I live in Vegas! That area was the edge of town back then!!

Healthier life than being attached to the Internet/Computer like so many children/teenagers these days; I grew up in our back garden with nature and fresh air and/or went on our bikes to visit the ponies in a field, Chris and I, and didn't come in until 8pm in the Summertime (in Lancashire).

Colleen Urban every kid wanted to be Sgt Saunders we all had a Mattel Tommy Gun.

I hear you just like you, I smile every time, I watch nostalgic videos. The short happiness, is worth it. Then the true, reality sets in. Peace and love brothers 🤗☺😁😀👍.

Jane was hot!!!

The series was originally aired on Sunday nights, which is when I watched it with my parents.

David Pinegar of course I remember Jack Elam!

@@QueenVelveeta Jack...a face made for...

Yes they were a way of brainwashing the public and especially children (me) into volunteering for garbage like Vietnam. And supporting the crimes of our government that continue today.

@@TruAnRksT not many men volunteered for Vietnam because we still had the draft.

Somebody lost their childhood innocence a long time ago but I hear yah that the beauty of growing up with pop culture you grow up together sometimes hard ( vietnam,watergate) sometimes easy where you literally are back there in the past not the good or bad days just a little thing called life what choice did we have we lived it now we remember it.

Hisanori Tsukada When In Japan in 1989 I couldn't sleep because if jet lag so I turned the tv on in the early morning and you know what the first thing I watched was I Love Lucy (the funny candy assembly line one) and a great Superman episode (gangsters hire a scientist try to kill Superman by intense electricity).

I’m a zoomer

U R Correct Eric, the original opening had Irene Ryan in her first season Granny makeup sans her glasses....and as the truck pulled away from the cabin,you would see a little fawn left in front........Good Eyes!!!

Eh... good yes... sad, pathetic eyes. It's all how you look at it.

Plus combat is from season 2 with Lee Marvin still nice to hear then see combat to open the video.

Interestingly, "The Gallant Men" was produced by Warner Bros. Television, which also produced "Cheyenne".

They title sequenced alternate Morrow or Jason(who was more featured that episode)

Yes itscfrom the bridge at chiron but still nice to see combat open the memories.yah and a silly yet valid question did it all really happen yes it did no it didn't not until it was over sometimes you can live life on the installment plan.

Did you save Green Stamps, as well?

Audrey moghdam .. still entertaining. .

Jannz ... it was great because you could be sharing it with your pets.

It was my favorite hot cereal. It kind of looked like it had dead ants in it.

Purina is also the company that brought us "Jack in the Box"

Purina is just part of Ralston, who made cereals into the 80s. They did a bunch of cereals based on cartoon and videogame characters. They made the Nintendo Cereal System.

Ralston - Purina was a merger of two companies with one thing in common: Grains and Cereals that were processed for food. Purina made grain based 'Chow' (Cat Chow / Dog Chow / Rabbit Chow / Horse Chow / Etc.) for animals and Ralston made Grain and Cereal products for people (CHEX and other Cereals), the merger was good for both companies as it gave them greater buying power and helped them stay competitive in the market.

Blue Chip stamps were more valuable.

I wasn't born yet but I did obsess over the show when it was in syndication.

network programming, back in those days, began at 7:30, with 'Combat' leading off Tuesday Nights at 7:30 through 1967......

That shower curtain rocks!

Yeah, it’s amazing that such sophisticated content was commercially viable back then. Even Ed Sullivan often had Broadway stars recreate a scene from their current hit shows, or have Itzhak Perlman on to play a serious violin piece. Shows you just how dumbed-down this great nation has become.

I imagine that those Veterans hitting Middle Age getting hit with Nostalgia, as well as their first Wave Baby Boomers sneaking up on the end of High School, made it a two fold target (3? of those 5 being Comedies likely wasn't a mistake either)

Don't forget the Korean war.

The Longest Day had just been a huge hit in movie theaters. TV always followed the trend.

'Combat' only had one color season: its last - 1966-67......

I think this was the Baby Boomer kid mantra. Or when are going to get a color television?

What wasn't widely known then was the television had to be precisely calibrated to get a consistent color picture. Most stores at the time either didn't know or didn't care, as a result the set for sale would have a ghastly image. So many shoppers came back from a store thinking color hadn't been perfected yet. By the seventies sets were pretty much self calibrating.

Who could afford it?

Same here, April

Same here June

@@joeford860 Same here. August

Jeffrey Jones ... that smile of hers is contagious. .💞

Beauty

I had a huge crush on The Virginian

The FCC permits more commercial time per hour of programming. Why run a 45 second intro when you can sell that time to a sponsor? As of 2019, they’re allowed to run 8 minutes of spots per “half hour” of program content. Your typical 30 minute show is now just 22 minutes. Yeah, *the FCC is definitely looking out for the consumer.*

I did, but after being visible for years it suddenly got blocked for some lame supposed copyright infringement reason,. It would've been a waste of time to fight it in this case, although usually a blocked view can become unblocked. But the full ABC prime-time lineup in fall '61 is still viewable - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m52mnMVk1qzcmIk.html

It was after Jack's run on Tonight.

One and the same! Jackie chose Johnny Olson to be his announcer in New York- and later, in Miami Beach- during his 1962-'70 variety series.

Richard Lawson the Hayes code once insisted a prison drama remove a toilet prop from a cell. I guess prisoners never had a need for one even if locked in a cell for the majority of 24 hours a day. My parents loved the Jack Paar show. He was their favorite.

They couldn't say pregnant and even married thry slept in twin beds,LOL

Paar wasn't fired- he left NBC in protest for their censoring his "water closet" joke in February 1960. He returned in triumph a month later {"As I was saying before I was interrupted.......'There must be a better way to make a living than this.' Well, I've looked-- and there isn't."}.

57Banjoman - Not in our house 😉. Actually, I think I heard that The Jetsons was the first show broadcast in color, in limited areas, on ABC.

Only rich people had color sets back then.

There was no colour TV in 1962. A later presentation.

@@clifftaylor6864 I beg to differ, the first consumer color sets were offered to the public for christmas purchase in 1953. Daily field tests by CBS were started in 1941. My family didn't get one until the early 1970's I was already in the military by then. I remember my mother in the early 60's watching the reflection of our set in the window glass coated with her cigarette smoke, it created sort of a rainbow effect and she commented "it's just like having a color set" LOL

@@TruAnRksT We had our first Magnavox color TV in 1965. It was downstairs in a basement room. Our regular black and white TV in a console along with a radio and record player was a Zenith 1948 model with a round picture tube. That Zenith I was very fond of and remember replacing the tubes with dear old dad taking us to the grocery store to check them out on the tube tester machine.

Right - like limitless funds for the military, subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, bought-and-paid-for legislation benefitting corporations and financial institutions, and tax breaks for the shiftless, mooching wealthy.

The world of the Jetsons probably came about as a result of environmental destruction.

You have something against fossil fuels with the way these electric cars are behaving?@@TheRealLaughingGravy

Me TV shows a few of them.

Critically raised, short lived, show starring Nick Adams as an intrepid investigative reporter in New York City. There were a a number of famous guest stars, including Paul Muni and Irene Dunne.

That's no excuse. You should have found a way.

of course of course

Randall Sage 1962, and it was the smash hit of the season, even beating The Lucy Show in the ratings.

So true. Propaganda can be comedy or anything you want it to be.

WW2 had only been over 17 years, and many in the audience still had it fresh on their minds. Vietnam was still just a French colonial issue.

Forcemaster2000 When you right that I think of shows like Hogan''s Heroes where several of the actors actually fought in WW II and a few even were in prison camps during the war.

Quite right Andrew. The war shows of 1962 had ZERO to do with Vietnam and EVERYTHING to do with World War II. Vietnam was barely a part of American awareness in the autumn of '62. Only in '64-65 did a lot of Americans start thinking about Vietnam, and only in '66-'67 did people start worrying about it.

I have to agree with Andrew and B.Frost. I was about to turn 13 in the fall of 1962. Vietnam was not on the radar as far as TV and conversation. Only later did TV series attempt to bring VN into their scripts. I think the first I really remember was Julia, starring Diahann Carroll. She played a widow whose husband was killed in VN. That premiered in 1968. Then of course the Smothers Brothers and shows like Laugh In started talking about the war. In 1962, when people talked about "the war" it was almost certainly WWII they were talking about.

How can the future be old?

ryan barker Replace the Scotch with Bourbon, And I'd go back right now.

You mean the phony _Mad Men_ version of the early sixties.

I think several of these shows were cancelled pretty fast ..