TV for a Sunday night in 1965 - 50 years ago

[rurallib]

for all of us oldies but goodies do you remember =>

Eastern times:
6:30:
NBC - Profiles in Courage (6:30 - 7:30)

7PM:
ABC - Local programming (7 - 7:30PM)
CBS - Lassie (7 - 7:30)

7:30:
ABC - Wagon Train (7:30 - 8:30)
CBS - My Favorite Martian (7:30 - 8)
NBC - Disney's Wonderful World of Color (7:30 - 8:30)

8:
CBS - Ed Sullivan Show (8 - 9)

8:30:
ABC - Broadside (8:30 - 9)
NBC - Branded (8:30 - 9)

9:
ABC - The ABC Sunday Night Movie (9 - 11)
CBS - For The People (9 - 10)
NBC - Bonanza (9 - 10)

10:
CBS - Candid Camera (10 - 10:30)
NBC - The Rogues (10 - 11)

10:30:
CBS - What's My Line (10:30 - 11)

Popcorn time!

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_United_States_network_television_schedule
Wish I could cut and paste that grid

[In_The_Wind]

1. The only ones I didn't watch were:

NBC - Branded (8:30 - 9)

NBC - The Rogues (10 - 11)

That was the year before I graduated from high school.

[rurallib]

2. I vaguely remember 'Branded'; Can't say I ever heard of 'The Rogues'

Also can't remember if this was a time when all shows were in color or just some.
I think NBC was all color but not the other 2, but wouldn't swear to it.

[In_The_Wind]

3. I remember

the banana I had for breakfast today was a nice shade of yellow.

My senior prom dress was green.

I seem to remember everything being broadcast in living color ... except I'm not sure about What's My Line

[rug]

31. I loved Branded.

[Staph]

5. All I remember of Branded was the title song and opening credits.

"Branded! Marked with a coward's shame.
What do you do when you're branded, will you fight for your name?"

Chuck Connors, as the main character, has been booted out of the Army (post Civil War, I believe). The buttons are cut from his uniform, the epaulets ripped from his shoulders, and his sword broken over the knee of one of the other officers. He then is marched from the fort, in his tattered uniform.

I gather the series was his quest to prove that he didn't do whatever he had been accused of doing. It's kind of a western version of The Fugitive -- the hero is the only continuing character.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. My brother had his own version of the Branded theme song

"Stranded, stranded
Sitting on a bathroom bowl
What do you do when you're stranded
When you don't have a roll?"

[Art_from_Ark]

10. If memory serves correctly

Chuck Connors in Branded was supposedly the only one left alive during an Indian attack, and it was assumed that he had deserted his unit rather than fight honorably to the death.

[SCantiGOP]

18. correct, I remember it

In the opening credits I think you see that he is knocked unconscious at the beginning of the attack and presumed dead, but everyone believes he had hidden. He took the sword they broke when they were kicking him out and filed it down so he had this neat little 14" knife/sword.

The torture on that schedule was the old Teutonic fascist bastard Lawrence Welk. My Dad insisted on watching that every Sunday.

(on edit: Welk isn't on the schedule, I guess he was Saturday night)

[ret5hd]

26. Well, I guess you didn't know Lawrence Welk had his "hip" side:

[Art_from_Ark]

27. I don't remember when Lawrence Welk came on

Maybe it was Saturday. It was definitely on a weekend.

"Good night, sleep tight, and pleasant dreams to you..."

[Art_from_Ark]

28. I don't remember seeing the attack in the opening credits

Just the scene where they are kicking him out of the fort

[distantearlywarning]

4. And I just watched Game of Thrones

Nudity, murder, and witchcraft - the Ed Sullivan show this is not.

My, how the times have changed!

[cyberswede]

6. Before I was born, but I've heard of most of those.

The Rogues is on I hadn't heard of...looks interesting.

The Rogues (TV series)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Original channel NBC
Original run September 13, 1964 – April 18, 1965
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rogues_%28TV_series%29

[lunamagica]

22. That sounds like an awesome show. Too bad it didn't last. nt

[mucifer]

40. I've seen a few episodes late night on metv. It's clever.

It's a lot like the show "Leverage"

[olddots]

7. It was all very entertaining

if you could score some bad pot ( all that was available )

Chuck Connors was a downer though .

[Art_from_Ark]

8. My Sunday bedtime was usually 8:00 (Central)

What we watched depended on how long we stayed at my grandparents' house

6:00 local programming (maybe Milton the Monster)
6:30 usually Disney's Wonderful World of Color; occasionally Wagon Train if Disney was a rerun (and not a cartoon) or if still at grandparents' house
7:00 Ed Sullivan (if still at grandparents' house)
7:30 Branded (if not at grandparents' house)

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

11. I was allowed 30 minutes of TV A WEEK!!

I remember spending it on My Favorite Martian. I was luckier than my older siblings who didn't have TV at all. Thankful for sleepovers at friends houses where I could see color TV and Saturday morning cartoons.

[dolphinsandtuna]

13. we had a limit on tv too

2-3 hours a week, I think, almost nothing on weeknights.

The world was much better without kids' faces in electronics.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

14. Yeah, my older siblings did much better academically than I did.

I had a hard time learning how to read. (That may be more due to being born five weeks premature in August instead of September which made me start school a year earlier than I would have if I had been a full term baby.) My Harvard brother had no TV in the house when he raised his daughter and she got into Harvard, too. My daughter was a reluctant reader until visiting her best friend who moved back to Ireland. They weren't allowed to watch TV. There was nothing to do but play outside and read. TV made teachers' work more difficult. Computers have made it even more so.

[Callmecrazy]

12. What about Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom...

It came on after Hee Haw and before Disney.
Oh wait, that was in the 70's.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. That was also in the '60s

but I think it counted as "local programming". The series started in 1963.

[davidpdx]

16. I wasn't alive then

[rurallib]

17. just some old farts reminiscing here

Just to show that 50 years go by fast. It will happen to you.

You have probably seen color TV all your life. Ours was all black and white for quite a while and then changed only gradually over many years.
I will never forget the first time our kids saw a B&W tv. They just kept staring. Finally after about a half hour our older one asked kid of dumbfounded "Where's all the color?" she was @ 10 at the time.

[malthaussen]

19. We didn't get a color TV until 1973...

... a bit behind the curve, there. Kind of took some of the charm out of "Disney's Wonderful World of Color."

Sorry I missed "The Rogues," though, that's a helluva cast.

-- Mal

[rurallib]

20. We only got one because my dad quit his job and started a TV and appliance business

somewhere @ '66. Color TV was just taking off bigtime and he did fairly well.
Otherwise it would have been a long time before we flipped.

[malthaussen]

21. People forget how expensive those things were...

$600 was a large chunk of our family's monthly budget!

-- Mal

[rurallib]

24. would be @ $6000 today

but for us it was a write off at the time

[Art_from_Ark]

30. That was two months salary for my mom

So no, we didn't have a color TV, just an old Zenith black & white that finally keeled over in 1980 or thereabouts.

[Staph]

23. We didn't get a color TV until I was in high school.

I remember being absolutely stunned when I found out that the Wicked Witch of the West was green!

[Art_from_Ark]

32. Did you have one of those color console TVs?

[Staph]

36. It was wider than that console,

with a pull-down record player next to the television. The speakers closed over both parts, like cabinet doors. It's still in Mom's basement, 45 years later. The TV died long ago, but I think the stereo still works.

[Art_from_Ark]

37. I remember those

One of my friends had one, and it was something. It was also the type of prize they would offer on The Newlywed Game.

"Couple Number One-- you have won our grand prize-- a color TV console stereo!!!!"

[rurallib]

35. I can't remember if those were the days when you could still make that old witch

about any damn color you wanted with the tuners.
Seems like every guy in the room was an expert on how to tune the colors.

We rented a TV for the Rose Bowl one year when Iowa went. First off the thing weighed about 600 pounds and we had to take down a flight of stairs. By 'we' I mean me and my two brothers.

And of course there was beer at the party - lots of beer. As the day wore on and the drinks flowed there was a constant stream of men tuning the TV. This may be where psychedelic colors really came from.

And the next day, guess who had to haul that behemoth out?

[trof]

33. I was around 9 or 10 when we got our first TV.

It was B&W and PFM*.
When there was no programming, I'd watch the test pattern.
The Indian chief?
I wonder who came up with that?



*PFM: Pure Fucking Magic

[davidpdx]

41. When I was growing up we (my brother and I)

had a small B & W TV in our bedroom that we could watch on our own. But yeah, most of the programs I can remember were in color.

[Arugula Latte]

25. It's funny how popular westerns used to be.

I remember watching Gunsmoke and Bonanza.

Now I would go out of my way to avoid a western.

[Dont call me Shirley]

29. Disney, every Sunday night

[Jetboy]

34. I only watch tv from the 50s-70s. Today's tv makes me unhappy so

I avoid it.

I especially love the Westerns from the 50s and 60s. Young folks (to be fair I wasn't born yet either) would be surprised I think to see how often bigotry was punished on these old shows. In the Westerns, it seemed like every one had at least one episode where a POC was treated poorly and the stars of the show fight against it.

[Archae]

38. In our house...

We had a color TV since my Dad fixed them on the side.

(One TV we had in our house smelled like a bar, you can guess why...)

But Sunday night was Disney and the ABC Sunday Night Movie and during the 70's, Hee Haw.

[RebelOne]

39. Since I have been around a long, long time,

I remember them all. My favorite was Mr. Ed.