More Forgotten TV Shows of 1959 | Part 2 - 1950s Television Nostalgia

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  • @spaceagerabbit
    @spaceagerabbit  2 місяці тому +16

    Earl Holliman!! Dang! I called him Ed even though I was reading Earl. My apologies to Mr. Holliman. Proof I'm an actual human behind the microphone 😆

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 2 місяці тому +3

      We mentally corrected. No worries.

    • @bobtaylor170
      @bobtaylor170 2 місяці тому

      That's such a treat in itself that even if I hadn't liked the content, I would have subscribed. But unless I had a brief lapse in consciousness, you omitted one: Mr Lucky. I enjoyed that show as a child and have enjoyed watching it on streaming. If you did mention it, I just didn't hear it. Mr Lucky had a good premise, but mid season, the sponsor got nervous about the mise - en - scene of the show, a gambling boat outside U.S. territorial waters, and insisted that the ship be changed to merely a restaurant. This threw the show off because it cut into its potential for hokey intrigue, the ratings fell, and it was not brought back for the autumn of 1960.
      The show is the source of the sensationally catchy song, Mr Lucky, written as the theme by Henry Mancini. Jazz musicians adore that song.
      The series had potential, ridiculous though it was. It's quintessentially America circa 1959, at least one idea of it.

    • @scotthovland7380
      @scotthovland7380 2 місяці тому +3

      I appreciate you being a human🙂

    • @spaceagerabbit
      @spaceagerabbit  2 місяці тому +1

      @@scotthovland7380 Thank you ❤🙂❤

    • @spaceagerabbit
      @spaceagerabbit  2 місяці тому +1

      @@bobtaylor170 I've never heard of Mr. Lucky! I need to look into that one. I put it on my "research" list 🙂 Thank you or the nice comment and show recommendation!

  • @peterbarkley2648
    @peterbarkley2648 11 днів тому +1

    I used to watch Johnny Ringo, Black Saddle, Law of the Plainsman, and The Westerners in syndication under "The Westerners" title. Now have all four series on DVD.

  • @priority2
    @priority2 Місяць тому +5

    I well remember Tightrope! My Mom loved it along with all detective shows. I remember her reading detective magazines too.

  • @lynnlobliner3933
    @lynnlobliner3933 2 місяці тому +6

    I loved Tightrope! I wonder if it was the TITLE of Peck's Bad Girl more than the show itself that had parents not allowing their kids to watch (and get ideas) w/o checking it out first. My mom forbad me to watch Wanted Dead of Alive because of the title and nothing else. I couldn't break her down. The ending, of the Lennon Sisters in the Dodge commercial is icing on the cake! Thank you!

    • @spaceagerabbit
      @spaceagerabbit  Місяць тому

      I love the Lennon Sisters and was so excited when I found that commercial. Thank for the nice comments and thank you so much for watching!

  • @Nunofurdambiznez
    @Nunofurdambiznez 2 місяці тому +8

    Great video - ESPECIALLY the very end with the Lennon Sisters and that FABULOUS station wagon!

    • @earlmorton1216
      @earlmorton1216 2 місяці тому +1

      We had a Dodge station wagon like that when I was growing up. (I don't remember what year it was.) I always loved sitting in the backward-facing rear seat.

    • @dept2
      @dept2 Місяць тому

      I had that whole Lennon family commercial. 24 years ago - I gave the video to the Lennon's mother. She was thrilled to have it with her 11 kids in that ad.

  • @jerryprice5484
    @jerryprice5484 29 днів тому +1

    Thanks for mentioning three of my favorite shows, Men into space, Man and the challenge and The troubleshooters. Even after all these years, I still remember them very clearly.

  • @maxon-m3c
    @maxon-m3c 2 місяці тому +4

    Men Into Space was a favorite of mine. In the 3rd grade I had a Men Into Space metal lunchbox. Worth a little on ebay today! Wish I still had it!

  • @jebsails2837
    @jebsails2837 2 місяці тому +4

    I remember "The Man and the Challenge" LITB was too close to home. My parents had acquired a used 19" TV and I watched TMATC on the '52, (relegated to the basement) 12" cabinet model Admiral TV, with record player, storage, and AM radio. Prior to that time my father controlled the TV, however there were only so-many "horse operas" you could watch in a week. Thanks for the memories. Narragansett Bay

  • @jeffmallison7876
    @jeffmallison7876 2 місяці тому +5

    As an 8 year old in 1959 I also had an Ed McAuley space helmet. I also enjoyed "The Man and the Challenge" and "The Troubleshooters". The latter made me a life long Keenan Wynn fan.

  • @ernestcruz6316
    @ernestcruz6316 2 місяці тому +5

    The woman in that shot of The Man and the Challenge at 6:45 is Sue Randall, who played Miss Landers, Beaver's teacher on Leave It to Beaver. Patty McCormack of Peck's Bad Girl grew up to be quite the hottie. She later played Jeffrey Tambor's wife on the Three's Company spinoff The Ropers.

    • @alpha-omega2362
      @alpha-omega2362 2 місяці тому +1

      yes, I noticed that, Kind of ironic that she played opposite the show that was the cause of the demise of that show. I guess the question is, did she go from this show to LITB ? which I think would be the case because of the time period. Such minutia we dwell on...lol

    • @ernestcruz6316
      @ernestcruz6316 2 місяці тому +1

      @alpha-omega2362 Sue Randall was on damn near every show in the late '50s/early '60s. Hard to say if she went directly to Leave It to Beaver. She got so much work back then.

  • @1wwtom
    @1wwtom 2 місяці тому +4

    I was 7 in 1959 and the only show I remember was Men into Space and my Dad even got me one of the Macauley helmets. I wish I still had it but it's long gone with the rest of my childhood toys.

    • @kingforaday8725
      @kingforaday8725 Місяць тому

      Nice!!! Another B52? (born in 1952) I had and still have the board game.

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 3 дні тому

    Interesting/informative/entertaining 😉. Enjoy viewing 👀 those commercials from that era 😉.

    • @spaceagerabbit
      @spaceagerabbit  3 дні тому

      Thank you for the kind words! 🙂 I love old commercials! I could binge watch commercials from the 1950s and 1960s all day long ❤️

  • @peterbarkley2648
    @peterbarkley2648 2 місяці тому +3

    I found Tightrope on DVD, and I must say, Mike Connors sure gives a dashing performance as Nick. Also have Mannix on DVD, but cannot find Mike's third series, Today's FBI.

  • @rogertulk8607
    @rogertulk8607 27 днів тому +1

    I like the show Johnny Ringo very much. I wish you had shown the opening sequence of that show where Johnny has his name called he turned around and shot six times making a circle with holes in a door and then fires the oversized second Barrel on his gun and tears a big hole in the middle of the circle;; it was fun to watch every time.

  • @ianedwards4400
    @ianedwards4400 Місяць тому +1

    This 2nd part of shows from 1959 was a damp-squib. Most of the shows drew a blank to my knowledge of TV shows save for Men into space, which is still popular through DVD. One of my fave episodes was 'Dateline Moon' with the gorgeous Lisa Gaye in a guest appearance. Never ever saw 'Tightrope' with Mike Connors, but managed to see his later series 'Mannix'. How could you have omitted one of the better-known shows titled 'How to marry a millionaire' starring Barbara Eden, Merry Anders and Lisa Gaye. This show that played for two seasons garnered renewed interest with the release of disks from both seasons in mint condition. Wish you would give us a complete upload of this series in synopsis form with nice photos featuring Lisa, Merry and Babs Eden.

  • @DennisSullivan-om3oo
    @DennisSullivan-om3oo 23 дні тому

    I was born in 1950. This is my late childhood. I draw a complete blank on most of the shows, and actors. I vaguely remember Tightrope. It sounds good. I have positive feelings, and memory of The Man and The Challenge. It was interesting, and entertaining.

  • @phylliselizahb1041
    @phylliselizahb1041 2 місяці тому +3

    You can recognize the seeds of later TV shows.

  • @TooLooze
    @TooLooze Місяць тому +2

    Loved tightrope.

  • @robertvavra414
    @robertvavra414 2 місяці тому +1

    I do remember that 'Tightrope' was an interesting show; I was 5 years old in 1959. I never saw it in re-runs, and had no idea that Mike Conners was in it.

  • @kaysguy
    @kaysguy Місяць тому +1

    I had a McCauley helmet in 1960. It went well with my Rifleman cap rifle.

    • @kingforaday8725
      @kingforaday8725 Місяць тому

      Before Christmas one year I saw my great grandmother coming out of the TG&Y with my soon to be Rifleman rifle!!!!

  • @xbubblehead
    @xbubblehead 27 днів тому

    I remember Earl Holliman and the mirrored hatband, but I have no memory of the show itself.

  • @Juliaflo
    @Juliaflo 2 місяці тому +1

    I will always remember Mike Connors for 'Tightrope'.

  • @hot88s23
    @hot88s23 Місяць тому

    I remember a cool episode of The Troubleshooters. Nobody else has heard of it.

  • @oldoldpilgrim7898
    @oldoldpilgrim7898 2 місяці тому

    The Man and the Challenge was one of my favorite shows as a kid. Some episodes have been on UA-cam.
    George Nader also played Ellery Queen around the same time. I hope to find more on it in one of your future presentations. I can't find a single episode anywhere.

  • @thomasdaniel1661
    @thomasdaniel1661 24 дні тому

    Really nice fella. I met him in san antonio, coming out of a cable office.Really friendly, not stuck up for a star

  • @Tony-dk1bp
    @Tony-dk1bp 5 днів тому

    I thought I was a tv expert but I don't remember any of these. I must of been watching the good shows that were on at the same time.

  • @alancrisp1582
    @alancrisp1582 2 місяці тому

    Wow, going back in television 📺 history a long time this time around. In fact before i was even born !...

  • @sergioandrade8735
    @sergioandrade8735 2 місяці тому +11

    Peck's Bad Girl, her character breaking the 4th wall and talking to the audience reminds me of Dobie Gillis A.K.A. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis which premiered September 1959 in which Dobie would also break the 4th wall and talk to the audience in front of a statue of The Thinker in a neighborhood park. Unfortunately I myself am too young to remember these shows.

    • @arthurwaite976
      @arthurwaite976 2 місяці тому +1

      I remember a show in about 1954 or -5, called 'Corliss Archer'. The lead was a teen-age school-girl, and every few minutes the screen would pause while an announcer would narrate what the dilemma was that the characters were going through. The novelty was the TV was talking directly to me!

    • @bh9225
      @bh9225 Місяць тому

      Also, the early 1990s sitcom, Clarissa Explains it All.

  • @tsf5-productions
    @tsf5-productions 2 місяці тому +2

    "Men into Space"... Colonel Ed McClauey toy helmet, I had got as a Christmas gift in 1959. I was 9 back then and wish, I still had that helmet.
    All of these TV shows except, "Men into Space", I don't remember probably, because I was playing a lot outside and enjoying being away from five sisters and a younger brother in Indianapolis where we lived!
    The TV shows did have some good talent back then, though.

    • @kingforaday8725
      @kingforaday8725 Місяць тому

      Geez......same here. I was around back then and Men into Space is really the only one I remember. Maybe they were regional and not everyone got a chance to see them.

    • @cbroz7492
      @cbroz7492 8 днів тому

      @@tsf5-productions "...playing in the back yard..." Me too...with my two brothers..recreating last night's westerns (plural).kids don't do that anymore...

  • @garyfrancis6193
    @garyfrancis6193 2 місяці тому +4

    There was a dearth of mothers in TV shows of the time. No mother in My Three Sons, Andy Griffith Show, the Rifleman.

    • @adriancampbell6924
      @adriancampbell6924 2 місяці тому

      Mothers in the late 50s remove family tensions and therefore drama. No drama, no show.

    • @alpha-omega2362
      @alpha-omega2362 2 місяці тому

      @@adriancampbell6924 and no explanation of what happened to the mothers....except maybe Bonanza...with flashback episodes for each mother...I assume everyone knows the Cartwright boys each had their own mother who died, they were actually half-brothers ....Ben survived three wives...you should do a episode on that....

    • @cindydreszer2542
      @cindydreszer2542 Місяць тому

      My favorite from this time was Bachelor Father with John Forsyth.

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 2 місяці тому +4

    The Dennis O’Keefe Show looks like a model for The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, or any of several shows in the ‘60s and ‘70s with that model of the single father. The NYC apartment is a Family Affair vibe.

  • @L1V2P9
    @L1V2P9 2 місяці тому +2

    Hotel de Paree and The Man and the Challenge were two shows I watched regularly. It seems that many of the better shows were cancelled to make way for lesser productions.

  • @glennholcomb8450
    @glennholcomb8450 11 днів тому

    Marx Toy Co made playsets with character figures, 2-inch cowboys, buildings, accessories of 5 of the Westerns you showed.

  • @danieldelavera9212
    @danieldelavera9212 Місяць тому

    I have no memory of any of these shows, being that i was born in 1977. But i am familiar with Patty McCormack. Having watched The Bad Seed on AMC (back when AMC actually played classic films). Its a shame Peck's Bad Girl didn't catch on with viewers.

  • @pjoe1950
    @pjoe1950 Місяць тому

    I remember Hotel de Paree and especially Earl Holliman who just recently died. I really like the show but it did not last.

  • @barbaraedgley2634
    @barbaraedgley2634 2 місяці тому +2

    Remember shows like 77 Sunset Strip, the Flintstones as new, but not rhese

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 2 місяці тому +2

    "THE DENNIS O'KEEFE SHOW" was scheduled in one of CBS' *worst* time periods- Tuesdays at 8pm(et), under the sponsorship of General Motors' Oldsmobile division.
    "TIGHTROPE!" was cancelled because James T. Aubrey- CBS' ruthless president- insisted the series be moved to another night and time and expanded to a full hour, despite its popularity on Tuesdays. The show's primary sponsor, the J.B. Williams Company {Geritol, Aqua Velva, Sominex, et. al.}, didn't want to move it at all, and decided to sponsor another program on a competing network the following season. Screen Gems/Columbia, who produced the program, didn't want to be "strong-armed" by Aubrey, either. They spent most of the next decade trying to revive the series in some form on other networks, but that never happened.

  • @billswallow1804
    @billswallow1804 2 місяці тому +4

    Nice to see a mention of 'Men Into Space'. It's mostly forgotten these days, which is a shame. It really tried hard to get it right, while the more silly and fanciful stuff like 'Rocky Jones, Space Ranger' seems to hold a more prominent place in people's memories. (I was just able to get a 10 DVD set of all 38 episodes of the series!) [NOTE: UA-cam has several episodes of 'Men Into Space'.]
    Was 'Men Into Space' a perfect show? Of course not. It made plenty of mistakes in science, physics and engineering, some of them laughable and cringeworthy. And there were a lot of social attitudes that were products of their time.
    But they tried, and did well a lot more often than not. No aliens, no zap guns, just mostly practical and believable space hardware and space exploration, based on what was known and planned at the time. Unlike other shows, their shortcomings were mostly because of their limitations in time, money, and technology, not because they didn't care. It should be noted that they had support from the DOD, the USAF and USN, and had authorities in space medicine as consultants. There were not only a lot of recognizable names in the cast (Angie Dickinson, James Drury, Werner Klemperer, James Coburn and many more), but in the writers and directors as well. (SF writer Jerome Bixby, James "Shogun" Clavell, and Meyer Dolinsky wrote episodes.)
    It's also interesting looking at the future from their perspective. Sometimes it's kind of eerie. The first episode, 'Moon Probe', for example. Moon Probe *13*, with four men on board, runs into trouble with the booster stage that is supposed to get them into trans-lunar injection, and barely makes it back to Earth. (Shades of Apollo 13!)
    They have episodes dealing with building a space station, they use reusable spacecraft, experiment with fuel transfer in orbit, and started including women in crews. They are interested in in-situ resource use. They're trying nuclear propulsion and dealing with nuclear waste disposal. They set up a permanent base on the moon, are planning missions to Mars, sending unmanned probes to Venus, and have some degree of cooperation with the Russian and British space programs. And they do have very human problems with people and personalities and motivations and egos...
    I watch the show, and then I look at what's going on with space programs now, and in many ways, it seems like I'm watching the show's road map being played out in real life (but real life is even better, in many ways), so I recommend it to people. This show *really* needs to be digitally remastered and upscaled to 4K, and released as an official DVD set.

    • @adriancampbell6924
      @adriancampbell6924 2 місяці тому +1

      Did you notice the "woman in space" with Mrs Hale on her helmet. That cracked me up.

    • @billswallow1804
      @billswallow1804 2 місяці тому

      @@adriancampbell6924 Yes, yes I did. One of the (very) few deliberate attempts at humor in the show!

  • @Bob-rd9vd
    @Bob-rd9vd Місяць тому +1

    This brings back some memories!

  • @wardberger3777
    @wardberger3777 2 місяці тому

    Mike Conner was Jerry West's backcourt mate at WVU.

  • @PaulKudish
    @PaulKudish Місяць тому

    What about Valintine's Day,.. With Tony Franciosa?

  • @chadhaire1711
    @chadhaire1711 Місяць тому

    Can you find these shows on disc or cable?????????????????????????????

  • @JohnandMarianDykes
    @JohnandMarianDykes Місяць тому

    I still am a big fan of Man Into Space.

  • @anthonyperdue3557
    @anthonyperdue3557 2 місяці тому +1

    😎 A psychological ford -shadowing of what the 1960s would involve ; reevaluation of social conformity. Route 66 and The Fugitive ( as well as Kimble's clones) would inspire dreams of traveling free of parental responsibility. The science of thto e two science based shows overlook the individuals conflict with limitations but had they sustained their series the 1960s would provide them with those studies. The idea of TV breaking of the 4th wall barrier may have been a subtle reference to how in the comfort of ones home one may address their thoughts to those in the tube addressing theirs to us. Patty McCormack's series is one I would be interested in seeing ; it seems fitting somehow about her 4th wall communication seeing as how she was to be part of Orson Welles's production of Don Quixote wherein the Man From La Mancha steps out of a film to accompany her ; there is silent footage of this scene from this unfinished film.

  • @cudaus1
    @cudaus1 27 днів тому

    I was 10 in 1959 and a big TV watcher. I must say though the only shows from this group that I remember are, Tightrope, Love and Marriage, and the show Keenan Wynn was. Never was a western fan.

  • @arthurtripp6922
    @arthurtripp6922 Місяць тому

    How about Jet Jackson Captain Valiant, or Tim Corbett Space Cadets.????

  • @brianhill5009
    @brianhill5009 2 місяці тому

    It must have been discouraging for the actors in so many shows that lasted only one season.

    • @alpha-omega2362
      @alpha-omega2362 2 місяці тому +2

      yes, but it seems like many persevered and went on to have hit shows laters...

  • @earlmorton1216
    @earlmorton1216 2 місяці тому

    I don't remember the show, but I do remember the theme music for Love and Marriage. I'm not even sure I knew that it was from a TV show.

    • @TheJonaco
      @TheJonaco 2 місяці тому

      The song was originally a hit for Frank Sinatra in the mid-'50s.

    • @alpha-omega2362
      @alpha-omega2362 2 місяці тому

      @@TheJonaco and it was used later on "Married with Children" correct?

    • @alpha-omega2362
      @alpha-omega2362 2 місяці тому

      how do you know that was the theme song?

  • @joedebarbieri
    @joedebarbieri 2 місяці тому

    I remember the show called 'The D a's man in 1959...

  • @johntaormina1084
    @johntaormina1084 2 дні тому

    I was 12 years old in 1959 don't remember any of these stinkers ! 🦨

  • @garyfrancis6193
    @garyfrancis6193 2 місяці тому +1

    Earl not Ed Holliman. In your mind you probably confused the name with Ed Sullivan.

    • @spaceagerabbit
      @spaceagerabbit  2 місяці тому +1

      Yeah, I caught that after I posted the video. Sometimes my brain and mouth are on different pages 😆

  • @alpha-omega2362
    @alpha-omega2362 2 місяці тому

    kind of strange about "Love and Marriage" , why was it called that when it doesn't appear that there was any marriage involved?

    • @spaceagerabbit
      @spaceagerabbit  Місяць тому

      That's true! It is a strange choice for a title.

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 2 місяці тому

    So The Man and the Challenge had Sue Randall in the cast, and yet it went up against Leave it to Beaver, on which Randall played the Beav’s teacher? That’s a conflict of interest, certainly for Randall.

    • @gcfifthgear
      @gcfifthgear 2 місяці тому +5

      Gee, Wally, no wonder Miss Landers looked so worn out after last weekend...

  • @WilliamBeam-p5k
    @WilliamBeam-p5k 2 місяці тому +2

    I was only 5 in 1959 so i don't have any memories of these

    • @alpha-omega2362
      @alpha-omega2362 2 місяці тому +1

      doesn't matter...no body else has any memory of them either that's why they're called forgotten .... doesn't matter how old you are , lol.

  • @jimkreider9997
    @jimkreider9997 23 дні тому

    `1959 wasn't a very good year for some TV shows

  • @thomascefalo938
    @thomascefalo938 Місяць тому +1

    none of these were interesting to me