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"It's about time, it's about space, it's about time I slapped your face."
I remember that the opening for Run Buddy Run was much better than the show. Gilligan's Island won out over The Monkees. My brothers and sister always fought for Daktari! versus my preference for The Girl From UNCLE. Batman, F Troop, Hogan's Heroes, and the capper, Wild Wild West made up the rest of our regular shows.
One of my memories from back then was a big argument in which I, for once, got to watch Star Trek. Everyone in my family hated it other than me.
So we watched, and it was that episode which ends with this tattered US flag being revealed, with the swell of patriotic music, etc. My least fave episode of all time.
I lost a LOT of family political capital, that night.
I caught some episodes of Hogan's Heroes the last time I was in Vegas. Not only has it aged well, but it retains a fairly high repeat value. Well worth getting on DVD.
I was 11 when that schedule aired. I have memories:
This was obviously a TV Guide grid because they were the only ones who put Saturday first in their weekly listings. Remember when the broadcast networks actually put shows on Saturday night? And NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies was no filler; they paid (relatively) big bucks for recent hit movies, few of which I liked. The segue from Get Smart to Mission Impossible was logical but it was still hard to start taking the spy thing seriously.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea always beat Lassie and Disney for me (although the best Disney episodes you could jump into for the last half-hour). The slot between Disney and Bonanza was where NBC always put its worst comedies. Remember The Mothers-In-Law? I've been trying to forget it for 40+ years.
The Garry Moore Show? I vaguely remember that and thought it was cancelled earlier, and Garry Moore got the gig hosting I've Got A Secret as a consolation prize. Still not old enough to stay up for 10PM game shows on school nights... Or Danny Kaye, Andy Williams or Dean Martin... Dean was still on when I got to stay up later - not much of a reward.
Odd, I remembered My Three Sons on Monday night and Gilligan's Island on Thursday. Wait, Sons got kicked out of Monday night by Family Affair, lost audience and was cancelled and Gilligan moved to Thursday after... I think.
The Roger Miller Show! "dang me, dang me, they oughta take a rope and hang me..." I bought his Greatest Hits album after watching that show (that didn't last long). "you can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd..."
It was clear my hormones were just starting to kick in because I chose Daktari (with Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion) over The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Yet, Agent 99 on Get Smart was my first TV crush. I recall that The Avengers replaced Iron Horse at midseason, and I did choose Emma Peel over The Monkees.
The Fugitive begat Run For Your Life which begat Run, Buddy, Run! Imagine the pitch meeting: "The Fugitive... but as a comedy!" Way ahead of its time.
The Pruitts of Southampton starring Phillis Diller! I fondly remember that short-lived silliness (rich family loses everything but the mansion and tries to keep up appearances while learning to live like common people)... yep, Arrested Development totally stole from that show.
The Virginian... a weekly 90-minute Western. One of the few before-9PM-shows of that era I NEVER watched.
My bedtime varied in those years. I remember being allowed up past 9PM to see Red Skelton and nothing else for a while before this.
On Thursdays, Batman and F Troop trumped Daniel Boone, but I hit the clicker to see Star Trek at 8:30. (On Wednesday, Batman vs. Lost In Space was one of my hardest decisions) When it was moved to Friday at 10PM, I barely stayed conscious. But when it was cancelled, one of the several LA independent stations started showing it weekdays at 6PM. Thank you, Channel 13, you made me the geek I am!
The Wild Wild West followed by Hogan's Heroes. Your minimum weekly dosage of historical inaccuracy. But very entertaining historical inaccuracy! Better than The Time Tunnel, which was a crappy introduction to time-travel-sci-fi. No, wait, It's About Time was worse. Can you believe Doctor Who was on its second doctor then?
NOTE: In the Batman Wall Climbing Cameos video, there's one where they meet Werner Klemperer AS CAPTAIN KLINK. And are friendly to the old nazi! It WAS a different time.
1966 was a very special year with Star Trek, Lost In Space, and The Time Tunnel all on. But there were so many good programs. Green Acres was a real favorite of mine. Our TV was on all the time and (sadly) was our main evening family activity. I have little idea what's on TV nowadays, but it certainly can't be as good as this. (Though really, whenever I have watched a Star Trek TOS episode in the last 20 years, they've seemed unbearably talky and dull.)
Oh boy, good stuff. I have fond memories of almost all of these. Even The Lawrence Welk Show. And no one has ever been as cool, imho, as Robert Vaughn in Man from Uncle. Plus I had a giant crush on David McCallum.
Loved the other shows too. Really, them were the days.
I saw most of those (the ones I remember anyway) as reruns as well. A lot of those I never heard of. I vaguely remember watching Hogan's Heroes as first run, but most of what I saw was in the afternoons in syndication. However, the 1967 lineup is pretty familiar to me.
The shows that I really remember from my youth included Happy Days, M*A*S*H, Charie's Angels, etc.