It's About Time - Episode 1, "I Don't Believe It" - Opening Scene

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SYNOPSIS:
“It’s about time. It’s about space. About two men in the strangest place.” Those catchy opening lines to the iconic theme song for It’s About Time primed Baby Boomers every Sunday night during the 1966 television season for a series unlike any other.
Created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz (Gilligan’s Island, The Brady Bunch), the time travel comedy stars Frank Aletter as Mac and Jack Mullaney as Hec, two astronauts who find themselves in prehistoric times after breaking the time barrier. Soon after landing, they meet Gronk (Joe E. Ross, Car 54 - Where are you?) and Shad (Imogene Coca, Your Show of Shows), two friendly cave people who find the ways of those from “the other side of the hill” strange but interesting.
A fish-out-of-water series in the vein of The Beverly Hillbillies and The Munsters, fans the world over will have the same reaction to this complete series collection of this rarely-seen show -- IT’S ABOUT TIME!
A 4-DVD Set.
BONUS FEATURE:
An interview with Pat Cardi who player “Breer” on It’s About Time

[@jimbritttn]

Now we know what was happening on the other side of Gilligan's Island!

[@treedweezle]

Lol 😂 🤣🤣

[@jeffbrown6599]

Great observation! 😂😂😂

[@thomasturner3583]

The series was created by Sherwood Schwartz, and used sets, props and incidental music from Schwartz's other television series in production at the time, Gilligan's Island.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

@@thomasturner3583 Did we see that capsule in Gilligan's Island, when the Russians landed in the lagoon? All I remember was that the inside of the Russian capsule was big (it was a room you could walk around in!) and there was a side table with a Samovar on it!!! The samovar chimney had a pipe on it that went to the wall, and presumably out into space??!!?? It puzzled me. To an engineer this capsule is hilarious, it's more like a tiny house with a door, it's funny to see how they caught the style of spacesuits (say) but they're still obviously props.

[@moviesgalore9947]

@@thomasturner3583 Yep the Scorpio EX1 space capsule was used in two Gilligan episodes first with the two Russian Cosmonauts then again as an un-manned capsule that landed in the lagoon.

[@58Giantsfan]

I haven’t seen that in over 55 years. Can’t believe I actually remember seeing it the first time it aired.

[@pzkw6759]

Same here. Damn, the memories I have of this.

[@00bikeboy]

@@pzkw6759 Same. KZbin has become my personal wayback machine!

[@jananney]

I’m 60, and I loved this show when I was a kid. Thanks for posting!

[@abundantYOUniverse]

Same

[@The_DC_Kid]

I'm 73 and these old TV programs and their actors keep popping into my mind; usually it's early Westerns. My first recollection of shows in the early '50s was Wild Bill Hickok (and his chubby sidekick, Jingles) and Annie Oakley. Currently I'm into Tales of Wells Fargo with Dale Robertson. Hadn't watched Alfred Hitchcock since it first ran but saw every episode last year. I wish all the old film had been preserved better; maybe they are in Heaven.

[@lynnbyrd9819]

How about Death Valley Days? Sponsored my 20 mule team Borax

[@jeremybear573]

I never threw the show existed until today! Thank you KZbin!

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Either did I. I wish I could go back.

[@johngarcia8827]

Yea And I was a TV kid in the 70s

[@jamesmoore3228]

Awesome! Finally after 50 years we can watch It's About Time again. Loved this show when I was a kid. Brings back a lot of good memories.. :)

[@toyoscio]

Nice to see a show without bed hopping.

[@LazyIRanch]

I was six when this show was on, and yes, I loved it! I'm surprised that the old film has held up. Many shows that didn't make it didn't get preserved, the ones on videotape almost never got saved. I love how bright the colors were in these old shows, many proudly had the Technicolor logo in the credits. My big brother would sing this theme song, but with changed lyrics that lead to me getting clobbered: "It's about time! It's about space! It's about time that I punch your face!"

[@robertphillips6296]

I remember this series.

[@AntonioShropshire]

Yes indeed I too remembered the Sherwood Schwartz series "It's About Time." I was 7yrs old when the show aired on CBS Sunday nights. Joe E. Ross & Imogene Coca starred in this delightful silly comedy that only had 13 episodes but I think that even though CBS changed the direction of the show, it could have there have been at least a second season. Anyway, at least we can savor the memories! 😃

[@alphonsocarioti512]

Schwartz got a lot of mileage out of that capsule!

[@daniel_O_Grady6816]

That show brings back a flood of memories.

[@ut000bs]

After all these decades I still remember some of the words of the song. _"It's about time. It's about space. It's about two men in the strangest place…"_

[@ThePwebb]

I had those lines in my head over the weekend, saying them over and over, trying to hear the melody, remember the song. I finally googled, and to my surprise, this show came up. For me, they were a couple of lines in a song by X, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts kzbin.info/www/bejne/j37Fn2aefNCjm9E It's clearly an homage to this show, a reference I didn't know existed.

[@virginia7890]

These shows were classics. Laughed so hard growing Kept us young laughing

[@zythr9999]

especially Imogene Coca

[@thomasthomas2418]

"It's about time, it's about space; It's about time I slapped your face!" Old schoolyard taunt back in the day.

[@harleygal420]

Lol..... I remember that.

[@TuttleCapt]

We did "It's about time to wash your face!"

[@brentcrude8153]

We said" "It's about you and your ugly face."

[@TonyBoyOhBoy]

We'd also sing, "It's about Jimmy's ugly face!" or the name of anyone you wanted to insult.

[@bigbadbamboo1]

I remember that from school in Florida

[@MrTroybear]

Wow, this just brought back a music memory... It's about time, it's about space. It's about two men, in the strangest place.

[@jpsned]

I remember my big sister watching this. I asked her the name of the show, and she said, "It's About Time." And I said, "I didn't ask you what it's about, I asked what the name of the show is!" 🙂

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Sounds like an Abbott and Costello routine!

[@jpsned]

@@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427 Ha! I never thought of that. You're right! 😄

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

I loved this show, and the theme song, which was often repeated on the playground; "it's about time, it's about space, it's about your ugly face..." is how it went.

[@johnterriwilliams8466]

or ... "It's about time, it's about space, it's about time to slap your face."

[@DylansPen]

I only remember the opening song from this as a kid, I was more Lost In Space and Star Trek. And I notice that the flag on their suits has 48 states. The one guy climbs out and hits the other guy in the head with the door, hilarious.

[@Chesscat2022]

My favorite tv show

[@allnyermind]

It's funny how you remember it as being so hilarious and you see it again as an adult ,you realize how stupid it really was.

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

It wasn't aimed at adults, stupid.

[@zythr9999]

The dance scene in the later episode was funny.

[@theoutcaste]

Yes. But remember, it was created, written, directed, acted, etc. by Adults.

[@OneWildTurkey]

But, we're so much more 'sophisticated' now.

[@David-yw2lv]

I hated it from the beginning

[@Buffalo-n2y]

I loved this show when i was a kid ❤

[@Fix3rJ0e]

I use to watch a lot of reruns of popular 60s shows growing up in the 80s. Heard about this one after watching Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood. I love how campy and silly this is. Reminds me of the old sitcoms I used to watch.

[@coolfeet77]

This show brings back memories of my childhood in the late 60s! Goofy but entertaining to watch then.

[@lynnbyrd9819]

I remember it as a 9-10 year old...especially the theme song.

[@winggullseagull1230]

I remember this TV show as a kid in the '60's & I enjoyed it mainly because of the T-Rex dinosaur. It was just as good as Gilligan's Island.

[@HailAnts]

Wow! This must be another show that was never syndicated. I grew up in the 70s watching almost nothing but high-concept 60s sitcoms, but until today I’d never even heard of this show!

[@brianmcdonald6519]

Only ran one season, that's why it was never syndicated.

[@ursafan40]

There is a good reason you never heard of it. Nobody watched it.

[@brianmcdonald6519]

@@ursafan40 Which, I guess, is why it only lasted one season!!

[@zythr9999]

​​@@ursafan40Yes they did it started out with strong ratings. Mr Schwartz admitted it came out to early and should have been released after the moon landing.

[@Isabella-nh5dm]

I remember watching this show. Loved it!

[@jujyfruit0]

I loved this show sooo much as a kid. Someone on FB just posted it.

[@MONGOOSE1ful]

Sherwood Schwartz's second TV series shot and filmed at CBS Studio Center with "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" and produced in association with United Artists Television (MGM owns this series and Warner Bros.Entertainment owns "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" through the 1986 acquisition of MGM/UA by Turner Program Services which Turner and Time Warner merged in 1996) this rare CBS sitcom from Fall 1966 was a strange oddity-was Schwartz thinking about science fiction or THE FLINTSTONES? hard to say, but at least this show is known for its catchy lyrics if anything! Frank Aletter at the time, was the husband of actress Lee Meriwether, who was working on ABC-TV's "THE TIME TUNNEL" that same fall season. after this CBS sitcom left the airwaves in 1967, Frank Aletter found himself on "Danger Island", the Richard Donner directed serial for NBC and Hanna-Barbera Productions' "THE BANANA SPLITS ADVENTURE HOUR" in 1968.

[@awesomemom533]

Thanks Joe you answered my question. I worked at CBS Studio Center in the 90’s. The “lagoon” from Gilligans Island was still there but just a bunch of overgrown brush. But it looks just like the place the rocket landed in this episode. I was only 3 in 1966 so I don’t remember ever seeing this show at all.

[@georgeevangel3233]

thought i felt an idiot "Sherwood Schwartz"

[@RogerArthur-z2v]

Was just a young boy but still remember this show

[@RandolphAgarn1]

This show finally came out on DVD and l bought it .

[@erinmefford8041]

Randolph Agarn I have never heard of this show till I saw cliff Norton’s bio I just watched him on a episode of bewitched

[@starey1]

one of the "fantasy sitcoms" of the 60s.

[@agalgonzalez]

The most underpowered landing craft ever! Was it thrown together by the bad folks at Boeing. No glass in the helmet, or decent jokes.

[@gk10002000]

Still remember the song. It's about time, it's about space, it's about two men in the strangest place

[@TheOther19]

1:58 best double take ever

[@jamesmurray8558]

The ship was used in Gilligan. My best was when they went back with the cave people.

[@lincbond442]

What do you get when you mix Gilligan's Island , I Dream of Jeannie, and Land of the Lost? This.

[@WhiteCamry]

Cavemen AND dinosaurs! I knew the Flintstones got it right!

[@roberthaworth8991]

Some years ago I heard a young female representative of Turner Network Television (TNT) tried to deflect then-current demands for more educational content on kids' TV. She contended that "The Flintstones", for ex., should be considered an educational program b/c it taught kids about history (!). When questioned by the press, it turned out she sincerely believed that cavemen and dinosaurs had lived together. She was just another dumb, if attractive, home-schooled Evangelical from the Atlanta area that was Turner's HQ.

[@RatKindler]

@@roberthaworth8991 That's nothing! Some years ago it was revealed that the Canadian minister of Science and Technology didn't know what evolution was. When pressed to explain his position on evolution, he clearly had no idea. It's one thing not be believe it (which he didn't), but he didn't actually know what it is.

[@harrylongabaugh7402]

@@roberthaworth8991 homeschooled kids are usually much more intelligent than government school educated kids.

[@3dartistguy]

thats the same space capsule they used on several episodes of Gilligans Island.

[@salparadise5335]

Same producer is why!

[@tuttt99]

Same sets and incidental music too.

[@teenagerinsac]

Scorpion X-1 Gilligans version :)

[@johnrusin4952]

What Gilligan would have been like if he had joined the space program and had become an astronaut

[@awesomemom533]

Was this filmed at CBS in Studio City? The place they landed looks just like the area used for the “lagoon” in Gilligan’s Island.

[@frankmilo4805]

The capsule looks for convincing, real and solid that the one they used during the 1969 moon landing.

[@williamfoster9039]

Better than today's crap!

[@zythr9999]

It sure ir

[@kerriehonsa9696]

Please bring back these great shows….. especially The Land of the Giants!

[@johnstorton]

I don't believe it!! "It's About Time" episodes! I don't believe it!!

[@dflf]

Ah...the lost art of the laugh track

[@HerrEllsworth]

I remember when there were whole episodes downloaded. I guess youtube took them down.

[@pauli6043]

The cheesiest show of all time. That canned laughter is just epic.

[@markboudreau1410]

I agree! It was Great!😄

[@jpsned]

Yeah, it sounds just like the laughter I hear on The Munsters. I wonder why... 😀

[@NASA_astronautHammockStepMom]

Seth MacFarlane's "The Orville" is a spoof of space travel and is really quite good.

[@SteveVallese]

Great show, so funny.

[@joeblow9210]

There were also really bad TV shows like this in the 1960s that lasted only one season. What I still mainly remember about it was the theme song and the kids changing the lyrics into funny rythmes.

[@xavierreivax9932]

even the space ship was used in an episode of gilligans island

[@TomMannis]

They think they're on another planet but leave the capsule with helmets open. LMAO.

[@thomasturner3583]

Born in 1964, I never heard of this show. I t was only on one year. Looks like a poor man's Gilligan's Island. The music is similar. Here is a copy and paste I found, after looking it up. The series was created by Sherwood Schwartz, and used sets, props and incidental music from Schwartz's other television series in production at the time, Gilligan's Island.

[@pmcmanus420]

Off all the U.S. networks back in the ‘60s CBS had the best VSTOL technology.

[@billyshepard5514]

Never heard of it. Looks like the Astronauts parts were originally for Gilligan and the Skipper

[@pettyofficerdan1807]

I remember this show from when I was a little kid. I actually remember that they ended the series with them back in the 20th century, but with some cavemen stowaways.

[@Raxian]

No Radiation! No Electric field! But...Oxygen? Corrosives?

[@tackyman2011]

Space fleas?

[@ApeLikeCreature]

And their helmets were open as they were checking.

[@lezzman]

They test the atmosphere by breathing it...if they don't die, they know it's safe. 😁

[@JayLeslie-v5j]

gilligans isle!

[@Robert-f6o2h]

Is this the same space ship that was on a Gilligan’s Island episode?

[@runswithwolf7498]

Wow ! Forgot about this show. Hey MeTv here's an idea for programming

[@waltergastiger]

theyed should had one the Gilligan Isle show,it woulded be different and the Astronaunt trying to rescue them and theyed couldn;t.

[@nickhill8612]

Haha that's a great idea. Somehow this popped up on my recommendations and I'm glad.

[@nickhill8612]

Good idea

[@billsomervell7251]

Such fond memories of this show! I was 11 and really enjoyed it, but was so bummed when it didn't come back the following year. Instead, we were stuck with 'Lost in Space' & Gilligan's Island, such corny shows. However, Star Trek definitely assuaged some of the disappointment! The two astronauts interaction seemed almost an identical mirroring of Gilligan & the Skipper!

[@Texasjim2007]

Actually more like Major Nelson and Major Heally on "I Dream of Jeannie" especially after they brought the cave family back to 1967 and had to hide them from their military superiors at NASA for some insane sixties sitcom logic I was never able to understand.

[@thomasturner3583]

The series was created by Sherwood Schwartz, and used sets, props and incidental music from Schwartz's other television series in production at the time, Gilligan's Island.

[@pilotmark2861]

Looks like the same part of Gillian’s Island

[@richardwilcoxen8355]

Richard Donner, Hahahaha!

[@allanegleston4931]

same here .

[@dopplerdog6817]

I grew up with canned laughter and at the time it was unnoticeable. I now hear it and... it's so distracting.

[@brianarbenz1329]

It was needed so the viewers would know a line was funny and they were to laugh!

[@huntercressall9728]

Beautiful transfer. Not from the negative...what was this preserved on?

[@ClassicFlix]

We didn't transfer them ourselves as masters for this show were existing transfers we licensed from MGM and we don't know what they used.

[@DM-it9pi]

For years, people had to watch faded, red 16mm prints transferred to VHS of this show. They look beautiful now.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

I recognize that set. So Schwartz only had two hit show in his entire career? This wasn't one of them I take it.

[@winggullseagull1230]

I saw this show in the '60's it only lasted 1 season. As a kid I liked it.

[@zythr9999]

It was a hit the first few episodes. He admitted it should have come out after the moon landing, then it probably would have done better.

[@tuttt99]

OK Jack can you give us your best Bob Denver impersonation please?

[@kevinpyne5808]

Dinosaurs and cave man did not co-exist. Surprised they would even attempt selling that even in an idotic comedy.

[@gispel7058]

Somewhat similar to Gilligans Island. Same producer and look to it.

[@Martin48964]

The CBS executives hated Gilligans Island. I find it hard to believe they green lighted this series. Not only did they have one series that they were embarrassed about now they had two. As an audience we fell in love with the characters from GI. But this series was just plan dumb! The retooled second half was even worse! But CBS got their revenge on Sherwood. Both series were cancelled at the end of this season. Although GI should have gone on for at least on more season.

[@markditoro8836]

The dinosaur was from The Beast of Hollow Mountain.

[@georgeevangel3233]

This is what us 8 year olds thought of grown-ups

[@Youtuber-xi6qo]

Crash is back and

[@MickPosch]

There was a cave woman named Shag. After the first few episodes, I thought it was weird that they were now calling her Shad. It would be decades later when I saw Austin Powers that I realized why they changed the name!

[@eloiseockert9233]

I thought Bob Denver was in it

[@vickiemerton4049]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nowdid]

I wanna stick to you like an extra layer of skin Will somebody please make that a meme

[@LoveMyCountryAussie]

The lefties dogooders would not like that 2018 ,there are white ,

[@scooterdooter]

@@LoveMyCountryAussie Us centrists are getting sick of political extremism. You have no place on this forum, period!!!

[@americantoycoon9206]

They totally recycled the Gilligan's Island set! Same palm trees and lagoon.

[@brotherlonewolf4182]

I like poached dinosaur eggs; I eat them all the time.

[@georgekilroy2670]

Same producer as Gilligan

[@daveharvey7602]

Some of the scenery from the past looks very similar to The Gilligan set.

[@teenagerinsac]

Stupid looking spaceship :) That was the best they could do :)

[@billday6744]

Is that Jerry Van Dyke ?

[@zythr9999]

No

[@middleagenerd]

You also realize GILLIGAN'S ISLAND was high art in comparison.

[@davidreed4722]

same laugh-trak as Gilligan's Island

[@jpsned]

And The Munsters 🙂

[@Christopher-hx6xm]

Studios are cheap they save everything, while you got the crane might as well use it,same music from Gilligan's island

[@bobbrawley2612]

Pretty terrible but know it get better

[@FineArtVideo]

OK, I get that it's a cheesy sci fi show, but dinosaurs were long extinct before humans evolved.

[@toyoscio]

ooh ooh

[@nealrose7582]

Same capsule the Russians had in that episode of Gilligan's Island. Lots of things from Gilligan's Island appeared here first.

[@paulmedina3811]

It's about time you washed your face my dad used to say