NBC Week 1968 - PROMOS for PREMIERE WEEK Sept 15-21 1968

September 15-21, 1968. NBC Week!
Includes:
NBC Peacock from 1968 "The following program is brought to you in Living Color on NBC!"
NBC News - End theme from a 1968 News Special.
NBC Monday Night at the Movies - 9:00pm ET / 8:00pm CT
Bonanza - Sunday - 9:00pm ET / 8:00 pm CT
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show - Sunday 10:00pm ET / 9:00 pm CT
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Saturday 8:30pm ET / 7:30pm CT
Saturday Night at the Movies "Becket" - Saturday 9:00pm ET / 8:00pm CT
The New Adventures of Huck Finn - Sunday 7:00pm ET / 6:00 pm CT
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color - Sunday 7:30 ET / 6:30 pm CT
The Mothers-In-Law - Sunday 8:30 ET / 7:30 pm CT
Adam-12 - Saturday 7:30pm ET / 6:30 pm CT
Get Smart - Satuday 8:00pm ET / 7:00 pm CT

[@68lincoln]

Thank you for this! Wonderful World of Disney, The Mothers In Law, Adam 12. WOW, I watched them all in 1968. Nice TV memories.

[@50marioD]

The Ghost and Mrs.Muir was one of my favorites that year. With Hope Lange and edward Mulhare, it's too bad it didn't last. Lokking at these promos sure brings back memories.

[@sambradley2975]

In the '70s, it was called "The Wonderful World Of Disney ",I used to watch it every Sunday night.

[@sambradley2975]

50 years ago this week, BTW, did you know that Lorne Michaels of "Saturday Night Live " wrote for "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show"?

[@mauromesa78]

the complete series of the new adventures of huckleberry finn is on dvd today

[@hebneh]

"The following program is brought to you in living color...on NBC." Some hits, some misses, some continuing successes are seen here.

[@PJBovio]

LOVE THAT PEACOCK!!!!

[@fromthesidelines]

The opening bumper, of course, is the one originally seen before the start of virtually NBC program from 1962 through '69 [a shorter version was used from '69 through '71). The "NBC Week" promos were created by an outfit named Feigenbaum Productions [note the name of the "fire eater" at :42]. "THE BEAUTIFUL PHYLLIS DILLER SHOW" was a short-lived comedy/variety series, replaced in January 1969 by Sheldon Leonard's equally short-lived "MY FRIEND TONY".

[@MSTS1]

Great vintage '68 animation reel. It's already five stars just at that NBC peacock opening alone.. Nice work with all of these new uploads- well done.

[@TomDaly943]

I can remember watching "Beckett" with my Dad that premiere night. Great flick.

[@fromthesidelines]

"Madame X" appeared on "NBC MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES" on September 16, 1968 (so the promo at :27 aired a few days before). NBC staff announcer Vic Roby is heard on the Sunday promos; Bill Wendell on the Saturday ones and the "MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE" promo.

[@TheMikester307]

My gosh! I remember those cartoon promos!

[@randymoyan4754]

Thanks Musicom! Class of '86 actually. I enjoy looking back at posts like this. .

[@whiskers1965]

Good lord, I had just turned 3 yrs old that week. Talk about feeling old

[@fromthesidelines]

"THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN" was a short-lived Hanna-Barbera series mixing live action and animation (similar to Gene Kelly's 1967 "Jack and the Beanstalk" special, also produced by them).

[@xenatikkanen]

I was a mere 9 months old! :-) Love it! Thanks for posting as always! I love ya!

[@IsItEarthYet]

I was starting kindergarten that season. I remember the premiere of 'The Ghost Of Mrs. Muir' & watching it every week with my grandmother. We loved that show & 'Dark Shadows' on ABC. Always missed the NBC peacock logo when it ended, I think in 1973 after a nearly 20 year run.

[@johnbonardi9819]

I remember these shows when I watched them as a seven year old.

[@randymoyan4754]

Wow I was born on Friday, September 20, 1968. It's strange watching commercials the week I was born. LOL

[@musicom67]

Isn't it just? Happy upcoming birthday. Class of '85? LOL! ('84 here).

[@canamus1768]

could you imagine a rather literate film like "becket" anchoring a saturday night on television today?

[@coreylevine3856]

the Ghost will star with a talking car 14 years later

[@sambradley2975]

Exactly, also an NBC show.

[@TimsDale4ever]

Things like this make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Everything was so sweet and gentle and CLEAN then. We've lost so much...

[@ftsjr]

Thanks for the memory.

[@MONGOOSE1ful]

THIS is the NBC that i fondly remember! before they became "Nothing But Crap" in the 21st Century,the NBC Television Network 48 to 54 years ago,was THE place for great vintage and Family viewing,and i'd trade everything on TV today,to go back to those great and free TV days,when EVERYTHING was decent,and had class!! today in our present,NBC is nothing more,but a third place TV network,owned by Comcast,which hasn't done such a great job-their stuff is total shit today,and it hurts to see them go down hill that way!

[@coreylevine3856]

Reality television ruin the networks with American .idol and surviaval Hollywood have run out of ideil

[@saul3332]

Most of those shows you like were crap or barely watchable. The best shows were made in the 21st Century. My favorite show The West Wing was on NBC Northern Exposure was on NBC ER was on NBC The Office was on NBC Just some of the great shows that were on NBC in the 21 st Century Saturday Night Live which is still on has to better than anything before.

[@teddymski9668]

it ain't the saturday night live of years gone by.

[@Madbandit77]

Saul Northern Exposure was on CBS

[@sambradley2975]

I totally grew up with NBC when they were still good, I even visited the studios in NY, twice.

[@KelMar63]

Oh wow! I had just turned 5 then but I remember a lot of this. I hadn't thought of it in years but I was very scared of the Ghost and Mrs. Muir. LOL

[@dwalex97209]

Why can't network series promos be this fun?

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Good question.

[@StormsongK]

God bless hand-drawn animation!

[@noisepuppet]

I grew up watching all this stuff, and now look at my brain. :P

[@VirtualVikki]

This was just amazing! Thank you for posting it!

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Notable NBC announcers doing these promos-Mel Brandt,Vic Roby and Bill Wendell.

[@LeroyBright]

I scarcely remembered most of this clip except for maybe the latter portion when the robber tried to break into a vault (This was the promo for Adam-12, Get Smart and Sat.Night at the Movies) it brought back memories to me at 10 years of age which meant one way or another, I remembered this clip!

[@Vincek88]

Cool, it's Randall Enos animated!

[@cynthiapickett7403]

Relics of a bygone era.

[@musicom67]

Yet, the same basic format is still followed today. (P.S.- We are living in a bygone era).

[@ftsjr]

What great memories!

[@captmurdock]

Ah, the Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. It was cancelled after nine weeks. Back in those days, that's when you knew the show was a turkey.

[@entertainme3000]

I was never big on westerns! That's one thing I'm glad TV doesn't really have today, just the repeats.

[@saphopoem]

Great thanks for posting!

[@JENDALL714]

Disney's wonderful world has been on all 3 networks, I use to watch it on CBS in the mid to late 70's

[@gli7utubeo]

Thanks. Great.

[@usandthem72]

well done sir. golden.

[@meheuck]

The penmanship on the titles and some of the animation makes me think this was supervised by Saul Bass. Is that possible?

[@JHollowayNetwork]

Besides their Saturday Movie Night, NBC had both Monday and Tuesday movie nights with fewer action/adventure programming being ordered that year because of the public outcry against television violence following the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy earlier in the year (as well as the pressure of watchgroups and anti TV-violence groups to curb the amount of violence on television).

[@sambradley2975]

They didn't mention Monday night & "Laugh -In".

[@fromthesidelines]

That was a different "NBC Week" promo, for Monday night {"I DREAM OF JEANNIE"/"ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN"/"MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES" ("Madame X")}.

[@hilarioph]

Amazing

[@JENDALL714]

I haven't watched Network TV in years, do they still do these premiere week promos? I used to like the extra thick TV guide Fall Preview, telling you about all the new shows. I don't even see TV guide at the supermarket anymore, used to be right at the check out lane.

[@musicom67]

Yeah? Guess you never missed "Soap Opera Digest" right next to it...(now "CBS Soaps"). Streaming and EPGs anitquated TV Guide, plus, like Reader's Digest, all you'd find are Geritol and Colonial Penn ads. I got plenty of those fat 1980s TV Guides still... nice and brittle like the shows.

[@cowboybear40]

Why is it these days when networks have their new seasons start out, they take a break and come back with only a handful of new episodes. Seems like there are more reruns of the current seasons than there are new episodes. For example, last night my Wed nite programs were reruns last night. THen there was an ad saying next week all new episodes until the season finale! It is now April, they have three weeks

[@spideraxis]

Cost of producing shows, outrageous salaries to stars, competition, fewer people watching, sponsors harder to find. In 1968 there were just three networks, a few local stations, different demographics. Basically one view of humor, suspense, drama, beauty. Today there are thousands of stations, ipods, DVDs, and multiculturalism has ruined any sense of unity.

[@cowboybear40]

Makes sense!

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

spideraxis I was going to add that the few independent stations relied on local and/or syndicated shows with OLD repeats of The Big Three filling in the gaps between news broadcasts, a thirteen-week minimum show contract with mid-season replacements and summer tryouts along with seasonal sportscasts and "movies of the week" fill-ins reducing the need for repeats (which only occurred on the SUCCESSFUL TV shows BTW)! Being a network exec (or a local station manager) must have been an ulcer-inducing job back then!

[@IsItEarthYet]

A LOT of promo copies survive only because they were archived on 16mm. Even though sentimental & nostalgic they are almost all on KZbin via 16mm film & not the original 2" quads. Wouldn't it be wonderful to find original tape in brilliant clear color!!!

[@highgear466]

pretty cool, this was about a week after I started kindergarten

[@nanlisa]

I had just started school the week before.

[@antoniod]

These promos are better than the shows. I think Randall Enos was the animator.

[@fromthesidelines]

If he worked for Feigenbaum Productions, yes.

[@MichelleB2b]

My mother could have been sitting comfortably at home watching this instead of giving birth to me.

[@sambradley2975]

To me, most of these shows are classic reruns.

[@TheeMaddPanda]

You said it!

[@tharper1961]

At 3:40 watch for Subliminal action. (Watch what the cartoon chef is doing with his hand)

[@starey1]

pervert

[@tharper1961]

star trek I didnt make the cartoon. The 1960s were big on subliminal advertising...and Yes!, I am a Pervert!

[@warlaker]

NBC Week began the day after I was born....

[@beckymeezie1622]

KEVIN SCHULTZ, MICHAEL SHEA "HUCK FINN"........Ohhhhhhh

[@kresblain]

@eekoutasignal I think you got it reversed. It was mastered on film and (possibly) transfered to video with the time schedules chyroned in.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I wouldn't doubt you there. It certainly looks like a film chain effort of it's time just so they had post-taped promos to show.

[@coololds85]

How did you find this stuff? Nobody had VCRs back in the 60s lol. But the Adam-12 promo is neat.

[@kevinnelson66]

Guessing this is from a 16mm film transfer.

[@fromthesidelines]

It's supposed to be a TURBAN, 'sd'.....

[@damianlatimer5753]

WHY WASNT JULIA WITH DIAHANN CARROLL ANNOUNCED?

[@ApartmentKing66]

Calm down, junior. If you'll watch the video again, you'll notice that TUESDAYS WEREN'T MENTIONED at all in these promos. "Jerry Lewis Show" isn't included either. I'm sure you have a Black Lives Matter meeting to get to. Just kiddin'. :)

[@damianlatimer5753]

@@ApartmentKing66 i know you are and i noticed it wasnt

[@damianlatimer5753]

some people would say it was based on prejudice

[@coololds85]

Adam-12 and Get smart is all where is at bros and hoes(:

[@briankeller788]

They need something better, how about a fantasy sitcom about a family with two unusual potbellied pigs (one of them flies, and another that can predict things)?

[@Channel_EXE]

Why is nothing good on these days.

[@jakemadden4308]

What crappy shows back then!!!

[@kevinnelson66]

I'll take these shows over Survivor, Big Brother, that crap Gong Show revival, and the Kardashians any day.

[@hilarioph]

Amazing