I watched _My Living Doll_ when I was a boy (I was seven when it came out); years later, I don't remember if it was the late 80s or early 90s, something made me think of the show, but as I remembered it, it has a different title-but now I can't remember that alternate title, and it isn't recorded in Wikipedia-I lived in Chicago; was it given an alternate title by the television station, perhaps? Or did I just remember wrong thirty or so years ago? I'd appreciate any observations. Great video!
@@dariusdaguerre3535 Thanks for watching! The only show that I can think of is Small Wonder from the 1980s. The premise of the show is similar, but the robot's name is Vicki and she's a kid that her family passes off as being their adopted daughter. That's the one I remember, but I'd be curious if there is another one that I'm forgetting.
I really enjoyed my living doll, Roda was very funny as a robot, and I remember Bob Cummings even further back with the Bob Cummings show when he was a photographer. Thank you for your presentation . 9:22
You did a great job of putting together forgotten short-lived tv shows. Because I was only 5 years old at the time, most of them I don't remember. Thank you for diving into our 1960s history.
I'm 75 and remember all of these. They're forgotten to those too young to have seen them at the time, or because they were not widely sindicated in subsequent years. Thanks for putting this together. Brings back memories.
@@yvonneplant9434 It did take off in the 70,'s, but actually began in the 50's, including shows that were produced specifically for syndication, like 'The Cisco Kid" and "The Adventures of Superman," as well as reruns of network produced series like "The Honeymooners." It became much more common after the FCC changed the prime time hours in 1971.
I am 72 now. I did, and still do to a certain extant, see bob cummings, bob crane, and gig young as one entity, kind of like all the tony franciosa look-alikes of that era. A certain "type" that various studio execs wanted their characters to look like. By the way, I did enjoy this presentation very much. Thanks, Pat, in Chicago
Yes, I think you're on to something! They all did have a certain look. I guess the studios had a type! Thanks so much for watching and for your kind words!
I disagree about the "type" thing. Bob Cummings and Gig Young already were well established movie actors when Crane and Franciosa were still in high school. Also, I don't think Crane looked even remotely like Franciosa, nor did he have the major movie credits Franciosa had amassed by that time, despite being the same age. In my view, Crane was a decent comedic actor, but not at all in the class of the other names mentioned.
@@leestamm3187 Actually, I meant the Tony Franciosa "type" reference not to the Crane/Young/Cummings "type, " but to the Tony Franciosa "type:" James Farentino, Tony Franciosa, James Franciscus, et al. Despite the many differences among any group of actors, TV series producers definitely have conversations about new shows that quite often (albeit not always) involve casting a certain "type," based on imitating some other already existing popular show. It is just basic show biz.
Dick Sargent (who was one of the few male characters on "Broadside") was in the running for the role of the original Darrin on "Bewitched" but was committed to "Broadside." (The world may never know how it would have worked with Sargent right from the start.) "Broadside" starred two other sitcom veterans: Kathleen (Kathy) Nolan, once of "The Real McCoys," and Sheila James (Kuehl), (Zelda Gilroy from "Dobie Gillis"). Most ironic, too, that Richard Crenna (also from "The Real McCoys") broke his comic mold with "Slattery's People."
I was 13 years old in "64" and a TV addict. So many shows failed that year, and to be honest half the shows I didn't even remember. Here's why. Some of the most successful shows in TV history, as well as highest rated were on in 1964, crashing the competition. Fifty years have passed but we all remember watching............ Bonanza, Bewitched, Gomer Pyle, Andy Griffith. Red Skelton, Dick Van Dyke, Beverly Hillbillies, the top 10 shows were all classic, and killed the other shows in their time slot.
"Slattery's People" didn't last, but it showed audiences that Richard Crenna could do serious roles. Prior to SP, he was known for comedy stuff like "Our Miss Brooks" and "The Real McCoys." His talent was evident in numerous subsequent movies, starting with a memorably brilliant performance in "The Sand Pebbles."
Unlike Jim Aubrey, CBS was willing to give "SLATTERY'S PEOPLE" a chance to prove its ratings impact for a second season. After moving it from Mondays to Fridays in January 1965, he planned to cancel the series and replace it with one from producer Herb Brodkin, 'CORONET BLUE". After Aubrey got the ax, his successor, Jack Schneider, "uncancelled" it, placing "CORONET BLUE" on "hold" [it wasn't telecast until the summer of 1967]. Unfortunately, "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E." on NBC got better ratings....and "SLATTERY'S PEOPLE" was finally cancelled in November 1965.
My Living Doll was a clever show that allowed Julie Newmar to use her talents as a dancer, piano player and singer, which nobody on the production staff was aware of till half way through the season. Also her serial number as a robot was 7 0 9, which carried on to Star Trek Voyager for Jeri Ryan's name as 7 of 9.
What I recall especially about this season came going into the autumn when new shows premiere and older ones start a new season. NBC ran a huge promo campaign for viewers to send a postcard to request the " STAR ALBUM. " When I received mine as a kid the big push was that NBC was the one network that used COLOR for most shows unlike CBS and ABC. They went to color 2 seasons later. NBC promoted the outdoors where Color really stood out. Shows like Bonanza and Flipper and Walt Disney's World of Color. Good times for a kid except that bedtime came to soon.
I saw those No time for Sargeants, Living Doll, and Broadside programs when they were new, but in the early 1960s Love that Bob and Oh, Susanna were already being shown in reruns. I liked December Bride too.
I was fourteen in 1964 and didn't watch any of these shows! We had a black and white TV and got two of the networks well enough but rarely got the local ABC channel. In a family of five kids my parents controlled the TV and so we watched what ever they wanted. My older sister got to watch Hullabaloo and Shindig and she loved Bonanza and the show about the cattle drives with Clint Eastwood. Saturday mornings I got to watch either Hop A Long Cassidy or the Roy Rogers show and some times missed both. Then it was outside in the barn doing my chores or working on a neighbor's farm.
Slattery's People was-alongside the American version of That Was the Week That Was-my favorite TV show that year. I also loved My Living Doll, The Rogues, and Wendy and Me, and I couldn't understand why they were cancelled so quickly.
Thank you for bringing these ancient shows back to light. I have heard of a few of these but even the rich pasture of syndication seems to just start at 1966. Anything before that is generally ignored even on today's "nostalgia channels." Interesting to see how some shows came and went while other plots, like Slattery's People are tried over and over again, with little success.
Of all these, the only one I recall from that year when I turned 6 is My Living Doll. And since it was about a beautiful woman, it was icky, in my way of thinking back then. ... In recent years, I did a blog piece on the great character actor Edward Andrews, who played commander Adrian in Broadside. I found the pilot episode on YT. I loved his performance (Edward is the finest character ever; I am fascinated with his work and his persona), but I didn't care for the plot overall in that episode.... Well, you have done excellent work on this vid, Space Age Rabbit. I look forward to part 2!
Thank you for your kind words! I got a chuckle out of you thinking Julie Newmar was icky! I know Edward Andrews has been in a million different things, but I remember him best as playing Molly Ringwald's grandpa in Sixteen Candles. I was a teenager when that movie came out in 1984 and I must have went to the theater a hundred times to watch that movie. I still love it to this day!
@@smilanesi98 Edward Andrews was in about three movies per year in the late '50s through the '60s. He could play a role that was in one or two scenes, then go to the next production.
Fun fact: No Time for Seargent's actually made it to syndication and was shown on Australian TV in the late 1960s with a single rerun in about 1973. It wasn't a bad show, but Jackson and his sidekick were no Jim Neighbours and Frank Sutton.
Mini Skirts really didn't show up until about 1967. The brief picture of a TV guide shows two Michigan stations WKZO Kalamazoo and my home town Lensing's WJIM which turned into WLNS sometime in the early 1990's I think.
That style of mini skirts often were seen in fashion magazines and on young singers and dancers as early as 1964, but didn't become more mainstream until the late 60's.
"NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS" was produced by George Burns for Warner Bros, Television-- and the reason he was involved was so that Connie Stevens, who was his co-star on "WENDY AND ME" that season, would be able to appear on his program, as she was still under contract to the studio. Both shows were scheduled back-to-back on ABC's Monday night schedule.......and both were cancelled, because "SERGEANTS" was opposite "THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW"- and "WENDY AND ME" faced competition from "THE LUCY SHOW".
I don't know how any show could complete with Andy Griffith or Lucille Ball! And maybe the public wasn't ready for Gracie like character that wasn't Gracie. Burns and Allen were such a great comedy team.
Meanwhile, on NBC, "THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW" not only competed against Lucy.....he was popular enough to be renewed for another season {under the full sponsorship of Kraft Foods}.
Just a couple yrs too young at 65 to remember most TV shows before 1965 which was also about the time our next door neighbors got a color tv, the first one on our block.
Talk about a trip down Memory Lane! I remember “My Living Doll”. I was young, so I didn’t know why Bob Cummings left; just that his costar, Jack Mullaney, became the new male lead. I liked “Broadside”. This is where I first saw Dick Sargent. “No Time for Sergeants” also featured silent-screen comedian Andy Clyde.
Yes I’m part of the old brigade at 74 and remember all of these shows, not that I had anything to say about what was on our one and only TV in the house. I hope part 2 highlights at least some of the shows that turned into hits in 1964. Bewitched and the Addams Family are the only ones that come to mind but I’m sure there were others.
I was 14-15 in 64 and even thought the names of some of these shows rigs a bell, I can honestly say I never watched so much as one episode of any of them. But then again, I really never watched much t.v. anyway. I had formed a local garage band (I played the drums) and all of our spare time was spent practicing.
"MY LIVING DOLL" was ordered by CBS' ruthless president, James T. Aubrey- who sometimes scheduled new programs for the fall schedule without formal pilot episodes. "MY LIVING DOLL" was one of them {from the producer of "MY FAVORITE MARTIAN"}. Aubrey believed the series would be a success on Sundays at 9pm(et)- opposite THE #1 program on Sundays at that hour, NBC's "BONANZA".Of course, the ratings nosedived, and Aubrey moved it to Wednesdays at 8pm(et) in December 1964- opposite "THE VIRGINIAN" on NBC, and "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW" on ABC. The big problem, however, was Bob Cummings- CBS practically forced him onto producer Jack Chertok, because the network "owed" Cummings a series under a previous agreement. Bob sometimes acted unprofessionally, often showing up late for filming, and tried to "teach" Julie Newmar how to act opposite him when the cameras rolled. Finally, in December 1964, Bob submitted a script that would have showcased the "foxy grandpa" character he previously portrayed on his own program in the 1950's. "Rhoda the robot" would only have been seen at the beginning and end of the episode, with Bob appearing as "Bob McDonald" and "Grandpa" during the majority of it. When Jack Chertok read the script, he called Bob in for a meeting. He reminded him that the series was titled "MY LIVING DOLL", and *not* "THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW".......and wouldn't accept ANY outside scripts submitted by him......and that Julie was Bob's co-star, and would not allow her to be pushed off-camera for almost an entire episode.....and would not allow Cummings to revive ANY characters from his previous series........and that he was tired of his being late on the set, and treating Julie as a "novice" actress. Bob's response was to walk out of Chertok's office, asking for his release from the show a short time later. Supporting co-star Jack Mullaney replaced Bob for the last five episodes....but the series was cancelled after 26 episodes- and so was James T. Aubrey, who was fired at the end of February 1965 for a variety of reasons- among them, ordering three programs from his old friend Keefe Brasselle ["Richelieu Productions"] without pilot episodes- "THE CARA WILLIAMS SHOW", "THE BAILEYS OF BALBOA" and "THE REPORTER"- and they were all cancelled because of mediocre ratings, which caused the network to investigate Aubrey's dealings with Brasselle.......and that was the tip of the iceberg which led to his dismissal from CBS.
Many years ago, I was shown a copy of the script Bob submitted (which would have been the 22nd episode filmed): "Grandpa Visits", by Ray Allen. In the story, Bob had to appear before a Senate committee at the same time "Grandpa McDonald" dropped by....and he fills in for Bob at the hearing. Rhoda {Julie} would have made a token appearance in the opening and closing scenes. Bob just wanted to have an episode all to himself. That was the "deal breaker", as far as producer Jack Chertok was concerned. As a result, Bob never starred in another series again.
Thanks. It is a shame because some of these shows could have done better with the right support and time slot. Julie Newmar is still a ❤ for many fans. Her talent was never fully utilized.
at 1:33 the dark haired woman is Sheila James Kuehl, better known for her role in Dobie Gillis. She later came out as a lesbian and was elected to the California state legislature, where she served as an LGBT rights activist.
She was supposed to appear in a "DOBIE GILLIS" spinoff, "ZELDA", in the 1962-'63 season. But Jim Aubrey, CBS' presdient, found out about her lesbian background, and privately insisted she would *NEVER* star on the network in her own series (he also didn't care for "DOBIE GILLIS", moving it to a less popular night in its final season, giving him a convenient excuse to cancel the show after four seasons).
James T. Aubrey often abused women. He would go out on dates, and sometimes beat them up. He was a monster- and it was because he abused the daughter of a CBS station owner [during a convention] at a wild party in Miami in February 1965 that daddy called Frank Stanton {the network's #2 executive in charge after founder Bill Paley} and insisted, "Either do something about this, or I'll blow the whistle!" It was shortly after that incident when Aubrey got the ax.
Never saw Broadside as a kid, but recognized Zelda from Dobie Gillis at 1:35 which I watched a lot of. BTW, my job while lying on the floor watching TV was to get up during commercials when my dad said, "See what else is on." I was the designated remote control since TVs didn't have them back then.
Slattery's People is the only one I vaguely remember. I don't remember hearing about the others, and I was 15 then. (I was probably more interested in the music shows.) I saw the film No Time for Sergeants in the theater with my Dad when I was a kid, but I didn't know there was a TV version.
It was a good series- but being opposite Ed Sullivan on CBS- and "BRANDED" on NBC- gave "BROADSIDE" little chance of being renewed for a second season. Several episodes are posted on UA-cam.
I was a fan of "Broadside" which aired on ABC at 8:30pm Eastern on Sunday nights, It was pitted against the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS and Bill Dana Show on NBC. Kathleen Nolan formerly played Kate McCoy on The Real McCoys. And Sheila James was Zelda Gilroy on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Veteran comedian Arnold Stang was chef Stanley Stubbs and there was Dick Sargent as Maxwell Trotter -- before his days on Bewitched. The actor I liked most from the show was Edward Andrews who played the arrogant Commander Adrian. He did several roles on film and tv where he showed his skill playing a range of characters that seemed either grandfatherly or sinister. He played a psychopath opposite Esther Williams in "The Unguarded Moment."
In reflection I absolutely love Edward Andrews. Just could never get into him playing a normal person role. He was so typcast to me as villian characters that were so predictable.
Our main TV was a big 19" black and white portable that was in our basement playroom. I wasn't aware of most of these shows because in our downstate Illinois town, we only received the local CBS affiliate. We didn't get a big rooftop antenna until sometime in 1967 to pull in ABC and NBC from other nearby towns. I did enjoy My Living Doll. I as fascinated with the idea of a robot as the main character of a show. When she complained that her computer couldn't deal with a particular social situation I asked my dad what a computer was. He explained that they're usually very large machines that do a lot of complicated calculations. I was fascinated with computers ever since. By the way, the Borg character on Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, was actually named after the character Julie Newmar played on this show. They called her "Rhoda" but her official designation was AF709.
I can remember my dad running out in the snow moving the outdoor antenna around and my mom telling me to yell out the window "STOP" when the channel came in. I love those silly old memories!
@@spaceagerabbit Ah, the days of "free" commercial over-the-air TV. It was my sixth birthday when the Beatles first performed on Ed Sullivan. My dad was cutting my hair at the time but I still got to watch.
I remember December Bride and liked it a lot as a pre-teen. Spin-off, "Pete and Gladys," starring Col Potter (Harry Morgan) and Cara Williams (massive crush!) Bob Cummings had a flying car. But, I haven't found any references to, "The Case of the Dangerous Robin," starring Rick Jason, pre-Combat!
"Tate" was a good 13 episode Summer replacement show that didn't get picked up for the fall schedule. The star was "Marlboro Man" David McClean, who predictably died of lung cancer.
Creator/producer David Swift originally produced "GRINDL" as a pilot starring Mary Grace Canfield {later "Ralph Monroe" on "GREEN ACRES"} in 1960, but nobody would buy it as a series {it was finally "burned off" on CBS' "THE COMEDY SPOT" in August 1962} Swift then reworked it for Imogene Coca in 1963, and sold it to NBC and sponsor Procter & Gamble. Opposite 'THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW", it lasted one season.
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Some of these shows,canceled or not ,I have some fond memories of 1964 I was entering teenage years ,my childhood was coming to an end ,but that was television when no satelite dishes no cable 10 channels to watch, but there was always something on Ahhh, those were the days my friend .
I remember Wendy & Me, Connie Stevens explains to George Burns she shouldn't have gotten a parking ticket because she did pay the meter. However, she folded up a dollar bill & inserted in the meter since she didn't have any change...
That's what Gracie would have done. Yes, "WENDY AND ME" *was* an updated version of "THE GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN SHOW" (using several of the same writers, and adapting a few episodes from the original program).
Richard also co-starred in "ALL'S FAIR" with Bernadette Peters in the 1976-'77 season......and "IT TAKES TWO", with Patty Duke (1982-'83)...........and "PROS AND CONS" (1991-'92), with James Earl Jones.
He originally appeared on "OUR MISS BROOKS" (1952-'56), in his radio role of teenage goofball "Walter Denton" {even though he was in his mid-20's when he started appearing on TV}.
Me, too. Good show. I think it was a case of being too good for mass audiences to appreciate. "Checkmate," a terrific 2 season show from several years before, had a similar problem.
That was stupid to cancel Living Doll. No one was there to watch Bob Cummings, they were there for Julie Newmarr. They could have replaced Bob cheaply, and had a hit show with less expense.
Yet he WAS "replaced" with co-star Jack Mullaney in February 1965. The problem was, the series was now opposite "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW" and "THE VIRGINIAN" {already established with viewers on Wednesday nights)- and they had only five more episodes to convince people to watch *them* before repeats of the Cummings episodes began. It was a losing battle.
@@fromthesidelines Oh, thank you for the backstory! I was about 5 years old...and I'm sure I switched to Patty Duke(and her cousin Cathy!) I always remember them singing "I'm Henry The Eighth I Am!"
I was just short of 2 when the '64-'65 season started. I'd never heard of any of these... and I'd be willing to bet my parents didn't watch any of these.
The only one of these that I remember is "Living Doll' with the smoking hot Julie Newmar. I read that Bob Cummings considered himself the star of the show, but Julie Newmar got all the attention. I do remember another long-forgotten show from 1966 though; it was called "Occasional Wife." A man's boss insists that all the men working for him be married, so the guy gets a girl in his apartment building to pretend to be his wife.
I remember hearing about most of these but didnt watch them. Its possible WE were watching something else when these came on. Most families back then were lucky to have one television and were probably watching shows like Bonanza or Andy Griffith. I remember my sister and I each week having to alternate shows that we wanted to watch Broadside was such a blatant rip off of McHales Navy even to a young me. Just never got into it.
Ironically, ABC was willing to renew "MICKEY" for a full season- despite being opposite "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW"- because of the popularity of Sammee Tong {viewers liked him}. But Mickey Rooney opened his big mouth, telling Sammee there was a good chance the show might be cancelled. That's what made Tong despondent, because he was counting on the money he was getting for being on the series to help pay off his gambling debts. After his suicide, the network saw no reason why the program should last longer than 17 episodes, cancelling it in January 1965 {and expanding "SHINDIG!" to a full hour).
I remembered Living Doll, but had never seen it, so bought a boxed DVD set last year - made it through 4 or 5 episodes before giving up. Julie Newmar is excellent, but it's not well written, the other actors aren't great and Bob Commings was either bored to death, jealous of his co-star or waiting to do something else.
I remember the commercials done with the products like Tang, Post cereals and Jello. I was a fan of the Andy Griffith show and enjoyed seeing No Time for Sergeants movie❣ Julie Newmar and I are alumnis from John Marshall High School. Never warmed up to the show My Living Doll but she made a great Cat woman in the Batman series and other shows like Bewitched and The Monkees TV show. Never liked Bob Cummings either. 🧐🤨😁
Don't remember Broadside. Do remember My Living Doll. Wasn't Bob Cummings in Love that Bob? Anything with George Burns is good. Didn't watch Slattery's People. Always liked John McGiver. He was also on Mr. Terrific.
You are correct! Bob Cummings played Bob Collins on Love that Bob. That's a good show. I've never heard of Mr. Terrific! I'll have to look online for that one.
Putting "MR. TERRIFIC" on the air was a story in itself, starting with Alan Young's original pilot in the spring of 1966, which CBS rejected- and a second pilot had to be filmed with virtually a different cast, background, and producer..........
I remember some of these shows. They were fun to watch. Some of the ones that were successful I couldn't stand. For example, I hate Hogan's Heroes. Gilligan's Island was also stupid. I still don't know why people watched them or why they are still shown as reruns.
Even though it was typical of old television, on Broadside, the women are supposed to be on a tropical island in the military yet they look like they were at the beauty salon every week. I know that the military tried to provide as many amenities as possible for the service men and women, but did they need to look glamorous during their military duties?
WKZO-WJIM listings, eh? The CBS affiliates I grew up with. It appears that there was an attempt to liven up Many Happy Returns by replacing the rich orchestrations of David Rose's theme to a jazzier arrangement by Pete Ruggolo. Wasn't bad. ua-cam.com/video/M3y2yPxTHFI/v-deo.html
There was a major disagreement between creator/producer Parke Levy, CBS, and sponsor General Foods over the direction of the series. Levy decided to end production after 26 episodes.....and never produced another TV series. General Foods decided not to sponsor repeats during the spring and summer of 1965, replacing it with repeats of "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW" for the balance of the season.
@@fromthesidelines Thank you for the fascinating behind-the-scenes story. Parke had quite the career, as I also remember December Bride and Pete & Gladys. Whether the "Returns" soured him on dealing with nets and sponsors, or the network closed their doors to him, it's a shame that he didn't get a chance to get a few more concepts on the air. Best wishes and thanks again.
my parents loved The Rouges , but never let us kids watch it. I have always wondered whether it was past our bedtimes or because of the content...after all, wasn't it glamorizing a bunch of con artists.?
Broadside fooled because Dick Sargeant who was gay could never play it straight like the legendary actor Rock Hudson! Kathleen Nolan became president of the Screen Actors Guild and Sheila Kuehi who plsyed it straight successfully became a California legislator and homogeneous rights activist!
Part Two will be out in a couple of days. So make sure to check back!
I watched _My Living Doll_ when I was a boy (I was seven when it came out); years later, I don't remember if it was the late 80s or early 90s, something made me think of the show, but as I remembered it, it has a different title-but now I can't remember that alternate title, and it isn't recorded in Wikipedia-I lived in Chicago; was it given an alternate title by the television station, perhaps? Or did I just remember wrong thirty or so years ago? I'd appreciate any observations. Great video!
@@dariusdaguerre3535 Thanks for watching! The only show that I can think of is Small Wonder from the 1980s. The premise of the show is similar, but the robot's name is Vicki and she's a kid that her family passes off as being their adopted daughter. That's the one I remember, but I'd be curious if there is another one that I'm forgetting.
Howard Leeds, who produced "MY LIVING DOLL" for Jack Chertok, also produced "SMALL WONDER".
Most forgotten but instantly remembered! Thanks.
I really enjoyed my living doll, Roda was very funny as a robot, and I remember Bob Cummings even further back with the Bob Cummings show when he was a photographer. Thank you for your presentation . 9:22
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Me too!❤
You did a great job of putting together forgotten short-lived tv shows. Because I was only 5 years old at the time, most of them I don't remember. Thank you for diving into our 1960s history.
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I'm 75 and remember all of these. They're forgotten to those too young to have seen them at the time, or because they were not widely sindicated in subsequent years. Thanks for putting this together. Brings back memories.
They rarely syndicate or distribute reruns of TV shows that only ran 1 year or less, exceptions being shows like Jackie Gleason's "Honeymooners."
@@thomastimlin1724 True enough, though several of these had brief syndication runs during the first few years closely following their cancellation.
Syndication didn't really happen until the 70s. You probably know that.
@@yvonneplant9434 It did take off in the 70,'s, but actually began in the 50's, including shows that were produced specifically for syndication, like 'The Cisco Kid" and "The Adventures of Superman," as well as reruns of network produced series like "The Honeymooners." It became much more common after the FCC changed the prime time hours in 1971.
@@leestamm3187 Most syndicated shows need 100 episodes. That's why they celebrate reaching 100 episodes.
I am 72 now. I did, and still do to a certain extant, see bob cummings, bob crane, and gig young as one entity, kind of like all the tony franciosa look-alikes of that era. A certain "type" that various studio execs wanted their characters to look like. By the way, I did enjoy this presentation very much. Thanks,
Pat, in Chicago
Yes, I think you're on to something! They all did have a certain look. I guess the studios had a type! Thanks so much for watching and for your kind words!
I disagree about the "type" thing. Bob Cummings and Gig Young already were well established movie actors when Crane and Franciosa were still in high school. Also, I don't think Crane looked even remotely like Franciosa, nor did he have the major movie credits Franciosa had amassed by that time, despite being the same age. In my view, Crane was a decent comedic actor, but not at all in the class of the other names mentioned.
@@leestamm3187 Actually, I meant the Tony Franciosa "type" reference not to the Crane/Young/Cummings "type, " but to the Tony Franciosa "type:" James Farentino, Tony Franciosa, James Franciscus, et al.
Despite the many differences among any group of actors, TV series producers definitely have conversations about new shows that quite often (albeit not always) involve casting a certain "type," based on imitating some other already existing popular show. It is just basic show biz.
@@patrickf.4440 Okey dokey.
72 also. Just as an aside, Cummings and Franciosa were great actors evidenced by Kings Row and A Face in the Crowd.
Dick Sargent (who was one of the few male characters on "Broadside") was in the running for the role of the original Darrin on "Bewitched" but was committed to "Broadside." (The world may never know how it would have worked with Sargent right from the start.) "Broadside" starred two other sitcom veterans: Kathleen (Kathy) Nolan, once of "The Real McCoys," and Sheila James (Kuehl), (Zelda Gilroy from "Dobie Gillis"). Most ironic, too, that Richard Crenna (also from "The Real McCoys") broke his comic mold with "Slattery's People."
I was 13 years old in "64" and a TV addict. So many shows failed that year, and to be honest half the shows I didn't even remember. Here's why. Some of the most successful shows in TV history, as well as highest rated were on in 1964, crashing the competition. Fifty years have passed but we all remember watching............ Bonanza, Bewitched, Gomer Pyle, Andy Griffith. Red Skelton, Dick Van Dyke, Beverly Hillbillies, the top 10 shows were all classic, and killed the other shows in their time slot.
There is no such word as " mischievous". The word is " mischievous".
Reverse what I just wrote.
I remember all these shows. There were some shows I didnt watch but remember the opening scene. I still remember Slattery's People. Well done.
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"Slattery's People" didn't last, but it showed audiences that Richard Crenna could do serious roles. Prior to SP, he was known for comedy stuff like "Our Miss Brooks" and "The Real McCoys." His talent was evident in numerous subsequent movies, starting with a memorably brilliant performance in "The Sand Pebbles."
Unlike Jim Aubrey, CBS was willing to give "SLATTERY'S PEOPLE" a chance to prove its ratings impact for a second season. After moving it from Mondays to Fridays in January 1965, he planned to cancel the series and replace it with one from producer Herb Brodkin, 'CORONET BLUE". After Aubrey got the ax, his successor, Jack Schneider, "uncancelled" it, placing "CORONET BLUE" on "hold" [it wasn't telecast until the summer of 1967]. Unfortunately, "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E." on NBC got better ratings....and "SLATTERY'S PEOPLE" was finally cancelled in November 1965.
My Living Doll was a clever show that allowed Julie Newmar to use her talents as a dancer, piano player and singer, which nobody on the production staff was aware of till half way through the season. Also her serial number as a robot was 7 0 9, which carried on to Star Trek Voyager for Jeri Ryan's name as 7 of 9.
Nice presentation. I also like your attention to detail. I was 6 in 1964
Thank you for the kind words! And thank you so much for watching!
Good choices. Definitely forgot about these shows.
What I recall especially about this season came going into the autumn when new shows premiere and older ones start a new season. NBC ran a huge promo campaign for viewers to send a postcard to request the " STAR ALBUM. " When I received mine as a kid the big push was that NBC was the one network that used COLOR for most shows unlike CBS and ABC. They went to color 2 seasons later. NBC promoted the outdoors where Color really stood out. Shows like Bonanza and Flipper and Walt Disney's World of Color. Good times for a kid except that bedtime came to soon.
I remember 'No Time for Sergeants.' Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
Go Stockdale!
I saw those No time for Sargeants, Living Doll, and Broadside programs when they were
new, but in the early 1960s Love that Bob and Oh, Susanna were already being shown in
reruns. I liked December Bride too.
Very well done! I clearly remember not watching any of these shows!
Broadside - that’s Sheila James, Zelda from Dobie Gillis, in the cast!
With Maynard G. Krebbs
She is an amazing human!
Love Part 1!! Can't wait to see Part 2!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I just put up part 2 🙂 And thank you so much for watching!
Great Video!!! Love your voice.
Thank you for the kind words! 🙂 And thanks so much for watching!
I was fourteen in 1964 and didn't watch any of these shows! We had a black and white TV and got two of the networks well enough but rarely got the local ABC channel. In a family of five kids my parents controlled the TV and so we watched what ever they wanted. My older sister got to watch Hullabaloo and Shindig and she loved Bonanza and the show about the cattle drives with Clint Eastwood. Saturday mornings I got to watch either Hop A Long Cassidy or the Roy Rogers show and some times missed both. Then it was outside in the barn doing my chores or working on a neighbor's farm.
You do such a good job. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words 🙂 and thank you for watching!
Slattery's People was-alongside the American version of That Was the Week That Was-my favorite TV show that year. I also loved My Living Doll, The Rogues, and Wendy and Me, and I couldn't understand why they were cancelled so quickly.
I love how the women in the WAVES during World War II in the 1940s have ultra mid-1960s makeup and hairstyles.
Thank you for bringing these ancient shows back to light. I have heard of a few of these but even the rich pasture of syndication seems to just start at 1966. Anything before that is generally ignored even on today's "nostalgia channels." Interesting to see how some shows came and went while other plots, like Slattery's People are tried over and over again, with little success.
Love the intervening commercial snippets. 😁
Of all these, the only one I recall from that year when I turned 6 is My Living Doll. And since it was about a beautiful woman, it was icky, in my way of thinking back then. ... In recent years, I did a blog piece on the great character actor Edward Andrews, who played commander Adrian in Broadside. I found the pilot episode on YT. I loved his performance (Edward is the finest character ever; I am fascinated with his work and his persona), but I didn't care for the plot overall in that episode.... Well, you have done excellent work on this vid, Space Age Rabbit. I look forward to part 2!
Thank you for your kind words! I got a chuckle out of you thinking Julie Newmar was icky! I know Edward Andrews has been in a million different things, but I remember him best as playing Molly Ringwald's grandpa in Sixteen Candles. I was a teenager when that movie came out in 1984 and I must have went to the theater a hundred times to watch that movie. I still love it to this day!
@@spaceagerabbitEd did several Twilight Zones, Untouchables, and a movie with Jack Lemmon...Good Neighbor Sam
@@smilanesi98 Edward Andrews was in about three movies per year in the late '50s through the '60s. He could play a role that was in one or two scenes, then go to the next production.
Fun fact: No Time for Seargent's actually made it to syndication and was shown on Australian TV in the late 1960s with a single rerun in about 1973.
It wasn't a bad show, but Jackson and his sidekick were no Jim Neighbours and Frank Sutton.
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Mini Skirts really didn't show up until about 1967. The brief picture of a TV guide shows two Michigan stations WKZO Kalamazoo and my home town Lensing's WJIM which turned into WLNS sometime in the early 1990's I think.
That style of mini skirts often were seen in fashion magazines and on young singers and dancers as early as 1964, but didn't become more mainstream until the late 60's.
This was an excellent video. I have subscribed to the channel.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it and subscribed 🙂
"NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS" was produced by George Burns for Warner Bros, Television-- and the reason he was involved was so that Connie Stevens, who was his co-star on "WENDY AND ME" that season, would be able to appear on his program, as she was still under contract to the studio. Both shows were scheduled back-to-back on ABC's Monday night schedule.......and both were cancelled, because "SERGEANTS" was opposite "THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW"- and "WENDY AND ME" faced competition from "THE LUCY SHOW".
I don't know how any show could complete with Andy Griffith or Lucille Ball! And maybe the public wasn't ready for Gracie like character that wasn't Gracie. Burns and Allen were such a great comedy team.
Meanwhile, on NBC, "THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW" not only competed against Lucy.....he was popular enough to be renewed for another season {under the full sponsorship of Kraft Foods}.
Just a couple yrs too young at 65 to remember most TV shows before 1965 which was also about the time our next door neighbors got a color tv, the first one on our block.
I was nine back then and we watched "No Time for Sergeants", but none of the others that I remember.
Talk about a trip down Memory Lane! I remember “My Living Doll”. I was young, so I didn’t know why Bob Cummings left; just that his costar, Jack Mullaney, became the new male lead. I liked “Broadside”. This is where I first saw Dick Sargent. “No Time for Sergeants” also featured silent-screen comedian Andy Clyde.
Yes I’m part of the old brigade at 74 and remember all of these shows, not that I had anything to say about what was on our one and only TV in the house. I hope part 2 highlights at least some of the shows that turned into hits in 1964. Bewitched and the Addams Family are the only ones that come to mind but I’m sure there were others.
I was 14-15 in 64 and even thought the names of some of these shows rigs a bell, I can honestly say I never watched so much as one episode of any of them. But then again, I really never watched much t.v. anyway. I had formed a local garage band (I played the drums) and all of our spare time was spent practicing.
I was eight years old. I just remember No Time For Sargents.
"MY LIVING DOLL" was ordered by CBS' ruthless president, James T. Aubrey- who sometimes scheduled new programs for the fall schedule without formal pilot episodes. "MY LIVING DOLL" was one of them {from the producer of "MY FAVORITE MARTIAN"}. Aubrey believed the series would be a success on Sundays at 9pm(et)- opposite THE #1 program on Sundays at that hour, NBC's "BONANZA".Of course, the ratings nosedived, and Aubrey moved it to Wednesdays at 8pm(et) in December 1964- opposite "THE VIRGINIAN" on NBC, and "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW" on ABC. The big problem, however, was Bob Cummings- CBS practically forced him onto producer Jack Chertok, because the network "owed" Cummings a series under a previous agreement. Bob sometimes acted unprofessionally, often showing up late for filming, and tried to "teach" Julie Newmar how to act opposite him when the cameras rolled. Finally, in December 1964, Bob submitted a script that would have showcased the "foxy grandpa" character he previously portrayed on his own program in the 1950's. "Rhoda the robot" would only have been seen at the beginning and end of the episode, with Bob appearing as "Bob McDonald" and "Grandpa" during the majority of it. When Jack Chertok read the script, he called Bob in for a meeting. He reminded him that the series was titled "MY LIVING DOLL", and *not* "THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW".......and wouldn't accept ANY outside scripts submitted by him......and that Julie was Bob's co-star, and would not allow her to be pushed off-camera for almost an entire episode.....and would not allow Cummings to revive ANY characters from his previous series........and that he was tired of his being late on the set, and treating Julie as a "novice" actress. Bob's response was to walk out of Chertok's office, asking for his release from the show a short time later. Supporting co-star Jack Mullaney replaced Bob for the last five episodes....but the series was cancelled after 26 episodes- and so was James T. Aubrey, who was fired at the end of February 1965 for a variety of reasons- among them, ordering three programs from his old friend Keefe Brasselle ["Richelieu Productions"] without pilot episodes- "THE CARA WILLIAMS SHOW", "THE BAILEYS OF BALBOA" and "THE REPORTER"- and they were all cancelled because of mediocre ratings, which caused the network to investigate Aubrey's dealings with Brasselle.......and that was the tip of the iceberg which led to his dismissal from CBS.
Yikes! Sounds like the show was doomed from the start!
Many years ago, I was shown a copy of the script Bob submitted (which would have been the 22nd episode filmed): "Grandpa Visits", by Ray Allen. In the story, Bob had to appear before a Senate committee at the same time "Grandpa McDonald" dropped by....and he fills in for Bob at the hearing. Rhoda {Julie} would have made a token appearance in the opening and closing scenes. Bob just wanted to have an episode all to himself. That was the "deal breaker", as far as producer Jack Chertok was concerned. As a result, Bob never starred in another series again.
Thanks. It is a shame because some of these shows could have done better with the right support and time slot. Julie Newmar is still a ❤ for many fans. Her talent was never fully utilized.
You're welcome.
at 1:33 the dark haired woman is Sheila James Kuehl, better known for her role in Dobie Gillis. She later came out as a lesbian and was elected to the California state legislature, where she served as an LGBT rights activist.
Yes! Great catch! I can always picture her wrinkling her nose at Dobie!
How sad.
She was supposed to appear in a "DOBIE GILLIS" spinoff, "ZELDA", in the 1962-'63 season. But Jim Aubrey, CBS' presdient, found out about her lesbian background, and privately insisted she would *NEVER* star on the network in her own series (he also didn't care for "DOBIE GILLIS", moving it to a less popular night in its final season, giving him a convenient excuse to cancel the show after four seasons).
@@fromthesidelines Interesting to learn of this homophobic discrimination. Maybe that's why she has been such a rights leader.
James T. Aubrey often abused women. He would go out on dates, and sometimes beat them up. He was a monster- and it was because he abused the daughter of a CBS station owner [during a convention] at a wild party in Miami in February 1965 that daddy called Frank Stanton {the network's #2 executive in charge after founder Bill Paley} and insisted, "Either do something about this, or I'll blow the whistle!" It was shortly after that incident when Aubrey got the ax.
No telling how many shows didn't make it over the last 70 years.
This is great 😊😊
Thank you for watching 🙂
Never saw Broadside as a kid, but recognized Zelda from Dobie Gillis at 1:35 which I watched a lot of. BTW, my job while lying on the floor watching TV was to get up during commercials when my dad said, "See what else is on." I was the designated remote control since TVs didn't have them back then.
Slattery's People is the only one I vaguely remember. I don't remember hearing about the others, and I was 15 then. (I was probably more interested in the music shows.) I saw the film No Time for Sergeants in the theater with my Dad when I was a kid, but I didn't know there was a TV version.
Good job!
Thank you for watching 🙂
Wow! Was that Sammy Tong, (Bachelor Father’s Peter) with Mickey? It was.
Broadside looks like it was/would have been good to watch 😊
It was a good series- but being opposite Ed Sullivan on CBS- and "BRANDED" on NBC- gave "BROADSIDE" little chance of being renewed for a second season. Several episodes are posted on UA-cam.
I was a fan of "Broadside" which aired on ABC at 8:30pm Eastern on Sunday nights, It was pitted against the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS and Bill Dana Show on NBC. Kathleen Nolan formerly played Kate McCoy on The Real McCoys. And Sheila James was Zelda Gilroy on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Veteran comedian Arnold Stang was chef Stanley Stubbs and there was Dick Sargent as Maxwell Trotter -- before his days on Bewitched.
The actor I liked most from the show was Edward Andrews who played the arrogant Commander Adrian. He did several roles on film and tv where he showed his skill playing a range of characters that seemed either grandfatherly or sinister. He played a psychopath opposite Esther Williams in "The Unguarded Moment."
In reflection I absolutely love Edward Andrews. Just could never get into him playing a normal person role.
He was so typcast to me as villian characters that were so predictable.
I love the vintage commercials.
Our main TV was a big 19" black and white portable that was in our basement playroom.
I wasn't aware of most of these shows because in our downstate Illinois town, we only received the local CBS affiliate.
We didn't get a big rooftop antenna until sometime in 1967 to pull in ABC and NBC from other nearby towns.
I did enjoy My Living Doll. I as fascinated with the idea of a robot as the main character of a show.
When she complained that her computer couldn't deal with a particular social situation I asked my dad what a computer was. He explained that they're usually very large machines that do a lot of complicated calculations.
I was fascinated with computers ever since.
By the way, the Borg character on Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, was actually named after the character Julie Newmar played on this show. They called her "Rhoda" but her official designation was AF709.
I can remember my dad running out in the snow moving the outdoor antenna around and my mom telling me to yell out the window "STOP" when the channel came in. I love those silly old memories!
@@spaceagerabbit Ah, the days of "free" commercial over-the-air TV.
It was my sixth birthday when the Beatles first performed on Ed Sullivan. My dad was cutting my hair at the time but I still got to watch.
i have seen a lot of tv in my seven decades and these were never shown in reruns...
I was selling newspapers and hiking all day and some nights.
I lived my teen years to the hilt!
I remember December Bride and liked it a lot as a pre-teen. Spin-off, "Pete and Gladys," starring Col Potter (Harry Morgan) and Cara Williams (massive crush!) Bob Cummings had a flying car. But, I haven't found any references to, "The Case of the Dangerous Robin," starring Rick Jason, pre-Combat!
Never understood The Rogues cancellation.. Also starred one of Hollywood's greatest actresses, Gladys Cooper!!!
I only watched a few of these but of the ones that we did watch, the Rogues was a favourite.
My grandma always has Tang
Sammy Jackson was Roy Orbison's co-star in "The Fastest Guitar Alive," the Big O's only starring role in a movie.
I was going to mention Tate a western about gunslinger who's are was paralyzed during the Civil War, but came out in 1960.
"Tate" was a good 13 episode Summer replacement show that didn't get picked up for the fall schedule. The star was "Marlboro Man" David McClean, who predictably died of lung cancer.
I loved The Rogues. Still watch if I can find it
Grindl starring Imogene Coca.
Creator/producer David Swift originally produced "GRINDL" as a pilot starring Mary Grace Canfield {later "Ralph Monroe" on "GREEN ACRES"} in 1960, but nobody would buy it as a series {it was finally "burned off" on CBS' "THE COMEDY SPOT" in August 1962} Swift then reworked it for Imogene Coca in 1963, and sold it to NBC and sponsor Procter & Gamble. Opposite 'THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW", it lasted one season.
Some of these shows,canceled or not ,I have some fond memories of 1964 I was entering teenage years ,my childhood was coming to an end ,but that was television when no satelite dishes no cable 10 channels to watch, but there was always something on Ahhh, those were the days my friend .
I used to watch Wendy and Me as I always liked George Burns, have one of the episodes on 16mm film.
I thought that was Emmaline Henry on "Mickey". She was great on Jeannie. Always like Katheen Nolan on Broadside.
Emaline Henry was also good in the funny, but short-lived "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster," with John Austin and Marty Ingels.
I was only a year old when these shows came out, so I have no recollection of them and most likely my family did not watch them either.
I remember Wendy & Me, Connie Stevens explains to George Burns she shouldn't have gotten a parking ticket because she did pay the meter. However, she folded up a dollar bill & inserted in the meter since she didn't have any change...
That's great! I can picture George Burns just starring at her after she tells him her parking ticket story 😂
It was opposite The Lucy Show it didn't have a chance.
That's what Gracie would have done. Yes, "WENDY AND ME" *was* an updated version of "THE GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN SHOW" (using several of the same writers, and adapting a few episodes from the original program).
In one episode, Wendy is in Italy and orders a California wine at a cafe because her husband says all the best wines are imported.
Correction: the star of Many Happy Returns pronounced it "Mac-GUY-ver".
How many tv shows was Richard Crenna in? The first, I think, was The Real McCoys.
Also Movies? Rambo was one.
Richard also co-starred in "ALL'S FAIR" with Bernadette Peters in the 1976-'77 season......and "IT TAKES TWO", with Patty Duke (1982-'83)...........and "PROS AND CONS" (1991-'92), with James Earl Jones.
@@fromthesidelines thanks, I didn't know any of those.
I did.
He originally appeared on "OUR MISS BROOKS" (1952-'56), in his radio role of teenage goofball "Walter Denton" {even though he was in his mid-20's when he started appearing on TV}.
Also with Julie Andrews in Star.
I saw the movie no Time for sergeants. I didn’t know he became a TV show.
I watched part one and two and the only ones I remember as a 10yo are No Time for Sergeants and My Living Doll.
Missed this Year had joined the Army have no Idea it happened.
Thank you for your service ❤️
I remember the Rogues.
Me, too. Good show. I think it was a case of being too good for mass audiences to appreciate. "Checkmate," a terrific 2 season show from several years before, had a similar problem.
What I find interesting about these, is that many were sponsored by singular products.
Did you know? Mickey Rooney was the first choice to play Archie Bunker in All in the Family.
I did not know that! I can't imagine anyone in that role except Carroll O'Conner. That would make a good trivia question.
@@spaceagerabbit CBS also wanted Penny Marshall to play Gloria. She was Rob Reiner's wife at the time.
That was stupid to cancel Living Doll. No one was there to watch Bob Cummings, they were there for Julie Newmarr.
They could have replaced Bob cheaply, and had a hit show with less expense.
Definitely ❤
Yet he WAS "replaced" with co-star Jack Mullaney in February 1965. The problem was, the series was now opposite "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW" and "THE VIRGINIAN" {already established with viewers on Wednesday nights)- and they had only five more episodes to convince people to watch *them* before repeats of the Cummings episodes began. It was a losing battle.
@@fromthesidelines Oh, thank you for the backstory! I was about 5 years old...and I'm sure I switched to Patty Duke(and her cousin Cathy!) I always remember them singing "I'm Henry The Eighth I Am!"
New subscriber & I remember these lol😂
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I was just short of 2 when the '64-'65 season started. I'd never heard of any of these... and I'd be willing to bet my parents didn't watch any of these.
The only one of these that I remember is "Living Doll' with the smoking hot Julie Newmar. I read that Bob Cummings considered himself the star of the show, but Julie Newmar got all the attention. I do remember another long-forgotten show from 1966 though; it was called "Occasional Wife." A man's boss insists that all the men working for him be married, so the guy gets a girl in his apartment building to pretend to be his wife.
I was surprised to see Zelda from the Dobie Gillis show on Broadside...Shiela ???
Remind folks that people didn't always have more than 1 television set once upon a time!
That's true! Ratings may have been different with multiple TVs in the house.
I remember hearing about most of these but didnt watch them. Its possible WE were watching something else when these came on.
Most families back then were lucky to have one television and were probably watching shows like Bonanza or Andy Griffith. I remember my sister and I each week having to alternate shows that we wanted to watch
Broadside was such a blatant rip off of McHales Navy even to a young me. Just never got into it.
Ironically, ABC was willing to renew "MICKEY" for a full season- despite being opposite "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW"- because of the popularity of Sammee Tong {viewers liked him}. But Mickey Rooney opened his big mouth, telling Sammee there was a good chance the show might be cancelled. That's what made Tong despondent, because he was counting on the money he was getting for being on the series to help pay off his gambling debts. After his suicide, the network saw no reason why the program should last longer than 17 episodes, cancelling it in January 1965 {and expanding "SHINDIG!" to a full hour).
That's such a sad story!
And a tragic one. 😥
I remembered Living Doll, but had never seen it, so bought a boxed DVD set last year - made it through 4 or 5 episodes before giving up. Julie Newmar is excellent, but it's not well written, the other actors aren't great and Bob Commings was either bored to death, jealous of his co-star or waiting to do something else.
Aren't "zany antics" too often a harbinger of failure?
Well imagine the girls of Broadside being captured by Yamamoto & his Japanese?
I remember the commercials done with the products like Tang, Post cereals and Jello. I was a fan of the Andy Griffith show and enjoyed seeing No Time for Sergeants movie❣ Julie Newmar and I are alumnis from John Marshall High School. Never warmed up to the show My Living Doll but she made a great Cat woman in the Batman series and other shows like Bewitched and The Monkees TV show. Never liked Bob Cummings either. 🧐🤨😁
I remember the shows from the 50s
Don't remember Broadside. Do remember My Living Doll. Wasn't Bob Cummings in Love that Bob? Anything with George Burns is good. Didn't watch Slattery's People. Always liked John McGiver. He was also on Mr. Terrific.
You are correct! Bob Cummings played Bob Collins on Love that Bob. That's a good show. I've never heard of Mr. Terrific! I'll have to look online for that one.
Putting "MR. TERRIFIC" on the air was a story in itself, starting with Alan Young's original pilot in the spring of 1966, which CBS rejected- and a second pilot had to be filmed with virtually a different cast, background, and producer..........
"BROADSIDE" was a semi-spinoff of "McHALE'S NAVY" (as Kathy Nolan appeared in an episode), from tne same producer [Edward J. Montagne].
I remember some of these shows. They were fun to watch. Some of the ones that were successful I couldn't stand. For example, I hate Hogan's Heroes. Gilligan's Island was also stupid. I still don't know why people watched them or why they are still shown as reruns.
I'm pretty sure that John McGiver's last name is pronounced "McGYVER". Of course, I may have been mispronouncing it myself all these years.
Honestly, you're probably right! I'm pretty good at messing up names 🙂
Wow 🎶Thanks for the memory’s🎶 in my Bob Hope voice 😎
Even though it was typical of old television, on Broadside, the women are supposed to be on a tropical island in the military yet they look like they were at the beauty salon every week. I know that the military tried to provide as many amenities as possible for the service men and women, but did they need to look glamorous during their military duties?
Slattery's People set the stage for the issues-oriented shows of the 1970s and 80s such as Lou Grant and LA Law. One of my favorites from that era
WKZO-WJIM listings, eh? The CBS affiliates I grew up with. It appears that there was an attempt to liven up Many Happy Returns by replacing the rich orchestrations of David Rose's theme to a jazzier arrangement by Pete Ruggolo. Wasn't bad. ua-cam.com/video/M3y2yPxTHFI/v-deo.html
There was a major disagreement between creator/producer Parke Levy, CBS, and sponsor General Foods over the direction of the series. Levy decided to end production after 26 episodes.....and never produced another TV series. General Foods decided not to sponsor repeats during the spring and summer of 1965, replacing it with repeats of "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW" for the balance of the season.
@@fromthesidelines Thank you for the fascinating behind-the-scenes story. Parke had quite the career, as I also remember December Bride and Pete & Gladys. Whether the "Returns" soured him on dealing with nets and sponsors, or the network closed their doors to him, it's a shame that he didn't get a chance to get a few more concepts on the air. Best wishes and thanks again.
You're welcome.......and thank *you!*
I was only 5 years old then and so none of these programs ring a bell. I do much better with 1965+
i can see why they were forgotten ffs
My Living Doll - chaos, yes, comedy no. Mercifully CBS pulled the plug.
Calls ‘em like I sees’em. Sorry.
my parents loved The Rouges , but never let us kids watch it. I have always wondered whether it was past our bedtimes or because of the content...after all, wasn't it glamorizing a bunch of con artists.?
Las olvidé
Television seems to be a cut throat business
Broadside fooled because Dick Sargeant who was gay could never play it straight like the legendary actor Rock Hudson! Kathleen Nolan became president of the Screen Actors Guild and Sheila Kuehi who plsyed it straight successfully became a California legislator and homogeneous rights activist!
No Time for Sergeants was just junk!
I was 10 years old in 1964 Of all the shows featured the only 1 I watched was My Living Doll.
Oh, call it misogyny. Media (& culture) still won't support females w/personality.