As a fan of the show since the first week it was on TV, I found this episode particularly epic because it hit on so many important points. For one, her last words, "promises are for the living." Too often we hold on to things that we need to let go of. And that applies to letting go of the land. Yes, land is a sacred thing, but you can always buy different land. It's not worth dying over. And finally, the one that hit me the most was the lack of water. I live in the desert near the Sacramento River in Northern California. Water is becoming a bigger and bigger concern out West and there have been ripple effects. Cities come to Lake Shasta and want to buy their water in advance at a fixed rate. Water could be the next oil crisis. Oh, and I almost forgot the love of a boy for his animal. This brought tears to my eyes as I lost a dog when I was a boy his age. Never forgot that feeling of what it was like to love a pet that much.
@steveanacorteswa39793 жыл бұрын
They are saying now Cali is in for a big water crisis but they don't seem to have a problem bringing in millions from south america, those people running the west coast are morons, lets build a bullet train to nowhere instead of a desalinization plant
@seashepherds49592 жыл бұрын
@@steveanacorteswa3979 The show pointed out something that a lot of Californians forget- water for pools! The most asinine use of water in a desert! THAT and grass lawns and trees IN A DESERT! Natives lived in the desert for thousands of years yet "White Man" comes and can't do it for 200 years without destroying the environment. Desalination plants use fossil fuels or the expense of reverse osmosis. The simple way is live within your means. You want pools and grass move to a place where it's part of the landscape- like the characters in the show did- KISS. nothing personal.
@steveanacorteswa39792 жыл бұрын
@@seashepherds4959 I totally agree, can't believe Pelosi and Gavin haven't already removed the rights to a swimming pools for those with under 5 acre property (they don't want to lose theirs)
@hana.the.writer50742 жыл бұрын
@@seashepherds4959 ☺️ You can’t expect a whole population to simply give up on their region.. it’s home. Other challenging regions on the world map have made significant successes through agriculture and turned deserts to rich fertile lands. Yields may not be enough to ship overseas but local-wise they’re satisfied! The situation in California may be worrisome but not impossible! May be costly but fixable. The thing is many will yet probably leave for financial causes! Water will be costly.
@badvideo169 Жыл бұрын
@@steveanacorteswa3979 she doesnt have one FOOL
@johanneslundie4 жыл бұрын
A great TV anthology series, with great stars, great guest stars, great writing, great theme music. A one of a kind series. A centerpiece of American television history as an art form.
@studiobencivengamarcusbenc52722 жыл бұрын
True watched an episode for the first time and my verdict is : real photography , real acting , real conflict
@jennifersiagian2 жыл бұрын
These Ep's are so sweet. Just think how we would be today if TV stayed on this "route" .. compare to Netflix.. 1964 to today 2021 smh
@blueridgepics Жыл бұрын
Makes you wish for the return of the All Terrain Corvette.
@nolopa205 жыл бұрын
I love this serie. Not like all the crap on tv today.
@americanitalianisrael40089 жыл бұрын
I love all these Route 66 episodes.Great story,great meaning of family .Plus G. Maharis is beautiful especially in a swimsuit.M.Milner is a hottie.Great show.
@mrblwats9 жыл бұрын
I enjoy all the Route 66 series...Love them! Love Martin Milner!
@bassincharlie10 жыл бұрын
wow thanks I was a kid back then, these old but very great shows still got that charm. Better than any TV show of today, that I think are tasteless and boring Thank you
@garystpierre44464 жыл бұрын
bassincharlie l.p. p
@stevengill17362 жыл бұрын
So many decades ago, this episode....yet this spring our spring dried up for the first time... Yup, California... drought is no joke to farmers, ranchers, heck, anyone! Very grateful we are for this blessed rain...
@seashepherds49592 жыл бұрын
California was, is and always shall be a desert in most places. Problem is the water you get comes now from other states AND had you seen Hetch Hetchy before the dam went up to give SF it's water you would cry like John Muir did when it disappeared in a reservoir. Too many people, too many foolish wooden homes with swimming pools and greenery. Pump out that ground water and what will be left for future generations? It took millions of years for that water to get down there and now- well, you reap what you sow. It's heart-breaking to see people build a house on sand and more so when the tide comes in and washes that castle away. Teach your children well.
@mikesnyder17886 жыл бұрын
My buddy and I used to pretend/fantasize that we were those guys... hitting the road for adventure in our own Corvettes! Almost 60 years later I am driving a Chevrolet alright... a Chevy Cruze! Have loved the theme song by the great Nelson Riddle ever since!!!!
@gadsdonflag42892 жыл бұрын
As a kid I loved this show.....but the Corvette was the major draw for me. I often dreamed of owning one some day and it finally happened. I've owned 10 in the past 40 years and loved them all. And I still have one today. ;-)
@mikesnyder17882 жыл бұрын
@@gadsdonflag4289 Living the dream! Kind regards...
@axiomist44884 жыл бұрын
Another great story by Stirling Sylliphant . That 60 Vette is really good looking . RIP Oberjack .
@johnnyk88255 жыл бұрын
Shades of 'Ol' Yeller'. A boy and his beloved pet.
@mjfinne712 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing this episode. I Love Martin Milner! God bless you always, dear Marty.
@bluegent73 жыл бұрын
There was a time, in real life, when bankers were ruled by morality, told the truth, were responsible and knew the people. The whole world came to suffer when American banks gave risky loans for private housing and the bubble burst. The politically driven idea was to make people without the proper outlook have their own houses, and the property wasn't sufficient collateral. It was terribly irresponsible and multitudes had to leave their homes in the end. Chicago is a telling example with huge graveyards of deteriorating, empty houses. A depressing sight unworthy of Western civilization.
@seashepherds49592 жыл бұрын
Western Civilisation? No, Civilisation. Western has nothing to do with it. People all over the world reach out to use the things in their grasp. Your 'Western Civilisation' over-reaches and sometimes it's great and sometimes more trouble than it's worth. Like a drunken sailor ashore flush with cash and spending on pointless frills: Cows, horses, swimming pools, wooden mansions on lawns of grass surrounded by trees IN A DESERT! That's depressing! Civilisations disappear quickly under such foolishness. "The Worth of Water is Known when the Well runs dry!" Let that be a lesson for "Civilisations".
@robertrocca65952 жыл бұрын
"...There was a time, in real life, when bankers were ruled by morality, told the truth, were responsible and knew the people." Name the time??
@robertrocca65952 жыл бұрын
@@seashepherds4959 Western Civilisation has been high jacked by the zionist civilisation.
@thompsonmarkjohn Жыл бұрын
A few years ago I determined that my memory of the first run of this episode indicated I was age 4 1/2 when I first saw this episode
@joemannix7471 Жыл бұрын
I was 5 years old. My sister was 11. She loved this show.
@simon500511 жыл бұрын
Route 66 is THE definition of "cool"!!!
@sallywest314312 жыл бұрын
Another great episode - many thanks!
@r08275111 жыл бұрын
Please more! I'm in Europe and can't get the episodes. Wonderful writing, acting, old stars from the studio era, and new ones coming up.
@herrp87652 жыл бұрын
I knew the sister looked familiar. Deborah Walley, of Gidget Goes Hawaiian and Beach movies of the 60s. Think I had a crush on her back in the day. Anyone remember the Mothers in Law? Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard. Pretty funny sitcom.
@Scott-ly2nk Жыл бұрын
A newyork boy who just happens to know all about horse riding
@Scott-ly2nk Жыл бұрын
That ol vette is might handy
@herrp8765 Жыл бұрын
@@Scott-ly2nk I was a kid from Philly and the only thing I knew about horses was from watching Mr Ed.
@GeneRogers-xl9um Жыл бұрын
Remember “ I Married Joan”?
@herrp8765 Жыл бұрын
@@GeneRogers-xl9um Barely. But never watched... a little before my time.
@reach4thestars676 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this episode.
@edholohan5 жыл бұрын
Made me cry
@mrblwats9 жыл бұрын
Martin Milner always hot, cute smile, gorgeous eyes and always a gentleman.
@olivercrangle71603 жыл бұрын
Real people with real problems.
@charlesbromberick42472 жыл бұрын
A great story, buy I sure wish they had found a way for the mule to make it.
@jamescalifornia29644 жыл бұрын
The 1961 _Chevrolet Corvette_ takes a beating on the old dirt road ... 👌
@Scott-ly2nk Жыл бұрын
And they never have to put the hard top on
@RjBenjamin35310 жыл бұрын
So sad that Apple Jack passed on to that mule heaven in the sky.
@elnafinn4 жыл бұрын
Or Mac Donalds
@frankfarago28258 ай бұрын
Ranchers are farmers have been complaining about this, that, and the other since day immemorial.
@dontaylor73152 жыл бұрын
This is painful to watch. The drought that devastated Texas for more than half of the 1950s was a feature of my childhood. It wasn't as cruel in my part of the state (the Rio Grande brush country) but in West Texas ranches that had grown cattle for generations had to convert to sheep and then goats, and even then some of those ranches didn't survive.
@JamesSmith-ru9ci4 жыл бұрын
This is the only episode I remember from back then, and all I saw was the first few minutes.
@morrisman646 жыл бұрын
Great show thanks for the post
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Dadgum good episode. Thanks
@tessaducek56012 жыл бұрын
I saw many mistakes with drilling that would have been a huge oops . but TV shows were not intended to be analyzed. If so. Gilligans Island would have been in trouble! Fun program. Too bad we can't have his type of TV today.
@Scott-ly2nk Жыл бұрын
Yes really akl the different clothes they wore would have filled up that trunk and then some them ol boys changed clothes alot
@MrMakemyday3 Жыл бұрын
and today george is about 94
@raysmusic492 жыл бұрын
Great show!
@WitchidWitchid10 жыл бұрын
Life was no simpler then than now.
@itsgleneaton48832 жыл бұрын
Good actors and a story about human beings. Today they use people as props to highlight the CGI for unessesary gory effects and the photography which puts me to sleep. Today they try to act so subtle their not even reacting. The whole business is nothing but crap. The very sight of any picture puts me in daisy land. But shows of the past like these wakes me up. Thank you
@ThreePhaseHigh8 жыл бұрын
I got news for them it wasn't the leathers. When they took the drop pipe apart there was no pull rod. Which means the rod came apart at the top and the cylinder came loose at the bottom. Best thing they can do is go get himself a submersible pump and fast!
@seashepherds49592 жыл бұрын
"Ya, Ya, Ya, technicalities- the writers are from Los Angeles and New York what did they know about pumping water! ha ha ha
@madJedi111 жыл бұрын
got no water & offers coffee.. classic tv thank you!
@V8_screw_electric_cars6 жыл бұрын
Perhaps it was espresso
@edholohan5 жыл бұрын
Water-less coffee?
@Scott-ly2nk Жыл бұрын
And overheated the vette somking the rings and the head gasgets
@drdon1962 жыл бұрын
Nothing like treating a Corvette like its a Jeep
@m.oriley77004 жыл бұрын
I am impressed with Tony Haig's (Homer) acting.
@thomasmadden56578 жыл бұрын
I love this episode!
@garystpierre44464 жыл бұрын
Thomas Madden
@NuncNuncNuncNunc3 жыл бұрын
And the next year, the new owners struck oil, but the boy grew up to be president.
@frankfarago28253 жыл бұрын
Ayy. First season, 1st episode -- "Black September." They turn off the main road. They turn onto a dirt road. Car troubles and all other troubles soon follow. Fast forward too this episode: ditto. Some people just never learn about shortcuts, I suppose. Also, just how much ultraviolet Type A and Type B radiation does one's skull and the human body absorb -- while traveling in an open top roadster for 4-years in the United States? What? That much? Yayy.
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
You adulterated hick
@Scott-ly2nk Жыл бұрын
I like this show and all but they never show them on route 66
@johnathandouglas0075 жыл бұрын
I like how everything is like fine next door....
@richardburriesci77234 жыл бұрын
DEBORAH WALLY WAS THE PRINCESS OF THE EARLY SIXTIES
@gplunk2 жыл бұрын
She fit those denim blues oh so nice!
@chuckwagon55184 жыл бұрын
They really mistreated that early Vette!
@ilovemartinmilner4 жыл бұрын
They really did! No way that car would have lasted 4 years. Fortunately, they got a new one every year.
@frankfarago28253 жыл бұрын
"Dang, old buddy, look at our suitcases drowning in sand and dirt. Maybe we should have traded in this inheritance to a car with an actual trunk." Our boys have a brand new super-pricy 'Vette each year, and plenty of dough for food, fuel, lodging. Why on Earth then are they hanging around at this miserable dusbowl? Instead of being on some palm tree laden seaside resort -- or at least lounging by a swimming pool among bikini-clad young ladies?
@deniseharris46312 жыл бұрын
Hoping someone reading this can help. I used to have nightmares from the credits of Route 66 and Big G - which was the rename in the UK of a programme originally called Empire in the US ! I thought I was 4 at the time but found out in April I was not quite 3! There was a scene that used to appear at the end of the credits of both programmes, I think with a shouty word. A long word was displayed at the bottom of the screen and I think a man, woman and dog crossing the road left to right of the screen diagonally above! I remembered the theme tune of Route 66 and the advert break picture for Big G! I think Big G was shouted out at the beginning of the programme! Too young to remember the actual programmes! But I would like to face what frightened me! Thanks to KZbin have been able to face other credits, tunes on shows that gave me nightmares! Would appreciate any enlightenment on the startling extra end credit above! Was it only in the UK or only for a while?! Also would really appreciate seeing opening and closing credits for Big G as it was in the UK! Have already messaged the people who have put Empire on KZbin about these! But if anyone can help on this also, it wd be fantastic!
@rowenajohnson9173 Жыл бұрын
Very rare Corvette to have Dayton wire wheels
@blackdogslivesmatter15684 жыл бұрын
I love the series but hated this episode. I really felt for the boy and his donkey/mule. I also have a white donkey named Jaxson who looks just like this one and twice as stubborn. I have had to shut my water off to fix it and have given my animals water before I had any. I also live in a place where the wind blows like that...like today we had and are still having a severe windstorm. I could never watch my donkey die like this. I noticed no one offered him water at any time...I know its a tv show but I feel bad for yelling at jaxson today for breaking some flower pots and eating the chicken food. Donkeys think they are human.
@jamescalifornia29644 жыл бұрын
They made a few duds - this was one. 👎
@ctranger4 жыл бұрын
FWIW, I did not like the ending of this particular episode either.
@jamescalifornia29644 жыл бұрын
@@ctranger - Seems this episode would fit better in _'The Twilight Zone'_ ... 😥
@hana.the.writer50742 жыл бұрын
🤧 Tough decision to make.. sometimes failure overpowers and forces one to pick up the pieces and search for greener pastures. It was a land.. and Lord knows land is precious but crops don’t grow out of rocks. If it wasn’t for the birtth and development of water desalination machinery lots of towns, big cities even wouldn’t have had the chance to still be existing up to this very date. The battle is still on in some regions.. not necessarily an environmental variability if you catch ny drift but hopefully it all turns to the other way around.. someday.
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Nice shot of a dirty vette. Yes!
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Using the vette like a ford model t was cool
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Deep, very deep.
@frankfarago28258 ай бұрын
Well, at least at episode's end, these folks got a pretty good price for their land.... 75 cents an acre.
@JPER-cv2lq3 жыл бұрын
Great stuff, but I wouldn't drive my Corvette on any dirt back roads, they belong on the highway.
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Hogwash! Vettes were and are adaptable from swamp buggies to dragsters.
@billynoshoes135411 жыл бұрын
yup
@kingalexander27044 жыл бұрын
They could've saved the boy's mule by simply returning him to the old man who bought him! The boy could have visited him whenever he wanted too. Why make things sadder than they need to be?
@jamescalifornia29644 жыл бұрын
Those idiots Tod & Buz ... 😥
@giles42212 жыл бұрын
more please! thank you for this!
@zardozyou7 жыл бұрын
when i was a kid
@blackdogslivesmatter15684 жыл бұрын
Its pretty horrible what they subject the calves to just for a tv show. It didnt add a damn thing to the show. I live next to feeder lots and the way they treat the animals should be beyond illegal.
@calcrappie85074 жыл бұрын
And the humans in the dust? You don't give a crap about them.
@seashepherds49592 жыл бұрын
@@calcrappie8507 nope- they have a choice-
@weedme49324 жыл бұрын
HAVE SOME COFFEE snyxxxxxx😊 WATER IS SCARCE HERE BUT WE'LL BOIL UP SOME WATER FOR COFFEE snyxxxxxxx😊 Weed Me
@jamescalifornia29644 жыл бұрын
😁 And water the lawn !
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Be great to remake with a 89 vette
@nealgold80178 жыл бұрын
Jeez, ya just shouldn't treat a beautiful '61 Corvette like that! 8:55
@peterrech95637 жыл бұрын
Yup- Sinful treating a 61 like an SUV !!! I never treated mine like that. Also, they never put the top up with all that dust haha. One of my fav episodes. Using the rear drive as a pump drive.
@michaelwertzy98084 жыл бұрын
Great make-up for that there 2-seater!
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Back then men didn't treat cars as gods
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Me like the peasant kid and mule.
@oluhamilton21214 жыл бұрын
Hmmmm.... the closing theme was a little different.
@robertrocca65952 жыл бұрын
3/4 in. pipe for a well? no way. Need a 11/2" pipe for that well to work properly.
@bandini222212 жыл бұрын
I'm not a plumber but that's only 1/6 of an inch difference.
@robertrocca65952 жыл бұрын
@@bandini22221 Thank god you're not a plumber!
@bandini222212 жыл бұрын
@@robertrocca6595 jejeje
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Hogwash
@robertrocca65952 жыл бұрын
Solution to the problem...... * Sell all livestock. * The male gets a job with the farmer that purchased the mule. * The female and boy maintain the farm.
@bandini222212 жыл бұрын
The sister could've done lap dances in town.
@johnjarou23578 жыл бұрын
deborah walley!!!
@joeepps92092 жыл бұрын
I'm pissed off about Oberjack ! a gallon would neither make make or brake the situation , cruelty through ignorance. the story left me unsettled. Do You really know what it feels like to thirst really thirst?
@bandini222212 жыл бұрын
You did catch the name of the title, right? Ten drops of water.
@bruceschneider66499 жыл бұрын
Bah Humbug Peter
@Khayyam-vg9fw9 жыл бұрын
The late Deborah Walley was top totty in those days. RIP.
@drbonesshow19 жыл бұрын
+Peter Burnett Use the proper word contraction: You're as in "you are" an idiot.
@drbonesshow19 жыл бұрын
+Khayyam1048 More a cutie than a hotty.
@Khayyam-vg9fw8 жыл бұрын
+Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. Dr Don, I intend "totty" with a T. Indubitably a cutie, though.
@johnjarou23578 жыл бұрын
+Khayyam1048 yes, deborah walley was a pretty big star in those days. hard to figure how you can't find much of her on youtube.
@johnjarou23578 жыл бұрын
+Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. umm, i'd say she was both!
@jamescalifornia29644 жыл бұрын
Go to Oregon. There's water there! ☔💦👌
@davidcouch6514 Жыл бұрын
I read somewhere there’s a desert in Oregon.
@edholohan5 жыл бұрын
Where is this dry place?
@ilovemartinmilner5 жыл бұрын
Utah.
@robertjacob6674Ай бұрын
wonder where that car is today
@bandini222212 жыл бұрын
Best episode yet but I agree with Virgil. I would've died on that land before I sold my ancestors out. Poor Overjack.
@RjBenjamin35310 жыл бұрын
THEM GODDAMN BANKS!!
@edholohan5 жыл бұрын
I hear ya, bro
@johnrogan94202 жыл бұрын
What a morbid episode!
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Alot of the 50s early 60 were depressing. Why? Me not know. Commies?
@greenfoot500011 жыл бұрын
This can't be 1960 - they are driving 1962 Vette!
@edholohan5 жыл бұрын
Whoops
@ctranger4 жыл бұрын
That is a 1961 Corvette (first year with the four round tail-lamps). Although this show premiered in the fall of 1960, an actual 1960 was used only in the first episode, Black November. As the pilot, it was filmed much earlier in the year, before the new models were introduced.
@-oiiio-39934 жыл бұрын
Season 1, episode 6, first aired November 11, 1960
@michaeldanello39663 жыл бұрын
The 1961 models went on sale in September 1960. This episode first aired November 11, 1960
@thadonmel5352 Жыл бұрын
I get Buzz and Tod's whole thing is helping others but what right do they have? The boy obviously gave up the mule for a reason and they bring it back without knowing the circumstances. Tv shows like this, The Fugitive and many others alike I guess the 60s weren't a time to mind your own business. Or maybe that's the problem today? No one willing to help others. Suppose I'm conditioned that way myself because I didn't like them for butting in where they weren't asked. I'm just thinking I'd hate for strangers to come around and insert themselves in our personal family drama.
@gene1943111 жыл бұрын
How come the guy has a hat on when he is working on the well at 29:12, How does it stay on in the dust storm. If looks like he would have to glue it on.It reminds me of the old westerns when a cowboy got into a fight and fell over boulders and rolled down a hill and fell into a river and his hat stayed on. Thanks for the uploads.This was a good series.
@edholohan5 жыл бұрын
Get a life
@seashepherds49592 жыл бұрын
Ya, they don't make ten-gallon hats like the good-ole'-days. Had me a 61 corvette in them days and drove it down the Oregon Trail East to West and only broke the steering shaft- don't make them like they used to! ;^)
@drbonesshow19 жыл бұрын
Where are all the black people? No McDonald's commercials?
@drbonesshow18 жыл бұрын
+James California Still the best TV intro song.
@drbonesshow18 жыл бұрын
+Mark Richardson As Archie Bunker tells it you can blame it all on Eleanor Roosevelt: "Eleanor was always out on the loose. Running around with the coloreds. Tellin' 'em they was gettin' the short end of the stick. She was the one who discovered the coloreds in this country; we never knew they was there!"
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
Who cares?
@drbonesshow12 ай бұрын
@@garypiont6114 Who cares that you are BLduMb?
@antoniorubio57413 жыл бұрын
It's a shame.that George Maharis had to ruin the show's run because of greed and vanity.
@michaeldanello39663 жыл бұрын
I'm curious where you got that from. He had hepatitis and liver damage and that was the reason he left the show. When asked if he was holding out for more money he replied that they could give me $4,000,000 but it's not worth much if it destroys my liver
@bandini222212 жыл бұрын
He also got into a little hot water from an incident in a public men's room.
@davidcouch6514 Жыл бұрын
He did Summer Stock in a show that played in Atlanta about 1976 and looked about the same. So did David McCallum; both are still around in 2022.
@garypiont61142 ай бұрын
@@davidcouch6514yikes
@badvideo169 Жыл бұрын
not on a stage , in the real windstorm!
@badvideo169 Жыл бұрын
Gidget was married 3 times and then single? why
@badvideo169 Жыл бұрын
how did people survive in such land? not realistic