"The World's STRANGEST TV pilots ever!!! Never Seen Before!"
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@johnc.bojemski17572 жыл бұрын
"BATGIRL" (as portrayed by actress Yvonne Craig) WAS seen weekly on TV and she became the subject of many a teenage boy's fantasies in the 60's!
@MIKELIN88 жыл бұрын
Branded was an actual TV show which aired. I remember watching it when I was a kid.
@tyrssen1
8 жыл бұрын
Likewise, watched "Branded" all the time.
@dadautube
8 жыл бұрын
and it always opened with the portion shown here, every single episode ...
@kenparnell4297
8 жыл бұрын
Yep, me too.
@keysersoze8069
8 жыл бұрын
He even got his strpies back
@colemanadamson5943
8 жыл бұрын
Branded was a great show.
@ferociousgumby8 жыл бұрын
Branded had one of the best openings/themes ever. Great premise, too. Chuck Connors has a face like an Easter Island statue.
@rexlex1736
2 жыл бұрын
I always thought Connors WAS an Easter Island statue.
@captainsensiblejr.
2 жыл бұрын
Chuck Connors only ever had one expression "prelude to an ass-kickinhg"
@greg1030
2 жыл бұрын
Dominic Frontiere (1931-2017). Stoney Burke, first season Outer Limits, fourth season Fugitive.
@mr.b.5589
2 жыл бұрын
Heard regularly while I was in 4th grade... " stranded, stranded on a toilet bowl, What do you do when you're stranded and you haven't got a roll"
@modelmansteve9100
2 жыл бұрын
@@mr.b.5589 the second verse is: " if you're a man you'll use you hand if you're a gal you'll use a towel
@mtrich81138 жыл бұрын
I remember the show" Branded "was an actual show that lasted 2 seasons.
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
Right on ! I have fond memories of watching it as a kid on Friday nights on ABC !!
@mikekemp9877
2 жыл бұрын
and referenced in the great lebowski
@kevinmadden1645
Жыл бұрын
A season and one half.
@sheilaholmes996
Жыл бұрын
I remember it too.
@scottareevesrecords5 жыл бұрын
This Batgirl certainly seems more watchable than the upcoming CW series. She needs to learn how to change into her costume more quickly, though.
@nomadman11962 жыл бұрын
I remember in grade school kids singing the Branded theme song. Of course, with their own lyrics referring to being caught on the toilet without a roll. 👍
@williambeutler9399
2 жыл бұрын
I remember that, too. "Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl/What do you do when you're stranded, and you need another roll?"
@LRTrack
2 жыл бұрын
...and you can't reach the roll!
@mrstacyj9496
2 жыл бұрын
wherever you go for the rest of your life you must prove ... it's a knife!
@owenoulton93125 жыл бұрын
The sequence from Branded isn't a pilot, just the opening credits from the TV series.
@surearrow5 жыл бұрын
>> That Batgirl is actually better than the current one of 2019.
@charlesneely
5 жыл бұрын
That's because OG batgirl.... and I say that? has something that the new one don't have and that is fucking Talent back when women were real women and you didn't have to worry about checking under the hood the one that we got now you kind of got to wonder?.. You like Crocodile Dundee check under the hood the new Batgirl is just another social justice Warrior and I say that Loosely if she's a woman. If you seen her in Orange is bet she's butt naked look like a man got a boy's butt I couldn't even flap to it not that you want to know
@jimd0728 жыл бұрын
Branded DID make the TV. I watched it for a couple of seasons.
@thebes56
5 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@paint1955
5 жыл бұрын
So did Walter Sobchak!
@scotcarr3390
5 жыл бұрын
Pretty good show, as I recall. And another foray into TV westerns by Massachusetts native son, Chuck Conners.
@judynichols2904
4 жыл бұрын
I watched it too ,it lasted for two years !
@williamwingo4740
4 жыл бұрын
I remember it too. But I didn't get into it because I was in college with limited access to television; and besides, it was a blatant ripoff of "The Fugitive."
@2ndEndingVintage5 жыл бұрын
Batgirl Rocked. Period.
@rainblaze.
2 жыл бұрын
*periods .... And not afraid of leaks. What with those high kicks an all.
@Pellefication4 жыл бұрын
This isn't the World's strangest TV pilots. It's USA's strangest TV pilots. It's a BIG difference!
@bs1369010 жыл бұрын
Yvonne Craig was smoking hot.
@kingbee1500
9 жыл бұрын
Yes, SIR...Yvonne Craig, Anne Francis and Marlo Thomas had me locked on ABC for a couple of years solid!
@samuelparker9882
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. Batgirl would've DEFINITELY got it!!!
@AusNetFan13
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, she was hot in the one Star Trek episode.
@derlinclaire1778
5 жыл бұрын
Yvonne Craig was really pretty,and had a really nice shape.
@jerryboucher5622
4 жыл бұрын
@@derlinclaire1778 SHUT UP PREVERT
@stevend.bennett4275 жыл бұрын
I'd watch Yvonne Craig in anything, and preferably in nothing! My dad's last job was working on the Stealth at Edwards.
@hatednyc8 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely AWESOME!! BATGIRL: If her skirt doubles as a cape does it mean she can only ever wear that one yellow skirt?!
@johnmcclure40
3 жыл бұрын
Either that or she has to make all her own skirts.
@colinfield9815 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these. I recall that Branded went past just being a pilot, a series shown on Aussie TV in ca 1966. For Test Pilot I was interested to see the Ryan X-13, a real aircraft. I recognised it still under its tarpaulin, a very squat delta with huge tail as it was meant to be a VTOL tailsitter. From the tail number, this is prototype No2 which surprisingly still exists as of 2019 as a museum exhibit.
@JaimeWulf
Жыл бұрын
I recall seeing "Branded" in the U.S back in the day so I think it got picked up here also... But I think it didn't last long... I always remembered that intro though... And as for "BatGirl" she was blended into "BatMan" instead of her own show...
@erichulett55975 жыл бұрын
Do you know what "world's" means? Do you know what "strangest's" means? Do you know what "TV pilot's" means? Do you know what "never seen " means?
@charlesbruno990
5 жыл бұрын
Do you know what 250k views mean? Do you know what youtube monetization means? We've been duped.
@zoesdada8923
5 жыл бұрын
Do you know what clickbait means?
@christocc
5 жыл бұрын
Do you know what apostrophes are for? Apparently not, since you've used them incorrectly in every instance of your post.
@erichulett5597
5 жыл бұрын
@@christocc oh I guess the autocorrect added those and I didn't notice before hitting send. Good catch. But the point was there was nothing worldly about it it was only American, they were not all TV pilots , they were not really strange , and some of them had been seen by millions of people in their original release. And yes it is all about click bait.
@TerryWHayes-yb3cj
5 жыл бұрын
@@christocc: "Grammatical Perfection" Is Not Compulsory Here On "KZread"™ (Or Anywhere Else On The Internet). There Are More Than Enough Libraries, Colleges, And Universities (As Well As Various Media Outlets And The Internet), To Supply The Needs Of Every Aficionado Of Correctly Spelled Words, Punctuation, And Proper Sentence Structure, For The Next 10,000 Years! ~ LOL .
@hebneh5 жыл бұрын
For a real-life librarian, Batgirl certainly trashed her place of work and damaged or destroyed quantities of books - not something that librarians can do in such a callous and unthinking manner.
@Lynxdoc
11 ай бұрын
You're right no human being with stack books like that.....
@tag4278 жыл бұрын
Damn Yvonne Craig was Hot!
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
She indeed was quite fetching in her day !!
@fromthesidelines9 жыл бұрын
Initially, William Dozier wanted to produce a "Batgirl" spin-off, and created a "demo film" to try to interest ABC in the idea. However, "BATMAN" began faltering in the ratings towards the end of the 1966-'67 season........and Dozier instead decided to add her to "BATMAN" in the fall of 1967, in a futile attempt to "resuscitate" the series [and round off the corners of Batgirl's mask, because Yvonne Craig said it left welts on her face after wearing it for long periods].
@2ndEndingVintage
5 жыл бұрын
worked for me....Batgirl was SMOKIN'....
@miguelcastaneda7236
5 жыл бұрын
Barry I. Grauman there was a bat girl back in 50s
@lreking8929
5 жыл бұрын
And have you seen this awful Wonder Woman demo? kzread.info/dash/bejne/iIudy7qsYti7Yc4.html
@fromthesidelines
3 жыл бұрын
Another effort by William Dozier to produce a "campy" superhero TV show. It never got past its brief "demo reel"; ABC gave it thumbs down. Just as well; THAT "Wonder Woman" would have been a total klutz- and an embarrassment to everyone {viewers included}.
@WilAdams3 жыл бұрын
The actual 'plot' of Branded was a good one. At the time it aired, I was a kid, and because so many westerns were on TV--and my dad watched them ALL--I resented Branded, but now, as an adult--and not having been drowning in westerns--I really like the show. Poor McCord, he was so honorable and his reason for keeping silent and suffering the label of COWARD is really noble.
@darkwood777
2 жыл бұрын
As I recall, McCord became a spy for the president in the second season when the show was reworked to fit in with the other spy shows on the era. Everyone in the country still knew him by name to be a legendary coward although it was proven he didn't run away. This made it possible for him to root out criminal corruption without being suspected of working as a secret service agent.
@earlleeruhf3130
11 ай бұрын
I remember when there were so many westerns I grew sick of them too. I wanted to watch Hammer films and Scifi movies. It took me yrs before I could watch a western and enjoy it.
@dwindle9 жыл бұрын
Hottest batgirl EVER. Pleated skirt into a cape? Why don't all girls do that?
@aj-2savage8963 жыл бұрын
When Kruschev came to the US the man he most wanted to meet was -- Chuck Connors, The Rifleman. Fact. Wait. Actually it was Brezhnev.
@aj-2savage896
2 жыл бұрын
@Joseph Lomeo Thanks
@fredeinsel7983
2 жыл бұрын
Chuck Connors was Gay
@aj-2savage896
2 жыл бұрын
@@fredeinsel7983 Who says so? Married three times and had four sons. Played in MLB AND NBA. No hint of being gay except on websites for actual gays who have mancrushes on him. Like you, maybe? He was in The Rifleman, not Chrisley Knows Best.
@3dfreak20005 жыл бұрын
One of the interesting pilots from the pilot's list is the one with test pilots :). BTW, the Batgirl was hot as hell.
@zudemaster7 жыл бұрын
Wow, Chuck Connors sword was a piece of crap. He needs to go find himself a cool rifle to carry around instead.
@hisxmark
7 жыл бұрын
For a while, prime time was wall-to-wall westerns. Toward the end of that era, the only thing that distinguished them were strange weapons. That broken saber was pretty much the bottom of the barrel. And Connors only picked it up after his rifle had turned to rusted junk.
@WeareRedSoxLovers
7 жыл бұрын
Or maybe he should have just tried out for the Dodgers - or the Celtics.
@floydlooney6837
5 жыл бұрын
Those swords were ceremonial, indicating rank I think
@mrbrown2186
5 жыл бұрын
I think he should find a rifle that shoots a beam of light at sensors that eject a fake drinks can from a platform. Best part of my child hood ever. I'm 42 now and still looking for a replacement for my long list 'tin can alley'. I can still remember the commercial from the late 70s with him on, and I was about 5 when I finally got what I had wanted since I was about 2. I remember it costing about £7 at the time (roughly $14 in those days, about 1981/82) can't even get a working one for under £100 now!
@peterlewerin4213
5 жыл бұрын
It was a ceremony that was meant to literally strip an officer of his rank, commission, and status as a military man. To make it a bit more showy, and perhaps to insinuate that they had never deserved his rank in the first place, his badges, insignia, buttons, etc were taken off beforehand and replaced with a single stitch. The sword was also prepared in advance by filing it or re-tempering it to be brittle in one place. It was not a deceit, as everyone knew how it was done, but it was still a show. See: *cashiering*.
@Vandal_Savage5 жыл бұрын
Batgirl - librarian by day, library destroyer by night! She totally totalled that library, she'd have been better off just letting the bad guys get away with it!
@jacklowe3429
5 жыл бұрын
Love Yvonne Craig. She deserved her own show.
@ackamack101
2 жыл бұрын
😂 You protector of books you! 😂
@tomdis86374 жыл бұрын
As kids, we sang “Stranded! Stuck on the toilet bowl....what do you do when you’re stranded - and you can’t reach the roll!” To the tune of “Branded” LOL
@ClayLoomis19587 жыл бұрын
"By this time his lungs were screaming for air." Oh, sorry, that was Sea Hunt, not Sea Divers.
@50zcarsman
5 жыл бұрын
I always wondered why the guys who fought Mike Nelson underwater didn't simply buy wire-reinforced SCUBA hoses, so that they couldn't be easily cut with a diving knife. If they had, his #1, #2, and #3 modes of attacking them would have been eliminated.
@ChrisBullington Жыл бұрын
For years my best friend had a BS story about Branded (this was before the Internet and easily-accessible information): he said Chuck Conners' character had an actual, physical brand on his forehead. While he was meant to receive COWARD an accident at the fort meant half the brand had to be melted down so he got only COW...The story started falling apart when he told me two different "accident" stories, then finally ended when I pressed him for more information about the show. Thank you for the Batgirl pilot footage. I have immense respect for Yvonne Craig and very much like the equal pay PSA she later did in character.
@sarge5050508 жыл бұрын
Ok. I remember Bat Girl, which lasted a few episodes, Yvonne Craig was so hot at the time, they couldn't let her outstrip the campy Batman series. She brought a certain seriousness to the character that outstripped the the original series.
@davebaumeister3021
2 жыл бұрын
Don't know what you were remembering, but there was never a "Batgirl" series. The thing on here is just a demo they did for studio execs to introduce the Batgirl episode. Batgirl was in every episode of the third season of "Batman."
@Sheri4519 жыл бұрын
They show Branded every Saturday morning on MeTV.
@PtolemyJones9 жыл бұрын
Gosh Batgirl was beautiful...
@ProNorden
5 жыл бұрын
#YvonneCraig ..major babe and very accomplished dancer ..was in a Star Trek episode or two.
@SciFiFan20127 жыл бұрын
"Where'd she come from Batman?" "I don't know Robin, but she's cleaning this place up, not us."
@Laceykat668 жыл бұрын
14:31 - "I wish I could help." "Well forget it little lady. This is a man's job. Why don't you go fix us a cup of that fine coffee."
@50zcarsman
5 жыл бұрын
"Get back in the kitchen, you airborne nocturnal female rodent."
@freakywayne87905 жыл бұрын
Branded is one of my favorite tv shows ever!
@TommygunNG9 жыл бұрын
What's so "strange" about Branded? It was a classic.
@gymnastix
9 жыл бұрын
TommygunNG You are correct, sir. "Branded" was indeed a television classic -- although not quite as classic as the first TV series starring Chuck Connors, "The Rifleman." And in-between "The Rifleman" ans "Branded" was the excellent one-season contemporary drama "Arrest & Trial," wherein Connors portrayed a criminal defense attorney in the legal part of that police and courtroom series. Anyway, another thing I remember about "Branded" was its memorable main theme music. And I can still recall an elementary school classmate's parody of the "Branded" theme song, the lyrics to which went something like this-- "Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded And you need another roll? To prove you're a man, You must wipe it with your hand. You must prove . . . you're a man. Strand-ed!" That TV theme parody from the playground set was in the same vein as this old Christmas chestnut-- "Jingle Bells, Batman smells. Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel. And The Joker got away - hey!"
@daveconleyportfolio5192
9 жыл бұрын
gymnastix The composer was Dominic Frontiere, who somehow turned TV theme music into enough money to buy the Los Angeles Rams.
@dabull136
8 жыл бұрын
+DaveConleyPortfolio Not true! It was Georgia Frontiere who inherited the Rams ownership when her then husband Carroll Rosenbloom (her 6th husband at that point) who had traded ownership of the Baltimore Colts for the L.A Rams, died from a heart attack. Dominic Frontiere became her 7th husband and was in no way responsible for her Rams ownership!
@yell50
7 жыл бұрын
I agree nothing strange about branded. i loved watching this western as a kid, it is classic TV series.
@DoubleMrE
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah . . . "Branded" was a good show--not strange. But does anybody remember the take-off from the show's theme song? Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded, and you don't have a roll?
@johninsalisbury20108 жыл бұрын
i would have liked batgirl as a show
@TheFiown5 жыл бұрын
I find it hard to believe that we actually watched this !
@kwacker459 жыл бұрын
I'm from UK and even we had this great show, Branded
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
I think that's so cool that "Branded' was shown on British TV ! We had some British shows that played on American TV in the 60s, such as "The Avengers", "Secret Agent Man", "The Prisoner", "Man in a Suitcase" & "The Baron" !! The longest running one was "The Avengers" and when I was a kid in the 60s, my brothers & I loved watching it !!
@jimodonnelly77628 жыл бұрын
2FYIs: 1) The Batgirl clip wasn't a pilot for a new series. It was made to pitch the new character for Adam West's series Batman to ABC executives who wanted to cancel the show. They liked her, and renewed the series for one more season. 2) I believe that Air Force clip is from the TV series Flight (1958), episode "Vertijet," starring John Agar. That's legendary character actor Dub Taylor as the sergeant.
@zacharythax8 жыл бұрын
DAMN! She was hot in those glasses!
@Timurlane100
8 жыл бұрын
+Zachary Thax - She also made a very fetching, albeit crazy, Orion slave girl in a Star Trek episode.
@donaldpetkus1637
3 жыл бұрын
She was also the primary candidate for abduction bu Martians in the film Mars Needs Women. She wore glasses in that production as well. Quite attractive
@guitarmdpittsburgh71397 жыл бұрын
Batgiirl was a regular on the Batman series . . . Branded ran for at least 1 season
@jondoe888910 жыл бұрын
I remember 'branded'. I thought they painted a yellow stripe down his back in the intro, too? And that theme song - it sounds like Monty Python!
@runner65009 жыл бұрын
Batman was my favorite comic book. I'll never forget how heartbroken I was the first time I saw that show, and how silly it was. I just couldn't believe they did that! I still have the emotional scars. LOL
@Zauchi
9 жыл бұрын
runner6500 Its a little different for me because the original Batman show was my first viewing of Batman, so it always remains a classic to me. lol Though wasn't the Batman series similar to the comics of the time?
@runner6500
9 жыл бұрын
Zauchi No not at all. The only thing similar was the "Pow!", "Zapp!" kind of stuff. The corny dialogue was too much for me. I was just a 12 yr. old kid. You have no idea the anticipation I had that entire summer. I don't want to talk about it anymore.
@kennethholland9021
7 жыл бұрын
Same here; I didn't know 'bout the comic till I saw one in a display at the checkout counter of the local grocery store and asked my mom to get if for me (a giant-size 3D issue with a Batman story featuring the Penguin, backed by a Tommy Tomorrow); I remember thinking that it wasn't a very good rendition of the TV show!
@joansmith6092
5 жыл бұрын
I only liked Superheroes in comic books when they had their own powers. Batman had no powers at all. Not even ESP. But, l saw the 1st episode and thought, "Isn't that nice of the Joker? From the vending machines he was giving school students piles of silver dollars!" I was starting the 6th grade, in 1966.
@IamZardoz2 жыл бұрын
"Stranded! Stranded on the toilet bowl! What do you do when you're stranded, and you cant reach the roll!" Amazing what you can remember from half a century ago.
@nickhill8612
2 жыл бұрын
Haha I just thought about Jingle bells Batman smells
@kathleenking47
Жыл бұрын
@@nickhill8612 Robin laid an egg Oh what fun it is to ride In a wrecked up Chevrolet
@nickhill8612
Жыл бұрын
@@kathleenking47 Yeah lol haha
@HolidayDecorator5 жыл бұрын
#1 Batgirl was never a spin off, just the character added to the Batman series, and the video shown here is the very same one that introduced her as Batgirl on the Batman Series. Most of the others I watched as a child, so none of these are even remotely the 'world's strangest". Most of these actually aired only for a few episodes, but were canned early, so they were very short lived. Some made it for two to three months before being canned by the network associated with that particular series. They were canned because they were usually up against a more popular, long running series that folks watched, so some of these never got the ratings needed to stay running.
@UNOwen110 жыл бұрын
Yvonne Craig! Hell, they should've just made the series of her changing in2her Batgirl outfit, then the groovy 'Bat girl, bat girl' theme. Would've had millions of - male - viewers. Hell, I'm not straight, and I LOVE Yvonne Craig, I would've watched (had I been alive and living somewhere I could've seen it).
@charlesneely
5 жыл бұрын
Groovy man, Don't Bogart That Joint my friend it's nice to share those are better times back then
@frankcabanski9409
2 жыл бұрын
Go away LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ
@mottknil13724 жыл бұрын
Stranded Stranded on the toilet bowl . What do you do when your stranded and can’t reach the roll?
@michaelgow67925 жыл бұрын
It's Mrs Kravitz who lived next door to Darren and Samantha.
@waynemarlowe75379 жыл бұрын
it might have been nice to tell us the TITLES of these shows...
@karlstuber6399
5 жыл бұрын
I think they found a beta tape of these and their research was not extensive.
@1985OldSkool9 жыл бұрын
Yes it was. Branded aired on NBC from January 24, 1965 until April 24, 1966, with reruns continuing through September 4, 1966. The seires consisted of 48 episodes (the first 16 were in black-and-white), and was sponsored by Procter & Gamble.
@VerneStatts499 жыл бұрын
Yvonne Craig was so hot as Batgirl.
@tessseract
9 жыл бұрын
Verne Statts Incredibly so.
@OjaiRoy
8 жыл бұрын
+Verne Statts Yes she was! RIP Batgirl.
@OjaiRoy
8 жыл бұрын
+Verne Statts 1:18 HOLLY BATGIRL!
@millardfarqhuar1990
8 жыл бұрын
+Verne Statts Even better as Marta ( the green girl ) on Star Trek
@OjaiRoy
8 жыл бұрын
+Millard Farqhuar I don't watch Star Trek and did not know she was on there. I Googled Marta and oh my!!!!! Thanks for the info Millard! markosun.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/abatx.jpg
@yelloworangered7 жыл бұрын
My Dad always pointed out that if you broke a sword over your leg like that guy does in the Branded segment, you'd have a broken leg. I guess bending the sword a bit and yelling "ouch" wasn't as dramatic.
@AllenFreemanMediaGuru7 жыл бұрын
Good that Batgirl had time to hang up her normal top....before saving Batman/Robin!
@TimeStrider9 жыл бұрын
Yvonne, Yvonne, Yvonne, you can kick the crap out of me any time you want!
@OjaiRoy
8 жыл бұрын
+Chuck Freeman 1:18 HOLLY BATGIRL!
@Laceykat66
8 жыл бұрын
+Chuck Freeman 50 Shades of batgirl?
@TimeStrider
8 жыл бұрын
Laceykat66 Yes indeed!
@mottknil1372
4 жыл бұрын
What are you? A sicko.
@torresongs28 жыл бұрын
Why were these never seen before?
@mbugal5 жыл бұрын
I see nothing "strange" let alone "strangest" about any of these pilots and "Branded" was a successful show which opened with the scene shown here every episode. The rest were pretty much normal TV fare in the 1950's.
@ciecie1959
5 жыл бұрын
while batgirl wasn't a show, she was added as a character to the batman tv show.
@mbugal
5 жыл бұрын
@@ciecie1959 I guess I should have excluded her from the list, but I'm not completely sure this was ever a pilot but merely her introduction episode on "Batman". Has anyone ever seen a full pilot with titles, etc? I never have and I'm usually up on that sort of thing.
@Sammiric10 жыл бұрын
Branded, lost? It's on ME TV Saturdays.
@robertcombs555 жыл бұрын
These Pilots are better than anything on TV today.
@collegeman19889 жыл бұрын
Ladies and gentlemen, Yvonne Craig in Mrs. Rogers' Neighborhood . . . uh, sorry, Batgirl!
@speedlearner8 жыл бұрын
Wait. Batman has the bat computer and he doesn't know who Batgirl is? He needs to update his computer.
@WAQWBrentwood
7 жыл бұрын
speedlearner Damned Windows 65! 😀
@paulcoy9060
6 жыл бұрын
Alfred knew, but wouldn't tell Bruce. Could have been a great beginning of the Bat Family.
@Steve_Green
5 жыл бұрын
This is meant to be her debut in public.
@joansmith6092
5 жыл бұрын
The bat computer never told him who Green Hornet is either.
@POPPASHANGO5 жыл бұрын
The only memory I have of Branded was the boys singing the theme in Stand By Me
@Tenskwatawa4U7 жыл бұрын
Don't recall SEA DIVERS, but THE AQUANAUTS made the grade for several years. With Ron Ely and Jeremy Slate.
@blaisineful9 жыл бұрын
Branded was a great show.
@Laceykat66
8 жыл бұрын
+Karen Kinsey And what is this "never seen" ?? Branded was on.
@Optimalillusion
8 жыл бұрын
It was even referenced in an episode of "Married With Children."
@jimodonnelly7762
8 жыл бұрын
+swasey1952 The clip from Branded was the pre-title sequence in every episode.
@Jeffrey314159
8 жыл бұрын
+Optimalillusion Yes, that episode where Al Bundy was stripped of his security guard uniform for loosing the High School Football Trophy
@jimodonnelly7762
8 жыл бұрын
Jeffrey314159 Now that sounds funny.
@jimellison7775 жыл бұрын
GREAT VIDEO............. I didn't think that all of them were that STRANGE!!!!!!! Branded was a TV show!!!!!!!
@Gamble66111 ай бұрын
I was a kid when Branded was aired and we had different lyrics for the opening song, sung to the same music: "Stranded, stranded on a toilet bowl, what do you do when you're stranded and you don't have a roll. You must prove you're a man cause you wipe it with your hand". Yes, we were very witty and somewhat disturbed children back then.
@SunnyGirlFlorida9 жыл бұрын
Batgirl must take time to hang up her clothes before fighting crime.
@newzbug119 жыл бұрын
Hate to tell you bud, but I loved Batgirl
@RolandSleight5 жыл бұрын
Branded with Chuck Conners was an actual show. Maybe they never showed the pilot , but that opening was correct
@josepha.correiaiii88555 жыл бұрын
I remember Branded staring Chuck Conner's he alway carried the broken sabre as a reminder and a close in weapon, it came before he stared in the rifleman and the Batgirl character was added to the regular Batman series. As for the other two I have no clue.
@klaustrumputin-trudeau4142
4 жыл бұрын
not before but after the rifleman youngster.
@backbaconnbeer8 жыл бұрын
Crossroads Avenger Was Written/Directed By Ed Wood Jr
@luisreyes1963
5 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine Ed Wood making a TV series? Frightening. 😱
@cartmanrlsusall7 жыл бұрын
a lot of these are on hulu
@PtolemyJones5 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed Branded. I always thought of it as a prequel to a the Rifleman, even though I guess it aired after.
@chrisstokes81638 жыл бұрын
me too...I loved it
@robroy55738 жыл бұрын
Unforgettable classic on screen words, Pow!... Splatt!... Boff!... Zlonk!... Zlopp!...
@TheOneTrueKaliban
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I haven't been in all that many donneybrooks, but have never heard the sound, "Zlopp!" at any of the few I've witnessed.
@50zcarsman
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe CNN should super-impose titles like these at appropriate places during contentious Congressional hearings, eh?
@1942PANTHERV10 жыл бұрын
branded was a success
@PtolemyJones
9 жыл бұрын
I used to enjoy watching it... always felt it the unofficial prequel to the Rifleman.
@fromthesidelines
3 жыл бұрын
During its first season, yes. In season two, it was against not only 'THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW" on CBS, it was also opposite "THE FBI" on ABC. There were plans for a third season {McCord would have settled down as a surveyor in a small town with his grandfather, his girlfriend (a reporter for the local paper), and an orphan girl}, but sponsor Procter & Gamble decided to replace the series with "HEY LANDLORD!" for the fall of 1966.
@hopemoore8 жыл бұрын
A skirt that turns into a superhero cape? That's better than skirts in real life!
@SagaSagaVGM8 жыл бұрын
The hell is Branded doing mixed in with these shows? It's a classic. Really Crossroads Avenger is about the only one I'd even remotely call "strange" here, due to it being a failed Tom Keene vehicle, and the fact that Ed Wood directed it.
@stephensmith6660
2 жыл бұрын
It was strange at the time, as the X-13 I believe was one of the first Vertijets. But yeah, your right on the mark.
@cnault32445 жыл бұрын
For a librarian, she doesn't have much respect for proper treatment of books.
@Leadeshipcoach
5 жыл бұрын
C Nault lol! I was thinking the same thing!🤣
@alanjr33310 жыл бұрын
Wow...the pilot to the Ed Wood Crossroads Avenger with Tom Keene?? Never thought Id see it at all!! Thanks.
@TheRealNormanBates9 жыл бұрын
0:00 Batgirl 2:35 Branded 4:25 Test Pilot 9:00 Crosroads Avenger 13:12 Sea Divers
@howie9751
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, we know.
@gwilliams4269
11 ай бұрын
Thanks 👍
@marknsprmo5 жыл бұрын
by the time bat girl got dressed, the bad guy was in Argentina eating steak......
@pacertmh10 жыл бұрын
Branded was a weekly staple in our house
@exitscreaming5 жыл бұрын
The Batgirl scene here was adapted into the classic Hitgirl hallway scene from Kick Ass
@ciecie1959
5 жыл бұрын
read my comment to mike bugal.
@890mikes2 жыл бұрын
I watched Branded with my dad as a kid in England. Dad loved the show.
@paint19555 жыл бұрын
Did Batman call him “insidious insect”? ... no wonder he’s our greatest crime fighter!
@thomrobitaille39422 жыл бұрын
I can remember watching Branded when I was young. It was a decent TV series, as good as most of the other westerns that were popular then.
@jayanxiety9 жыл бұрын
For the pilot for "Branded", I understand them wanting to tear off his stripes, but why would they break a perfectly good sword in half (and quite easily I might add) rather than just keep it and give it to another soldier?
@UNOwen1
9 жыл бұрын
jayanxiety It was symbolic - 'this sword will never be used,' as in the person who HAD feared this sword will never serve, or has been dishonoured.
@davidbunch7517
9 жыл бұрын
jayanxiety Because the soldier who carried it has forever "tarnished" it.
@isotopefeeney
8 жыл бұрын
Anxiety Entertainment Cavalry sword musta sucked back in the day if you could just break 'em over your knee . . . I'd hate to have to count on that in battle
@kurtsnyder4752
6 жыл бұрын
I believe that they were inscribed with the officers' name . A sword is rarely if ever used sideways as compared with edge on so its' strength would be weak enough to break thusly.
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !!
@paulppchristman5827 Жыл бұрын
The pilot for Wallace & Grommitt must have been mighty strange. The pilot for South Park probably was, too. The pilot for The Prisoner was also quite bizarre. But the clips in this vid are about as strange as a Norman Rockwell painting.
@nicfewer83939 жыл бұрын
I think that is Walter "Dub" Taylor in Test Pilot at 4.40.
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
Yep, that's him ! One of the busiest and most beloved character actors in movie/TV history ! You have a keen eye !
@williamwingo4740
4 жыл бұрын
That's him, all right. Fresh from handcuffing Andy Griffith to the gas pump in "No Time for Sergeants," and a few years away from selling gas to Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood in "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot." "That ain't it...that ain't it." Also played the Titan, NV post office clerk opposite Bridges in "Hearts of the West."
@snarkus637 жыл бұрын
"Crossroads Avengers" (8:59) was created by Edward D. Wood,Jr. (Plan 9 From Outer Space).
@randysmith7045
5 жыл бұрын
it is on DVD
@246spyder
5 жыл бұрын
@@randysmith7045 Plan 9, said to be the worst movie ever made. Also Bella Lagusi died during the filming and the replacement always held the cape over his face like a mask.
@randysmith7045
5 жыл бұрын
@@246spyder Plan 9 is better then most of the crap made today
@246spyder
5 жыл бұрын
@@randysmith7045 You'll get no arguments here.
@vassa19725 жыл бұрын
The Batgirl one was pretty cool for the time period I'm guessing it was supposed to be a spin off series from batman to keep people interested. Too bad it didn't get on tv
@actionsub7 жыл бұрын
Would you believe the person behind "Crossroad Avenger" was Ed "Plan 9 from Outer Space" Wood? That was his attempt to break into television production.
@luisreyes1963
5 жыл бұрын
Thank God Ed Wood didn't succeed. 😌
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
And he clearly failed miserably...
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
@@luisreyes1963 You got that right !
@charletonzimmerman42057 жыл бұрын
Talk about "Dishonorable Discharge" Branded!
@paskuniag7 жыл бұрын
"Stranded, stranded in the toilet bowl..." Anyone remember that lyric?
@Setebos
4 жыл бұрын
I think every schookid in America was singing that.
@DaleFerguson
3 жыл бұрын
What do you do when you drink brandy you get drunk 🥴
@gforce4all8 жыл бұрын
Stranded...Stranded on the toilet bowl...What do you do when you're stranded...and you don't have a roll..?
@Solitaire401
8 жыл бұрын
+gforce4all My brother (rest his soull) used to sing that. I thought he made it up. LoL What do you do when your're stranded without a roll. To prove your a man you must wipe with your hand, to prove your a man.....
@gforce4all
8 жыл бұрын
+Solitaire401 lol!!! A friend of mine used to sing that in school. It must have been more popular than we thought.
@curtisneilson5829
8 жыл бұрын
to prove your a man you must wipe it with your hand
@bitzofdataz
7 жыл бұрын
depends
@YosenBMamma
5 жыл бұрын
HOLY SHIT!! I haven't heard that in over half-a-century!
@CuffColl8 жыл бұрын
"Hey! Hey -- catch!" Liked that. CuffColl.
@pretorious7003 жыл бұрын
You just don't see millionaires in the public library much anymore.
@MaskedMan665 жыл бұрын
The "Batgirl" pilot has been seen, mainly on DVD extras and bootleg VHS tapes.
@georgesenda19528 жыл бұрын
I met Yvonne Craig in 1996. She was with her sister who was even cuter than she was. RIP. What was that plane in the pilot ?
@colinfield981
5 жыл бұрын
George Senda Ryan X-13 a real aircraft. The opening sequence also shows a NAA F-100 landing
@peterlewerin4213
5 жыл бұрын
As noted, a Ryan X-13. It was interesting because it was designed to test vertical take-off and landing. The trailer could raise it to vertical, and it could take off and then land on the trailer again (or another flat surface).
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"BATGIRL" (as portrayed by actress Yvonne Craig) WAS seen weekly on TV and she became the subject of many a teenage boy's fantasies in the 60's!
Branded was an actual TV show which aired. I remember watching it when I was a kid.
@tyrssen1
8 жыл бұрын
Likewise, watched "Branded" all the time.
@dadautube
8 жыл бұрын
and it always opened with the portion shown here, every single episode ...
@kenparnell4297
8 жыл бұрын
Yep, me too.
@keysersoze8069
8 жыл бұрын
He even got his strpies back
@colemanadamson5943
8 жыл бұрын
Branded was a great show.
Branded had one of the best openings/themes ever. Great premise, too. Chuck Connors has a face like an Easter Island statue.
@rexlex1736
2 жыл бұрын
I always thought Connors WAS an Easter Island statue.
@captainsensiblejr.
2 жыл бұрын
Chuck Connors only ever had one expression "prelude to an ass-kickinhg"
@greg1030
2 жыл бұрын
Dominic Frontiere (1931-2017). Stoney Burke, first season Outer Limits, fourth season Fugitive.
@mr.b.5589
2 жыл бұрын
Heard regularly while I was in 4th grade... " stranded, stranded on a toilet bowl, What do you do when you're stranded and you haven't got a roll"
@modelmansteve9100
2 жыл бұрын
@@mr.b.5589 the second verse is: " if you're a man you'll use you hand if you're a gal you'll use a towel
I remember the show" Branded "was an actual show that lasted 2 seasons.
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
Right on ! I have fond memories of watching it as a kid on Friday nights on ABC !!
@mikekemp9877
2 жыл бұрын
and referenced in the great lebowski
@kevinmadden1645
Жыл бұрын
A season and one half.
@sheilaholmes996
Жыл бұрын
I remember it too.
This Batgirl certainly seems more watchable than the upcoming CW series. She needs to learn how to change into her costume more quickly, though.
I remember in grade school kids singing the Branded theme song. Of course, with their own lyrics referring to being caught on the toilet without a roll. 👍
@williambeutler9399
2 жыл бұрын
I remember that, too. "Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl/What do you do when you're stranded, and you need another roll?"
@LRTrack
2 жыл бұрын
...and you can't reach the roll!
@mrstacyj9496
2 жыл бұрын
wherever you go for the rest of your life you must prove ... it's a knife!
The sequence from Branded isn't a pilot, just the opening credits from the TV series.
>> That Batgirl is actually better than the current one of 2019.
@charlesneely
5 жыл бұрын
That's because OG batgirl.... and I say that? has something that the new one don't have and that is fucking Talent back when women were real women and you didn't have to worry about checking under the hood the one that we got now you kind of got to wonder?.. You like Crocodile Dundee check under the hood the new Batgirl is just another social justice Warrior and I say that Loosely if she's a woman. If you seen her in Orange is bet she's butt naked look like a man got a boy's butt I couldn't even flap to it not that you want to know
Branded DID make the TV. I watched it for a couple of seasons.
@thebes56
5 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@paint1955
5 жыл бұрын
So did Walter Sobchak!
@scotcarr3390
5 жыл бұрын
Pretty good show, as I recall. And another foray into TV westerns by Massachusetts native son, Chuck Conners.
@judynichols2904
4 жыл бұрын
I watched it too ,it lasted for two years !
@williamwingo4740
4 жыл бұрын
I remember it too. But I didn't get into it because I was in college with limited access to television; and besides, it was a blatant ripoff of "The Fugitive."
Batgirl Rocked. Period.
@rainblaze.
2 жыл бұрын
*periods .... And not afraid of leaks. What with those high kicks an all.
This isn't the World's strangest TV pilots. It's USA's strangest TV pilots. It's a BIG difference!
Yvonne Craig was smoking hot.
@kingbee1500
9 жыл бұрын
Yes, SIR...Yvonne Craig, Anne Francis and Marlo Thomas had me locked on ABC for a couple of years solid!
@samuelparker9882
5 жыл бұрын
Yes. Batgirl would've DEFINITELY got it!!!
@AusNetFan13
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, she was hot in the one Star Trek episode.
@derlinclaire1778
5 жыл бұрын
Yvonne Craig was really pretty,and had a really nice shape.
@jerryboucher5622
4 жыл бұрын
@@derlinclaire1778 SHUT UP PREVERT
I'd watch Yvonne Craig in anything, and preferably in nothing! My dad's last job was working on the Stealth at Edwards.
This is absolutely AWESOME!! BATGIRL: If her skirt doubles as a cape does it mean she can only ever wear that one yellow skirt?!
@johnmcclure40
3 жыл бұрын
Either that or she has to make all her own skirts.
Thanks for these. I recall that Branded went past just being a pilot, a series shown on Aussie TV in ca 1966. For Test Pilot I was interested to see the Ryan X-13, a real aircraft. I recognised it still under its tarpaulin, a very squat delta with huge tail as it was meant to be a VTOL tailsitter. From the tail number, this is prototype No2 which surprisingly still exists as of 2019 as a museum exhibit.
@JaimeWulf
Жыл бұрын
I recall seeing "Branded" in the U.S back in the day so I think it got picked up here also... But I think it didn't last long... I always remembered that intro though... And as for "BatGirl" she was blended into "BatMan" instead of her own show...
Do you know what "world's" means? Do you know what "strangest's" means? Do you know what "TV pilot's" means? Do you know what "never seen " means?
@charlesbruno990
5 жыл бұрын
Do you know what 250k views mean? Do you know what youtube monetization means? We've been duped.
@zoesdada8923
5 жыл бұрын
Do you know what clickbait means?
@christocc
5 жыл бұрын
Do you know what apostrophes are for? Apparently not, since you've used them incorrectly in every instance of your post.
@erichulett5597
5 жыл бұрын
@@christocc oh I guess the autocorrect added those and I didn't notice before hitting send. Good catch. But the point was there was nothing worldly about it it was only American, they were not all TV pilots , they were not really strange , and some of them had been seen by millions of people in their original release. And yes it is all about click bait.
@TerryWHayes-yb3cj
5 жыл бұрын
@@christocc: "Grammatical Perfection" Is Not Compulsory Here On "KZread"™ (Or Anywhere Else On The Internet). There Are More Than Enough Libraries, Colleges, And Universities (As Well As Various Media Outlets And The Internet), To Supply The Needs Of Every Aficionado Of Correctly Spelled Words, Punctuation, And Proper Sentence Structure, For The Next 10,000 Years! ~ LOL .
For a real-life librarian, Batgirl certainly trashed her place of work and damaged or destroyed quantities of books - not something that librarians can do in such a callous and unthinking manner.
@Lynxdoc
11 ай бұрын
You're right no human being with stack books like that.....
Damn Yvonne Craig was Hot!
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
She indeed was quite fetching in her day !!
Initially, William Dozier wanted to produce a "Batgirl" spin-off, and created a "demo film" to try to interest ABC in the idea. However, "BATMAN" began faltering in the ratings towards the end of the 1966-'67 season........and Dozier instead decided to add her to "BATMAN" in the fall of 1967, in a futile attempt to "resuscitate" the series [and round off the corners of Batgirl's mask, because Yvonne Craig said it left welts on her face after wearing it for long periods].
@2ndEndingVintage
5 жыл бұрын
worked for me....Batgirl was SMOKIN'....
@miguelcastaneda7236
5 жыл бұрын
Barry I. Grauman there was a bat girl back in 50s
@lreking8929
5 жыл бұрын
And have you seen this awful Wonder Woman demo? kzread.info/dash/bejne/iIudy7qsYti7Yc4.html
@fromthesidelines
3 жыл бұрын
Another effort by William Dozier to produce a "campy" superhero TV show. It never got past its brief "demo reel"; ABC gave it thumbs down. Just as well; THAT "Wonder Woman" would have been a total klutz- and an embarrassment to everyone {viewers included}.
The actual 'plot' of Branded was a good one. At the time it aired, I was a kid, and because so many westerns were on TV--and my dad watched them ALL--I resented Branded, but now, as an adult--and not having been drowning in westerns--I really like the show. Poor McCord, he was so honorable and his reason for keeping silent and suffering the label of COWARD is really noble.
@darkwood777
2 жыл бұрын
As I recall, McCord became a spy for the president in the second season when the show was reworked to fit in with the other spy shows on the era. Everyone in the country still knew him by name to be a legendary coward although it was proven he didn't run away. This made it possible for him to root out criminal corruption without being suspected of working as a secret service agent.
@earlleeruhf3130
11 ай бұрын
I remember when there were so many westerns I grew sick of them too. I wanted to watch Hammer films and Scifi movies. It took me yrs before I could watch a western and enjoy it.
Hottest batgirl EVER. Pleated skirt into a cape? Why don't all girls do that?
When Kruschev came to the US the man he most wanted to meet was -- Chuck Connors, The Rifleman. Fact. Wait. Actually it was Brezhnev.
@aj-2savage896
2 жыл бұрын
@Joseph Lomeo Thanks
@fredeinsel7983
2 жыл бұрын
Chuck Connors was Gay
@aj-2savage896
2 жыл бұрын
@@fredeinsel7983 Who says so? Married three times and had four sons. Played in MLB AND NBA. No hint of being gay except on websites for actual gays who have mancrushes on him. Like you, maybe? He was in The Rifleman, not Chrisley Knows Best.
One of the interesting pilots from the pilot's list is the one with test pilots :). BTW, the Batgirl was hot as hell.
Wow, Chuck Connors sword was a piece of crap. He needs to go find himself a cool rifle to carry around instead.
@hisxmark
7 жыл бұрын
For a while, prime time was wall-to-wall westerns. Toward the end of that era, the only thing that distinguished them were strange weapons. That broken saber was pretty much the bottom of the barrel. And Connors only picked it up after his rifle had turned to rusted junk.
@WeareRedSoxLovers
7 жыл бұрын
Or maybe he should have just tried out for the Dodgers - or the Celtics.
@floydlooney6837
5 жыл бұрын
Those swords were ceremonial, indicating rank I think
@mrbrown2186
5 жыл бұрын
I think he should find a rifle that shoots a beam of light at sensors that eject a fake drinks can from a platform. Best part of my child hood ever. I'm 42 now and still looking for a replacement for my long list 'tin can alley'. I can still remember the commercial from the late 70s with him on, and I was about 5 when I finally got what I had wanted since I was about 2. I remember it costing about £7 at the time (roughly $14 in those days, about 1981/82) can't even get a working one for under £100 now!
@peterlewerin4213
5 жыл бұрын
It was a ceremony that was meant to literally strip an officer of his rank, commission, and status as a military man. To make it a bit more showy, and perhaps to insinuate that they had never deserved his rank in the first place, his badges, insignia, buttons, etc were taken off beforehand and replaced with a single stitch. The sword was also prepared in advance by filing it or re-tempering it to be brittle in one place. It was not a deceit, as everyone knew how it was done, but it was still a show. See: *cashiering*.
Batgirl - librarian by day, library destroyer by night! She totally totalled that library, she'd have been better off just letting the bad guys get away with it!
@jacklowe3429
5 жыл бұрын
Love Yvonne Craig. She deserved her own show.
@ackamack101
2 жыл бұрын
😂 You protector of books you! 😂
As kids, we sang “Stranded! Stuck on the toilet bowl....what do you do when you’re stranded - and you can’t reach the roll!” To the tune of “Branded” LOL
"By this time his lungs were screaming for air." Oh, sorry, that was Sea Hunt, not Sea Divers.
@50zcarsman
5 жыл бұрын
I always wondered why the guys who fought Mike Nelson underwater didn't simply buy wire-reinforced SCUBA hoses, so that they couldn't be easily cut with a diving knife. If they had, his #1, #2, and #3 modes of attacking them would have been eliminated.
For years my best friend had a BS story about Branded (this was before the Internet and easily-accessible information): he said Chuck Conners' character had an actual, physical brand on his forehead. While he was meant to receive COWARD an accident at the fort meant half the brand had to be melted down so he got only COW...The story started falling apart when he told me two different "accident" stories, then finally ended when I pressed him for more information about the show. Thank you for the Batgirl pilot footage. I have immense respect for Yvonne Craig and very much like the equal pay PSA she later did in character.
Ok. I remember Bat Girl, which lasted a few episodes, Yvonne Craig was so hot at the time, they couldn't let her outstrip the campy Batman series. She brought a certain seriousness to the character that outstripped the the original series.
@davebaumeister3021
2 жыл бұрын
Don't know what you were remembering, but there was never a "Batgirl" series. The thing on here is just a demo they did for studio execs to introduce the Batgirl episode. Batgirl was in every episode of the third season of "Batman."
They show Branded every Saturday morning on MeTV.
Gosh Batgirl was beautiful...
@ProNorden
5 жыл бұрын
#YvonneCraig ..major babe and very accomplished dancer ..was in a Star Trek episode or two.
"Where'd she come from Batman?" "I don't know Robin, but she's cleaning this place up, not us."
14:31 - "I wish I could help." "Well forget it little lady. This is a man's job. Why don't you go fix us a cup of that fine coffee."
@50zcarsman
5 жыл бұрын
"Get back in the kitchen, you airborne nocturnal female rodent."
Branded is one of my favorite tv shows ever!
What's so "strange" about Branded? It was a classic.
@gymnastix
9 жыл бұрын
TommygunNG You are correct, sir. "Branded" was indeed a television classic -- although not quite as classic as the first TV series starring Chuck Connors, "The Rifleman." And in-between "The Rifleman" ans "Branded" was the excellent one-season contemporary drama "Arrest & Trial," wherein Connors portrayed a criminal defense attorney in the legal part of that police and courtroom series. Anyway, another thing I remember about "Branded" was its memorable main theme music. And I can still recall an elementary school classmate's parody of the "Branded" theme song, the lyrics to which went something like this-- "Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded And you need another roll? To prove you're a man, You must wipe it with your hand. You must prove . . . you're a man. Strand-ed!" That TV theme parody from the playground set was in the same vein as this old Christmas chestnut-- "Jingle Bells, Batman smells. Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel. And The Joker got away - hey!"
@daveconleyportfolio5192
9 жыл бұрын
gymnastix The composer was Dominic Frontiere, who somehow turned TV theme music into enough money to buy the Los Angeles Rams.
@dabull136
8 жыл бұрын
+DaveConleyPortfolio Not true! It was Georgia Frontiere who inherited the Rams ownership when her then husband Carroll Rosenbloom (her 6th husband at that point) who had traded ownership of the Baltimore Colts for the L.A Rams, died from a heart attack. Dominic Frontiere became her 7th husband and was in no way responsible for her Rams ownership!
@yell50
7 жыл бұрын
I agree nothing strange about branded. i loved watching this western as a kid, it is classic TV series.
@DoubleMrE
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah . . . "Branded" was a good show--not strange. But does anybody remember the take-off from the show's theme song? Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded, and you don't have a roll?
i would have liked batgirl as a show
I find it hard to believe that we actually watched this !
I'm from UK and even we had this great show, Branded
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
I think that's so cool that "Branded' was shown on British TV ! We had some British shows that played on American TV in the 60s, such as "The Avengers", "Secret Agent Man", "The Prisoner", "Man in a Suitcase" & "The Baron" !! The longest running one was "The Avengers" and when I was a kid in the 60s, my brothers & I loved watching it !!
2FYIs: 1) The Batgirl clip wasn't a pilot for a new series. It was made to pitch the new character for Adam West's series Batman to ABC executives who wanted to cancel the show. They liked her, and renewed the series for one more season. 2) I believe that Air Force clip is from the TV series Flight (1958), episode "Vertijet," starring John Agar. That's legendary character actor Dub Taylor as the sergeant.
DAMN! She was hot in those glasses!
@Timurlane100
8 жыл бұрын
+Zachary Thax - She also made a very fetching, albeit crazy, Orion slave girl in a Star Trek episode.
@donaldpetkus1637
3 жыл бұрын
She was also the primary candidate for abduction bu Martians in the film Mars Needs Women. She wore glasses in that production as well. Quite attractive
Batgiirl was a regular on the Batman series . . . Branded ran for at least 1 season
I remember 'branded'. I thought they painted a yellow stripe down his back in the intro, too? And that theme song - it sounds like Monty Python!
Batman was my favorite comic book. I'll never forget how heartbroken I was the first time I saw that show, and how silly it was. I just couldn't believe they did that! I still have the emotional scars. LOL
@Zauchi
9 жыл бұрын
runner6500 Its a little different for me because the original Batman show was my first viewing of Batman, so it always remains a classic to me. lol Though wasn't the Batman series similar to the comics of the time?
@runner6500
9 жыл бұрын
Zauchi No not at all. The only thing similar was the "Pow!", "Zapp!" kind of stuff. The corny dialogue was too much for me. I was just a 12 yr. old kid. You have no idea the anticipation I had that entire summer. I don't want to talk about it anymore.
@kennethholland9021
7 жыл бұрын
Same here; I didn't know 'bout the comic till I saw one in a display at the checkout counter of the local grocery store and asked my mom to get if for me (a giant-size 3D issue with a Batman story featuring the Penguin, backed by a Tommy Tomorrow); I remember thinking that it wasn't a very good rendition of the TV show!
@joansmith6092
5 жыл бұрын
I only liked Superheroes in comic books when they had their own powers. Batman had no powers at all. Not even ESP. But, l saw the 1st episode and thought, "Isn't that nice of the Joker? From the vending machines he was giving school students piles of silver dollars!" I was starting the 6th grade, in 1966.
"Stranded! Stranded on the toilet bowl! What do you do when you're stranded, and you cant reach the roll!" Amazing what you can remember from half a century ago.
@nickhill8612
2 жыл бұрын
Haha I just thought about Jingle bells Batman smells
@kathleenking47
Жыл бұрын
@@nickhill8612 Robin laid an egg Oh what fun it is to ride In a wrecked up Chevrolet
@nickhill8612
Жыл бұрын
@@kathleenking47 Yeah lol haha
#1 Batgirl was never a spin off, just the character added to the Batman series, and the video shown here is the very same one that introduced her as Batgirl on the Batman Series. Most of the others I watched as a child, so none of these are even remotely the 'world's strangest". Most of these actually aired only for a few episodes, but were canned early, so they were very short lived. Some made it for two to three months before being canned by the network associated with that particular series. They were canned because they were usually up against a more popular, long running series that folks watched, so some of these never got the ratings needed to stay running.
Yvonne Craig! Hell, they should've just made the series of her changing in2her Batgirl outfit, then the groovy 'Bat girl, bat girl' theme. Would've had millions of - male - viewers. Hell, I'm not straight, and I LOVE Yvonne Craig, I would've watched (had I been alive and living somewhere I could've seen it).
@charlesneely
5 жыл бұрын
Groovy man, Don't Bogart That Joint my friend it's nice to share those are better times back then
@frankcabanski9409
2 жыл бұрын
Go away LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ
Stranded Stranded on the toilet bowl . What do you do when your stranded and can’t reach the roll?
It's Mrs Kravitz who lived next door to Darren and Samantha.
it might have been nice to tell us the TITLES of these shows...
@karlstuber6399
5 жыл бұрын
I think they found a beta tape of these and their research was not extensive.
Yes it was. Branded aired on NBC from January 24, 1965 until April 24, 1966, with reruns continuing through September 4, 1966. The seires consisted of 48 episodes (the first 16 were in black-and-white), and was sponsored by Procter & Gamble.
Yvonne Craig was so hot as Batgirl.
@tessseract
9 жыл бұрын
Verne Statts Incredibly so.
@OjaiRoy
8 жыл бұрын
+Verne Statts Yes she was! RIP Batgirl.
@OjaiRoy
8 жыл бұрын
+Verne Statts 1:18 HOLLY BATGIRL!
@millardfarqhuar1990
8 жыл бұрын
+Verne Statts Even better as Marta ( the green girl ) on Star Trek
@OjaiRoy
8 жыл бұрын
+Millard Farqhuar I don't watch Star Trek and did not know she was on there. I Googled Marta and oh my!!!!! Thanks for the info Millard! markosun.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/abatx.jpg
My Dad always pointed out that if you broke a sword over your leg like that guy does in the Branded segment, you'd have a broken leg. I guess bending the sword a bit and yelling "ouch" wasn't as dramatic.
Good that Batgirl had time to hang up her normal top....before saving Batman/Robin!
Yvonne, Yvonne, Yvonne, you can kick the crap out of me any time you want!
@OjaiRoy
8 жыл бұрын
+Chuck Freeman 1:18 HOLLY BATGIRL!
@Laceykat66
8 жыл бұрын
+Chuck Freeman 50 Shades of batgirl?
@TimeStrider
8 жыл бұрын
Laceykat66 Yes indeed!
@mottknil1372
4 жыл бұрын
What are you? A sicko.
Why were these never seen before?
I see nothing "strange" let alone "strangest" about any of these pilots and "Branded" was a successful show which opened with the scene shown here every episode. The rest were pretty much normal TV fare in the 1950's.
@ciecie1959
5 жыл бұрын
while batgirl wasn't a show, she was added as a character to the batman tv show.
@mbugal
5 жыл бұрын
@@ciecie1959 I guess I should have excluded her from the list, but I'm not completely sure this was ever a pilot but merely her introduction episode on "Batman". Has anyone ever seen a full pilot with titles, etc? I never have and I'm usually up on that sort of thing.
Branded, lost? It's on ME TV Saturdays.
These Pilots are better than anything on TV today.
Ladies and gentlemen, Yvonne Craig in Mrs. Rogers' Neighborhood . . . uh, sorry, Batgirl!
Wait. Batman has the bat computer and he doesn't know who Batgirl is? He needs to update his computer.
@WAQWBrentwood
7 жыл бұрын
speedlearner Damned Windows 65! 😀
@paulcoy9060
6 жыл бұрын
Alfred knew, but wouldn't tell Bruce. Could have been a great beginning of the Bat Family.
@Steve_Green
5 жыл бұрын
This is meant to be her debut in public.
@joansmith6092
5 жыл бұрын
The bat computer never told him who Green Hornet is either.
The only memory I have of Branded was the boys singing the theme in Stand By Me
Don't recall SEA DIVERS, but THE AQUANAUTS made the grade for several years. With Ron Ely and Jeremy Slate.
Branded was a great show.
@Laceykat66
8 жыл бұрын
+Karen Kinsey And what is this "never seen" ?? Branded was on.
@Optimalillusion
8 жыл бұрын
It was even referenced in an episode of "Married With Children."
@jimodonnelly7762
8 жыл бұрын
+swasey1952 The clip from Branded was the pre-title sequence in every episode.
@Jeffrey314159
8 жыл бұрын
+Optimalillusion Yes, that episode where Al Bundy was stripped of his security guard uniform for loosing the High School Football Trophy
@jimodonnelly7762
8 жыл бұрын
Jeffrey314159 Now that sounds funny.
GREAT VIDEO............. I didn't think that all of them were that STRANGE!!!!!!! Branded was a TV show!!!!!!!
I was a kid when Branded was aired and we had different lyrics for the opening song, sung to the same music: "Stranded, stranded on a toilet bowl, what do you do when you're stranded and you don't have a roll. You must prove you're a man cause you wipe it with your hand". Yes, we were very witty and somewhat disturbed children back then.
Batgirl must take time to hang up her clothes before fighting crime.
Hate to tell you bud, but I loved Batgirl
Branded with Chuck Conners was an actual show. Maybe they never showed the pilot , but that opening was correct
I remember Branded staring Chuck Conner's he alway carried the broken sabre as a reminder and a close in weapon, it came before he stared in the rifleman and the Batgirl character was added to the regular Batman series. As for the other two I have no clue.
@klaustrumputin-trudeau4142
4 жыл бұрын
not before but after the rifleman youngster.
Crossroads Avenger Was Written/Directed By Ed Wood Jr
@luisreyes1963
5 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine Ed Wood making a TV series? Frightening. 😱
a lot of these are on hulu
I enjoyed Branded. I always thought of it as a prequel to a the Rifleman, even though I guess it aired after.
me too...I loved it
Unforgettable classic on screen words, Pow!... Splatt!... Boff!... Zlonk!... Zlopp!...
@TheOneTrueKaliban
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I haven't been in all that many donneybrooks, but have never heard the sound, "Zlopp!" at any of the few I've witnessed.
@50zcarsman
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe CNN should super-impose titles like these at appropriate places during contentious Congressional hearings, eh?
branded was a success
@PtolemyJones
9 жыл бұрын
I used to enjoy watching it... always felt it the unofficial prequel to the Rifleman.
@fromthesidelines
3 жыл бұрын
During its first season, yes. In season two, it was against not only 'THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW" on CBS, it was also opposite "THE FBI" on ABC. There were plans for a third season {McCord would have settled down as a surveyor in a small town with his grandfather, his girlfriend (a reporter for the local paper), and an orphan girl}, but sponsor Procter & Gamble decided to replace the series with "HEY LANDLORD!" for the fall of 1966.
A skirt that turns into a superhero cape? That's better than skirts in real life!
The hell is Branded doing mixed in with these shows? It's a classic. Really Crossroads Avenger is about the only one I'd even remotely call "strange" here, due to it being a failed Tom Keene vehicle, and the fact that Ed Wood directed it.
@stephensmith6660
2 жыл бұрын
It was strange at the time, as the X-13 I believe was one of the first Vertijets. But yeah, your right on the mark.
For a librarian, she doesn't have much respect for proper treatment of books.
@Leadeshipcoach
5 жыл бұрын
C Nault lol! I was thinking the same thing!🤣
Wow...the pilot to the Ed Wood Crossroads Avenger with Tom Keene?? Never thought Id see it at all!! Thanks.
0:00 Batgirl 2:35 Branded 4:25 Test Pilot 9:00 Crosroads Avenger 13:12 Sea Divers
@howie9751
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, we know.
@gwilliams4269
11 ай бұрын
Thanks 👍
by the time bat girl got dressed, the bad guy was in Argentina eating steak......
Branded was a weekly staple in our house
The Batgirl scene here was adapted into the classic Hitgirl hallway scene from Kick Ass
@ciecie1959
5 жыл бұрын
read my comment to mike bugal.
I watched Branded with my dad as a kid in England. Dad loved the show.
Did Batman call him “insidious insect”? ... no wonder he’s our greatest crime fighter!
I can remember watching Branded when I was young. It was a decent TV series, as good as most of the other westerns that were popular then.
For the pilot for "Branded", I understand them wanting to tear off his stripes, but why would they break a perfectly good sword in half (and quite easily I might add) rather than just keep it and give it to another soldier?
@UNOwen1
9 жыл бұрын
jayanxiety It was symbolic - 'this sword will never be used,' as in the person who HAD feared this sword will never serve, or has been dishonoured.
@davidbunch7517
9 жыл бұрын
jayanxiety Because the soldier who carried it has forever "tarnished" it.
@isotopefeeney
8 жыл бұрын
Anxiety Entertainment Cavalry sword musta sucked back in the day if you could just break 'em over your knee . . . I'd hate to have to count on that in battle
@kurtsnyder4752
6 жыл бұрын
I believe that they were inscribed with the officers' name . A sword is rarely if ever used sideways as compared with edge on so its' strength would be weak enough to break thusly.
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !!
The pilot for Wallace & Grommitt must have been mighty strange. The pilot for South Park probably was, too. The pilot for The Prisoner was also quite bizarre. But the clips in this vid are about as strange as a Norman Rockwell painting.
I think that is Walter "Dub" Taylor in Test Pilot at 4.40.
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
Yep, that's him ! One of the busiest and most beloved character actors in movie/TV history ! You have a keen eye !
@williamwingo4740
4 жыл бұрын
That's him, all right. Fresh from handcuffing Andy Griffith to the gas pump in "No Time for Sergeants," and a few years away from selling gas to Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood in "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot." "That ain't it...that ain't it." Also played the Titan, NV post office clerk opposite Bridges in "Hearts of the West."
"Crossroads Avengers" (8:59) was created by Edward D. Wood,Jr. (Plan 9 From Outer Space).
@randysmith7045
5 жыл бұрын
it is on DVD
@246spyder
5 жыл бұрын
@@randysmith7045 Plan 9, said to be the worst movie ever made. Also Bella Lagusi died during the filming and the replacement always held the cape over his face like a mask.
@randysmith7045
5 жыл бұрын
@@246spyder Plan 9 is better then most of the crap made today
@246spyder
5 жыл бұрын
@@randysmith7045 You'll get no arguments here.
The Batgirl one was pretty cool for the time period I'm guessing it was supposed to be a spin off series from batman to keep people interested. Too bad it didn't get on tv
Would you believe the person behind "Crossroad Avenger" was Ed "Plan 9 from Outer Space" Wood? That was his attempt to break into television production.
@luisreyes1963
5 жыл бұрын
Thank God Ed Wood didn't succeed. 😌
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
And he clearly failed miserably...
@jubalcalif9100
5 жыл бұрын
@@luisreyes1963 You got that right !
Talk about "Dishonorable Discharge" Branded!
"Stranded, stranded in the toilet bowl..." Anyone remember that lyric?
@Setebos
4 жыл бұрын
I think every schookid in America was singing that.
@DaleFerguson
3 жыл бұрын
What do you do when you drink brandy you get drunk 🥴
Stranded...Stranded on the toilet bowl...What do you do when you're stranded...and you don't have a roll..?
@Solitaire401
8 жыл бұрын
+gforce4all My brother (rest his soull) used to sing that. I thought he made it up. LoL What do you do when your're stranded without a roll. To prove your a man you must wipe with your hand, to prove your a man.....
@gforce4all
8 жыл бұрын
+Solitaire401 lol!!! A friend of mine used to sing that in school. It must have been more popular than we thought.
@curtisneilson5829
8 жыл бұрын
to prove your a man you must wipe it with your hand
@bitzofdataz
7 жыл бұрын
depends
@YosenBMamma
5 жыл бұрын
HOLY SHIT!! I haven't heard that in over half-a-century!
"Hey! Hey -- catch!" Liked that. CuffColl.
You just don't see millionaires in the public library much anymore.
The "Batgirl" pilot has been seen, mainly on DVD extras and bootleg VHS tapes.
I met Yvonne Craig in 1996. She was with her sister who was even cuter than she was. RIP. What was that plane in the pilot ?
@colinfield981
5 жыл бұрын
George Senda Ryan X-13 a real aircraft. The opening sequence also shows a NAA F-100 landing
@peterlewerin4213
5 жыл бұрын
As noted, a Ryan X-13. It was interesting because it was designed to test vertical take-off and landing. The trailer could raise it to vertical, and it could take off and then land on the trailer again (or another flat surface).
yes I saw branded a lot.