Most of these were past my preteen bedtime but Black Saddle made into syndication because it was on in the afternoons in the early 60s. I loved Dick's Beech-nut Show on Saturdays (Beech-nut was a chewing gum and everyone in the studio audience was seen chewing gum and wearing a "flavor-iffic" pin-back button) but never heard of his talent search, because 10:30 was WAAAYY past my preteen bedtime. The Man From Blackhawk sounds like it should have been a good show and should have lasted longer. I don't recall Disney's ever being on Friday night (Sunday is what I remember) and I'd have been watching it, but maybe then I had to go to bed after Disney. I recall watching 77 Sunset Strip but not from 58-59 when I was in 5th grade; only from 59 on when I was in 6th and beyond. Thanks for this!
You've done great work to unearth all these. I learned much. I turned 1 during 1959, so my memories of TV then are limited to fiddling with the dials for kicks. Richard Long and Russell Johnson are two people I came across later, both as professors, interestingly. One on an island, and one with a nanny.
My fav from all these shows was "Bourbon Street Beat"! Up until early this year there was a website, "Uncle Earl's Classic TV", that the entire series. I miss that site in general, & "BSB" in particular!
Russel Johnson did a lot of T.V western shows like Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, The Virginan, Rawhide, The Rifleman Gunsmoke just to name a few.😀😀
I was 5 years old in 1959 and my parents made me go to bed at 7PM, unless these shows were rerun during the daytime I never would have seen them and it was rare for a show to get syndicated with less than 65 episodes,
I was born in 1958. My widowed mother and 2 older sisters were fans of Charlie Weaver. We had his "Letters from Mama" book, which I did read. I never knew he had his own tv show. But we did see him in other tv appearances. I remember him on Hollywood Squares.
ABC tried to revive radio's "HOBBY LOBBY" with Charlie Weaver [Cliff Arquette] at the beginning of the season- but eliminated the hobbies in mid season, featuring him in a straight comedy/variety show {"THE CHARLIE WEAVER SHOW"} instead, with his "Letters From Mama", comedy sketches, and guest stars. It was cancelled at the end of the season.
I was 9 years old in 1959 but never heard of these shows. I do remember Sgt. Bilko (The Phil Silvers Show), Hazel, Father Knows Best, Make Room For Daddy, Lassie, The Real McCoys, and quite a few others, but none of yours.
Don't remember any of these shows; I guess we always watched the competition! Now we enjoy watching old shows on MeTV or westerns on different channels. Nice to see shows we were too small to see or remember back then. Thanks for the memories, Space Age Rabbit.
I've seen the jazzy JOHNNY STACOTTO private eye series on UA-cam years ago and liked every bit of it. The PHILIP MARLOWE series seems to have only one surviving episode which, if true, would be a shame. Thanks for sharing these golden nuggets of nostalgia!
B T W Russel Johnson also did The Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Those episodes were Western theme. I still love hearing your voice. And you make me smile whenever I visit your channel for these great videos. Keep up the good work. Also I was 1 years old, but I saw those reruns in the 70's on Chanel 50 Detroit.😀😀😀
Russel Johnson was shot down over the Pacific in WW2. He was able 2 tread water for 20 hrs, with 2 broken ankles, until he was rescued. He was one of the Greatest Generation.😊
I remember The Donna Reed show and my mom’s favorite I married Joan. I also saw Ozzie & Harriett to catch Ricky Nelson singing at the end of each show. I also remember Zorro with Guy Williams ❤🙏 Then came a long stretch of American Bandstand, The Rifleman and Superman!
I was 8 years old in 1959. I don't remember any of those shows. Probably because dad was the ruler of the TV and he only liked the popular shows. Or maybe I'm just too old to remember them. Thanks for these videos. I'm sure they involve lots of research.
Ever notice that there were TV shows set in Alaska and Hawaii right when they entered the union? I guess they figured the public was curious about the new states?
Youre stirring up memories here. My sister, brother, & i used to watch American Bandstand, along with Lloyd Thaxton, Hootenanny,& The Happening. There were others but fog gets in the way. Great channel. 🙏❤😊
@@yvonneplant9434 A local Philly show that may not fit this thread and many here will not have ever seen was the kids afternoon show Willy the worm, when I got back to Philly off and on for a few weeks at a time once maybe twice a year Willy was high on my list.
DENNIS THE MENACE CAME ON THE AIR SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 1959 THE MANY LOVES OF DOBBIE CAME ON THE AIR SEPT 1959 ALSO THE TWILLIGHT ZONE OCTOBER 1959 KENNETHO
6:11- In the fall of 1960, Dorothy Provine moved on to "THE ROARING '20s" {"77 CHARLESTON STRIP"}, as nightclub/speakeasy thrush "Pinky" Pinkham (she released at least two Warner Bros. albums of songs she sang on the show}.
Bourbon Street Beat and Johnny Staccato both remind me of Peter Gunn in a lot of ways. I've seen a couple of those Philip Marlowe episodes. it's really quite good! The Betty Hutton Show, The Man From Blackhawk - hadn't heard of these, but I'd like to check them out.
As a young child in the 50's I wished i could have seen that Dick Clark Talent show, you say it aired 13 weeks?...any idea who were some of the up and coming talents? Guess his Bandstand gig, in Philly was a bit much for him? thanks for sharing!!!
Zsa Zsa Gabor always said that she was an excellent housekeeper. She was married nine times and after every divorce, she would always keep the house. 😊😊
I used to bug my parents to let me stay up and watch "The Alaskans," then I had such a hard time getting up for school the next morning; I would have been nine in October of '59
Andrew Duggan...one fine actor of the times this episode year of TV: 1959. Charlie Weaver...a funny guy. Roger Moore...one handsome lookin' guy! "Black Saddle" TV theme...one of my favorites in Western TV themes. Betty Hutton...one talented gal of beauty, I think. Some of these 1959 TV shows, I don't remember, even though I was 9 that year in August.
I remember my sister (then 13 & 14) & her friends watching Bourbon Street Beat & The Alaskans, & often playing the characters on the latter - NO ONE wanted to be Reno! They were fans of most of the Warner Bros. shows, especially the Westerns. At the time, I was 4 years of age & very much aware, noticing fads.
I remember Peter Gunn. There was a police drama, set in Chicago, where the opening was of 1959 Ford police cars coming out of the underground garage, every other car turning right or left. I forget the show's name, now, but there was a detective in it named Flanagan.
Cliff Arquette's Charlie Weaver character was also on the Hollywood Squares spinoff Storybook Squares made for kids and that was considered one of the characters, as others dressed in themed costumes or appeared as their TV alter personas.
I remember Bourbon Street Beat, but thought it premiered in the 1960s. It as a very good weekly. Dorothy Provine, who appeared in BSB, also appeared in a weekly show about the roaring 20s.
Loved Rex Randolph's very cool 1959 Oldsmobile 2-dr hardtop in Bourbon Street Beat. Don't recall him taking it to 77 Sunset Strip. Seems they all drove Fords.
8:47 The three tones associated with "NBC" were the musical notes G, E, and C. Not coincidentally, NBC's parent organization was the General Electric Corporation.
Take a Good Look, ABC Thursdays 10:30 (ET). Panelists tried to guess the identity or significance of a guest brought out by Kovacs. He and a group of actors performed skits which were supposed to be clues to help the panel nail down the guest, but Kovacs' sense of humor was such that they rarely came up with the correct answer. The most frequent panelists were Edie Adams (Mrs. Kovacs), Hans Conried, and Cesar Romero.
2:13- Van Williams {"Kenny Madison"} moved on to his own series, "SURFSIDE 6", in the fall of 1960 {which wasn't TOO different from "BOURBON STREET BEAT"- or "77 SUNSET STRIP", either}. That lasted two seaons.
You can probably add Hawaiian Eye to that list as well Barry. The only real difference between those four shows was locale: Hollywood CA, Miami FL, Honolulu HI or New Orleans LA. All from the same TV studio, all four had theme songs written by the same guys...Two of the shows were popular (Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye) and the other two were not.
77SS, Surfside, Hawaiian Eye all had the beefcake and beach scene as a backdrop. BSB had a backdrop of a racially integrated New Orleans and nobody in a bathing suit. Its feel was very noir, and its pilot was actually based on a noir novel. Very different from the other 3.
It lasted one season- opposite Donna Reed [ABC] and Gene Barry's "BAT MASTERSON" [NBC]. Not enough viewers tuned in for sponsor General Foods (Post) to order a second season.
At the outset, I must admit that American movie/TV fans are most fickle. They have so many new shows coming their way, they are short on memory and appreciation for shows that were hits world-wide. I'm from a different continent where fans seem to be more loyal to great TV shows from the 50's. Movie/TV buffs have a renewed interest for Crime/Detective show that include: Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye and Surfside Six. We are also great fans for Westerns like Cheyenne, Maverick, Bronco and to a lesser degree 'Black Saddle'. We weren't fortune to see 'The Alaskans' with Roger Moore. He later achieved fame as James Bond, world-wide.. Dick Clark was greatly admired for his presentation of 'World of Talent', which we get to watch frequently on UA-cam. It's a pity we didn't get to see "The Betty Hutton Show'. With her world-wide fame achieved after the stupendous success of "Annie get your gun'. I am certain fans would have lapped up her show because she was a powerhouse of talent.
I've watched a number of your videos now, and it's a unique and fascinating topic. They're well done, but with one glaring flaw: there needs to be a more obvious transition between the shows. Perhaps you could employ a screen sweep or some sort of fadeout? Just a thought.
Post Grape-Nuts. Like chewing gravel. No matter how long you let it sit in a bowl of milk it NEVER got soft. Don't know if it's still made today, or if so, WHY.
I am a big Betty Hutton fan. During WW2 and the early 1950s she was a good musical/comedy star. But this show just didnt work. Going against Donna Reed didnt help. She had a rough upbringing and problems during this show. She did a lot of television, Vegas and eventually found religion. Theres a great interview she did with Bobert Osborne on TCM in 2000. She passed away in 2007. RIP BH❤
Interesting video. Only addition I would like is a touch of the music, as that was often more memorable than the shows themselves (Staccato comes to mind).
That's actually a great suggestion! Because, you're 100% right. The songs are memorable. I can hum the theme songs to shows I watched 40+ years ago, but I'm not sure I could tell you the storylines. I will definitely keep that in mind for my future videos. Thanks for the comment 🙂
I've heard that the music is one reason Warner Bros hasn't released the private eye shows either on DVD or streaming - they didn't get the proper rights to all that music.
The network shows started at 7:30 back then but the FCC later had 7:30-8:00 reserved for local programming. The local stations actually started buying things like Wheel of Fortune rather than producing their own stuff, as the FCC thought they would do.
In the early 60's (as I recall) came the show Coronado Nine a detective show that I believe did not come down the net. As I would travel I saw it air at different times and even on different days thus i believed it to be a syndicasted effort. Rod Cameron was the star and as I remember the program was rather slow paced and stilted.-----Pat
I had better do a P.S. Here as my memory neurons began to refire, I watched occasionally the Joey Bishop show but was not overly thrilled with it. But a show preceding it was the TV program Hennesey Staring Jackie Cooper and one of the recipients of my crushes Abby Dalton as the Navy nurse the other object of my (unrequited affection) was Jacqueline Beer, fine fine fine woman those two.
What an irony--Betty Hutton's show was sposored by Post Cereals, and Miss Hutton was born in another cereal city--Battle Creek, Michigan--home of Kellogg's.
I loved Bourbon Street Beat when it started out, because the cast was integrated, white people and black people. White people were still the kings, of course, but black people were presented as regular working people with jobs and the white principal characters treated black people like regular people. Eddie Cole as the bandleader was terrific (and Cole himself was terrific, classically trained in Europe and fluent in several languages - Nat King Cole's brother). Then midway in the series, all the black people disappeared. The show literally got white-washed, and lost its NOLA flavor. I suspect local stations in parts of the country could not take the integration and balked at carrying the show. Rex Randolph moved to 77 Sunset Strip and made history as the first tv character to move from one show to an already existing show, but Richard Long didn't think that helped his career much. He wasn't planning to stay, but his first heart attack at age 33 during his run on 77SS made sure he left the series after season 3 (it didn't help his heart much that BSB had a cigarette company for a sponsor and Rex had to smoke a lot). BTW, the Absinthe House is still there, for real.
As a non TV viewer I could watch any of these series with pleasure.Thanks for unveiling this wonderful lost world.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching 🙂
Most of these were past my preteen bedtime but Black Saddle made into syndication because it was on in the afternoons in the early 60s. I loved Dick's Beech-nut Show on Saturdays (Beech-nut was a chewing gum and everyone in the studio audience was seen chewing gum and wearing a "flavor-iffic" pin-back button) but never heard of his talent search, because 10:30 was WAAAYY past my preteen bedtime. The Man From Blackhawk sounds like it should have been a good show and should have lasted longer. I don't recall Disney's ever being on Friday night (Sunday is what I remember) and I'd have been watching it, but maybe then I had to go to bed after Disney. I recall watching 77 Sunset Strip but not from 58-59 when I was in 5th grade; only from 59 on when I was in 6th and beyond. Thanks for this!
In 1959 we watched what my dad watched and the Red Skelton show and Donna Reed were what we watched!
😁
You've done great work to unearth all these. I learned much. I turned 1 during 1959, so my memories of TV then are limited to fiddling with the dials for kicks. Richard Long and Russell Johnson are two people I came across later, both as professors, interestingly. One on an island, and one with a nanny.
My fav from all these shows was "Bourbon Street Beat"! Up until early this year there was a website, "Uncle Earl's Classic TV", that the entire series. I miss that site in general, &
"BSB" in particular!
Russel Johnson did a lot of T.V western shows like Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, The Virginan, Rawhide, The Rifleman
Gunsmoke just to name a few.😀😀
This is fantastic stuff!! Only knew of just a handful of these shows - can't wait for part 2 !!
Your research is excellent. Additionally, your presentation is fascinating. Thank you for all your arduous research!
Thanks for the kind words! 🙂 And thank you for watching!
I was 5 years old in 1959 and my parents made me go to bed at 7PM, unless these shows were rerun during the daytime I never would have seen them and it was rare for a show to get syndicated with less than 65 episodes,
I was born in 1958. My widowed mother and 2 older sisters were fans of Charlie Weaver. We had his "Letters from Mama" book, which I did read. I never knew he had his own tv show. But we did see him in other tv appearances. I remember him on Hollywood Squares.
ABC tried to revive radio's "HOBBY LOBBY" with Charlie Weaver [Cliff Arquette] at the beginning of the season- but eliminated the hobbies in mid season, featuring him in a straight comedy/variety show {"THE CHARLIE WEAVER SHOW"} instead, with his "Letters From Mama", comedy sketches, and guest stars. It was cancelled at the end of the season.
I was 9 years old in 1959 but never heard of these shows. I do remember Sgt. Bilko (The Phil Silvers Show), Hazel, Father Knows Best, Make Room For Daddy, Lassie, The Real McCoys, and quite a few others, but none of yours.
I was a teen in 1959 and remember a lot of the shows and commercials.
Nicely done. Much better than most youtube videos about old TV shows.
Thank you for the kind words 🙂 and thank you for watching!
I'm in love with Donna Reed. Always have been, always will be!
Great job including the commercials. Glad I subscribed.❤
I'm so glad you subscribed! And thanks for watching 🙂
I love old commercials! I could watch them all day!
Don't remember any of these shows; I guess we always watched the competition! Now we enjoy watching old shows on MeTV or westerns on different channels. Nice to see shows we were too small to see or remember back then. Thanks for the memories, Space Age Rabbit.
I've seen the jazzy JOHNNY STACOTTO private eye series on UA-cam years ago and liked every bit of it. The PHILIP MARLOWE series seems to have only one surviving episode which, if true, would be a shame. Thanks for sharing these golden nuggets of nostalgia!
You do such a great job covering key details of these shows. thank you
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching 🙂
Thank you for this. I am a TV aficionado and there were quite of few of these shows I had never heard of. Please keep up all your fine work.
Thank you for the kind words 🙂 and thank you for watching!
B T W Russel Johnson also did The Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Those episodes were Western theme.
I still love hearing your voice. And you make me smile whenever I visit your channel for these great videos.
Keep up the good work. Also I was 1 years old, but I saw those reruns in the 70's on Chanel 50 Detroit.😀😀😀
Just saw the one with Russell Johnson the other day on Twilight Zone.
Your comments are always so kind! Thank you for watching 🙂
Russel Johnson was shot down over the Pacific in WW2. He was able 2 tread water for 20 hrs, with 2 broken ankles, until he was rescued.
He was one of the Greatest Generation.😊
I remember The Donna Reed show and my mom’s favorite I married Joan. I also saw Ozzie & Harriett to catch Ricky Nelson singing at the end of each show. I also remember Zorro with Guy Williams ❤🙏 Then came a long stretch of American Bandstand, The Rifleman and Superman!
The Life of Riley. Queen for a Day. Industry on Parade.
Loved 😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤
Queen For a Day was so pathetic. Those poor women.
I was 8 years old in 1959. I don't remember any of those shows. Probably because dad was the ruler of the TV and he only liked the popular shows. Or maybe I'm just too old to remember them. Thanks for these videos. I'm sure they involve lots of research.
Two more truly forgotten bro shows that I watched way back when. Crunch and Des, and Whirlybirds.
@@36736fps Ripcord
Ever notice that there were TV shows set in Alaska and Hawaii right when they entered the union? I guess they figured the public was curious about the new states?
Nice to hear a non AI voice
I worry that I stumble over words, or breathe too much 😆, so I appreciate your comment! 🙂
@@spaceagerabbit You sound great. Thanks for posting these videos.
@@spaceagerabbit Nice to hear a clear voice - Anthony (British member of equity)
@@anthonyfrew1571 Thanks, Anthony 🙂
Thanks, Rabbit. I'd forgotten these shows.
I was born in 1959. Interesting to see what was going then. What my family might have been watching at the time.
Youre stirring up memories here. My sister, brother, & i used to watch American Bandstand, along with Lloyd Thaxton, Hootenanny,& The Happening. There were others but fog gets in the way. Great channel. 🙏❤😊
In 1959 Bandstand was still in Philadelphia. The building where it was broadcasted is still around.
Thank you so much for watching! I loved American Bandstand. My sisters and I would dance all over the living room ❤️
@@yvonneplant9434 A local Philly show that may not fit this thread and many here will not have ever seen was the kids afternoon show Willy the worm, when I got back to Philly off and on for a few weeks at a time once maybe twice a year Willy was high on my list.
I had a Lloyd Thaxton doll that came with various signs it could hold up. It didn't tap its foot but it was a hoot.
Hullabaloo.
I love the Donna Reed show. Will rewatch it every few years!
DENNIS THE MENACE CAME ON THE AIR SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 1959 THE MANY LOVES OF DOBBIE CAME ON THE AIR SEPT 1959 ALSO THE TWILLIGHT ZONE OCTOBER 1959 KENNETHO
I actually remember watching some of these shows, so I guess my parents and I did do some "channel surfing" in 1959-60.
"Channel surfing" -- someone stands at the TV and turns the knob.
Yes!! 😂😂😂 I remember being the one designated to turn the channel knob.
Don't figure out my age, but I remember a BULK of these now-forgotten gems.
You're a older Boomer. There are still a lot of us left.
78+/-
No, but 21-plus
Outstanding information . Love this...
Thanks so much for watching! 😊
The Alaskans is now available on BluRay disc, and looks spectacular.
6:11- In the fall of 1960, Dorothy Provine moved on to "THE ROARING '20s" {"77 CHARLESTON STRIP"}, as nightclub/speakeasy thrush "Pinky" Pinkham (she released at least two Warner Bros. albums of songs she sang on the show}.
Bourbon Street Beat was a favorite of mine. Now have it on DVD.
Bourbon Street Beat and Johnny Staccato both remind me of Peter Gunn in a lot of ways. I've seen a couple of those Philip Marlowe episodes. it's really quite good!
The Betty Hutton Show, The Man From Blackhawk - hadn't heard of these, but I'd like to check them out.
As a young child in the 50's I wished i could have seen that Dick Clark Talent show, you say it aired 13 weeks?...any idea who were some of the up and coming talents? Guess his Bandstand gig, in Philly was a bit much for him? thanks for sharing!!!
Kookie Kookie, lend me your comb, I had the 45. I was 9 and remember most of these.
I still have the "Charlie Weaver's Family Album". It's hilarious :-) Contains deep poetry too like "Mount Idy , Mount Idy, You'll always be tidy " :-)
I remember BOURBON STREET very well
Zsa Zsa 's hobby was collecting rich husbands...lol
😂
Zsa Zsa Gabor always said that she was an excellent housekeeper. She was married nine times and after every divorce, she would always keep the house.
😊😊
Right!
@@MaryAnnAngros-fq9yy She also said I never hated an ex enough to return the diamonds.
She was good at it
I don't remember any of those shows (except Donna Reed). However, the commercials are very familiar!
I think Robert Rockwell is best remembered as the socially-inept biology teacher in "Our Miss Brooks".
Ah - there was also "My Little Margie" and "Oh Susannah!"
I used to bug my parents to let me stay up and watch "The Alaskans," then I had such a hard time getting up for school the next morning; I would have been nine in October of '59
Love the content and your voice!
Thank you for the compliment! 🙂 And thank you so much for watching!
Richard Long and Russell Johnson are two people I came across later,!
Seeems like several of these shows were on ABC, which really struggled against CBS and NBC and their more established shows.
Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, The alaskans, (but the show was great), Red Skelton show, were my favorites from that year
@imkreider9997 - 'Kooky, Kooky lend me your comb'.
@@patriciakeith6755 bABY, YOU'RE THE GINCHIEST!" Didn't make it into the teeny bopper talk.
Andrew Duggan...one fine actor of the times this episode year of TV: 1959.
Charlie Weaver...a funny guy.
Roger Moore...one handsome lookin' guy!
"Black Saddle" TV theme...one of my favorites in Western TV themes.
Betty Hutton...one talented gal of beauty, I think.
Some of these 1959 TV shows, I don't remember, even though I was 9 that year in August.
Nice. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the kind words 🙂 and thank you for watching!
I was 9 and Dad controlled nighttime TV; he didn't watch any of these or those in part two so I have no memory of them at all!
I remember my sister (then 13 & 14) & her friends watching Bourbon Street Beat & The Alaskans, & often playing the characters on the latter - NO ONE wanted to be Reno! They were fans of most of the Warner Bros. shows, especially the Westerns. At the time, I was 4 years of age & very much aware, noticing fads.
A few of these were reran in later years. I remember watch them as a kid in 1963. Never heard of Black hawk or Johnny Staccato.
The detective shows tried to compete with the Peter Gunn phenomenon. Unfortunately, none of them had Henry Mancini.
I remember Peter Gunn. There was a police drama, set in Chicago, where the opening was of 1959 Ford police cars coming out of the underground garage, every other car turning right or left. I forget the show's name, now, but there was a detective in it named Flanagan.
Mancini also composed the Mr. Lucky theme, but wanted to make it sound different than Peter Gunn, so he used an organ. Both great theme songs!
@@LarryMossey Emerson, Lake and Palmer recorded a version of Peter Gunn, but used organ. It was a great version.
@@LarryMossey I have two albums. "Music from Peter Gunn" and "More Music from Peter Gunn." They are great.
Cliff Arquette's Charlie Weaver character was also on the Hollywood Squares spinoff Storybook Squares made for kids and that was considered one of the characters, as others dressed in themed costumes or appeared as their TV alter personas.
I was born in 1952 and I don’t remember any of these shows. I remember a lot of these actors though.
We watched the Donna Reed Show in my house.
I love The Donna Reed Show!
I remember Bourbon Street Beat, but thought it premiered in the 1960s. It as a very good weekly. Dorothy Provine, who appeared in BSB, also appeared in a weekly show about the roaring 20s.
3:09 Holy smokes! I thought Dinah Shore had a laptop!
So did I
I’ve been in the absinthe house on Bourbon st in New Orleans. It looks almost the same…dark and foreboding. I didn’t drink the absinthe.
I recently discovered "Harbor Command". The best of its type ever.
I loved that show. Do you also remember 'Rescue 8'?
@@Juliaflo I will investigate. I'm thinking about posting the whole "Harbor Command" series on YT. Take care.
Loved Rex Randolph's very cool 1959 Oldsmobile 2-dr hardtop in Bourbon Street Beat. Don't recall him taking it to 77 Sunset Strip. Seems they all drove Fords.
Soupie Sales was cutting edge in kid shows
I was born in 1959. Surely one of the greatest events of the entire year. 🤣
Mr Lucky was my favorite TV show from 1959...
Great theme song.
@@LarryMossey John Vivyan should have been a TV star...sadly this was his only minute in the Biz it was all down hill after.
8:47 The three tones associated with "NBC" were the musical notes G, E, and C. Not coincidentally, NBC's parent organization was the General Electric Corporation.
That's interesting! I did not know that.
Didn't Ernie Kovacs have his show sometime in this era?
Take a Good Look, ABC Thursdays 10:30 (ET). Panelists tried to guess the identity or significance of a guest brought out by Kovacs. He and a group of actors performed skits which were supposed to be clues to help the panel nail down the guest, but Kovacs' sense of humor was such that they rarely came up with the correct answer. The most frequent panelists were Edie Adams (Mrs. Kovacs), Hans Conried, and Cesar Romero.
Very informative!
2:13- Van Williams {"Kenny Madison"} moved on to his own series, "SURFSIDE 6", in the fall of 1960 {which wasn't TOO different from "BOURBON STREET BEAT"- or "77 SUNSET STRIP", either}. That lasted two seaons.
You can probably add Hawaiian Eye to that list as well Barry. The only real difference between those four shows was locale: Hollywood CA, Miami FL, Honolulu HI or New Orleans LA. All from the same TV studio, all four had theme songs written by the same guys...Two of the shows were popular (Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye) and the other two were not.
@@ernestcruz6316 Not to forget "Hawaii Five-O"...
@@Bhakti-rider But the other four I mentioned were all Warner Bros. shows, all by the same production team. Hawaii Five-O wasn't even Warner Bros.
77SS, Surfside, Hawaiian Eye all had the beefcake and beach scene as a backdrop. BSB had a backdrop of a racially integrated New Orleans and nobody in a bathing suit. Its feel was very noir, and its pilot was actually based on a noir novel. Very different from the other 3.
I am almost 72...nobody I talk to remembers the Betty Hutton show, I loved it!
It lasted one season- opposite Donna Reed [ABC] and Gene Barry's "BAT MASTERSON" [NBC]. Not enough viewers tuned in for sponsor General Foods (Post) to order a second season.
At the outset, I must admit that American movie/TV fans are most fickle. They have so many new shows coming their way, they are short on memory and appreciation for shows that were hits world-wide. I'm from a different continent where fans seem to be more loyal to great TV shows from the 50's. Movie/TV buffs have a renewed interest for Crime/Detective show that include: Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye and Surfside Six. We are also great fans for Westerns like Cheyenne, Maverick, Bronco and to a lesser degree 'Black Saddle'. We weren't fortune to see 'The Alaskans' with Roger Moore. He later achieved fame as James Bond, world-wide.. Dick Clark was greatly admired for his presentation of 'World of Talent', which we get to watch frequently on UA-cam. It's a pity we didn't get to see "The Betty Hutton Show'. With her world-wide fame achieved after the stupendous success of "Annie get your gun'. I am certain fans would have lapped up her show because she was a powerhouse of talent.
Born in this year. 🎉
I've watched a number of your videos now, and it's a unique and fascinating topic. They're well done, but with one glaring flaw: there needs to be a more obvious transition between the shows. Perhaps you could employ a screen sweep or some sort of fadeout? Just a thought.
Better than the shows!
Thank you! ☺️
Post Grape-Nuts. Like chewing gravel. No matter how long you let it sit in a bowl of milk it NEVER got soft. Don't know if it's still made today, or if so, WHY.
Yes, it's still available.
@@fromthesidelines But do you know why? ;)
Because people still eat them, that's why. 🙂
When I was little I assumed the cereal was grape flavored, and I remember being really disappointed the first time I tasted it 😆
@@spaceagerabbit More like trying to eat a bowl of grape seeds!
As a 7yr old in 1959 the only shows in this list I remember in this batch are the westerns and 77 Sunset Strip.
Luv the post
HOBBY LOBBY was a Show? Before itcwas a store?
2:38
Cigarettes, cereal, soap & carbs paid for early TV
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Don't remember these (B+W)(TV) shows 🤔. Will look👀 up a few reruns if available-???🤔.
Man from blackhawk I remember that too I was a kid, but I remember him
The formula for most of these shows seems to be two lantern-jawed men with a pretty blonde woman.
Here in los Angeles ch 5 had wrestling..Roller Derby and Stock car racing on a figure 8 track. Women's Roller Derby was my favorite.
I remember the 77 Sunset Strip for its catchy musical theme.
Roger Moore wasn't the only one who fell in love with Dorothy Provine.
I am a big Betty Hutton fan. During WW2 and the early 1950s she was a good musical/comedy star. But this show just didnt work. Going against Donna Reed didnt help. She had a rough upbringing and problems during this show. She did a lot of television, Vegas and eventually found religion. Theres a great interview she did with Bobert Osborne on TCM in 2000. She passed away in 2007. RIP BH❤
Charley Weaver was sponsored by Mogen David wine.
Interesting video. Only addition I would like is a touch of the music, as that was often more memorable than the shows themselves (Staccato comes to mind).
That's actually a great suggestion! Because, you're 100% right. The songs are memorable. I can hum the theme songs to shows I watched 40+ years ago, but I'm not sure I could tell you the storylines. I will definitely keep that in mind for my future videos. Thanks for the comment 🙂
I've heard that the music is one reason Warner Bros hasn't released the private eye shows either on DVD or streaming - they didn't get the proper rights to all that music.
Johnny Staccato was inspired by the more popular detective series, Peter Gunn, which had preceded it and ran into the 1960s.
Several hour long shows started on the half hour.
The network shows started at 7:30 back then but the FCC later had 7:30-8:00 reserved for local programming. The local stations actually started buying things like Wheel of Fortune rather than producing their own stuff, as the FCC thought they would do.
I was 11. I don't recall any of these.
I liked this.
I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂 Thank you for watching!
In the early 60's (as I recall) came the show Coronado Nine a detective show that I believe did not come down the net. As I would travel I saw it air at different times and even on different days thus i believed it to be a syndicasted effort. Rod Cameron was the star and as I remember the program was rather slow paced and stilted.-----Pat
I had better do a P.S. Here as my memory neurons began to refire, I watched occasionally the Joey Bishop show but was not overly thrilled with it. But a show preceding it was the TV program Hennesey Staring Jackie Cooper and one of the recipients of my crushes Abby Dalton as the Navy nurse the other object of my (unrequited affection) was Jacqueline Beer, fine fine fine woman those two.
This is the year I was born.😂🤣
Me Too! May 29 I remember Charley Weaver from Hollywood Squares
I remember Bourbon Street veat & liked it.
I was 10 in 1959 and do not remember any of these shows.
What an irony--Betty Hutton's show was sposored by Post Cereals, and Miss Hutton was born in another cereal city--Battle Creek, Michigan--home of Kellogg's.
I loved Bourbon Street Beat when it started out, because the cast was integrated, white people and black people. White people were still the kings, of course, but black people were presented as regular working people with jobs and the white principal characters treated black people like regular people. Eddie Cole as the bandleader was terrific (and Cole himself was terrific, classically trained in Europe and fluent in several languages - Nat King Cole's brother). Then midway in the series, all the black people disappeared. The show literally got white-washed, and lost its NOLA flavor. I suspect local stations in parts of the country could not take the integration and balked at carrying the show. Rex Randolph moved to 77 Sunset Strip and made history as the first tv character to move from one show to an already existing show, but Richard Long didn't think that helped his career much. He wasn't planning to stay, but his first heart attack at age 33 during his run on 77SS made sure he left the series after season 3 (it didn't help his heart much that BSB had a cigarette company for a sponsor and Rex had to smoke a lot).
BTW, the Absinthe House is still there, for real.
only heard of one: Bourbon St Beat
Spreading that much gypsum & salt on the landscape pretty much assured nothing grew back.
Never heard of any of these shows