STAY TUNED - MONDAY NIGHT TV SPRING 1966

[@hyacinth4368]

One of the best memories of my life was the Christmas that I got white go-go boots! Thanks, Hullabaloo! And Mom!

[@akronkeith]

God, I LOVE these videos!!! ❤📺

[@nomansland4811]

I still think Diana Rigg as Emma Peel is one of the hottest women to ever grace the TV screen.

[@classiclistener01]

I've liked her ever since I saw "The Assassination Bureau"(1969) as a child. Check her out in 1969's "In Her Majesty's Secret Service." She played the one and only "Bond" wife...an Iconic role.

[@wldandcrzyguy]

I thought she was the hottest as well still do

[@billhahn4113]

And 'The Avengers' was very entertaining, in spite of hokey plots and so-so production values. But Rigg became Dame Diana by virtue of being a first-rate Shakespearean.

[@billhuber2964]

Concour mister.

[@coleparker]

I was a healthy 13 teen age boy when this show was on. So you can imagine how I felt and dreamed about Diana Rigg.

[@dwhat6088]

Thanks for posting. What a nostalgic trip. I've never heard of some of these episodes. Would love to see these episodes. I cried a couple happy tears on the shows I remember. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@joannkennedy2733]

Wow what a elegant and classy show and cast The Avengers were.

[@dougputhoff]

Aww...the black-and-white Emma Peel AVENGERS opening, one of the best ever.

[@coolal19]

At 4 years old one of my "first TV loves", Diana Rigg in the Avengers.

[@dougputhoff]

I still say the B&W Diana Rigg AVENGERS eps were cooler than the Color (Colour?) ones. The former fit the surreal tone of the series better.

[@sanmichele5395]

Doug Puthoff Diana Rigg in black leather. Need I say more?

[@junkersish]

All those shows look corny and dated save for The Avengers, even the intro and theme music are nice.

[@michaeladkins6]

I was heartbroken when Diana Rigg left, Linda Thorson was a poor replacement.

[@legion1a]

Thanks for this video! Memories! I was 17 at the time. I did a lot of channel changing back in those days. It was exercise, because we didn't have remote controls on our TV's, and we only had four stations to choose from. I was madly in love with Diana Rigg and never missed an episode of the Avengers. I remember the blackout that was referred to on "I've Go a Secret"! I was working part time at a supermarket that night. They sent us all home early, when it became known that the power was not going to come back on anytime soon. Hullabaloo was important too, for a young music lover! I still watch Andy Griffith on METV! Thanks again!

[@preahko]

I love it, I know all of these openings, even though many of the shows, I never watched (born in 1959).

[@classiclistener01]

So, these shows are what my Mom was watching right after I was born. Great line-up! Thank you for posting! :)

[@gomezesmorticia]

I was a Senior in high school. I loved the 50's and 60's.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

I was an eight-year-old third grader back in 1965-66. That spring, I became a fan of a brand new show on CBS called Green Acres. And I have been a Green Acres fan ever since!

[@TheCatgirl6]

Loved "Hullabaloo" when I was a kid and my parents never missed "Peyton Place." (That stately, melancholy theme makes me misty-eyed to this day.) *sigh* I miss this era of entertainment. There really was something for everyone in 1966 and my whole family watched TV together. Entertainment is so fragmented nowadays (and so violent), I can't help feeling as a culture we've lost something. Thanks for sharing. (The programming grid at the end is a nice touch.)

[@FreedomFighter-cr5xg]

sounds like you want the return of white people only on all TV shows .. the era you are so fond of featured white peope only , and you want the return of those white supremacist days ..

[@MrTrashcan1]

@@FreedomFighter-cr5xg Right. And then a few years later when Blacks started flooding the tube, she hated it and stopped watching TV altogether. I read her comment several times and couldn't find anything dealing with race. Maybe you--the one who is obsessed with race--are the problem.

[@FreedomFighter-cr5xg]

@@MrTrashcan1 no , you have the problem

[@FreedomFighter-cr5xg]

@xearther stop your lies

[@rondy702]

Gone, gone, gone! Some of this was before my time but I know about the family sitting in front of the TV set! I sat in the floor with my brother and watched the Jerry Lewis show! I wanted to be a comedian!

[@JIMRYAN-DESIGNER]

We were a CBS on Monday nights family. It would have stayed on Channel 2 all evening.

[@georgeanthony7282]

Even though I was just nine years old, I still hold some wonderful memories of such a year!

[@Lisa-di1wi]

I was 8 years old that spring.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

George Anthony: If you were 9 years old back in 1966, you were probably born the same year as me; 1957. I turned 9 that October.

[@kathiec1333]

I was 10, and very disappointed in the networks for only giving the music shows like Hullabaloo a season or three before they were canceled.

[@Mia7189]

I explained to my niece that my first crush was 'Duckie' from NCIS. She thought I was kidding. Thank God for You Tube.

[@birdsfan57]

Yep! David McCallum was quite the heartthrob for alot of pre-teens and teens back in those "Man From U.N.C.L.E." days. We used to buy packfuls of those stiff sheets of bubblegum in order to collect the cards with his picture (along with Robert Vaughan) inside.

[@harrybetteridge7532]

@@birdsfan57 They referenced this in one episode of NCIS where somebody asked Gibbs what a young Duckie looked like and he just said Illya Kuryakin.

[@cpcva724]

That was on the first episode of NCIS

[@herbbluntman2287]

I was just recently enjoying Diana Rigg's first season on The Avengers on VuDu until they pulled it from their, "free with commercials" line up. Great show, smart, witty, sexy and action packed.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

I was only in third grade back in the spring of '66. I became a Green Acres fan that spring.

[@robinbeavers3982]

I was in first grade. I had to watch whatever my parents watched! Only 1 TV in the house back then.

[@agriperma]

I liked Green Acres, but Family Affair was a bore fest.

[@argelbargel7680]

Diana Rigg. Yes.

[@eamonhorahan666]

we never missed ed Sullivan or dean martin both in color in 1965. also mchales navy (b&w) and the Lawrence welk show (tank you, boyce) and hee haw. what a time to grow up, culturally,and visably...... the 1960's....... a true time of wonder. we will never experience the likes of those times again. nothing will be.... or (unfortunately) has been the same again,or since. those innocent times are..... long,long gone. rip,1960's

[@imkluu]

I loved the Avengers and that opening theme is incredible.

[@STho205]

Thats "Peal's Theme". They replaced the old music the year she joined the cast. Originally the show was two men..a physician and Steed the spy Then Honor Blackmon and McNee Then Emma Then when Rigg left for Hollywood movies they altered the theme when showing Linda Thorson in the titles. Completely new theme for New Avengers

[@hebneh]

"The Avengers" was by far the coolest and most cutting-edge show that appears in this compilation. It quickly zoomed to popularity with young adults, which led to it being filmed in color the next season; it was only shown this way in the USA because there still wasn't color TV yet in Britain. Its peak of popularity was brief, though, because once Diana Rigg found out that the head cameraman was being paid more than she was, she quit. Her replacement the next season couldn't possibly fill her shoes, and the show ended. What I really liked about her, at the ages of 12 and 13, was that she was strong and take-charge, and could fight. I always had been aggravated by stupid shuddering and cringing females who just stood by looking scared while the good guy was defending her from the villain. Mrs. Peel was NEVER like that.

[@MrTrashcan1]

I knew it wouldn't last, but still liked the Tara King episodes. Too bad the pussies caved and changed out the target credits for the castle/cards.

[@johnd.1849]

Diana Rigg was very easy on the eyes😉

[@hebneh]

And they dressed her in tight bodysuits to emphasize that, wisely.

[@beatlebrian4404]

I don't know why you didn't know that Honor Blackman, played Cathy Gale, in the early series of The Avengers!

[@hebneh]

@@beatlebrian4404 Diana Rigg's predecessor isn't what's being discussed here - and regardless, since those episodes of "The Avengers" had never been shown in the US, nobody knew about her.

[@RandyTheWildHorse]

6:42 The Lucy Show as well as The Andy Griffith Show were shows almost everyone I used to know watched and liked as well as myself when I was old enough watching them when they had reruns years later on KMSP channel 9 in the 1970's. Those reruns were on that station for years too especially Andy Griffith.

[@davidmoody718]

This is how I get my education from learning from older people who experience living in the 1960s. All tho I was born in the late 60s and only remember shows from the 70s and some from the past but as I say again those who live in that time knows a lot more for instance wouldn't find out what original station an old program was on if someone who maybe 10 or 12 years older than me would know cause they was there and they remember that era.

[@richardlawson4317]

Hullabaloo. See, 2019 kiddies? We were young once like you are now. Life will go far faster than you can possibly imagine, so enjoy it while you can. Seriously.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Today's youth missed a great decade of television!

[@herbbluntman2287]

Well said, Richard. We Boomers are all starting to wonder where our youth went. LOL.

[@budgarner3522]

What a cast for 12 O'Clock High! Early Avengers with Emma Peel! Andy Williams with David McCallum and Run For Your Life were nice surprises.

[@douglasghiz1287]

I never knew that Ann B. Davis was on The John Forstythe Show. That was 3 years before she was Alice the housekeeper on The Brady Bunch.

[@JerryCordelli]

Wasn't she also on Love that Bob even before that?

[@AliasUndercover]

Ooo, the Avengers. Coolness.

[@hebneh]

The vigorous go-go dancing on "Hullabaloo" was always a pleasure to watch. It was a more polished and adult-like show than "Shindig!" on ABC. The first number of each show was a group lip-synching their recent hit, while 4 or 5 beautiful and fashionably-dressed young woman stood frozen in one pose for the entire performance. Speaking of which, I liked how the theme song of the second program shown in this video, "The Legend of Jesse James", was redone with a very strong go-go beat for this season.

[@Jake-Riprock]

love these!!

[@CraigCarter2]

Such classic TV!!

[@roberthaugen6148]

I was so in love with her as a kid and Angelique she played in Dark Shadows

[@dflf]

When Diana Rigg left the Avengers it went straight down hill

[@coleparker]

TV in 1966 became more interesting in Fall when Star Trek TOS was premiered.

[@jln55]

"Mr Bryan, you've got one year left, maybe two...depending on the ratings!"

[@briankeller788]

He ended up with three years after he started running for his life.

[@yaywhewclips242]

I came into the world April 26, 1966. The 1st lady came exactly 4 years later 1970.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

On that daytime version of To Tell the Truth that featured Otto Preminger,, Mark Goodson and Henry Morgan were the two impostors.

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

Hazel was still re-running in the late '60s-early '70s. I remember watching it on KTTV in Los Angeles. When I was little, I sometimes confused Run For Your Life with The Prisoner. Can you imagine, that high-speed POV ride, then, all of a sudden... there's Rover, and you're suddenly engulfed? Scary!

[@sandysexton6570]

Good old black and white TV. We didn’t get colour TV until around 1970.

[@Ponykeg53]

Those were the days of real wrighting and real scripts. Run for your life that was a great primase for a show . All great shows I remember them all I have some of them on DVD and blu-ray, 12"Ocloke high, Avengers, Andy Willems show, the Lucy show. Miss those shows. Hollywood has forgotten what real entertainment is. The stuff they put out to day is just shameful. Don't even watch it any more. It's just crap.

[@Argonaut121]

None of these shows - with the notable exception of The Avengers - has aged well. Let's not kid ourselves. I was 12 in 1966. Even then I though most of it was sophmoric crap. Television is infinitely better now than it was then.

[@arkady714]

The Avengers have had a cult following in the French world for decades. There was even a pop song in the '90s called "Emma," dedicated to Emma Peel. The show in their language, however, was called "Bowler Hats and Leather Boots." Great stuff, really...

[@algeborusas1883]

Hullabaloo was must see TV in my house.

[@michaelt977]

in case you didn't know,the first season of the avengers that aired in 1966 in the u.s. was actually the fifth season that aired in the u.k.

[@williambabyak1094]

I believe it was Season Four. The "teaser" was an introduction for the benefit of the American audience ( UK fans already being obsessed with the series).

[@herbbluntman2287]

Honor Blackman was Steed's partner for the first 3 seasons if I remember correctly. Diana Rigg was sexier IMO.

[@302Diane]

@@herbbluntman2287 I don't think she was actually in the first series. I had occasion to see the first episode a few years ago, and it seems to me the principal characters were both men, with Patrick McNee as the partner, not the lead.

[@trevordance5181]

In the UK The Avengers first aired on ITV in 1961. Originally it was produced by ABC TV, that's the British ABC, Associated British Corporation, part of the UK independent television network, not the American Broadcasting Company. Initially the character John Steed, played by Patrick Mcnee, was only a sidekick to Dr David Keel, played by Ian Hendry. The series only really caught on world wide in the mid sixties when it transferred from being recorded in black and white videotape to being filmed in colour on 35 mm quality film stock.

[@billhuber2964]

I like 12 o clock high. Got my intrezt in avation and the military.

[@elc1960]

I always wondered, in regards to the theme from Jesse James, what exactly is a "gold hungry gun," anyway? I had just turned six years old at the time this video spotlights, so I don't remember seeing a number of the shows first-run. I do remember Hullabaloo, Hazel, Dr. Kildare, and The Andy Williams Show.

[@debralerner6524]

I will agree with you there Linda thorson had nothing on her sigh those were the days of great to wonderful game shows and movies

[@Declare57]

Little did I know that these would be the golden age of television. That programming would NOT get any better. That I would be sitting in my grandmother's home (now mine) searching out the same programs they would have been watching when I was nine years old and with very few exceptions finding the writing, acting, sentiments superior to what is on TV today! Sunday has gone from Disney, Bonanza etc. to Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, "reality" romance with a catfish...phew! Two episodes of Avengers in the morning followed by Simon Templar, Daniel Boone, Rifleman, Dan Troop and Johnny McKay et al, I'm good to go!

[@malcolmmarshall5946]

I'll bet CBS, with Lucy and Andy Griffith, clobbered the other networks in the Monday ratings.

[@TimothyForbesXXI]

This would have been for the networks' Monday night lineup, and yeah, this would have likely been after March 1966, since The Avengers made their US debut on 28 March.

[@Rodin99]

never missed the AVENGERS!

[@judyjones5089]

I was in 7th grade, liked school, was in track, sister away at college and about to get maried, it could have been a nighwhen Dad picked me up from trak after work, and would all eiter dinner together, or Dad and would have stopped off for Burger King whoppers on the night mom went off to bridge club. Wonderful memories.

[@stephenr3910]

Dig that mod scene.

[@mw10259]

DIANA RIGG , HOTTER THAN BARBARA EDEN, BARBARA FELDON, GINGER AND MARIE ANN COMBINED

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Eva Gabor was hot on TV in Green Acres.

[@ronmyers2317]

All beautiful women But Diana Takes the Cake.

[@vickygroce6217]

Barbara Bain of Mission Impossible was hotter.

[@terrybardy2923]

"I lead a very normal life with my family," says David McCallum The he throws the guy over his shoulder and shoots him. That was funny back in the old days!

[@josephcope7637]

Twelve O'Clock High was my favorite show until Robert Lansing was fired and John Larkin died of a heart attack. It just wasn't the same though Frank Overton was always good.

[@rentslave]

The fact that Hazel was still on in 1966 proves that Newton Minnow was correct.

[@luisreyes1963]

The same could be said of Peyton Place.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

The UK had it's own ABC TV (where you got The Avengers from) which stood for "Associated British Corporation" on the Independent Television Network at Weekends in London and the North of England until the station lost its franchise through no fault of its own in 1968. It had to merge with Rediffusion London due to Independent Television Authority deciding so, that then brought Thames Television to London, the network & some shows to the World.

[@johnpendarvis7885]

Diana Rigg-wow!!

[@FlavioGirl]

a very young toni basil was the choreographer for hullabaloo

[@alphasixty1316]

Assistant to David Winters

[@toonalootown2331]

Happy Little Tablet Sprouts

[@demelof1913]

Emma Peel!!

[@michaeladkins6]

Expected a lot from Peyton Place, bridging the gap between The Man from Shenandoah and The Avengers.

[@laceyw8689]

I thought all the shows were in color by 1966. Great lineup.

[@andrewzambella5023]

Peyton Place...Barbara Parkins was so hot at that time.

[@speedracer1945]

Gosh , I had to watch some of show since my Ma liked it .

[@coleparker]

Never did care for the Lucy Show.

[@johnlewis9158]

I agree Lucile Ball never came across as a very likeable person which i believe was true in real life

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

What ever i would have watched in 1966 would been watched on a black & white tv set, the Zenith with the tri-star channel knob and gold glitter cloth over the speaker.

[@rickybobby6579]

Chris Robinson is dreamy

[@alanoldham1700]

11:12 that looks like the same "Italy" set from the final season of McHale's Navy.

[@georgegriffin4071]

i was 9 years old i rem 12 o clock high buyt not jesse james wow

[@Lisa-di1wi]

George: you were probably born the same year as me; which was 1957. I turned 9 that October.

[@stevepette]

Emma Peel, the most dangerous thing on the Avengers ever!!!!

[@ktkat1949]

The host of To Tell the Truth was never show walking. That is because he was crippled with polio. Fat chance of you seeing anyone on TV these days who was not perfect in body and face.

[@davehire1433]

You may be thinking of Bill Cullen, who was a panelist on “I’ve Got A Secret” and hosted the original “Price Is Right”.

[@ChadQuick270W]

I’d have watched Hullabaloo then switched to CBS for a while then back to The Andy Williams Show on NBC. Didn’t care for anything on ABC Monday nights.

[@williambabyak1094]

Then, brother, you missed out on quite a lot!

[@nonamegame9857]

Back then we didn't get NBC because of a poor signal even on analog now here it is all these years later and NBC still likes broadcasting a weak signal even though now it's digital to where the signal still goes out from even 70 mi away. Isn't progress great 🤣🤣🤣

[@michaellively8132]

Funny how you see so many of the same actors bouncing from show to show. And man, is Lloyd Bochner one of them! @00:55

[@shawnmalone9711]

He was in the Twilight Zone episodes "Third from the Sun ," and "The Obsolete Man".

[@speedracer1945]

He was more a character actor than a lead one .

[@ktkat1949]

Go watch pilot shows that never sold from the 80. Not only were the same actors but even the kids were in two or three pilots!1

[@lindaeasley5606]

A show about Jesse James I can't get my head around. What were they thinking? The opening theme song made it clear they were painting him as a hero . No wonder it wasn't successful

[@JerryCordelli]

No doubt another echo of the Lost Cause ...

[@russelltelesca6119]

The Lucy Show was my favorite.

[@ChatGPT1111]

Halabalu guests volunteeringly giving themselves Shaken Baby Syndrome!

[@mthivier]

Kitty Carlisle must have had the night off from "To Tell the Truth".

[@MerleOberon]

Loved Kitty, she always added class.

[@juniorxeastny8169]

Variety shows like Hullaballoo wouldn't survive today due to KZbin and Netflix.

[@agriperma]

Did not survive then either, only lasted one season.

[@FIREBRAND38]

That Celebrity To Tell the Truth aired in 1965 on November 8th. The whole episode can be seen here kzbin.info/www/bejne/emSqm4WllrSIr8k

[@gregoryevans8179]

I thought all TV shows were in color by 66.

[@whiskeyriver4322]

3:10 ............nuff said

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

SHOWS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT: THE LEGEND OF JESSE JAMES A MAN CALLED SHENANDOAH HOLLYWOOD TALENT SCOUTS THE JOHN FORSYTH SHOW

[@senorkaboom]

Never watched Hullabadig au Go Go.

[@richardlawson4317]

Budd Collyer always had the greasiest nastiest hair! Was it Brylcreem or Wildroot Cream Oil??? Gag!

[@senorkaboom]

Never watched “Run For Your Life”.

[@luisreyes1963]

It was recently shown on Cozi TV.

[@DucNguyen0131]

The Avengers is better than Honey West.

[@302Diane]

I wouldn't argue with that, although I enjoyed Honey West when I was 10. I've seen a few episodes since. My tastes have changed.

[@speedracer1945]

Im not partial when talking about beautiful women so I wouldnt say either women is ugly , I'll take both .

[@luisreyes1963]

@@speedracer1945 You hound. 😉

[@alpha-omega2362]

wasn't Dr. Kildare an hour show? maybe in some seasons?

[@RwDt09]

In its final season, 1965-66, it aired twice weekly as half-hour episodes on Mondays and Tuesdays.

[@alpha-omega2362]

@@RwDt09 ok thx

[@geraldmpritchett6191]

Cbs was kicking ass

[@marcinna8553]

Yeah, I grew up with this stuff. Other than the Avengers, it was all pretty lame.

[@DucNguyen0131]

Did the American ABC ever imported Avengers from an unrelated British ABC and placed it up as a spring replacement for Ben Casey?

[@williambabyak1094]

I believe so.

[@fredmertz3837]

Avengers supported the socialst UK govt. 26+6+1 at any cost.

[@errorsofmodernism9715]

Emma Peel is very "doable"

[@luisreyes1963]

You said it! 😁

[@hebneh]

Only if she had allowed "it" to be done to her, because as we all know very well, she did not allow anything she did not want.

[@jguerrero447]

Some pretty dumb stuff onTV in 1966. Just glad I had cars, school, girls, and the pursuit of pot and booze occupy my time.

[@luisreyes1963]

The Avengers, Dr. Kildare & Run For Your Life were not dumb. The rest of the lineup, however...😕

[@Silenced23]

The Avengers still better than The Avengers

[@trevordance5181]

Ntsc color. Piss poor colour in the early days. Not reliable or consistent resulting in colours that were far from "Living Color" as proclaimed by Nbc. Plus tv sets were really expensive, and unreliable and prone to going wrong and didn't even show the whole picture due to the shape of the picture tubes. The penalty paid for being the first colour tv system I suppose.

[@tek6423]

Yea Trev the colour was “piss poor”. It was a new technology....it was extraordinary. I remember how shocked I was when I saw that Dudley Doo-Right’s uniform was RED

[@MerleOberon]

I use to go to my friend's house for Saturday morning cartoons because they had a color TV, it was amazing then. The TV seemed to work fine.

[@hebneh]

We got a color TV for Christmas 1963 and first of all, there still wasn't much color programming yet. Second, each time a new color show started, or you changed channels to another color show, you had to manually adjust the color and tint levels. The latter ranged from green at one extreme to purple on the other, and you were advised to try to attain the best "skin tone" in turning the knob. However, by this time the picture tube was no longer round, and it did in fact offer a good rectangular view.

[@dougtagg9162]

Trevor Dance You needed to change your TV tubes at the drugstore.

[@FreedomFighter-cr5xg]

I see all white people .. white supremacist tv show for the white supremacists, sad to say ..

[@Mimi-jn3fi]

That's all you stupid millennials think about is race.

[@Al1ceWonderland]

A lot of these shows never existed, like Hullabaloo and the John Forsythe Show. If you remember them, it's because memories of them have been inserted or you have confused them with something else, for example "12 O'Clock High" was a movie but never had a tv show spinoff.

[@agriperma]

Hullabaloo lasted about 1.5 seasons, its likely you never seen it because stations may have chose to drop it for some other programming, obviously geared to the youth of the time, many conservative markets may have dropped it, John Forsythe Show another one only lasted one season. 12 O Clock high, the TV series, I even remember that one, yes it was a movie and a tv series, lasted about 4 seasons. I have to ask you, what you think is more likely, that thousands of baby boomers have false memories, or that a single person has forgotten about these shows, possibly because there was another show at the same time, that they preferred watching instead. ?

[@marijohnross7282]

Sorry, those shows DID exist. I know because I watched them. Hullabaloo was dropped by some local stations as an earlier comment mentioned-I know because it was where I lived. When my dad was off, he watched 12 o'clock High with me. He was a World War 2 veteran. No, I don't have Alzheimer's.

[@demelof1913]

@@marijohnross7282 lol

[@mickeyjudge7298]

Memories have been inserted? Lmfao. We're these intros also fabricated? 12 O'Clock High was an excellent show, Robert Lansing was the first main character and my favorite. I was 9 years old and watched most of these shows. Fact-based reality can be elusive sometimes.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Glenn: You were probably born the same year as me; which was 1957. I turned 9 that October.