You know America was a much more rural nation in 1956 when there's a commercial for livestock feed on prime time television.
@ktkat1949
4 жыл бұрын
Look at little Brenda Lee. She sure grew up to have a great singing career. Jackie Gleason's theme music was called Melancholy Serenade and and he wrote it. I always liked it. Larry Storch of who very few of you would recognize was best friends with Tony Curtis. Any movie or TV show that Tony was in, Larry Storch always had a role. Tony never forgot his friends. You might know him as Corporal Agar in F Troop.
@allenjones3130
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for including the old logos for the ABC network.
@TheRealLaughingGravy
6 жыл бұрын
Nothing better represents 1950's television than those dancing packs of "Old Golds."
@richardlawson4317
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Get your cancer from US! I do remember that ad.
@auapplemac1976
3 жыл бұрын
At one time Mary Tyler Moore was one of those dancing cigarette packs.
@pierremaury4137
2 жыл бұрын
@@auapplemac1976 I Didn't Know That!!☺️👏👏👏
@clevlandblock
4 жыл бұрын
I was 5 then. While watching the George Gobel segment...I heard my late dad talking to me.
@Rodin99
4 жыл бұрын
From 1956 I remember the swarming mice cartoons with no dialog, Crusader Rabbit, The Today show with the chimp and the Bob Crosby show.. And Howdy Doody. And the Micky Mouse Club.
@Celluloidwatcher
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading memories from Spring, 1956. Whether one was around at that time or came afterwards, it's always fun to learn or remember programs that were prevalent on the airwaves. Nostalgia is such joy.
@lwc2009
5 жыл бұрын
"Beat The Clock"... the forerunner to the Gong Show... loved it!!
@r.crompton2286
4 жыл бұрын
"Lucky Strike, LSMFT" How many who are watching this remember what these letters stood for?
@kathybringman2573
4 жыл бұрын
Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.
@elleryeggen9678
3 жыл бұрын
The sponsor of the Jack Benny show for years!
@gcfifthgear
Жыл бұрын
And, when Lucky Strike Filters were introduced in 1964, the letters became "Lucky Strike Means Flavor Tip."
@barbaraedgley2634
4 ай бұрын
Lucky Strike means fine tobacco
@bloodgrss
Жыл бұрын
We forget that, wonderful actor as he was, George Sanders was also a very good baritone.
@stevestearns2241
5 жыл бұрын
SATURDAY NIGHT 1956, big night at my Parents house. A House fall of friends. Card games. My mother would put ME in front of the old CAPEHART TV.
@jamesmiller4184
4 жыл бұрын
Yep! Canasta?
@annek1226
4 жыл бұрын
Does anyone remember the afternoon program Queen For A Day? Where they would take some random woman and make all her dreams come true and we all sat and cried!
@calico7258
4 жыл бұрын
I do! I think the host's name was Jack Bailey. One time my mother's coworker called in sick that day, but mother later saw that same coworker in the audience of Queen For A Day, haha! She was busted! The women were so grateful to get a prize of something that we just take for granted nowadays.
@barbaraedgley2634
4 ай бұрын
I remember Queen for a Day. Several women would tell their hardlyck stories & 1 lucky lady got rewarded with new appliances. Kind of humiliating
@steven2212
4 жыл бұрын
You do a great 👍job putting these together. Thank you
@thunderball6908
3 жыл бұрын
That Buick at 6:04. It’s mindblowing to think Americans were driving around in works of art like that in the 50s.
@spmoran4703
Жыл бұрын
I have never ever seen these programme . So I find them interesting . I love the Bluegrass at the beggining .
@theoldar
8 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most charming of the whole series that you have posted.
@TheAnubis57
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this wonderful compilation. One thing I noticed is that there were no "Saturday night at movies" type of programming on any of the networks. Only original programming like variety shows, game shows, etc. Of course there is Sunday and weekday when movies shown at night I guess.
@AliasUndercover
5 жыл бұрын
It cracks me up how much they loved cowboy stuff back then.
@richardlawson4317
5 жыл бұрын
I hated every one of those shows.
@joeschizoid7762
4 жыл бұрын
There were so many Westerns in those days because they were cheap and easy to produce. They didn't require huge casts, the sets were cheap and there were lots of nearby sites for "location" footage.
@RSEFX
5 жыл бұрын
Herb Shriner was a kind of early version of Conan O'Brien. Some of his stuff (like his bizarre "home" movies) are still hilarious. Surreal and very off-beat, understated humor. Too bad there are not clips here of his actual performance. ;-)
@richarddowney1972
4 жыл бұрын
Also something of Will Rogers about him.
@lp-xl9ld
4 жыл бұрын
Am I the only person who finds irony in the fact that a show about a guy who brives a dus--sorry, drives a bus--was sponsored by a car company?
@gcfifthgear
Жыл бұрын
Imagine watching a horse selling horsepower...:Mr. Ed, the talking horse, was sponsored by Studebaker!
@Diskoboy1974
4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't the DuMont Network still on the air at this point?
@RwDt09
4 жыл бұрын
It had begun to shut down most of its operations a year earlier but continued to air just a handful of shows on stations that would carry them till the end of summer 1955. Then, only Monday Night Boxing continued into the 1955-56 season.
@ferociousgumby
8 жыл бұрын
Shirley Jones must be a time traveller. She's still around.
@districtline
5 жыл бұрын
I'm livin' for that Grand Ole Opry "Purina Chows" commercial
@superchitownhustler
5 жыл бұрын
Mary Tyler Moore in the center old gold pack.
@davidfyre2963
7 жыл бұрын
WRCB Philadelphia. The Sister Station to WRC Channel 4 in Washington, DC. It is still an NBC Affiliate Station.
@rjmcallister1888
5 жыл бұрын
WRCV, under NBC ownership. Swapped with Westinghouse's KYW for nine years, courts ordered them to swap back. KYW came back from Cleveland, NBC went back to Cleveland as WKYC. KYW/WRCV affiliated with NBC until 1995, then CBS bought KYW and sold WCAU to NBC.
@gcfifthgear
Жыл бұрын
9:52 Janis Paige of "It's Always Jan" celebrates her 100th birthday today (September 16, 1922)!
@davehire1433
Жыл бұрын
“Stage Show” was the first network TV show to feature Elvis, over 6 months before Steve Allen or Ed Sullivan.
@StevenTorrey
8 жыл бұрын
"...but mostly I Remember Mama!"
@robmclean4352
5 жыл бұрын
4:55 - $53,000 in 1956 equals nearly a half-million dollars today!
@user-vr6xm8lm1o
Жыл бұрын
At 17:27, The Jimmy Durante Show mentions Eddie Jackson, because Jimmy was part of a vaudeville act called Clayton, Jackson, and Durante, but Lou Clayton died some time ago ...
@rjmcallister1888
5 жыл бұрын
Mike Wallace moonlighting, eh? The "Ozarks Jubilee" was produced for ABC by then-dual ABC/NBC affiliate KYTV in Springfield, Mo, in association with Radiozark Enterprises and ABC radio affiliate KWTO. It grew out of the "Korn's-a-Krackin" radio show from Springfield, which used to run on KWTO and Mutual. ABC television wouldn't get it's own affiliate there until 1968. And this was the first season without the defunct DuMont Network; "The Honeymooners" was picked up by CBS, starting a deal with Jackie Gleason which ran for more than a decade.
@james5460
3 жыл бұрын
Geez, did they have enough Bromo Seltzer signs on that set or what?
@WSenator1
4 жыл бұрын
Note "Damon Runyon Theater" at 11:35 - Barbara Hale, the year before she became Della Street in "Perry Mason"
@TheAnubis57
3 жыл бұрын
Good Lord, thanks for pointing it out. Believe or not I've watching this compilation as a ritual for 3 years now every Saturday afternoon at 5 PM and for some reason I didn't notice it.
@fromthesidelines
5 жыл бұрын
6:28- "THE NESTLE COMPANY! Makers of Nestle's Quik, Nestle's Crunch, and Instant Nescafe! 'Nestle's makes the VERY BEST chocolate', and who now bring you-------------"
@codychristopher3744
3 жыл бұрын
That was Jackie Gleason's and The Dorsey Brother's Stage Show Sponsors for The Fall of 1955 to The Spring and Summer of 1956
@richardwhite6693
5 жыл бұрын
Gunsmoke was the best show because Matt was the best actor in all these flaky shows.
@lloydmckay3241
5 жыл бұрын
Your'e toasted with Lucky Strike. I think Winstons are the best.
@kingbee1500
7 жыл бұрын
ABC's "Chance of A Lifetime..." with your host, just escaped from DuMont...Dennis James!!
@lp-xl9ld
4 жыл бұрын
Likewise, on NBC, THE BIG SURPRISE, with your host who...got loose from CBS? Wasn't with CBS yet?...Mike Wallace!
@elleryeggen9678
3 жыл бұрын
My mom was 14. The only family on the block to have t.v.
@sarjim4381
6 жыл бұрын
I was 10 years old at the time. I hated all that musical crap, but I was always right in front of the TV for Gene Autry and Gunsmoke.
@chrisn7259
5 жыл бұрын
I was 9 years old and I hated all that western crap.
@jamesmiller4184
4 жыл бұрын
@@chrisn7259 I was eleven at the time and I was with . . . Sar Jim and Chris N!!! That said, way-earlier I did dig Guy Madison & Andy Devine in "Wild Bill Hickok." (Madison handled being 'in the closet' very well. Very few knew.) . : .
@texaspchcmonkeespodcast4586
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds a lot like Mae Questal...aka...Olive Oyl on the Bromo commercial.
@kensims4086
5 жыл бұрын
But why would we be watching a Lawrence Welk Christmas special in the springtime? Was it the first rerun?
@richardgraham5051
11 ай бұрын
Television signals travel at the speed of light. Somewhere, seventy-five lights years from here, an advanced civilization is monitoring our broadcasts. They are thinking "People of Earth sure smoke a lot of cigarettes."
@stephengroce7674
7 жыл бұрын
had just been conceived!
@Cambria399
7 жыл бұрын
Me? Just a twinkle in the milkman's eye
@benlee913
5 жыл бұрын
You don't know that you weren't there🤨
@davesmith8877
8 жыл бұрын
Errol Flynn looked really sick
@FutureGirl2033
8 жыл бұрын
I think he looked okay.
@RayPointerChannel
5 жыл бұрын
All of that "fast living" was catching up to him. He was to pass away in three years.
@kevink973
3 жыл бұрын
Only 47 years old.
@coolaunt516
2 жыл бұрын
I thought the same. Life in the fast lane was catching up to him.
@DavidSmith-uw2cs
3 жыл бұрын
I see no station IDs. Which stations are these from? I'm guessing not in New York City because there are no shows from DuMont network.
@RwDt09
3 жыл бұрын
DuMont pretty much faded out as a network before the fall of 1955, airing only Monday Night Boxing in prime-time after that and till summer's end 1956 for stations that would still carry it. The intros are from series aired on ABC, CBS and NBC. There are few surviving prints of DuMont shows.
@DavidSmith-uw2cs
3 жыл бұрын
@@RwDt09 "The intros are from series aired on ABC, CBS and NBC." Did you record these yourself or did they come from some archive? My interest is to see the station IDs. Is that even possible as far as you know?
@RwDt09
3 жыл бұрын
@@DavidSmith-uw2cs Most of the intros are from other uploaders on KZitem. If you're looking for just station ID videos, typing 'TV station ID' into the KZitem search window would turn up a number of videos with station ID collections.
@tristanbaravraham6349
4 жыл бұрын
Art Linkletter was lame even then.
@richardspeziale
5 жыл бұрын
05:36 orig
@orgami100
5 жыл бұрын
There was nothing worth watching until the Kardashians came along
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