I love the commercials advertising the new shows "in color". I wouldn't see any of them in color until 1977 when my parents got their first color TV set.

@cainealexander-mccord2805

25 күн бұрын

So you were the remote control too, eh?

@robertscott2210

25 күн бұрын

@@cainealexander-mccord2805 Yup, until my little sister was big enough to do it, then I was paroled lol

@cainealexander-mccord2805

25 күн бұрын

@@robertscott2210 Excellent. Remember the old A and B cable? Early 70s. Big black buttons on the back of the set. My Pop was the first on our block, as it were.

@jchapman8248

25 күн бұрын

Lol. As a kid, I used believe that when a show was announced as being "In Color" it would be in color. It took awhile for me to understand that even shows in color were in B&W if you had a B&W TV!

@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont

25 күн бұрын

Oh, I remember that. We didn't actually get a color set until 1980! But my grandparents had color. Paternal grandparents had it first, and it never seemed to be balanced right. Everyone was pink and the greens looked like atomic waste. Maternal grandparents got a good Zenith color set about 1974 and it looked much more realistic. That grandpa was more interested in good sound than the picture as he really enjoyed band shows like Lawrence Welk and of course Dean Martin's show and Frank Sinatra specials.

these always makes my day. This is when tv was entertaining and commericals were not big pharma. ahhhh the simple times. Thank you for these Fred. Take care and God bless🙏

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Much appreciated, Nick.

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.................. A better time than now, I'd have to say.

The Judy Garland Show with Frank and Dean is a popular item on P.B.S. stations during pledge drives and I think TCM ran it once as part of a Judy Garland tribute.

Oh, the metamorphosis of the phrase "adult entertainment". Another winner, Fred!

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Thanks, CAM.

I get MeTv here and still watch My Three sons here in the early morning when I don't feel like getting out of bed but still watch TV......... Dragnet too....... just the facts ..... Nothing but the facts!

I'll say it again: cars were like spaceships, the looong version.🚀 And our heads with "Dippity-do... Rollers" the proverbial space helmet. 🤭 💜🤟

Thank you so much. I enjoy these videos immensely.😊

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

You're welcome, l j

All those awesome cars. Pop worked for Chrysler for 20 years as a wood model maker at the world headquarters in Highland Park, MI. He likely worked on many of those vehicles. Great stuff Fred.

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Thanks, Doug.

@paullarimore8598

25 күн бұрын

Very cool!

Great Times👍❤️

Thanks Fred 👍

Watching the commercial of way back then, it hit me, like a Three Stooges cream pie... this was the era that they invented the TV version of snake oil con. And I bought it all, hook line and sinker. I suppose my TV BS detector wasn't all that refined yet. Ignorance was bliss. It's fun to revisit those more innocent times and not worry about it all.

@JeffDeWitt

25 күн бұрын

And it wasn't new, radio had been doing it since the late 20's.

@Peter7966

25 күн бұрын

@@JeffDeWitt You're right. TV just added the visual and got a little slicker about the con. I look back at some of those ads now and I think... I can't believe I fell for it. PT Barnum was right. I had many minutes of sucker birth.

If I'm not mistaken, "MY THREE SONS" had three sponsors when the series moved to CBS "Toni from Gillette", "Hunt Wesson Foods", and "Kellogg's"

@philiphatfield5666

25 күн бұрын

In the early years of My Three Sons, the endless plugs for GM cars was downright sickening. During the closing credits, they would show a succession of GM cars just driving on the road! Hazel did the same thing but with Fords.

@gcfifthgear

17 күн бұрын

@@philiphatfield5666 Chevrolet was the exclusive sponsor of My Three Sons from 1960 to 1963. They showcased each year's new cars and trucks in the closing credits. And so did Hazel, only with Fords. But, in the ABC version of The FBI, the agents showed off Washington landmarks while tooling around in the current models of Ford or, later, Lincoln-Mercury

Geez, Louise Plymouth? Maybe the Valiant but I can't help thinking of moth! Good stuff, Maynard!

That Was Great! My Wife Is A Betty White Fan & We Never Saw Her That Young. Thank You.

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

My pleasure, Watcher.

You did it again Fred, I was born in 1958. I remember watching Lawrence welk with my dad.

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Gregory.

Hunny West in a bubble bath good times !!! TY Fred

Super nostalgic, Fred. Variety shows and scripted comedies and dramas have vanished from broadcast television. We have to turn to cable and streaming services for that now. We didn't appreciate how good we had it--great entertainment that we weren't charged to watch.

@robertscott2210

26 күн бұрын

Like the saying goes, you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

@FredFlix

26 күн бұрын

It was a special time in pop culture, Robert.

@ernestcruz6316

25 күн бұрын

Variety shows have left TV, it's true. But scripted comedies and dramas are still on network broadcast TV if you're willing to look for it. Plus MeTV and Antenna TV if you have them in your area, and those channels have the older shows.

That was awesome!! Thank you so much Fred 🙂

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

You're welcome, gal.

Another great one Fred. I love the Chrysler and Oldsmobile commercials. So long ago!

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Thanks, cynpv.

I love to watch your videos. Keep it up! Very entertaining!

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Thanks, TT.

Thank you!🙂💯💥👍🤍!

Young boomer here - this ws so much fun !

@FredFlix

26 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Amy. You should check out the other 1,000 videos on my channel.

10:55 What a fin! That '59 Plymouth sure had a look to it.

@JeffDeWitt

25 күн бұрын

It did, but if I was shopping for a car in 1959 I'd head over to the Studebaker dealer and check out a Hawk.

I would like to have a 59 Chrysler convertible.

@paullarimore8598

25 күн бұрын

I'm a fan of Virgil Exner or the "Exner Excess" as some have called it but the Forward Look took over automobile design.

I loved my three sons! Had a crush on Chip! LOL! THANK YOU FRED!❤

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Chantelle, as you can guess my crush was on Tina.

@ChantelleBrown-fb7gy

25 күн бұрын

@@FredFlix but of course! LoL!

man those cars.....thanks dude.

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

You're welcome, S&D.

Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane) was just 15 when she got that role in “F Troop”.

The Toni Company was actually the Toni division of The Gillette Company.

Chrysler logo looks like the Star Trek logo.

That was neato Fred! I never saw Pure Prairie League on TV. They were good. Frank looked like he prepped well for show, a V8 juice maybe

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

First time I saw them too, Fitz-etc.

FANTASTIC!

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Nunetc.

That Plymouth would make a good low rider.

I can’t wait to see these new shows.

OMG Betty White!

Very nice clips, and those cars wow i wanna have a new one sigh.

The Plymouth looked like eight people could ride in both the front and back. Four in front and four in back.

These clips are all kind of dark, thats why we needed a TV lamp on top of the TV

That was Florence Henderson in the Oldsmobile commercial.

Good one, Fred! 2:23 - Maybe Bobby Brady saw this show too to lead to his hero worship. 2:39 - Robert Horton thought he was too good for WAGON TRAIN then eventually moved on to this Western. 2:53 - Seeing that guard tower fall over scared me when I was very young, but I later saw it as an overdone gag in an otherwise good satire. 3:38 - TV Guide critic Cleveland Amory had the original idea for this sitcom, that Abe Burrows & ABC turned into just another slapstick sitcom. 4:04 - I figure that Debbie Watson was under contract to Universal at this time. She moved from KAREN to TAMMY, then she took over the part of Marilyn in the movie "Munster Go Home". 4:40 - ABC had a lot to promote fall 1965 (likely due to a lot of its old shows' cancellations), but I think its biggest hit of the season came the next January in BATMAN. 5:10 - This had to be from 1962, more than a year before her weekly variety show, which was clobbered in the ratings by BONANZA. 6:57 - BUS STOP is from 1961-62, not 1966. It was infamous for an episode called "A Lion Walks Among Us", which had singer Fabian Forte playing an out-and-out evil drifter who robs & murders for no apparent reason. This episode had negative reviews and brought about a Congressional hearing on tv violence. If Wiki is correct, it also got the president of ABC fired. 8:35 - This is the first time I've seen Mr. Welk playing an instrument, as he's usually conducting his orchestra. He had sponsors other than Geritol in earlier years too. 12:16 - Bill Hayes is accompanying Ms. Henderson on the piano. He died this past January at 98(!) and had a recurring role on DAYS OF OUR LIVES up to just last year. 13:18 - The credits are from S6 episode "Ernie and That Woman". I didn't know that Toni sponsored the show. I figure the all-male cast (at the time) didn't do any integrated ads for the product.

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Lots of great info again, Jon. Didn't think about the odd Toni sponsor.

@luisreyes1963

25 күн бұрын

2 questions: Did they ever resolve The Man Called Shenandoah? Also, Who would thought O.K. Crackerby would be watchable? 🤦‍♂️

@marthawelch4289

25 күн бұрын

Welk played his accordion almost weekly - duets with Myron Floren, polkas for Mouseketeer Bobby and his dance partner, prior to his dancing with the ladies in the audience, etc.

@jehobden

25 күн бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 1) I doubt it, but I've never watched the show to know. 2) Cleveland Amory didn't apparently, once he saw what was done with his original idea. ABC cancelled it the next January.

That new 1959 Plymouth was pretty fancy. It must have cost $2500.

You don't think that '59 Plymouth Fury happens to be...CHRISTINE!?! 😱 Thanks anyway, FredFlix!

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

Hmmm....

A younger Florence Henderson literally singing the praises about Oldsmobile! Haha!

@LorenIpsum75

20 күн бұрын

The gentleman at the piano is future "Days of Our Lives" legend Bill Hayes. In addition to the Oldsmoblle ads & their TV variety show appearances, "Hayes and Henderson" were a nightclub act during the 50s.

The My Three Sons episode was the one that Ernie was conned iut of his Liberian Triangle stamp.

Oh yes, big-ass 1950s cars

@luisreyes1963

25 күн бұрын

How 'bout that De Soto..? 😁

@eringo-bragh4243

25 күн бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 OH YEAH!!!!

"New magic eye automatic headlight dimmer..." - My grandpa had one of those on a '65 Lincoln Continental (with suicide doors) and it didn't work worth a $%*@! 😄

@gcfifthgear

17 күн бұрын

It may have been new to Plymouth for '59, but GM cars offered a similar device called "Autronic Eye" as far back as 1954-55 on Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs. It even appeared, albeit infrequently, on Chevies and Pontiacs

I was only two years old in 1965 so I don't remember if we had a color television.

Thanks,Fred.

Ernest Borgnine as McHale before he did McHale's Navy he played the character in a drama "Seven Against the Sea" this is what Universal based the comedy show on with Borgnine returning as a fun version of McHale -- kzread.info/dash/bejne/ooSHl7GknNCfoto.html

Apparently ABC and CBS were was the only networks that hadn't switched to full color program's.

Gidget was great but only one season if they had been smart they would have changed it to Gidget Goes to College that would have kept the show on the air for 4 more seasons it would have been a much better show that way.

Thx Fredflix 👍📺🇺🇲

As a young musically gifted boy, I was always bothered that the tapping foot animation in the “My Three Sons” opening was not always in exact sync with the music!

@merce10554

25 күн бұрын

Jeez, you are so right! It was really annoying. 🤭

"Bus Stop" ran from Oct. 1961-March 1962. Way before 1966.

@FredFlix

24 күн бұрын

Oops, a slip of the typing finger.

You could drive a Plymouth into outer space? Wow! Admittedly, I never even learned how to drive a car, let alone own one, but I thought that swiveling driver's seat would have been quite popular. Can anyone tell me why it never caught on?

And I read somewhere that Bus Stop was a controversial show. I don't know what it was about. I don't ecen know what year it was on.

Schon vermisst

The reason My Three Sons switched networksxwas because ABC was going to put the 65-66 season in black and white still.

Bonanza killed Judy Garlands ratings. Thats why the show was cancelled.

the girl who played Gidget, whatever happened to her?

@LorenIpsum75

20 күн бұрын

Somebody liked her.🏆

@gcfifthgear

17 күн бұрын

@@LorenIpsum75 She took off as the Flying Nun in 1967...then, among other things, she ran for a while with Burt Reynolds...😊

Honey West, what a babe.

My 3 sons was so gay. A middle aged man with an "uncle" and 3 little boys. First the "uncle" gets replaced by another older man then the children are aged out and replaced with new young boys. There was a house like that in my neighborhood it had pink and white awnings.

@Nunofurdambiznez

25 күн бұрын

HUH??????

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

HUH??????

@FredFlix

25 күн бұрын

I replied same.

@luisreyes1963

25 күн бұрын

Does every 60's Sitcom have to center around a nuclear family? Just wait until that trope gets buried alive by Norman Lear in the 70's. 😥