Posted on 02/21/2008 4:36:29 PM PST by Bender2
What are your favorite TV variety and situation comedy series from 1948-1960? I am old enough to remember most of them!
Sounds like the robot beat your time with some cute little Heineken draft keg carrier.
BONANZA one of the longest running shows. McHales Navy was halarious too especially Ensign Parker. Saw a few of those LOL.
Steve was without peer in getting laughs and giving many now famous actors hilarious characters to play! Smock! Smock!... 
Not only has Hillary gone on to steal my ferndock, but she is holding it up in a photo on the front page!
However, Steve did bow down to PETA wishes... 
once.
And the Democrat Party thought that a youthful Black man and an old White woman... 
both running for their Presidential nomination would pull the party together.
I'm with you too. (But then, I have a 'different' sense of humor. ;~))
Kovacs was a genius. He had a new media and rather than treating it as just a Vaudeville stage performance they way all his contemporaries did, he used the technology to make his bits far funnier than they ever could have been on the stage. And it was all done live. It was kind of a Loony Tunes with real actors.
I was just a kid then, but I loved it. My parents hated it.
Yea I remember that one and Roy Rogers, The guns of Will Sonnet, and a lot of early 1960’s like The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres {ah my first home when I got married LOL}, Fireball XL5 came on Saturday morning, Sugarfoot, Rango {Tim Conway} F-Troop, Get Smart, and cartoons that were actually funny and made sense.
Agree. They had one script and turned it into 500 shows.
InvisibleChurch was pulling your leg.
CBS Primetime went officially full color in ‘66. If memory serves the rest of the schedule, soaps and whatnot, went color in ‘67. (CBS wasn’t in all that big a hurry to get into color, because their system lost out to RCA, which owned NBC).
I can’t remember when ABC went to a full color schedule. They were number Three, and seems they had cash struggles trying to convert.
Heck, I can’t remember when NBC went full color, and they were the ones with the advantage. The first year of I Dream of Jeannie was BW. ‘64?
Here’s the opener CBS began using in ‘66:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/60s-cbs-color-presentation-logo/3685666246
So, why pick these (1948-1960) dates?
Percy Dove Tonsils
IIRC, NBC was the first --- hence, the Peacock Logo and the 'In Living Color' tag line.
We had out 1st color TV in 1964, not because we could afford it ourselves, but because my older brother who was just discharged from the Air Force got a damn good job with RCA on the Gemini Project and used his employee discount to buy us a console color TV for Christmas.
It was a nice TV until about 5 or 6 years later when it caught on fire in the middle the night (yes, it was 'off'.) and damn near burned the house down. My mother smelled smoke, woke me up, and the wood on the console was starting to smolder.
To this day, I don't know how the hell I managed to get that 200 pound flaming mess unplugged and out the door. Adrenalin, I guess.
BTW. Even though it was out of warranty, after I talked to the RCA customer service rep. they gave Mom a voucher for a new TV.
I'm glad I grew up in the 50's too. I don't watch any network channel programming. The only premium channel series I've ever watched is "The Tudors" on Showtime, and that's only because I love British history. The second season of "The Tudors" starts in March or April I believe.
It wasn't "the" first broadcast. That would have to be credited to J.L. Baird.
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You “Man on the street”.
Color TV, here in the US, has a long and dare I say perhaps bitter history to it. We actually had, for a short while, an officially FCC approved mechanical system by CBS in 1950. Almost immediately RCA went to court for their all electronic system.
CBS was finally overturned, which made NBC/RCA the one to beat at the color game. CBS was half hearted for many years, and ABC couldn’t afford to fully get into it, yet like CBS they also couldn’t afford to appear as broadcast dinosaurs, as if color didn’t exist.
Here’s one site you might like concerning TV history. Has a few pages on early RCA TV’s:
How things have changed. RCA is nothing the powerhouse it once was, mainly a trademark of a French company.
Oh, you sure that TV of yours wasn’t Russian made? Their catching fire was an old joke way back.
The fat lady in the tutu doing that weird Kovak shuffle at the end of the 1812 Overture!
Yeah, I’ve gotten some episodes for $1 at Target. However, there must be someone on the net who has these. There is such an untapped market in boomer memorabilia that I can’t believe old tv shows have been ignored.
Actually, I forgot to mention that we got the complete Amos and Andy on ebay. I know that it is about as politically incorrect as having kiddie porn, but they are wonderful. Each story has a moral and all the characters except Kingfish are well-developed people. It was also a good employer for African-American actors for whom there was little demand at the time. All the people in leadership roles—police, doctors, lawyers, businessmen, judges—were black and were very visible role models. It would take years before black actors appeared on tv again and blacks in Sanford and Son and Good Times were less inspirational than successful characters in Amos and Andy. The black middle class that was on Amos and Andy was invisible on tv until The Cosby Show.
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