Hy-Oh Silver... Away.....

"The Untouchables" was fantastic.

You can see many of the episodes on Megavideo.

Some great theme songs like Peter Gun and 77 Sunset Strip.
Also, the Steve Allen Show was great but the article didn't mention that, if my old memory serves me here, George Carlin got his start there as the Hippy Dippy Mailman. Anyone else remember that or am I have another senior moment???

Senior moment.

It was the Hippy Dippy Weatherman.

"Tonight's forecast: dark."

The FIFTIES people. The FIFTIES.

77 Sunset Strip, OK.
Peter Gunn, OK.
The Untouchables, just under the wire at 1959.
But not Carlin, sorry. He started in 1960.
There were no hippies in the 50's, just beatniks.

I liked The Lone Ranger, Rin Tin Tin and Captain Video.

"just beatniks."

like the great Maynard G. Krebbs.

Danni is just under the wire at 1959.

I wasn't born yet.

You Asked for It.
Candid Camera.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Sky King.
Bob Cummings.

Gunsmoke.

I liked most of those shows but Dragnet with Jack Webb at #14? You'd have to be pretty damn stoned to enjoy that mind-numbing hokum.

Highway Patrol and the famous 10-4.

The $64,000 question? Wasn't it rigged?

Red Skelton was a frickin' genius.

"Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca"

Pretty seminal stuff there.

Anyone who lived near New Orleans or along the gulf coast will remember this Saturday night staple.

Ernie Kovacs, anyone?

Ernie Kovacs was a fuckin' genius.

Hippy Dippy Mailman. Anyone else remember that or am I have another senior moment???

#3 | Posted by danni

That sounds familiar.

"Dragnet with Jack Webb at #14? You'd have to be pretty damn stoned to enjoy that mind-numbing hokum."

I'm on the train. I'm on the train I'm on the train. I'm on the train.

"He just wanted to get further out, man"

Paladin.

Ed Sullivan.

Bonanza.

The Walt Disney Show(with Walt)

"The Walt Disney Show(with Walt)"

Absolutely.

But the spookiest one; I was seven; Ed Sullivan: 'Bomb Dropping on a City metaphor is Moth Flying Into Flame and extinguishing it.'

I recall it clearly but cannot find a link.

Slam Bang Theatre starring Icky Twerp.

Then of course there was Mr. Peppermint, (Jerry Haynes) who did a local kid's show in Dallas. He used to visit the elementary schools and do his "twist contest" where the winners (everyone) got a peppermint stick.

His son, Gibby, went on to found the Butthole Surfers. LOL

"The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show ran on CBS Television from 1950 through 1958, when Burns at last consented to Allen's retirement. The onset of heart trouble in the early 1950s had left her exhausted from full-time work and she had been anxious to stop but couldn't say no to Burns.

Burns attempted to continue the show (for new sponsor Colgate-Palmolive on NBC), but without Allen to provide the classic Gracie-isms, the show expired after a year."

THOSE were the days!

"THOSE were the days!"

Archie and Edith sang that quite well.

Ok....Archie did.

I loved Edith. She reminded Me of a great Aunt of mine. She was just as batty as Edith and would sing childrens songs to pass the time. We are losing the best of us and that sucks.

Larry

Larry - perhaps the best of us have yet to be born?

Larry - perhaps the best of us have yet to be born?

Posted by nanc at 2009-11-01 11:07 PM | Reply

Nanc I seriously keep hoping and praying but when the next generation comes along I am disappointed and Disheartened. Nobody really under 40 knows a damned thing about TRUE Sacrifice. My Dad does People older usually do. It's not a conservative thing nor is it a Liberal thing. It seems we are getting way too soft with everything. I don't know if we will ever go back to the time when people actually cared about their neighbors and helped them out when needed. I also look around and people have become lazy with regards to EVERYTHING. I am just as much to blame as the rest. I don't know I guess we got too fat too greedy and too lazy over the years. I wished I had the answer for it but I don't.

Larry

Hell My dad for the first 8 or 9 Years of existance never had electricity nor running water. They had a pitcher pump for water in the kitchen that always needed primed in the fridgid mornings. They also had to use an outhouse with the sears and roebuck catelog as shit paper. Either that or the Monkey ward catelouge. I went a week without electricity one time and G-d I about died(Not literally figuratively) I just think maybe we should lose some of our wealth as a Nation and go back to when times were a bit harder. I think this Country would learn a valuable lesson in that. I just do not know Nanc. I really don't.

I guess this is about prime time shows, because there's a whole host of "kiddie shows" not represented:

Howdy Doody
Captain Kangaroo
Romper Room
Punky and Her Pals
and, of course, Soupy Sales!

Yeah, some are (were?) ridiculously schmaltzy/campy, but remember this was all BEFORE Sesame Street.

Meanwhile (coming in just under the wire and with another cool theme tune): Rawhide.

On a tangent for "bad" Westerns:
Wild Bill Hickock and The Cisco Kid

Another one I remember: an obscure show about WWII: Victory At Sea. I'm sure it was in re-runs when I saw it, tho'...

#31 | Posted by TrueBlue

If I remember correctly Victory at see was what we now call a miniseries.

My dad was in the army in California on Pearl harbor Day.

He spent 4 plus years in the Army stationed in the Pacific.

He was in the Philipines, Saipan, and New Caledonia that I know of.

He was wounded at some point and his unit was so badly mangled that it was disbanded and the survivors were distributed to other units.

This is all I learned about the war from him.

I remember a Sunday afternoon when we all gathered at the home of one of my aunts.

The kids were told to stay outside, the women were not allowed in the living room while my dad and my uncles, who were all vets of the Pacific Theatre, watched Victory at Sea and swapped war stories.

My dad was not an especially vocal man but his experiences must have approached Hell if he would not even relate any of them to me even after I became an adult.

"My dad was not an especially vocal man but his experiences must have approached Hell if he would not even relate any of them to me even after I became an adult.
#32 | Posted by Cowboy at 2009-11-02 06:37 AM"

That seems to be a common trait amongst the folks I've met whom I consider to be 'heroes'.

Meanwhile, you're correct about 'Victory At Sea' being a mini-series rather than "a show".

In a similar vein: The Twentieth Century

1959 Twilight Zone.

Often imitated, never duplicated

A different era. I remember I was 7 in the mid 50s when we got out first TV. Had a David Crockett coonskin hat, a Bat Matterson cane and derringer, etc.

Loved the Andy Devine show (Plunk your Magic Twanger, Froggy), Heckel & Jeckel cartoons (no one was worried about violence in cartoons back then as the liberal movement was too small then to notice) and Have Gun Will travel.

Glad I grew up in the 50s and 60s - - great memories.

Had a David Crockett coonskin hat, a Bat Matterson cane and derringer, etc.

It's Bat Masterson. Me too...I had a Zorro cape and sword and my brother played Bat. Damn those were the days.

Every now and then we would do the Alamo, then play destruction derby with the trikes.