Herb. No, I didn't fear I'd die in my sleep, but I was crushed when it was canceled. They showed reruns the next summer and I recorded every episode on audio cassette. I really enjoyed the music by Dominic (The Outer Limits) Frontiere. The show is now out on DVD but in e final analysis it was just a routine chase show with a hint of sci fi. However, Chris George was very good in the lead role and Fletcher was an interesting antagonist.
Hey Fred, glad to know The Immortal was a fav of yours too. I can't believe it made it to DVD. Not available on Netflix, I just checked. I also liked Christopher George on "Rat Patrol". I think you did at least one other video including a clip from that. Chris George was everywhere on TV and movies for a few years and then, dead at the age of 53.
I know I couldn't wait to find out my blood type and it was O positive. Christopher George was solid and think made the show in my opinion. I was a chase show, but there was always something that made you think, or maybe it was just me being a kid. Good to know it's on DVD.
Herb Bluntman: Christopher George only lived to be 53??!! I didn't know he had died! So ironic that he died so young and proved NOT to be immortal! Yeah, he also starred in "The Rat Patrol", and Dominic Frontiere did the theme music to that show, too. It's funny, I don't remember "The Immortal" at all - what years did it run and what network was it on? I DO remember "The Rat Patrol" though, as that was my older sister's favorite show!
Oh my God..I actually had a dishonest John hand puppet from the Beany and Cecil cartoon show that played his laugh ( ya ha ha !) when you pulled the string. I haven't thought about that puppet in let's say...lol....quite a long time. Thanks for the memories!
I remember most of B&C's theme song, with Cecil opening his big mouth at the end. The character name Dishonest John was one I always remembered, although B&C wasn't one of my favorite cartoons in those days. I loved his laugh, "ya-a-ah!"
Wonderful themes here, including and especially the poignant Walter Brennan intro for "The Guns of Will Sonnet" followed directly by the cool and jazzy theme to "T.H.E. CAT." And oh my what a guest line up for "This Is Tom Jones"!! I'd give a lot to step into a time machine and revisit those times... Thanks so much for these, Fred!
I had to drag some brain cells out of mothballs to remember some of these, and others I never knew (at least, that's what the mothballs have said). A real treat, Fred, thank you.
I remember a lot of these great shows and themes and also many that I'm not that familiar with. nice to see what was on back in the day and how many were short lived and others that lasted for a couple of seasons. to me these shows still beat what is on these days! fun to watch this fred, thanks! rob
Yes! My brother had both Beany and Cecil. They were quite big for puppets (more like dolls), and when you pulled their strings, they talked, though I don't remember what they said.
The strange memories and associations....I've never been a TV viewer of any great magnitude, but 'Coronet Blue' prompts a vivid memory of sitting in my grandfather's blue-green overly cushioned rocking chair one cold evening and this show came on. That annoyingly catchy theme song stuck in my head forever yet only saw it once. Late Sunday afternoon's 'Wild Kingdom' makes me recall having take a bath for school the next day after the show.
that show "The Immortal" looks so FAMILIAR! wow! more walks down memory lane. hee hee love it. Glenn Ford was a great actor! always kinda reminded me of my dad who ironically (or not) was named Glen (one n). :) and back in the "old days" there were GREAT cartoons on Saturday morning..loved Saturdays just for the morning cartoons - boy have things changed!
Holy crap! That one episode of Tom Jones had Joey Heatherton (super hot ..also did mattress commercials) , The Moody Blues, Richard Pryor and...Peter Sellers! Good god y'all!
LOVED THIS!!! The only ones that you didn't show (& I was hoping to see) was"Wait till your father gets home" & "The Babana Splits"; but still a GREAT VID!!!
So many of the shows I'd forgotten. Loved UFO, Cades County.My husband became a s.o.b. after I started taking a stand on what tv shows I wanted to watch. We only had one b&w set, in the living room. I had to negotiate to watch Star Trek. But when the Tom Jones show started, I told him to get his own set, I was watching Tom. Actually, I got a set in the bedroom. What can you expect from a farmer that loved his tractor? ;)
You have to wonder what the network execs. were thinking on some of these shows. "Jerry van Dyke and Ann Sothern. I think we got us a hit." A very Merry Christmas to you and yours! Oh, and I WILL be back next week...
There are shows that are on for decades, then others only a season or two. It is interesting the ones that make such a lasting impression on us. I remember the opening to Guns of Will Sonnet but I was so very young I could not tell you a single story. Thanks for the memories. I'd LOVE to see some of those "21st Centry" shows and see what they got right and wrong.
I think "Guns of Will Sonnett" is the only show in this compilation that is completely unrecognizable to me. Don't know how I missed it, but I think I'll try to find some episodes to check out. After all ... Walter Brennan! And doing white-man's rap as the intro theme! Puts him right up there with Jimmy Dean, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Lorne Greene. Priceless!
When I heard the theme for Felony Squad I got goose bumps. Man I loved that show as well as Cades County. Did I see Ricochet Rabbit in with Peter Potamus?. This triggered some nice memories. Thanks Fred. Merry Christmas buddy.
Ditto, Gregg. I'd have to take another look at Peter Potamus, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Ricochet, as he was part of the Magilla Gorilla show and both were sponsored by Ideal Toys.
Fred Flix Another fantastic trip back to a time before I was old enough to watch these shows! The instrumental them for Sam Cade is haunting..was it a good show?
It would have been nice to see the Screen Gems Dancing Stick logo with the Peter Potamus and do you got the old Don Ho show or at least the beginning of the series when they were Hawaiian dancing? But I thank you for the old NBC Saturday Night At the Movies logo though it brings back a lot of memories!
Here Come the Brides was a big deal if you lived in the Seattle TV market. That show, along with the '62 World's Fair that was a setting for an Elvis movie, put Seattle on the map at a time when if you told people you lived there or near there, they were likely to respond, "Seattle? Where's that?"
Sitting on the floor at home watching tv -- priceless - except for Amos and Andy, too young for that. --- and my drill team danced to Cade's County one football season
That damn Bobby Sherman show came on same time as Star Trek, one week my sister got to watch that and the next week I got to see ST! Been close to 50 years since I saw Cade's County, still got the theme song in 2 notes, my brain should have better things to do.
I loved "Saturday Night at the Movies" and eventually the other days of the week. Their movies were newer and better IMO than what was shown on TV in the 50s. But, there's always exceptions. I loved watching King Kong 1933 in the 50s. I had a repeating nightmare trying to run through the jungle on Skull Island. My legs would hardly move and I couldn't make any progress. Kept looking over my shoulder for Kong to grab me!
@@luisreyes1963 But the characters were mostly middle class: lawyers, bankers, and the shananigans they got into. I remember it from the very early 1960s before I knew it was 'racist" against blacks. They did show a couple of lower-class blacks performing their jobs, but just as white people, many who also had lower-class jobs portrayed on tv. The black elitists in the NAACP had no stomach for having their people portrayed the way it was, with Amos 'n' Andy scheming for money, just as whites do and did. PC started running amok from that time forward to today's most extremist ways not imaginable in 1962/63.
I don't remember the opening for NBC Saturday Night at the Movies you showed, but I remember the titles that looked like they were running on a marquee. This is also the first time I've seen anything of Bracken's World beyond mentions on Stump the Stars.
"While we're 500 feet away in the armored car, Jim wrestles with a leopard. And just as a mother leopard protects her cubs, Mutual of Omaha wants to protect you!"
I was just joking about that very type of thing last weekend, making a parallel to The Incredible Dr. Pol! Not too many years ago I had a great set of Wild Kingdom DVDs, and I watched through them several times (running them on a little DVD player while I worked late evenings and on weekends) before deciding to donate them to my nephew and niece for the educatainment value. I suspect their parents just unloaded it at a garage sale -- probably never even watched them -- because that's how they roll. By the way, did you ever hear about how that Stan Brock guy turned out? He was an amazing humanitarian and a true hero! He left this world for the next one only about six months ago.
I had the experience of "The Immortal" happened to me when I was 55. For one unbelievable year, I felt like I was 21. A medical accident I was never able to repeat. Laugh if you want, but it happened.
Fred, WHERE DO YOU GET THESE?! AMAZING! 1. I have been looking for the NBC Saturday Night at the Movies intro for ages! 2. Never have seen what was obviously the CBS NETWORK intro to Amos and Andy, with the Blatz Beer sponsorship, as opposed to the SYNDICATION intro. 3. My Mom adored Tom Jones, to my Dad's consternation! 4. Remember Beans and Cecil well! 5. Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins! 7 pm Eastern (after AFL football, and before Wonderful World of Disney ) on NBC. 6. The Second Hundred Years! King Leonardo! 7. Watched Bracken's World for the babes! 8. Diahnn Carroll as Julia! You know, Diahnn Carroll and Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek did more for integration than 500 Martin Luther Kings!!!!!!! 9.Matty's Funday Funnies. 10. Peter Potamus! You make my life brighter, sir. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Thanks, Frank. I had recorded NBC Sat Nite at Movies on audio tape in 1968 and looked for the video, like you, for years. Finally stumbled onto it on UA-cam itself just a week ago. Ditto re holidays!
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Sadly, I think you're right. 😞 Anyway, Nichelle Nichols DID help influence real life for the good in that Mae Jemison, NASA's first female minority astronaut, got interested in space from watching her on "Star Trek", and Whoopi Goldberg said she got super excited when she saw a black woman on TV who wasn't playing a maid. Also, when Nichols was going to quit the show due to the hate mail she was getting (oh how times haven't changed), MLK himself urged her to stay the course, AND I think she even got moral support from William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
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God bless you Fred! Your work is so soothing to the many BabyBoomer Souls who have lost their family. These Wonderful Memories Of Better Days are so appreciated. Thank you, Sir!
Memories of us 3 kids watching TV with Mom and Dad back in the 60s. Miss ya, Mom and Dad.
Same here , three kids mom amd dad , Magnavox TV BB guns , Mattel Toy Co Viet Nam era war toys. Miss my mom and dad but I know i will see them again someday.
Same here rip mom and dad .fuuny looking at these you tubes reminds me of mom and dad.
@@donaldhicks3359 sorry I missed your comment....great memories. I forgot all about "Beany & Cecil" we never missed it as kids. Plus so many more.
@@Fran-tl6bx it was a great time to be a kid in the 60s. So many memories of fun times as a kid.
The Last Years Of American Nostalgic. 1960's 1970's. I Would Go Back In A Heartbeat!
Ahhhhhhhhhhh 😫 I feel so old. But they were great times, some sad days, some smiles. One tv in the house (black and white, till your family could afford a color tv and the giant tube radio too). Oh I am so glad some of these shows are posted in full here and on Dailymotion 😃 and I should say also never forget old radio shows, still playing on the radio today....in NY on Sunday nights on WBAI 99.5, they are online too. Thanks dad for that transistor radio with the one white earplug that look like an egg lol...ohhhh I feel old again. Kimba Rules🦁!
Loved kimba! Feeling ancient myself😂
When all of these TV shows originally aired, back in those days, if you missed something on TV, you missed it!
Summer reruns. They were a thing. :)
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Not if the show got cancelled.
I LOVED Beanie and Cecil when I was little!
Me too!
Me too -- I had the Cecil doll who spoke when you pulled the string "I'm coming Beanie!" (my brother had the Beanie who said "Help Cecil Help!") 💜
My favorite was Dishonest John, "..Nyah Ah Ahh.."
Oh!!! mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Watched at our Grandparents house with the volume turned up until the wood paneling on the walls would vibrate!!! Loved those nights 😍
Laying on the living room floor looking at our big console TV watching Wild Kingdom! This is the good place on you tube.
angry ranger what were you doing in my house?
holy moley. beany and cecil. great job preserving, as usual.
Thank you, Fred. You've brought back so many memories. What a great job you have accomplished.
That's very encouraging to hear, Debra. I appreciate it. Happy Holidays.
FredFlix. Same to you, Fred. Thank you.
Oh I used to love My world and welcome to I when I was young, I used to be pen pals with Lisa Geritson in fact going back to the time when she acted on Mary Tyler Moore's show, she was the daughter or niece of Cloris leachman's character... 😂 Wow, the second hundred years! Used to love that show with Monte Markham, very funny show indeed! Another fine job Fred, never seen a video where you dropped the ball, you're very meticulous and always entertaining Fred!
Thank you so much for these great memories... I'd forgotten most of these, but this brought them all back! PS: I never realized those girls in that UFO show had purple hair -- we only had B&W TV so I thought their hair was silver! lol
Boy the graphics & costumes have come a long way. You should have seen my grandson, 12, try to wrap his mind around having to wait to see a program & not being able to see it again if you missed it. Kids don't have anticipation today or learn to delay gratification. This was a fun mash up of my young life, many thanks!
As soon as I saw the very first frame , I knew "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". The mind is a wonderous thing, I couldn't tell you what I had for dinner last night!
disneydude45 So very true ! 😋
that's ok, disneydude. I don't know what you had for dinner last night either!
Ah! "Here Come the Brides," a fave of all my family's females, including my 5 yr old self (surprised anyone remembers it). Sigh, David Soul, Bobby Sherman, & Star Trek's Sarek himself, Mark Lenard, all in the same show! Still love Tom Jones to this day: a consummate performer w/the best guests ever! Still watch "One Step Beyond," on DVD. Had a Talking "Julia" Barbie; she's long gone, but her sexy gold & silver jumpsuit survives. Prevalent sci-fi & supernatural themes of the '60's & '70's left a lasting impression, forever influencing my film/literary tastes awa widening my perspective on life's/reality's possibilities. Thanx, FredFlix!
Just stopped to write at the Wild Kingdom segment. I absolutely loved that series & fell in love with all the stories. Interesting & informative, an African safari is still on my bucket list because of this show. God bless Marlin Perkins,Steve Irwin,Jack Hanna,etc.
Omg!!! Beaney & Cecil the seasick sea serpent!!! That was a long time ago! Lol!! I was so tickled to see that!
I remember the vast majority of these shows. Even The Next Hundred Years. Maybe I watched way too much TV when I was a kid. But I don't care. It was a great time for a kid to watch adult shows.
I remember most of these shows. Some i liked the theMe songs or the show. These are true classics ie my Mother The Car. The kids these days dont have shows which compare. Thanx
I loved beany and cecil
Me too
Another hit out of the park, Fred. So many good shows, cosigned to the recesses of our minds. Man, the intro to The Immortal and U.F.O. plus T.H.E. Cat have me yearning to break out the box sets and make a marathon out of it. Bless you Fred, for all you do and all the good memories you give us. Merry Christmas to you.
Very nice of you to say, stendec. I hope you have a Merry Christmas as well.
It is amazing how I haven't heard so many of these themes in decades but I know them by heart!
I loved wild kingdom as a kid
Yeah, I used too watch Wild Kingdom all the time as a kid when Lorne Green hosted it...
our whole family used to watch it.
"I'll stay in the Jeep while Jim catches the alligator." Marlin Perkins.
The main title for "N.B.C. Saturday Night At The Movies" is actually two pieces of music, the first composed by Leon Klatzkin, the second by Skitch Henderson, and I always identify this music for feature films shown on Saturday night.
Wow! I have not seen that intro to the "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" in about 50 years and I remembered it immediately!
this was a fun trip down memory lane thanks
Everytime i think you have touched my heart in a heartwarming way with these wonderful memories, here you go again wow this is so awsome I'm always having tears of joy Flex always, please keep up the awsome work 💯👍💖
I'm happy to have touched you in a positive way in these hectic holidays, Janice.
Keep up the great work! I love older TV shows and movies, especially those made in the 50's to 60's! The fifties and sixties were a helluva time to live...god, wish I could have lived then
It WAS special, and no just because I grew up then. Everything seemed to converge, allowing for the best pop culture ever yet also retaining the family unit and a simple life when only one parent worked and the mother took care of the home and kids. Add to that the excitement of the moon race but the feeling of dread that it could all end in a minute with nuclear war.
FredFlix ...Damn. I commend you, I truly do. Perhaps even envy you slightly. I have yet to see something portray the 50's in a way I didn't find interesting or intriguing. My only issue...they were literally putting radioactive materials into a whole plethora of products at the time as the great wonders of nuclear power dawned amongst them. I do wish I could find an old fallout safety preparedness video entitled "Duck And Cover! " from roughly this time
@@michaelpalmieri7335 I didn't know that, thanks
The Immortal is one of the earliest shows I remember my parents watching. Fletcher (the guy hired to find Richards) haunted my dreams a whole lot back then. Another wonderful video Fred!
Actually I was kind of obsessed with The Immortal when I was 15 or so. I recorded several episodes on audio tape. Finally saw it again on the Sci Fi Channel in the '90s. It's now out on DVD. Of course, it's not as good as I remembered. But Fletcher was indeed ruthless, if somewhat incompetent. On more than one occasion he caught Ben Richards but then just tossed him in the back seat without handcuffing him. I guess if he did, Ben wouldn't have been able to get away and the show would end. As it is it only lasted 15 episodes. Not exactly long-living.
The intro music for so many of these shows was excellent!
Especially Coronet Blue.
I loved Beany and Cecil when I was a kid. I still quote it to my kids.
I'm really digging these compilations of TV themes that was never in my generation!!
Yeah, usually the theme was far better than the show itself.
Oldbmwr100rs: That's for sure! There were SO many shows that I remember where the theme song and opening sequence was really the best part of the show!! It really SUCKS now that networks and producers have pretty much gotten rid of theme songs from shows - they often made the show!
I saw most of these when I was young.
T.H.E. Cat, Holy crow. I loved that show for some really unknown reason. I'm very glad you threw that in. Good memory.
Most old cartoons are better than new ones
It depends. I remember the 1960's Super hero stuff as well as the reruns of Popeye the sailor and Loony Tunes. If you are talking about stuff like Sponge Bob Square pants Then I agree with you however nothing beats the Dragon Ball Z, Justice League Unlimited and One Punch Man.
hand-drawn cels
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Yeah, me too. Brings back some great memories!
Exactly!
Fred, you're killin' me! 25 minutes of this great stuff is a nostalgia overload! I want to comment on so many things, I could go on for paragraphs. For this comment, I'll focus on "The Immortal".
I was fascinated by that show when I was a kid because I was afraid of dying in my sleep thanks to that infernal prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep...". When I saw The Immortal, I thought that if I had type O negative blood, I would live forever. It turns out I do have type O neg. but I know now I'm not living forever but at the time, the thought did help me get over that fear I had.
The Immortal was my favorite show at the time, Herb. No, I didn't fear I'd die in my sleep, but I was crushed when it was canceled. They showed reruns the next summer and I recorded every episode on audio cassette. I really enjoyed the music by Dominic (The Outer Limits) Frontiere. The show is now out on DVD but in e final analysis it was just a routine chase show with a hint of sci fi. However, Chris George was very good in the lead role and Fletcher was an interesting antagonist.
Hey Fred, glad to know The Immortal was a fav of yours too. I can't believe it made it to DVD. Not available on Netflix, I just checked. I also liked Christopher George on "Rat Patrol". I think you did at least one other video including a clip from that. Chris George was everywhere on TV and movies for a few years and then, dead at the age of 53.
I know I couldn't wait to find out my blood type and it was O positive. Christopher George was solid and think made the show in my opinion. I was a chase show, but there was always something that made you think, or maybe it was just me being a kid. Good to know it's on DVD.
Herb Bluntman: Christopher George only lived to be 53??!! I didn't know he had died! So ironic that he died so young and proved NOT to be immortal! Yeah, he also starred in "The Rat Patrol", and Dominic Frontiere did the theme music to that show, too. It's funny, I don't remember "The Immortal" at all - what years did it run and what network was it on? I DO remember "The Rat Patrol" though, as that was my older sister's favorite show!
Michael Palmieri: Exactly the OPPOSITE of MY older sister LOL!! :-)
My father used to love Cade's County. He was really upset when they cancelled it and replaced with a new show called MASH in '72.
MASH? Never heard of it!
MASH was not a hit at first, a fact few remember. CBS gave MASH far more time to find its audience than the sequel.
Foxonian, same here! I liked Cades County. Wish it had stayed on.
Oh my God..I actually had a dishonest John hand puppet from the Beany and Cecil cartoon show that played his laugh ( ya ha ha !) when you pulled the string. I haven't thought about that puppet in let's say...lol....quite a long time. Thanks for the memories!
You're welcome, rick1100.
rickw1100 Ohhhhhhhh !!!!! I had that too and it scared me. I forgot if it was a talking pull string. I remember the mustache.
Nya ha ha! My first words!
I had a hand puppet of "the Monkees"
I remember most of B&C's theme song, with Cecil opening his big mouth at the end. The character name Dishonest John was one I always remembered, although B&C wasn't one of my favorite cartoons in those days. I loved his laugh, "ya-a-ah!"
Wonderful themes here, including and especially the poignant Walter Brennan intro for "The Guns of Will Sonnet" followed directly by the cool and jazzy theme to "T.H.E. CAT." And oh my what a guest line up for "This Is Tom Jones"!! I'd give a lot to step into a time machine and revisit those times... Thanks so much for these, Fred!
Taking me back 50 yrs when I was 7.
What great memories of being a kid in the 60s
I love learning about new old shows an finding them on youtube. Growing up on base an only having AFN I missed a lot of tv shows.
Great shows! Good memories of childhood days! Thank you for sharing!❤️
This is great! I remember so many of these and haven't thought about them in years.
I had to drag some brain cells out of mothballs to remember some of these, and others I never knew (at least, that's what the mothballs have said). A real treat, Fred, thank you.
I remember a lot of these great shows and themes and also many that I'm not that familiar with. nice to see what was on back in the day and how many were short lived and others that lasted for a couple of seasons. to me these shows still beat what is on these days! fun to watch this fred, thanks! rob
You're welcome, Rob. At least they thought the themes were important back then.
I love how they called the beer vendors "dealers"
I had a Cecil hand puppet of some sort. It was one of those “pull the string” and it talks kind. Lots o memories here, thanks!
Yes! My brother had both Beany and Cecil. They were quite big for puppets (more like dolls), and when you pulled their strings, they talked, though I don't remember what they said.
I had a Cecil puppet too. I played with it for years.
It's weird that I still remember these like yesterday.
ping,ping,ping! Ricochet Rabbit! (my favorite character on Peter Potamus)
Wasn't that Bing, Bing, Bing!?
What a GREAT collection...thank you for sharing!
OMG, what a great job you've done for us "oldies"!
Glad you enjoyed it, Maxine.
Things are going to be so cool and futuristic in 1980! I can't wait!!
The NBC Saturday Night at the Movies is uber rare! First time I've seen it since I was a kid... thanks!!!
The strange memories and associations....I've never been a TV viewer of any great magnitude, but 'Coronet Blue' prompts a vivid memory of sitting in my grandfather's blue-green overly cushioned rocking chair one cold evening and this show came on. That annoyingly catchy theme song stuck in my head forever yet only saw it once. Late Sunday afternoon's 'Wild Kingdom' makes me recall having take a bath for school the next day after the show.
Thanks for all your awesome content!
You're welcome, Robin.
that show "The Immortal" looks so FAMILIAR! wow! more walks down memory lane. hee hee love it. Glenn Ford was a great actor! always kinda reminded me of my dad who ironically (or not) was named Glen (one n). :) and back in the "old days" there were GREAT cartoons on Saturday morning..loved Saturdays just for the morning cartoons - boy have things changed!
he drove a Shelby ( sometimes dangerously ) was it a 68?
"The Immortal" starred Christopher George, NOT Glenn Ford.
Holy crap!
That one episode of Tom Jones had Joey Heatherton (super hot ..also did mattress commercials) , The Moody Blues, Richard Pryor and...Peter Sellers!
Good god y'all!
Joey Heatherton doing mattress commercials? and all the guys wanted to "sleep" with her!!
Perfect Sleeper by Serta.
Great memories again,Fred, Merry Christmas,Happy 2018......Palmetto forever.
You said it, Eli. Merry Christmas.
One Step beyond, really liked that show, and the musical theme.
agriperma Credit goes to Harry Lubin.
That theme music used to give me the willies.
Fred, I sent you a message four years ago, but I must thank you again. I think you added some new items; I love them.
Wishing you love for a new year.
LOVED THIS!!! The only ones that you didn't show (& I was hoping to see) was"Wait till your father gets home" & "The Babana Splits"; but still a GREAT VID!!!
👍Great job w/all of these retro classics, Fred! You would be great doing the commercials for MeTV📺!
I Loooooooooove this trip, back in time. Thanks for posting.
Incredible. I haven't heard some of these themes for years. What a great channel! :)
Very nice of you to say, SoothingChime15.
So many of the shows I'd forgotten. Loved UFO, Cades County.My husband became a s.o.b. after I started taking a stand on what tv shows I wanted to watch. We only had one b&w set, in the living room. I had to negotiate to watch Star Trek. But when the Tom Jones show started, I told him to get his own set, I was watching Tom. Actually, I got a set in the bedroom. What can you expect from a farmer that loved his tractor? ;)
You have to wonder what the network execs. were thinking on some of these shows. "Jerry van Dyke and Ann Sothern. I think we got us a hit." A very Merry Christmas to you and yours! Oh, and I WILL be back next week...
Me too, San Michele. Mary Tyler Mo...oops, mean, Merry Christmas to you as well.
San Michele "And get this..... SHE'S A CAR! "
FredFlix Mary Tyler Moore for Christmas? I could take that! Hee, hee.
And to think that James L. Brooks was behind it. He went on to give us The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Simpsons!
boy those brought back a lot of memories thanks for posting those and Merry Christmas to everyone on UA-cam
Thanks, wnychevy09.
There are shows that are on for decades, then others only a season or two. It is interesting the ones that make such a lasting impression on us. I remember the opening to Guns of Will Sonnet but I was so very young I could not tell you a single story. Thanks for the memories.
I'd LOVE to see some of those "21st Centry" shows and see what they got right and wrong.
I think "Guns of Will Sonnett" is the only show in this compilation that is completely unrecognizable to me. Don't know how I missed it, but I think I'll try to find some episodes to check out. After all ... Walter Brennan! And doing white-man's rap as the intro theme! Puts him right up there with Jimmy Dean, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Lorne Greene. Priceless!
Never missed Beany and Cecil --- but was too young for Amos & Andy and Riverboat --- my oldest sister watched Tom Jones....
and UFO ! yea !!!
Magilla Gorilla was my favorite as a 4 year old.
A very interesting compilation of TV titles.
Thanks, Luis.
Takes me back. I was a kid of the late 1950s and 60s. This takes me back.
Fred,this is nostalgia at its finest-I remember most of these shows.
Thanks, Scott.
Back again Fred, one of my favorites. Again so many memories of being a kid.
Good hearing from you again, Mr. Veteran.
When I heard the theme for Felony Squad I got goose bumps. Man I loved that show as well as Cades County. Did I see Ricochet Rabbit in with Peter Potamus?. This triggered some nice memories. Thanks Fred. Merry Christmas buddy.
Ditto, Gregg. I'd have to take another look at Peter Potamus, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Ricochet, as he was part of the Magilla Gorilla show and both were sponsored by Ideal Toys.
Fred Flix
Another fantastic trip back to a time before I was old enough to watch these shows! The instrumental them for Sam Cade is haunting..was it a good show?
Theme by Henry Mancini. Combined like a western with modern cop. It was just average.
It would have been nice to see the Screen Gems Dancing Stick logo with the Peter Potamus and do you got the old Don Ho show or at least the beginning of the series when they were Hawaiian dancing? But I thank you for the old NBC Saturday Night At the Movies logo though it brings back a lot of memories!
Corrections do you have the old Don Ho show or at least the parts when they were Hawaiian dancing?
Thanks, Fred! I’m getting such a kick out of these vids!
You're welcome, SL.
Another amazing timepiece video, thanks Fred. And merry Christmas.
Same to you, DGOODWIN19.
4:30 Bobby Sherman and David Soul did a series with Sarek? Wowsers! :O
Not only that, but Bruce Lee was a semi-regular.
FredFlix Indeed!
Here Come the Brides was a big deal if you lived in the Seattle TV market. That show, along with the '62 World's Fair that was a setting for an Elvis movie, put Seattle on the map at a time when if you told people you lived there or near there, they were likely to respond, "Seattle? Where's that?"
Herb Bluntman No doubt about that, in the pre-Microsoft pre-Sonics pre-Mariners pre-Seahawks pre-Storm pre-Sounders Seattle. :)
Thomas Ritter True. The Brewers should have moved back to the AL. Astros belong in the NL.
Sitting on the floor at home watching tv -- priceless - except for Amos and Andy, too young for that. --- and my drill team danced to Cade's County one football season
That damn Bobby Sherman show came on same time as Star Trek, one week my sister got to watch that and the next week I got to see ST! Been close to 50 years since I saw Cade's County, still got the theme song in 2 notes, my brain should have better things to do.
Bender LOL
I loved "Saturday Night at the Movies" and eventually the other days of the week. Their movies were newer and better IMO than what was shown on TV in the 50s. But, there's always exceptions. I loved watching King Kong 1933 in the 50s. I had a repeating nightmare trying to run through the jungle on Skull Island. My legs would hardly move and I couldn't make any progress. Kept looking over my shoulder for Kong to grab me!
I too had dreams as a child of giant monsters singling me out for destruction. I guess it was out misspent youth.
I remember watching Beanie and Cecil as a wee lad. I wanted one of those helicopter hats.
Loved the Tom Jones show! My mother and I used to watch it together😀
Thank you for these great memories. I watched these too.
Glad you enjoyed it, Linda.
Thanks I remembered about a third to half of those shows.
Such fun to watch!! Thanks Fred. :-)
You're welcome, Liz.
Wow excellent thank you, such memories !
You're welcome.
Memories buried - some for 50+ years - just came back. I remember every one of these except Amos and Andy.
It was pulled from syndication in the late 60's due to protests from civil rights groups for its racist humor.
I don’t think my parents would have let me watch Amos n’ Andy if I could have-I was born in 1960.
The answer is William Saffire. The question is:
What's Shakespeare's first name,. Kingfish?
@@luisreyes1963 But the characters were mostly middle class: lawyers, bankers, and the shananigans they got into. I remember it from the very early 1960s before I knew it was 'racist" against blacks. They did show a couple of lower-class blacks performing their jobs, but just as white people, many who also had lower-class jobs portrayed on tv. The black elitists in the NAACP had no stomach for having their people portrayed the way it was, with Amos 'n' Andy scheming for money, just as whites do and did. PC started running amok from that time forward to today's most extremist ways not imaginable in 1962/63.
I will never forget Western Ho the Wagons! All the Sat night at the movies seemed to be westerns
Not recent either.
Great Henry Mancini theme on Sam Cade (Cade's County in the US)
Used a Yamaha Combo Organ (NOT a synthesizer) in the main title.
@@vividwatch47 I was just going to ask WHAT instrument that was! Sounded sort of like a keyboard.
I don't remember the opening for NBC Saturday Night at the Movies you showed, but I remember the titles that looked like they were running on a marquee. This is also the first time I've seen anything of Bracken's World beyond mentions on Stump the Stars.
"While Marlin wrestles with that angry Wolf, I'm going to climb up this tree and cower in fear". 😆
I'm literally laughing out loud after reading your comment. It's exactly the way I remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. XD
Man I was hooked on that show when it was on, I'll never forget marlin Perkins.
...And Marlen will dive out of our helicopter onto the cariboo, while we fly over and watch. I LOVED that show...and those jokes!
"While we're 500 feet away in the armored car, Jim wrestles with a leopard. And just as a mother leopard protects her cubs, Mutual of Omaha wants to protect you!"
I was just joking about that very type of thing last weekend, making a parallel to The Incredible Dr. Pol!
Not too many years ago I had a great set of Wild Kingdom DVDs, and I watched through them several times (running them on a little DVD player while I worked late evenings and on weekends) before deciding to donate them to my nephew and niece for the educatainment value. I suspect their parents just unloaded it at a garage sale -- probably never even watched them -- because that's how they roll.
By the way, did you ever hear about how that Stan Brock guy turned out? He was an amazing humanitarian and a true hero! He left this world for the next one only about six months ago.
I had the experience of "The Immortal" happened to me when I was 55. For one unbelievable year, I felt like I was 21. A medical accident I was never able to repeat. Laugh if you want, but it happened.
Fascinating. 👽
Another top-notch video, a time machine for us Boomers.
Thanks! I love these intros!
You're welcome, Brian.
Fred, WHERE DO YOU GET THESE?! AMAZING!
1. I have been looking for the NBC Saturday Night at the Movies intro for ages!
2. Never have seen what was obviously the CBS NETWORK intro to Amos and Andy, with the Blatz Beer sponsorship, as opposed to the SYNDICATION intro.
3. My Mom adored Tom Jones, to my Dad's consternation!
4. Remember Beans and Cecil well!
5. Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins! 7 pm Eastern (after AFL football, and before Wonderful World of Disney ) on NBC.
6. The Second Hundred Years! King Leonardo!
7. Watched Bracken's World for the babes!
8. Diahnn Carroll as Julia! You know, Diahnn Carroll and Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek did more for integration than 500 Martin Luther Kings!!!!!!!
9.Matty's Funday Funnies.
10. Peter Potamus!
You make my life brighter, sir. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Thanks, Frank. I had recorded NBC Sat Nite at Movies on audio tape in 1968 and looked for the video, like you, for years. Finally stumbled onto it on UA-cam itself just a week ago. Ditto re holidays!
Merry Christmas FredFlix hope you have a wonderful holiday season. take care and keep the videos coming. :) see you
:)
BEANIE, NOT BEANS!
500?!?!... man Star Trek ain't even real!! Lol.
I mean She wasn't no Coretta....
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Sadly, I think you're right. 😞 Anyway, Nichelle Nichols DID help influence real life for the good in that Mae Jemison, NASA's first female minority astronaut, got interested in space from watching her on "Star Trek", and Whoopi Goldberg said she got super excited when she saw a black woman on TV who wasn't playing a maid. Also, when Nichols was going to quit the show due to the hate mail she was getting (oh how times haven't changed), MLK himself urged her to stay the course, AND I think she even got moral support from William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
Great job ! Born in 1960. Remember almost all here. Sure remember Cecil and his song !! Thank you for this!
You're welcome, Tony.
So many of these I watched and loved ... and only was stumped by a few. Cade's County.
Thumb up if you had a Beany hat when you were a child.
WOW What memories....LOVE IT!