I was born that year, tv was like my babysitter, huge glass ashtrays smoldering with cigarettes and dark shadows, batman, Bullwinkle. How lucky I was.

Poor Shirley Temple had no sound. Aside from that, very interesting video Fred, thanks. There was one premier from that season that didn't make the list, 1960 was the year that brought the world...................me! Lol 😁 May the fourth be with you! 🤣🤣🤣

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

You're a long-running series, Robert. (The Temple clip has sound on my end.)

@dillysgirl4ever

2 ай бұрын

@robertscott2210, I, too, am a fall 1960 premier. I premiered at about the same time as (or 1-2 weeks after) many of the shows on Fred’s list (back then most new shows premiered in October).

@billb6283

2 ай бұрын

I had sound

@arielfilmsinc1926

2 ай бұрын

@@billb6283 mine didn't

Fred, watching your offerings, makes for such an easy transition to a less harried period. You're one of the best, Fred. Next stop, Willoughby.

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

Nice reference, stendec.

@davidbaise5137

Ай бұрын

@@FredFlixhopefully you are not on your way to “Willoughby” Fred!

@FredFlix

Ай бұрын

@@davidbaise5137 I'm already there mentally, David.

This was so much fun to see what people were watching the year I was born..thank you Fred!!!!😊

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

My pleasure, Bridget. Glad you enjoyed it.

I don’t remember these. I was born in 1955. Thank you very much for the video.

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome, l j. We were too busy watching cartoons.

If my mom and dad were still alive, they would remember these shows! I was only 1 year of age! Love you mom and dad

Another good one, Fred.....I have always loved the commercials and the announcer's voices of that period....." brought to you by..."

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

Too bad it had to end, Rick.

Great way to start the day, with a FredFlix production. Thanks Fred.

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome, Doug.

Another excellent job, Fred. Even as a classic TV buff, I hadn’t heard of many of these shows. Real second stringers! 😆

Great job as usual, Fred! 1:10 - Barbara Stanwyck's show was on NBC Thursday nights at 10 PM ET. 4:00 - I recognize Johnny Olson's voice there. 6:06 - Beaver Cleaver's teacher as a "smooth little con artist"?!? :) 8:28 - MICHAEL SHAYNE was on NBC, not ABC. Gary Clarke was also a regular on this series, and I was fortunate enough to speak w/ him a few times and have him sign his picture in the TVG 1960-61 Fall Preview. 10:10 - Shlrley Temple's show was also on NBC. ABC never would've broadcast it in color back then, as it was unaffordable and a lot of the network's affiliates could not yet broadcast in color. I bought a number of these on DVD, and I enjoyed seeing Shirley Temple playing aduit roles, even a witch once.

Thank you Fred! All new info for me! Seeing Mr Burt Reynolds was lovely! LoL!❤

Thanks, Fred! I remember The Deputy, The Westerner, and Sugarfoot. I guess my dad was into TV westerns back then.

Loved the old Raid ad at the beginning. My brother would imitate the ad with "Me Raid. You bug. Spsssssss!" Getting worried since I didn't recognize any show until you got to Riverboat and Sugarfoot. Dad introduced us to Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason at this time. Still quality Fred material.

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

My dad also had us watch Gleason and Skelton.

I See You Did One For The Old Folks! I Was Only Three In '61, So I Didn't Remember Much But I Sure Enjoyed Watching It. Thank You.

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

As one old folk (even older than you, Watcher) to another, you're welcome.

These shows were before my time and a lot of them l never knew about but I remember when Prestone antifreeze came in can. Thanks Fred 😊

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome, Gary.

Great as always, Fred…just a side note re.Michael Shayne…Richard Denning played Lucille Ball’s husband in the radio version of I Love Lucy called “ My Favorite Husband “ and Jerry Paris cut his directorial teeth, and played the neighbor, on the Dick Van Dyke show. Herbert Ridley played Eve Arden’s husband in “ The Mothers in Laws” in the late 60s…thanks for letting me put in my two cents…

Thank you for these obscurities. Never knew Barbara Stanwyck had a series before "The Big Valley". I had always assumed landing her had been a coup for ABC. Guess she had herself on the market for a while. Learn something new every day.

Nice work Fred.

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, lucano.

As always, a splendid job. But it should be noted that Michael Shayne, Peter Loves Mary, and Shirley Temple were all on NBC rather than ABC. Shirley even mentions it in her intro.

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

My bad, Barry. When I made the video, I was consulting and old TV Guide with all those local station channel numbers. I guess they got mixed up in my brain.

A year and several months before my time, some of these TV shows, no matter if they were short lived or had a few good seasons, always seemed to have great animation in their opening credits, and Warner Brothers Television, when they were under William Orr's direction, must have hired a fantastic illustrator for their series.

I guess I'm now amazed at how ubiquitous TV was involved in shaping the culture that was shared by us all, but then I'm amazed when I fly that technology can put a weighty object in the air and have it fly across the country

The Islanders reminded me of my favorite show, Adventures In Paradise.

3:58- "GLENN MILLER TIME" was seen on *Monday* nights at 10pm(et) as the 1961 summer replacement for Jackie Cooper's "HENNESSY".

Hi, Fred: I hope that the Barbara Stanwyck show gave a nice side to her. I always found her to be a really tough cookie which is not nice to bite into. There is one movie where, even though she was still 'that type of person', she was actually beautiful for once. The movie Night To Remember with Fred MacMurray is very good. You're dating me, Fred; I've never heard of that infernal Dante or any of the others except for perhaps Riverboat. Even when one can't remember, the feel and style is nostalgic; thank you for another good video.

8:50 THE FLINTSTONES debuted this season, and on PETER LOVES MARY you could see as well as hear Fred Flintstone and Betty Rubble...Alan Reed and Bea Benaderet co-starred.

Thanks Fred 👍

Not long before I was a gleam in my Daddy's eye! Hahaha!

Before Darren McGavin was The Night Stalker and Burt Reynolds was The Bandit, they were riverboat captains. Interesting!

1960 - the year of my birth - such a fantastic time!!

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

If I could pic any year to go back to (with my mind now), it would be 1960.

@junkersish

2 ай бұрын

@@FredFlix cmon Fred you would be bored to tears within a week

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

@@junkersish I think you're right. I'd have to have my memories of pop culture and sports erased, so that when a new show, movie or sporting event comes on, it would be new to me. Can't remember my son, either. And then I'd have to write letters (and pay bills) by hand, stand in line at the bank to get cash, endure window air conditioners, no AC in the car, scratchy records, three networks only ... Yeah, it would be problematic.

@junkersish

2 ай бұрын

@@FredFlix we have the pop culture of all those decades from 1960 on readily available at our fingertips and mostly for free. I would like to experience 1960 as an adult for a day or two and then Back to the Future ASAP.

@FredFlix

2 ай бұрын

@@junkersish That's why, if I went back, I would WANT to forget the pop culture so I could re-experience it anew, without the boring "same old" familiarity I have now. But, in any case, the visit would have to be short, as you say. I would stay longer than a day, though...perhaps a month.

"kills bugs dead" is redundant. If you kill something, how can it not be dead? I never heard of these shows, with the possible exception of Shirley Temple. The announcer at 4:20 sounds familiar. Don Pardo? Love the look back, Fred.

Ok, let's go. Guest Ward Ho! and the theme song (surprise!); Hong Kong (me and most things Oriental) 🤷🏽‍♀️; The Man from Interpol (basically that earth globe turning, the drums and nothing much) ... and Sugarfoot (who always drank "zarzaparrilla") plus the theme song (are you for real, ma'am? 🤦🏽‍♀️) that came in one take out of God knows where.🎶🎵🎶 Nice, Fred. 💜🤟

The Deputy ran on COZI-Tv around 8 or 9 years ago weekday mornings. Good show.

@BLP1261

2 ай бұрын

I see an episode of it on Grit occasionally.

Damn.....I'm old.

We'd hear much more from Jerry Paris and Herbert Rudley later in the 1960s...

I just remember "Hong Kong" in reruns even in the 80's.

I was born in’57, so admittedly too young to remember these shows from that time. But they must have sucked so badly, they never made it to reruns

@ernestcruz6316

2 ай бұрын

A few of them were around for more than one season, like Sugarfoot and The Shirley Temple Show. A number of the stars of these shows went on to much more success later on. Jerry Paris, for example, is far better remembered as a director of series like The Odd Couple and Happy Days.

5:00 The two Marks would again be father and son in 1965 on PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES

Herbert Rudley! Later of Mothers-in-Law fame, right?

Wasn’t around when these shows first aired looking back at some of these old clips makes me wish I was back in that time period better than this garbage that’s out today a million percent better when tv was tv and I’m only 57 years old gave some of these on dvd some I got from a private collector awhile back

Thx Fredflix from 1960🗽 📺

sugarfoot was good

@simplysteve68

2 ай бұрын

Lol doubly good actually, as Fred had it in twice! The first was just the instrumental intro, and the "Reluctant Hero" ep title font, with the Tab Hunter and The Westerner shows between, the latter had Brian Keith starring in it. The second intro was with the vocals and the "Brink of Fear" ep font! Lol

Remember a few names, for the rest was it kindergarten time lol and no tv jet.

The Vast Wasteland.

I saw a couple of episodes of The Deputy. Not bad but the soundtrack was kind of a hip jazz beat unlike most other westerns. Shotgun Slade had a similar soundtrack. Didn't seem to fit, at least not to me.

4 star logo abc

My parents weren't mint to be parents.

Wow! Glen Miller program sponsored by Kent cigarettes- slowly killing smokers in the audience who tuned in to those s-w-eeeet sounds.