STAY TUNED - FRIDAY NIGHT TV WINTER 1961

[@wanettarenay8215]

I was 7 and , while watching sing along with mitch, my mother turned to me and said, "I think mitch miller is god" this is why I am the way I am today, man, that old bat was crazy

[@merce10554]

Twilight zone theme still gives me the shivers. I was 7 by then.

[@jimmyc2895]

Better than anything on t.v. now.Much better.

[@ferociousgumby]

I love the Gleason segment. How refreshing to have someone get up there and be TOTALLY honest about a failure!

[@TechArtisan]

I saw the original show and Jackie Gleason knew at some point early on that he was watching a bomb explode and he was in the middle of it. Yet he soldiered through it and did his apology the week after, part of which is here. But what is missing from history is the 12 shows he raconteured (is that a word?) his way into American homes and hearts. A thorough professional in everything he did, this was his solo series, and I am sorry they are lost.

[@williammorse8330]

@@TechArtisan yes, Jackie Gleason was tops.... I miss his candor.....

[@TowGunner]

Jackie’s appearance on Carson brought me here

[@MegaGman61]

Absolutely a brilliant guy!

[@dflf]

TechArtisan I saw the original show. Jaw droppingly bad

[@freeguy77]

I love Jackie Gleason! He could make even a bomb apology funny! TV misses you, Jackie, and we will never forget and always love what you did as entertainment for us in movies and television!!! Jackie Gleason, 71 (Feb. 26, 1916 Brooklyn, NY - Jun. 24, 1987 Lauderhill, FL)

[@ma55aracin9]

freeguy77 Maybe that inspired his portrayal of "Sheriff Buford T." in "Smokey and The Bandit" several years later. Am I right?

[@MrGlenn7710]

This video is cool! I remember most of these shows but not all. Thank you for the memories. Those were better days than these days! How so much the world has changed!🌎

[@AtlantaGymFan]

The days of adjusting tv antennas and watching everything we could!

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Jackies Apology for laying the biggest bomb in games Youre In the Picture a week before its debut is classic!

[@joeykardos7602]

Love the "Westinghouse Playhouse"! Great classic television!!!

[@caatcher]

My mom would let me stay up to watch Twilight Zone. I was eight in 1961. Thanks again, Mom. I remember liking Happy. The theme song for One Happy Family has been stuck in my head for almost 60 years now, but I have no other memory of it. The blonde with the nice booty at the beginning of Harrigan and Son was their secretary, played by Georgine Darcy. I don't know why they didn't show her face. Maybe it was a butt double. How does Sy Gomberg get billing over James Whitmore?!?

[@allenjones3130]

The "Bell Waltz", the theme song to the "Bell Telephone Hour", is one of the loveliest themes ever composed for a TV show.

[@ma55aracin9]

@ 7:00 -That laid....without a doubt....the biggest BOMB....

[@rugerscout308]

I was 8 in 1961.This was all over the air TV and where I lived all we got well was CBS. Once we got a rotatable antenna we could get NBC out of New York but even with that ABC which came from New Haven still didn't come in. Now there are so many channels but so little to watch, I cut the TV side of the cable 10 years ago and don't have even one TV.

[@Cal99ers]

So was I, Rawhide, Flintstones and Mitch then to bed. I never saw bad reception til some years later at friends houses who had color Tvs

[@elc1960]

One of the members of Mitch Miller's Sing Along Gang was Bob McGrath, who was one of the original cast members of "Sesame Street". He's also the father of pop group Sugar Ray's lead singer, Mark McGrath. Much like "CSI" and "NCIS", "77 Sunset Strip" was so successful that Warner Bros. decided to create (or should I say "inflict upon us"?) what were basically clones of it: "Bourbon Street Beat" ("77 Sunset Strip" in New Orleans) and "Surfside 6" ("77 Sunset Strip" in Miami Florida).

[@josephposavac3767]

Don't forget "Hawaiian Eye" ( "77 Sunset Strip" in Honolulu). it was nearly as successful and lasted four seasons (1959-63)

[@tomservo56954]

+elc1960 I didn't know they were father and son....

[@elc1960]

+Paul Duca He is indeed.

[@elc1960]

+Joseph Posavac True, I forgot Hawaiian Eye. It was pretty decent, unlike the other Sunset Strip clones.

[@actionsub]

And the franchise turned on itself, as you see in the 77 Sunset Strip opening here. Richard Long came over, playing the same character, when "Bourbon Street Beat" was cancelled.

[@markburnett7500]

I was only 2 so naturally didn't recall seeing these,but thanks to reruns as i grew up(and video tapes,dvds,You Tube,etc.) i've been able to watch many of them. BETTER tv than today's fodder! :)

[@thebes118]

I was five yrs old. We did not get a color T.V. till about 65 or 66

[@rentslave]

I hadn't seen Jackie Gleason's mea culpa since I saw it on Jan.27,1961.Happy was another of those lost shows,the predecessor of the Look Who's Talking movies.

[@jerrydillon2376]

Route 66 theme music is as cool now as it was in 61!!👍

[@teresas8173]

I like watching these and thinking of my parents possibly watching some of these shows. They both died this past year and I miss them so much. I wish I could go back in time, even before I was born, knowing they were here living their lives and soon meeting.

[@Sheri451]

My grandpa , whom passed away at the age of ninety one two years ago, loved watching Rawhide on television. I love The Twilight Zone.I guess poor NBC didn't have many hits that year, except Sing Along With Mitch. But The Flintstones called it Hum Along With Herman I wasn't born until two years later

[@lodibencolby5588]

Thanks. Nice video. Brought back some memories.

[@sueme1954]

Rawhide song -- also a grin thinking of The Blues Brothers.

[@craig7327]

It must have been hell in those days, so many great shows but no VCR or DVR.

[@senorkaboom]

I remember watching Rawhide, Route 66 and The Twilight Zone. My mom liked Eric Fleming, my sister enjoyed Route 66 for either Milner, Maharis or both, and my dad and I liked The Twilight Zone. And even though I was only 6 when it was on, I caught the moral that each Twilight Zone story portrayed.

[@Crazeyfor67]

That was fun. Very well put together. Thanks

[@censusgary]

This seems to have been a good year for television. Some of these shows were quickly forgotten, but a surprising number of them are still talked about today. The anthology-style “playhouse” series are legendary in TV history. The one of these series I remember watching at the time, as opposed to seeing them later in reruns, was “Sing Along With Mitch.” My family watched it, and, of course, we all sang along ( I was about 3 years old).

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Except for The Flintstones and Funday Funnies, there wasn't much on primetime TV for three-year-olds back then. Because that's how old I was back in the winter of 1960-61.

[@mikerocks56]

These shows are still shown on cable networks or streaming services: Flintstones, 77 Sunset Strip, Rawhide, Route 66, and, of course, Twilight Zone.

[@MrTrashcan1]

Never saw that opening to The Flintstones.

[@rafaelramirez1507]

I was born late 😔 ... but to you folks that got to enjoy those times , I salute you with the greatest admiration 👍👍

[@quizmaster85]

6:59 - I wouldn't be surprised if the camera operator was laughing at Jackie Gleason's "honest opinion" of _You're In the Picture._

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

"Matty's Funday Funnies" subsequently morphed into the popular "Beany and Cecil" by 1962, which ended by 1964, but ABC kept the show until 1968 on Sunday mornings as reruns.

[@michaelrandall4862]

Thank you, that helped sort out a couple of memories.

[@docdurdin]

Checking in, it's 2020.. I was 11 then, so I'm 70 now. Almost all of these folks are gone. I found George Maharis, ( route 66 ) is still hanging in at 91. We are the first generation of an entire life on Television. Go figure. The first station in Miami was but 3 years old when I was born.

[@flavin007]

Themes from 'Twilight Zone', 'Route 66', '77 Sunset Strip', 'The Flintstones'. All memorable classics.

[@williammorse8330]

thank-you for the upload.... Twilight Zone after most kiddies had gone to bed (not always this one).... and the presence of Jackie Gleason, the great one, after his show went south... pure class.... I miss him.... Route 66 going through Cleveland in 1960-1.... New York Central Railroad footage, Russian immigrant neighborhood.... a different city in a time capsule.... what will be remembered from our period 50 years from now????

[@freeguy77]

I remember when Eric Fleming (4:45) drowned in late 1966, filming a scene. He had earlier that year had an important role in the film, "Glass Bottom Boat" with Doris Day and Rod Taylor. Clint Eastwood was then only 30, a decade before his breakout role as "Dirty Harry" (1971). Sheb Wooley (5:01) previously had a huge #1 novelty song hit in 1958 with "The Purple People Eater."

[@vinniemorciglio4632]

Mitch Miller was the head of A&R at Columbia Records as well as a big recording star there (owned by CBS) at that point, it is surprising that NBC broadcast his show...

[@tomservo56954]

He had stepped down from his executive position when his own records became successful...while Andy Williams changed labels to Columbia around the time his show began airing on NBC.

[@vinniemorciglio4632]

Mitch left Columbia in 1965, This show ran until 1964. I guess NBC paid big bucks somewhere to someone, LOL.....

[@fromthesidelines]

By the way, "THE FLINTSTONES" was NOT telecast in color during its first two seasons, as ABC didn't have color broadcasting facilities until September 1962. "HAPPY" was held over from the summer of 1960, when it was a partial summer replacement for Perry Como (his company, "Roncom Films", produced it). It was not as successful on Friday nights, however.....

[@starey1]

Barry I. Grauman yes, and that's also when they started showing the "Meet The Flintstones" opening. (the one that's always shown that starts with Fred on his "dino-crane" etc.)

[@STho205]

@@starey1 This intro, the original or older one is what the Simpsons producers copy with their intro. This older intro was shot in color (obviously) but not broadcast as such. Same with many of the ABC Disneyland films like Davy Crockett, Disney's Daniel Boone tales (a miniseries NOT starring Fess Parker) and The Swamp Fox miniseries.

[@stephenperretti8847]

If you lived in the NYC broadcast area, you could have watched a great "golden age of Hollywood" movie for the FIFTH time Friday night on WOR's MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE. Every night at nine (?) the same great movie was shown. If your classmates watched it last night you could watch it tonight. A great idea!!!

[@gordon3186]

I was 6 in 1961. I remember hearing the Flintstones coming on too late at night to watch and thought, wtf? I guess it was geared to adults at first.

[@1985OldSkool]

The future Mayor of Carmel, CA at 4:51. This is one of my favorite nights for prime-time television during my lifetime. In fact, there was something for everyone for my money. In our household, we liked Matty's Funday Funnies, The Flintstones and 77 Sunset Strip on ABC, Rawhide, Route 66 and the Twilight Zone on CBS, Sing Along with Mitch and Michael Shayne on NBC. Sing Along with Mitch was my late mother's favorite of those TV shows.

[@rentslave]

As an 11 year old,I hit all 3 networks:Started with Harrigan and the Flintstones on ABC,switched to Mitch on NBC,then took a trip to The Twilight Zone on CBS.

[@451hist]

I did the same thing.

[@patricodesouza7453]

Tom Dockery GOOD FOR YOU, SOUNDS LIKE FUN,,, AMEN!!!

[@luisreyes1963]

Thanks for the rare clip featuring Jackie Gleason admitting his show, "You're In The Picture" was a total flop. And as for "Sing Along With Mitch" my father had 2 words for it, Canned Corn. 😆

[@John_Sturgeon]

You can find the full 30 minute apology on youtube

[@ma55aracin9]

@ 6:56 -Without a doubt.....the biggest 💣💣💣..... -SORRY. I CAN'T. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Sing Along had a German version.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

​@@John_Sturgeonin two parts.

[@billbolton6772]

Man...Route 66, Surfside 6, 77 Sunset Strip. A numbers game.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

I never knew Jackie Gleason had this other show! At about the same time He had His Show American Scene Magazine, also the Movie with Steve McQueen, Soldier in the Rain.

[@howardwayne3974]

Remember Johnny Yuma " the rebel " how about the "Joe the bartender " routine of Gleason and Frank Fontaine as " crazy googinheim" ? I really liked to hear that guy sing !!!!

[@johndoddridge4274]

wish i could watch the whole show again!

[@Staszu13]

Mom and Dad watched Mitch Miller all the time

[@thomasallen3818]

Hey Cookie, loan me your comb. We watched 77 Sunset Strip every week.

[@vinniemorciglio4632]

Interesting that Mitch Miller was on NBC, as he was Head of A&R for Columbia Records at the time, (which was owned by CBS)......

[@kathiec1333]

And he reluctantly signed Paul Revere and the Raiders as Columbia's first rock group, Terry Melcher was assigned to work with them.

[@bicpapermate]

One Happy Family. Broadside. The Tammy Grimes Show. Bewitched. I never knew Dick Sargent starred on so many shows.

[@senorkaboom]

And he was homosexual.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

I heard that Dick Sargent was gay.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

No living Color came to Me until 1975!

[@caroltenge5147]

Watching this stuff as kids is why we grew up "normal"

[@russellcampbell9198]

77 Sunset Strip - click, click. Yah! Rawhide. The cool piano of Route 66. The Twilight Zone riff. Those were the days. Oh, did I mention The Flintstones theme?

[@jamming8519]

Flintstones, meet the flintstones... they're a modern stone age family, From the town of bedrock... there's a place right out of history!!!!!! "think I've watched it a few times?" lol

[@tomservo56954]

Westinghouse insisted on the PLAYHOUSE title for this show, even though it was actually a sitcom with continuing characters. Although it only ran for 26 episodes, it was offered in syndication, under the title YES YES NANETTE...

[@AN-vt8qq]

I was 5 years old.

[@EmbreeWalkerII]

Okay, in 1961 I was 8 but I do remember Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, The Flintstones, Route 66, and The Twilight Zone. And got to sit up late - Friday night.

[@451hist]

And then tune in the cartoons on Saturday morning.

[@freeguy77]

451hist, Only after getting a good night's sleep! The cartoons then were superb compared to the junk shown today! Ruff & Reddy, Heckle & Jeckle, The Looney Tunes (with Bugs, Daffy, Donald, and Elmer Fudd), Quick Draw McGraw, etc. Plus, there were great action or western shows: "The Lone Ranger" 'Sky King" "The Adventures of Superman" (reruns), and others.

[@robvangessel3766]

Now I know where SCTV got all its material

[@billbright1755]

Sheb Wooly,, that’s my pa. The Kookie Kar. Norm Gabroski. Mitch Miller Yellow Rose of Texas. Maynerd G. Krebs as himself.

[@lestatangel]

I was so little I thought TV was some kind of magic.

[@dflf]

3:23 when do three guys sit in the front seat?

[@Forcemaster2000]

It's pretty obvious that in 1961 the advertising industry was hitting it's stride, most everything looked like an ad!

[@Neville60001]

+Forcemaster2000: Most of these shows had heavy sponsorship, in that the product was integrated with the show.

[@senorxrey6429]

blatant product placement in many shows back then...

[@lp-xl9ld]

After watching the "prime time toons of the early 60s" video, I got the impression that MATTY'S FUNDAY FUNNIES would have been aired on Funday--uh, sorry, Sunday. But now it turns out it was on *Friday*? Weird.

[@RwDt09]

It aired Sunday afternoons at 5 pm from fall '59 to '60. It moved to Friday night in the fall of '60 and then aired twice as of the winter on both Sunday and Friday till fall '61, when it moved to Saturday 7 pm and stayed there till the end of '62. So no, it wasn't just your imagination.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

And Run For Your Life was also Golden.

[@MisterMasterShafter1]

Twilight Zone, Route 66, Rawhide, Jackie Gleason, The Flintstones.

[@stanleytryhard1825]

Fred left his newspaper in the car. For all i know, it's still there. That Bedrock tends to endure.

[@kingbee1500]

Notice the nod to "The Donna Reed Show" open in "The Flinstones" opening sequence? It's at 2:49. BTW, nice inclusion of Jackie Gleason's apology for "You're In The Picture.''

[@starey1]

+King Bee no, I didn't. What is it? Fred kissing Wilma? How is that a nod to THE DONNA REED SHOW?

[@kingbee1500]

star trek Dr. Stone kisses Donna Stone after first forgetting to in the 1957 open...just as Fred and Wilma do in the 1960 animation. Both were Screen Gems shows, and Joe Barbera put that bit in as an inside joke-thousands of viewers got it.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Amazing that you landed a clip from You’re in the Picture and Gleason’s apology for it the following week. I had read that no video of that Edsel of TV game shows existed. One story said producers were still deciding the rules of the game minutes from air time and neither the celebrity contestants nor the audience ever figured out what the objective was.

[@KalOrtPor]

They do, the first episode and the apology the week after were kept. They did record a 2nd episode that never aired and it's probably lost.

[@ricknibert6417]

And there were those who thought "Supermarket Sweep" was a waste of time.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

He turned it Into a talk show.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Nelson Riddle did Route 66s theme.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

The worst Bomb ever was Laid.

[@Staszu13]

Started with Matty, then the Flintstones, usually Mitch then went to bed

[@billsmith5985]

I liked only 2 shows, Fri. nights--"77 Sunset Strip" and "Twilight Zone".

[@kingarthurup]

Funday is Sunday though.

[@mikeries6930]

Who knew Leslie Uggams would end up playing opposite Deadpool ... 😂

[@displayfireworks1]

5:54 I watched that one time and KZbin and can't seem to find it again. I thought it was not that bad . Be great to find it again

[@theolamp5312]

Now, I am realizing how old I am. And, The Twilight Zone is the star here.

[@sagesagtesage]

I think Harrigan and Son was a Saturday night show. I remember because I used to stay up late on Saturdays to catch Shock Theater, the late night horror movie show. But maybe they changed nights in the course of their run on TV. The Flintstones were definitely early Friday nights.

[@bobthetvfan]

Maybe you lived in a two-station market with each having a secondary ABC affiliation. So one of them might have aired "Harrigan and Son" on delay on Saturday.

[@senorxrey6429]

BTW, The Flintstones was definitely in B&W when it first aired. Where did this "Hooray for Hollywood"-esque theme come from? This is the first time I've seen/heard it. I only know the original "Meet The Flintstones" vocal opening theme. If it wasn't for KZbin I'd have never known about the Jackie Gleason apology. I remember the ABC's failed one-airing wonder, "Tune In" (produced by Laugh-In's George Schlatter/Ed Friendly Productions, but not CBS' "You're In The Picture". Back then CBS wasn't really known to put losers in their fall lineup like ABC and NBC were notorious for because they had pretty solid lineups most of the week. ps. as a kid I "got" the Donna Reed 'missed kiss' homage in The Flintstones opening sequence. They led the way for The Simpsons and Family Guy, who in turn gave them mad props a time or two.

[@popcultureaddict733]

The Flintstones theme used in the video was from the first two prime-time seasons. The more familiar theme started in the third season and is used for all subsequent broadcasts. To the best of my knowledge, ABC was the last major network to switch completely to color broadcasts (not counting possibly PBS' "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood", the last network show broadcast in B&W was probably "American Bandstand"). The Flintstones was taped in color but initially broadcast in B&W, so you are definitely right here. "You're In The Picture" is a notorious failure among TV fans, but not nearly as notorious as "Turn-On" (sorry, it's not "Tune In", but you are definitely right about the "Laugh-In" connection), which was pulled by several of the ABC affiliates' broadcast feeds while it was being aired! You probably are aware that the incomparable Tim Conway was the guest host of that turned-off "Turn-On" episode. I'll bet he has a lot of great jokes about that experience. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-On OK, so what was the last major network TV program broadcast in SDTV? CBS probably wins that one with "Let's Make a Deal" which went HD in 2014.

[@kennethbesselman6511]

The Jerry Paris on Michael Shayne wound up being a writer or producer for Happy Days

[@tomservo56954]

+Kenneth Besselman Not to mention being one of Elliot Ness' Untouchables, and Rob Petrie's neighbor (where he began directing)

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Now the twilight zone is on the Sy Fy Channel.

[@kali3665]

Jackie (during the "apology"): This is a new kind of coffee called "Chock Full O'Booze!" :-)

[@sarjim4381]

&& Sunset Strip and Route 66. The two shows every 13 year old boy wanting to be really cool had to watch.

[@tvstelevisionnetwork9946]

You can watch many of these shows at www.watchyour.tv

[@LinkTheSamurai]

8:25 I feel bad for the people named "Dick Sargent", "Chick Chandler", and "Cheerio"

[@STho205]

You just couldn't beat that CBS schedule, but the Gleason show probably lost viewers midstream. NBC just tossed antiquated schlock at it to burn off the evening. ABC went for the kids and babysitter, hoping Mom and Dad were out to a dinner club. 1961 there was one TV set. Route 66 is probably!y some of the best serious reality writing ever on US television. TZ some of the best fantastic tales writing.

[@mshroye2]

It’s kinda awkward for me seeing shows like the Alvin show and funday funnies on prime time tv because unlike the flintstones they were more targeted towards children

[@janetberlove8620]

1. If my memory serves me right Jackie Gleason was cancelled mid-season in favor of Rawhide. 2. Wasn't Funday Funnies on Sunday afternoons? always thought "funday" was a play on "Sunday".

[@RwDt09]

Rawhide aired at 7:30. In January 1961 Gleason debuted You're in the Picture at 9:30, a game show so bad that Gleason himself publicly expressed shame over it and it was quickly replaced by The Jackie Gleason Show, this time as a talk show program featuring celebrity guests, which continued in the same 9:30 spot. And there was a Sunday repeat edition of Funday Funnies in addition to the prime-time original airings.

[@Staszu13]

Beany and Cecil soon displaced the Paramount toons ABC

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Formerly the Desilu Playhouse.

[@senorxrey6429]

Ahh the days when TV shows had cool opening & closing themes. Except for the abbreviated open for the excellent "Hawaii Five-8" reboot (with original members from the Wrecking Crew performing the classic theme) I cannot name another current series other than Law & Order SVU etc. with a memorable theme. Maybe i spend way too much time on KZbin and NOT watching TV...

[@mr.3camerasman59]

It seems strange that Jackie Gleason would commit to hosting a quiz show, only to bash it the very next week. Maybe he was drunk when he signed on.

[@starey1]

Classic Junk on another web site they used to have a clip from that quiz show, and he was right to bash it. Just from that one scene, you can tell how AWFUL it was!!!

[@handinside]

Jackie Gleason admitted he laid an egg. But compared to some of the crap today I. e. the Bachelor/Bachelorette,Project Runway, Flipping Vegas,etc it doesn't look as bad

[@Neville60001]

+Kenneth Besselman: Trust me, even compared to those shows, it _was_ bad.

[@Hadam10Rose]

He said he and the others on the show realized it was really bad and he had to apologise

[@TheCarnivalguy]

There is a clip of Gleason on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and iirc it was 1981. Carson asked Gleason about that show and it's pretty funny hearing them talk about it. You can find it here on YT.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Dick Sargent replaced Dick York on Bewhitched.

[@nancyericson4263]

The year I was born was not really the greatest year for tv.

[@Sheri451]

There used to be some channel. I can't remember which one, but they played 77 Sunset Strip. I thought it was a good show.. Plus some other show Hawaiian Spy?I see Grandpa Munster was a producer of One Happy Family.

[@tomservo56954]

+Sheri451 No, that's a different one--Grandpa was still New York-based, and this show was from California...

[@Sheri451]

Okay, and thank you for the information.

[@actionsub]

The old GoodLife TV cable network reran 77 Sunset Strip and some of the other WB shows in the early 00s. Me TV is currently carrying 77 Sunset Strip in the middle of the night M-F.

[@rbbonotto]

Those Casper shows were lethal.

[@yaywhewclips242]

No Richie Rich yet.

[@movieman9100]

It was better when there was just 3 networks and a few ind. channels.

[@jeffsmith2022]

Rawhide was the best,Rowdy Yates& Gil Favor!!!!!

[@luisreyes1963]

Some competition it faced, 2 lame sitcoms on NBC & a cartoon show plus another lame sitcom on ABC.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Edd Kookie Byrns.

[@jguerrero447]

Rather dismal lineup.

[@ddivincenzo1]

The Twilight Zone was great.

[@luisreyes1963]

The only ones worth watching were The Twilight Zone, Route 66, Rawhide & The Bell Telephone Hour. 📺

[@EmbreeWalkerII]

Okay, in 1961 I was 8 but I do remember Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, The Flintstones, Route 66, and The Twilight Zone. And got to sit up late - Friday night.