I was 10 years old this television season. What a treasure trove of memories this brings back! 50 years later I still remember every word to every theme song! Thanks for the memories!
Telling my age, but I remember ALL of these shows and watched them religiously with my parents. My favorite was “I Dream Of Jeannie”. Can you guess why? She was GORGEOUS!!!
Ah yes! When TV was worth watching! You had a wide variety of shows to watch back then. Unfortunately, today's prime time TV shows are nothing but trash!
@@lawyers9: Oh absolutely! I'm in a nursing facility, and my roommate had on this BET program where the curse words weren't even censored! Except for The Amazing Race, I don't watch prime time TV today. These shows today definitely don't appeal to me at all!
That was season 2 when he hit her plus how many women trying to kill west sad no to his advances but he kiss them anyway not very woke was he ah! The good old days.may they never return 2023 ain't worth it.
:) Remember when a 25" TV seemed HYOOGE?. I have a 20 year old 27" Trinitron. "The Kids" make fun of it....except the retro console gamers. They want to pay me "dozens of dollars" to "take it off my hands"
Great choices, as always. My favorites: Trials of O'brien with Peter Falk, Run For Your LIfe with Ben Gazzara, Secret Agent with Patrick McGoohan, Slattery's People with Richard Crenna, The Long, Hot Summer with Roy Thinnes, and Kraft Suspense Theatre.
Same here. It's funny to think of a time when Gilligan's Island or Batman were prime-time and not the shows you watched after school while NOT-doing your homework.
In 1966- second season of I dream of Jeannie and the Wild Wild West have color In 1967 - Ironside debut on television In 1968- Hawaii Five O debut on television In 1969- the Brady bunch debut on television In 1970- the Mary Tyler Moore show debut on television
It just struck me that I watched every one of these shows during their original run. I didn't realize that there were this many color shows on that year. My mother wouldn't allow a color TV in the house for another twenty years (long after I was gone)
@Leigh Chapman Make sure you're well seated so you don't fall off. She was sure that toilet bowl cleaner commercials would be so graphic that she'd be constantly sick. Black and white Ty D Bowl man was fine. Just no color for her.
To BINKERD just read your comment of your MOM and she did,nt allow for the COLOR TV!!! And my uncle had the newest 1960 COLOR TV and it had knobs for blue/green/red tint controls plus:lavender/pink/yellow!!!! Very rare TV and still working but with a darker picture in 1989!!!! The products manufactured back then were outstanding!!! I remember SWANSON TV DINNERS for a fast easy meal:warm em up and eat in front of the TV!! The SWANSON COLOR TV DINNERS were pretty full but the SWANSON BLACK AND WHITE TV DINNERS did not include the FUDGE BROWNIE in the middle of the tray!! But they cost 45 cents less so you get what you pay for!!! Reuse the trays to make muffins/pancake pattys!!! or for mixing paints!!! and THANKS for your comment BINKERD*****
We were among the first in my town to have a color TV. True story: We had an Irishwoman come in once a week to clean house. She said she didn't want color TV because she didn't want to watch "colored people" on TV!
Same here. It was 1976 when we got our first colour television. It was my dad who was against them in our house. He really thought colour tvs emitted some kind of rays that were harmful to your health.
we got our frst color tv for $600 in 66. a 23 inch setchel carlson. six weeks pay for my dad. he worked alot of ot. our lat tv was a bw 12 inch portible it was stolen in a burglary
Even back then, I thought most of these shows were from Squaresville, with a few notable exceptions: The Man From UNCLE, Green Acres and especially Get Smart, and, of course, Batman.
It is interesting to note that out of the top 30 excluding variety game and the disney show. Every episode is currently available on dvd for this season except for lassie and my three sons.
I was an 8-year-old third grader back then. (That's right! I was born in 1957.) However, I didn't become a Green Acres fan until the Molly Turgiss episode, and I have been a huge fan of the show ever since!)
I was 4 when this season started and yet I remember when these shows were on first run network tv. Memories of a bygone era that will never come again. Back then it didn't matter if the shows were in color or not, because my folks would only spring for a b/w set as color sets were expensive.
What's crazy is that I saw more of these in reruns than on their original run...the only ones I *don't* remember seeing at all are *that* format of JACKIE GLEASON and DAKTARI. That's really saying something!
No one else remembers this, but the Jackie Gleason show used to open with a shot taken from some sort of a boat rushing along the water. I can't even describe this and can't find it anywhere.
Whither Combat? The FBI... Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... Branded... I Spy? I do remember one outstanding episode of the Lucy Show, when she and Harpo Marx recreated that brilliant mirror scene from "Duck Soup".
OMG the original theme of I Dream Of Jeannie! It ain't bad...but not as catchy as the more well-known one. Also I didn't know Bonanza was ever in colour. Maybe though that's because my family had only a b&w TV until 1982.
The first season of I Dream of Jeannie was a romantic comedy, with a slow soft timing theme and music in every episode. It was the original idea of the show when it was picked up by NBC. With marriage and love taking over every episode and it’s their best season.
I didn't get to see anything past 9pm, and we didn't have a color set, that was the best thing about being at Grampas during the summer, clear signal, and color!
*nodnod* back in the day when you had to climb on the roof and point the antenna around to find your shows....or at the very least apply a little extra broiler-foil to the TV's rabbit-ears.
Oddly, BATMAN premiered on 01-12-1966. Begining during the 2nd half of the 65'-66 season as opposed to begining in the fall. I turned age 10 the following day!
In 1971- all on the family debut on television In 1972- the Bob Newhart show debut on television In 1973 - Kojak debut on television In 1974- little house on the prairie and happy days debut on television In 1975- the Jeffersons debut on television
I never cared for them either, but then again most TV westerns were formulaic and predictable. I actually was surprised by how much I liked the first Lonesome Dove book (and mini-series too) as well as Tombstone.
Another great vid. The ones I've seen are all 80's reruns.... Flipper and Lassie was pleasant viewing as a kid. Always found Gilligan kinda annoying but liked I Dream of Jeannie. Loved Man From UNCLE, Get Smart and of course Batman (but why show it twice?). Never watched much Hogan's Heroes, but that film with Greg Kinnear playing Bob Crane was fascinating... and disturbing. With Bonanza, I always wondered how you father two kids where one looks like Hoss and one looks like Little Joe.... did thy have different mothers?
I remember it on Nick at Night as a young adult. The Nickelodeon voice-over would say "...also starring Eva Gabor. Don't worry. She's the harmless one."
For me, the shows worth watching were The Man From UNCLE, Green Acres & Get Smart. My big brother was a huge fan of Batman, Hogan's Heroes & Gomer Pyle-USMC.
Other shows on back then still in reruns Voyage to the bottom of the sea 1964 to 1968. 110 episodes. Big Valley 1965 to 1969 ran 112 episodes. Lost in Space 1965 to 1968 ran 83 episodes. A movie and another series also. Star Trek 1966 to 1969 and original series had 79 episodes but also several movies and several other series since. Munsters 1964 to 1966 ran 70 episodes also movies after and a second series Munsters today that ran 71 episodes. Tarzan had been in many movies but also TV series in 1966 to 1968 for 57 episodes. Also another TV series but did not run very long. Some of the Tarzan movies are on video.
Adamm's family 1964 to 1966 ran 64 episodes had been in comic strips since 1936 not sure exact dates of all the syndicated strips. Has also been in cartoons and movies.
I discovered both in reruns in the 80s... and they were often aired in tandem (like the Munsters & Addams Family) hard to process that they were originally 'at odds' when they were new
I was young when Jeannie was on in 1965. Times were so different. I remember she couldn't show her belly button on tv so they made sure her outfit didn't show it lol. Now they practically wear anything. Not an improvement IMHO.
True story. NBC didn't have any faith in I DREAM OF JEANNIE and more or less " buried" it on Saturday nights at 8:00 Eastern/ 7:00 Central after FLIPPER. That's why it was filmed in black and white. Creator Sidney Sheldon actually offered to use his own money to film it in color but Screen Gems Television and NBC refused. It was a surprise hit finishing #27 for the season leading into another first season hit GET SMART which finished #12 .
' Daktari '...another 'snoozola ' of a show. Five minutes in you could start seeing something really interesting...your dreams!! You are asleep at that point!!!
In no way is this the Nielsen top 30 . Must be YOURS. BATMAN finished the season at #10 on Wednesday and #5 on Thursday. DICK VAN DYKE finished at #16, GREEN ACRES was 11th. DAKTARI was 14 th. GET SMART was 12 th and so on.
Every intro is good and up tempo. Then Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. slaps you back into reality with the saddest tv intro ever shown on tv and piece of film to be shown on tv. Almost if now all of the Marines marching with Nabors and Sutton were real Marines and most of if not all were killed in the Vietnam War.
I was 10 years old this television season. What a treasure trove of memories this brings back! 50 years later I still remember every word to every theme song! Thanks for the memories!
Barbra Eden, such a beautiful and gracious woman.
Wow, a rerun of some of my childhood. I miss those times dearly.
What an amazing era of TV. Sadly, well not see the likes of this again Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Telling my age, but I remember ALL of these shows and watched them religiously with my parents. My favorite was “I Dream Of Jeannie”. Can you guess why? She was GORGEOUS!!!
@lawyers9 and the original "Jeannie" theme music was better.
No wonder I watched so much TV when I was 9 yrs. old. We had the best shows ever!
Ah yes! When TV was worth watching! You had a wide variety of shows to watch back then. Unfortunately, today's prime time TV shows are nothing but trash!
You are exactly right! I haven’t watched a prime time show for a number of years! The language is appalling now!
On 3 channels no less.
@@lawyers9: Oh absolutely! I'm in a nursing facility, and my roommate had on this BET program where the curse words weren't even censored! Except for The Amazing Race, I don't watch prime time TV today. These shows today definitely don't appeal to me at all!
I feel like i'm back in the early 70's watching re-runs of Gilligan's Island from home after being out of school b/c I'm sick. Great times.
I watched all of these shows when I was a kid! 👏🏼😎
Ahh! *Rerun Heaven!!* Also I remember *The Wild Wild West* some of us remember the one where he punches saloon girl who threatens him with knife.
The wild wild west was America's version of the avengers
My younger brother was around 8 at the time it aired. Because of that intro he called it "The Punch In The Mouth Show".
That was season 2 when he hit her plus how many women trying to kill west sad no to his advances but he kiss them anyway not very woke was he ah! The good old days.may they never return 2023 ain't worth it.
Such great theme songs from back in the day!!
Geez what a hella job you do putting these together. Thanks for the memories!
These were all my favorites.
wonderful, thank you
And the beautiful Barbara is still with us at 91 years old.
Holy cow! That Barbara Eden is an unmatched beauty. Five dollars American to anyone who can name a prettier actress today.
6:02 The Wild Wild West with the great pairing of actors Robert Conrad and Ross Martin RIP both of your
Loved Ross Martin in Experiment in Terror.
Don Draper did a good job with those Jackie Gleason ads.
Back when TV was worth watching.
You forgot "The FBI". One of the best realistic police shows ever, and extremely popular.
These are fascinating!
My ol' man just purchased a 25" color console TV just before the fall 1965 season...and I remember seeing all these shows in their original run
:) Remember when a 25" TV seemed HYOOGE?. I have a 20 year old 27" Trinitron. "The Kids" make fun of it....except the retro console gamers. They want to pay me "dozens of dollars" to "take it off my hands"
@@VolcanoEarth As a retro game and console collector, those CRT TV's are the best way to play these old games, they look great on the old TV's.
When tv was worth watching.
Great choices, as always. My favorites: Trials of O'brien with Peter Falk, Run For Your LIfe with Ben Gazzara, Secret Agent with Patrick McGoohan, Slattery's People with Richard Crenna, The Long, Hot Summer with Roy Thinnes, and Kraft Suspense Theatre.
My god both Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman were so beautiful.
The original theme music was so much better too. I hated the second one with the cartoon intro.
Hard to believe Jeannie's hubby turned out to be J.R. Ewing.
So many westerns!
I'd seen 25 of those from re-runs growing up in the 70s. At the time, I'm not sure I realised all these great shows were from the 60s.
Same here. It's funny to think of a time when Gilligan's Island or Batman were prime-time and not the shows you watched after school while NOT-doing your homework.
So true read my mind.
In 1966- second season of I dream of Jeannie and the Wild Wild West have color
In 1967 - Ironside debut on television
In 1968- Hawaii Five O debut on television
In 1969- the Brady bunch debut on television
In 1970- the Mary Tyler Moore show debut on television
You missed "Lost In Space"
Something about that blue stary sky, fantastic opening theme of Bewitched! Great show!
It just struck me that I watched every one of these shows during their original run. I didn't realize that there were this many color shows on that year. My mother wouldn't allow a color TV in the house for another twenty years (long after I was gone)
@Leigh Chapman Make sure you're well seated so you don't fall off. She was sure that toilet bowl cleaner commercials would be so graphic that she'd be constantly sick. Black and white Ty D Bowl man was fine. Just no color for her.
To BINKERD just read your comment of your MOM and she did,nt allow for the COLOR TV!!! And my uncle had the newest 1960 COLOR TV and it had knobs for blue/green/red tint controls plus:lavender/pink/yellow!!!! Very rare TV and still working but with a darker picture in 1989!!!! The products manufactured back then were outstanding!!! I remember SWANSON TV DINNERS for a fast easy meal:warm em up and eat in front of the TV!! The SWANSON COLOR TV DINNERS were pretty full but the SWANSON BLACK AND WHITE TV DINNERS did not include the FUDGE BROWNIE in the middle of the tray!! But they cost 45 cents less so you get what you pay for!!! Reuse the trays to make muffins/pancake pattys!!! or for mixing paints!!! and THANKS for your comment BINKERD*****
We were among the first in my town to have a color TV. True story: We had an Irishwoman come in once a week to clean house. She said she didn't want color TV because she didn't want to watch "colored people" on TV!
Same here. It was 1976 when we got our first colour television. It was my dad who was against them in our house. He really thought colour tvs emitted some kind of rays that were harmful to your health.
You certainly have an amazing film library.
You can't beat Gilligan's theme song.
🎶A 3 hour tour. A 3 hour tour! 🎶
I still watch a great many of these shows as the stuff on TV today is just not good.
we got our frst color tv for $600 in 66. a 23 inch setchel carlson. six weeks pay for my dad. he worked alot of ot. our lat tv was a bw 12 inch portible it was stolen in a burglary
I sure like that cool Sunbeam Tiger convertible Don Adams drove on Get Smart.
Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan have been unjustly criticized for their alleged "lack of hosting skill". I strongly disagree.
Love it
What a great season for TV!! Am I the only one who prefers the first season theme of I dream of Jeannie to the one used the other four seasons?
Even back then, I thought most of these shows were from Squaresville, with a few notable exceptions: The Man From UNCLE, Green Acres and especially Get Smart, and, of course, Batman.
amazing how many of these went into syndication
Barbara eden....Goddess
It is interesting to note that out of the top 30 excluding variety game and the disney show. Every episode is currently available on dvd for this season except for lassie and my three sons.
I was an 8-year-old third grader back then. (That's right! I was born in 1957.) However, I didn't become a Green Acres fan until the Molly Turgiss episode, and I have been a huge fan of the show ever since!)
3:03 - 3:10. That’s the house of Darrin and Samantha Stevens (of Bewitched), and in I Dream of Jeannie, was Dr Bellow’s house on a few episodes
I was only 2, but I remember
I love you, Lassie.
I was an 8-year-old third grader that year. That's when I became a fan of a show called Green Acres.
I was 4 when this season started and yet I remember when these shows were on first run network tv. Memories of a bygone era that will never come again. Back then it didn't matter if the shows were in color or not, because my folks would only spring for a b/w set as color sets were expensive.
I would LOVE to see some Jackie Gleason episodes! You can't find them on UA-cam at all.
I agree, he had a great show 😁
I just realised I know all of the lyrics to these theme songs. Funny what sticks in your mind.
Dawn Wells was so pretty!
What's crazy is that I saw more of these in reruns than on their original run...the only ones I *don't* remember seeing at all are *that* format of JACKIE GLEASON and DAKTARI. That's really saying something!
No one else remembers this, but the Jackie Gleason show used to open with a shot taken from some sort of a boat rushing along the water. I can't even describe this and can't find it anywhere.
@@ferociousgumby That was the intro to his 1966-67 series on CBS.
The B&W version was repackaged as The Jackie Gleason Show for syndication.
Whither Combat? The FBI... Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... Branded... I Spy?
I do remember one outstanding episode of the Lucy Show, when she and Harpo Marx recreated that brilliant mirror scene from "Duck Soup".
Combat! was dang good TV. We got the series on DVD a few years ago.
Betsy Palmer from the "I've got a secret" clip would become Jason Voorhees mommy some 15 years later.😎😎😎
Something to forget!
Barbara Eden is so pretty!
Everybody went color in 1966.
I was 12 that year. Get Smart is really the only one of those shows that has aged well. Maybe Batman.
Say what? West is the best.
I’ve never seen anyone ride on the back of a lion before. Even the animals were nicer back then
I remember the show Flipper.
OMG the original theme of I Dream Of Jeannie! It ain't bad...but not as catchy as the more well-known one.
Also I didn't know Bonanza was ever in colour. Maybe though that's because my family had only a b&w TV until 1982.
The first season of I Dream of Jeannie was a romantic comedy, with a slow soft timing theme and music in every episode. It was the original idea of the show when it was picked up by NBC. With marriage and love taking over every episode and it’s their best season.
I didn't get to see anything past 9pm, and we didn't have a color set, that was the best thing about being at Grampas during the summer, clear signal, and color!
*nodnod* back in the day when you had to climb on the roof and point the antenna around to find your shows....or at the very least apply a little extra broiler-foil to the TV's rabbit-ears.
Tina Louise is the sole surviving member of the "Gilligan's Island" cast.
Too bad didn't get to see Ed Sullivan say "we've got a really big shoe"
Latest 30 from 65 to 66 seems like some recent transfers? Those look good
Bonanza Batman and Green acres catchiest best intro tunes. Daktari sure didnt last long same with Flipper
Ed Ames was a great singer with a rich bass/baritone voice.
Oddly, BATMAN premiered on 01-12-1966. Begining during the 2nd half of the 65'-66 season as opposed to begining in the fall. I turned age 10 the following day!
I was born August 1965, just before this tv season started.
In 1971- all on the family debut on television
In 1972- the Bob Newhart show debut on television
In 1973 - Kojak debut on television
In 1974- little house on the prairie and happy days debut on television
In 1975- the Jeffersons debut on television
1972 Sanford and Son debuts.
What does it say about me that I know every theme song from this video? I mean, other than I'm horribly old.
I'm singing them right along with you! ;-)
It's interesting that both my grandparents enjoyed Westerns but they didn't appeal to me.
I never cared for them either, but then again most TV westerns were formulaic and predictable. I actually was surprised by how much I liked the first Lonesome Dove book (and mini-series too) as well as Tombstone.
To think all these great shows with only 3-4 channels. Now we have hundreds of channels and most of it is crap.
Another great vid. The ones I've seen are all 80's reruns.... Flipper and Lassie was pleasant viewing as a kid. Always found Gilligan kinda annoying but liked I Dream of Jeannie. Loved Man From UNCLE, Get Smart and of course Batman (but why show it twice?). Never watched much Hogan's Heroes, but that film with Greg Kinnear playing Bob Crane was fascinating... and disturbing. With Bonanza, I always wondered how you father two kids where one looks like Hoss and one looks like Little Joe.... did thy have different mothers?
The Dynamic Duo's run was mainly comprised of 2-parters, remember?
Each son had a different mother. Being the wife of Ben Cartwright was hazardous. BTW, there were three sons.
Actually, all of the boys from Bonanza had different mothers.
that's right, it was and in it's first season it was on twice a week: part one was on Tuesday and part 2 Thursday.
@@MrLeoni2 Hoss' mom must have been a dog.
Where is my favorite Lost in Space
I don't remember Green Acres until 1968
My show begins at 14:19.
I remember it on Nick at Night as a young adult. The Nickelodeon voice-over would say "...also starring Eva Gabor. Don't worry. She's the harmless one."
No "Lost In Space"? What a shame!
I thought lost in space the best space show ever when it debuted....until another show debuted the next year...star trek!
For me, the shows worth watching were The Man From UNCLE, Green Acres & Get Smart.
My big brother was a huge fan of Batman, Hogan's Heroes & Gomer Pyle-USMC.
Wow I watched way to much tv I know all of these shows when they went into reruns
Hard to believe that James Arness played the part of the monster in the 1951 movie The Thing
Other shows on back then still in reruns Voyage to the bottom of the sea 1964 to 1968. 110 episodes. Big Valley 1965 to 1969 ran 112 episodes. Lost in Space 1965 to 1968 ran 83 episodes. A movie and another series also. Star Trek 1966 to 1969 and original series had 79 episodes but also several movies and several other series since. Munsters 1964 to 1966 ran 70 episodes also movies after and a second series Munsters today that ran 71 episodes. Tarzan had been in many movies but also TV series in 1966 to 1968 for 57 episodes. Also another TV series but did not run very long. Some of the Tarzan movies are on video.
Adamm's family 1964 to 1966 ran 64 episodes had been in comic strips since 1936 not sure exact dates of all the syndicated strips. Has also been in cartoons and movies.
i always thought I D O J was a rehash of Bewitched. Both had dopplegangers (Jeannie had her bitchy sister, Samantha had Serena
I discovered both in reruns in the 80s... and they were often aired in tandem (like the Munsters & Addams Family) hard to process that they were originally 'at odds' when they were new
A lot of these shows were dubbed in French and were aired throughout the 70s in Quebec….
I was young when Jeannie was on in 1965. Times were so different. I remember she couldn't show her belly button on tv so they made sure her outfit didn't show it lol. Now they practically wear anything. Not an improvement IMHO.
I'd never heard of Daktari. It looks hilarious
True story. NBC didn't have any faith in I DREAM OF JEANNIE and more or less " buried" it on Saturday nights at 8:00 Eastern/ 7:00 Central after FLIPPER. That's why it was filmed in black and white. Creator Sidney Sheldon actually offered to use his own money to film it in color but Screen Gems Television and NBC refused. It was a surprise hit finishing #27 for the season leading into another first season hit GET SMART which finished #12 .
These shows seem to be at a sort of juncture between crude and slick.
…cannot separate the opening of “Daniel Boone” with spot on the Johnny Carson show by Fess Parker
You must be referring to the "tomahawk sketch" with Ed Ames.
' Daktari '...another 'snoozola ' of a show. Five minutes in you could start seeing something really interesting...your dreams!! You are asleep at that point!!!
Batman twice but no Star Trek?
Batman aired twice weekly. Star Trek appeared in the 1966-67 season but never made the Top 30 in the Nielsen ratings.
Wasn’t The Fugitive a Top 5 show back then?
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Why Batman twice?
It aired twice weekly, on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
In no way is this the Nielsen top 30 . Must be YOURS. BATMAN finished the season at #10 on Wednesday and #5 on Thursday. DICK VAN DYKE finished at #16, GREEN ACRES was 11th. DAKTARI was 14 th. GET SMART was 12 th and so on.
I agree nothing but trash
Every intro is good and up tempo. Then Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. slaps you back into reality with the saddest tv intro ever shown on tv and piece of film to be shown on tv. Almost if now all of the Marines marching with Nabors and Sutton were real Marines and most of if not all were killed in the Vietnam War.