Memories of WNEW Channel 5 - New York !!!

Remembering the golden days of TV watching !!!

[@lguzmn66lg]

Thank You! I needed that. Great times for tv and being home.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks so much for watching :)

[@kathy07002]

I loved WNEW and watched it everyday! Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker, many shows..

[@Johnnyboy792]

Great times for a kid !!!

[@stripervince1]

grew up on Staten Island. remember all of these plus more in the 60s and 70s

[@Johnnyboy792]

+stripervince1 Thanks for watching Vince !!!

[@vicmartinoofficial331]

I grew up watching WNEW TV Channel Five here in New York City. WNEW was one of my all time favorite television stations. I really enjoyed watching this video posting of yours here "Johnnyboy" as well as your WPIX TV posting. Another one of my all time favorite's. Ah yes those were the days as the saying goes. Those days are gone but the memories remain.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Many thanks my friend... all the best !!!

[@vicmartinoofficial331]

@@Johnnyboy792 Same to you my friend.

[@mauriciobeltre14]

Lucy....funniest woman in the world. Thanks Johnnyboy. This took me to a warm happy time. I want to get rid of my cell, my 900 channels, my remotes, and return there.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks so much for you comments Mauricio !

[@atrocchia]

I remember in the late 1970's and early 1980's, WNEW would show Little Rascals, Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, and I Love Lucy starting at 4:30 PM weekdays. I would watch everyday after school.

[@Johnnyboy792]

The best of times wasn't it LOL :)

[@JerseyGurl4Life]

Here's one of the things I remember about Channel 5 "IT'S 10PM. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?"

[@Johnnyboy792]

+MightyMite You've got a good memory MM :)

[@JerseyGurl4Life]

:-) I remember a lot about the Good Ole Days.

[@marybranicki2859]

MightyMite OMG !! They said that into the early 80’s and I am blessed I have it on VHS when I was tapping a movie back then Miss those simple things

[@thowen1988]

I remember that in the 1970s and early 1980s, too

[@TheGeneralgene]

Do you remember when the news announcer said "It's 10 pm. Do you know where your husband is?" Don't remember his name but absolutely hysterical!

[@berjaboy]

During the mid 60s to late 70s I lived in Belleville NJ, about 20 miles outside NYC. We had great TV reception out of NYC, getting channels, 2 CBS, 4 NBC, 5 WNEW, 7 ABC, 9 WOR, 11 WPIX and 13 which was PBS. There were also some UHS channels we got also. For some reason I remember the TV being better back then, far less channels but there was always something to watch. But Saturdays were my favorite. That's when all the Sci Fi movies were on, which I loved! Creature Feature, Chiller Theater. Great memories. Thanks for uploading.....

[@laurie2346]

Isn't it funny how we had so few stations but so much more to watch

[@queenofkingsbury]

Yes, so much good programing. Not watered down shows to fill the time slot. Just watch cable news channels now, they have to "make up" the news to fit into 24/7 of news programing. There really isn't enough quality to fill all of the channels they have now with good programs. Back in the 70s it was cutting edge, strategic plots to keep you tuned in.

[@boobzac]

On VHS I could get 21 from Plainview LI, 31 from Bridgeport Conn & I think it was 29 from Patterson NJ.

[@jsl151850b]

@@boobzac I think you meant UHF. VHF-Lo 2 - 6 54 - 88 MHz VHF-Hi 7 - 13 174 - 216 MHz UHF 14 - 69 470 - 806 MHz

[@jsl151850b]

@@boobzac I think you meant UHF. VHF-Lo 2 - 6 54 - 88 MHz VHF-Hi 7 - 13 174 - 216 MHz UHF 14 - 69 470 - 806 MHz

[@eric1evan21]

It is apparent to me that Johnnyboy792 grew up in front of the TV EXACTLY as I did. I grew up in Warwick, NY. Born in 57. This vid was great. Thanks Johnnyboy792!!!!

[@wlhardy]

My mother's parents lived in northern NJ in the 1960s & got all the NYC channels. My siblings & I loved going there so we could watch local shows such as Birthday House (with Paul Tripp), Soupy Sales, Chuck McCann, Sandy Becker, Wonderama, Gigantor, Astroboy. Such happy memories and good times!

[@Johnnyboy792]

There were great times.... if you haven't seen it check out the WPIX vid :):):)

[@wasteland70]

At 45, all I want is to have a sweet case of the flu, be 10 years old and watch the old NY stations.

[@Johnnyboy792]

LOL... ah memories... a TV set and a Yodal in my hand... and the world was wonderful. Thanks so much :)

[@Desstrik]

+Johnnyboy792 Thank you for your channel, it's one of the greats on YT.

[@matthewbriggs8081]

We had too actually stand up too change channels,!

[@matthewbriggs8081]

Johnnyboy792 We had too actually stand up too change chanels

[@puplover7991]

OMG...yodels!!! I loved them so much!!!:)

[@rangers199487]

Very poetic johnny. We cant turn back the clock. But we can enjoy some of those memories thanks to you.

[@jm1551701]

I thank you for these posts of great memories from our past I can still see myself in the 70s when I was very young sitting in front of the TV I did switch back and fourth from 5 to 11 and sometimes channel 9 to, specially if I was home from school I was only 7 in 72 and I remember all these shows, I remember a show called Room 222 even though I did not like it to much because it reminded me of school even though I was only in the 1st or 2nd grade, what memories thanks again, and I have to say this brought a tear to my eye, I truly miss those days, I would do all again if I could.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks for watching Joe !!!

[@shibolinemress8913]

When I was a kid we lived just across the border in NJ from 1967 to 1972 and got WNEW radio and TV. I remember those shows, and hearing Willam B. Williams on the radio. Thanks so much for the memories!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Many thanks !!! :)

[@tonyfromconey2164]

Great memories from a much, much nicer time. Thanks for posting.

[@JohnOlson]

Great videos. Missed The Bob Newhart show and my favorite as a kid, The Carol Burnett show.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

Bob Newheart was reran on NBC Ch. 4

[@jackjackson1591]

If you were an NYC market kid, you knew WNEW (Channel 5)...Great memories. I actually had tickets to be in the audience for Sandy Becker but could find no way to get to the studio...Parents were working and it was just 'Sorry...'. Harlan - Sandy Becker had a daily kids show - skits, puppets and old cartoons. Hambone, Norton Nork, the Old Professor were all his. He did a really good job of comforting and explaining the Kennedy assassination to us young ones.

[@geo386]

I could get channel 5 New York in my parents attic mid afternoon or late at night. Crosswits was my favorite. Thanks for bringing a tear to my eye. So nostalgic

[@geo386]

***** Your welcome, great to see you keeping the bygone days around.

[@geo386]

Wow, haven't been called that since I was a kid visiting my Aunt.😄

[@josephuspmarra9065]

Thank You for posting this! When I was a kid, I loved watching WNEW Channel 5. My happiest childhood memories were watching I Love Lucy, Bewitched, The Mother's In-Law , Hazel, My Three Sons, Lost In Space, The Flintstones, Bugs Bunny and Wonderama with Bob McAllister. Kids today in 2016 don't know anything about good TV!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks Joe ! I also have a WPIX one too. Hope some of these videos bring back memories. Thank you - JB

[@gdsegel1]

So glad I saw this. So many memories coming flooding in. My dad worked for WNEW in the 50's, 60's and very early 70's in many capacities. Master Control (broadcasting of shows), Wonderama, Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox and Soupy Sales Show as a stage manager among many other roles. After moving out west to Hollywood, my dads fondest memories are still of the earlier years of television, especially New York where he got his start and left so many friends. Thanks!

[@Johnnyboy792]

+Gregg Segel That must have been a dream job. Thanks so much for sharing that Gregg !!!

[@kdegru]

I started at WNEW TV in 1972 and am still there and I assure you that is is not a dream job any longer since direct over the air tv broadcasting is no longer king for many years now. The golden years of the business have come and are now gone.

[@kdegru]

Help me recall your dad? I have been working there since 1972 and am still at it in the engineering department.

[@gdsegel1]

Hi kdegru - My dad is Russ Segel. I commented on the video on February 16th and he passed away on February 17th from cancer. He was at WNEW until August of 72 until we moved to San Diego and then ultimately Los Angeles where he went to work for CBS in Television City. Once he found television at the television workshop in New York he knew he had found his passion.

[@is1531]

Bill Jorgensen,George Sharman and Rhona Barrett was in Hollywood fro the broadcast,but who did the weather for this team. I don't know.

[@collinwood7552]

I can remember when WNEW played reruns of "Wonder Woman", "Starsky & Hutch", "Sonny & Cher", "Mission Impossible" and (if I'm not mistaken) The Six Million Dollar Man along with Bionic Woman. Very vivid memories of watching "Three's Company" weeknights!! I also remember watching the news on Ch. 5 the night I found out Andy Gibb had died--March 1988. Of course, "Merv Griffin Show" as well at night!! Another show that rings a bell was the "David Susskind Show".

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks for the input :)

[@neonvincent1]

I grew up, born 1955, watching WNEW and WPIX. Talk about a walk down memory lane! Thank you so much for posting this. And for the record WNEW 1130AM was the greatest radio station of all time and William B. Williams the greates voice ever the play the airwaves.

[@68lincoln]

I was born in 1959 in New Jersey and grew up with WNEW Metromedia Channel 5. That was the best local station ever! Fox destroyed it on March 7, 1986 when they took over. I have to say how much I enjoyed Sandy Becker when I was a kid and I find that he still makes me laugh when I see a clip of his show today. Thanks also for showing I Love Lucy, HAZEL, The Andy Griffith Show and The Bowery Boys...those are four of my favorites that I still watch on DVD these days.

[@idelsagil9129]

What's The Mouseketeers?

[@maximum805]

I remember coming home from school for lunch and I would watch jeopardy with, anybody remember....... Art Fleming. Then at 12:30 it was bewitched with the first Darrin. Saturday mournings with the bowrey boys (slip, Sach and Whitey. Oh yea and Louie.). Sundays, you had the Sonny fox show. Then Sunday afternoons there was the Million Dollar Movie on channel 9 WOR. My favorite show was The Wild Wild West. All of that on a 23 inch black & white tv set. Great times, great times indeed.

[@Suchapill]

maximum805 I remember all of that and Sunday my little brother loved Abbot n Costello show and movies. I liked it too.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Wow what a ton of memories :) Thanks so much for sharing !

[@DonDazzlingU]

Thank YOU for the memories. It was great fun recalling all of the old shows that kept us glued to the screen when we were kids. It was all good clean fun too. Always a lesson to learn at the end. An era when good prevailed and bad always failed. These shows inspired us to be better people. I feel sorry for kids today. They can keep their computers, game boys, and cell phones, I'll take my childhood of wholesome TV shows and outdoor playing with "actual real-life" friends anytime!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Kudos to that statement Don ! All the shows we watch did have a moral lesson in the end... unlike today. Thanks for watching !

[@scottburton9701]

I miss the old Channel 5.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Me too my friend :)

[@DomenicDee]

I used to watch channel 5 the most growing up as a kid in NY. Anybody remember their commercial jingle "The Funs On Channel 5", it ended with "The choice for fun is five!". Anybody have that old spot probably from the early 70's?

[@JOECANDELA22]

I was a big WNEW fan growing up in the 60's and the 70's. I even met Soupy Sales in the 60's when I was a kid walking in Manhattan with my mom and my brother. He stopped and spoke with us for 5 minutes. What a great experience. My first time meeting a celebrity!

[@Johnnyboy792]

He was HHUUUGE in New York. I wished they showed some of his old shows :)

[@GaryAa56]

If we weren't watching WNEW 5 New York, we were watching WPIX 11 New York. Great programming.

[@juniorjames7076]

WOR Channel 9!

[@exceller187]

I just finished watching this video and I must say that it brought back so many wonderful memories. Especially the Sandy Becker clip and just watching it brought me back to my days of grade school. I can actually remember the smell of the inside of my lunchbox like it was yesterday just by watching this clip. Amazing.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks so very much Steve ! Im happy it brought a smile... BTW I if you haven't seen it I did one for WPIX too :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmiXo3WvZ82apZo

[@lindadrost6200]

Sandy becker,sonny fox..soupy.....great vids,johnnyboy...aah..memories

[@Johnnyboy792]

I'm happy it brought u a smile J.G. :)

[@MrThomkat01]

I Remember When Channel 5 Used To Show Kung Fu Movies On Saturdays At 3:00 PM, Late 70's & Early To Mid 80's!!!!!!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Me too Thomas... the words coming out of the shape of their mouths was always funny to me.

[@MrThomkat01]

That's What Made It Fun To Watch, Great Time To Be A Kid Back In Those Days!!!!!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Kudos to that... we truly were a lucky generation :)

[@april41809]

Me too always looked forward to it.

[@MrAntiSellOut]

Thomas Johnson Jr That was Drive-In Movie which aired from May 2, 1981 to September 12, 1987

[@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg]

Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons played on WNEW as well as sitcom reruns amd game shows. Merv Griffin's show was here, too.

[@thowen1988]

Brings me back to the pre-cable, pre-VCR/DVD days of the 1970s, a much simpler time

[@Johnnyboy792]

Glad I could take you back :)

[@josephuspmarra9065]

I also wanted to say that every Sunday Morning I would tune into WNEW Channel 5 for The Eastside Comedy movies starring The Bowery Boys.

[@dennismiddlebrooks7027]

I recall the Eastside Comedy films appearing Saturday afternoons on WNEW. I still recall the theme music and the painting of the Lower East Side at night at the introduction. I would love to know the name of the introductory music. It was a jaunty orchestral piece.

[@Johnnyboy792]

I had a tough time deciding between them and an Abbott & Costello movie :)

[@justjoanie67]

How awesome is this!! I haven't thought of Wonderama in ages! Love it!!!

[@stephenlevant4033]

Back in the day (Back before the day as I like to say) Channel 5 WNEW, WNYW as it is known today, which came into being through the auspices of DuMont network, was the haven for what is now known as classic TV and classic film. I fondly remember watching Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox, Soupy Sales, Winchell-Mahoney Time (Paul Winchell with his famous puppets Knucklehead Stiff and Jerry Mahoney), Mchale's Navy...Lost in Space, Mr. ED and My Favorite Martian..and many more all in syndication (I also saw most of the programs when they were first-run). :-)

[@spideraxis]

Those sure were the days. Back then there were only three networks, then four. Today there are over 1200, most of it junk that can't compare to the shows that had real cultural and entertainment value in the 1950s-earky 1970s.

[@sambradley2975]

Channel 5 was the station back in the day.

[@koratcortes]

Wow. I can't believe all the classic shows I loved to watch. Truly classic. Thanks for the trip down memories lane. 👍

[@Johnnyboy792]

Many thanks for watching my friend.... and they're stilling running today.... True classics :) Happy New Year - JB

[@mitchellpak2795]

So many great memories...life was so simple. Good TV never gets old. I watched all of these shows on Channel 5 when I was a kid and I’d gladly watch them today.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks for tuning in Mitchell !!!

[@vsmokethon]

I love you dude .. I wish I had a time machine cause I would be outta here. I tell the kids all the time I grew up with 6 channels and tv was beautiful. If there was a way to go back I would leave in a heart beat. Just think of all the people who was Alive back then Who Made sitting in front a tv worth living. Damn thanks for the memories and a well put together video. Your the man!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Many thanks Valo ! I guess that's why I enjoy putting together these time machines... because it brings a smile. All the best to you, thank you. - JB

[@AnnetteReyes]

preach it!! I hear you!! kids don't know nothing bout having 6 channels was all we needed!!

[@puplover7991]

I would go back in a heartbeat, too! That's sad though isn't it?

[@Johnnyboy792]

Me too PL

[@cg-ny9078]

Johnnyboy792 Great work putting this all together! I loved hearing the clicking of the tv dial... a sound that I thought I would never hear again... Thanks for bringing back the memories for all of us.

[@maryexstroughtonaire4244]

Where's Truth or Consequences? Soul Train? Mission Impossible? The Saint? Secret Agent? The Champions? Battle of the Planets? What? No Beatles? No Thunderbirds? No Marine Boy? You've broken this 57 year old's heart. 💔

[@sambradley2975]

It was sad when WNEW became Fox WNYW, it was like losing an old friend, but surprisingly enough, it was good (though not as great ). Shows like "Married With Children " "BH 90210", " 21 Jump Street ", The Simpsons " (which is still on), "Tracey Ullman "(from where The Simpsons came from ), "Bobby's World ", etc, & for the first few years, it was a continuation of the old WNEW, with some of the same announcers, still showing the cartoons.

[@gsentinel4821]

What a wonderful time this was! My Favorite Martian, Wonderama, Creature Features, The Bowery Boys Awesome!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks so much Glenn.... i'm happy it brought you a smile :):):)

[@idelsagil9129]

WNYW 5 Fun Favorite Programs: Captain Video And His Video Rangers 0:50 Cavalcade Of Stars 1:02 The Mickey Mouse Club 1:34 The Sandy Becker Show 1:50 The Soupy Sales Show 2:29 Winchell Mahoney Time 2:57 My Favorite Martian 3:11 McHale's Navy 3:34 Mister Ed 4:00 The Rifleman 4:13 The Andy Griffith Show 4:50 Bewitched 5:09 The Bowery Boys 6:34 The Flintstones 7:24 Bugs Bunny 7:33 My Three Sons 7:51 Lost In Space 8:14 The Mothers In Law 8:36 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir 9:02 Petticoat Junction 9:18 The Flying Nun 9:34 The Brady Bunch 10:04 Wonderama 10:13 Mary Hartman 10:30 The Merv Griffin Show 10:48 All In The Family 11:20 I Love Lucy 11:38

[@Johnnyboy792]

The best of times

[@idelsagil9129]

Especially My Shows From Children's Programming Block

[@mjbaz1]

I grew up outside of Philadelphia. In the days of analog tv, we would sometimes get a clear signal from WNEW, clearer than Philly TV stations. Usually this was when a storm was threatening. It seems to me that WTAF-TV, ch.29, was a clone of ch.5. Now they're both Fox O&O's.

[@prausch65]

One memory I have of channel 5 in the 70's, is that they would have a screen that would say "We are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by".

[@Johnnyboy792]

+prausch65 I remember that test pattern too :)

[@rty1955]

prausch65 ahhh that is not true. That was changed in rhe late 60s to say "we are experiencing OPERATING difficulties" to say technical difficulties implied it was the technicians fault. I know I worked there in the 60s and 70s

[@rty1955]

Johnnyboy792 the test pattern was to align the equipment all the way to the transmitters. Maintenance on equipment was performed during those hours. I would get there before sign on, clean and align all the video tape machine. Did you k ow that channel-5 has been on the air the longest out of all the networks?

[@sambradley2975]

That's how I remember tunes like "Classical Gas " by Mason Williams.

[@Bill23799]

haha Yeah......and the stations would sign off late at night after playing the National Anthem and some patriotic video.

[@ulysses1904]

Very cool, thanks for putting this together. I grew up by New Paltz and all we got on the TV were channels 2, 3 and 5 and for me channel 5 was the best. I had forgotten about the "Mothers-In-Law" show, that theme music brought it all back. thanks again.

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

I remember Wonderama when I was three years old and the Flinstones and Bewitch and I was living in New York and I Love Lucy as well. Thanks for sharing the memories. Those were the good old days of television.

[@bsmith9506]

ok, here we go...from Channel 5, I remember - Romper Room (b/w) w/Miss Barbara; Sandy Becker had an morning show with puppets Geeba Geeba (who often was behind a tv camera and hearing the director yelling (dolly in! dolly in!) and Marvin Mouse (who played the organ during the "station break"); Cartoon Playhouse w/ "Uncle" Fred Scott and Tom Gallagher hosting cartoons of Felix The Cat, Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes-Merry Melodies cartoons, The Harvey Cartoons of Casper the Friendly Ghost, Lil Audrey, Richie Rich, Baby Huey, Wendy the Good Witch, etc; Diver Dan w/Miss Minerva, Baron Barracuda and TriggerFish (with the cigarette dangling from his mouth lol); Chuck McCann when he moved from Channel 11 with Paul Tripp and his puppets (The Men In My Little Girls Life), Sandy Becker's afternoon show with his cast of characters including Norton Nork, The Big Professor, Hambone and his Make-Believe BoneRoom (not touching THAT one lol) and Catch Max, if anybody remembers what that was; Winchell Mahoney Time (the dummys with the moving arms and hands had me mesmerized), Soupy Sales (I actually saw the famous "pictures of presidents in your dad's wallet on New Years Day, and I remember he was off the air for a week (Uncle Fred Scott filled in with Cartoon Playhouse) and wondered why, and of course Wonderama with Sonny Fox. BTW some of my earliest 45 records were Afrkaan Beat (Sandy's theme), Hambone by Red Saunders (Sandy again), and The Mouse b/w Pachalafaka (Soupy).

[@Johnnyboy792]

Great memory.... thanks for the share :):):) - JB

[@lednew2010]

Absolutely wonderful. I most loved the originals like Wonderama and Soupy Sales and Sandy Becker, but also forgot how many shows I watched on Channel 5 in reruns. Thanks for posting. Great job!

[@yahsalome5354]

UP move from Jamaica

[@puck30]

Two you forgot, personal favorites that re-ran on 5...........Outer Limits & Secret Agent Man aka Danger Man. But other then that fantastic job Johnnyboy, brought back a flood of good memories!!!!! Thank You!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Many thanks Puck !

[@daveknapp4041]

That was everything I loved!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thank you Dave ! Im happy it made you smile :) - JB

[@daveknapp4041]

Especially Lost in Space!!!

[@Johnnyboy792]

I never grew tired of it :)

[@FanOfFab4]

I still have this channel on my tv today, I could never get rid of it with a history like this!

[@kennethdegruchy5503]

It would be hard to compare WNEW TV to today because now it is a network fully owned station that has certainly lost it's original identity coupled with the fact that they now have competition from the internet and new media.I must admit that the only positive thing to come out of ATSC are the new ancillary services like Movies TV on channel 5-2 which does a nice job of presenting the old movies.

[@gtc1961]

Your opening line....How true! We only had, what, 8 channels including PBS? And there was always something on fro everyone in the house! I can't tell you the last time I watched 5, 9 or 11.... I'll bet if they returned to this format more people would watch than are watching now. They are running some of these shows on the digital versions of these stations so all is not lost!

[@Alf2555]

Thanks again

[@sambradley1968]

I remember watching "The Monkees, "Hogan's Heroes ", "Adam -12", "Dragnet ", "The FBI ", "Get Smart ", "Gilligan's Island ", "Battle of The Planets, "The Partridge Family ", etc.

[@Johnnyboy792]

What a great bunch of memories for sure Sammy Boy :):):)

[@jerseyoldschool]

Thank you for posting this video, Johnnyboy! You brought back a lot of wonderful memories of me growing up in Brooklyn watching these shows as reruns on Channel 5! I kept remembering what times each show came on; the Flintstones, for example, would run two episodes at 5pm and at 5:30pm during the early 1970s. I grew up with black & white tv and we didn't get a color set until 1973. I loved watching Lost In Space, but your video clip at 8:15 is the first time I saw it in color!

[@CutMoFo]

I grew in Middletown NY and I remember when they were the only stations we could watch.

[@paulradice3534]

Watched it for years before cable came to town

[@Ralphie_Boy]

I was a channel 11 fan after school but the weekends belonged to channel 5, thanks once again Johnny........

[@richshort8120]

What great memories Of Wonderama, The Mickey Mouse Club, Soupy Sales to name a few. Thanks for posting back to good memories of my childhood. If I remember on Friday nights I used to watch Top Cat on channel 5 as well. Thanks again for the great memories

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks Rich !!! I also did one for WPIX too :)

[@richshort8120]

Yes I know you did and I love it as well

[@HardyGirl66]

The Choice is Channel 5! Metromedia New York, 5! Oh wow, cartoons after school. Sitcoms in the evening before homework, Wonderama on Sundays! I was on Wonderama w/ Bob McAllister when I was 8 years old. I also miss some of those commercials, like the Golden Circle Ferry, Great Bear Auto repair, Milford Jai-Alai, The Disney Summer Hit Parade (I need to find that one!), Pathmark "Can-Can", Megos...those were really good times!

[@sambradley2975]

I remember too. I also remember commercials for Lenny's Clam Bar, "The Ritz Thrift Store",Bide a Wee pet store, etc.

[@sambradley2975]

The 1st time I saw the weeping Indian in the antilittering commercial was on Channel 5.

[@rty1955]

how about "This is Phil Rizzuto for the Money Store. Need money? the Money store will lend you up to $15,000, call 241-500, thats 241-5000" it played EVERY commercial break!!

[@Farquarh]

Not all WNEW and I prefer Sonny Fox with my Wonderama... but loved it any way....Thanks Johnny.

[@panamarasta]

Johnnyboy thank you soooooo much for the memories! I've searched high and low for stuff you've posted. When I try to tell my kids about Officer Joe Bolton or Bob Mcallister or about the Thanksgiving Day tradition of watching March of the Wooden Soldiers they look at me like I'm crazy! Your channel has put a big smile on my face and has warmed my heart. I could just go on and on. Can't wait for more videos. Take care and God Bless!

[@MrLikecats]

Back in the late 80s I taped Leave it to Beaver, The looney tunes, Bewitched, some Popeye cartoons, some Gilligan's Island episodes, and a couple Flintstones episodes off channel 5.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Great local channel.... snd only to WPIX 11 :)

[@joecortese1702]

The 10pm news on WNEW had Joe Glover, The Action Reporter!

[@JeffFrmJoisey]

Well this is going to date me - I remember a lot of these shows from their original network time slots - Bewitched - Thurs night, channel 7, Petticoat Junction - Tues night - 9:30, Channel 2. Merv on at 8:30 5 nights a week. And let's not forget the original Wonderama host, Sonny Fox, whom I abandoned for Chuck McCann over on 11. I t sucks to grow up; give me back my Channel 5 & 11 in the 60s.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Not to worry Jeff... like a fine wine, we Boomers get better with age. I remember the original network shows too. Thanks so much for your kind comments. All the best - JB

[@allanking6331]

Guess I wasn't the only one who switched to Chuck and Let's Have Fun! More cartoons!

[@Johnnyboy792]

:)

[@rocco3693]

I was asking what happened to Sonny Fox. HE was Wonderama. NOT McCallister or the rest. There was a kid up the street in NJ where I grew up who got on the show and won a bunch of toys like they used to give away. Oh how I dreamed of one day...lol. I loved Chuck McCann! I would see him in different things where he was trying to make it big time. I just didn't like Little Orphan Annie even though those dots on his eyes cracked me up every time! lol

[@theresecallahan8548]

But McAllister had a number of musical guests, from Kool And The Gang to ABBA.

[@dmcarden]

OMG Creature Features! We used to go to the store and for 25cents get potato chips, cupcakes and put ketchup on the chips, huddle around our one TV we kids had in the basement and watch creature features! That show was the best (and no blood either!). Oh, and I still watch Bugs Bunny on cartoon network (geez and I'm 50!)

[@mr.djcooncoon8196]

What could I say except this was great....Some other channel 5 shows: "What's my Line" Late 60s, "My Little Margie" (with Gail Storm) late 60s, The "Blondie" serial from the 1930s, "Gentle Ben" and "Mayberry RFD"....

[@Johnnyboy792]

I know I left out a lot LOL

[@harleyhoney]

I loved Hazel! Still watch it & my DVR is full of her shows. Gosh I miss those days & my folks.. Thanks Johnnyboy ♡

[@mr.djcooncoon8196]

I always loved Hazel as well....So Grandmotherly....Like Kate Martin on All My Children....

[@sambradley1968]

I grew up with WNEW Channel 5.

[@Johnnyboy792]

You were right near me :) ( CT )

[@ricoz2016]

Growing up in The Bronx not only was I exposed to all these great shows, I also found out how great Humphrey Bogart was from watching Key Largo, High Sierra and other great films on WNEW. What an education! And every morning Thunderbirds and Spiderman!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Without cable and VHS... you watched what was on TV... and you found older movies were pretty cool :)

[@fscap811]

Johnnyboy, there has got to be a place in heaven reserved for you for bringing so much happiness to others with your work. I love all the "Memories...." postings, especially because they remind me of my parents, who are both gone now. Thanks again JoeyM

[@christopherwood2290]

I remember watching the Bowery Boys, Wonderama, Abbot and Costello. Creature Features.

[@Johnnyboy792]

13 channels and always something on :)

[@backsweet]

Nice production JB...AS USUAL

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks Big Guy !!!

[@AnnetteReyes]

you've done it again thank you so much for taking this 48 year old down memory lane I even had a yodel! you sir rock!!! saving this one as well.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Did you ever doubt me lol :)

[@AnnetteReyes]

Johnnyboy792 Johnnyboy792 never that!! 👍👍👍

[@Bill23799]

Loved watching The Bowery Boys ( AKA East Side Kids ) on saturday afternoons. Wasn't there usually a Godziller film on later in the afternoon then.

[@Johnnyboy792]

The Boys were on Sunday's too. It was always a tough choice between them & Abbott & Costello :)

[@NEPatriot]

Like many of us gen-Xers, who really cared about TV even into the 1980's, most of us were introduced to those old channel 5 clips during the wonderful special "40 Years of Fine Tuning" in 1984 for 5's 40th birthday. And yep, I watched The Flintstones, Bugs Bunny, Lucy, etc. on 5 even in the 80's before the blunder from down under Murdoch LOUSED EVERYTHING UP!

[@TheGodzilla713]

I don't what worst is I recognize most of the movies in the Creature Features section o I am still curious about the others. Thank you for the memories of misspent youth.

[@gsentinel4821]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[@Johnnyboy792]

+Glenn Davis And thank you too Glenn

[@harveyshaper360]

Oh my God. Thank you for this. Every crappy grade I got in school was worth it. The Bowery Boy sequence was killer!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Leo Grocery would have been 100 last week... still no one like him :)

[@mr.djcooncoon8196]

I remember watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" every Sunday night on NBC in the 70s...I loved that entire wholesome great show but I knew reality was going to hit Monday morning when back in school after I did none of my homework or studying over the weekend....

[@christopherwood2290]

Much simpler, better time. I am only 57 and never thought I would reach the point I would say that.

[@josephmushatt4199]

You are SO RIGHT!!!!

[@Mandi7882]

Oh..my...goodness!!!! Thank you!!! I've been dying..dying to hear that them for Creature Features for DECADES!!! You are a genius!!!! Great job!!!

[@edwinvalenzuela7113]

What memories boy I miss those days.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Me also Buddy !!!

[@StukInBuf]

I recalled "Jeannie" being on Channel 11, either before or after "Batman."

[@madahad9]

I NEVER missed an episode of Creature Features back in the 70's. No matter how bad these movie may be perceived today they were more fun than the despressing, hopeless schlock they churn out nowadays. Even as terrible as From Hell It Came (that's the one with the walking tree) it totally absorbed me at that age and I have a great fondness for all of the movies featured on the series. If only someone could track down footage of horor host Lou "The Creep" Steele. When I bought the DVD of Plan 9 From Outer Space it is accompanied by a making of retrospective documentay and toward the end it had a clip of that creepy six-fingered hand rising up out of the swamp with that weird music playing in the backgound and spelling out CHILLER. I had not seen this is a solid thirty plus yeas and I was instently twelve years old again sitting watching Chiller Theater. Very wonderful memories and made me the person that I am today in its way.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks so much Greg !!!

[@madahad9]

Thanks for the memories of better times.

[@MsMadonnaMia]

thanks for the memories. great job.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Thanks so much :)

[@lvlimo394]

Absolutely superb, wonderful memories. Great audio/video quality as well. Nice work Johnnyboy792. Thanks a million...

[@JamieNewellActress]

wow... I think I saw everyone of those episodes... I can't beleive how many times I said...oh I loved that show...and this show...thanks. I just shared on FB

[@wendywoo2180]

thanks for these uploads! My grandparents lived in northern NJ while we lived in southern NJ. We got the channels of Philly while they got the NYC channels, my siblings and I used to love the children's programming on WNEW: Soupy Sales, Winchell/Mahoney Time, Wonderama, Sandy Becker, such great memories of my childhood!

[@Johnnyboy792]

Hello Wendy Woo... ( Love that Name ).Thanks for your kind comments... I hope it brought a smile to your day, especially since we're quarantined these days. All the best to you !!!

[@johnnyd63]

I was more of a NYC WPIX kid, but this was great.

[@NJGuy1973]

Channel 5 = Bugs and Woody Channel 11 = Tom & Jerry

[@darkon01]

Thank you for these great memories. I grew up on LI and totally remember this. On show I remember on channel 5 that you didn't have was MASH at 1100pm . I used to stay up just to watch it.

[@Johnnyboy792]

Many thanks my friend !!!

[@MrTantalust]

"205 east 67th street" ...ingrained in my brain from a thousand promo segments. :)

[@Johnnyboy792]

:):):)

[@MrTantalust]

@@Johnnyboy792 Sandy Becker & Geeba Geeba 🤍

[@michellew7105]

Thank you for another great walk down memory lane! Also enjoyed your WPIX video!! We had great shows to watch on those two channels when we were kids!!! :)

[@Johnnyboy792]

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Thanks so much for your kind comments Michelle :)

[@sabitante]

That was fantastic you did a great job could watch it over again !!

[@georgehahn6149]

During one period in the early 70’s, every afternoon was Bugs Bunny, Flinstone and Lost in Space and every Sunday morning Wonderama

[@Johnnyboy792]

If your from the Tri State Are George, I'm planning on a remake of WPIX. Stay tuned :)

[@kdegru]

Great Job. I very much appreciated this as I have worked at WNEW, now WNYW TV since 1972 and I was often working in either the tape room or Telecine playing back many of the the very shows you have included clips from. One of my great memories of being around the station were the live announcers that were such great fun guys to work with which included, Tom Gregory, Fred Scott, Lou Steele, Ed Ladd. Ed would often drive me home from the station to NJ if our work schedules coincided.

[@rty1955]

kdegru1 hmmmm I dont ever remember tape people working any other place than the tape room on the 2nd floor. We always were exclusive to that room. I worked there from the 60s, 70's and early 80s. You remember how many quads were in the tape room?