I love .. love ... LOVE this ! .... thank you so much for posting 🌟

I was married in 1972 and my wife had to watch the Lawrence Welk show every week till she passed in 2002.

@dirtydave2691

4 жыл бұрын

At my Dads Moms house.......my Grandma it was Lawrence Welk. At my other Grandmas it was Hee Haw. The two families could not have been more different, but us kids always felt loved being at either house!

@Mary-o8r

4 жыл бұрын

My grandmother never missed a show! Watched it until it ended.

@denicesanders4586

4 жыл бұрын

My in-laws lived with us until my father-in-law died and my mother-in-law recently went into a nursing home due to dementia. They watched old reruns of Lawrence Welk till I wanted to run away. My grandparents loved him too, even took a trip to Lake Tahoe, from Idaho, to see him. I never got the thrill. I

@thewkovacs316

3 жыл бұрын

@@dirtydave2691 i was forced to watch it at my grandmother's house...i hated it

@RoyPage1970

2 ай бұрын

​@@denicesanders4586Lawrence welk 🤮🤮

In the fall of 1956 I was 9 years old.and remember nearly all these shows. Now, at nearly 73, l find these memories entertaining and just a little creepy. I wonder where my life went...

@marilyntaylor9577

Жыл бұрын

It’s three years later and I was eight in 1956. I wonder where mine went, too

@rascal0175

Жыл бұрын

@@marilyntaylor9577 Life seems to pass pretty quickly unless you are a kid in a boring classroom or in a dentists chair.

@MrSmegfish

Жыл бұрын

Im 67 thinking the same thing. What became of Circus Boy. Did he become an alcoholic or a beatnik. He's never been seen for decades

@rascal0175

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSmegfish What I recall about Circus Boy was just how good a program it was. I really enjoyed it as a child.

@marilyntaylor9577

Жыл бұрын

@@rascal0175 And I don’t remember it at all. I do remember lots of westerns, but no kids.

As 10 years boy I remember a lot of these show. A lot of very good tv back then.

Corkey, in Circus Boy, went on to be Mickey Dolenz (his real name) of the Monkees.

@jomon723

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks I knew it was someone,but forgot 🙉

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were killed at the Alamo. 1836.

@donkeyslayer4661

3 жыл бұрын

What a relief! I thought he grew up become Charlie Manson.

my father & dane clark(wire service show)were in the 101st airborne together on D-Day....june 6th 1944...i am writing this on june 6 2020

2:38 - "Corky" in "Circus Boy" is Mickey Dolenz who starred in "The Monkees" a little more than 10 years later. That made him considerably more famous than this earlier show ever did.

@EricIrl

5 жыл бұрын

I remember " Circus Boy". It was shown on Irish TV in the early 1960s.

@lindajohnson4204

4 жыл бұрын

I always remember an episode of Circus Boy when he had to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope!

I remember all these shows, they came out 2 years before I was born.

This truly was the golden age of TV. I was so blessed to see it the first time around!

@barbaraedgley2634

8 ай бұрын

Me too.

I wasn't around for these shows, but I have always loved Tennessee Ernie Ford and Nat King Cole.

We didn’t have a TV yet so I only saw these shows if one of my friends had one. There were only NBS, ABC, and CBS stations and broadcasting shut down at 11pm.

I was nine years old in ‘56 . We did’t have a tv but I remember watching Zorro at my friends house.

@warrenlauzon5315

4 жыл бұрын

Zorro is just about the only show I can recall ever seeing from this list. And it may have been a later version than 1956.

Michal Ansara - I remember some of his movies. He used to also own Bowling Square in Arcadia, Ca,. He was married to Barbara Eden at the time. Used to come in to the little restaurant there sometimes and were nice to patrons and fans, per my parents.

Playhouse Ninety was unique a live play on television, featuring some of the finest performers

@Mr22thou

4 жыл бұрын

That was one of the shows that sounded really good and that I wanted to see. And it happens to be on KZread: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lXyExrqKp7XUn8Y.html

@Mary-o8r

4 жыл бұрын

I wish they would put playhouse 90 on video like they did with suspense!

@martynelson2666

4 жыл бұрын

a lot of the big movie stars were afraid of TV.....a few took the chance!!

@tomservo56954

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mr22thou It was the debut, written by Rod Serling...it didn't get raves, but he made up for it the following week--that was when host Jack Palance starred in REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT.

@fromthesidelines

4 жыл бұрын

Because of the logistics of producing a LIVE 90 minute drama every week, CBS gave the producers a break by producing- with Screen Gems/Columbia- a filmed 90 minute "PLAYHOUSE 90" drama that aired about once a month.

I don't remember the channel that used to show Circus Boy. But I watched it around six or seven years ago. I liked it. The boy was one of The Monkees.

William Russell of Sir Lancelot later played Ian Chesterton in the first couple of seasons of Dr. Who with William Hartnell as the first Time Lord

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

I can't remember the actors who played Lancelot's buddies, Sir Loin of Beef and Sir Osis of Liver.

Love these old ones, wish you could go back even further. Maybe the British shows too, or Canadian BBC.

Since I was only three years old then, I don't remember these shows firsthand but it is interesting to see these. I did have a Little Golden Book of Broken Arrow.

Oh no...Sixteen Tons the tape recorder I still have today, its 1st tape inside it has the Sixteen Tons song recorded on it, from the radio , the announcer is saying the song is in the "number one position" and several times MY BABY voice is recorded on this reel tape!!! (In 1955).

FUHHHHHH!!! "The 77th Bengal Lancers, brought to you by...Jell-O!" I spit my soft drink all over myself.

@tomservo56954

4 жыл бұрын

Via Hank Simms, the voice of Quinn Martin Productions

I was born September of that year. 63 years ago....... amazing snapshots of the past. It's a little insight into the history of American culture at the time.

@samiam619

4 жыл бұрын

George B I’m also 63. We had better TV in the 60’s and 70’s...

@rafaelramirez1507

Жыл бұрын

@@samiam619 yes we did 👌🏻

1940’s? You probably made it yourself. Ryobi tools are awesome when they are in talented hands. I enjoy watching your videos.

Herb Shriner's twin sons, Kin and Wil, both entered show business as well. Kin was on General Hospital for years, and Wil was a cast member of the David Letterman daytime show in 1980. He later hosted game shows and directed episodes of TV series, and currently hosts the The Johnny Carson Show podcast.

@marilyntaylor9577

Жыл бұрын

And Hoosiers!

Love the car commercials. A used car today cost more than a new one then.

@steveweinstein3222

10 ай бұрын

The median income was also $3,600.

Gale Storm and the Gale Storm Show (Oh Susannah!) is the only TV show on this list that I actually remember from 1956-57. Lawrence Welk was popular with my parents and grandparents, but I can't swear to actually having seen his show during this time period. I probably came to his program later when I stopped thinking he was playing old fashioned music and started to appreciate the musicianship involved.

@marilyntaylor9577

Жыл бұрын

Do you remember the Lennon Sisters?

1956 must have been the year I started listening to radio

I always liked Circus Boy, Broken Arrow, Jim Bowie, Playhouse 90, (loved Jack Palance as a tortured Dracula), -& i only knew Wally Cox as Mr. Peepers. Remember oh Susanna, (remember when all laundry detergents were powders).

They really went fucking bonkers with those program sponsors in the 50's.

I vaguely remember the Gale Storm show, but I also recall Superman & Lucy to a degree. I was born in '52 and my sister in '57, but our mom died of liver cancer in early '58 so these years were kind of blurred 'til the Flintstones showed up !

I was 5 years old in 56 i don't think we had a TV yet

oh boy i can't wait to see what comes on in 1956

I showed this to my 8 year old son and now all he does is smoke cigarettes and eat cereal.

The 1957 model cars were first sold in the fall of 1956, which is why Lawrence Welk's "Top Tunes and New Talent" shows both a '57 Dodge and a '57 Plymouth. The latter's advertising slogan was "Suddenly - it's 1960!", meaning the 1957 Plymouths supposedly looked like they were three years into the future. That's why the announcer says the Plymouth "dares to break the time barrier...1960 new!" at 22:46.

@superchitownhustler

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, the reference to 1960 threw me.

@tobyradloff

5 жыл бұрын

@@superchitownhustler The 1957 Plymouth looked radically different than the 1957 Chevrolet and Ford. The car was longer, lower, and had large tail fins. The Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge, and Imperial for 1957 had similar radically different styling compared to their competitors.

@fromthesidelines

4 жыл бұрын

They used the slogan, "When you drive a PLYMOUTH suddenly it's 1960!".

@dillysgirl4ever

3 жыл бұрын

That might as well should have been the 1960 Plymouth - the actual 1960 Plymouth looked like garbage IMO comparatively speaking!

these videos have me hooked

@antonsmith9788

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed! They are like Pringle’s …you can’t just have one! 😜🤣😜

I think this is the first one of these where I can't think of a single program shown that is getting ANY air time anywhere at the time I type this...

I stand to be corrected, but I think the later episodes of The Adventures Of Sir Lancelot were made in colour making this programme the first British made tv programme to be filmed and broadcast in colour.

@steveweinstein3222

10 ай бұрын

You're right! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_colour_TV_shows_in_the_UK

I was 10 years old. TV shows actually had stories.. I would have those times again.

Yes, I watched reruns of Oh, Susanna in the 1960s.

WOW thanks for this post.

I missed Cheyenne as a hit. For 1956: Zane Grey Theater, Playhouse 90, Gale Storm Show? Lawrence Welk (Top Tunes &Talent), Circus Time?

Gale Gordon....Lucy's favorite

Pretty cool to see Quint (Robert Shaw), from Jaws, in a series he starred in called the Buccaneers. I would love to see a couple of episodes. He was a great actor.

I find it fascinating that nothing of Conflict exists. I'm used to lost films atleast having a poster or something. But to have a show that exists with no evidence is intriguing to me

@steveweinstein3222

10 ай бұрын

A year ago, two episodes were posted on KZread.

Of the first 14 shows, 12 are historical dramas. Interesting.

And seven years later, the star of THE ADVENTURES OF SIR LANCELOT was in the original cast of DOCTOR WHO...

@rangers199487

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. So that was the same William Russell who played Ian Chesterton during the 1st three seasons of Classic Doctor Who.

@RUCKERMAN

5 жыл бұрын

Quite right. William Russell was one of the companions to the first doctor. He played the school teacher Ian Chesterton. Jacqueline Hill played the other school teacher, Barbara Wright.

@bethdibartolomeo2042

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing that he's still alive today too.

I vaguely recall having a Little Golden Book or something like that of Circus Boy.

@24:45 Paul walks by some audience members as he leaves the set for the last time, not to be renewed for the next season. There's a lady who stands, her gaze follows Paul as he leaves then turns to the camera. Is that Bea Benaderet? You will have to pause quickly, her face is visibled for about 1/3 a second.

@fromthesidelines

4 жыл бұрын

"CIRCUS TIME" was not renewed following the 1956-'57 season. However, Hartz Mountain sponsored Paul (and Jerry Mahoney) on ABC's Sunday afternoon schedule in the fall of '57.

As the Mark VII credit states, NOAH'S ARK was produced by Jack Webb (and was one of the first TV series to be broadcast in color)

@thewkovacs316

3 жыл бұрын

why did webb think a show about a vet would be popular

@jubalcalif9100

Жыл бұрын

@@thewkovacs316 If he'd made the vet an undercover cop, the series may have lasted longer....

@thewkovacs316

Жыл бұрын

@@jubalcalif9100 there was a popular bbc show about a vet...maybe that is why he developed one

I remember a series called Noah. It was about Noah and the flood. I think that series was before 1956, as was Topper.

Of course I knew Nat King Cole and Dinah Shore had shows, and Twenty One was infamous, but other than those, these are all new to me. Fascinating.

Extra credit for leaving in the Jell-O sponsorship message. How incongruous was that?

@geoffdearth7360

5 жыл бұрын

Quite incongruous.

I remember some of these but not all

These are the T.V. shows that would have been playing when I was born in September of that year. 63 + years ago. Wow...... some of them were really corny! 🤣

That's Hank Simms announcing 'The 77th Bengal Lancers' and Don Pardo introducing 'Stanley'. It sounds very much like Laugh-In's Gary Owens introducing The Joseph Cotten Show.

Jack Palance, wow.

@dariowiter3078

6 жыл бұрын

Zombie George "Believe it...or not!" 😉 😁

@garywalter1614

5 жыл бұрын

...and reading his q card perfectly.

@vestibulate

4 жыл бұрын

Zombie George He looked scared to death. The intro on Playhouse 90 was an important slot, it was live, and this was the very first night.

Phil Carey played Asa Buchanan on "One Life to Live".

@samiam619

4 жыл бұрын

Dawn M. Divincenzo he also was “You won’t believe it, but I’m Granny Goose” the potato chip Company. Before that he was the Captain on “Laredo”.

Wow, starting off strong with a series starring a then-future Doctor Who star (William Russell).

the fun for me (you can play along too if you're of sufficient vintage) is, as each new reveal comes up, seeing if my memory is good enough (i.e., if the information was sufficiently burned into my synapses from repeated watchings as a kiddiewink) for me to peg the name of the show before the title card comes up

@isotopefeeney

5 жыл бұрын

PS: I was at about 25%. In my defence, some of the 'grown-up' shows (Playhouse 90 &c.) I wouldn't have been watching as a kid.

At 12:00 - "Live from New York!" Hmmmmmmm - where have I heard that before? And the announcer for Pall Mall cigarettes - sounds like Don Pardo! Hmmmmmmmm. . .

The younger of the two men discussing the pet dog's medical condition is Paul Burke, who later starred on the series Naked City (ca. 1960) and then on the series Twelve O'Clock High. His last major role was in the movie Valley of the Dolls.

@richardsteinberg3495

2 жыл бұрын

I neglected to mention that Paul Burke was in the promo for Noah's Ark, a show I never knew existed.

@steveweinstein3222

10 ай бұрын

After starring in Valley of the Dolls, there was nowhere to go but far, far away from Hollywood. 🤣

I would like to see some of these shows if they’re “cleaned up.” They don’t have to be colonized, just clean up the audio and video.

I am a descendent of Jean Lafitte and I had a long term girl friend who was descended from Jim Bowie .... Imagine the kids ....lol

As a little kid, I thought Jack Barry was Raymond Burr.

You ever wonder if the Harrison Act had not been passed that Geritol would have been mostly Amphetamines?

@tobyradloff

5 жыл бұрын

I also remember that Geritol contained alcohol, and some people used it as a substitute for booze, if they lived in a "dry" area. Other so-called "patent medicines" were used that way also. Just as some people would use NyQuil or Listerine as liquor substitutes if they were desperate enough.

13:43, the (pre) Mayberry set.

quiz shows of the 50's..."SCANDALS"

I've seen the Gale Storm show in re-runs into the seventies.

@denicesanders4586

4 жыл бұрын

We get Sling. One of the channels has the Gale Storm Show.

Variety shows which we couldn't have now sadly

It was Victor Jory, not Tory.

16:57- "GERITOL! The high potency vitamin and iron tonic that helps you 'FEEL STRONGER FAST'...presents the-----"

@tobyradloff

5 жыл бұрын

Geritol pretty much owned TV back in the 1950's...especially the game shows.

Micky Braddock aka Dolenz Jr. As Corky.

Year I was born so I had to check out what was happening on the box.

I was four and don’t remember any of these.

what the hell was luftwaffe? are you saying in 1956 there was a TV show about nazi's pilots?

@RwDt09

5 жыл бұрын

That was the episode title following the series intro for Air Force (9:03).

@m9078jk3

5 жыл бұрын

It was very popular and even stared Hans -Ulrich Rudel the famed Stuka Pilot as well as other Luftwaffe aces.

@codyhilton1750

3 ай бұрын

Actually, this was a 26 week series called "Air Power." One week the show was about the history of the German Air Force. It was an excellent show.

ALL these cigarette sponsors! All those coffins! But it would all end in the early 1970s, when you couldn't sell cigarettes on TV because that became illegal.

Bowie was also David Bowie aka Jones.

Paul Winchell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Notice all hosts wire suits and ties were well groomed and straightforwards in approach to camera

Wonder what percentage of homes had TV in '56?

@trevordance5181

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know about percentages but in the UK, which had had a regular tv service since 1936, second world war years excepted, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, which was broadcast live on both radio and tv, was the first time in Britain that the tv audience for an event exceeded the radio audiemce. Although tv set ownership was growing anyway it was the televising of the coronation that really accelerated this growth.

@tomservo56954

4 жыл бұрын

72%

I Was Scared Of General Mills When I Was A Kid As Well As Adult.And Even Aging.

@briankeller788

6 жыл бұрын

GOOSEYGOOSE9 But they make great cereals like Cheerios and Total.

@jonimichalski69

5 жыл бұрын

Weird

@jondeare

5 жыл бұрын

General Mills?

@fromthesidelines

5 жыл бұрын

They didn't use their "Big G" trademark until 1960.

“Circus Boy” seemed disturbing….

WOW NAT KING COLE WITH HIS OWN SHOW ??? UNHEARD OF IN THOSE RACIST TIMES

@vestibulate

4 жыл бұрын

mw10259m Cole's show was taken off the air due to threats against advertisers by Southern "interests".

@algeborusas1883

4 жыл бұрын

I believe it was only 15 minutes long.

@fromthesidelines

4 жыл бұрын

Nat's original 1956-'57 series was 15 minutes [it preceded "THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT" on Mondays at 7:30pm(et)]- and it did have a sponsor: Carter Products, makers of Arrid deodorant and Rise shave cream. However, NBC took a gamble, and expanded the show to a full half-hour on Tuesdays [10pm] in June 1957, hoping sponsors would sustain a longer program in prime-time. They didn't; most advertisers were worried their southern distributors wouldn't approve of sponsoring a black performer in prime-time. The network sustained the series through September 1957, then offered it to their affiliates on a co-op basis at 7:30pm(et). Local and regional spossors inserted their own commercials- including Rheingold beer in the New York area. But NBC wanted to move Nat out of that time period, so that national advertisers would be more receptive to whatever replaced him. They offered Nat (and his agent, Carlos Gastel) Saturday nights at 7pm for January 1958. "Cowboy time!", Gastel sneered. "Nat won't go for it." The network insisted that Nat take that time slot, or face cancellation. Cole cancelled himself that December. He declared, "Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark."

@fredmar6436

3 жыл бұрын

@@fromthesidelines Nat King Cole crossed the barrier. He appealed to most people, black and white.

Most of those shows I have never heard of, found a few videos on KZread of some and watched a bit. Most are downright freaking awful.

Watching my childhood here. Herb Shriner, Gale Storm, and more. Three channels to choose from and could usually find something entertaining. Today 300 channels and mostly trash.

@glennriviere6574

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with on that.

@Celluloidwatcher

5 жыл бұрын

I'll join the club, too.

did Plymouth know three years ahead of the shutdown

Twenty One, fixed quiz show that did give the right answers to contestants.

@jonimichalski69

5 жыл бұрын

Truth

@hebneh

5 жыл бұрын

Just ONE of the crooked game shows at that time that provided answers to the people they wanted to win.

@robertkeefer1552

5 жыл бұрын

"Game Show" was a good movie in the 90's that covered that scandal.

@lawrencelewkow152

4 жыл бұрын

See the movie “Quiz Show” to see what happened to Jack Barry

Classes

a lot of shows for two networks

First time

Jeannie Carson show in the 50's, 13:42, Johnny Carson show in the 70's Any relation?

@kurtlinton8018

5 жыл бұрын

Jean Shufflebottom 23 May 1928 (age 90) Pudsey, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

A lot of happy cigarette sponsors back then. Cough cough.

14:59 Hm...if that kid was 11 in 1956, that would make it 1967 by the time he finished college...and since the Vietnam War was still going on, he might've wanted to *stay* in college a little longer...!

@OldsVistaCruiser

5 жыл бұрын

I live with a man who is 2 years older than that boy. My friend and roommate served in the Navy from 1964-1970, then went to Penn State after his service. In October 2018, he is 75.

@dillysgirl4ever

Жыл бұрын

Rob, if that kid graduated high school in 1967 chances are good he would have ended up either a hippie or a drafted soldier.

You can really tell the age differences in the comments

Amen

Made FRIDAY NIGHT TV - LATE SPRING 1966 onto upload!

Zzzzzzzz, thank God for the 60s comedies.

Nat Cole was a first and actually a great show but failed because he couldn't find a regular sponsor. Madison ave and racism killed the show.

@MrTrashcan1

5 жыл бұрын

It wasn't Madison Avenue and racism. It was the racism of Madison Avenue. Nat King Cole was beloved by millions of Americans. My parents and my inlaws and all their friends had many of his albums and loved his show. And we're not Black, by the way.

To the guy who runs this channel: could you please say "Here are 30 new shows for the 1956-57 television season that began in September of 1956?," as well as other TV seasons from past? It makes better sense that way. Thank you.

@RwDt09

6 жыл бұрын

Not all new shows begin in September. Most do in most seasons, but some can begin as early as within the last two weeks of August or in October and even early November. And when affected by an industry strike, as in 1980, 1981 and 1988, some new shows can see debuts in December. The term "Fall TV," a standard term for the new fall TV season, applies to the overall period of series debuts between mid-August and early November.

Dad used to threaten to toss our TV right out the window.. wish he did. I finally put my TV in the closet a few years ago.

@samiam619

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Btrfld I only have it to watch Baseball and maybe Football. OTOH, this is August 2020 and we “got trouble my friends “.

Those who don't know who Tennessee Ernie Ford is. . .His act was like Jim Nabors/Gomer Pyle. As a comedian he'd have this real deep Southern accent and was a bit dopey. But when he sang, he had this gorgeous baritone voice.