thetvtimemachine

thetvtimemachine

The TV Time Machine KZread Channel, hosted by TV Historian Jim Benson, offers rare, behind-the-scenes videos featuring interviews with your favorite TV stars and shows; Vintage TV shows and TV Commercials, and videos featuring remarkable, untold stories from television's past 60 years.

Jim Benson hosts the nationally syndicated radio program TV Time Machine and is co-author with his writing partner Scott Skelton, of Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour; Rod Serling's Night Gallery: The Art of Darkness, and the upcoming book, The Ultimate Columbo.

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  • @deckard97
    @deckard972 сағат бұрын

    i;d rather have this than the shit Shonda Rhimes garbage we get on ABC now

  • @brandosbucket
    @brandosbucket4 күн бұрын

    I don't think I've seen a child who so exactly looks like both parents at the same time. Normally, I see a nose here, eyes of the other, family chin. This, both faces vibrate in and out of my sight.

  • @davidgillock6425
    @davidgillock64254 күн бұрын

    I'm glad Hunter Biden wasn't around then.

  • @dianascrimger284
    @dianascrimger2848 күн бұрын

    Too bad universal studios never had the tower if terror while the could have used the paintings on the ride.

  • @dianascrimger284
    @dianascrimger2848 күн бұрын

    To bad the tower of terror was not at universal studios using the paintings from the night gallery used in the ride.

  • @dongilleo9743
    @dongilleo97439 күн бұрын

    This was very interesting. I have always wondered if the paintings were produced to fit the storylines, or if on occasion they had an existing painting that inspired a story. I've always remembered the story of the harried Nazi who wanted to be in the peaceful picture of a man fishing, and instead ended up in the picture of being horribly tortured.

  • @musecabdinuur6257
    @musecabdinuur62579 күн бұрын

    there could be a better way to end red john's story i was dissapointed it was the sherrif thomas

  • @ResidentialCentersofAmerica
    @ResidentialCentersofAmerica11 күн бұрын

    Such an excellent series... I never missed an episode and still catch it. Used to fly in LA weekly and had many actors over the years. Met Robert in Hollywood, one of the kindest. He made you feel like I was the most important person in the world. RIP to all who have since passed.

  • @paulpavlicsek1452
    @paulpavlicsek145212 күн бұрын

    A root beer?

  • @richardranke3158
    @richardranke315812 күн бұрын

    Harvey Korman was also a regular on the Danny Kaye Show in the mid-sixties.

  • @yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst
    @yeahnoonecaresifyouarefirst13 күн бұрын

    The Gabel legacy lives on through their grandson ❤ thanks for posting! ❤

  • @daizeofgrace
    @daizeofgrace13 күн бұрын

    Love this show. Thank you

  • @jmbwithcats
    @jmbwithcats14 күн бұрын

    It breaks my heart to hear the story of how neglected the paintings were after the show was canceled. They should have been collected and stored together for a museum.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    Agreed. At least a percentage survived so they could be displayed for that one last time in 2019!

  • @aldorechiasson
    @aldorechiasson18 күн бұрын

    KZread really has everything on it! Thank you for finally defeating this 40 year old earworm 😂

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    You're welcome. My wife wrote the music and lyrics for that commercial!

  • @bobmcgahey1280
    @bobmcgahey128019 күн бұрын

    robin tunney you are a beautiful and intelligent woman but the outfit does not suit you :)

  • @daizeofgrace
    @daizeofgrace19 күн бұрын

    Thank you for posting these. Really enjoy them.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    You're welcome!

  • @superharry484
    @superharry48419 күн бұрын

    Will you be posting the remaining episodes?

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    They'll be rolling out soon!

  • @richardranke3158
    @richardranke315819 күн бұрын

    Does anyone remember the episode of The Addams Family when a vet(played by Marty Ingels) visited them?

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    Marty Ingels was cast on The Addams Family as a sort of mini-reunion, although the two men did not have a great relationship in real life...

  • @richardranke3158
    @richardranke315819 күн бұрын

    Not too long ago, I retired at age 68. This episode is a bit more meaningful to me.

  • @mariamcaleavey3444
    @mariamcaleavey344424 күн бұрын

    thankyou sharing.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    You're welcome!

  • @mariamcaleavey3444
    @mariamcaleavey344424 күн бұрын

    the equalizer edward woodward was the one.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    He certainly was!

  • @jcspoon573
    @jcspoon57325 күн бұрын

    "The Germans didn't like that," to describe how the enemy reacted to a bridge being dropped across a stream. Comedic in every moment.

  • @WallaceRoseVincent
    @WallaceRoseVincentАй бұрын

    What a great relationship! Sweet lady.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    Agreed, they had a special relationship.

  • @BriansFunHouse
    @BriansFunHouseАй бұрын

    Ouch

  • @user-vf5hn9gq4i
    @user-vf5hn9gq4iАй бұрын

    john astin was just as good in this as he was in'the addams family'!🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

  • @michaelschramm1064
    @michaelschramm1064Ай бұрын

    Sally Kellerman, wow! Just prior to her phenomenal portrayal as a Lady Macbeth type, Judith Bellero, in The Outer Limits episode “The Bellero Shield”.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    She was quite beautiful at that time!

  • @kt9166
    @kt9166Ай бұрын

    Thank you thank you thank you!

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    You're welcome!

  • @melianna999
    @melianna999Ай бұрын

    Beautiful, warm and smart woman with wit.RIP

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    Totally agree. My favorite panelist on the show!

  • @robertdiotalevi285
    @robertdiotalevi285Ай бұрын

    I heard that Bob Crane got an offer to do The Newlywed Game at the same time and had to choose one. And Clary's best friend on the show was Werner Klemperer. In real life Klemperer was married to the actors in the show who played Axis Annie and the baroness who played the daughter of the the general where Lebeau and Carter break into his study to steal plans.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    I could see Bob Crane as the host of the Newlywed Game. He has a certain Bob Eubanks-quality about him.

  • @robertdiotalevi285
    @robertdiotalevi28513 күн бұрын

    @@thetvtimemachine And, it may have been the better move overall since he could have done it for decades and gotten royalties on it also. Who knows? He may still be alive.

  • @mygmail5016
    @mygmail5016Ай бұрын

    The origin of the idea of a murder detective wearing a smoked silver beige acrylic coated raincoat might not be what Peter Falk told us in Algeria before columbo aired in the US there was an Actor " haj abderrahman" who wore the same coat on stage playing funny scenes of murder detective under the name of ( inspector Tahar ) making it his signature detective outfit doing those shows a decade before columbo first aired and in 1967 a full year before prescription murder aired in the US that same actor featured a full TV murder detective movie wearing his signature outfit and you can check it out ( L'inspecteur Mene ll'enquete 1967 ) , t's not easy finding the movie online but i saw it and any Algerian can confirm , back in Algeria we used to wear these spanish raincoats in winter a lot and even if Colombo's might have been made in the US it is strikingly similar and the 2 actors wearing it as signature murder detective might not be a coincidence

  • @TheJuRK
    @TheJuRKАй бұрын

    I remember watching the show in 1978 and it was obvious that Buck had been hurt. Chevy announced that he'd been cut during Weekend Update and everyone was wearing band aids by the end of the show! We were all in on it.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    One of the great things about live TV, a situation like that wouldn't translate as well on a pre-taped program.

  • @swerdna77
    @swerdna77Ай бұрын

    I watched Night Gallery when I was a child and absolutely loved it. I slept with cotton in my ears for weeks after one episode. Lol. I have often wondered what became of all the paintings. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    You're very welcome. Thank you for sharing your Night Gallery memories!

  • @janeskey5042
    @janeskey5042Ай бұрын

    I had just turned 10 years old in 1972 : this scared me SO much ! I remember that we were on vacation in Canada & I couldn’t sleep - I was so freaked out about this.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Agree! Writer Stephen King called "The Caterpillar" the most frightening TV episode ever produced.

  • @canuck_gamer3359
    @canuck_gamer3359Ай бұрын

    Robert Clary was a fine gentleman and would not have said a bad word about anyone, especially anyone who has passed away. It's an old world quality of integrity and good manners and I admire it very much. And the episode he is speaking about, in which he was supposed to leave the camp and join the Free French forces with the help of a woman was a different one from the still images you showed.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachine14 күн бұрын

    Agreed. He was certainly a gentleman when I interviewed him, and also spoke at length about his horrendous experience growing up in a concentration camp during World War II, which I'll be sharing on my channel in the near future.

  • @sdovas
    @sdovasАй бұрын

    ...and then there's that fine Chekhov's moment in "Wrath of Khan," where he moans "Kyepteen, dey poot deez tiny KRITCHOORSZ een our EARS!" Episilode director Szwarc still has to overcome the reputational hit for BUG, however, despite being based on a fine novel & produced by schlockmeister supreme Wm. Castle.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    At the time, some of the Night Gallery crew thought that Jeannot Szwarc was a better director than Steven Spielberg. Szwarc did not have very good luck when it came to feature film opportunities: "Bug," "Jaws 2," "Supergirl". His finest work as a film director was the 1980 time travel fantasy, "Somewhere in Time."

  • @sdovas
    @sdovasАй бұрын

    @@thetvtimemachine ...and I'd agree! Although we must admit his TV work easily surpasses his work in pictures. (Tho' surreal horror cinema must put the housewife in the giant wig bursting into flames in BUG up into the decalogue of "weird shit" cinema

  • @vanhouten64
    @vanhouten64Ай бұрын

    7:34 there are my two favorites: 'Spectre in Tap Shoes' (far left) and 'You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore' (third from left)

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Both of those paintings were also produced as posters by Universal Studios in the early 1970's.

  • @cynthiafrank5638
    @cynthiafrank5638Ай бұрын

    Astin is doing JFK early on.

  • @richardranke3158
    @richardranke3158Ай бұрын

    Emmaline Henry was a great singer as well as a lovely woman.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Totally agree. Emmaline was well-loved by the cast and everyone was heartbroken when she died at such a young age (50 years-old).

  • @kt9166
    @kt9166Ай бұрын

    Thank you, again! Are you planning on uploading Hotel Fenster (episode 32), The Bet (episode 23), and Harry, the Contractor (episode 26)? Haven't seen those three yet!

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    They'll be coming soon--"The Bet" has already been posted. :-)

  • @billr3053
    @billr3053Ай бұрын

    Maybe it was just me, but I would often struggle to find any connection between the painting shown and the episode’s contents.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Night Gallery artist Tom Wright was careful to include visual elements of the stories in his paintings, but not too much to create spoilers. However, a painting like "The Late Mr. Peddington," depicting a dead man splattered on a concrete sidewalk, was one of his more literal, and direct, tie-in to the upcoming story.

  • @brianweiner2406
    @brianweiner2406Ай бұрын

    That Dick didn't feel good about being a bad guy makes being a Columbo Villain even better. The show had a lot of sympathetic villains mainly because the victims were mostly really unlikable and putting the screws to the soon-to-be killer

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Totally agree, great points!

  • @TheDecimusic
    @TheDecimusicАй бұрын

    i love vikings! especially thorvi and helga, his daughters

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Vikings is fantastic!

  • @seank.9764
    @seank.9764Ай бұрын

    Excellent documentary! I was six when the show premiered and actually recall that third season Sunday night time slot. We always watched the NBC mystery movie as a family with that awesome Mancini score! NG came on and I was promptly sent to bed, but I do recall seeing some of those episodes when I was little. Particularly: I’ll Never Leave You…Ever (great title still makes me chuckle), The Waiting Room, The Other Way Out and Midnight Never Ends just to name a few. Indelible images on a young mind. It’s maddening, but not surprising, to hear how NBC messed with Serling and ultimately destroyed his show. Especially confounding is the fact that the ratings were still viable and the show could have continued. To think of the possibilities…what could have been. But of course when you consider that final episode, with the laughable gorilla suit, maybe we dodged a bullet!

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Night Gallery producer Jack Laird said that he had enough stories for the show to run 5-7 seasons. Additionally, Rod Serling wrote close to twenty scripts for Night Gallery that were never produced, that contained some of his best work. Your story is not unusual, as Night Gallery's biggest demographic was young people, under the age of 18. Parents would sometimes allow their kids to stay up past 10 PM when Night Gallery was on Wednesday nights, but not on Sunday nights, the day prior to the start of a new school week. That was another reason why the ratings plummeted in the show's third and final season.

  • @echolepsy
    @echolepsyАй бұрын

    Lee Grant is brilliant and wonderful in everything she does. And she is my favorite Columbo villain of all time!❤❤❤

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Totally agree! Lee Grant and Peter Falk had amazing chemistry together. No wonder that Lee Grant was nominated for an Emmy for her Columbo role!

  • @kt9166
    @kt91662 ай бұрын

    Thank you again for posting these! The theme music is now forever bouncing around in my head!

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    You're very welcome!

  • @sherryhannah498
    @sherryhannah4982 ай бұрын

    I hope y'all will reply to this this was 7 months before President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas....also Marty Ingels was married to Shirley Jones who was in the film Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster she won an Oscar and starred in the '70s musical sitcom The Partridge Family on ABC

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Marty Ingels was also Shirley Jones' agent and manager during the course of their marriage.

  • @steventhorson4487
    @steventhorson44872 ай бұрын

  • @anitarichmond8930
    @anitarichmond89302 ай бұрын

    I used to watch this when I was a kid late at night and even the opening theme is spooky.🖼️

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    Composed by the innovative, maverick musician, Gil Melle'.

  • @MarceloSilva_abr80
    @MarceloSilva_abr802 ай бұрын

    Mumbly's car inspirarion.

  • @biaggiwins
    @biaggiwins2 ай бұрын

    Its a shame they tore down enchanted hill.

  • @thetvtimemachine
    @thetvtimemachineАй бұрын

    A tragedy. Especially since to this day, nothing has been built to replace Enchanted Hill--it's still a baren, vacant lot.