Julia -- starring Diahann Carroll / ep 1 (pilot)

[@CoachDarren]

It's a shame this show has not been recognized more in reruns when the beautiful Diahann Carroll was still with us. We always here about Marlo Thomas that girl and Mary Tyler Moore as the single working ladies top tv shows but Diahann did it awesomely and with a kid. The first black lady with her own TV show thanks for this upload good memories.

[@FreedomofSpeech865]

You have a point

[@SweetPotatoesBlackStyle25]

True. Carroll was class and sophiscation.

[@juancarlosmontes]

@@SweetPotatoesBlackStyle25 Did you see her on Password? She's an elegant lady.

[@Noone9227]

That’s because they didn’t make enough episodes to run in syndication. Also, it ended up being a bad show. It started out good, then it became all about a bunch of bratty kids. It lost focus. Especially in the third season, the storylines were really silly. Honestly, I only watch it to see Her Royal Highness, Queen Diahann.

[@Berakah2710]

I agree whole heartedly!

[@dinocatsby6330]

loved this show as a kid, and saved my allowance for a Julia Barbie doll, which I still have.

[@lancedukel3436]

My sister had one too!

[@tanyabell-abercrombie3042]

Wow they made dolls of her? That must be awesome to have! :-)

[@DreamingDarlin]

So envious! I still have my 1968 Midge doll that I always thought of as mixed with the slightly darker skin like a lot of my family, lol. Desperately wanted black dolls so was glad when Christie came out.

[@sarai373]

I'm so jealous in a good way. You're so lucky.

[@resilientjourneys8117]

I still have my Julia doll. Her hair turned cherry red over the decades, very pretty. My granddaughter plays with her now ❤️

[@mosessteenbeke9494]

JULIA 1968 should be on every streaming app.

[@toniharris3552]

Right, I can't find it anywhere

[@Multifacted_Brotha]

Fun fact: This is the very first African American tv show series!! This was very ground breaking for the time!! Diahann Carroll opened doors!

[@jaelie8398]

The only prior shows with black leads were when they were maids (Hi, Beulah!). Programs like Star Trek and Room 222 were among the others ahead of their times

[@Multifacted_Brotha]

@@jaelie8398 The shows you mentioned weren't centered around african americans... Julia paved the way for shows like Good times, The Jeffersons Cosby Show etc..

[@lancedukel3436]

@@Multifacted_Brotha and single moms.

[@LaDiaF]

This is a good show it should be shown on streaming

[@ariesspring2161]

Sorry, but Amos ‘n’ Andy was the first black sitcom and this was second, but Miss Diahann was the first black leading female in a sitcom! 🎉

[@annalaw4684]

Watching Julia surly was a delight back In the late 60's, she looked like, represented where African AMERICANS were headed. There were few blacks on television back then, Dianne Carroll was educated, classy, beautiful, professional, so principled and cultured. Some felt as if her character wasn't black enough. Most of us loved her, felt her character represented our dreams!!!!!!!! Goodnight Ms. Carroll... R. I. P

[@amaristubbs7302]

Carol herself stated, “the stress of playing a role so far removed from the Black life she knew had made her physically ill.” This role was a white man’s depiction of how he wanted black people to be. The “hardworking middle class”.

[@kidmack3556]

​@@amaristubbs7302 I don't believe that she meant that there weren't any "Negroes" just like "Mrs Baker & Corey" As a matter of fact, you can watch a relatively recent Television Academy interview with Diahnn about her role of "Julia" and it's in direct contrast to your comment. As far as these widespread notions about ALL Black people having to be the same, that is, having a requisite and mandatory low levels of education, economics, exposure to other cultures, in other words "culture bound" having to grow up in segregation etc., otherwise they just aren't "Black enough" sounds like a stereotypical mindset that isn't realistic and definitely doesn't sound Black.

[@kidmack3556]

@annalaw I am in total agreement. This program surely inspired more than it disappointed. I can see that some people may have felt that there was an agenda in the background... But what the heck?! Why would the producers go through the trouble of portraying a skilled professional/ widow with a young son to raise, when they could've written a less complicated version? No, I believe that the pressures from the civil rights movement and the Black actors' organizations finally broke through in 1967-1969 and it resulted in "Julia" and other positive roles in both television and motion pictures. You just cant please everyone...

[@jaelie8398]

I have a tattoo of her as an Angel

[@CoopyKat]

The way Corey says "Mama" breaks my heart, it's so sweet. This show had great casting.

[@mizzkaykay93]

Right!!!!!😭❤️ so cute

[@vincedangerio546]

Agree. I remember watching this show with my mom when it debuted. Strong memories.

[@susiearviso3032]

Ha! I remember the days when parents left their kids home alone. We just watched TV and ate snacks. My mom would have a friend call sometimes to check on us, but it wasn't a big deal. Nowadays parents could get in trouble for it.

[@snoodysnoody8118]

Susie Arviso yes, we use to watch TV , eat dinner and had to go straight to bed

[@TheRivrPrncess]

Susie Arviso Not true. The way you described being left home alone does not get anyone in trouble. Parents only get into trouble if parents leave the child with no one watching him/her, for example by a phone call or coming over to see the child. As you see in this episode the mother rightfully was called out by the other boy's mom for leaving her son alone in the wrong way. But the lady also offered to help as she should.

[@obridget01]

@@TheRivrPrncess In many areas, you can not leave 'children' alone if they are under a certain age. At my last check, you can't leave your children alone under the age of 13 where I live. But, it's been a while since my sons were that age or at an age that my older son couldn't watch his brother while I was out. Which I wasn't out for more than a few hours at a time when they were at home "alone". Each city/state is different. And leaving a child alone, call or no call can cause a lot of issues if there is an age limit. It can be a dangerous situation if something happens like a fire, etc. Thankfully though, through much of their childhood, we lived in a couple of places that they knew where to go if there was an issue and I wasn't home. I always told them where to go and who to talk to. Even now, them being much older, they know where to go if they need help if she is home, she will gladly help them and I let her know that I told them to go to her door. And my sons are now 18 and 23 (Soon to be 24). They know to call my mom or their dad if push comes to shove. Me having anxiety, I have to know they are as safe as possible and have options, even at them being legal adults now.

[@sheiladavis6523]

@@snoodysnoody8118 Oops Did you forget about the chores & home work ?🙂

[@chelebelle2223]

Me tooooo!! 😊

[@Msmac717]

Diahann Carroll was so beautiful and talented. She was a true trail blazer..R.I.P Mrs Carroll

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

That's spelled Diahann---not Diane, as in Diane Sawyer (ABC WORLD 🌎 NEWS TONIGHT)---Carroll.

[@timothymcclain4551]

To the person who posted this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was hoping this series would be available after Miss Carroll's passing. I never had a chance to see it while she was alive. It is a blessing to be able to see it now.

[@cal4134]

The show was criticized by some for what was considered an inauthentic portrayal of African-Americans. But it was still a very important first step, and it paved the way for many more shows to come. Besides, Ms. Carroll had the poise and grace of actresses from the old days of Hollywood, and she was a pleasure to watch.

[@ms.herlan7860]

I don't feel it was inauthentic at all. Both my mother and my aunt were Registered Nurses graduating from Nursing School in the 1950's.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

Whatever you do it's always gonna be wrong when it comes to representation.

[@nataliep.9047]

@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 If you're whyte, whatever you do, it will never satisfy them

[@moniquehamblin1689]

I Agree

[@strictlyaesthetic9202]

It is amazing how quality and upstanding television shows such as Julia are overlooked for shows that feature characters acting in a BAFOONISH manner.......Entertainment such as Julia are withheld from the public due to certain agendas......... I recall as a child watching this show due to Julia being groundbreaking featuring a Black woman as the lead for a situation comedy....... Yet this show is never mentioned in modern times ........ Time for a change......

[@kidmack3556]

Everything in this life is cyclical, so they say. The older I get, the more I see that.

[@stacymoore9836]

I’m almost 61 and still have my Julia coloring book

[@kiddeath96]

Wow

[@MrRJMGREEN]

Have you colored in it?

[@keiwannazardies3958]

THANK YOU so much to whoever made this available to the public!

[@La_to_the_Bay]

Never knew this show existed until after she passed and looked for her myself what a shame

[@susiearviso3032]

What's with the puckered lips? So weird.

[@Staki9]

Susie Arviso What’s with the micro aggression? So weird.

[@taliaa7856]

Ikr. Such a good show.

[@redbird9000]

This was a really good show… and to think that MLK’s death & the Fair Housing Act was passed just one year before the pilot aired. Although this was an awful time for African Americans, she rose above all of the traumatic stress of her era and gave a classic performance. She played this character extremely well.

[@mosessteenbeke9494]

We should all write in to add JULIA 1968 to Prime Video.

[@elderrondyfleming6162]

I was eight when "Julia" debuted on TV. At that age, I enjoyed the show mainly for 2 reasons. I enjoyed the antics of Marc Copage. In addition, we had just gotten a color TV...those jelly beans the doctor kept munching on were so very colorful; it made my mouth water and had me watching it week after week!

[@shaunwakefield9793]

I remember watching this as a child.

[@GrandBlackCoin]

These kids were amazing actors, so natural in the acting

[@ariesspring2161]

And really funny! 😂

[@richardbullis6263]

I miss her so much and yet I never knew her. All black actresses owe her a great debt. Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Leslie Uggams, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Rosalind Cash and Cicely Tyson are our sheros and we love them all for being part of us and teaching us not to give up and to keep pushing forward.

[@kathy6015]

These beautiful black women that you mentioned Should have gotten more Respect and Recognition in T.V. May they R.I.P.

[@kiddgoldson]

Diahann Carroll is the most beautiful woman 😍😍😍

[@stingray4real]

I remember watching Julia during the early 70s. Corey Baker is such a sweet little boy. RIP Diahann Carroll

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Very daring in its approach to racism. Proud to have seen this groundbreaking show when it first aired. This and The Bill Cosby Show (1969-71) were two of my favorites.

[@whenriques]

I remember growing up to this show. I think that's what made me turn out so cool. Loved it. I think I always wished that Bill Bixby and Diane Carroll would have married and had TV children

[@discord37]

I'm in my 40s & just heard of Julia for the first time from a doll collector talking about the Julia doll. I can't believe the lack of recognition of this groundbreaking show.

[@leifford596]

It brought back wonderful memories watching the pilot episode. We all need positive role models.

[@Mancada100]

This show was translated into spanish and I saw it 50 years ago in Peru. Great show!

[@ahleseyamitchell1649]

I mean her skin is so beautiful and smooth I love her 🥰

[@CoopyKat]

I haven't seen this show in 50 years! I forgot how cute Corey is!

[@michaelfrancis3512]

Thanks SO much for uploading “Julia” ! It was must see TV for us Army brats on Okinawa when it was originally broadcast.

[@DreamingDarlin]

Must see for Air Force brats too!

[@mthivier]

The little actor who played Corey was adorable. I'd forgotten how cute he was. I guess he must be in his 50s by now.

[@sharksport01]

He's 61 and a leasing agent at a apartment complex.

[@shauntevius]

I loved this show when I watched it on Aspire right before she passed.

[@rodgreen6021]

Used to watch this show when I was 10 years old .Had a real crush on this beautiful , talented lady. RIP Diahann 💗

[@gag1411]

God she was beautiful, RIP❤️

[@dmnemaine]

Wow. Haven't seen that show since I was five or six years old during it's original run. Wonderful bit of nostalgia. Thanks for uploading it.

[@karenfromfinasse8430]

It's a shame I've never even heard of, let alone watched this show before! I love Diahann Carroll!

[@johnc.8298]

I remember this show as a child but don't recall the earlier episodes. The intro shots and music are very dated, but it was truly a good show. I don't recall the episode but I do remember Julia asking Cory if he brushed his teeth. He said; "most of "em". She replied; "all of them!". To which he said; "I don't have all of 'em yet". Why do I still remember that? It's been nearly fifty years????

[@chelebelle2223]

Ha-ha! That's funny because I also remember one of the episodes (maybe the same one you're referring to) about Cory being reluctant to brush his teeth and Julia telling him something about brushing your teeth helps your mouth to wake up!....sometimes when I brush my teeth in the morning, that line rings in my head! LOL 😄

[@amalau2825]

I love this show! I used to watch it in El Salvador when I was little and it’s a joy to find it in KZbin. Thank you for posting! 😍

[@TheMillennialPlantDad]

Watching this cause I've been hearing alot of Diahann Carroll and I'm surprise at how interesting it is and how good her acting is. RIP to her.

[@cellmate1]

Mom wakes up with perfect hair and makeup

[@sheiladavis6523]

Cellmate1 I noticed that too I tryed a couple of times didn't work for me .Woke up hair was all over the place looking like The Wolfman and my makeup looking a mess all together I was looking like Bride of Frankenstein 😆 I wonder what Julia's secret was waking up so beautiful ? February 8,2021

[@daisyviluck7932]

Every show was that way back then

[@malcolmmarshall5946]

Yeah and cleaning house in a dress, heels and a string of pearls

[@kidmack3556]

My mom told me that having her hair "set" the day before dances, proms, parties, etc. used to be customary for a lot of women in the days of "perms" She told sometimes she would asked to be lashed down to her bed the night before an event to keep from moving around in her sleep! I haven't watched the film "Good Hair" but I wouldn't be surprised if they mentioned that along with the other tortures our mothers and grandmothers put themselves through. They were just made different back then...

[@2Tall03XX]

I enjoyed that show.

[@jonplaud]

I never heard of this show and saw an episode today. Wow.

[@solemandd67]

Oh My God. My life. Thanks for posting and God Bless You!

[@GodsFavorite2122]

Thank You for the Upload Please add more

[@party320]

Barely watched it and already fascinated with it. Very positive and real for its time.

[@retha1875]

This was my favorites night time TV show when I was 6! I loved DC.

[@JBY_23]

I loved this show!

[@stmichl9433]

I grew up watching this show and loved it back then and still do now . I don't remember those earlier episodes though as it's been too long but I must say that has to be the cutest show ever!!!! I can still remember the whole theme song and I love the organ used throughout it... it has a particular groovy sound that I associate with the 60s. By the time I was watching these reruns though it would've been the 70s but in those days we didn't think that it was 10 years earlier! Time moved more slowly back in those days and we just accepted it as being "current". The love between Julia and Corey is so touching and tender that there really was nothing else like that back then... it reminds me so much of the special bond I had with my own mother at that age of around 6 years old. This show somehow struck a chord with everyone but it's hardly referenced much in the popular culture. Dihann is so lovely and charming and Marc Cobage is just a really funny little kid with such a great personality. I think it's that essential chemistry between mother and son that resonates so many years later and not because they were a black family or any of the politically correct reasons people commonly give for the show's success. It's simply because of the beatific and beautiful bond between them and how cute and funny the situations were. Julia, Corey, Dr Chegley and Earl J. Waggedore (the best character name in television ever) were just really loveable characters and I think TV in those days was great at giving us characters we loved so we would return each week. I also love the irascible, nebbishy, jelly-bean-munching Dr Chegley character as well, because he was the perfect grumpy and cynical foil to Julia's prim sunniness. I don't know why I loved watching him gobble those jelly beans all the time, but for some reason it made me want to eat jelly beans in doctor's surgeries constantly after seeing that ! (In the days when doctors would have jelly beans on their desks and you were allowed to eat them). Life was so much simpler and more fun then all round. We live in such monitored and governed times now. Julia was such a great concept and such awesome casting.

[@ssmith9880]

I absolutely love this show! First time ever watching❤

[@RANDY4410]

I remember being 12 years old when i use to watch Julia.

[@kimberlykolinski]

rest in peace

[@manuelmariapereira6605]

Such a cute and progressive show

[@teetimewisdom90]

2:20 I like me too! You know why I like me? Cause I like what you like, and you like me! My heart ❤️ melted!

[@lishamurray2948]

Thank you for sharing these videos! I loved Julia.

[@MM-bw1lo]

First time seeing this show, it's wholesome and awesome...gotta find the series

[@renesagahon4477]

I remember watching this series when it first came out. I haven’t seen these episodes in over half a century. I forgot how well done this show was …they don’t make em like this anymore

[@dawnd.5290]

Thank you ! What a great show.

[@gregggoldstein3449]

Met a young woman on a bus. I have seen her many times when she climbs on to the bus. She looks just like Julia? I introduced myself and she said her name is Julia ! OMG! I asked if her last name is baker? Her eyes lit up! Wondering how I know her? ..I added, and you have a son named Corey? She replied she does! Asking how I knew Corey? I laughed and asked her if she ever heard of the sitcom from the 70’s called “Julia?” She never heard of it! I shared with her what I remember. And hope one day she has a chance to see reruns of that show. I grew up watching Julia when we moved to California from Chicago. Corey Baker was so fun to watch and between him and Earl a couple of inventive geniouses creating an I.V. from the fridgerator where the milk was stored to run the tubes to their mouths as they watchrd T.V. and had their cookies. I had forgotten how people were treated and abused based on a person’s color. But each episode was well written and directed. A learning experience and how negative energy was quickly difused quickly. I must have been 7 years old when I first saw this program on T.V. And Corey’s manners the way he is so respectful and his soft spoken voice. Now that I am older I wanted to revisit old T.V. shows now that my I.Q. is larger to review what i used to watch on TV. with an adult perspective.

[@curtpiazza1688]

Love this show! ❤ Love Julia's car! 😊

[@loudamerican64]

I have been looking for this show! Thank you so much...grew up watching Julia as a kid in North Chicago. Loved loved her, even had a Julia barbie doll with interchangeable wigs...

[@kllwc7772]

Thanks for the upload 😍

[@chemicallyfreenolye5462]

I am such a Julia fan, I love this show!! I also loved Ms Carroll in the movie Claudine, so pretty I wanted to be her daughter. 😍

[@gag1411]

I came here after watching a couple of interviews (Conversations with Diahann Carrol). I never knew about her show Julia but I feel as if I've stumbled across an old hidden treasure! I'm really going to enjoy benge watching this lovely piece of TV history. Thanks so much for sharing this.😊❤️

[@constantreader8760]

"You need all the light you can get." Epic!

[@ms.herlan7860]

So glad I got to watch this after hearing about it for many years.

[@lionheartroar3104]

I remember loving this show. The writing was actually very good and the "Julia" was a great subject.

[@WokeSteve]

I loved this show,watch before going to school.

[@cheetahprague]

What a great show and terrific cast.

[@krystaltaylor3874]

This is amazing, I never seen this before! This was on until right before I was born and I never seen reruns

[@Watchingchap]

This show reminds me of me and my family lifestyle.This was us at the same time frame the late 60,s early seventies.We had a sitter but the couple moved away and it was me and my younger brother watching ourselves.mom worked at a laundry leaf brothers at night shift. There was a fire in the apartment complex and the firefighters put it out but nobody got me and my brother. We got daycare after that 😮

[@kennethhuang371]

I’ve waited far too long for MISS CARROLL TO PERFORM AS JULIA. It was groundbreaking for a black actress to have a leading role in a comedy series. Let me see that. Kenneth Huang 12/30/22.

[@tinadavis7016]

It was the first show were mother's did not care about the color of their kids friends and the first time I saw a white woman watch a black child and see a black woman as a professional job

[@constantreader8760]

At 9:00, I loved the way the 2 women stayed with their "better angels" when discussing the issue of child safety. Downstairs mom offered to babysit when Julia went out. That's the way to solve problems.

[@yusufcatalano]

Diahann was a bride and a beautiful black woman

[@MsDisneylandlover]

She such great actress

[@sidt6010]

I love this ❤️!!!!!! Where can I find episodes for the series? Can you pleaseeeeeee upload more videos?

[@craigramage5022]

Love the show as a kid. My mother even took me and got me to Barbie of the character Julie. So thank you for putting. Sincerely Maureen

[@jotapearanha3149]

Muito obrigado! Valeu a postagem.

[@walterclark3198]

Kid's being friends and they don't care about each other's race. Nice. We need more show's like this on tv now.

[@yhideit4427]

If you leave a kid alone now a days ...it's a hot line call to family services and the police are at your door.

[@susiearviso3032]

Its called micro-management

[@snoodysnoody8118]

yes because they can get in dangerous situations .

[@jaelie8398]

And letting a kid use a knife like that would be frowned upon too

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

My cousins kids are safer alone than being g looked after my dumbass sister

[@kidmack3556]

Latchkey Kid Generation And the television and after-school television show hosts were our friends! "Homework? homework who?"

[@richardbullis6263]

Somebody said that black people do not care about Diahann Carroll or her daughter that is a lie. We are in mourning for her family. May the good she left lasts forever.

[@snoodysnoody8118]

Richard Bullis who said that ??

[@thebeardedseeker5633]

what does her daughter have to do with anything?

[@robindavis7023]

Thanks.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Wish this show was on this dvd I so wanted

[@temi-twistedzones]

This was a favorite show of my twin brother and I. We did somethings from the show. And got in trouble too. LOL 😆

[@brucemurr]

I loved this show

[@daisyviluck7932]

The cinematography is really different 🙂

[@hamsterdiving7593]

I LOVED this show In 1969, I asked Santa for a Julia doll, and Santa delivered it to my grandma's house. She came complete with her white nurse's uniform and cap... 😍 I brought that doll everywhere with me, so much so that I can't remember what happened to it... that's what happens when kids play with and love their dolls to death...

[@jacobgarrity651]

As a kid who was born in the 90s I grew up watching The Fresh Prince bel of Air, Martin and Boondocks and Blackish and Good Times and The Jeffersons

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

Thanks!

[@bernicecovey1909]

Thank you for this. I used to watch this when I was 7 years old.😊

[@Sduell60]

You know what? I enjoyed this just now as much as I did when it first came out and I was watching it on our BW TV with the rabbit ear antenna. Times were simpler, there was less racism, and God wasn't a 4-letter word. Pray our nation finds its way soon.

[@judilynn9569]

Good looking TV man! Haven't seen him since Room 222!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Rip to a queen

[@garycarter9859]

Barely two minutes in we have a young boy cutting oranges with a formidable looking knife and being left home alone!

[@TeshawnEdmonds]

For logophiles everywhere: This TV Land presentation of Julia has the original 1992-1995 20th Television logo & NOT the plastered 1965-69 (former) 20th Century Fox Television logo at the end. Hate to disappoint you on this one.

[@aaronnickey6119]

She was The independent / Working Woman on TV before Mary Tyler Moore

[@migueljonz3901]

This woman made me forget about Barbara Eden!

[@arthurwatt4144]

Little boy handling a big sharp knife like that. What were they thinking.

[@dadevi]

That children learn best when they aren't coddled.

[@sweetbeauty2153]

Those commercials were far out!!😊

[@chelebelle2223]

Yeah, they were a real *TWIP* lol 😄

[@mdarrenu]

Man what a beautiful woman. Racism and vietnam in one episode. not bad.

[@jaelie8398]

Very beautiful