Channeling 1965 TV (with rare intros, promos and sponsor tags)

FredFlix: Where you were 50 years ago.

[@alanhumphrey4198]

Born 1955..and remember all of this so very well...I know I watched too much TV as a kid!!!

[@starmnsixty1209]

Same here

[@saintmichael1779]

I still get teared up when Linus recounts the Christmas story.

[@allenjones3130]

Linus's recitation of the Christmas story is one of the greatest moments in the history of television.

[@michaelmoore7337]

When tv was fun to watch !

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

Yeah back in the day when they had quality programming. Now TV's pretty much unwatchable.

[@lizbarnett9197]

The year I was born! My mom watched “Days of our Lives” while she was preggos with me.

[@cheriecraighead1502]

I was born in 1965 too

[@michellepost1016]

I was in kindergarten in 1965, but watched many of these shows.I remember all those ads, too.Our console TV set was b/w, so I never saw color TV shows until around 1973.Up until about 1980, there was only 3 or 4 channels, and roof antennas.We had to leave our chairs to turn the channel knob.All you did was plug the TV in an outlet and attach the antenna wire to the back of the tv, and it was ready.I was age 30 before I used a TV remote.Our TV basic cable operated through a box that had a channel knob on it, and remotes wouldn't work to turn a knob.We never thought anything of any of that, it was simply how it was then.

[@dougtagg9162]

I remember cartoons like the flinstones were in prime time.

[@johnminehan1148]

I remember watching A Charlie Brown Cristmas back in 1965 . . . .

[@LynxSouth]

Yes, so do I. I was 6, and didn't realize it was the program's premiere. I still love to see their little mouths all singing (and taking a breath) together. And it was the beginning of my love affair with Snoopy. We both love to decorate trees.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

I was 8 when it first aired and I saw it for the first time.

[@hermanator74301]

" Cristmas "...' Christmas' you moron.

[@abundantlyblessed9201]

I was a tot and TV was one big fascinating machine!

[@ZnenTitan]

Abundantlyblessed And the world was new and beckoning.

[@marystar6021]

@@ZnenTitan - Beautifully expressed💐!

[@ZnenTitan]

@@marystar6021 Thank you!

[@johnbockelie3899]

Lots.of choking smoking comercials

[@RussellFlowers]

I didn't know that "Ralph" muppet went back that far! Edit - from Wikipedia: Despite Kermit the Frog often being credited as the iconic Muppet, Rowlf was actually the first known Muppet "star" as a recurring character on The Jimmy Dean Show, first appearing in a telecast on September 26, 1963.

[@ScratchGlass9]

Wow ..#3 Dick McAuliff, our Tigers 2nd baseman !! Will never forget his "foot in a bucket" swing... miss you Dad ! Thanks for this great trip back, again.

[@stevefilice9784]

Holy smokes! This sure took me back! What a great time to be 10 years old!

[@LynxSouth]

Yea, Rowlf! @3:15 And the first Charlie Brown Christmas! I was there. Thank you , Fred.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

I saw it the first time it aired too.

[@Rangersly]

1965, the year I was born. I don't know how you manage to find these, but keep them coming! Your are rapidly becoming my favorite channel on KZbin! I love the feeling and the sound of old tv shows and commercials.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Rangersly. They will keep coming, as I have at least a dozen new videos already finished and ready to roll out in the coming weeks.

[@LtJackboot]

Also the year of my birth- I remember Christmas 1965. I was 8 moths old.

[@ourtravelingzoo3740]

Me too.

[@davidbowden270]

Me too Rangersly

[@poppylove3673]

Sylvester Puddy-Tat I know, I wish I could remember more about my earliest days better too. I think if there’s pictures to be able to look at, it helps remembering. I use to love looking through family photo albums at our grandparents, and ones that my parents had of us growing up. Unfortunately, I don’t know what happened to family photos. I would like to do something special for each of our kids, making them each a book of their growing up. Instead of photo albums, now you can actually have your pictures copied onto pages, adding whatever comments or stories, poems whatever along with pictures, and made into a hard cover bound book! It’s something I really need to get busy doing, this is a great reminder, and now I need to figure out how to get pictures off a couple of my old phones I’ve saved, that didn’t get loaded onto our computer, and so, thanks for bringing this up, I am going to get working on doing something with our pictures. I hope you are able to get a hold of your family pictures too. In the past, helping my husbands mom and my parents move, I tried to salvage some older pictures that I found in their basements, which weren’t in great condition, but fun to see what we could, and I think older pictures can be restored more so now, that is if we manage to get whatever pictures that other family members might have. Here’s to good memories.

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

So much wonderful stuff! Anne Francis...WOW!!! And now I know why the music ebbs off, at the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas, when shown these days. Thanks for including that, since I had never seen that before (It being shown my first Christmas time, born in May of this year).

[@FredFlix]

Just saw this. Thanks, Cap.

[@susanjohnson7679]

Funniest scene from Wild Wild West! My sister and I loved it. Lost in Space...THE BEST!

[@nancyschremmer5480]

So.... when the "Jello" commercial segment came on... I was actually eating a bowl of lime Jello :-)

[@arlenemielczarski5974]

I was 7 years old and remember a lot of these shows. My father loved watching "Combat". I remember all the cigarette commercials. i remember when most of the t.v. channels would go off the air around 3 or 4 a.m. with the station identification and then come back at 6 a.m. with the Star Bangle Banner. My favorite shows were Batman and Lost in Space. Many of these shows are on MeTV now. Lost in Space is on Saturday night on MeTV at 1 a.m. on Spectrum (and maybe Fios) along with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants and The Time Tunnel. They might have ran "It's about Time" in the past too. Antennae and MeTV brings me back to my childhood. I'm still glad they kept these shows alive in the archives.

[@elc1960]

Barry Gordon, the voice of the Cheerios Kid, was the kid who recorded "I'm Gettin' Nuttin' for Christmas." As an adult he was a cast member of "Fish," the Abe Vigoda spinoff from "Barney Miller." I learned recently that Ross Martin of "The Wild Wild West" was the original voice of Punchy in the Hawaiian Punch commercials. You showed "Days of Our Lives"; now in 2022 you have 4 soaps remaining on the air: "General Hospital" on ABC, "The Young & the Restless" and "The Bold & the Beautiful" on CBS, and NBC is still airing "Days" after 57 years on the air.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Ah yes! The 60's! A great time to be a kid!

[@markjeffels3327]

I love the Mustang commercial and I didn't know Linda Evans was so beautiful!!

[@maxnullifidian]

I was 8 years old when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, and I was not impressed. What with all the girls in the audience - and my little sister - screaming their heads off, I couldn't hear a thing the band was playing! LOL

[@kingbee1500]

Fred, you were right on the "Jimmy Dean Show" clip-this is the ABC Dean show. And wasn't Honey West (Anne Francis) HOT beyond description? Yesssss....

[@FredFlix]

Especially in Forbidden Planet. Thanks for the Jimmy Dead info.

[@unearthlydelights5346]

King Bee Anne Francis...hubba hubba...small wonder daddy kept that planet forbidden...

[@keithnoriego6465]

Born 1965 also, Actually last day of"65", Never Heard of Honey West, pretty hot for that era!..

[@richardjoubert7452]

I used to drink tang when I was a kid,and I loved lost in space,and the wild wild west

[@ThePatty2304]

The year I was born! Thank you for posting this!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Patricia.

[@kentarnold8179]

Wow! Thanks so much Fred. I was 7 and my twin brother, older sister, mom and dad all gathered in the den to watch Saturday nights lineup. I remember sitting at my dad's feet propped up against his recliner. All those great comedies would have pop laughing so hard he was crying. Thanks again Fred for all those great memories you helped bring to the front of my mind!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Kent.

[@haroldmiller8930]

Rfd-tv is showing the Jimmy Dean show at 6 pm central time Sunday night. On charter cable it's channel 138.

[@br8605]

I really enjoyed this one. The "Lost in Space" mix was great and very nice to close out on the end credits for "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Good job!

[@FredFlix]

Just saw this. Thanks, Brian.

[@wandaperi]

Nobody:Mel Brooks: *"Jews in Space"*

[@finch45lear]

Fred this channel has jarred my memory like no other. I'm amazed how many shows and personalities were in the recesses of my mind that would have never seen the light again but for your time trip here . Wow. And thank you !

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Jimmy.

[@joeblow7034]

i watched a lot of these groing up in australia as a kid

[@rdg5233]

wow it's like I just stepped into a time machine all these old memories rushing back thanks so much for this post it really brought warmth to my heart !

[@FredFlix]

That's what FredFlix is here for. Check out all my other videos for more warmth!

[@philmfan]

One of your best compilations. Flowed nicely. Great Mustang commercial. I think that was child actor Barry Gordon doing the voice of the Cheerios Kid. His movie A Thousand Clowns came out in '65, too. Great year for TV. It was maybe the first full year I was conscious because I remembered much of that even though I probably haven't seen it since. Best year for Lost in Space, even though it was B&W, back when they tried to be somewhat serious. I remember even as a kid thinking it got too goofy later on.

[@FredFlix]

Thanks for your comments. As much as he gave us, Irwin Allen didn't really respect the intelligence of his audience the way Gene Roddenberry did.

[@ECheatwood1]

Thank you for that. 1965 was the year I was born and love to see how those days were.

[@Lafayette320]

It's interesting that despite the greatness of most of these programs, which were broadcast on the abc Television Network, abc was consistently number 3 in the ratings.

[@jehobden]

Thanks for posting this. WFAA-TV, channel 8 in Dallas, still has the same call letters & ABC affiliation. I figure as a larger market station, it carried ABC's color programs in color. A few years earlier many ABC affliates (and CBS & a few NBC affiliates) in smaller markets didn't have the ability to carry color programs, even to pass through network color programs. WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV), channel 5, NBC affiliate out of Ft. Worth, was colorcasting going back to 1954, even before NBC that did very much. If you see the NBC coverage of the JFK Assassination, you can see the local updates from WBAP-TV in color, while all the other NBC coverage was in B&W, at least for the first 2 hours. The man giving some of these updates, Charles Murphy, said on a local program on the 50th anniversary coverage in 2013 that NBC asked WBAP-TV to stop broadcasting its local coverage in color, as it was embarrassing the network, at least for those people who had color tvs in 1963.

[@bryansikes6443]

Lost In Space🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 My Dad Brought Me Into It!!!!

[@thebes56]

I was 11 yrs old. Take me back!

[@daveerhardt1879]

I love the video with Dick McAuliffe hitting a home run in the 1965 All Star game. One of my favorite players on the Detroit Tigers, they were my favorite team growing up.

[@Mr22thou]

You sure packed a lot of my 9 year old memories into that 14 mins. Thanks Fred.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, mr22thou.

[@maxinehead8046]

I was 9 yrs. old, too!

[@maxinehead8046]

Whoops sorry....I was 10 years old.

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

Love it !! Take me back to yesterday!!

[@budgarner3522]

Stations didn't run Thunderbirds when I was young. Was still looking for Fireball XL 5 and Supercar to come back from Gerry Anderson. And thanks for adding Honey West and Jimmy Dean and the Wild, Wild West.

[@JennieWrenStar]

My Granddaughter, born in 2013; loves the same Cheerios!

[@Agent-xn1hr]

Anne Francis was beautiful but I had such a crush on June Lockhart and even bigger crush on Eva Gabor. She was unbelievably gorgeous

[@ZnenTitan]

Agent 86 Honey West did it for me, also Emma Peel from the Avengers.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Eva Gabor was the idol of my youth! She is still my idol 24 years after she went off to TV Heaven. To me, EVA GABOR STILL LIVES!

[@andrewthornhill7042]

Oliverrrrr..... !

[@JeffM---]

Thank you, that was awesome!!! I am in New Zealand, and we had most of these, but not all.

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome, Jeff.

[@guyonamotorcycle1]

Really good stuff here! Thanks!

[@FredFlix]

You're welcome!

[@smittykins]

Back when stars would do promos for individual stations.

[@dadoctah]

Although it doesn't sound like Anne Francis's heart was really in it. (I'll cut her a little slack though. Probably the 43rd station promo she had to shoot that day.)

[@paskuniag]

I won't complain about the lack of color, since this is how I saw these shows back then, anyway. And I did watch many of them.

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

We got our first color TV in 1965. An RCA console.

[@solepropt]

@@dr.migalitoloveless1651 We were in the Army in Kentucky 1965-66 (my Dad was that is) and with 3 kids couldn't afford a color TV on a Sargent's pay but I had a friend down the street whose Parents had one. The first thing I ever saw in color was Beanie and Cecil.

[@markforrest5599]

Aaaaah...Inger Stevens and June Lockhart...

[@yanknoz9710]

Thanks, Fred, just awesome. Always such a pleasure to view. All the best mate. (Really miss those Charlie Brown specials at Christmas)

[@ourtravelingzoo3740]

I remember sitting in my high chair watching Andy Griffith show

[@crossroads9579]

Boy, do i miss my child hood.

[@shibolinemress8913]

How I LOVED the Thunderbirds! 😀

[@pretorious700]

The Beatles sounded great live.

[@markforrest5599]

"Thunderbirds" are the best!!!...and I'd forgotten that Robert Conrad (Jim West in "The Wild Wild West") had some pretty serious hair game goin' on...you could bounce quarters off that head, no problem...

[@FredFlix]

The west wasn't so wild if he could keep that coiffe going.

[@solepropt]

I never got to see them or SuperCar but I loved Fireball XL5.

[@johnwagner4776]

I was too young then to appreciate Honey West.

[@steerpike1359]

I just watched the episode shown in the thumbnail yeaterday ! It is from an episode of Lost in Space. That is Michael Rennie in a guest appearance as The Keeper !

[@binklebabe4725]

The classier episode of LIS!

[@clutchcargo2419]

I'm from dallas - wfaa - remember these shows . thx again fred. You and i are about the same age. Love your channel.

[@kerryincolumbus]

MAN that was GREAT!

[@FredFlix]

Thanks, Kerry.

[@luisreyes1963]

'twas the year my big brother was born. Never knew they had color programming that soon. Thanks, FredFlix! 📺

[@jenniecosio3654]

Omg too funny remember these

[@raynardabraham7831]

Wow Anne Francis & Inger Stevens back to back Friday Nights on ABC, that was really something to look foward to.

[@ronaldjeffers2415]

What a magnificent video the year of 1965 I was just 5 years old it was a year of love and happiness it was a year that everyone had a job it was a wonderful year when my mom and dad was alive thank you for this wonderful video

[@BruceMusto]

It's funny, sometimes I remember the commercials more than I do the show. Probably a result of my Dad having control of the remote, my brother and I being the remote, during prime time hours.

[@maxinehead8046]

Thank you soooo much! I was only 10, but I remember every one of them!

[@scratchdog2216]

Born in '65.

[@larryshaver3568]

SO glad the farmer's Daughter was done in color that year

[@timeomyside]

Nice look back; when something for everyone on TV...

[@starmnsixty1209]

Classic year for TV 📺

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

In Canada we were flooded with US shows:i wanted to be Sergeant Saunders!

[@JennieWrenStar]

Thanks again Fred.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

I was only 8 back in 1965. I became a fan of a new show that year called Green Acres. I didn't become a Green Acres fan until April of 1966 with the Molly Turgis episode.

[@berniemcfadden7760]

Wow! Where do you find these things?! I was 10 yrs old in "65" and had the biggest crush on Anne Francis! She was gorgeous! Thanks for the sweet memories

[@zappasmustache]

Harvey B don't need no seat belt! That's how HE rolls!

[@RobertLofrano]

Best thing I have seen lately 🤣

[@ZnenTitan]

The guy looking over the Mustang at the Ford dealership is like a Walter Mitty version of Mr Bean.

[@binklebabe4725]

I want to go "home!" to 1965! This was the first year of "DOOL," which debuted in November. It was only 15 minutes long. Fifty-four years later, I still record it!

[@hermanator74301]

" DOOL " ??? What was that? Are you trying to say 'duel' and just can't spell or what?

[@binklebabe4725]

@@hermanator74301 DOOL is the commonly used acronym for "Days of Our Lives."

[@solepropt]

@@binklebabe4725 Men don't know that kind of stuff. At least not ones our age.

[@sheriheffner2098]

My mom used to love watching those Elvis Presley movies. I never thought he was that good of an actor and I never cared for his singing either.I used to love DOOL as a teenager in junior high school. I used to "Feel sick." about 12 and call my mom to come pick me.up from school. She would get mad and cuss about me wanting to see that "Damn soap opera." but she liked her own damn soap operas, Search For Tomorrow and As The World Turns and Guiding Light.

[@MosaicRose99]

I remember all of us girls in the third grade thought Honey West was so cool. :)

[@FredFlix]

But not the guys. She was "too old."

[@ZnenTitan]

That's because she was!

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

Honey West was HOT

[@jimster46]

the Jimmy Dean show came on in 1963

[@araymond1able]

Who could forget Jimmy Dean Sausage 🐷

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

@@araymond1able It's still available today and it's still really good. I like it with tater tots.

[@donaldcrabtree6259]

Again...well done!

[@TimelordR]

Honey West would have gone on longer had it not had its cute little butt handed to them by an inane CBS sitcom, Gomer Pyle USMC.

[@ZnenTitan]

TimelordR Yah, ain't it awful? Also in '67 they imported The Avengers in colour and it cost less than to make Honey West.

[@johnminehan1148]

Also, Burke's Law failed when re-tooled as Amos Burke, Secret Agent, so . . . .

[@solepropt]

Yep! Gomer was on,on that night in our house.

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

I wasn't even a dirty little thought in my daddy's mind yet!

[@sheriheffner2098]

I would love to know much a 65 Mustang would have cost. Remember Larue drove on on Gidget. And I still love watching A Charlie Brown Christmas and Lost In Space.

[@steerpike1359]

3:20 It's muppett Rowlph ! Very early muppett footage !

[@fromthesidelines]

Rowlf was Jimmy's "buddy" during his ABC variety show.

[@LynxSouth]

I liked Jimmy Dean, but I adored Rowlf. I'd still like to meet him. : ) Did you watch him from the beginning, too?

[@fromthesidelines]

I was a bit too young to stay up to see Jimmy. ;)

[@LynxSouth]

@@fromthesidelines Yeah, I was allowed to stay up a few minutes past bedtime, until 8:15, to see Rowlf. I remember more than once dragging my feet up the stairs because he hadn't been on yet. OTOH, maybe you were young enough to enjoy Muppets on Sesame Street. I was Too Old for such kid stuff by then, don't ya know! ; )

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

@@fromthesidelines I watched Jimmy Dean's syndicated series in the '70s; I had heard that he had had a show on ABC, but I didn't get to see it until a few years ago, when it re-ran on RFD-TV. It came to me at just the right time; I love classic country music.

[@robertmcintire9776]

Tang instant breakfast drink was chosen for the NASA Gemini astronauts.

[@troyturner173]

FYI-Days Of Our Lives is still on the air, celebrating its 53rd anniversary this last November. While the original title graphic is correct, I believe the original hourglass was squattier and sat on a table. The taller hourglass against the solid background (blue, now CGI brown/gold) debuted for the 71/72 season, IIRC

[@LimitlessThinker]

I loved Robert Conrad in the Wild Wild West!

[@mikebond6681]

Good stuff!!!!!

[@kenkthesensai4145]

Who knew that Elvis had a weekly show? Not me!

[@hermanator74301]

He didn't have a t.v. show. That was an ad for an Elvis movie shown on a movie of the week type of format. Gosh,you're dumb.

[@yournamehere1886]

@KenK TheSensai~He didn't, it was a promo for his movie "Kid Galahad" that was airing on Television...

[@charlesmento5968]

The Keeper promo was made a few years ago, it was NEVER aired on TV this way. Ever.

[@lyndahammond8883]

That was fun!

[@StanKelley]

One could argue that Detroit's circa 1955 to 1976 obsession with fluff and emotion, typified by this flimflam Mustang spot- cost them their #1 position in auto making. Like many things, impossible to prove or disprove- you can't replay history with different choices.

[@rhodes6840]

The shaver on the JD commercial seems to be from the early 1960s just going by the ad

[@debbiewestphal4291]

That was fun thanks 👍😃

[@johnd.1849]

Honeywest should have been a huge hit.

[@starmnsixty1209]

A few years ahead of it's time I guess 🙁

[@ferociousgumby]

The Flintstones really stretched it in the last couple of seasons. That Gazoo guy was the worst.

[@luisreyes1963]

That & the forced celebrity appearances did the show in.

[@AdmiralNelson1000]

Wild Wild West finished it off.

[@Tmetrvlr]

It was the Jimmy Dean Show (1963-66)....

[@armeswilli01]

An den Homerun erinnere ich mich noch ganz genau

[@gerrynightingale9045]

*The blonde girl behind 'EP' @**4:55** was one of his 'Girlfriends of the Month'...she went sailing with him and played tennis frequently...he 'liked' her because not only was she 'Hot' she was also quite an athlete* (maybe the novelty of being with a '6-ft. Tomboy' got to be too much for him and he felt threatened by a woman that was his physical equal in sports and likely too 'demanding' in bed for his ego)

[@sixtieskid062]

Good video, but no reference to "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." ?

[@FredFlix]

I can see why you're asking and there is a reason: My "Channeling" videos are not comprehensive. They're just a sampling. However, if you watch my other videos, such as Top 25 Shows From 1964, Man From UNCLE is all over the place.

[@colinfield981]

I was there!