20 INTROS TO TV SERIES RELICS OF THE 50s

[@pettytoni1955]

I remember "College Bowl" on TV as being a quiz show for smart college students. This show here starred Andy Williams and Jimmy Buffet!

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Thank you for presenting 1950's intros to TV shows of the era, most of which (not all) are forgotten. I love learning about the Golden Age of Television and what entertained previous generations, no matter how dated the material is. Great learning tool for those too young to remember...😀.

[@lonrgrrl59]

Same here, just what I was about to say, as I don't know about most of these shows, as they were before my time; I may have seen a few later in reruns (I remember seeing My Little Margie as a child years ago!).

[@pettytoni1955]

I used to stay up late and sneak out to watch the Jack Paar Show. Christine Jorgenson was a guest one night. I was so confused but didn't dare ask my folks or they'd realize I was not sleeping.

[@uslines]

Oh my gosh, does this take me back! The golden age of television...and just about everything else. Thanks for the memories, though I now feel a little depressed.

[@uslines]

@Tim Garmany Thanks putz

[@jasondaniel918]

We got our first TV set in 1957, when I was seven. I honestly do not recall any of these shows, except for Jackie Gleason. It leads me to wonder what I did watch. - I got my driver's license in 1966. My first car was in fact a 1957 Dodge Coronet. Mechanically the car was very sound. But driving it was like piloting a steam ship. Ugh!

[@coleparker]

I hear you. I got my Driver license in 1969, and my first car was a 1955 Ford PU, basic model with a three on the tree stick shift. It had three knobs on the dash: Choke, Windshield wiper and Lights. No power steering: so my arms shoulders got a great workout, especially when I was parallel parking.

[@greggi47]

My grandparents had a TV in 1951, when I was four years old, Like you, I have limited memories of what I watched from the early part of the Fifties. Jack Paar and Jackie Gleason, Sid Caesar and Herb Shriner--but the rest are unfamiliar.

[@notyetsilenced9746]

Nice collection of completely obscure show openings, all of which I had never seen before. Thanks!

[@auapplemac1976]

But they're no't obscure to the people who remember them.

[@peters1127]

Thank you for the memories.

[@bluerider7922]

John Daly was a class act. After "It's News to Me" he hosted What's "My Line" for 17 years!

[@Rich2241]

He sure was. What a voice. His sense of ethics led him to resign from ABC when it preempted part of the 1960 election coverage (Kennedy vs. Nixon) for a showing of The Rifleman and Bugs Bunny. Later, as director of Voice of America he resigned when he discovered the USIA was interfering in his running of the program.

[@unclebobunclebob]

These are amazingly obscure...and I started watching TV religiously in the 1950s

[@Laceykat66]

They were all so excited to be presenting these shows to you. It makes you excited to watch. Thank you for the education. I had not even heard of most of these shows.

[@myyoutubepage199]

Same

[@debiking6657]

So awesome. I was born in 1956. I remember the 60's

[@SurferJoe46]

Jackie Gleason! I remember watching the show lying on the floor in front of the TV and my parents in their chairs behind me.

[@VoightKampf]

That's how we kids would watch T.V. in the 50s; on the floor while the folks were on the couch.

[@bluerider7922]

Born in '48, I remember some of these. Burt Parks hosted Miss America pageants for about 20 years. I recall Jack Paar, Jackie Gleason, John Daly, etc. Jack Paar hosted the Tonight Show when he walked off the set during a live broadcast over some dispute with NBC. Never came back. Also: the Today Show was live every morning from NYC with Jack Lescoulie as the memorably handsome weatherman.

[@auapplemac1976]

The first time Parr walked off the show was a dust-up with the network or sponsor about a joke that referred to the bathroom as the WC (water closet) a term that was considered more appropriate that "bathroom" for some reason. He did return that time and had a funny opening line - that I unfortunately can't recall.

[@pattibrooks1907]

I dont remember much from the 50s as I was only 3 in 1959 when I first remember watching tv so dont know much about the 50s but love the 60s more as i grew up in the 60s more remember ,more from age 4 till I was 13 in the 60s !!

[@angelagonsowski8080]

Wow! What a trip down memory lane! Even though I do not remember many of these programs the names of the the stars are familiar.

[@Juliaflo]

Anyone who remembers Nash and Hudson cars is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, older than I am, even though I remember them.

[@bb22602]

But why is one a motorcar and the other an automobile?

[@markh7147]

My mom owned a Nash Metropolitan.

[@mikedrown2721]

I was born in 1946....I remember

[@1950Grendel]

My dad had a Nash in the 1950's; my first car was a 1964 Rambler American.

[@colinhalliley111]

@@1950Grendel We had a Rambler American 64 station wagon it was a work horse and went a long way on gas. We also had the Senca version of the Dodges. The fins ! 😁

[@richarddowney1972]

Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Dick Cavett great late night programming/

[@memyname1771]

Watched Jack Paar when he said, “There’s got to be a better way to make a living.”

[@chicojcf]

Love those low bassons when P. McCormick walks in.

[@rongendron8705]

I've been watching T.V. since 1950, ( even appeared on .T.V. on 'THE BUSTER CRABBE SHOW" in 1950, one show) but don't remember some of these programs! I probably became near sighted early, because I became mesmerized by this new medium & should have been out playing, instead! These shows may not be up to current standards, but remember, we also got 39 brand new episodes yearly & not the ridiculously low 20 new episodes that we currently get!

[@wholeNwon]

Not to worry, TV had nothing to do with your visual problem.

[@paulyricca3881]

☝🏻👶🏻U VERY VERY OLD GRANDPA AND U NEED A GIRL AND A JOB.

[@fromthesidelines]

Lawrence Welk had TWO weekly shows between 1956 and '59; his Saturday night "DODGE DANCING PARTY"....and the Monday night "TOP TUNES AND NEW TALENT" (with emphasis on up and coming talent during the second half-hour of the program).

[@Juliaflo]

Don't figure out my age, but I remember those programs.

[@lesnyk255]

I'm old enough to remember these - but I don't, except for Jackie Gleason, Jack Paar & distant echoes of 1 or 2 others. Obscure stuff, indeed!

[@howardwayne3974]

The westerns were kind of real for me ad a kid . the area of Texas I grew up in in that time period the men still wore side arms on occasion and there was always a shotgun by the door no matter what house you went in .

[@chinzebo]

Thank you for sharing this!!

[@robkunkel8833]

That Lawrence Welk opening was pretty innovative. “The car that dared to break the time barrier” Plymouth. And L&M Cigarettes.

[@MrWmburr7]

Earl Holliman, an actor from one of my favorite movies : "Forbidden Planet".

[@hifijohn]

cookie the cook.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Future '70s costar of Angie Dickinson on tv show Police Woman.

[@luisreyes1963]

The good old days of when the names of sponsors were prominently displayed everywhere on the sets of those TV shows.

[@mb13972]

Those were the days when one product or company sponsored an entire show.

[@mandymayne8759]

Got to get me some of that Life Boy soap to get rid of B.O. for up to 3 days,

[@billore22]

Well, you have two days left, Mandy. Then it's bye bye!

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

There was a TV show called "College Bowl" starring Chico Marx in 1950, long before General Electric sponsored a popular quiz show of that same title (1959-70).

[@jsivco3sivco785]

According to IMDB, there was ONE episode. BTW... It was "The College Bowl."

[@chrisjaybecker]

@@jsivco3sivco785 Did he say "Jimmy Buffett?"

[@moboutmen]

Fins to the left.....

[@BleedBNG]

There's a show called College Bowl today with Payton Manning

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

@@BleedBNG Except this version is only a limited run that former NFL star Peyton Manning is hosting, and it has categories.

[@darz3829]

At 8:36 the familiar RCA Victor logo started off before the Victor Talking Machine Company merged with Radio Corporation of America. Many know the dog's name was Nipper but few realize that the logo came from an oil painting of the dog and the phonograph sitting on the polished wooden top of a coffin. Hence, the dog is listening to "His Master's Voice." Eventually they removed the coffin and stylized the dog and phono.

[@auapplemac1976]

Bravo!!!

[@Nightwriter9331]

How sad 😧

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

SERENATA is on KZbin, look for it, Nat King Cole and George Shearing. If you really like this tune, you will adore the lush, string, George Shearing backed orchestra. I come from a family of singers/musicians, and trivia buffs..Not a well known song, I congratulate you on your superb taste!!!

[@garymckee8857]

I need to go to the Dodge Dealer and get a new 57

[@IP0Monsturd]

Gary Mckee could you pick me up some prune juice on your way home.

[@amygrantthebestchristiansi3757]

WOW LOVE THIS

[@williamrubinstein3442]

I grew up in the US and can remember tv there in the 1950s, but I cannot renember most of these shows or these ads.

[@jamesshort8385]

Can you imagine the teasing Pupi Campo had to go through?

[@OaktownABQ]

LOL

[@albertwells8503]

I was thinking the same thing. Imagine having that name today, and being in show business!

[@lonrgrrl59]

Who was Pupi Campo? Never heard of him.

[@syxepop]

@@lonrgrrl59 - as always... Google is your friend. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupi_Campo )

[@luisreyes1963]

​@@lonrgrrl59 Jacinto "Pupi" Campo (1920-2011) was a Cuban dancer who became a popular bandleader. In fact, he mentored a fellow Latin music legend, Puerto Rican musician Tito Puente.

[@granskare]

This was before TV was so loaded with commercials. I liked Sid Caesar. ALCOA is just across the river!

[@greggi47]

There were fewer commercials, but many were much longer than we endure now.

[@kurtbaumann7686]

This was state of the art back then.

[@653j521]

This is a poor copy of what was state of the art back then. :)

[@faustofernandez2971]

All but three of these shows are deservedly forgotten. The exceptions of course were Sid Caesar--a truly great show--Jacki Gleason and to a lesser extent Jack Paar

[@memyname1771]

Were these local shows somewhere? Born during WWII and grew up in southern California, the only shows I remember watching in this group of shows were Spike Jones and Jackie Gleason. If they were broadcast in Los Angeles in the 50s, they must have run opposite much more popular shows. I remember seeing John Daily and Cid Caesar on other shows. College Bowl could have run then, school was not my favorite thing, so I wouldn't have watched that kind of show. The sponsors I remember from other shows.

[@visaman]

I looked it up College Bowl debuted in 1950 and lasted only 14 episodes.

[@auapplemac1976]

@@visaman The host was Betty White's husband, Allen Ludden. He died fairly young. "By 1959, College Bowl moved to national television on CBS and became a fixture of weekend afternoons as GE College Bowl. GE College Bowl ran on CBS from 1959-63 and NBC from 1964-70."

[@visaman]

@@auapplemac1976 I loved Alan Ludden as host of Password, when I was a child. Gene Barry (Joker's Wild) scared me a bit.

[@CaptchaNeon]

Prune juice, the juice that gives you something extra. Yeah something extra alright lol

[@eggbertinkabod1121]

Xtra shit

[@AliasUndercover]

That's what I was thinking. Was that, like, a 50s Activia commercial?

[@tessseract]

Yeah, something extra.... diarrhea

[@redwingfan9393]

That looked like a show centered around a kid. Who thought prune juice would appeal to kids?

[@tamiami34]

"A warrior's drink!" Exclaimed Lt. Worf, on Star Trek TNG. Funny.

[@PRYNCESSJO]

Omg I remember a bunch 😊

[@44032]

I had to look virtually all of those up. "Public Prosecutor was the first filmed series, on from 1947-51.

[@HawklordLI]

I'm almost 70 and I remember damn few of these.

[@greggi47]

I;m 76 and share your lack of recognition.

[@chickey333]

Is it just coincidence that the show Keep It In The Family and Married With Children both shared the same musical entrance? That is probably the only thing they shared in common.

[@visaman]

The song is from the musical Our Town.

[@chickey333]

@@visaman Yes and the song Married With Children itself was sung by Frank Sinatra. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqW2ZWmNm9irpNk

[@tomf429]

My father bought a 1957 Plymouth with push button drive. Instead of shifting gears, you pushed a button on the dash for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, reverse and neutral. It never worked right. He traded it in for a 1959 Ford Galaxy that lasted 10 years (an eternity in those days).

[@sarco64]

We had a Rambler with push button gear selector.

[@tomf429]

@@sarco64 He was used to a clutch. He would go from 1st to 2nd and hit the brake with his left foot. The car would stall out and refuse to start. He used to get so mad and curse to himself. It was 2-tone red and white with large tail fins in the back. He never bought another Plymouth again.

[@auapplemac1976]

I think the advertising song was something like ... "Suddenly it's 1960, 1960 on wheels."

[@Maletaandgo]

Here because of WandaVision... Who else?

[@JudgeJulieLit]

At 16:55 John Drew Barrymore, son of great actor John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, was father of actress Drew Barrymore.

[@jamesshort8385]

What an actor Brandon de Wilde was to act like that prune juice was tasty.

[@rongendron8705]

I was nearly Brandon DeWilde's age & remember the show "Jamie" somewhat! I think that he lived with his grandfather & got into "trouble" like the "Beaver" got into, yrs. later! Other than appearing in "Shane", & yrs. later "HUD" & "In Harms' Way", I can't recall his doing too many other roles! It's a shame that he died so young at about 30! R.I.P.! Brandon

[@jamesshort8385]

@@rongendron8705 i agree Ron. He was a major talent imo.

[@jhonwask]

@@rongendron8705 He was also in the movie, "Blue Denim" with Carol Lynley, where he got her pregnant and they looked into abortion. Very controversial at that time.

It might have really been grape wine.

[@patriciaadams4171]

Starred in an episode of THRILLER where of all people, Boris Karloff, venerated elder statesman host, announced that Brandon de Wilde was a superb talent already tested and would have a long career. Not an exact quote but close; shockingly sad to see in an old rerun knowing the history.

[@whyyeseyec]

It's Bucky Beaver for Ipana Toothpaste!!

[@Juliaflo]

Brusha, Brusha, Brusha. LOLOLOLOL.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Prune juice as a sponsor ?, shows how good the show must have been.

[@2574mcu]

I wish I could see some of these shows.

[@luisreyes1963]

Especially that corn-fed Herb Shriner? 😒

[@debbiedoodle1417]

Lawrence welk is still on on Saturday nights

[@wireworks616]

The scary thing is, I remember most of these

[@lindakayeholmes3841]

😆 haha 🤣

[@Astyanaz]

I wish there was a place to see the whole shows.

[@visaman]

There is but it is a museum.

[@danabrown4628]

Try the Paley Center for Media in NYC. They have copies of lots of old stuff.

[@rogertemple7193]

"the Herb Shriner show FYI: Herb Shriner was father of Wil Shriner(tv actor,comedian,talk show host) & Kin Shriner(television actor and a soap opera star a veteran on several soaps especially General Hospital)."

[@Juliaflo]

Will and Kin are twins.

[@jimthompson7402]

The Nash automobile was just a Kelvinator on wheels.

[@postal_the_clown]

Tell you what, my first fridge as an adult was a 17 year-old Kelvinator that gave me another 15 before it died.... Can't say that about the AMC Eagle that didn't last 10 years.

[@chickey333]

That's true but I'll bet the Kelvinator weighed a whole lot more. Ever try to move one of those suckers? It took three people just to move Grandma's old Kelvinator from her kitchen to the back door. I'm still sore to this day.

[@postal_the_clown]

@@chickey333 For real, that's the downside of having car makers in the appliance business. GM=Frigidaire, Ford=Philco and AMC=Kelvinator. Up until the mid-60's they all had chassis like the cars they built. One of my summer jobs was working for an appliance dealer...lots of replacements there.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

My mom had a Kelvinator refrigerator from the 1960s in her basement that she still used up until a year ago. Even then, she probably made it retire just because she's nearly 80 and it's harder to go downstairs.

[@ferociousgumby]

I'd love to see some Jackie Gleason shows - can't find him anywhere

[@codychristopher3744]

@Pitbull Romans 5:8 that's pretty awesome so you have Jackie Gleasons Tv Variety Show from the 50s and 60s if that the case how to find more of them

[@KennyRider137]

Pupi on TV then and now.

[@lp-xl9ld]

"Brought to you by Sunsweet Prune Juice...the drink with something extra!" NO KIDDING...

[@shibolinemress8913]

Was "Keep it in the Family" the 50's version of "Family Feud"?

[@bluerider7922]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@acastrohowell]

Love it

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

Those cars are beautiful, although the Ford Edsel is my fave, I've struggled to recognise some of these although I know Jack Parr who I've seen on Password, and Spike Jones who makes funny records. I know Audrey Meadows Steve Allen's wife well, John Daly from What's My Line, George Sanders, and have heard of Gleason and Caesar. And Lucille Ball and Desi Arnezs film company Desilu. Not bad I suppose for a Generation X from the UK! I'm obsessed with early 60s American TV like Dick Van Dyke Show, Password and the Joey Bishop Show, and Johnny Jupiter from the 50s. I'm trying to expand my knowledge of this amazing time in TV history, I love American retro culture. I find TV and film today utterly boring and ditto the celebrities.

[@1L6E6VHF]

Friendly historical note: They weren't Ford Edsels any more then there were General Motors Buicks. Edsel was not a new model - Edsel was a new marque, like Saturn or Lexus. 1958 models included Pacer, Ranger, Citation, Villager, Corsair and Bermuda.

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Friendly correction. Steve Allen was married to Jayne Meadows, Audrey's sister.

[@postal_the_clown]

Not quite as old as some of these..( Ike wasn't a General any more.. But just barely) but we had a DuMont TV, One Grandma had a Hoffman TV with a 12 inch screen and a 3 ft cabinet. The picture was in black and green like a radar scope. The other Grandma had a true black and white Zenith in a blonde wood cabinet.And I used Ipana until Stripe came along. But honestly I paid more attention to those things than what was on the TV.

[@genedryer-bivins8314]

Our Hoffman "Easy Vision" TV was "real" black and white. Maybe your Grandma's just needed adjusting. Call the TV repairman to come in his panel truck. Stick his head in the back of the set and monkey with all those tubes! Some people won't even know what I'm talking about. Tubes?

[@postal_the_clown]

@@genedryer-bivins8314 Gil was the name of the guy who serviced our 19" GE b&w from '63 to '68 when he convinced my Mom to buy a 13" JVC color set to watch the conventions that summer. He had a little hole-in-the-wall shop about 2 blocks from us and I don't remember what he drove except it wasn't a panel. I would have thought him a little more legit if he had.

[@ScreamingScallop]

0:39 See, kids were completely out of it back then, too. Lawrence Welk was on the air until 1982, so he was doing something right.

[@vsgfilmgroup]

Yeah, that theme was hilarious. If you view it the right way it's the story of a woman who hallucinates a family, and her daughter, the only other one in the house that's real.

[@653j521]

vsgfilmgroup If you are talking about Peck's Bad Girl you aren't far wrong. On IMDB a reviewer said it was a deconstructionist parody of family-life sitcoms of the 1950s, and that it set up routine situations that rapidly blow up to surreal proportions. Sounds good. I'll look around for a copy. :)

[@1L6E6VHF]

(Lawrence Welk) Still going, in re-runs, on many PBS affiliates.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

At 7:22, Ben-Gay didn't look like that in stores in the 1960s!

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

Hey! Where's "The Continental"? I know Christopher Walken was spoofing it on Saturday Night Live, but in the 1950s this TV program really DID exist, with this dressed-up guy talking to the camera.

[@Bootmahoy88]

It’s a fun look back, but I’m glad I’m here and not back there.

[@howardwayne3974]

When I was a kid in Texas in the 1950s there was no such thing as an air conditioner for your home . so , yeah , in glad I'm here now with the air down as low as I want baby !!!!!!! I only wish my grand parents and mom and dad were here .

[@1123hugh]

Nice nostalgia trip but… I would LOVED to have seen the chorus line dance opening to NBC‘s Saturday night “Your Show of Shows” starring Sid Cesar Imogene Coca Carl Reiner and Howie Morris. Does anyone know if that exists and maybe post the link to it?

[@elwoodblues9613]

And the June Taylor Dancers, who opened the Jackie Gleason Show!

[@jjfrizzle2560]

Just watched this video with yeat playing in the background, this shit crazy

[@Wateringman]

On Star Trek The Next Generation...Commander Worf considered Prune Juice to be a warrior's drink! I wonder what would happen if a Klingon pigged out on Prune Juice...and then found himself in the middle of a space battle. And his "egesta" burst out at the wrong moment during the battle. Would the rest of the Klingon crew just laugh at him...or would his ship commander execute him on the spot for perceived cowardice during the battle; for losing his "prune juice" during a battle!? 🤔

[@IP0Monsturd]

Wateringman he would light up a L & M cigarette hoping the smoke would cover up the stench.

[@melanieohara6941]

Wow, white faces everywhere-so far, and I was there as a kid. Amazing montage.!😲

[@friscochick4068]

Cathy McCormick? Isn't she the one who plays the evil kid in The Bad Seed?

[@actionsub]

Patty McCormack, and the "Bad Seed" role is what got her the "Peck's Bad Girl" part.

Yep, that's her.

[@oluhamilton2121]

The VERY same.

[@Juliaflo]

@@actionsub Nee Patricia Russo, in case you are interested. (McCormack was her mother's maiden name.)

[@luisreyes1963]

She starred alongside Jeffrey Tambor on The Ropers decades later.

[@RobertLynnGreen]

I noted that they did not say what the "extra" that prune juice gave you..

[@michaelmerck7576]

Can't believe they actually used that line for advertising

[@MC-vo7vt]

Good to sell red lipstick on a black and white TV show. Just like radio, viewers had to use their imagination.

[@visaman]

In the early days the actors wore Green lipstick just to be picked up by the cameras.

[@novatodave]

Question: What's the name of the song used as Jack Paar's theme (4:30)? And - THANKS for the upload. Long live Pupi Campo!!

[@hanakjim1]

Seranata by LeRoy Anderson

[@novatodave]

THANKS!

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Ah, I see...another lover of the obscure..enjoy...

[@dadoctah]

Now I want to see "The Case of the Comic Strip Murder". Anything with Lina Romay is appreciated.

[@fromthesidelines]

"PUBLIC PROSECUTOR" was actually produced in 1947, and was intended to be one of NBC's first filmed network programs in 1948. But they decided not to schedule it, allowing producer Jerry Fairbanks to syndicate the series to local stations instead. Fairbanks also leased the episodes to DuMont, who used them on "CRAWFORD MYSTERY THEATER" in the 1951-'52 season. Here's the episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5zRlH16f8t5ZtU

[@jmen4ever257]

@@fromthesidelines In his bio book, artist Dick Ayers related how he did the art for that episode, and turned down a chance to continue to do art for the network in favor of doing comics.

[@fromthesidelines]

Interesting. 🤨

[@fromthesidelines]

Good for him! He did a LOT better with his comic book art than he would have if he *had* accepted NBC's offer. Name ONE artist the network nurtured during its "salad days"..........

[@DucNguyen0131]

Here's the THURSDAY NIGHT TV - EARLY FALL 1983! Lineup goes like this: ABC 8:00 Trauma Center 9:00 9 to 5 9:30 It's Not Easy 10:00 20/20 CBS 8:00 Magnum, P.I. 9:00 Simon & Simon 10:00 Knots Landing NBC 8:00 Gimme a Break! 8:30 Mama's Family 9:00 We Got It Made 9:30 Cheers 10:00 Hill Street Blues

[@Juliaflo]

What a memorable line-up that was. If you miss that line-up, raise your hand.

[@natanaelrodriguez9580]

Hi yes, where can I watch some of these shows

[@RwDt09]

You can find some on KZbin just by doing a search by title, network, season or decade and/or lead actors/actresses, and/or any combination of those. Daily Motion is another site where you'll find episodes of series, but again, not all of them. And using different search engines, too, like Bing and Metacrawler (with the latter click Videos, type a TV show title in the search window for a specific series to see if it exists, or just simply type TV Series for a mixed bag of results), as well as other search engines you can use for additional or different results.

[@sandrasanders706]

Bert Parks..who predicted a black woman will win Miss America within the 1980's..3 were crowned..

[@sandrasanders706]

Herb Shriner looks a lot like his kids actor Kin from GH, and comedian Wil..

[@tomservo56954]

They and their sister were orphaned as teens when Herb and his wife were killed in a 1970 car accident.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

At 1:40 Evelyn Ward, then wife of Jack Cassidy, mother of future tv and pop star David Cassidy.

[@Laceykat66]

Wow, no wonder we saw so few 50s shows in syndication in the mornings. These look bad. Thanks for the post.

[@richardjoubert8471]

they were beyond bad lol,i was born in 58 thank god,because they had great shows growing up in the 60s.the shows in the 50s would have been bruttal to watch,except for the honney mooners,i have all there episodes

[@luisreyes1963]

Laceykat66 Especially Herb Shriner.

[@653j521]

richard joubert You are judging the tv from a decade that you never watched by a faded copy of a few introductions but without actual shows? Most people prefer what they knew as a child. So did you, it would seem. Endless versions of good vs evil, in Westerns, sci fi, cop shows, the airwaves flooded with cookie cutter replicas of hit shows, making adults scream, "What is with it with the networks?! Why do they all have to put on the same thing!" The 1950s had a lot of live work, a lot of experimental stuff, real innovation while learning the new medium. but little that has been saved in its original form. To my mind the best of the golden age included Burns and Allen. They had honed their act in Vaudeville, movies, and radio, and were ready to embrace another skill, tv. Theirs was a sitcom unlike any other. Not only did they mingle their fictional and real selves and lives, but George seamlessly moved in and out of the fictional world to talk with the audience or step over a low wall into the house. And Harry Von Zell or Bill Goodwin's commercials were incorporated into the plot! Here he is opening a briefcase, while talking with guests in the living room, in which he has a cake and a can of Carnation Condensed Milk! No one is surprised by this, just interested as he gives his heartfelt endorsement to this wonder product. He just as smoothly leaves the scene afterwards. They were absolute masters of the new craft. And then there was Ernie Kovacs who seemed to be everywhere in the 1950s offering his own brand of surreal zaniness, pushing the boundaries of tv. There were a lot of radio shows that moved to tv that you wouldn't appreciate because you weren't a fan from radio. Much changed to suit the new medium and audience were, among MANY others, Meet the Press, Guiding Light, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Amos and Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs, Father Knows Best, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Our Miss Brooks, Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour, Truth or Consequences, and The $64,000 question. In the genre of radio suspense and creepy stories was in 1959 on tv, The Twilight Zone. There was also live drama and great music--opera, symphonies, big band, but with the addition of visuals such as ballet and modern dance. Variety could now be shown on tv rather than merely heard on radio, and people could catch some of the flavor of the old vaudeville days of highly professional acts insanely mixed into one show, best presented by Ed Sullivan. For the children there were also programs from radio, like The Lone Ranger, Rin Tin Tin, or Superman. Adults weren't forced to watch kid shows after dinner when the powers that be said they must be kid rated. Comedians covered adult topics as they had on radio. It was a time of discovery. It was as exciting as the beginning of radio, movies, or the internet. People were finding out what the technology could do and were working diligently to make it do so much more, so that the 1960s tv looked and sounded completely different through the new cameras and microphone systems. But what tv gained in slickness it lost in character and optimism that it would change the world for the good. In 1961 Newton Minnow famously called it a wasteland, in his despair for unrealized potential, and censorship quickly squashed anyone who got out of line. The great days of exuberant joy with a new technology were over. It was now big business. We can see the same with the internet.

[@Laceykat66]

@@653j521 Um, ya, this is the internet. Isn't that how we are supposed to judge everything? I am an authority on 16 issues because of clickbait.

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

That theme for Paar is "Serenata"..quite a few people have recorded it - more often, it is an instrumental. But Johnny Hartman (hard to find), and Nat Cole recorded it as a vocal - I am sure sang the lyrics...

[@Juliaflo]

Sarah Vaughn sang it as well.

[@fromthesidelines]

1:53- "GERITOL! The high potency vitamin and iron tonic that helps you to 'FEEL STRONGER FAST'...presents the NEW 'HERB SHRINER SHOW'....!!!!" He was replaced by "TO TELL THE TRUTH" in December 1956.

[@chrisfischer4059]

Barry I. Grauman dx

[@luisreyes1963]

Herb Shriner. The corn-fed Conan O'Brien. 🌽

[@RSEFX]

Herb Shriner was hilarious. Very offbeat. We watched a couple of his shows not that long ago, and it was still funny---especially his supposed "home movies". Too bad he has been more or less forgotten.

[@TheOneTrueKaliban]

Patty McCormick in a series called 'Peck's Bag Girl.' That's frickin' TERRIFYING!!!!

[@memyname1771]

That was "Peck's Bad Girl" obviously a play on the name of a "Peck's Bad Boy" (Google him). I never heard of the show while watching lots of TV in the 1950s.

[@TheOneTrueKaliban]

@@memyname1771 Right, but...JEEZ! Oh, well. As long as they didn't call her, "RHODA!"

[@sandrasanders706]

Who was the kid who played her brother?

[@johnbockelie3899]

Peck's bad girl.

[@luisreyes1963]

​@@sandrasanders706 Ray Farrell

[@popcultureaddict733]

Anybody else notice that the theme song for "Keep It In The Family" was also used by "Married With Children"?

[@jamesmiller4184]

The Jackie Gleason show intro was accompanied by Ray Bloch (". . . the FLOWER of the musical world!") doing the theme. It was very different and more creative musically than was the later, Sammy Spear version. Unfortunately, in these latter days, we get way too much of The Honeymooners, and way too little The Jackie Gleason SHOW per se!!! We need more of Reginald van Gleason III - that madcap playboy, hands-down favorite of the New York 400! That bad-boy of N.Y. high culture possessed more technique and ways of getting booze, of chasing girls and delivering delightfully appropriate insults to his parents, and others, than have been seen-since, to this time! As regarding these special skills-all, Reggie's virtuosic aplomb and savoir faire have remained as unequaled! A short, smart example for the as-yet unclued: Reggie: "Mmmmm . . . there is only ONE THING BETTER than chasing girls!!! Worried commenter: "Uhh, what's THAT??? Reggie: "Mmmmmm . . . CATCHING THEM!!! New York is very much the poorer for Reginald's all-round lamented absence. . : .

[@codychristopher3744]

Yes I agree we need more of The Jackie Gleason Show Variety Format stuff like The June Tailor Dancers Musical Numbers, Jackie Gleason Monologues, Jackie Gleason Characters like Reginald Van Gleason The Thrid, The Poor Soul, Fenwick Babbit, Joe The Bartender, Rudy The Repairman, Charlie Bration The Loudmouth, Stanley R Sogg , and a few Guest Entertainers on The Show

[@codychristopher3744]

And also More of The Dorsey Brother's Stage Show as well but yeah

[@williamjones7163]

Andy Williams on the College Bowl. Geesh. The 1960 Dodge in 1957. The Jack Parr Show and General Eisenhower (not President Eisenhower, really dates this.) Keep It In The Family Gary Olson started announcing.

[@you99tubejimking]

Starting at 15:25, what TV show is that? (I don't think it's the same as the show following it at 15:57)

[@luisreyes1963]

It was The Web.

[@CrossJeniel]

Wow

[@johnnickle4180]

I bet pupi vampo knows what prune.juice does

[@larry1824]

So many were due to be blacklisted often on a rumor

[@ferociousgumby]

1:18 car is to die for

[@1L6E6VHF]

With no seat belts, no body reinforcement frame members, no anti-lock brakes, they may have been cars to die in😥

[@IngefromGraz]

TV was so much better in those days, nothing but garbage on the tube today.

[@victor-oq7dl]

Yes all I could get on my tube was fuzzy lines , purchased a new LCD much more choice.

[@robertc2397]

How can you advertise a 1957 Dodge and a 1960 Plymouth in the same program? Two different shows? I don't see a cut.

[@hebneh]

This is confusing but easily explained - the 1957 Plymouth’s ad slogan was “Suddenly, it’s 1960!’, meaning that the car looked so new and futuristic that it was three years ahead.

[@jefffriedberg]

Manno…except for The Jackie Gleason show, and maybe Lawrence Welk, I don’t remember ANY of these openings. Yet, I was there.

[@melodydelgado5211]

Yep. I get that something extra every time I drink it .

[@molinalong3468]

0:01 the group Same name sing Summertime summertime

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Bert Parks for decades hosted the Miss America Pageant, televised from Atlantic City.

[@VoightKampf]

And played Herb Tarlik's father on WKRP

[@amygrantthebestchristiansi3757]

WOW JACK PARR

[@stevendonrenz]

Evelyn Ward from the College Bowl was David Cassidy’s mother.?

[@breeinatree4811]

Yes

[@charlespiper9291]

Why doesn’t ME tv show any of these programs?

[@DucNguyen0131]

Can you do FRIDAY NIGHT TV - LATE FALL 1974! Late fall represented November-December. Lineup is the same as on standard fall 1974, except the ABC bit is modified, cutting away Kodiak and The Texas Wheelers and forced to place Kung Fu onto the 8pm slot sending The Six Million Dollar Man to 9pm. ABC 8:00pm Kung Fu 9:00pm The Six Million Dollar Man 10:00pm Kolchak: The Night Stalker CBS 8:00pm Planet of the Apes 9:00pm The CBS Friday Night Movie NBC 8:00pm Sanford and Son 8:30pm Chico and the Man 9:00pm The Rockford Files 10:00pm Police Woman

[@martynelson2666]

"its news to me"......john daly before whats my line!....all the cigarette ads!!!.........Paar,Gleason,Caesar....never to be seen again

[@postal_the_clown]

A sobering thought here but as of 2021, broadcast cigarette ads have been gone longer than they were ever on...Including radio.

[@queencerseilannister3519]

Betty Clooney... George's aunt. They're such a talented family

[@auapplemac1976]

and Rosemary Clooney's sister.