Pete and Gladys - "Pete's Personality Change" (1960)

[@rachelwarren214]

I loved these old shows.

[@luke3501]

Great to see the old commercials.

[@debswatching]

The Goodyear Tire that sold for $15.95 in 1960, adjusted for inflation is worth $156.50 in 2024.

[@suskelleykelley7241]

My God my memory kicked in because I had forgotten this show until now. I was born in 1953 and was a child during this series

[@stephend5520]

Great-- tks for posting, I love when thse old programs include the commercials

[@imperiallebaron2391]

I was born in 1958, so I was only two years old, but I remember this show. I liked it then and still do. I must have seen it in re-runs because i highly doubt i would have even known what i was watching at two years old.

[@martyhowell4043]

I'm only a year older than you and saw a ton of tv at a very early age. But somehow this one eludes my memory. Must not have been popular with the adults in my household. Amazing how little we remember from our toddler years, yet how much we do remember of the television shows that played in our homes during that time! 😲

[@rhondabitler5474]

I was born in 1956 and I remember this show.

[@Makmurf]

I remember this. I loved it, and I was 10 years old.

[@mdleweight]

Back in the early 80s I saw Harry Morgan and his wife at Gladstone's in Malibu. I was with a star-struck friend who could be so rude as to interrupt a celebrity's dinner if he saw them in a restaurant. So, it was my duty to keep my friend from seeing Harry Morgan, who was nearby at the next table, for more than an hour. I succeeded and the Morgan's had a peaceful evening without interruption.

[@martyhowell4043]

😂

[@chanieweiss4288]

@mdleweight. Very kind of you. I hope the Morgans never knew, & enjoyed their dinner.

[@ksteiger]

I'm just here for the 15 dollar tires.

[@nonprofitgirl]

I know! Snow tires for $15, no less! 😂

[@debswatching]

And adjusted for inflation, those $15.95 Snow Tires are now $156.50 in 2024.

[@gcfifthgear]

Trivia note...at 18:24, Pete pulls up in a 1960 DeSoto two-door hardtop. One of the last times a DeSoto had a "starring" role in a TV series. DeSoto production ended with the 1961 model year!

[@Hollandsemum2]

We hada family friend who only everbought used cars. Sometime around 1959 he bought a used deSoto and used it for decades.

[@billbagwell1105]

Great memories. I forgot about this show

[@brenthaymon667]

Just found this show. Very funny. Never saw it before. I was a baby when this episode came out in 1960. I only knew Harry Morgan from Dragnet and Mash. Thanks.

[@ruthgunneson-poling1571]

Harry's from my home state in Muskegon MI. Also the Goodyear ad was filmed in Grand Rapids MI where I live! I wonder where the exact locations were shot.

[@Juliaflo]

The spin-off from December Bride.

[@martyhowell4043]

Good to see a little life breathed into a Harry Morgan character. I was born in 1957 and got conditioned to expect the Jack Webb/Dragnet influence from Harry. In the mid-60s I got my introduction to Whitney Blake watching The Hazel Show. Somehow, even though I was a youngster, Blake struck me as being too attractive to be a "mere" housewife and the mother of little Butch Baxter! 😂

[@charlesreid3482]

He also did a lot of westerns before that

[@98Dougmorris]

never saw this show! thank you for posting this. nice to see a very young Harry Morgan.

[@georgesouthwick7000]

Harry Morgan was one of the most versatile and underrated actors of his time.

[@morthedgebuckle227]

I love Pete's car.

[@lorenanders702]

Love Harry Morgan in all his roles!

[@davidshockey914]

Where can I get a couple of those Goodyear Suburbanites for $15.95?

[@johngore7744]

At 5:00 when Harry Morgan said’ ok but after Hotlips here ‘ Lol. MASH.

[@sharonsilver7710]

Loved that show. No one remembers it.

[@sharonpolikoff7282]

One of my favorite shows from my wonderful Baby Boomer childhood years.

[@boomer3150]

Yes...I used to watch it diring summer vacation, or when home sick...seems like it aired around 11 AM, when I was in school!

[@ArsPraestigium]

After “Hot lips here, it’s gonna be a let down.” Funny how history repeats itself.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Isn't that amazing!

[@antonewilson4310]

At the point he was cast as COL Sherman Potter, Harry Morgan had been the busiest TV actor in Hollywood, a real pro.

[@patriciahayes2664]

He was also Officer Bill Gannon in Jack Webb's revived "Dragnet" series that ran from 1967 to 1970, as well as H.M. "Staff" Stafford in the short-lived 1971 series "The D.A." (also a Jack Webb production).

[@gwenniegirl50]

I have vague memories of this particular episode. Watched as a very young girl. Nice to see it again.

[@bethhart7033]

Sooo cool to see again

[@shirleynitka5030]

one more show I grew up with.

[@dgray9020]

Rest In Peace Ms Cara Williams

[@sonoranrain2330]

Besides Harry Morgan, there were some other great actors in this episode.... Whitney Blake, Barbara Stuart and Willis Bouchey were also wonderful in many 50s and 60s tv shows!

[@mlbrooks4066]

I remember this show being a spin-off from December Bride. My family watched them both. Now I just can’t believe I’m that old.

[@mescko]

"Hilda", Verna Felton, was Fred Flinstone's MIL! I thought she sounded familiar!

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Omg, she's hilarious!

[@janethartwig774]

I have no recollection of this series. It was on at 8pm on Monday’s. I’ll bet we were watching Cheyenne then Tales of Wells Fargo.

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

Doro Merande, Enid Markey and Verna Felton (seen here): three great oldsters even when I was a kid who played their character roles to perfection every single time. Three women with unusual names and defining screen personalities and voices that fascinated me as a kid. I wish I had had a chance to talk to them about their careers.

[@bethhart7033]

Verna Felton!! At last get to see the woman/ person who did many Disney movie characters!! And too remember watching this show!!

[@RoyFive]

Interestingly, Pete made references to Gladys on December Bride, but she wasn't seen until this series when Cara Williams got the role. By the same token, Colonel Potter made references to Mildred but we didn't see her until that spinoff (AfterMASH). I'm sure that observation has been made by many others.

[@gcfifthgear]

@@murphynapoleon Then as in "M*A*S*H," Harry Morgan had a dry wit!

[@enricosanchez894]

At 4:54 Potter mentions Hot Lips.

[@ParkerKenpoist]

I noticed that too!! LOL

[@rchrisutoob]

Hotcakes *and* muffins *and* potatoes! I got a sympathetic food coma just looking at all that starch!

[@vincegay986]

Any idea how to find S1 E28-Peaceful in the Country? A rerun of this episode was being shown on CBS on the West Coast when the first bulletins re the JFK assassination happened.

[@tomservo56954]

I recently found it on KZbin

[@BruceK10032]

Hmmmmm … The audio for the commercial repeats over the start of the video, while the audio from the beginning of the show starts long after the video-out of sync by several minutes! Then some audio obviously gets cut so that the video and audio go back to synchronicity at about 9:37.

[@howardkerr8174]

I vaguely remember watching this as a child in syndication but had forgotten how the writers gave Harry Morgan all the good lines. I do remember that the writers tried to have Ms Williams out slapstick Lucille Ball. And Verna Felton? Terrific comedic character actress.

[@gypsummilkweed2246]

Cara wms actually is probably close to Lucille ball’s level of comedy. She’s pretty good.

[@auletjohnast03638]

Not to mention the Queen of comedy, Joan Davis.

[@auletjohnast03638]

@@gypsummilkweed2246, Nope, the best and even better than Lucille Ball was Joan Davis the Queen of comedy.

[@gcfifthgear]

Lucille Ball was to comment when Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf returned on "The Lucy Show": "You gave some of your best lines to that OTHER redhead."

[@sylviastreet6785]

The beginning commercial was for tires. It had a real station wagon. I remember those kind.

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

I still have a 95 Chevrolet Caprice wagon. Next to the last year they made them.

[@rchrisutoob]

I loved the ultra modern house that the wagon is driving away from. That new house with that station wagon parked next to it is the quintessential American post-war, Baby Boom suburban living of lore! It brought out the sense of nostalgia in me. I also raved over the GE laundry equipment in the second ad. The cars in each were alright; I'm not a yuge Chrysler fan.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on November 7, 1960. Alternate sponsor's message at 26:44. 29:16- "'BRINGING UP BUDDY' is next, on the CBS Television Network."

[@debswatching]

Agatha is Whitney Blake of “Hazel” - we never believed George Baxter caught that stunning woman Dorothy Blake” fame!

[@haskellbob]

One commercial during the show, half-way through - at 15:15. It lasted exactly one minute; I timed it. One commercial and just one commercial break.

[@franciscollette2368]

🌻⚘️🌹🦋 All these shows were when I was 4-5 & up. I remember sitting with Mom & Dad & family. Now I look & can cry. They are so wonderful & happy & clutzy. No filthy cursing, they're wearing full clothes all sewn together no holes. The Clorox lid was kept screwed tight so all the clothing was full color & no bleach spots which ruined clothes back then. Today they are so groomed with filth & trash thar they cannot grasp the idea, the fun & the painless of everyday life as it really was. The good people actually lived like this. Do not miscomprehend & think I'm telling you it was all rose's. Ugly, filth, sex & immorality always existed. This was a way out back then. Fact is that the filth was in Hollywood but covered up oh so well. It just a job & they were & are real people & real people are not perfect. They got paid to make us laugh & forget all the ugly. Thanks for all the greatest times & memories. Great respects to all who conjured up all these great fantasy shows. Treasures is what they are. Respects, Mr F. A. Collette lll

[@DATo_DATonian]

I think this might have been the very first spin-off series. Pete was a character taken from December Bride. In December Bride Pete, who was also played by Henry Morgan, would always show up at the front door (don't remember why) and in his conversations with the title character played by Spring Byington he always mentioned his wife Gladys though she was never seen onscreen.

[@13thwho]

Actually, the first spin-off series was on radio. “The Great Gildersleeve” spun off from “Fibber McGee and “Molly”; and in a way, “The Green Hornet” could be considered a spin off of “The Lone Ranger”.

[@DATo_DATonian]

@@13thwho I'm sure you are right. I was referring to TV shows as the golden age of radio was a little before my time (though not much). I have heard of the radio shows you've mentioned however. Thanks for the information - very interesting.

[@13thwho]

@@DATo_DATonian I did some checking, and it seems to me that the first TV spinoff would be “The Honeymooners”, which premiered in 1955. It was based on sketches that appeared on Jackie Gleason’s show, “Cavalcade of Stars”, starting in 1951.

[@DATo_DATonian]

@@13thwho I remember the original "Honeymooners" show very well though I was just a very young kid at the time. I don't specifically remember "Cavalcade of Stars" though I am familiar with the name. Was that the show that featured the June Taylor Dancers?

[@13thwho]

@@DATo_DATonian Yes, the June Taylor Dancers started with Gleason on this program until it ended in 1952. Gleason then moved the show from the Dumont network to CBS, retitling it “The Jackie Gleason Show”, and the cast, including the dancers, went with him; except that Audrey Meadows replaced Pert Kelton as Alice in “The Honeymooners” sketches.

[@elle5031]

Wouldn't it be nice to go back to one commercial each interuption......

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

I like this show and want to see all the Episodes. I know Harry morgan of course from Dragnet and Mash. I only bacame familiar with this show lately, I wasnt born for a couple years yet. Powdered milk Used to be economical but It seems like it has gotten so expensive over the Years.

[@marvinabigby5509]

Whitney Blake looks different than when she played Dorothy on Hazel.

[@dreamquesttv]

She later co-created One Day At A Time, a show STILL going strong in a reboot.

[@wildmercuryfilms]

4:54 Hahaha “Hot Lips”!!!! That’s a preview of M*A*S*H and Hot Lips Houlihan. Beautiful!

[@drbonesshow1]

Hard to believe this show lasted 2 seasons.

[@im1who84u]

Is Gladys wearing a dress and white high heels early in the morning while she's cooking breakfast?

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

im1who84u Yes, but didn't June Cleaver vacuum while wearing pearls?

[@juib4294]

Yes. She dresses up to cook Thanksgiving and Christmas shows, though.

[@kennithumperovitch3371]

im1who84u Yep! High heels and a dress! That's the way I do it!😀

[@darlenevicars3988]

that is the way housewives in the 1950s & 1960s dressed..we wore high heels to high school in 1970s..

[@randyhankins6355]

Like a woman should. Now women want to be men.

[@sagegriot2455]

Hate to say I love the commercials the most, esp when the actors promote the sponsors product

[@thomastimlin1724]

"pete" was originally the neighbor on December Bride, Gladys was never seen on that show. This was a spin off I believe after December Bride went off the air.

[@tonytune4342]

Pete would visit and talk about all the screwball things Gladys had done. I watched December Bride and Pete and Gladys as a child. Some hoped this would be another I Love Lucy.

[@nancysrios]

Thomas Timlin that’s true

[@EddieKyteABCDEFG12345678910]

@@nancysrios I don't like Pete and Gladys, they're too boring.

[@johnholiver2003]

You are correct.

[@Makmurf]

I remember this now that you mention it.

[@chanieweiss4288]

Funny to hear Harry Morgan AKA Col. Sherman Potter calling the lady Hot Lips. Sound familiar?

[@michaelmorgan9824]

Verna Felton Disney's favorite voice actress Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) being one of them.

[@zazuzazz5419]

Verna Felton is an instant legend just for that one remarkable song. 🪄

[@ginny709]

This was great to watch, but had to chuckle a bit her wearing high heels.

[@billynage]

By any chance would you have "The New Car" episode where Gladys tries to conceal buying a new sports car from Pete?

[@hermanator74301]

From Pete or for Pete???

[@essessessesq]

"Hilda" played "Aubnt Clara" on another sitcom in that era

[@randysills4418]

Well, Marion Lorne played Aunt Clara on Bewitched...

[@davidfahey5068]

Good Year Blimp

[@juangalt3496]

This was a "spin-off" from December Bride.

[@mirellasanseviero472]

Well come back!!!

[@marvinabigby5509]

I watched burns and allen. For the first time. I loved it I know understand people's love for Gracie Allen . I then watched A date with the angels.Betty White then I came to this ty u tube.

[@jandross786]

If you haven't already, check out "Life with Elizabeth" With Betty White and Del Moore that aired from 1953 to 1955.

[@matta3968]

Mrs. "B" from Hazel!

[@ern48]

Haha, that wasn't the only time Morgan called a women "Hot-lips".

[@RayPointerChannel]

OH, oh! I noticed the black tape mark on the floor for Whitney Blake! There was another technical photographic error I've remembered in an episode where Jane Withers and Cliff Norton came through the front door of the Porter house and the exterior backdrop was not in place, showing the stage with unused lights standing there! :)

[@DinaYeager]

Ray Pointer really? That’s what you came up with to say about this classic?

[@ruthgunneson-poling1571]

Good eye! You're like my cousin. He always points out mistakes in movies and TV shows.

[@RayPointerChannel]

@@DinaYeager First of all, I enjoyed this show and watched the reruns all the time. That does not take away from my enjoyment of it. However, part of the fun is catching little things like this. So yes, REALLY! Can we still laugh about it?

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

This one I don't remember but I'm sure I saw it back then.

[@Sheamarie]

I remember this show, I can't believe in 1960 he was allowed to say libido on tv. LOL

[@oksills]

I thought the same thing. But you notice he followed it with , “ whatever that is.”. I guessing he nor the audience knew either.

[@wallacecleaver4485]

Why? There is no reason why they wouldn’t.

[@ReyesRobledo-et6di]

Most Hotter Very Beautiful Whitney Blake 🤍 🎞️

[@JJJBRICE]

I guess El Comino Productions is the street Parke Levy lived on like William Dozier's Greenway Productions or George Burns Mc Cadden Productions .

[@robinjohnson8149]

Gannon?

[@sunnyscott4876]

I think the lady psychologist should have gotten a new fiance, not a new theory.

[@alanoldham1700]

Who were the 10 communists who down-voted this wholesome American show?

[@JK_Clarke]

They were the ex-wives of Harry Morgan.

[@brucep9729]

Hot lips! Little did he know.........

[@barbarafischbach8480]

Cara just died at age 96🌹

[@francesfarmer736]

I remember Pete&Gladys 5 - to 7 years of age….only remember the theme song, not episodes….

[@billbagwell1105]

8 years old at this time

[@Rodin99]

I liked Cara Williams a lot ...sorry she's been forgotten.

[@Drummed]

I liked Cara Too ! Unfortunately the make up dept. did a lousy job on her. They used some greasy solution on her face, that made her resemble a circus clown.

[@howardkerr8174]

@@Drummed She was as much a dramatic actress as a comedic actress, I seem to remember that she made several movies and appeared in a Perry Mason episode and/or an episode of The Untouchables. You have to remember that in the 50s tv was still a youngish medium and being a redhead made makeup for Ms Williams....difficult(?).

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@@Drummed Did you watch her later program, "The Cara. Williams Show"? I liked that program, and its theme music alot better, but it didn't stay on the air very long ...

[@nancysrios]

Women were really slim in those days.

[@charliehorse43]

Girdles!

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Most people were much more svelte in the early 1960s. Fast food and sedentary lifestyles were not as prominent as factors quite yet.

[@gittes98]

Married couples sleeping in separate beds, welcome back to the 60s

[@kmoon50]

Park Levy was married to my aunt... Uncle Park... His doormat said, "Schmuck go home." He is the person in my family, who helped get Norman Lear his start in tv... He always said sarcastic things under his breath... and was someone who basically was an asshole... mean and narcissistic .. especially to my wonderful aunt... never know, do ya... ?....

[@vincentnichols402]

Isn't that Friday 🤣😃

[@richj120952]

Ouch!! She is taking things out of the oven with no protection/mitts!!!

[@jason60chev]

Twin beds! My How prudish America/censors were then. I guess Lucy and Ricky could sleep in the same bed because they were actually married.

[@MultiHLH]

I think they were in separate beds too!!

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

jason60chev Yeah, but they slept in twin beds too!

[@raystoddard1495]

Separate towns, too!

[@dannyhill8797]

spouces in the same bed (or appearing as such with twin beds pushed together and covered with bedclothes) may have started in the mid-late 60s..Rob and Laura also slept in twin beds....

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Danny Hill Didn't the Brady Bunch kill off the the whole 'twin beds' thing?

[@coletteberinenasielski9805]

Really Funny Show

[@auletjohnast03638]

🔵GOOD SHOW BUT IT DOESN'T COME CLOSE TO THE SHOW, "I MARRIED JOAN DAVIS" SHE WAS THE QUEEN OF COMEDY.🔴

[@jc0730]

I am glad I barely remember this.

[@humphreygruntwhistle3946]

Separate beds. lol

[@HMurphy]

i was 10 then lol

[@ravenlunatic2702]

Drew Barrymore's grandmother

[@donaldstanfield8862]

I thought her mother was actually Jaid Mako??

[@Makmurf]

Who is Drew Barrymore’s grandmother?

[@stanochocki8984]

At around 29:00, so don't just 'love' that proto-feminist neighbor's sisterhood of the ya-ya pants- suit buttinski advice.. ''That your man is 'taking' advantage of Gladys''? LMFAO....B.S. then, as B,S, now!

[@wandajames6234]

You're so right- she worked her fao and got no thanks or even acknowledgement-- thank god his mother brought his ungrateful, inconsiderate f.ass into this world, what an honour it is to have one more asshole. I wonder if you had a mother or if you were hatched? I wonder if she ever drove you anywhere, gave you a nickel, or helped you with your homework-- because if she did then you better be bloody grateful for 'feminists' because without them, your mother wouldn't be able to drive, wouldn't have a nickel to her name, and wouldn't have been sent to school. Read your history before 1900!

[@jeffbaron6497]

Get going graduation on top it seems slow and steep.

[@DouglasBrooker]

A childless clone of Leave ItTo Beaver and Lucy And 3 or 4 others.

[@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717]

Insurance Fraud

[@freedomtowin]

Dennis s mom

[@hermanator74301]

no. Different actress.

[@magovenor]

I remember this show as a five year old kid. But that Carnation Instant Milk was terrible.

[@bradleydillabough4823]

Wasn't it though? Sixty years later and I still think 'uck' when I think of Carnation Powder Milk!

[@bradleydillabough4823]

Wasn't it though! 60 years on and I still think 'uck' when I think of Carnation Instant Milk!

[@blueskye6372]

No diversity then. 🤔📺🎬