Raise your hands if you would rather watch tv shows from 50+ years ago than what's out there today....

The greatest time of all in television and every show I see here I get tears in my eyes! This world has changed so drastically since the 1980s its just horrible !!!!!

Flipper, Lassie and Gentle Ben were some of my favourite shows of all time.

Brings back fond memories of watching TV with my Mom and Dad when was I was young.

I was 10. My dad was the remote, we did not have a color television and weren't allowed to watch much tv. Especially " hippie" shows, I think parents meant dancing and singing. Ed Sullivan was the exception. I went next door in the summer to watch reruns. RIP mom and dad. You did the best you could.✌🏻💜💐

My dad controlled the tv when he was home (and there was only one). There was no consensus ever taken about what anyone else wanted to watch. He had three type shows he'd watch and nothing else. Westerns, war and cop shows. A few of those shows were okay but I liked comedy a lot. I'd only ever get to see those type of shows if he wasn't home or if I went to a friends house. I love looking back at TV from this era and am glad that a lot of it is becoming public domain now so they're easy to find.

I’m obsessed now with your channel@FredFlix!!!! Thank you so much for putting these together !!! I’m hooked !!! 👌💥💥💥💥😉

I had no idea the original ratings for I Dream of Jeannie were so low. My mum and I loved it, and we often had dinner in the family room to watch it when it re-ran on our local station Tuesday evenings. We also loved Bewitched, My Three Sons, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Nanny and the Professor, and so many more from that time or shortly after. I miss those shows that were fun for the whole family!

I really appreciate you presenting this. I was 11 years old in 1965. I can remember all of them with the exception of The Loner. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

A true blast from the past!-Thanks for posting.

I love watching The King Family on here. I have no memories whatsoever of this but I seen it a few years ago on Get TV and had no idea that Tina Cole from My Three Sons was one of the daughters of these talented women.

Love to watch many of these shows and great stars like Jackie Gleason and presented by Geritol is Lawrence Welk and Get Smart was cool but the promos were nice to watch again when products were made in the USA. Gunsmoke ended its longtime producer and writer and went to color . To me the old B/W episodes were the best since after the show was like any other Western on TV except The Wild wild West .Thanks Fred .🥂

Thanks for posting this Fred I remember every one of these shows

Much better TV on in those days That's why I watch the reruns mostly all the time 😃 Thanks Fred good memories here 😃👍

One thing that is amazing with these old commercials is: This was in the days when America made televisions!!...if you can believe that...and cars too! We don't have the ability to make things like that anymore.

OK...I loved that Gleason show clip. The rest of this is so cool to see. I was a wee tyke at this time. But man, this stuff makes me smile. Thank you.

I have forgotten about Netflix now with all these good memories. Almost too much to bare, though, because we can't go back!

Lots of work gone into these posts, thanks I really enjoy them.Time travel is possible ( kinda )

February 1965...it's Saturday night and I'm watching the Hollywood Palace. At 14 years old, I wasn't a big fan of this show...but this Saturday night, the guest host was Groucho Marx. My dad loved the Marx Brothers and, as a result, I grew up loving them too. On this particular night, Groucho's extra special guest was Margaret Dumont...the famous comedic foil in most Marx Brother's movies. Over many years, she had proven herself a good sport while enduring countless insults and pranks from Groucho and his brothers. She and Groucho had a wonderful time running through some bits from the old movies...I enjoyed it greatly. It wasn't until 40+ years later, that I learned Ms. Dumont passed away less than a week after that show. I further learned (via the internet) that Groucho was heartbroken upon learning the news. Summer 1977 saw Elvis and Groucho pass within days of each other...a difficult week for most. Several years ago, my daughter gave me a boxed set of all 13 Marx Brothers movies...needles to say, I've rediscovered my childhood love for Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and Margaret as well.

Fantastic job as usual Fred! We expect more greatness of course. (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it Fred.)

Found myself chuckling thru the whole video!! Your sense of humor combined with vast knowledge of everything ever aired on TV made my night!!!

You must add The Manitou to your list of children of The Stone Tapes. We at Labor are very pleased that you posted this Kneale ghost story. I think John Carpenter ego may have gotten in the way of what, I’m sure, was an innovation to his Halloween series. I say this because this author was a visionary. Cheers to the Management for another creepy entry.

the only show I don't remember is The Loner, and now I have the Flipper theme song stuck in my head

According to The Lennon Sisters, The Lawrence Welk Show moved to another studio that year, which was also they were in color. In one of the shows on PBS, they interviewed Diane, known as Dee Dee Lennon and she said that both she and Peggy were pregnant at the same time and they had to climb a lot of stairs. In their dressing room, they had a sign that read "The Stork Room, with pictures of storks on the walls. Peggy had a son and Diane had a daughter. Diane's first daughter Mary was adopted because she thought she couldn't have any children. She had left Lawrence Welk earlier, but right after she and her husband got Mary, she got pregnant with the baby,and Mary's adoption was supposed to be final, that he lost his job and they thought that Mary would be taken away. So she went to Lawrence and told him what happened and Lawrence weclomed her back.

I'm addicted to these. I'm thinking Gunsmoke, The Lucy Show, WERE on Mondays. I remember watching TV with my mom, and sisters. Dad was usually on the road trucking.

I was 6 in 1966, I loved Batman, get smart, dark shadows, voyage to the bottom of the sea, so many great shows then and in the coming years.

I love this!!!! Thank you for posting this! We hope you post more.

Oh Man. Flipper was another one this boy's favorite if there ever was one out of a ton of others. Great show! And that Singer commercial? Our house had one and mom would spend so much spare time on that sewing machine. She like other mom's were really good with it. Can't shake that weird question she would ask me often times. "Would you come in here a minute and help me with this bobbin?" Oh my goodness what a time of this and that's. Another super effort very much appreciated FredFlix. And talking about being cooped up, I bet that's exactly how most of us )baby boomers) feel these days with all the junk produced with plastic (Yuck) and so much acceptance from the "other" generation who hasn't a clue what and the way life really was meant to be or any of the freedoms that period made possible.

When I was little, my late dad used to love Jackie Gleason. I remember seeing him watch this show. Remember the episode of The Flintstones when their version of Shindig was on? And the man Jimmy ONeal too.I think I watched Flipper. The newspaper article was wrong. The first year of I Dream Of Jeannie was in Black & White. Because NBC thought it wouldn't last. I read in Barbara Eden's book that Sidney Sheldon himself was going to use his own money to put the show in Color, but NBC said no.

That was excellent. It brought back many good memories!

Thank You For The Great Nostalgia! 👏👍 And May All Those Actors and Actresses Who Have Since Passed, ❤ 😓, R I P. 😇

I don't smoke but it IS great to see these old cigar and cigarette spots!

My goodness FredFlix, do you work at the UCLA Film Library or something? This clips you come up with are extraordinary.

Thanks buddy, I love this stuff!

"THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" continued to be produced and telecast in black and white during the 1965-'66 season. It was finally taped in color, beginning in the fall of 1966.

Ah yes! When TV was worth watching! Nowadays. It's nothing but junk@

I would only have one wish for Jeannie.

The Hollywood Palace had replaced the ill- fated Jerry Lewis Show in January of 1964. The show ran for 7 seasons mostly Saturdays at 9:30 Eastern.

Where do you get these from? Amazing!

We got cable and color TV in 1968. Until then we only had an NBC station locally. I remember wishing I could watch some of these shows. I was 8.

Valuable collection Memories

Cigar boxes . Needed them for school. Pencil boxes. My father always found me one.

I miss being able to smoke. Just another part of what is gone .

That would have been a great episode to watch of The Hollywood palace!

Man you never disappoint us.

5 Dutch Master cigars for only 45 cents. A dollar went a long way back in 1965.

1966 was the greatest year for TV in the history of the medium.......Tina Louise AND Barbara Eden..... Star Trek and Batman..... Gleason and Sullivan...... Wow.

JUST GREATTTTTTTTTTT

Of note I Dream of Jeannie was "buried " on Saturday because NBC had no faith in the series. It was NBC'S last scripted series to air in B&W. Ironically the combination of Flipper and Jeannie proved very difficult for The Jackie Gleason Show(American Scene Magazine). It was a tight race all season. Flipper. Jeannie and Get Smart were 3 of the biggest surprises that season. NBC Saturday Night at the Movies also had a very strong season

Great job as always !!!

Oh damn, I got find that old Peter Falk show, never heard of or saw any of those cause Columbo was my favorite

Thank you!

Unusual to see Gleason playing Ralph Kramden in COLOR! Donna Loren, one of my favorite singers, was a regular on "Shindig". The reason ABC brought back the "King Family Show" was because the network needed a replacement for the ill-fated comedy/variety series "Turn-On", which had gotten cancelled after just one episode.

I liked Flipper,and Lost in Space. I always wondered what it would be like to grow up with a dolphin,and live in space one or two of my dreams,back then

Probably the biggest indignity here was the untimely demise of ABC's "THE OUTER LIMITS",that was killed-off (ratings' wise) by "THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW" on CBS,and replaced by "THE KING FAMILY" variety series,that ran on ABC likely until 1969,but i could be wrong and subject to correction,but in either case,ABC's inept canceling of "THE OUTER LIMITS" was unforgivable! ABC ironically even entertained the bizarre idea of picking-up CBS's "TWILIGHT ZONE" for a sixth season,but thankfully that idea never happed!

I forgot all about shindig!!

Noticing a rise of couples and family sitcoms on this era of american tv. Variety shows reinventing themselves too

I remember when the TV guide that came in the Sunday (Rocky Mountain news) paper used to tell you when the show was in color. Then over time it would say the show was b&w.

nother winner, Fred. I eager The Loner is one of the series Rod Sterling is LEAST remembered for. Think Twilight Zone pretty well typed him from there on out, though he did good work in other genres.

What an amazing voice Ted Cassidy had.

At 5:27 notice that Tony Nelson lives down the street from Sam & Darrin Stephens. ;)

"THE DONNA REED SHOW" moved to 8pm(et) on Saturdays in January 1966 {"THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET" were seen at 7:30}.

How many people remember "The Hollywood Palace"? (8:58) Very few I'll bet, but I do as a regular viewer of that variety show!

Remember The Flintstones episode where they watched Shinrock with Jimmy O Nealrock. Fred got to go on it because he hurt his foot and screamed and jumped up and down and started a dance craze, The Frantic?

3 channels packed with quality. Hard to chose between the shows. I never heard of The Loner by Rod Serling. Interesting. I notice at the end credits it's Interlaken Productions. That's a place in the Finger Lakes < NY. Serling was from Binghamton and ultimately lived in Ithaca NY. Many references to upstate NY in his work.

13:55- "'Come to where the flavor is......come to MARLBORO COUNTRY!' MARLBORO cigaretttes........"/"...has brought you 'THE LONER'!"

Gosh I wish they had theme songs again

Gleason wasn't in color in the 1965-'66 season (which was still "publishing" its 'AMERICAN SCENE MAGAZINE'). Thanks for the introduction, anyway.

5:12 The voice of the great Paul Frees.

The best show on TV 65 66 Flipper by far!

It's interesting to note that photo with Barbara Eden with Groucho Marx for "I Dream Of Jeannie" that Barton MacLane (General Martin Peterson) was a lifeguard in the Marx Brothers' first feature film ("The Coconuts").

My first experience with TV must have been when I was about 2 1/2 . All I remember about it was I wandered into my parents bedroom and some scruffy cowboy pointed a gun at me. I ran out of the room, and forgot to ask for my Cheerios.

Jackie Gleason's show wasn't in color until 1966, but it would be hard to find any 1965 Jackie Gleason Show footage. I do remember briefly in the 1980s a Boston Indy station was carrying 1/2 hour reruns of his show, similar to Carol Burnett's 1/2 hour edited version of her show, but I don't think it lasted long. I still remember hearing a reference on that show to "American Scene Magazine", which is what it was called around 1962.

Whoa, they forgot to credit the best thing about Flipper in the '65-'66 season: Ulla Stromstedt.

U would made my mum Happy..

What about Saturday late night...One Step Beyond or an old Italian movie?!

I have TV guides from the 1965-66 season. It was not in color yet that season, though it would be the following year, along with all other prime time shows.

How about looking at it this way... TV back then was building the vocabulary of narrative and visual gestures and devices which is the basis for how we watch stories now. Some of it was naively charming, some of it bland and empty, some of it shockingly tone deaf, and some small part of it was brilliant for any era. Personally, I don't see how that proportion has changed much. Some TV is brilliant, most of it ranges from derivative to appalling. The form has become more complex over time, but the percentages are about the same.

What a shame CBS' prestige Western, The Loner got crushed by ABC'S Hollywood Palace.

That shaky Gunsmoke opening that you have here was from the 1965-66 season. Season 11 was the show's last in B&W and its first to show any cast members other than James Arness in the opening credits. Gunsmoke would from then after show 2 openings, first the famous opening where Matt Dillon wins a showdown (or rides by on his horse) before the opening scene, and then the opening with the full regular cast after the opening scene.

On The Face Is Familiar June Lockhart is lovely & beautiful, she was one of the prettiest women on TV.

If Larry Hagman had encountered an actual "Ginn", just think how much fun he would have had in the few seconds before he died in some supremely horrific way !!!

You forgot Secret Agent at mid-season!

More great ones!

5:54- "Lackluster"? On the contrary, "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" had equal the ratings--- or *better* - then Jackie Gleason at 8pm(et). NBC was shocked, to say the least......they believed the series was never going to be a ratings success, so they insisted it NOT be filmed in color, despite Sidney Sheldon's objections [he offered to pay for the extra cost for color film out of his own pocket, but was overruled by the network and Screen Gems executive Jerry Hyams, who said, "Sidney, don't throw your money away"]. "JEANNIE" became the LAST black and white prime-time series on NBC's 1965-'66 schedule.

Remember the episode of The Flintstones when they watched Shinrock and Fred invented the dance when he hit his leg and screamed "Yabba Dabba die yi yi yi!"

I'm not so sure our TV reception back then was much better than some of these clips. "We need more tin foil on the wire hanger antenna!"

I loved Lawrence welk back then

Those Dutch Masters guys remind of the Month Python crew.

5:46- Incidentally, NBC objected to Barbara Eden's "cleavage" in the pilot episode, and insisted she wear a less conspicuous form-fitting top for the remainder of the season....and by the way, the series DID have a regular sponsor that season: Liggett & Myers {L&M, Lark, Chesterfield King cigarettes}. It was "participating" advertisers on the alternate weeks Liggett wasn't sustaining the show. And it was filmed in BLACK AND WHITE during season one.

Without vcr's or dvr's how on earth did you guys decide what to watch? There must've been fights aplenty!

Boris Karloff Canadian born and bread

My sisters would've been watching Shindig, I would be watching I dream of Jeannie. My mom the Lawrence Welk show.

Completely forgot about The King Family and The Trials of O'Brien and The Loner and The Face is Familiar.

I wouldn't know if any show was in color since we owned a black and white television.

No messing around when Gunsmoke came on in granddad's house.

The Lurch Dance. My life is now complete.

Who had the deeper voice that week-Lurch or Bill Medley?.tossup?

The clip of Lurch sort of "singing" was actually from Shivaree, not Shindig.

i wasnt even born yet :D