|
Jukebox
Jury
KNXT
TV CBS / Los Angeles / 1948
Glamourous
late-Forties' movie stars and unknown actors judge the latest
record company releases. Look for a young Mike Connors ('Mannix'),
then known as "Touch" Connors!
Starring
Hollywood DJ Peter Potter, this long-running LA show went
national in 1953 on the ABC network. After the first few episodes,
the title was changed to 'The Peter Potter Show', but lasted
nationally only one season.
Watch
this clip and you'll see what watching television was like
in the Forties, includes station and commercial breaks.
|
The Ken
Murray Show
CBS / 1950 - 1953
When
a series wasn't sponsored by cigarettes, it was sponsored
by booze, it seems.
Ken
Murray starred in the first commercial TV broadcast ever in
1930. Here our variety show star is seen drinking beer backstage
with his buddy before the show.
As
part of their tribute to the Air Force, Murray welcomed Colonel
Paul Tibbets, who dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Japan on August 6, 1945. Six years later he joined Ken Murray
when he dropped a bomb on CBS.
This
clip is from the first episode, April 15, 1950. Darla Hood
(Our Gang comedies) and Joe Besser (Three Stooges) were regulars
during that first season. |
Mr. Adams and Eve
Jan. 1957 - September 1958 / CBS
Hilarious
and stylish sitcom starring Ida Lupino and her husband Howard
Duff. They play movie stars who are married to each other
- that play a married couple in the movies. It's a wonderful
send-up of Hollywood in the Fifties - that golden time when
women were are dolled up with no place to go.
TV
history books will tell you the 'The Munsters' were the first
TV couple to sleep in the same bed - but the 'Adams' and the
'Goldbergs' were both seen under the same sheets almost a
decade earlier.
| DEEP
DISH VIDEO CLIPS
from the second episode:
Howard
and Eve are told by their agent that they are not
'typical people'.
This comes as a shock! They tell him he's a typical
agent.
The
couple decide to become 'typical' - this involves
getting up
at 7:30 in the morning, for reasons even they can't
figure.
Another
attempt to be 'typical',
doing the laundry. |
MORE
INFO ON
MR. ADAMS AND EVE |
|
Tales
of Tomorrow
ABC
/ 1951 - 1953
Stimulating
science-fiction with many famous guest-stars (Lon Chaney,
Boris Karloff). Here is the exciting opening to this rarely
seen series.
|
Coke
Time
with Eddie Fisher
NBC
/ 1953 - 1957
Wednesday and Friday nights
Just
a bunch of guys standing around singing songs for fifteen
minutes at 7:30 in the evening. Surprisingly good because
of the host's easy style and pleasant voice. Bright arrangements
and classic tunes make this show a must-see. This clip is
from one of the first episodes.
|
| 
The Vic
Damone Show
CBS
/ July - September 1956
Monday Nights at 8:30
The
half-hour summer replacement show for December Bride (sponsored
by Maxwell House Coffee) starred mellow crooner Vic Damone
in a mostly musical format, with Tutti Camarata's Orchestra
and Vic's entertainment industry friends as guest-stars.
 Vic
Damone had a summer variety show in 1957 also - with the back-up
group the Spellbinders and orchestra leader Bert Farber -
then again in 1967 and 1971 substituting for Dean martin.
Damone made headlines in the Sixties when he married Dianne
Carroll ('Julia') - it was very rare for an inter-racial couple
to go public in Hollywood in those days.
This
clip (the opening number) is from the last summer show in
1956 with Guest Spring Byington (December Bride).
|
|
The
Fabulous 
Click on the show's title
for
streaming video segments.
Access
our
extensive catalog
of classic TV shows
on DVD!
A choice selection
from days gone by.
Many of these series
are thought to be lost forever - preserved by collector Jeff
Vilencia and presented in our continuing effort to archive lost
television moments.
|
|
Terry
and the Pirates
1952
/ syndicated
Not
half-bad attempt to bring the Milton Caniff comic strip to life.
Featuring
the strip's entire supporting cast, right down to the
insulting oriental stereotypes that seem dated even
for the Fifties. John Baer as Terry, William Tracy as his side-kick
Hotshot Charlie and Gloria Saunders as the Dragon Lady.
|
|
The
Best of Groucho
1955
/ NBC
This
was the summer rerun series for 'You Bet Your Life'. Sponsored
by DeSoto cars - maybe making a guy who played a con man throughout
his career wasn't the best pitchman
for automobile dealerships - you'll notice the DeSoto
is no longer with us!
|
|
| Looking
for classic TV on DVD?/See below: |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
